Chapter 172 Choice
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In the north of Jianzhou, on a barren mountain on the border between the Yue Kingdom and the Yuanwu Kingdom, there were dozens of tall and short men in yellow shirts, their clothes fluttering in the wind, and they were all of different ages. The older ones have white hair and wrinkles on their faces. They have reached the age of knowing their destiny. The younger ones have thin skin and tender flesh, red lips and white teeth, and have not yet shed their childishness. However, they are all silent and standing in an orderly manner.
The one at the front was an old man who was calm and self-respecting. He had his hands behind his back and was looking at the sky leisurely without moving. He was lost in thought. Behind him were four men and one woman, several people with solemn expressions, and one of them was Uncle Wang who introduced Han Li to the academy. He also had a solemn look on his face at this moment.
Behind the five people, there were two rows of yellow-shirted disciples standing neatly. These people had different expressions. Some looked nervous and embarrassed, some looked indifferent and looked around, and some smiled silently and showed no emotion.
And at the corner of the last row, there was a dark-faced, ordinary-looking young man with his eyes lowered, always looking at his toes, not daring to squint his eyes at all, and seemed very shy.
But no one knew that this guy who looked like a yellow-haired boy was complaining and full of resentment in his heart.
This young man is none other than Han Li, and the people in this group of yellow shirts are the disciples of the Yellow Maple Valley who participated in the "Blood Trial."
In the end, Han Li joined this journey to die, and after possessing two Foundation Establishment Pills, this was a ridiculous and helpless thing.
More than a month ago, Han Li was shocked when he learned from Wu Feng how to take the Foundation Establishment Pill.
It turns out that after taking the foundation-building pill, the person who wants to build the foundation must stay in seclusion for three months to use up the potency before leaving the retreat. Otherwise, the potency of the pill will be greatly lost and its efficacy will be greatly reduced. Therefore, whether the foundation building can be successful or not will not be known until at least several months.
But it would be really bad for Han Li to have to wait for such a long time.
According to his original idea of getting these two foundation-building pills, he would first take these two pills to see if he could successfully build the foundation, and then decide whether to participate in the trial again. If he could successfully build the foundation by luck, he would definitely not go to such a dangerous place as the forbidden area. After all, the 1/4 chance of survival was really scary.
If it does not work after taking it, a trip to the forbidden area is still necessary. If one or two Foundation Establishment Pills didn't work, then he would refine three, four, or even more. He believed that no matter how poor his qualifications were, he could still enter the Foundation Establishment stage after taking enough Foundation Establishment Pills.
However, the restriction of three months of solitary confinement after taking the medicine disrupted Han Li's plan, leaving him in an embarrassing situation where he couldn't have his cake and eat it too.
Now, either take the Foundation Establishment Pill and give up the trip to the forbidden area completely; or put away the Foundation Establishment Pill temporarily and wait until the Blood Trial is over before taking it again. There is no such thing as having both.
After thinking about it for nearly half a month, Han Li felt that with his poor qualifications, even if he took two Foundation Establishment Pills in a row, the hope of successful Foundation Establishment was still very slim, and he must not give up on the Blood Trial.
In fact, it is not that Han Li has never thought about it. If he comes to participate in the Blood Trial in the next five years, even if he has not yet completed the foundation building, he will definitely have practiced Changchun Kung to the top level. In this way, his ability to protect himself will be greatly improved. many.
But not long after Han Li's idea came up, the upper management of Huang Maple Valley announced a major event that shocked the entire Yue Kingdom's immortal world, making his idea disappear.
The content is: the forbidden area of the Blood Trial will be temporarily closed for 60 years after five years. During this period, the seven major sects will jointly send people to supervise it, and no one is allowed to go in to collect herbs.
This kind of temporary closure of forbidden areas is not a rare thing. Almost every three or four hundred years, the seven major sects will do this.
Because the forbidden area is frequently opened, a large amount of spiritual energy will be lost, and the production and growth of elixirs will be slowed down. This temporary closure will re-change the density of spiritual energy and return it to normal levels again.
