Chapter 33: The Three Thousand Steps of the Mountain Gate
The mountain gate is written on the ancient seal of "Qingzhi Zhengzong", the door is bustling, there are a lot of people and miscellaneous, in addition to the entry candidates who pay the token, there are many caretakers and elders sent by the family, for fear that the token will be hijacked on the road.
It's just that when Huang Ming took out Order No. 93, a man in the distance exclaimed: "Third uncle, it's him, it's him who stole the Taiqing Order inherited by our Lu family!" β
Huang Ming looked in the direction of the sound, only to see a slender young man in white pointing at Huang Ming, looking like Zhou Zheng, looking angry, the cold middle-aged man who was called the third uncle by the man came to Huang Ming with an arrow step, looked at Huang Ming, and slowly asked: "Your Excellency, where did this token come from?" β
Huang Ming had already considered that there would be people from the Lu family blocking the gate of Taiqingshan, so he took out the words that he had already thought of: "I met an old man who was good at making poison in the lower head temple, but at that time the old man was besieged and couldn't get out of trouble, I saw that the old man was wrapped heavily, and I couldn't bear to help carry it, who would have thought that there were three orders that I dreamed of here, and after several inquiries, I came to this Taiqingshan, Your Excellency said that the Taiqing Order is your Lu family's thing, and what is the evidence?" β
The middle-aged man frowned, "Little brother, this token was stolen by someone in the Lu family a few years ago, and the person who stole the token is also consistent with the person you said, as for the credentials, more than a hundred years ago, the Lu family had a great power in the rank period, and this token was exchanged for barter by the ancestor at that time." Seeing that Huang Ming didn't pay attention to the man's words, the man struck each other with both hands, "Why don't you and I discuss, how about you sell me this token and introduce me to the Lu family as a real offering?" Since then, I have also said goodbye to the wild cultivation life, and the family's practice inheritance can also be borrowed by Your Excellency, as for the price, well, the price can be negotiated. The man's eyes were sincere, but Huang Ming interrupted him.
"Brother Tai, I know the sincerity of the Lu family, and I know that I can really afford the price and the exercises and cultivation resources I want, but there are always so many opportunities in life, and only when I grasp it is called an opportunity, isn't it? As long as I hold this order and register it, who bought the token back then? As long as I go to the mountain gate, I can also become an outer disciple and learn the supreme magic, alchemy, refining, and talismans, which is not enough for me Huang Ming to stop worrying about cultivation resources from now on? Therefore, Your Excellency should dispel the idea of retrieving the token and return to Mr. Lu. β
The middle-aged man shook his head after hearing this, but the tall and thin young man next to him couldn't hold back: "Your name is Huang Ming, right, Young Master Ben remembers you!" When I enter the mountain gate and become the inner disciple who focuses on cultivation, it will be easy to have you kid. β
Huang Ming brushed his sleeves away, and didn't take the only enlightened child of the Lu family seriously, but when he turned his head, he followed the eyes of several people around him and looked at her.
Tachibana doesn't know.
It's just that this orange doesn't know why he appeared in Jingpo, and he brought a heavy treasure bought with a lot of money to this Taiqingshan? Huang Ming shook his head and didn't care.
At this time, the elders had already warned the juniors who had the Taiqing Order about the details of the first trial, and because the general voice was small, Huang Ming only heard a few words such as "Don't make a mistake". At that time, I only heard a majestic voice from the stairs in front of the door: "The time has come, and a total of one hundred and seventy-nine tokens have been submitted in this Taiqingmen entrance trial, which is only two people short of the most in the past." Unrelated people and others withdrew from the mountain gate, and the entry protΓ©gΓ© took a step forward, removed the talismans and weapons and other things on his body, and handed them over to the boy in front of the door for safekeeping. I'll just give you a stick of incense. β
The man was just that, those female protΓ©gΓ©s wearing talisman armor suddenly blushed, and hurriedly ran to the family's car to change clothes, and there was a little noise in front of the door, and a light voice came from the mountain: "It's a cultivator, but I still care about these skins, and if you fade the talisman armor, you won't have a bare ass!" β
provoked a group of male disciples to laugh more than once, although the tense atmosphere was diluted, but the nervous look in everyone's eyes did not decrease but increased.
