Chapter 61 Pre-war preparations
In a few months, the cultivation level jumped two levels. Such a speed is extremely difficult even for cultivators with excellent qualifications.
Not to mention that Fang Yang and the other three originally had average qualifications.
But Fang Yang had already prepared for this.
They deliberately chose a valley and transplanted some thousand-year spiritual herbs, saying that they had found a place with a lot of thousand-year spiritual herbs.
Then they said that the improvement in cultivation level was because they took the risk to eat high-level spiritual herbs whose names they did not know.
In fact, thousand-year spiritual herbs cannot be eaten randomly, but it is not ruled out that there are spiritual herbs that can improve cultivation level.
Therefore, Fang Yang and his team went back and said that they had found a remote valley with thousand-year spiritual herbs, so that they could exchange for sect merits.
Just two days before the end of the six-month mission period, Fang Yang and his team appeared outside the Merit Hall of Wanxiang Sect.
"Ah? Those idiots who said they wanted to collect thousand-year spiritual herbs are back?"
"Haha, they are all casual cultivators, I'm afraid they haven't even seen what thousand-year spiritual herbs look like!"
"What an ignorant fellow."
"Casual cultivators just eat and wait for death in the sect!" Laughs and contempts were like flies around the Merit Hall. But Fang Yang and his team were unmoved.
"Uncle Master, please settle the task for me!" He took out a few spiritual herbs.
"AhThousand-year Phoenix Tail GrassThousand-year Jade Lan Flower" The foundation-building cultivator was stunned on the spot.
"AhThere are really spiritual herbs today! It's incredible."
"I heard that they are the Three Heroes of Ten Thousand Trees, it seems they are really capable!"
While handing over the task, Fang Yang and his team also told the location of the valley where the spiritual herbs were found.
This attracted many cultivators, even foundation-building cultivators and one or two Jindan elders.
They really found some thousand-year spiritual herbs.
In this way, Fang Yang and his team made great achievements, and the name of the Three Heroes of Wanmu became quite famous.
However, Fang Yang had already set his sights on the sect competition.
After Fang Yang and his team returned to Wanxiang Sect, they returned to Wanmu Peak in a very low-key manner to retreat.
Indeed, the three people's skills improved by leaps and bounds in a short period of time, which also caused the phenomenon of unstable realm.
At the same time, Fang Yang's Invisible Art was temporarily stopped because of the increase in strength, fearing that it would be difficult to control.
The so-called retreat of Fang Yang and his team at Wanmu Peak was not just meditation.
Instead, the three of them played chess, drank and sang, and relaxed.
At the same time, the three of them continued to practice formations and discuss their own understandings.
At the same time, they did not forget to go to the Heritage Hall every first and fifteenth day of the month to listen to the lectures of the foundation-building master.
In this way, the so-called retreat of the three people seemed quite limited.
However, what followed was that there was a rumor in the sect that the three people had lost their desire to seek the truth after accidentally eating natural treasures, and they were decadent every day at Wanmu Peak.
Of course, the three of them would not pay attention to this nonsense rumor.
However, it can be guessed that it must be a sect, especially a favored disciple, who can't bear to see the three people get benefits, so he secretly slandered them.
After Fang Yang and the others relaxed their minds for three or four months, they began to practice intensively again.
Because of the special nature of the Formless Art, Fang Yang did not pursue rapid progress, but concentrated on refining the formation.
Zhang Lin now has Fang Yang's support, and his weapon refining level is constantly improving.
Now that his cultivation has improved, he can already refine high-quality magic weapons, and even if he is lucky, he may be close to the best magic weapons.
As for Nuo Po, he has the elixir supplied by Fang Yang and the equipment given by Zhang Lin, so he is like a fish in water when fighting monsters.
He can already fight some weaker fourth-level monsters. You know, no matter how bad the fourth-level monsters are, they have the strength equivalent to the peak of the initial foundation building in some aspects.
Just before the sect competition, which is only three months away, the entire Wanxiang Sect became lively.