However, even if the seven major sects take this measure, the elixirs in the forbidden area are still becoming scarcer and more difficult to find year by year. Especially the finished elixirs that meet the requirements for alchemy are even rarer.
According to the inference of some knowledgeable people from the Seven Immortals Sect, if one wants to truly restore the normal amount of elixirs in the forbidden area, the sealing time must be delayed to a full thousand years. Otherwise, this temporary closure will only delay the depletion time of some forbidden elixirs. After all, the origin and growth of elixirs do not happen in a day or two.
Although this truth combined with the actual situation in the forbidden area made it impossible for anyone to deny its correctness, the people in power of the seven major sects still could not make this decision.
The number of Foundation Establishment Pills is closely related to the rise and fall of their seven major sects.
If there is a lack of these elixirs within fifty or sixty years, the seven major sects will only lose some skin, without damaging their bones and muscles. But if it is true that the Foundation Establishment Pill has been gone for hundreds or thousands of years, then let alone the seven major sects, I am afraid that the entire Yue Kingdom's immortal world is facing life and death.
After all, if a place where immortal cultivators can no longer build a foundation, can it still be called a world of immortal cultivators? I am afraid that all the cultivating families and casual cultivators will leave the Yue Kingdom and seek survival elsewhere. The seven major sects will not be an exception when they arrive.
Therefore, even though they knew that frequently opening forbidden areas was a foolish thing to do, the people of the Seven Sects still had to bite the bullet and do it.
They only hope that they can find other alternative places to produce elixirs before the forbidden elixirs are truly extinct.
This has also caused those old monsters in the major sects in the elixir formation stage and even the Nascent Soul stage to start going out uncharacteristically frequently in the past few hundred years, in order to find the origin of other elixirs, or to give their sect another source of elixirs. Find other ways out, and we must not let our sect's orthodoxy decline.
Han Li naturally couldn't know the above things so clearly. But as soon as the news came out, Han Li would not dare to think about the bloody trial five years later.
Even the most obtuse person will understand that when the forbidden land opens in five years, it will definitely be extremely bloody. All the elite disciples from all the sects will come out in order to make a big fortune in the elixir before sealing it off. Letting Han Li participate in such a trial would be asking for death!
Although after the announcement of this news, this trip to the forbidden area will also be twice as difficult and the fighting will be more brutal, but no matter what, it will definitely be much better than the next one.
As for the stupid thing of participating in the Blood Trial fifty years later, Han Li never thought about it.
After passing the optimal age for foundation building, even if he reluctantly enters the foundation building stage in the future, he will definitely not be able to go far on the road to immortality. This is not the result Han Li wants.
It was with this mentality that Han Li signed up to join the herb collection group in the forbidden area. The person in charge of registration turned out to be Uncle Wang, which made Han Li greatly surprised and somewhat regretful.
Uncle Wang was even more shocked when he saw Han Li.
On the one hand, he was greatly surprised that a newcomer like Han Li had come to participate in the Blood Trial; on the other hand, he was somewhat in disbelief at the rapid improvement of Han Li's cultivation. With Han Li's qualifications, it's amazing that he can improve his skills so much in such a short period of time, from the ninth level to the eleventh level.
It would not be unusual to say that Han Li was one of the most talented disciples, and it was not uncommon for some to improve their skills faster than him. But Han Li's pseudo-spiritual identity was tested by him personally. How could he cultivate it so quickly?
For those with false spiritual roots, Han Li's ninth-level skills were already surprisingly high when he first entered.
This achievement is usually achieved through the instillation of magic power by the elders, or the regular intake of some elixirs, coupled with diligent practice. But now Han Li, who had mastered eleven levels of skills, was standing in front of him alive, which surprised him beyond measure!
Since Uncle Wang was doubtful, he pulled Han Li aside unceremoniously and tested his attributes again. The result was the same as the previous conclusion, and there was no suspected spiritual root mutation.
This made Uncle Wang even more confused.
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