I Can Travel between Two Worlds-Chapter 243 - 12: A New Sect Assessment, Second Senior Brother’s Shadow
Winter month, nineteenth day, all matters auspicious.
The new sect assessment of the Changchun Sect also officially begins.
The scale of this sect assessment is particularly large, as the Changchun Sect has announced they will recruit a hundred Inner Sect disciples and a thousand Outer Sect disciples.
Therefore, as early as a few days ago, the inns in the marketplace at the foot of the mountain were already filled with mortals.
Today is the first day of the assessment, marking its official start.
Lin Chen once again saw thousands of fifteen or sixteen-year-old children, with faces either excited, climbing towards Changchun Mountain.
Unlike the last sect assessment, this time Lin Chen is no longer the youth climbing upwards.
But instead has become the Assessment Elder watching the youths climb from the peak.
On the Disciple Plaza, dozens of sect elders gathered together, pointing and gesturing at the projection array before them.
What is displayed in this array is the climbing scene of the disciples below.
"Tsk tsk, the quality of these disciples isn’t bad! The number of participants is also large, just on the first day it exceeds twenty thousand," an Assessment Elder remarked.
"Naturally, since the sect assessment was canceled three years ago, it’s only natural that more mortals came this time."
"This assessment lasts seven days, unprecedented in scale, fearing that the number of participating mortals will exceed a hundred thousand."
Lin Chen sat quietly in the corner, watching the scene before him, with the conversations of the elders echoing in his ears.
At this moment, in the scene.
Just like a few years ago, many fifteen or sixteen-year-old youths were laughing and talking, climbing up the mountain.
Most youths, unaware of preserving their stamina, will gradually fall behind after climbing a thousand meters.
The higher they climb, the fewer youths remain climbing.
Watching the scene before him, Lin Chen felt slightly sentimental.
"In years of frequent wars, cultivators are all on edge, not to mention even Foundation Establishment Cultivators... even Core Formation Cultivators cannot completely protect their own lives."
"Yet these mortals still instinctively rush into cultivation sects, wanting to cultivate... why is this?"
"In reality, compared to cultivators, the plight of mortals is worse..."
Lin Chen quietly thought to himself.
In the Cultivation Realm, it’s the survival of the fittest.
Cultivators regard mortals as weeds.
Stronger cultivators regard weaker cultivators as pigs and dogs.
The saying "Only by becoming a Golden Core Guest can one be considered one of us" must have been said by some Golden Core Cultivator, meaning that until one reaches the Golden Core Stage, they are not of the same path.
From when Lin Chen first traversed the Cultivation Realm, encountering tribulation cultivators robbing caravans and massacring mortal villages, Lin Chen understood this principle.
Later, in Jade Belt City... a million mortals, in just a few months, only less than a hundred thousand remained.
Ninety percent died.
Most mortals have no capability to contend against the Cultivation Realm.
To possess the power to protect oneself, there’s only one way: to become a cultivator.
"Alas, in the end, those who can cultivate are still a minority..."
"Those with Spirit Roots are but half; and of this half, a large portion are Mixed Spirit Roots... true cultivators who can practice are less than one-tenth."
"But those cultivators who succeed in training are even fewer, only one percent, or even a few tenths of a percent..."
Watching the scene of these youths climbing upwards, Lin Chen felt a slight sense of compassion.
Whether on the Righteous or Demon Path, nearly all cultivators are driven by one belief:
"If the Celestial Dao doesn’t grant, then I will seize it myself!"
The journey of cultivation is inherently a process of contending with the heavens and earth...
At this moment, a thought suddenly arose in Lin Chen’s mind.
"I propagated cultivation to the Great Xia Country, changing the High Martial World..."
"Then, could the Martial Path be propagated to the Cultivation Realm?"
Clearly, it is possible.
In the High Martial World, the conditions for cultivating are very stringent.
It requires Spiritual Energy, and even more so, the transplantation of various Spiritual Medicines, mastering various inheritances of the Cultivation Realm...
But, learning the Martial Path in the Cultivation Realm is quite easy. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞
After all, Body Cultivation has existed in the Cultivation Realm since ancient times.
Moreover, the Martial Path does not require Spirit Roots, and the Spiritual Energy of the Cultivation Realm greatly aids martial cultivation, and the martial potential of this world’s mortals far surpasses that of the High Martial World.
The only thing lacking is a Breathing Technique.
If Lin Chen were to teach the Breathing Technique to mortals, perhaps in a few years’ time, a group of martial artists comparable to Foundation Establishment and Qi Refining Cultivators could emerge.
And potentially, a martial force within the Cultivation Realm could be formed as a result...
Once the thought emerged in Lin Chen’s mind, it surged like a tide, swift and uncontrollable.
But soon, Lin Chen calmed down.
"Promoting the Martial Path in the Cultivation Realm indeed holds great promise..."
"However, for cultivators, it might be considered a Heterodox Sect?"
"Currently, it’s too significant a matter to execute lightly, I still need to return and discuss with the Martial Arts Palace, and plan carefully..."
Lin Chen thought silently.
It’s not hard to imagine, from a cultivator’s perspective, they cultivated arduously, holding an air of superiority over mortals, and standing above all living beings.
If suddenly, those non-cultivating, ordinary mortals obtained power comparable to theirs...
Lin Chen, as the ultimate originator, might very likely offend most of the world’s cultivators and even be pursued and hunted down.
"Therefore, until I possess sufficient self-preservation power, this thought must temporarily be shelved."
Lin Chen’s gaze returned to the scene of mortals climbing the mountain before him.
Several two-hour periods passed, and by the afternoon...
More than ninety-nine percent of the youths were eliminated.
At this moment, among the over twenty thousand climbing youths, only less than two hundred persist.
These youths are mostly fourteen or fifteen years old, with sturdy builds.
Some come from cultivation families, having soaked in medicinal baths and nurtured their vitality since childhood, their bodies far surpassing ordinary people.
Others hail from small villages, being mountain hunters.
