Chapter 116 Where Is the Road Heading?

On the way back, Wu Yi walked along the mountain path, with a cliff on the side. When he first entered, Wu Yi was very careful with every step, fearing that he would break the plank road with too much force and fall off the cliff.

It has been two years since he came to Liucheng Yiqi Taoist Temple. This place has witnessed his efforts and growth, and contains every bit of his life. If nothing unexpected happens, Wu Yi will have few or even no chances to return here after entering the inner gate.

Thinking of the past, Wu Yi couldn't help but smile slightly. Although he still had to fight with other people in the Taoist temple, he felt at ease here. It was his other home.

Home is the destination of the soul, a place of tranquility. People who practice Taoism all say that they leave the world, but in Wu Yi's view, it is just from one home to another.

It takes only half an incense stick of time to walk the distance, but Wu Yi walked for several hours, stopping from time to time to watch a typical night scene.

The moon was at the zenith, and it was the fifteenth day. The moon was round and bright, full of affection, which was exactly what Wu Yi wanted at the moment.

When the disciples who were going out at night saw Wu Yi, they hurriedly stood aside and let Wu Yi go first, which fully reflected Wu Yi's status. Wu Yi sighed in his heart when he saw this scene, knowing that this was the norm in the cultivation world. It was also the same when he had not risen that he survived in this cultivation world.

Being disturbed by the group of respectful disciples, Wu Yi knew that the time back then would never come back. Of course, he didn't want to go back to the time when he was so weak. He really wanted to keep the passionate years of working together with a group of senior brothers.

Striding towards his own cave, Wu Yi threw down the sealing stone, closed the cave, left a will outside the cave that no one was allowed to enter, and went to meditate.

It is now early autumn, and the true transmission competition next year will be in mid-spring, which is the same time as the disciples go to the inner gate Sutra Pavilion to practice. I don't know how many people in the Taoist temple will go to the inner gate with him to participate in the true transmission competition, but I think the number should not be many.

The competition for the true disciples is too fierce. It is normal that no disciple can become a true disciple for several consecutive sessions in a general Taoist temple.

First, the number of true disciples recruited by the inner sect each year is uncertain, but at most it is no more than a thousand. This is the competition for the true disciples that was held every ten years before. After that, there was a change. The inner sect’s various cave heaven families discussed and changed it to every three years, but the number was reduced to 300 or 400 people per session. In fact, the number of recruits is still about the same, just slightly expanded.

Second, the upper outer sect squeezes the lower outer sect. Wu Yi of the upper and lower outer sects only learned about this not long ago. This is the private name among disciples. The official name is the main courtyard and the side courtyard. The Liucheng Yiqi Taoist Temple where Wu Yi is located is considered a side courtyard. In fact, all Taoist temples within the territory of Dayu are considered side courtyards.

Although the main courtyard is also considered an outer gate, it is built in the Yulong Mountains like the inner gate. Most of the disciples who can enter the main courtyard have parents and ancestors who were once disciples of the inner gate, but later had no hope of advancement, so they left their offspring and multiplied. These disciples are much more talented than other Taoist temple disciples, and many people in the master-disciple lineage will choose these people as their disciples.

The most important thing is that the children of those long-standing aristocratic families have also entered the main courtyard. Their talents and backgrounds are enough to raise the status of the main courtyard a lot, and to a certain extent, they have also intensified the struggle between the master-disciple and aristocratic lineages. The main courtyard has become a place for fierce confrontation between the master-disciple lineage and the aristocratic lineage.

The two forces competed and resources were invested. The disciples inside were not comparable to the disciples of the side courtyards, and many of them had entered the foundation-building stage.

Even before the true transmission competition, the main courtyard would hold an internal competition called the small true transmission competition, and the rankings would be divided, and about 300 people would be selected to participate in the true transmission competition.

Although it cannot be said that all these people can become true disciples, if too many are eliminated, the head of the main courtyard, such as the temple master like Wang Chuchen, can even protest and demand a re-selection, which can be said to be very stubborn.

The competition for true disciples will also be ranked. Some disciples of the main courtyard will choose to give up because of their poor ranking even if they become true disciples, and strive to get a better ranking next year. In addition to personal ambition, most of the time it involves the confrontation between the master and the disciple and the family.

Therefore, in addition to the competition for seats, the competition for true disciples also involves the competition for rankings.

Because the main courtyard occupies too many positions for true disciples, in order to balance the inner and outer Taoist temples, the inner gate also set up a side course for disciples from various Taoist temples. After passing the side course, they can also be considered true disciples, but they are from the same true disciples, but they cannot enjoy some treatment.

Wang Chuchen originally wanted Wu Yi to take the side course, but he didn't expect that Wu Yi's cultivation had made great progress in the past few years and he had already become a foundation-building cultivator, so he gave up the idea of ​​letting Wu Yi take the side course. Otherwise, if he could comprehend the Dao rhyme in the first stage of Qi Refining, he could take the Talented and Intelligent Course, and basically pass it.

The Yiqi Sect ruled over the three kingdoms. In the Dayu Kingdom where Wu Yi was, there were more than a hundred Taoist temples. The difference between the other two kingdoms in the three kingdoms was not big either. So there were more than 300 Taoist temples and tens of thousands of disciples. However, in the end, there were probably less than a hundred disciples of so many Taoist temples who could become true disciples.

That's why there were side courses. Otherwise, it was inevitable that the strong would become stronger and the weak would become weaker. The sect would lose blood replenishment and lose the vitality of progress bit by bit.

But then again, the cultivation of the disciples in the main courtyard was really strong. Those who could rank in the competition for the small true disciples were basically foundation-building cultivators unless they had precious treasures.