At the time of the incense, one hundred and seventy-nine men and women lined up in front of the mountain gate, almost equal to the width of the stone steps of the mountain gate, and Huang Ming was also among them, with a long strip of cyan wood on the left chest, and the book had the words "Jiu Shi Xuan". Huang Ming glanced at the orange who put down his hair not far away, it can be described as bright and moving, it seems that the two hairpins on his head before are also talismans. As for the magic weapon-level whip at the auction, Tangerine Si has never been around. There is also a cyan wooden board on the left chest, on which is the word "Jiu".
"All disciples listen to the order, after entering this door, your Taiqing order will be recovered by this door, and if you come to me from time to time, you can enter the second trial of my Taiqing Gate, or give up the second trial, and directly become a disciple of the Taiqing Sect, teach it magic, and get a skill. After a while, the ban will be opened, those with more qi and less body can climb from the left side, and those with few qi and more than enough can pick up the steps from the right side, you listen to my order, after the Taiqing bell is finished three times, the trial begins, but you still have questions? β
Seeing that there was no movement below, the old man clapped his hands, and a feminine voice sounded behind him again:
"Please, bell!"
"Boom!" With the melodious sound of three floating valleys, the stairs in front of Huang Ming and others gradually changed color, the stone steps on the left side of more than ten zhang wide became cyan, and the stone steps on the right side became carp red, Huang Ming looked up at the first stone steps, the cyan side of the book has "Tianji" seal text, and the carp red stone steps are engraved with the word "Diji", especially the two words, the pen force into the stone is enough for three points, the font is arbitrary, it seems that the font is more and more hideous, on the other hand, there are a few words that day, there are plates and eyes, exuding a faint blue light.
Huang Ming and the others are not stupid, the cyan stone steps are obviously for the monks, and the carp red stone steps are for the warriors. Just as everyone hesitated, Orange Four was the first to step on the cyan stone steps, and walked up step by step, strolling leisurely. At that moment, Huang Ming seemed to have a slight illusion, because when Miss Tangerine appeared on stage, she seemed to glance at herself?
It's just that before Huang Mingpin could taste it, Tang Si's shoulders seemed to sink downward, and his body also paused, this is the third step, and it seems to be starting to be a little difficult?
At this moment, Tachibana tapped his four fingers on his shoulders a few times, and the whole person raised his head and continued to walk up like no one.
Some people let out a sigh of relief, the monk ladder has been entered one after another with the beginning of the orange four, but Huang Ming wants to take the martial arts stone steps, and there is still a lack of a "leading brother", Huang Ming began to coax while shaking his index finger to the people behind him: "Could it be that the path of martial artists has been broken?" Tang Si recognized Huang Ming's voice, looked back, and couldn't help frowning, at this time he was spitting and encouraging the people on the stone steps of the martial artist to step forward, and there was really a man with a height of seven feet who took the lead in walking up, stepped on the word "ground", strode up, and shouted the number of hey, hey, hey.
Tangerine Si felt the pressure of the ban from top to bottom, but he thought about what his father said to him after he came to Taiqing, and he didn't know what Huang Ming had done to make his father have a good eye for this Huang Ming.
Especially the sentence: "The ability to escape has half of your father's skills." β
Could it be that my father sat in the Descending Head Temple and saw this Huang Ming?
So it makes sense.
A few days ago, Tangerine Si trekked to the entrance of Taiqing Mountain, and said to the porter at the foot of the mountain that he wanted to see the head of the house, and the porter hurriedly reported, but the aunt's Tangerine Mo did see it, but the father was also on the spot, and the father also smiled and said, what a coincidence.
After sending the whip out as a gift to honor his aunt, Tangerine Si put forward the idea of staying in Taiqing to practice, but his father naturally did not allow it, since he went to Beijing and chose Tangerine Wu, you will have to admit defeat as a sister, and said that he would take it home and spank, and after the spanking, he continued to make money for the family in Broken Bridge Ji and so on. It's the first time I've seen Orange Si, who almost brought disaster to the orange family when she was a child, and she feels pity, after all, it's a motherless child since she was a child, isn't it? Tang Mo said to Tang Yu that since it was her niece who came to beg her, she was bigger than him as a father in this matter, and since she came to Taiqing, she would come according to Taiqing's rules, enter the three trials, and become an inner disciple. I can't enter the inner door, so I go home and accompany my father to do my filial piety, that is.
