Fairy Tree

On this day, Xiao Lin opened his eyes from trance, and two divine lights flashed away.

Xiao Lin let out a long sigh of relief, with a thoughtful expression on his face.

Feeling the mana flowing in his body, Xiao Lin was thinking about his future path of cultivation. In fact, he had already reached the peak of the ninth level of Qi refining more than half a month ago. The mana in his body was much higher than when he first entered the sect. More than twice as deep.

Xiao Lin can actually reach the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Stage. As long as he enters the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Stage, Xiao Lin can start taking Foundation Establishment Pills and try to build the Foundation.

However, Xiao Lin did not do this. On the one hand, the Foundation Establishment Pill he needed to build the foundation had not yet been refined. On the other hand, he did not want to attract too much attention. When he first entered the sect, he was only at the eighth level of Qi Refining. In the initial stage of cultivation, it took more than a year to enter the Qi Refining Stage and the Great Perfection.

Even with his true spiritual root qualifications, he was a little too fast, so after reaching the peak of the ninth level of Qi Refining, he never tried to hit the later bottleneck.

In the spirit wood space, a crop of Purple Dust Grass needed to refine the Foundation Establishment Pill has been harvested, totaling forty-seven. After the Purple Spirit Flowers formed seeds, Xiao Lin also planted them all. Now this crop of Purple Spirit Flowers has grown into seeds. The flowers also have a medicinal age of 1,780 years. According to Xiao Lin's estimation, in about half a year at most, this crop of Purple Spirit Flowers will be able to reach a medicinal age of 300 years.

For Xiao Lin now, everything is ready. As long as he can refine the Foundation Building Pill, and with the help of the Five Elements Spiritual Pill, Xiao Lin is still somewhat sure that he will enter the Foundation Building Stage.

But now Xiao Lin is also a little troubled. He has not seen the unreliable Senior Brother Xiao for a long time. Logically speaking, the task of refining the spiritual pill can be replaced, but now in this spiritual field You're the only one, so you can't just let it go, right?

If Uncle Tao comes back and finds that all the spiritual grass in his spiritual field has withered, why not cut him into pieces?

Another thing that troubled Xiao Lin was how to obtain a Foundation Building Pill from the sect. According to his previous understanding, the disciples from the outer sect who entered the sect through the burrow trial in the Qi Refining Period, as long as their cultivation reached the level of the Qi Refining Stage. If you reach perfection, you will be able to get a foundation-building pill issued by the sect.

Originally, to Xiao Lin, the Foundation Establishment Pill issued by the sect was of no importance to him. After all, he could quickly refine the Foundation Establishment Pill himself. But if he did not get the Foundation Establishment Pill from the sect, And after a while, he succeeded in building the foundation. Doesn't this make it clear to others that there is something fishy in it?

So after much thought, Xiao Lin couldn't think of a suitable time to build a foundation.

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Qingdanfeng Cuixia Hall

In the middle of the deep hall sits a long-bearded old man in his fifties or sixties. The old man's head is on the temple, with an emerald jade diamond inserted across the temple. He is wearing a dark green Taoist robe, holding Daochen in his hand, with his face But there is no wrinkle at all, just like the legendary white-haired childlike face in the world.

The old man was looking at the dozens of outer sect elders on the left and right with a solemn expression, but did not speak.

On the left and right below, a dozen outer sect elders sitting in two rows were also silent, and most of them were sitting with their eyes lowered.

And in the center of the lower part of the hall, stood a charming 27 or 27-year-old woman. The woman was wearing a dark green dress, with fair skin and clear eyes. She did not speak, but looked at the person sitting in the middle of the deep hall. The old man with a long beard.

After a long cup of tea, the old man with a long beard sighed deeply and said: "I didn't expect that our Dancao Mountain would only be allocated 973 Foundation Establishment Pills this time. In this way, according to the thirty-year distribution At the end of the day, only about thirty pills are distributed every year, and this does not include the family members of several ancestors."

"Master, Tianyun Pavilion and Qianling Mountain are getting more and more excessive. They rely on their sects to be slightly stronger than our other three sects, and each time they get more foundation-building pills. Should we ask Tomorrow's Ancestor to find out? Did they reason?"

"Yes, a total of 5,408 foundation-building pills were refined this time. Tianyun Pavilion alone allocated 1,400 pills, and Qianling Mountain actually also allocated 1,200 pills. Lianmen and Qianfu Sect received 980 and 855 pills respectively. From this point of view, the number of Foundation Establishment Pills we received from Dancao Mountain this time ranked fourth, only more than Qianfu Sect. Just over a hundred pills.”

"Hmph, the number of outer disciples of the Qianfu Sect is less than one-third of our Dancao Mountain. Calculated, our Dancao Mountain has the smallest per capita."

"Yes, but since Patriarch Futian practiced the Jinxuanliu Fire Sword Formation, he has become the number one person in our five sects. With Patriarch Futian's reputation, Tianyun Pavilion needs to receive a lot more foundation-building pills every time. , that’s it, why do Qianling Mountain and Bailian Sect share more than us?”

"There is no way. Qianling Mountain now has fifteen monks in the Golden Core Realm alone, and their overall strength is stronger than our Dancao Mountain."

"Although the Golden Core Stage cultivators of the Hundred Refining Sect are the same as us, there are thousands of Foundation Establishment stage cultivators, which is also more than us."

