Killing God - Chapter 195

Chapter 195 Observation Platform
On this day, the wind was gentle and sunny, the sky was high and the sun was high in the sky, shining brightly, illuminating the Golden Rainbow Mountain, an immortal mountain in the sea, like a dream, magnificent and magnificent.

There were many palaces in the middle of the mountain, It was the focus of the daily activities of many direct disciples above the Origin Condensation Realm of the Soaring Firmament Sect. There were many grand pavilions, and most newcomers couldn’t figure out what was happening here. However, with Young Master Sun, all of this was naturally not a problem. Young Master Sun had already revealed a very strong talent for searching for information on Bluefish Island many years ago.

“… Although there are many palaces on this mountain, you will understand after staying for a long time that the most central place is the sea viewing platform beneath our feet.”

Listening to Sun You’s words, Shen Shi looked around. At this moment, the two of them had just crossed the stone steps and climbed onto a wide and flat plaza. The ground was paved with large green jade bricks, covering tens of acres of land. Around them stood large and small palaces. Several paths led from the gaps between the palaces to further up the mountain, connecting to more palaces in the distance.

Including the Spirit Medicine Hall that Shen Shi had visited yesterday, it was also a conspicuous location around Guanhai platform. However, no one had explained it to him in such detail as Sun You did today. At this moment, there were people coming and going on the viewing platform. Most of them were dressed in Lingxiao Sect disciple costumes. Their popularity wasn’t low, but it didn’t seem very noisy. Behind the two of them, there were more than a dozen stone steps of various sizes connected to the viewing platform from all directions.

Looking back, he saw that the viewing platform was in the middle of Golden Rainbow Mountain. It had an extremely wide field of vision. Without any obstruction, he could see the vast sea and clouds with a single glance. Looking at the vast expanse of the sea and sky, it was as clear as a mirror. It was truly heroic. No matter how much gloom one had, it would dissipate.

Apart from that, the most eye-catching pillars in Guanhai platform Square were the seven magnificent watch pillars that stood in the middle of the square. They were over twenty feet tall and pure white. They seemed to be carved out of a huge piece of jade. The pillars were engraved with coiling dragons and phoenixes. They were lifelike. At a glance, they looked like seven giants looking at the sea from the mountains, swallowing thousands of kilometers.

Seeing that Shen Shi was looking at the seven magnificent jade pillars, Sun You smiled and said, “These seven jade pillars are called ‘Hongjun Pillars’. Legend has it that they were brought back from the Demon Emperor Palace of Tianhong City by our founding sect’s Ancestor Jing Cheng after the Human-Demon War. It has been ten thousand years since they were erected here.”

Shen Shi looked at the seven towering jade pillars and nodded in admiration.

Sun You smiled and pulled him. The two of them continued to walk forward. At the same time, Sun You turned to him and said, “I say, Stone, do you really not remember what happened a few years ago?”

A trace of embarrassment flashed across Shen Shi’s face. He laughed dryly and said, “That’s right. Anyway, after the accidental explosion of the formation three years ago, I was in a daze. When I truly woke up a few days ago, I remembered my past identity and discovered that I was already in the Origin Realm.”

Sun You tsk tsk tsk twice. He looked very surprised and exclaimed. Shen Shi also sighed in his heart. This reason was given to him by Du Tiejian, allowing him to deal with any questions in the future like this. At that time, Shen Shi also felt that it was a bit unreliable after hearing this. He felt that it was a bit too perfunctory. However, Du Tiejian said carelessly, “Anyway, it’s not all lies, including the most important teleportation array. Furthermore, the sect has recognized it from Adept Huaiyuan. Who can care about anything else?” As for the tiny teleportation array, it was unheard of as an important discovery, but now that the array had been destroyed, there was no evidence to prove it.

In short, Shen Shi had no choice but to bravely repeat the reason he had asked Sun Youyou this morning. Although Sun Youyou looked very surprised, he did not have any more suspicions. It had been three years since they last met. Although the two of them were old, their friendship towards Shen Shi did not seem to have faded much. After the two of them met, it was as if they had returned to the days on Bluefish Island back then. For a time, they were incomparably friendly.

“I was worried that you would be trapped in the Qi Refining Realm, but I didn’t expect you to directly break through the Realm on your first night back in the mountain. I never expected that, haha!” Young friend Sun continued walking forward with Shen Shi. He seemed to have said as much as before. He kept talking beside Shen Shi and smiled, “Originally, I was worried that you would be trapped in the Qi Refining Realm.”

