The words were not shocking, and as soon as the words fell, the other three people only felt that the sky was thundering, and they all looked at Chu Ziheng in amazement, their eyes flashed, and they were speechless for a long time.

"Brother Mu!" Er Niu was anxious, shaking Chu Ziheng with both hands, trying to make him sober. How difficult it is to pass through the stone ladder to the sky, whenever Yingyue Gate accepts disciples, the number of people who worship the mountain is thousands, but there are only a handful of people who finally pass the test and become inner disciples.

In an instant, the emaciated man's face slowly sank, snorted coldly, and said, "Do you know what you are?" In his mind, it was a great favor to be able to give Chu Ziheng the identity of an outer disciple, and Chu Ziheng actually wanted to become an inner disciple, which was simply a fool's dream.

"The kid knows. Chu Ziheng gently broke free from Erniu, bowed slightly to the emaciated man, and said without humility or arrogance, "Thank you for your love, the kid will remember it." It's just that no matter what, I'm going up the stone ladder to give it a try. ”

"Rotten wood can't be carved!" The man's face sank like water, and he didn't even drink water, and went straight away with his sleeves.

The fat Taoist priest was also so angry that the fat on his face trembled, and he pointed to Chu Ziheng's nose and said: "Angry Daoist, do you know what you are talking about? That stone ladder to heaven is so good? Even I started as a disciple of the outer sect back then, why are you so ignorant?" It seems that he is not optimistic about Chu Ziheng either.

Chu Ziheng stood in place, silent, and the fat Taoist priest felt that Chu Ziheng was a stubborn stone, so ambitious, but Er'er. He walked back into the house, not wanting to bother with him again.

"Brother Mu, the two immortal elders are angry and left, you..." Er Niu was about to cry, and finally had a chance to enter the Yingyue Gate, even if it was worth being a cow and a horse! Chu Ziheng looked smarter than him, so he didn't even know this reason?

Chu Ziheng smiled slightly, patted Er Niu's shoulder and said comfortingly: "You don't understand, I have to learn alchemy, this may be my only chance." I know you're good to me, but how can I know if I don't try?"

After being stunned for a moment, Er Niu sighed heavily.

Then, Chu Ziheng reached into his arms, actually using this action as a cover-up, took out some silver taels from the storage ring, and said: "Brother Erniu, you can accept these broken silver, and you should repay your kindness these days." ”

Erniu waved his hand again and again, and said with a big tongue: "Make... I can't help it...", and I won't accept anything.

In desperation, Chu Ziheng couldn't help but stuff the silver taels into Er Niu's hand, deliberately put on a straight face, and said, "Don't you think I'm a brother? ”

Erniu looked at Chu Ziheng in a daze, a warm current echoed in his heart, and he didn't realize that his eyes were moist, so he accepted the silver.

"Don't worry, I will definitely become an inner disciple. ”

Looking at Chu Ziheng's back as he walked away, Erniu said in a low voice, "Remember to come back and have a look." "He's a little naïve, but he's not stupid, and he knows that he might never see him again.

......

Standing in front of the blue-gray stone staircase, Chu Ziheng looked at it and fell into deep thought. The boys and girls on his side didn't look at him, they all bypassed him and walked directly up the mountain. It is rumored that the number of places in Yingyuemen is limited, first come, first served, there are already so many people in front, if you don't hurry up, I'm afraid that there will be no share of your own.

After a long time, Chu Ziheng retracted his gaze, he always felt that this Yingyue Sect disciple should not be so hasty, if this stone ladder is really so easy to pass, then doesn't it mean that the earlier the person comes, the more chances? In this way, how can he screen out good seedlings? But Chu Ziheng couldn't see the slightest clue for a while.

After a moment of silence, Chu Ziheng stepped on the bluestone slab, even though Chu Ziheng's cultivation advantage could not be brought into play, but his strong body still gave him a lot of advantages. All the way up the stairs, walking like flying. In the blink of an eye, many people were left far behind.

Chu Ziheng did not show the slightest aura of a monk, but slowly a group of young men and girls who had achieved qi training, these people invariably sneered, and now they burst out with all their strength, consuming their physical strength in vain, it can be seen that this person is only well-developed and simple-minded, so there is nothing to worry about.

