It would be a lie for the young man to say that he was not jealous of the immortal cultivator with such qualifications, but he had no way to prevent Li Yan from passing the test.
Therefore, every time the assessment formation is activated, the images inside will be recorded. This is a formation specially added by Master Lan.
The purpose is to come here regularly to check on how others use the formation, so as to get inspiration from it and continuously improve the formation.
Otherwise, she would have to spend a lot of effort and a huge amount of "Soul Crystal Buds" to buy souls, and leave this formation here. The feedback she would get would be limited. She couldn't just listen to the disciples' oral instructions here. What was the point
The young man's face remained expressionless. He had seen the magic that Li Yan performed in the long alley before and realized that the other party did use some magic that was influenced by the Soul-Suppressing Palace.
Although he was not very familiar with the Zhanling Sect's skills, he knew that this sect was derived from the Zhenhun Palace.
Therefore, since there was a shadow of the Soul-Calming Palace in Li Yan's martial arts, he naturally believed in Li Yan's identity in his heart.
In fact, as long as a cultivator can walk normally in the "Earth Realm", his identity is basically fine. He must be a soul cultivator.
Therefore, when identifying cultivators, the main thing is to confirm whether the other party is a soul cultivator. Of course, foreign soul cultivators still need to be treated differently.
"Hehehe... Fellow Daoist Li's skills are indeed exquisite. I admire you so much! I am Wang Chengfeng. I will arrange for someone to take you to the Yique Hall. If you have any questions, Fellow Daoist Li, please feel free to come and find me."
The young man suppressed all the thoughts in his mind and said to Li Yan with a smile.
"Thank you very much, Brother Wang!"
Li Yan's face was still pale, and his whole body was trembling slightly. It was obvious that he had consumed too much soul power just now.
Seeing Li Yan in this condition, the young man felt better. The other party had tried his best, which led to the result that surprised him.
So he immediately called a Jindan disciple, and after quickly explaining a few words to him, he let the disciple take Li Yan away.
Looking at the back whose body was still trembling slightly, the young man's eyes flashed with a sharp light.
"This person's performance in breaking through the level is very different from others, so I will report this matter to Master Lan as soon as possible!"
The young man thought quickly in his mind, although Master Lan would come over in person every once in a while to carefully check the assessment photos.
But if I informed her in time, it would definitely win Master Lan's favor. This would be a chance to curry favor with Master Lan, which I certainly couldn't miss.
Later, I can still interact with Li Yan a few more times. From the conversation just now, Li Yan seems to have a very peaceful personality. I can try to interact with him first and see how the situation goes.
He still needs to confirm whether Li Yan has some secret technique, or whether he is born with a strong soul and has a higher starting point in cultivating immortals than others...
High in the sky, Li Yan followed behind a Jindan cultivator. While carefully observing the surrounding environment, he kept thinking about the previous assessment in his mind.
When he finally came out, he also saw a strange look on the young man's face. Li Yan was not sure what the young man saw.
While he was melting the ice and snow, he was trying his best to control his soul power, striving to maintain it at the level of the early Nascent Soul stage.
If he was really a soul cultivator, he would not be afraid of exposing his true soul power, but his soul technique level was completely not on the same level as his soul power, and the gap was too huge.
If he didn't have the skill of "pulling souls to kill", he would be considered very experienced in soul attacks. In just over ten years of practicing magic, he could at most pretend to be a soul cultivator at the Golden Core Realm, which was considered good.
Before he came this time, he even considered that if the assessment was a fight with someone, he might even use the Gui Yi Fen Shui Spike, but at most he would only use the first level of the technique.
In that way, Li Yan felt that he could pretend to be more realistic. Li Yan was the most proficient user of "Fu Bo Soul Killer". He could truly control himself at any level below the Nascent Soul stage accurately.
However, the content of the subsequent assessment made him both happy and surprised.
The first level is just to judge the strength of the soul. It is not easy to pretend to be strong, but it is still possible to pretend to be weak.
The second level surprised Li Yan immensely. At that moment, he even wondered whether the Soul-Suppressing Palace was related to the "Soul Prison Clan".
At this level, with Li Yan’s current soul strength and his preliminary understanding of soul cultivation techniques, he can overcome this difficulty.
