Chapter Twenty-Seven: Testing the Spiritual Root
Qiu Lan heard the man muttering, his face immediately turned crimson, and he didn't know how to explain the strange posture in front of him, but he didn't dare to move his body, and let Mu Qing's little face be buried in his chest.
Mu Qing still reacted quickly, felt the weakness on her cheeks, and said hesitantly: "Nonsense, if you don't have the courage to find a fart immortal, ask for a fart!"
The man was suddenly blindfolded, raised his big fingers, and said with admiration: "I am convinced, I am convinced, the little brother is small and ambitious, which really makes the old brother embarrassed." ”
Qiu Lan was just stunned, but he was also amused by Mu Qing's words, seeing that the man's stunned look was very funny, he simply didn't explain, and said in Mu Qing's tone: "The scenery here is so good, it's worth it!"
The man raised his big fingers again and said: "This girl is also a heroine, and the woman does not let her eyebrows, she is really a young man from the ancient immortals! ”
Mu Qing smiled and said, "Sister Lan, you go ahead." As he spoke, he slowly propped himself up and moved half a step to the side.
Qiu Lan blushed, moved forward against the mountain wall, and after a period of friction, he finally changed to the front, cleaned up his mood, and continued to go up, and the man in the back also followed closely, and kept talking: "Little brother, how old are you this year...... Girl, what kind of place are you?"
Mu Qing and the two of them responded to each other without a match, and walked upwards more than 300 zhang high, along the way, the sound of screams came out from time to time, and more than a dozen people fell down, which made people's hearts beat......
Replaced by Qiu Lan in front, the speed of this march slowed down, and when it reached a height of thousands of zhang, Mu Qing looked at the sun that was about to set, discerned the direction, and turned back to the original direction at this moment, and the cloud ladder had already circled around Yunlan Peak.
At this moment, the white mist overhead has been dyed a fiery red by the setting sun, the clouds are steaming, the red clouds are thousands of miles, and the continuous mountains seem to be covered by a fiery red brocade, which is a magnificent scene.
Mu Qing suddenly felt a lot of pride in her chest, and couldn't help but want to shout a few times, but she heard Qiu Lan in front of her exclaim: "It's here, I saw it!"
More than ten zhang upwards, has walked into the clouds and mist, hazy only to see that there is a wide platform that pokes out outward in front of me, there is a radius of more than 30 zhang, a two-storey small building is built on the platform according to the mountain, the jade pillar cornices, a jade corridor pokes out on both sides of the building, such as stretched arms.
Qiu Lan had already stepped on the corridor on this side at this moment, ignoring the exhaustion of his body, and shouted, "Brother Qing, it's here, it's here, you see, the people in front are there!"
Mu Qing chased after him, walked side by side with Qiu Lan, and walked towards the square in front of the small building.
More than 30 people have gathered in the square, Mu Zheng is impressively in the ranks, at this moment he also looked at Mu Qing and the others, and when he saw Mu Qing at a glance, he suddenly showed a look of astonishment, according to what he thought, even if Mu Qing is not dead at this moment, he should be trapped by the Diao family, how could he also be here?
Mu Qing naturally saw Mu Zheng as well, and he strode forward with Qiu Lan and whispered, "Sister Lan, I don't want people to know my name, just call me Yang Qing." This name was thought of by him temporarily, because his second uncle, who failed to open the spirit, changed his surname to Yang, and he twisted it casually, and his surname was Yang.
Qiu Lan immediately understood, and his expression did not change. The two had already walked in front of the crowd.
I heard a boy in the crowd who looked to be only ten years old speak: "Brother and sister, you are too slow, you are thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth." ”
Qiu Lan couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart and said, "This little brother, you are not very old, and you can climb really fast." ”
The little boy combed a pigtail to the sky, showed a proud expression, and said innocently: "Sister, don't look at my young age, I am enlightened, and I have also practiced basic exercises, so I am so fast, I am the ninth." Sister, are you also enlightened?"