At the foot of Lingkui Peak in the Wanxiang Mountains, there is a cultivation market, but now this cultivation market has expanded dozens of times.
Many cultivators gathered from all directions and spontaneously formed a large-scale cultivation market, comparable to a small fairy city.
Indeed, the Wanxiang Sect's ten-year internal competition also allowed many people to see business opportunities.
At this time, many disciples in the sect, even foundation-building cultivators, would come to the trade fair to exchange their favorite treasures.
And indeed, some rare things would appear at this time, and many wealthy disciples would definitely spend a lot of money at this time.
You should know that although the internal competition is only an internal competition, it is related to whether you can enter the top 100 core disciples of the sect.
If you enter, the sect will focus on training, otherwise you will be lost in the crowd and it will be difficult to stand out among thousands of struggling Qi-training cultivators, let alone become a foundation-building master in the future.
Soon, the prizes for the winners of this competition were announced, and the top three could choose a treasure from the sect's treasure house.
Of course, they will be selected in order, and the first one can become the disciple of the Yuanying Patriarch.
As for the top thirty, they can all get the foundation-building pill.
The other seventy cultivators can get the best quality magic tools and top-grade magic tools in turn.
Not only do they have these treasures, but more importantly, from now on, they will be cultivators with titles in the sect and become core disciples.
Even if the foundation-building cultivators will not make things too difficult for the core disciples in the future.
Because the core disciples may become foundation-building cultivators one day and be on equal footing with themselves.
The requirements for participating in the competition have also been announced. As long as they are disciples of the Wanxiang Sect, inner or outer sects, or even registered disciples, they can participate.
At the same time, the participating monks are required to reach the tenth level of Qi training.
As a result, out of the thousands of qi-training disciples of Wanxiang Sect, only about 900 were left who met the requirements.
It was precisely because Fang Yang and the three of them wanted to meet this standard that Fang Yang made the decision to use the spirit gathering formation to urgently improve their cultivation.
Otherwise, I am afraid that the sect competition is over, and Fang Yang and the other three may not be able to meet the participation standards.
Now Fang Yang has two spiritual weapons in his hand, one is the low-grade spiritual weapon Xuanyin Banner, and the second is the Fire Wing Sword with the multi-winged Fire Tiger Soul.
But the Xuanyin Banner was clearly a treasure of the demonic monks, and Fang Yang would not dare to use it in the Wanxiang Sect no matter how brave he was.
However, the Fire Wing Sword may not be able to be used because it killed three foundation-building monks from the Liu family in Yanyun Mountain.
For a while, Fang Yang fell into the embarrassment of a clever woman struggling to make a living without straw.
Fortunately, Fang Yang had Zhang Lin, a master of weapon training, at his side. At the same time, Fang Yang also directly bought a batch of materials and buried them in the three-color sacred mud of Qingyuan Fairy Mountain, all of which were purified into top-quality materials.
Zhang Lin is proficient in refining weapons, but spiritual weapons are different from magical weapons. Refining spiritual weapons requires at least the strength of the foundation-building stage to support it.
Fortunately, what Fang Yang asked for was not to refine a spiritual weapon, but just for Zhang Lin to make large-scale changes based on the original Fire Wing Sword.
Anyway, what Fang Yang meant was: "Just change it so that you don't even recognize it!"
Zhang Lin rented the sect's underground fire refining room, and more than two months passed in a flash.
He used up a lot of top-quality materials from Fang Yang, and finally incorporated ten thousand years of thunder and ten thousand years of fine gold into the Fire Wing Sword.
At the same time, He Dong also helped carve a set of thunder and fire formations on the body of the vessel.
As long as Fang Yang provides spiritual stones with thunder and lightning properties, the sword can emit thunder and fire.
Therefore, Fang Yang's Fire Wing Sword was successfully upgraded into a mid-grade spiritual weapon, and Fang Yang also named him the Thunder Fire Golden Light Sword.
