Chapter 1447 Entering the Soul-Calming Palace
For a cultivator with such qualifications, the young man would be lying if he said he was not jealous, but there was no way he could prevent Li Yan from passing the examination.
Therefore, every time the assessment formation is run, the images inside will be burned and photographed. This is a set of formations specially added by Master Lan.
The purpose is so that I can come here regularly to see how other people are using the formation, so as to get inspiration from it so that I can continuously improve the formation.
Otherwise, she would have to spend a huge amount of "Soul Crystal Buds" to buy souls, leaving this formation here, and she would get limited feedback. She couldn't just listen to the dictates of the disciples here. What's the point?
The young man's face was expressionless. Previously, he had also seen from the spells Li Yan performed in the long alley that the other party did indeed have some shadows of the Soul-Suppressing Palace when using some of his spells.
Although he was not familiar with the techniques of the Soul-Slaying Sect, he knew that this sect was originally born out of the Soul-Suppressing Palace.
Therefore, Li Yan's martial arts had the shadow of Soul Soul Palace, so he naturally believed in Li Yan's identity in his heart.
In fact, as long as they are monks who can walk normally in the "Earth Realm", their identity is basically no problem, and they must be soul cultivators.
Therefore, the main purpose of screening monks is to confirm whether the other party is a soul cultivator. Of course, foreign soul cultivators must still be treated differently.
"Hahaha... Fellow Daoist Li is indeed very sophisticated in his skills. I admire you, I admire you! My Majesty, Wang Chengfeng, I will arrange for someone to take you to the 'Yi Que Hall'. If you have any questions, Fellow Daoist Li can just come and see me."
The young man suppressed all the thoughts in his heart and smiled at Li Yan.
"Thank you so much, Fellow Daoist Wang!"
Li Yan's face was still pale, and his whole body was still trembling slightly. It was obvious that he had consumed too much soul power just now.
Seeing Li Yan in this situation made the young man feel better. The other party had tried his best to achieve the result that surprised him.
So, he immediately summoned a Jindan disciple, and after a few quick explanations, he asked the disciple to leave with Li Yan.
Looking at the back, which was still trembling slightly, the young man's eyes flashed a few times.
"This person's performance is very different from others, so I will report this matter to Master Lan as soon as possible!"
The young man thought quickly in his mind, although Master Lan would come over in person every once in a while to carefully check the assessment photos.
But if he informed her in such a timely manner, he would definitely gain Master Lan's favor. Of course, he couldn't miss the opportunity to curry favor with Master Lan.
Later, I can interact with this Li Yan a few more times. Through the conversation just now, Li Yan seems to have a very peaceful personality. I can try to interact with him first and see the situation first.
He still had to determine whether Li Yan had a secret skill in his hand, or whether he was born with a powerful soul and had a higher starting point for cultivating immortality than others...
High in the air, Li Yan followed a golden elixir monk. While he carefully looked at the surrounding environment, he kept thinking about the previous assessment in his heart.
When he finally came out, he saw a strange look on the young man's face. Li Yan was not sure what the young man saw.
When he was melting the ice and snow, he had been trying his best to control the power of his soul, trying to maintain it at the level of the early Nascent Soul.
If he is really a soul cultivator, he is not afraid of exposing his true soul power, but his soul skill level is not at the same level as his soul power, and the gap is too huge.
If he didn't have the skill of "pulling souls to kill", he would be quite experienced in attacking souls. In just over ten years of practicing magic, the most he could do was pretend to be in the Golden Core Realm Soul Cultivation, which was considered pretty good.
Before he came this time, he even considered that if the assessment was to fight against others, he might even use Gui Yi Spinning Water Thorn, but at most he would only use the first level of skills.
In that way, Li Yan felt that he could pretend to be more like "Fu Bo Killing Soul". Li Yan was the most proficient in using it. He could truly send and receive according to his heart, and he could accurately control himself in any realm below Nascent Soul.
But the content of the subsequent assessment also made him feel happy and surprised.
The first level is just to judge the strength of the soul. It is not easy to pretend to be strong, but it is still possible to pretend to be weak.
The second level surprised Li Yan. At that moment, he even thought about whether Soul Zhen Palace was related to the "Soul Prison Clan".
At this level, with Li Yan's current soul strength and his preliminary understanding of soul cultivation techniques.
