Under the clear sky, the deep canyon of Shengyuan Mountain is shrouded in clouds and mist, drizzling, and it has become a relatively independent small world.

His gaze penetrated the smoke and rain, swept towards the peaks full of bergamot, locked on a few square inches on the slope cliff that could be footed, and the boy jumped three times in a row, and jumped halfway up the mountain in a moment.

"Huo Xu, if you become a Heavenly Saint powerhouse before you reach the age of eighteen, you will be the patriarch of the Fire Clan and the leader of the Five Clans Alliance!"

The voice he had heard as a child echoed in his ears, and after a moment of staring, the boy couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.

The watch in this life seemed to distract him more than the mission in his previous life.

The boy's surname is Huo Mingxu, born in the Huo clan of the Five Clans, and he will be sixteen years old in two months. His father, Huo Li, and his mother, Helen, were both extremely gifted Yuanshi before their lives, and they failed to enter the Heavenly Sage Seventh Order Palace.

's very ordinary background, but it was dyed with some extraordinary colors because of the light of his uncle Huo Feng, the youngest Yuan Dominant in the history of the empire.

Ten years ago, Huo Xuruo had grown up, and if he said, "My uncle is Huo Feng", he could almost walk sideways in the entire Lofe City.

However, the Northern Expedition ten years ago ended tragically and left too many sequelae.

In that year, Huo Feng, the leader of the Five Clans Alliance and the head of the Fire Clan, led more than 1,000 strong men and scholars in the alliance to join the Northern Expedition army mobilized by the royal family, and went on an expedition to Beihai County, which was divided into one side, but it was gone forever.

Afterwards, the royal family sent a notice: more than 10,000 strong people and Yuanshi of the empire were plotted by the Beihai people and all fell.

"Without the Fire Alliance Master, there would be no Five Clans Alliance! After the deliberation of the five clans, Huo Xu, the only nephew of the Fire Alliance Leader, is now elected as the Alliance-designate, and after he reaches the age of eighteen and is promoted to the Heavenly Saint Powerhouse, he will officially take office. Before Huo Xu took office, Tie Long, the patriarch of the Iron Clan, temporarily assumed the position of alliance leader. ”

When the news of the fall of the Northern Expedition came, the Five Clans finally reached the above compromise after some secret bargaining within the Alliance.

On the same day, the Fire Clan made a similar decision, electing Huo Xu as the Patriarch-elect.

The titles of Alliance-Elect and Patriarch-elect seem very tempting, but setting the preconditions itself is prone to bring subversive variables: although reaching the age of eighteen can be achieved without much effort, it is difficult to ascend to the heavens before the age of eighteen!

"Except for watching the souls of my relatives who have not returned from the Northern Expedition and have been declared dead, what else can I watch in this life?" Huo Xu smiled bitterly.

Lifting the curtain like a curtain, he stepped into the stone chamber half-hidden by vines, stepped on the smooth floor paved by Yuanjing, and stood in the middle of the flame pattern.

Pick up an amber yuan crystal dish the size of a vegetable plate, put in a small piece of Qingyuan crystal weighing about one tael, and sprinkle nine drops of green grass liquid and nine drops of cooked water that has been exposed to the sun for ten days.

Then, he walked into the middle of the flame pattern, untied his robe, held the plate in both hands and placed it on his chest, and after concentrating for a moment, he completely entered the state of "heart fasting" and "sitting and forgetting".

The primordial spirit suddenly rejuvenated from its dormant state and entered a brilliant starry sky.

Under the guidance of Genshin, Huo Xu felt a different scene in the world around him.

Heaven and earth are filled with strange invisible energy, some of which flicker like stars, some of which are distributed in a line or in a group, and some of which are condensed into a glimpse of an elf.

The natural energy floated into the room, gathering around the Yuan Crystal Disc and intersecting with the energy emitted by the Qingyuan Crystal.

A faint breath gradually emerged from the plate.

The breath grew thicker and thicker, and finally enveloped him like smoke.

Half an hour later, a cyan glimmer appeared on his body.

The next moment, the cyan shimmer was covered by the steaming mist······

Like the Taoists in the earth's civilization system, the Xihe people also believe that since the day they were born, everyone has a congenital primordial spirit in their body, but the primordial spirit has been dormant and not easy to be detected.

Later, as the newborn grows up day by day, intuitively grasping information from the outside world and being influenced by other people, each person will form another consciousness body that perceives the world.

The purpose of Taoist practice is to break through the control of the gods, awaken the primordial spirit, and release the consciousness of the "true self".

The purpose of Xiheren's cultivation is to drive the Yuan Shen to dominate the soul, so that the body can absorb the endless energy between heaven and earth, refine it into pure Yuan Force, and obtain super powers.

With a powerful Yuan Shen and a strong Yuan Force, this is the ultimate dream of almost every Xihe person.

For millions of years, generations of cultivators have enjoyed it, and the stories of glorious or tragic cultivation have been wonderful, fascinated by countless people, and contributed the most brilliant chapter to the history of human civilization on the planet Xihe.

