CH 012 Is This A Competition?

Ji Yunlai left this remark and left, ignoring the complex expression on his junior sister's face.

He had more important things to take care of.

Finally, he now had a little access to the memory of the past. If not to make a copy of it right away then what was there to wait for?

Important information that was not backed up was never safe information!

When he returned to his residence, he eagerly opened the jade talisman without stopping even for a moment.

Sure enough, the above not only introduced the Li family, but also introduced the Great Xuan Immortal Dynasty.

After reading over the information, his horizon was indeed expanded by this terrifying force of power.

Different from today’s many sects and many big and small states and kingdoms that had the backing of these sects. Thousands of years ago, the human race was unified by the Great Xuan Immortal Dynasty. It was said that this was the only period of great unity since the reign of the Celestial Emperor...

It was simply an awe-inspiring phenomenon!

Just looking at this history caused Ji Yunlai's blood to rush with a sense of excitement.

***

The Great Xuan Immortal Dynasty cultivators cultivated themselves with the fortune of the human race, gathering millions of human faith and conviction to cultivate. So long as the officials of Great Xuan could gather the popularity and support of the common people, their cultivation path was without any obstacles, and not even heart demons posed a problem.

The more fortune of the human race one possessed, the faster their cultivation would be, and one could even cross cultivation stages without facing any heart demon tribulations.

The only flaw was that the higher the cultivation stage, the more human fortune one required.

As for the people's faith, it came from the merits you received as a result of your governance. So long as the people under your jurisdiction were grateful to you, there would be blessings in the form of the people's faith, protecting you from all demons and misfortunes.

In addition, because the Great Xuan's cultivation was that of the imperial examination method, the stages of cultivation were divided into Tong Sheng, Xiu Cai, Ju Ren, and Jin Shi, corresponding to Qi Condensation, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core Formation, and Nascent Soul (TN: Tong Sheng=candidate who has not yet passed the county level imperial exam; Xiu Cai=a person who has passed the county level imperial exam; Ju Ren=successful candidate in the imperial provincial examination; Jin Shi=successful candidate in the highest imperial civil service examination). The higher the level the more cultivation resources and fortune one could get, and thus practically gathering all the unaffiliated cultivators in the world. From then on, the Great Xuan Immortal Dynasty soared into the sky. For thousands of years, Great Xuan swallowed, split, attacked, implemented all kinds of methods, and basically captured and integrated all the cultivation sects in the world.

Anyone or sect who didn't submit would be branded with a puppet seal and then thrown into the mining area as slaves, and those who submitted were broken up and scattered among the imperial army.

They also stipulated that all cultivators must be registered. If an unregistered cultivator was found, they would be arrested immediately, and those who were arrested could be killed on the spot.

After that, among these big sects, they either went underground one after another, not daring to reveal their presence, or immigrating to faraway lands, not daring to fight against Great Xuan.

And as a result, Great Xuan also collected countless manuals on cultivation methods and practices from other sects, their great library basically filled with the inheritance of the entire human race.

The cultivators all over the world could only practice the cultivation method of the Great Xuan.

***

Seeing this, Ji Yunlai frowned. Going too far could often be worse than not doing enough, and a sole dominating force could never last long. It was very easy to go wrong if one did things this way.

Even in his previous life, from ancient times to the present, vassal states of old imperial China were allowed to remain to serve as a warning buffer. Besides, the act of collecting and seizing books from all over the world was practically the same as burning books.

***

After conquering and unifying the human race, in order to obtain more resources and dominate the world, Great Xuan began to wage war on the lands of the spirit demon race and other foreign races.

At that time, Emperor Shang captured the spirit demon race's Qingqiu State with almost no resistance. The Celestial Fox family that lived there dispersed into the lands of the Outlands. The fox spirit demon race's Great Sage, the Queen of the Celestial Foxes, Su Wan was seriously injured and her whereabouts became unknown.

Great Xuan continued to march, but at this time dozens of spirit demon tribes and Great Sages had come to their senses. Originally, spirit demon tribes had always kept to their own kind, but Great Xuan had been too overbearing for thousands of years, so for the first time, seven Great Sages united to oppose the Immortal Dynasty. The Celestial Fox Queen and the other Great Sages did not launch direct attacks on Great Xuan's terrifying forces, but carried out guerrilla attacks, dragging down Great Xuan's main fighting force in the Outlands, and at the same time driving rats, insects, snakes and beasts to spread plague among the humans.