If the attacks from souls were all in the early and middle stages of Nascent Soul, Li Yan felt that he could rush out a distance of five to six hundred feet. If it were the souls in the late Nascent Soul stage, Li Yan wouldn't have much confidence.
After all, the late Nascent Soul stage is very different from the first two levels. Li Yan didn't dare to speak without personal experience.
Although Li Yan felt that he could rush very far, he would never really do that.
When this long alley first appeared, Li Yan was shocked, but when he actually passed the test, Li Yan discovered that there was a big problem with the souls in this long alley.
First, the attack power was not as powerful as he imagined, which was a bit beyond Li Yan's expectation. If there were attacks of this kind, Li Yan felt that he might rush to the bottom of the alley.
He remembered that when he was in the long underground alley of the Soul Prison Clan, every soul there had top-notch combat power in his own realm, and their attacks were quite powerful, and they could even cooperate with each other.
Even though Li Yan was dealing with a group of foundation-building souls at the beginning, he suffered a lot as a Jindan realm, and was in great pain. This was of course related to the fact that his soul strength was not strong enough at the beginning.
However, the souls that appeared here today, although they were also quite fierce, seemed too crazy, giving Li Yan a feeling of being uncontrollable.
The power of their attacks had begun to be consumed in some unconscious crazy actions, consuming a lot of soul power.
Moreover, the souls that appeared in this formation were all attacking on their own. Many of their attacks, under the influence of each other's magic, all appeared to cancel each other out.
Although Li Yan had not encountered Yuanying-level souls in the underground alleys of the "Soul Prison Clan", looking at the power of these Yuanying-level souls' attacks, combined with previous experience, he could still guess another result.
If he were in the underground alleys today and encountered these Yuanying-level souls, he might really run out of soul power after advancing about five or six hundred feet.
In the process of breaking through the level, Li Yan further confirmed other things.
The souls in this array will basically appear here. How far will the soul be from his position next time? Surprisingly, there is basically no error with his guess.
"Someone is using the array to imitate the place of the 'Soul Prison Clan', but the real power is only about half of it.
If the Soul-Calming Palace is related to the 'Soul Prison Clan', they must not lose such an important inheritance anyway?
Could it be that because the Soul-Calming Palace is also a soul cultivator, it once obtained some similar skills and classics when it was in the lower world, so it has this kind of imitation..."
Li Yan kept thinking about what happened just now in his heart.
But because he lacked a real understanding of soul cultivation, he still didn't expect that his performance, which he thought was quite decent, had actually exceeded his definition of this realm in the previous breakthrough, and had already made people suspicious!
Behind the mountain gate, the sky here has become clear and blue.
After Li Yan flew out of the house this time, he carefully looked around.
When standing inside the mountain gate and looking out, the mountain gate that goes straight into the sky seems to be an invisible barrier lying there.
Outside the mountain gate, black air lingers, as if there is an endless black wind filling the sky and the earth, making people feel extremely eerie and strange.
It seems that as long as you step out of the mountain gate, you will step into the underworld. This is the psychological deterrence that the mountain gate gives to the enemy.
Inside the mountain gate is a vast valley, where many cultivators come and go. Li Yan feels the fluctuations between heaven and earth, and also finds many Yuanying cultivators shuttling back and forth.
This situation is just like the Wuliang Sect, where there are golden elixirs flying around all day long. This level of cultivators is not too many, but not too few.
It's just that here, the Yuanying cultivators are no longer ancestors, but just exist like a group of ordinary cultivators.
After seeing Li Yan and the others, those people basically glanced at the disciples in front of them, and more of them would stay on Li Yan for a while, but no one came forward to ask.
This valley is about a thousand miles in scope. Although the sun is shining, there are flowers blooming all around, and the grass is green, it is peaceful and quiet.
Occasionally, there are some wild animals poking their heads out on the grass slope below, but Li Yan just feels uncomfortable, which is several times more dangerous than when he was outside the mountain gate.
Their flying speed is not very slow. After flying for a distance, the disciple seems to see what Li Yan is thinking.
He speaks softly with a neither arrogant nor humble attitude.
"Senior, this is still the mountain gate area, but it is called the inner mountain gate. I think you should have heard about the situation in our sect before, but this may be the first time you come here in person.
