"Bang!" Another explosion sound during pill condensation startled Mo Wuji. Fortunately, he immediately realized that this time it wasn't Shi Jun who failed, but the guy in the first position on the left. This person had failed two consecutive pill refining attempts and was eliminated.

It seemed that these newly promoted Tier 3 Human Pill Refiners, except for the Qu Pill Refiner who didn't see eye to eye with him, were mostly frauds. They probably wanted to enter Boundless Sword Mountain, so they reluctantly pretended to be Tier 3 Human Pill Refiners. Now that they were brought out to refine pills in public, their true colors were immediately revealed.

Perhaps because Mo Wuji's words had an effect, Shi Jun's second batch of pills didn't encounter any problems despite the failures of others.

After nearly another half hour, a fragrance emanated from Shi Jun's pill furnace, and he began to condense the pills. At this moment, another person's pill exploded. In the main hall, besides Shi Jun, there was only one pill refiner still refining.

Pills, tinged with red in the green, took shape in the furnace. A few minutes later, Shi Jun clapped his hands on the furnace, and six pills flew out, landing in the jade bottle that had been prepared beforehand.

After Shi Jun succeeded in refining the pills, the last pill refiner was also affected and declared failure.

Of the five pill refiners, only Qu Pill Refiner and Shi Jun succeeded. There was no need for a selection; the result was clear.

"Qu Pill Refiner and Shi Pill Refiner have both advanced to Tier 3 Human Pill Refiners. Congratulations!" The old man at the head on the left stood up and applauded first.

Sect Leader Gu Ran also clapped his hands and said with a smile, "With Qu Pill Refiner and Shi Pill Refiner, our Boundless Sword Sect will surely achieve better results in the Five Elements Desolate Domain Pill Competition this time."

After saying that, the smile in Gu Ran's eyes suddenly faded, and his tone became solemn. "Everyone here today is a pillar of our Boundless Sword Sect. All ten elders and all the pill refiners are here. Our Boundless Sword Sect's Boundless Sword Mountain has not been opened for thousands of years. To blow our own horn a bit, perhaps the spiritual herbs in our Boundless Sword Mountain are not as precious as those in the Five Elements Desolate Domain, and there are no top-level treasures that can allow one to enter the Third Heaven Realm. However, among all the sect's secret realms in the Five Great Empires, our Boundless Sword Mountain is definitely a first-class precious secret realm."

"This time, our Boundless Sword Sect has opened the Boundless Sword Mountain, which has not been opened for many years. I hope the seven pill refiners who enter it will cherish this opportunity. Do not waste a single spiritual herb, and do your best to improve your pill refining skills in Sword Mountain, so that our Boundless Sword Sect can achieve better results in the upcoming Five Elements Desolate Domain Pill Competition."

"Sect Leader, rest assured, we will certainly live up to your expectations." Mo Wuji saw six people, including Shi Jun and Qu Pill Refiner, stand up and bow.

Seeing that Yin Qianqian didn't move, Mo Wuji thought that these six pill refiners were probably bragging. He didn't know about the others, but he knew the Shi Pill Refiner inside and out. Even though Mo Wuji had never seen the strength of the other sects' pill refiners in the Five Elements Desolate Domain Pill Competition, he knew that Shi Pill Refiner's level was definitely not going to get any results. Even if Qu Pill Refiner was stronger than Shi Jun, Mo Wuji still didn't think highly of him.

On the other hand, Mo Wuji was very concerned about the Tier 4 Earth Pill Refiner Yin Qianqian, who didn't speak or move.

"Okay, I announce that Boundless Sword Mountain is now open. Each pill refiner who enters can bring one medicine boy to assist in pill refining. The opening time of Boundless Sword Mountain is one month. After one month, Boundless Sword Mountain will be closed. Now, all elders and pill refiners entering Boundless Sword Mountain, follow me." Gu Ran spoke decisively, and immediately stood up after speaking, truly living up to his words.

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Since joining Boundless Sword Sect, Mo Wuji had always been active on the outermost periphery. If it weren't for helping Shi Jun this time, the most central place he had gone to was only the Affairs Hall.

Now, as he followed the Sect Leader and many elders into the depths of Boundless Sword Sect, he truly realized how large Boundless Sword Sect was. Just the continuous sword peaks spanning more than ten miles were enough to imagine how many strong people there had been in this place.

In the middle of the many sword peaks, there was a circular palace. A sheathless and hiltless sword hovered at the top of the palace. This sword had been hovering here for who knew how many months. Looking at it from a distance, Mo Wuji could still feel a chilling intent.

