Moving forward along the trail, after a while, Su Mai and his party had already come to the end of the trail.

In front of it was a small mountain, and behind it was a boulder tens of feet high, sealing off the road and the valley.

The disciple of the Iron Sword Sect who led the way came to the foot of the boulder of the mountain peak, turned forward, and disappeared.

Everyone hurriedly chased after them, and found that under the boulder, there was another place, but it was difficult to detect it from a distance.

Sumai turned around the mountain and found that the boulder was not a whole, but a pile of two irregular boulders.

There is a gap about five zhang high at the junction of the two stones, which gradually widens from top to bottom, and a hole with a width of more than one zhang has been formed on the ground.

The bluestone path passes through the entrance of the cave and extends inward.

Seeing this scene, Gao Xiang was overjoyed, shouted and ran inside, and Su Mai and Han Ping'er followed suit.

The cave was cold, but the light was sufficient, and Su Mai walked less than a hundred steps before he was out of the cave.

As soon as he got out of the cave, Su Mai was stunned by the scene in front of him, and Gao Xiang was even more excited and couldn't scream.

It's just that in front of me is a huge valley, several times where the Nine Palace Array is located.

There is a turquoise lake, like a piece of jasper embedded in the middle of the valley.

A thin layer of water vapor on the surface of the lake has not yet dissipated, and there are cranes soaring and falling from time to time, and all kinds of unknown rare birds gather here, free and leisurely, like a fairyland.

Along the shore of the lake is a row of towering buildings, only to see the towers towering to the sky, the palace is in an uproar, and you can't see the end at a glance.

A tall building in the middle swayed up, like a giant sword straight into the sky, compared to the two-story building where everyone lived last night, it was already a world of difference.

The disciples of the Sword and Iron Gate in front looked at the group of shouting teenagers, and did not stop them, and led them along the lakeside, and finally stopped in front of a large compound.

There were already disciples of the Iron Sword Sect waiting in front of them, and when they saw everyone coming, they greeted them.

After exchanging a few words with the man who had led the way before, he led the people into the compound.

The three of them then entered.

The courtyard is very large, there are rockeries and ancient trees, curved water pavilions, and it is like a private garden of a large family.

Walking into it, I saw a large hall in front of it, with the words "Deacon Hall" written on it, which was obviously the "Deacon Hall" where the newcomer was selected, and the "Deacon Hall" headed by Elder Guo, the master of Ning Dachuan.

Everyone rushed in, and Su Mai and the others walked at the end, talking and walking.

When I entered the hall, I found that the antechamber of the deacon's hall was very large.

Pure wood structure, about five zhang high, dozens of zhang wide, solemn and spacious, can accommodate hundreds of people at the same time.

In the middle of the hall hangs a large portrait of a middle-aged man.

Black-haired robe, long beard fluttering, behind the diagonal diagonal black long sword, although the face is gentle, but with a momentum that is not angry but powerful, the eyes are bright, as if you can see through people at a glance.

Su Mai stared at the portrait and quickly looked away.

The portrait of the heart path light has such a majesty, if it is a real person, what should it be?

But after thinking about it, this portrait should be the Konoha Patriarch who founded the Iron Sword Gate back then, a figure from thousands of years ago, but now I am afraid that it has long since disappeared.

Five ebony circle chairs are lined up below the portrait.

Besides, there was nothing else, and the whole hall was empty, cold and solemn.

After everyone had entered, the disciple of the Iron Sword Sect who was in charge of the connection here stood in the center of the hall and said in a loud voice:

"Everyone, please be silent"

After a pause, he continued: "This is the deacon hall responsible for the internal and external affairs of the sect, congratulations to you for passing the primary election, and then there will be elders of each hall to select you, if you have the chance, you will be favored by the elders, you will become an inner disciple, taught by the elders themselves, if you are not selected, you will become an outer disciple, live in the outer valley, and the senior brother of this sect will pass on the magic from generation to generation, and if you have a successful practice in the future, you will also have the opportunity to enter the inner gate." Please wait here until all the newcomers have completed their examinations, and the Sect Master and the elders will come here. ”

After speaking, he was about to turn and leave, and when he was about to take a step, he suddenly added:

"The walls around this hall are engraved with a brief outline of my iron sword gate and disciple regulations, if you are interested, you can do a little bit of Xiangxiang"

Then he strode away.

When everyone heard this, they went to both sides, and Su Mai and the three of them also walked to one side at will.

Gao Xiang was impatient, so he pulled Su Mai on the way and asked:

"Su Mai, do you want to be an inner disciple?"

"Nonsense, who doesn't want to do it, there are elders who teach it, what kind of treatment is that, and if you look at this house, you will know the difference between the inner and outer disciples"

Su Mai replied with some disdain.

"That's right, who doesn't want to be an inner disciple, Han Ping'er, what do you say?"

Gao Xiang turned his head to Han Ping'er and asked.

"I don't care, depending on fate, even if you can't be an inner and outer disciple, the outer disciples are the same, as long as you work hard, you will definitely be able to achieve something", Han Ping'er replied casually.

"The two of you should be able to choose, I'm afraid that only the lives of the outer disciples will be killed. ”

Gao Xiang said with a gloomy face.

