The apricot blossoms are endless all the way, the more inward, the more dead branches under the mountain, but the four seasons are not thanked on the mountain.

These apricot blossoms, small and exquisite, the petals are moist, bright and transparent, as if they are carved with amber or jade.

The tip of the nose is lightly smelled, and it is a refreshing fragrance, which has been forgotten so far.

Seeing their expressions, the old man introduced as he walked: "The apricot trees planted by my Xinglin Villa have long been innumerable, and now is not the apricot blossom season, so only the apricot blossoms on the mountain and a few mountainside valleys will bloom, you can't see them all." ”

"Wait until March and April next year, when the apricot blossoms bloom, up and down the mountain, like a sea of flowers, that will be spectacular. Hundreds of thousands of apricot trees bloom together, blooming into a forest, like snow, like a snow country, not only the first wonder of my Nanxing County, but also one of the ten wonders in the entire empty wheel snow area. ”

"Ten wonders?"

Everyone's eyes lit up, and they were amazed, curious about what the ten wonders were, but the old man in purple just smiled and didn't say much.

After a while, everyone came to a flat valley, this piece of apricot trees is very numerous, but the peculiar thing is that the trees are very separated from each other, and on the ground of the apricot trees, there is a huge stone monument every three or four zhang.

These steles vary in color and size, and most of them are very old, and the pieces are worn away by the wind and rain, damaged and missing, or there is no writing on them, or if there is writing on them, most of them are blurred.

But at this moment, under these stone tablets, there is a disciple of Xinglin Villa who is meditating with his eyes closed. Some of these people are clean and tidy, while others are gray and wrinkled, and even covered with fallen flowers and dust, and I don't know how long they have been sitting here.

However, no matter who it is, they are all silent, and even if someone passes by, most of them are solemn. Slow steps. As if for fear of disturbing something.

In the woods, people are constantly joining and leaving.

The whole woods were unusually silent.

The old man in purple sighed lightly. Take them with you. Walk briskly. Everyone felt that there was something strange about the atmosphere of this wood, and they didn't dare to say more, so they didn't stop. Silently followed, and soon walked out of the woods.

Finally seeing the sunlight outside, the stone tablet had all disappeared by this point, and a disciple couldn't bear it anymore and asked curiously, "Elder, just now, what was that?"

"I know you're going to ask. ”

The old man in purple seemed to have expected it, and said with a smile: "That is the Liuhe Stele Forest, one of the five holy places of my Xinglin Villa, which contains countless martial arts techniques. ”

"Martial arts techniques?"

Everyone was immediately moved, and looking back, the stele forest no longer seemed inconspicuous, but seemed to be suddenly full of light.

Many people have secretly made up their minds in their hearts, as long as they wait for the ceremony of becoming an official disciple of Xinglin Villa to end, they will immediately come over to visit the stone tablet and try their luck. Perhaps, you can realize a high-level exercise, or even, a thaumaturgy is not necessarily?

The old man in purple saw their thoughts, smiled and did not speak, if the Liuhe Stele Forest had such a good understanding, Xinglin Villa would already have a group of high-level disciples, how could it become the most advanced existence in the six major sects in terms of qi path cultivation.

However, he will not take the initiative to speak to discourage their enthusiasm, after all, it is a good thing to be willing to come here to understand, and there is such a thing as chance, but no one can say for sure.

Once, there was an ordinary alchemy boy who was not in the second realm of the qi path, and in this Liuhe stele forest, he realized an air path cultivation method called 'Three Flowers Gathering Divine Sword', which was a high-level qi refining sword technique that even some inner disciples would envy.

Everyone continued to walk forward, turned a mountain col, and suddenly opened up in front of them, and in front of everyone were twelve giant peaks that were inserted into the sky, surrounded by a ring, like a lotus flower, and they were now under the first peak.

A huge white marble staircase, which I don't know how long it is, but I am afraid that there are at least thousands of steps, appeared in front of everyone.

This stone staircase is unobstructed on both sides, and there are cliffs on three sides, as if it is hanging directly in the air, without any support, hanging straight down, submerging into the sky, and leading to the top of the mountain.

The old man in purple pointed and said: "When you arrive, this is the outermost part of the valley of the twelve mother screens, to enter the real inner valley, you have to go through these nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine stone stairs, also called 'ladder to the sky'." ”

"Huh?"

Everyone was shocked, and then everyone looked at the giant peak that was inserted into the sky, and one of them still said without giving up: "Elder, is there no other way to lead to the inner valley?"

The old man in purple smiled slightly: "Yes." ”

Just as the disciple was overjoyed, however, the purple-clothed old man's next words instantly sent him into the eighteenth layer of hell.

"But, that's not for you. ”

"Ah, for what?"

Seeing that everyone looked puzzled, the old man in purple explained: "The path of cultivation is already easy to know and difficult to do, just like this ladder to the sky, it is daunting, and the higher you go, the more difficult it becomes. But if everyone is afraid of difficulties, who can climb to the top?"

