Chapter 172: Choice

In the north of Jianzhou, on a barren mountain on the border between Yue and Yuanwu, there are dozens of tall and short people in yellow shirts, their clothes fluttering in the wind, and they are still of different ages. The older ones have gray hair, wrinkles on their faces, they have reached the age of knowing the destiny of heaven, the small ones have fine skin and tender flesh, red lips and white teeth, and their childishness has not yet been exhausted, but they are all silent and standing in an orderly manner.

At the front is an old man who is not angry and arrogant, this old man is holding his hands behind his back, leisurely looking at the sky motionless, and he is in a trance. Behind him, there were four men and one woman, several people with solemn expressions, and one of them was the same Senior Uncle Wang who led Han Li to the door, and he also had a solemn look on his face at this moment.

Behind the five people, there were two rows of yellow-shirted disciples standing neatly, these people had different expressions, some looked nervous and cramped, some were full of indifference and looked left and right, and some smiled and said nothing.

And in the corner of the last row, there was a dark-faced, ordinary-looking young man with his eyes lowered, always looking at his toes, his eyes did not dare to squint, and he seemed to be very shy.

But no one knew that this guy who looked like a yellow-haired boy was slandering in his heart and was full of resentment.

This young man was not someone else, it was Han Li, and this line of people in yellow shirts was the disciples of the Yellow Maple Valley who participated in the "Blood Trial."

Han Li finally joined this journey to death, and after owning two Tsukidans, this could not but be said to be a ridiculous and helpless thing.

More than a month ago, after Han Li learned from Wu Feng about the method of taking Tsukidan, he was hit hard.

Originally, after taking the Tsukidan, the person who wanted to build the foundation had to retreat for three months and exhaust the medicinal power before he could leave the customs, otherwise the medicinal power would be greatly dispersed and the effect would be greatly reduced. Therefore, whether the foundation can be built will be successful or not until at least a few months later.

But if he really had to wait for such a long time, it would be very bad for Han Li.

According to his original idea of getting these two Zhuji pills, he took these two pills first to see if he could succeed in building the foundation, and then decided whether to participate in the trial. If he can succeed in building the foundation by luck, he will definitely not go to such a dangerous place as the forbidden land, after all, the one-in-four chance of survival is too scary.

If it doesn't work after taking it, then the trip to the forbidden land is still imperative. One or two pills of Tsukidan is not enough, then he will refine three or four pills, or even more, he believes that no matter how poor his qualifications are, after taking enough Tsukidan, he can still enter the foundation building period.

However, the restriction of a three-month retreat after taking the medicine disrupted Han Li's plan, leaving him in the awkward situation of having both fish and bear's paws.

Now either take Tsukidan and give up the forbidden land trip completely, or put away Tsukidan for the time being, and wait for the blood trial to pass before taking it. There won't be a good thing to do both.

After nearly half a month of thinking about it, Han Li felt that with his terrible qualifications, even if he took two pills of Zhuji Dan in a row, the hope of succeeding in Zhuji was still very slim, and the blood-colored trial must not be given up.

In fact, Han Li hadn't thought that he would wait until the next five years to participate in the Scarlet Trial, at that time, even if he hadn't built the foundation, he would definitely have practiced Changchun Gong to the top level, and in this way, his ability to protect himself would be much greater.

However, not long after Han Li's idea came to him, the upper echelons of Huang Feng Valley announced a major event that shocked the entire Yue Kingdom Immortal Cultivation Realm, causing his thoughts to disappear.

The content is: The forbidden place of the Scarlet Trial will be temporarily closed for sixty years after five years, and during this period, the seven major factions will jointly send people to supervise, and no one will be allowed to enter to collect medicine.

This kind of practice of temporarily enclosing forbidden places is not unusual, almost every three or four hundred years, the seven major factions will do this.

Because the forbidden land is frequently opened, a large amount of spiritual energy will be lost in it, and the production and growth rate of the elixir will slow down. This temporary closure will change the density of the aura again, allowing it to return to normal levels once again.

