Sunset.

A thick layer of fog slowly rose around the Vulture Gate, adding a bit of mystery to the demon gate in the mountain stream.

Li Ji returned to the room and set up the axe behind the door, which was his most important tool for a year.

As a servant of the Yin Vulture Gate, his daily task is to cut down the iron pine and offer it to the Yin Vulture Gate registered disciples or some outer disciples.

Iron pine is not a precious thing, three miles outside the Yin Vulture Gate, there is a large iron pine forest, but why do all the slaves have to cut down the iron pine? The reason is very simple, this Yin Eagle Gate is a demon gate, and its location is extremely cold from yin to cold, whenever the night is extremely cold, some outer disciples or registered disciples with low cultivation need iron pine to keep warm, in case the cold invades.

There are more than 500 registered disciples of the Yin Vulture Sect plus the disciples of the outer sect, so the demand for Tie Song is relatively large.

Li Ji was an experienced servant, and when he first arrived, he handed over all Tie Song to the Mission Hall in exchange for some spirit beads. However, after two months of cold weather, he learned that he should keep some iron pine for his own backup, so as not to be frozen to death before winter comes.

The spirit bead is a kind of currency of the Yin Vulture Gate, which can be exchanged for pills and some magic weapons, of course, with this spirit bead that Li Ji obtains every day, he must not be able to exchange it for a pill for a lifetime, and it is already very good to maintain his vitality.

Tonight, as if it was very cold, he went to the bed, took out one of the few pieces of iron pine he had prepared, put it in a copper basin, and then used the fire to light the iron pine.

The iron pine slowly burned and became red, like a red-hot iron plate, and the room began to warm up.

Li Ji came to the bed and meditated.

It's been a year, and his cultivation is still stuck in the Qi cultivation stage, and he has not yet reached the Qi acceptance stage, the reason is very simple, that is, his spiritual root has been shattered, so he can't reach the Qi acceptance stage at all.

However, he still insisted on cultivating, because the inner disciple who helped him test the spiritual root said: "It's okay, the spiritual root is broken, and it can be repaired, it's only a matter of time." ”

He was convinced of the tester's words, because the tester helped the slave test the spiritual roots every year, and he had seen all kinds of spiritual roots, so his words were a great encouragement to Li Ji, how could Li Ji doubt it!

Of course, he didn't know that the tester was deceiving him, and the shattering of the spiritual root proved that he had no chance with Xiuzhen. The main reason why the tester deceived him like this was to let Li Ji be a slave here with peace of mind, because the reputation of the Demon Gate is notorious, and the number of disciples who defected to him has decreased every year, so the Yin Vulture Gate lacks a lot of slaves, so he will deceive him and let him serve the Yin Vulture Gate here with peace of mind.

Smack!

Suddenly, one of the servants kicked the door open, and a dozen of them burst into Lee's room.

"Stinky boy, today I asked you to help me cut down ten iron pines, but you are good, only cut down five for me, so that Lao Tzu will be scolded by the chief steward! If I don't give you some color to see, how will I mix up in the future, beat me!" the slave shouted viciously, and then a dozen servants behind him dragged Li Ji off the bed.

Before he could seem to react, a slave kicked him in the abdomen, and he felt unbearable pain, he crouched down holding his stomach, and then a group of slaves surrounded him and punched and kicked him.

"Stinky boy, let you be disobedient, it seems that I haven't beaten you in the past few days, your skin and flesh are itchy, and I'll make you cool to the end today. The slave at the head kicked Li Ji down, and Li Ji shrank into a ball, without the power to fight back.

This kind of beating is not once or twice, these slaves are sometimes wronged and humiliated elsewhere, and when they are not happy, they come to Li Ji to vent and use him as a punching bag.

The time when these servants came to the Vulture Gate was a month or two later than Li Ji, and some might even be half a year later, it stands to reason that they should respect this senior or senior.

Now they dare to be powerful on Li Ji's body, just because they know that Li Ji's spiritual root is a fragmentary spiritual root, and they have no chance to cultivate in this life, and their spiritual root is intact, if nothing else, three days later, when the Yin Vulture Gate spiritual root test, they can easily join the Yin Eagle Gate and become a registered disciple.

This kind of violent beating lasted for more than ten minutes.

"Stinky boy, if you dare to disobey my orders in the future, I will see you once, beat you once, do you hear? The servant at the head stepped on Li Ji's cheek and said coldly.

Li Ji gritted his teeth, trembling with anger, but these slaves had already cultivated to the stage of absorbing qi, and he was not their opponent at all. I don't want to endure this bad breath, and I can't do anything about it.

"Let's go!" the servant swaggered out the door.

