Fan Mengyi already knew Luo Hong very well, so there must be something attracting him if he would stay in this barren mountain.
"You are smart. There is a treasure, but it is not the time yet."
Seeing her apprentice's eyes shining brightly, Luo Hong couldn't help but laugh. She shook her head and took her to drive the Escape Light again.
The disciples of the Ghost Spirit Sect who are stationed in Chiyang Mountain are only in the early stage of foundation building. Obviously the Ghost Spirit Sect does not know the secrets in the heart of the mountain and only thinks that this place is an ordinary mine of spiritual materials.
After the affairs around Shanyang City were over, Luo Hong stopped at nothing along the way except for stopping by the Ling Tea Garden and buying a can of top-quality Qingxin tea.
Two months later, Luo Hong finally came to the territory of the Nine Kingdoms Alliance. Now the seven sects, no, it was the Daheng Mountains where the six sects were located.
After this journey from south to north, Luo Hong had a fairly good understanding of the situation in Tiannan.
It can be said that Tiannan's world of immortality has not been affected by him as a time traveler at all, and the general trend of the original timeline has not changed at all.
Due to the war between the Righteous Alliance and the Six Demonic Sects nearly two hundred years ago, the entire Tiannan has completely lost the division of the world of immortality with countries as the boundaries, and has entered a situation where the four powerful forces must be reunited after a long period of separation.
Originally, the immortal cultivating circles of a number of small countries, such as the Yue Kingdom and the Yuanwu Kingdom, merged into the Tiandao Alliance. Although the number of immortal cultivators was no different than the other three, the quality and unity were far behind. After all, it was an alliance that had just been formed for a century.
The top combat power of the Tiandao Alliance is Long Han and his wife. Both of them are monks in the middle stage of Yuanying. Due to their cultivation skills, when they join forces, they are powerful enough to rival the great monks in the late stage of Yuanying.
Of course, when Old Demon Han starts to show up, nothing will happen to him and his wife.
Although the Righteous Alliance and the Six Demonic Sects annexed several countries in one breath, they also suffered a considerable loss in strength. After a hundred years of recuperation, they managed to recover and gradually turned their increased territory into strength.
These two forces include Master Zhiyang and Hehuan Laomo in the late Nascent Soul respectively. If the general trend remains unchanged, the situation in Tiannan will evolve towards confrontation between the two sides, with the other two sides taking sides.
In this war, the most obvious winner was the Nine-Nation Alliance.
Including the six sects of the Yue Kingdom, the Nine Nations Alliance has absorbed many immortal cultivating sects and casual cultivators who were forced away by good and evil forces. It can be said that its strength has greatly increased.
However, cultivating immortals relies on resources, and a great increase in strength without increasing territory can only last for a few hundred years at most, and then it will gradually weaken.
Believe me, Wei Wuya, a monk in the late Nascent Soul stage in the Nine Kingdoms Alliance, can see this clearly.
The reason why he did not take this opportunity to organize the immortal cultivating forces of the Nine Nations Alliance to attack the good and evil factions, which had already fallen into internal battles caused by the issue of profit distribution, or the newly formed Tiandao Alliance, was because of the great changes in the Nine Nations Alliance since its establishment.
The enemy Mulan people suddenly sent a large number of reinforcements to the border.
The massive attack by the Mulan people suddenly intensified the conflict between the Tiannan Immortal Realm and the Mulan Grassland. The two sides have been fighting for the past two hundred years, and they have not subsided to this day.
Therefore, before the problem of the Mulan people is solved, there will be no more big fights among the four major forces in Tiannan.
Of course, this good life is about to end, because Han Laomo has returned.
Luo Hong, standing in front of the gate of Hiyue Sect, secretly cursed.
At this time, there was no trace of Fan Mengyi around him.
Although the Hidden Moon Sect can only gain a foothold in the Beiliang Kingdom, which has the second-lowest immortal cultivation resources in the Nine-Nation Alliance, and shares the spiritual peaks with the other five sects, it has completely lost its dominance of the Lingshan Mountains in the Yue Kingdom, but after all, it has thousands of years of history.
A large historical sect still has some sect heritage, at least there will be no shortage of formation masters.
And if this mountain-protecting formation is constantly guarded and maintained by someone, it would be quite troublesome to sneak in quietly.
Therefore, Luo Hong planned to follow the example of Han Laomo, pretending to be a Qi refining disciple and join the Hidden Moon Sect.
With his cultivation level, it was no problem to deceive the Danyue Sect elders and even the Yuanying old monster, but Fan Mengyi could not.
