Vol 3 Chapter 20: Ask the way

Shi Xuan didn't conceal it, and smiled: "Shi has only to be superior, but his talent and understanding are all sentenced to superior."
In fact, for young cultivators like Shi Xuan, the content of the question is a little bit less. If they are older, they will also ask how old they should start to cultivate, so as not to miss the talents who start to cultivate until they are adults, but who are quick to enter.
Zhou Dielan opened her mouth and screamed in surprise, then she hurriedly covered her mouth, and said after a while: "Unexpectedly, Big Brother Shi has two superiors, but Sister Yu has only the roots of superiors, and she has only talent and understanding. "
"Hehe, that girl is better than Shimou in general, I don't know what about girl Butterfly Lan?" After all, she is a familiar monk, Shi Xuan also asked her concerned.
Zhou Dielan's face was reddened: "I'm good in all three items, not comparable to you."
"That's right, the result of Phalaenopsis ranks first among the monks in the cultivation period. I just didn't expect the Penglai Sect to recruit disciples so simple. I thought I would go to the ring for a few games." Yu Ruoshui is half right. Happy and half encouraged.
Shi Xuan heard that Ming Qingyue mentioned: "The realm is higher, and the monks under it can't be beaten no matter how powerful it is. The Penglai school is only looking for monks who can pass on the Taoism and can cultivate to the Golden Alchemy stage. Monk, why use the form of arena competition? It's better to measure perseverance and xinxing. Besides, you will still be able to guide your actual combat ability after entering the school. There is also a battle meeting every five years, which allows you to exercise the skills of fighting and fighting. , Lest you suffer a loss when you walk around the world in the future."
"Unexpectedly, you know so much about Fellow Shi Daoist, you are really well informed, but the realm is more important than actual combat, but I have a negative example. I am very respected by a senior monk "Sword Old Man", who is Jianqi Wushuang. It is said that I have been watching the tide by the sea for a hundred years, and I have comprehended the immeasurable sword qi and sword qi thunder, and killed a golden core master at the level of the soul stage. Although it is a low-grade golden core, it is also a rare feat in thousands of years. ." Speaking of Old Man Jian, Yu Ruoshui was eloquent.
"Haha, you also said that it is a rare feat in thousands of years. It is conceivable how difficult it is to challenge a higher level. Of course, except for those with good magic weapons, spiritual weapons, and even magic weapons, you just can’t think of Miss Yu. He is very interested in learning swords." Shi Xuan had never heard of this before, after all, he was just a rookie in the cultivation world.
Yu Ruoshui's face blushed rarely seen: "If I can become a true disciple of the Penglai School, I must choose the true biography of the sword refining sect and become a figure like Wuhui Jian Yongxiang."
While talking, the test has been completed here. Xie Fangwei heard the reports from the nine inner disciples, and then reported the results to Mo Yuan. After Mo Yuan made a decision, Xie Fangwei said to the thousands of monks: "Anything among talents, roots, and understanding, if there is one below the middle, please go back to the bamboo building."
Below middle, it means middle lower, lower, lower lower three, etc. As soon as these words came out, I don’t know how many cultivators lamented, but they didn’t dare to make trouble. Mo Yuan could clean up all the cultivators here with one hand, and he was dejected. Go down the mountain.
When these monks finished walking, there were only seven or eight hundred people left on the square. Standing in a huge square, they looked very sparse. As a result, Shi Xuan looked around, but he could easily see the bright light moon that had set off a few days earlier. Now, she happened to be standing with a few female monks.
Seeing Shi Xuan's view, Ming Qingyue smiled and nodded in response, Shi Xuan also smiled in greeting.
Seeing that the other cultivators had left, Xie Fangwei stood up and said, "Frauders, please go up to this cloud. Below is the way to ask your heart." After talking with a finger, a big white cloud floated on the ground, almost half of it. The size of the square. "
Seven or eight hundred monks stood on the cloud. The cloud was more than enough. As you can imagine how big it is, Xie Fangwei pointed again, and the white cloud slowly floated towards the foot of the mountain.
When you reach the foot of the mountain, you will see a straight road from the foot of the mountain to the peak. There are rocks through the rocks, and there are rocks through the rocks. If there is no road, you will pass across the sky.
"There is no magic or magic weapon on the way to ask the heart, please, please." The white cloud slowly dissipated to the ground, and Xie Fangwei stood at the intersection and said to many monks.
Except for the difficulty of building a road of this kind, this road looks like an ordinary road, nothing unusual. The monks looked at each other a few times, and finally someone stepped onto it.
It wasn't until Shi Xuan walked this road that he discovered its uniqueness. The surrounding area was full of white mist, and it was only possible to see the surrounding area a little far away. These were not visible from the outside.
Originally, Shi Xuan walked along with Zhou Dielan and Yu Ruoshui on the way of Wenxin, but now he can't see the others, so he can only move forward slowly.
I walked forward for a while, and I gradually felt restrained. Every step I took took more energy, and the surroundings were quiet, and I couldn't even hear my own footsteps, as if I was locked in an absolute silence. local.
Shi Xuan wanted to make a sound, but when he spoke, he couldn't even hear him. In this strange silence, Shi Xuan became more restrained as he walked, and the various emotions in his heart also fermented in this quiet.
Gradually, Shi Xuan realized that he couldn't even see the mist. The surrounding area was completely deserted like a dark night, unable to see, listen, or speak, even pinching the skin on his body, and he didn't even feel the Buddha himself in this world.
