Chapter 1: Great Sword Gate, Nine Days of Great Test
"The Dragon Elephant Art has been engraved on the stone tablet. If you practice the Dragon Elephant Art and can complete a Transformation within nine days, you can join the Sword Sect and become an outer disciple of our Sword Sect."
The three stone tablets were all ten feet high, with densely packed pictures and texts engraved on them, including images of elephants walking across the wilderness and dragons soaring across the universe. Each tablet was engraved with twenty-two pictures, which were the twenty-two moves of the Dragon Elephant Skill.
The Great Wilderness Sword Sect's Dragon Elephant Skill is the most basic method for transcending the mortal world. It is rumored that a cultivator can use the Dragon Elephant Skill to transcend the mortal world five or six times.
"Of course, if you are confident, you can also go to the Sword Testing Stone and comprehend the sword's meaning. If you can comprehend even a little bit of the sword's meaning within nine days, you can directly become a true disciple of the Sword Sect."
Under the three meter-high stone tablets, there gathered densely packed children who came to study. On August 16, the Sword Sect was recruiting disciples, and this was their best chance to make the leap.
They dared not imagine comprehending the true meaning of swordsmanship and becoming a true disciple of Jianmen, but if they could complete the first metamorphosis, join Jianmen and become outer disciples, they still had a great chance.
Soon, there were sounds of "Hum-Hum" and "Ha-Hum" coming from under Jianmen Pass, and the Dragon-Elephant Method was being practiced.
There were ten-foot-high stone tablets, and each one was surrounded by people. Gu Jiuqing was weak and could only watch from a distance.
"It's too far away. I can't see clearly what is written on the stone tablet."
"Yes, this stone tablet is old, some of the pictures are dim, and the images of dragons and tigers are blurred. This is a cultivation method. Once the practice goes wrong, it can lead to insanity at best, or even disappear into ashes at worst."
"Jiuqing, I heard that you have a sharp eye. Why don't you draw all the twenty-two styles on the stone tablet? Anyway, the exam lasts for nine days, and it will only take one or two days to draw the twenty-two illustrations."
The Great Wilderness Jianmen stands on the Jianmen Pass. Outside the Jianmen Pass is the endless wilderness, and inside the Jianmen Pass is the Great Zhou Divine Dynasty.
There are thirteen ancient cities near Jianmen Pass, and all these children come from these thirteen ancient cities.
Every year Jianmen recruits disciples, and the children in the thirteen ancient cities are sent to Jianmen Pass. Their small team comes from Tianyuan Ancient City, which is ranked first among the thirteen ancient cities and is also the closest to Jianmen.
The handsome young man stood at the front of the small team. He was the tallest in the crowd, but the other young men from the ancient city had already joined forces to occupy the best position under the stone tablet.
Even with his own strength, he couldn't squeeze into the deep end.
Qu Yaozhou! The Qu family of Tianyuan Ancient City was ranked first among the famous families and was much stronger than the Gu family.
In the distance, a carriage and horses stopped in the void, and a servant came over, presented the four treasures of the study and placed them in front of Gu Jiuqing.
"Jiuqing, whether our Tianyuan Ancient City can achieve a good ranking this time depends on you."
The young man who spoke was standing behind Qu Yaozhou.
Lu Buye! Another disciple from a famous family.
Jianmen is one of the four holy places in the world, and not everyone can join.
These young men from the ancient city of Tianyuan are all disciples of famous families and descendants of prominent families. Their families have been passed down for more than 500 years and have a profound foundation.
The Gu family is also a family in the Tianyuan Ancient City, but it is far from comparable to the Qu family and the Lu family.
"Jiuqing, please paint faster. I have seen someone practicing the Dragon Elephant Kung Fu and transforming into a mortal."
Under the stone tablet, there was a talented disciple who used the Dragon Elephant Skill to cleanse his marrow and remove all traces of vanity in half a day! This attracted many eyes, and even many Jianmen disciples at Jianmen Gate looked down and investigated.
"He is a disciple from a noble family in Qingyang Ancient City!"
Lu Buye was anxious and exclaimed.
They have been preparing for this exam for a long time, and they all want to make a splash in the nine-day exam, get the attention of Jianmen, join Jianmen, and become Jianmen's disciples!
This is the wish of everyone in the thirteen cities in the north.
"It's Ye Fei from Qingyang Ancient City!"
"So it was him. No wonder he completed his transformation so quickly. It is said that there are four outstanding people in Qingyang Ancient City, three of whom have already joined Jianmen. Only Ye Fei is still young, so he is a year late."
