The Shushan Five Elements Peaks, as the name suggests, are five steep peaks towering into the clouds.

The five peaks are extremely beautiful and graceful, like five sharp swords piercing straight into the clouds.

The clouds and mists lingering between the peaks, the majestic mountains, no matter from which angle you look at them, are extremely shocking! Anyone who takes a look at them will undoubtedly think that these are the five immortal mountains.

With Jiang Li's current vision, he can see that these five mountains are each located on the five elements, and their mutual dependence directly forms a huge natural formation.

No wonder the Shushan Five Elements Peak is said to be unbreakable. This kind of heaven and earth formation uses the five sacred mountains as the base and core of the formation. It is beyond the reach of human power.

After returning to the gate of Shushan, just as Jiang Li had guessed, Shushan conducted a series of examinations on his Taoist foundation and soul.

However, this is where the power of Guanyin's Heart Sutra lies. If it were the incarnation of that powerful being, you would never be able to see it even if you became a Golden Immortal.

Although Jiang Li's comprehension and practice of the Heart Sutra is still superficial, there has never been any cultivator who has successfully ascended to immortality in the current world of immortal cultivation, and almost no one has the ability to see through his parallel consciousness.

Just relying on the two elders in the Jindan stage, they are still far from being able to see through Jiang Li's clone.

In fact, after he demonstrated his skills in the Drunken Sword Song and his initially awakened swordsmanship, few people still doubted him.

They just thought that the clone was a blessing in disguise, and that after surviving the disaster, Kenshin was awakened.

Therefore, after he passed the identity check, the sect paid more attention to him. Due to his amnesia, they directly opened up all the spells for the foundation-building stage and below, allowing him to comprehend and study for two months.

So if the clone learned it, it was equivalent to what Jiang Li learned.

. . . .

Two days later, Jiang Li, exhausted from all the travel, landed far away at the entrance of Sutra Repository Valley. Under the influence of the illusion array, this huge valley looked somewhat desolate and barren from the outside.

He did not enter the Sutra Valley immediately, but first found a secret place and dragged out the dying dragon turtle.

Jiang Li didn't want to expose the existence of the burial coffin, so this was the only way to make it more troublesome.

However, the vitality of this dragon turtle is really tenacious. It was beaten to the point of death by him two days ago, but I didn't expect that it is still alive now.

Dragging the nearly fifty-meter-long dragon turtle's body, Jiang Li approached the entrance of the Sutra Valley.

After sending out the inner disciple token, a hole was immediately opened in the defensive formation. Jiang Li stepped in easily, and the scene before him turned into a familiar and prosperous immortal cultivation sect.

"Brother Jiang Li, welcome back!"

When the two registered disciples were checking Jiang Li's identity information, they kept their eyes on the dragon turtle, fearing that the big creature would wake up and bite them.

But Jiang Li didn't care much.

Originally, an outer disciple in the Qi Refining Stage was not capable of performing such an important job as guarding the sect's entrance.

However, this task requires enduring long hours of sun and wind, and there is not much to gain, so the precious inner disciples are not willing to put themselves in a difficult position.

So, the inner disciples came up with an idea. They built an elegant small building not far from the valley entrance.

They claim to be in charge inside, and then issue tasks to outer disciples in the late stage of Qi training, or registered disciples of the Internal Affairs Hall, to take them up, and they take over the duties in the scorching sun, wind and rain.

This approach of having a policy at the top and a countermeasure at the bottom is actually harmless. As long as it does not affect the execution of the task, the sect will not say much.

After completing the verification, the two bowed and said goodbye. Jiang Li nodded and walked towards the interior of the sect.

However, after taking only a few steps, he stopped and waved his hand to call the two gatekeepers over again.

"What's going on over there?"

Jiang Li pointed to the distance. Above the sect, there was a huge platform floating, about a hundred meters long and wide.

That thing seems to be a floating magic fighting arena, but hasn't the outer sect competition already passed? What is the sect going to do?

"Brother, they are preparing for the sect's martial arts competition."

A disciple replied respectfully.

"How come I don't know when the sect's martial arts competition will be decided?"

A sect's martial arts competition is naturally a competition between all the halls of the sect. It is a grand event among the inner disciples, rather than a fight between weaklings among the outer disciples.

However, Jiang Li was a little surprised. How come he had never heard of such a big thing before?

All the disciples of the Demon Subduing Hall were very enthusiastic. This should be the thing that excited them the most, but no one in the hall had ever mentioned it before.

