“Boom!” There was another popping sound during the congealing of the dan, and Mo Wuji was startled. Luckily, he immediately realised that this time, the one who burst his dan was not Shi Jun, but the guy who was first on the left. This person had failed in two consecutive batches of pills and was already out of the competition.
It looked like these newly promoted Third Grade Human Dan Masters, other than that Qudan Master who did not see eye to eye with him, the others were all mostly false. It was probably because they wanted to enter the Traceless Sword Mountain, which was why they were barely trying to pretend to be Third Grade Human Pill Masters. Now that he had pulled it out to make pills in front of him, he immediately showed his true colours.
I don’t know if it was because Mo Wuji’s words worked, Shi Jun’s second furnace of pills experienced several times of other people’s alchemy failures bursting pills without any problems.
Another almost half an hour passed, and the fragrance of the Dan came from Shi Jun’s Dan furnace as he started to condense the Dan. At this moment, there is another person bursting dan, in addition to Shi Jun, there is only one dan master in the hall who is still refining dan.
A greenish-reddish pill took shape in the furnace, and after a few more minutes, Shi Jun tapped the furnace with both hands, and six pills flew out of the furnace and landed in the jade bottles that had already been prepared.
After Shi Jun formed the pills, the last dan master was also affected and declared that the refining had failed.
Of the five dan masters who had made pills, only Dan Master Qu and Shi Jun had succeeded in their alchemy. There was no need for selection, this result came out.
“Both Dan Master Qu and Shi Dan Master have advanced to Third Grade Human Dan Masters, congratulations.” The old man at the top left was the first to stand up and applaud.
Patriarch Lone Ran also clapped his hands and said with a smile on his face, “With Master Qu Dan and Master Shi Dan, my Traceless Sword Sect will definitely gain a better ranking in the Five Elements Wasteland Dan Competition this time.”
After saying these words, the smile in Solitary Ran’s eyes suddenly tightened and his tone became grave, “Those here today are the mainstays of my Traceless Sword Faction, the Ten Great Elders, and all of the Dan Masters are here. The Traceless Sword Mountain of my Traceless Sword Sect has not been opened for a thousand years. To say a word of self-promotion, perhaps the spirit herbs of my Traceless Sword Mountain are not as precious as the Five Elements Wilderness Region, and there are no top-notch treasures that can allow one to cross over into the Heavenly Realm Triple Heavens. But amongst all the sect secret realms in the five empires, my Traceless Sword Mountain is definitely a first-rate precious secret realm.
This time, my Traceless Sword Sect has opened the Traceless Sword Mountain, which has not been opened for many years, and I hope that the seven dan masters who enter it must cherish this opportunity. Don’t waste a single spirit herb, and do your best to raise your alchemy level in the Sword Mountain to gain a better ranking in the Five Elements Desolate Region Dan Competition for my Traceless Sword Sect next.”
“Don’t worry, Patriarch, we will definitely live up to our promise.” Mo Wuji bowed as he saw the six people including Shi Jun and Dan Master Qu standing out.
Seeing that Yin Shanyin did not move, Mo Wuji thought that the words of these six Dan Masters were probably bragging. He didn’t know about the others, but he knew all about that Shi Dan Master. Even if Mo Wuji hadn’t seen the strength of the rest of the sects’ dan masters in the Five Elements Wasteland’s Dan Competition, he still knew that if Shi Dan Master’s level wanted to take a place, it would definitely be hopeless. Even if that Qu Dan Master was stronger than Shi Jun, he was still not favoured by Mo Wuji.
Instead, it was the Fourth Grade Earth Dan Master Yin Shanyin, who Mo Wuji was very concerned about, who did not speak or move.
“Alright, I announce that the Traceless Sword Mountain will open now, and every Dan Master who enters will be allowed to bring a medicine boy to assist in the alchemy. The time for the Untraceable Sword Mountain to open is one month, and after one month, the Untraceable Sword Mountain will close. Now all the elders and the dan masters who entered the Traceless Sword Mountain, follow me.” Lone Ran spoke crisply, and stood up immediately after he finished speaking, just as he could be said to be sitting on his words.
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Since Mo Wuji joined the Traceless Sword Sect, he had always been on the outermost periphery. If it wasn’t for this time when he was helping out for Shi Jun, the most central place that he had gone to was only to the Grand Hall of Affairs.
At this moment, he followed the Patriarch and many elders into the depths of the Traceless Sword Sect, and only then did he truly realise how big the Traceless Sword Sect was. It was the ten or so miles of continuous sword fronts that made it possible to imagine how many strong people had once been in this place.
In the middle of the many sword fronts, there was a circular palace, and on top of the palace hovered a sheathless, sessile sword. This sword had been suspended here for an unknown number of months, and Mo Wuji could still feel the eerie chill when he looked at it from afar.
