Under the leadership of the disciples of the White Cloud Sect, everyone came to the end of the first round of assessments, which was another hill where the suspension bridge was located.

What is strange to everyone is that this time they did not feel the inexplicable pressure before, and everyone walked over safely.

This is mainly due to the fact that all the prohibitions on the bridge have been closed.

This mountain ridge is relatively simple relative to the main peak, there is only an octagonal pagoda ten zhang high, the tower body is ten meters wide, a total of five layers, each layer is about two zhang high, and eight golden bells are hung on the pavilion corner of each layer.

But when the mountain wind blows, but the bell is not swaying, it is really wonderful.

Against the backdrop of the surrounding greenery, this quaint pagoda also has a bit more subtle Taoism.

"This is the Heart Refining Tower, and the previous bridge was the Five Elements Bridge. The disciple of the White Cloud Sect pointed to the tower, and then to the suspension bridge, and explained.

"I brought you here today, there is no pressure from before, because the elders in my sect have closed the ban before, and if you enter my door after that, you can come here to cultivate, but remember to do what you can, there was a junior disciple in the door before, and he forcibly moved forward against the pressure, but he was crushed into ashes on the way, I hope you remember. ”

The Baiyun disciple explained.

Everyone listened, silently drowning their spit, and some looked at the empty suspension bridge behind them with fear.

"And this Heart Refining Tower is mainly used to refine the state of mind, and how to refine it, when you can come here alone in the future, you will naturally know. The disciple of the White Cloud Sect continued to explain regardless of the expressions of the others

"Gossip is here, just like the first round of assessment, the time limit is still one day, and tomorrow, if you are not lost, you will be considered to have passed. After the Baiyun disciple finished speaking, he left.

Everyone looked at the entrance that had been opened, and they were a little hesitant, but it didn't take long for them to start looking for a partner, planning to enter together in a team.

Due to the amazing performance in the first round of assessment, Bai Lin quickly became a thigh in the eyes of others, and many people soon surrounded her, hoping to team up with her.

Looking at the crowd that came up, Bai Lin didn't want to pay attention to it.

Just gathered around Bai Fan.

I don't know if it's an illusion, Bai Fan feels that Bai Lin is more clingy than ever.

Seeing this, some people had no choice but to leave with interest, while some people bluntly said that Bai Lin was arrogant and had no one in his eyes.

Bai Fan beside him almost laughed out loud, thinking to himself when did his crybaby sister have anything to do with arrogance, but Bai Lin himself didn't care about the gossip around him.

However, there are also a few people who speak very viciously, and even scold Bai Lin for being shameless, or forbidding feelings and the like.

But after being warned by Bai Fan with his eyes, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to talk too much, so he quickly dodged and entered the heart refining tower.

In fact, since the theory with Fang Yiyun, Bai Lin also had a sense of fear in her heart, although she deliberately made herself act more natural, but it still made Bai Fan feel disobedient.

"Brother, many of them have already entered the tower, let's go in quickly. Bai Lin pulled Bai Fan and was about to enter the Heart Refining Tower.

Although Bai Fan noticed Bai Lin's strangeness and wanted to ask, Bai Lin was obviously unwilling to explain to herself, Bai Fan was unwilling to force her to say it, so she let her pull her into the Heart Refining Tower.

......

Qiyun Mountain, inside the White Cloud Palace.

The elders looked at the water mirror suspended in the air, and the water mirror reflected the situation of the children participating in the assessment in the Heart Refining Tower.

"What do you think Bai Lin will behave this time?" one of the elders asked, looking at Bai Lin's figure in the mirror.

"The Five Elements Bridge is to look at the qualifications, and the Heart Refining Tower is to look at the heart, and the qualification does not represent the heart. An elder of the Heavenly Court responded.

The Heavenly Courtyard is the most special existence in the Baiyun Sect, and the words are naturally very weighty, and the other elders who are more optimistic about Bai Lin have also put away their smug thoughts, but they still have expectations for what Bai Lin will achieve.

......

The moment Bai Fan stepped into the Heart Refining Tower, the surrounding scene changed rapidly, and he only felt that his brain was in a trance, and when he opened his eyes again, he found that he appeared alone in a luxurious palace, and the surroundings were already empty, and even Bai Lin, who had been pulling him, disappeared.

"...... here" Bai Fan looked at some familiar scenes around him.

"The Imperial Study!" After thinking for a moment, Bai Fan looked around at the familiar arrangement with a shocked face, and then looked at the sky outside the window, it was also late at night.