In this hairy feeling, Shi Xuan only felt that anxiety, tension, anger, depression, sadness, pain and other emotions were getting stronger and stronger. He wanted to yell, but he also understood that even if he yelled, he would listen. No, I can't even feel my mouth moving, and walk forward with heavy steps according to instinct.
Fortunately, Shi Xuan remembered that this was a test, so that he could keep his wits and minds. He brought up the supreme way of confining thoughts in "The Treasure Record" and controlled his emotions. This kind of technique is not a magic technique, it is just a method in visualization, and it is no different from a person's usual deep inhalation to calm the emotions, so it is not impossible to use.
Maintaining his emotional stability, Shi Xuan was struggling to move forward as the restraints became heavier and heavier. In the end, he was almost crushed on the ground by such restraints, but Shi Xuan still did not stop moving forward.
Finally, Shi Xuan realized that he was standing on Wenxin Road that he saw just now. There was no darkness, no fog, and only a short distance from the mountain.
Shi Xuan looked around and saw Ming Qingyue stop not far in front, her expression quiet, she had already walked out of the hallucinations, Yu Ruoshui, Zhou Dielan and others were still walking slowly behind them, but their eyes were hollow and their faces All kinds of uneasy emotions surfaced, and it seemed that he was going crazy.
Because they were worried that the rules would not allow them, and when they were considering whether to help them, Yu Ruoshui and Zhou Dielan had already walked to the place where Shi Xuan had just stood. Their expressions suddenly became vivid, they looked around, and they seemed to have come to the hallucination. This line can be sober.
"Big Brother Shi, I almost went crazy just now." Zhou Dielan touched her chest and said fearfully. Yu Ruoshui nodded frequently.
"I think if you can get out of this illusion, you should have a good temperament. Look at how many cultivators in the back slumped and disappeared." Shi Xuan pointed to the cultivator on the road behind him.
Because they were about to regain their strength, and then continue to walk up, the monks who came out of the hallucinations stopped in place. However, many monks were exhausted in their hallucinations, and once they stopped, they could no longer move forward. There were more monks in the cultivation period, including Zhou Dielan.
At this time Xie Fangwei's voice came: "If you can't reach the summit in a quarter of an hour, please go back."
Those monks who could no longer walk were all desperately limp. Shi Xuan suddenly discovered that Meng Yugan, a dude boy, had a kind-hearted appearance. He took the initiative to help those floppy monks, and he knew that Penglai faction still liked it. A cultivator who can be friendly to the same family, after all, no one wants to accept disciples who are like wolves, but the family children know this but refuse to pass on it, for fear that they will take a lot of advantage.
Looking at Ming Qingyue, she was also helping a limp female monk. Seeing Shi Xuan going back and forth, she blinked her eyes three times, meaning it speaks for itself.
Shi Xuan saw that Yu Ruoshui had helped Zhou Dielan, and knew that she was sincere, and no longer reminded her. He found a male monk and helped him to the mountain.
In the illusion, the stamina of the monks in the nourishing period is basically drained, and the monks in the out-of-aperture period can barely support it. Only those who have been tempered by Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi during the entrainment period will not be any strange, but Shi Xuan estimated that the difficulty and requirements of the three should be different.
Shi Xuan was still supporting a monk while he was struggling to support, and he walked more slowly. Fortunately, he was not far from the summit. Finally, when there was a little time left, he stepped onto the summit and could only barely stand. Now, one step can't be taken.
After a quarter of an hour, Xie Fangwei used a spell to move the cultivating monk who was limp not far from the peak to the top of the peak, but the monk in the out-of-aperture period did not know where he moved, and was in hallucinations before. The same as those monks who couldn't extricate themselves.
"If a monk can get out of the illusion in the qi-cultivation period, even if the character and perseverance are good, he can also count as if he can come up by himself." Xie Fangwei only explained that the standards of the monks in the next qi-cultivation period are different, and the out-of-aperture period and the qi-inducing period are not mentioned.
There are now less than two hundred monks left on the mountain. This does not include the monks in the air-entraining period who participated in the Outer Deacon test, nor the children under the age of twelve. They are all different tests.
While these monks were resting, in another hidden place on the top of the mountain, Meng Yutan was asking an inner disciple who was in charge of the test: "Junior Brother Qin, how is my brother?"
The younger brother Qin said with a reluctantly decent face, "Senior Brother Meng, so that brother is only ranked 23rd in the out-of-aperture period. This time I am afraid it is hopeless. You use the pill to treat his roots The change was too good, but according to his cultivation age, his talent and savvy can only be matched. This is very easy to detect, and it is impossible to cheat."
Meng Yutang said with a face as usual: "What is hopelessness? Isn't there a question about wealth and background? Just find an excuse to demote a few people."
"But, Senior Brother Meng, it is estimated that most of the monks who are in front of him are the monks with roots in the waters of the three islands. If they are demoted casually, Master Mo will watch!" Senior Brother Qin didn't dare to take this risk.
"There are still monks from the waters of the three islands, are they?" Meng Yuchang began to smile.
"But there must be other cultivators who have a lot of origin in the sea and are not afraid of investigation. If all are degraded, it will be too obvious!" Junior Brother Qin still defended with a grimace.
Meng Yu tasted a smile that warmed people's hearts like a spring breeze: "There are always a few, Junior Brother Qin, if this happens, I will ask Grandpa Grandpa to accept you as a disciple."
Junior Brother Qin hesitated for a long time before he said: "Okay. I will try my best."