Chapter 2: Suffering in Hardship (I)
"Ah Ku, do you really want to take the test?" You Dong's voice was full of panic. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Yes." Ah Ku sat at the registration table with a firm tone.
You Dong grew up with Ah Ku, so he naturally knew her very well, and knew that Ah Ku had made up his mind, so he had to turn to Xizhen Xianjun for help.
Xi Zhen Xianjun understood all kinds of reasons, and persuaded: "Ah Ku, don't be angry for a while, your cousin didn't choose to let you take the exam directly, but let you be a medicine boy first, you have his own reasons." ”
Ah Ku looked up.
Xizhen Immortal Jun continued: "This year's admissions exam is different from the past, this year's main enrollment targets are cultivators who have already cultivated outside, from a cultivator family or a small sect that has already achieved a small degree, for you who have not practiced, the content of this exam is too difficult and too dangerous. ”
Ah Ku was slightly stunned, but he didn't expect this reason.
You Dong saw that Ah Ku could listen to it, and hurriedly added: "So I ask Master to temporarily accept you as a medicine boy, first familiarize yourself with the environment in the mountains for a year, and then take the entrance exam on the summer solstice of the next year, not what the other party said about going through the back door!" ”
Ah Ku turned his head and looked at the man with a hat who had been staring at this side.
"That person should know the whole story, that's why he provoked you." Xizhen Immortal Monarch's voice was tinged with displeasure, and he who had already risen to immortal status was very displeased with the intrigues between people.
Ah Ku was silent for a long time.
She agreed to take the exam just now, not on the spur of the moment, although she did not expect the special nature of this exam, but the difficulty is stronger, which does not mean that she cannot participate. The most important thing is that the entrance exam of Qingyuan Xianshan... Never dead.
Xizhen Immortal Jun glanced at her and said, "Qingyuan Mountain's exam has indeed never killed anyone. ”
Ah Ku looked up, surprised at how the other party could know what was in his heart.
She didn't know that it was not difficult for people who had become immortals to see through people's hearts.
Xi Zhen smiled slightly and persuaded: "But there are many missing arms and legs in the exam. ”
Xi Zhen is not alarmist, he is one of the main leaders of this exam, and he understands that the content of the exam is still dangerous.
Ah Ku's black and thin face is even more gloomy, and if he lacks an arm or a broken leg, he will not become a cripple.
You Dong didn't want Ah Ku to take this risk out of a momentary anger, and said: "Yes, Ah Ku, the people who took the exam this year must be cultivators who have changed their immortal bones, why do you have to compare whose bones are harder than them?" ”
Aku's head bowed.
"What? Repented? A mocking voice came from behind, "It can't be a change of mind, is it?" Hum! Wasn't it quite tough just now, why did it become a bear now? ”
Ah raised his head bitterly, and there was fire burning in his bright eyes.
"Please help me with the formalities."
The Xizhen Shenjun on the opposite side sighed helplessly, took out the registration scroll next to him, and laid it flat on the table for Ah Ku to browse.
"Ah Ku, you think about it again, okay? This exam is very dangerous, if you have to have a good one, how can I explain to my aunt under Jiuquan? ”
Ah Ku looked at his cousin who was about to cry and said, "Don't worry, I'll be fine." ”
As soon as the words fell, Ah Ku quickly signed his surname and first name on the test-taking scroll, pressed the red clay with his thumb, and stamped his handprint a little harder.
Xi Zhen Shenjun asked seriously, "You really decided to participate?" ”
Ah Ku nodded earnestly.
"Okay." Xi Zhen picked up the seal next to him and stamped it, and everything was decided.
You Dong heard the sound of "click", only to feel that it was dark in front of him, as if the sky had fallen.
I blame myself for not being quick enough with my hands and feet, what are you greeting... If you go up the mountain early, it won't be over, but now that it's like this, what can I do... Cry...
"Ahh
"I'm not dead, I don't need to call it a soul." Ah Ku got up and left his seat.
"Where are you going?"
Ah Ku didn't answer, she walked straight to the hat man and stood still, "Hey", without waiting for the other party to react, she shot out with a "swish", slapped him crisply and loudly, and said mightily and domineeringly: "The remaining two slaps, wait until the exam is over, and then return them to me." ”
"Oh," it was an exclamation.
"Bang bang bang..."
"Well done!" This is the sound of You Dong's cheers.
"Oops, oops," this is the voice of Xi Zhen's heart.
"You—" was the sound of the man in the hat gritting his teeth.
Ah Ku didn't bother to look at him again, turned around, and walked towards the transmission formation where Xi Zhen was.
Along the way, there were sounds of cheering or cheering, but Ah Ku ignored them, as if he hadn't heard them.