On the top of the mountain, there were several monks sitting at the end of the stone stairs, their cultivation was in the Ning Dan realm, and they were the ones in charge of this enrollment. These people watched everything that was happening on the mountain road, and the higher they went, the steeper and more uneven the stone steps, and the dangers on both sides, so one of their accusations was to ensure the safety of everyone.

At this time, one person's eyes froze, as if he had found something interesting, and he chuckled and said to the people next to him: "A few junior brothers, look. ”

Following the direction of his finger, the rest of the group saw a young man with a straight figure striding towards the top of the mountain. The thin man saw the man's appearance clearly, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he said softly, "It's him..."

"Oh, brother, do you know this kid?"

"It's just a kid who can't do it himself. The emaciated man spoke lightly, not paying much attention.

But it was said that Chu Ziheng surpassed hundreds of people one after another at an astonishing speed, and suddenly, Chu Ziheng's body froze, and he keenly noticed that several divine thoughts swept over him, Chu Ziheng thought in his heart, thinking that he was a little carried away, and had already attracted the attention of some people, which was not in line with Chu Ziheng's original intention of acting in a low-key manner.

After thinking about it for a while, Chu Ziheng quietly slowed down, only not much faster than ordinary people. More than ten feet behind him, a person laughed unscrupulously: "Sure enough, this idiot is afraid to stop here." A few of the people in the company laughed too.

Chu Ziheng's face was calm, his eyes were looking ahead, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he had long passed the age of competing with others for a while, and he turned a deaf ear to these cynicisms.

The wind is blowing in the day, and the scenery is flowing westward. In the blink of an eye, it was noon, and the scorching sun shone vertically overhead, and many people walked for less than half a day before feeling like their legs were filled with lead, their clothes were soaked, sweating like rain, and they couldn't breathe.

Chu Ziheng also felt a little tired, and couldn't help but feel bitter in his heart, after all, he hadn't used his body to hurry for a long time, and such a little distance had already made his muscles sore. But he's not as unbearable as others, and this little temperature is nothing to him.

This stone staircase mountain road seems to have no end, it is easy to make people despair, refining the mind is also a part of the practice, if the will is not firm, it is destined to not achieve any great achievements. However, so far, none of them have given up, and they are all gritting their teeth and striving upward.

Looking at these resolute faces, the scenes of practicing in Jiulongling came to mind, making Chu Ziheng feel like a world away. Suddenly, there was a young man in the far distance in front of him who was in a trance, did not check for a while, stepped on the air under his feet, his face turned pale with fright, and his frightened cries for help resounded through the mountains and forests.

Everyone looked up and saw a middle-aged monk flashing from the top of the mountain, saving the son in time, and at the same time announcing the person's defeat. The rest of the people were concerned and cautiously continued to climb up. When the middle-aged monk passed by Chu Ziheng's side, he glanced at him intentionally or unintentionally, and then disappeared.

Time passed slowly, and there were fewer and fewer people in front of them, but few people were still willing to give up. Many people use their hands and feet at the same time, although the soles of their feet have been blistered with blood and their knees can be broken, they still stared at the top of the mountain, slowly moving, leaving blood stains behind them.

The monks in charge of enrollment also saw it, and one of them sighed leisurely: "Three hundred years have passed in a blink of an eye, and the scene of the entrance is vivid, and the foolish brother's qualifications are dull, if it weren't for the master to see my perseverance, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to worship the Yingyue Gate..."

"The disciples of this session are all determined, how to choose?"

"That's not something we can worry about, let's see. ”

Chu Ziheng walked with difficulty, and a thin layer of sweat had already appeared on his forehead. He felt more and more that something was wrong, and even he began to feel that it was becoming more and more difficult to pass the test, let alone the others, and that it was not deliberately difficult? He thought about it carefully, and every time he climbed a small step from the foot of the mountain here, the resistance in front of him increased by a point, like a frog boiled in warm water, and at first he didn't feel anything, but when he got here, it almost crushed him.

"There must be something I've overlooked. Chu Ziheng whispered to himself, closed his eyes, and quietly felt everything.

The emaciated man saw this scene and didn't understand what Chu Ziheng was doing, his mind moved slightly: "Finally stopped, do you want to give up..."