After Wu Yi broke through the foundation building in the Taoist temple, he was basically invincible. So far, he has not seen a disciple who practices like him, and he does not know if one will pop up at the last moment.

But I think every Taoist temple will have such a few disciples, otherwise it will be completely impossible to become a true disciple. There are more than a hundred or dozens of disciples in the Taoist temple who have become true disciples.

Competing with a group of foundation building cultivators, Wu Yi thought of the upcoming true disciple battle, and he did not have much worry in his heart, because in his heart there was no possibility of failure, and the cost of failure for Wu Yi was too high.

Pay attention to the enemy tactically and despise the enemy strategically. Wu Yi believes that his Tao Yun Taoism is not inferior to anyone, but now he has only achieved the latter, because even if he wants to pay attention to the former, he has no way, his status is too low, and there are not many channels. Wu Yi does not know the characteristics and weaknesses of some famous skills of the masters and apprentices of the family.

Although Wu Yi does not know these for the time being, it does not prevent Wu Yi from making preparations. Knowing yourself and the enemy, you will not be in danger in a hundred battles. If you don’t know the enemy, you should try your best to know yourself. Wu Yi’s previous thousand-mile run was such an attempt.

Wu Yi actually missed the existence of the inner demon at this time. Although the inner demon was a great threat to Wu Yi, he could force out his potential, improve his shortcomings, and understand his abilities in the confrontation with the inner demon.

Wu Yi practiced the three paths simultaneously. The force and the law had already broken through to the foundation-building realm, but the Qi Dao was now stuck at the last step. The innate Qi could not be transformed. Perhaps Wu Yi was pursuing perfection, but since he had seen the possibility of complete transformation, how could Wu Yi give up easily?

At most, he would rank lower in the competition for the true transmission. Wu Yi thought to himself, suppressing his desire for the Qi Dao breakthrough in his heart. He had never considered that he might not be able to become a true transmission. The practice of the Qi Dao Nine Changes of the Qi Dao of the Qi Gate made most of the disciples, including Wu Yi, consider whether to break through almost all the time.

Especially for those cultivators with low qualifications, but they were unwilling to admit that they were not qualified, so they kept dragging it there until they could not drag it any further.

Wu Yi thought a lot before practicing, which is also a habit of Wu Yi. Only when he understands his goal and then practices can he achieve success. Otherwise, it is like a fly flying around. It seems that he has been working hard, but in the end, he has achieved nothing.

Excluding distractions, Wu Yi began to extract the acquired qi from his body, and at the same time urged the seedling of true qi to accelerate its transformation process, but even with Wu Yi's subjective intervention, the speed was not much faster.

Do I have to continue running a thousand miles? After sensing the changes in his body's spiritual energy, Wu Yi began to think about it, but soon he shook his head. After the acquired qi is drained, the innate qi will be transformed fastest. This is the instinct of the human body. The previous thousand-mile raid was the result.

But if he does this now, let alone whether he will be seen as a madman by others, he has no subjective motivation, and I am afraid he will not be able to persist halfway.

The effect of running thousands of miles is to exhaust Wu Yi's acquired qi, because only acquired qi is available to Wu Yi at present. The innate qi and acquired qi are not subordinate to each other. If the qi channel does not enter the foundation building stage, Wu Yi cannot use the innate qi. To a certain extent, the more Wu Yi's innate qi is converted before the foundation building stage, the more his strength will decrease.

"We need to find a new way to consume the acquired qi in our body." Wu Yi knew this truth, but he had not come up with a practical way for a long time, which was a pity, so he had to continue the conversion according to the original method.

While Wu Yi was urging the seedling of true qi to convert spiritual energy, a wisp of spiritual consciousness entered the stone tablet world. Now it was time to see if the giant rat evil ghost had made the "correct" choice. If it was still as stubborn as before, Wu Yi might have to find another way to make up for the defects of the Nine Ghosts Locking Palace Formation.

Wu Yi had previously untied the stone tablet world's restraint on the rat ghost, but the isolation of it was still not lifted. The rat ghost and the many ghosts living in the stone tablet world were separated by Wu Yi.

When Wu Yi saw the rat ghost, it stopped and stared at the lake full of Yin Sha Qi. There was its soul fire in it. It could sense that the soul fire was strengthening all the time, so it could also replenish its main body, but its life and death would be controlled by others and it would not be free.

After becoming a demon ghost, the rat ghost got used to being bossy and had forgotten the scene when it was a low-level ghost and surrendered to other ghosts. It could not accept the fate of being controlled by others.

Wu Yi understood what he was thinking. In fact, it was the same for any independent individual. To be able to become a demon ghost, the rat ghost's intelligence was not low. He did not approach it, but let it sense its existence. Isn't this a kind of pressure?

Not long after, the rat ghost drank a mouthful of water from the Yin Sha Lake, and its momentum fell. Like a deflated ball, it came to Wu Yi sullenly and surrendered respectfully at Wu Yi's feet.

Wu Yi looked directly into its eyes and understood that this time it should be considered completed.

With a wave of his hand, the rat ghost was surprised to find that there were many ghosts around him, many of which were the ghosts that had besieged him before. Due to his nature, a fierce look flashed across his eyes, thinking about revenge. The native ghosts also prepared for the enemy and set up their formations in an orderly manner.

Wu Yi stopped the upcoming battle, hitting each side with a board, allowing them to practice the formation together. When the two sides calmed down, Wu Yi pretended to leave, but he was actually still paying attention to their movements.

As for whether they would fight, Wu Yi believed that this was inevitable. The repressed anger in their hearts could not be resolved by Wu Yi's beating. It was better to fight and feel the pain.

Seeing Wu Yi leave, the two sides looked at each other with distrust, and the contradiction was gradually aroused in the stare.