Chapter 9: Worshipping the Hundred Cave Gates (I)
As the sun rose in the morning, a ray of sunlight shone in through the window, and the light was reflected on Li Qing's face, and Li Qing's eyes opened slightly!
In the past two days, Li Qing has been trying to make the broken skin recover as soon as possible, but it has not been completely successful, but it is not a complete failure, at least the pain is not so much. The blood from the wound has completely stopped, and it will only need to recover slowly in the future.
There was a creak, and the door to the hut was opened from the outside. A woman walked in with a tray of clothes, somewhat familiar.
"Childe, this is the clothes that Engong asked you to bring to you, and the slave family will wait for you to put them on!" The woman's delicate voice came, and Li Qing fell goosebumps.
"No need, I'll just come by myself, you go out first!" didn't care about the reason for the familiarity, and hurriedly drove the woman away. Joke! Beauty tricks? It's really like she, Li Qing is a gentleman!
When the woman left, she directly lifted the lid of the barrel and jumped out, hiss~ If the range of movement is large, it still hurts!
Under the sun, looking at his body, Li Qing really wished that his eyes were blind! The whole body has changed from the previous blood red to dark red, and some places on the body have scabbed, and the whole body looks full of small folds. Touching her head, her hair is long gone, and now she is bald, and there are still a few small scabbed protrusions on her scalp occasionally! In the current state of this body, it is estimated that even if you tell others that it is a woman, no one will think about it! Fortunately, she is a cultivator, and she can slowly recover in the future, otherwise this is the way she looks, it is really better to die than to live!
Without thinking about it, I just picked up the clothes on the tray and put them on. It was a white gown and a pair of cyan soft boots, the lining was cotton, and it did not scratch the injured skin, and it was obvious that the person who prepared the clothes was very careful. Wearing it on the body, at a glance, it is really a demeanor! Of course, the premise is to ignore the terrible skin that leaks out on the outside!
When he was ready, Li Qing pushed open the door of the wooden house and walked out.
This is the first time Li Qing has been in contact with the outside world in the past half a month, take a deep breath, it's good! Looking around, there is a bamboo forest in front of it, a bluestone path in the middle of the bamboo forest leads to the distance, there are several rooms side by side next to the house that Li Qing walked out, and a field has been opened up in the open space between the house and the bamboo forest, all kinds of plants grow on it, faintly exuding aura, it seems that it should be a spiritual plant.
"You're out! The enrollment will start immediately, let the senior brother take you there! Let's go, let's go, don't be in a daze! Shui Xin walked out of the room next to him, and came over to take Li Qing's hand as he spoke. I had heard Wang Ao mention the state that Li Qing might have after waking up, so when he saw Li Qing's skin leaking on the outside of his clothes, Shui Xin was not much surprised, but he was afraid that Li Qing would be sad, so he deliberately did not mention Li Qing's injury. With Li Qing's exquisite heart, how could he not understand Shui Xin's kindness, so he pretended not to know and let her pull it.
Wang Ao didn't say a word from beginning to end beside him, just watched Shui Xin pull Li Qing to his side.
The flying sword rose, and the three of them went away hand in hand, and the blue light flashed, and they had already come to the gate of the mountain.
I saw that at this time, there were already a lot of people standing on the platform in front of the Baixuemen Mountain Gate, some old and some young, the youngest was only six or seven years old, and the eldest one even had a white beard.
Li Qing looked up, and the three big characters of the Baixue Gate were suspended in the air and engraved on the towering mountain gate, and down the mountain gate, about hundreds of steps went down, each step was about a foot high. On both sides of the steps, a one-meter-wide stone platform slopes downwards in line with the steps. Looking out further, there is a long forest, and there is no end in sight. Looking behind the mountain gate, I only feel that the fog is shrouded, and occasionally the shapes of a few mountain peaks are faintly revealed, but I can't really see it. If Li Qing hadn't known about Xiuzhen in advance, maybe he would really think that he had arrived at a place where the immortals lived.
