In the northern part of Jianzhou, on a certain barren hill bordering Yue State and Yuanwu State, dozens of tall and short men in yellow shirts were standing. Their clothes fluttered in the wind, and their ages were different. The older ones have gray hair, wrinkled faces, and have reached the age of knowing their destiny, while the younger ones have thin skin and tender flesh, red lips and white teeth, and their childishness has not yet shed, but they are all silent and standing in an orderly line.
The one at the front is an old man who is not angry but arrogant. The old man with his hands behind his back is leisurely looking at the sky, motionless, in a trance. Behind him, there are four men and one woman, several solemn people, and one of them is the Uncle Wang who introduced Han Li to the door, and he also has a solemn expression at this moment.
Behind the five people, there were two rows of yellow-shirted disciples standing neatly. These people had different expressions, some were nervous and embarrassed, some were indifferent and looked around, and some were smiling and silent.
And at the corner of the last row, there was a dark-faced, ordinary-looking young man with downcast eyes, looking at his toes all the time, not daring to squint, as if he was very shy.
But no one knows that this guy who looks like a yellow-haired boy is slandering and full of resentment in his heart.
This young man was none other than Han Li, and the people in the yellow shirts were the disciples of the Yellow Maple Valley who had participated in the "Blood Trial".
In the end, Han Li still joined this death-sending journey, and after possessing two Foundation Establishment Pills, this was a ridiculous and helpless thing.
More than a month ago, after Han Li learned about the method of taking Zhuji Pill from Wu Feng, he was hit hard.
It turns out that after taking the foundation building pill, the person who wants to build the foundation must retreat for three months and use up the power of the medicine before leaving the customs, otherwise the medicine will lose its power and its efficacy will be greatly reduced. Therefore, whether the foundation building can be successful or not will not be known until at least a few months later.
But it would be very bad for Han Li to wait for such a long time.
According to his original idea of getting the two foundation building pills, he would take these two pills first to see if he could succeed in building the foundation, and then decide whether to participate in the trial. If he could succeed in building the foundation by luck, he would definitely not go to such a dangerous place as the forbidden area. After all, the 1/4 chance of survival is too scary.
If it fails to work after taking it, then the trip to the forbidden area is still imperative. If one or two foundation building pills are not enough, then he will refine three or four pills, or even more. He believes that no matter how poor his aptitude is, after taking enough foundation building pills, he can still enter the foundation building stage.
However, the three-month retreat limit after taking the medicine disrupted Han Li's plan, and made him face the embarrassing situation that he couldn't have both.
Now, he can either take the Foundation Establishment Pill and give up the trip to the forbidden area completely; or he can temporarily put away the Foundation Establishment Pill and take it after the Bloody Trial. There is no such thing as having both.
After nearly half a month of thinking about it, Han Li felt that with his poor aptitude, even if he took two Foundation Establishment Pills in a row, the hope of success in Foundation Establishment was still very slim, and he must not give up the Bloody Trial.
In fact, it's not that Han Li never thought about it. He will participate in the Scarlet Trial in the next five years. At that time, even if he fails to establish the foundation, he will definitely reach the top level of Changchun Kung Fu. In this way, his ability to protect himself will be greatly improved. many.
However, not long after Han Li's idea popped up, the upper echelon of Huangfeng Valley announced a major event that shocked the entire world of cultivating immortals in the Yue Kingdom, which dispelled his idea.
The content is: the forbidden area of the Scarlet Trial will be temporarily closed for 60 years after five years. During this period, the seven major factions will jointly send people to supervise, and no one is allowed to go in to collect herbs.
This kind of practice of temporarily enclosing forbidden areas is not uncommon. Almost every three or four hundred years, the seven major factions will do this once.
Because the forbidden area is frequently opened, a large amount of aura will be lost, and the production and growth of elixir will be slowed down. This temporary sealing measure will re-change the density of the aura, allowing it to return to a normal level again.
