Beauty and the Bodyguard

As everyone knows, when Lin Yi goes to the No. 10 dead mining area, he can find two to three pieces of scrap jade every day. Once he changes hands, he will turn out to be a good jade full of spiritual energy. This is much more beneficial than people like them who just have to wait for a while.

What is worth mentioning during these three days is that Lin Yi received ten pieces of spiritual jade as an extra reward for the first place in the back mountain trial. After Li Zhengming took the lead last time, other newcomers immediately smelled the smell of blood. They surrounded them like sharks, and in just three days, they exchanged them all for scrap jade, and not a single piece was left behind.

Coupled with the results of mining and hiding these days, Lin Yi now has nearly 450 pieces of spiritual jade on hand. Although it is still far away from the price of one thousand spiritual jade of the star ink stone, after all, it is still close to the next time. The inner street open day is still a while away, so Lin Yi is not particularly anxious.

In fact, even if there is not enough spiritual jade by then, he will still have a way to make up for the vacancy. Of course, if you can directly save enough spiritual jade before then, that would be ideal.

No matter what, Lin Yi is bound to get that rare piece of star ink stone.

Three days passed by in a flash, and all the newcomers from the three major pavilions once again gathered in the main hall of the Yingxin Pavilion, all gearing up and full of ambition. Unlike the first test of resistance to coercion, this second test does not need to go elsewhere and can be completed on the Yingxin Pavilion's own territory.

The format of the second assessment link is quite similar to the first test link of resisting coercion, but the content of the test is different. This test is the most basic thing for all cultivators, but it is also often ignored by many people, the defensive ability.

Before you hit someone, you must first learn to take a beating. Otherwise, no matter how strong you are, you will still be a cripple with uneven development, and it will be easy for others to catch your fatal weakness. Even the street gangsters know this truth, and the high-ranking cultivators present will naturally not be unclear about it.

However, no matter how clear the truth is, it does not mean that they are willing to work hard in this area. The reason is very simple. No matter how you look at it, this is definitely a thankless job.

Not to mention that there are not many superior defensive martial arts in the first place, even if they are lucky enough to get them, they are not necessarily willing to spend a lot of time and money to practice them, because in the end, defense is passive after all. No matter how good the defensive ability is, it is just a useless decoration.

After all, defensive ability is far less intimidating than powerful offensive ability. Masters of the same level, after practicing powerful offensive martial arts, can kill people and steal treasures, go on adventures in secret realms, and gain more training resources. It can be further upgraded quickly, creating the legendary snowball effect.

But what can a defensive master do? Apart from being more capable of saving lives, he can't do anything else. Not to mention meeting stronger ones, even if he only faces masters of the same level, he can only fall into the embarrassing situation of being passively beaten.

The only advantage is that it is more durable than others, and if you meet a stronger opponent and face a higher level of powerful attacks, what is the use of the so-called strong defense? The turtle shell will be broken one day, the difference is just a little longer and a little shorter, that's all.

This is not only a matter of not being able to get by in terms of face, but more importantly, it is easy to fall behind others and become a stepping stone for other former masters of the same level.

Taking a step back, even if we are in a small team that has its own specialties and cooperates with each other, superhuman defense capabilities can indeed have unexpected effects in many cases. However, once fatal danger occurs, As the defensive master of the team, do you have to stay in front of everyone?

Such people are called powerful shields at best, but cannon fodder at worst. Once a fatal threat appears, the first to die will definitely be the defensive master standing in front.

Comparing one's feelings with others, who would be willing to be such a useless character at ordinary times, but the first choice cannon fodder at critical moments?

Everyone has selfish motives, so most people will make the same choice in the process of cultivation - even if they know that defense is very important, they still have to spend most of their energy on offense and body skills. above, and will never put too much effort into defense, even if it leaves fatal defense flaws.

This is not stupidity, but a helpless choice forced by the real environment. If they didn't do this, they would probably not even be able to reach the heights they are today, let alone have any great future.

However, although the theory that defense is useless is a bloody reality recognized by the entire cultivation world, there is also a consensus in the cultivation world, that is, the real top strongman always has both offense and defense, and will never have shortcomings in defense.

If he is only powerful in offense and has no achievements in defense, then even if this person can become famous for a while, he will definitely not survive for long, because a sneak attack by a master of the same level will kill him.

Strong men who are both offensive and defensive don't have this worry, so they can live longer and their fame will naturally be greater!

The three major pavilions spend all kinds of resources to train these newcomers, not to cultivate fake masters who can only attack but not defend. What they need are real masters who can truly do both offense and defense and can become the mainstay!

Therefore, it is completely normal for this kind of defensive ability-related assessment to appear during the all-important newcomer assessment.

The way to test the defensive ability this time is simple and crude, just two words: get beaten.

Every newcomer who participates in the test can freely choose a full-strength blow of a strength level. As long as he can withstand it and recover from the injury within a certain period of time, he will be able to obtain corresponding assessment points.

Like the points in the first anti-coercion assessment link, the assessment points in this link also consist of two parts.

One is the strength points, which are the points corresponding to the selected strength level. The peak at the late stage of Heaven Level corresponds to five points, the Great Perfection of Heaven Level corresponds to ten points, the early stage of Foundation Establishment corresponds to twenty points, the peak at the early stage of Foundation Establishment corresponds to thirty points, and there are no points at any higher level.

After all, these newcomers here are at best masters in the early stage of foundation building. It is very rare to be able to withstand a full blow in the early stage of foundation building. As for the peak full blow in the early stage of foundation building, even Kang Zhaoming has it. 90% chance of being killed instantly with one hit.

As for the higher level, there is no need to think about it. Even if someone wants to challenge, Yingxin Pavilion will not agree. Because that's not called a newcomer assessment, that's called open murder.