2000 Years of Eternal Life

Chapter 25

After the Inner Strong Realm was completed, Du Heng felt that he had reached a state where his whole body was flawless.

Qi, blood and viscera are extremely stable, completely making up for the previous shortcomings in physical strength.

Under the illumination of my mirror, he estimated his current strength.

【Boundary: Inner Strong Realm】

[Strength: Entrance Realm]

【Limit: Beyond the Entrance Realm】

This kind of strength is not achieved only by attack power or speed as before.

Rather, it has reached this level in all aspects.

Although he is only in the inner strong state now, even if he bears a punch from the profound entrance state head-on, he will not suffer any damage.

Of course, if you want to be truly invulnerable in front of the Xuanguan Realm, you still need to practice specific horizontal martial arts.

"The reward for the 14-year-old is a Xuanguan-level cross-practice martial art "Golden Muscle, Jade Bone Body"." Du Heng thought to himself, "Next, you can practice this martial art while absorbing the energy of the five elements to enhance your body's defense. .”

Strong physical defense is also an essential element to ensure your own safety.

……

The next morning.

Du Heng did morning class, and after breakfast, he planned to explore among the peaks of Jinxia Mountain to see where it was suitable to absorb the energy of the five elements.

After all, although the qi of the five elements is everywhere, they have different concentrations in different places. In some places, the qi of the fire element is stronger, and in some places, the qi of the water element is stronger.

Therefore, it is necessary to choose carefully where to practice.

However, before he left, Wang Xuyang came over.

"Junior brother, guess what this is?" He shook the silk scroll in his hand.

"I've seen the style of this silk book before. Is it the ranking of the new ranking?" Du Heng glanced at him, and said with a chuckle, "Today is the tenth day of April, count the time, the latest ranking of the third ranking of heaven, earth and people." The ranking should also be sent to Shanyin County."

"Young brother is still smart." Wang Xuyang smiled, unfolded the silk script in his hand and said, "Senior brother Xubai and sister Xuyue went down the mountain this time to hit the rankings. I didn't expect to achieve it in only three months. It's worthy of me." It's a combination of two swords, and it directly entered the top [-]."

Du Heng looked at the content on the silk book, and glanced roughly at the top ten, the top twenty——

Number one on the list, Fashan, nicknamed "Compassion Sword", was born in Qibao Temple, 21 years old, with a perfect entrance...

The fifth person on the list, Du Kai, nicknamed "Young Qingdi", was born in the Du family in Longxi, 20 years old, with a perfect Xuanguan...

Tenth on the list, Yu Hai, nicknamed 'White Wolf of the Northland', was born in the Baishan School, 23 years old, with a perfect entrance...

……

……

In the end, his eyes stopped on the top thirty part of the list, and he found the names of Zhang Xubai and Yang Xuyue.

No. 20 on the No. 26 list, Zhang Xubai, nicknamed "Kuaijian Wuying", was born in Chunyang Temple, [-] years old, and the profound entrance realm has not yet been completed...

No. 20 on the list of people, Yang Xuyue, nicknamed "White Feather Feihong", was born in Chunyang Temple, 24 years old, and the entrance realm has not yet been completed...

With such a state and age, the two of them can be called geniuses in Chunyang Temple, and they are even considered outstanding in the sect of Chunyang Temple.

But if you look at the whole Dazhao, compared with all the young geniuses today, it is actually not the top.

It is very rare to be able to enter the top [-] now.

If all goes well, they should be able to stay in the top 30 until they reach the age of [-], and they can win three disciples for Chunyang Temple.

"There are really too few people in our Chunyang Temple." Du Heng couldn't help but sighed, "If there are fewer people, the number of people who can enter the list will be small, and the chance of making it into the top ten is also low. According to this Da Zhao's laws make it difficult to recruit more disciples."

The ranking of people list began in the reign of Emperor Wu of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

At that time, through the painstaking efforts of three generations of virtuous monarchs, Da Zhou had already made the country rich and the people strong. The major sects that had been severely injured in the chaos of the end of the Yu Dynasty gradually recovered, and the martial arts world began to flourish.

In order to further promote martial arts and strengthen the country, and also to extend grace to the world's warriors, Emperor Wu issued an edict, setting up three rankings of heaven, earth and people, ranking the strength of the world's warriors, and granting different degrees of privileges and preferential treatment according to the ranking.

Among them, the heaven list only lists the ten strongest god-level powerhouses in the world, and the earth list ranks the 50 strongest people in the real world.

The people list includes young people under the age of 30, who have walked on the rivers and lakes, and have a well-known record, ranking 120 in total.