Fortunately, her practice now does not rely on spiritual energy, but all on drugs.
Luo Hong then placed her in an unknown green mountain near the Hidden Moon Sect and asked her to practice in seclusion for several years so that she could break through the pill formation as soon as possible and be able to help him.
"It's open! It's open!"
"Sister, come quickly, the fairy from the Hidden Moon Sect is out!"
Awakened by the commotion of the young men and women in front of him, Luo Hong raised his eyes and saw a bluestone path appearing out of thin air, extending to the stone pavilion where everyone was sitting.
Immediately afterwards, seven or eight female nuns in palace attire walked out, each with their chin slightly raised, showing a bit of the arrogance of a disciple of a large sect.
After these female cultivators in palace attire stood in front of everyone, two monks, a man and a woman, who were in the early stages of foundation building, walked out.
The young men and women present were all casual cultivators and did not have much experience. Just a phantom formation made their eyes shine with brilliance and yearning for it.
"Fellow Taoists, I believe you are all aware of the requirements of our Biyue Sect for recruiting disciples, so Qiu will not go into details.
Now, please come forward one by one to test your spiritual roots and cultivation.
The three fellow Taoists over there, you don’t need to take the test, the Hidden Moon Sect has no connection with you.”
After the male cultivator in white at the early stage of foundation building gave a plain opening speech, he suddenly pointed his finger and deprived the three casual cultivators of their test qualifications.
"Why! Why do you Yanyue Sect bully people like this!"
The three people were full of joy and wanted to step forward to test, but when they heard this, they immediately screamed loudly.
"Our Biyue Sect has its own rules for accepting disciples. The three of you are not qualified. Qiu doesn't want to say it a third time!"
The male cultivator in white had a stern look on his face, and said in a cold voice while releasing the magical aura of a foundation-building monk.
Those three people were all casual cultivators in the Qi refining stage. How could they bear it? After taking a breath, they retreated with horror on their faces.
After this incident, the young men and women who were originally extremely excited immediately became trembling with fear, lest they somehow offended the male cultivator in white and lose their qualifications for the test.
Luo Hong stood silently behind everyone, but he knew the whole story.
In fact, it has been an hour since these Hidden Moon Sect's disciples were introduced. They have been hiding in the illusion formation to observe everyone and initially check the tester's character.
The three people just now were kicked out because of their bad character and lack of patience.
Luo Hong couldn't help but sigh as he watched the female cultivators in palace attire working in groups of two, holding out magical instruments for testing. Everyone stepped forward to test them in a polite manner.
I think back then, the seven sects of the Yue Kingdom only recruited disciples from cultivating families. If casual cultivators wanted to join, they had to participate in a life-threatening ascension tournament. It was not as simple as it is now.
Of course, unless the disciples recruited in this way are found to have amazing talents, they are unlikely to receive much training. Most of the time, the Hidden Moon Sect will only provide a good and not bad technique, and then use them with great force.
Luo Hong had inquired before coming here. Similar recruitment of disciples happens every few months. It seems that there is a shortage of manpower now.
After looking at the test results of the previous casual cultivators, Luo Hong found that the requirements of the Hidden Moon Sect were quite low.
As long as they have the qualifications of three spiritual roots or above, they will not reject anyone.
However, such qualifications are relatively rare among casual cultivators. Only 20% of those who passed the test only tested their spiritual root qualifications and were allowed to enter the next round of tests.
If your spiritual roots are not good enough, you can pass as long as your cultivation level exceeds the eighth level of Qi Refining and you are under thirty years old.
For testers under the age of twenty, for every two years younger, the cultivation requirements will be reduced by one level accordingly.
It can be said that monks who can calm down and practice can basically pass the test.
But even so, less than half of the casual cultivators can pass the test. After all, most casual cultivators are rolling around in the world of mortals, and not many can calm down and practice.
Seeing that there were not many people who had never taken the test, Luo Hong stopped waiting and stepped forward slowly.
"Fellow Taoist, please place your hand on the center of the Ouija plate. When a few rays of light light up, it will be the spiritual root of which grade."
The female cultivator in palace attire in front of Luo Hong had a very pleasant voice. Although she had explained it many times, she still didn't feel impatient at all.
"Um."
After a simple response, Luo Hong put his hand on the plate made of spiritual iron, and as expected, five spiritual lights lit up.
Haha, after practicing for nearly two hundred years, my qualifications are getting worse and worse.
Luo Hong had never experienced such an entry test before, so he found it interesting and secretly made a joke of his own.
