On the shore of the East China Sea, the original Tianyi stands on a boulder.

There was no moon in the night, but a crescent-shaped jade plate hung in the air above Yuan Tianyi's head, quietly emitting a soft glow, illuminating the sea area for dozens of miles nearby.

The sea breeze swayed gently and rolled up the white waves.

Sixty years ago, Yuan Tianyi practiced "The Secret of Empty Life and Destroying the Sea Glass", left Luofu, and saw the sea for the first time.

Sixty years are like a white horse passing through a gap, and it is just a snap of a finger.

The legends in the world are not all true. At that time, the most outstanding and beautiful disciple of Cihang Jingzhai in decades, the Cangyue Fairy, stood beside him, and the Cangyue Fairy stretched out her hand to him, but he put this scarb bead in her palm.

When it was, Yuan Tianyi devoted himself to the Tao, and he cut off this relationship with the Cangyue Fairy, but when he stepped into the secret realm of heaven and man, Yuan Tianyi did not expect that there were thousands of knots in his heart, and in the past sixty years, the cultivation was like untying those knots one by one, but this one bead did not appear, and this knot finally could not be untied. Now this pearl is in front of you, it can finally be solved, this fetters are removed, maybe you can really take the last step and transcend the world, but now the scene is still the same, when you see this bead again, it is already in the hands of such a young beggar. The warm fragrance of nephrite is still between the mouth and nose, but the Si people have passed away. In Yuan Tianyi's eyes, he didn't know whether he was happy or sad.

He stood quietly for a moment, and slowly turned to face the young man beside him, "You have heard that person in Shuzhong just now, I can promise you a request, what you want, as long as I can do it, I will definitely help you complete it." ”

The sea breeze was wet and cold, the young man's clothes were ragged, and his face was blue from the cold, but he was swept by Yuan Tianyi from Shu to the East China Sea thousands of miles away by a spell, and in the time when Yuan Tianyi stood still, the young man was silent, and when Yuan Tianyi asked him, he replied: "Can you take me as an apprentice?"

"Take you as an apprentice?" Yuan Tianyi glanced at the young man, "Money and fame, even if you want gold and silver, rich and rival the country, I can help you do it, you really don't want anything else, want to be my apprentice?"

"Yes. The boy nodded.

Yuan Tianyi didn't say a word, the young man suddenly saw a flash of silver in his eyes, and immediately felt that a fiery air flow exploded directly in his heavenly spirit, and the change in front of his eyes suddenly became not standing on the seaside boulder, but hanging in the air and falling into a volcanic crater, the bottom was full of hot and fiery lava magma, as soon as he fell into the magma, the young man's flesh and blood were scorched and ulcerated, and the scalp seemed to explode, he couldn't help but want to let out a shocking scream, but he couldn't shout, and there was also hot magma pouring in from his mouth and nose, and all the inside were burned. But it doesn't die, the skin and flesh have just been scorched and festered, and the delicate skin is born, and the cycle repeats itself, constantly suffering and suffering.

"Do you want to be my disciple when you see that none of them are my opponents and envy me for their supernatural powers? But do you know that this path of cultivation is like taking a chestnut from the fire, cultivating my Luofu secret method, physical and spiritual, all of them do not have to experience endless pain and suffering. Yuan Tianyi's faint voice suddenly fell from the sky. When the sound disappeared, the boy found that he was still standing on the boulder by the sea, but the painful feeling of burning and festering flesh seemed to still stay in his body, and for a while, beads of sweat the size of beans suddenly soaked his body.

"Like today, it's just a small pain, and when you really cultivate, the pain you suffer, and the horror you see, are hundreds of times more than this, and my Luofu preaching is different, nine deaths and one life, are you really sure, don't want anything else, want to be my apprentice?" Yuan Tianyi saw that the young man was in abnormal pain, and couldn't help but gasp for breath, and shook his sleeves slightly displeased.

