Yun Yifan, Luo Qiuyan and Long Xiuyuan carried out the technique of light gong and indulgence, talking while walking quickly, and before they knew it, they soon came to the Yanwu Hall located on the east side of the Yunmen of the Qinling Mountains.

As soon as the three of them arrived at the main hall of the huge Yanwu Hall, they saw two middle-aged men sitting at the door at the "sign-in place", among them, the man wearing a black robe and embroidered with a rolling gold dragon pattern on the cuffs made a big move, and said: "Why did you three come so late, come and sign in quickly!"

"Dad, uncle, Xiuyuan is here to greet you. Long Xiuyuan stepped forward in response, and came to the sign-in desk first, and hurriedly saluted the middle-aged man in black and another middle-aged man in a white robe.

"Eldest aunt, second aunt, Qiu Yan also greets you!" Luo Qiuyan followed him to the sign-in office and saluted the two.

"Dad, uncle, hello, Yifan has said hello to the two of you. Yun Yifan also strode to the sign-in area and saluted the middle-aged man in white and the middle-aged man in black.

While watching the three people find their names on the sign-in book one by one and sign them in the back, the middle-aged man in white asked with a smile: "Xiuyuan, Qiuyan, Yifan, with the footsteps of the three of you, you should have arrived earlier, but why did you come now?"

"If it weren't for Brother Yifan's being in a daze again, and we didn't set off until everyone was gone, we would have arrived a long time ago!" Luo Qiuyan smiled like a flower, and replied casually with a pair of big eyes.

"Oh?" the middle-aged man in white and the middle-aged man in black said at the same time, the former with a hint of imperceptible worry, and the latter with a puzzled look.

"Sister Qiuyan—" Long Xiuyuan gestured very softly at Luo Qiuyan.

"What's wrong?" Luo Qiuyan responded in hindsight, and then looked at Yun Yifan with a gesture and eyes, but saw that Yun Yifan was slightly bowing his head and was silent, and immediately understood that Long Xiuyuan was signaling himself not to casually tell Yun Yifan's thoughts, especially to the elders.

Over there, the middle-aged man in white had already seen everything, only to see him smile indifferently, and said to Yun Yifan with concern: "Yifan, are you still worried about breaking through the barrier?"

"Dad, the child will definitely do his best!" Yun Yifan slowly raised his head and said solemnly towards the middle-aged man in white.

"Yifan, don't worry too much, and don't be too stressed. The middle-aged man in white still said indifferently but with concern, "Martial arts cultivation, sometimes you can't be in a hurry, you just have to do your best-

"It's better to really break down the barriers as soon as possible, but if it really takes a period of precipitation to break through in the end, it's not a kind of training for you.

"The path of martial arts is not smooth, if you can polish a more tenacious patience and calm attitude because of experiencing more setbacks in advance, it will also be of great help to your future cultivation.

"I think that your mother and I chose the word 'Fan' as your name at the beginning, just to tell you that even if you are ordinary, it is not a good thing, and you must not be too yourself in everything.

"As long as you can try your best, whether you stand out from the ordinary and stand out, or end up being ordinary, you don't have to regret it because you've done your best.

"Yifan, now you are enough to make your mother and me proud as a father, and we have all seen your hard work, so it doesn't matter if you can make a breakthrough in the next few days. Your mother and I hope that you can let go of the excessive pressure and burden, and just go with the flow. ”

"Thank you, Dad, the boy knows. The trace of solemnity on Yun Yifan's face finally began to fade slowly, and he replied with a smile.

At this time, several more twelve or thirteen-year-old teenagers came to the Yanwu Hall and were walking towards the sign-in area.

"Okay, Yifan, Xiuyuan and Qiuyan, the three of you go in first, the lottery is about to start. The middle-aged man in white said with a smile at the three people.

"Yes. Yun Yifan, Long Xiuyuan, and Luo Qiuyan responded, and then continued to walk towards the main hall of the Yanwu Hall together.

The middle-aged man in black on the side glanced at the three people who continued to walk inside, turned his head and said to the middle-aged man in white: "Qinghe, did Yifan encounter the limit barrier in the middle of the initial realm, but he couldn't break through it for a long time?"

The middle-aged man in white nodded and said, "That's right." ”

"Oh, no wonder!" the middle-aged man in black suddenly realized and said, "Count it out, the day of the end of this big competition happens to be Yifan's birthday." ”

"That's true. The middle-aged man in white smiled and said, "That's why this kid is a little worried." But looking at just now, he should be more or less calm. ”

"That's fine!" the middle-aged man in black also smiled.

The twelve or thirteen-year-old boys also came to the sign-in desk, found their names on the sign-in book one by one to complete the sign-in, and then hurried to the main hall of the Yanwu Hall to continue walking.