The sect was built in a dangerous place. The inner mountain gate where we are flying now is actually the place where the miasma in the dangerous place was the most rampant.
However, these dangerous creatures that can kill people in an instant have long been integrated into the sect protection formation, and they are still gathering and accumulating.
They will only be released at once when dealing with the enemy. By then, even if the Lianxu cultivator comes here, he may not be able to get away with it."
The order received by this Jindan disciple is to take this senior to the "Yi Que Hall" to register, which means that this senior will become a disciple of the same sect in a while.
Although it is the "Yi Que Hall" with the lowest status among the three halls, he is a disciple of the Yuanying realm after all.
Only the core Jindan realm disciples in the other two halls may not be too concerned about the other party's cultivation level and be too respectful in attitude when meeting each other.
But he was just an ordinary disciple of "Arashido", and naturally could not be compared with those core disciples.
Therefore, after knowing what the other party wanted to know, he only needed a few simple words. It was okay to do such a thing to make people feel grateful, and maybe he could use the other party one day.
"Oh? Are you saying that the place where we are flying now is actually in that layer of miasma?"
"Yes, senior!"
Li Yan asked with some surprise.
He finally understood in his heart. No wonder he felt a little uncomfortable here. It was a kind of resistance that appeared instinctively when he was in danger.
He also got a lot of information about the Soul-Calming Palace from the gray-haired old man's memory. When exploring this dangerous place, even the Supreme Elder who was already in the Refining Void Realm was not sure to enter.
The first danger is the outermost layer of deadly miasma.
"With the help of the right time and place, the Soul-Calming Palace has built this place like an iron wall. Even if other sects want to replace it, it is difficult to break through from the front..."
The area of the Soul-Calming Palace is divided into five areas. The Qianli Mountain Gate in front and the vast plain behind are divided into three areas: Hushi Hall, Fuchen Hall, and Yique Hall.
There is no obvious difference between them. At a glance, although the various buildings are not dense, they are scattered like a huge city.
The punishment and killing of the Lord of Hushi Hall is a sharp sword of Zhenhun Palace, both internally and externally;
The Lord of Fuchen Hall refines pills and weapons, which is an important place in Zhenhun Palace. Treasures such as "Soul Tablet" and "Empty Shadow" are all created by them;
Yi Que Hall actually belongs to the outer sect, responsible for various miscellaneous affairs of the sect, as well as external transactions, etc. Although its status is not as good as those of the two halls, it actually has considerable power.
For example, when trading pills and magic weapons refined by Fuchen Hall with the outside world, they must go through Yi Que Hall, and are not allowed to trade with the outside sect alone.
But if it is the pills and magic weapons needed by the cultivators in the sect, everything depends on the face of Fuchen Hall.
You can even provide the raw materials and find the cultivators in Fuchen Hall to let them refine pills and weapons for you alone, but the cost is definitely very high.
Although Yi Que Hall controls external transactions, those cultivators from the outside sect who want to enter Zhenhun Palace need to verify their identities before entering.
But the various cultivation resources needed by Hushi Hall must come from these two halls.
In fact, the three halls are in a relationship of mutual restraint and cooperation, and no one can dominate alone.
Behind this large plain, there is an isolated mountain that reaches the clouds. On the top of the mountain is the core of the entire sect, the location of the Zhenhun Palace.
The Palace Master, the Supreme Elder, and the Guards live on it. They almost never appear all year round, and few people can see their figures.
Behind this isolated mountain is a large area covered by black fog, which has not dissipated for years.
The black fog is like a natural barrier, stretching between heaven and earth, making it impossible to know what is in the black fog.
As for the current layout of the entire sect, the disciples of the Zhenhun Palace all know that this dangerous place was not like this when it was first explored.
In addition to the valley at the mountain gate in front, there are endless mountains with dense vegetation behind.
But later, after the transformation of the first generation of monks, the valley in front was expanded, and the mountains for tens of thousands of miles behind were all flattened, turning it into a flat plain, leaving only a lonely mountain in the middle.
The area behind the isolated peak is an unexplored dangerous place. Although there are some safe areas that have been explored, there are still more unknown dangerous places and disciples are not allowed to enter.
In order to prevent some disciples from sneaking in, the sect set up a protective formation there, which made the back of the mountain a forbidden area of the sect.
