The human race has five dynasties standing side by side, namely the Great Chu, the Great Qin, the Great Song, the Great Han, and the Great Tang. The five dynasties divided and ruled, peace and friendship between each other, jointly resisted the foreign enemy demons, on the border between the human race and the demons, there was a city wall of the five dynasties, called "Zhongzhi City".

For 10,000 years, I don't know how much blood has been shed on the land north of that wall, and I don't know how many lives have been lost.

The demons are born strong, and they have a physical advantage that the human race cannot match. The battlefield participation of the "Demon Walker" has brought huge casualties to the Terrans.

Ten thousand years ago, the demon clan attacked the city, and dozens of people killed the demon walkers in the demon army outside the city of Zhongzhi City, and the record was outstanding.

This group of people claimed to be from the academy, and as a result, five seowon were famous.

Five academies survive, intimidating the demons.

The Pingfan Academy located in the territory of the Great Chu Dynasty is one of these five academies, and the people of the entire dynasty are proud of it, looking forward to having their descendants who can enter the academy on the mountain.

A thousand years ago, there was a son of the Yin family in Yuecheng, Xing'an County, who climbed Pingfan Mountain to become a student of Pingfan Academy, and celebrated in the city, with guns and drums for three days. The city lord even visited in person, with a humble attitude.

Later, an ordinary academy student named Yin Feng and his wife, Gao Yanghuang, the princess of Great Chu, killed several Ten Thousand Thoughts Realm Demon Walkers on the battlefield, and finally died heroically.

After hearing the news, the whole city fell into endless grief, and the people concentrated their efforts to build a road full of plane trees on both sides.

Wutong Road, Phoenix Qiwu, Phoenix Seeking Phoenix.

As the sun sets today, there are still crowds of people in front of the gate of the ordinary mountain, all watching the four teenagers and girls climb the stairs and gradually move away, talking and guessing who will eventually walk down the mountain and who will eventually enter the academy. According to past experience, only two people will enter the academy, and it is possible that all of them will go down the mountain. There is a joke among the people about this:

"The difficulty of the mountain road is difficult to go to the blue sky. ”

Ah Qing was at the end of the four, and the sunspot in his palm gradually warmed up from cool. Ah Qing looked up, the sun hung on the ordinary mountain, and the dim light made Ah Qing squint slightly. The steps under his feet are slightly mossy, and the mottled stone marks are carved with the passage of ten thousand years.

The four of them had no words to talk, Chen Xi strode in front of them, Liu Ji and Chen Bu walked side by side, Ah Qing counted the number of classes as he walked, and read in a low voice:

“... One hundred and ninety-seven... One hundred and ninety-eight..."

"One hundred and ninety-nine..." Ah Qing fell with one foot, suddenly looked up, and saw the three people walking not far in front of him slowing down, step by step.

"Two hundred!" Ah Qing said, lifting his other foot and stepping on the stone steps, he obviously felt that there seemed to be a sandbag on his leg, which weighed a little, about half a catty.

Ah Qing, who grew up in a small village since he was a child, did a lot of farm work, harvesting wheat and wheat bags in the field, and Ah Qing rushed to help the villagers carry them. Fourteen-year-old Ah Qing is the best among his peers, a little thin but never has little strength. At first, the people in the village felt sorry for Ah Qing who was too young to do this, but it turned out that Ah Qing had strength that ordinary peers could not match, and this was the case when he was young. Ah Qing also enjoys it, and also straps sandbags on his calves to run as exercise, so he has a keen perception of such strange changes at the moment.

Ah Qing continued to climb the stairs, and after walking up the ten floors, he finally determined that the first step was half a pound plus his legs, and both legs were the same.

Chen Xi, who was originally at the forefront, was about to be caught up by Liu Ji and Chen Bu at this time. Chen Xi was sweating profusely, the young master of the family wandered around the fireworks building and other wind and moon places all day long to taste nectar, his physical strength was much weaker than his peers, plus he had catties attached to his legs, and his body was overdrawn, at this time, he bent over and gasped for breath, and the current number of layers was already Chen Xi's limit.

Chen Xi, who was panting heavily, turned his head to look at Liu Ji Chen Bu, who had already caught up, his eyes were full of disgust and disdain.

"A pariah is a pariah, born to be a coolie. Chen Xi straightened up and said coldly.

Liu Ji Chen Bu looked at it as if it was nothing, heard it as if it was silent, and continued to climb the stairs.

Liu Ji, who will be a member of the sect, has been strictly required by his father since he was a child, and the current burden of a person who practices martial arts is nothing to him, but his breathing is already a little frequent.

Chen Bu's sallow face had some dense beads oozing, but he could still hold on and stubbornly keep up with Liu Ji's footsteps. The body is weak, but the heart is tough.