"Brother Wen Sheng, all the disciples who participated in the big competition this time have arrived, let's go in and explain it together!" The middle-aged man in white said to the middle-aged man in black while packing up the sign-in book.

"It's fine. The middle-aged man in black replied.

So, the two of them also went to the main hall of the Yanwu Hall together.

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The middle-aged man wearing a black robe with a rolling gold dragon pattern embroidered on the cuffs was Long Xiuyuan's father, Long Wensheng, while the other middle-aged man in a white robe was Yun Yifan's father, Yun Qinghe.

Yun Qinghe is forty years old this year, and his cultivation has already reached the upper level of the late stage of the Initial Realm; Long Wensheng is forty-nine years old this year, and he has already reached the limit of the upper level of the late stage of the Initial Realm, and is in the last obstacle in front of the Realm of Fan Wu Ascending Peak.

Not only that, but the wives of the two of them and Luo Qiuyan's parents were also upper-level cultivators in the late stage of the initial realm.

Except for Luo Qiuyan's mother, Lin Feixia, who was originally from the Taihua faction, another famous sect of martial arts Xuanzong and others that was as famous as the Qinling Cloud Gate, the remaining five of these three couples could be said to be natives of the Cloud Gate, and they all entered the inner gate of the Cloud Gate before reaching the late stage of the initial realm before the age of twenty. As a martial arts Xuanzong on the same level as the Qinling Cloud Gate, the rules of the inner and outer gates of the Taihua faction are almost the same, and Lin Feixia, the mother of Luo Qiuyan, also reached the late stage of the initial realm before the age of twenty and entered the inner gate of the Taihua faction.

The martial arts ceremony of Qinling Cloud Gate was originally a grand event that everyone in the whole department could participate in. However, with the growing growth of the Cloud Gate, the number of people in the gate gradually increased, and later a rule was established, except for the master of the door and the eight elders and worshippers, except for those who participated in the martial arts competition, the rest of the people in the gate must reach the initial perfection before they can participate.

Although Yun Qinghe and Long Wensheng were inner disciples, they were not able to participate in the Huiwu Ceremony because they had not yet reached the consummation of the initial realm, but were assigned to come to the Yanwu Hall in advance to make preparations related to the lottery grouping, and finally they were responsible for registering the disciples who participated in the Great Competition.

And when Yun Yifan and the three of them just came to the Yanwu Hall, Yun Qinghe saw the trace of solemnity on Yun Yifan's face.

For his son, Yun Qinghe can be said to know very well-

Yun Yifan has been practicing martial arts since he was born at the age of five, and he has worked much harder than ordinary children. Although this made Yun Qinghe and his wife very pleased, as parents, they couldn't help but feel a little distressed when they saw their children urinating so hard.

Later, intentionally or unintentionally, I learned that because this child was a member of the inner door because his parents were both insiders, he also wanted to use his own efforts to join the inner door in the shortest possible time, so as to add luster to his parents.

In order to protect the state of mind of the younger generations, although most of the children of the Yunmen juniors also knew from an early age that if they wanted to become inner disciples, they either needed to reach the middle stage of the initial realm within three years from the day they started practicing martial arts, or they could reach the late stage of the first realm before the age of twenty, but they did not know what the meaning behind it was.

It is not until the next generation meets either of these two conditions and thus enters the inner door through the outer door that the other two conditions and the meaning behind them will be told. Otherwise, you will not know until you reach the age of twenty.

Because, whether it is these juniors who have become inner disciples in advance, or other disciples, they will be restricted by the door rules and must not inform these in advance, so as to avoid any impact on the mood of these juniors who are still minors.

Therefore, Yun Yifan wanted to strive to reach the middle stage of the initial realm within three years so that he could enter the inner gate as soon as possible.

Knowing his son's thoughts, Yun Qinghe and his wife were naturally quite pleased, but they couldn't help but feel sorry for their son, and they were afraid that Yun Yifan's psychological pressure would be too great, so they often comforted them more, which was nothing more than words like "pay attention to your body and don't be too yourself".

Under the comfort and encouragement of his parents, Yun Yifan was still diligent, and finally reached the middle stage of the initial realm on his eighth birthday, thus entering the inner door.

Yun Qinghe and his wife thought that their son would be a little relieved now, but they didn't expect that after Yun Yifan knew the "four conditions" for entering the inner gate and the meaning behind it, he would cultivate more diligently than before.

Hard cultivation will inevitably be accompanied by rewards.

It only took another year and three months for Yun Yifan to break through from the lower layer in the middle of the initial realm to the middle layer, and then it took another year and nine months to break through to the upper layer again......

