C56 Start of Trial
In the blink of an eye, a month had passed since their return from the coastal mountains. According to Master's instructions, today was the day to go to the ruins at the bottom of the East Sea.
After nine months of nonstop practice, the Five Elements True Understanding technique was constantly circulating one great cycle after another. The surrounding space was endlessly surging with heaven and earth origin energy into Lu Qingfeng's body. The pile of crystals beside him had also turned into white powder.
This massive amount of Essence Qi nourished every single cell in Lu Qingfeng's body. Coupled with the practice of the Tyrant Body Technique, the number of colorful light spots on his internal organs increased by a lot.
When one looked inside with their Spiritual Sense, it would cause one to be dazzled even more. The colorful dots of light were like stars in the sky, blinking non-stop, giving off a dreamlike feeling, as if one was walking slowly in the vast starry sky.
Lu Qingfeng felt refreshed after he finished his last day of training. He pushed open the door and walked out of the cave, the bright red sun just rising in the east, as if it could be plucked at any time.
Beneath his feet was a thick white fog that slowly drifted along with the wind. As he walked there, it was as if he was strolling in the clouds. He felt an indescribable contentment in his heart.
Lu Qingfeng practiced a set of sword technique in the small training field in front of the cave and performed a round of boxing. Lu Qingfeng did not disturb the tiger as he continued to practice in his room.
He was planning to take Ling'er on this trip because Ling'er had a unique treasure hunting talent. Taking her along would save him a lot of time. After thinking for a bit, he didn't have anything else to take with him.
Arriving at the base of the mountain, many low-level disciples could be seen in succession. Lu Qingfeng was currently a public figure of the Greencloud Sword Sect, and very few people didn't know him.
These truth level and True realm disciples excitedly greeted Lu Qingfeng upon seeing him. Lu Qingfeng also nodded with a smile on his face. It was precisely because Lu Qingfeng did not have the haughty attitude of a true disciple in front of these people that he won the respect of so many low-level disciples.
Soon, they arrived at the mountainside of Qingyun Peak, where dense fog was already beginning to permeate the air. The dense fog couldn't affect their line of sight, so they were walking towards the peak when they heard a voice from behind them: "Junior brother Lu, why are you walking so fast? It's still too early for the gathering time."
Lu Qingfeng stopped and looked back. It turned out to be the true disciples of the various peaks who had caught up to them.
During the true disciples' martial arts competition, some of these people had fought with him, and some of them might not have fought with him, but the memories of other cultivators were very astonishing, and once they had seen one, they would never forget it for the rest of their lives.
Looking at the people one by one, they were all familiar with each other. They were disciples of the Great Elder, Huang Ping, Peng Chong, and Liang Berlin. The number of disciples under the Second Elder's tutelage, Ceng Yongda, Wang Hai, and Cheng Feng was a total of twenty-six people. Including Lu Qingfeng, there were twenty-seven people in total.
Lu Qingfeng smiled faintly. Without a doubt, these three people were undoubtedly the disciples of Ninth Elder. It seemed like he still had something extra to do after this trip to Qing Hu Island's underwater ruins trial.
Lu Qingfeng greeted everyone with a smile, and the 27 of them walked towards the peak.
At the entrance of the Greencloud Palace, these people relied on the tokens of the true disciples to travel unhindered. This was the advantage of being a true disciple, and even the tokens of the elite disciples were useless here.
Since true disciples were all disciples of one of the eighteen Elders, and these people would become pillars of the Qing-Yun Sword Sect in the future, perhaps one of them would become the future sect master of the Qing-Yun Sect. He would be the leader of the entire sect, so it would not be wrong for the sect to grant many privileges to true disciples.
The crowd walked through the plaza and up the one hundred and eight steps to the front of the palace. A deacon standing in front of the entrance of the hall shouted loudly: "Lu Qingfeng and the other 27 true disciples have arrived."
The deacon also responded: "Lu Qingfeng and the other twenty-seven Successor Disciples have entered the hall."
In the Greencloud Sword Sect, seniority didn't depend on how long one had been in the sect, but on individual strength.
For example, just now when they were going up the mountain, the person called Lu Qingfeng should have been called Senior Brother Lu Qingfeng. Although he had been in the sect longer than Lu Qingfeng, his strength was still weaker than Lu Qingfeng.
They were originally disciples of the previous few elders, but after they became elders of the same realm, they no longer called them masters, but instead called them senior brothers.
All twenty-six true disciples were led by Lu Qingfeng because Lu Qingfeng was stronger than them. This was the case in the cultivation world. Even if you had cultivated for ten thousand years, your strength would still be inferior to others.
Lu Qingfeng did not bother with pleasantries and walked towards the Clear Sky Palace. The other twenty-six people followed behind them and entered the main hall. They immediately saw the three people standing in the middle of the hall.
Lu Qingfeng sneered in his heart: "Never regret, you old bastard. Right now, I don't have the ability to kill you, but I can take your disciple by surprise. After I kill all of your disciples, you will be dead."
Lu Qingfeng turned his gaze away from the three of them and looked at them without any regrets. It was as if the two parties had a thousand years of irreconcilable enmity. If looks could kill, the two of them would have been locked in battle a long time ago.
Even though they did not say anything, they understood each other very well. They knew that the other side wanted nothing more than to skin them alive. Lu Qingfeng turned his head with a calm expression and greeted Leng Xuehan and the other elders.
This trial is jointly organized by the eight great sects. The Qing Hu Island's remains open once every hundred years, and we need to cherish every opportunity, especially the Spirit Grasses inside, which are already extinct outside, many of which we need the most, and the other sects are like this as well. As such, when you enter, you will have to compete with the other sects for a bit, and I request you to meet up with the disciples of our sect as soon as possible.
