Chapter 45 Instructions (Bug Fixing) Your ancestor's instructions are quite...
Li Chen exclaimed "Ah!" and then asked, "Since this jade tablet is so important, is it because there are many places in this tranquil realm where it is needed?"
Yun Baiyue replied, "Yes. Without the jade token, it would be impossible to move an inch within the Pure Realm. That is why the Ancestor instructed that someone must accompany Miss Li to facilitate her travels within the Pure Realm."
Li Chen nodded and smiled slightly, "Your ancestor is truly thoughtful."
If you really want the guest to be able to move freely in this place, you can just give her a jade pendant. Isn't doing this just making it impossible for her to move an inch in this place?
If she went out alone, she would probably only be able to wander aimlessly on the paths once she left her bedchamber, unable to go anywhere.
If she wanted to go to other places, she would have to find someone with a jade token to accompany her. Given the loyalty of these disciples in the cultivation world to Shen Zhengyuan, this was clearly planting a spy by her side.
"Distinguished guest" is just a nice way of putting it; Shen Zhengyuan's way of treating guests is truly appalling.
After the door opened, there was complete silence inside.
Li Chen stared intently and saw that the path leading to the inner hall was paved with spirit stones and was emitting a faint glow.
On both sides of the road, every ten steps or so, a person dressed in the robes of a disciple of the Dharma Cultivation Realm would appear.
These people were clearly there to guard the palace, but they weren't standing. Instead, they were sitting cross-legged with their eyes closed, surrounded by various magical artifacts or spirit beasts.
Although these people all had their eyes closed, they looked very imposing. If someone had never seen such a grand scene, they would probably be so frightened that they would have to turn back as soon as they entered the palace.
Seeing that Li Chenjin's gaze lingered on the people on both sides of the road, Yun Mingyue spoke up before Li Chenjin could ask, "They are disciples of the Pure Realm."
“Every ten years, the Pure Realm selects a thousand disciples with excellent aptitude from various sects in the cultivation world. These selected disciples are placed in a secret realm to compete in magic. The hundred who win are then brought to the Pure Realm, where the patriarch sets up a magic array for them to be tested. In the end, only ten out of the hundred will remain.”
"The ten who manage to break through the encirclement will be able to enter the Pure Realm and be personally instructed by the Ancestor."
"So, these disciples in the Pure Realm must all have quite high cultivation levels, right?" Li Chen asked.
Yun Mingyue thought for a moment and said, "If we look at the entire cultivation world, the disciples who can stay in the Pure Realm are indeed all quite powerful. The disciple with the highest cultivation in the Pure Realm has reached the Mahayana stage, while the disciple with the lowest cultivation is me, who is currently only at the Golden Core stage."
Li Chenjin: "..."
Such a rigorous test would be fine if all those who entered were at the Mahayana stage, but unexpectedly there was also a Golden Core stage cultivator. She was able to survive the first round of the thousand-person battle and then the second round of the hundred-person battle, and she was able to surpass those whose cultivation was far above hers. This is enough to prove that this Miss Yun Mingyue is definitely not as simple as she looks.
This tranquil place is truly a place where hidden talents abound. Shen Zhengyuan may not be a good person, but he's incredibly skilled at teaching disciples.
Li Chen smiled again, somewhat reluctantly, and said, "The disciples of the Dharma Cultivation Realm are truly diligent. I see that the disciples in the Pure Realm, who look quite young, have already reached the Mahayana Realm. The younger generation is truly formidable."
The lowest level on the path of cultivation is Qi Refining, and the highest is Mahayana.
Those who can cultivate to the Mahayana level can live for at least two or three hundred years. If they cherish their lives, eat longevity-enhancing foods, avoid fighting with others, and cultivate in seclusion, they can live for at least seven or eight hundred years.
If one is lucky, one can reach the gates of immortality and cultivate to become a half-immortal.
After obtaining the title of a half-immortal, whether one can truly become an immortal, be enshrined as a god, and ascend to the celestial realm depends entirely on one's own destiny.
In this cultivation world, most people can only cultivate to the Golden Core stage in their entire lives. With each step forward, the bottleneck on the path of cultivation becomes increasingly difficult to overcome. Very few can enter the Mahayana stage, and even fewer can cultivate from the Mahayana stage to become a half-immortal.
As for what came after that, it only exists in records. At least in the time Li Chen could remember, he had never heard of anyone ascending to the Immortal Realm, which shows that the path to immortality is fraught with difficulties.
However, none of these are the most important. The most important thing is that there seem to be quite a few disciples of the Dharma Cultivation Realm at the Mahayana level in this Pure Realm. In addition, these Dharma Cultivation disciples are most skilled in various spells and formations. The farther away they are, the less they need to worry about, and the stronger the formations become.
If she wanted to force her way out, it would be difficult. She couldn't very well kill everyone here and then try to break out, could she?
Li Chen felt he shouldn't continue asking, but he couldn't help but ask, "How many disciples of each realm are there in your Pure Realm?"
“Reporting to Miss Li. Within the Pure Realm, there are seventy Golden Core stage disciples, one hundred and three Nascent Soul stage disciples, thirty-one Deity Transformation stage disciples, and twenty-five Mahayana stage disciples, totaling four hundred and sixty,” Yun Mingyue said. “Originally, there should have been five hundred, but not long ago, forty disciples failed to perform their duties properly and also failed to keep their mouths shut, saying things they shouldn’t have said to outsiders. As a result, the Ancestor ordered them to be executed.”
"However, Miss Li need not worry. Although there are still three years before the selection of new disciples, there is a shortage of people in the Pure Realm. Presumably, in a little over a month, the Ancestor will order forty people to be selected from the Dharma Cultivation Realm to fill the vacancies."
