Chapter 544: Huge number of monks

Three days later, the three-day exam of Dongxuan College officially began, and Xingluo Prefecture fell into a rare calm in the past ten years.

Although a few students gave up on this major exam due to various reasons.

But most of the entire new generation of monks in Xingluo State, as well as the older generation of monks, were distracted by the big exam at Dongxuan Academy.

Therefore, since the start of the Dongxuan College exams, the activity of monks in various places in Xingluo State has dropped significantly.

This Dongxuan Academy exam involves various aspects such as students' cultivation speed, spell cultivation progress, basic knowledge of cultivation, and at least one of the four minor arts.

The total score of the final exam will be ranked based on the summary scores of each dimension.

Those who top the overall ranking, whether they are the students themselves or the Dongxuan Academy branch, will receive generous rewards from Dongxuan City.

Those who excel in individual assessments will also be trained and rewarded by Dongxuan City, but the intensity of the rewards will be one level lower than those at the top of the overall rankings.

After the calm comes the hustle and bustle.

After the three-day Dongxuan College exam is over, the upcoming competition for the new generation of Qi Refining Realm monks in Dongxuan City will be held.

Although the overall score ranking of the college exam has not yet been released, the students have put it behind them after the competition and began to concentrate on preparing for the Qi Refining Realm Competition one day later.

The number of low-level monks gathered around the major cities in the entire Xingluo State has increased by more than ten times compared to before.

Some of these monks are the new generation of Qi Refining Realm youths from Dongxuan City who came to participate in the Qi Refining Realm Competition and the accompanying elders, and some are some of the few remaining casual cultivators in Xingluo State.

Looking at the battle stages being set up outside the major cities, the gathered monks couldn't help but feel expectant and excited.

Of course, there were also a few casual cultivators who came to watch the excitement, but at this time they felt annoyed.

Outside a certain city.

Li Yuanxing, a casual cultivator, looked at the many battle stages that had been set up for the Qi Refining Competition. He was in a low mood and said with some annoyance:

"I knew I should have joined Dongxuan City directly ten years ago. Now I have lost the opportunity. I want to join Dongxuan City for the sake of my son's future, but there is no channel."

Whether it is the current Qi Refining Realm Competition, or the future Foundation Establishment Realm Competition, or the Zifu Realm Competition.

Although they are competitions involving the entire Xingluo State, in fact only monks affiliated with Dongxuan City can participate.

As for Dongxuan Academy, as long as they are children with spiritual roots among the ordinary residents of the villages, towns, and cities under Dongxuan City, or the children of monks under Dongxuan City.

Regardless of the level of spiritual talent, you can directly enroll in Dongxuan College and enjoy a series of benefits in Dongxuan City.

As for those with spiritual root talents in Xingluo State who are not affiliated with Dongxuan City, including the children of many casual cultivators in Xingluo State, they need to pass certain assessments and reach the minimum spiritual root talent limit before they can enter Dongxuan College. , joined Dongxuan City.

Only the battle stages established by Dongxuan City in various places in Xingluo State have no restrictions, and casual cultivators from Xingluo State can also fight on the stage.

If they achieve ten consecutive victories, casual cultivators can also receive corresponding rewards just like the monks under Dongxuan City.

But now that the number of casual cultivators in Xingluo State has been reduced several times, those who want to win ten consecutive victories in the same realm will inevitably face the cultivators under Shangdongxuan City.

It is not that easy to defeat the monks who have been trained by Dongxuan City's own resources with the help of casual cultivators.

Not to mention anything else, let’s just talk about the protective spells practiced by monks.

Casual practitioners may only be exposed to a dozen or even a few types of spells in their lifetime for them to choose and practice.

However, the monks under Dongxuan City can easily access thousands or tens of thousands of different types of spells, from which they can choose the spells that are suitable for their practice.

In addition, with Dongxuan City at their back, as long as they contribute enough points, they can obtain various corresponding heavenly materials and earthly treasures to assist in the practice of spells.

After accumulated over time, the fellow cultivators under the command of Dongxuan City naturally have a much deeper foundation than the casual cultivators.

Since the wormhole passage in Xingluo State was destroyed by the Green Demon Realm, not only the major forces in Xingluo State, but also the major, middle and high-level casual cultivators have left Xingluo State to seek development elsewhere.

Even some low-level casual cultivators with cultivation levels below the Golden Core realm are looking for various connections to leave Xingluo State and settle in other large states with wormhole passages.

Therefore, in the following years, there have been fewer and fewer casual cultivators in Xingluo State.

Especially after Xingluo State was completely controlled by Dongxuan City, Dongxuan City once again carried out an edict on the casual cultivators and small forces in Xingluo State, resulting in the number of casual cultivators in Xingluo State falling directly to one Low period.

Therefore, most of the monks who are still active in Xingluo State are already under the command of Dongxuan City.