With that, Great Elder Guo Tianshan led thirty Successor Disciples to the plaza in front of the palace. At this time, Lu Qingfeng walked up to Great Elder and said, "Martial Uncle, I have some matters to attend to at Ru Bing's place. I will be back in a few minutes."
The Great Elder nodded his head, and Lu Qingfeng quickly ran towards the back hall. In the blink of an eye, he arrived at the back hall, and Ling'er was waiting there for Lu Qingfeng. Upon seeing Lu Qingfeng, she instantly turned into a spirit fox the size of a palm, disappearing into Lu Qingfeng's robe with a 'sou' sound.
The Head Elder walked to the front of the group and opened his palm. In his palm, a mini spaceship quietly lay. The spaceship was less than a foot long and looked extremely beautiful. It was silvery-white in color and had a streamlined fuselage.
In the blink of an eye, it had already landed in front of Lu Qingfeng and co. and by this time, the ship had already become a hundred meters long. On both sides of the ship, there were circular windows that were about two feet in diameter, and on one side of the ship, there was an oval door.
When the spaceship was no longer magnified, the cabin door slowly opened. The Great Elder gestured for everyone to board the spaceship. Lu Qingfeng was in front, and everyone else followed in.
Lu Qingfeng chose a spot closer to the front. Here, he could clearly see a long distance ahead through the huge semi-circular transparent crystal glass at the front of the ship.
The Head Elder stood in front of the disk and took out one hundred and eight crystals, placing them into each of the grooves. He then pointed his right index finger at a tiny protrusion in the middle of the disc, and this protrusion, which looked like a button, was pressed down.
A few seconds later, the spaceship rapidly rose into the sky. It was already over a hundred thousand feet above the ground as the spaceship flew at a fast and steady speed through the clouds, heading towards the East China Sea at an astonishing speed. The interior of the spaceship was extremely quiet, so quiet that one could hear a pin drop.
Lu Qingfeng sat on a comfortable seat and looked out at the rapidly retreating white clouds. On the way back to the sect from the Coastal Mountain Range, Lu Qingfeng experienced the beauty of flying amidst the blue sky and white clouds.
However, no matter how wonderful it was, it was not based on one's own abilities. He did not know when he would be able to break through to the Immortal Truth Realm, and only then would he be able to use his own power to fly freely in the air.
He had been cultivating nonstop for nine months and still remained at the Mid Mysterious Reality Realm. He didn't show any signs of breaking through. He just felt that his zhen yuan had become stronger and his body had become tougher.
Shaking his head, he felt that there was no use in thinking about these things. As long as he continued to practice diligently, he believed that there would be a day when he would obtain satisfactory results.
Sometimes, a cultivator would go into seclusion for years or decades at a time. If they reached the True God Stage, a single seclusion could take thousands of years, Lu Qingfeng felt that time was short, the flying ship's speed would slow down, slowly descending into the clouds. The scenery on the ground gradually enlarged, and soon landed on a square.
The flying ship landed in a small city on the east coast. It was called Sunshine City. Ten thousand years ago, this was just an ordinary fishing village. At that time, there were nine big sects within the Southern Rong Empire.
Cultivators were known as the first, second, and third sects. They were the Flying Heaven Sect, Sea God Island, Qing Hu Island, Greencloud Sword Sect, Hua Chen Sword Sect, Setting Sun Sword Sect, Wushan Sect, Hengshan Sect, and Heavenly Passage Sect.
The nine great sects were of equal strength, and they were in a delicate relationship of balancing and restraining each other. It was only because of an incident that this balance was broken.
Among the nine great sects, besides the Qing Hu Island, the other eight sects had the most warriors of the truth realm who had gone missing, as many of them had gone missing at the same time.
At that time, only a True God would be able to become an elder in a sect. In every sect, there were a lot of True Realm experts, but they were not as rare as they were now.
In the beginning, the eight sects didn't care much about it because it was normal for experts like this to go out for decades at a time. It wasn't until two hundred years later that the eight sects discovered any clues.
Many cultivators had been out for two hundred years and had yet to return to the sect. This was a very abnormal thing. Thus, the eight great sects had teamed up to carry out a long investigation that spanned two thousand years and finally discovered that the culprit was actually Qing Hu Island.
The missing experts of the eight great sects were all killed by Qing Hu Island. Their souls were taken to Qing Hu Island and given to a Grandmaster of alchemy named Han Chengzi for use in the development of a heaven-defying pill.
After spending a thousand years and consuming the souls of countless experts, it was finally a success. The name of the pill was God Breaking Pill.
As the name implied, taking this pill would allow a True Realm expert to break through to the True God Stage with 100% success rate. If a True Immortal Realm cultivator took this pill, he would be able to directly break through to the True Realm.
When the eight great sects learned of this, they immediately joined forces. Eight thousand years ago, they launched a long-lasting war of extermination against Qing Hu Island.
This war had lasted for a hundred years. The eight sects had lost a lot of experts because of this war. The eight sects had become the weakest sects on the planet.
At the end of the war, the only Supreme Elder of Qing Hu Island was heavily injured. He used all of his remaining strength and burned his own life to activate the great sealing formation of Qing Hu Island, causing the entire Qing Hu Island to sink into the sea.
A hundred years later, the eight great sects broke through the seal and built a large Teleportation Formation in a small fishing village called Sunshine on the east coast. After thousands of years of development, this place developed into a small city that was managed by the eight great sects.
