Once upon a time there was a mountain, and there was a wooden house on the mountain, and in the house lived a strange old man.

The mountain is called Pengyuan Mountain, and the name of the wooden house is Sanmai, as for the strange old man, he leans on the side of the tree and snores.

There is movement in the mountains, and if you listen carefully, the trees in the forest are moving, and the wind is blowing.

A figure carrying someone on his shoulder appeared on the top of Pengyuan Mountain, walked to the tree and snored the old man's side and said respectfully: "Master, how to deal with the apprentice who rescued a teenager in the mountain." ”

The old man who was snoring seemed to be pretending to be asleep, and opened his small eyes to stare at the most satisfied disciple and said, "What's the matter?"

The old man loved the apprentice wearing a black and white robe, and his face under the cold eyes was covered by a mask, and he saw him put the rescued boy on the ground and said: "When the apprentice came back, he found that the boy almost fell into the mouth of the 'filial piety beast'. ”

The old man struggled to stand up, only to find that he was short and a little hunchbacked.

The old man patted the dust behind him, walked to the unconscious boy and squatted down, his thin hand probed the young man's throat, and said to the cold man: "He's fine, send him down the mountain." ”

The cold-faced man nodded, and when he lifted the unconscious young man with one hand and was about to leave, a letter fell out of the young man's arms, the envelope was not sealed, and the letter inside was drawn out.

"Wait. ”

The old man called back his apprentice, got up and approached, looked at the unconscious young man carefully, and said with a strange expression: "Take him back to the house, and wipe the blood on his face." ”

The apprentice was surprised in his heart, but he did not speak, and according to the master's words, he led the young man to a wooden house on the top of the mountain.

The short old man read the letter that the young man had carried, and his face was cloudy.

Following.

Meng Bai woke up and found himself lying on the bed at this time, and the pain in his forehead made him can't help but scream.

The boy looked around and noticed that not far from the bed was an old man with white hair and a long beard lying on a couch with his eyes closed.

"Old man, where is this place?" Meng Bai asked as he sat at the head of the bed and put on his cloth shoes.

Seeing that the old man seemed to be asleep, Meng Bai didn't dare to disturb, and was about to go out of the house to find out, when the old man who was lying on the bench suddenly spoke.

"Who are you Sun Jiju?"

Meng Bai had never heard the old man's name, and he was puzzled: "The younger generation doesn't know the Sun Ji pot in your mouth." ”

When the short old man heard this, he immediately bounced up from the wooden chair, stared at Meng Bai with a pair of small eyes and said, "You don't know Sun Jiju, then why do you have his letters?"

When Meng Bai heard this, he touched it with his hand deep into his arms, and found that the letter of apprenticeship left by his grandfather was no longer there.

"The juniors don't know what Sun Jiju's letter is, but there is a letter missing from the juniors, do the juniors know where it is, this letter is extremely important to me. Meng Bai spoke anxiously.

A short old man in a red and white brocade coat held an envelope in his hand and asked, "But it?"

Meng Bai saw that the letter was in the old man's hand, took it back and looked at it carefully, nodded and said, "That's right, it's this one, thank you senior." ”

The old man walked up to Meng Bai, looked around him, and then asked, "Where did you get this letter?"

Meng Bai put the letter away and replied: "This is what my grandfather left me, and he asked me to bring the letter to Pengyuan Mountain to find a person named 'Wang Ru' and worship him as a teacher, but I have been looking for more than half a year to find this peng..."

The old man was a little impatient when he heard this, and interrupted Meng Bai: "Okay, okay, I don't want to hear you say this." ”

"The old man is Wang Ru. ”

"You are Wang Ru?!"

The old man Wang Ru, with his hands behind his back, nodded inscrutable in response, and then spoke: "I don't care how your grandfather got this letter, since you found me with Sun Jiju's letter, then I will accept you as an apprentice." ”

When Meng Bai heard this, he knelt on the ground excitedly and kowtowed, "Master, please accept the apprentice Meng Bai's bow." ”

"I have received countless disciples in my life, but only one satisfies me. All the disciples I have accepted are all gifted, but you are the first, entrusted by my friends of Wang Ru, to accept me into the disciples. Since you are not a person that my Wang Ru personally values, then you have to face a small test, if you pass me, I will accept you as a disciple, are you willing?"