The outside of this circular palace was engraved with densely packed sword moves, seemingly chaotic and unordered, yet also seemingly with a certain sequence.

Mo Wuji followed the crowd to the front of the palace, only to see an old man with a severed arm holding a broom and sweeping the floor in front of the palace.

Gu Ran walked up to the old sweeper, slightly bowed his body, and without saying a word, took the lead in entering the circular palace.

Mo Wuji took a few more glances at the old sweeper with a severed arm, thinking, "Is this guy the legendary sweeping monk? No, it should be the sweeping old man."

Stepping into the gate of the circular palace, Mo Wuji saw that there was only a circular altar engraved with countless mysterious patterns in the middle of the palace. Beside this altar, there were several grooves. Apart from this altar engraved with countless patterns, there was nothing else in the circular palace.

"The thirteen people entering Sword Mountain, step onto the Sword Mountain teleportation array." Boundless Sword Sect Sect Leader Gu Ran pointed to the altar and said. Although Yin Qianqian was the most qualified to find a medicine boy to help carry things, she was actually the only one who didn't bring a medicine boy. Mo Wuji was curious as to why Yin Qianqian didn't bring a pill furnace. If she didn't have a pill furnace, how would she refine pills?

So it was a teleportation array. Mo Wuji had heard that immortal sects could set up various large arrays, and teleportation arrays were one of these large arrays.

Mo Wuji, like the other medicine boys, was carrying a not-small pill furnace on his back behind Shi Jun. There was no way around it; as a medicine boy, he had to be responsible for the laborious task of carrying the pill furnace for the pill refiner. Otherwise, there would be no need to let the medicine boy enter Sword Mountain at all.

After the thirteen people stepped onto the teleportation array, Gu Ran raised his hand and threw out more than a dozen crystal-clear jade stones. These jade stones accurately landed on the grooves around the teleportation array. After a moment, a dazzling white light emitted from around the teleportation array, directly blocking Mo Wuji's and others' sight.

This was definitely not jade stone, but spirit stones that he had heard of. Standing on the teleportation array, Mo Wuji wanted to try his best to see what the crystal-clear stone looked like, but he was blocked by the white light, and he couldn't see anything clearly. He could only feel that these jade stones contained a rich spiritual energy.

A burst of dizziness came over Mo Wuji, and he wondered if this was the spatial transformation that occurred during the teleportation process. Then he felt violent fluctuations around him, a feeling that was like tearing him apart.

"Puff…" Several bloody breaths sprayed onto Mo Wuji's body. Mo Wuji was startled. Even though he couldn't see, he knew that someone was really torn apart by the power of those violent spatial fluctuations.

Was teleportation so terrible, that it required paying with one's life?

"Everyone, be careful, there's a problem with the teleportation. After arriving at Sword Mountain, don't run around, try to gather together…" Yin Qianqian's voice came in time. Mo Wuji only heard half of it before Yin Qianqian's voice disappeared.

Another tearing pain came, and Mo Wuji clearly felt the sound of his bones breaking. Just when he thought he would also be torn apart by the spatial power like the other unlucky ones, he fell heavily to the ground.

After lying there for a full ten minutes, Mo Wuji slowly struggled to get up. His whole body ached, and it was obvious that the spatial power had pulled cracks in his bones.

There was no one around. Mo Wuji felt a little scared. Just as Yin Qianqian had said, there was a problem with the teleportation array. The bloody smell he had smelled before must have been the other medicine boys being torn apart. The reason he was able to hold on was because he wasn't a simple medicine boy. He was a Meridian Opening Layer 2 cultivator. Moreover, after being baptized by lightning strikes many times, his body's toughness was much stronger than that of some cultivators with higher cultivation levels than him.

After standing up while enduring the pain all over his body, Mo Wuji truly took a deep breath of cold air.

According to Boundless Sword Sect Sect Leader Gu Ran, Boundless Sword Mountain was full of spiritual herbs everywhere, and should be like a fairyland.

But now, all he could see was a barren, rocky wasteland. Where were the spiritual herbs? Not to mention spiritual herbs, he didn't even see a single ordinary weed.

Mo Wuji didn't believe that Boundless Sword Sect's Sect Leader would lie about such a thing. Since this situation had occurred, there must have been some change in Boundless Sword Mountain. Thinking about the problem with the teleportation array before, Mo Wuji was even more convinced that something had happened to Boundless Sword Mountain.

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