What they spread were not terminal illnesses, but ordinary ones such as typhoid, leprosy, black fever, filariasis…

They did not lead to immediate deaths, but the illnesses affected a large number of people and a wide range of areas.

This did not come to the attention of the cultivators at first.

But when they finally paid attention, the herbs used to treat these plagues and illnesses had all become extinct.

For a time, there were tragic casualties all over, shaking the fortune of the human race.

And another huge problem had also surfaced.

There were too many officials in the  Great Xuan Immortal Dynasty.

Cultivators had a long life span. In a dynasty that had lasted tens of thousands of years, there had only been three emperors, not to mention the various officials in the court.

The imperial examinations were held every ten years, so after being held hundreds of thousands of times the number of cultivators in incumbent official positions accumulated more and more.

A large number of Tong Sheng, Xiu Cai, and Ju Ren were unable to hold positions. If they were unable to hold positions, they would not be able to use the fortune of the human race to cultivate, and thus could not reach higher cultivation stages...

However, the fortune of the human race was ultimately limited, and there were too many cultivators and not enough fortune to go around, causing unease and conflict within the Great Xuan.

If they withdrew from the Outlands at this time and went back to settle internal affairs, there might have still been a chance. However, Emperor Shang did not want to leave a smudge on his undefeated record. He insisted on continuing with the war campaign, thinking that only more land would yield more fortune.

Soon after, the Celestial Fox Queen Su Wan, who disguised herself to be a human, entered the palace harem. She changed her name to Shu Wan'er, and no one knew what she had done in the palace.

But just a hundred years later, Emperor Shang died violently in the imperial palace, Great Xuan's imperial family split into two factions, the spiritual wards protecting the imperial capital were taken down, and the city was ransacked by the hidden Great Sages who had been waiting for that moment. The imperial family was killed in a bloodbath in the palace, and only a dozen grandchildren of the imperial family survived. In order to prevent the cultivation books from being seized, Great Xuan's High Priest activated the spiritual wards and destroyed all the books, the fire lasting for as long as three months.

Since then, Great Xuan split into several territories, each ruled by an imperial grandson.

With the nation's fortune in decline, the cultivation practices and manuals of ordinary sects far surpassed that of Great Xuan's, and thus these sects took the opportunity to return to power.

Subsequently, the power of these individual sects rose, and conflict between fortune cultivators and the orthodox cultivators lasted for a hundred years, with the latter winning in the end.

The accumulated resources of the Great Xuan Immortal Dynasty were soon divided up, and the imperial blood and fortune cultivators still to this day remain enemies of the world to be killed by all cultivators.

A thousand years ago, the Xuan Kingdom ruled by the last imperial grandson was destroyed, and the Great Xuan Immortal Dynasty officially ended.

***

Ji Yunlai sighed. If after the unification they continued to develop, there might have been a chance for the flourishing of the human race. However, the Great Xuan Immortal Dynasty was too domineering, and the emperor was too immersed in personal grandiose deeds. It was no wonder that when he just transmigrated a thousand years ago, there were barren and bleak scenes everywhere. After all, war had lasted thousands of years.

It was no wonder that Ji Yunlai picked up so many refugee children back then, even the cultivators died easily, so one could imagine just how miserable the lives of the common people were.

And those cultivation books, gone up in flames just like that!

Did they know just how much he suffered to buy just a basic talisman seal dictionary???

Burned just like that! Burned!

It was simply… simply too much, didn't they know that all important data should be backed up?

He only just barely suppressed his anger and kept reading.

***

In order to avoid being hunted down, Great Xuan's imperial surname changed from Yin to Li, known as the Li family, their goal being the restoration of the Great Xuan.

The Celestial Fox Great Sage Su Wan came to the human territory to hunt and kill the Li family several times, wounding countless innocent people along the way, and thus was cut in half by the Master of Kun-Lai's sword, no longer daring to enter the Western Continent again.

The End.

***

Ji Yunlai was stunned!

Too caught off guard!

Hey! How could it end like this?

What about afterwards? Where was the rest?

He almost screamed at the sky. Where was the most important part?

What about the love-hate story between Ji Yunlai and Li Xianjing?

How could it cut off in the most critical place???

***

Bai Shuixian raised her head as if having felt something, and sighed quietly. The Sect Leader must have remembered the past. She was right to delete the information that the Sect Leader knew.

"What is it, does Junior Sister have any more to add?" Next to her, Yan Zhao asked. They had been discussing the rewards for the disciple competitions.