"Brother, the martial arts competition was scheduled about half a month ago."

"It seems that they are trying to compete for the right to allocate a secret realm, so they are holding a martial arts competition in the sect to select outstanding disciples."

Half a month ago?

At that time, Jiang Li had already left the Demon Subduing Hall base and was traveling alone in the mountains. No one would specially hang up a communication spirit stone to notify a mid-stage Qi training disciple to participate in such a martial arts competition, so Jiang Li knew nothing about it.

"The right to distribute the secret realm?"

However, after hearing the reason, Jiang Li remembered something.

His cheap master, Elder He, had been away from the sect for several months. Later, during a conversation with Senior Sister Liu Mulan, he learned that he seemed to have gone out to develop a new secret realm.

Many important figures in the sect, including the eldest senior brother Chu Yunxuan, also went there to help.

In addition, people from Shushan Five Elements Peak, Cihang Temple, and Bailian Mountain also showed great interest in the secret place.

Even the news that the clone was still alive was learned from Chu Yunxuan by the elders stationed in the secret realm.

At that time, I heard that the secret realm seemed to have great benefits, and the distribution method was still undecided.

It is said that due to the awkward geographical location of the secret realm, more than half of the sects in the Dachongshan area were affected. I don't know how many senior monks were arguing there.

It now seems that the allocation method should have been finalized, and it is planned that the final decision will be made by competition among disciples of various sects.

Jiang Li thanked the two gatekeeping disciples and left the two flattered registered disciples.

He dragged the huge dragon turtle all the way back to the Demon-Suppressing Hall.

When the outer disciples along the way saw this huge creature, they were so frightened that their legs were shaking and they hid far away, not daring to get close.

In the crowd, Lu Qianqian, Qu Qianfan, Wang Liuliang and other people who were once familiar with Jiang Li saw this scene. They were terrified and felt mixed emotions in their hearts.

Once upon a time, they were all outer disciples, and even Qu Qianfan and Wang Liuliang had top-grade spiritual roots. They once felt superior to Jiang Li.

However, Jiang Li's cultivation level improved by leaps and bounds. In that incident, he surpassed all the people in the outer sect and became the first to join the inner sect.

Later, their communication broke off, and their small group worked hard to join the inner sect and be on equal footing with Jiang Li again.

The gap between the inner sect and the outer sect... Is it really that big? Jiang Li has only been in the inner sect for a few months, and he can hunt such a terrifying monster alone. Do they really have hope to catch up? Jiang Li ignored the worship and onlookers of the outer sect disciples, dragging the heavy beast, and walked into the Demon Subduing Hall with ease.

What came into view was the familiar Fumo Hall training ground, but at this moment the training ground was a scene of intense training.

Almost all the disciples of the Demon Subduing Hall that Jiang Li could name could be seen here.

There are many unfamiliar faces that you usually don’t see, but now they are all working hard on the field to practice their magic.

The ten magic fighting arenas of the Demon Subduing Hall were packed with people, fighting fiercely with spells and magic weapons being used back and forth.

Although, in Jiang Li's eyes at this time, those fights were not much different from children's fights.

The disciples' enthusiasm for cultivation was particularly high during this period, and it was obvious that they were very enthusiastic about this martial arts competition.

Among the twelve inner halls of Sutra Valley, it is probably the Demon-Subduing Hall that is most enthusiastic about this matter.

They usually like to spar with each other when they have nothing to do. Now they have the opportunity to show their muscles in front of the entire sect and even the entire Dachongshan cultivation world. How can they not be excited?

As Jiang Li walked into the Demon-Suppressing Hall, he instantly attracted most of the attention. The dragon turtle that was nearly fifty meters long was simply too conspicuous.

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However, Elder He had often captured monsters and brought them back to teach his disciples before, so they were naturally not as surprised as the outer disciples, and they did not lose their composure even after being surprised for a moment.

However, Jiang Li, who was carrying the dragon turtle, also became the focus. Many fellow disciples recognized him and waved to him from a distance.

"Junior Brother Jiang Li, what is this thing you are dragging? Is it still alive?"

"Dragon turtle! This looks like a dragon turtle. Was it caught by the chief elder?"

"I heard that the dragon turtle has dragon blood and is extremely powerful. Junior brother, you must be careful not to get hurt by it."

A group of people gathered around the dragon turtle, but no one thought that this thing was caught by Jiang Li himself.