"How is it possible, am I not participating in the trial in the White Cloud Sect? Why...... Why are you coming back here?" Bai Fan's brain began to short-circuit.

I tried to pinch my face, but I could still feel the pain coming from my face.

"It's too real to be dreaming. Bai Fan rubbed his cheeks.

After circling around the study for a week, he didn't find anything, so he pushed the door open and left the room.

As if his memory reappeared, Bai Fan went out and turned around, and saw that the national teacher Qian Xuan was sitting in the courtyard drinking tea, but the difference from before was that there was one more person next to Qian Xuan, and that was Bai Lin.

At this time, Bai Lin's eyes lost focus, lifeless, and dead.

As if noticing Bai Fan's gaze, Qian Xuan looked at Bai Lin, who was like a puppet next to him, and poured a cup of tea carelessly. said: "It seems that Bai Fan's little son cares about Sister Ling, but also, after all, he is the last relative." ”

Qian Xuan said as he looked at Bai Fan playfully.

Seeing Bai Lin's appearance, Bai Fan felt that his brain exploded instantly, but he quickly forced himself to calm down, everything here seemed very weird, maybe what he saw with his eyes was not necessarily true.

The possibility of going back in time was directly vetoed by Bai Fan.

'Illusion'

After ruling out many possibilities, a conjecture popped up in Bai Fan's mind, and then carefully pondered the words of the Daoist priest of the Baiyun Sect before, this conjecture became stronger and stronger.

"Naturally, there is no need to say much about the miracles of these cultivators, but why do they know what I think in my heart?" Bai Fan looked at Qian Xuan in front of him, but began to think about the reason in his heart.

Qian Xuan saw that Bai Fan was not only frightened, but also thoughtful, and his heart was also angry.

He smiled hideously: "The deity is talking to you and other ants, it is already a blessing for you to wait for three lives, but you don't know what to do, you should be killed!"

Bai Fan didn't pay attention to Qian Xuan's clamour, but continued to make conjectures and deductions according to what he wanted in his heart.

'Is it ...... Is this what the so-called heart refining refers to?'

Bai Fan looked at Qian Xuan in front of him with some doubts, and frankly speaking, he was still very afraid of Qian Xuan in his heart, after all, he was the person who almost killed him, and there were all kinds of supernatural spells, which left him with indelible fear.

But behind the powerful fear was an even more powerful curiosity, so that when he and Fang Yiyun came into contact to understand the matter of cultivation, as well as the cultivation path after enlightenment, he was no longer so afraid.

In fact, Bai Fan guessed correctly, the so-called refining of the heart is to concretize the fear that he desires in his heart in the form of an illusion, so that people can sink into it unconsciously.

Although some people may have seen the clues, they chose to fall voluntarily because they couldn't let go, in a vain attempt to paralyze themselves with illusion and replace reality.

Maybe for those people, the boundary between fantasy and reality doesn't matter, as long as they can be happy, it doesn't matter.

Fear is naturally impossible to face, but beautiful fantasies are even more dangerous, like sugar-coated poison.

Therefore, the White Cloud Sect is only half open here, and it will only reflect the fear in the heart, but not the scene of people's dreams and expectations.

Qian Xuan saw that Bai Fan was still ignoring him, he laughed angrily, and with a wave of his sleeves, a red-edged black flag flew out from his cuffs, floating behind him, and countless black resentful spirits poured out from the extremely gloomy black flag.

The "whine" ghost crying wolf howls seem to tell of their pain and unwillingness before death, and they flock to the nearest living creature with that unwillingness, and are bound to use the blood of the living creature in front of them to relieve their sore spots.

In the face of the resentful spirits that surged towards him with monstrous resentment, there was no doubt that Bai Fan was afraid in his heart, even if he knew in his heart that it might be an illusion, but that kind of biting cold air and trembling howl were destroying the belief in Bai Fan's heart.

If Bai Fan's guess was a slight mistake, and all of this was not an illusion, then he would definitely be bitten by ten thousand ghosts to the point that there was no scum left.

But even so, Bai Fan still forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart and the instinct of his body to escape, forcibly controlled his body, did not retreat, but advanced, and faced the black cloud composed of menacing resentful spirits.

And at the moment when the ghost thing passed through Bai Fan's body, everything around it shattered like a mirror, and with a bang, it turned into one phantom fragment after another.

At this point, the illusion is broken.