However, even if the seven major factions took this measure, the elixirs in the forbidden land were still scarce year by year, and it became more and more difficult to find, especially the finished elixirs that met the requirements of alchemy, which were even rarer.

According to the inference of some people of insight from the Seven Great Immortal Sects, if they wanted to truly restore the normal amount of elixir in the forbidden land, they had to delay the time of the enclosure until a full thousand years. Otherwise, this temporary closure will only delay the depletion of some forbidden elixirs, after all, the origin and growth of elixirs are not a matter of one or two days.

Although this reasoning combined with the actual situation in the forbidden land made it impossible for anyone to deny its correctness, the people in power of the Seven Great Sects could not make this decision.

The number of Tsukidans is closely related to the rise and fall of their seven major factions.

If there was a lack of this elixir in fifty or sixty years, the Seven Great Sects would only lose some fur and not hurt their muscles and bones. But if there is really no Zhuji Dan for hundreds or thousands of years, then let alone the seven major factions, I am afraid that the entire Yue Kingdom Immortal Cultivation Realm is facing life and death.

After all, a place where immortal cultivators can no longer build a foundation, can it still be called the immortal cultivation realm? I'm afraid that all the immortal cultivators and scattered cultivators will leave the Yue Kingdom and go to other places to seek survival. The Seven Sects will be no exception.

Therefore, knowing that this practice of frequently opening the forbidden land is doing a stupid thing of killing chickens and taking eggs, but the people of the seven major factions still have to do it.

They only hoped that before the forbidden elixir was truly extinct, they could find other alternative places to produce the elixir.

This also made the old monsters of the major factions in the Dan stage, and even the Yuan Infant stage, begin to go out unusually frequently in the last few hundred years, in order to find the origin of other elixirs, or find other ways out for the sect, and must not let the Dao system of the sect decline.

Han Li naturally couldn't know so clearly about the above matters. But as soon as this news came out, Han Li didn't dare to think about that bloody trial five years later.

Even the most sluggish person would understand that when the forbidden land was opened in five years, it would definitely be extremely bloody and bloody, and all the elite disciples of all the major sects would come out, in order to make a big deal of elixir before the encirclement, and let Han Li join such a trial, wouldn't that be self-defeating!

Although after this news is announced, this trip to the forbidden land will also be more difficult and the fight will be more tragic, but no matter what, it will definitely be much stronger than the next one.

As for such a stupid thing as participating in the Blood Trial after fifty years, Han Li had never thought of it.

After passing the best age for foundation building, even if he reluctantly entered the foundation building stage in the future, he would definitely not be able to go far on the path of cultivating immortals, which was not the result Han Li wanted.

It was with this mentality in mind that Han Li signed up for the Forbidden Land's Medicinal Gathering Group. And the person in charge of signing up turned out to be that Uncle Wang, which made Han Li surprised and regretted it a little.

And Uncle Wang was even more stunned when he saw Han Li.

On the one hand, he was greatly surprised that a newcomer like Han Li had come to participate in the Blood Trial, and on the other hand, he was a little incredulous because of the rapid progress of Han Li's cultivation. With Han Li's qualifications, it was amazing that he was able to improve his cultivation so much in such a short period of time, from the ninth layer to the eleventh layer at once.

It would not be unusual to say that Han Li was a disciple of some extraordinary talent, and it was not uncommon for him to improve his martial arts faster than him. But Han Li's pseudo-spirit root identity, which he had personally tested, how could he cultivate so quickly?

As far as a pseudo-spiritual root person is concerned, the ninth-layer technique when Han Li first entered the door was already surprisingly high.

It is usually the elders who have been instilled with mana, or who have often taken some elixirs, and who have practiced diligently. But now, Han Li, who was in the eleventh layer of exercises, was standing in front of him alive, which surprised him incomparably!

Since Senior Uncle Wang had doubts in his heart, he unceremoniously pulled Han Li aside and tested his attributes again. As a result, it was still the same as the previous conclusion, and there was no speculation about the spiritual root mutation.

This made Uncle Wang even more confused.