Longevity and Immortal Cultivation: Starting from Controlling Your Own Essence.

Chapter 211 The truth about the shrine?
In the fifth hall.

When Zhang Yao and the others saw it, the first thing they saw was a simple and simple stone tablet one foot high and three feet wide.

There are no symbols or words on the stele, but an ancient and vast star map, which depicts a corner of the vast universe of stars, which makes people feel dizzy at a glance.

"hiss……"

Even though he was mentally prepared, Zhang Yao still felt a slight pain in his eyes, took a light breath, and looked away involuntarily.

This is not because of any special restrictions on the stele, or because of the glare of the bright light, but because of an instinctive tingling sensation and a subconscious reluctance to look at it.

This fifth level tests the mind and will of the practitioner.

The will of the mind is illusory, but it is real and can be found. It determines whether a person's heart is strong or not.

A pure mind and will do not seem to be of much use, but a strong and pure mind is often indispensable if you want to go to the end on the long road to immortality.

"This level... I still have a bit of an advantage, right?"

Zhang Yao asked himself a question.

It is age and life experience that determine the strength of the will of the mind, the former is secondary and the latter is primary.

If you live a long time, you don't necessarily know a lot; some things, if you experienced them at the age of eight, you will understand them at the age of eight; if you haven't experienced them at the age of 80, you will not understand them until you die.

To give a simple example:

Two 70-year-old old men, one started as a soldier, fought bloody battles on the battlefield, fought for wealth from the pile of dead, and became a general and prime minister. Became the prime minister who is the head of a hundred officials;
The other was born with a golden spoon in his mouth and married into a well-matched wealthy family in his teens. He loved to play and enjoy himself when he was young, and later inherited the title of the family. First class duke.

The age and status of the two may be about the same, but they can be said to be very different in spirit and will, no less than the gap between ordinary people and golden elixir.

"In my life, I started as a Taoist boy, practiced martial arts first, and then cultivated immortality. I have gone through many ups and downs, and I am not weak when it comes to the will of the soul."

"Especially after experiencing Yu Wentai's memory capture back then, the mind and will are more like rough iron tempered into fine steel, and there has been a qualitative change."

Thinking of this, Zhang Yao felt at ease.

In his state of mind, the reason why he still has this sense of worrying about gains and losses is because the rewards of the fifth level are too amazing!
The ancient spirit treasure is a treasure that not even many Nascent Soul monsters have. If it hadn't been for the chance to run into the Emerald Shrine, these Golden Core stage monks would not even have the extravagant hope.

Nowadays, as long as you pass the fifth level, you can get a reward of an ancient spirit treasure, which inevitably makes people worry about it and find it hard to hold on.

"The fifth level..."

The eyes of Haihe Patriarch, Xiaguang Fairy, Baihong Sword Fairy and others also had unconcealable heat in their eyes.

Last time, they fell at this level, so that they were on the brink of failure, and watched Taoist Sansha break through the level alone and get the ancient spirit treasure.

"I don't know if I can pass the test successfully this time."

After the excitement, many Golden Core cultivators inevitably felt a little uneasy.

The difficulty of the fifth level rises sharply, but the rewards cannot be compared with the sum of the previous levels. No one has absolute confidence to pass it.

Even Patriarch Haihe, Fairy Xiaguang, Sword Immortal Baihong and others have prepared some targeted measures after experiencing the previous failure, but it is hard to say whether they will work or not.

"Um……"

Zhang Yao glanced at the calm Taoist Sansha next to him, and thought to himself:
"Probably only these three evil Taoists can still sit on the Diaoyutai."

After the failure last time, Patriarch Haihe and Fairy Xiaguang also discussed the reason for his success.

The life experience of this Sansha Taoist is quite legendary. He is only a miscellaneous spiritual root qualification of the three zodiac signs, and he was born as a low-level casual cultivator.

He must have prepared for the second visit to the Emerald Shrine, but that was for the sixth level.

"I'll come first."

When everyone was hesitating, Taoist Sansha spoke first and stepped forward.

Everyone's eyes were fixed on his movements, but they saw him sitting cross-legged with a calm expression, and cast his eyes and spiritual thoughts on the stele of the star map.

"..."

Taoist Sansha's expression became dazed and his breathing became short of breath. After a few breaths, he suddenly recovered.

"call!"

He took a deep breath, with a trace of fatigue in his eyes, slowly stood up, crossed the stone tablet, and came to the fifth ancient sapphire door.

Everyone withdrew their eyes enviously, and after looking at each other a few times, Baihong Jianxian stepped out:

"I come!"

I saw him walking in front of the stele of the star map, chanting words in his mouth, mana surging all over his body, as if he was casting some secret method.

