"The second level, the test is your determination to cultivate immortals, do you see this cloud climbing platform behind me? There are a total of 100,000 steps on this stone step, and there is a gravity magic circle on the stone steps, the higher you go, the heavier it will be, you have three days, those who reach the top within three days are qualified, those who give up halfway, those who overtime fail, if you can't hold on in the middle, you can eat this rune paper, and the effect of the formation will disappear."

"Do what you can, remember not to lose your life if you don't want to go your own way" Senior Brother Lu had one in his right hand, and more than forty pieces of rune paper were distributed to the people who were assessed, and the round of testing just now eliminated thirty people, and all of them were among the fifty or so people where Lingyun was.

"The second level of assessment, start!" Senior Brother Lu rose up with his sword, and by the way, he took Lin Chengze and the black-clothed young man into the sky.

The remaining forty or so people began to climb the stone steps in twos and threes.

"Fatty, I must cultivate immortals, I want to cultivate immortals!" Lingyun suddenly shouted loudly, and most of his suppressed mood dissipated in this angry howl.

"Yes, Xiuxian, I also want to cultivate immortals" The fat man also shouted happily, in order to vent his depressed mood, the two picked the right side of the stone steps, and climbed the stone steps with their hands and feet along the border.

More than forty people did not climb the stone steps for the first time, some were watching, and some were impatient to rush to the heights, but Lingyu was unhurried and slowly climbing, he was not a fool, the situation behind was still unclear, and he didn't know what he would encounter if he rushed up rashly, and he could only stay after this level, and he would never allow himself to fail.

The stone steps towered into the sky, and after climbing for two hours, Lingyun could barely see the ground when he turned around.

"Sting~" The fat man's right leg slipped and almost tumbled down the stone steps, but Lingyu hurriedly reached out and grabbed him.

"Hey, if such a tall master falls, he won't fall into a pulp, no, Lingyu, we have to go to the middle, this boundary is a little dangerous"

The design of the stone steps on both sides is not quite the same as in the middle, the stone steps on both sides are only large enough for two people to climb in parallel, and the stone steps in the middle are very wide, but the height is four or five times that of the stone steps on both sides

If you keep walking in the middle, the physical exertion will definitely be greater, and the speed will be very slow, and a few people will almost die at the border, even if the consumption in the middle is too large, you will never be able to go.

"No, fatty, if I go to the middle, I have a hunch that it will be too late"

"Really, I don't know about the perverted topic this year, I haven't heard of it."

"Why didn't you climb the stone steps in previous years?"

"No, the assessment is different every year, but it's not as thrilling as this time, I'm really afraid to explain it here."

"Just be careful, you don't see there are many people in front of you"

Although Lingyun climbed earlier, but the speed was slower, almost everyone else had passed by him, but after half a day, Lingyun almost passed by them again and again, and when he turned back, he couldn't see the figure clearly, and there were a few scattered people in front of him, but this Lingyun was indeed almost to the limit, and the fat man was already sweating and gasping for breath, and the speed of the two was reduced again and again with the reduction of physical strength and the double pressure of gravity, several times he and the fat man almost slipped off, and even once half of the fat man's body was already in the air, he was pulled back by Lingyun with two arms, the fat man is also in a cold sweat and doesn't go to the side.

"No, no, it's dark Lingyun, let's rest, if you climb at night, you have to die on the road" Climbing from morning to night, Lingyun and the fat man lay on the big stone steps in the middle of the road, sore all over, and most of the clothes on their bodies were soaked with sweat, Lingyu took out something in his arms and handed it to the fat man.

"Fatty, take it"

"What's it?" the fat man reached out to take it

"I'll rub it, you kid is a thief enough" Lingyun handed over the cured beef he brought from home, which can be put for a long time after being specially marinated, and he ate a lot on the road before, but after arriving at the Ten Thousand Swords Immortal Sect, Lingyun didn't eat much, after all, he brought it from home, and eating it slowly is considered to leave more memories of his hometown.

Before the assessment, almost everyone came empty-handed, and there was no such thing as a storage ring, and who would bring food and drink, Lingyun was more attentive, kicked a large piece of beef in his arms, and hung a leather kettle on his waist to fill it with water before leaving, which was really useful at this time.

