But he did this after careful consideration, and if things go well, this may just be the beginning.

Because at present, Jiang Li believes that he has a certain ability to protect himself, and it is impossible for the Shengxian Pavilion to do anything to him openly.

So since I've already offended him, I might as well offend him even more severely.

After the list was sent back, Pavilion Master Sun was naturally very depressed. He didn't expect that there are still people who are so shameless these days, and dare to write anything on it.

However, although the items on Jiang Li's list were astonishing in number, their grades were not very high. If the total value was calculated, it was still within the acceptable range of Shengxian Pavilion.

I just held my breath and accepted it.

The most controversial one was Jiang Li's request to select items from the treasury.

In principle, Shengxian Pavilion really wanted to refuse, but due to consideration of the attitude of Sutra Valley, they reluctantly expressed concession and could only let Jiang Li choose one.

However, if it was just an item, Jiang Li felt that he was really at a loss.

After much discussion, it was decided that Jiang Li could choose two items from their treasury, but it was also stipulated that Jiang Li could not choose some of their store's treasures.

Soon, the Zangjing Valley shop stationed in the Shengxian Pavilion market received a large amount of supplies.

After checking and counting them one by one, they were transported by the sect's spaceship and temporarily brought back to the sect, waiting for Jiang Li to return after the competition. After the basic delivery was completed, Jiang Li generously released the four captives. He also returned the few magic weapons except the storage bag to Huangfu Tai.

This matter has come to an end for the time being.

However, Elder He later suggested helping Jiang Li capture another Foundation Establishment-level monster to fill in his blood veins and restore his combat power.

However, Jiang Li hesitated for a moment and still rejected the proposal. He had his own ideas about the next blood pattern.

. . . .

The Dachongshan monk competition is being held in full swing in the secret realm of the medicine garden in the misty mountains.

And somewhere thousands of miles away, two golden sword lights came together and landed beside a wide, slow-flowing river.

This river is the Mazu River which experienced a great battle in the past.

Following the Mazu River downstream, the slow-flowing area is no longer as dark and smelly as it used to be.

As the river water flowed, the disgusting blood of the Yin corpses had been washed away to farther places and even flowed into the sea.

The poisonous river water had been replaced, but the aquatic creatures that were poisoned by the blood of the Yin corpses did not recover so quickly. Moreover, the blood of the Yin corpses also affected the downstream, causing the extinction of a large area of ​​creatures.

The fishermen who rely on fishing in the Mazu River for a living are afraid that they will lose their livelihood.

These two sword cultivators were the two Shushan elders, Zuo Mo and Zuo Luo, who were sent here to confirm the situation after hearing the information from the sword cultivator's clone.

"Brother, let's go down."

The two sword cultivators checked on the shore for a while and found nothing unusual. This was natural. At that time, hundreds of cultivators had searched the area thoroughly but found nothing. The Nine Netherwood's hidden talent was very strong.

However, the intelligence pointed out that the problem was actually underwater. They flew such a long way to get here, and they would not be able to report to the sect if they didn't go down to take a look!

Elder Zuo Mo nodded, and the two of them took out two blue beads at the same time and threw them into the water together.

Two whirlpools soon appeared on the surface of the river, and then they grew larger and deeper. The two beads actually pushed away the river water that was a hundred meters deep, forming two vertical air columns that reached the riverbed directly.

This is a water-based magic weapon called the Water Bead. Due to its practical function and simple refining method, many skilled refiners can make it, so it is not a rare thing.

"Walk."

The two men stepped on flying swords and very carefully activated the protective aura before falling along the cylinder.

Soon, the light grew dim, and the wet and muddy riverbed appeared beneath their feet.

"The riverbed is clean too."

"There is no such thing as corpses everywhere and ghost fire everywhere."

"I think Tang Yan was probably hallucinating when he was on the verge of death. There is no such thing as an underwater cemetery. What a waste of time."

Sword cultivator Zuo Luo was holding the Water Dividing Bead and walking on the riverbed while slowly inspecting it.

He suddenly kicked something, bent down and fished out a damaged spiritual sword from the muddy muck.

This damaged magic weapon looks new and there is not much rust on the sword. It should not have been abandoned for long. It is very likely that it is a magic weapon left behind by the monks who died in the battle over there.

"Brother, take a look at this..."

