There are more than 1,000 new students in the academy, and in addition to the more than 1,000 students who have finished their studies this year, there are more than 3,000 students in the entire academy.

With so many students, there are only twelve disciples of Master Master.

At the beginning of this year, the master announced the world in the form of an official document from the Qingtian Pavilion that Wang Qinghong and other twelve disciples would complete their studies in the spring of next year. After that, the Master will determine the last batch of personal disciples, that is, closed disciples, in the autumn of next year.

So there were all kinds of rumors in the rivers and lakes.

"The Master's ascension is imminent, and he wants to pass on his greatest power to the last group of disciples. ”

"The master is going to practice in the vast Nanyang, and the Qingtian Pavilion is about to change hands. ”

"The master is seriously ill, and this move is to hide people's eyes and ears to ensure the smooth replacement of power in the Qingtian Pavilion. ”

Even in the Liang and Wei states, there were some such rumors:

"Wang Qinghong has killed his master and is ready to take the master's position as the dean, which is to build momentum for succession. ”

"The two great grandmasters, Liu Yuntian and Anxi, took the lead, united all the grandmasters, and wanted to empty the master and monopolize the power. ”

However, most of the time, in the eyes of the Song people, everything the master said was right, and he had his own considerations, anyway, Qingtian Pavilion would always be the most powerful, and the master would always be the first in the world.

"That's why I said, our Great Song people have a shortcoming, they are too optimistic, especially the blind worship of the dean, or not, or not. Chen Letian ate the pastries that Yang Yueshan spent a lot of money to bring from the cottage.

"But the Master is indeed worthy of being the best in the world, and no one has ever defeated him, this is a fact. Yang Yueshan felt that what Chen Letian said was a little wrong, how could he say this about his own teacher.

"Then I haven't been beaten either, that's true. Chen Letian began to be shameless, "The master has never been on the hero list, which is also a fact." He thinks that having money is good, spending hundreds of taels of silver, just to let people send some pastries from the grass house, which is luxurious, but it is really delicious.

"The principle of being on the list of heroes is that it must be agreed by me, and if I don't agree with the list of heroes, I will not be listed. Eat slowly, too much. Yang Yueshan poured a glass of water for Chen Letian.

"I also refused a chance to be on the hero list a few days ago, will I tell you? Brother Yang, if you don't make the list, you won't be on the list, don't make any excuses. Chen Letian ate and drank to his heart's content, burped, and continued: "The dean's cultivation is not necessarily high, but his old man's ability to teach and educate people is definitely the best in the world." Let me tell you this, Lord Dean himself is the best in the world, that's not great, and being able to teach one after another the world's firsts is the ability to top the sky, understand?"

Yang Yueshan said with a smile: "I understand when you say this, no matter whether the master is the first on the hero list or not, he is the first in the world." ”

Chen Letian patted Yang Yueshan on the shoulder: "The son can be taught." ”

If you want to become a disciple of the Master, there is one level that you must pass, that is, climb the Shendulou in the back mountain and stay in the building for three days and three nights.

How terrible it was in Shen Dulou, except for the master and the great master and the twelve disciples of the master, outsiders did not know.

Everyone knows that it's terrible, it's terrible, it's terrible, but no one can say what it's terrible. It can be seen that the power of rumors is immense, and the more mysterious a thing is, the more it can make people reverie infinitely.

Shendulou is located in the back mountain group, the highest mountain top. From the outside, it looks like a huge five-legged tripod with a lid, as if it is a tripod in the heavenly palace, which has been placed on the top of the mountain by a naughty immortal. As for what this tripod was originally used for cooking, no one knows.

According to the regulations, there are more than 1,000 students in the ashram, and each of them has the right to climb the Shen Du Lou. There are six floors in the Shen Du Building. Under normal circumstances, students can only stay inside for half a day, and then they will involuntarily run out of it. And will have a temporary amnesia, completely forgetting what he experienced in the building, and he can't remember why he came out. Moreover, after coming out, the students will sleepwalk and jump into the 'Buqi Pool' next to the Shendulou every night for half a month, swim in the pool for a few hours, and then return to the dormitory wet. When he woke up the next day, he had water on his bed and would not remember what he had done last night.

"Strange thing, is it really so weird?" Chen Letian looked at the Shen Dulou in front of him and muttered. He just thought it was strange, but he wasn't afraid, after all, sleepwalking or something wouldn't cost him his life. As long as you can't die, it's fine.

"I don't want to go to the Shen Dulou, I'm afraid that after I go in, I will forget that I am a disciple of Caolu..."Yang Yueshan clearly refused, but the master told him that he must go to the Shen Dulou, he had no choice but to listen to the master's words.

"You'd better forget your senior brothers, forget your master, and then go single-handedly to leave the chickens and dogs killed in the grass house, then I want to thank you. Chen Letian said with a smile, to be honest, Chen Letian was willing to be friends with Yang Yueshan, that night in the mountains, Yang Yueshan would rather go against the wishes of his master and brother than stop them, this dead heart and stereotype Chen Letian admired.

While the two were talking, the two senior brothers, Jia Baguan and Wang Husheng, came up to them. Jia Baguan's mustache is still so beautiful, and Wang Husheng's bald head is still so eye-catching. The two of them were very happy to see Chen Letian, and walked over quickly to say hello.

Naturally, it was a greeting and congratulations to Chen Letian for entering the practice institute as he wished. Asked about Sun Zishu, Chen Letian briefly told Sun Zishu how he was arrested, and Jia Baguan and Wang Husheng scolded. Since it's scolding, of course it's not good. Yang Yueshan couldn't listen to it next to him, so he said hello to Chen Letian and ran away.