Carved on the outside of this circular palace were densely packed sword strokes that seemed to be haphazard, yet seemed to have a certain sequence.
Mo Wuji followed the crowd to the palace before he could see that there was also an old man with a broken arm in front of the palace sweeping the floor with a broom.
Lone Ran walked closer and bowed his body slightly to the old man sweeping the floor, and without speaking, he took the lead and walked into the circular palace.
Mo Wuji instead took a few more glances at this old man with a broken arm sweeping the ground, and thought, is this guy the legendary Ground Sweeping Monk? No, it should be the old man sweeping the floor.
Stepping through the door of the circular palace, Mo Wuji saw that there was only a circular round altar engraved with countless arcane patterns in the middle of the palace. Beside this round altar, there were also several alcoves. Other than this round altar engraved with countless patterns, there was nothing else in this circular palace.
“The thirteen people who entered Sword Mountain go up to the Sword Mountain Teleportation Array.” Sword Sect Patriarch Lone Ran of the Traceless Sword Sect said as he pointed at the round altar. Even though Yin Shanyin was most qualified to get a medicine boy to help carry her things, and in fact she was the only one who did not bring a medicine boy along. Mo Wuji was wondering why Yin Shanyin didn’t bring a pill furnace, if she didn’t have one, how could she make pills?
It turned out to be a teleportation array, Mo Wuji had heard that the Immortal Sect could set up all sorts of great formations, and teleportation arrays were also one of these great formations.
Mo Wuji, just like the rest of the pill boys, was also standing behind Shi Jun carrying a not-so-small Dan Furnace, there was no way that he, as a pill boy, had to take care of the strength work of carrying the Dan Furnace for the Dan Master. Otherwise, there was no need for a pill boy to enter Sword Mountain at all.
When the thirteen people stepped onto the teleportation array, Lone Ran raised his hand and threw out more than a dozen crystal clear jade stones. These jade stones landed accurately on the grooves around the teleportation array, and a moment later, a dazzling white light was emitted around the teleportation array, which directly blocked Mo Wuji and the others’ gazes away.
This was definitely not jade, but a spirit stone that he had heard of. Mo Wuji, who was standing on the teleportation array, wanted to try his best to see the crystal clear stones clearly, only to be blocked by the white light, he couldn’t see anything clearly. He could only feel that these jade stones contained a rich spiritual qi.
A wave of dizziness came over him, and Mo Wuji was wondering if this was a spatial shift that occurred during the teleportation array. Just then, he felt a violent fluctuation around him, and the sensation felt as if it was going to tear him apart.
“Pff……” several blood breaths sprayed onto Mo Wuji one after another, Mo Wuji was shocked in his heart, even though he couldn’t see it, he knew that this was really someone being torn apart by the power of that violent fluctuation in space.
Could it be that teleporting once was so terrifying that one had to pay the price of a small life?
“Attention everyone, there’s a problem with the teleportation, don’t run around after arriving at Sword Mountain, try to converge together ……” Yin Shanyin’s voice came in time, Mo Wuji only heard half of it before Yin Shanyin’s voice dissipated into thin air.
Another burst of tearing pain came, Mo Wuji clearly felt the sound of his bones breaking. Just when he thought that he would also be torn apart by the spatial force just like the unlucky few before him, he fell heavily to the ground.
It was only after a full ten minutes of lying down that Mo Wuji slowly struggled to get up. He was in pain all over his body, and it was obvious that his bones had been pulled out by the spatial force and cracked.
There was no one around, and Mo Wuji was a little scared in his heart. Just as Yin Shanyin had said, there was a problem with the teleportation array. The scent of blood that he had smelled earlier, that must have been the other few pill boys that had been torn apart. The reason why he was able to hold on was because he wasn’t a simple pill boy. Rather, he was a cultivator at the second level of Pulse Expansion, and not only that, under the baptism of lightning strikes many times, his body’s toughness was much stronger than some cultivators whose cultivation level was higher than his.
After forcibly enduring the pain all over his body to stand, Mo Wuji truly sucked in a mouthful of cold air.
Listening to the words of Scarless Sword Sect’s Patriarch Lone Ran, the Scarless Sword Mountain that was filled with spiritual grasses, it was reasonable to say that everywhere was a fairyland like existence.
But right now within his sight, apart from a barren piece of broken rocks and withered land, where was there any spirit grass? Not to mention spirit grass, even if it was ordinary grass, he didn’t see a single one.
Mo Wuji didn’t believe that the Patriarch of the Traceless Sword Sect would lie about this kind of thing, since this situation had occurred, it must be that something had changed on the Traceless Sword Mountain. When he thought about the previous problems with the teleportation array, Mo Wuji was even more convinced that there was a change in the Traceless Sword Mountain.