"Hey, little brother, the hairstyle is good, where did you cut it?" Just when Li Qing was full of emotion, a joking voice sounded in front of him, and he saw a young man in red walking in the direction of Li Qing and the others.
Li Qing frowned slightly and didn't make a sound.
"Introduce myself, my name is Flower Thought, Playboy's Flower, Think, what do you call it? Maybe it's the same door in the future, so let's introduce it! As if he didn't see Li Qing's frowning brows at all, the young man in red was talking to himself and looked at the three of them with a grin.
"Li Qing!" Seeing that the eyes of the young man in red were burning, and the teeth of his smile were about to fall out, Li Qing really couldn't pretend not to see it, although he was impatient, he also replied, just a name.
The young man in red wanted to look at Wang Ao and Shui Xin again, but he didn't get an answer from the two of them. Shui Xin directly snorted coldly and turned his head, obviously minding him for sarcastically Li Qing just now! And Wang Ao didn't like to talk very much, and he was quite uninterested in people like Hua Xiang, so he didn't make a sound. Hua Xiang didn't mind, touched his nose and turned around and continued to talk to Li Qing, it seemed that the two words Li Qing answered just now greatly encouraged him.
Seeing that the sun was about to rise to the middle, three people walked out of the mountain gate one after another. All wore yellow robes, standing proudly and with extraordinary momentum. The moment the three of them came out, a sense of oppression suddenly hit, and Li Qing's face turned pale and he barely stood up. It lasted for about a few breaths before the feeling of oppression disappeared. Looking at the people in front of the mountain gate, some of them couldn't bear it anymore and fell to the ground. Li Qing couldn't see the cultivation of the three of them, but he thought that it should be a little higher than her.
"The enrollment of disciples of the Hundred Acupuncture Sect has officially begun. I am Qi Qiu, a third-generation disciple of the Hundred Acupuncture Sect, and I will announce the content of the assessment below. One looks at the spiritual root, and the other looks at the heart. Only those who have spiritual roots can practice, and the more spiritual roots there are, the faster the cultivation speed. And the heart is indispensable on the road to cultivation, the road to immortality is long, only the heart is excellent, in order to persevere on the lonely road of cultivation! One of the three opened his mouth and said.
Everyone below listened attentively, and no one made any noise.
The next step is naturally the time for the assessment, first to check the spiritual root. Everyone lined up and stepped forward one by one, Li Qing was apprehensive in his heart, and checked his spiritual root state several times in a row, but he still couldn't put his mind at ease.
Finally it was Li Qing's turn, and he walked forward slowly, although his face was calm, his heart was already surging. I just want to run away as soon as I find out the secret of the spiritual root.
"Miscellaneous spirit roots, spirit roots are not good! Hmm~, but it's already a layer of Qi refining, so let's stay first and go to the left! Qi Qiu's voice came, and although the evaluation was average, it sounded like heaven to Li Qing. Li Qing hurriedly walked to the left, and the uneasiness in his heart finally let go.
After the assessment, the people were divided into two groups, one group had spiritual roots and could cultivate, and the other group had no spiritual roots or the spiritual roots were so poor that it was difficult to cultivate. Obviously, the person on the left is the former.
Soon, the first round of examination of the spiritual root is over! Those who did not have a spiritual root or whose spiritual root was too bad were directly sent away. Originally, the current Li Qing should also belong to the category of having a very poor spiritual root, but because she is now a cultivator, she was reluctantly retained to participate in the second round of assessment.
Shui Xin ignored Wang Ao's obstruction and insisted on participating in the assessment with Li Qing, but he didn't expect to be left behind. Li Qing really couldn't understand why she was still an ordinary person in her favored state, and the family didn't cultivate her!
"The people I named below will leave directly with Senior Brother Bai Zhi, and they will directly become inner disciples without participating in the second round of assessment." After Qi Qiu finished speaking, he looked at the rest of the crowd, everyone didn't dare to breathe, but they were hoping that there would be themselves among the people who were targeted.