In this way, the Hushi Hall is in the east, the Fuchen Hall is in the middle, and the Yique Hall is in the west. They are overlooked by a lonely peak behind them.
This adds a sense of oppression of hierarchy and majesty to the Zhenhun Palace on the mountain, which has been engraved in the hearts of every disciple of the Zhenhun Palace.
Li Yan and the other two kept flying, accompanied by other gorgeous long rainbows in the sky, a scene of immortals.
Below are exquisite pavilions, surrounded by dense cloud-like aura. These auras are as white and rich as milk, forming long, short, irregular aura belts between heaven and earth.
Walking here, the chest and abdomen are always filled with comfortable auras, which shuttle happily in the body.
Occasionally, the sound of birds chirping in the sky makes people feel that even the sunshine in the sky is full of vitality.
It makes people feel relaxed and happy, and sigh that it is a paradise.
When the Jindan led Li Yan to fly for more than half an hour, after passing through one area after another, they finally landed in front of a magnificent building in the west of the plain.
In front of the building was a large square of more than ten acres. The two of them landed in front of the upper steps.
At this moment, there were many cultivators coming and going at the gate. Those people only glanced at Li Yan, and when they saw that the other party's face was unfamiliar, they ignored him and went straight away...
"Senior, this is the Deacon Hall of the Yique Hall, please follow me!"
After the Jindan cultivator said this, he took the lead in passing through the crowd and walked towards the gate...
After a cup of tea, in a room, Li Yan stood in front of a large table with a black jade bracelet in his hand.
The Jindan disciple had long disappeared. In this room, there were only Li Yan and a fat middle-aged cultivator behind the table.
"Fellow Daoist Li, the sect rules that should be discussed are all recorded in the soul tablet. What I told you are the precepts that you should pay special attention to.
You must not violate any of these precepts, otherwise you will be caught by the Hushi Hall and severely punished. When you get there, even the King of Hell will have to take a layer of skin off.
What we are most proficient in in soul cultivation is, of course, extracting the soul and refining the soul. Just for the means of extracting souls and refining souls, the people in Huiyatang have thousands of ways, which are definitely several times more terrifying than entering the eighteenth level of hell.
Okay, as someone who speaks the same language, I have already said what I can say. Also, every monk will have five tasks within a hundred years.
The mission you accept must correspond to your level, otherwise even if you complete the mission, it will not be considered a century-old mission.
The Mission Hall is a place shared by three halls and one palace, and is not under the jurisdiction of the three halls. If you are interested now, Daoyou Li, after leaving the hall, fly another five hundred miles north and you can find it with a little inquiry. "
When the obese middle-aged monk said this, he actually picked up a teapot on the table and took a sip mouth-to-mouth. A smile appeared on Li Yan's face.
"Excuse me, fellow Taoist Gao, what are those tasks?"
"It has everything, such as hunting down evil spirit monks who are on the run, raising souls of the same level, exploring dangerous places, etc. There are even tasks of planting 'soul crystal buds'!"
"Oh, thank you so much, fellow Taoist Gao!"
Soul Soul Palace will definitely not support idle people. Five tasks in a hundred years may seem like a small number, but Li Yan can guess that this kind of task will definitely not be that simple.
As the fat middle-aged monk said, it is similar to the task of planting "soul crystal buds".
This kind of thing that even a mortal can do can still happen here, and the other party knows his own realm and says the same thing, which shows that this kind of task has special requirements and will definitely not be that simple.
But at this time, Li Yan didn't want to go over and take on any tasks.
In his black jade bracelet, there are four sets of black soul-suppressing palace disciple costumes and several bottles of soul-restoring elixirs.
Fifty three-hundred-year-old "soul crystal buds", a thousand intermediate spirit stones, a soul stone inscribed with sect rules, fifty blank soul stones and a red sect token.
These are items given by the sect to the disciples who have just joined the sect, and they look pretty good. However, Li Yan, who has just joined the sect, is anxious to go to the Dharma Pavilion now.
There are only two most urgent things in Li Yan's mind:
One is to obtain the skills of Zhenhun Palace. He needs to improve his cultivation as soon as possible. The other one is the news of leaving the "Jizhen Domain", but this is something that can't be rushed for the time being.