Chapter 236: The Ascension Ceremony at Tianwu Terrace
The three people who were chasing on the Spiritual Beast Mountain Birds stopped below the Tianwu Terrace. Looking at the casual cultivators coming and going, they couldn't help but frown.

A follower disciple asked cautiously,
"Brother Zhang, what should we do? Should we go down and interrogate them?"

The foundation-building monk named Zhang who was carrying the group immediately said angrily,

"You idiot, are you going to interrogate nearly a hundred people with just the three of us? Did you take some stupid pills to cultivate?
The disciple who was following him was so scared that he dared not reply. Another disciple quickly said,

“Brother Zhang, please calm down… However, we have been chasing here for most of the day, but we haven’t found out anything. I’m afraid it will be difficult to explain to the sect when we return…”

The foundation-building monk named Zhang controlled his spirit bird to spin in a circle, and after thinking for a while, he replied,

"This person must have an extraordinary background. His flying bird can master the skills of spiritual beasts and even a rare escape technique. Even my flying bird can't catch up with it. It can be seen that he is definitely not an ordinary casual cultivator."

"Besides, we only suspect that the man might be heading towards that cave. As for whether he is really the owner of that cave, this is also ambiguous..."

Another disciple immediately understood what he meant and flattered him,
"That's right, Senior Brother Zhang made a good analysis! When we go back, we will say that this person is a disciple from a noble family who came to participate in the Ascension Conference. His approach to the cave of the independent cultivator was completely an accident. Senior Brother Zhang, what do you think?"

The foundation-building cultivator surnamed Zhang agreed.
"Alright, that's fine. Remember, if someone asks you about something, you should keep your story straight. Also, if you don't know how to speak, don't speak!"

After saying that, he glared at the disciple who had followed him at the beginning. The two of them quickly responded,

"Yes Yes."

Then the three of them controlled the spirit bird in the air and turned around and left.

Mo Juren hid among a group of casual cultivators, and glanced at the three spiritual birds from time to time. Seeing that they finally left reluctantly, he felt relieved, knowing that his plan had succeeded and he should be able to escape the disaster for the time being.

In order to avoid exposing his flaws, he simply followed the crowd and walked forward and climbed the mountain.

Yunwutai is actually a mountain like Baoyuntai.

Although it is not as high as Baoyuntai, the terrain is more precipitous, with dense cliffs, high steep cliffs, jagged rocks, and no way to go. It is difficult for ordinary people to climb to the top of the mountain, and even lower-level monks may have to sigh at the sight of the mountain.

During this process, Mo Juren also heard a lot of news about Tianwutai.

It turns out that the Ascension Conference is jointly organized by the seven major sects of the Yue Kingdom, and will be divided into seven groups of arenas.

All monks who report to participate in the Ascension Conference can randomly choose one of the seven arenas to challenge.

As long as you can stand on the ring until the end, you can become one of the top ten winners and obtain the Foundation Establishment Pill provided by this sect. You will also have the opportunity to join this sect and become a formal disciple.

When we reached the top of the mountain, we saw a huge platform that was more than ten times larger than Mopan Mountain.

Standing on the edge of the platform and looking into the distance, you can see mist and rolling clouds. Standing on the platform feels like you are above the clouds.

No wonder the Ascension Conference was held here. Just by coming here, Mo Juren had a feeling of transcending the world.

However, most of those who can reach the top are cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining or above. There are also many people like Mo Juren who are at the tenth level of Qi Refining, and there are also some great masters at the eleventh and twelfth levels.

On the platform, people were coming and going. According to some well-informed independent cultivators, since there were many independent cultivators who arrived early, in order to recruit some powerful contestants in advance, disciples from various sects had already set up tables in front of the arena and started accepting registrations from independent cultivators in advance. Mo Juren saw that many disciples from Spirit Beast Mountain were also among them, helping to maintain order, and could not help but slowly avoid them.

Only then did he remember that when they were at the Lingshou Mountain Market, Han Yunzhi had solemnly left him a note asking him not to attend this year's Ascension Conference.

He almost forgot about this matter, but he didn't expect that he would come to Yunwutai directly by accident.

But now that he was here, Mo Juren might as well take a look at the situation. After all, he didn't want to give up his hope for the Foundation Establishment Pill.

So he found a crowded place and meditated and practiced silently like a group of casual practitioners, intending to observe for a while.

The place chosen by Mo Juren was right in front of the registration location for the Giant Sword Sect.

This Giant Sword Sect should be far away in Jingzhou. It was the immortal cultivation sect that the Seven Profound Sect relied on for support back then.

These disciples of the Giant Sword Sect were also very interesting. They all wore black and were serious. They all carried a giant unsheathed sword as tall as a person on their backs. They looked extremely cold, and one could tell from their looks that they had incredible fighting power.

These disciples of the sect are also the sect's living signboards. Many independent cultivators who come here to register, after seeing the demeanor of these disciples, will be excited and imagine that they will become one of them.

Signing up for the competition is also very simple. One only needs to go to the table of the sect of one's choice, report one's name and age, and then the sect's disciples will check one's bone age and test one's true strength.

To check bone age, one just needs to take a magic tool, drip a drop of blood from the fingertip into it, and it will show the cultivator's true bone age, which cannot be false at all.

Each sect has its own unique way of testing its strength.

For example, the Giant Sword Sect's test method is to ask you to lift a sword. As long as you can lift the sword of the foundation-building monk who accepts the registration, you will be considered to have passed the test.

After passing these two items, the monk will receive a token with a number, and his name will be engraved on the match list of the arena. On the day of the official competition, he can draw lots to match his opponent.

Fortunately, Mo Juren watched for a while first, and then he realized that the age was also a factor in signing up for the seven major sects' competition.

If you are a cultivator over 40 years old, no matter how strong you are, even if you have reached the twelfth level of Qi Refining, you will still be rejected by the sect.

This is because the immortal cultivation sects would feel that cultivators who have not been able to establish a foundation before the age of forty, even if they can successfully pass this stage, their highest level of cultivation in the future will probably stop at the foundation-building stage, and they do not have much training value for the sect.

Fortunately, the Ascension Conference also left a way out for these over-age monks.

That is to sign up for the most brutal unlimited elimination tournament!
The so-called unlimited means that there are no restrictions at all, and any means can be used to fight regardless of life or death.

As long as you can stand on the stage for three full rounds, you can get a Foundation Establishment Pill, and it is on a first-come, first-served basis. There are only five in total.

It can be imagined that most of the participants in this kind of knockout round are veteran independent cultivators with very high cultivation levels, and they have no shortage of tricks up their sleeves.

In order to obtain the even rarer Foundation Establishment Pill, they would fight to the death.

Therefore, every unlimited elimination tournament will become the final event of the Ascension Conference.

(End of this chapter)