Li Chen smiled and said, "It's alright, I'm not worried."
Not only was she not worried, she actually hoped that there would be fewer disciples of the Dharma cultivation world in this Pure Realm.
Disciples at the Mahayana stage are treated like treasures even when placed in other sects.
In a sect, it might take a hundred years to produce a disciple who has reached the Mahayana realm. Yet in this Pure Realm, Mahayana disciples are as common as radishes and cabbages. How is she supposed to break out of here?
She no longer thinks that 400 people is too few; in fact, she thinks it's too many!
She murmured to herself, "This Shen Zhengyuan... I didn't expect him to be so good at teaching disciples... He actually managed to teach about twenty disciples who have reached the Mahayana realm..."
As Li Chenjin pondered his next move, he followed Yun Mingyue forward.
She wanted to go to the inner hall where Shen Zhengyuan usually rested, but the inner hall was quite far away, and the winding path would take a lot of time.
They had just turned a corner when Li Chen, preoccupied with the scenery on both sides, failed to notice the person in front of her and nearly bumped into someone walking towards her.
Li Chen stopped just in time, but the person opposite her obviously didn't react in time and bumped into her arms.
After Li Chen helped the man to his feet, the man quickly withdrew and said, "You, why don't you watch where you're going?!"
Li Chen raised an eyebrow and looked at the person in front of him.
The person before them was dressed in a red robe with white patterns. He didn't look very old, and his cultivation level wasn't high either. He didn't even seem to have reached the Golden Core stage, and he didn't appear to be from the world of magic cultivators.
However, she wore a jade pendant from the Pure Realm at her waist, suggesting that although she was not a disciple of the Dharma Cultivation World, she had a close relationship with Shen Zhengyuan.
Before Li Chenjin could speak, Yun Mingyue immediately said, "Cultivator Wen, this is a distinguished guest from the Pure Realm. Please be careful with your words to avoid causing trouble for the weapon cultivators."
Upon hearing this, Li Chenjin couldn't help but glance at the person beside him.
As expected of someone trained by Shen Zhengyuan, his first words were a threat. The reason why the cultivation world is regarded as righteous is largely due to the fact that people from other cultivation worlds cannot defeat Shen Zhengyuan.
"Why should she? She's a distinguished guest of your Pure Land, but isn't our young lady also a distinguished guest?" the maid following behind the woman said indignantly. "Besides, it was clearly she who offended our young lady; she should be the one apologizing to her!"
Yun Mingyue said, "Is that so? But I clearly saw just now that it was Cultivator Wen who lost his footing and bumped into this distinguished guest. Cultivator Wen, I advise you to keep your people in check. Doing things that distort the truth in the Pure Realm will not last long."
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"Oh dear! Let's not quarrel. We can make money together, make money together." Li Chen said with a smile. "It was indeed my fault. I should apologize to this cultivator. Cultivator Wen, I was walking too fast just now and didn't pay attention to the road ahead. I accidentally frightened you. I'm really sorry."
"Master Wen, are you alright?"
The cultivator was stunned, clearly not expecting her to say that. After a moment of hesitation, he turned his head and said, "Hmph! I'm fine! Just now... just now it was my fault. I did bump into you, and I apologize to you. I'm sorry!"
Li Chen smiled gently and said, "It's good that Cultivator Wen is alright. Otherwise, I would have been so remorseful and unable to sleep at night because I had accidentally hurt you. So I must thank you again today, Cultivator Wen. I will definitely be able to get a good night's sleep tonight."
After speaking, Li Chen cupped his hands to the person in front of him, then cupped his hands to the maid who had spoken up for the Wen cultivator, took Yun Mingyue's wrist, walked past the two people in front of him, and continued to walk inside.
Once they were out of sight of the two, Li Chen said, "Miss Mingyue, your ancestor invited cultivators from the artifact cultivation world to be guests. Is it because your magic cultivation world wants to acquire some new magic artifacts?"
Yun Mingyue's gaze fell on her wrist. Li Chen noticed this and released her hand, saying, "I'm really sorry, Miss Mingyue. Your words made me feel very at ease. Otherwise, I'm afraid I wouldn't have dared to speak to that Wen cultivator."
“It’s not that I don’t appreciate your kindness just now, but since she is a guest invited into the Pure Land by your ancestor, she must be highly valued by your ancestor. I really don’t want to put you in a difficult position.”
Yun Mingyue shook her head. "The Ancestor instructed that no one except the Ancestor should cross Miss Li's path within the Pure Realm."
Li Chen murmured, "Your ancestor gave quite a few instructions, it's amazing you all remembered them..."
Yun Mingyue continued, "That cultivator Wen from earlier is the daughter of the current head of the Weapon Cultivation Sect and the future heir to the sect. She is the most famous genius in the Weapon Cultivation Sect in the last hundred years. However, although cultivator Wen is quite talented in crafting magical artifacts, her progress in cultivation is very...slow..."
"Although the sect leader of the weapon cultivation world has been searching for many spiritual herbs and immortal plants for her since she was born, she has only barely reached the Foundation Establishment stage after more than ten years. Therefore, after learning that the spiritual energy in the Pure Realm is pure and very beneficial to cultivation, the sect leader of the weapon cultivation world sent the cultivator Wen here, hoping that the ancestor can help the cultivator Wen enter the Nascent Soul stage."
"For this reason, not only were many treasures from the artifact cultivation world sent, but it was also agreed that in the future, if there is any cooperation between the magic cultivation world and the artifact cultivation world, the artifact cultivation world will only accept half of the silver and spirit stones."
Author's Note: Little Li's biggest regret afterwards was going to the male ghost's bedchamber. How could a male ghost's room possibly be normal? [doge]
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