"Yo yo yo, all the immortals, the test is back.

Is this trip still hard? How many people have passed?"

Yan Tao sat lazily in front of the attic door, eating melons and fruits, and looked at everyone without smiling.

Before they could speak, he pointed to the crowd in front of him with the tip of his finger, turned his face to the side to look at his subordinates, and then taunted:

"Look, look, there are so many good seedlings with fairy spirit roots, maybe they will be disciples of a great sect in the future.

How did you come to me, it's really interesting, hahahaha......"

Yan Tao was satisfied, as if humiliating the young man here greatly satisfied his vanity.

The people behind him who followed him and acted as thugs also echoed and laughed.

And these eliminated young men here are not stupid people.

Everyone knows the future, although they are unwilling, they dare not speak out in anger, and they are aggrieved in their hearts.

Qingyun watched this scene in the crowd, with mixed feelings, and secretly thought to himself:

"Since Xianyuan can't be forced, then I can only do chores here while taking time to practice.

Fortunately, the life here in the past few days is much better than that of the outside world, and it is not too hard to have food and shelter.

Most importantly, you can also cultivate the Soul Gathering Technique. ”

"As I told you a while ago, those who failed the test will follow me before it gets dark today and move all their things to the back.

In the handyman house that has not yet been fully inhabited, starting tomorrow, it will officially become a member of the back mountain. ”

Yan Tao glanced at everyone here with disdain on his face, and said proudly.

Qingyun suddenly realized, and then he remembered that the person who failed the test did say that he would move to the back to live.

No wonder when I came, there were only a dozen rows of houses in front of me, and no one was full.

He thought it was because there weren't so many miscellaneous disciples, but then he understood.

Now it seems that it is estimated that there are countless miscellaneous juveniles living in the back.

It was noon, and yet they hadn't eaten.

Because Yan Tao had been sitting there and had never dispersed, they could only stand where they were.

Although they were hungry, no one reached out to ask for food.

Although they were eliminated by the test, although they were ridiculed by Yan Tao, no one stepped forward to flatter.

This unbroken backbone is like the last trace of dignity on their bodies, which cannot be trampled on by themselves.

But in the eyes of Yan Tao and others, this may be due to their young age and lack of understanding of human feelings.

I can't put myself down from the young master's shelf high up in the house.

In any case, Yan Tao's goal was not achieved.

His favorite thing to do is to watch someone beg for mercy at his feet.

begged him for alms, food and drink.

Or even a moment of freedom, or a person's most basic life needs.

This feeling of superiority is enough to make him happy, detached, and let him regain the dignity that was trampled on to pieces before.

In the afternoon, everyone was packing their belongings, and Qingyun was no exception.

After two hours of hustle and bustle in the residence, all the people stood by the main road with their packages on their backs, waiting for Yan Tao's next instructions.

"Really, does it take so long to collect a few rags, do you know how precious my time is?

A bunch of rubbish, hurry up and follow me, don't go away.

If I find someone who has escaped, I will break my legs and throw them into the mountains, understand? ”

"Get out of the way, get out of the way. ”

Yan Tao suddenly pushed away the pestle in front of him, and the few young men who were afraid that they didn't hear him speak, and the young men around him scolded impatiently.

There was a world difference between his attitude and the previous day, because he knew it clearly.

Before today, there would be people here who would enter the gate and become a disciple.

If he offends them, he still has some concerns about counterattacking in the future.

But now, he knew that these people were all eliminated, useless waste.

Thrown into the back mountain, you can let him knead it, with no strength, no background, and no waves except for obedience.

If there are really a few nerds who don't have long brains, it's a big deal to arrange for his men to throw them into the mountain stream after dark.

reported his accidental death in the door, but no one punished him.

This kind of change is clear to others, and Qingyun naturally understands it, and he is unwilling to say it easily.

There are thousands of people here, as long as they don't stand out from the limelight, presumably Yan Tao won't trouble him.

A procession of thousands of people, mighty, stepped on gravel, swept away weeds, and bypassed several mountains.

Finally, when the sun was about to set, we reached our destination.

What leads to the eye is a large plaza surrounded by rows of low thatched houses.

There were also countless people, busy at the foot of the mountain, dragging out the shadow of the old man in the setting sun.

After everyone arrived, under the scolding of Yan Tao and others, they made an appointment in twos and threes and lived in the miscellaneous grass hut here.

He didn't know if it was because he was tired from walking, or if there was some other reason, but he didn't make trouble at this time.

"It turns out that the last house he said is actually in the deep mountains.

Last, last. It seems that I still have too little experience, and it is not easy for me to understand what others say. ”

Qingyun also spread the futon in the grass hut, thinking carefully.

He seemed to understand the meaning of the three words "rear" that Yan Tao said at this time, shook his head helplessly, and lay on the bed in a comatose sleep.

On the second day, the morning light was faint, and Yan Tao's voice sounded outside the house.

"Get up, get up, get up from my bed, sober up, and gather with me. ”

Qingyun followed everyone, endured sleepiness, and went to the ground to wash his face with cold water.

But fortunately, in this June day, the temperature is not cold, and the cold water is on the face, but it is quite refreshing.

"Arrange your own work today, don't be lazy, don't complain, don't be opportunistic, and don't run away, do you understand?"

After hearing this, the crowd gathered in the center of the square.

There were thousands of newcomers standing in front, and about tens of thousands of old people standing behind, all quietly listening to Yan Tao's arrangement.

