In the faint mist, the sword-eyed young man sat cross-legged on the mountain road, dressed in coarse linen clothes, with a dark complexion, belonging to the type that would not be paid special attention to if he was thrown on the streets of the capital.

However, in front of this palace mountain gate, there were at least dozens of people watching him, and it seemed that he was the focus.

"Senior Brother Ning, is it really necessary to wait?"

Zheng Qian's eyes were full of impatience, and his tone was also full of sharpness, although this was not aimed at Ning Haoran, but this tone still made Ning Haoran feel a little displeased imperceptibly.

He just glanced at Zheng Qian lightly, thinking that this was just an ignorant teenager, it was normal to be impatient, although he was the usher of the palace, he had no right to care about what the candidates thought and said, and the right he could have was only to drive away those who were not qualified to enter the palace.

Shen Jiyue looked at Zheng Qian with a cold gaze and said: "There is no time limit for the entry assessment, why should you talk too much, if you can't wait, find a place to sleep, and no one will care about you." ”

Zheng Qian's face changed various colors, and he said angrily: "What am I going to say, what to do, and what does it matter to you? For the sake of a mere waste, it is everyone's time that is delayed, you can wait if you are willing to wait, you have no right to stop others from talking." ”

Shen Jiyue's beautiful face was covered with a layer of frost, of course she had no right to stop others from saying anything, but she minded Zheng Qian's tone of speech, her eyes became even colder, and she said sarcastically: "This is the palace, and you are just a person who wants to be admitted to the palace, what right do you have to interfere with the entrance test, Senior Brother Ning is standing here, do you want to overstep your bounds?"

Zheng Qian's complexion changed greatly, he looked at Shen Jiyue incredulously, and his whole body trembled slightly uncontrollably.

Cautiously glanced at Ning Haoran, this kind of high hat was worn on his head, even if he was arrogant, he didn't dare to answer again.

Zhou Luo frowned all the time, and when he saw that Zheng Qian was so stunned by Shen Jiyue that he had nothing to say, he only shook his head slightly.

He Zhengrong, who was almost asleep with his back against the big tree, opened his eyes slightly at this time, and said with disdain: "The shouting is so ruthless, I thought it was a character, but it turned out to be just a waste." ”

Zheng Qian didn't dare to offend Ning Haoran, it didn't mean that he was afraid of everyone, he was squeezing resentment in his heart, and when he heard He Zhengrong's words, he immediately became furious and shouted: "Boy, what are you talking about!"

He Zhengrong's eyebrows were raised slightly, his arms were lowered, and he said tit-for-tat: "Do you want me to say it again, waste." ”

Zheng Qian's face was red, how could he have been humiliated like this, even if he wanted to get his face back.

Not to be outdone, He Zhengrong walked towards Zheng Qian, his eyes were full of fighting intent, and he was about to make a move.

At this moment, Xin Ming's exclamation suddenly sounded: "Hey, that guy has opened his eyes!"

Ning Haoran raised his eyebrows, his eyes were not on He Zhengrong and Zheng Qian at all, looking at Li Mengzhou who opened his eyes, his eyes revealed a touch of brilliance.

Li Mengzhou seemed to be in a very bad state at the moment, his face was very pale, and the cold sweat couldn't help sliding down his face, he raised his hand to wipe the sweat, but it was difficult to hide a trace of joy in his eyes.

He got up from the ground with difficulty, his body was a little shaky, and he almost fell down many times, which made people tremble, and even expected him to fall, but the result was still not as they expected, which was a pity.

Ning Haoran didn't ask Li Mengzhou anything, because he already knew it.

Li Mengzhou finally visualized the aura of heaven and earth, although it took a lot of time, but at least the result was good.

Zheng Qian found another opportunity to speak sarcastically, glanced at He Zhengrong coldly, and sneered at Li Mengzhou: "You should be the person with the worst qualifications I have ever seen, just a visualization, it took so long, and I almost crippled myself, I really don't know where a person like you got the confidence to dare to be admitted to the palace, if I were you, I'm afraid I would have no face to see people long ago." ”

Shen Jiyue glared at Zheng Qian angrily, and couldn't help but say, "No matter what, you have your business anywhere, no one treats you as a dumb person if you don't speak." ”

Li Mengzhou looked at the scene in front of him in surprise, he didn't quite understand why Zheng Qian was full of hostility to him, what happened before had long been forgotten by him, and even if he hadn't forgotten it, he couldn't think of the reason why Zheng Qian's hostility towards him was due to which point.