"Master, the distribution of the Foundation Establishment Pills this time was approved by all the ancestors. Uncle Wu also distributed the Foundation Establishment Pills according to the instructions after receiving the flying sword letter from ancestor Tianyi." He remained silent. The woman suddenly raised her head and spoke.

After hearing this, all the noise stopped abruptly, and the old man standing in the center of the deep hall sighed softly and said: "Since it was a decision made by the ancestors after private discussion, then we juniors can only Complied.”

"Master, we now have thousands of outer disciples who have reached the Great Perfection of the Qi Refining Stage, and there are four to five hundred of them under the age of thirty, and the number is increasing every year. Every year we issue building There are only twenty or thirty pills of Kidan, which is far from enough to meet the demand.”

"Yes, if this continues, those outer disciples in the Qi Refining Stage who meet the requirements may come out to cause trouble. How can we calm down their dissatisfaction?"

"Hmph, he's just an outer disciple, how can he rebel against heaven?"

"Senior Brother Gongsun, you can't say that. Disciples in the Qi Refining Stage are the cornerstone of our sect and the foundation of our Dancao Mountain. We must find a proper solution to this matter, otherwise it will shake the foundation of our sect."

"Then what else can we do? There are only so many foundation-building pills, and there are too many people and not enough food, so we can only give priority to those disciples with better qualifications."

"That's what I say, but our Li family's annual quota of three foundation-building pills must not be less."

"You have a lot of Li family, and our Wen family's quota of three foundation-building pills cannot be less. No, our Wen family also has an outstanding disciple who has reached the Great Perfection Stage of Qi Refining this year. We have to divide it into four pills this year. enough."

"Hmph, our Gongsun family alone has seven or eight disciples who meet the requirements of the Great Perfection of Qi Refining Stage. So should we allocate eight Foundation Establishment Pills this year?"

The whole hall started to become noisy, and several outer elders representing the major cultivation families also became red-faced.

The long-bearded old man looked helplessly at the quarreling elders below, but said nothing.

The old man with a long beard is the current leader of Dancao Mountain, Changqing Zhenren. He is a cultivator in the late stage of foundation building. Changqing Zhenren has been in charge of Dancao Mountain for a period of time and is now nearly two hundred years old.

He has been in the late stage of Foundation Establishment for seventy or eighty years, and has long given up hope for his own cultivation future. Under normal circumstances, if a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment stage cannot form an elixir before the age of 150, he will not be able to survive in this life. The hope of becoming a golden elixir monk is slim.

Most of the outer sect elders below are in a similar situation to Master Changqing. Most of these outer sect elders come from cultivating families. Although they basically have no hope of forming a pill in this life, they can use the power they control to do something for them. The family seeks more benefits and thus cultivates outstanding offspring.

Cultivators in the foundation-building period who are truly obsessed with the great road are usually not interested in the management of the sect. They either practice in seclusion all year round or travel around in search of immortality. They will not focus on these trivial matters within the sect. of.

Master Changqing himself is also from a cultivator family, and is a supreme elder of the Wang family, the head of the top ten cultivation families in Dancao Mountain. Over the years, Master Changqing has done a lot to seek benefits for his family, just the amount of money distributed by Dancao Mountain every year. At least four or five pills of Foundation Establishment Pills flow into the Wang family every year.

This situation has been going on for hundreds of years. Although Master Changqing is the supreme elder of the Wang family, the head of the top ten cultivation families, he also wanted to change this situation when he first became the head of Dancao Mountain. Because if this continues, the lower level outer disciples in the Qi Refining Period will continue to accumulate resentment, and in the long run, the development of Dancao Mountain will also be greatly affected.

However, with his own efforts, he can't change this situation at all. More than half of the thirteen golden elixir ancestors above him are from cultivator families, while the remaining few are from casual cultivators, but they don't care. Regarding the affairs of the sect, he only pursues the great path.

Once he touches the interests of the Cultivation Family, he will face pressure from the ancestors of the Cultivation Family, forcing him to succumb.

Thinking of this, Master Changqing couldn't help but sigh.

The noisy quarrel below lasted for half an hour before finally calming down. Everyone turned their attention to Master Chang Qing, as if waiting for his decision.

After glancing at everyone, Master Chang Qing stroked his long beard and said: "Nowadays, fewer and fewer Foundation Establishment Pills are being refined. In the next few decades, the average number of Foundation Establishment Pills issued every year will be less than thirty. , As a result, our major cultivation families are bound to be affected, but there is nothing we can do about it.”

"According to previous years' practice, the quota of one foundation-building pill for each of the outer sect disciples Zhonghuang Spiritual Root must not be changed. These people are the elites of our Dancao Mountain and are related to the long-term development of our sect. As for the remaining foundation-building pills, Dan, I will make a decision after I inform Master Su."

After hearing what Master Chang Qing said, although the faces of the outer sect elders below all showed dissatisfaction, no one spoke out to refute, but all chose to remain silent.

It's not that they don't want to refute and use this to fight for the interests of the family, but they also know that the reduction in the number of Foundation Establishment Pills will have an impact on everyone. Master Changqing obviously also knows this truth, so he wants to ask Master Su for instructions first. .

This Uncle Su is the most favored disciple of Ancestor Tianyi, and his cultivation has reached the middle stage of the Golden Elixir. Although he is not the person with the highest cultivation level among the thirteen Golden Elixir Ancestors, he is definitely the best in speaking. The one that works well, because this Master Su has been by Patriarch Tianyi’s side all year round and has become Patriarch Tianyi’s spokesperson.