Chapter 18: Discouragement

CHAPTER XVIII

Elder Zhou gently put the unconscious Lu Fan on the ground, and after taking a closer look, he found that Lu Fan was only a little out of strength, and there was no major problem, and then he wondered in his heart, even if it was a mortal body, it would not be unbearable just when he reached the tenth order, could it be because of Lu Fan's physique?

Thinking of this, Elder Zhou checked Lu Fan's body again, and found nothing abnormal, and his heart was even more confused, he didn't know why Lu Fan was like this at the moment, everything was only when he woke up, and asked carefully.

immediately beckoned to Senior Brother Liu, and when Senior Brother Liu approached, he asked him to take care of Lu Fan and make plans when he woke up.

Senior Brother Liu held Lu Fan in his arms, felt that Lu Fan's body was still trembling slightly, and his skin became cold because of sweat, and he didn't know why Lu Fan had just walked to the tenth order, and he was so embarrassed, and suddenly found that Lu Fan's eyelids were beating slightly, and then shouted softly:

"Senior Brother Lu... Lu..."

After seeing that Lu Fan didn't react in the slightest, Senior Brother Liu walked quickly towards the loop under Elder Zhou's gaze, placed Lu Fan in place, and waited for him to wake up.

The surrounding disciples looked at this scene, their eyes flashing, and their thoughts were different.

"Who is this person, how could it make Elder Zhou so nervous?"

"Well, it seems that it should have something to do with Elder Zhou..."

"Take a look! Maybe he is also a Tianjiao, although he is not as good as Sun Hao and Li Xian'er, but he must be very high in the ranking! Otherwise, he can't make Elder Zhou care so much!"

As he spoke, the disciples looked up and searched for the light curtain, and the numbers behind all the names were constantly changing, so as long as they found the one who stopped moving, they found the first person to come out in front of them.

Most of the disciples outside the trial didn't care about this, they were still watching Sun Hao's name closely, and there were bursts of exclamations from time to time, only a small number of people looked carefully from top to bottom, and all the names of those who participated in the trial were more or less emitting a slight light, and only the names of those who withdrew from the trial would hide the light.

Suddenly, a thin outer disciple in the crowd pointed to the light curtain in mid-air and shouted loudly with a surprised face:

"Found it! look! there! But this..."

When everyone heard this, their faces were all excited, and with curiosity and expectation, they looked in the direction of this disciple's finger, and when they saw the long-awaited name and the number behind it, they suddenly stayed in place, maintaining the appearance just now, dumbfounded.

The rest of the people also noticed the strangeness here, and turned their heads one after another, thinking to themselves if this person was also a Tianjiao, otherwise how could it be so surprising to this extent!

Then he raised his head and looked at the light curtain in mid-air, and in just a moment, the people outside the trial land seemed to be infected by madness, raising their heads one by one, looking at the air stupidly, unable to speak for a long time...

After a while, everyone slowly came to their senses, and the silence was followed by a wave of sound that echoed outside the place of trial!

"This—this is..."

"It's... This is really a once-in-a-century experience!"

"Hahaha! Tianjiao? I think this person is a piece of rubb! And a complete piece of rubbish! Hahaha!"

"Hahaha! Tenth Order... No, I can't, it's so funny!"

"If this can be regarded as Tianjiao, then I would have been a disciple of my own lineage!hahaha!"

"Find any mortal, you can go farther than him, hahaha!"

When everyone looked at the light curtain, a few gray and abrupt small characters were at the bottom of the light curtain, becoming more and more gray, as if they couldn't bear the endless ridicule and ridicule.

"Lu Fan, tenth order. ”

These words made many disciples outside the trial land laugh, and even many of them laughed out of tears, still patting their thighs, stretching out their fingers and pointing at these words and mocking unscrupulously with the fellow disciples beside them.

Elder Zhou looked at all this, and there were some doubts and helplessness in his heart, but the matter had come to this point, even he couldn't change Lu Fan's ranking casually in front of everyone, Elder Zhou was not in the mood to wait for the end of the trial at this time, and after sighing secretly, he flicked his sleeves and left here.

In the blink of an eye, two days had passed since the end of the trial, and in these two days, the names of three people had been completely known to almost all the outer disciples.

Sun Hao, from the Sun family of the Xiuzhen family, has a four-layer cultivation of condensing qi, one hundred and ninety-nine steps in the thousand-step stone, and is the first in the trial!

Li Xian'er, whose origin is unknown, is a beautiful immortal, has a three-layer cultivation of condensing qi, and is one hundred and eighty-three steps in the thousand-step stone, which is the second in the trial!

The last one is faintly more familiar among the outer disciples than the first two, and until now there are still many disciples talking about what happened on the day of the trial, and even some of the same disciples who have witnessed it as their own talking point, constantly spreading it in the sect, attracting bursts of ridicule, and the last of these three people has also become a waste and joke in the eyes of the entire outer disciples.

Lu Fan, a mortal, has only walked to the tenth level in the thousand-step stone, a peerless waste material that is rare in a hundred years!

When Lu Fan woke up slowly, the sharp pain in his brain seemed to have not dissipated, and the scenes in the trial kept flashing in front of him, Lu Fan sat up violently, rubbed his faintly painful head with his right hand, and looked around.