Qiu Lan smiled and said, "I am also enlightened, but I have never cultivated, so I climbed so slowly." ”
"Then what kind of spiritual root are you?
Mu Qing was looking around at the platform floating in the middle of the mountain with a novel face, but when Qiu Lan and the two were chatting, an uncomfortable feeling suddenly surged in his heart, which felt very strange, but he couldn't tell why, but Mu Qing knew in his heart that he had this special perception ability since he was a child, and he could have early warning of impending danger, it turned out that he didn't know the reason, but now he secretly speculated: This may be related to his demon fox clan.
This uncomfortable feeling is not a precursor to impending danger, but an uncomfortable and uncomfortable feeling. Is it because of Mu Zheng?
At this moment, Qiu Lan was about to speak, but Mu Qing just seized this opportunity, suddenly interrupted the conversation between the two, and interjected: "Little brother, you are so young, you are really talented, what is your name, are you from the Xiuxian family?"
The little boy said, "Yes, my name is Du Jiu, and I came to Yunlan Sect from the Du family in Yunzhou to apprentice. ”
"Du Jiu, it seems that you have eight elder brothers?" Mu Qing asked teasingly.
Du Jiu shook his pigtails and said, "No, I was born on the ninth day of September, and my mother called me Xiao Jiu." What about you, brother? What is your name? We will probably be brothers in the future!"
Mu Qing's eyes intentionally or unintentionally glanced at Mu Zheng who was not far away, raised his voice and said: "My name is Yang Qing, and I am also from a small family of cultivators, but everyone in the family is dead, so I came to apprentice." ”
After Mu Qing finished saying this, he cast an extremely hidden look at Mu Zheng again, with a hint of warning in his eyes.
Mu Zheng heard Mu Qing call himself "Yang Qing", and was stared at by Mu Qing, and suddenly recalled that in the dungeon of the Diao family, Mu Qing released the coercion of his divine sense, and was so frightened that he cried, and immediately understood a little, but said in his heart: You little monster, what if you open your spirit? What if you escape? This is the Yunlan Sect, you definitely don't dare to expose your identity as a demon cultivator, and you don't even dare to report your real name! Not to mention that I came to the Yunlan Sect to rely on!
Thinking like this, he turned around arrogantly and no longer looked at Mu Qing.
Mu Qing's warning was heard, but he no longer paid attention to Mu Zheng, but heard Du Jiu say with concern: "Brother, then you came to apprentice to take revenge?"
Mu Qing smiled indifferently, did not answer, but said, "Then what is Xiao Jiu coming to apprentice for?"
Du Jiu opened his mouth to answer, but suddenly pointed to the corridor and said, "Someone is here again, it seems to be an uncle." As he spoke, he waved vigorously at the comer, shouting, "Uncle, you are so slow, you are the thirty-ninth!"
Mu Qing looked back and saw that it was the middle-aged man who was walking behind him before, who also climbed up at this moment.
Mu Qing stood beside Qiu Lan, raised her eyes to look at the thirty or so people, and saw that these people were in a group of three, and they were chatting excitedly, but they were all whispering. He didn't dare to release his senses, and he couldn't hear what was being said. Only Du Jiu was the most lively, running left and right to talk to everyone, and looking at the entrance of the corridor from time to time, counting how many people were next.
Seeing that it was getting dark, there were already fifty-five people standing on the platform at this moment, but no one came up from behind. Of the more than 1,000 people in the mountaineering team, only these 55 people came up in the end.
I heard a deep voice from the small building, "Come in." ”
When everyone heard this, they rushed in.
I saw dozens of dead wind lamps lit in this small building, and I don't know what material was used to make lamp oil, which illuminated the main hall as bright as day. The decoration in the building is simple and elegant, but it is exquisite, there are two Taishi chairs in the middle, a small square table, and an old man sits on the chair, which is also a white robe with moire, but the collar and cuffs are embroidered with gold thread.
There was a person standing behind the old man, it was the cold-faced young man in the morning.
