CHAPTER XLIV

Lu Fan respectfully told the truth about his encounter with the old man in Qingzhou City, and he also had some concerns in his heart, if he aroused the suspicion of the sect master because he lied, then his friends and Elder Zhou on the side would be classified as the target of surveillance, and from then on, he would be frightened in the sect, and even suffer from unwarranted disasters.

With the sect master's contemplation, the atmosphere in the main hall suddenly became extremely depressing, and Elder Zhou was a little afraid in his heart, when he replied to the sect master, he did not mention the old man in Qingzhou City, because all his thoughts were on Lu Fan, so he forgot about it for a while.

Liu Daotian didn't care about this, at this time he searched hard for the figure of the old man in his mind, but he still gave up after half a ring, without a clue.

"It's not from the other two sects, who the hell is that..."

After the spy sounded, Liu Daotian looked at Lu Fan again, and pretended to be angry and said:

"Put this matter aside for the time being, this sect will ask you again, when Elder Zhou brought you to the Shangqing Sect, you were just an ordinary person, how come after a few days, your cultivation has reached the second layer of condensation?!"

Listening to the sect master's questioning, Lu Fan was stunned in his heart, and then pursed his lips covertly, when Elder Zhou asked him in the cave mansion, Lu Fan faintly felt that he had been pitted, and he worshipped Elder Zhou as his teacher in a daze, and the sect master should have known about stealing the pill by himself, and making this gesture now is nothing more than scaring himself.

"Disciple... The disciple stole the elixir, and all of them had the cultivation of the second layer of condensing qi... I hope the sect master will punish him!"

Lu Fan hurriedly pretended to be sincerely frightened, with deep repentance on his face, even his body was trembling slightly, and there was a trace of unwillingness and bitterness hidden in the corners of his eyes, which made people instantly feel that this was a teenager with a story.

Elder Zhou also saw what the sect master meant, this is the sect master is looking for a step for himself, after all, the sect has the rules of the sect, even the sect master cannot be violated, Elder Zhou was just about to speak, when he suddenly heard Lu Fan's voice coming, and after turning his head to look at Lu Fan, he couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.

"This stinky boy, pretending to be quite decent!"

Then Elder Zhou took a step forward and said respectfully:

"Sect Master, Lu Fan has already known that he was wrong, and I hope that the Sect Master will not blame, I have accepted him as a disciple, and those two pills should be regarded as a gift to him, I don't know what the sect thinks?"

Liu Daotian nodded slightly, and looked at Lu Fan again after answering.

"Lu Fan, the sect has the rules of the sect, this time there is Elder Zhou to intercede for you, and the sect will no longer pursue it, but if there is a next time, the sect will definitely punish it severely, can you remember?!"

"Sect Master Xie is open, and the disciple will keep it in mind!"

Lu Fan was a little unhappy in his heart, these two were obviously singing and harmonizing, playing with him in the palm of his hand, but Lu Fan did steal the pill and violated the patriarchal law, so he could only endure this breath.

"Lu Fan, you are still just a disciple of the miscellaneous department, although Elder Zhou accepts you as an apprentice, but the death penalty of stealing the pill is inevitably a living crime, even this sect can't ignore the door rules..."

The twists and turns couldn't describe Lu Fan's mood at this time, he thought that this matter would pass like this, but he didn't expect the sect master to say such a thing again.

Elder Zhou looked at Lu Fan, who was a little worried, and threw a slightly calm look at him.

"Please also ask the sect master to make it clear!"

Liu Daotian also felt helpless in his heart, the position of this sect master was too tiring, and thinking of Elder Taishang's instructions to him, he had another headache.

"After three months, the trial will begin, if you can prove yourself after walking a hundred steps, the sect will reveal your stealing pills, if you can't go to a hundred steps, cancel your status as a disciple of Elder Zhou, and expel you from the sect!"

Lu Fan's ears suddenly buzzed, the scene of the trial seemed to be just yesterday, that time, he only walked to the tenth order! The trial of the Thousand Step Stone was like a mountain, pressing heavily on Lu Fan's body, even now, the pressure of this mountain has never receded!

Elder Zhou's face was pale, when he went to meet the sect master last night, he didn't have such conditions, a hundred steps was simply more difficult for Lu Fan than climbing to the sky!

"Sect Master..."

"Don't say it again, this is already the bottom line of this sect!"

Liu Daotian has a sleeve, a resolute attitude, and is extremely tough.

Elder Zhou was interrupted before he finished speaking, sighed secretly in his heart, and left with Lu Fan after bowing with his fists.

Lu Fan was confused along the way, the hundred steps of a thousand steps were like a peak that he couldn't climb, no matter how hard he tried, he would still fall after all, the stinging pain in his brain during the trial had always been Lu Fan's heart disease, and he didn't know why it was like this if he wanted to break his head.

After returning to Elder Zhou's cave mansion, Elder Zhou looked at Lu Fan, who had no spirit, and felt unbearable in his heart.

"Fan'er, don't be too discouraged, now that you are a monk of the second layer of condensation, it will be much easier to challenge the Thousand Step Stone. ”

Lu Fan lowered his head and responded absentmindedly.

"Hey, tell me what went wrong when you first participated in the trial that made you stop at the tenth order?"

Elder Zhou comforted Lu Fan, looking at his sad face and looking at him angrily and funny.

