I imitate others' cultivation, and I will never reason with you.

Chapter 149 Lotus Pond Secret Realm
The young female cultivator transformed by Ruan Xing walked into the teleportation array station. After paying the travel fee, she changed trains several times and arrived in Zhongzhou.

Just to be on the safe side, she did not go directly to Xianyuan City, but went to Fengtian City on the outskirts of the 180 Peaks.

This place is also under the jurisdiction of the Xuanbing Sect, but its geographical location is not better than that of Xianyuan City. It is just an ordinary town, not particularly prosperous. There are people coming and going on the streets, and there are more mortals than cultivators.

When I went out, I saw that all the businesses under the Xuanbing Sect or related to the Xuanbing Sect on the street had erected a hanging flag at the door. On the top was the Xuanbing Sect's logo, and below it were some promotional slogans.

In the final analysis, it is about actively recruiting new disciples.

There are tens of thousands of outer disciples, but only one or two out of ten can build a foundation. The rest have to fend for themselves. The sect can recruit as many disciples as it wants without worrying about not being able to support them.

Ruan Xing found an agency and rented a quiet room for a day, but she did not practice. Instead, she waited for the CD of the illusion technique to refresh, then turned on the real-life simulation before leaving with a new look.

This time she transformed into a girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, in the early stage of foundation building.

This level of cultivation and age is already top-notch among ordinary cultivators, let alone a casual cultivator.

If she were to rejoin the Xuanbing Sect with this identity, it shouldn't be a problem, and she could directly enter the inner sect, and maybe even find out the information she wanted to know.

The way to get in is similar to that in Nanzhou. After registering your information, you wait one to three working days to receive the sect's jade token, and then pass the Heart-Searching Stone, and you are considered to have entered.

"name?"

"The punishment is soft."

"Cultivation?"

"Early stage of foundation building."

"Where are you?"

"Dongzhou Canghai City."

The monk in charge of recording paused with his pen and looked up.

The girl in front of him had a fair face with a healthy blush, and the hair on both sides of her full forehead was slightly curled in a mischievous way. She looked like a cute and lively girl, and she looked kind.

The cultivator's tone softened unconsciously. "There are many sects in Dongzhou, including the Xuanji Sect, which is one of the three most famous sects along with my Xuanbing Sect. Why did you come all the way to Zhongzhou?"

Ruan Xing smiled sheepishly, "Of course I admire the style of Xuanbing Sect."

Her eyes sparkled. "I heard that the 180 peak masters of Xuanbing Sect are all Yuanying Zhenjun, and now they have added a new secret place called Guixu. Moreover, Xuanbing Sect can occupy Zhongzhou, so it is naturally the leader among the three major sects. Since cultivators like me have chosen to practice and compete with the heavens, we naturally have to choose the best!"

She flattered the Xuanbing Sect a little bit and also showed a little pride as a young foundation-building cultivator.

The cultivator who recorded it was naturally an inner sect disciple of Xuanbing Sect. He felt proud to hear it and couldn't help but smile, "Then welcome Junior Sister to Xuanbing Sect!"

After that, he kept moving his hands, finished recording, and said apologetically: "There are too many new disciples in the sect recently, so we can't make the sect jade token immediately. Junior sister, please come here to get it at this time tomorrow."

"Okay, then thank you first, senior brother!" Ruan Xing winked playfully.

Walking out of the door, Ruan Xing was thinking about what to do next when she suddenly heard someone behind her calling her, "Daoyou, please stay!"

Looking back, I saw the male cultivator who had just registered with another cultivator, walking towards me quickly.

Ruan Xing felt that he looked familiar. He searched his memory and remembered that this man was a cultivator from the Xuanbing Sect in Nanzhou!

I bought her medicine before.

It’s a pity that his skills were not as good as others, so he failed to enter the Jintai Secret Realm and saved his life.

But after not seeing him for a few months, he has actually reached the late stage of foundation building.

After thinking about this for a while, Ruan Xing still looked puzzled, "Fellow Daoist, do we know each other?"

"Although we don't know each other now, we will be fellow disciples in the future, and we need to take care of each other." The male cultivator came closer and smiled, "My name is Zhao Cheng, fellow Daoist. Among the new cultivators in the room just now, we are the only two who are in the foundation-building stage. We are destined to enter the inner sect. We are not on the same path as them, so naturally I have to get to know you first."

Still as familiar as ever.

Because of the widespread publicity of the new secret realm, although some cultivators were afraid of the two huge mountains above their heads, there were still many cultivators who came to Xianyuan City in an endless stream. With such a mixed crowd, the Xuanbing Sect did not make any diversions, and all cultivators were recorded in one hall.

Therefore, whether you are a cultivator with cultivation or a mortal without cultivation, you have to queue up obediently.

Of course, if a big shot above the Jindan Yuanying level comes, the treatment will definitely not be the same, but Ruan Xing has not seen one yet.

