Chapter 65: Illusion Trial
Looking at the completely opposite meridian diagram in "The Secret of the Underworld", Li Yu was amazed.
No one had ever told him that spiritual veins could be trained in reverse. He suddenly had an idea: if he impacted the acupuncture points at both ends of a spiritual vein at the same time and waited for them to meet in the middle, wouldn't it be possible to halve the training time?
Of course, Li Yu just thought about it and didn't try it.
He is not a fool. It is such an obvious thing, but no one does it. There must be a reason for it.
At the beginning of their practice, Elder Sun told them that they must practice exactly according to the meridian diagram in the exercises, without any mistakes. If they did so, they would go astray and die instantly.
Obviously, for a spiritual vein, it should be possible to practice both the positive and negative training, but not at the same time.
Li Yu guessed that there should be an essential difference between the magic power of the normal and reverse cultivation of spiritual veins.
In addition to the order of impacting acupoints, the techniques of the righteous and evil paths are also very different in their usage.
The disciples of the righteous path, who practiced earth-attributed techniques, generally chose to cultivate spiritual medicines and mine minerals, while the methods of the demonic path were more sinister. They practiced earth-attributed techniques, mainly for refining corpses...
In this way, there is no need to say who is the orthodox immortal and who is the evil one.
He put away the Netherworld Secret and asked Zhou Zixuan to play with Ling'er. Li Yu left home and came to Tianzhu Peak again.
There has been no news from the witch, and he can't just sit and wait at home.
Li Yu came here to see if there was any task suitable for him since he had nothing to do.
On the four huge task walls, waves are flowing, and there are too many tasks to keep up with.
Some were issued by sects, some were issued by individuals. The variety of tasks made Li Yu dizzy.
He just glanced at the spirit coin missions and skipped them, only focusing on those that offered Tongmai Dan as rewards. However, there were too few such missions, and they all involved killing evil spirits and monsters. Unless he knew their exact locations, there was no way to take them.
In fact, the fastest way to improve one's cultivation is to directly absorb spiritual medicines, but spiritual medicines of that level are used for alchemy, and the sect only buys them but does not sell them, unless he goes to find them himself, which would be time-consuming and laborious, and there might not be any gain. It would be better to take on missions to earn Tongmai Pills.
Li Yu was about to go back when someone patted him on the shoulder.
He looked back and found that the person coming was Wu Tong.
Wu Tong looked at him and smiled, "It's you, Li Yu. Long time no see. Are you here to take on a mission as well?"
Li Yu asked: "You too? You don't need spirit coins, do you?"
He was a little surprised. With Wu Tong's business acumen, he would not be short of spirit coins and he didn't need to get them by taking on missions.
Wu Tong smiled and said, "Of course I'm not. The most disciples gather here, and information circulates the fastest. I'm here to collect information. What about you? You should have more spiritual coins than me, so why did you come here too..."
Li Yu said: "We have no shortage of spirit coins. Let me see if there are any tasks that will directly reward Tongmai Dan."
Wu Tong often came here and was obviously more familiar with the sect's missions than Li Yu. He said, "The reward is for the Tongmai Pill mission, and the only thing we have to do is kill those demon disciples..."
After that, he shook his head again and said, "However, those demons are secretive in their whereabouts. If you want to run into them, you have to rely on luck..."
As he was talking, he suddenly remembered something, looked at Li Yu, and said, "Speaking of the Tongmai Pill reward, if you are confident in your own strength, you can go to the Illusionary Trial. As long as you can enter the top ten of the trial, you will be rewarded with ten Tongmai Pills for every place you surpass..."
"Illusionary trial? Ten Tongmai Pills?"
Li Yu asked in confusion: "What kind of mission is this?"
Wu Tongdao: "The Illusion Trial is not a mission, so it is not on the mission wall. It is normal that you don't know about it. Under normal circumstances, you have to reach the ninth level of Qi Refining to have the ability to pass the Illusion Trial. However, you have cultivated many spiritual veins, and in terms of the depth of your magic power, you should be no weaker than the ninth level of Qi Refining. You can give it a try..."
A quarter of an hour later.
Tongtian Peak.
Two figures descended from the sky and landed on the top of Tongtian Peak. Wu Tong smiled and said to Li Yu: "This is the place for the illusion trial."
Li Yu saw the Kunlun disciples coming in and out of the hall on the top of Tongtian Peak. Wu Tong was right. Those who came here to participate in the trial were all disciples above the eighth level of Qi Refining, and most of them were at the ninth level of Qi Refining.
No one who came here wore the disciple uniforms that isolated the fluctuations of magic power, so Li Yu could clearly feel their strength.
Regarding the illusion trial, Wu Tong had already explained it to Li Yu in detail on the way here.
Large sects like the Kunlun Sect attach great importance to the training of low-level disciples. Whether they are alchemists or ordinary disciples, there are various competitions with generous rewards to motivate the disciples.
The Illusion Trial is one of them, and it has a history of nearly a thousand years.
The sect's original purpose in setting up the illusion trial was to encourage the disciples in the Qi Refining stage to practice. As long as they could break into the top ten in the trial, they would receive a generous reward of Tongmai Dan. Those disciples at the seventh or eighth level of Qi Refining, as long as they broke into the top ten once, could use the reward to enter the eighth or ninth level of Qi Refining or even achieve perfection. Naturally, they would be extremely enthusiastic about participating in the trial.
The sect's original intention was very good, but later on, the actual situation of the trial deviated from the original intention of setting up the trial.