"One more piece," said the fat man, licking his finger that had just pinched the beef

"I'll give you another piece, hurry up and eat, take it and drink saliva, let's not be found out by Senior Brother Lu, if it's disqualified because of this, it's not worth it"

"He didn't say that he wouldn't let him bring food and drink, he didn't eat or drink for three days and climbed this again, who could bear it"

In fact, he is really not the only one who carries food like Lingyun, in addition to him, there is also a teenager and a girl who also carry some food, but they don't bring much food, but there are a lot of people in the same company, and most of the people behind are five or six people mixed together, and everyone who has food can't watch him eat alone, and that bit of food is insignificant.

There was no word all night, Lingyun and the two didn't feel too dead, they woke up after sleeping for about two or three hours, the two of them ate a little bit and continued to hurry, the road behind became heavier and heavier, Lingyun was a little afraid to take the side, the three-day assessment has passed a day, according to the total distance, they should have walked most of the way, and the distance behind should not be the length, but the difficulty of gravity.

What Lingyun didn't know was that his unhurried and uniform way had already thrown off the others not far along the way, and the two of them had already walked at the forefront of these people.

"This kid has some brains, and he dares to take risks, and he knows that he has made certain preparations, and the most important thing is that this little guy is quite affectionate and has the demeanor of my year, Old Man Lin, this is also a member of your secular Lin family, you have a Taiyin spirit, give me this"

"It's okay to give it to you, you have to take out that bottle of drenching immortal brew for me to taste."

"I knew you were still beating me up for the idea of pouring immortal brew again, and I shouldn't have shown it to you last time."

"That's it, that's it, if this kid passes the assessment, what will it be for you?"

"It's a deal!"

Lingyun was still climbing the stone steps with difficulty for more than a day, his hands, knees and feet were more or less blistered, but he was still insisting, his feet and legs had already been numb, but he was still better than the fat man, the fat man was already slightly fatter, and now he was even more swollen, and he couldn't find a few good skins on his hands and feet, and the two of them were still moving slowly, but they didn't know that the various performances of their group of people had been fully seen.

"Hey, fatty, don't play dead, I seem to see the end"

"Ah~ What do you say"

"Huh~Huh~" The fat man inhaled the air in a big gulp, and his whole body was lying on the stone steps in the middle of the road, this was already noon on the third day, and according to the time, they should have nearly ten hours, and the morning of the fourth day was just enough for three days, that is, thirty-six hours.

"I seem to see the end, fatty, look, is that the end?"

The fat man squeezed his red eyes, looked up at the top of the stone steps, and sure enough, it was not like the white stone steps that he could not see before, but two hundred-meter-high pillars, and there was a plaque in the middle of the pillars, and he couldn't see what was written.

The fat man looked at this distance, it was about a few hundred meters long, but the gravity was no longer what it used to be, and now he was only slowly climbing the stone steps in the middle, and he had to breathe for a long time before continuing, and Lingyun was on the stone steps more than a dozen knots above the fat man, took out the kettle and drank a little sip and threw the kettle down, the last piece of meat last night had been eaten by the two of them, and now there was still a pot of water at the bottom, Lingyun planned to leave it all to the fat man, although he was almost to the limit, but the fat man's situation was more serious。

He had only climbed more than thirty floors of the stone steps in the middle lane, but it had been more than an hour, and the fat man had barely climbed fifteen floors, and his speed was getting slower and slower, and now he had two choices, either to go back to help the fat man, or to grit his teeth and hold on alone.

Of course, he chose the former without thinking about it, although Lingyu and the fat man have only known each other for five days, but in these five days, he has experienced many things, which cannot be found in books, and can only be understood if you really experience it, fetters and feelings, and the feelings between friends who experience life and death difficulties.

"Fat man hold on, that's all there is to go, we'll go over soon"

Lingyu's right hand passed through the fat man's left arm and buckled his shoulders, and his left hand was on the upper stone steps, dragging the fat man upward.

One hour and two hours, time passed minute by minute, and for three hours, Lingyun and the fat man only climbed about a third.

Looking at the clearer and clearer courtyard in front of him, Lingyun was also a little impatient, at this rate, it may not be possible to sleep tonight·····

"Hey, how is my brother, can you go up, see if you are still dragging a burden"

A man's voice sounded behind Lingyun, this person he had seen, he had heard the fat man say that his name was Ao Bin, his appearance was slightly resolute, listening to his conversation Lingyun could also think that this was a person with a relatively straight temper, he and Lingyun Fat Man walked together in two, and the other one seemed to be too tired to work, and the whole person was lying motionless on the stone steps.