Yuan Tianyi only felt that if he said this, this young beggar would definitely change his mind. But to his surprise, the young man who was hunched over because of the pain looked thinner in the sea breeze, but his face was more resolute than ever, and after nodding vigorously, the young man who had bitten his lip replied in a hoarse accent like being burned, "I'm not afraid." ”

Yuan Tianyi looked at the young man with indifferent eyes, "I can promise to accept you as an apprentice, but according to my Luofu rules, if you want to enter my Luofu, you must go through the entrance test, and I can't show favoritism." If you can't get through, then you can't make any other requests, can you think about it?"

The young man who was hunched on his body nodded vigorously again.

Yuan Tianyi frowned slightly, this was obviously an ordinary mountain boy, but now the more he looked at it, the more he felt that this thin boy was different. A pair of clean eyes shone with a blazing light, different from the fear and numbness of ordinary beggars.

Is this the cause and effect of the world that I can't figure out?

Yuan Tianyi looked at the faint blue light shining in his hand again, and when he looked up again, the brilliance of the crescent-shaped jade disk that had been hanging over Yuan Tianyi and his head disappeared silently.

A white and bluish light rose from the shore of the East China Sea and headed south, and the speed was ten times faster than the sword lights in Shu Mountain.

"Blessed by the gods!" On the sea in the distance, on the fishing boat that got up early to fish in the dark, several fishermen looked at the white and blue light, and all bowed down, sincerely afraid.

Yuan Tianyi took the boy to a high mountain valley.

Is it to take the introductory test here? Yuan Tianyi didn't say anything, and the young man didn't dare to ask. In front of you is a strange sight, a deep blue mirror-like mountain lake, surrounded by mountains and jungles, and the shore is full of unknown shrubs and flowers, many of which are hung with berries of various colors. But in April, when the spring flowers were blooming, there were patches of white ice floes floating on the surface of the lake, and when the boy looked closely, he saw that under the deep blue bottom of the lake, there were patches of transparent ice floes floating out.

Yuan Tianyi, who was barefoot, walked to the lake, and the pearl fell from his hand into the lake.

This one that made the vast majority of cultivators in the world lose their Dao hearts and go crazy for it, was thrown into the dark blue water of this lake where thin flakes of ice would emerge from the bottom of this lake.

The young man was surprised to see that a sapling grew out quickly, floating on the water, the branches and leaves were transparent, as clear as ice chips, "What is this?" The young man couldn't suppress his instinct and couldn't help but ask.

As soon as the words came out, the young man was already worried in his heart, like Hetu and Lieyang Zhenren, a group of people, in front of Yuan Tianyi, they were still like ants, Yuan Tianyi was a real god in his eyes, and he took the initiative to inquire without consent, and his heart naturally understood it as an offense.

But Yuan Tianyi downstated, "This is the crystal, a hundred years of flowering, a thousand years of fruit, after the fruit, it will die, this pearl is the seed it bears." ”

"Isn't that the only one it has always been, isn't it lonely?" said the boy.

"Lonely?" Yuan Tianyi was stunned. Immediately, I saw that the crystal tree floating on the surface of the lake was small but vibrant, but I said lightly in my heart, "Ignorant boy, what do you know, what is not lonely in this world." ”

It is a mountain range with a warm climate, abundant moisture and dense trees, and it lies quietly in the vast uninhabited barrenness.

At the speed of Yuan Tianyi's flight in the sky, when he set off from the East China Sea, it was only late at night, but when he arrived in this valley, it was already the beginning of the rising sun. Out of the valley, the boy saw everywhere that there was a thick mist rising between the mountains, and suddenly he saw a few colorful poisonous snakes wrapped around the branches, although it was a few feet away from the original Tianyi, those poisonous snakes and insects had already been aware of Suosuo's avoidance, but this poisonous snakes and insects were everywhere, and the scene of desolation made the young man can't help but ask: "What is this place?"

