In the deepest part of the mist, two forked roads appeared, one leading to the outer mountain gate and the other leading to the inner mountain gate of Ghost Bird Sect.

The Ghost Bird Sect's apprenticeship acceptance ceremony is held at the Outer Mountain Gate, and the apprentices accepted are all outer sect disciples. Outer sect disciples can enter after they have accumulated enough contributions to the sect and have a cultivation level of 5 or above.

Inner Mountain Sect, one becomes an inner sect disciple. And inner sect disciples, after breaking through the eighth level of Pimai and accumulating enough sect contribution, can be promoted to sect deacons.

A sect deacon who accumulates enough merit and breaks through the spirit-melting stage can be promoted to a sect elder.

And the higher status above the elders of the sect is the Four Demon Lords of Ghost Sparrow!

Most sects basically follow this model. The difference between the righteous path and the demonic path is probably the way to obtain contributions from the sect.

For example, in a Zhengdao sect, if within a month, the elders are not late in teaching the Dharma and there is no trouble in the sect, they can get 1 point of sect contribution.

For the Demonic Sect, if you defeat at least three brothers within a month, you can get 1 contribution point.

The righteous path emphasizes humility, while the evil path emphasizes competition.

The Outer Mountain Gate has not yet been opened, but all those who came to worship were gathered outside the Outer Mountain Gate. The masters of the Outer Sect who came to observe the grand ceremony had already been led into the Inner Mountain Gate to rest, and were personally received by the Inner Sect disciples.

Ning Fan has little interest in being promoted to a sect position. He is only half interested in the Ghost Bird Sect. Xuan Yin Qi counts as one and Lan Mei counts as half.

The gate to the outer mountain has not been opened for a long time, and the assessment elder has not appeared for a long time. It seems that the students are trying to be patient. The road of cultivation is boring and lonely. If you don't have this patience, it is not enough to become an immortal.

The wait is long. Ning Fan is sitting cross-legged on the ground, so he will not waste the waiting time. Even if there is no elixir, he secretly runs his magic power around the sky to promote the immortal veins to ascend to the spirit. By cultivating on his own, the speed of the spirit ascending is almost non-stop, but

It's better than nothing at any rate.

The only unexpected thing was that the first round of the examination for joining the sect was about patience. He thought that joining the sect was just a formality and would not waste much time. Now it seems that it will not be over in a short time.

He originally made an appointment with Lan Mei to treat his illness tonight, so let's postpone it for now. For Ning Fan, this matter is not a big deal that he has to do.

Similar to Ning Fan, many people who seek the truth with a calm mind are sitting cross-legged on the ground, using magic power to open up the immortal veins. But most people, although they are also waiting, their faces are inevitably a little anxious.

Outside the outer gate of the outer mountain, one waits for three days. Except for Ning Fan, the other seekers are all cultivators who have not yet begun to practice. They have not eaten for three days, and many of them are hungry.

One after another, those who did not have a strong Taoist heart left. Most of the people who left at the beginning were young men from aristocratic families who could not bear the suffering. In their imagination, cultivating immortals should be relaxing and enjoyable, but they never thought about it.

After suffering so much, I was naturally disappointed.

After waiting, another three days passed. For six whole days, outside the gate of Waishan, a group of seekers were all hungry. Those who were in poor health could no longer bear it any longer, and some of them left.

Three days passed again, and on the ninth day, only one-third of the original number of people remained outside the outer mountain gate, only about 200 people.

Except for Ning Fan, most people's faces were not very good-looking.

In the Outer Mountain Gate, several elders of the Outer Mountain Gate secretly observed the seekers with their spiritual thoughts and nodded frequently.

"This year, there are as many as 200 people who passed the first test. You know, in previous years, it was good for 100 people to pass the test. The collapse of Tianli Sect will be of great benefit to our sect."

The old man in yellow robe smiled.