Meng Bai didn't expect that he would come here not far to apprentice, and he would have to pass any test, but in order to learn the sword, Meng Bai resolutely said: "The junior is willing! But what if the junior is stupid and can't pass your test." ”

"If you fail, I will ask my most proud disciple to teach you what you want to learn. Wang Ru, the old man who had already walked out of the wooden house, turned around and said.

Meng Bai also followed Wang Ru's footsteps out of the wooden house, raised his head and saw an unobstructed view in front of him, a huge round platform, divided into two, standing on the top of the mountain like a formation, and a masked man in a black and white robe stood in it, standing with his hands in his hands.

"This stage is called 'Yin Yang Array', and you will be in it when you get to the test. The short old man Wang Ru said to Meng Bai beside him.

"Who is that person?" the young man Meng Bai asked when he saw a person standing in the formation.

Wang Ru stroked his long white beard and said with a smile: "Those who help you protect the formation, let's enter the formation." ”

Meng Bai walked forward dozens of steps and stepped onto the 'Yin and Yang Array', wondering what kind of test this was.

When Meng Bai stepped into the formation, visions arose, and a roar sounded from the formation, and hundreds of humanoid stone statues suddenly rose from the ground, some of them were holding swords, stone sticks, and even strangely shaped stone statues with bare hands, all of which were moving towards the center of the young man.

Meng Bai saw the surrounding stone statues moving towards him, and thought to himself, if he didn't come up with countermeasures, he was afraid that he would be attacked to death by these stone statues.

Just as hundreds of stone statues were getting closer and closer to Meng Bai, the closest stone statues to where Meng Bai was moved moved, and the sword in his hand slashed at the young man, Meng Bai rolled and dodged, anxious.

Then several stone statues waved their fists like living people and smashed at Meng Bai, who was like an ape at this moment, extremely fast, jumping back and forth in it.

"Bang!"

Meng Bai was hit by a punch, flew upside down in the air, and several punches came to him, all of which landed on the thin body of the young man in the air.

The boy who kept being hit in the air spat blood from his mouth, and was constantly beaten into the air by the surrounding stone statues like a ball, and never fell to the ground.

At this moment, Meng Bai was seriously injured and almost fainted, only to see him grab a stone statue's arm in the air and punch the stone statue head with all his might.

"Ahh

Meng Bai screamed, and after all, he was flesh and blood, and that punch broke his arm.

After a stick of incense, the stone statue retreated, Meng Bai fell to the ground, and the blood flowed endlessly.

Outside the formation, the short old man Wang Ru shook his head when he saw this.

Meng Bai, who was lying in the formation, got up with difficulty, his forehead was broken, and his body was unstable and whispered to Wang Ru outside the formation: "Is there anything else?"

Wang Ru saw the young man stand up, his eyes lit up, and he saw him nod to the other person who was in the same formation.

Meng Bai only felt that he was about to die, and he was smashed into his body by these stone statues with infinite strength, which was tens of thousands of times more painful than when his grandfather beat him.

Suddenly.

A spiritual light lit up, and I saw the figure of the masked man who was also in the formation flickering, hanging in the air and looking down at Meng Bai, and the white light lifted Meng Bai's entire body.

Meng Bai's whole body was surrounded by a light curtain, and he only felt warmth all over his body, and his injuries healed.

His eyes gradually became clearer, and Meng Bai felt a white mist appear in his head, and he thought about it with his heart, as if in front of his eyes.

An hour later, the white mist in his brain completely dissipated, and Meng Bai found that he could actually see the internal organs in his body.

Then, the white light curtain that wrapped his whole body dispersed, and Meng Bai fell to the ground with doubts in his heart.

"Close your eyes and look at your heart, and your inner aura will be in the whole body, and you will be in the air. ”

An indifferent voice came from the young man's ear.

