Chapter 57: Sixty-six thousand
"We're about to reach the top of the mountain, you work harder!" came a burst of rapid breathing beside him, and two eight or nine-year-old boys in white robes supported each other, one of them admonishing the other.
"I can't walk. The other teenager was panting heavily, his forehead was covered with sweat, and he looked at the other person with an uncomfortable look, and the other teenager was also sweating heavily at this time, although he couldn't support it, but he still comforted: "Don't stop, it's about to reach the top of the mountain, and it's not too late for us to rest when we get to the top of the mountain!" Obviously, the relationship between the two teenagers is very good.
"Huh~ho~" The other teenager frowned at this time, touched the position of his lungs with one hand, and supported the shoulder of the young man who encouraged him to move forward with the other, and said with a sad face: "How did this Qingyan Sect build the preaching ground in such a ghost place? I feel like I'm about to die just by climbing this stone step." β
"Don't talk nonsense here, you can't die!" the young man he called his brother immediately retorted.
"Brother, I see that you are also sweating profusely, aren't you tired? Why don't we rest for a while?" said the young man who had been complaining, it turned out that the two teenagers who looked to be eight or nine years old were two brothers, and the young man who had been calling for tiredness was the younger brother, and the young man who comforted and supported him on the side was the elder brother, and if you looked carefully at the appearance of the two, I saw that their appearance was extremely similar.
"I'm not tired, Zi Period, you have to hold on, otherwise the two of us will miss this sermon today, today is the first time we have participated in the Gong Transmission Conference since we came to Qingyan Sect, we must not miss it." β
"I know, I don't want to miss this conference, but I really can't do it, brother, you said you weren't tired, I don't believe it, you were just born half a cup of tea earlier than me, we are about the same size, how can you not be tired!" said the younger brother with a sly look on his face.
Looking at this naughty younger brother, the elder brother couldn't help but show a trace of helplessness in his eyes, the two of them are the new disciples of the Qingyan Sect this time, today is the first elder sermon at the beginning of the month, although there will be elders in charge of preaching every month in the future, but it is said that when each new disciple enters, the person who gives them the first time to preach has a great chance of being a powerful person in the sect, and the sermon at the beginning of each month is responsible for the ordinary elders.
Compared with ordinary elders, this powerful person is very clear in everyone's hearts, so the preaching at the beginning of the first month after the entry of each new disciple has slowly become a small triennial event within the sect.
"Brother, you won't forget the purpose of our coming to Qingyan Sect, this Gong Transmission Conference Sect is likely to send the most powerful Dharma Protector Elder to preach, how can we miss this kind of opportunity!
As the younger brother just said, he was only born half a cup of tea earlier than his younger brother, so he became an older brother, and it was also because of his brother's identity that he was more mature and stable than his younger brother in his character, and often took care of his naughty and troublesome younger brother on weekdays.
"Don't, can't I go!"
Seeing that his brother really walked up several steps as if he had left him alone, his younger brother suddenly became anxious and hurriedly raised his steps to chase after him, but he didn't expect that he had just taken a few steps, because his steps were too hurried, his right foot accidentally tripped over a stone, and the whole person lost his balance and fell straight to the side.
As the third highest peak of the Lishan Mountain Range, the Ethereal Cloud Peak is also named for its majestic and steep, tall and steep, and the mountains are covered by clouds and fog all year round, and sometimes under the cover of a cloud and mist, you don't know whether there are sharp rocks or endless abysses below, so the thicker the fog, the more likely it is to hide danger.
"Brotherββ" The younger brother let out a miserable scream, this section of the stone steps was two meters wide, with a steep mountain wall on one side and a large fog on the other, he tripped under his feet, and instantly lost his balance and fell towards the area full of fog.
"Brother!" Hearing the familiar voice behind him, he suddenly let out a scream, and the elder brother immediately turned his head to see the scene that made him tremble, and the younger brother was falling down the cliff on the side from the stone steps.
"No ββ!" the elder brother shouted, a foot to save the younger brother for the first time, his right hand stretched out as if to grab something, but helplessly he was seven or eight steps away from his younger brother, at this moment not only failed to catch his brother's hand at the first time, but also because he crossed three or four steps with one foot, the center of gravity of his body was seriously unbalanced, and his feet stepped on the air, he actually stepped down in the footsteps of his younger brother, and followed his younger brother to fall in one direction towards the bottom of the cliff.
"What!" only two shouts were heard from the people around, and when they turned their eyes to the place where the sound came from, they saw two young men of eight or nine years old falling down the cliff in unison! "Ah!" exclaimed from the mouths of those people.
"Whew!~"
Suddenly, a whirlwind appeared out of thin air, and the position where the whirlwind appeared coincidentally appeared from the position under the two brothers, and then an upward air flow erupted instantly, holding the bodies of the two brothers in the air for a breath.
"Whew!~" Another larger whirlwind appeared next, and a stream of air erupted from the cyclone, which immediately pushed the bodies of the two brothers away from the cliff below and flew towards the side with stone steps!
"Whew!" a figure suddenly appeared, he seemed to have been in that place all along, but it seemed to be after a little movement before appearing, the figure reached out with two hands and grabbed one of the arms of one of the two brothers, and before the two of them fell to the ground from the air, the figure stomped hard under his feet, and grabbed one person with one hand and rushed to the top of the steps!
"Da! da! da......" The figure pulled a young man in one hand, but its speed did not stop at all, and there were four steps in one step, and his footsteps landed on the stone steps and made a clattering sound, but after a short while, the figure disappeared from everyone's sight.
It wasn't until the figure disappeared that everyone present reacted, patted their chests one after another, looking a little afraid, and at the same time a little admired the skill of the person just now, and they didn't know how the other party sent out two whirlwinds, the timing of the two whirlwinds was simply exquisite, if there was a slight mistake, I am afraid that the two fellow disciples would eventually fall off the cliff and end up in pieces.
After a while, everyone also reacted, their purpose was to go up the mountain to listen to the sermon, after experiencing what had just happened, at this time, these half-grown teenagers climbed this stone step more carefully, and they slowed down a little, without the momentum of rampage and rapid progress before.
Of course, there are also some teenagers who complain while advancing, complaining that the Qingyan Sect's transmission dojo is not a place, but chooses to be on such a high mountaintop, and there is only one way up the mountain, this road has walked more than 30,000 steps to get here, but looking up, it is only climbing to the halfway point of this ethereal cloud peak, and it is initially estimated that this staircase may have 60,000 stone steps!
On this mountain road, there are many corners, one side is a mountain wall, and the other side is a thousand cliffs, and even in some sections, there are cliffs on both sides of the stone steps, which makes them have to slow down carefully when hurrying, for fear that one of them will fall down if they are not careful.
This road is too dangerous, and they are prescribed to go up the mountain through this mountain road to listen to the sermon, and it is no wonder that some of them complain so much.
However, what they don't know is that in fact, on this mountain road, on those dangerous sections, there are actually Qingyan Sect cultivators who are guarded by advanced disciples, they are hidden in this piece of fog, once someone accidentally falls off the cliff, they will rescue those teenagers, since Qingyan Sect recruited them from the south and north of the world, it is impossible for them to fall so easily.
And this 66,000-step mountain road is actually a test for these new disciples, if they can't even conquer this, and retreat back halfway, then the possibility that these people can eventually become a monk will be very small, and the sect will allocate it to this part of the population as appropriate to take care of some of the Qingyan Sect's properties outside the sect.
The Qingyan Sect has a long heritage, and it naturally knows that soldiers are expensive but not too expensive.