The Great Yue Sword Tournament is a grand event held once every five hundred years throughout the entire Great Yue Kingdom.
This event is specially chosen to coincide with the opening of the three major secret realms once every five hundred years!
The purpose is to determine the victor in the secret realm.
Although the Hengyang Secret Realm has opened ahead of schedule...
But one thing is certain: the Great Yue Sword Competition will definitely be held as scheduled.
Because this is a 'grand gathering' to divide up the interests of Dai Viet!
Great Yue is a kingdom of spirit masters, and internal struggles are usually not openly discussed or overly intense. Besides being a kingdom of spirit masters, the main reason is quite obvious.
There are two overlords in the Southern Continent!
In the cultivation world of Nanzhou today, the reason why Da Yue can barely maintain a three-way balance of power is because of unity, with the Spirit Alliance taking the lead in coordinating the various sects, families, and independent cultivator groups in Da Yue.
This model ensures that internal power struggles will not be too intense.
After all, every faction of Spirit Masters can have more, especially an entire Spirit Master Kingdom, whose potential benefits, assistance, and development are coveted by both the righteous and the demonic.
Given the opportunity, both the righteous and demonic factions would likely seize the opportunity to annex the numerous spiritual master sects and families of Great Yue.
However, in this era, with two powerful forces standing side by side in the Southern Continent, the Great Yue, through the coordination of the Spirit Alliance, has barely managed to form a three-way balance of power. Only in this way can it maintain neutrality, avoid war, and avoid being swallowed up by one side.
But it's easy to imagine that once the righteous and the demonic factions have determined a victor, and the Southern Continent has an absolute overlord, then there will be no such thing as neutrality.
Given this background, the Great Yue Kingdom dared not allow any overly intense internal strife, opting instead for a more peaceful approach to dividing interests. Even sect rivalries generally stopped at the Golden Core level; otherwise, the Spirit Alliance would intervene!
The Great Yue Sword Competition was born out of this situation.
Various factions thus divided the land into spiritual veins, spiritual mines, medicinal gardens, small and medium-sized secret realms, and so on.
For example, the Yunxiao Sect once occupied the Yunmeng Great Swamp a long time ago. At that time, the resources it occupied, such as spirit mines and medicinal gardens, were at least several times more than they are now, making it one of the top sects in the Great Yue Dynasty.
However, it gradually declined and its ranking in the Sword Tournament continued to fall.
Only then did they move away from the Yunmeng Marsh and into the mountains.
Furthermore, the spiritual vein it occupies is not even in the core of the Yunmeng Mountain Range; it barely touches the edge of the core.
This is the impact of declining rankings year after year.
If the ranking is high enough, then it is not impossible to go straight to the core of the mountain range, or even to re-enter the Yunmeng Great Swamp!
Of course, the ranking in the sword competition is only a percentage; the actual ranking depends on the sect as a whole.
To put it bluntly, it refers to the number of Nascent Soul stage experts.
If the Cloud Soaring Sect produces three Nascent Soul experts, then there is no need to care about the ranking in the Sword Debate Tournament. They can directly settle in the Cloud Dream Swamp, and who would dare to say a word against it?
The Yunxiao Sect has been declining in recent years because it has only ever had one Nascent Soul cultivator, and there has even been a break in the lineage... which has led to the Yunxiao Sect being stuck in its current state.
However, Nascent Soul cultivators are not easily found, so rankings in the Sword Debate Tournament are quite important.
Therefore, these outstanding geniuses who were disciples but broke through to the Purple Mansion stage are given a great deal of resources.
These privileged individuals who enjoy the resources must then contribute to the sect and compete for its benefits.
However, this is itself a way to hone one's skills and seize opportunities on the path of cultivation.
As long as you achieve an excellent ranking, you will not have to worry about resources, and you can even secure the top spot and enjoy the benefits of preferential resource allocation.
This is an investment and return relationship, and every disciple in the sect has a close stake in it!
Lin Xiuyuan was naturally eager for this, his eyes gleaming as he murmured, "A sword-fighting tournament, huh? There's still plenty of time..."
Although he has only just broken through to the Purple Mansion realm, he currently has a sixty-year period of seclusion followed by a sixty-year period of guarding and testing. After these two cycles of sixty years, there are still about twenty years before the Sword Debate Conference is held.
There is plenty of time.
For those in the Purple Mansion stage, it usually takes less than sixty years for a genius with a single spiritual root like Wang Qiuhe to break through a minor realm.
That would be a bit of a stretch for him.
However, with sixty years of resource allocation, the gap won't be too large.
Afterwards, with the wondrous power of the Purple Talisman, resources will not be a major concern. Even if they cannot catch up with a true prodigy like Wang Qiuhe, they should not fall too far behind.
"The position of chief will probably be decided here, and we need to make more preparations for it in the future."
Upon realizing this, Lin Xiuyuan immediately said, "Master, I'll go directly to the Spirit Spring Cave for seclusion. With my aptitude, it would be too slow for me to consolidate and stabilize my realm outside. It would be better to use the Spirit Spring Cave. Anyway, my cultivation speed can't possibly catch up with a genius like Senior Sister."
Wang Yangshan nodded, "That's perfectly acceptable."
For a prodigy like Wang Qiuhe with a single spiritual root, consolidating her cultivation realm outside wouldn't slow down her progress much, since it was just consolidating her realm, and the speed at which her spiritual root refined spiritual energy was already somewhat excessive. Therefore, she could calmly consolidate her realm outside, focusing her time on cultivation and avoiding wasting the time allotted for the opportunity of the Spirit Spring Cave.
However, for someone with Lin Xiuyuan's aptitude, consolidating his realm outside would be somewhat slow, as his absorption and refining speeds would be relatively slow, thus requiring several more years.
Entering the Spirit Spring Cave would save more than half the cost, making it a better choice.
Wang Yangshan said, "Go directly to the Hall of Affairs to collect the token, and then follow the instructions on the token. Your senior uncle will then open the Spirit Spring Cave for you."
Lin Xiuyuan nodded, bid farewell to the two, and returned to his cave.
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