Looking at Yun Yifan, who has cultivated martial arts hard and grown rapidly, Yun Qing and his wife can be described as mixed feelings -

The son's martial arts cultivation can grow rapidly, Yun Qinghe and his wife are of course surprised, but looking at their son who has worked hard but is still young, of course they will be more or less distressed and nervous as parents, but they are still more worried, lest Yun Yifan's heart is too burdened and will have a bad impact in the future.

However, for the tenacious and persistent Yun Yifan, Yun Qinghe and his wife can only comfort and exhort him from time to time.

It wasn't until half a year ago that Yun Yifan finally cultivated to the peak extreme of the upper layer of the middle stage of the Initial Realm, that is, the limit of the middle stage of the Initial Realm, and once he made a breakthrough, he could immediately reach the late stage of the Initial Realm.

However, like many martial arts cultivators, he once again encountered a bottleneck here.

Martial arts cultivation is based on step by step, layer by layer. The bottleneck barrier is ethereal, but it does exist.

For ordinary martial artists, there are three main bottlenecks in martial arts.

The first is the barrier to the peak, that is, the bottleneck encountered by martial arts cultivation when it breaks through the realm of reaching the initial realm of consummation, which is the realm of "perfection and perfection of the heavens".

The second is the obstacle to subtlety, that is, the bottleneck encountered by martial arts cultivation when it breaks through the transcendent innate realm of reaching the subtle realm.

The third is the barrier to entry, that is, the bottleneck encountered by martial arts cultivation when it breaks through to reach the transcendent realm of "unity of heaven and man".

However, in addition to the bottlenecks on the path of the three largest martial arts cultivations, there are actually many other bottlenecks.

You must know that before the martial arts realm "the unity of heaven and man", the martial arts path was divided into the initial realm and the subtle realm.

The Initial Realm, as the name suggests, is the initial realm of cultivation, which is the foundation and foundation of martial arts cultivation. Because in this realm, most of the martial arts cultivation is based on the cultivator himself, and the power of the inner strength of the naïve qi after one death is still not out of the ordinary, so it is also called the "acquired mortal realm".

Entering the subtle realm, as the name suggests, is to enter the realm of gradually knowing the subtlety, which is the cultivation to a certain degree of subtlety. And in this realm, martial arts cultivators have begun to comprehend the way of heaven and then use the power of heaven and earth to return to the innate true qi after one death, which is the innate true qi, also known as the true yuan, which is extraordinary, mysterious and abnormal, so it is called "innate wonderland".

Then there is the realm of Tianyi, as the name suggests, it is the realm of "the unity of heaven and man", and it can also be said to be the realm of martial arts. To reach this realm, you have truly entered the Tao with martial arts, broken through the void, comprehended the true way of heaven and earth, and since then flew to the sky and the earth, entering and exiting the green underworld, as if it was the realm of immortals, so it is also called "the true realm of the void". Moreover, if you reach the realm of "the unity of heaven and man", it can be regarded as a real transcendent sanctification, so there is a "Tianyuan Rule" that compulsions that once you reach the realm of Tianyi, you must "fly away from the world".

Since once you reach the Heavenly One Realm, you have to fly away, so you don't know much about this realm in the world, and you don't know if there is a higher realm on it.

As for the initial realm and the subtle realm, each major realm is divided into four small realms from low to high: the early stage, the middle stage, the late stage, and the consummation, and the four small realms are roughly divided into upper, middle and lower levels from high to low.

If you talk about bottleneck barriers, in fact, the promotion of every small realm exists, and when you want to achieve the perfection of the initial realm, in addition to the improvement of skills, comprehension can also be said to be extremely important, so it has become the first and biggest bottleneck in martial arts cultivation.

As for achieving the "micro realm" and then entering the "Tianyi realm", it is the improvement of the great realm, and the opportunity for skill comprehension is even more indispensable, so it is the biggest bottleneck in the future, and it is more difficult than the other.

To put it in detail, there are also barriers to the ascension between the upper, middle and lower layers of each small realm, but it is relatively easy to ascend between the small realm and the large realm.

Especially at the beginning of the Initial Realm, whether it is promoted from the lower level to the middle level, or from the middle level to the upper level, although there are bottlenecks and obstacles, even for the most average people, they can all the way up to the upper level of the early stage of the initial realm within seven years.

Of course, for people who can reach the middle stage of the initial realm within three years, they can usually reach the upper level of the early stage of the initial realm within one or two years, and then it will take a maximum of one or two years to reach the middle stage of the initial realm.

However, for ordinary people, often after being promoted to the upper level of the early stage of the Primal Realm, the cultivation and entry into the realm would be significantly slower. Even if he slowly cultivated to the peak of the early stage of the Primal Realm, he would be stuck on the bottleneck barrier for at least a few years before he could finally be promoted.