At Jianmen Pass, a sacred mountain stands tall, like a divine sword piercing the sky.
"If you can achieve a Transmigration once every half a day, if you can achieve three Transmigrations within nine days, you can become an inner sect disciple of the Sword Sect."
"It's not too bleak this year with this kid joining the team."
The voice on Jianshan Mountain disappeared. The exam lasted for nine days, but in fact, the qualifications of this group of young people could be known on the first day.
Among the three stone tablets, Ye Fei has the best qualifications and is expected to become an inner disciple of Jianmen.
As for the other young men from the thirteen cities in the north, most of them could only become outer disciples of Jianmen, while the rest could only return home with no hope of joining Jianmen.
Gu Jiuqing was unwilling.
The Dragon Elephant Art has 22 drawings. It would take him at least one day to draw all 22 drawings! So he only has eight days for the final exam. He has to use the Dragon Elephant Art to complete a transformation within eight days!
A series of scorching gazes fell on Gu Jiuqing, making him feel like sitting on pins and needles.
If he was unwilling to paint at this moment, the other young men would definitely not let him practice the Dragon Elephant Skill with peace of mind.
Although they are from the same hometown and are all family disciples from the ancient city of Tianyuan, Gu Jiuqing doesn't care.
How can you ask someone to do something for you, and come back empty-handed? Gu Jiuqing looked at the flying sedan in the distance.
There were quite a few family disciples who came from Tianyuan Ancient City this time, twenty-five in total including him.
There were twenty-five flying carriages in the distance. The Gu family was poor and could only rely on themselves to practice, but the disciples of other families were different. Especially Qu Yaozhou of the Qu family and Lu Buye of the Lu family. Even from a distance, Gu Jiuqing could see their bulging chests.
That was the elixir prepared by the family for them! ! During the nine-day exam, Jianmen had only one rule: the Dragon Elephant Art had to complete a transformation within nine days. Whether it was with the help of elixirs or relying on one's own qualifications, as long as one could complete it, one could become a Jianmen outer sect disciple.
"Well, to be honest, I came to Jianmen Pass a few days ago on a flying sedan chair. I felt a little uncomfortable, and I couldn't see the pictures on the stone tablet clearly."
hehe!
How could the other teenagers not know what Gu Jiuqing was thinking? Wasn't he just trying to take this opportunity to blackmail him?
They were not stupid, they just looked at the stone tablet in the distance.
The twenty-five people from Tianyuan Ancient City were squeezed too far away. They had never embarked on the path of cultivation and were similar to ordinary people. They were so far away that they could only rely on Gu Jiuqing if they wanted to see through all the patterns on the stone tablet.
"So Brother Gu has such a difficult secret. This is easy to handle. This is the Eight Directions Treasure Pill given to me by my family elders. I will give one to Brother Gu."
Qu Yaozhou gritted his teeth and took out an Eight-Directions Treasure Pill.
Good stuff! Bafang Baodan, made from eight kinds of precious materials, is one of the elixirs for Yijing marrow cleansing.
"This is a blood-refining and qi-condensing pill given by my elders. Well, I only have one, so I can only give you half."
Lu Buye separated the Blood Refining and Qi Condensing Pill and carefully handed the other half to Gu Jiuqing.
Blood Refining and Qi Condensing Pill! This is much more valuable than the Eight Directions Pill, but there is only half a pill.
What a pity.
Gu Jiuqing sighed secretly and put away half of the Blood Refining and Qi Condensing Pill.
Seeing this, the other young men who came out of Tianyuan Ancient City had no choice but to share the pills they had with Gu Jiuqing.
After a stick of incense had passed, Gu Jiuqing already had a lot of bottles and jars in his hands.
What a great harvest! What a great harvest!
With so many elixirs, Gu Jiuqing is confident that he can complete a transformation within five days, let alone the nine-day test.
He calmed down and started painting.
The young man from Tianyuan Ancient City standing nearby did not dare to make a sound, for fear of disturbing Gu Jiuqing's painting.
"Another person has completed the transformation! It's a young man from Tianyuan Ancient City."
"Tianyuan Ancient City, Qingyang Ancient City, among the thirteen cities in the north, two young men from the ancient cities have already achieved transcendence once."
"Yes, yes, two people have completed the Transcendental Transformation on the first day. It seems that there are at least hundreds of young people who can use the Dragon Elephant Art to achieve the Transcendental Transformation this time."
The eyes on Jianshan Mountain kept falling on Jianmen Pass, where the young men standing on the three stone tablets were practicing the Dragon Elephant Kung Fu. While watching and performing, there was a dense aura rising into the sky.