As long as you enter these three lists, you can enjoy the treatment including but not limited to nobility, salary, land, service, etc. The privileges include tax exemption, arrest, and not worshiping officials. You can enter the Royal Academy and read "Wu Dian" " and so on.

Of course, depending on the type of list and the ranking, these privileges and treatment also have different details.

After that, although the successive emperors of the Great Zhou Dynasty made some adjustments to the rules and treatment of the three lists of heaven, earth and people, they still generally followed the framework set by Emperor Wu.

However, after Chen Ju proclaimed himself emperor on behalf of Zhou and established Dazhao, due to the impetus of noble families, the imperial court carried out a series of reforms on the martial arts sect and the three lists of heaven, earth and people.

The most critical point is to link the number of disciples that the sect can recruit each year with the number of people on the list and the maintenance time.

And set up a series of places to obtain the mechanism.

such as--

If for three consecutive years, every year a disciple enters the top [-] on the list, he will be able to obtain a quota for recruiting disciples.

If a disciple can maintain the top [-] ranking for more than three years, he can get a place to recruit disciples.

If a disciple enters the top [-] on the list, he can directly obtain a quota for recruiting disciples.

If a disciple reaches the top of the adult list, he will get ten places to recruit disciples.

……

……

There are many such rules, and it seems that there are many ways to obtain the number of disciples, but in fact the conditions are very strict and the number is very small.

The euphemistic name is to allow the martial arts sect to concentrate on teaching a small number of disciples, to achieve the elitism of sect warriors, not to waste unnecessary resources, and to avoid a large number of martial arts practitioners who have no future in martial arts.

But the actual result was that a large number of martial arts sects lacked a source of fresh blood and declined sharply.

Because, relying on only a few disciples, it is impossible to support the inheritance of the entire sect.

After all, no sect can be 100% sure whether a person has a future in martial arts when recruiting disciples. They must first judge and screen through ordinary martial arts practice, and then find out the truly suitable core disciples.

This is also the reason why most of the sects had three layers of disciples: outer sect, inner sect, and true inheritance.

Now that there is no such progressive process, it is tantamount to asking the martial arts sect to decide the disciples they want to recruit without any screening and judgment.

Also limit.

This is actually using soft knives to grind these martial arts sects to death little by little, and also mastered the balance of strength.

In the more than ten years of the Great Zhao Liguo.

The top major holy lands have been minimally affected, but those small and medium-sized sects have declined, and even reached the verge of severing their inheritance.

This makes it difficult for the sects to unite against this policy, and they can only suffer slowly.

Now Chunyang Temple can still maintain a certain scale of inheritance, one is because Xie Cang, who has half a foot into the gods, is the third place on the list, and the other is because Lin Qinghe's generation is in the prime of life.

If one day, Xie Cangshou is fully immortalized, and Lin Qinghe's generation enters his twilight years, but the new generation fails to grow up, then the inheritance and continuation of Chunyang Temple will become precarious.

This is also one of the reasons why the entire Chunyang Temple has high hopes for Du Heng.

After all, with Du Heng's qualifications, there is a high probability that he will be at the top of the list, and the duration will not be short.

This can bring many disciples to Chunyang Temple, and it may even bring the declining Chunyang Temple back to life and prosper again.

"Junior Brother, in another month, I will go down the mountain." At this time, Wang Xuyang suddenly said, "I have reached the perfection of the divine power state, and I will go down the mountain to accumulate experience, in order to break through to the subtle state."

"So, in the future, I will be the only one left on this mountain?" Du Heng said with some emotion.

"Yeah." Wang Xuyang nodded and said with a smile, "Junior brother, actually I want to see what kind of situation you can stir up in the rivers and lakes after you go down the mountain. Have you noticed that a year ago, you once Defeat that Cheng Yujun, and now he is on the list."

As he said that, he turned the scroll to the back, pointed to a place and said, "Here, she is not yet 16 years old, she has already reached the perfection of subtlety, and she has also mastered a move of the magical art of casting swords. .

"Just last month, she defeated the three masters who used to be ranked 110th in the human list, and became the youngest genius in the human list in the past century. Some good people have already given her various fairy nicknames."

"So powerful?" Du Heng laughed when he heard the words, and at the same time looked at the position pointed by Wang Xuyang.

The 113th person on the list, Cheng Yujun, whose nickname is not yet known, was born in Zhujiange, 15 years old, and reached a perfect state...

"I'm afraid this is just the beginning." Wang Xuyang nodded and said, "Her aptitude and strength are too great, there are already rumors in the world that if Cheng Yujun does not die young, she may be another 'Heavenly Sword'. "

Tianjian was a martial arts master during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and she was also a woman.