If the soul attacks were all from the early to middle stages of the Nascent Soul, Li Yan felt that he could rush out a distance of five to six hundred feet. If they were from the late stage of the Nascent Soul, Li Yan would not be so confident.
After all, the difference between the late stage of Nascent Soul and the first two stages is too great. Li Yan has not experienced it personally, so he dare not speak rashly.
Although Li Yan felt that he could rush very far, he would never really do that.
Li Yan was frightened when this long alley first appeared, but when he really broke through, Li Yan discovered that there was a big problem with the soul in this long alley.
First, the power of the attack was not as strong as he imagined, which was a little beyond Li Yan's expectations. If it was an attack of this power, Li Yan felt that he might be rushed to the end of the alley.
He remembered that when he was in the long underground alley of the Soul Prison Clan, every soul there had top-level combat power at his level, their attacks were quite fierce, and they could even cooperate with each other.
Even though Li Yan was only dealing with a group of foundation-building souls at the beginning, he, who was in the Golden Core Realm, suffered a lot and was in excruciating pain. This was of course related to the fact that his soul was not strong enough at the beginning.
However, the soul that appeared here today, although also quite ferocious, seemed too crazy, giving Li Yan a feeling of being out of control.
The power they exerted in their attacks had begun to be continuously consumed in some unconscious and crazy actions, consuming a lot of their soul power.
Moreover, the souls that appeared in this formation all attacked on their own, and many of their attacks canceled each other out under the influence of each other's spells.
Although Li Yan had never encountered a Nascent Soul level soul in the long underground alley of the "Soul Prison Clan", by looking at the power of the attacks of these Nascent Soul level souls and combining them with his previous experience, he could still guess a different result.
If I were in a long underground alley today and encountered these Nascent Soul level souls, then I might really run out of soul power and be defeated after advancing about five or six hundred feet.
During the process of breaking through the barriers, Li Yan made further confirmations.
The souls in this formation will basically appear here. How far will the soul be from his position next time? Surprisingly, the result is basically the same as what he guessed.
“Someone is using a formation to imitate the Soul Prison Clan’s place, but its real power is only about half of that.
If the Soul-Suppressing Palace is related to the Soul Prison Clan, they must not lose such an important inheritance at all costs, right
Could it be that because the Soul-Calming Palace is also a soul-cultivating place, they also obtained some similar cultivation manuals when they were in the lower realm, which led to this kind of imitation... "
Li Yan kept thinking about what had just happened in his heart.
However, due to his lack of true understanding of soul cultivation, he did not expect that the performance he thought was quite decent had actually exceeded his definition of this realm in the previous breakthrough, which had already caused people to doubt!
Behind the mountain gate, the sky has become clear and blue.
After Li Yan flew out of the house this time, he looked around carefully.
When standing inside the mountain gate and looking out, the mountain gate that reaches into the sky seems like an invisible barrier that lies there.
There was black air swirling outside the mountain gate, as if there was an endless black wind filling the space between heaven and earth, making people feel extremely eerie and weird.
It seems that as long as you step out of the mountain gate, you will step into the underworld. This is the psychological deterrent that the mountain gate gives to the enemy.
Inside the mountain gate is a vast valley where many cultivators come and go. Li Yan felt the fluctuations between heaven and earth, and also discovered many Nascent Soul cultivators shuttling back and forth.
This situation is just like the Wuliang Sect, where golden elixirs fly around all day long. There are not too many cultivators of this level, but there are not too few either.
But here, the Nascent Soul cultivators are no longer ancestors, but just a group of ordinary cultivators.
After seeing Li Yan and the other two, most of them glanced at the disciples in front of them, and most of them kept their gaze on Li Yan for a while, but no one came forward to ask.
This valley is about a thousand miles in range. Although the sun is shining, there are flowers blooming and green grass all around, creating a peaceful and quiet scene.
Occasionally, there would be some wild beasts poking their heads out on the grass slope below, but Li Yan just had an uncomfortable feeling. It seemed that the situation was several times more dangerous than when he was outside the mountain gate.
Their flying speed was not very slow. After flying for a distance, the disciple seemed to see what Li Yan was thinking.
He spoke softly, neither arrogant nor humble.
"Senior, this is still the mountain gate area, but it is called the inner mountain gate. I think you must have heard about the situation in our sect before, but this may be the first time you come here in person.
