Chapter 44 The Eve of the Competition (Extra)

Chapter 44 The eve of the competition (plus more)
These outer disciples took the initiative to look for their favorite inner disciples to show their loyalty.

The other outer disciples scoffed at these people, believing that they were following crooked paths and had lost the cultivator’s enterprising spirit.

But later, after seeing these first followers successfully build their foundations, they realized the cruelty of the path of cultivation.

Anyone who is a conceited genius, in the end, can only stop at the qi cultivation circle, waiting for the life expectancy to be exhausted, and no longer have the possibility of building the foundation.

In contrast, the number of people who chose to become followers increased year by year.

Outer disciples, but hung a clan’s name in the body, while the inner disciples, only counted by the clan’s recognition, get the clan’s support and cultivation.

The situation was stronger than the people, the behavior of those followers was unappealing, but it was an indisputable fact that some of them succeeded in building the foundation and became inner disciples.

Therefore, more and more people took the initiative to become followers, until nowadays, it gradually evolved into the outer disciples needing to be assessed in order to have the qualification to become a follower.

Moreover, becoming a follower of an inner disciple, that is, what is nowadays called a squire, not only would not be looked down upon, but instead became a symbol of honor.

The sect was not in favor of this, nor was it against it.

For the outer disciples, the sect has always been a free-range attitude, as long as they pay the sect contribution and do not violate the rules of the sect, the disciples can do whatever they want.

However, in order not to disrupt the balance of the outer sect, the sect stipulated that an inner sect disciple at the Qi Refining Stage could only pick two escorts.

This was also the reason why the crowd was so attached to the Grand Examination.

Having the chance to become an inner sect disciple’s escort and thus enter the inner sect was a very rare opportunity for many outer sect disciples.

Both being able to obtain more cultivation resources and finding a backer for themselves.

After all, trying to enter the inner sect from the outer sect through the normal way was just too difficult.

Only the top ten at the Outer Sect Disciple Competition would be able to obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill.

However, the Outer Sect Disciple Competition was only held once every five years, and normally, on average, there were only two disciples per year who were able to successfully build their foundations and enter the Inner Sect.

This also led to the difficulty of ordinary outer disciples wanting to enter the inner sect, which was tantamount to climbing up to the sky.

Becoming a squire, however, was a step up to enter the inner sect.

Unlike the outer sect disciples who had no way to seek the path, inner sect disciples were able to exchange their contribution value for foundation building pills.

The Foundation Establishment Pill was extremely precious and rare, and an inner disciple could only exchange three of them in a lifetime.

Despite the fact that each Foundation Establishment Pill required a massive amount of contribution value to redeem, the qualification to redeem each Foundation Establishment Pill was always in high demand.

Most of the inner sect disciples were dual spirit roots, and they often only needed one or two Foundation Establishment Pills to break through to Foundation Establishment.

The extra Foundation Establishment Dan exchange qualifications they either sold or rewarded to the escorts that followed them.

This was also the reason why, the outer disciples crowded their heads, wanting to be chosen as escorts.

What they were fighting for was nothing more than that glimmer of foundation building chance.

After establishing the foundation, these escorts would be able to automatically release their status as escorts and become inner disciples.

But the so-called escort, in fact, to put it bluntly, is a kind of subordinate relationship, to put it bluntly, almost and the mundane world of the slave is no difference.

The escorts follow the orders of the inner disciples, and the inner disciples will give them resources and protection.

Although the escorts had the inner disciples as their backing, but in contrast, their freedom was in the hands of others.

Even if the escort commits a serious mistake, it is possible to be beaten and killed by the inner disciples.

However, under normal circumstances, the inner disciples will not easily kill the escort.

The inner disciples in the qi cultivation stage can only select two escorts in total, and once the escorts are selected, they cannot be replaced, and even if they die, they cannot fill in the gaps. Excellent escorts were a great help to the inner disciples.

