Chapter 238 A sudden opportunity

The third year of Chu Yuan.

Chu Ning: Struggle. Start from this year and take the first step out of the Xinhuo Hall.

On the seventh day of the third year of Chu Yuan, Senior Brother Shu came back in a hurry, holding a new Nascent Soul cultivator in his arms.

According to Senior Brother Shu, this newcomer went to the area near the Xinhuo Palace, fought with a cultivator from the Dan Domain, and was seriously injured.

The outside world is too dangerous.

Chu Ning decided to stay in the Xinhuo Hall and continue his practice.

Senior Brother Shu said that one can walk in the Dan Realm at the Nascent Soul stage, and it seems that it means "walking" in a literal sense.

There are different ways to walk.

Some walk recklessly, while others walk cautiously. At present, it seems that although the Nascent Soul cultivators do not have to walk cautiously, they cannot walk recklessly either.

In the fourth year of Chu Yuan, many newcomers chose to build caves in the outer area of ​​​​Xinhuo Palace.

These newcomers are all Nascent Soul cultivators, the most powerful ones from their respective lower domains.

They would inevitably feel uncomfortable living in the temple under the watchful eyes of those Divine Transformation monks, so these newcomers chose to live in the many mountains outside the Xinhuo Temple and build caves in the mountains.

Only Chu Ning still stayed in the Xinhuo Hall.

Twenty years later, Chu Ning has become a senior in the eyes of the next batch of newcomers, and is the oldest newcomer after Shu Wenruan.

Shu Wenruan still warmly welcomes each batch of newcomers, but Chu Ning has been in seclusion and rarely interacts with the newcomers.

Because the worst newcomers are at the late Jindan stage, these newcomers will not blame themselves for this. Those who can cultivate to the late Jindan stage are at least a hundred years old, and they are not really the kind of passers-by who know nothing.

No one in this world needs to be nice to you for no reason. Brother Shu is a minority who is so enthusiastic. Most of them are cultivators like Chu Ning.

Thanks to Shu Wenruan, but I won't be dissatisfied with Chu Ning.

"That's good. This way there will be fewer troublemakers."

Chu Ning quite liked the atmosphere of the Xinhuo Hall. There were no tasks or requirements, but there was enough spiritual energy for cultivation. At the same time, there were many books in the library for people to read at will.

In twenty years, Chu Ning had read almost all the jade slips on the first floor of the library.

There are hundreds of thousands of jade slips on the entire first floor.

These jade slips are all related to alchemy, some are about alchemy materials, some are about alchemy furnaces, and some are about how to choose a suitable day for alchemy...

To be honest, Chu Ning didn't expect that there were so many theories in the field of alchemy.

For other alchemists, reading these jade slips too much would affect their progress in alchemy, but for Chu Ning, the contents of these jade slips would be reasons he would use to explain to himself in the future.

The secret mirror cannot be exposed. Sometimes he can successfully refine a elixir that exceeds his ability. If someone asks about it, at least he can find an excuse to make it go away.

These jade slips indeed broadened his horizons. It is no exaggeration to say that if we talk about alchemy theory now, Chu Ning is no worse than those senior fourth-grade alchemists.

Of course, in addition to reading books, Chu Ning also refined pills several times, and making a fourth-grade pill was not a difficult task for him.

Five Elements Pill, Shaoyuan Pill, Linyuan Pill.

Chu Ning refined three kinds of pills, and all of them were successful in one go.

Chu Ning also learned from Senior Brother Shu that the success rate of fourth-grade alchemists in the entire Dan Domain in refining fourth-grade pills was about 60%.

The higher you go, the lower the success rate.

As for the realm of cultivation, Chu Ning has not made much progress in the past twenty years.

From Yuanying to Huashen, the main focus is Yuanying.

The Nascent Soul will convert the absorbed spiritual power into higher-level Yuan Power, that is, the Yuan Power of Heaven and Earth. When the Nascent Soul grows to the point where it can directly capture the Yuan Power of Heaven and Earth and no longer needs spiritual power conversion, it reaches the realm of Spiritual Transformation.

This is divided into three steps.

The first step is to allow the Nascent Soul to grow. Under the Spirit Transformation Realm, the Nascent Soul can grow to the juvenile stage. This is the first step that a Nascent Soul cultivator needs to take.

Over the past twenty years, Chu Ning's soul has grown to about the height of a fingernail. At this rate of growth, it would take at least a thousand years to reach the height of a teenager.

The lifespan of a Nascent Soul cultivator is just over a thousand years.

If it were other cultivators, without the opportunity, they would never be able to achieve divine enlightenment in this lifetime.