The sect was established in a dangerous place. The inner mountain gate where we are flying now is actually the place where the miasma was the most rampant in the dangerous place.
However, now these vicious creatures that can take people's lives in an instant have long been integrated into the sect protection formation, and are still constantly gathering and accumulating.
It will only be released once when dealing with an enemy. By then, even if a Void Refining cultivator comes here, he may not be able to escape unharmed.”
The order this Jindan disciple received was to take this senior to the "Yi Que Hall" to register, which meant that this senior would become a disciple of the same clan in a while. Although the "Yi Que Hall" was the lowest in status among the three halls, he was a disciple of the Nascent Soul Realm after all.
Only the core Jindan realm disciples in the other two halls may not be too concerned about the other party's cultivation level when they meet each other, and they don't need to be too respectful in their attitude.
But he was just an ordinary disciple of "Horiya-do" and could not be compared with those core disciples.
Therefore, knowing what the other person wants to know, he only needs to say a few simple words. There is no harm in doing this kind of thing to make the other person feel grateful, as he may be able to use it in the future.
"Oh? Are you saying that the place where we are flying now is actually in that layer of miasma?"
"Yes, Senior!"
Li Yan asked with some surprise.
He finally understood in his heart, no wonder he felt a little uncomfortable here, it was a kind of resistance that appeared instinctively when he was in danger.
He also got a lot of information about the Soul-Calming Palace from the gray-haired old man's memory. When exploring this dangerous place, even the supreme elder who was already in the Void Refinement Realm was not sure about entering.
The first danger is the outermost layer of deadly miasma.
"With the help of the right time and place, the Soul-Suppressing Palace has built this place like an iron wall. Even if other sects want to replace it, it is difficult to break through from the front..."
The area of Zhenhun Palace is divided into five areas. There is the Qianli Mountain Gate in the front and a vast plain behind it, which is divided into three areas: Hushi Hall, Fuchen Hall and Yique Hall.
There is no obvious difference between them. At first glance, although the buildings of various colors are not densely packed, they are scattered all over the place, like a huge city.
The punishment and killing of the Lord of the Arc Ya Hall is a sharp sword of the Soul-Calming Palace, both internally and externally.
The master of Fuchen Hall refines elixirs and weapons, which is an important part of the Soul-Calming Palace. Treasures such as the "Soul Tablet" and "Empty Shadow" were all created by them;
Yique Hall actually belongs to the outer sect and is responsible for various miscellaneous affairs of the sect, as well as external trade and transactions, etc. Although its status is not as high as those two halls, it actually has considerable power.
For example, when trading with the outside world, elixirs and magic weapons refined by Fuchen Hall must be traded through Yique Hall, and it is not allowed to trade with outside sects alone.
But if it is elixirs, magic weapons, etc. needed by the monks in the sect, everything depends on Fu Chentang's mood.
You can even provide the raw materials and find the monks in Fuchen Hall to ask them to refine pills and equipment for you individually, but the cost will definitely be very high.
Although Yiquetang controls external transactions, those monks from outside sects who want to enter Zhenhun Palace need to have their identities verified by Hushitang.
However, all the training resources needed by Huya Hall must come from these two halls.
In fact, the three halls are in a relationship of mutual restraint and cooperation, and no one can dominate alone.
Behind this vast plain, there is an isolated mountain reaching into the clouds. On the top of the mountain is the core of the entire sect, the Soul-Suppressing Palace.
The Palace Master, the Grand Elder, and the Guards live there. They almost never appear all year round and few people can see them.
Behind this isolated mountain is a large area covered by black fog, which lasts for years.
The black fog is like a natural barrier, stretching between heaven and earth, making it impossible to know what is in the black fog.
As for the current layout of the entire sect, all the disciples of Zhenhun Palace knew that it was not like this when this dangerous place was first discovered.
Apart from the valley at the mountain gate in front, there are endless mountains with lush vegetation behind.
But later, after the first generation of monks made changes, the valley in front was expanded, and all the mountains tens of thousands of miles behind were flattened, turning it into a flat plain, leaving only a lonely mountain in the middle.
The area behind the solitary peak is an unexplored dangerous place. Although there are some safe areas that have been explored, there are still many unknown dangerous places and disciples are not allowed to enter.
In order to prevent some disciples from sneaking up and sneaking in, the sect set up a protective formation there, which turned the back of the mountain into a forbidden area for the sect.