But Shen Jiyue seemed to be defending him, and out of politeness, Li Mengzhou still nodded towards her.

Shen Jiyue looked at Li Mengzhou and smiled: "You don't have to pay attention to this kind of person, I just didn't expect that today was your first time contemplating." ”

Although it is very difficult to visualize the aura of heaven and earth, it is not a thing worthy of praise, but this matter has a different meaning for Li Mengzhou, so he is very happy, and it is inevitable that he is also a little complacent, after all, this is what he dreams of, and at the moment when his dream comes true, it is difficult for the young man to control his emotions.

"It's just a fluke to visualize success, in fact, at the beginning I also had the idea that I would visualize failure, but fortunately, the result is not bad. ”

Zhou Luo looked at Li Mengzhou at this time and didn't know what he was thinking, he stepped forward and shook his hand slightly, and said, "Congratulations, brother." ”

Li Mengzhou smiled and said, "Tongxi." ”

The corners of Zhou Luo's mouth twitched slightly, because he didn't know where Tongxi came from?

Suppressing the strange feeling in his heart, Zhou Luo asked curiously: "I don't know how old Brother Tai is this year?" Zai Xia didn't mean anything else, but it seemed that Brother Tai should be over fifteen years old, and it was the first time to visualize, so it was inevitable that he was a little curious. ”

Li Mengzhou did not doubt him, and said: "I am seventeen years old this year, and I will be eighteen in a few months, I have contemplated countless times, but I have never really seen the aura of heaven and earth......

In a joyful mood, Li Mengzhou's words were a little more, but it seemed that people's attention was not on the bunch of nonsense behind Li Mengzhou, and when they heard that Li Mengzhou was seventeen years old, there was an uproar on the mountain road.

Seventeen years old has long passed the age of normal visualization, but Li Mengzhou still succeeded in visualization, which is inevitably too incredible.

This scene is far more exaggerated than a newborn baby being able to visualize the aura of heaven and earth.

After all, this is something that has long been recognized as impossible by many sages.

Even Zheng Qian looked at Li Mengzhou strangely, and the original anger dissipated unconsciously, leaving only a ghostly expression.

Entering the meditation at the age of seventeen, although according to the normal situation, should be a person with poor qualifications, but at the same time, this is also a miracle thing, it is easy to be rare by those freaks who have an obsessive yearning for cultivation, just like the author of the "Vertical and Horizontal Scroll", once he knows about it, he will definitely want to explore Li Mengzhou's secret at all costs, no matter what Li Mengzhou will achieve in the future, at least he will definitely be famous in "Vertical and Horizontal Scroll".

Lu Jiuge and Nan Sheng, who were still watching on the canyon, also looked at Li Mengzhou on the mountain road with disbelief.

Lu Jiuge was because he had already had this kind of psychological preparation, after all, there were only two results of Li Mengzhou's visualization, but when this incident really happened, Lu Jiuge still felt a little incredible, and even a little unreal.

Nan Sheng was a little depressed, she didn't believe that Li Mengzhou could visualize success at all, and this sense of disparity made her very uncomfortable.

But she reminded herself comfortably, and muttered secretly: "What's the big deal, although the seventeen-year-old is a newcomer, it is not unprecedented, after all, there is still such a person in history, even if it is just one person." And according to the records of the Daozang, that person didn't have much success in the end, so speaking of which, this kind of existence was not something to care about in the first place. ”

This is Nan Sheng looking for comfort for himself, the person recorded in the Daozang does not have much achievement, but his achievements are definitely not low, but he is not standing at the peak, but in fact he has touched the peak, which is not an easy thing to do.

Moreover, that person was not born in this era, otherwise, with the achievements he has achieved, he can already compete with the young and strong people in the world, and he is definitely at the pinnacle.

Otherwise, Ning Haoran and Lu Jiuge would not care about this matter.

......

By the time Li Mengzhou's visualization was successful, night had completely fallen.

The stars in the sky are especially bright.

Even the bright moon seemed to echo the stars.

On the silent mountain road, the white stone monument shimmers in the moonlight and starlight.

Most people's attention has shifted from Li Mengzhou's body to the stone stele.

