Chapter 4: Difficulty

Just when Shui Lao just pulled the shark to the boat, the sea suddenly changed, and countless swordfish jumped out of the water like crazy, stabbing towards Zhang Yuan and the three of them, and the villagers scattered around were the first to notice the abnormality of the situation and shouted loudly, but everyone forgot to bring earplugs, and the three of them couldn't hear at all.

Zhang Yuan and Shui Lao in the bow of the boat were still immersed in joy, and did not find the danger coming, the water power shook the oars in the stern, and suddenly found that so many swordfish were flying over, seeing that the three of them were about to be pierced by the swordfish, the water power screamed, and flew to the bow of the boat, throwing Zhang Yuan and Shui Lao to the bottom of the boat, but he was stabbed by several swordfish at this moment.

The two who were thrown into the bottom of the boat reacted, and when they saw so many swordfish leaping towards them, Shui Lao reacted very quickly and performed a dense air of the oar dance, and knocked out all the swordfish that flew in for a while.

Zhang Yuan was a little dizzy at the bottom of the boat, shook his head and found that Shui Li was lying on top of him, and hurriedly helped Shui Li, only to find that Shui Li was already covered with blood, his eyes were closed, he couldn't see it, he was sad in his heart, he couldn't bear to look at him anymore, and when he turned his head, he saw that the shark's lips were closing again, and a thought flashed in his heart: This swordfish was recruited by the shark.

"Shui Lao stunned this mackerel!"

Shui Lao was still waving the oars, Zhang Yuan understood at once, and gave himself a slap, everyone was wearing earplugs, and at that moment he stepped forward and gave two punches to the head of the shark, the shark was in pain, the sound suddenly stopped, and the swordfish around him stopped flying, Zhang Yuan saw that it had an effect, and hurriedly ripped off his clothes and stuffed it into the shark's mouth through the fishing net.

The time is very long, in fact, from the time he caught the mackerel to this time, it was a matter of that moment, Zhang Yuan really felt that his heart was beating faster, his hands and feet were weak, and he sat down directly against the boat, looking down at the water power on the side.

Shui Lao patted Zhang Yuan and asked, "Are you okay?"

Zhang Yuan looked up and saw that Shui Lao was also covered in blood, and quickly stood up and asked, "Shui Lao, how are you?"

Shui Lao grinned in pain, and found that he saw Zhang Yuan open his mouth, raised his hand and took off the earbuds and said, "Fortunately, they are all flesh wounds, but it's a pity that the water is power." ”

Zhang Yuan also took off the earbuds and looked at Shui Li, and said sadly: "It's not Shui Li, both of us are dead, for me, it's my fault that Shui Li lost his life..."

"Stand up!" Shui Lao directly pulled Zhang Yuan up, he looked up at Shui Lao, his face was full of tears, "You are a person with great hope, as long as you practice hard in the future and remember our village in the future, Shui Li will not die in vain, if you cry like this, Shui Li will really die in vain, understand!"

"Well, I see. Zhang Yuan looked at the water power and nodded.

"It's very dangerous for us to go out to sea to fish, and it's not uncommon for us to get injured and lose our lives in the village, so don't be too sad. Shui Lao continued to enlighten, "The mackerel has been caught, let's hurry back, you come to row." ”

All the way back to the village, Shui Li was buried in the back of the village by Shui Lao, Zhang Yuan sat in front of Shui Li's tomb all night, Shui Li was the first person he knew when he entered this world, and also taught him many things, and he did lose his life for his own practice, Zhang Yuan now does not have the open-mindedness of Shui Lao to see life and death.

Early the next morning, Zhang Yuan arrived at the entrance of the village, and yesterday Shui Lao told him that he would go to Tianmumen today. When I arrived at the entrance of the village, Shui Lao had already arrived, and there were more than a dozen villagers waiting, everyone was carrying or picking, and there were a lot of things on their backs, and even Shui Lao was loading things on the big ox cart.

Zhang Yuan approached and asked Shui Lao: "Why do you have to bring so many things?"

"There is Tian'an City, the largest city in a radius of thousands of miles, near this Tianmu Gate, we originally have to go twice a year, but this time we took the opportunity to send you there, and everyone also brought the fish they had recently caught and some items to trade. Shui Lao explained while insisting on the loading situation, "Tianmumen is nearly 900 miles away from us, and it takes about ten days to walk, so we have to bring a lot of food." ”

Zhang Yuan was suddenly a little stupid, he walked over nine hundred miles like this, and he didn't know if he had walked so many roads in the past twenty years.