Shen Shi smiled and said, “Forget about luck. Right, after I left, what happened to the people on the island who broke through the realm?”

Friend Sun shrugged his shoulders and said, “It seems like the group of disciples we had back then was truly a gathering of elites.” Of course, the first one to break through to the Origin Condensation Realm is that monster Gan Ze. He is also the only genius in our group who has broken through to the middle stage of the Origin Condensation Realm in just three years. Apart from that, in the six months that followed, nineteen people had cultivated to the Origin Condensation Realm one after another. There were Zhong Qinglu and Zhong Qingzhu inside. Of course, this Young Master is also a genius without a doubt. ”

Shen Shi laughed and patted his shoulder forcefully. He smiled and said, “I can’t see it. It’s amazing.”

“Hehe.” Sun You laughed and said casually, “The earliest people to arrive at the Origin Condensation Realm were about twenty people. In the next three years, another forty to fifty people broke through the realm. Hmm … The He Xiaomei you met before went up the mountain the next year, and that Jiang Hongguang, one year later.” “In short, there are quite a few new disciples who have broken through to the next realm. After I went up the mountain, I heard from the seniors of the sect that such a high number of new disciples is extremely rare. I’m afraid it will take three to four hundred years for me to see them once.”

Shen Shi smiled and nodded. He couldn’t help but sigh in his heart. Back in the last year in Qingyu Island, his Dao Cultivation was actually not bad. It might not be impossible for him to squeeze into the first batch of disciples who broke through to the next realm, but … Sigh, anyway, it was useless to think about this anymore.

He shook his head slightly and put this useless thought behind him. He said to Sun You, “Where are you taking me now?”

Young friend Sun chuckled and said, “I’ll take you to collect the money.”

Shen Shi was stunned. Sun You smiled and pulled him forward. At the same time, he began to explain the rules of Golden Rainbow Mountain in Lingxiao Sect to him.

Once Qingyu Island’s upper outer sect disciples successfully broke through to the Origin Condensation Realm, they would have the qualifications to ascend to Jinhong Mountain and become direct disciples. After becoming a direct disciple, there were no longer so many restrictions and rules on Qingyu Island. In comparison, the sect rules for these Origin Condensation Realm disciples, Lingxiao Sect, were much more relaxed. At the same time, there were also quite a few corresponding benefits.

One of these was that each person could collect fifteen spirit crystals from the sect every month.

Shen Shi thought carefully. After pondering for a moment after hearing this, he reacted. The number of these fifteen spirit crystals should be the minimum guarantee for the monthly cultivation of Origin Condensation Realm disciples. Lingxiao Sect is indeed a famous sect in the world, This move was inconspicuous, However, considering that there were thousands of disciples on the mountain, the amount of spirit crystals they spent every month was definitely not small. Moreover, according to Sun You, this was only the treatment of Origin Condensation disciples. The number of spirit crystals they received every month was several times or even dozens of times that of the Divine Concept Senior Brothers and even the Origin Core Realm True Cultivators who were at a higher cultivation realm in the sect.

Such a huge expenditure of spirit crystals must be based on the enormous spirit vein deep within the Golden Red Mountain Range. As expected, the spirit vein is the foundation that supports a cultivation sect.

However, for cultivators to cultivate, it was impossible for them to rely solely on this small amount of spirit crystals. Do you want to eat spirit pills? Do you want to use a spirit artifact? Do you want to learn a miraculous technique? The treasures of the Dharma Couple’s wealth and many other heavenly materials are placed in front of your eyes, causing you to be twice as greedy with half the effort.

Therefore, even the direct disciples of Lingxiao Sect still had to work hard for the spirit crystals and many cultivation spirit materials.

Unlike when he was imprisoned on Bluefish Island, Once they reached the Origin Condensation Realm, the Ling Xiao Sect did not prohibit their disciples from traveling. In fact, the Ling Xiao Sect encouraged them to do so. Every day, there was an Immortal Sea Crossing Boat under Golden Rainbow Mountain that could send those disciples who were unable to cross the sea to Hai Zhou. Of course, every time they took a boat, the cost was indispensable, one spirit crystal.

Hearing this, Shen Shi suddenly remembered some memories from back then on Blue Fish Island. A bad premonition flashed through his heart. He hurriedly asked Sun You. Sure enough, he heard Sun You continue to say that this place where the Ling Xiao Sect needed to spend spirit crystals was almost everywhere.

