Passing by a certain tea stall, Ning Yu lost his way a little, and saw an old man who seemed to be close to the age of a sixtieth birthday on the side, so he asked him.

"Uncle, how should I get to Garing Temple?"

The old man was old, and when he heard the voice, he was stunned for a while, and then he slowed down a few beats before he reacted, and stretched out his finger in a certain direction, "Turn around this street corner, walk forward for another half an hour, and you'll almost be there." ”

Following the old man's instructions, Ning Yu walked all the way, and after about half an hour, he saw an incomparably solemn temple.

The plaque of the Garing Temple hangs in the air more than ten zhang high, and at the bottom is a threshold that has been stepped on almost festering, and I don't know how many years have passed.

At the gate, there were two guarding monks, and through the doorway, they could barely catch a glimpse of a corner of the temple.

"Little donor, are you here to offer incense?"

When he came to the door, the two monks folded their hands, bowed slightly, and asked.

"Incense?"

Hearing this, Ning Yu hurriedly waved his hand, shook his head and said, "I'm here to find someone." ”

The two monks looked at each other and asked.

"Who is Xiao Shi looking for?"

"Master Huihai of the Golden Cicada Temple. ”

After speaking, Ning Yu thought for a while and added, "Is anyone else here?"

"Master Huihai?!"

The two monks guarding the door were both slightly startled, and a look of respect couldn't help but appear on their faces, and their eyes changed when they looked at Ning Yu.

"Yes, yes. ”

"It turns out that the little donor is the boy who walked with Master Huihai. ”

The two monks of the Jialing Temple actually knew about it? Ning Yu couldn't help but be a little surprised in his heart.

As if seeing the doubts in his heart, one of the monks guarding the door explained with a smile: "Master Huihai has already informed the two of us when he came. ”

Ning Yu poked inside, saw a large area inside, and couldn't help but ask, "Where should I go to find him?"

"Master, he is discussing with the abbot in the main hall at this time. ”

The other monk smiled and continued.

"But the two of them have already ordered you to go in directly. ”

Hearing this, Ning Yu nodded slightly, although he didn't know what the two of them could do to find him, but he still followed the guidance of the two monks at the door and came to the main hall opposite the main entrance.

Unlike some splendid palaces, this hall is full of the breath of time, and the interior is full of old ancient trees, if it were not for the four key pillars supporting it, I am afraid that it would have collapsed long ago.

The hall is slightly dim, only a few shallow candles, people can't help but sigh, how much wind and rain has this temple gone through to become what it is today?

"You're here. ”

A familiar voice sounded, and looking at the source of the sound, Ning Yu saw Master Huihai sitting on the futon at a glance.

At his side, an old monk in a robe sat cross-legged, with a candle flame reflected in his slightly cloudy eyes, and at this moment his attention also shifted his attention to the young man.

The twilight that is deeper than Master Huihai, and the deep eyes that make people feel as if they are about to fall into it, the identity of this person is already ready to be revealed.

"I've seen Master Garan. ”

For such a big person, Ning Yu didn't dare to slack off, and said slightly respectfully.

There is no doubt that this person is the peerless monk of the Southern Regions, and he is also the abbot of the Garing Temple, Master Garan!

"The little donor is polite. ”

The old monk in the robe smiled indifferently.

"Since you are the person brought by Master Huihai, you are a distinguished guest of this temple, and you don't need to care about these worldly etiquette. ”

He looked at Ning Yu with approval and appreciation in his eyes, and then said: "What's more, you have defeated the disciples of the Extreme Martial Sect with the cultivation of the Qi Refining Realm, which is enough to prove that you are extremely talented and have excellent roots, and in time, I am afraid that your achievements will be above us." ”

The extremely flat words that came out of his mouth made Ning Yu's heart throb a little.

Did he pre-elect the man in purple at the conference, or did it happen not long ago, how did Master Garan, who was far away in the Garing Temple, know?

"Don't be surprised. ”

When Hui Hai saw his appearance, he also guessed what he was thinking, and opened his mouth to explain.

"The two of you are fighting so fiercely that even I have a sense of it, not to mention the supernatural Master Garan. ”

"Now that the people have arrived, what can we say now?"

The old monk in the robe turned his head and looked at Hui Hai, "You didn't come here just to catch up with me, right?"

"I can't hide it from you. ”

Hui Hai shook his head with a wry smile, and his expression became slightly solemn.