She has a mysterious origin and is proficient in swordsmanship. At the age of only 19, she broke through to the perfection of the Xuanguan Realm, ranking first on the list of people. Later, she mastered a hundred swordsmanship and stepped into the gate of God in one fell swoop. She is known as the "Heavenly Sword"

In the end, this "Heavenly Sword" disappeared after cutting a peerless sword mark in the land of Qingzhou.

Today, many of her deeds have become legends.

"There are talented people coming out from generation to generation, and it's normal to have a new 'Heaven Sword'." Du Heng nodded, and said to Wang Xuyang, "I am very optimistic about you, brother, and you will definitely be on the top of the list in the future." Take your place."

"Me?" Wang Xuyang waved his hands and smiled when he heard the words, "You expect me to be on the list, why not think about what nickname you will use after you are on the list. The nicknames are very unsatisfactory, such as Mang King Kong, which is ugly."

"Ha, look at me like this, do I seem to be called Mang Kongang?" Du Heng pulled his clothes, moved his hands and feet, and refuted Wang Xuyang.

Now at the age of 14, his figure has gradually grown, and he can even be called slender and tall.

Although he has become immortal at the age of 12, this effect will keep his physical condition at the peak age, and will not be directly locked at the age of 12.

Therefore, he is still growing normally.

"Hahaha, okay, then I'll wait to see your nickname on the people list." Wang Xuyang laughed loudly, and then put away the silk book, "I'm going first, I'm going to discuss with Master about going down the mountain gone."

"En." Du Heng nodded.

Afterwards, Wang Xuyang turned and left, but when he was about to walk out of the courtyard, he turned back and said: "Little brother, my brother and sister, I will wait for you in the rivers and lakes below the mountain!"

……

In May of the fourth year of Chonghe, Wang Xuyang left Jinxia Mountain to travel in rivers and lakes, honing his martial arts in order to get the most out of it.

The Chunyang Temple, where there were not many people, became even more deserted, and only Du Heng was left alone on the mountain among the disciples of the Xu generation.

In the past year, Han Qingshui, Zhou Qingxiao, and Lin Qinghe have been out frequently, Ye Qingping and Wei Qingshan have been away all year round, and the old temple master Xie Cang also often retreats to practice.

This is equivalent to saying that on the huge Jinxia Mountain, there are free activities on weekdays, but Du Heng is actually the only one left.

However, he also enjoyed it.

There are fewer people on Jinxia Mountain, and it is more convenient for him to explore around, looking for places with strong energy of the five elements, as a "dojo" to absorb the energy of the five elements and build a foundation for the condensed Tao species.

The process is not simple.

Even for Du Heng, who has a fairy fetus of the Dao bone and can directly swallow the vitality of the world, it is very troublesome to identify the different concentrations of the five elements in different places.

It can only be truly determined after a certain period of time has been spent in a place.

It took a full two months for Du Heng to visit almost every corner of Jinxia Mountain, and finally he determined the five most suitable places for his cultivation.

The next thing he has to do is to concentrate on absorbing the energy of gold, wood, water, fire, earth and the five elements in these five places!
Compared with simply swallowing the vitality of heaven and earth indiscriminately, it is undoubtedly more difficult to absorb the pure energy of the five elements.

In the next nearly a year, Du Heng was constantly absorbing, refining, and refining different types of power of the five elements.

finally--

The third day of June in the fifth year of Chonghe.

In the courtyard of Shenhe Peak, Du Heng, who was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, suddenly levitated from the futon, three feet off the ground, and flew into the air.

At this time, his eyes were slightly closed, and he held the Taiji seal with his hands. With each breath, five colors of air flow in white, blue, black, red, and yellow flowed from his mouth.

These five-color air currents contain the extremely rich power of the five elements, giving people a feeling of encompassing the principles of everything in the world.

And Du Heng sat in it, breathed out the energy of five colors, and put it into his chest, as if he had mastered the principles of all things, which made people feel awe.

Gradually, the energy of the five elements in his body became stronger and stronger, and the five-color rays of light became brighter and brighter. The five internal organs in his body also emitted five-color rays of light, and the Niwan palace between the eyebrows suddenly felt.

Du Heng opened his eyes suddenly, and the light in his eyes showed five colors, and the five radiances were connected with the soul.

At the same time, he raised his right hand, and with a light squeeze, he gathered a large amount of Qi of the Five Elements in an instant.

Immediately, he heard a rumble in his palm.

Like thunder!

　I'm sorry that I had an extra class at the end of the year, and it was too late to go home. This chapter is more than 4000 words and counts as two chapters. I will update the normal two chapters tomorrow~
　
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