Su Mai patted him on the shoulder and smiled softly:

"Don't be discouraged if you haven't chosen yet, maybe an elder happens to be a fat man and chooses you. ”

Before he finished speaking, he heard Han Ping'er laugh out loud.

"How can you comfort people like this, Gao Xiang don't listen to him", said Ben and left first.

Gao Xiang and Su Mai followed behind him and laughed for a while, and in a moment they were already under the wall of the hall.

I saw huge bluestones embedded in the wall, which were engraved with the history of the Iron Sword Sect and the rules and precepts of the door.

Su Mai's eyes swept over, and found that there were 680 rules for this door alone, and everything was explained in detail, and he had to sigh that this thousand-year-old sect was really strict.

Su Mai has been playing with the sky since he was a child, and he is naturally not very interested in such rules and precepts, but the life of the ancestor on the side has attracted Su Mai's attention.

From the Konoha patriarch down, until the tenth generation, that is, the former sect master Jiang Chen, has been introduced.

Thousands of years ago, in the same vein, Su Mai looked all the way, and knew a little more about this Iron Sword Gate.

At the same time, he found a question, among the ten generations of sect masters, nine people have recorded their deaths, but the whereabouts of the founder of the mountain, Konoha Daoren, are unknown, and they are only simply remembered

"Wandering, not knowing the trail of immortals".

Could it be that this Konoha Patriarch disappeared in the end?" Su Mai muttered to himself.

"Who's missing?", Gao Xiang leaned over.

"It's okay, let's go over there and have a look", after saying that, he pulled Gao Xiang and walked to the other side.

On the other side of the wall is the sect setting of the Iron Sword Gate, accompanied by a large map of the inner and outer valleys.

Su Mai read it with great interest, and then he learned that the Iron Sword Gate was divided into three Qing Sword Pavilions, the Punishment Hall, the Deacon Hall, and the Patriarch Hall.

Except for the Sanqing Sword Pavilion, which is in the hands of the sect master, the rest of the halls are in charge of special elders.

Usually perform their duties, and in case of trouble, the Sanqing Hall will convene the elders to discuss.

The management of recruiting newcomers and outer disciples is in charge of the Deacon Hall, which shows that the Deacon Hall is the most complex part of the Iron Sword Gate.

The map shows the functions and building names of the inner and outer valleys.

In addition to the familiar mountain gate giant sword, the Nine Palace Stone Formation and the living place of the outer disciples, there is also the Liuxian Lake that I saw when I just entered the inner valley and the giant building in the middle------- Sanqing Sword Pavilion and so on.

When Su Mai and the others finished reading the contents of the hall wall, many newcomers came in the hall one after another.

After about an hour like this, the disciples of the Iron Sword Sect who had been guided earlier led several more people in.

This time, he was followed by more than a dozen disciples dressed in the same cyan costumes.

I saw them enter through the exit on the side of the hall, and after a while, they returned with a bunch of gray futons, and set them up in turn about two feet in front of the five round chairs, and there were dozens of them.

After the futon was set, the disciples in Tsing Yi instructed the newcomers to sit down on the futon in turn, waiting for the sect master and the elders of each hall.

Su Mai beckoned Gao Xiang and Han Ping'er to sit down cross-legged on the left front of the third row.

In a few moments, the hall was arranged.

The rookie disciples who were fortunate enough to pass the first round of assessment were all holding their breath at the moment, waiting for luck to come, and even Gao Xiang quieted down, looking at the empty ebony chair in front of him, his eyes were full of excitement.

In this tense and slightly dull atmosphere, Su Mai only felt a little depressed, and when he was bored, he suddenly broke the silence of the hall with a loud shout.

"The sect master and the elders of each hall have arrived", a loud voice sounded, and I don't know who it came from.

There was a faint commotion in the crowd, which quickly recovered.

Then, behind the arch on the right side of the hall, a group of more than a dozen people poured in.

The person who took the lead was a tall and burly old man, with a broad face and thick beard, a dragon and a tiger step, and his own majesty in his actions, which was the current sect master of the Iron Sword Sect, Yi Jianchu.

Followed by a thin old man, his dark cyan robe covered his thin figure, his face was cold, not revealing, his eyes were sunken, but his divine light was exposed, it was Mo Changfeng, the elder of the torture hall.

Parallel to it was a middle-aged man, dressed in a dark green robe, chic and handsome, smiling, looking at it like a spring breeze, in stark contrast to the thin old man on his side, but it was Guo Ziyang, the owner of this deacon hall.

After the two, she was a middle-aged beauty, dressed in a light purple robe, with a water blue belt around her waist, dignified appearance, light lotus steps, and graceful posture, she was the only female elder of the Iron Sword Sect who did not have a ministry, Jiang Rongyun, and the only daughter of the previous sect leader Jiang Chen.

Surprisingly, behind the three men and one woman, there was a one-armed old man, whose dark gray robe lined with the empty sleeves of his left arm was particularly eye-catching.

I saw that his face was expressionless and he followed in, his face was wrinkled, full of vicissitudes, and his eyes were also cloudy and bright, looking more like an ordinary old man in the twilight, and the Iron Sword Sect was a master, but he was completely untouched, and even the disciples in the Iron Sword Sect did not know much.

The old man was followed by a group of young disciples led by Yuan Xiao, who followed without saying a word.