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The morning light is rising.

Spiritual mist rises inside the gate of the Spirit Beast Sect, making it look like a fairyland.

Today is the tenth day after the inner sect competition ended.

The Spirit Beast Sect's once-in-a-decade disciple recruitment ceremony officially begins today.

The first step in the recruitment ceremony.

It was organized by the Internal Affairs Hall, and the Spirit Beast Sect selected disciples who had developed spiritual consciousness in the late stage of Qi Refining, and sent them to testing points across the Moon Country for spiritual root testing.

Those who possess spiritual root qualifications will be brought back to the gate of the Spirit Beast Sect.

After a series of procedures including identity verification and spiritual root review, they all joined the outer sect of the Spirit Beast Sect and became outer sect disciples.

Among them, those with outstanding talents will naturally receive different treatments. They may directly become inner disciples, or be directly listed as true disciples by the foundation-building elders. All of these are possible.

For this recruitment ceremony.

Sect leader Lu Jiuxiao organized a high-level meeting on the fifth floor of the cultivation tower.

As the head of the Alchemy Institute, Cao Rui naturally participated in this meeting and was the only Qi Refining Stage person present.

The fifth floor of the training pagoda is the place with the most abundant spiritual energy in the entire Spirit Beast Sect.

Nine cushions were arranged in a row, with Lu Jiuxiao sitting at the top.

Cao Rui is at the end of the right side, and opposite him is Feng Yunfan, a sect elder with a very low presence.

Cao Rui knew that although he was considered a high-ranking member of the Spirit Beast Sect, his cultivation was only at the Qi Refining Stage and he was young. If he really participated in the meeting, it would only make him a laughing stock.

Therefore, we just watch with our eyes and with our noses, and just make up the numbers.

"Cao Rui, you are the head of the Alchemy Institute."

"We need to prepare enough recovery pills to supply the disciples who go out on inspection missions." Perhaps because Lu Jiuxiao was afraid that Cao Rui would be too bored, he spoke up and gave him a reminder.

Cao Rui nodded slightly: "Don't worry, Sect Master, the Hui Yuan Pills have been prepared in sufficient quantities and will be distributed tomorrow."

"That's good." Lu Jiuxiao nodded.

"Xu Ye, your Law Enforcement Department must be on guard within the Moon Country to prevent the demon cultivators from taking the opportunity to cause trouble."

Xu Ye, the head of the Law Enforcement Court, nodded in agreement.

Although the spiritual energy in Yunzhou's immortal cultivation world has declined, demonic cultivators still exist.

The magic techniques used by demon cultivators often harm others for their own benefit, and their methods are cruel and ruthless. Ordinary cultivators are no match for them.

After the meeting, the Alchemy Institute also had to respond by sending several monks out for testing.

However, due to the special nature of the Alchemy Academy, it only needs to send five people.

Cao Rui sent Zhang Chenyi to bring four Alchemy Academy disciples in the late Qi Refining stage to support the sect's spiritual root testing.

Day two.

Nearly one hundred cultivators in the late Qi Refining stage from the Spirit Beast Sect set out from the sect's mountain gate and headed to monitoring points across the Moon Country to begin testing.

If nothing unexpected happens, after the test is completed, based on the population of Yue Country, we should be able to bring back about a hundred children of appropriate age with a talent for cultivating immortals.

at the same time.

Luoyue Xiuxian Market.

Wei Chang hurried all the way to this market according to the address left by the mysterious man.

In a teahouse in the market town, he met the black-robed man who had bewitched him before.

This person was thin and small, covered in a black robe, with a haggard face, like an old man who was about to die.

Only a pair of eyes were not cloudy, but instead emitted a cold light from time to time, making people feel alert.

The old man looked at Wei Chang jokingly: "Hehe, when I first saw you, I knew you would come to find me."

"You risked your life to collect the elixirs back then, and now you must be feeling very unhappy, right?"

The old man's words penetrated deeply into Wei Chang's heart.

Wei Chang felt like a plaything in the eyes of others.

But it doesn’t matter, as long as you achieve your goal, it’s fine.