Yuan Tianyi stood under a straight mountain peak, looked at the barren mountains shrouded in water vapor with his negative hands, and said slowly, "This is where Luofu is." ”

The young man didn't know if the cave mansion of Luofu Sect was like the legendary immortal cave mansion, and the elixir and jade liquid were everywhere, but at least the poor mountains and evil waters he saw in front of him were far from those legendary immortal caves. The early morning sun stained his and Yuan Tianyi's faces with a layer of golden light, and the straight mountain behind him and Yuan Tianyi was heart-wrenching and steep, covered with trees and vines, and halfway up the mountain was shrouded in thick white rain and mist, and it was impossible to see how high it was. There were no roads or steps on the top of the mountain, only a black iron chain that was old and hung down from above.

"From here to the south three miles, there is a local Miao Yi hut where the wild settles, the Miao Yi people are simple, there is food and water in it, if there are passers-by to live temporarily, when you leave, you only need to replenish the food, and the water can be filled. You haven't slept all night and your body is weak, so you can go there and rest first. Yuan Tianyi has always been like the ice floe in the floating ice lake to the young man, quiet and cold, at this time suddenly said so many words, the young man was a little stunned for a while, but he heard Yuan Tianyi nod to the straight mountain peak behind him, "This peak is nameless, but my Luofu Sect is on top of this mountain, if you can get to the top of the mountain, even if I am a Luofu disciple, if not, then go out of the mountain by yourself." ”

Yuan Tianyi's words were cold and resolute, without the slightest room for maneuver. The young man looked at the heart-wrenching steepness and the iron chains hanging from the clouds, but he didn't say anything more, and after saluting Yuan Tianyi, he broke a branch himself, brushed aside the bushes and grass, and walked in the direction of the small wooden house where Miao Yi had settled, as Yuan Tianyi said, and soon disappeared into the dense rainforest.

"Master", the figure of the young man had just disappeared into the woods, and an old figure of Long Zhong appeared behind Yuan Tianyi, his gray-white hair was loose and messy, and the wrinkles on his face were like hills and ravines in the mountains, but the most striking thing was the two extremely deep scars on the left side of his face. The old man is wearing the clothes of the local Miao Yi, and the blue cloth of the batik has a smoky and burning color, if such an old man sits quietly in the stilted building of the Miao Yi cottage, smoking a hookah with dim eyes is the most normal situation, but now this old man is standing respectfully beside the old man of Yuan Tianyi

The eyes are the same color as the rising sun under them, shining with a light that is completely different from their age. Looking at the direction in which the boy disappeared, the old man said softly: "Master, this young man is resolute and patient, has good qualifications, and looks like he is really a manufacturable material." ”

"Is it? Lao Zhaonan, you haven't joined the WTO for a long time, and you don't know that the world is already full of wars and starvation. The young man's eyes were unwilling to be angry, not resentful of his fate, and he gave birth to a courageous support out of thin air. Yuan Tianyi looked at the old man coldly, "If you talk about temperament and qualifications, Lao Zhaonan, you should also know the truth of seeing people's hearts for a long time." ”

Several wooden houses are perched on top of a hill. These wooden houses are made of mountain logs, and they look very simple. The mountain is extremely high, as high as a thousand feet, through the thick clouds and mist, from the top of the mountain, only to see a sea of clouds stretched out of the top of the mountain.

Lao Zhaonan turned his back to the hunting mountain wind and lit the black iron pot, and then loaded the burned ash into the Huang Zhonglu tube, and when he did this, his face carved by the sickle of time was full of concentration, as if he was polishing a piece of fine porcelain.

"Yin and Yangsheng, if you want to see the climate change, why bother so much?" Looking at Lao Zhaonan seriously watching the ashes in the yellow bell tube flying, a volume of "Jinding Seven Yuan Inner Scene Sutra" golden silk brocade silk that made many cultivators blush and heartbeat was casually thrown on the wooden table beside him.

Lao Zhaonan raised his head and looked at Yuan Tianyi, who was barefoot, as if he was not a person in the world, and smiled, "This can pass some time." Master, there should be a heavy rainstorm in three days?"