Generally speaking, almost every Xihe person from the age of eight, will enter the nearby Yuan Yuan Yuan all over the place to start enlightenment and cultivation, when the age of thirteen, if you still can't wake up the Yuan Shen or the Yuan Shen can't suppress the Shen Zhi, it means that the person's talent is extremely low, and you can only regret it.

The elimination rate in this age group is as high as ninety percent, excluding those who are negligible late bloomers, and those who are eliminated will have no chance of cultivation for the rest of their lives.

Only ten percent of young boys and girls were able to enter the Yuan Shaoyuan to continue their cultivation as they wished.

Yuan Shao students are not allowed to use weapons, in addition to cultivating the Yuan Shen, absorbing and refining natural energy, and obtaining Yuan Li, they also practice some fighting techniques.

The energy they absorb is very limited, compared to ordinary teenagers, they just run faster, jump higher, and hit fists and feet more powerfully, and they don't yet have the strength to fight with the Heavenly Saint powerhouse with their majestic Yuan Force.

Moreover, they have an extremely high chance of being eliminated in the second round and losing the opportunity to continue cultivating.

The key is to be promoted to the rank of Yuanshi before the age of sixteen!

Once this is the case, you will be able to obtain the standard allocation of the resources of the sect, and gradually complete the breakthrough from Yuanshi to Yuanshi. Other sects will also extend olive branches to him.

On the other hand, if he reached the age of sixteen and was still only a Yuan Shao and failed to become a Yuan Shi, his cultivation career would automatically come to an end, and he would spend the rest of his life in the mundane world, a lifetime of mediocrity to support his family.

The cruelty of reality lies in the fact that in two months, he will be sixteen years old, and with only the identity of the seventh level of Yuan Shao, he will not be able to participate in this year's winter exam, and he will not be able to continue to cultivate in the Yuan Shaoyuan Academy after the autumn exam.

So, the autumn test was his last chance.

However, his strength has stayed at the level of Yuan Shao's seventh level for a long time, and there has been no sign of breakthrough so far, and even the goal of achieving Yuan Shao's ninth level seems out of reach, let alone being promoted to Yuanshi······

The dense air dissipated, and the cyan shimmer flickered a few times, and then disappeared, and the room returned to darkness.

After finishing his cultivation and wiping his body clean with a soft towel, Huo Xu put on his robe again, and drove his Yuan Force to travel around his body with the power of the Yuan Shen, and the meridians were as weak as usual, and there was no change.

"That disc shadow is innate, I can't break free from its shackles!"

He screamed and slammed his fist into the stone wall.

With a long sigh of great loneliness, Huo Xu slowly walked out of the stone room from another cave, and came to the southern foot of Shengyuan Mountain, where there was no smoke and rain, and the sun was shining, and he looked around the mountains and fields outside with no interest.

A towering Vajra tree grows on the slope dozens of meters away from the entrance of the stone chamber, and its huge canopy spreads smoothly like an umbrella cover, shading a dense area of almost an acre of land.

Touching the thousand-year-old tree, contemplating and thinking about it, Huo Xu straightened up a little unwillingly, and suddenly waved his palms, and his palms immediately glowed with cyan spots, faint, thin, like silky green lans floating in the mountains.

The cyclone in the body began to rotate, and the high frequency impacted the Taisu Ling disc shadow embedded deep in the qi stove, but the disc shadow did not move at all.

A quarter of an hour later, he was already sweating profusely, so he had to regret that he had to give up, and he didn't bother to wave his palm to attack the towering giant tree to test his proficiency in controlling the Fire Spirit Fist a little more.

Although the abundance of Yuan Force in his body did not change significantly before and after cultivation, he had already expected that if he wanted to strip the Taisu Ling Disc Shadow from the Qi Field, it would be useless to increase the Yuan Force a hundred times.

"Yuan Shao's seventh level is actually the ceiling of my cultivation career in this life! There are also Yuan Shao's eighth and ninth levels above the ceiling, and then there are Yuan Shi, after breaking through the Yuan Shi identity, he is qualified to look up to the title of the lowest level Heavenly Saint powerhouse - Yuan Shi at close range.

Above the Yuan Master are Yuan Lie, Yuan Jue, and Yuan Zai······

Alas, the 'Heavenly Saint Seventh Order' is too far away from me, and no matter how much I struggle, it will be in vain! Huo Xu sighed gloomily.

Fragments of his dream-like memories of his past life resurfaced in his mind, and there was a tingling pain in his heart, and after a moment he was close to collapse, as if his soul had been withdrawn.

"I am no longer qualified to watch and have a mission, it is not my choice, but ······ Providence! ”

This thought swept through his mind, like a boulder falling to the ground, and after the emptiness of his heart, he suddenly felt an unprecedented relief in his heart.

Jumping slightly, then leaning on his back and carrying his back to the ground, he descended down the gentle ravine like a slide to the bottom of the mountain.

At this moment, he is faced with a very real question: to survive or to perish!