Seeing the aura on the Ouija board, the female cultivator in palace attire could not help but show pity in her eyes.
It would be fine if one had no spiritual roots and would give up completely. But having spiritual roots of the fifth grade is the most painful thing.
This is equivalent to giving people hope first and then pushing them off the cliff.
Hehe, she is a kind-hearted little girl.
Grandpa Luo, who was nearly two hundred years old, thought to himself.
"Fellow Taoist, please use all your strength to input mana into the spirit-sensing orb."
Another female cultivator in palace attire obviously had no hope that Luo Hong would pass the test and said casually.
Luo Hong didn't care. He stretched out his sword and pointed at the purple spirit bead, controlled his cultivation to the tenth level of Qi Refining, and began to input mana.
Suddenly, the spiritual light from the spiritual pearl shined brightly, illuminating the surprised faces of the two women.
"The tenth level of Qi refining! You, with a fifth-grade pseudo-spiritual root, can reach the tenth level of Qi refining!"
The tenth level of Qi refining is not surprising, but combined with Luo Hong's spiritual root qualifications, it is quite puzzling.
Among the casual cultivators who have been tested, those with fourth-grade spiritual roots appear to be older than Luo Hong, and few of them are at the tenth level of Qi Refining.
"What a joke, I am at the tenth level of Qi refining."
Luo Hong touched his nose and said.
In fact, he didn't want to be so conspicuous, and it wasn't something to be proud of, but otherwise he wouldn't be able to get in.
"May I ask what kind of technique you are practicing, friend?"
Luo Hong's unusual success attracted the attention of the male cultivator in white. He walked closer and asked in a deep voice, with a sinister meaning all over his body.
This is a misunderstanding that what I practice is some kind of evil method.
"What I am practicing is the extremely ordinary Xiao Shui Yuan Gong."
Luo Hong's expression remained unchanged.
"Fellow Taoist, can you tell me how you usually practice?"
Qiu Changfeng was suspicious and disbelieving. Although Xiao Shui Yuan Gong was simple to practice, he looked like he was only twenty-five or six, and it was impossible for him to achieve such a level of cultivation based on his qualifications.
"Let's use spiritual stones and elixirs."
Luo Hong said matter-of-factly, grabbing an intermediate spiritual stone with one hand and taking out three small jade bottles with the other.
With the jade bottle blocking the way, everyone couldn't smell the fragrance and couldn't judge the quality of the elixir in the bottle, but the red intermediate spiritual stone emitted genuine spiritual energy fluctuations.
"This is equivalent to a hundred low-level spiritual stones! It's enough for me to save for ten years!"
"This is the first time I've seen an intermediate spirit stone. It's an eye-opener today!"
Seeing the obvious look of surprise in the other person's eyes, Luo Hong did not wait for him to ask questions and spontaneously explained:
"I have a skill, I am good at Xiao Yuyun Jue, and my family has ten acres of spiritual land, so I have a small fortune."
"Are you Ling Zhifu?"
The foundation-building female cultivator in a pink skirt also came over and looked Luo Hong up and down.
"I only know how to plant spiritual grains, so I can't be considered a spiritual cultivator."
The real Ling Zhihu could not be a casual cultivator, Luo Hong denied.
"Where is the spiritual field passed down by your family?"
Qiu Changfeng felt that Luo Hong was a little suspicious and asked.
"I'm in a secret place, so I'm sorry I can't tell you."
Luo Hong bowed his hands and apologized.
Qiu Changfeng was stunned for a moment and then nodded. There was nothing wrong with the other party's refusal to say anything.
"Then why don't you plant spiritual grains for your family and worship me as a member of the Yanyue Sect?"
One mu of spiritual field can produce three hundred kilograms of spiritual grain, ten acres equals three thousand kilograms, and ten kilograms of spiritual grain is worth one spiritual stone, which means that you can earn almost three hundred spiritual stones every year.
This is one hundred yuan more than what Qiu Changfeng receives from the sect every year!
"I'm here to find a Taoist companion."
Luo Hong rubbed his nose and chuckled.
As soon as these words came out, the surrounding area suddenly became quiet, and Luo Hong became the sole focus of everyone's attention.
"Pfft! Taoist fellow Taoist, you are so sincere in what you say, even if you pass."
The female cultivator in pink skirt was the first to burst out laughing, then her eyes flashed and she said:
"My sister is in her twenties. If you Taoist friend can successfully get started, I can introduce it to you."
No need, my goal is your parents.
Luo Hong thanked her on the surface, but secretly said in her heart.