At midnight the next day, all the inner and outer disciples gathered in the back hall of the palace yesterday.

Song Qingcheng gestured with both hands to everyone to be silent: "All the rosters have been recorded, this Dao, as the deacon of the sect in Liangshan Prefecture, has a heavy responsibility, and cannot leave the post without authorization, today your senior brother Wang Xi will take you to the sect; Within four days, those who give up in the middle of the process and those who exceed the time limit will be disqualified. ”

Hearing this, the crowd began to whisper, most of the teenagers were children of rich families, and they were usually pampered, He had walked four hundred miles on foot, especially this time there were nine female disciples who were even more distressed and worried.

Song Qingcheng raised his hand and pressed it down: "The danger of cultivating the road is more dangerous than the Kunlun Snow Mountain, and the difficulty of cultivating the road is difficult to go to the blue sky." If you can't even withstand such a trial, then no matter how talented you are, you are destined to be difficult to achieve. Song Qingcheng looked around at the crowd, glanced at Yang Xuan, who was dressed in burlap clothes, and said slowly: "Especially the outer disciples, they should be more strict with themselves, this time there are still many classics, and the materials need to be transported back to the sect." Sun Xinlei, Yang Xuan, Xie Yuange, the three of you are all from poor families, and your cultivation talent is limited. Bendao is also from a poor family, and he also has high hopes for you, so the three of you will be responsible for the transportation of materials. After Song Qingcheng finished speaking, he flicked his sleeves and floated away.

Shen Guangshu and Yan Xiaoxi, who was short and had thief eyebrows, looked at Yang Xuan triumphantly there, with indescribable happiness in their hearts.

Wang Xi will tell each of them to settle down, gather in the square of the initial core opposite the state capital, led by Wang Xi, and walk out of the city. Yang Xuan, Sun Xinlei, and Xie Yuange each walked at the back with a package of fifty catties on their backs.

And Shen Guangshu, surrounded by a team of cavalry, rode a white horse, and walked around the team twice with great satisfaction, showing off self-evident. Satisfied, he whipped his horse and led a group of cavalry out of the city, leaving behind a cloud of smoke and dust.

There was a lot of discussion in the team, some envious, some unfair, and one after another.

Wang Xi said loudly: "Senior brothers and sisters, because Senior Brother Shen is a five-colored orange spirit root, he has excellent talents, and the sect attaches great importance to it, hoping that he can arrive at the sect safely as soon as possible, so he specially sent a team of soldiers to protect Senior Brother Shen to reach the sect as soon as possible." ”

Sun Xinlei, the little fat man with a pimple on his face, began to complain: "Why do we let the three of us carry such heavy luggage? Why does he Shen Guangshu not only ride a horse but also have someone to protect him because he is the son of the prefect? It's really unreasonable, don't you say?"

Xie Yuange was tall and thin, his two black and thick eyebrows were squeezed together, his honest lips opened slightly, as if he wanted to say something, he held back for a long time, and said with a sigh: "Who called us children from poor backgrounds." ”

"Is it sinful to be poor? Should being poor be born to be bullied?" Sun Xinlei looked dissatisfied and looked at Yang Xuan: "Hey, I said senior brother, why don't you speak? Don't you feel angry in your heart? You must have carried these fifty pounds of things, and it will take four days to arrive, is it possible?"

"I didn't think about it so much, now that the matter has been decided, no matter what the reason, we have to carry this thing forward, and we will be disqualified from entering the school if we exceed the time, so since we can't change things, it's better to shut up and save some effort to walk. Yang Xuan didn't look at him either, just staring ahead with his eyes and walking forward firmly.

"It's boring. Sun Xinlei shook his head and turned to Xie Yuange again: "Senior Brother Xie, where are you from?"

Sun Xinlei's mouth basically didn't stop all the way here, except for constantly chattering with Xie Yuange, just kept sighing, no one paid attention to him, and he could talk to himself for a long time.