In fact, this was all discussed by Tang Yu and Tang Mo, but before leaving, his father complained that his sister was ignorant and mentioned this Huang Ming, saying that this person had already waded through the water, and looked at the head, he should have had the opportunity to come here to enter the trial, do you want to be in one place and be a double cultivation partner?
Tachibana Si snorted coldly, Kui went to Kyoto and was not her favorite partner, as for him, is it worthy?
Only then did Tachibana throw that sentence to her coldly and walked away.
How did Huang Ming know that the orange four at the top had so much thought, at this time he was happily seeing a group of young men and girls scrambling to climb up, just looking at the appearance of the ground and the unity of the ground, Huang Ming already knew it, if it was said that the steps were from top to bottom to suppress people with qi, then the steps of this place were from the bottom to the top with momentum to make people hesitate, because all the light cyan heavenly steps were hunched one by one, and the carp red steps were like the soles of the feet were filled with lead.
Huang Ming was happy, it seems that this Xuan Qi is scattered, it is really not in vain, seeing that there are less than ten people who have not yet climbed, Huang Ming coughed, and the luck dantian played a set of Wang Ba punches, and jumped up a few steps on the ground.
The first few steps of this place are only equivalent to the weight of more than ten catties on the soles of the feet, and after more than twenty steps, it is equivalent to about thirty catties of weight, Huang Ming is okay, after all, the feet are especially supported by the body, and the other warriors who walk the carp red ladder have to infuse the momentum into the soles of their feet and climb slowly. The monks of more than 20 orders next door also felt the pressure of the qi falling from the sky, and except for the more than ten monks led by the orange four, all of them were as if they were carrying huge sacks, bending down and bowing their heads, gasping for breath.
On the warrior's side, the seven-foot strong man who climbed the ground first was far behind by the few people who came later, and he had begun to sit on the ground to rest only in the twentieth step, but it was okay not to sit, but after sitting down, it was even more difficult to get up. Huang Ming thought about it for a while, and decided that it was better to hang in the lower part of the center, although there were more than 20 steps on the ground, it was really flat for him.
Time passed little by little, the sun was already at noon, the bell in the door symbolically rang, indicating that the time had passed halfway, at this time Huang Ming felt that hanging in the middle of the team was no longer a big deal, because he was only more than 1,700 steps now, and the weight under his feet had reached 145 catties. And the warrior at the forefront is about to reach the top.
Unlike a long snake on the right, the monk on the left is more "grouped" in the direction of the monk. Of the more than 100 disciples who climbed the ladder, except for a very few who were still stranded at the first few steps, the rest of the disciples were almost trapped at about two thousand steps, even the orange four, who had been at the top of the team, was no exception.
It turned out that the monks had a mantra in a sunken mountain stone after reaching the two thousand floors, and only after refining the mantra could they resist the huge pressure of the last few thousand steps, but the martial artist did not have these particulars, but the momentum of the foot binding made many people start to weaken their legs, so that they had to tremble when they climbed up a step, and they had to gasp for breath after taking a step.
After Huang Ming's practice for half a year, the Xuan Qi in his body has already been collected and released freely, for fear that someone will notice it, he can only remove the Xuan Qi of the foot little by little, but the surface work still has to be done, the sweat on his forehead and the sound of heavy wheezing are essential. It's just that Huang Ming accelerated his pace and didn't show much traces, and after a long time, people found that the inconspicuous man hanging behind him had reached more than two thousand steps, and Tang Si had also finished refining the mantra, and his shoulders were suddenly much more relaxed, and he immediately secretly lucked the remaining qi, strode upward, and soon walked side by side with Huang Ming.
Since there were only the two of them on the stairs at the moment, Huang Ming had to squeeze out a smiling face to the left: "Orange girl, don't you see you in the new year, don't come to harm?" β
At this time, although Tang Si's pace was fast, there was not much qi left in his body, so he didn't dare to open his mouth to deflat, but just nodded politely to Huang Ming with his waist bent, and then stepped up, and in a quarter of an hour, Huang Ming was far below.
Huang Ming is not in a hurry, there is already a feeling of lead under his feet, but it is still not difficult to lift his legs, looking up, there is the word "Hedao" engraved in the middle of the top of the sky and the earth, is it not that the left and right feet can offset the pressure by stepping on the sky and the earth respectively? Huang Ming, who had more than two thousand three hundred steps, subconsciously moved to the left, all of which was seen in the eyes of the old man at the top, and he also lightly let out a "Oh? β
It's just that the old man saw Huang Ming, and Huang Ming naturally saw the old man, after glancing at each other, Huang Ming already knew the secret of climbing here, as he thought in his heart, but how dare he, who didn't want to provoke the attention of others, dare to step into the sky with his left foot? All you can do is bury your head and gasp for air.