"It's okay, how about you, it's getting heavier and heavier on it, we won't sleep tonight, otherwise we really won't be able to go up"

"I'll rest first, you are also a cow, I thought I was the fastest in the past two days, I saw you just now, but I didn't expect that if this little fat man was okay, I was afraid that you two would have arrived, righteous!" Ao Bin said with a thumbs up to Lingyun.

"Alas, don't talk about it, keep climbing, and talk about it when you go up"

"Haha~ good~ go up and talk again"

"Ao Yi, get up and let's continue"

"Brother, let me rest again, let me rest"

It turns out that these two people are two brothers, the brothers have worshiped martial artists since childhood, once they happened to see the magical means of cultivating immortals, so they wanted to invest in the immortal gate, this time it was also a coincidence that the relationship was dragged on the family and half of the family wealth was dispersed to get this opportunity, the two brothers seemed to be very arrogant, but in fact they were also thoughtful, and along the way, they also ventured to the side like Lingyun to catch up so quickly, originally they were indeed in the front, but that night, Lingyun and the fat man had eaten and drunk enough and then suddenly wanted to climb for an extra hour, so they overtook in the night, and the two Ao Bin brothers had no food supplies, so they could not compare to Lingyun and the two。

In fact, according to the strength of his body, Lingyun is not as good as many people, he has been studying all year round, but in the past two years, his mind has been released, and he often helps his father do some heavy work, and most of the scholarly atmosphere in the past has also dispersed, and the whole person is much stronger and more resolute.

"Fatty, if it's a brother, give me more strength, we'll be there soon"

"Lingyun, why don't you put me here, give me the spirit rune, you will definitely be able to pass by yourself" The fat man moved his chapped lips and said softly.

"What do you say, let you go here, say it, how can I mess up, you resist, we will pass it right away"

Ling Yun was still talking to the fat man while crawling, he was afraid that the fat man would faint suddenly, and he would be in trouble, the fat man could still drag himself awake, if he fainted, there was really no way, if he wanted to let him climb the stone steps covered by the gravity formation with a hundred pounds on his back, he really couldn't do it.

Ling Yun dragged it in tow, and the two of them climbed dozens of stone steps, which would have caught up with the two Ao Bin brothers, the stone steps in the middle were wide enough, and the four of them were still a little rich side by side.

After a night of crawling, a few of them could almost see the four big golden characters above the stone steps, the Ten Thousand Swords Immortal Sect, those words shone in the sunrise and the sunshine, as if there was a magic power to attract them, and they rushed forward desperately.

Seeing this scene, Lingyun somewhat understood the purpose of this assessment, immortal cultivators go against the sky, with this perseverance, and infinite desire for the path of cultivating immortals, they can escape from the mortal and become holy and achieve the path of immortals.

"What can I do without the talent without the blessing of my family, I have the heart to rebel against heaven and become a person against heaven!"

Lingyun seemed to understand something, and the pain in his body was forgotten, and he shouted one after another, expressing the grand wish in his heart.

Ling Yun's voice echoed for a long time, and the fat man Ao Bin, Ao Yi and the others also felt the blood boiling all over their bodies.

"Lingyu, let's go!" The fat man also straightened his waist, and the four people stepped forward and rushed to the top, the four people, covered in blood, their hands and feet were full of blood bubbles in the climbing again and again, and the skin of several people also oozed layers of blood in the squeeze of gravity, and the bodies of several people were crumbling in the oppression of the extreme realm, and the four people supported each other to step through layer by layer, leaving only four footprints full of blood.

As they stepped on the last step, the four of them fell to the ground with a sound ringing in their ears

"The avenue is ruthless, people are affectionate, immortal cultivators need people like you, congratulations to a few, the assessment is successful, from today onwards you will be a disciple of the Ten Thousand Swords Immortal Sect"

"Come on, take the four of them to treatment"

"Elder Xue, what about the rest of the people?"

Xue Mingyang looked at the bottom of the stone steps, and then said: "The rest of these are not qualified, you go and send them for treatment and then send them away."

"Do you want to send them all away, then don't you want any black-clothed disciples this year?"

"Don't, don't!"

"Yes" The two disciples returned respectfully, and then Edgeworth rose up and sent the people on the stone steps away one by one.

