No hope for eternal life

Chapter 272: Two Life-and-Death Battles

"Although the cultivation speed of top-grade spirit stones is fast, the consumption is also high." Mu Changsheng felt a little distressed. All the one thousand top-grade spirit stones in his hand were used up. This was also one of the important reasons why he came out of seclusion.

One thousand top-grade spirit stones were consumed in two years. According to the sect's exchange rate, it would be five hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones. You should know that Mu Changsheng used high-grade spirit stones to practice before, and only consumed more than ten thousand high-grade spirit stones a year. No wonder Mu Changsheng was so distressed.

However, no matter how much he felt sad, after experiencing the speed of cultivation using top-grade spirit stones, Mu Changsheng no longer wanted to use high-grade spirit stones. This was also the confidence given to him by the more than 90,000 contribution points in his hand.

Afterwards, Mu Changsheng walked out of the room, but saw Yan Zihua sitting in the yard, staring in his direction.

Seeing Mu Changsheng coming out of retreat, Yan Zihua hurried forward and said: "Junior Brother Mu, you are finally out of retreat. If you don't come out again, I will force you to come."

Seeing Yan Zihua's anxious look, Mu Changsheng asked in surprise: "Isn't there still one month left before the three-year deadline? Did something happen?"

"It's more than just an accident, it's a huge incident." Yan Zihua sighed.

Mu Changsheng was shocked and asked quickly: "What happened?"

"A year ago, a large spirit stone mine appeared in the Chaos Demon Sea. The human race and the demon race fought a fierce battle for the ownership of the spirit stone mine, but there was no winner. Finally, we humans and demons agreed that each side would send out twelve cultivators to fight a life-and-death battle to decide the share of the large spirit stone mine. The winner would get 90% of the share, and the loser would only get 10%. If there is a draw, it will be divided 50-50." Yan Zihua explained.

"Does this life-and-death contest have anything to do with us?" Mu Changsheng asked in a daze. If it had nothing to do with us, Yan Zihua would not have been so concerned about his coming out of seclusion.

"It is indeed related." Yan Zihua said in a deep voice: "The twelve cultivators sent out for the twelve life-and-death competitions all have different cultivation bases, ranging from the early and middle stages of the Golden Core Realm to the late and peak stages of the Spiritual Transformation Realm. Each of the twelve small realms sent out a cultivator. For this reason, the sect deliberately held the sect competition in advance, just one month later."

"Moreover, the competition rules are also very different from the past. Not only will Tianling Sect's adapted cultivators come to our Lingshan Sect to participate in the sect competition, but the sect will also send out invitations to recruit talents. All the adapted cultivators in the nine realms can come to Lingshan Sect to participate in the selection, so as to select the strongest in each realm. Now it is less than a month away from the sect competition, and we should set off to return to the sect now. As for our mission, it has already been completed ahead of schedule, and the 100 contribution points of the mission reward have not been reduced at all."

As he spoke, Yan Zihua had already handed the 100 contribution value coins to Mu Changsheng.

Mu Changsheng held the contribution points in his hand and said firmly: "Let's go now without further delay."

Mu Changsheng has made up his mind to participate in this battle involving the interests of both humans and demons.

Mu Changsheng and the other man quickly boarded the ferry back to Lingshan Sect. Mu Changsheng continued to ask Yan Zihua: "After the sect competition, how long will it take before the competition with the demon clan?"

"There are still two months to prepare." Yan Zihua replied.

"Two months should be enough." Mu Changsheng's cultivation has broken through to the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, but his body refining realm is still at the minor success stage of the Thunder Fruit stage, which is equivalent to the early and middle stages of the Nascent Soul stage. There is still a lot of room for improvement. However, before that, Mu Changsheng must first obtain the qualification to represent the human race in the sect competition.

During the time the cross-border ferry was flying, Mu Changsheng did not dare to stop for a moment and had been using the thousand-year-old lightning-struck wood to nourish the five thunder fruits in his five internal organs.