Xi Zhen took out a small bamboo tube sealed with yellow mud from the sleeve of his wide robe and said, "This is signal smoke, if your life is threatened, pull the lead next to it, and someone will come to save you." Of course, pulling the lead also means disqualifying you from the exam. ”
Ah Ku glanced at it, stuffed it into his belt, and said seriously: "I know." ”
Xizhen swept the firewood knife hanging from her waist, raised her eyebrows and asked, "That's all your weapon?" ”
Ah Ku smiled slightly, patted his old partner on his waist, and said, "It has saved me many times, I believe in it." ”
At this moment, Xi Zhen really looked at this petite girl in men's clothes, and he used the sound transmission technique to say to Ah Ku: "Looking forward to your performance, junior sister." ”
Xizhen didn't miss the surprise and nervousness that flashed in Ah Ku's eyes, he tugged at the corners of his mouth, stood with two fingers of his middle finger and index finger together, and drew a five-element magic circle in front of Ah Ku, only to see a burst of strong light flash, and with a "whoosh", Ah Ku's figure disappeared from the spot.
"Senior Brother Xizhen..."
Xi Zhen looked at the resentful face next to him and said comfortingly: "It's okay, fortunately, the person who made the question this time is Master Yaoming, his old man had long thought that there would be some cultivators with low ability to take the exam, so he divided them into categories and planned a lot of paths of different difficulty, this transmission formation is an evaluation device for personal ability, and it will send the corresponding level of candidates to different places." Ah Ku has not cultivated, and the immortal bones have not been changed, so I think I should have been sent to the easiest road, relax, it's okay. However, just in case, he still gave her a signal bamboo tube, according to Ah Ku's intelligence, he should know how to advance and retreat.
You Dong exhaled a big breath and said, "That's good! ”
The face of the man with a hat not far away changed, Ah Ku's strength was not great, and the slap didn't hurt much, but as a man, being slapped in public, it was not a glorious thing to say, not to mention, there were two slaps.
He thought about whether to enter the exam early, and after passing, he slipped away, but the registration office over there was chaotic again.
"Senior brother, it's not good!" The man in charge of overseeing the formation shouted in panic.
"What's wrong?" Xi Zhen frowned and looked over, and suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.
"Senior Brother You Dong's cousin seems to have been sent to the Red-Eyed Forest."
"What !!" The Red-Eyed Forest is the most difficult level of the exam.
You Dong's heart tightened, and he cried and shouted: "Ah Kuh...."
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With a "whoosh", Ah Ku arrived at his destination, opened his eyes, and saw green woods as far as he could see.
Patting the signal cigarette bamboo tube on his waist, Ah Ku's originally confident face became more and more expressionless.
Sister...
Ah Ku pulled his lips and smiled bitterly.
Whether it's a junior brother or a junior sister, you have to pass this level, and since they all come in, of course you still have to pass.
"Bang bang bang...", the earth-shattering footsteps got closer and closer.
Ah Ku looked up at the fierce beast in front of him that opened its bloody mouth and exhaled a foul smell, and involuntarily exhaled softly: "Fire Qilin..."
A wet liquid slipped down her shoulder, and when she looked up, she saw a huge snake head three times her size covering her head like an umbrella, and the pink snake letter spat lightly, making a soft "sizzling" sound.
Ah Ku realized his rashness and underestimation of the difficulty of the exam, but, Master Xizhen, what kind of bad position are you passing me on!!
There is a unicorn in front and a big snake in the back, and Ah Ku's feet can't help but tremble.
Her heart was panicked, but her body reacted quickly, her hand quickly pulled out the firewood knife on her waist, and leaned sideways to assess the danger on both sides, not knowing whether to face the roaring fire unicorn or the oversized snake head spitting red letters.
However, before Ah Ku could choose, the front hooves of the fire unicorn waved quickly, Ah Ku's eyes saw it, but his body couldn't dodge, the person was like a kite with a broken string, and flew out directly, with a "bang", it hit the top of the tree next to it, and fell down layer by layer, with many crushed branches, and finally landed on the back of a thick branch, and stopped hard.
Ah Ku snorted in pain, his throat was sweet, and he spit out a mouthful of scarlet, feeling that the bones in his whole body were shattered, and it hurt and hurt.
This is the power gap!
There were no obstacles, and the fire unicorn immediately fought with the big snake, the unicorn hissed, and the big snake rustled and swam away, and the originally quiet mountain forest suddenly became noisy.
The hundred-year-old tree was uprooted by the big snake and thrown to the fire unicorn that was agile and dodged, and the hundred birds in the forest flew away, fluttering and fluttering, a noisy, red-eyed sand in the forest was flying, and a puff of smoke and dust was floating, and the body of the big snake was heavy and agile, and the tail that fell from time to time brought up a wave of shaking mountains.
A terrifying atmosphere enveloped Ah Ku, making her feel that her strength was so small. She was afraid of falling again, so like an earthworm, she moved back little by little along the trunk behind her, slowly and slowly propping her back up to the main trunk of the big tree.
Her breathing was short, the beads of sweat on her forehead were densely covered, and her whole face was pale without a trace of blood, as if she would pass out directly in the next moment.
Ah Ku carefully touched the painful right shoulder, and found that the entire right arm had been knocked out and dislocated, and what was worse was that the ankle of her left leg that was faintly tingling, seemed to have accidentally twisted and swollen into a radish when it fell from the top.
The pain in his back has not faded, but the stinging pain in his hands and feet has become more and more obvious.
I'm still too weak after all...