Jinling Academy, one hundred and eight ladders, only those who are good have entry qualifications, those who accumulate virtue have admission qualifications, and those who are on the right path have the qualifications to reach the top.

Shen Mo Ye and Chen Yu followed the young man to Jinling Academy, just at a glance, Shen Mo Ye fell in love with this school. This school is built in a secluded suburb, the quaint mountain gate towers on the sheep intestine path, and there are some faint scratches on the black mountain gate pillars, interpreting the vicissitudes of time. The plaque of the mountain gate is engraved with a simple and atmospheric pattern, and the four words of "Jinling Academy" on the plaque are vigorous, revealing a Ling Ran's heroic righteousness. On the night of the moxibustion, Chen Yu looked up at the plaque, and then looked at the straight upward sheep intestine path, and invariably gave birth to a sense of awe.

"Please. ”

Chen Yu asked the colorful elk to wait for him at the foot of the mountain, and then followed the young man to the sheep intestine trail with Shen Moxibustion Night. The moment Chen Yu stepped on the first staircase, the surrounding scenery suddenly changed, and the flowers and trees on both sides of the road disappeared and became cave walls. Shen Moxibustion Night, Chen Yu was unconscious, and still followed the young man to climb upward. After walking about ten steps, the young man suddenly stopped his pace and looked at Shen Jiu Ye and Chen Yu with a smile. It turned out that at this moment, the ninth staircase suddenly rose 1 zhang (3.33 meters) high, and a large stone fell above the head, so that the road to the tenth staircase was only one entrance less than 5 inches (16.67 cm). Shen Moxibustion Night, Chen Yu secretly said, this entrance is so small, how can you get by.

Obviously the view was blocked by the big stone, but the night of the moxibustion still clearly saw the young man's facial expression, which was an expression of detachment from the world and looking down on all beings. Shen Moxi's heart was touched fiercely, he looked at the entrance that was no more than 5 inches, and smiled indifferently.

"Crawl, I'll crawl over too. ”

Due to the change of mentality, when I looked at the entrance on the night of the moxibustion, it seemed to be much wider. He rolled up his trouser legs and climbed smoothly into the entrance. Seeing this, Chen Yu also learned moxibustion and climbed into the entrance. When the two of them reached the tenth step, the ninth step was restored to its original state, and the large rock above their heads disappeared, and even the surrounding cave walls became the flowers and trees that the two of them first saw.

The young man said: "All things are born in the heart, and all thoughts are transformed into the form of all things." A thought blooms and a thought falls, everything is determined by your heart. Congratulations on ascending the Ten Ladders and getting started. ”

The young man climbed up again, followed by Shen Ji Ye and Chen Yu. When I got to the fifteenth staircase, I suddenly saw that there was no road ahead, and many students lingered here. The young man walked up to the students and said, "The sixteenth to the twentieth ladder are hidden ladders, good but ignorant, fall sixteen, good but no courage, fall seventeen, good but do nothing, fall eighteen, good but no wisdom, fall nineteen, foolish and good, stop twenty." ”

The young man fell and strode forward, walking in the air in full view of everyone. After a total of five steps, we reached the opposite hill. Seeing the young man passing, a student seemed to be encouraged, took a deep breath, and walked into the air. However, after only two steps, he suddenly screamed and fell off the cliff. The students were taken aback, and many of the students who were about to walk into the air retracted their steps, looking at the broken road, and frowned.

The young man looked at all this lightly, and said slowly: "A hundred years of time, a snap of a finger, but a dream." The road to study is full of hardships and dangers, and if you are not strong-hearted, please return. ”

When the young man's words fell, a student glanced at the broken road, sighed, and turned to go down the mountain. With the departure of the first student, the other students seemed to be affected and turned down the mountain one after another. This walk is seven or eight out of ten. Shen Moxibustion Ye found that although the young man's expression was faint, it revealed a sadness and helplessness.

As if sensing the gaze of the Divine Moxibustion Night, the young man's eyes glanced at the Divine Moxibustion Night. Shen Jiu Ye smiled at the young man, and then walked fearlessly into the air. One step, two steps, three steps...... Shen Moxibustion Night successfully arrived on the opposite mountain. Chen Yu followed closely and successfully arrived at the opposite mountain. The young man looked at the two and said: "Virtue is divided into four grades, the first grade is virtue, the middle grade is merit, the upper grade is yin virtue, and the best grade is morality." You are virtuous, all of them are the best, and you are allowed to enter the school. ”

The young man made a gesture of "please", and the night of the moxibustion and Chen Yu understood, bid farewell to the young man, and continued to climb upward. After walking about ten steps, I suddenly saw a path on the left, paved with small, broken white stones. The road is lined with verdant bamboos, and bluegrass and chrysanthemums can be seen everywhere. At the end, there are two red plum trees, and you can still see vaguely, there is an antique academy.

On the night of the moxibustion, Chen Yu was about to go to the path, but was stopped by a young man. The dress of this young man is very similar to that of the young man who led the night of moxibustion and Chen Yu to enter the school. He also wore a white shirt and a white skirt, and a white jade pendant hung around his waist, but instead of a turquoise green shirt, he wore a light purple gown.

The young man blocked the way of Shenjiu Ye and Chen Yu, and said slowly: "Seek scholars, enter the academy." To find the truth, you need to climb upward. Thirty starts and ends one hundred and eight. Every ten steps, there is a pass of cultivating the mind, passing and moving forward, but it stops. Even if there is a leak in the heart, it will still stop at one of the ten ladders on it. After a hundred ladders, there are five steps, and there is a big pass. If you can't pass perfectly, the road ahead will be in vain.