"A secret method to stimulate the will?"

Zhang Yao watched this scene with great interest.

Secret techniques that simply stimulate the will are extremely rare because they are useless, but secret techniques with similar effects are not uncommon.

For monks at the Golden Core level, it is very easy to search for similar secret techniques, but it is up to everyone to see how effective they are.

Soon, Sword Immortal Baihong sat down cross-legged, and cast his eyes and spiritual thoughts on the stele of the star map.

"...Ahhhh!!"

After only two breaths, he let out a frenzied and frightened cry, fell to the ground suddenly, and twitched a few times.

"Bai Hong!"

Patriarch Yuanxu was startled, and hurried over to shake him awake.

Only then did Baihong Sword Immortal recover gradually, but his complexion was still terribly pale, as if he was seriously ill, he got up staggeringly.

It was obvious that his mana, aura, and spiritual aura were as strong as before, but it gave the impression that he had suffered an invisible heavy injury, and his whole body was sick.

"This is a severe blow to the will of the mind!"

Seeing this scene, everyone couldn't help feeling awe-inspiring, and their actions slowed down.

Seeing that everyone was still hesitant, Zhang Yao took a step forward and flicked his sleeves:
"Let me do it."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone's eyes were fixed on the past.

Zhang Yao sat down in front of the stele of the star map, looked at the complex star map on the stele, and at the same time put his spiritual thoughts into it.

"boom!"

In an instant, the world is spinning!

When Zhang Yao felt dizzy, he had already fallen into a vast and ancient starry sky.

Surrounded by stars, star wheels, and astrolabes as big as carts, there are also marvels in the distance, such as the rotation of chaotic holes, the collapse of nebula, and the upside-down galaxy.

One time:

Standing in the starry universe, Zhang Yao felt that his body was being kneaded like dough, cold, scorching, flattened, torn, expanded... in an instant, thousands of feelings came to his heart.

Dull pain, numbness, refreshing, sour, swollen, crucifying... In an instant, there are thousands of feelings stirring in the heart, almost destroying one's reason.

Zhang Yao couldn't make a sound, he could only roar and roar silently, holding on to the last bit of clarity in his heart.

This is a competition of pure will, without any shortcuts, strong is strong, weak is weak, and almost will be smashed to pieces and fall into the endless purgatory forever.

Under the extreme mental torture, Zhang Yao almost forgot the passage of time.

I don't know how long it has been:

Just when Zhang Yao was about to be unable to hold on, the surrounding starlight suddenly burst out, and all the stars in the universe dispersed and turned into nothingness.

"call!"

Zhang Yao suddenly opened his eyes, gasped heavily, and then realized that he was still sitting in front of the stele.

It's just that the stele of the star map that made him feel extremely glaring before, now it's nothing special, and it won't respond any more.

"..."

Zhang Yao stood up silently, only feeling that the trial in just a few breaths had brought about a radical change in his mind and will again.

"The trials in the Emerald Shrine are probably not only for selection, but also for cultivation."

"No wonder the ancestors of Haihe suspected that this place used to be the selection place for a certain super sect in ancient times..."

He suddenly understood in his heart.

After Zhang Yao also came to the Qingyu Ancient Gate and stood side by side with Taoist Sansha, the rest of the people became more confident and stepped forward to try.

However, the result was very slap in the face——

Many of the remaining seven Jindan real people had made full preparations in advance, but they were still crushed and defeated in the fifth level.

finally:
Apart from Zhang Yao and Taoist Sansha, only the young swordsman, who had been taciturn from beginning to end and carried a sword box, successfully passed the test of the star map stele.

"Ok?"

Zhang Yao was a little surprised. He looked at the young swordsman again, and suddenly turned his head and asked:

"What's the history of this fellow?"

Taoist Sansha hesitated for a moment, then responded:

"His name is 'You Quan', he is from Gui, and he is an instrument repairer."

"Mechanical repair?"

Zhang Yao knew it in his heart.

Qixiu pays attention to the entrustment of life and life, the unity of human and treasure, and uses the power of magic treasure to cultivate one's own wonderful method, which has many mysteries.

In the ancient times, this school was once a very glorious school, and even had a three-point posture that impacted the orthodox way of refining Qi, which shows its prosperity.

The method of refining natal magic treasures that is very popular in today's era was first created by Qi Xiu; later, Qi Xiu also branched out into many branches, among which the sword repair branch is even more famous and known as the number one school of killing monks of the same level .

It's just that after the great destruction of the ancient times, the tool repair has been in decline for many years, and now it is even rarer than the soul repair and alchemy repair.

