It was dark all around, and the fingers could not be seen, and the tip of his nose was surrounded by old bloody and rotten gas, as if he was in the deepest part of the polar region of hell.

Zhang Zheng woke up in such a ghost place.

The Land of the Dead!

A terrifying word popped into Zhang Zheng's mind, and when she couldn't feel a trace of aura around her, but was filled with the aura of death, it made her already dry aura even more painful.

There is a complement pill issued by the sect, and the injuries on her body are not troublesome, but the aura cannot be replenished, so she always has an uneasiness of stepping on the blade barefoot, just like the emptiness of the fish on the case without the power to resist.

Don't dare to stay in one place all the time, for fear of danger. Zhang Zheng waited until his injury stabilized a little, and then immediately set off and found a random direction and walked forward.

There is no light here, I don't see the sun rising and the moon setting, and I don't know how long I walked, Zhang Zheng didn't dare to rest, and only ate one Bigu Dan when he was too hungry to do it, and the original ten Bigu Dan are now only the last two. The only thing to be thankful for is that there were no uninvited guests along the way.

His legs were like lead, the pain was numb, he was in the dark, his eyes seemed to be blind, and Zhang Zheng didn't even know if he was open or closed. The last Bigu Dan is also gone.

Zhang Zheng couldn't walk anymore, she held on like a walking corpse for an unknown amount of time, she even felt that her soul had wandered out of her body, numbly watching the empty body keep moving forward, and finally collapsed at this moment. I may be dying, but unfortunately, I haven't taken on the responsibility of descending from heaven.

Zhang Zheng pulled his stiff vocal cords with difficulty and laughed a few times.

As if she had a thousand pounds of weight on her body, she fell backwards, her back against a wall-like hard object.

The extinguished hope lit a faint glimmer again, and she was thrilled, for the first time in a long time, she had touched something other than the ground.

Zhang Zheng stood up against the wall, twisting his stiff joints and snapping. She heard her heart pounding, and beneath her warm palms was the cold stone face.

She continued along the wall, and after a while, she came across a cavernous grotto, about half a man high. She brought her face to the cave, and the imperceptible wind caressed her face, fragrant and cool, making her feel like a world away, and a long drought was in the rain.

She didn't have a second choice, whether it was an exit from the cave or another hell, she had to go forward.

The cave twists and turns, and the passage becomes narrower and narrower. Zhang Zheng couldn't help but be glad at the moment, if he was a little fatter, he would probably have to be suffocated here.

Twisting and turning, the rough stone slab wore through Zhang Zheng's knees and elbows, and she finally saw a glimmer of light. She finally reached the end of the cave.

It looks like a huge basin, surrounded by mountains, layered on top of each other, reaching up to the sky.

There was no room for anything else in her eyes except the clear pool of water in the middle of the basin.

She almost stuck her head in it until she could barely breathe.

There are a few green plants growing on the edge of the pool, which are full of vermilion small fruits, which are delicious. Zhang Zheng had never seen this plant in a book, but when he saw that there were traces of birds eating on it, he hesitated a few times, and finally fell under the hungry bowel sound, devoured it, and ate one.

The red fruit entered the abdomen, and the burning sensation of flames rose from the abdomen, rushing straight into the internal organs, and the meridians were burned alive and broken, Zhang Zheng was so painful that he couldn't breathe, like a dehydrated fish struggling on the board.

Zhang Zheng was so confused in pain that when he woke up from the coma, he suddenly realized that there was water all around him, and he actually rolled into the pool.

The burning sensation has disappeared, Zhang Zheng looked at the dantian inward, her heart sank suddenly, and her dantian was completely destroyed! The five spiritual roots that were originally of varying thicknesses had now melted into a ball, swaying like liquid in the shattered dantian. Not only that, but the meridians of the whole body were burned by the fire, leaving no trace.

Even the worst qualifications have now become delusions, and the despair of extinction has made Zhang Zheng fall into a trance.

"Yo, wake up."

The crisp sound of spring water and jade pulled Zhang Zheng out of his stunning.

Zhang Zheng was stunned and followed the prestige. The young man in Tsing Yi and wide sleeves was sitting leisurely on a stone with Erlang's legs crossed. The young man's face was excellent, his face was like a peach and plum, his lips contained Zhu Dan, his eyes were like paint, and he looked at her with a smile on the corners of his lips, which made her feel as if she had seen the legendary immortal.

"Kid, look stupid? Wipe your saliva. ”

Zhang Zheng subconsciously raised his hand and touched the water on his face, only to realize that he had been tricked.

No matter how much he looks like an immortal, he is also a bad-minded guy.

She stopped looking at the youth, and got up to leave the waterhole. But was swept back to the waterhole by a flying branch, and was forced to choke on two mouthfuls of water, Zhang Zheng's suppressed emotions finally broke out, and roared: "What are you doing!"

After yelling, the pent-up depression in his heart dissipated, Zhang Zheng was used to forbearance, not a short-tempered person, seeing that the young man did not answer, he thought that he had scared the other party, so he apologized again.

As soon as he walked to the edge of the waterhole, the familiar branches swept again, Zhang Zheng avoided it with his agile body instinct, his temper was worn away, and he asked helplessly: "May I ask Daoyou, why are you obsessed with playing tricks on me?"

The young man gently shook the branch in his hand, smiled gently, and said, "Call Master, and I will tell you."

Zhang Zheng has never heard such a ridiculous request, how can he accept apprentices if he doesn't know anything. But he still explained good-naturedly: "My dantian is now broken, the spiritual root meridians are completely destroyed, and the path of cultivating immortals has been broken." Seniors should look for another apprentice. ”

"I know, I did it."