Fingers clicked a few times and pointed out 3 people. To Li Qing's surprise, there were Shui Xin and the young man in red! ! Li Qing looked up at the two of them, only to see the young man in red looking like he was dragging it for granted, and he winked at Li Qing when Li Qing looked over. Shui Xin, on the other hand, was completely surprised, and only reacted after a while, and she couldn't hide her smile, it seems that she didn't expect to directly become an inner disciple like her proud brother.
The last man was a boy of sixteen or seventeen, dressed in white. What caught Li Qing's attention was that this young man was too familiar! It's too similar to the previous Sun Bai!
At this time, Li Qing thought of the background of Sun Bai's self-report, and then thought about the ultimate purpose of this recruitment that he had said in the teahouse before, and a touch of enlightenment jumped into Li Qing's heart, could it be that this young man is that Tianlinggen? I don't know what happened to Sun Bai that day, but it is estimated that it should not be resolved peacefully, now I just hope that this young man will not be too close to Sun Bai, it is best not to know himself, otherwise it will be a trouble, in case...... After thinking about it, Li Qing hurriedly lowered his head.
What Li Qing didn't know was that this young man in white was Sun Bai's brother Sun Sheng! Just now, Sun Sheng felt that there was a gaze staring at him, and when he turned around to look, he saw Li Qing bowing his head. Sun Sheng had some suspicions when he saw Li Qing arriving with Wang Ao and Shui Xin before, but now when he saw the exposed skin on Li Qing's body closer, he was haunted by a touch of emotion! Turning around, as if he hadn't found anything, he smiled at Hua Xiang and Shui Xin beside him.
The three of them were directly taken away from the mountain gate by Bai Zhi beside Qi Qiu and disappeared in front of everyone.
At this time, Wang Ao was looking at the place where the water heart disappeared, with a complicated expression! Immediately turn around and leave!
"Let's conduct the second round of assessment, heart! It can also be said to test your determination to cultivate the truth! The assessment is very simple, before dark, the former will directly become the inner disciple after 999 steps to the mountain gate, and those who have stepped above 500 steps will directly become the outer disciple, and the others will be eliminated! ”
As soon as Qi Qiu's words fell, the people on the platform were directly swept to the bottom of the steps by a gust of wind, and the second round of assessment officially began.
Now there are less than 20 people left. Looking at everyone's expressions, it is obvious that they are very unimpressed by the content of this assessment. A few of them even stepped up directly, with that expression, that momentum, as if they could reach the top in a few steps. The others were slow, but they all began to climb upwards.
Everyone took steps one by one, but Li Qing still stayed where he was, and he didn't rush forward. She thinks that this recruitment assessment can't just be a simple physical test, if it's just a miscellaneous, so the assessment is still in the past! Therefore, this assessment must have a mystery that everyone can't see on the surface.
Really! Half an hour has passed, and everyone has more or less stepped up the steps of different heights! But the follow-up was not optimistic, looking at the people walking above, Li Qing's eyes showed a touch of contemplation.
The middle-aged man at the top was at the position of the hundred steps, and his face was full of relaxation at this time, but he took several steps, but he fell back to the same place. Looking at his expression, he didn't seem to know that he was still spinning in place!
There was a young man about a dozen steps away from the middle-aged man, and it had been almost a stick of incense when his feet stepped on this step, but he didn't move at all, his head was already covered with beads of sweat, but he didn't even lift his feet, it seemed that his feet weighed a thousand pounds!
And an old man not far from the boy was moving in parallel with the stomping action at this time, and he was about to hit the stone pillar at the edge of the steps next to him, but he was still moving! Just when Li Qing thought that he would bump into him and sweat for him, he actually moved back and continued to move parallel to the other end, looking at his expression, he didn't know that he was panning.
The rest of the people also have their own conditions, but they basically don't move much after reaching a certain height, and it seems that they are only in their own world, as if they can't see each other, and they take care of their own steps.
Li Qing lived everyone's appearance over and over again in his mind, like a movie! Suddenly, Li Qing's eyes lit up, and a clear smile crept up the corners of her mouth.
She walked up the steps and took her first step......