They were disciples of the family, who swallowed precious pills, practiced the Dragon Elephant Skill, and cleansed their marrow with the Book of Changes.
The next day, noon.
Gu Jiuqing finally completed painting all twenty-two forms of Dragon Elephant Kung Fu, and twenty-two pictures appeared before his eyes.
“It’s finally done.”
Gu Jiuqing knew that he was of average talent. He had loved music, chess, calligraphy and painting since he was a child, and dreamed of leaving the north one day, going to the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and joining the Jixia Academy.
But the North was too far away from the Great Zhou Divine Capital, and he was a family disciple . Qu Yaozhou reached out and grabbed the large drawings one by one. He looked at the drawings with a smile on his face.
So lifelike!
It's like the living saint of painting.
It is almost the same as the Twenty-two Styles of Dragon and Elephant engraved on the stone tablet.
"Good, good, good, you are worthy of being Gu Jiuqing."
"My fellow comrades, this place is too noisy. Follow me to a quiet place and practice Dragon Elephant Kung Fu together!"
Qu Yaozhou's call attracted hundreds of responses, and all the young people in the ancient city followed Qu Yaozhou and left.
Only Gu Jiuqing was left holding the paper and pen.
He shook his head and put down the paper and pen. In the distance, a servant stepped into the void.
This is a servant of the Qu family. If he wants to step into the void, he must at least experience the experience of revealing the secrets of heaven and cultivate magical powers before he can fly in the air.
"Transform into a mortal! Reveal the secrets of heaven! Forge the invincible! Connect heaven and earth! Understand yin and yang! Steal life and death!"
The six levels of realms are widely known in the North, but the methods of cultivation have not been spread. Even the major families can only cultivate to the highest level of Zhu Bu Zhou. If you want to reach the heaven and earth, only the aristocratic families have the cultivation methods! This is also the difference between the family and the aristocratic family.
The Gu family has Liuhequan. Practicing Liuhequan can complete three transformations. This is the limit of Liuhequan.
It is also the pinnacle of ordinary cultivation methods.
Gu Jiuqing wanted to join Jianmen. If he practiced Liuhequan in advance, the impurities in his body would be eliminated in advance, and his blood, meridians, and bones would be stronger than they are now.
However, if one wants to use the Dragon Elephant Skill to complete another transformation, it will be much more difficult than it is now.
Therefore, the young men from the ancient city who came to pay homage to the mountain this time had no previous cultivation experience, and it was their first time to embark on the path of cultivation.
Gu Jiuqing concentrated and calmed his mind, then put a pill into his mouth. A warm current spread along the pill towards his body, and Gu Jiuqing felt warm all over.
He knew that this was the medicinal properties of the elixir taking effect.
Gu Jiuqing did not look at the pictures and texts on the stone tablet. He had already memorized the twenty-two moves of Dragon Elephant Kung Fu. He stood in place and began to practice Dragon Elephant Kung Fu.
The first move of Dragon Elephant Kung Fu, Elephant Wandering in the Wilderness!
The second move of the Dragon Elephant Art, the elephant pulls up the sacred mountain! The third move of the Dragon Elephant Art, the elephant steps on the void! The fourth move of the Dragon Elephant Art, the elephant pushes the sacred city! Gu Jiuqing practiced the fourth move of the Dragon Elephant Art in one go, and the turbulence in his body was activated. Gu Jiuqing had the help of other fellow villagers, and he swallowed the pills one by one without hesitation.
In just a moment, the misty air surrounded his body.
After practicing from day to night for several hours, Gu Jiuqing only felt hot all over, but there was no change in his qi, blood, meridians, and bones.
He stretched out his hand and dropped it towards the Overlord Cauldron.
Um??
The Overlord Cauldron didn't move at all! Outside the three stone tablets, there were many Overlord Cauldrons. When practicing the Dragon Elephant Kung Fu, one could use the Overlord Cauldrons to practice.
"Why do I feel like I've been practicing for several hours and swallowing so many pills, but my body hasn't changed at all?"
That shouldn’t be the case. The effect of the first practice is the most obvious.
Gu Jiuqing swallowed a lot of pills, so why didn’t his body get stronger at all?
"Could it be that the pills they gave me were fake?"
The night was hazy. The young men under the three stone tablets were taken onto the flying carriages in twos and threes. Gu Jiuqing had a splitting headache.
There were nine days for the exam. On the first day, he painted twenty-two pictures of the Dragon Elephant Skill. On the second day, he practiced the Dragon Elephant Skill vigorously. At this moment, he fell asleep in the carriage.
I'll settle the score with them tomorrow.
(End of this chapter)
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