"It's a pity, if this kid dares to step into the blue sky, he is already my inner disciple of Taiqing." The old man shook his head and whispered to the middle-aged man behind him with a shrill voice. The latter nodded, noncommittal. Instead, he looked at Orange Si, who was in the lead in Tianji, and there was a smile on his face, "Senior Brother Tangerine has a good daughter, the four-cross-long mantra of the two thousand steps, the first thirty-six words are all nonsense, only the last four words of 'Lifting the top and stepping on the sa' are the real formula, and the top lifting is easier said than done, but it is extremely difficult, after all, how can it be so simple to lead the forbidden qi machine behind you?" Yes, yes, I went to Beijing back then. β
The old man looked at the top of the ground again, and there was no weakling. A little happy to close his mouth, "It is said that I am too young and have no martial arts fate, I think this session is promising, Lao Qin has always entrusted me to pick two heirs to inherit the mantle of 'weapon' for him, you see that the bald guy who ranks third is very good." β
The cold-faced man squinted and looked in several directions, the man with a naked upper body was a little surprised, everyone else stepped on the top with both feet, but he was the only one who "climbed" up on all fours. After looking at it for a while, he said "um", which can be regarded as agreeing with the old man's opinion.
At this time, Huang Ming ranked in the nineteenth direction of the ground, as long as he was willing, the force at this time was enough to enter the top five of the ground, and the heaviness of his feet made his mastery of the Xuan Qi rise to a new realm.
Looking at the two climbing teams, the monks who were stuck in the two thousand steps on the other side of the day almost used a stupid method to silently recite the whole heart, and slowly began to climb, only a few few cultivators have climbed above the two thousand five hundred steps, and the first warrior with a black scarf immediately climbed to the two thousand nine hundred steps, and the old man at the peak smiled and said the word "down" to the martial man, and the young man in the black scarf suddenly felt like a thousand catties pressing down, and he really fell to the ground dangerously.
"Ahhh
The old man smiled and said, "Young man, a warrior has to work harder to ascend to the sky than a monk, do you know? β
The grim man behind him stepped forward, and the people who were about to reach the summit saw that the man did not have his legs "floating" in the air, only to hear the middle-aged man say, "Do you think that the monk only needs to take medicine and meditate every day, and he can ascend to the sky in one step?" In fact," the man paused, and said in unison with the old man beside him, "and it is true. β
The black scarf man's legs have begun to swing, and every step of climbing seems to have exhausted the strength of his whole body, all of this is in Huang Ming's eyes, he is not worried about not being able to go up, after all, so far, the climbing that is beneficial to the use of his feet has not made him use much momentum, he is just thinking about how to play the two thousand nine hundred steps, in order to pass the test in confusion?
The second person who stepped into the ground was a woman who looked a little slender, and the moment she stepped in, the woman's knees gurgled, but the woman didn't pay attention to it, and said with a smile with the cold monk who was watching the play above: "If I have a talisman with me, this weight will be considered to be walking on your back." β
"This girl, if you can pass the three levels, I would like to propose to the family teacher to accept you as a personal disciple, what do you think?" The monk did not take the woman's provocation seriously, but rather appreciated the woman's perseverance.
"I came to the stage with Kui, who is a martial qi double cultivator, where did you grow the green onions? What can you call him? The woman was not interested in the courtship of the Rank Monk, but asked him this.
The middle-aged grim man paused for a moment before replying: "Girl, what you said is the family teacher, but the family teacher has not accepted a disciple for nearly a hundred years, I am afraid that the girl may be disappointed at that time." The grim man was not angry, but smiled even more.
As for the shirtless man who "climbed" up, seeing the two above stepping into the two thousand nine hundred steps, he had already wrapped the remaining momentum around his arms, so he was not as embarrassed as the man in the black scarf, but judging from the painful expression on his face, it was still not very comfortable.
Huang Ming was still walking at his own pace, but the person in front of him really couldn't move up, and involuntarily walked into the top ten, and in a blink of an eye, it was already two thousand eight hundred steps, he squinted and looked up, and Tang Si was already standing beside the old man, with an indifferent expression, looking down at him coldly.