"What's the level of your alchemy elder?" Feng Yuqin asked.
"Middle-level Spiritual Realm."
"Then I'll pass." After this assessment, Feng Yuqin had already reached the threshold of the Spiritual Realm and could upgrade at any time.
It was just that she held herself back and didn't plan to upgrade for the time being.
"Then..." Gu Jianfeng didn't expect her to decline so straightforwardly.
"When can I enter the Sword Tomb?" Feng Yuqin asked.
"Technically, you can go now, but I think it's better to inform the other elders," Gu Jianfeng said. His real thought was to tell everyone that he had recruited a powerful alchemist.
To put it bluntly, he wanted to show off Feng Yuqin.
But Feng Yuqin saw through his thought at a glance. "Then you go and tell them."
"Aren't you going?" Gu Jianfeng asked in surprise.
"Just point me a place. I'll wait outside." Feng Yuqin didn't want to waste time. She was eager to improve her strength.
Seeing that she really didn't want to go, Gu Jianfeng had no choice but to take her to a small room next to the council hall and let her wait there. Then he went to the council hall helplessly.
"Master, do you already have a plan in mind?" Xiao Ying asked.
"Improve my strength. What else could it be?" Feng Yuqin said calmly.
"Can that Sword Tomb help you improve your strength?" Hun Bing asked curiously.
"I don't know, but I have my heart set on this Sword Tomb," Feng Yuqin replied truthfully.
"Mother, you will definitely make it," Xiao Ling'er cheered her mother on.
"I also think mother can do it," Xiao Bao quickly followed.
Da Bao also said, "Mother will definitely be able to open the Sword Tomb that others can't."
...
Next door in the council hall.
"Master, did you really bring back that alchemist whom all the major forces are vying for to our sect?" The one who spoke was the vice-master.
"Our Divine Sword Sect has nothing, and our main focus is not alchemy. Why would she come to our sect? There must be some conspiracy," said the elder of the Sword Cultivation Hall.
"Have we found out her background?" asked the grand elder.
"She's from a lower-level continent. It used to be the Wild Dragon Continent and then became the Wild Dragon Realm," Gu Jianfeng had someone check on her on the way back.
He already knew about Feng Yuqin, including the fact that she had three children.
"What? You mean she's already the mother of three children?" The third elder asked in shock.
The other elders, the vice-master, and the hall master were all shocked.
"She's only twenty and already the mother of three children? She must have gotten married very early, right?" The grand elder calculated Feng Yuqin's age. Wouldn't she have gotten married and had children at fifteen? That seemed a bit too early.
Gu Jianfeng glared at the grand elder angrily. "They're triplets. The children are only two years old."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
It was better than having three children one after another.
But still, being the mother of three children before the age of twenty was considered an early marriage.
"Our Sword Tomb hasn't been opened for many years. Recently, I've sensed that the spiritual energy inside the Sword Tomb is also disappearing," the grand elder sighed. "Feng Yuqin is an alchemist. If we open it once and she can't get in, it will be an extra consumption for the Sword Tomb."
"Yeah, why not wait until next year when the strength of some of our sect's disciples has improved, and then let them go in together?" the third elder suggested.
"I'm afraid that won't work," Gu Jianfeng shook his head. "Don't you guys ever think that she chose our Divine Sword Sect over the Starfall Hall. A person as assertive and thoughtful as her would be willing to wait in our sect for half a year?"
Everyone fell silent.
If it were someone from another powerful force, they would be a bit worried.
But since they knew that Feng Yuqin was from a lower-level continent, they didn't need to worry too much. Their only hope was that Feng Yuqin could really enter the Sword Tomb.
If the Sword Tomb could be opened, it would at least take half a day. Other disciples of the sect could also go in.
This was like taking advantage of good fortune.
So now they both hoped that Feng Yuqin could do it and were worried that if she couldn't, it would consume the Sword Tomb once.
"Consuming it is not out of the question. We can also set a few conditions for her," the grand elder said.
"Grand elder, please go ahead," Gu Jianfeng respected the grand elder, who was older than him.
"Our Divine Sword Sect has regressed too quickly in recent years. It's not easy for us to recruit new disciples now. There are resources in our sect, but many of them can't be accessed. If Feng Yuqin can make it onto the list, it will be like advertising for our Divine Sword Sect," the grand elder said. As soon as he said this, everyone in the room understood.
"Grand elder, do you mean to let Feng Yuqin compete for the Alchemy List?" Gu Jianfeng asked.
"The Pride List, the Alchemy List, and the Artifact Refining List. She must at least make it into the top 100 in one of them. If she wants to compete in two, she has to be in the top 500," the grand elder said.
"That's simply impossible," the elder of the Sword Cultivation Hall frowned.
If it were a combined competition, with Feng Yuqin's alchemy strength, she could easily make it into the top 5.
The only thing they weren't sure about was the situation of the four major forces.
But against other forces, she would definitely win.
As for her strength and artifact refining...
When Feng Yuqin entered the Divine Sword Sect, Gu Jianfeng used his spiritual sense to detect her strength, and she showed her true strength.
So Gu Jianfeng knew what level Feng Yuqin was at now.
It would be extremely difficult for her to compete for the Pride List.
As for artifact refining...
Gu Jianfeng had also asked, and Feng Yuqin said that she had never been involved in artifact refining.
So the only list she could be sure of making it onto was the Alchemy List.
After Gu Jianfeng explained the situation, everyone fell silent.
"The current number one on the Pride List is Ming Zilin, at the ninth level of the High Heavenly Spirit Realm. The second, Situ Zihan, is at the fifth level of the Middle Heavenly Spirit Realm. And Feng Yuqin is only at the seventh level of the High Myriad Forms Realm," the third elder frowned and looked at the grand elder. "In less than a year, her strength has to reach at least the Middle Heavenly Spirit Realm, and she also has to learn artifact refining. How can she meet your requirements? Also, her alchemy ability must be above the Middle Mysterious Realm."
"I can do it," a cold and calm voice sounded at the door.
Everyone turned their heads in unison and were stunned when they saw Feng Yuqin.
"How did you get in?" the grand elder blurted out subconsciously.
The barrier in this council hall was set up by him personally. No one below his strength could get in.
"I just happen to have a spiritual pet that can pass through barriers," Feng Yuqin said calmly.
Actually, after she reached the Gathering Yuan Realm, all her spiritual pets could ignore barriers.
If she had to rank them, Xiao Ying was better at ignoring barriers.
Hun Bing's mind-reading ability had also improved.
Xiao Jin's treasure-hunting ability had become stronger. So Xiao Jin had just told her that there were good things in the Sword Tomb, and she should go in. It would definitely help her upgrade.
So since she had been waiting for Gu Jianfeng for a long time and he didn't come, she came here by herself.
"What kind of spiritual pet?" Gu Jianfeng and the others all showed great interest in such a spiritual pet.