"Well, it seems that this year's Outer Mountain Sect will have many outstanding disciples. Especially the young man sitting in the corner, wearing white clothes and black cloak. For nine whole days, he sat there without moving at all. He has such a calm mind.

The Taoist heart must be as solid as a rock, and it is the most suitable for cultivating demons. After all, demonic cultivation techniques often advance quickly and are prone to inner demons. The most difficult thing to test is the Taoist mind."

An old man in black robes stroked his beard and praised Ning Fan profusely.

These elders, who only have the spirit-melting cultivation, could not see that Ning Fan had the spirit-melting cultivation. Otherwise, they would probably be even more shocked.

Among the elders of the Outer Mountain Sect, a young man in black robe looked at Ning Fan with an obviously unnatural expression.

"Young Master Qimei, Ning Fan. You are indeed here..."

This young man in black robe is none other than Yan Zhuiyun, a disciple of Yan Bei, the ‘Black Lord’ among the Four Demon Lords, who was scared out of the Mo family by Ning Fan.

Now, as soon as he returned to the sect, he turned in his contributions and was promoted to elder. However, Ning Fan's terror left an indelible mark on his heart.

"Haha, Elder Yan is also interested in this junior? You can't compete with us old men for people." A smiling old man winked at Yan Zhuiyun, and Yan Zhuiyun immediately didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

'Robbing people' refers to disciples with excellent qualifications who become outer sect disciples and become attached to various elders. Obviously, these outer sect elders with spiritual cultivation have fallen in love with Ning Fan, and I am afraid that Ning Fan

Once you pass the next few tests and officially become an outer disciple, the old men will start to rob you.

Yan Zhuiyun laughed a few times. He had never thought of letting Ning Fan join his command. That young man was so terrifying. I am afraid that none of the elders in the spirit-melting stage present at the moment could be better than Ning Fan.

"These old men are still dreaming about recruiting Ning Fan... I'm afraid these old men will be shocked in the next few tests..."

After nine days of screening, when it was dark, several sect deacons from the eighth level of Pimai finally opened the outer mountain gate.

The seeker, who had been suffering from hunger and cold for nine days, had some complaints in his heart. But when he saw the terrifying cultivation level of several deacons at the eighth level of Pimai, they all remained silent and did not dare to complain. They all stood up respectfully. As for Ning Fan,

He also stood up, patted the dust on his body, felt the rising of the immortal veins in his body, shook his head and sighed.

In nine days, only one immortal vein was raised to one-tenth level. Doesn't this mean that it takes three months to cultivate one immortal vein on one's own?

This speed is already extremely slow, but to Ning Fan, a monster with 30 spiritual energy levels in one night, it is really like a turtle crawling.

"After you join the sect, you should use the medicinal materials paid tribute by the Zhengmo Sect to refine some elixirs. The Ascending Spirit Pill cannot be refined and there are a few rare elixirs missing. However, you can refine a 'Spirit Burning Pill'.

..The efficacy of this elixir is far inferior to that of the Shengling elixir, and taking the elixir will cause great pain... However, it seems that there is no other choice."

While Ning Fan was pondering, 200 seekers had been led into the outer mountain gate by several deacons, but Ning Fan remained calm and followed the crowd into the mountain gate.

The first level of assessment has ended. Tomorrow, there will be a second level of assessment, but before that, seekers who are hungry and cold can get a night's rest.

In a hut with 10 people per room, Ning Fan sat alone on the floor and continued to circulate the heavens to ascend the immortal veins. The other 9 people went out one after another and went to the kitchen to eat.

After everyone left, Ning Fan stood up suddenly, turned his hairband with a green light, and used the invisibility technique of the Jinxuan Spirit Equipment.

After nine days of meditation, Ning Fan didn't feel tired at all and didn't need to rest. He was willing to go out and explore the whereabouts of Xuan Yin Qi while everyone was away.