When he looked up, he saw that it was the masked man hanging in the air talking to him.

Listening to what the masked man said, Meng Bai did as he did, and then felt that his whole body was floating lightly, and he was hanging in the air like a masked man.

Outside the formation, Wang Ru said to the young man in the air: "This Pengyuan Mountain is full of spiritual energy, open your Divine Mansion today, how much you can absorb depends on your own luck." ”

Although I don't know what the 'aura' in the old man's mouth is, what the so-called 'divine mansion' is, and what is the use, but listening to his tone should be harmless.

I just felt that something was pouring into my body like a tidal wave, converging in my mind.

An hour.. Two hours.. Half a day later, the white fog in Meng Bai's mind reunited in the Divine Mansion, and he couldn't look at the Inner Mansion again.

The masked man hanging in the air landed with Meng Bai, and the masked man took out a long sword and threw it at Meng Bai in the distance.

Taking the long sword, Meng Bai felt that he was powerful at the moment, and thought that if he knew swordsmanship, he would be able to use it easily.

"With all your strength, stab me with a sword. The masked man in the distance said in a deep voice.

It turned out that he wanted to compete by himself, Meng Bai thought in his heart, "But I don't know swordsmanship, except for the swordsmanship that Swordsman Wu taught me, I can only swing my sword and dance wildly." No matter what, if you can't beat it, you have to fight. “”

The young man held his mind, held the sword in his left hand and pointed at the masked man in the distance, and used his sword holding technique to stab the man with all his might.

Outside the array, Wang Ru sighed lightly: "Although this sword-holding style is full of flaws, this kid can actually make this move, it seems that he has been instructed by a person with a sword." ”

A sword qi struck the masked man, and a stone tablet suddenly broke out of the ground, blocking in front of him, and the sword qi fell on the stone tablet and exploded.

Seeing that he had stabbed this sword, the power was huge, Meng Bai gradually got better, and was about to stab another sword, but was interrupted by Wang Ru, a short old man outside the formation.

Wang Ru didn't know when he stood beside Meng Bai, pressed Meng Bai's left hand with his sword, and said with a smile: "It's okay." ”

"Senior, I wonder if I have passed the test?" Meng Bai said to the old man beside him.

Wang Ru nodded and said: "This is not a test, the stone statue array just now is to help you quench your body, then it is to help you open the Divine Mansion for the first time, and finally to see your posture of practicing swords." ”

Unexpectedly, what he had just experienced in the formation would be beneficial to him, Meng Bai hurriedly knelt on the ground and said, "I implore Senior Wang to accept me as an apprentice!"

"Good, good, good. Wang Ru, who praised him again and again, then said: "Apprentice, as a teacher, there are four techniques of "Valley", "Sheji", "Nine Tombs" and "Yin and Yang", which are respectively in the same vein as sword cultivation, one vein in martial arts, one vein in qi training, and one vein in the three veins, corresponding to each other, I don't know which one you want to learn?"

Normal people will definitely choose the three-vein practitioner's technique "Yin and Yang", but for Meng Bai, who has been extremely envious of sword cultivation since he was a child, his choice has always been the same.

Meng Bai did not hesitate, and blurted out: "Master, the apprentice wants to learn "Valley". ”

Wang Ru, who was not surprised, asked again: "Don't you think about it, if you want to learn the other three techniques in the future, it will be extremely difficult." ”

"No, Master, I'll choose "The Valley". Meng Bai was resolute.

The short old man Wang Ru smiled and helped Meng Bai who was kneeling on the ground to his feet, and then waved his hand to the masked man in the distance and said, "Ziyou, don't come and get to know your little junior brother." ”

The masked man in a black and white robe hung two inches from the ground in the air, came to the two, and shouted respectfully to Wang Ru, "Master." ”

"This is your elder brother, Youziyou. He is also the most proud of his many senior brothers. Wang Ru said with a smile.

Meng Bai waved towards the masked wanderer, "Hello senior brother, my name is Meng Bai. ”

You Ziyou nodded in response, and then said, "Master, the disciple still has something to do, so let's go first." ”