In this way, Hushi Hall was in the east, Fuchen Hall was in the middle, and Yique Hall was in the west, and they were overlooked by a solitary peak behind them.
This adds an oppressive sense of hierarchy and majesty to the Soul-Suppressing Palace on the mountain, which has been invisibly engraved in the hearts of every disciple of the Soul-Suppressing Palace.
Li Yan and the other person kept flying, accompanied by other gorgeous rainbows in the sky, a fairy-like scene.
Below are exquisite pavilions, surrounded by rich, cloud-like spiritual energy. The spiritual energy is as white and rich as milk, forming long, short, irregular strips of spiritual energy between heaven and earth.
When you walk here, your chest and abdomen are always filled with comfortable spiritual energy, which flows happily through your body.
Occasionally, the chirping of birds coming from between heaven and earth makes people feel that even the sunlight in the sky is full of vitality.
It makes people feel relaxed and happy, and sigh as if it is a paradise on earth.
After the Jindan led Li Yan to fly for more than half an hour and passed through one area after another, they finally landed in front of a magnificent building in the western part of the plain.
In front of the building was a large square of more than ten acres. The two of them landed in front of the main entrance with steps above.
At this moment, there were many cultivators coming and going at the gate. They would at most glance at Li Yan, and when they saw that he looked unfamiliar, they would ignore him and walk away...
"Senior, this is the Deacon Hall of Yique Hall, please follow me!"
After the Jindan cultivator finished speaking, he took the lead and walked through the crowd and headed towards the gate...
After a cup of tea, in a room, Li Yan stood in front of a large table with a black jade bracelet in his hand.
The Jindan disciple had long disappeared. In this room, there were only Li Yan and a fat middle-aged cultivator behind the table.
"Fellow Daoist Li, all the sect rules that need to be explained are recorded in the soul tablets. What I am telling you are the precepts that you should pay special attention to.
You must not violate any of these precepts, otherwise you will be caught by the Huya Hall and severely punished. Once there, even the King of Hell will come to your rescue.
What we soul cultivators are most proficient in is, of course, extracting souls and refining spirits. Just the means of extracting souls and refining spirits, those people in Huya Hall have thousands of ways, which is definitely several times more terrifying than entering the eighteen levels of hell.
Okay, as a member of the same sect, I have said what I can say. Also, every monk will have five tasks within a hundred years.
The mission you accept must correspond to your level, otherwise even if you complete the mission, it will not be considered a century-long mission.
The Mission Hall is a place shared by the three halls and one palace, and is not under the jurisdiction of the three halls. If you are interested now, after leaving the hall, fly north for another 500 miles and you will find it after asking around."
The fat middle-aged monk said this and actually picked up a teapot on the table. He gulped down the tea and drank from it mouth to mouth. A smile appeared on Li Yan's face.
"Excuse me, Brother Gao, what are those tasks?"
"There are all kinds of tasks, such as hunting down evil spirit monks on the run, raising souls of the same level, exploring dangerous places, etc. There are even tasks such as planting 'Soul Crystal Buds'!"
"Oh, thank you so much, Brother Gao!"
The Soul-Restoring Palace would definitely not keep idle people. Five tasks in a hundred years may seem like a small number, but Li Yan could guess that these tasks would definitely not be easy.
As the fat middle-aged monk said, it is similar to the task of planting "Soul Crystal Buds".
This kind of thing that even ordinary people can do can happen here. The other party knows my level and says it the same way. It means that this kind of task has special requirements and is definitely not that simple.
But at this moment, Li Yan didn't want to take any mission.
In his black jade bracelet, there were four sets of black Soul-Calming Palace disciple uniforms and several bottles of soul-recovering pills.
Fifty three hundred year old "Soul Crystal Buds", one thousand intermediate level spirit stones, a soul stone engraved with the sect rules, fifty blank soul stones and a red sect token.
These are the items that the sect gives to new disciples. They look quite good, but Li Yan, who has just joined the sect, is anxious to go to the Dharma Teaching Pavilion right now.
There are only two things that are most urgent in Li Yan's mind:
One was to obtain the skills of the Soul-Suppressing Palace, which he needed to improve as soon as possible. The other was to get the news of leaving the "Earth Realm", but this was not something that could be rushed for the time being.
(End of this chapter)