"I want to borrow something from your temple for this young man. ”

"What?" puzzled the old monk in his robe.

Hui Hai looked at him, and said slowly and in a deep voice, word by word: "Baizhang Dao!"

As soon as these words came out, the old monk couldn't help but be stunned for a while, and was surprised for a moment before asking.

"Really?"

Hui Hai didn't answer, just smiled and nodded silently.

Ning Yu, who was on the side, couldn't understand the conversation between the two at all, and looked confused.

"What is Baizhang Dao?"

He couldn't help but ask.

"Baizhang Dao is a place of trial in my Jialing Temple, which contains the efforts of countless Buddhist ancestors, and is a level designed for later generations to enlighten their hearts. Because it is about 100 zhang long, it gets this name. ”

Master Garan paused, then continued.

"And this temple has an iron rule, that is, only monks who have successfully walked through the Baizhang Road can be appointed as elders. ”

Hearing this, Ning Yu was taken aback, originally he thought that it was only a hundred zhang of road, wouldn't it be a blink of an eye?

"Are there many people who have successfully walked through?"

He asked tentatively.

"There is no one in ten thousand. ”

The old monk shook his head, "The fastest is Master Mingzheng three hundred years ago, and it only took six months to complete the journey. ”

"And slower, even if it takes three or five years, it is not unusual, the longest person, it is a full fourteen years, before finally getting through, the vast majority of people, are stuck in the middle of the road, and finally have no choice but to go back the same way. ”

After hearing these words, Ning Yu was almost completely stunned, and his jaw almost fell to the ground in shock.

"So long?!"

Even the fastest one has to go up for half a year? The slowest one has taken a full fourteen years! When I went in and didn't come out, it had already been three and five years outside, right?

Hui Hai also spoke at this time, "In the past three months, your cultivation has gradually stabilized, and you must have faintly touched that barrier. ”

In this regard, Ning Yu could not deny that after three months of trekking through mountains and rivers, eating and sleeping in the open air, this period of tempering stabilized his cultivation, so that he unknowingly reached the peak of the Nine Heavens of the Qi Refining Realm!

"The sword trial is about to take place, and your time is running out. ”

Hui Hai looked directly at Ning Yu and said the key to him at the moment.

"No matter how strong the Qi Refining Realm is, there will eventually be its limit, if you want to get on the stage, the cultivation of the foundation building period is indispensable, and by taking this opportunity, you may be able to successfully break free and break through in one fell swoop. ”

The old monk in the robe raised his eyebrows slightly, and there was a trace of surprise and doubt in his eyes.

Appreciation is appreciation, Hui Hai would actually help this young man so much, and even did not hesitate to strive for him to see the opportunity of a hundred zhang dao, which he couldn't figure out no matter what.

However, the two of them are both powerful Buddhists, and they have been old acquaintances for many years, although he was puzzled, he did not ask any questions.

"I see, come with me. ”

The three of them came to the back mountain of the temple together, and it was only then that Ning Yu discovered that the so-called Baizhang Road was actually a trestle bridge between the mountain cliff and the clouds!

The wind was blowing, making the drawbridge tremble and creake, and below it was a bottomless dark abyss, and just one glance was enough to make your legs shiver and shudder.

At the front end of the bridge, there was an old man with skin and bones, in such a cold and cold mountain, he actually had his upper body naked, and only a long cloth was coiled around his waist!

As if he had found the three people who had arrived, the old man slowly opened his eyes and bowed slightly to the old monk in his robe.

“...... See...... Pass...... Abbot. ”

His voice was extremely hoarse, as if the faint sound of forcibly forcing his dying body was terrifying.

Seeing the surprise in Ning Yu's eyes, Master Jialan explained with a smile: "Elder Fazhen is an ascetic monk who has been practicing here alone all year round and rarely speaks, so that's why he is like this. ”

This man turned out to be an ascetic?

It is said that in order to abandon greed and practice selflessness, ascetics will deliberately expose themselves to extremely cruel and harsh conditions, causing their bodies to suffer inhumane torture, in order to pursue the sublimation of the realm and the liberation of the soul.

Although this kind of cultivation method is extremely cruel, there are still many people who devote themselves to it, just because after the ascetic abandons the stinky skin of the body, the attention of the whole body will be highly concentrated, the cultivation speed will increase by leaps and bounds, and the spiritual consciousness will become extremely terrifying.

