Infinite Save: I Cultivate Immortality Through Reincarnation - Chapter 214: Entry Competition

Autumn sunlight pierced through the morning mist in the mountains.

The Training Grounds of Biqiu Sect were already packed with disciples watching the entry competition.

The clanging of metal and wood came from not far away, where several inner disciples of Biqiu Sect were sparring and practicing.

Today was the day of the entry disciple competition.

In fact, new disciples who had not yet reached the Body Forging Realm after joining were allowed to forfeit this entry competition, because a fight between a mortal and a cultivator was fundamentally unfair.

But there were always those who believed they were different. Especially those new recruits who had practiced some martial arts before joining, they tended to think their limited fighting skills gave them at least some chance.

Like the two newly entered disciples currently on the central arena platform.

The one standing on the west side came from a prominent martial family in Haiping City of Jin’an Country. He was excellent with leg techniques.

The disciple on the east side came from Yunyang City in Jin’an Country;
his family had originally sold tofu and he had no martial arts background. However, his cultivation talent was decent, and in just over a month since joining he had successfully stepped into the Body Forging Realm, becoming a true cultivator.

At present his cultivation was only at the early Body Forging stage, and it was somewhat unstable.

With the sound of the bronze gong, the duel on the arena platform officially began.

The disciple from the martial family immediately seized the initiative and delivered a heavy whip-like strike to the side of the new Body Forging disciple’s lower leg.

Bang!

A muffled thud sounded.

The early Body Forging disciple just stood there dumbfounded, clearly not reacting in time.

What followed was the martial family disciple’s onslaught of fists and kicks like a violent storm.

Rather than a cultivator spar, it was more like a one-sided beating.

“Hit him, hit him!”

Around the railing by the Training Grounds, many veteran outer disciples of Biqiu Sect shouted excitedly at the two on the arena platform.

They were merely jeering.

Each landed blow drew cheers from the crowd.

After first entering the Body Forging Realm, a cultivator’s bones and sinews, refined by spiritual energy, were already far stronger than ordinary people’s. But if they could not launch effective counterattacks, in front of a true trained fighter they were nothing but a bigger punching bag.

However—

“Beat him…”

The veteran outer disciples by the railing suddenly went quiet.

The early Body Forging disciple had wildly thrown a punch that landed on the martial family disciple’s chin, sending him two steps backward, and his footing noticeably became shaky.

Then the Body Forging disciple suddenly stepped forward, grabbing the collar of the martial family disciple’s robe.

The martial family disciple tried to break free, but his strength was not a match for a real cultivator.

Immediately, the Body Forging disciple struck a short punch and heavily hit the martial family disciple’s abdomen.

“Ugh…”

The punch rattled the martial family disciple’s internal organs;
the pain twisted him and squeezed the air from his lungs, his body curling up like a shrimp.

But the early Body Forging disciple had already gone berserk;
another punch smashed into the other disciple’s belly, then another strike…

Only then was the bronze gong struck again.

“Stop!”

A manager disciple at the early Qi Circulation Realm quickly jumped onto the arena platform and forcibly separated the two dueling disciples:

“The victor, Li Tieniu!”

The veteran outer disciples of Biqiu Sect gathered around the railing showed no surprise, as if they had known this result from the start.

Almost every entry disciple competition staged one or two of these scenes.

Newly entered cultivators in the early Body Forging Realm versus those who had not yet reached Body Forging but had practiced martial arts often saw the martial-trained disciples dominate.

The outcome was always the same.

Because I can fail countless times, but you can only fail once.

Only a true martial arts master could barely contend with an early or mid-stage Body Forging cultivator.

A late Body Forging cultivator, on the other hand, was nearly impervious to blades and spears;
mortal fighters and ordinary weapons could only look on in vain.

“Third match, Duan Ruijie versus Zhang Tu!”

The bronze gong sounded again, and the manager disciple announcing the bouts called out, then struck the gong once more:

“Zhang Tu forfeits, Duan Ruijie wins!”

An unsurprising result. After witnessing Li Tieniu’s fight against another martial family disciple, many Biqiu Sect disciples who had not yet reached Body Forging likely chose to forfeit.

The disciple from Haiping City, who was skilled in leg techniques, had fairly good martial accomplishment, but against Li Tieniu—who had no martial background but had just stepped into Body Forging—he still found no advantage.

Not to mention facing Body Forging cultivators who had also practiced some martial arts.

Since there was no hope of winning, and no chance to place high, they simply gave up.

“Look, the Sect Leader has arrived!”

Suddenly someone near the Training Grounds railing whispered.

Everyone raised their heads and looked toward the viewing stand on the west side of the Training Grounds.

The Training Grounds of Biqiu Sect were not large;
the viewing stand was only on the west side.

A middle-aged man of about fifty, wearing Biqiu Sect robes covered by a white overcoat, walked slowly on the viewing stand toward the main seat.

He was the Sect Leader of Biqiu Sect, Gongsun Kang.

Beside Gongsun Kang walked a white-haired elder in a dark green robe.

What surprised most Biqiu Sect disciples was that, for some reason, their Sect Leader seemed highly respectful toward the white-haired elder in the dark green robe.

“That dark green robe, and the black four-clawed snake pattern embroidered on it… is he a cultivator from Spirit Snake Cliff?”

Some older and more worldly Biqiu Sect disciples exclaimed in surprise.

Spirit Snake Cliff was a minor but recognized cultivation sect in the southern region of Chenping Continent. The contemporary Sect Leader of that sect was a mid-stage Spirit Connection cultivator, and besides that Spirit Connection Sect Leader, Spirit Snake Cliff also had an Offering Elder who was likewise in the Spirit Connection Realm.

The cliff’s garrison of Qi Sea Realm cultivators numbered at least six or seven.

There were even rumors that Spirit Snake Cliff’s previous Sect Leader had reached the Myriad Transformations Realm and had lived in seclusion atop the cliff for years, rarely showing himself.

Whether that was true or not was difficult to verify.