By noon, Yang Xuan and the three of them had already left the team in front of them two or three miles, all three of them were still teenagers, although they were children from poor families, they could endure hardships, but they were carrying fifty pounds, and it was indeed not easy to walk the mountain road.

When he was resting, Wang Xi came over and said to Yang Xuan: "Senior Brother Yang Xuan, I have something to say to you, please move!"

After speaking, he walked to the back of the road, and Yang Xuan also followed, and walked for about a dozen zhang before stopping.

"What did Senior Brother Wang Xi call me for?" Yang Xuan was a little puzzled.

"Does Senior Brother have anything to do with Shen Guangshu?" Wang Xi asked directly.

Yang Xuan didn't understand what Wang Xi's intentions were, but out of a natural trust, he told Wang Xi the ins and outs of the matter.

As soon as Wang Xi heard this, he understood the reason inside, and said: "Senior brother, you have just entered the rivers and lakes, and your temperament is simple, senior brother has to remind you that the rivers and lakes are different from the mountains, and the beasts in the mountains and fields want to eat people because it needs to fill their stomachs, and you know that he wants to eat people, and the people in the rivers and lakes want to kill people, and they don't need a reason." If you act recklessly and have no scheming, I'm afraid you won't know how to die. The path of cultivation is even more difficult, and there are countless people in the sect who kill each other for fame, power, and resources, so cultivation requires not only talent, not only ambition and perseverance, but also brains and scheming, and survival is the most important thing, do you understand?"

"Thank you for your teachings. Yang Xuan looked at Wang Xi's sincere face, his heart was very moved, he clasped his hands into fists, and asked, "It's just that the junior brother's experience is too shallow, and I hope the senior brother will give me more guidance!"

Wang Xi sighed, "Originally, it was not good for me to come and tell you, because there was no precedent for letting the outer disciples bear the weight this time, it was Shen Guangshu who mentioned your matter to my master, and my master's idea in order to cater to him was to make you unable to reach the sect within the specified time, even if you were lucky enough to get to the sect, you would suffer a lot!"

Only then did Yang Xuan know all the reasons, and understood that Sun Xinlei and Xie Yuange were just burdened by themselves, grievances, doubts, disappointments, and coldness, and they were mixed with each other at this moment. In his immature heart, he never speculated on others with malice, and always felt that everything at this time was beautiful, but he didn't expect that human nature was so dark. His fate has been manipulated by others, but he is still in the dark. Thinking of Shen Guangshu's smug expression, thinking of Song Qingcheng's inflammatory, and the majestic image of a cultivator, his heart instantly collapsed at this moment.

He laughed angrily, but he felt so powerless, in the face of fate, he was so small. Uncontrollable pain welled up in his heart, and Yang Xuan's eyes began to blur.

Wang Xi looked at Yang Xuan, he couldn't bear it, sighed and said, "Senior brother, I can only help you here, and the rest is up to you." With that, he turned and left.

Soon, Yang Xuan suppressed all kinds of emotions in his heart, and said loudly to Wang Xi: "Senior brother's great kindness, Yang Xuan will definitely repay him in the future, senior brother, don't worry, I will definitely be able to arrive at the sect on time!"

Yang Xuan looked up at the sky, feeling that the way of heaven was so unfair, and he was angry in his heart: "Since you want me to lose the election, I want to become a disciple of the Daomen, if you want me to die, I want to live strongly, if fate is like this, I want to break this shackle, if the way of heaven is like this, I want to rebuild this order!"

Yang Xuan strode back, Yang Xuan at this moment is no longer the innocent Yang Xuan, he is still kind, but no longer weak, he is still simple, but no longer stupid!

Sun Xinlei saw Yang Xuan walking back, and hurriedly asked, "Senior Brother Yang, what did Senior Brother Wang Xi tell you?

Yang Xuan just said lightly: "Senior Brother Wang Xi told us to speed up, don't fall too far behind, and delay time!" said as he picked up his backpack again and continued to walk forward.

Sun Xinlei and Xie Yuange had to hurry up, Sun Xinlei was still complaining all the way, Xie Yuange still responded to Sun Xinlei's complaints and questions, only Yang Xuan was silent along the way.