The meaning of your coming, the mountain chief already knows, let me tell you and others. After each level, you can get a simple clue about the Divine Beast Order. If you can reach the top, you can not only get detailed clues about all the Divine Beast Orders, but also get the help of our school. So, I would like to congratulate you both on your success in reaching the top. ”

On the night of the moxibustion, Chen Yu gave a bow to the young man, and continued to climb upward. The two of them walked ten steps, and as the young man said, they encountered a threshold of cultivating their minds. I saw that the two people who were originally in the school suddenly arrived in Huangquan. The surface of this Huangquan Road is no different from the ordinary mountain road, a straight field, and there seems to be no end. The road was surrounded by a vast white expanse, which was neither smoke nor fog nor frost, but the unique yin qi of the underworld. There are two little ghosts jumping on the right side of the night of the god moxibustion and Chen Yu, shouting where to catch people.

Shen Moxibustion Night and Chen Yu were a little confused by the little ghost's quarrel, and the two walked along Huangquan Road. Seeing that they were getting closer and closer to the underworld, Shen Jiu Ye and Chen Yu suddenly realized that they were cultivators, and their mission had not yet been fulfilled. However, what mission the two of them practiced, for a while, they couldn't remember.

Shenjiu said in the dark at night, and when he heard the Tao, he could die at night. And now, the Tao is not full, how can you enter the Yellow Spring.

As soon as the thought came out, the night of Shenjiu suddenly brightened, and he found that Huangquan Road was gone, and he and Chen Yu returned to the school, and in front of them was the thirty-first ladder. An old voice sounded, the Dao heart was firm, the spiritual platform was dustless, and all demons avoided it, and hell was not accepted. Clearance.

Shen Moxibustion Night, Chen Yu walked up ten more steps, and reached the fortieth step. Suddenly, the scenery changed again, and the two of them arrived at the banks of the River Styx. The sky is grey, and the river is muddy and black. There were many people standing by the river, seemingly waiting for the ferry. Shen Ji Ye and Chen Yu walked behind the crowd and suddenly saw a boat slowly coming this way. The boat was an ordinary wooden boat, and the proponent had a hat on his head, so he couldn't see it clearly. When the boat approached, Shen Jiu Ye and Chen Yu suddenly found that the ship had no bottom.

The boatman said: "All the property on your body can be used as ferry money to cross the river." ”

The river crosser gave his possessions to the boatmen, who collected them and scattered them into the River Styx. He said: "I have happened in the previous life, and there is nothing in this life. However, not all of them gave all their possessions to the boatmen, and at this point, the boatmen would ask if the ferryman's property should be used as ferry money. If the ferryman shakes his head or refuses to allow it, the ferryman will not be forced to collect it and will still let the ferryman on board.

Seeing that they could get on the boat without handing over all their property, many ferrymen left some valuables more or less. As if unconscious, the propeller routinely collects property, scatters property, asks questions, and repeats the same action.

The boat may look small on the outside, but it can accommodate all the ferrymen. Shen Mo handed over the money at night, and took off the green peiyu on his waist and handed it to the boatman. The boatman turned and scattered the objects towards the River Styx, and casually asked, "Sabre, do you want to use it as a ferry?"

When Shen Mo heard this, he did not hesitate to take off the saber at his waist and hand it to the boatman. The boatman threw his sword into the River Styx, and said, "Do you want to use your belt and boots as a ferry?"

Shen Ji Ye glanced at the golden belt tied around his waist and a pair of gold wire-trimmed boots on his feet, and without saying a word, he tore off his belt, took off his boots, and handed them to the boatman. Seeing this, Chen Yu took the initiative to hand over the money and the magic weapons, weapons, and valuable things on his body to the boatman. The boatman threw them down the River Styx one by one, and then slowly rocked the oars, and the boat began to move slowly toward the opposite side.

Some of the people on the boat joked that the night was too stupid, and said that the belt and boots were not worth a few dollars, so why not keep them. Shen Jiu listened quietly and did not say a word.

The boat was in the middle of the river, and suddenly there was confusion on board. For those who had left their possessions began to sink their bodies into the river. The finances that they forced to keep have become a talisman at this moment. By the time they realize it's not good, it's too late.

The propeller said: "Money is something outside the body, so why bother to breed and compete, and work hard to control it." The temptation of money, fame and fortune is a black cloth that cannot be stopped, and the mind will be blinded, and then it will lose its way and lose itself. The disasters in the world are all tied up by these two things, and between life and death, it is a greedy thought. ”

As the words of the boatman fell, Shen Jiu Ye saw a person with a jade ring being dragged into the River Styx by the jade ring; the person wearing the gold belt seemed to have turned into a boulder, and his waist was broken alive and fell miserably into the River Styx; the person wearing the golden boots seemed to have turned into iron in an instant, and he was brought into the River Styx in the future; the person holding the jade or porcelain in his hand had his hands firmly glued to the object he was holding, and fell into the River Styx with the object. The boat is still walking, ninety percent of the people on board have fallen into the river, and there are many poor people and few rich people, all of whom secretly rejoice and hand over all their property.

When the boat reached the shore, the living got out of the boat and went to Lethe. Shen Moxibustion Night and Chen Yu were stopped by the boat supporter, and said: "You have passed the customs and can go back." With that, he took off his hat and waved it at the two of them. Shen Ji Ye and Chen Yu were thrown off the finances of the River Styx and returned to each other, and then the two of them saw a flower in front of their eyes and reached the forty-first step of the school.