The Demon Cultivator of the Sword

Chapter 16: The Third Transformation of Chongyuan Gong

At this time, Taoist Black Crow had taken out eight black tokens that were neither iron nor wood from the box next to him.

After using the finger strength of the Star Realm level to imprint the names of Gu Yuan and others, he took out eight pitch-black rings from a separate box.

"From now on, you are inner disciples. This is your inner disciple token. In addition, each inner disciple can get a low-grade storage spirit ring and a one-time reward of 500 low-grade spirit stones. The spirit stones are in the storage spirit ring. If you want to earn spirit stones in the future, you will have to rely on yourselves. Now follow me to the ranking jade disc! That is where every inner disciple must go."

After distributing the tokens and the one-time reward given by the sect to the inner disciples, Taoist Black Crow led everyone to the Spiritual Hall halfway up the Demon Peak.

Gu Yuan followed at the back of the crowd, playing with the storage ring he had just obtained in his hand, with a smile on his face.

Originally, he planned to try a few tasks, earn some spirit stones, and then switch to practicing martial arts.

After all, warriors in the Condensation Realm no longer cultivate internal energy, but true energy. If they do not have spirit stones to cultivate, their cultivation speed will undoubtedly be much slower than that of others.

It seems that this sect has taken this into consideration and specially distributed the spirit stones needed for each inner disciple to change their practice method.

Let them save time for practice.

However, such arrogant behavior can only be done by the sixth-grade sects that control the spiritual veins. If it were an ordinary seventh-grade sect, they could only honestly accept the sect's tasks and earn spirit stones.

After one stick of incense, everyone arrived at the Spirit Hall.

This was not the first time Gu Yuan came here, but this time, it was much more lively than before.

At this time, there were many inner disciples standing under the jade wall of the Spiritual Hall, including several core disciples. They all raised their heads to look at the position of the jade plate and the name on it.

"I never thought that after this Core Disciple Ranking Competition, Senior Brother Mo Yan would be able to defeat Senior Brother Cui who ranked first and Senior Brother Li who ranked second. You know, they were ranked seventh and eighteenth on the last Hidden Dragon Ranking."

"Senior Sister Murong is not bad either. She defeated Senior Brother Li who was originally ranked second. Once Senior Brother Cui is over the age limit and becomes the inner sect deacon, she will be the second disciple of our Feitian Demon Sect."

"There is also Senior Brother Wu Liangyu. Although he is only the top inner sect disciple, he defeated Senior Brother Leng, who was ranked second, with only three moves in the inner sect disciple ranking competition two months ago. It is said that he already has the strength of a top core disciple and plans to challenge again after entering the Bao Yuan realm."

Amidst the discussion among the crowd, the eight people from Gu Yuan followed Taoist Black Crow to the jade disk.

"Hello, Elder Black Crow, are these eight people the newly promoted inner disciples?" Taoist Black Crow's cultivation level is the middle stage of the Star Realm. Although he is an outer elder, his strength is very strong. He is not much inferior to the inner elders who are in the late stage of the Star Realm. Moreover, he is a kind person and takes good care of the disciples of the Feitian Demon Sect. He has a high prestige in the Feitian Demon Sect.

The most important thing is that his disciples are very competitive, especially Wu Liangyu, who has become one of the most popular disciples of the Feitian Demon Sect in recent years.

Taoist Black Crow nodded with a smile, "You must work hard, some of them have great potential."

“Don’t worry, elders. We are working hard every day.”

Gu Yuan paid no attention to their conversation and carefully observed the tall and ranked jade disk.

There are densely packed jade plaques hanging on the surface of the jade disk, and compared with the last time, the ranking has obviously changed a lot.

Especially for the core disciples, Mo Yan was ranked first, the original first was ranked second, and Murong Qingcheng was ranked third. Senior Brother Wang and Senior Brother Liu, who had received him as a disciple together with Senior Brother Ling, were no longer on the list.

Because he was over 25 years old and his cultivation had not yet broken through the Star Realm, he, like Senior Brother Ling, took on the title of Inner Gate Deacon and went into seclusion with all his strength to break through the Star Realm.

There is nothing to do usually, so I won’t show up again.

There are many cases like this. Gu Yuan estimated that when the Hidden Dragon Ranking competition began, the top ten core disciples would only have Mo Yan, Murong Qingcheng, and Wu Liangyu under the age of 25.

Taoist Black Crow left after asking Gu Yuan and others to carve their names on several empty jade tablets in the last row.

The inner disciple who had chatted with him earlier explained the ranking of the jade discs to them.

Although Gu Yuan knew all this, he still listened.

It was nothing more than to stimulate the inner disciples' sense of competition. Every June, there would be an inner disciple ranking competition. At the end of the year, those who were outside the top 3,000 would be disqualified from the inner disciple status, and they would have to wait half a year to get it back.

The last inner disciples ranking competition was two months ago.

Two months after the inner disciples ranking competition ends, the new Hidden Dragon List will begin. Time waits for no one.

"These are still too far away from us. After becoming an inner sect disciple, we have half a year to practice freely. Let's go to the Martial Arts Pavilion first. Everyone will need to complete a sect mission in the future, which won't be so easy."

After listening to the competition among the inner disciples, Lin Yang sighed and patted Gu Yuan on the shoulder.

"Ah."

Gu Yuan nodded, and a sense of urgency arose in his heart, not because of the inner disciple ranking competition, but because of the Hidden Dragon Ranking in a year.

If you want to improve your strength faster, you must get into the top 72 of the Hidden Dragon List.

That is related to one's own destiny.

Martial Arts Pavilion.

"Elder, we meet again."

Coming to the Martial Arts Pavilion again, Gu Yuan first greeted the elder guarding the pavilion, and showed him his inner disciple token and the two one-time tokens for entering the third floor given by Taoist Black Crow and the Burial Mounds.

"Good boy, you have been promoted to an inner disciple so quickly. Go now. But you must be quick, because one token can only allow you to stay on the third floor for a quarter of an hour."

The elder guarding the pavilion was no stranger to Gu Yuan. After all, it was difficult to be unfamiliar with a genius of his level even if he wanted to.

Lin Yang also showed the three-level disposable token he obtained when he broke into the mass grave. After the two went up, they separated and each chose the secret book that suited them.

A quarter of an hour later, Lin Yang picked out a local intermediate-level martial arts secret book and left.

Gu Yuan is still selecting.

Because he wanted to choose a martial arts book that contained both martial arts and swordsmanship.

It turned out that the Martial Arts Pavilion didn't have it.

In desperation, he could only settle for the next best thing.

Finally, he chose a satisfactory book of Qi-related intermediate-level earth-level skills:
"Three-turn Chongyuan Gong - a mid-level earth-level technique, is divided into eleven levels. The first three levels are the foundation. After each level, the true qi is condensed by three points. The eighth level is the entry level. The ninth level is the first turn, which makes the true qi twice as pure. The tenth level is the second turn, which makes it twice as pure again. The eleventh level is the highest realm, and the purity of the true qi can be compared with that of the high-level earth-level techniques that have been cultivated to the eleventh level. Note: If you don't have excellent comprehension, give up practicing to avoid wasting time."

(End of this chapter)