Yang Xuan estimated that he would have walked sixty or seventy miles this day, and in the future, due to the consumption of physical strength, it would become bigger and bigger, and the speed would be greatly slowed down, and he couldn't help but be secretly anxious. But it is too dangerous to travel at night, and if you don't rest well, your body won't recover, and it won't help. So the three of them found a rock pile at the foot of the hill on the side of the road, lit a fire to rest, ate some dry food, and prepared to rest.

In autumn, the wind in the mountains rustles the leaves all over the mountain, the unknown animals whine, and the three teenagers are shivering with a fire, not only cold, but also in the unknown darkness, they always feel that something is staring at them.

Yang Xuan made a deal with the two of them, taking turns to be on duty at night, Yang Xuan was the first, Sun Xinlei was the second, Xie Yuange was the third, and the shift changed every hour.

After the arrangement, due to the fatigue of the day, Sun Xinlei and Xie Yuange quickly forgot their fears, and soon the two of them fell asleep deeply.

Yang Xuan was looking around with increased vigilance, and suddenly found that three or four big men slowly walked over in the darkness not far away, led by a turban, with a knotted beard on his face, with a fierce face, and walked forward to look at the three people next to the fire, and the package with the white fog door mark next to the three people, as if they were confirming something.

Yang Xuan stood up vigilantly, he knew that these people appeared at this time, and they were definitely not good people.

"Boy, are you a new disciple of the White Mist Sect?" shouted the fierce man at the head.

"Exactly, we are the disciples of the White Mist Sect selected by the Liangshan Prefecture Prefecture this year, we are just exploring the way in front, and the brigade of men and soldiers are not far behind!" Yang Xuan replied calmly without being humble or arrogant.

"Boy, don't scare your uncle and me, is there a little Taoist priest named Yang Xuan here?" the fierce man shouted again.

When Yang Xuan heard this, he didn't know that the other party was looking for him, and immediately shouted: "Master, I am, are you going to rob!" Thinking in his heart, he couldn't even burden Sun Xinlei and Xie Yuange, and rushed out of the mountain road after shouting.

Several big men roared and chased after them, and Yang Xuan heard a man behind him ask, "Boss, how can you call out your name?"

"Nonsense, don't ask the name, who knows which one is him, wouldn't it be nice to get rid of him. The fierce man shouted while chasing: "Why do you all follow, go back alone, and kill those two little Taoist priests too!

Such a big movement, Sun Xinlei and Xie Yuange had already woken up, where had the two teenagers seen this formation, they trembled with fright, and finally Yang Xuan lured those thieves away, and the two were trying to find a place to hide, when they heard that someone was going to come back and kill them, they were even more frightened and ran away.

Yang Xuan knew that what the other party wanted was himself, running all the way, leading all the way, but he had no choice but to run out of physical strength in a day's journey, and he was not familiar with the terrain, so he ran to a dead end, and at the end of the dead end was a dark cliff, and by the dim moonlight, he couldn't see the depth, Yang Xuan just stood on the edge of the cliff, facing the four big men slowly approaching him.

"Little Taoist, the uncle has no grievances with you, but when you collect money from people, you always have to eliminate disasters for others, so it's no wonder that you offended people who shouldn't be offended!" The fierce man at the head said viciously, his hideous expression was extremely terrifying in the flickering firelight.

"Who is going to kill me, let me die and die!" Although Yang Xuan had a guess in his heart, he still wanted to confirm that even if he died, he didn't want to be a ghost who died unjustly.

"Big brother, don't talk nonsense with him!" After a horse-faced man in the back finished speaking, he took a big knife and rushed up to Yang Xuan is knife, under the conditioned reflex, Yang Xuan desperately retreated, stepped into the air, and fell down before he had time to shout.

The man at the head slapped the horse-faced man just now: "You fuck you!" looked at the bottomless cliff, and he also knew that he must be too dead to die anymore, but there was no physical evidence, and it would take a lot of trouble to go back.

The fierce man at the head scolded and led them back again.