Chu Ziheng was like a stone sculpture, standing motionless. One by one, the people behind him surpassed him. When the people who mocked Chu Ziheng passed by, they didn't forget to grimace at him, but unfortunately Chu Ziheng's eyes were closed, and these people only felt bored, so they continued to climb up. Slowly, more and more people surpassed him, and Chu Ziheng was gradually forgotten by the emaciated man.

Before, Chu Ziheng didn't pay attention to the stone steps under his feet, and only cared about moving forward. Now calm down and feel carefully, in Chu Ziheng's perception, the rough surface of the stone steps actually contains a mystery!

The texture on each stone step is different, and the seemingly chaotic depressions and protrusions form a miniature formation, and the expression on Chu Ziheng's face is constantly changing, and if he can make such ingenious ingenuity, he must be a grandmaster-level figure who has gone far on the road of runes. On second thought, though, it's not surprising. Runes can also be used to enhance the effect of elixirs, and alchemy masters often have a deep knowledge of runes.

Because these formations are too mysterious, Yi Chu Ziheng's current insights into the runes have not been able to fully comprehend the mysteries. Although Chu Ziheng had the intention to stay and study these formations, if he could understand the techniques in them, he would also benefit immensely.

However, considering that the purpose of this trip was to pass the test of the stone ladder to heaven, Chu Ziheng could only suppress this idea for the time being. If you have the opportunity in the future, it's not too late to come back to enlightenment.

These miniature formations imperceptibly changed the direction of the heaven and earth spiritual qi flowing through the surface of the stone steps, guiding a trace of spiritual energy to build a cyclone here and there to increase the resistance, and the cyclone density slowly increased from the bottom to the top, making it more difficult to fall on the stone steps step by step. However, there is still a small gap on each step, and if you step on it, you will not experience additional resistance.

Chu Ziheng suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes were rippling, there were people in the Moon Gate who could come up with such a wonderful idea, which made the Moon Gate more and more mysterious and extraordinary.

Scanning the steps in front of him with his divine thoughts, he groaned slightly, and tentatively stepped on a blank space, and in an instant, the corners of Chu Ziheng's mouth unconsciously rose slightly. He looked up at the top of the mountain hidden in the mist, and his body moved, chasing after it in an extremely strange trajectory.

A group of people on the mountain road walked side by side, dressed in brocade clothes of the same standard, and they all had not weak cultivation, which was different from a group of linen disciples, and there was an invisibly exuding arrogance on their bodies. But at this moment, their arrogance is almost gone.

A delicate girl opened her mouth slightly, her eyebrows furrowed, and she complained repeatedly: "Brother, when do we have to reach the top?"

Another teenager rubbed his calf muscles and said, "Yes, this Yingyue Gate can also play tricks, and I can't even walk." ”

At the head was a slightly mature young man, who looked calm and scolded: "Don't talk nonsense, if anyone listens to it and chews the root of the tongue for others, you will not be able to pass it! Hold on for a while, and it will be there soon." ”

A person next to him muttered in a low voice: "You have said this sentence no less than five times..."

The young man was about to educate these younger siblings, but he accidentally saw a figure approaching not far away, even if his speed was not fast or slow, but he gradually narrowed the distance between several people.

Seeing that their elder brother's expression was wrong, these young boys and girls looked back, and then, their pupils contracted, all with expressions of disbelief, until Chu Ziheng passed by them, still in shock.

These people were still childish, still juvenile in nature, and immediately became angry, and one of them said: "How is it possible! A mud-legged man can also walk here!" No wonder they look down on Chu Ziheng, his current appearance is too sloppy, his clothes are dirty, and he has not been washed for a long time.

"I don't believe we can still lose to him!" the young man strode forward with a look of unyielding defeat on his face. Several of his younger siblings also gritted their teeth and riveted to keep up.

However, the distance between them and Chu Ziheng was getting bigger and bigger, and Chu Ziheng only left them with a back. Until Chu Ziheng's figure disappeared from their sight, there was only unwillingness and despair left in their hearts.

Chu Ziheng was attentive to the front, unaware of what was happening behind him, and through the fog that blocked his eyes, his vision suddenly opened up.