Therefore, the inner disciples are very careful in choosing their escorts. The escorts were simply and directly divided into two categories by the inner disciples, namely the combat category and the support category.

Combat type escorts were more appetizing, but auxiliary types were also indispensable, and these inner disciples, in general, chose one of each type.

There were also a small number of people that would pick two combat types or two auxiliary types.

Xu Chuniang was not interested in becoming someone else’s squire, in her opinion, selling her freedom was tantamount to selling her soul.

Ever since she started on this path of Immortal Cultivation, she had become stronger day by day, and Xu Chuniang was confident that without being someone else’s squire, she would one day be able to rely on her own strength to step into the Inner Sect as well.

Thinking that she would be able to see Wei Dawu in a while, she was somewhat happy and expectant.

Wei Dawu was her only acquaintance within the sect, and she wondered what point his cultivation had reached after three years had passed.

Just because Xu Chuniang had no intention of becoming a squire didn’t mean that the others weren’t interested.

After all, in the eyes of this group of new disciples, the hope of obtaining the Foundation Establishment Pill in the outer sect was too slim, far less promising than following the inner disciples.

They all rubbed their fists and clapped their hands together, striving to shine a little brighter today, so that the geniuses of the inner sect could take a liking to them.

“I heard that the inner sect disciples of the same class as us will all come to watch us compete today, in order to select the best squires. I must perform well today and strive to be selected to enter the inner sect.”

“Alas, it’s just too hard to be picked by those lofty-eyed inner sect brothers. There are only a hundred or so Inner Sect Senior Brothers who have entered this term of ours, and at most, they will only pick two hundred or so escorts, whereas there are a full three thousand of us Outer Sect disciples.”

“Just be content!”

A person beside him advised, “The Outer Sect Grand Competition has at least five thousand participants every year, yet only the top ten are chosen each time, this is much easier than the Outer Sect Grand Competition.”

“That’s true, we must grasp this opportunity, otherwise I’m afraid we’ll be stuck in the outer gate for the rest of our lives.”

“The martial arts test is about to start, why haven’t those inner sect brothers come yet?”

But at this moment, a disciple looked excited and pointed to the side, “Quickly look over there, it’s the inner sect senior brothers, they’re coming over!”

The inner disciples wore white robes that were different from the outer disciples, so the crowd recognized them at a glance.

They looked faintly proud and their white robes were spotless, forming a stark contrast with the thousands of surrounding outer disciples wearing green robes.

Seeing that the inner disciples had all arrived, Steward Mu, who had been resting his eyes with his eyes closed at the top, opened his eyes and faintly commanded, “Begin.”

The rules of the martial arts test had been set long ago, with batches being assessed according to the results of the cultural test. Disciples who scored an A grade in both cultural scores would be prioritized for the competition.

Out of the three thousand outer disciples, there were a total of four hundred who had obtained double A grades, and they would have three matches, with the winner advancing and the loser directly disqualified.

In the end of these four hundred, only fifty disciples would remain.

According to the usual situation, if there were no surprises, these fifty people would all be selected by the inner disciples.

Even among the top hundred who did not enter the top fifty, there were still quite a few who would be selected.

After all, a double A score, to some extent, was also a proof of strength.

Xu Chuniang, as the first batch of people to participate in the competition, went up to the stage and drew her number, number three hundred and twenty-seven.

A total of ten rings were set up at the examination venue, capable of holding twenty people for the competition at the same time. At this rate, it was estimated that it would still be a while before it was her turn to go on stage.

Xu Chuniang looked in the direction of the inner disciples, trying to find Wei Dawu.

Coincidentally, the other party was also looking her way, and for a moment, their eyes met.

Wei Dawu smiled faintly and gave her a gesture of effort, and Xu Chunniang revealed a big smile and nodded heavily.

Although she hadn’t thought about being a squire, but the competition, she wouldn’t let up just yet.

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