A disciple of Tianshuize, whose attitude had softened, saw that Pang Jian was not wearing the blue robe commonly seen in the Sword Tower. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Little brother, can you let me see the token?"
The Tianshuize woman was startled and asked in surprise, "Brother Xiao, is there anyone who dares to pretend to be a disciple of the Sword Tower in the Third Realm?"
“There is certainly precedent.”
Xiao Hang, who has a calm personality, stared into Pang Jian's eyes while speaking, as if he wanted to find out something fishy.
"good."
Knowing that there was no problem with the token, Pang Jian threw it over.
Xiao Hang took the token, held it in his palm and secretly exhaled spiritual power, and immediately felt the sharpness unique to the Sword Tower in the token.
The next moment, Xiao Hang smiled, took a few steps forward, handed the token to Pang Jian, and explained gently:
"I have been active in the lower realms, and I know that there are some daring independent cultivators who deliberately hire people to imitate the tokens of the upper realm sects to deceive people. I am Xiao Hang, an outer sect disciple of Tianshuize."
He cupped his hands, pointed at another man, and said, "He is Lin Ruilin, and like me, he is also an outer disciple of Tianshuize."
Lin Ruilin nodded slightly in greeting.
Xiao Hang looked at the woman with a pair of bright eyes, fair skin and silky hair.
He smiled calmly, but this time he did not point a finger at her. Instead, he said softly, "Lu Xiangyi, I am an inner sect disciple of Tianshuize."
Lu Xiangyi had a voluptuous figure, and she puffed out her chest with a hint of pride, saying, "My master is Yuan Xi."
Pang Jian, who didn't know who Yuan Xi was, cupped his hands and said falsely, "I've heard a lot about you."
Back then in Cave No. 56, when he and Qi Qingsong were drinking, he heard Qi Qingsong talking in a long-winded manner about his own circumstances.
Pang Jian also knew that even though they were both cultivation sects, there were differences between the second and third realms.
Among the five major sects in the third realm, there is no concept of inner and outer sects among their disciples. Disciples like Jiang Li, Zhou Qingchen, and Zhao Yuanqi are all collectively called Hongshan disciples.
All the elders of Hongshan can select the new disciples who they like and teach them.
The same is true for the Galaxy Alliance, Blood Moon, Fiery Sun Sect and Yinling Temple.
The second realm is different.
Sects with a long history, such as Jianlou, Mozong, Heigu, and Tianshuize, all have the concept of inner and outer gates.
When new disciples enter the sect and are entered into the genealogy book that records their identity, they will be directly tested on their aptitude, realm, talent, perseverance and other qualities, and undergo a strict screening process.
Whether it is the inner gate or the outer gate will be decided at the beginning.
Those who are judged to be outer disciples can practice spiritual techniques and secret arts within the sect's authority, can participate in some of the sect's activities, and are allowed to go out as sword tower disciples.
Inner disciples are often those who have been proven to have outstanding talent and potential from the very beginning. When they become inner disciples, they will be selected by high-level masters who are like elders.
Most of the inner disciples are led in their practice by a master, who will help them to understand the difficult and abstruse spiritual techniques.
If the master looks at you differently and believes that you are a promising talent, he will also provide you with a variety of cultivation resources such as spiritual weapons, secret techniques, and pills accordingly.
Likewise, the future achievements of inner disciples will almost always surpass those of outer disciples.
"Who are you?"
Xiao Hang introduced himself, but seemed a little dissatisfied when he saw that Pang Jian did not follow the rules and tell his identity and name.
"Luo Yuan, an outer disciple of the Sword Tower, I don't have a master."
Pang Jian said frankly.
Right now.
"call!"
The disappeared white crane suddenly came back.
While the four were talking, its eyes revealed a malicious look again and it flew straight towards them.
Xiao Hang exclaimed: "Sure enough, there is a white crane!"
"Luo Yuan, it seems that we misunderstood you."
Lu Xiangyi smiled apologetically at Pang Jian, then casually raised pieces of talisman paper.
The talisman papers floated in the air, releasing misty water vapor, which suddenly turned the air into a body of spiritual water.
The talisman papers in the water area were still flying in an array, making the water area gradually wider.
"Xuanshui Ban!"
The formed spiritual water area, dragged by the talisman paper, moved towards the flying white crane.
"How dare you, a bastard, kill my people from Tianshuize!"
When Xiao Hang saw that Lu Xiangyi, who was at a higher level, had taken action, he stopped exerting his strength and just shouted coldly at the strange white crane.
The intelligent white crane had a look of contempt in its eyes as it approached that strange body of water.
It opened its beak slightly and suddenly spit out a thunder ball only the size of a thumb.
The moment the small ball of thunder left its beak, it suddenly triggered the fission of heaven and earth in the Yunlei Forbidden Land.
“Boom!”
Numerous slender white lightning bolts, accompanied by the sound of thunder, suddenly appeared and densely intertwined in the area of spiritual power released by Lu Xiangyi.
An area of spiritual water created by talisman paper was blasted to pieces, and the talisman paper with special effects was also in tatters.
“Crack!”
“Boom!”
The thunder continued, and more lightning flashed one after another, covering all four people including Pang Jian.
The white cranes cried happily and spread their wings gracefully high above everyone's heads.