A slave saw Li Ji looking at him with fierce eyes, he lowered his head again, and said with a gloomy smile on his face: "Old boy, why are you not convinced! ”

This slave was only thirteen or fourteen years old, a year or two younger than Li Ji, but his arrogance was even more arrogant than the previous slave who was the leader.

"Phew!" the slave spat in Lee's face and walked out of the house satisfied.

Li Ji slowly stood up, wiped the blood from the corners of his mouth and the saliva on his face, and looked at the place where the slave figures disappeared with anger.

"You remember, don't let me turn over one day, if there is that day, I will definitely return today's humiliation to you tenfold and hundredfold. There was a hint of determination and ferocity in his eyes.

He still firmly believed that his spiritual roots could be restored and he could move towards the path of cultivation.

Every slave or registered disciple who came to the Yin Vulture Gate had a beautiful vision for his future. Li Ji is naturally no exception.

He staggered to the bed, and subconsciously felt out a piece of jade pendant in his arms, and whenever he was bullied, he would always look at this jade pendant.

This piece of jade is oval-shaped, and the surface is carved with a nine-dragon pattern, but the carved handiwork seems to be very rough and does not look like a very valuable thing. However, he always felt that this jade pendant was a very important object for him.

A year ago, he was caught here by an inner disciple of the Yin Vulture Gate, and when he woke up, he was covered in bruises, and his head was hit very hard, so he had forgotten everything that happened before he fell into a coma, and he had tried to think about what happened to him a year ago, and he would be covered in bruises, but he could never remember.

This jade pendant was the object he held tightly in his hand when he woke up. So he suspected that this jade pendant must have a lot to do with what happened to him before.

Even sometimes, he would imagine that he was an extremely powerful cultivation master earlier, and this jade pendant was a peerless magic weapon, and it was only because of the pursuit of the rivers and lakes that he ended up with this. Whenever he thought of this, he would show a happy mood, and all the grievances and humiliations became worthless.

If that's the case, I must let those who have bullied me get the punishment they deserve.

The iron pine in the copper basin rattled sound.

Li Ji touched the nine-dragon pattern on the jade pendant: "Jade pendant, jade pendant, what do you have to do with me? Are you really as I thought, a peerless magic weapon?" Although it didn't look like it, he was also looking forward to it.

For a long time, he still couldn't guess the mystery: "Alas! His mind returned to reality, and he couldn't help but laugh at his funny thoughts, and put the jade pendant back in his arms.

If the quality is good, needless to say, you can directly be a registered disciple and get a lot of resources from the Eagle Gate to improve your cultivation, on the contrary, if you are not in good condition, you can only work as a slave in the Yin Eagle Gate first, and slowly wait until your cultivation reaches a certain level, so you can stand out in the year-end test and be classified as a registered disciple.

At first, these disciples who are not good at the spiritual root are generally slaves for life, and they cannot join the Yin Vulture Gate, because the spiritual root determines the future achievements of the practitioners, and the achievements of the spiritual roots are good, and the achievements are naturally limitless, and they can reach the Jindan stage, the Yuan infant stage, and even the Mahayana and the tribulation, but if the spiritual root is not good, the achievements will reach the foundation building period at best, and even reach the peak of the qi gathering period.

But why did the Yin Vulture Sect know that these slaves with poor spiritual roots would have no achievements in the future, and still let them join the Yin Vulture Sect as a registered disciple? There is only one reason, that is, the decency in the ancient Qin country is growing day by day, and the Demon Gate is thin, and if it continues, the Demon Gate will be annihilated by the decency sooner or later, to prevent this kind of thing from happening, the Demon Gate will begin to recruit children and reduce the qualifications of their children.

"There are three more days before the year-end test of the spiritual root, if you can't become a registered disciple this year, you will have to wait another year if you want to become a registered disciple. ”

Li Ji muttered to himself in his heart, in fact, it is a very simple thing to become a registered disciple, as long as the spiritual root is intact, he can almost join the Yin Vulture Sect.

It's such a simple thing, but it's hard for him. However, he will not give up, because he firmly believes that his spiritual roots will be restored!

He didn't think much about it anymore.

He began to practice qi.

In this Yin Vulture Gate for more than a year, he understood a truth, in this world of cultivation, there is no benevolence, morality, and shame at all, there is only one truth, that is, the weak eat the strong, the survival of the fittest, if you want to gain a foothold here, you can only make yourself strong, so as not to be bullied.

The iron pine in the copper basin was only the size of a palm, and the temperature in the room began to slowly drop, and Li Ji took out another piece of iron pine and added it to the copper basin.

In this way, he practiced qi in the house.

I don't know when, he fell asleep.