Cultivation: I have an equipment slot

Chapter 54 The Palace of a Thousand Flowers

Once the idea appeared in Zhang Yan's mind, it wouldn't leave him.

Unfortunately, his equipment slots can only equip his own magical artifacts.

Once someone else has already bound a magical artifact to you, you can't even see its attributes, let alone equip it.

and……

Moreover, not to mention magic treasures, he doesn't even have a single spiritual weapon right now.

This grand competition will not take place in the Tianmu Mountains, but rather in the State of Zhao.

The Tianmu Mountains are only a part of the Zhao Kingdom, and the Qingheng Sect is the dominant force in the Tianmu Mountains, setting its own rules.

Once outside the Tianmu Mountains, it is only a first-rate cultivation sect.

after all……

A sect with seven Golden Core cultivators is unlikely to be weak, no matter where it is located.

The largest cultivation sect in the Zhao Kingdom, the Myriad Flower Palace, has a Nascent Soul stage expert in charge.

"You all need to be extremely careful on this trip. If anything happens, remember not to act rashly," Zhuge Wan earnestly instructed her disciples.

These people are all geniuses from her Wood Spirit Peak!
There absolutely cannot be any losses, otherwise, her Wood Spirit Peak will face a talent shortage and might even be downgraded to a mere peak...

"Follow the law!"

Upon hearing Zhuge Wan's words, everyone quickly responded.

Most of them were just nominal disciples of Wood Spirit Peak, without even a proper master, so they naturally held the Golden Core stage experts in awe.

"Alright, there's no point in saying more, let's go." Zhuge Wan waved her hand, and Zhang Yan and the others felt a blur before their eyes, and then they were immediately carried onto the colorful ribbons.

"gone."

As soon as Zhuge Wan activated her magic, the entire ribbon instantly transformed into a streak of azure light, flying dozens of feet away in the blink of an eye.

"Ah~"

Some disciples had never experienced flying before, and were so terrified by the speed they were hit so early that they cried out.

But once they got used to it, they immediately began to look down at the mountains and the land from their elevated position.

At this moment, I truly feel like an immortal.

……

Their destination was the Wanhua Palace, located next to the capital of the Zhao Kingdom.

The Zhao state was very large; the area of ​​just one country was almost twice that of the previous one.

Fortunately, there are cultivators in this world.

Otherwise, such a vast territory would be impossible for ordinary people to manage.

Zhuge Wan also told Zhang Yan about this.

From Zhuge Wan's words, Zhang Yan understood the operating model of the Zhao state.

The rulers and royal family of the Zhao state forbade the practice of cultivating immortality.

It's not that it's impossible, it's that it's forbidden.

The cultivation sects do not allow them to cultivate, and the reason is simple: although they look down on mortals, they value those mortals with cultivation potential.

For example, some ordinary people also live in the Tianmu Mountains.

They will be protected by the Qingheng Sect.

Because there is no imperial court, although they still occasionally encounter monsters, they are still willing to live here because there are no exorbitant taxes.

Anyone among these mortals who possesses the aptitude for cultivation must be sent to the Qingheng Sect.

Families in the Tianmu Mountains can only absorb the immortal seedlings within their own family.

If anyone is taken in by someone outside their clan, the Qingheng faction will exterminate their entire clan.

This is also what these cultivation sects are worried about.

If the royal family could also cultivate and become a powerful force, then their acquisition of immortal seedlings would be greatly hampered.

Now that the royal family cannot cultivate, although they can employ cultivators, most of those cultivators come from cultivation sects.

Naturally, they pose no threat to them.

It can be said that the imperial court was nominally the court of the royal family, but in reality it was the court of these sects.

Along the way, Zhang Yan learned a lot about local customs and traditions from Zhuge Wan, and soon they arrived at the place where the competition was to be held.

As the largest cultivation sect in the Zhao Kingdom, Wanhua Palace has a very special internal system.

This sect is different from others; they only accept female disciples and refuse to accept male disciples. The reason, it is said, is due to the teachings of their founder.

However, according to Zhuge Wan, it was actually because the Wanhua Palace's techniques were quite unique, and only women could bring out their full potential.

Previously, Wanhua Palace also recruited male disciples.

However, the male disciples later rebelled several times, and once even almost overthrew the entire Wanhua Palace.

After that, Wanhua Palace stopped accepting male disciples.

"There's actually this reason..."

Zhang Yan thoroughly enjoyed the gossip surrounding Wanhua Palace.

Indeed, the essence of humanity is simply to gossip and repeat what others have said.

"The Palace of Myriad Flowers not only has cultivators at the Nascent Soul stage, but their expertise in spiritual plants is also the highest. In particular, their secret technique of grafting can transplant different spiritual plants together."

"graft?"

Upon hearing the name of the spell, Zhang Yan immediately became interested.

This spell sounds a bit like grafting.

However, judging from the effects described by Zhuge Wan, they far exceeded those of grafting.

This greatly interested him.

How many people know this secret technique?

Zhang Yan asked Zhuge Wan with some curiosity.

"This secret technique belongs to the Wan Hua Palace and is not passed down to anyone but disciples who are particularly talented in the art of spiritual plants."

Moreover, everyone was branded, and they could not reveal the secret techniques.

You shouldn't even think about getting your hands on it.

Zhuge Wan seemed to have seen through Zhang Yan's thoughts and poured cold water on them.

"Disciple knows."

Although he said he knew, Zhang Yan already had a plan in mind.

According to Zhuge Wan, this "transplanting flowers and grafting trees" technique is a secret art of the Wanhua Palace.

However, there should still be quite a few people who return.

Moreover, some of them are not very skilled in cultivation.

This is actually quite understandable. After all, although the "transferring flowers and grafting trees" technique is one of the fundamental secret techniques of the Myriad Flowers Palace, it is not an offensive technique.

They are not so picky about cultivation aptitude; what they really value is talent in the cultivation of spiritual plants.

Although Zhuge Wan also said that anyone who learns these secret techniques is branded.

Tell him not to get involved in that idea.

But who is Zhang Yan?

The biggest difference between him and others is that he has a cheat code. He doesn't need anyone to teach him. He only needs to get a magic weapon that someone else has used. As long as the magic weapon has a spell, he can learn it.

We entered the Palace of a Thousand Flowers.

Immediately, people came forward to greet them. The welcoming team consisted of dozens of people, all of whom were beautiful women. The leader of the team was not only a Golden Core cultivator, but also a stunningly beautiful woman.

Greeted by these people, Zhang Yan and his entourage were quickly taken to the reception area.

The so-called reception area is a complex of buildings where they can move around freely.

Besides them, there were quite a few other sects in this reception area.

However, Zhang Yan also noticed one point.

It seems that not all the sects participating in the competition have Golden Core stage cultivators.

Some sect leaders are only at the Foundation Establishment stage, and these people, along with their disciples, tend to be very low-key.

In contrast, those cultivators with Golden Cores, while not necessarily flamboyant, were at least not so reserved.

It has to be said, this is very much like the world of cultivation.

……

With Zhuge Wan's arrival, many Golden Core cultivators came over to greet her.

It's clear that Zhuge Wan is quite popular.

"Junior Sister Zhuge, it's been a long time!" Just as they finished greeting each other and were about to rest, a discordant voice rang out.

(End of this chapter)