Of course, it is not quite appropriate to say that it is nourishing, because the Thunder Fruit at this time has long lost the gentleness of the Thunder Seed period, but is full of violent thunder power. The thunder power of the Thunder Fruit spreads from the five internal organs to the whole body, so cultivating Thunder Fruit is to cultivate the physical body, and this cultivation process is destined to be not easy.

Fortunately, Mu Changsheng has already adapted to all kinds of physical pain during cultivation, and it does not affect his cultivation progress.

In order to save time, Mu Changsheng and the other person specially found a faster ferry, so this time they returned to Lingshan Sect in just one day.

Unfortunately, although Mu Changsheng's body refining realm has improved, he is still a little far from breaking through to the Thunder Fruit Realm.

Mu Changsheng had anticipated this and had already thought of a way to deal with it, so as soon as he got off the ferry, he said goodbye to Yan Zihua and rushed to Lingzang Peak.

On the way to Lingzang Peak, Taoist Master appeared beside Mu Changsheng and asked with some concern: "Are you planning to participate in this competition with the demon tribe?"

"Well, for the sake of the human race, the sect, and myself, I will participate." Mu Changsheng said firmly.

"Okay." Taoist Master nodded helplessly. As the sect's formation spirit, she couldn't stop Mu Changsheng, and could only give him the greatest support: "This is the 2,000 contribution points approved by the sect for you. I will give you the three black beads for you to study. As for your black beads, I still need to study them for a while."

This contribution value came at a very timely moment. Mu Changsheng no longer had to worry about the source of the contribution value for the time being. He immediately thanked her and said, "Thank you, sister."

Afterwards, Mu Changsheng came to Lingzang Peak. At this time, Lingzang Peak was no longer as deserted as before. Dozens of disciples were coming in and out, preparing for the sect competition and the bloody battle with the demon clan. Xia Rong even brought his original body and clone into the battle to quickly receive many disciples.

Mu Changsheng waited in line for half an hour before it was finally his turn.

"Big Sister, I need a thousand top-grade spirit stones, a ten-thousand-year-old lightning-struck wood, twenty drops of essence and blood from a demon cultivator at the peak of the Divine Transformation Realm, ten drops of essence and blood from a demon cultivator at the early stage of the Tribulation Realm, and a thousand sheets of Yangluo paper..." Mu Changsheng gave out a long list of things he needed.

Xia Rong wrote them down one by one, and finally reminded with some surprise: "Junior Brother Mu, the things you reported require 1,850 contribution points."

"Junior brother got a treasure by chance, and presented it to the sect for research, and received 2,000 contribution points." Mu Changsheng responded with a smile, and presented the full 1,850 contribution points.

"Oh, it's true that when you haven't seen someone for three days, you should look at him with new eyes." Xia Rong said meaningfully. After all, there are not many treasures that can be studied by the sect.

After Xia Rong handed the spiritual objects to Mu Changsheng, he asked again: "You bought so many things, do you intend to fight against the demon tribe?"

"Yes." Mu Changsheng said firmly.

"Okay, I will definitely watch the battle on time, but I have to remind you that Junior Sister Lin Yu from Tianling Sect has already reached the peak of the Nascent Soul stage. She probably also wants to compete for a spot to compete, and she may very well become your competitor during the sect competition." Xia Rong reminded.

Mu Changsheng's heart was moved when he heard this, and then he thanked her and said, "Thank you for your reminder, Senior Sister."

After buying things, Mu Changsheng rushed back to Duzhao Peak without stopping.

Along the way, Mu Changsheng discovered that the originally extremely empty Ten Thousand Mountains became extremely lively. That was because the Lingshan Sect's invitation to talents attracted countless people with lofty ideals, and those people were placed on the ownerless mountains.

After returning to Duzhao Peak, Mu Changsheng met Mu Xun again.

"Are you here to participate in the sect competition as well?" Mu Changsheng asked. He also noticed that Mu Xun's cultivation had broken through to the late Nascent Soul stage.

"Yes, Sect Master Feng of the Tianling Sect has personally promised that if we can win the competition with the demon clan, we can unconditionally become a disciple of the two major sects, either the Tianling Sect or the Lingshan Sect." Mu Xun said.