Shui Lao saw him in a daze, because Zhang Yuan was afraid that the road would not be safe, so he comforted: "I take this road every year, and under the control of Tianmumen, there are no powerful demon beasts, and there are no robbers." ”

Along the way, Zhang Yuan saw beautiful scenery, the mountains are lush, all kinds of strange flowers are dotted among them, the river is crystal clear, and when he meets the village, there is a feeling of entering the peach blossom source by mistake.

On this day, when the group was on their way, there was a sound in the sky, and everyone looked up and saw only two blue lights chasing in the sky.

"Haha Weitong, you have chased me from Nanyi to my Tianmu Gate, do you want to marry me? But if you want to come over, you can only be a small one. A blue light in front of him suddenly laughed.

"Jiang Yingwu, you are looking for death. Wei Tong roared angrily, and the speed suddenly accelerated, and a water belt rolled directly towards Jiang Yingwu in front, Jiang Yingwu swung a water knife down and directly cut the water belt, and said even more proudly: "Wei Tong, you want to pull the red line with me so soon...."

"Boy, stay!" Just when Jiang Yingwu was proud, the entire sky seemed to be plunged into a world of fire, and Zhang Yuan saw clearly below, a hand transformed from fire grabbed the person in front.

Jiang Yingwu's eyes were only red, he knew that this was the master of Nanyi Gate who had come out to catch him, so he accelerated and fled forward, condensed a water ball in his left hand and shot at the big hand that grabbed him, and said sharply: "If you dare to catch me within the scope of my Tianmu Gate, you are not afraid of causing a battle between the two gates." ”

"Hmph, if you are arrested, you will be asked to go to my door to receive people. The fire energy hand behind him still grabbed him quickly.

Just when the Yuan Qi hand was about to catch Jiang Yingwu, a trace of fire flew in front of him to block him, and with just one hand, he dispersed the flames in the sky, revealing a tall old man inside.

"Thank you Uncle Yan for your help, and my nephew went back to the door first. Jiang Yingwu also replied and flew towards the door quickly.

The tall old man also rolled up the woman and was about to retreat.

"Elder Zhu, you come to my door to bully the juniors, and just leave without saying a word! Lord Yan Feng shouted, and at the same time, a small fireball flew towards the two of them rapidly.

Elder Zhu also sent out a fireball, and the two fireballs collided, only to hear a loud noise, and Zhang Yuan and his party on the ground were also shaken to the ground, and the flames in the sky fell.

"Yan Chiyu, today's things, I will have a good reward in the future. "Then I wish the elder to be angry and ruined.

Yan Chiyu waved his hand to collect the flames in the sky, looked at the people lying on the ground, and turned into a piece of fire and flew away.

The villagers on the ground had no idea that they had just returned from the Death Gate, and if Yan Chiyu hadn't collected the flames, the flames would have been enough to burn them to ashes. The villagers were just talking about a big battle they had seen, and Zhang Yuan realized for the first time that his cultivation was powerful.

On this day, Zhang Yuan and his party finally arrived at Tian'an City, and did not see the imaginary city wall, from a distance, the houses were all wooden two-story downstairs, neatly arranged in pieces, and a group of peaks loomed in the clouds and mist in the distance, Shui Lao pointed to the mountain peak and told him that it was the location of Tianmu Gate, and the person who managed this town was an elder in the gate.

Entering the town, Zhang Yuan directly saw the signboard of the first house on the right, and suddenly grabbed Shui Lao's hand as if struck by lightning: "What are the three words written on this?"

Shui Lao opened his hand with a palm: "You stinky boy, just ask about things, why are you so energetic?" looked at the signboard on the right, "This is the mountain spring water of Tianmu Mountain." ”

Zhang Yuan looked at the water in a daze and muttered: "Mountain spring water, the last one is water." Zhang Yuan clearly remembers that in the ruins of Kunlun and Luoshui, this water has appeared many times. Zhang Yuan is now almost certain that the world must have some kind of relationship with the earth, and he is now desperate to learn to recognize these words and decipher those two words.

Shui Lao saw him reciting the mountain spring water, and understood that he didn't understand, so he explained: "This mountain spring water is not the kind we usually drink, this is transported from the Tianmu Gate, it is said that there are two divine springs in the Tianmu Gate, and drinking a sip of this water is comparable to the usual practice for a day, but unfortunately it is too expensive, and people like us can't afford to drink it at all." ”

When Zhang Yuanna heard this, he only thought about what was in his heart, and he didn't wake up until he was pulled by Shui Lao.