However, for Chu Ning, what he has no shortage of is longevity, so this step is not a problem. If time could be accelerated, he would have wanted to directly consume a thousand years of life.

His realm has not improved much, and he has not yet figured out the help that the Longevity Fruit has brought to his Nascent Soul.

His Nascent Soul had been immersed in the lake water for twenty years, but he had not yet found any help for it. He could only slowly explore it in the future.

The twenty-seventh year of Chu Yuan.

Shu Wenruan rarely comes to disturb Chu Ning.

"Brother Shu, what's the matter?"

Chu Ning sensed with his spiritual sense that Shu Wenruan appeared at the door of his side hall, so he walked out of the hall and asked curiously.

"Junior Brother Chu, I'm here to say goodbye to you."

"Farewell? Senior Brother Shu is joining the sect?"

Chu Ning was stunned at first, then a look of joy appeared on his face, and he said, "Congratulations, Senior Brother Shu."

The newcomers in Xinhuo Hall are waiting for an opportunity to join the Danyu Sect. Senior Brother Shu has been in Xinhuo Hall for more than eighty years, and the hundred-year limit is almost over.

Chu Ning was naturally happy for Senior Brother Shu that he was valued by the sect at this last moment.

"Brother, your talent for alchemy is not high, so you have no chance to join those sects. Brother, you are going to become an elder in a secondary sect."

Shu Wenruan smiled bitterly. Chu Ning was stunned and asked curiously, "Secondary sect?"

What does that mean? Is there a sect worse than the D-level sect?

"The sect ratings of A, B, C, and D are based on the growth of new members in these sects over the past three hundred years. In fact, even a D-level sect is not much different from an A-level sect. At most, it just means that the sect has not been very good at training new members over the past three hundred years."

"In the Dan Domain, the sects that can recruit new people are already top sects. There are many D-level sects that have been selected as A-level. In the Dan Domain, there are many sects that are not qualified to recruit new people from outside the domain. These sects are secondary sects."

Listening to Senior Brother Shu's introduction, Chu Ning had an expression of astonishment on his face. Isn't this just like the professional leagues of certain sports in his previous life?

That’s right, alchemist is a profession.

Taking the NBA as an example, the A, B, C, and D ratings are equivalent to rookie draft picks, except that in the NBA the worst team can get the No. 1 pick, which ensures that the team can select sufficiently good rookies this year.

The Danyu is the sect that is worst at training new recruits, so the later it gets the right to select new recruits, so in order to maintain a source of excellent new disciples, these sects will put more effort into training new recruits.

However, there are some special cases, that is, these sects have already discovered extremely outstanding disciples in the Dan Realm and do not care about the selection rights in the past three hundred years.

After all, this draft pick is aimed at alchemists from other domains, and it will not affect the alchemists in this domain joining the sect.

Chu Ning had not expected that there were so many tricks in the selection of a new person. These were not mentioned in the jade slip given by the senior.

"Newcomers here will know this information in a few years. Junior Brother Chu, you have been in seclusion and rarely communicate with others, so it is normal that you don't know."

Shu Wenruan smiled slightly, and then said: "The sect I am going to has a Divine Transformation cultivator in charge. After I go there, I will serve as an elder. Many newcomers in our hall are also preparing to take this path."

Those in the Xinhuo Hall are not favored by the top sects, and it is still unknown whether they will be favored a hundred years later. Many newcomers start to think about their future path after fifty years.

The safest option is to join a lesser sect and serve as an elder to gain a foothold in Danyu.

"Junior Brother Chu, although there will be another opportunity for assessment after a hundred years, if you fail the assessment the first time, it will be very difficult to pass it again after a hundred years, because every three hundred years of the competition, the calculation of the rookie's years starts from the time they enter the Dan Realm."

After listening to Shu Wenruan's words, Chu Ning thought about it and understood.

These top sects train newcomers, in addition to replenishing fresh blood, and also have another goal, which is to hold a competition for newcomers every three hundred years.

And these sects look down on newcomers like me who have wasted a hundred years in the Xinhuo Hall.

"I see. I really don't know much about these. Thank you, Senior Brother Shu, for telling me."

"Even if you don't tell me, you will know it in the future. If you encounter any trouble in Xinhuo Hall in the future, you can ask Senior Sun for help."

"Yes." Chu Ning nodded, and then congratulated: "Then I wish you a bright future and enter the Spiritual Transformation Realm as soon as possible."

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Shu Wenruan laughed. He didn't care much about these things, otherwise he wouldn't have been so enthusiastic about helping newcomers over the past few decades.