Lu Fan thought about it, raised his head and looked at Elder Zhou, with a little complaint in his tone.

"Master, did the old man say that when he didn't like me, I obviously knew that when I first participated..."

"Fan'er, do you know why the Thousand Step Stone is regarded as a test when mortals enter the sect?"

Elder Zhou said faintly, then raised his head and looked in the direction of the Thousand Step Stone, a trace of memory flashed in his eyes.

Lu Fan shook his head, looked at Elder Zhou with puzzled eyes, and looked at the Thousand Step Stone in the direction of Elder Zhou.

"Thousand Step Stone, the fifty-order qualification is mediocre, the hundred-step is medium, the two-hundred-step is superior, the three-hundred-step is excellent, and the four-hundred-step is peerless! The qualification mentioned here is not the talent of the monk's cultivation! And after the five-hundred-step, it is not something that mortals can reach, and the teacher can only tell you that after the five-hundred-step process, every hundred-step will have an amazing creation!"

Therefore, the trial of the Thousand Step Stone is a test of people's faith and perseverance, and if there is no firm heart, it is like a tall building without a pedestal, and when you touch it, it will fall..."

"It is precisely because of the special nature of this trial that no matter what the temperament and temperament of the disciples in the sect are, their hearts for cultivation are relatively firm, so the Shangqing Sect can stand in Dongzhou for thousands of years..."

Lu Fan listened to Elder Zhou's words in a daze, his thoughts drifted, as if he saw countless people in the Thousand Step Stone, some were excited, some were confused, some were bitter, and some were unwilling...

"Thousand Step Stone, is it such a trial..."

Lu Fan muttered in a low voice.

Elder Zhou retracted his gaze and looked at Lu Fan, his eyes full of encouragement.

"Fan'er, I hope to see your true side, and I believe that the tenth order will definitely not be your end!"

Lu Fan lowered his head and clenched his fists tightly as if he wanted to crush his fingers!

"Master, the disciple will not let you down!"

Lu Fan raised his head and said firmly.

Elder Zhou nodded with satisfaction, he was very satisfied with Lu Fan, and he had already regarded Lu Fan as his lost grandson, the words that Lu Fan had muttered when he was injured had been deeply imprinted in Elder Zhou's heart.

"Fan'er, as long as you go through the hundred steps, all problems will be solved, even if you don't reach the hundred steps, the teacher will try his best to leave you behind!"

"The grace of the master, Lu Fan is difficult to repay!"

Bursts of warmth surged all over his body, this kind of intimate feeling, Lu Fan had only felt when he was in the village, since he stepped into the Shangqing Sect, he was greeted only by malicious ridicule and ridicule, and his heart, which was originally slowly frozen, was being melted by Elder Zhou little by little.

"Master, the disciple still has something I want to ask the teacher. ”

"Say it!"

Lu Fan remembered that he had swallowed two pills, and now he was already at the realm of the second layer of condensation, if he swallowed one more, he might go further in the Thousand Step Stone under the growth of cultivation.

"The disciple once swallowed two pills, and the importance of the pills has also been learned a lot through various channels in the past few days, and there are nearly a thousand disciples who came to observe when Senior Sister Zhou broke into the pill monument, and the disciples... The disciple wants to know, how can I become a Dan Master?"

Lu Fan asked with doubts in his heart, if he can become a Dan Master, he will be able to refine the required pills by himself in the future, and he can also occupy a place in the sect, so that his friends will be more comfortable.

Elder Zhou raised his eyebrows, he didn't want to mention the scene that Lu Fan experienced on the stone platform, after all, that kind of thing hit people too hard, and now Lu Fan actually said that he wanted to become a Dan Master, and he loved himself as a disciple more and more in his heart.

"Danshi, are you interested in becoming a Danshi?"

Lu Fan nodded seriously.

"You have stolen two pills, if it were someone else, maybe you would have been imprisoned by the sect at this moment, those are two first-order pills, called the Cleansing Pill, after swallowing, it will properly transform the mortal's body, remove unnecessary impurities, and make the person who swallows it more suitable for cultivation, although this pill is good, but there is a drawback, that is, it will only play a role for the monks of the Qi Condensation Realm, and it can only be swallowed three times, after three times, there is no effect. ”

Lu Fan was stunned for a moment, his illusion that he wanted to rely on the pill to improve his cultivation infinitely was shattered, and now there was still a chance to swallow it, and this was also an indispensable part of his walking through the Thousand Steps Stone Hundred Steps!

"As a teacher, I am not a Dan teacher, so I don't know much about Dan Dao, I only know that Dan Dao is vast and ethereal, and it really takes a person's peerless talent and perseverance to achieve something!"

After that, Elder Zhou took out a token from his arms, and this token was very familiar to Lu Fan.

Lu Fan took it solemnly with both hands, and there was a slight doubt in his expression.

"Take it, go to the Dan Pavilion of the sect, and spend the contribution points of the sect of the master in exchange for the Dan Dao scroll of the Shangqing Sect!"

Elder Zhou looked at Lu Fan kindly, and the appreciation in his eyes slowly turned into doting, pouring all the love of his dead grandson into Lu Fan, which was his atonement for himself and his own sustenance.

Lu Fan slowly lowered his head, holding the jade slip in his hand that still had Elder Zhou's body temperature, and bursts of warmth welled up in his heart.

"Disciple... Disciple thanked Master!"