Walking through the streets of the city after Shui Lao, I found that there were many things sold around that could be described as strange, some selling stones, some selling all kinds of weapons, and many various animals, including fish with horns and cows with one leg.

After passing through half of the city, Shui Lao stopped in front of a nine-story wooden building, and only entered the building with Zhang Yuan and the box containing the mackerel, and as soon as he entered the door, he found that the whole first floor was a huge space, and there was no one in the entire space, it should not be said that there was a person sleeping behind a desk at the end of the opposite side.

Shui Lao took Zhang Yuan to the man and said softly: "Yun Guanshi, in Shui Yi of Xia Tianhe Village, I have something to ask to see Elder Li." ”

The cloud steward didn't open his eyes and said, "Tianhe Village Shuiyi, now is the time for you to hand in the tribute, what is the matter with coming here?"

Shui Lao rubbed his hands and said, "I got a rare item to present to the sect." ”

"Oh, congratulations. Steward Yun opened his eyes, stared at Shui Lao with a smile, and did not get up to report.

Shui Lao trembled, Suo Suo's face was painful, and he took out a red stone only the size of a small fingernail from his arms and put it in Steward Yun's hand: "It's troublesome." ”

The cloud steward threw the small stone and laughed twice before getting up and entering the back door.

Zhang Yuan rarely saw Shui Lao's expression, and asked in a low voice, "Shui Lao, what did you give him?"

"It's a fire-attribute spirit stone, I lost a lot for you today, such a big stone, it's enough for the people in the village to eat for three months if it is exchanged for food."

Zhang Yuan was shocked, and when he wanted to ask, he heard a hearty laugh: "Shui Yi, what good treasure did you get, hurry up and take a look." As soon as the voice fell, I saw a person come out with a cloud steward, this person was slender, wearing a dark blue dress, with stripes on it, looming, and a round face was indeed blue and a little white, as if he was smiling at any time.

As soon as Shui Lao saw it, he bowed down and smiled: "Hello Elder, this time I accidentally caught a mackerel in Tianhe Village, and I heard that the sect had this task last time, so I specially offered it." As he spoke, he opened the wooden box, revealing the mackerel.

"Oh, you're lucky enough to catch a mackerel, and the sect does have a mission that can promise you a reasonable request. Elder Li said in surprise, looked at the mackerel, and then at Zhang Yuan: "I haven't seen this little guy before!

"This time, when I was catching a mackerel, I was stabbed by a swordfish and died. ”

"Oh, it's a pity, that young man is very clever, what do you want?" Elder Li still smiled.

Zhang Yuan did have an urge to smash his smiling face, it was a pity if he died alone.

Elder Shui didn't notice Zhang Yuan's reaction: "Elder, his name is Zhang Yuan, I want to ask the elder to accept him into the sect and ask him to practice, he is a good physique, and he has wasted it in our village..."

"Hey, it's a cat and a dog, you want to enter my Tianmu Gate, whether it's good or not, what do you old man know...."Steward Yun directly interrupted Shui Lao's words.

"Shut up, Shuiyi has completed the task, this request is very reasonable, what qualifications do you have to say. Elder Li stared at Steward Yun with both eyes, and his smiling face was gone. "Go get the test stone and test it for this little brother. ”

Steward Yun glanced at Zhang Yuan fiercely, turned around and went in, Zhang Yuan said in his heart: "Look at what I'm doing, it's not that I scolded you." ”

Elder Li turned his head to Zhang Yuan and smiled, "Zhang Yuan, let's test your physique later, it's also to see which peak you get into." All you have to do is hold the test stone in your hand. ”

Steward Yun came back soon, brought a gray stone and gave it directly to Zhang Yuan: "Come and show me what kind of physique you have." ”

Zhang Yuan didn't say much, he held the stone according to his words, and suddenly a gray light enveloped him, covering all his figure.

Elder Li and Steward Yun were stunned, the two glanced at each other, and both saw the shock in each other's eyes, but Steward Yun suddenly laughed: "Haha, this is what you said about a good physique, it is really a peerless physique, and it is actually a balance of the five elements, haha." ”

Although Elder Shui didn't know what he meant by the balance of the five elements, he also heard that it was not a good thing, so he had to ask Elder Li.

Elder Li also smiled bitterly: "The balance of the five elements is the constitution of the five attributes and the balance of each other, this kind of constitution was indeed a peerless good physique in ancient times, but now alas." I'm going to report this to the middle and high levels of the door. ”