Most of the miraculous medicines in the Spirit Medicine Hall that could enhance the cultivation of Dao Cultivation required spirit crystals and were expensive. Of course, there were some spirit pills that were not purchased with spirit crystals. However, that was because these spirit pills were of a higher grade. Lingxiao Sect directly stopped selling them. Instead, he raised the threshold. If the disciples wanted these spirit pills with great efficacy, they had to use another special sect’s “Profound Talisman”.

“Profound Talisman?” Shen Shi was stunned for a moment. He took out the Cloud Talisman from his Ruyi bag and said, “Does it have anything to do with this?”

Sun You glanced at the Ruyi bag hanging on his waist, then shook his head and said, “It’s different from the Cloud Talisman. It’s like this.” As he spoke, he reached out and touched his waist. There was also a Ruyi bag hanging there, but it was yellow. A moment later, a black jade ring appeared on his hand, which was black in color but flickered with a faint light. From the looks of it, it was about the size of a Cloud Talisman.

Afterwards, through Young Friend Sun’s explanation, Shen Shi roughly understood the purpose of this profound talisman. Actually, amongst the direct disciples, just like on Bluefish Island back then, there would still be many missions assigned to the High Firmament Sect. Some easy missions would give some spirit crystals in return, while some important and difficult missions would reward a special type of profound talisman counting, specifically accumulating on each individual’s unique profound talisman. After accumulating a certain number of profound talismans, they could exchange for some extremely good items, pills, spirit artifacts, magic treasures, and even powerful Dao Arts and divine abilities in the Soaring Firmament Sect.

At first glance, it seemed to be troublesome and tedious, but after thinking about it carefully, Shen Shi faintly felt that this sect rule was still somewhat aimed at those aristocratic families that were comparable to the rich countries. If all of them used spirit crystals, how could ordinary mortals’ disciples compare to those aristocratic families’ disciples? With this profound talisman, the distribution of spiritual materials on the higher level would be relatively fair.

However, if that was the case, then once the rules on Qingyu Island were completely relaxed, the disciples of aristocratic families would be able to obtain the complete support of their clans once they reached the Origin Condensation Realm, and their cultivation realm would definitely be able to draw a distance from ordinary disciples, right?

In this world, how could there really be complete fairness?

Shen Shi shook his head and didn’t think about this anymore. In any case, it was useless to think about this kind of thing. After carefully remembering Sun You’s words just now, he said with some caution, “According to what you said, even if we went to Jinhong Mountain, we would have to rely on ourselves to earn the Dao Arts and Divine Abilities?”

Sun You said, “Not exactly. First, a disciple who has just entered the Origin Condensation Realm can go to the Academy to choose a spell for free. Of course, there is only one chance, and it will not be a peerless immortal spell. However, it should be enough to defend himself.” Second, it depends on your luck. If you are lucky enough to be favored by those Grand Elders of the Origin Core Realm and be accepted into your sect, then the Dao Arts and divine abilities they impart will naturally depend on the relationship between master and disciple. They will not care about spirit crystals. Apart from that, we’ll probably have to rely on our own efforts. ”

Shen Shi nodded and then smiled, “In that case, it seems that most people are fair. By the way, those Origin Core Realm elders don’t take in many disciples. Have you ever been taken a fancy to?”

“Don’t mention it. Those Origin Core Realm elders are all high and mighty. They either travel around the world or cultivate in seclusion all day long. Moreover, they have been in seclusion for more than ten to twenty years. They can’t see a single person in their leisure, let alone take in disciples,” Young Master Sun sneered angrily. More than 90% of the thousands of direct disciples on this mountain have to rely on themselves to cultivate, and I’m no exception. ”

Shen Shi laughed heartily and said, “Did any of our disciples get lucky back then?”

“Yes,” said Sun You.

Shen Shi exclaimed, “Who is it?”

“There are two people that the elders have taken a fancy to. One is Gan Ze, the other is Zhong Qingzhu.” He paused for a moment before suddenly adding, “However, I heard that Elder Yun Ni, who is in charge of the Pill Hall, is very fond of Zhong Qinglu. Perhaps she will be the third one.”

Shen Shi nodded, but his thoughts were reminded by the other fame that Sun You had just mentioned. He said, “Oh right, I forgot that Zhong Qingzhu had a good relationship with us back then. How is she now?”

Young friend Sun suddenly frowned for no reason. Looking at the unhappy expression on his face, he snorted, waved his hand, and said,

“Don’t mention her!”