Jiang Li was strong, but in their hearts, he was still a Qi Refining Stage cultivator. A Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator would not be able to gain any benefit from encountering such a large dragon turtle, so they naturally did not expect Jiang Li to be able to capture it alive.

Jiang Li did not force an explanation, but just chatted with them about the topic.

After watching the dragon turtle for a long time, someone finally cared about it and it was him.

"Junior Brother Jiang Li, I heard that you went on a demon-killing mission before. How was it? Was it dangerous?"

"Junior Brother Jiang Li, are you also coming back to the sect to participate in the martial arts competition?"

"If you ask me, with your strength, you will definitely get a good ranking in the martial arts competition. You will definitely be the first in the Qi Refining Stage!"

"Then let others see how powerful our Demon Subduing Hall is."

This martial arts competition is divided into two parts: the Qi training stage for those under 20 years old, and the foundation building stage for those under 30 years old.

Putting aside other things, Jiang Li is absolutely unsolvable in the Qi Refining Stage.

The disciples of the Demon Subduing Hall were very sure of this, because Jiang Li's iron fists had caused them a lot of trouble not long ago.

Now that these fists are about to show their power to the outside world, they feel excited.

The only thing Jiang Li had to worry about was probably not using too much force so as not to kill someone.

If an ordinary person in the Qi Refining Stage took a punch from him now, he would probably lose nine out of ten lives.

While chatting with a few fellow disciples, Jiang Li caught a glimpse of a familiar figure in the distance.

A tower-like figure and a big bald head covered with tattoos.

He took a closer look and was immediately delighted. That was none other than the head of the Demon Subduing Hall, his own master, Elder He.

Jiang Li ran towards Elder He with the dragon turtle's corpse on his shoulder, his feet moving quickly. After such a long time of running through jungle obstacles, his body movements were much better than before, and his control over the armored horse's magical speed had also reached a higher level.

Dragging the dragon turtle, he was like a train and soon arrived in front of Elder He. He threw the dragon turtle aside and bowed to him.

"Master! You are back."

The Demon Subduing Hall is, after all, the fighting force of Sutra Valley.

Apart from the Tiandi Hall, which is where the Valley Master's lineage lies and has accepted most of the talented disciples, few people can surpass the Fumo Hall.

Now is the critical moment when the sect is holding a martial arts competition to select talents. The Demon-Suppressing Hall is a very important force, so Elder He will naturally come back to take charge of the situation.

"Well, I heard from Mulan that you went hunting monsters by yourself?"

Elder He nodded, then looked at the dragon turtle on the ground that still had a slight breath, and tried hard to appear calm.

But Jiang Li clearly saw the other person's mouth twitching slightly.

How powerful should such a big dragon turtle be? How long has it been? How long has it been since Jiang Li was accepted? He can actually hunt such a thing? Elder He's inner drama is extremely exciting. What kind of disciple did he accept? "The disciple is not good at learning skills. The beast blood tattoo on his body disappears too quickly. He can only suspend the demon-killing mission and go out to hunt monsters."

"Then I forgot the direction and walked further and further away. When I succeeded in hunting, I didn't expect that I was not far from the sect, so I came back directly."

Jiang Li had said this to Senior Sister Liu Mulan at the time. However, he was looking for monsters near the base, and now he had crossed such a distance and returned directly to the sect. He thought he still needed to explain.

Elder He naturally did not believe what they said, given the distance between the Sutra Valley and the temporary base of the Demon-Suppressing Hall.

The average Qi Refining Stage would take about a month to fly in a straight line. Jiang Li couldn't be measured by the average Qi Refining Stage, but he definitely couldn't get so far by getting lost.

However, Elder He did not ask much, as Jiang Li was just running while carrying the dragon turtle.

Elder He noticed Jiang Li's improvement in physical skills, and he had "guessed" why Jiang Li wanted to run such a long distance alone.

While hunting for animal blood materials, he also exercises to make up for his shortcomings in physical skills.

"You are quite capable to be able to return to the sect from the base by yourself."

"Is this the monster you caught? Where did you find this dragon turtle?"

Elder He asked this! Dragon turtles are very rare in the Dachong Mountains, and because of their dragon blood, they are full of treasures.

This dragon turtle is obviously a minor, so there must be two other dragon turtles, one male and one female, living nearby.

It’s also a good choice to catch it and make soup.

I'll post some anti-piracy content to test the waters. Please vote, comrades.

Eh... maybe I edited it too quickly after posting it, why doesn't it work?... I'll try it later in the evening.

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