Chapter 546: Huge base of cultivators

Three days later, the three-day Dongxuan Academy exam officially began, and the Star Fall Continent fell into a rare calm in the past ten years.

Although a small number of students gave up this exam for various reasons.

But most of the new generation of cultivators in the entire Star Fall Continent, as well as the older generation of cultivators, were preoccupied by the Dongxuan Academy exam.

Therefore, since the beginning of the Dongxuan Academy exam, the activity of cultivators in various parts of the Star Fall Continent had significantly decreased.

This Dongxuan Academy exam involved assessments in various dimensions such as the students' cultivation speed, the progress of spell cultivation, basic knowledge of cultivation, and the cultivation of at least one of the four arts of cultivation.

The final total score of the exam would be ranked based on the sum of the scores of each dimension assessment.

Those at the top of the total ranking, whether it was the students themselves or the Dongxuan Academy branch they were in, would receive generous rewards from Dongxuan City.

And those who excelled in single-item assessments would also receive cultivation and rewards from Dongxuan City, but the intensity of the rewards would be one grade lower than those at the top of the total ranking.

After the calm, came the noise.

After the three-day Dongxuan Academy exam ended, it was the upcoming Dongxuan City new generation Qi Refining Realm cultivator competition.

Although the total score ranking of the academy exam had not yet come out, the students who had finished the exam had already thrown it to the back of their minds and began to wholeheartedly prepare for the Qi Refining Realm competition one day later.

Near the major prefecture cities of the entire Star Fall Continent, the number of low-order cultivators gathered had increased by more than ten times compared to before.

Among these cultivators, some were new generation Qi Refining Realm teenagers from Dongxuan City who came to participate in the Qi Refining Realm competition and their accompanying elders, and some were a few remaining casual cultivators in the Star Fall Continent.

Looking at the battle platforms being set up outside the major prefecture cities, these gathered cultivators couldn't help but produce expectant and excited expressions.

Of course, there were also a few casual cultivators who came to watch the fun, but at this time, they felt annoyed.

Outside a certain prefecture city.

Casual cultivator Li Li Yuanxing looked at the many battle platforms that had been set up to hold the Qi Refining competition, his mood was low, and he said somewhat annoyed:

"If I had known, I should have directly joined Dongxuan City ten years ago; now that I have lost the opportunity, I have no channel to join Dongxuan City for the sake of my son's future."

Whether it was the current Qi Refining Realm competition, or the future Foundation Establishment Realm competition and Purple Mansion Realm competition.

Although they were all competitions involving the entire Star Fall Continent, in reality, only cultivators belonging to Dongxuan City could participate.

And Dongxuan Academy, as long as they were children with spiritual roots among the commoner residents of villages, small towns, and cities under Dongxuan City, or children of cultivators belonging to Dongxuan City.

Regardless of the level of spiritual root talent, they could directly enter Dongxuan Academy and enjoy a series of welfare treatments from Dongxuan City.

As for those with spiritual root talent in the Star Fall Continent who did not belong to Dongxuan City, including the children of many casual cultivators in the Star Fall Continent, they all needed to pass certain assessments and have their spiritual root talent reach the lowest limit to enter Dongxuan Academy and join Dongxuan City.

Only the battle platforms established by Dongxuan City in various parts of the Star Fall Continent did not make restrictions, and casual cultivators in the Star Fall Continent could also go on stage to fight.

If they achieved a ten-game winning streak, casual cultivators, just like cultivators under Dongxuan City, could also receive corresponding rewards.

But now the number of casual cultivators in the Star Fall Continent had been reduced several times, and wanting to achieve a ten-game winning streak in the same realm would inevitably mean facing cultivators under Dongxuan City.

Wanting to defeat cultivators cultivated by Dongxuan City with various resources with the status of a casual cultivator, how could it be so easy?

Not to mention other things, just talking about the protective spells cultivated by cultivators.