"Nothing, the competitions in the inner peak are decided as such." Bai Shuixian reluctantly said, putting thoughts of the Sect Leader aside for now. "But there is one thing, each peak competition has learned the manuals and incantations, but the new Foundation Establishment disciples are all beginners and it is difficult for them to be selected to participate. It would be a pity for them to miss this opportunity."

"Matters of chance are inevitable." Yan Zhao was too lazy to think about those little disciples, after all it was their own fault for not being born early enough.

"Why don't you give an opportunity for these Foundation Establishment disciples, open a Great Xuan Immortal Dynasty secret realm, and choose the top three winners to attend the ceremony?" A cold-looking young cultivator asked slowly.

The secret realm they discovered was supposed to be for the Xiu Cai examination, or the Foundation Establishment Stage, used by the Great Xuan. Great Xuan's imperial examination was known for its fairness and equality. After all, there were advantages that came along with thousands of years of accumulation. After the exam, the first, second, and third place would be clear at a glance.

This was a good idea. Bai Shuixian and the others looked at each other, and they all nodded: "Excellent!"

She raised her hand, added a few strokes to the notice recording the details of the competitions, and then threw it out the window.

The notice rolled around in the air, turned into countless golden birds, and flew off to the many peaks.

Immediately, news of the competitions were updated on the announcement bulletin board at each peak.

Kun-Lai instantly bubbled like a boiling pot of water!

***

Shennong Peak.

The news of the Kun-Lai disciple competitions had spread throughout the sect.

In the main hall, a group of people were drooling over the prize list, and Feng Qingxiu was no exception.

"Rewarding 10,000 spiritual stone points just for being selected to attend the ceremony..." A senior brother had already begun to count how many good things he could buy with that kind of money.

"Yin Yang Blood Rice seeds, that is something I can't afford to buy even if I sold myself..." A disciple swooned when he saw the list of rewards.

"As if you're even worth a lot of money." The senior brother next to him kicked him away, "Cloud Talisman Dao Seed, if one has the money to buy then one must buy the Cloud Talisman Dao Seed. With it, there will be one more spiritual field, one more spiritual field, you fools!"

They were all given their own spiritual fields, but only after gradually refining it into their foundation could they plant spiritual grass and rice at will, but what was the situation with possessing two spiritual fields? The speed of harvesting would be doubled, and the output would also be doubled!

"That's something that the chief disciple of Shennong Peak is determined to get, besides isn't one spiritual field enough to hollow you out?" One person sneered, and everyone around nodded in agreement. They couldn't even absorb that much spiritual energy for cultivation of spiritual plants so how many spiritual grains could one more spiritual field produce?

"That's right, have some self-awareness on whether you have a solid enough foundation, Shennong Peak is full of greedy and exhausted oxen, but never is there any land that has been worn down from too much plowing." The disciple who had been kicked sneered.

"Just because you can't do it doesn't mean others can't. At worst, I'll leave it to my apprentices in the future!"

"Enough already! Why aren't you guys talking about being able to see the Sect Leader at the grand ceremony?" Feng Qingxiu felt his heart race with excitement and raised his voice. "To be able to see the Sect Leader in our lifetime, how fortunate we are! All those external possessions, we’ll have other opportunities to get them!"

"Uh..." Some disciples felt guilty.

"Xiao Feng, you're overthinking it. We'll only be able to stand in the outer hall, we probably can't even enter the front hall."

"Wanting to see him but also feeling a bit scared."

"That's something the best disciples worry about. As for us, let's just see if we can grab a spot in the outer hall."

"That's true," not wanting to embarrass his senior brothers, Feng Qingxiu stepped down, but he disagreed in his heart.

He looked over the Foundation Establishment competition details below, a spark of enthusiasm igniting within him.

This was his greatest opportunity to stay in Kun-Lai.

He just needed to get first place.

He was familiar with all the current Foundation Establishment competitors—except for Ye Han, but he was now generally familiar with him as well.

The Foundation Establishment competition would be held in a secret realm, gathering at Yangshuo Peak three days later at chenshi (7-9am).

From Shennong Peak, they had to take a flying beast to get there. The cost of the trip, the preparation of talismans, and all sorts of other necessities—they should be able to make it in time if they start now.

Also, make some emergency pills and pack some personal tools for setting up spiritual wards. For the competition, there's no need to be as courteous as usual.

Then there's the analysis for each opponent and the corresponding battle response to made.

That Ye Han would definitely make a lot of preparations and have a lot of nonsense to spout.

At that time...

Under the solitary lamp, Feng Qingxiu wrote down his plans and preparations, his smile gentle.