Jia Baguan asked who it was, and Chen Letian said that it was the youngest disciple of the Great Heavenly Master Xuanyuan Huayu of Caolu. Jia Baguan sneered, expressing great disdain. However, Wang Husheng looked at it carefully and said that the kid should be in the spring realm. Chen Letian gave a thumbs up and said: "It's still Senior Brother Wang who is careful, I heard that he is the most promising disciple among the young people in Caolu to inherit the mantle of Xuanyuan Rain, but I don't know if it's true or not." Hey, don't care about him, I don't know if the two senior brothers have entered this Shendulou?"

Jia Baguan and Wang Husheng looked up at the towering Shen Dulou, thinking of the experience they had rushed in without knowing the depths, they both shook their heads and sighed.

Chen Letian was puzzled: "What's wrong with the two senior brothers?"

Wang Husheng smiled bitterly: "When I went in with Lao Jia, three hours, we came out with a blank face, and that night we sleepwalked into the pool, so for a month, we would jump into the pool every night, it was the middle of winter, and we didn't dare to sleep at night after the cold." It's not easy to think about. ”

Chen Letian opened his mouth: "What happened later?"

Jia Baguan said: "Later, we never went in again, we cultivated honestly, it is not so easy to be a disciple of the master, hard work is only the foundation, talent is the key to determining whether you can become a disciple of the master." ”

"Talent is the key?" Chen Letian suddenly remembered that he had read a sentence in his precious letters, 'Most people haven't worked hard to the point of fighting for talent'.

Wang Husheng looked at Shen Dulou and said: "Although I don't quite agree with Lao Jia's statement, but talent is really important, the practice academy goes through layers of selection every three years, and a thousand people are selected, and it is not easy to be admitted, and then I have to go to Shen Dulou, and select twelve more children from the students who climb Shen Dulou, it is even more than one in a million, no, it can be said that there is more than one in a million." ”

"yes. Jia Baguan smiled, and suddenly turned the conversation around and said: "But don't be discouraged, Lotte, you are now a celebrity in our academy, you were beaten in the etiquette exam, the first in the imperial exam, the first in the archery exam, the first in the tracking exam, the first in the enemy killing exam, and I was almost arrested in the escape exam... With your achievements and experience, I think it is also the only one in our Qingtian Pavilion in the past few hundred years. I suppose Master will be interested in you..."

Chen Letian shook his head and said: "It's not enough, I'm going to do something bigger, and strive to make myself the most tossing student in the history of Qingtian Pavilion, so that the master must accept me as an apprentice, just like Sun Wukong, if he doesn't make trouble, no one will give him a chance." ”

Jia Baguan smiled and said: "Then you have to be careful, don't overdo it, in case you are pressed under the Five Fingers Mountain for five hundred years, you are not the stone monkey who can live forever!"

"Thank you for reminding me, I know in my heart, junior brother, and I promise to make a big enough fuss, and I won't let Rulai get really angry. Chen Letian clasped his hands together and fought to defeat the Buddha, and then laughed.

The crowd burst into laughter.

Jokes are jokes. Chen Letian still needs the experience of Jia Baguan and Wang Husheng, after all, if you want to be a disciple of the master, Shen Dulou must be climbed. Only by ascending the Shendulou can it be possible to be a disciple of the Master. Although the road is difficult, he must walk, it is his dream.

Wang Husheng has a more low-key personality and is more rational than Jia Baguan. He pondered for a moment and said, "Lotte, I have carefully calculated this Shen Dulou. The five feet of Shendulou are circumferential, about two hundred zhang. The bottom of the building is three feet in the air. The steps for each foot are eighty. The distance from the top to the bottom of the building is about 30 zhang. This is a medium-sized building in the Blue Sky Pavilion. The point is that the shape of Shen Dulou is peculiar, looking down from a high place, Shen Dulou is like a five-legged tripod with the lid closed.

I have checked the information, and no country in the whole world has ever built such a building, and our academy is the only one.

I don't remember entering the building, but I remember the steps very well. I remember it was late autumn, about the same time as it is now. When I stood under one of the five feet, I was completely conscious. But as soon as I looked up and started to climb the steps, I became more and more confused, but I forced my mind and continued to climb. After climbing eighty steps, when I arrived at the door, I was already sweating profusely. Then I pushed the door open and entered, and I don't remember anything about the rest. When I woke up, I was outside the building, and it was already three hours later. ”

Jia Baguan nodded and said, "I'm in a similar situation with Husheng. ”

Chen Letian frowned and thought for a while and asked, "Is there any pattern or anything like that around the steps?"

Wang Husheng was surprised and said, "Yes, how do you know?"

Chen Letian nodded slightly: "What kind of pattern?"

Jia Baguan said: "There is everything, it is very messy, all kinds of patterns, circular triangles, and irregular rules." ”

"Hmm..."Chen Letian touched his chin and fell into deep thought.

Wang Husheng and Jia Baguan didn't dare to interrupt him, and walked away to the side. The two of them remembered the scene three years ago, and they couldn't help laughing. At that time, they were full of ambition to become the master's personal disciples, and after the failure to climb the building, the two were devastated, but fortunately, Master An took the initiative to find them, talked with them a few times, and untied their knots. No, both of them have now cultivated to the summer realm and have become the mainstay of the cultivation academy, as long as they don't relax in the future, it may only be a matter of time before they become great grandmasters.

"Husheng, do you think there is any hope for Lotte?" Jia Baguan whispered.

"Who knows? After all, there are a few people who are talented, An Shi said, look at the heart, don't look at the talent. I think it makes a lot of sense. Wang Husheng said.