Beauty and the Bodyguard

They didn't know that Lin Yi would get two to three pieces of useless Jade every day from the tenth Kuangqu, and they'd turn them into good jades full of spiritual energy the moment they changed hands. It was much better than them making last-minute preparations.

What was worth mentioning in these three days was that after li Zhengming took the lead last time, the other newbies swarmed over like sharks that smelled blood-Lin Yi had gotten the extra ten pieces of spirit Jade from the champion's prize. In just three days, they'd exchanged all of them with waste Jade, not leaving a single piece behind.

Adding on the results of his mining and hiding these days, Lin Yi's spiritual jades were close to four hundred and fifty. It was still quite a distance away from the star inkstone's price of a thousand spiritual jades, but it was still a while before the next inner street opening day. Lin Yi wasn't in a rush.

In fact, even if he did not have enough spiritual jades, he would have a way to make up for the shortage. Of course, it would be ideal if he could gather enough spiritual Jade before that.

No matter what, Lin Yi had to get that star inkstone.

Three days passed by in a flash. All the new disciples of the three pavilions gathered in the main hall of the welcome Pavilion once again. Each and every one of them was rubbing their fists and rubbing their palms together. They were all smug. Unlike the first test, the second test didn't require him to go anywhere else. He could complete the test in the welcoming new pavilion's own territory.

The second test was similar to the first test of resisting pressure, but the content was different. This test was the most basic of all cultivators, but at the same time, it was also one that was often ignored by many-defense ability.

One had to learn how to take a beating before fighting. Otherwise, no matter how strong one was, they would still be a cripple with an uneven development, and it would be easy for others to grasp their fatal weakness. Even the street punks knew this principle, and the high and mighty cultivators present were naturally aware of it.

However, even if they understood the reason, it did not mean that they were willing to work hard in this area. The reason was simple. No matter how one looked at it, this was definitely a thankless task.

Putting aside the fact that there weren't many high-grade defensive martial arts, even if they were lucky enough to obtain one, they wouldn't be willing to spend a lot of effort and money to cultivate it. After all, defense was ultimately passive. If the opponent didn't attack you, no matter how heaven-defying your defense was, it would be useless.

After all, defensive abilities were not as intimidating as powerful offensive abilities. For experts of the same level, after they had learned powerful offensive martial arts, they could go kill people and steal treasures, go on adventures in secret realms, obtain more cultivation resources, and quickly level up, forming the legendary snowball effect.

But what could a defensive expert do? Other than having a slightly stronger ability to stay alive, there was nothing else he could do. Even if he were to face an expert of the same level, he could only fall into an awkward situation of being passively beaten, let alone if he were to meet someone stronger.

The only advantage was that he was more resistant to attacks than others. If he encountered a stronger opponent, what was the use of having a strong defense when he was faced with a stronger attack? The turtle shell would be broken one day, the only difference was a little longer and a little shorter, that was all.

This wasn't just a matter of face. More importantly, it was easy to fall behind others and become a stepping stone for other experts of the same level.

Taking ten thousand steps back, even if you were in a small team where everyone had their own strengths and cooperated with each other, a superhuman defense ability could indeed have an unexpected effect in many cases. However, once there was a fatal danger, as the team's defensive master, did you have to stand in front of everyone?

To put it nicely, such a person was a powerful shield, but to put it bluntly, he was just cannon fodder. Once a fatal threat appeared, the first to die would definitely be the defensive expert in front.

Who would be willing to be such a useless character who would become the first choice of cannon fodder in critical times?

Everyone had their own selfish motives, so most people would make the same choice in the process of cultivation. Even if they knew that defense was very important, they would still put most of their energy into offense and movement techniques, and would not put too much effort into defense, even if it left a fatal defensive flaw.

This wasn't stupid, but a helpless choice forced by reality. If they didn't do this, it was very likely that they wouldn't even be able to reach today's height, let alone have a bright future.

However, although the theory that defense was useless was recognized as a bloody reality by the entire cultivation world, there was also a common consensus in the cultivation world, and that was that a true top expert would always be able to attack and defend, and would never have a weakness in defense.

If he was only strong in offense and had no achievements in defense, then even if this person could be famous for a while, he definitely wouldn't live for long, because any expert of the same level could kill him by surprise attack.

Those who could attack and defend didn't have this concern, so they could live longer and naturally become more famous!

The three great pavilions had spent all sorts of resources to nurture these new disciples, not because they wanted to nurture fake experts who only knew how to attack and not defend. What they needed was a true expert who could truly attack and defend, and could become the main pillar of strength!

As such, it was extremely normal for such a defensive ability assessment to appear during the crucial newcomer assessment.

This time, the method of testing their defensive ability could be described as simple and crude. It was to be beaten up.

Every newcomer participating in the test was free to choose a full-force attack of a level of strength. As long as they could withstand it and recover from their injuries within a certain period of time, they would be able to obtain the corresponding test points.

Just like the points of the first test, the points of this test were divided into two parts.

One was strength points, which corresponded to the strength level chosen. Sky Class late phase peak was 5 points, Sky Class full phase was 10 points, foundational early phase was 20 points, peak early phase was 30 points, and nothing above that.

After all, the newbies here were at most early foundation level practitioners. It was already very rare for them to be able to take a full-powered strike from an early foundation level practitioner. As for a peak early foundation level practitioner, even Kang Zhaoming and the others had a 90% chance of being killed in one hit.

As for the higher-ranked ones, they didn't even need to think about it. Even if someone wanted to challenge them, the welcoming new pavilion wouldn't agree to it. Because that wasn't a newbie assessment, it was a public murder. (To be continued.) "If you like this work, you're welcome to come to Qidian.com to give your recommendation and monthly vote. Your support is my greatest motivation. For mobile users, please read on M.Qidian.com.)