Wei Chang looked at the old man in front of him warily, "I can promise to help you place the array plate. I will give you the spiritual stones you agreed on, but you also have to do one more thing for me."

"What is it?" The old man dropped his joking tone and spoke in a calm voice.

"You are demon cultivators, right? I want you to help me get rid of two people. One is the head of the Spirit Beast Sect's Alchemy Institute, named Cao Rui, and the other is Sun Haoran, a new disciple recruited by the Alchemy Institute."

Wei Chang's heart was already twisted with hatred for the two people who indirectly destroyed the dream he had been striving for for decades.

"You are kidding me. The head of the first academy of the Spirit Beast Sect is at the foundation-building stage. You want us to make an unequal deal just based on the value of your formation plate? This is really stupid!"

After hearing what Wei Chang said, the cunning old man in black robe couldn't help but curse.

Wei Chang suppressed his anger at being scolded and explained, "That Cao Rui is only at the late stage of Qi Refining. He was only listed as the head of the first academy because of his good talent in alchemy."

"Sun Haoran is only in the middle stage of Qi Refining."

"You guys, can't you even defeat two Qi Refining Stages?"

The old man in black robe frowned when he heard this. If what Wei Chang said was true, the deal could be reached.

"How about it, can the transaction still go on?" Wei Chang asked.

The old man in black robe confirmed again: "Is the Cao Rui you mentioned really at the Qi Refining Stage?"

"I'm sure of that." Wei Chang nodded in confirmation.

The old man in black robes lingered for a while, then suddenly looked at Wei Chang and said, "Deal!"

Then the black-robed old man and Wei Chang each made a Taoist oath.

The Dao Heart Oath is an agreement made by a cultivator swearing on his or her Dao Heart.

The Taoist oaths sworn by cultivators are not something that can be made casually.

If one violates the oath of Taoism, it will have a great impact on one's own state of mind in cultivation.

In order to better ensure the transaction, the old man in black robe also added the "Life-Contracting Shadow Weaving Bug" into the Dao Heart Oath.

'Life-Contracted Shadow-Weaving Insect' is a first-order contracted spirit insect, transparent, emitting a faint blue light, and the size of a little finger.

This kind of spiritual insect is born with the power to perceive people's hearts and weave contracts. It can sense the content of the vows made in the heart, and is often used by cultivators to conclude important and unbreakable alliances or contracts.

Along with the two people's oath of Taoism, the life-weaving shadow worm merged into the center of their eyebrows.

Wei Chang swallowed.

The spiritual insect has entered his brain, and there is no room for recovery. He has to release the demon cultivator's formation even if he doesn't want to.

If the contents of this heart oath are not fulfilled, the Life-Weaving Shadow Worm can manipulate the power of the contract to turn Wei Chang's brain into mush.

After completing the contract, the old man in black robe was visibly relaxed.

He took out a storage bag and handed it to Wei Chang.

“This is the formation plate.”

"After you go in, you have to do this to set up the array..."

Wei Chang paused for a moment, then suddenly became angry and asked, "Why is there such a complicated arrangement process? Didn't you say that we just need to put down the formation plate?"

If such a complicated arrangement process was discovered by the disciples of the Law Enforcement Court, Wei Changjiu would really be dead without a burial place.

Wei Chang just wanted to take revenge on the Alchemy Academy, Cao Rui and Sun Haoran, but he didn't want to leave the Spirit Beast Sect.

The old man in black robe laughed and said, "It's too late. The contract has already been signed. If you leave without completing the arrangements, do you think the contracted spirit insects will explode?"

Cunning demon cultivator! Wei Chang cursed inwardly, but in the end he could only accept the reality.

In the past few days, a large number of disciples of the sect have gone out to carry out spiritual root testing tasks, and there should be a shortage of manpower in the sect.

It's a good opportunity to go back and quickly set up the formation.

Wei Chang asked for a thousand spirit stones from the old man in black robe, and immediately left Luoyue Xiuxian Market, riding the Thousand Feather Crane and quickly heading towards the Spirit Beast Sect.