Li Shiming was physically and mentally exhausted, and he fell asleep early, which was rare for him.
He was awakened by the alarm of his IBM z15 while he was sleeping. He looked at the time and saw that it was ten seconds before midnight.
Fortunately, IBMz15 does not need any preparation time to play the "Great Compassion Mantra". As the "Great Compassion Mantra" was being sung, the struggle and roar of the soul were heard from the bronze corpse in the body bag.
Midnight is when the yin energy is at its heaviest, and at this time the bronze corpse is in its most excited state.
Through the blood contract, Li Shiming felt the bronze corpse's desire to break free from its restraints, and it constantly used the negative emotions in its soul to impact the spirit of its weak master.
The whole process did not last long. After an incense stick of time, the bronze corpse returned to a quiet state.
Listening to the Great Compassion Mantra for a period of time did not affect Li Shiming's sleep, but instead improved his sleep quality.
He slept until the next morning and felt in good physical condition after getting up.
The errand disciple brought him spiritual food, and after eating the spiritual food, he went to the first floor.
Li Shiming sorted out a few more questions and prepared to ask Zhu Ji.
He calculated that based on the time Zhu Ji spent in Qingqiu Pavilion every day and the total number of ten newcomers here, he would only need to ask three questions at most every day.
But when he got to the first floor, he was dumbfounded.
Because a group of teenagers appeared on the first floor at some point, and there seemed to be at least a hundred of them.
Li Shiming didn't quite understand. Wasn't it said that the spiritual root seedlings in the mundane area of Tianhai Sect would hold an ascension conference every five years? He and the other nine teenagers should be the last spiritual root seedlings to survive in these five years.
Looking at the scene in front of us, where did these over a hundred young men come from?
"Brother Zhu Ji, are these also newcomers?" Li Shiming saw that there was no one around Zhu Ji, so he walked over and asked.
“These are all children with spiritual roots in the sect’s sea area. They are also recruited every five years. Unlike ordinary people, the mortals living here are all descendants of cultivators, so the chance of spiritual roots appearing is very high.
However, the children with good spiritual roots had already been picked up, and most of the remaining children had four or five spiritual roots.
The three months of the rookie period is a screening process and also their last hope. Those who show enough potential in the three months will become formal disciples, while the rest will become menial disciples. "Zhu Ji saw that it was Li Shiming, and he did not hide anything and explained.
Li Shiming understood that this was actually a kind of benefit. No matter what his spiritual roots were, as long as he was born in the sect's sea area, he could at least enter the sect and become a menial disciple.
As for why the mundane five spiritual root seedlings are not included as well, just look at the number of spiritual root seedlings in front of you and you will know. The spiritual root seedlings in the sea area alone are enough to meet the needs of the sect's miscellaneous disciples.
“I hope that among you newcomers, there won’t be anyone who is slower than them in reaching the first level of Qi Refining!” Zhu Ji shook his head and said.
Even if Li Shiming's newcomers have only four spiritual roots, they are still the best among the four spiritual roots and have met the requirements of Tianhai Sect.
If their cultivation is not as good as those newcomers with poor spiritual roots, then it can only be said that there is something wrong with their attitude towards cultivation.
Li Shiming took advantage of Zhu Ji's free time to ask him questions about cultivation, and Zhu Ji patiently answered them one by one.
The days passed, and on the fourth day of entering Qingqiu Pavilion, Jin Fengzhi was the first to condense a spiritual energy vortex and reached the first level of Qi Refining.
In the following days, this group of newcomers made breakthroughs one after another.
Li Shiming began to doubt his talent again. Unlike his previous doubts, this time he doubted whether his talent was very good.
Because even Jin Fengzhi, the first one among this group of newcomers to condense a spiritual energy vortex, took her four days. Even if you remove the time spent on choosing the technique on the first day, it still took her three days to condense a spiritual energy vortex.
Looking back at Li Shiming, his training conditions at that time were far inferior to those here.
The spiritual energy gathered by the Spirit Gathering Plate in the mortal world is far different from the concentration of spiritual energy in Qingqiu Pavilion. However, even in that situation, he still managed to condense a vortex of spiritual energy the first time.
He did not tell anyone the time it took him to condense the spiritual energy vortex. There was no need to do so.
Among this group of newcomers, there were still two newcomers left who were unable to condense an aura vortex.
It was not until nearly thirty days that one of the newcomers was promoted to the first level of Qi Refining, and after that, more and more newcomers were promoted to the first level of Qi Refining.
It can be seen that spiritual roots have a huge impact on cultivation.
Among Li Shiming's group of newcomers, except for those two, the rest were all promoted to the first level of Qi Refining within fifteen days.
As for the newcomers with poor spiritual roots, it took a month for them to be promoted to the Qi Refining level, and the gap began to appear at this time.
Li Shiming ignored others. He asked Zhu Ji questions every morning and practiced the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique' and the 'Vajra Body Protection Magic Skill'. The rest of the time was spent using the 'Dragon's Finishing Touch Technique' to refine the Fiery Flame Sword and the Green Kite Wood Sword.
The Fiery Flame Sword is for temporary use. Once his strength reaches the fourth level of Qi Refining, he will be barely qualified to use the Green Kite Wood Sword.
The resistance and struggle of the bronze corpse at midnight every day was not a bad thing for him.
In the confrontation with the bronze corpse, his spirit grew significantly.
Even when his rookie period was about to end, he no longer needed the help of the "Great Compassion Mantra" and could deal with the resistance of the bronze corpse alone at midnight.
Of course, due to his inferior realm, the bronze corpse's resistance to the blood contract is still continuing, which requires him to raise his realm to the fourth level of Qi Refining in order to resolve it.
During the three months in the rich spiritual environment, although his realm did not improve, he advanced to the middle and late stages of the third level of Qi Refining. He believed that it would not take long for him to reach the late stages of the third level of Qi Refining.
He had already reached the maximum progress in refining the Fiery Flame Sword, but the Green Kite Wood Sword was only halfway through, and it would take at least three months to completely refine it.
On the last day of the rookie period, Zhu Ji stood in the front and the young men stood below.
Li Shiming, Jin Fengzhi and eight other newcomers from the first batch stood at the front, while the other two newcomers from the same batch stood at the back of the crowd, standing together with more than eighty people who had not reached the first level of Qi Refining.
Li Shiming knew that it was not that these two people had poor talents, the spiritual root test would not be wrong, but that they had psychological problems.
The sect only provided a certain training environment but did not help them solve their psychological problems.
This is why, even though they have good talent for cultivation, they cannot even reach the first level of Qi Refining in the best training environment.
In addition, he also saw the cruelty of the world of immortal cultivation. Among the second batch of more than one hundred spiritual root seedlings, more than eighty had not reached the first level of Qi Refining after three months.
No wonder the sect has no thoughts about ordinary spiritual root seedlings with poor talent. Spiritual roots are really too important.