"My name is Xing Ruanruan. Since my cultivation is higher than mine, I will call you Brother Zhao." Ruan Xing smiled sweetly, then asked in confusion: "Brother Zhao is already in the late stage of foundation building, why did you just join the sect? Have you been a casual cultivator before?"

"That's not the case." Zhao Cheng thought about it and felt that since they were all from the same sect, there was nothing to hide, so he said openly: "I just heard you say that you were from Dongzhou. You may not know that our sect has a branch in Nanzhou, but it's remote and has few people and scarce resources, so it's not well-known. I'm from Nanzhou, and I've been a disciple of Xuanbing Sect since the Qi training stage."

"In that case, are there no other fellow disciples coming with you?" Ruan Xing asked curiously.

Zhao Cheng's expression was a little unnatural, "They... couldn't come because of some accidents."

Disciples who can come to Zhongzhou will find ways to come before the Jintai Secret Realm. Those who cannot come and cannot participate in the Jintai Discussion will also go and travel on their own.

As for those cultivators who stayed in the sect and were able to participate in the Golden Platform Discussion and enter the Golden Platform Secret Realm, they naturally died there.

However, regarding the matter of the Jintai Secret Realm, the leader of Nanzhou asked all disciples to keep it secret. Therefore, although other sects had heard some rumors, the ordinary cultivators and mortals could not hear any news at all.

Ruan Xing remembered that among the people he rescued, there was a cultivator from Nanzhou. He wondered how that person was doing now and whether he had been devastated after being robbed by him.

Seeing that Ruan Xing did not respond, Zhao Cheng continued, "When fighting for the Guixu Secret Realm, the Xuanbing Sect of Nanzhou paid a huge price. The sect leader and elders were all gone... In a hurry, Zhongzhou temporarily sent Elder Mu to take charge of the situation. I was lucky enough to break through to the late foundation building stage a few days ago. Elder Mu was busy with sect affairs, so he asked me to come to Zhongzhou alone. I also traveled for half a month before I was able to meet Junior Sister Xing today."

It turns out that Mu Shi has already gone to Nanzhou.

I just don't know whether Mu Shi knows about the transaction between Xu Shengping and Liuyang Study, and whether he will continue to send spirit stones over.

Even if he knew, it would be difficult for him to collect 30,000 spirit stones every year. After all, the annual income from Nanzhou is so little, and no matter how greedy he is, he can't get much more... Unless he gets up early and works late to hunt various monsters and earn spirit stones to fill this hole. Ruan Xing nodded, "So that's how it is."

She asked some more questions about Nanzhou, and was very supportive of Zhao Cheng's exaggerated boasting. But after just a few words, Zhao Cheng felt that he got along very well with this junior sister.

Originally, Zhao Cheng just wanted to make a friend who could take care of him in Zhongzhou where he was unfamiliar with the place. He didn't expect that this junior sister's personality was so compatible with his. He felt that he had really called the right person.

The two of them also found an inn to stay in the city. Because they were short of money to take care of Zhao Cheng, they did not rent a quiet room for cultivation. Then they agreed to meet at the door of the hall the next day.

After dealing with Zhao Cheng, Ruan Xing did not go to rest, but turned around and found a restaurant opened by a monk.

Spiritual food, spiritual tea, spiritual wine, etc., the prices are all beyond the reach of ordinary cultivators.

Therefore, most of the people who come here are children of cultivator families with considerable family wealth, or some disciples with high cultivation who can hold real power and do things in the sect.

These people are often well-informed and know much more information than the lower-level monks. Ruan Xing plans to take this opportunity to inquire here.

Although some information will be easier to know after entering the inner gate after a few days, this is a real-life simulation and we are burning spirit stones every day. How can we waste time?
After ordering two plates of spiritual fruits and a pot of leaf wine, Ruan Xing found an inconspicuous corner and sat down.

The people at the table next to her and in front of her on the right were all disciples of the Xuanbing Sect. However, there were several people in the Jindan stage at the table in front of her on the right. Ruan Xing didn't want to attract their attention, so she sat a little further away.

The male cultivators at the next table were talking very loudly, but they were just chatting about some meaningless topics, discussing which senior or junior sister was prettier, and whether there were any female disciples among the new disciples, and whether they would be assigned to be disciples of their peak master.

"Vulgar taste." Ruan Xing commented, then took a sip of wine and listened attentively to the conversation at the table in front of him on the right.

"After the secret realm was made public, did the sect master and his men give it a new name?"

"Well, I heard from Master that because the secret realm is full of water and lotus leaves and duckweed, it is named the Lotus Pond Secret Realm."

"It's all water? The secret realm shouldn't be that big, right? Isn't it called Guixu Land?"

"It's really not big. I've been to several Guixu secret realms before. The smallest one covered tens of thousands of miles. This one is said to be less than two thousand miles, and it's a huge lotus pond."

"My master said the same thing, but I don't understand why."

