Time passes and half a month is coming in a blink of an eye.
In these ten days, Lin Yun refined a large number of tenth-grade elixirs, which brought Lin Ying's cultivation to the level of a third-level warrior.
Even Zhang Wei, who swore allegiance to Lin Yun, was reduced to the level of a second-level warrior.
Out of gratitude and guilt, Lin Yun also refined a large amount of elixirs for Yun Ruoxi, and forcibly raised Yun Ruoxi's level to the mid-level seventh-level warrior.
Lin Yun's own realm has also been upgraded to the mid-level seventh-level warrior.
Not only that, Lin Yun also collected all the Soul Infant Grass that could be collected in Yuzhou during this period of time. This also included a hundred Soul Infant Grasses in the Yuzhou Wu Mansion's inventory.
After using the essence of these Soul Infant Grasses, Lin Yun has cultivated the "Immortal Divine Body" to the mastery stage of the Golden Steel Body.
The Golden Steel Body is divided into four stages: Beginner, Little Success, Mastery, and Dacheng.
Lin Yun has now reached the third stage of cultivation, and the next step is Dacheng.
But now, all the Soul Infant Grass in Yuzhou County has been purchased by Lin Yun, and there is no more left.
If Lin Yun wants to continue practicing the "Immortal Divine Body", he must leave Yuzhou and head towards the royal city!
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On the eve of the end of the month, Lin Yun and Yun Ruoxi were both called to the conference cabinet by Ren Tan Qian to discuss matters related to the Royal City Martial Arts Conference.
The Royal City Martial Arts Conference is held every three years and is organized by the royal government with the purpose of selecting talents for the kingdom.
The chosen ones are directly promoted to generals and become the pillars of the country.
In every martial arts conference, young geniuses from various counties in the Southern Xia Kingdom and the top geniuses from the three major families in the kingdom will gather together to compete against each other. The scene is grand and grand.
Each state and county's military prefecture has four participating places.
The four participating places in Yuzhou County were originally reserved for the four geniuses of Yuzhou, led by Jiang Nanjian.
But things are unpredictable, and no one expected that Lin Yun would appear in the middle and kill three of the four geniuses, leaving only one Yun Ruoxi.
The quotas for this Wangcheng Martial Arts Tournament are none other than Lin Yun and Yun Ruoxi.
Apart from Lin Yun and Yun Ruoxi, the other two places are only available to two top disciples among the inner disciples.
The two people who made up the numbers are Yuan Xiaofeng and Hu Jin. They were also sent to Jeju before. They are now in their early twenties and have just reached the late stage of the sixth-level warrior.
When the four of them stood in front of Ren Tan Qian, Ren Tan Qian said solemnly to the four of them: "Every session of the Wangcheng Martial Arts Conference is full of masters and geniuses."
"According to Yuzhou's standards, you are indeed top geniuses. But according to Wangcheng's standards, you are very ordinary. So you must not be careless and underestimate the enemy at the martial arts conference in Wangcheng."
"Ordinary? Could it be that even Lin Yun and Miss Yun Ruoxi can only be considered ordinary?" Yuan Xiaofeng was very surprised after hearing this.
If you say that he is ordinary, he has nothing to say. But if you say that Lin Yun and Yun Ruoxi can only be regarded as ordinary, then who are they?
Hearing Yuan Xiaofeng's words, Ren Tanqian chuckled: "You are called the frog at the bottom of the well."
If you want to say that Lin Yun is ordinary, it is definitely nonsense.
But if it is Yun Ruoxi, compared with the geniuses in Wangcheng, she really seems ordinary.
Ren Tan Qian had enough confidence in Lin Yun's strength. But he had no confidence at all in the other three.
After a pause, Ren Tan Qian then said to everyone: "Ninety percent of the resources that the eight major states and counties of the Southern Xia Kingdom pay tribute to the royal city every year are used to maintain the national treasury, and nine percent are provided to the three major families in the kingdom.
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"Only less than 1% of the resources will be distributed to the military mansions of the major states and counties. If the military mansions of the eight major states and counties are divided, the resources that each military mansion can allocate is only one thousandth of the total tribute!
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"But the resources allocated to each of the three major families in the kingdom is as high as 3%."
"One thousandth or three percent, this is the gap between you and the geniuses of the three major families in the kingdom."
"There is a thirty-fold difference in resources and treatment. Even if your cultivation talents are equal, you are far inferior to others. Besides, the geniuses in the royal city are still above you in cultivation talents."
After hearing Ren Tanqian's words, Yuan Xiaofeng finally had nothing to say and could only silently accept this cruel fact.
Ren Tanqian continued: "Let me tell you first about the specific situation of the Wangcheng Martial Arts Conference."
"There are four disciples from each prefecture and county's martial arts palace participating in the competition, for a total of thirty-two people from eight prefectures and counties."
"And hundreds of geniuses from the three major families in the kingdom, as well as many major families in the royal city, will participate."
"Almost all of those hundred geniuses have reached the level of eighth-level warriors, or even ninth-level warriors!"
"Especially the chief geniuses of the three major families. Their realms have surpassed that of martial arts masters, and their awakened martial spirits are all heaven-level. They are praised by the King of Nanxia as the "Three Great Evils of the Kingdom"."
"Any one of them can easily defeat a fourth-level martial artist. Even against a fifth-level martial artist, or even a sixth-level martial artist, he is still capable of fighting."
Hearing Ren Tanqian's words, Yuan Xiaofeng and Hu Jin were immediately stunned, feeling that their worldviews had been refreshed.
In Yuzhou, they are all top geniuses, and regardless of their talent and strength, they are second only to the core disciples.
However, at this moment, they deeply realized how mediocre their qualifications were. I'm afraid they were not even ordinary.
Ren Tan Qian continued: "In previous Wangcheng Martial Arts Conferences, the top twenty places were all taken by core disciples of the three major families. The twentieth to fifty places were all taken by inner disciples of the three major families."
"As for the disciples of the eight major prefectures and counties, it is already very good to be among the top 100."
Ren Tanqian's words were like pouring cold water on them, extinguishing the fighting spirit of Yuan Xiaofeng and Hu Jin.
The disciples of the eight major prefectures and counties naturally refer to the core disciples. It is difficult for even the core disciples to rank among the top 100, so wouldn’t they, the inner disciples, only be at the bottom?
Traveling all the way to the royal city, only to become a stepping stone for others, doesn’t this mean you are losing face?
After explaining some things, Ren Tanqian solemnly said to everyone: "The Royal City Martial Arts Conference will be officially held in three days. You go back and pack up tonight, and we will set off early tomorrow morning."
Everyone nodded, and after bidding farewell to Ren Tanqian, they all returned to their homes.
Lin Yun packed up his things that night and entrusted Lin Ying to the protection of Marquis Yuzhou.
Tianxuanzong and his party may encounter some trouble this time.
Lin Ying is too weak and doesn't even have the basic ability to protect herself.
It would definitely be very inconvenient for Lin Yunruo to take her with him.
But now in Yuzhou City, the three major families have been destroyed, and there is no longer a force hostile to Lin Yun.
In addition, with the protection of Marquis Yuzhou, I believed that no one could touch Lin Ying, so Lin Yun was relieved to let Lin Ying stay.