Casual cultivators might only be able to come into contact with a dozen, or even only a few types of spells to choose from for cultivation in their entire lives.

And cultivators under Dongxuan City could easily come into contact with thousands or tens of thousands of different types of spells, and choose spells suitable for their own cultivation to protect their path.

Plus, relying on Dongxuan City, as long as their contribution points were sufficient, they could obtain various corresponding heavenly materials and earthly treasures to assist in the cultivation of spells.

Accumulated over the days and months, the foundation of cultivators in the same realm under Dongxuan City was naturally much deeper than that of casual cultivators.

Since the wormhole passage of the Star Fall Continent was destroyed by the Green Demon Realm, not only the major forces in the Star Fall Continent, but even the major mid- and high-order casual cultivators had successively left the Star Fall Continent to seek development elsewhere.

Even some low-order casual cultivators with cultivation bases below the Golden Core Realm were also finding various relationships to leave the Star Fall Continent and head to other major provinces with wormhole passages to settle down.

So in the years that followed, the number of casual cultivators in the Star Fall Continent had become fewer and fewer.

Especially after the Star Fall Continent was completely controlled by Dongxuan City, Dongxuan City once again carried out a recruitment of casual cultivators and small forces in various parts of the Star Fall Continent, causing the number of casual cultivators in the Star Fall Continent to directly fall to a low point.

Therefore, among the cultivators still active in the Star Fall Continent now, most already belonged to Dongxuan City.

However, the Star Fall Continent was after all a major province, and the territory was very vast.

There were always some casual cultivators who were used to being alone, and because Dongxuan City did not use force to coerce them, there were still some casual cultivators who did not choose to join Dongxuan City in the recruitment ten years ago.

Among them, there was Li Li Yuanxing, who had a Purple Mansion Realm cultivation base.

Later, after an accidental encounter by chance, Li Li Yuanxing unexpectedly gained an offspring.

Li Li Yuanxing, who had an offspring, finally had the idea of joining Dongxuan City for the future development of his offspring.

But at that time, Dongxuan City, because villages, small towns, and cities directly under Dongxuan City were established one after another in various parts of the Star Fall Continent, and Dongxuan Academy branches were blooming everywhere.

Allowing the new generation of cultivators in Dongxuan City to have a stable source of birth, so not long after the large-scale recruitment ten years ago, Dongxuan City no longer accepted the joining of other casual cultivators.

If the children of casual cultivators wanted to join Dongxuan City, they could only pass the assessment of Dongxuan Academy, and only after successfully graduating from Dongxuan Academy could they join Dongxuan City.

But very unfortunately, under the special secret method of Li Li Yuanxing's advance detection, his son was very likely only to have two-element spiritual root talent, which did not meet the minimum three-element spiritual root talent standard for Dongxuan Academy's assessment.

So Li Li Yuanxing's son, in the future, would likely be unable to pass Dongxuan Academy's assessment and obtain the opportunity to join Dongxuan City.

In fact, it was not just Li Li Yuanxing; these years, the reform wind of Dongxuan City had blown through the entire Star Fall Continent, and the casual cultivators in the Star Fall Continent heard and came into contact with people and things related to Dongxuan City every day.

In this situation, quite a few casual cultivators had once again moved the idea of joining Dongxuan City.

After all, after the Star Fall Continent was included in the jurisdiction of Dongxuan City, even if they didn't join Dongxuan City, they still had to accept the rules set by Dongxuan City.

It was just a pity that the opportunity was fleeting.

When they were faced with Dongxuan City's recruitment, they kept it outside the door; now that they wanted to take the initiative to join Dongxuan City, they could no longer find a way.

"The Star Fall Continent Qi Refining Realm competition, now officially begins!"

One day later, all three hundred-plus prefectures in the Star Fall Continent started the first round of elimination matches for the Qi Refining Realm competition at the same time.