The six words slowly exploded in Zhang Zheng's mind, and reason barely suppressed his anger: "Seniors, don't joke, it's caused by the juniors' ignorance and eating poisonous fruits."

The young man smiled even brighter, picked a vermilion fruit and threw it to Zhang Zheng, "What I worked so hard to grow is not a poisonous fruit, but you are too weak to bear it." Anyway, you can't cultivate immortals, and I don't have a long life, so it's better to satisfy the old man's dream of accepting apprentices, how about it? Good boy. ”

Zhang Zheng was swept back to the waterhole by the branch again, and he didn't struggle anymore, picking up Zhu Guo from the water, quite a kind of resigned to fate, "Okay, I'll do it, I promise you." ”

Looking at the young man smiling, staring at her with expectant eyes.

Zhang Zheng accepted his fate and called Master.

"Good apprentice", the young man got up from the stone, straightened his clothes, circled around her again, and said solemnly: "From now on, you are the only apprentice of my Yan Zihui, and I give you the Taoist name - Qing Zheng."

As soon as the two words of Qing Zheng fell, the sky dome suddenly rumbled, the blue sky and the white sun actually flashed and thundered, the momentum was huge, and the dark purple thunder and thunder rolled wantonly in the sky, as if to turn into a dragon and fight with the sky, and the entire sky dome seemed to be overturned and collapsed.

Zhang Zheng was frightened by this battle, and the next day he was pressed by an unprovoked force to kneel on the stone slab in the water, unable to resist at all, and responded in a daze: "Apprentice Zhang Zheng, thank Master for giving me a name."

The contract between master and apprentice is witnessed. Since then, the master and apprentice have two lives, one is prosperous, the other is lost, and the cause and effect are shared.

"Good apprentice, I'll give you a greeting gift."

Yan Zihui threw a slap-sized jade-like thing at her again, and motioned for her to eat it with the previous Zhu Guo.

Zhang Zheng pinched it, it was as soft as water, but it gathered into a ball of water and did not disperse.

The severe pain Zhu Guo brought to her made her feel pain all over her body just thinking about it now. Eat again? Zhang Zheng was a little hesitant in her heart, but this fear of difficulty was torn apart by her when she remembered the tragedy of her immortal fate being broken. There is an old folk saying that a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water, she has nothing now, and if she doesn't give it a final fight, it's completely over.

Ruthlessly, he ate the water ball first, and the moment he felt the chill to his bones, he hurriedly swallowed Zhu Guo.

The flames and the ice collided suddenly, as if the reckless boy was desperate to occupy this body, Zhang Zheng only felt that he was in the two heavens of ice and fire, one moment the ice was frozen and stiff, and the other moment was scorching the furnace, and she even seemed to hear the ice and fire meet, and the roaring steam rose up. Compared to before, the pain was a hundred times, ten thousand times, but she was half conscious and half hazy, and she did not allow her to fall into a coma to escape the pain.

"Return to the Yuan Shouyi, hold Dan Huaitian, the gods are in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the body drives away turbidity...... The five elements are born together, six and nine are mutually formed, three are born of ten thousand, and the source is kept one. ”

The calm voice seemed to fall from the clouds through a layer of fog, enveloping her divine mansion.

"Returning to the Yuan...... Keep one, hold the ...... Baodan Huaitian ......"

The pain made her unable to concentrate, her ears were buzzing, and although she wanted to read along, her consciousness was dissipated, but it was difficult to know what was in her mouth.

Pain...... Pain...... Pain......

This word entrenched in Zhang Zheng's whole mind, the soft sound of Taoism farther and farther away, gradually blurred, an unprecedented sense of fear spontaneously arose, she remembered the tragic situation of the old beggar's death, remembered the blood and tears on the face of the young boy on the bed, and remembered the hideous fangs of wild dogs......

I don't want this, I don't want to be mediocre, I don't want to die in a cold corner, I don't want to be lifeless.

The unwilling belief burned more and more, breaking through the confinement of body pain, dispersing the shrouded clouds, bringing the ethereal voice closer, seizing the last opportunity, and not letting go.

"Return to the Yuan Shouyi, hold Dan Huaitian, the gods are in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the body drives away turbidity...... The five elements are born together, six and nine are mutually formed, three are born of ten thousand, and the source is kept one. ”

The immature child's voice recited the Tao over and over again, and each time it became more determined and more convinced.

The vast sky dome was shattered, the auspicious clouds and phoenixes flew away, and the colorful clouds filled the sky with immortal ladders.

Zhang Zheng woke up from the epiphany, only to feel refreshed, the pain disappeared, as if it was gone, she hurriedly looked inside the dantian. The original spider web cracked dantian is intact, the colorful spiritual roots float in the dantian, surrounded by the translucent jade, shining, and the reshaped meridians are shining inch by inch, compared with the past, they have been expanded more than three times, transparent and bright.

The surprise that was enough to overwhelm her heart overflowed, but Zhang Zheng felt peaceful, calm and abnormal, it was a little bit of Taoism that she still had after her epiphany, calming her mood.

Zhang Zheng turned to Yan Zihui, this time it was no longer a compromise in desperation, and he said sincerely and respectfully: "Thank you Master for giving the apprentice a chance."

Yan Zihui nodded with satisfaction, seeing the irrepressible joy on the cheap apprentice's face, although he didn't want to hit her so quickly, but he had to do it.

"Don't be in a hurry to rejoice just yet." As soon as he lifted the broken branch, the green light lingered around Zhang Zheng like water, turning her from the already dark pool to the shore.

"Master, although I have already taught you the Tao Sutra, if you want to comprehend it thoroughly, you still need to enter the world and practice by yourself."