Ruan Xing did understand something, probably because Immortal Lord Guangyou was no longer in his prime when he died.

He did not die of old age. Instead, he first used up all his spiritual power to lead Fairy Qingping out of the land of no souls, and then used up all his spiritual power to bring Fairy Qingping back to life.

There is almost nothing left except the realm. No wonder the secret realm he found after returning to the ruins is so small.

However, the Xuanbing Sect could not make public the fact that this was the Guixu land of Immortal Lord Guangyou, and the cultivators below could only make various guesses.

"I heard that the peak masters have already gone in to sort out the secret realm. Except for the treasures that the peak masters have divided up, the remaining treasures have all been placed in the treasure pavilion. Then they can be exchanged for contribution points."

"That's great. My dad still has a lot of unused contribution points. I'll ask him to help me exchange them for a top-grade magic weapon!"

"That's a good idea you have. It doesn't matter if your father agrees or not."

"Don't interrupt me. After we have clarified the secret realm, we can pick up the leaks. The Sect Master said that there will be 20 places in the first batch."

"Only twenty? So few?"

"The core of the secret realm has been mastered by the sect. Isn't it up to the sect master to decide how often the secret realm will be opened? If it can be opened twenty times a year, that's still acceptable."

"Hehe, then the first ones to go in will definitely get the advantage."

"That's right. Your parents are both peak masters. Senior Brother Qi, you will definitely have a place in the first batch."

"Yes, I saw the list at my uncle's place yesterday. I was wondering what it was for, but now I understand what you said."

"Really? Master Jia has drawn up a list? Tell us who's on it."

"Actually, I didn't look at all of them. I only saw the names of Senior Brother Qi and Senior Brother Cheng Shuo, Du Ruo from Xiaochi Peak, Zhou Miaoyu from Tianyan Peak, Xu Sirui from Lianqi Peak, and Liang Yue from the inner sect. I didn't look closely at the others."

"Why does it feel so confusing? Liang Yue is already in the late Jindan stage, and Xu Sirui has just completed his foundation building. It's ok that their cultivation levels are not at the same level, but how come there are all direct disciples, registered disciples, and inner disciples?"

"Anyway, there are only 20 spots available, and we are all from the same sect. Even if we fight, we won't fight to the death. There's no need to be too clear about the differences in cultivation."

"Senior Sister Liang Yue is almost four hundred years old. The sect master probably feels it's a pity and gave her this quota to let her work hard. Maybe in a few years or ten years, she will be able to reach the Nascent Soul stage. As for Xu Sirui, it's probably because of compensation. After all, her father, Hall Master Xu, also sacrificed himself for the sect. The Xu family is a good family, but the one with the highest cultivation level now is her who has achieved Perfect Foundation Establishment through the use of the Luoqi Pill. I guess the Xu family's shops selling spiritual rice will not be able to be saved."

"Hey, you forgot that Mu Shi recognized Master Xu as his godfather, so he can be considered a member of the Xu family. If he can get back on his feet, the Xu family still has a chance to revive."

"Tsk, he didn't change his last name. I just can't stand them doing this. I don't think Mu Shi will help the Xu family."

Ruan Xing was listening attentively when suddenly a hand slapped the table in front of her.

She came to her senses and looked up, just in time to see a male cultivator at the next table, who was posing in a way that he thought was handsome, and smiled with his white teeth showing: "Fairy, you look a little unfamiliar, are you also a new disciple?"

Ruan Xing jumped in fright like a little rabbit, and timidly whispered, "Yes... I am a new disciple, what can I do for you, fellow Taoist?"

"Why call me fellow Daoist? It's too distant. Just call me senior brother. I'm also from the Xuanbing Sect. When you join the sect, you can visit us more often. We are all warm-hearted and love to take care of new disciples. Which peak has your junior sister been assigned to?" The male cultivator ignored Ruan Xing's resistance and sat on the other side of the table. He also called several other fellow disciples who were originally at the table to come over.

If this wasn't Xianyuan City and there weren't a few Jindan disciples nearby, she might not win if she didn't use her sword. Ruan Xing didn't want to waste this simulation, otherwise she would have put these male cultivators into the Wanhun Banner to keep them company.

She said with a somewhat grim expression: "I am entering today, and I don't know which peak I will be assigned to."

However, the most likely possibility is that she will only enter the inner gate, regardless of the peak, because she is already in the early stage of foundation building. She failed to enter the gate during the weak period in the early stage when she is most likely to develop a sense of belonging. Unless she experiences great storms in the later stage, she will not be able to contact the core and become an elite even if she enters the sect, unless there is a peak master who values ​​talent and is willing to rescue her.

But Ruan Xing didn't care, she just wanted to find out some information.

The male cultivator was somewhat delighted when he heard this. "Okay, Junior Sister, tell me your name. I will ask Master to accept you as a registered disciple. Let me tell you, the leader of our Zhengyang Peak is also a female cultivator..."

Thanks to Qingyamo for the reward~
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