Liu Ji looked at the girl beside him pursing her lips, and her steps quietly slowed down.

Seeing the two of them surpass him, Chen Xi snorted coldly and still stopped to rest in place, looking back and being stunned on the spot.

The hillbilly who was pointing at his nose at the gate of the city actually jumped up? There was still joy on his expression, as if he had discovered something funny? Chen Xi's face twitched slightly.

Ah Qing gradually "jumped" to the same floor as Chen Xi, raised his hand to greet him and said with a smile: "Are Chen Gongzi together?"

Chen Xi rolled his eyes and ignored the hateful young man in front of him.

Qing shrugged and continued to jump the stairs.

Chen Xi took a deep breath and lifted his legs.

......

Time passes, and the person who is in the midst of joy is the white horse, and the four boys and girls on the ordinary mountain steps under the slanting sun are extremely long.

Ah Qing had already surpassed Liu Ji and Chen Bu, leading dozens of stone steps, no longer jumping up.

Originally, Ah Qing had been following behind the two of them without overtaking, admiring the golden pink branches of the peach trees on both sides of the steps.

Liu Ji turned around and said embarrassedly: "Brother Aqing, don't pay attention to the two of us, just go straight up." When we look at Brother Aqing's posture, we will be more motivated!"

Ah Qing scratched his head and said, "Okay then." With that, he passed the two of them, and his steps were steady.

Chen Bu sweated like rain, looked at Ah Qing's back and said, "Brother Liu Ji doesn't need to pay attention to Chen Bu, just go straight up." ”

Liu Jihanhan said: "It's okay, I'm tired too." Brother Aqing is really amazing!"

The words turned.

The number of the next echelons is three hundred and twenty, and the number of two hundred layers changes, which means that this layer weighs sixty pounds on their legs.

Chen Bu lowered his head and gritted his teeth without saying a word, his big eyes filled with emotion.

Chen Xi, the last of the four, was sweating profusely, his face was pale, he rested step by step, and cursed step by step.

"Damn, these three pariahs are so far ahead of Young Master Ben!" Chen Xi scolded. Young Master Ben has such a good talent, why does he have to come to the Ordinary Academy? Grandpa is also true, isn't it the same with the Tianxing Sect? The walkers there are also very powerful!

Chen Xi thought so in his heart, opened his right palm and was full of sweat, and the white chess pieces were crystal clear. Chen Xi suddenly became disgusted when he saw the chess, and the white chess piece in his hand fell heavily to the ground.

Chen Xi took a breath softly, and a smile appeared on his face again. looked at the three people who were ahead of him, and smiled happily: "Untouchables just don't have brains. ”

The white chess pieces on the stone steps are motionless in the moss.

......

The gray-clothed linen boy had bright eyes and looked down at the steps step by step.

The sturdy boy lifted the thin girl on his back, took a deep breath, and walked slowly.

The rich young master in brocade roamed leisurely, grinning and laughing.

......

"Brother Liu Ji, let me go, this will only delay you to continue going up the mountain. With tears in his eyes, Chen Bu struggled to get off Liu Ji's thick back.

Liu Ji bent down and put down Chen Bu. The girl stood on tiptoe and gently wiped the sweat from the boy's face.

Liu Ji smirked: "Then Sister Chen Bu will rest here, and I will continue to go up the mountain." ”

Chen Bu replied, turned to look at the bottom of the mountain, and felt very sad, his legs couldn't move an inch, this place was already over. Thinking of her father and mother waiting at the bottom of the mountain, the girl's tears fell.

Liu Ji turned around and continued to move forward, and after walking up to the twentieth floor, his figure paused, and shouted: "Brother Aqing, come on!"

Ah Qing turned around and scratched his head when he heard the sound, then waved his arms and shouted, "I will!"

Liu Ji smiled, walked down the twentieth floor, came to Chen Bu's side and said, "I can't walk, I can't walk!"

Chen Bu sat beside Liu Ji, shoulder to shoulder.

Chen Xi walked past the two of them with great ease, and mocked: "Philistine!"

Naturally, I didn't get a response from even one look.

Sweat oozed from Ah Qing's forehead, and his legs were already a hundred pounds heavy at this time, so he could only lift them slowly.

Carrying the weight forward, it is finally four hundred and forty layers, one hundred and twenty pounds. Ah Qing took a deep breath and looked up, and there was already a four-character hanging door plaque "Ordinary Academy" in his field of vision. Sweat blurred his vision, Ah Qing shook his head and shook off the sweat and stepped out.

Ah Qing frowned, feeling the change in the weight on his legs, at this time, a pound in layers?