However, Xingluo State is a big state after all, with a very vast territory.

There are always some casual cultivators who are used to living alone, because Dongxuan City does not have force to force them, so there are still some casual cultivators who did not choose to join Dongxuan City in Zhao'an ten years ago.

Among them was Li Yuanxing, who was in the Zifu realm.

Later, after Li Yuanxing met by chance, he unexpectedly gained an heir.

Li Yuanxing, who gave birth to an heir, finally thought of joining Dongxuan City for the future development of his heir.

But at that time, Dongxuan City, as villages, towns, and cities directly under Dongxuan City were established in various parts of Xingluozhou, branches of Dongxuan College were blooming everywhere.

This provided a stable source of birth for the new generation of cultivators in Dongxuan City, so Dongxuan City stopped accepting other casual cultivators to join shortly after the large-scale amnesty ten years ago.

If the children of casual cultivators wanted to join Dongxuan City, they could only pass the assessment of Dongxuan College and graduate from Dongxuan College before they could join Dongxuan City.

But unfortunately, under the advance detection of Li Yuanxing's special secret method, his son was likely to have only a second-system spiritual root talent, and did not meet the three-system spiritual root talent of the minimum assessment standard of Dongxuan College.

So Li Yuanxing's son, in the future, is likely to be unable to pass the assessment of Dongxuan College and get the opportunity to join Dongxuan City.

In fact, it is not just Li Yuanxing?

In recent years, the reform wind of Dongxuan City has spread throughout Xingluozhou. The casual cultivators in Xingluozhou hear and touch people and things related to Dongxuan City every day.

Under such circumstances, many independent cultivators have reconsidered joining Dongxuan City.

After all, after Xingluozhou was incorporated into the jurisdiction of Dongxuan City, even if they did not join Dongxuan City, they would still have to accept the rules set by Dongxuan City.

Unfortunately, the opportunity was fleeting.

At the beginning, they were rejected by Dongxuan City's imperial edict, and now they can't find a way to join Dongxuan City.

"Xingluozhou Qi Refining Realm Competition, now officially begins!"

A day later, more than 300 prefectures in the entire Xingluozhou started the first round of eliminations of the Qi Refining Realm Competition at the same time.

For a while, the battle platforms set up outside the more than 300 prefectures in Xingluozhou were crowded with people, and the dense crowds had surrounded the major battle platforms.

"Dad, Mom, look, that's Guoguo, Guoguo defeated the big bad guy."

Among the crowd around the battle platform outside Yuanqing Mansion, a little girl over three years old with two sky-high braids looked at a figure on one of the battle platforms and excitedly pulled her parents' hands and shouted loudly.

The couple, whose hands were held by their daughter, looked at their son who won the battle on the stage, touched their daughter's little head, and were also full of joy.

They were all ordinary residents in Yuanqing Prefecture City. Because their son signed up for the Qi Refining Realm Competition, as residents of Yuanqing Prefecture City, although they were only ordinary people, they also obtained the special right to watch the Qi Refining Realm Competition.

The competition system of the first round of eliminations was very simple, and there was even a certain element of luck in it.

All the cultivators who signed up for the Qi Refining Realm Competition in each prefecture were randomly assigned to fight in pairs.

The winners advanced and the losers were eliminated directly.

Until the last twenty people were left, they were randomly matched in pairs again.

The winner defended the ring as the defender, and the loser had three opportunities to challenge. After winning the challenge, he could replace the new defender.

After the defender lost, he could also get three opportunities to challenge.

But no matter how many times the identities of the defender and the challenger changed, everyone only had three opportunities to challenge.

When all the twenty challenge opportunities are used up, or no one launches the challenge again, the ten successful defenders will have the opportunity to go to the county city to participate in the second round of eliminations.

As for being injured during the battle, which will result in not being able to exert full strength in the next battle?

Dongxuan City, which is rich and powerful, said that this is not a big deal.

In order to smoothly hold the Qi Refining Realm Competition, the real elites are selected from the new generation of cultivators in the entire Xingluozhou.

Under the authorization of Ye Qingxuan, Dongxuan City prepared a large number of pill combination packages this time. As long as you are not dead, you can be resurrected with full blood on the spot in the next second after taking the pill.

Moreover, a special formation is arranged on these battle platforms used for the competition.

As long as your own cultivation does not exceed the Purple Mansion Realm and the degree of attack you suffer does not exceed the Purple Mansion Realm, when you suffer fatal damage, there will be a force to protect the cultivator's body from devastating damage.

In order to let these cultivators participating in the competition experience the most realistic life and death battle as much as possible.

This force will not block the attack for the contestants, but can only protect the core parts of the contestants' bodies from being destroyed, and keep the contestants who have suffered death blows in a dying state so that they will not die on the spot.