But even if the seven major sects have taken this measure, the elixir in the forbidden area is still scarce year by year, and it is becoming more and more difficult to find, especially the finished elixir that meets the requirements of alchemy is even rarer.
According to the deduction of some insightful people from the Seven Great Immortals School, if we really want to restore the normal quantity of elixir in the forbidden area, we must delay the time of confinement for a full thousand years. Otherwise, this kind of temporary closure will only delay the depletion time of some forbidden elixir. After all, the origin and growth of elixir are not a matter of a day or two.
Although this reasoning is combined with the actual situation in the forbidden area, so that no one can deny its correctness, the people in power of the seven factions still cannot make this decision.
The number of Foundation Establishment Pills is closely related to the rise and fall of their seven major sects.
If some of this elixir is lacking within fifty or sixty years, the Seven Great Sects will only lose some superficiality, without hurting their muscles and bones. But if it is true that there has been no Foundation Establishment Pill for hundreds or thousands of years, then let alone the Seven Great Sects, I am afraid that the entire world of cultivating immortals in the Yue Kingdom will face life and death.
After all, a place that can no longer allow immortal cultivators to build foundations, can it still be called the realm of immortal cultivation? I'm afraid that by then all the cultivating families and casual cultivators will leave the country of Yue and go to other places to seek survival. The Seven Great Schools will be no exception.
Therefore, knowing that this practice of frequently opening the forbidden area is a stupid thing to do, but the people of the seven major factions still have to bite the bullet and do it.
They only hope that before the forbidden land elixir is truly extinct, they can find other alternative places that produce elixir.
This also caused those old monsters in the alchemy stage and even the Nascent Soul stage of the major factions to go out uncharacteristically and frequently in the past few hundred years, in order to find the origin of other elixir, or give other elixir to the sect. Find another way out, and we must not let the orthodoxy of our sect decline.
Han Li naturally couldn't know the above things so clearly. But as soon as the news came out, Han Li didn't dare to think about the blood test five years later.
Even the dullest people will understand that the opening of the forbidden area five years later will definitely be extremely bloody and bloody, and all major sects will send out all their elite disciples in order to make a fortune before the seal is sealed. Let Han Li participate in such a trial, wouldn't that be asking for death!
Although after the announcement of this news, the difficulty of this trip to the forbidden area will also be doubled, and the fight will be even more tragic, but no matter what, it will definitely be much stronger than the next one.
As for the stupidity of participating in the Scarlet Trial fifty years later, Han Li never thought about it.
After the optimal age for foundation establishment, even if he barely enters the foundation establishment stage in the future, he will definitely not be able to go far on the road of cultivating immortals. This is not the result Han Li wants.
It was with this mentality that Han Li signed up for the herb gathering group in the forbidden area. And the one who was in charge of the registration was actually that Uncle Wang, which surprised Han Li and made him feel a little regretful.
Uncle Wang was even more astonished when he saw Han Li.
On the one hand, he was very surprised that Han Li had come to participate in the Blood Trial; on the other hand, he was a little unbelievable because of Han Li's rapid progress. With Han Li's aptitude, he was able to improve his skills so much in such a short period of time, from the ninth floor to the eleventh floor, which is amazing.
It would not be surprising to say that Han Li was a disciple with extraordinary talents, and it was not uncommon for him to improve his skills faster than him. But Han Li's pseudo-spiritual root identity has been tested by himself, so how could he cultivate it so quickly
For those with pseudo-spiritual roots, Han Li's ninth-level exercises were already surprisingly high when he first entered the door.
Usually, the elders have instilled mana, or often took some elixir, coupled with hard work, can achieve this achievement. But now, Han Li, who has an eleven-level cultivation technique, is standing in front of him alive, which makes him extremely surprised!
Since Master Uncle Wang was puzzled, he unceremoniously pulled Han Li aside and tested his attributes again. As a result, it was still the same as the previous conclusion, and there was no speculated spiritual root mutation.
This made Uncle Wang even more confused.