"Do you want to be together?" Chen Xi came to the same floor as Aqing at this time, and asked with a sideways smile. Then he said, "Young Master Ben doesn't have time to take care of you, you can climb slowly." "Let's go straight up.

Chen Xi's feet with his back to Ah Qing were hot and painful, so many layers of walking, almost all the distances he had traveled in the past sixteen years, in the past, he was a jade lion traveling, and his subordinates supported him, when did he suffer the crime of blistering on the soles of his feet?

Ah Qing's back was soaked, and the mountain breeze mixed with the faint fragrance of peach blossoms was blowing, a little cool. Ah Qing lowered his head and stepped on the steps, his bangs and black hair clinging to his forehead, and sweat dripped down his cheeks and from his chin.

......

"One hundred and eighty pounds!" Ah Qing bent over and gasped for breath after stepping on it, his clothes were wet and his face was flushed. The white jade hanging from the red rope slipped out of the neckline, and Ah Qing, who had his head down, watched the white jade shake in front of his eyes and breathe heavily.

After a while, Ah Qing straightened up, and his legs were blessed with a weight of one hundred and eighty pounds, and he couldn't stop trembling. Ah Qing grabbed the white jade and put it back inside, his eyes resolute.

If the previous steps brought only heaviness, then this foot lifting and stepping on the five hundred floors brought a piercing pain.

Ah Qing's face became more and more ugly, and his lips turned pale. The gates of the college are clearly displayed.

The yellow sun was still hanging on the top of the mountain, and under the plaque stood a rickety old woman with a kind smile on her wrinkled face.

Ah Qing gritted his teeth and shouted in his heart, there are still fifty-three floors! He has been counting the steps he has walked, and he is also counting how many steps are left in front of him!

Ah Qing closed his eyes, walked up to ten floors in a row, and bent over to gasp for air. His eyes didn't open, and he took a few steps out again, holding his breath.

The old woman was dressed in a classical dark green robe, her white hair was combed and coiled, and the wooden hairpin passed through. The rickety body is on crutches, and the shriveled hand holds the dragon head vividly.

Behind the old woman was the ordinary academy that countless people had dreamed of, and in front of the old man was five hundred and fifty-three stone steps.

Chen Xi stopped at the five hundred and fifty-first steps, his eyes blank.

Ah Qing closed his eyes, one breath after another, several layers at a time.

The old man's kind smile was full of satisfaction, and he nodded frequently: This kid has long known that the chess pieces in his hand are strange, and he clenched the green tendons of the right hand of the sunspot and did not let himself let go of the weight of two hundred catties.

Are you afraid that if you let go, you will lose the opportunity to enter the academy?

Or are you afraid that if you let it go, you will never find your father and mother again?

The vice president of the Ordinary Academy is already very old, and she has to bend her waist for years, and she is so old that the spiritual power in her body is constantly leaking out.

For more than 200 years, the old man has seen countless scenery and seen too many geniuses, only thirty years ago, the peach blossoms on the mountain road were the most beautiful, and only the young man was the most profound mountaineering.

Even if the child at the foot of the thirteen steps in front of him had his eyes closed, the old man could imagine what a pair of beautiful eyes he would have.

The sun and the moon are hidden, and the stars can shine.

The same face, but not the same age, and no longer the same person.

Fourteen years! The old man sighed, and one climber left, and another climber came.

Ah Qing closed his eyes tightly, and silently thought in his heart, the last thirteen floors!

Between rapid breaths, you can hear your own heartbeat like a drum.

A few steps out, another ten floors.

Ah Qing sat on the five hundred and fifty steps, opened his eyes and panted and said, "No... I can't climb anymore... I can't climb anymore!"

"There are three more floors!"

Ah Qing, who was facing the gate of the academy with his back, heard the words and said, "Let me rest!

Sweaty, Ah Qing squinted his eyes at the sturdy boy and the thin girl sitting together on the steps a little farther away. The crowd at the foot of the mountain has dispersed a lot, but it is still a black place, and the prosperity of Longhu City is also in full view.

Then the young man stood up, patted his buttocks, turned to the old man and saluted. The old man smiled and nodded and said, "There are still three floors, let's go." ”

Only then did Ah Qing notice that Chen Xi was standing in a daze on the five hundred and fifty-first floors.

Ah Qing raised his foot and was about to step out, then retracted and jumped up.

"The weight is gone?!" A-Qing said in surprise.

The old man leaned on crutches and did not speak, looking at Ah Qing's eyes with a smile.

Ah Qing scratched his head a little embarrassed and stepped on it.

The old man in front of him disappeared, Chen Xi disappeared on his side, Liu Ji Chen Bu disappeared on the steps, the peach trees on both sides disappeared, and the ordinary mountain under his feet disappeared...... Everything was in vain.