Elder Zuo Luo paused, and he suddenly realized that no one seemed to have responded to him since a while ago.

He quickly turned his head to look for it, a strong spiritual light bloomed in his eyes, and his gaze penetrated the turbid river water and swept around.

The river water poisoned by the blood of the Yin corpse was clean, but there was no trace of the elder brother who had just come down with him.

Not far away, there was only a column of air that would not be submerged by the water flow.

Where are the people?

A bad premonition gradually emerged in his heart.

But Brother Zuo Mo is a golden elixir, how could he disappear without a sound? Did he go back to the shore first?

Elder Zuo Luo quickly flew into the air on his flying sword, wanting to leave the water and look for the target again.

But the next moment, his ankles were instantly tied up by something, and a terrifying force came from his ankles that even a Jindan stage cultivator was unable to resist.

Elder Zuo Luo was startled, and the upward momentum of his flying sword came to an abrupt halt.

What is this?! A golden sword light slashed down, and with the blessing of the sword heart's talent, the sword technique that had always been continuous, this time felt an indescribable stagnation.

The extremely sharp golden sword light cut through the things that bound his feet bit by bit.

A drop of cold sweat slid down the forehead of the Jindan cultivator. Just after he was caught, the originally calm riverbed around him suddenly began to wriggle strangely.

The golden sword light cut with all its strength, until several breaths later, he felt his feet lighten, and the thing as thick as his wrist was finally cut off by him.

This was the first time that Elder Zuo Luo felt that a few breaths of time could be so long.

Without stopping for a moment, he stepped on the flying sword and was about to leave the riverbed.

However, the next moment, more than a dozen huge roots suddenly emerged from under the riverbed and instantly tied up the Jindan sword cultivator.

Then an even more terrifying force pulled him down.

The Jindan sword cultivator was still fighting desperately, but the extremely sharp golden flying sword directly pierced into one of the roots, and he even vomited out the golden elixir in his stomach.

However, it was useless in the end! These tree roots had a very terrifying suction force. Once they came into contact with the roots, the spiritual energy in the body would be continuously sucked away.

Especially after the golden elixir was rolled up, the spiritual energy disappeared as fast as a floodgate being opened. The golden elixir sword cultivator fell to the left, and his body soon became weak.

In the end, his entire body was pulled directly into the riverbed.

"Second brother, where are you?"...

If Jiang Li were here, he would definitely be very surprised.

Because, the spiritual root branch in the underwater cemetery only actively pulled corpses before, how come after not seeing it for a while, it has begun to target living monks? Moreover, the ability displayed by this spiritual root branch is much richer and more powerful than the branch in his hand.

Although they are both spiritual root branches, the difference is so huge due to different growth environments and opportunities.

Comparing the two together, Jiang Li's spiritual root clone is really too weak.

. . . .

The gaze returned to the misty mountains.

At this time, the second round of the competition has gradually come to an end.

There are currently one hundred cultivators left in the Foundation Establishment Stage competition, and two hundred left in the Qi Refining Stage competition.

In this competition, the two jade lists recording the names of the participating monks will appear until the end.

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In the end, on the two jade lists, the black list representing the foundation-building stage will have fifty names, and the white list representing the Qi-refining stage will have one hundred names.

The two competition venues each determine 50% of the output share of the Medicine Garden Secret Realm.

Except for the two most special first places, each of them will win a 10% share for their own sect.

The second to tenth places on the two lists will each take 15% of the medicine garden share, which is another 30% of the output share.

Roughly speaking, although the values ​​of the second to tenth places decrease successively, they all represent a considerable share of more than one percent.

So this is the importance of strength in the world of immortal cultivation. The top ten on the black and white lists, these twenty people have already determined half of the share of the entire medicine garden secret realm.

On the two lists, the other 130 people outside the top ten can share the remaining 50% in a decreasing manner.

As the first-round winner, Jiang Li also arrived at the scene today. Next to him was Shenshan Qiuhua, who was second, and Mu Luo and others behind him.

The two hundred people in the Qi Refining Stage who had emerged victorious after going through the second round of competition were staring at them with a conceited look on their faces.

According to the rules, the top ten will gain huge benefits but also have to bear the greatest pressure.

Although the top ten on the current list have directly skipped the fierce elimination in the second round of competition, they will now face the most rigorous test.