When the battle is decided, the strong men of Dongxuan City will rescue the contestants and restore them to their original state.

Therefore, although this time the Qi Refining Realm Competition is a competition between the new generation within Dongxuan City, it is an unregulated battle.

However, the new generation of Dongxuan City has not experienced the real baptism of blood rain after all, and the contestants are all from the camp of Dongxuan City, so there are not many people who choose to fight to the death on the battle stage.

Most of the competitions between contestants are still to stop at the right time.

As time goes by, the battle stages of various prefectures in Xingluozhou have been involved in many rounds of fierce battles.

When the Qi Refining Realm Competition in Xingluozhou officially began.

On Wanling Mountain, Ye Qingxuan took a piece of data in his hand and looked at it for a while, his eyes dim and I don’t know what he was thinking.

In the Dixuan Realm, due to the nourishment of spiritual energy, the human body and meridians are fully developed and the spiritual roots are completely formed when the human race is twelve years old, and they can begin to draw spiritual energy into the body and embark on the path of cultivation.

There are ways to shorten this process and let the human race embark on the path of cultivation in advance.

However, in order to reduce the natural gestation and growth process of the human body and not to damage the potential of the cultivator, special high-level natural materials and treasures must be used.

Even for a strong man of the Mahayana level, it is not worth the loss to spend special high-level natural materials and treasures just to let his offspring embark on the path of cultivation a few years earlier.

A few years is just a blink of an eye for middle and high-level cultivators, so there is no need to spend too much energy in the early stage.

Moreover, human intervention is sometimes not necessarily as good as letting nature take its course, so even the offspring of high-level cultivators rarely use high-level natural materials and treasures to assist and embark on the path of cultivation in advance.

It is precisely because of this that in the Dixuan Realm, people basically start to test their spiritual roots at the age of twelve and begin to formally embark on the path of cultivation.

Since the villages, towns, and cities in various parts of Xingluozhou were built not long ago, the mortal residents have not yet developed to the limit of accommodation.

Among these mortal residents, with the nourishment of spiritual energy, even mortals can easily reach a lifespan of about 130 years.

Therefore, in the Dixuan Realm, children under the age of twelve generally account for only about 10% of the ordinary residents.

Among the 10% of children, only 2 or 3 thousandths have been detected with spiritual roots.

When the major forces in Xingluozhou evacuated, they took away a group of ordinary residents, resulting in the fact that the ordinary residents in Xingluozhou are basically at the bottom of the list among the states in the Dongji Region.

Now most of the ordinary population in Xingluozhou has been incorporated into Dongxuan City.

In the past ten years, the number of new generations who have been detected with spiritual roots and set foot on the road of cultivation in the villages, towns, and cities under Dongxuan City has not reached Ye Qingxuan's expectations.

But even so, the original base of ordinary residents in the vast Xingluozhou is beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

With a huge base of ordinary population,

on average, there are about five or six thousand new generation cultivators participating in the Qi Refining Competition in each prefecture of Xingluozhou.

This is because some of the new generation have just set foot on the road of cultivation not long ago and have not signed up for the Qi Refining Competition.

Or they only have one or two spiritual roots, and after ten years of cultivation, their cultivation is still at the first or second level of the Qi Refining Realm, and they have no face to participate in this Qi Refining Realm Competition. This group occupies the majority of the new generation of cultivators, and can even account for eight-tenths.

Otherwise, if all the new generation cultivators born in the past ten years are counted, on average, each prefecture must have at least 50,000 or 60,000 new generation cultivators.

Of course, before Xingluozhou was incorporated into the jurisdiction of Dongxuan City, the major forces in Xingluozhou would only recruit people with three or more spiritual roots.

Some of the people with one or two spiritual roots from ordinary people may never have the opportunity to set foot on the path of cultivation in their lifetime, and some of them have become casual cultivators before Xingluozhou.

Not only Xingluozhou, but also Dongjiyu and even the entire Dixuan Realm were like this before the invasion of Qingmo Realm.

But this cannot deny the huge number of cultivators born in Dixuan Realm every year.

There are so many new generation cultivators born in a prefecture in ten years.

There are more than 300 prefectures in Xingluozhou. You can imagine how many new generation cultivators were born in the entire Xingluozhou in the past ten years.

And Xingluozhou is only the largest state in the East Pole Region where the ordinary residents are now. The entire East Pole Region has a total of 99 states, and the entire Dixuan Realm has nine regions.

In addition, there are islands and continents like stars in the endless sea.

It is hard to imagine how huge the number of cultivators born in the Dixuan Realm is every year.

But perhaps it is precisely because of this that the Dixuan Realm has accumulated an unfathomable foundation of cultivators.

Only in this way can it not lose in the battle with the Qingmo Realm, and there are sufficient cultivators to fight with the Qingmo Clan continuously!