Chronicles of the Green Vine: A Mortal’s Path to Immortality

Several hours later, the rogue cultivators registered their information at the city lord's mansion gate and then dispersed.

As for joining the nine major sects, it would be held in three days. These three days were for the rogue cultivators to consider which sect to join. The nine major sects did not have any mandatory requirements.

Zhang Ling and Mu Xiaoyan first arrived at Guangyuanzhai, where they saw Old Mu at the entrance.

They returned in the middle of the night, and the old man looked anxious, as if he had been waiting for a long time. Seeing his granddaughter return safely, Old Mu was overjoyed.

Zhang Ling followed them into Guangyuanzhai and left after staying there for a quarter of an hour. After all, he was exhausted after experiencing several life-and-death battles.

At Guangyuanzhai, he returned the strange blade talisman treasure to the little girl. Old Mu declined several times, saying that he had saved Yan'er, and this talisman treasure was a thank-you gift.

Although Zhang Ling was tempted, he did not accept it. Talisman treasures were rare and not ordinary treasures; they must be the life-saving means of the grandfather and granddaughter.

For no other reason than that Xiaoyan was willing to let him use this talisman treasure, he couldn't take this treasure.

After returning to his cave, Zhang Ling did nothing. He simply took a bath and fell asleep on the bed.

He slept for seven or eight hours, and he woke up refreshed the next afternoon.

As soon as he woke up, Zhang Ling was hungry. His stomach was rumbling. Although he was already at the tenth level of Qi Refining, he still couldn't abstain from grains.

He took out a Qi Condensation Pill and ate it. Feeling full, Zhang Ling sat on the chair and considered joining a sect.

The nine major sects were different, and their cultivation methods and inheritances varied greatly.

He had to carefully consider which sect to join. Zhang Ling tapped his storage bag with his right hand and grabbed a white jade slip.

This was the jade slip that Old Mu had given him not long ago, which recorded some information about the nine major sects.

After reading the jade slip, he had a deeper understanding of the nine major sects. Among them, the two strongest sects were Qingyun Temple and the Giant Demon Sect.

Not to mention anything else, these two sects had maintained two Nascent Soul stage monsters for more than a thousand years, and both had an ancestor whose strength had reached the middle stage of Nascent Soul.

Below Nascent Soul are all ants. Any sect with Nascent Soul cultivators and without Nascent Soul cultivators is vastly different. Sects without Nascent Soul cultivators have a difficult time surviving in the cultivation world, and their inheritance generally does not exceed a thousand years. They are at risk of being destroyed at any time.

Sects with Nascent Soul cultivators can at least inherit for thousands of years, or even ten thousand years.

Nascent Soul cultivators are powerful and can easily live for over a thousand years, generally living to be one thousand two or three hundred years old. Some Nascent Soul cultivators who are proficient in health preservation are said to live for over one thousand five hundred years. They are true old monsters.

Although Nascent Soul cultivators have strengths and weaknesses, once they reach the Nascent Soul stage, they are basically difficult to kill. It is easy to defeat them, but it is difficult to kill a Nascent Soul cultivator, even if two or three cultivators of the same rank join forces.

Unless a Grand cultivator in the later stage of Nascent Soul takes action, they can be sure of killing a Nascent Soul cultivator.

The nine major sects do not have this kind of Grand cultivator. Just like the rogue cultivator in the Nascent Soul stage two hundred years ago, several Nascent Souls from the nine sects were dispatched at that time, but in the end, that person still ran away.

A cultivator who can cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage is already the strongest in this world. A Nascent Soul cultivator can guarantee the survival of a sect for seven or eight hundred years, and being able to maintain two Nascent Soul cultivators shows the strength of Qingyun Temple and the Giant Demon Sect.

Therefore, these two major sects have a great say in the nine sects.

Then there are the Cloud Sword Sect and the Joyful Union Sect. The ancestors of these two sects also have mid-stage cultivation and are much stronger than the early stage of Nascent Soul. The remaining sects are about the same strength.

This is the basic situation of the nine major sects, but this is only news from over a hundred years ago. Although there are differences from the present, as long as the Nascent Soul cultivators of the nine major sects do not change, the strength of each sect will not change much.

The disciples of Qingyun Temple practice authentic Xuanmen cultivation methods. Most of the cultivators in the sect are Taoists, but the sect rules are very strict. In addition to cultivation, they often do some real Taoist homework.

These tedious things are not Zhang Ling's best choice.

As long as they can come out of the Burning Flame Valley, the nine major sects cannot refuse them from joining.

No matter which country they came from before, there are no restrictions, but after entering the sect, the treatment is hard to say. Except for cultivators with outstanding spiritual root qualifications, most can only get the status of an outer disciple.

Unless they can break through to the Foundation Establishment stage, they are not much better than rogue cultivators, and there must be few rogue cultivators who can come out of the Burning Flame Valley and get the Foundation Establishment Pill. In the end, very few break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.

As for the Giant Demon Sect, it has inherited for a long time, and the sect's secret techniques and cultivation methods are strange. Among them, there is a top-notch body cultivation method called "Great Strength True Demon Technique", which is powerful, but it is extremely demanding to cultivate, so few people can successfully cultivate it.

Body cultivators are the general term for cultivators who cultivate the physical body among cultivators. Most of their strength lies in their physical body, and their strength is often stronger than cultivators of the same rank.

However, after ancient times, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth decreased, and there are now very few cultivators who cultivate the physical body.

The remaining sects also have their own characteristics. The Cloud Sword Sect are all sword cultivators and are proficient in sword control techniques. The disciples of White Crane Mountain are proficient in talisman techniques. The disciples of the Flame Fire Sect also have considerable achievements in refining weapons and pills.

The Beast Controlling Sect drives spirit beasts, and the Joyful Union Sect has dual cultivation secret techniques.

The Blood Bone Sect's Blood Refining大法. Among the nine major sects, only the Hao Yuan Sect's inheritance is quite complex. It seems that every path is involved, but there must be a reason for having Nascent Soul experts.

For a time, Zhang Ling found it difficult to choose. This was about his cultivation for a long time to come, so he had to consider it carefully.

In this way, Zhang Ling's mind was full of thoughts, and he was interested in several sects, but he could not make a decision.

Alas!

He sighed, waved his hand, and seven or eight storage bags appeared on the table. He grabbed a storage bag at random and poured out the contents.

He should first take stock of the gains from this trip, and there are still two days to consider joining the sect. With a flash of white light, a pile of monster beast materials appeared on the ground.

Zhang Ling opened the remaining storage bags one by one. A pile of things filled half the room, including what he had collected and the gains from the cultivators he had killed. These materials occupied four storage bags.

After estimating the value of the monster beast materials, it could probably be exchanged for more than two thousand spirit stones.

He had experienced several life-and-death crises in the Burning Flame Valley. As the saying goes, danger and benefit coexist. This could be considered not in vain.

In addition to the materials, there were also more than ten magical artifacts of various kinds. Among them, there were eight high-grade magical artifacts, six middle-grade magical artifacts, and only one low-grade magical artifact that looked like a flying sword. The overall value was not small, enough to exchange for more than four thousand spirit stones.

For a time, Zhang Ling had a feeling of getting rich overnight,

He couldn't help but think of the saying "killing people and setting fires, a golden belt". Half of these magical artifacts came from the few people who teamed up with him.

Although he only killed the black-robed man and Wu Shan, who was holding the dagger, the black-robed man had the belongings of several cultivators.

Afterwards, Zhang Ling picked through the eight high-grade magical artifacts, looking for a handy one to use as his spare magical artifact.