Shen Jiyue frowned and said to Ning Haoran: "Senior Brother Ning, this stone tablet seems to contain a sword intent, could it be that it was left by a certain senior in the palace?"

Ning Haoran smiled and said nothing.

Zhou Luo glanced at Xin Ming at this time, and said: "This sword intent is extremely thick, it should be left by the senior who has entered the Five Realms, or even stronger, I guess that this sword intent should belong to a certain division commander who has passed away from the palace......"

Xin Ming has a good relationship with Zhou Luo, the two of them almost grew up wearing a pair of pants, and they think that their cultivation qualifications are not as good as Zhou Luo's, so no matter what Zhou Luo says, he agrees.

Zheng Qian didn't have any objections at the moment, but he still stared at Li Mengzhou with a ruthless gaze.

Li Mengzhou's sight only had the white stele, listening to Shen Jiyue and Zhou Luo's words, he frowned and thought for a moment, and suddenly said: "Although this sword intent contains extremely powerful power, it does not necessarily belong to a certain division commander who has passed away, although the profound sword intent will not fade or dim with the years, but this sword intent on the stone tablet seems to be in the most complete state."

The sword intent that has been around for a long time will eventually appear a little obscure, so in my opinion, the time when this sword intent was engraved should not be very long, and the most likely person will only be the dean of the palace. ”

Shen Jiyue looked at Li Mengzhou in surprise and said, "You mean that this sword intent was left by the dean?"

Li Mengzhou did not answer Shen Jiyue's question, but looked at Ning Haoran.

Ning Haoran's gaze also happened to look at Li Mengzhou, and the moment the four eyes met, Ning Haoran was slightly stunned, and said with a smile: "Yes, this sword intent was indeed carved by the dean, and it was ten years ago." ”

He Zhengrong's bland eyes suddenly appeared after Ning Haoran's words fell.

Zhou Luo's body was also shocked suddenly, he stared at the two words of leaving the palace engraved on the stone tablet, and said with a look of longing and awe: "This sword intent can be called the respect of the world, I didn't expect that the dean had already reached such a state when he cultivated ten years ago, and I am afraid that he is no longer under the only sword immortal in the world who is in the Western Jin Dynasty." ”

With the withering of sword cultivation, not only are there fewer and fewer swordsmen, but there are even fewer real sword geniuses, and those sword immortals who used to sit at the pinnacle of the world are now only one.

Although the Ligong Sword Academy is the only sword cultivation mountain gate in Jiang Country, and the dean Xue Wangwu is also known as the first sword cultivator in Jiang Kingdom, he is not a sword immortal after all.

This inevitably gave the young sword cultivators in Jiang Country a feeling that they couldn't see the direction, but if Xue Wangwu had the potential to become a sword immortal, then the people who worshiped Xue Wangwu's sect would definitely be like a fish crossing the river and achieve a flooding scene.

Sword Immortal is the ultimate goal of sword cultivation, and it is also the most difficult peak to climb, Sword Immortal with immortal characters, it is really a fairy-like character, a sword across mountains and rivers, thousands of miles to kill the enemy with a sword, but it is the most common means.

It was precisely because of this that the sword cultivators of that year had the ability to suppress the hundred sects and were above the monks of the three sects. In the era when sword cultivation was still prosperous, there were a total of thirty-three mountains in the world, and there was a sword immortal on each mountain, not to mention that all the sword immortals gathered, just one sword immortal came out of the mountain, and it was also an existence that could sweep all the world.

It was as if all the luck in heaven and earth had been poured into the body of the sword cultivator, allowing the sword cultivator to develop and grow, and the momentum was immeasurable for a while.

However, in the eyes of today's young sword cultivators, they don't even understand why the originally powerful sword cultivators suddenly formed a sign of decline, many sword immortals fell, and the remaining sword immortals also died in the long river of history, and now in hundreds of years, there is only one sword immortal in the world.

But because the status of the monks of the three sects has surpassed that of sword cultivation, it is difficult for a latecomer to catch up with only one sword immortal, plus many sword cultivators are not competitive, not one person can pull it up, and that one sword immortal can only fight for a place for sword cultivation, and will not be completely wiped out in the world.

But whenever a second sword immortal appears in the world, the status of sword cultivation will definitely change dramatically, and it is only a matter of time before sword cultivation prospers again.