"The combat power of the equipment repairer is not bad, and his heart is as strong as iron, so he can't be underestimated."

Zhang Yao secretly remembered this person, and he really paid attention to it in his heart.

"Everyone."

Taoist Sansha suddenly opened his mouth, looked at Man Tiansheng, Patriarch Haihe and others with ugly faces in the hall, and said:

"It seems that your preparations are not enough, you can only stop here."

As soon as this statement came out:
Zhang Yao at the side sighed and didn't say much, and You Quan was even more expressionless and indifferent.

"Oh shit!"

Man Tiantian was a little annoyed and stomped his feet in anxiety, but there was nothing he could do.

It was very uncomfortable to watch the ancient Lingbao miss it directly, but he was still powerless to resist the rules of the Emerald Shrine.

"Could it be possible that we really want to join hands with these three evil Taoists and start a war after leaving the shrine?"

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel his teeth ache.

Before coming to the Shrine, he was full of confidence, but after seeing Patriarch Qingxu's abilities, he lost any confidence at all.

But if he just quit like this and gave up this god-given opportunity for nothing, it would also make him extremely unwilling.

"This……"

Haihe Patriarch was about to say something when Fairy Feiying beside him suddenly said:

"Don't worry, I have a solution."

"what?"

As soon as this statement came out, everyone was extremely surprised.

"Do you have a solution?"

Ancestor Yuanxu on the side was the first to react and questioned:
"What can you do? It's really shameless!"

"You were invited by Xia Guang, right? But you are only at the early stage of the Golden Core, not the perfect Golden Core, the old monster of the Nascent Soul!"

"Correct!"

Baihong Sword Immortal on the side also echoed:

"Don't say it's me waiting, I'm afraid that the Nascent Soul monster may not be able to take advantage of the loopholes of the Emerald Shrine."

Fairy Feiying's complexion remained unchanged, and said lightly:

"Of course I can't find any loopholes in the formation of the Emerald Shrine, but what if there is a back door in the Emerald Shrine?"

As soon as this remark came out, the field suddenly fell silent.

"Ok?"

Zhang Yao squinted his eyes, looked at Fairy Feiying, then at Fairy Xiaguang, his eyes flickered slightly.

Taoist Sansha raised his eyebrows, while Sword Immortal Baihong and Patriarch Yuanxu looked at her in surprise, and couldn't help but ask:
"What do you mean? You found the back door here?"

"Correct."

Fairy Feiying looked calm and said:

"You may not know, but I am a demon cultivator, and the blood of the demon race flows in my body."

Hearing this, Taoist Sansha and Baihong Sword Fairy didn't express much, while Man Tiansheng muttered a few words, but didn't say much.

Most of the monks are rather ambiguous about demon cultivators, especially those who have cultivated to the Golden Core realm, and have already had their own opinions, so they don't want to shout and kill when they come up.

After seeing that they didn't react violently, Fairy Feiying continued:

"Actually, when I entered the Emerald Shrine earlier, I received an additional message."

"This message says that this is a Befu sent out of the 'Longevity League' in ancient times, and it is specially used to train the new elite children and young Tianjiao."

"In the Wanshou League, human beings and demons live together, and treat them equally, but the two races are not one after all, and each has their own thoughts, and the supervisor of this branch of Befu is one of the high-ranking members of the alliance, a great demon who transforms into a god... "

Having said this, many Golden Core cultivators immediately understood.

"You mean to say..."

Taoist Sansha spoke slowly:
"On the surface, the cultivators of the human and demon races are treated equally; but behind the scenes, there is a back door for the cultivators of the demon race?"

"And you, who happen to have the blood of the demon clan and were judged to be a demon clan, so if you know this secret, can you still use the back door here?"

"Correct."

Fairy Feiying nodded and said:

"I can use the back door set up here in advance to take everyone to the sixth level, but there is no reward."

"The test of the sixth level is comprehension. Such mysterious and mysterious things should be a little easier than testing the will of the mind."

Speaking of this, her tone also brought a hint of temptation:
"Everyone should know that the rewards in this Emerald Shrine are richer and richer with each level."

"If everyone can pass the sixth level, then the loss of the fifth level is actually nothing at all..."

As soon as these words came out, Man Tiansheng, Baihong Jianxian, Yuanxu Patriarch and others looked at each other for a few times, and they all saw each other's emotions.

He had failed at first and was waiting to be expelled from the shrine, but now he still has the opportunity to go to the sixth level, which is of course a big advantage.

"What's the price?"

Taoist Sansha spoke suddenly, staring at her:
"If you want to use this back door, what price do you need to pay?"

(End of this chapter)