For a time, the crowds around the battle platforms set up outside the three hundred-plus prefecture cities in the Star Fall Continent were surging and bustling, and the dense crowds had surrounded the major battle platforms tightly.

"Dad, Mom, look quickly, that is Brother, Brother knocked down the big bad guy."

Among the crowd around the battle platform outside Yuanqing Prefecture City, a little girl of three or more years old with two buns on her head, looking at one of the figures on one of the battle platforms, excitedly pulled her parents' hands and shouted loudly. And the couple, who were pulled by their daughter, looked at their son who won on the battle platform, touched their daughter's little head, and were also full of joy.

They were all commoner residents in Yuanqing Prefecture City, because their son signed up to participate in the Qi Refining Realm competition, as residents of Yuanqing Prefecture City, although they were only commoners, they also obtained the special right to watch the Qi Refining Realm competition.

The competition system for the first round of elimination matches was very simple, and even had a certain element of luck.

All cultivators who signed up to participate in the Qi Refining Realm competition in each prefecture were randomly assigned to fight one-on-one.

The winner advances, the loser is directly eliminated.

Until only the last twenty people remained, they would again randomly conduct one-on-one duels.

The winner acts as the defender, and the loser obtains three opportunities to challenge, and after winning the challenge, can replace the defender to become the new defender.

After the defender is defeated, they can also obtain three opportunities to challenge.

But regardless of how many times the identities of the defender and the challenger were swapped, everyone only had three opportunities to challenge.

After all twenty people had used up all their challenge opportunities, or no one launched a challenge again, the final ten successful defenders could obtain the opportunity to head to the commandery city to participate in the second round of elimination matches.

As for being injured during the battle, leading to not being able to exert full strength in the next battle?

The wealthy Dongxuan City indicated that this was not a big deal.

In order to ensure the smooth holding of the Qi Refining Realm competition and select true elites from the new generation of cultivators in the entire Star Fall Continent.

Under Ye Ye Qingxuan's authorization, this time Dongxuan City prepared a large number of elixir combination packages; as long as one didn't die, taking the elixir would allow one to be fully revived on the spot the next second.

And on these battle platforms used for the competition, a special array was set up.

As long as one's own cultivation base did not exceed the Purple Mansion Realm and the degree of attack suffered did not exceed the Purple Mansion Realm, when suffering fatal damage, a force would protect the cultivator's body from being destroyed destructively.

In order to let these cultivators participating in the competition experience the most real life-and-death battles as much as possible.

This force would not block the attack for the participants, but could only protect the core parts of the participants' bodies from being destroyed, while maintaining the participants who suffered fatal blows in a dying state so they wouldn't fall on the spot.

Only after the battle was decided would Dongxuan City's strong experts take action to save the participants and let the participants recover as before.

Therefore, this Qi Refining Realm competition, although it was a competition among the new generation within Dongxuan City, was a no-rules battle.

However, the new generation of Dongxuan City had not experienced true blood rain baptism after all, and the participants were all in the camp under Dongxuan City, so there were not many people who chose to kill on the battle platform.

Most of the competitions between participants were still mostly stopping at a point.

With the passage of time, the battle platforms in various prefectures of the Star Fall Continent had already fallen into multiple rounds of fierce fighting.

When the Star Fall Continent Qi Refining Realm competition officially began.

On Mount Mount Wanling, Ye Ye Qingxuan held a piece of data in his hand and pondered for a while, his gaze faint, not knowing what he was thinking.

In the Di Li Xuan Realm, because of the nourishment of spiritual energy, when humans were twelve years old, their bodies and meridians had already developed perfectly, and their spiritual roots had already been completely formed, so they could start to draw spiritual energy into their bodies and step onto the path of cultivation.

Wanting to shorten this process and let humans step onto the path of cultivation in advance, it was not that there was no feasible way.

But wanting to shorten the process of natural human gestation and growth, and not wanting to damage the potential of the cultivators, one must use special high-order heavenly materials and earthly treasures.