In front of Ah Qing's eyes, the mountain that appeared in the spiritual power mansion.

Different from the first time I saw it, there are dragons soaring for thousands of miles and phoenixes dancing for nine days in the sky above the endless mountains, and there are Kunpeng spreading their wings and eagles striking the sky. In the dark mountain forest, there are lions accompanied by tigers roaring out, and there are hundreds of insects singing low, rabbits leaping and deer.

Mountains and rivers, plants and trees, insects and fish, birds and beasts.

All things are animist, spiritual and beautiful.

Ah Qing did not have endless fear the first time, but was full of joy, and he had never felt so comfortable.

Could this be the aura of heaven and earth?

That's when the scene changes.

What appeared in front of Ah Qing was a scene he had never seen before.

There are rabbit ears, and the fox-tailed beauty walks out of the dense deep forest, holding melons and fruits in her hands.

There are simple old farmers in cloth clothes and their companions carrying grain and pulling carts out of the mulberry fields, smiling.

There is a man in a bear dress and a tiger skin skirt riding a wolf galloping out of the barren wasteland, fierce and abnormal.

Three different types of people sat together and exchanged objects in their hands, smiling and laughing.

The scene turns again, and the mountain goes and returns.

Ah Qing saw the three people with different appearances supporting each other, climbing over mountains and mountains, repelling countless fierce beasts, sleeping on the branches of towering trees, drinking morning dew, and eating a hundred fruits. Threesomes, non-stop, rain or shine, four seasons after seasons, I don't know where they go.

The scene changed again, and Ah Qing saw that in the heavy snow, the three of them seemed to be in conflict. The strongest beast-clad man's eyes were red and he fought at the scholar man, and the fox-tailed woman had no effect on dissuading him.

The beast-clad man is too powerful, and the fox-tailed woman joins forces with the scholar to try to calm him down. The battle situation intensified, the earth shook between the swings of the sword, and the spiritual power destroyed the mountains and mountains. All three were seriously injured, and the blood of the three was sprinkled on the snow, red and purple.

In the end, the three of them stopped, and the beast-clad man took the lead to leave. The foxtail woman and the Confucian were born in the snow, looking at the mountains and ice and snow, and they both sighed and helped each other to leave.

The screen turns again. Ah Qing saw countless wolf riders coming from the Northern Wasteland, and the man on the back of the wolf was holding a sharp big knife, wielding a roar, extremely fierce.

They came from the Northland Wasteland, to the Forest of Grass, to the Land of Hundred Rivers. Wherever they passed, not a single grass grew.

There is a deer-eared beautiful woman from the forest to the river.

There are elegant temperament scholars from Baichuan into the forest.

So in the meadow beyond the forest, there were iron cavalry privates.

So ten miles away from the Great Wall, there were bears in formation.

Ah Qing saw countless blood dripping and countless lives withering. The smoke of war is the most ugly sight in the world.

End of picture.

There are no steps under Ah Qing's feet, and in front of him is an old woman with kind eyebrows, and behind the old woman is the gate of the academy open.

As the sun sets, birds flutter their wings and bask in the golden light.

Chen Xi is still located on the five hundred and fifty-first stone steps, and he has not advanced in three steps.

The old man looked at Chen Xi and said, "Child, the academy is not for you. ”

Chen Xi gritted his teeth, looked at Ah Qing, who was above three steps, his eyes flickered, and finally snorted coldly. He bowed and said, "Chen Xi has seen Old Dean Song. ”

The old man nodded and said with a smile: "It's not that the academy doesn't want you, it's just not for you. ”

Chen Xi bowed down and saluted, said goodbye and went down the mountain to leave.

Ah Qing turned to look at Chen Xi and met his eyes. Ah Qing was dazed and ignorant, and Chen Xi was full of jealousy.

Seeing Chen Xi go down the mountain and leave, Ah Qing turned around and looked at the old man.

The old man said: "If Chen Xi hadn't dropped that chess piece, the old man would have found a place for him." However, it is also a superfluous move for Taishi Chen's grandson. Liu Ji and Chen Bu are both good children, and the academy will arrange a place for them to go. Again, the academy has always only accepted suitable people. ”

Ah Qing was speechless when he heard this.

Vice Dean Song coughed repeatedly, patted his chest and said, "Then Aqing, why did you take those three steps?"

One step to carry food, one step into the forest, one step out of the Great Wall, is for three steps, is for the last three steps.

Ah Qing scratched his head and whispered: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ”

It was the voice that came from the mountain in his chest, and he couldn't help but say it.

"Then does A-Qing want to stay in the Ordinary Academy?" the old man asked with a squinting smile.

"No...... I don't want to stay in the college. Ah Qing replied and looked at the old man seriously.

It was the voice that came from his heart.