Three days later, Chu Ning saw Senior Brother Shu off a hundred miles outside the Xinhuo Palace.

Just three years after Chu Ning sent Senior Brother Shu away, in the core area of ​​Xinhuo Hall, Sun Chengyang and six others were discussing something.

"Danshan Sect wants us to introduce new people to them. Do you have any ideas?" Wang Dongliang asked with a smile.

"I did hear a little information. Danshan Sect originally valued a golden elixir alchemist and agreed that he would join Danshan Sect after he formed his infant. But something unexpected happened not long ago and the disciple was poached by the Seven Fire Sect."

"Danshan Sect didn't put much effort into the Upper Realm Newcomer Competition for the sake of that genius alchemist, and only got a D-level. And there haven't been many outstanding D-level newcomers recently. Danshan Sect is getting a little anxious."

It has been one hundred and twenty years since the last rookie competition. If there are no newcomers, Danshan Sect will probably only get a D grade this time.

There will also be penalties if you are rated D twice in a row.

No new people from outside the domain may be recruited within a thousand years. Even if disciples are recruited within the Dan Domain, there are only ten vacancies.

This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that after being punished, Danta will no longer have any rewards for these fourth-grade and fifth-grade alchemists.

Those talented alchemists would naturally not choose to join Danshan Sect.

“It seems that this time the Seven Fire Sect has completely fallen out with the Danshan Sect. But it’s no wonder that the Danshan Sect is anxious.” Sun Chengyang said with a laugh.

"If you don't hurry, you won't be able to find us. How about we each recommend a newcomer to go to Danshan Sect to participate in the assessment?"

"Can."

"Then it will be three days. Within three days, we will each select a disciple and then report back to Danshan Sect."

…

…

Chu Ning, who was reading a book in the library, suddenly found that several other newcomers gathered together. They looked a little excited, and he immediately extended his spiritual sense over there out of curiosity.

These newcomers are all in the early Nascent Soul stage. Although he is also in the early Nascent Soul stage, his spiritual awareness is comparable to that of the middle Nascent Soul stage, so his spiritual awareness can spread over without being discovered.

"I just got the news that a sect wants several seniors from Xinhuo Hall to recommend disciples. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

"true and false?"

"The news is absolutely correct."

…

Chu Ning watched these people walk out of the library. He also put down the jade slip, with a thoughtful look on his face.

Cultivating immortality steadily does not mean giving up and lying down.

Joining a secondary sect as an elder was only a last resort.

It is nice to take shelter under a big tree. After his experiences in Wenjin Sect and Xiyue Sect, Chu Ning has deeply understood this.

This is also an opportunity for myself.

However, he did not have a very good relationship with the six seniors in Xinhuo Hall, and it could even be said that they had no intersection at all.

How can I get these six seniors to recommend me?

Before leaving, Senior Brother Shu said that if he encountered any trouble, he could go to Senior Sun.

This means that Senior Sun should be the easiest to approach.

But then Chu Ning smiled bitterly and shook his head. Senior Brother Yi Shu was so kind-hearted that he probably said these words not only to himself but also to other newcomers before leaving.

I can think of Senior Sun as being easy to talk to, and I'm afraid other newcomers can think of it too.

Show off your alchemy skills? I'm afraid it's too late in such a short time.

It would take months to make a fourth-grade elixir, or even years. These seniors would not wait for me to refine a batch of elixirs for them to see.

"It seems like I have to use the same old trick again, but I don't know if it will work this time."

Chu Ning's expression was a little complicated. He sighed lightly and slowly walked out of the library.

The Fire Hall.

In one of the six main halls, Sun Chengyang was also thinking about which newcomer he should recommend to Danshan Sect.

Sun Chengyang knew very well that this opportunity was definitely a great chance for these newcomers, and those who knew the news began to take action.

Just here, several newcomers have come in the past half day, all of them came to seek advice because they were confused about alchemy.

Unfortunately, these people still don’t understand the importance of this quota.

"Is Senior Sun here? Junior Chu Ning wants to see you."

Listening to the voice outside the hall, Sun Chengyang recalled and remembered who Chu Ning was.

"Come in."

Outside the hall, Chu Ning calmed himself down and stepped into the hall.

"Chu Ning meets Senior Sun."

"What do you want from me?" Sun Chengyang looked at Chu Ning. Although he had guessed the other party's intention, he still repeated the question just like the newcomers before him.

"I heard that Danshan Sect is selecting new disciples, so I would like to ask Senior Sun for a spot."

Sun Chengyang's eyes narrowed. This was the first person who took the initiative to speak out his intention.

"Oh, why do you think I recommend you?"

(End of this chapter)