Zhang Lin, Nuopo and the others had Fang Yang, a wealthy man, so they naturally bought a lot of elixirs and talismans, and also each added a full set of high-grade defensive instruments.
In this way, Fang Yang and the three of them indeed have the strength to hit the top thirty.
Fang Yang was not idle during this period, but began to refine the elixir.
After a period of painstaking efforts in refining the elixir, Fang Yang wasted a mountain of materials.
He consulted almost all the elixir improvement methods of the Wanxiang Sect, and Fang Yang finally refined the Yulan Dan, a fourth-level elixir with weaker medicinal properties, for the first time.
You must know that third-level elixirs are for monks in the late stages of Qi training and early foundation building, while fourth-level elixirs are enough for monks in the middle and late stages of foundation building.
However, compared to others, Fang Yang used Millennium Jade Orchid Flowers, so it was not bad if he could succeed by luck.
With the assistance of the fourth-level elixir, Fang Yang finally reached the eleventh level of Qi training three days before the start of the competition.
Nuo Po was better than Fang Yang, reaching the middle of the eleventh level of Qi training.
Among the three, Zhang Lin had the best qualifications and became a twelfth-level qi-training monk in one fell swoop.
Just three nights before the competition, Fang Yang had just vomited in front of the bamboo building in his medicinal field, and saw a flash of light.
A powerful aura appeared next to Fang Yang, and it was obvious that the person coming was a foundation-building monk.
However, Fang Yang did not panic at all, and was obviously very familiar with the visitor.
"Brother He, why are you here?" Fang Yang was also a little surprised that He Dong came to visit quietly at night.
"I want to ask you to do me a favor secretly!" He Dong said with a bit of embarrassment.
"Brother He, if it weren't for your spirit gathering formation, I probably wouldn't have been able to participate in this competition."
Fang Yang smiled and said, "Since my family members no longer speak the same language, Brother He, if you have any questions, just tell me."
"I hope you can be in the top three and help me get something from the sect's treasure house!" He Dong's eyes showed eagerness, and at the same time he was also very afraid of Fang Yang's rejection, which made him very embarrassed.
Fang Yang originally just wanted to enter the top 30 and get the Foundation Building Pill, but he didn't want to be in the limelight.
But he listened to Ho Tung's request and fell into deep thought.
A few days passed by in a blink of an eye.
Among the major sects in Linglan Mountain, the Wanxiang Sect’s sect competition can be said to be truly all-encompassing and exciting.
First of all, each peak has set up a competition of its own lineage in the square of Wanxiang Sect.
Formations, puppets, talisman making, and alchemy are all exciting competitions.
The formation arena here is dazzling and colorful.
These formations not only have protective formations, but also attack and kill formations, or use formations to break formations. They are like light groups bombarding each other in the air. They are extremely gorgeous but touching.
Over there, there are endless machine puppets.
Here, a monk at the top of the twelfth level of Qi training controls hundreds of low-level puppets. He advances and retreats in a coordinated manner, as if he has launched a small war, killing dozens of his opponent's beast puppets, leaving nothing behind.
In the elixir arena, the scent of medicine floats, making people feel relaxed and happy.
Dozens of alchemy cauldrons were far apart, and everyone watching the elixir competition stayed far away.
Logically speaking, the closer you can observe the alchemy process, the better. You can learn a lot. However, this is a competition. Many monks take great risks and want to challenge more advanced elixirs.
However, things often go against expectations. Instead of preparing the elixir, the elixir cauldron explodes.
"Boom boom boom"
Sure enough, a medium-grade alchemy furnace exploded.
The alchemist next to him was blasted dozens of feet away, and soon a foundation-building monk rescued him.
Unlike other cultivators, Fang Yang had a huge amount of alchemy materials, so his experience in alchemy was almost the same as that of cultivators in the middle and late stages of foundation building, or even some golden elixir cultivators.
So Fang Yang quickly made a furnace of excellent third-level elixir.
Such a speed has already stunned the cultivator in charge of elixirs.
"Third-level elixir, how can it be so fast!"