Turning his head and saying a few Lingyun, the four of them fainted from exhaustion after reaching the peak, coupled with the accumulated fatigue and injuries on their bodies, several of them slept for two days before waking up one after another, during the time when they fainted, Elder Xue deliberately used a healing pill to blend into the water to soak them in a medicinal bath, not only the scars on their bodies were intact, but even their bodies were tempered a lot.

"Hehe, you four wake up."

"Meet Elder Xue" The four people who woke up received new clothes one after another, but Lingyun didn't dare to take them, the other three were white and his one was indeed red.

The fat man said that the red robe is a true disciple, and there are only two people in the entire Ten Thousand Swords Immortal Sect, and they are all extremely talented Tianjiao, if they wear this, it will be too scary, the three of them are quite normal and have changed into their own clothes, but the red robe of the true disciple of the Ten Thousand Swords Immortal Sect, Lingyun, a person with a first-grade spiritual root, really doesn't dare to wear it.

"Why are you still wearing this, didn't the disciple uniform be sent, what's the matter" Xue Mingyang looked at Lingyun and was still wearing his long shirt that was already full of holes, and ordered.

"That, Elder Xue, is the clothes you gave me wrong?"

"That's right, this is the old man's personal decision, you just have to wear it"

"But..."

"I ask you, why do you want to cultivate immortals"

"I ...... I want to control my own destiny, I want to travel in the nine days of the sword, I want to see a broader world, my life is up to me, I can only achieve this by cultivating immortals and becoming stronger, I hope, my life is up to me!" Lingyun said slowly with a firm look in his eyes.

"That's what, isn't it a low-grade spiritual root, isn't an immortal cultivator who goes against the destiny of heaven, if he relies on talent and cultivates a fart immortal, my disciple Xue Mingyang can go against the sky without that spiritual root"

"Lingyun didn't expect that this Elder Xue, who was respected by everyone in the Ten Thousand Swords Immortal Sect, would say such a thing, which made him a little moved, isn't it..."

"Elder Xue, what did you say?"

The fat man was busy pestle Lingyun on the side: "What else is the elder, kneel down and worship the teacher"

"Oh... Lingyun, meet the master" Yun knelt down and bowed heavily with his head on the ground.

"Get up, now go back and change into your clothes"

"Yes!"

Xue Mingyang has been an elder in the Ten Thousand Swords Immortal Sect for more than a thousand years, but more than a hundred years ago, he only succeeded in coming back a few months ago after his retreat, but in the last hundred years, in order to expand the disciples of the sect, the Ten Thousand Swords Immortal Sect has recruited disciples from the outer sect and used this to make money, resulting in a significant decline in the quality of the disciples in the sect.

Although only four people were selected, he was sure that these people would not let him down, their talents were not as good as those Tianjiao, but they might be able to go further if they were firm, and what others didn't know was that in this Ten Thousand Souls Sword Sect, I am afraid that only he could teach Lingyun.

"You go back first, change your clothes, I'll take you to eat some food, and then you go to report"

"Yes!" Lingyun took the robe and turned back to the room, and it was not long before a brightly dressed young man walked out, exuding a trace of aura, several of them had not officially started to cultivate, but the official disciple uniform of the Ten Thousand Swords Immortal Sect was an out-and-out defensive magic weapon, the white-clothed disciple was a low-grade magic weapon that could resist one blow below the fifth level of qi refining, the purple-clothed inner door corresponded to a middle-grade magic weapon that could resist three blows below the first weight of the foundation, and the red robe of the true disciple was a high-grade magic weapon that could resist a full blow below the early stage of Jindan.

Although Lingyun hadn't cultivated yet, this dress alone was enough to face the foundation building cultivator without dying.

"Haha, yes, yes, come and eat first, these are not what you can eat in the secular world, this is the dragon tail of the Red Earth Dragon, the front legs of this ink crystal beast, ...

A table of dishes is something that Lingyun and the others have never heard of, but listening to Xue Mingyang's explanation, they also understand the preciousness of these things.

The time for a meal passed quickly, and afterwards Xue Mingyang found the elders who taught them for the fat man Ao Bin and the three of them, because this selection was agreed by Xue Mingyang in advance, so the elders he was looking for were also those who were familiar with him, and the obvious meaning was that he wanted to pay special attention to them.

There are now more than 2,000 white-clothed disciples of the Ten Thousand Swords Immortal Sect, most of them have joined in recent decades, in the past, the Ten Thousand Swords Immortal Sect would only recruit disciples once every five years, and the number of people who joined each time was less than five, but the number of people who had recently expanded the sect had also risen sharply.