The three people of Tian Shuize below were repeatedly struck by the thunder and lightning it caused, and they kept shouting and cursing.
They had already held talisman papers in their hands and cast out a shield like a transparent water curtain to resist the impact of thunder and lightning.
He had a thought, and when the thunder and lightning were striking, he suddenly released one or two lightning bolts in deliberately.
“Swish!”
Watching a streak of white lightning striking his outstretched arm and feeling the numbness and pain in his limbs, he quietly practiced the "Hutian Yangqi Jue" and tried to absorb the power of thunder.
Having cultivated to the Dongxuan realm, he could clearly see wisps of lightning, which were instantly wiped out by his own power as soon as they entered his body.
"The self-defense power in my body will eliminate harmful forces that do not belong to my body. I will use my mind consciousness to forcibly intervene and limit my own power."
Thinking of this, he let the white lightning strike his body and actively restrained himself and used his own strength to resist it.
Concentrating and checking carefully again, he was surprised to see that there really were some thin wisps of lightning and thunder, which no longer threatened his flesh and blood, and were slowly being absorbed by his spiritual sea.
However, before being guided to the spiritual sea, the lightning was too weak and ran out of power and disappeared.
"The natural lightning in the Cloud and Thunder Forbidden Land can definitely be absorbed into my Spiritual Sea, but it just needs to be more intense and sustained!"
Pang Jian was not discouraged, but felt pleasantly surprised and excited.
"call out!"
When Pang Jian's eyes lit up, the evil white crane condensed into a beam of light and suddenly flew away from this area.
"This white crane is very evil!"
Xiao Hang, whose hair was somewhat burnt black, had apparently had his spiritual energy shield broken through and was struck by lightning.
He looked at the flying white crane with a dejected look on his face, wondering, "How come there's suddenly a white crane in the Yunlei Forbidden Land?"
Lin Ruilin, who was not very talkative, shook his head.
When the spiritual energy barrier was broken, he blocked it with his two arms, and his arms were smoking.
Lu Xiangyi was the only one among the three whose protective shield was not broken under such violent and intensive thunder and lightning.
She looked only slightly tired.
Pulling off a jade pendant from her waist, she held it in her palm, not caring that Pang Jian was standing by, and shouted, "Everyone, be careful of a vicious white crane. It killed our Junior Brother Liu and just attacked us."
"Everyone, once you see the white crane appear, immediately use your spiritual energy shield to defend with all your strength."
"The White Crane seems to be able to control the natural lightning in the Cloud and Thunder Forbidden Land and can concentrate the lightning in one place."
"Everyone, keep in touch at any time. If there is anything strange, please let me know as soon as possible. I feel that this Yunlei Forbidden Land is much more troublesome than we imagined."
"… "
Lu Xiangyi conveyed messages through the jade pendant.
She listened silently to the responses from all parties in the jade pendant, and then gave new instructions.
Pang Jian, who was a little excited, withdrew his Qingying Gangzhai, glanced at the place where Bai He disappeared, and said to the three people: "See you later."
As soon as he finished speaking, without waiting for the three to speak, he flew away dozens of meters.
The white crane, which could attract the thunder and lightning in the Yunlei Forbidden Land and gather them in one place, became an opportunity for Pang Jian to break through his current realm. He was eager for the white crane to launch another fierce attack.
"Why does Luo Yuan look like he dislikes us?"
Xiao Hang frowned, put on a small green hat to cover his strange-looking burnt black hair, and said, "I noticed earlier that his protective shield didn't last long before it was broken by the numerous lightning bolts."
“In the early stage of Dongxuan realm, this is all you can do.” Lu Xiangyi said calmly.
"What I mean is... he doesn't have the ability to face the white crane alone, so why doesn't he stay with us?" Xiao Hang was puzzled and said, "From the looks of him, it seems that he is still going to chase the white crane."
"He wanted to die, and we couldn't stop him."
Lu Xiangyi snorted indifferently.
"That's right. He is courting death. It really has nothing to do with us."
Xiao Hang nodded and said no more.
…
A few days later.
Pang Jian did nothing but chase the strange white crane everywhere and kept staring at it.
White Crane, attack everyone who appears in the Yunlei Forbidden Land.
No matter whether they are independent cultivators, or people from the Second Realm Demon Sect, Black Valley, and Tianshuize, as long as they appear within its field of vision, it will attack them directly without any reason.
Its attack method is also rough and direct.
In the Yunlei Forbidden Land, the occasional thunder and lightning seemed to be pulled out by it and gathered towards the area it wanted to attack.
Every time at this time.
Pang Jian, who was staring at it, was about to attack people as soon as he saw it, or he would reach those people's location in advance.
Or, when those people were being bombarded by thunder and lightning, Pang Jian suddenly rushed in.
Pang Jian showed a strong masochistic tendency. He jumped into places where thunder and lightning were dense, and used his protective shield to withstand the thunder and lightning.
His strange behavior and his repeated desperate attacks on the Thunderous Land forced Bai He to pay attention to him.
Pang Jian and the practitioners in the Yunlei Forbidden Land all thought that this white crane was strange and weird.
Bai He, on the contrary, felt that this ignorant human boy was even more weird.
…
(End of this chapter)