The second to tenth monks will face three consecutive rounds of fierce challenges.

As the top of the list, Jiang Li needs to face five consecutive rounds of challenges that he cannot refuse.

If we can survive this challenge, we will secure our place in the top ten.

After this challenge, these two hundred monks can only compete for the eleventh to the hundredth positions and are no longer eligible to challenge the top ten.

So logically speaking, the best option at this time should be to choose a fifth to tenth place, a relatively low ranking in competition, and after surviving three rounds, see if you can challenge a higher ranking.

If they lose, they will fall from grace. After the challenge, if they fail to stay in the top ten, they will never have another chance.

As the top of the list, Jiang Li is undoubtedly at the center of the storm.

Not everyone can endure a series of battles with five powerful men of the same level.

Among the crowd, the most number of cultivators were looking at Jiang Li with strange eyes.

First of all, being fast in the first round of the competition does not necessarily mean that the person is strong, it may also be simply good luck.

And the most important thing is.

The attack on Jiang Li a few days ago caused a lot of controversy, and almost everyone knew something about it.

Although most people are not clear about the specific situation, the rumor that Jiang Li was hunted down by a Jindan and two foundation-building stage masters and escaped with serious injuries by using a secret technique is very popular.

There were even rumors that Jiang Li had been beaten to the point of death, and was only able to survive with the help of the elders who rushed over and worked together to save him.

What? He was originally a physical cultivator, but later his physical cultivation was abolished.

More than 200 of his bones were broken, and he had to use the bones of several monsters to put them back together.

Something like his sea of ​​​​qi was torn and turbulent, and only one tenth of his cultivation remained, and now a child could defeat him.

In short, in their eyes, if a Jindan cultivator were to fight against a Qi training cultivator, even if Jiang Li escaped, he would inevitably suffer heavy losses, so naturally they would spread the story as exaggeratedly as possible.

Jiang Li became a soft persimmon in the eyes of almost all cultivators, and the kind that had already been bullied by others.

I just don’t know what kind of expression they will have when they really get what they want and face Jiang Li, the soft persimmon.

"Brother Jiang Li, have you heard?"

"In the second round of competition, several amazing dark horses emerged."

Being watched by so many people, Shenshan Qiuhua was a little nervous. She stroked the two swords in her arms repeatedly. The pair of water and fire flying swords gave her a sense of security like a toy bear.

But now Jiang Li doesn't care about these at all. No matter what kind of dark horse it is, no matter how strong it is, it is just practicing Qi and it is impossible for it to pose any real threat to him.

What he is concerned about now are the other rewards besides the share of spiritual medicine.

Long before he set out from the sect, he had heard that during the exploration of the sect's joint team, a very old exotic spiritual fruit was discovered deep in the secret realm.

At that time, a group of spiritual plant masters argued endlessly about what this spiritual fruit was, but they could not come to a conclusion. They only knew that it was very precious and powerful.

Later, there were rumors that this spiritual fruit would be given as a reward to the winner of the competition, but there has been no final conclusion.

Until a few days ago, someone finally compared ancient documents and analyzed that this thing is very likely the legendary Dao Foundation Spiritual Fruit that can make up for and strengthen the Dao Foundation! The importance of Dao Foundation to a cultivator is self-evident.

All aspects of future practice will be affected by it, and its importance is almost equal to spiritual roots.

After the foundation is forged, it is often impossible to rebuild it and regret it. Even if you break the foundation and recast it, the success rate is very low, and it is very likely that the recast foundation will be worse than before.

At this time, the value of Daoji Fruit is reflected.

Make up for and strengthen the foundation of the road.

Whether it is a Qi training practitioner who has not yet established a foundation for the Dao, or an advanced cultivator who has already established a foundation for the Dao, there is a need for it.

For Qigong cultivators, the Dao Foundation Fruit would have a better strengthening effect. But for some high-level cultivators who were restricted by their Dao Foundation and could not make any progress, this might be like a regret pill.

It is actually difficult to define to whom this thing is important and more valuable.

However, the sect leaders who hold power and have strong demands are usually not willing to give such good things to the younger generations.

This put Jiang Li, who was also jealous, in a difficult position.

I didn't sleep last night. I almost went crazy 　　 　 (End of this chapter)