From this point on, the higher you go, the more difficult it is to enter the realm, and the difficulty of breaking through bottlenecks and barriers also increases exponentially, so for the most ordinary people, life is in a hurry for decades, and if you live a long life, it will only be a hundred years, and maybe the highest martial arts cultivation in your life can only linger in the middle of the initial realm.

Even for those with better qualifications, the bottlenecks and obstacles encountered after reaching the middle stage of the initial state will gradually cause more and more impact, but the more qualified and well-versed those have the lower the impact.

However, in terms of the qualifications that can reach the middle stage of the initial realm within three years, only about 10% can break through all the bottlenecks and barriers before the age of fifteen, so as to reach the late stage of the first realm.

Half a year ago, Yun Yifan reached the peak of the middle stage of the Initial Realm, and encountered the bottleneck barrier to the late stage of the Initial Realm, and he was not very anxious at first. Because when he broke through from the middle layer to the upper layer in the middle of the initial realm, he was still stuck on the bottleneck barrier for more than ten days, so he also knew in his heart that this was inevitable.

However, until a month or two passed, the mysterious and mysterious bottleneck barrier was still firmly stuck in front of Yun Yifan, like an unreachable mountain peak in front of him, and he never knew the way to cross it.

As a result, this insurmountable barrier slowly weighed on his heart like a stone that was getting heavier and heavier.

And looking at Yun Yifan who was stuck in front of the bottleneck barrier, Yun Qing and his wife could also feel the imperceptible solemnity of their son. And as the time of being stuck on the bottleneck barrier is getting longer and longer, although Yun Yifan has tried his best to hide it, how can the heartstrings in his heart become tighter and tighter, and how can he hide from the eyes of his parents who accompany him every day.

Yun Qinghe's wife, Yun Yifan's mother, Luo Chenxi, as a mother, saw that her son was becoming more and more dignified, and he should have been innocent and happy, but because of the bottleneck barrier of martial arts cultivation, he was always faintly worried, and he couldn't help but love his son, and he also tried to persuade his son once a few months ago to let him not take it too seriously, but it didn't seem to have any effect.

It's just that Yun Yifan reluctantly pretended to be more casual in front of his parents and elders, but the worry and solemnity in his heart seemed to be aggravated.

Yun Qinghe saw all this in his eyes, and he couldn't help but worry about his son in his heart, but he knew his son's heart very well.

Although Yun Yifan has been well-behaved and sensible since he was a child, he sometimes can't help but be overly preoccupied, so once he has some ideas and goals, he will inevitably be too persistent.

For Yun Yifan, who is bent on breaking through the bottleneck as soon as possible to reach the late stage of the initial realm, so as to cross the dividing line of breaking through the promotion before the age of fifteen, the blind exhortation of the elders is afraid that it will be difficult for him to really listen to it at all, but it may inspire him to break through the obsession stronger, thus invisibly increasing the pressure and burden on his heart to a greater or lesser extent.

Therefore, although he and his wife also love their children deeply, Yun Qinghe does not show it too much, and still only cares about it occasionally as usual.

Not only that, but when Luo Chenxi wanted to persuade him again, he was also stopped by Yun Qinghe in time. Because in his opinion, only if his wife and his wife behave more and more plainly, the burden on Yun Yifan's heart will be relatively smaller, although his wife and parents naturally hope that their son will become a talent, but compared to becoming a talent, they don't want their son to have too much burden or pressure, and it is better to have a relatively peaceful heart.

Therefore, for Yun Yifan's situation, Yun Qinghe has always been so "indifferent".

However, as time went by, seeing that Yun Yifan's fifteenth birthday was getting closer and closer, Yun Qinghe could clearly feel that his son's solemnity seemed to have increased, and then he completely understood his meaning, and completely determined that he was worried about the "dividing line" of martial arts cultivation at the age of fifteen.

However, Yun Qinghe still did not directly admonish him, and once again stopped his wife's persuasion in advance.

It wasn't until Fang Cai saw Yun Yifan come to Yanwutang with Long Xiuyuan and Luo Qiuyan, and heard Luo Qiuyan blurt out Yun Yifan's thoughts inadvertently, Yun Qinghe's words were understated, as if inadvertently but just rightly pointed out, so that Yun Yifan should not be too attached to the bottleneck barrier in front of him, just let go of his arms and move forward calmly.

Seeing that the trace of solemnity on Yun Yifan's face gradually began to fade slowly, and he began to smile from the bottom of his heart, Yun Qinghe relaxed a little. Because he knew that his son's excessive burden on himself had indeed begun to slowly let go. Even if Yun Yifan can't directly let go completely now, I believe that with time, it shouldn't be bothered anymore.