I saw that he didn't name him, and directly followed his inner preferences.

Randomly divided the new crowd yesterday into several groups, and then raised his finger and pointed, and distributed.

"The first team on the left went up the mountain to chop firewood, the second team went down to the river to fetch water, and the third team collected medicine in the forest......"

After a while, thousands of people here received their own tasks and had a simple breakfast.

They followed the old people who had come to the rear for a few years, up the mountain and down the river, and walked in groups to their respective mission areas.

The endless flow of people, lively, seems to be full of vitality in this early morning.

Qingyun also followed the crowd and walked towards the northwest, and he was assigned to the third team and followed the crowd to the mountains to collect medicine.

In fact, he didn't know the herb himself, and he didn't want to go.

I just want to steal the air to familiarize myself with that spirit gathering technique and cultivate it earlier.

But he was assigned by Yan Tao, and he was not qualified to choose.

After all, he is the steward here, and there is a brother who has achieved cultivation in the door, and he has nothing.

After a stick of incense, Qingyun followed them to a dense wood.

All kinds of unknown plants and trees in the forest, vertical and horizontal, fragrant, at this time, this work of collecting medicine is not bad.

Although I saw tens of thousands of people working in the back mountain on the square, the water around the square was impassable.

But once these people are dispersed to various regions, they are very few.

Qingyun's team only has a dozen people.

"Little brother, look at your face full of novelty, today is the first time to come.

People who have just come here are just like you, and they are happy to see the hunt.

But as time went on, I did the same thing every day, day after day.

No matter how good the mood is, you still don't have too many expectations. ”

A deep young man's voice came from behind, and Qingyun turned around to take a look.

The man was dressed in gray burlap, about thirty years old.

His face was haggard, his eyes were blank, and he looked as if he was in poor spirits.

But I don't know how long it is, but the figure is quite strong, and at first glance, people think that the food in the back mountain is extremely rich every day.

Seeing Qingyun staring at him with questions in his eyes, he laughed softly:

"I was at the same age as you, and I was also selected to come here to test my talents, and after I failed, I was like an outcast.

Thrown into this vast mountain, I have been doing hard work all day long, and it has been nearly fourteen or fifteen years now.

During this period, I tried to petition home many times, but every time I handed in the book, there was no news. ”

The man walked two steps slowly, and found a soft lawn near Qingyun, leaning against the trunk of a tree.

After a long sigh of relief, he sat down, and everyone here rested like him.

He looked around, and then said:

"Since then, I have understood that these immortals don't want this mountain to be lifeless and overgrown, as if they have lost their aura.

This is something that Xinghemen does not want to see, but they themselves cultivate all day long.

Enjoy the status of the high immortals, and don't want to waste time in these countless mountains.

Therefore, every year, under the guise of recruiting disciples, they go out to find laborers to help them straighten out the back mountains.

And you and I, as well as these people here, were deceived because of this need. ”

When Qingyun heard these words, he was dumbfounded and didn't believe it in his heart.

If this is the case, then he will stay in this deep mountain for the rest of his life, like a prison in the city, and there will be no future in the end.

He was short of breath, his chest heaved and heaved, and he asked in a slightly trembling voice:

How can you be sure that they are going to do so?

There were many women who came with us, why didn't they pass the test and didn't see them enter the back mountain?

And each of us took a volume of exercises from Yan Hua Shangxian.

If you cultivate on time, you can enter the spirit gathering period, and when the time comes, you can also worship the sect and become an immortal. ”

"Hahahaha...... You're a funny little brother, that Soul Gathering is just the lowest thing in their hands.

In your life's practice, you can only choose one type of exercise, do you know?

Don't say that we people are the least qualified, even if we have excellent talents, and if we cultivate this spirit gathering technique, we will not be able to break through the spirit gathering period for the rest of our lives.

They just threw this exercise at us, and after cultivation, it was just to strengthen their bodies and give them a few more decades of miscellaneous labor.

Less sickness, fewer deaths, no trouble for them.

It's really ridiculous, do you still think it's a deep cultivation method?

Is that good stuff going to show you? Still a nerd like you, haha......"

The strong man didn't wait for him to finish, and leaned back happily, as if he hadn't encountered such an interesting thing in a long time.

Qingyun looked at the other people here, but no one refuted it out loud, as if he already knew about it in his heart.

They all had a look of self-deprecation on their faces, and they couldn't squeeze out the slightest smile.

When he saw this scene, his heart suddenly cooled, as if a big stone was pressed on his chest, he couldn't breathe, and secretly said in his heart:

"If this matter is really as he said, then Yuan Liuke tricked me into coming here in order to find someone to work for Xinghemen?"

Suddenly, I thought about it again:

"No, if he wants to find a strong and capable handyman, Seven Star City will be able to deal with the Xinghe Gate as soon as he grabs a handful.

Why did you run thousands of miles to the foot of Nanshan Mountain and pick me alone?

And that Spirit Gathering Technique, can you practice it?"

At this time, he remembered the strange things he had encountered all the way from the foot of Nanshan Mountain.

The Xianmen test, Yuan Liu's disappearance, Elder Xu's attitude, the test of the Five Elements Platform, and the so-called facts heard in this back mountain.

All kinds of incomprehensible causes and consequences, as well as this kind of unheard, so-called "truth".

In an instant, he was disorganized, and he was a little distracted, and he couldn't figure out the clues in an instant.