Yuan Tianyi didn't answer, looked at a sharpened axe and some chopped firewood scattered in another place, and asked thoughtfully: "Old Zhaonan, how long have we not used fireworks?"

Lao Zhaonan grabbed his hair, "Three years, or five years, is too long, a little unclear." ”

"yes, it's been too long, and you're already going to have to pass the time. Yuan Tianyi looked at Lao Zhaonan and said: "I am dedicated to the Tao, in order to understand the mystery of all beings, in the past sixty years, do you know what I have seen?"

"Sixty years ago, the master was born and destroyed in the sea, and the glaze trick was completed. The old slave is dull, how can he see what his master sees. Lao Zhaonan shook his head.

"This is the law of nature, and the same is true of the operation of the Heavenly Dao. Yuan Tianyi said: "You don't harm people's hearts, but people harm your hearts, you don't kill people, but people want to kill you." ”

"That's what the host said. It's just that I'm old enough. Lao Zhaonan's eyes were full of optimistic and fateful looks, "The master is here, I am here, the master is gone, what is the boundary between life and death." ”

"Do you think he can really climb up?" Yuan Tianyi turned his head and said no more, and the slender fingers that made any woman in the world want to be jealous and crazy instantly flicked out a mystical trick, and a trace of white cloud qi dispersed into a beamsplitter more than eight feet, and the scenery from the bottom of the mountain to the mountainside clearly appeared on the beamsplitter. A legendary earth immortal-level cultivator can only cast, and the powerful spell that can rebound the attacks of most immortal spells is actually just a mirror that he uses as a snooping mirror, and the vast majority of cultivators will definitely feel that he is like a nouveau riche who destroys the heavens, but this kind of spell that requires a lot of mana does not seem to have any effect on him at all.

Lao Zhaonan rubbed his rough hands, he saw that the thin young man was struggling to climb up along the iron chain, the iron chain and the branches around him scraped scars on his palms and body, but he still climbed up hard, but for a twelve or thirteen-year-old child, this mountain peak was too steep and too high. After less than a quarter of the way up, he finally got exhausted and slowly slid down.

"I can't seem to climb up. Lao Zhaonan never doubted Yuan Tianyi's words, but after respectfully saying this, the old man with a Miao accent grinned: "But master, as soon as I saw him, I felt that he was a little different." ”

No matter how Lao Zhaonan thinks that the young man is different from others, there is no record in the classics of the Luofu Sect that he has ascended to the sky without work because of anyone's appreciation. The next day, what Lao Zhaonan did was still to sit still for half a day like a dead man, and then began to move out a stone mortar that had not been used for a long time, and began to slowly pound the millet like a real old man in his old age, and quietly watched the mountain wind blowing away the golden chaff from the stone mortar.

At noon three days later, the first thing Lao Zhaonan did after waking up from sitting upright like a dead man was to grin, and on the platform in front of him stood Yuan Tianyi, who seemed to be one with heaven and earth, and the spectroscope that required to consume a lot of mana was quietly floating in the air in front of Yuan Tianyi at this moment.

"This kid isn't stupid. Lao Zhaonan's golden eyes flashed. As three days ago, the boy was still trying to climb up, and there were more scars on his body, but his hands and waist were tied with ropes made of strips of cloth, and when he was exhausted, he tied the rope to the iron chain, and hung himself on the iron chain to rest for a while, just like Lao Zhaonan hung bacon two days ago. In the past, the boy never exceeded a quarter of the height, but today the boy is almost close to the mountainside.

"Isn't it stupid that so many geniuses have come up with such a method?" Yuan Tianyi said disapprerovingly, "What's more, you can climb up like this?"

Lao Zhaonan didn't speak, just squinted and turned his head to look at the four-cornered bronze wind chimes he hung on the wooden house. Now these wind chimes have sounded a pleasant sound, and a rainstorm that often occurs in the Luofu mountains has officially kicked off.