"My Xinglin Villa accepts disciples, and my first priority is to focus on it, so if you really want to join my Xinglin Villa, you must pass this ladder to the sky. If you can't even get over this, how can you talk about achieving higher achievements in Dan Dao, Martial Realm, etc. in the future?"

"This ......"

All the disciples looked at each other and said nothing.

"Of course ......"

Speaking of this, the old man in purple smiled, and did not hit their morale much, and said: "This is just a requirement for new disciples, every new disciple of Xinglin Villa has to go this way." When you get the nameplate representing my identity disciple of Xinglin Villa, there will naturally be another shortcut for you to take, and you don't have to climb this ladder every time. ”

"Ah, I see, it scared me to death. ”

"It's okay, it's okay......"

Everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, if every time they went up and down the mountain in the future, they had to pass through these thousands of stone stairs, even if they all had qi path cultivation in their bodies, it would be a difficult errand.

However, if you just have to go like this, then it won't be a big deal, but you can't avoid it, everyone has this experience.

"Let's go......"

"Let's go!"

The woman in white took the lead, the young man in purple and the young man in green shirt did not lag behind, followed closely behind, the boy in red and the girl in green walked in the middle, Tang Gu, Shui Xue, and the rough young man in blue did not fight with them, and walked in the back.

Worried all the way, fortunately, the stone ladder did not shake, and everyone was not mortal, so they quickly reached the high place, but when they turned around, everyone found that the purple-clothed elder was not behind them at all, and had already disappeared without a trace.

There was no sign of the other two elders.

"This?"

Everyone looked at each other, but the young man in green shirt took the lead and smiled bitterly: "Don't think about it, the three elders must have already arrived in front of us by another road, but I'm afraid they are already waiting for us on the top of the mountain." It's useless to think too much, so let's go!"

"Yes. ”

After more than half an hour, everyone finally sweated and went to the peak one by one, and sure enough, the three elders of Xinglin Mountain Villa, who had long disappeared, were standing on the top of the peak, looking at them with a smile.

The old man in purple clapped his hands and said, "Yes, yes, the speed is quite fast, it didn't make us wait for a long time." Keep keeping up, and you'll be in the inner valley in no time. ”

"Yes. ”

All the disciples agreed, and then followed the three elders to continue their downward journey, and as they walked, everyone also looked at the scenery of the inner valley, after all, this is the real location of Xinglin Villa, and in the future, they will spend years or even decades here.

At this time, looking down from the peak, what I saw was naturally different, only to see what I had just seen outside the valley, thinking that the inner valley was very small, but in fact it was blinded by a leaf.

Now it seems that the inner valley of this Xinglin Villa is amazingly large, with a range of tens of miles, and countless buildings with mountains and mountains, which are distributed in the entire inner valley in a staggered manner, and are divided into east and west parts by a huge dark blue lake, which are neatly arranged.

There are many buildings in the east, but there is a large area of medicine fields in the west, and the elixir with blue and purple light flickering is growing in it, and it is covered by a transparent shield, and there are many medicine children working in it at this time.

The rich aura of heaven and earth converges in the sky above the medicine field, forming a thin light mist, which lingers over the inner valley of the entire Xinglin Villa, making the concentration of heaven and earth aura here far exceed that of other places, like a fairyland.

And the twelve sky-cutting giant peaks they saw just now were like twelve hanging jade pens, surrounding the inner valley of Xinglin Villa, like a barrier, guarding them in the middle.

Where is this an inner valley, this is clearly a small city hidden in the deep mountains and blue lakes, and its prosperity is still excessive.

This situation and this scene naturally made Tang Gu and others who saw the true face of Xinglin Villa for the first time couldn't help but be overjoyed, no matter what else, just talking about the richness of the aura above this valley, cultivating in such an environment, they must get twice the result with half the effort, it is a blessed land that can't be asked for by any amount of money.

"Hey, that's ......"

Suddenly, a huge fiery red mountain appeared in front of everyone, and the smoke of the fiery red mountain peak was billowing out, and from time to time flames erupted, reflecting the entire sky in a dark red.

Around the mountain peak, dozens of different caves of all sizes have been opened, and people come in and out from time to time.

This mountain peak is one of the twelve peaks around the inner valley of Xinglin Villa, but just now everyone outside could only see the outline, and they didn't know its peculiarity.

The old man in purple introduced: "This is one of the twelve divine peaks, the earth fire peak, under the peak bottom of the mountain range, there is an earth fire cave, which can lead the earth fire to alchemy, most of the alchemy rooms of my Xinglin Mountain Villa are opened there, and the cultivation of some fire attribute exercises is also carried out there." So in the future, you will have a lot of time to deal with it. ”

"Oh!"

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but suddenly understand why such a place in such an extraterrestrial fairyland would have such a strange existence.

It seems that it is not unreasonable for the ancestor of Xinglin Mountain Villa to choose to establish a sect here, not only because of the apricot forest, but also because of this earth fire mountain range. (To be continued......)