Not only Zhou Luo has this idea, but the young people on the mountain road have this kind of vision, as a sword cultivator, he should be willing to see this sect carry forward and truly stand out from the crowd.

Ning Haoran looked at a certain canyon, where the two people standing there had disappeared, he looked back at the teenagers, and said softly: "You have passed the entrance test, but this is not the whole test, you can temporarily live in the courtyard of the palace tonight, and the last assessment will be held tomorrow, and then it will be the time to decide whether you will stay or not." ”

Li Mengzhou took a deep breath, no matter what, he had successfully taken the first step, and he also had reason to believe that he could pass the final assessment, although he didn't know what he was going to take yet.

The original nearly 100 teenagers who climbed the mountain are now only about 20 people left, and the elimination rate is really frighteningly high, but judging from the current situation of sword cultivation in the world, choosing the best to eliminate the inferior is indeed a very good way to cultivate a real kendo genius, after all, betting resources on people with very poor qualifications will only make the development of sword cultivation more difficult to do.

Crossing the white stone stele, looking at the mountain gate of the palace that was getting closer and closer, and looking at the halls that were mostly covered by clouds and mist, Li Mengzhou's eyes narrowed slightly, he didn't know what the reason was, he wanted to laugh now, in short, he was very happy.

Twenty people is not a lot, so it is also very easy to arrange, walking in the rain corridor on both sides of the stone flat of the mountain gate, it is not crowded at all, you can imagine how spacious the place is.

The place they arrived at was only the outer courtyard of the palace, and those buildings that looked tall seemed to be still very far away, obviously looking right in front of them, but just the buildings in the outer courtyard gave people an indescribable clear and refreshing taste, which seemed extremely atmospheric.

Li Mengzhou's focus at this time is not the appearance of the Palace Sword Academy, if he can be admitted to the Palace, he will have a long time in the future to appreciate and measure the breadth of the Palace. What he was more concerned about was that those real disciples who left the palace who passed by from time to time, those people were all in white shirts, and most of them were male disciples, and it took a long time to see the two senior sisters walking together.

But there is no doubt that when they saw Ning Haoran, they would stop, salute very respectfully, and call the fourth senior brother.

Ning Haoran kept nodding with a shallow smile on his face, and Li Mengzhou was even a little worried that there would be too many people saluting, and the neck of the fourth senior brother would be broken with the nod.

Of course, his worries were unnecessary.

There seem to be a lot of people in the outer courtyard, Li Mengzhou probably understands that even if he is successfully admitted to the palace, he will have to stay in the outer courtyard, and the inner courtyard that does not know where is the real mountain gate of the palace, gathering the top kendo geniuses in the palace, and Ning Haoran is also one of them.

Of course, Li Mengzhou's purpose is not only the outer courtyard, but the inner courtyard, only when he enters the inner courtyard, can he come into contact with the true method of sword cultivation, become a qualified sword cultivator, and be able to walk in the world, representing the challenge of the palace mountain gate like other cultivation mountain gates, and even being respected by other cultivation mountain gates.

The fundamental key to the difference between the Sword Cultivation Mountain Gate and the Three Sects Mountain Gate is the pride that belongs to the Sword Cultivator, they will not know how to visit those cultivation mountain gates politely, and then challenge the strongest disciples in those mountain gates. Of course, their impolite behavior is only seen by outsiders, and they themselves think that they are still very polite, after all, they have also greeted each other before the challenge, although the way of greeting is a little strange.

Although Li Mengzhou felt that after coming into contact with Ning Haoran, he felt that this was a person who liked to laugh and had no temper, but in the capital these days, Li Mengzhou had also heard about Ning Haoran's deeds.

It is said that the fourth senior brother who left the palace once broke into a certain cultivation mountain gate with one person and one sword, and directly broke the mountain gate of other people's houses as a way to greet him, and defeated the strongest disciple in the mountain gate with absolute strong means.

The competition or challenge between the disciples of the cultivation mountain sect cannot be stopped or interfered with, especially when encountering people like sword cultivators, they can only break their teeth and swallow them in their stomachs.

After all, Xue Wangwu is the first sword cultivator in Jiang Country, or the great sword cultivator who has entered the Five Realms, and he is at the peak of the entire Jiang Country, and no master who cultivates the mountain gate is willing to bear beating someone small, and then being bullied by Xue Wangwu.