The illusion trial was originally designed for disciples at the seventh and eighth levels of Qi Refining. It only restricted the participation of disciples above the Foundation Establishment stage, and did not restrict the ninth level of Qi Refining.
If one can make it into the top 100 of the trial, one can leave one's name on the trial list. If one can make it into the top 10, one will be noticed by the entire sect and one's name will remain on the trial list for decades or even hundreds of years. This kind of fame is also very attractive to disciples at the ninth level of Qi Refining.
As more and more people at the ninth level of Qi Refining participated in the trial, there was naturally no place for people at the seventh or eighth level of Qi Refining in the top 100 of the trial list.
Nearly a thousand years have passed, and no one remembers why the illusion trial was set up in the first place. The trial list has also become a place that disciples in the Qi Refining Stage must compete for. The titles of genius and prodigy given by others do not count. If you have the ability, you should try to make it to the trial list yourself. Only by leaving your name on the list can you be recognized by everyone.
The result is that, over the past thousand years, geniuses of every era have wanted to leave their names on the list, and it is almost necessary for them to go through the illusion trial. Not to mention the top ten on the list, even the 99th and 100th place on the trial list are not ordinary ninth-level Qi training masters, but those who have cultivated multiple spiritual veins at the same time.
As for being ranked first on the trial list, he deserves the title of the Kunlun Sect’s greatest prodigy in a thousand years.
Li Yu saw a familiar name on a huge stone tablet outside the hall.
First on the Trial Ranking.
Qin Keren.
Li Yu knew that Senior Sister Qin, who was being paid special attention by the demon girl, was the most talented of the younger generation in the sect, but he did not expect that she was so talented. He murmured, "Is Senior Sister Qin so amazing?"
Wu Tong said, "That's right. It is said that Senior Sister Qin has two spiritual veins in her body. Her talent is even higher than that of Junior Sister Jiang. In the past thousand years of Kunlun Sect, there has only been one such person."
Li Yu admitted that he had underestimated this senior sister who was only one year older than him. How could she be the most talented among the younger generation in the sect? Kunlun Sect had produced countless geniuses over the past thousand years, but she was still able to take the top spot, which showed how terrifying her talent was.
Moreover, in the history of the sect, the predecessors who cultivated the Five Spiritual Veins did not cultivate them all the way to the end. Most of them, after cultivating to the Golden Core Stage, would concentrate on cultivating one or two spirit veins, and no more than three spirit veins at most. But he heard that this Senior Sister Qin, even at the Golden Core Stage, was still cultivating the Five Spiritual Veins, and her strength was incomparable to those with the Five Spiritual Veins in the general sense.
Li Yu lowered his gaze to the unfamiliar name and asked, "Who is Wang Daoxuan?"
The second on the Trial List is a man named Wang Daoxuan.
Wu Tong had a few black lines on his forehead and said speechlessly: "As a disciple of Kunlun Sect, you don't even know the name of the headmaster?"
Li Yu really didn't know the name of the Kunlun Sect's headmaster. He usually didn't come into contact with people of this level, and no one told him the name of the headmaster.
Wu Tong looked at the name and said, "This record was set hundreds of years ago when the headmaster was still in the Qi Refining Stage. For hundreds of years, no one had ever broken it. Until more than a decade ago, Junior Sister Qin surpassed her master and broke her master's record, becoming the number one on the Trial Ranking..."
Li Yu's gaze continued to move downward.
"Wang Daoxuan, Chen Qingshan, Pei Yuan, Zhao Xuanzhen, Lu Taiyi, Huang Dongyuan..."
Except for Zhao Xuanzhen, who Li Yu knew was Jiang Li's master, Li Yu did not recognize any of the names after Wang Daoxuan, and had never even heard of them. They were probably the ancient geniuses of the sect. Some of them may have passed away, but their legends are still on this stone tablet that represents glory.
As his eyes moved downwards, Li Yu discovered another name on the last line of the stone tablet.
Ranked tenth on the Trial Ranking.
Land travel boat.
The face of the mediocre-looking young man who stood beside Senior Sister Xu at Baiyun Temple emerged in Li Yu's mind.
It was because of him that Li Yu almost didn’t get into Kunlun.
Li Yu was surprised and turned to ask Wu Tongdao: "Is Lu Xingzhou's talent also so good?"
Looking at that name, Wu Tong showed disdain on his face, and whispered: "What a bullshit! Except for him, the top ten on the trial list are all true geniuses that the sect only sees once in a hundred years or several hundred years. When they were in the Qi Refining stage, they all practiced with five spiritual veins. He, who has only three spiritual veins, could not have been on the trial list at all. It was when he was at the peak of Qi Refining, for the sake of face, he asked the ancestor in the Nascent Soul stage to constantly help him suppress his cultivation and not build a foundation. It took him three years to force his way into the tenth place on the trial list, and only then did he leave his name on this stone tablet..."
Li Yu understood that other geniuses could easily go through the illusion trial.
Lu Xingzhou was deliberately trying to brush up the list. He did not have the strength to be in the top ten of the trial list. With the resources he had access to, it would not make any difference whether he established his foundation two years earlier or later. He might as well find a way to leave his name on the trial list.
Dozens or hundreds of years later, except for Qin Keren, no one would have mentioned the Seven Sons of Kunlun for a long time. But as long as someone came to participate in the trial, they would see his name Lu Xingzhou.
Wu Tong looked at Lu Xingzhou's name and shook his head, saying, "Leaving this name here is simply a disgrace to the Trial Ranking. Li Yu, you are cultivating the Five Spiritual Veins. When you reach the peak of Qi Refining, you must get rid of this name..."