When the old man saw everyone coming in, he coughed lightly and said, "The enlightened ones stand on the left, and the mortals stand on the right." ”
These fifty-five people all stood as required, there were only nineteen people on the left, most of them were on the right, Mu Qing and Qiu Lan naturally stood on the left, and there were Mu Zheng, Du Jiu and others on this side, and the man who had been following Mu Qing was also among them.
The old man continued: "As a mortal, to be able to climb this half-immortal platform, it can be regarded as not weak in physical strength, and your courage is extraordinary, you are qualified to become the outer gate of my Yunlan Sect, Jiang Xiao, you take them to the side room, explain the rules to them, assign tasks, and send them down." ”
The cold-faced young man known as "Jiang Xiao" nodded yes and led these mortals towards a side door on the right.
The old man squinted his eyes slightly and looked at the remaining nineteen people, and suddenly, he saw his body leaning forward slightly, and shouted in a low voice: "Dare to come here to snoop?" A wave of divine consciousness burst out with a chilling killing intent, and went straight towards everyone!
This divine consciousness with a strong killing intent is incomparably huge, as if it can penetrate through the skin and go straight to the bone marrow, and everyone present suddenly felt as if they were in an abyss, and as if they were being stared at by a fierce beast, they couldn't help but feel cold hair standing upright, and a cool air drilled out of their backs.
No one thought that this old man would suddenly want to kill him! Could it be that there was an opponent of the Yunlan Sect in this group? Or was this person going to kill them all?
Before they had time to think about it, some of these spiritual monks took a step back and made a defensive posture, some reached out and touched their waists, as if they were about to take out their magic weapons to face the enemy, some touched the long sword behind their backs, and some stayed on the spot with a frightened expression.
Mu Qing also had a flash of lightning, this platform was built up of bluestone slabs several feet thick, with his current cultivation, he couldn't escape into the ground, feeling this strong killing intent, he couldn't help but reach out and touch the Lingyuan Sword and Vajra Talisman on his waist.
Qiu Lan had no experience in this immortal family's fighting technique, so he couldn't help but exclaim, and his figure took a few steps back.
Du Jiu looked frightened and sat down on the ground with a pop.
However, the man's expression only changed slightly, but he took half a step forward.
The next moment, the chilling killing intent suddenly melted away, and there was nothing left, and the old man's face showed a look of satisfaction, and he slowly spoke: "This second test is also considered as if you have passed." ”
Only then did everyone react, it turned out that the old man released the coercion of his divine sense, just to test everyone's reaction, if there were unscrupulous people mixed in, under the persecution of this cold murderous intent, the prototype would be exposed. And the instinctive defensive reaction like Mu Qing, coupled with the simple stunned expression on his face, can only show that these people have experience in fighting the enemy, not bad intentions.
But just now, the old man's cultivation had completely shocked everyone, and Mu Qing had clearly felt that this old man's cultivation was far superior to that of the gray-clothed man who was killed by himself and Yukun together, at least it was also a spiritual crystal stage cultivation.
I only heard the old man say again: "This is where you have the highest cultivation, the late stage of spiritual enlightenment, but what about you? You have opened your spiritual spirit but have never cultivated, and everyone else is similar." When he said the first person, he looked at the middle-aged man, but when he said the second person, he looked at Qiu Lan. It turned out that while the old man had just exerted the coercion of his divine sense, he had probed everyone's cultivation.
The old man then said: "Okay, no matter what your spiritual root qualifications are, you are all qualified to join my Yunlan Sect, but it is just the difference between inner disciples and outer disciples...... The old man is the law enforcement elder of the Yunlan Sect, his surname is Gu, you can call me Elder Gu. ”
When everyone heard this, they were all overjoyed, they originally thought how dangerous this second test was, but they didn't expect that they would pass it in this way, and they could join the Yunlan Sect. ”
The old man nodded, and said, "Let's conduct the third test, you come forward one by one, I want to determine whether you can become an inner disciple according to your spiritual root qualifications......"