It's just that this kind of suffering is not something that everyone can bear, and only people with great courage and perseverance can persevere in this cruel grind.

"Elder Fazhen has a tenacious mind and is capable of what no one else can, and he has been practicing here for decades, and his cultivation is unfathomable, I am afraid that even I can't reach it. ”

"Abbot, ...... have said too much"

The skinny old man struggled to mobilize the muscles on his face and squeezed out a smile.

“...... Poor monk, it's still far away. ”

After getting used to it, the monk gradually regained his ability to speak, and he no longer stuttered when he spoke.

"Two, are you sending this little donor to Baizhang Road?"

Master Garan nodded.

"There shouldn't be anyone in the Dao now, right?"

"Nope. ”

Elder Fazhen shook his head and said, "Although the previous disciple who tried it was not badly qualified, he ended up stuck at sixty zhang. ”

Baizhang Road, every zhang is a level, every ten zhang is a pass, the difficulty is rising, the more to the end, the more desperate.

So over the years, so few people have walked through it, and even the fastest one took six months, and this happened three hundred years ago.

Looking at the raging wind on the trestle, Ning Yu secretly said in his heart, the natural environment alone was so bad, needless to say, the difficulty of the interior would definitely not be under it.

With his meager cultivation, can he really survive?

"From the outside, it is indeed turbulent and dangerous here, but the actual trestle is calm at all, and the Baizhang Road tests more people's will and heart than cultivation. ”

As a person who has come over, Hui Hai also understands Ning Yu's inner turmoil at the moment.

"I have thought about this hundred zhang way, but if you only rely on brute force and impulse, it will not work. ”

He recalled the past and continued: "If you can see your heart, this so-called Baizhang Road is just an ordinary mountain path. ”

"Otherwise, even if you reach the Spirit Realm, it will be in vain. ”

Hearing this, Ning Yu was a little surprised, it seemed that Master Huihai had also walked through this hundred zhang Dao back then?

Seeing the suspicion in the young man's eyes, Elder Fazhen, who had been guarding here all the year round, couldn't help but smile and spoke.

"Back then, Huihai monk, like the abbot, only took eight months to successfully reach the other side, and both of them can be described as models of our generation, even compared with Master Mingzheng three hundred years ago, it is not far behind. ”

Hui Hai shook his head and smiled slightly, without being too modest, and continued: "The Dao contains a hundred prohibitions, one is better than the other, you don't have much time, and where you can go in the end depends on your own creation." ”

Elder Fazhen, who had just woken up, looked puzzled and asked, "There is not much time?"

He had been meditating here for many years, paying no attention to external affairs, and if it weren't for Abbot Garan's personal visit, he wouldn't have woken up from meditation today.

"You are devoted to the Buddha, and you don't know many things. ”

In this regard, Master Jialan explained: "Now, the situation in the west and south regions is becoming more and more ossified, and the Su family is difficult to support alone, and has begun to call on the powerful countries in the southern region, and most of the heroes from all parties in the southern region have also rushed here after hearing the news, waiting to discuss together. ”

"The people of the Western Regions are really not giving up. ”

Elder Fazhen let out a long sigh.

He is very old, and he is also very familiar with the disputes between the two realms through the ages, and the relationship between the two parties can no longer be reconciled by anyone's own strength.

"No wonder the senior monks of Huihai will come all the way here, it turns out that this happened. ”

Master Garan nodded and continued.

"In addition to heroes from all walks of life, young peerless wizards have also gathered here, and Tianhe City can be described as a gathering of heroes at the moment, faintly trying to compete for the momentum. ”

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Elder Fazhen couldn't help but laugh.

"That's fun. ”

The Southern Regions are so extensive, how easy is it to gather these freaks? If it weren't for the pressure given by the Western Regions, in normal times, I'm afraid that many hidden world sects would not bother to get involved in it.

"For the younger generations of the Southern Regions, this is indeed an excellent opportunity to experience. Elder Fazhen said with a smile.

Even if you are defeated, if you can see some demons who are against the sky, for some young people, it will be in vain.

"There are only seven days left until the opening of the Sword Trial, and when the time comes, we will wake you up. ”

Hui Hai counted the time, then turned his head to look at Ning Yu, his expression slightly positive.

"Remember, you only have seven days. ”