It is an unremarkable mountain on the outside.

Zhou Ming took dozens of children to climb from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain.

The mountain breeze caressed his cheeks, bringing a hint of coolness.

In the lonely night sky, sparse starlight twinkles.

As if it was summer, the warm breeze blows slowly, bringing the fragrance of lush trees in the mountain forest.

The murmuring of mountain streams, the rustling of the wind through the mountains and forests, and the singing of nightingales are mixed together to form a natural sound that does not need to be decorated by words.

Standing on the top of the mountain, feeling the fresh aroma of plants and trees in the mountain breeze, although these children are tired and sweating, they can't help but feel relaxed and energetic at this moment.

"In front of it is the astrolabe chess game set up by Lord Yuan Shi Immortal Venerable himself." Zhou Ming looked at the group of children, and his voice was still cold.

"You are all rescued by me from the mouth of the orcs, and you have the qualifications to practice, I brought you here, I hope you can get the personal transmission of Lord Xianzun, learn stronger skills, and avenge your dead relatives."

The children, swept by his gaze, unconsciously tensed their bodies, their faces solemn, and looked at him with a serious and excited face.

Zhou Ming's gaze finally lingered on the face of a girl with a clear face, pursed lips, and a calm face for a few seconds, and then moved away.

The girl was one of the last children he had saved from the orcs, and the one he felt most extraordinary.

Since the Yuan Shi Immortal Venerable created the sect system and established the Heavenly Court, he has set up astrolabes in many places, announcing that in the world, as long as the human race can take six steps in a row on the astrolabe chess game, he can become his personal disciple.

This is not the first batch of children sent by Zhou Ming to the mountain to take the astrolabe chess game, he has walked through many alien forces in the past few years, saved many human races, and sent young children with Gu master qualifications again and again, but no one has ever been able to walk through the astrolabe chess game.

And after saving the children last time, after seeing the girl, Zhou Ming suddenly had a premonition in his heart, maybe the girl was the one who could walk through the astrolabe chess game.

So not long after, Zhou Ming took these dozens of children to the top of the mountain again.

"Go ahead, you all go up and try it."

As Zhou Ming stretched out his hand to point out, the children looked around and saw the famous astrolabe chess game.

The astrolabe chess game is carved into a huge, flat-surfaced boulder.

On the stone surface, the lines are either cross-cut, longitudinal, or diagonally inserted.

Whenever the breeze blows, a hint of blue stars flashes on these lines.

The children looked at the mysterious chessboard, with a little fear and expectation, and boarded the chessboard one after another.

Suddenly, the wisps of stars on the astrolabe appeared directly through their eyes and in their minds.

The slightest line of stars suddenly expanded into streets. And the children are shining with stars all over them, and they have become star chess pieces, and they are pausing in the intertwined web of these star paths.

Soon, some children stagnated, and some even fainted on the spot.

But there are still children who are struggling to support themselves and take a difficult step.

Just as a first step, more than half of the children fell.

In the second step, the remaining children fell ninety percent again, and only three children were still standing.

In the third step, the other two children were unconscious, leaving only the little girl who Zhou Ming was optimistic about, although she was sweating profusely, her hair was messy, and she was panting, she was still standing, and tried to insist on taking another step.

One step, one step, one step at a time.

When the little girl walked the sixth step, everyone was silent, and even the mountain wind seemed to stop at this moment.

On the contrary, it was the little girl, after walking six steps, all the pressure disappeared without a trace, and she raised her head a little overwhelmed and looked at Zhou Ming.

"Success, success!"

I don't know which child was the first to shout, and then more cheers rang out.

"You've made it! You've really succeeded! ”

"Great, you can worship Lord Xianzun as a teacher and learn the real skills!"

"Study hard, become stronger, and take revenge!"

The children cheered and couldn't help but jump and scream in celebration for the little girl.

Zhou Ming was also very happy, he sent so many people up, and finally one person succeeded, which made him happy.

They waited on the mountain for a few hours, and the Yuan Shi Immortal Venerable arrived, and since the Immortal Venerable could set up a chess game of the astrolabe, of course he could sense that someone was passing through.

He accepted the little girl as a disciple on the spot, and at the same time wanted to take everyone to Heaven together.

Zhou Ming hoped that the Yuan Shi Immortal Venerable would also bring the other people he rescued to Heavenly Court, of course, they couldn't all follow them and live in the settlement established by Zhou Ming.

However, he himself politely declined Immortal Venerable's invitation.

Xianzun was curious and asked Zhou Ming why, but Zhou Ming couldn't answer, so he only said, "I have my own way to go." ”

In fact, Zhou Ming himself really didn't know why he rejected Immortal Venerable, but he had a faint resistance to Heavenly Court in his heart, and he didn't even know where this resistance came from, he just chose to follow his own heart.

Xianzun didn't force him, he took everyone away, and left Zhou Ming a record of ascending to immortals, which was written by Xianzun himself, he hoped that Zhou Ming could successfully cross the catastrophe and ascend to immortals, change his mind, and join the heavenly court.

With the Immortal Ascension Minutes with him, Zhou Ming left the already empty settlement.

He continued to travel south and north, killing foreign races, saving human races, encountering foreign masters several times, narrowly escaped death, and his strength was constantly improving, as long as the Gu Immortals of foreign races did not make a move, he would not have the power to fight back.

He also studied the immortal ascension minutes left by Xianzun from time to time, this immortal ascension minutes is worthy of being written by Xianzun himself, not only recording in detail the three steps of Gu Master's ascension to immortals, as well as the situations that may be encountered in each step, key points, and many questions and answers in practice.

Year after year, Zhou Ming continued to overcome the difficulties in his cultivation, gradually improved his cultivation, and finally reached the peak of the fifth turn.

Standing at the apex of mortals, a perfect five-turn Gu worm, with his own sword path, he made a name for himself in bloody battles.

Even many Gu Immortals knew Zhou Ming's name, and even some Gu Immortals of different races wanted to deal with him personally because their juniors or valued people were killed by him.

But in the end, these Gu Immortals either didn't make a move for some reason, or they did but encountered an accident, met the help of the Terran Gu Immortals, or were lucky enough to escape death by Zhou Ming because of the favorable location.

By the time Zhou Ming was seventy years old, he finally felt that he could not advance, both his realm and combat power were limited by cultivation, and he had reached the limit of what he could reach, and he was ready to cross the tribulation and ascend to immortal.

So, one day, on the top of a bare low mountain, Zhou Ming resolutely broke his mind and began to ascend to immortality.