It was a simple stone house, with a chair, a stone table, a extinguished candle on the table, a wooden bed in the corner, and nothing else.

Lu Fan frowned, trying to recall everything that happened during the trial, and then put down his right hand, lifted the futon on his body, and sat cross-legged on the bed.

"Trials... Is it over..."

Lu Fan muttered, he remembered that when he stepped on the tenth order, the sharp pain in his brain seemed to explode, and his body fell uncontrollably, and then he lost consciousness.

Lu Fan pinched his thigh hard, and a clear pain came, which made Lu Fan feel relieved a little.

"It's good that I didn't fall into the abyss, maybe I was rescued after the trial..."

Suddenly, Lu Fan's body was stunned, his face was embarrassed, he thought of something, hurriedly put on his shoes, and walked out of the door.

At this moment, a slight sound of pushing the door came in, and Lu Fan heard it in his ears, so he hurriedly sat on the bed again, waiting for the person who came.

"Senior Brother Lu, you're awake!"

It was Senior Brother Liu who pushed the door in, and when he saw Lu Fan, who was still a little pale, he said happily.

"Brother Fan! Brother Fan! I thought... I thought ...."

There was a ghost crying wolf howl behind Senior Brother Liu, it was Zhang Ergou, Li Qiang, Shen Dasha and Han Chong, all four of them had deep worry and worry on their faces, and the moment they saw Lu Fan wake up, they all let out a long breath, and their hanging hearts finally let go.

Lu Fan looked at the four people in front of him, his eyes were gentle, and his heart was unusually kind, and then bursts of warmth surged all over his body, making Lu Fan want to get up and hug them, but just when he was about to stand up, the weak feeling of powerlessness made him sit on the bed again, and after struggling to try a few times, he raised his head and looked at the person in front of him with a wry smile.

Zhang Ergou hurriedly stepped forward to support Lu Fan, and several people behind him also looked at Lu Fan with concern in order to come up.

"What are you doing, I'm not suffering from a serious illness and I'm going to die!"

Lu Fan looked at the nervous few people, smiled and scolded, and suddenly felt as if he had missed something, just woke up and there was a group of people in front of him, and he didn't pay attention to the chaos, at this time, the four people were actually wearing the same red robes as Senior Brother Liu!

"You!

Lu Fan was extremely surprised in his heart, although he knew that these four people should enter the sect through the trial, but when he saw it with his own eyes, he inevitably felt a little incredulous in his heart.

Li Qiang laughed, pulling the red robe on his body with both hands, his eyes full of pride.

"Hahaha! Brother Fan, look, this is the red robe of the outer disciples of the Shangqing Sect! Lao Tzu will be an immortal in the future! Hahaha!"

Before Li Qiang could finish posing, Zhang Ergou looked at Li Qiang with a frown, and there was some anger in his eyes.

The other two didn't say much, and stood aside with their heads down, preoccupied.

Lu Fan felt the abnormality of these people, and was very puzzled in his heart, it was their wish to become a disciple of the Shangqing Sect, and now that their wish has come true, they should be happy, how can they all have a sad face?

Lu Fan was just about to ask, Senior Brother Liu on the side walked slowly to Lu Fan's side, looked at the weak Lu Fan, sighed, and said in a deep voice:

"Lu... Senior Brother Lu, these friends of yours have also passed this trial, and officially become disciples of the Shangqing Sect, and in the future, I will be called by the same senior brother, and the other people who participated in the trial with you have also passed, but ..."

Speaking of this, Senior Brother Liu's face twitched, and the appearance of wanting to speak made Lu Fan anxious, what he was most concerned about at this moment was whether he had passed the trial or not, and whether he had entered the Shangqing Sect!

Senior Brother Liu paused, looked at Lu Fan with a look of hope, sighed, and said slowly:

"There are a total of twenty-seven people in this trial, and the remaining twenty-six people have all passed the trial and become outer disciples of the Shangqing Sect, only... Senior Brother Lu is the only one... If you don't pass the trial, you can't become a disciple of the Shangqing Sect with the last place and only the tenth order, this is the door rule of the sect, and no one can change it..."

After Lu Fan heard this, his mind went blank for a moment, and the whole person seemed to have been struck by lightning, his mouth opened in shock, and he even forgot to breathe.

Lu Fan didn't know what it was like in his heart at this time, he didn't cry, he didn't make noise, he sat quietly on the bed as if he had settled down, his heart was gloomy, he suddenly thought of his sworn wishes, thought of his absolute confidence, and thought of the fact that he had turned around to comfort others before the trial, everything that happened now was like a stake, which was slammed into his heart, and the pain flowed down the blood all over the body, and the pain was unbearable.

"It's just me... I'm the only one who didn't pass..."

Lu Fan's eyes were blank at this time, and all thoughts in his heart were discouraged, and all the incomparably good wishes that he had been looking forward to and incomparably good were like bubbles, cruelly shattered, leaving no trace.

Everyone looked at Lu Fan's down-and-out appearance, although they couldn't bear it in their hearts, but they didn't have a way, they didn't know how to persuade Lu Fan, it was better to accompany him quietly like this.