Chapter 16: The Steps

With the death of the green snake, the surroundings returned to peace. After a while, as if after confirming the safety of the surroundings, Su Qing was taken out of the pool and landed on the edge of the pool safely, watching the huge snake in front of him fall into the pool, he vaguely guessed something in his heart about what had just happened, and he couldn't help but smack his tongue.

"I can't imagine that such a huge creature will be killed in an instant, there are really mountains outside the mountains, and there are people outside the people, now look at the past in the Hung Desert, those strategizing, those intrigue calculations, compared to the power of heaven and earth, what is it?" Su Qing watched as the snake pieces in the pool disappeared, and the last blister burst. The small tripod in his body actually transformed directly from the dantian and fell into the pool, and the originally rich milky white became clear at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Xiao Ding absorbed a huge amount of energy, and the body of the Ding gradually materialized, and the lines on the original body of the Ding also had a rough appearance, and when the energy in the pool was completely absorbed, Xiao Ding returned to the dantian. Su Qing's body was shocked, and after a flash of blue light around him, he clenched his hands into fists and felt that his body was full of strength, he could clearly feel that the injuries in his body had all recovered, and he just wanted to look up to the sky and roar, and he was afraid of causing the strange beasts around him who didn't know where to hide, so he could only hold it in his heart. As everyone knows, the surrounding beasts have been killed by the green snake and turned into a part of the energy in the pool, and then absorbed back into his body by Xiao Ding.

Su Qing took a long breath and looked at the height, it was still pitch black in front of him, and he didn't know where the Xianyi Gate was, and he didn't even know where the top of the mountain was. I couldn't help but feel a little distressed in my heart, took out the letter of recommendation from my arms, and looked at the words written by my father himself, I felt very uncomfortable, and I didn't know how my father worshiped the immortal sect in the first place.

"Father, did you think that there would be such a day when you left this letter? But have you ever thought that there is no life on this road, if it weren't for this exercise you left behind, I'm afraid I would have died in this jungle a long time ago, but don't worry, I will definitely worship the immortal sect, find out the cause of your death, and avenge you. With that, Su Qing put the letter of recommendation back in his arms, his heart was full of fighting spirit, and he walked towards the top of the mountain.

As soon as he took a step, Su Qing stopped abruptly, as if he had thought of something, and suddenly took out the recommendation letter in his arms again, and carefully checked it, but did not find anything abnormal. His brows were furrowed, and he thought about the contents of the letter repeatedly, and after rubbing and folding the paper on which he wrote the letter, he found that there was not a single crease on the letter.

My heart was overjoyed, and my eyes were shining. Said excitedly: "How can I be so stupid, how can the things connected between the immortal families be mortal!" How can the paper of ordinary world not have a single crease? After my father worked hard to find a way to survive for me, I was asked to worship in the Immortal Gate, how could he want me to send me to death! There are more than 10,000 people in this Qingqian Mountain, and there are more than 10 million poisonous insects and beasts in the mountain, and ordinary people will never be able to go up the mountain! Since ordinary people can't go up the mountain on their own, then this letter of recommendation is the key! ”

After that, Su Qing looked at the recommendation letter in both hands and trembled slightly, "That's it, there is no hope on the way up the mountain, it's better to give it a go!" Finally, as if he had made up his mind, he tore the letter with both hands.

Sure enough, the letter couldn't be torn!

Su Qing was overjoyed in his heart, took out the fire fold in his arms, lit it and roasted it inch by inch under the letter, the letter paper was not ignited, and after repeating it several times, he simply put the letter paper on the fire and roasted it, but there was still no tendency to ignite, not even a little smoke.

Su Qing looked up at the pool in front of him, "Could it be that I guessed wrong?" Or is it not fire either, because of the use of water? But this water and fire are all ordinary water and fire in the mortal world, since this letter paper is fireproof, then water must be useless, the problem is still on this letter paper, I used the wrong method, but what is the real method? ”

Su Qing thought like this, and didn't notice that the fire of the fire fold transmitted the temperature to his other hand through the letter. Oops, Su Qing snorted lightly, subconsciously put his finger in his mouth and sucked, it was still a little late, a white circle was burned on his thumb, Su Qing frowned slightly, bit the white circle with his teeth and directly tore the burned flesh and spit it aside. The Qing Qi in the body had not yet repaired the wound, and one or two drops of blood fell on the letterhead.

The words written on the letter paper suddenly floated up from the letter paper and turned into a thin golden thread, the thin line looked like a rope in the wind, one end of the rope wrapped around Su Qing is arm, and before he could react, the other end directly dragged Su Qing up from the ground and turned into a rainbow.

Su Qing exclaimed, and in a blink of an eye, his mouth was filled with the sound of the wind, and the whole person was like a kite with a broken string swaying in the wind. Closing his mouth, he turned around and looked back to see that the originally huge pool of water had also turned into a small black dot in an instant, gradually disappearing.