Xuan Yin Qi, as the name suggests, must take shape in extremely yin places. But Ning Fan carefully released his spiritual thoughts, and there was no extremely yin place in the entire outer mountain gate.

In addition to the fog that lingers all year round, some spirits are cold and cold, but it is far from the level of "extremely Yin".

There is no outer mountain gate. Could it be that Xuanyin Qi is hidden in the inner mountain gate?

Ning Fan used his invisibility power, walked through the building and pavilion, and headed straight for the inner mountain gate. All the guards and defenses along the way were ignored by Ning Fan.

With the stealth power of his Jin Xuan Spirit Equipment, it was difficult for the early Golden Core monks to see through it. No one in the outer mountain gate could see Ning Fan. Maintaining his hidden posture, Ning Fan sneaked all the way to the end of the outer mountain gate, a huge yellow jade gate with a height of a hundred feet.

Inside the giant gate, I guess it is the Inner Mountain Gate. When walking outside the giant gate, the Yin-Yang Lock in Ning Fan's Dantian seems to be even more excited.

"Is there anything here that Yin Yang Suo cares about..."

Ning Fan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he stepped into the giant door. But at this moment, a gray formation light curtain suddenly lit up, and at the same time, a sharp sound like a bird's chirping resounded throughout the Ghost Bird Sect. As for Ning Fan

His magical power of invisibility was directly broken by the formation.

Ning Fan's expression changed. He didn't expect that such a strange formation was set up in the inner mountain gate. With Ning Fan's formation cultivation, he didn't realize that there was a formation here in advance.

It’s not that this formation is too high-grade, but that the formation here is too natural and has become one with the heaven and earth. How can one see that there is an formation here? The formation’s eye is one with the heaven and earth, making it difficult to find. If you want to break it,

It is not easy to get to this formation unless we attack and destroy it.

There is no deep hatred between me and the Ghost Bird Sect, so why did I ruin this formation...

"It seems that it is impossible to enter the inner mountain gate for the time being. Whether Xuan Yin Qi is in the inner gate is still unknown... We will talk about it someday."

Not far away, masters from the Ghost Bird Sect had arrived one after another to see who wanted to force their way into the inner door. Ning Fan knew that he could not stay here for long, so he stepped on the ice rainbow and turned around to leave.

...

In the middle of the night, insects chirped outside the hut. In the hut, Ning Fan sat cross-legged and meditated, while several young men beside him were talking with great interest.

"Did you hear that in the evening, someone forced his way into the inner gate and alerted many experts from the outer gate? Even an elder in the spirit-melting stage chased the troublemaker himself but failed to catch him."

"I wonder what kind of brave person dared to break into the inner door privately. I heard that the person escaped in the direction of our house... Hey, Ning Fan, have you seen the appearance of Senior Rong Ling?"

"I don't know." Ning Fan said in a very calm tone.

"Huh, what's the air?" The young man who asked the question was obviously very dissatisfied with Ning Fan's tone of refusing to accept people from thousands of miles away. He frowned and stopped talking to Ning Fan.

"Speaking of which, tomorrow's second test seems to involve entering the 'Demon and Ghost Forest'... I heard that we seekers will have to stay in the Demon and Ghost Forest for a month."

"What, the Demonic Forest? The cemetery where the Ghost Bird Sect discards the corpses of its enemies? I heard that there are many ghosts and ghosts there. They are extremely powerful. Even a tenth-level master of Pulse Pulsing can hardly survive if he goes deep into them."

"Don't worry. The highest cultivation level for us seekers is only the fourth level of Pulse Pulse. The lowest cultivation level is just a mortal. The Ghost Bird Sect should not let us go too deep into the Demonic Forest..."

"At that time, it seems that the sect will issue a sect contribution card. It seems that it will hunt ghosts and collect elixirs... I don't know what the specific assessment will be..."

Everyone's comments fell on Ning Fan's ears, and his eyelids twitched slightly.
Chapter completed!