Immortality and cultivation: Heaven rewards diligence, and success is inevitable.

"Hahahaha." Manager Lin burst into laughter.

"You truly are my good disciple. Since you desire it, of course I should give it to you."

A stone tablet appeared out of thin air in Manager Lin's hand and flew towards Jiang Shi.

Jiang Shi grabbed the stone tablet; it was none other than the "Golden Spirit Manual".

"Thank you, Master. This disciple will take his leave now."

Jiang Shitou turned and left without looking back.

After Jiang Shi left, Manager Lin's face darkened.

He muttered to himself, "The pill is almost ready."

Having obtained the "Golden Spirit Manual," Jiang Shi returned to the outer sect.

The sect competition will be held in three months.

Jiang Shi needs to seize the time to cultivate.

Three months later.

A deafening bell rang out, its sound echoing through the sky.

The sect competition has begun.

Jiang Shi got up and went out the door.

Three months of arduous training have enabled him to achieve mastery of the Golden Spirit Technique.

Now that the sect competition has begun, he has just emerged from seclusion.

"Junior Brother Jiang, you've finally emerged from seclusion." Li Ze walked over.

"It's really not easy to see you," Li Ze said, somewhat speechlessly.

My junior brother is truly an ascetic; I rarely see him.

Aside from delivering contribution points each month, Jiang Shi never comes out on other days.

They even used fasting pills to eat.

"Let's go, Senior Brother Li," Jiang Shi said.

The group of menial disciples went together to the outer sect arena.

That was an arena consisting of twelve arenas.

It is specifically for disciples to practice and compete with each other.

The sect's grand competition for outer disciples is always held here.

The Qingyun Sect has a total of over 600 outer disciples, with only over 100 serving as miscellaneous disciples; the rest are scions of aristocratic families.

The disciples of the noble families sat on the watchtower, while the servant disciples sat in the corner.

Jiang Shi sat down next to Li Ze and Zhou Yuan, waiting for the competition to begin.

Just as he was getting a little bored, three figures flew over from the sky.

"Flying through the air! He's a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator!" Li Ze exclaimed in surprise.

Foundation Establishment was a lifelong dream for these outer disciples.

These people claim to cultivate immortality and attain eternal life, but their ultimate goal is actually just to reach the Foundation Establishment stage.

Once a cultivator enters the Foundation Establishment stage, they can live on the wind and dew, fly through the air, and possess many supernatural abilities.

The most crucial factor is lifespan; Foundation Establishment stage cultivators have a lifespan exceeding five hundred years.

Some Foundation Establishment stage cultivators who take longevity pills can even live for more than nine hundred years.

That is true immortality.

The saying that a cultivator's entire life is dedicated to building a foundation has been passed down through the ages.

Li Ze and Zhou Yuan stared intently at the figure flying in the sky.

I fantasize about becoming one of them.

Jiang Shi remained unmoved; he was different from these ordinary cultivators.

I have no bottleneck in my cultivation.

It is extremely difficult for ordinary cultivators to break through the bottleneck.

Some people cultivate at the same level for a hundred years without being able to break through.

It is affected by either aptitude, cultivation method, or resources.

Just like Manager Lin, who broke through to the tenth level of the Qi Refining stage, but was unable to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage due to the lack of Foundation Establishment Pills.

The so-called "Great Perfection" is just a nice-sounding excuse for these cultivators who failed to break through their bottlenecks.

With Foundation Establishment Pills, one can take them to break through to the tenth level of Qi Refining.

Jiang Shi has no bottleneck; when he breaks through the tenth level of Qi Refining, he will directly break through to Foundation Establishment.

Heaven rewards diligence; success is inevitable.

This is the true meaning of destiny.

Lu Chuanxing from the Hall of Deacons, Liang Zonghao from the Hall of Dharma Protectors, and Lu Chuanyu from the Hall of Transmitting Skills descended from the sky.

It landed on the main stage.

Everyone fell silent in an instant.

Lu Chuanxing's gaze swept over the outer disciples.

"To hone the skills of our disciples, we are now holding a sect competition."

Then Lu Chuanxing waved his hand, and a huge light screen formed by magic appeared out of thin air.

It was filled with the competition rules and rewards.

The competition is divided into four stages: Heaven, Earth, Darkness, and Yellow.

Yellow Level: Requires winning a match, rewarded with 100 contribution points.

Mysterious Level: Requires winning three matches, reward 500 contribution points.

Prefecture-level: Requires winning seven matches, rewarding 2,000 contribution points.

Heavenly level: Requires winning twelve matches, rewarding 3,000 contribution points.

The disciples were all excited when they saw this.

It's important to know that accumulating contribution points on a regular basis is extremely difficult.

If Jiang Shi wants to accumulate 3,000 contribution points, he needs to submit 3,000 spirit talismans.

This is an impossible task; even if he could master it, he wouldn't dare submit it.

"Is it true that I get 100 contribution points just for winning one game?" Li Ze muttered to himself.

"Junior Brother Li, don't do anything foolish. Senior Brother Hu warned us that we menial disciples can't participate in the competition; it's too dangerous," Zhou Yuan quickly reminded Li Ze upon hearing his words.

The scions of noble families can even produce low-grade magic weapons; how could they, these poor wretches, possibly defeat them?

Even if they were to miraculously defeat a member of a powerful family, that member would still hold a grudge against them.

It's not worth making a contribution for a mere hundred.

"Yes... Senior Brother Zhou," Li Ze stammered, a struggle in his eyes.

"The competition has begun," Jiang Shi announced.

His eyes were fixed on the arena; his goal was not to compete on stage, but to watch them fight.

The head of the Transmission Hall used secret methods to collect information on all the disciples participating in the sect's grand competition.

If you don't want to participate, just hold the doorplate and pay ten contribution points.

Jiang Shi paid his contribution points by holding the small stone tablet.

After the information was collected, the contestants' information appeared on the huge light screen.

Twenty-four disciples were chosen first, and they rose and jumped onto the arena.

They were all scions of prominent families, each wearing a small jade pendant.

Each person was assigned an opponent of the same level to ensure fairness.

"Senior Brother Lu, please."

"Junior Brother Liang, please show mercy!"

A disciple from the Lu family and an outer disciple from the Liang family started fighting.

One of them used a low-grade Xuan-level technique called "Burning Fire Palm".

One of them used the low-grade Xuan-level technique, "Clear Water Seal".

Senior Brother Lu unleashed a palm strike, unleashing a fierce attack of raging flames.

Junior Brother Liang defends, using the Clear Water Seal technique for defense.

Neither side would give way, and the fight ended in a draw.

[Watch the complete low-grade Xuan-level technique, "Burning Fire Palm"]

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【Burning Palm: Beginner (30/500)】

[View the complete low-grade Xuan-level spell [Clear Water Seal]]

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Jiang Shi was overjoyed; it was just as he had predicted.

As long as he can watch the other party perform a spell in its entirety, he can gain proficiency from it.

"This is wonderful!" Jiang Shi thought to himself.

Since that's the case, he'll try to learn as much as possible during this sect competition and take advantage of the Qingyun Sect.

He just happens to lack magical techniques, so once he breaks through to the seventh level of Qi Refining, he'll just run away.

Once a rogue cultivator leaves for another city, who will care about playing house with these scions of wealthy families?

It's a pity that you can only steal the teaching methods, not the martial arts techniques.

No one would practice martial arts in front of others.