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Among the young disciples in the entire Purple Cloud Palace, only a few have successfully condensed a Nascent Soul. Excluding their spots, disciples at the Peak of Core Formation definitely have the qualifications to compete for the top ten. If he draws a good lots, there’s a chance he might truly get in.

"No wonder Liu Tangxi favored him, but it’s a pity..."

"He offended someone he shouldn’t have."

Jiang Feng naturally didn’t know what the other party was thinking. He merely calculated in his heart, according to Xiao Xuan’s mentioned numbers, it would take about eight to nine rounds to finish everything. If there are no particularly strong experts in his half, it represents that he can easily get through the first two rounds.

From the third round, he’d have the opportunity to meet those from the other half, but most of them should be Mid Core Formation, which won’t put too much pressure on him. After another two rounds, he’ll probably start meeting Senior Brothers at High Core Formation.

"Speaking of which, given Mr. Xiao’s cultivation, isn’t it aimed for the top ten as well?"

"I have just reached High Core Formation not long ago, my foundation is unstable. Although I am in charge of managing the Spiritual Spring for the elders, my strength is ultimately feeble, so I am placed with most of the Mid Core Formation disciples. By then, it should be up to Brother Jiang to show mercy to me."

"What kind of talk is this..."

Though still exchanging courtesies, when standing together, one can basically tell each other’s level at a glance. Just as Xiao Xuan said, the circulation of spiritual energy in his body is indeed somewhat strange, somewhat frail.

As he said, his foundation is unstable, and the circulation of spiritual energy is not smooth, it doesn’t seem overly threatening.

Xiao Xuan’s expression no longer showed any variation at this moment, he simply led the way in front, arriving at the fallen stone pillar, and sticking his palm to the stone pillar, his High Core Formation cultivation burst forth instantly!

The heavy stone pillar gradually moved, for the disciples in charge of the Spiritual Spring, this is undoubtedly also a part of their cultivation. The Spiritual Spring is a gift from the mountain, and also one of the main reasons the Grandmaster constructed the sect here.

In this immortal mountain, even doing nothing allows one to enjoy spiritual energy several times thicker than the outside world day and night, which is why countless cultivators would give anything to enter the Purple Cloud Immortal Mountain. These hundred Spiritual Springs are indeed the foundation of the sect.

Looking at the dense spiritual energy, Jiang Feng couldn’t help but be amazed. After the stone pillar was pushed open, the blocked Spiritual Spring began to gush again, each viscous drop carrying infinite power.

He subconsciously touched his lower abdomen, comparing the Spiritual Spring to the spiritual energy sea within his Dan Mansion, finding that its density was still multiple levels below that left by the Demon Night True Monarch.

As for scale, it’s like comparing a stream to an ocean. Even though he had expectations for the inheritance of the Demon Night True Monarch, he still did not expect it to be terrifying to this degree. The rightful source is novel·fiɾe·net

"Mr. Xiao, where does this spiritual energy come from, and how many such Spiritual Springs does our sect have?"

Seeing the Spiritual Spring cleared once more, Jiang Feng couldn’t resist his curiosity and asked a few more questions. However, Xiao Xuan showed no impatience, still with a kind smile on his face, patiently explaining.

"This spiritual energy comes from our sect, part of which results from the cultivation of the Guardian Sect Beast, and part from the Zixiao Mountain itself. After all, it was naturally chosen by the Grandmaster as the cultivation baseline."

"Both the Nine Peaks and the foot of the main peak have such Spiritual Springs, they are hidden in various corners and crevices, flowing along the topography and converging here, led into the ice room to stagnate, washing the body to achieve cultivation effect."

"Currently, there are more than a hundred Spiritual Springs within the sect, but some are really too small, not even a stream, much less a pool. Although they can be consumed or spiritual energy extracted, they still lag far behind such large-scale Spiritual Springs."

"The ones truly usable are probably just thirty ice rooms, distributed across every corner of the Purple Cloud Palace. The place we are now at has four ice rooms, and besides cultivation, I am responsible for helping the elders manage them."

"The reason Yuan Qi and Yuan Miao tried to call you out just now is naturally that they’re unwilling. After all, for cultivators at their level, obtaining a qualification takes at least several years of spiritual energy accumulation, and lining up alone takes more than a year and a half, close to two years."

"Looking at them, they seem to want to use this place to smoothly form a core, but what Brother Jiang said is quite right, with their capability, instead of trying to break through the Core Formation forcibly, improving those two Magic Treasures is more worthwhile."

"The efficacy of the Spiritual Spring indeed provokes envy. Even after so many years in the sect, I have only been inside once, for at most one month each time. But with our capabilities, it would probably cost us all our belongings to get seven days in."

"After soaking in the Spiritual Spring, whether in terms of physique, spiritual energy refinement, or realm advancement, the improvements are exceptionally pronounced. To put it simply, any disciple below Divinity Transformation qualifies for it, above Divinity Transformation, frequently soaking is beneficial."

Nodding as he listened.

Unknowingly, the two had arrived in front of the ice room, but as he listened, Jiang Feng gradually understood the meaning of the Spiritual Spring, momentarily experiencing a heart-skip.

The entire Purple Cloud Palace combined has only about thirty usable Spiritual Springs in scale, judging by the pool before him, even tying all thirty together wouldn’t compare to a thousandth of what’s in his Dantian.

Without showing any emotion, he inwardly visualized the Dan Mansion, though it’s dubbed a spiritual energy lake, that lake had no visible end. The black viscous spiritual energy rests like a liquid, exuding a terrifying aura.

"What kind of monster do I have in my belly?"

Analyzing from this perspective, it’s strictly speaking a mixture of underground water buried beneath the Zixiao Mountain and sufficiently dense spiritual energy.

So, basically, it can only start from the source.

Disciples of Dragon Head Peak hold a pretty high status across the mountain, being the leader of the Nine Peaks.