Even for strong experts at the level of Mahayana Realm cultivators, spending special high-order heavenly materials and earthly treasures just to let their offspring step onto the path of cultivation a few years in advance was also not worth the loss.

A mere few years of time for mid- and high-order cultivators was just a snap of the fingers, and there was no need to spend too much energy to shorten it in the early stage.

More importantly, artificial intervention sometimes was not necessarily better than natural development, so even the offspring of high-order cultivators rarely used high-order heavenly materials and earthly treasures to assist in stepping onto the path of cultivation in advance.

It was precisely because of this that in the Di Li Xuan Realm, spiritual roots were basically tested at the age of twelve, and they began to officially step onto the path of cultivation.

Because the villages, small towns, and cities in various parts of the Star Fall Continent were newly built not long ago, the commoner residents had not yet developed to the capacity limit.

And among these commoner residents, with the nourishment of spiritual energy, even commoners could easily reach a lifespan of about 130 years.

So in the Di Li Xuan Realm, children under twelve years old among commoner residents generally only accounted for about 10%.

Among the 10% of children, only two or three out of a thousand detected spiritual roots.

Before, when the major forces of the Star Fall Continent withdrew, they took away a batch of commoner residents, leading to the fact that the commoner residents in the Star Fall Continent were basically at the bottom among the major provinces of the East Extreme Domain.

Now the vast majority of the commoner population in the Star Fall Continent had been incorporated under the command of Dongxuan City.

In these ten years, the number of new generation cultivators who detected spiritual roots and stepped onto the path of cultivation in various villages, small towns, and cities under Dongxuan City was still far from reaching Ye Ye Qingxuan's expectations.

But even so, the commoner population base of the vast Star Fall Continent was beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Under the huge commoner population base.

On average, the new generation of cultivators participating in this Qi Refining competition, in each prefecture of the Star Fall Continent, probably had about five or six thousand people.

And this was because a portion of the new generation had only stepped onto the path of cultivation not long ago and did not sign up to participate in the Qi Refining Realm competition.

Or the talent was only one or two-element spiritual roots, and the cultivation base had stayed at the first or second layer of Qi Refining for ten years, and they had no face to participate in this Qi Refining Realm competition, and this group occupied the majority among the new generation of cultivators, and could even occupy a proportion of eight-tenths.

Otherwise, counting all the new generation of cultivators born in ten years, on average, each prefecture should have at least fifty or sixty thousand new generation cultivators.

Of course, before the Star Fall Continent was incorporated into the management of Dongxuan City, the major forces of the Star Fall Continent would only recruit those with three-element and above spiritual root talent.

Those with one or two-element spiritual root talent from commoner backgrounds, some might never have the opportunity to step onto the path of cultivation in their entire lives, and some became the casual cultivators of the Star Fall Continent before.

Not only the Star Fall Continent, but before the invasion of the Green Demon Realm, even the East Extreme Domain, and even the entire Di Li Xuan Realm were like this.

But this could not deny the huge base of the number of cultivators born in the Di Li Xuan Realm every year.

A prefecture had so many new generation cultivators born in ten years.

The Star Fall Continent had over three hundred prefectures, so one could imagine how many new generation cultivators were born in the entire Star Fall Continent in ten years.

And the Star Fall Continent was just a major province where the commoner residents of the East Extreme Domain were currently at the bottom; the entire East Extreme Domain had fully ninety-nine major provinces, and the entire Di Li Xuan Realm had nine major domains.

Plus the islands and continents like stars in the endless sea domain.

It was hard to imagine how huge the number of cultivators born in the Di Li Xuan Realm every year was.

But perhaps it was precisely because of this that the unfathomable foundation of cultivators accumulated in the Di Li Xuan Realm.

Could it not fall behind in the battle with the Green Demon Realm, and have sufficient cultivators to continuously fight with the Green Demon Race! (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 547 =====