Not only the pool, but also the whole jungle gradually became smaller in his eyes. Su Qing's face was full of excitement, knowing that he had found a way to enter the Immortal Gate, even if he was in a high place now, he was not dizzy because of the lack of oxygen of ordinary people, and after absorbing enough energy, Xiao Ding in his body was now able to generate enough clear qi to circulate in the meridians around his body.

Even though there are still many places where the meridians around the body are blocked, these clear qi are pervasive, and every time they encounter a blockage, they can always turn qi into needles, break through obstacles, and open up connections. Nowadays, the main twelve meridians have been connected with the dantian, and the pure qi exuded by the small tripod of the dantian starts from the three yin meridians of the hand, returns to the small tripod through the three yang meridians of the hand, and then starts from the three yang meridians of the feet, and returns to the small tripod through the three yang meridians of the feet, and so on and so forth, and the cycle repeats.

And the most important thing is that when the twelve meridians are constantly widened, the eight veins of the strange meridians that are distributed between the twelve meridians are also being searched. Su Qing was overjoyed in his heart, and he was one step closer to revenge.

Just when Su Qing was imagining, the rope had already brought him to the top of the cliff, there was a platform on the top of the cliff, and there was a ladder above the platform, counting carefully There were a total of ninety-nine steps, and there was a door at the end of the ladder, and the rope flashed through the gate.

The cold wind was cold, Su Qing looked at the steps in front of him, thought for a moment, took a few steps forward, and stepped on the steps step by step. As soon as he stepped on it, the cold wind on the top of the mountain suddenly strengthened a little, as if his behavior was blaspheming the gods and wanted to blow it down the mountain.

Su Qing glanced at the pitch-black area below the mountain, as if he had been cut off from everything under the mountain. After thinking for a moment, he looked at the door higher in front of him, his eyes were determined, and he took the second step.

The mountain wind is cold and cannot change its will, and the road ahead is long and cannot move its heart.

The wind blows, and the long hair flutters. Su Qing took five steps in one breath, and at this moment, there was no other sound in his ears except for the sound of the wind, and the sound was piercing as if it was about to chisel through his eardrums. The qi and blood in the body surged, the blood rushed to the brain, a feeling of dizziness and dizziness, and the flow speed of the clear qi in the twelve meridians accelerated, protecting the ears and calming the breath in the body.

He stood at this step for a long time, and waited until his body recovered as before, faintly, in addition to the twelve meridians, the eight meridians hidden in the body and unknown places found an entrance by the pure qi in the body under the pressure of the outside world, Su Qing was overjoyed, took a deep breath, and this time he steadily went up the twenty steps step by step.

At this moment, the wind had long since disappeared, and as early as he stepped on the tenth step of the stairs, the sound of the wind was replaced by the vibration under his feet, which was sometimes strong and sometimes weak, and the center of the epicenter was also erratic. Every time you take a step, you will be a point stronger, and when you step on the thirteenth step, it is more than four times stronger than the eleventh step, and so on, and finally at the twentieth step, your chest is stuffy, and a mouthful of blood can't help but spurt out directly, and the whole person is shaky, as if you are about to fall from the top of the steps to the bottom of the mountain in the next moment.

Su Qing was calm, the whole person was extremely weak, his feet were weak, he couldn't hold on any longer, and collapsed directly on the steps, panting fiercely. When the next wave of tremors hit, Su Qing's throat was sweet and he spit out a mouthful of blood, but he didn't expect the shock to be even stronger after the whole person was close to the ground. The meridians in the body were fragmented, the clear qi was constantly repaired, and it was constantly shattered, and this time even the internal organs were shattered and vomited out with blood.

He sat on the ground with his legs crossed. The tremor was strong, but at this step, it had reached the limit, Su Qing stabilized his body and tried his best to ensure that he would not be shaken down. I silently recited the mantra in my heart, and found that it had no effect, and the pure qi in my body did not listen to my own call at all.

"It seems that this is already the limit of its operation, according to the experience of the past few times, this tremor is stronger, but not fatal, in this case, as long as I stabilize my body and stay awake, I can hold on. When the time comes, the flesh will be stronger again. Hopefully, this breath won't let me down and stabilize my injuries before I pass out. ”

Just when Su Qing was meditating cross-legged and closing his eyes to recuperate. Behind the door at the top of the stairs, five men were silently watching him.

The five people were in a large hall, one in the middle, two people on both sides were sitting on chairs, and there was a mirror floating in the air in front of them, saying that the mirror was actually more like a piece of water, and the undulating waves of the water surface reflected the appearance of Su Qingpan sitting on the steps.

Sitting on the right, an old man with a white beard, dressed in a black Taoist robe, with a bamboo and wood lotus crown on his head, and a small sword stuck in it, said slowly at the moment when Su Qing fell: "It seems that twenty steps is already the limit of this son, although he is already the best among ordinary people, but this son has missed the best cultivation age, compared to his peers, it is very far from his father." What's more, this son is stupid, this trial on every ten floors actually has a way to crack it, and now that he has stepped on the twentieth floor, he has not discovered the magic method, and his future achievements will not be too high. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a Taoist chief sitting opposite him who was also dressed say slowly: "Hey, Senior Brother Cui, it's too early to say this, why don't we take a slow look." ”