CHAPTER XXVI
After the illusion was shattered, the scenery around Bai Fan also changed.
He was in an octagonal room, and in the middle of the house stood a red stone pillar, about two or three meters high from the ground to the roof.
On the eight walls are carved hexagrams corresponding to each direction of the eight trigrams, and each hexagram glows with a soft yellow light.
On the roof, there are pictures of various fierce beasts, and on the ground is carved a picture of Tai Chi Bagua, and not far from Bai Fan's left, there is a wooden staircase, which is the passage to the upper floor.
The house was full of people, it was the trialist who had entered the tower with him, and Bai Lin also slept beside him, his brows were tightly locked, his face was pale, cold sweat was oozing from his forehead, and his mouth was talking nonsense from time to time.
Her body curled up tightly into a ball, trembling from time to time, but her consciousness was still in a coma, Bai Fan couldn't bear to see it, and stretched out her hand, but as soon as her hand touched her body, she was immediately grabbed by the sleeping Bai Lin and hugged her tightly in her arms.
He unconsciously called Bai Fan's name in his mouth, and there was a hint of helplessness in his voice.
Bai Fan didn't pull his hand away, although his arm was sore from being grabbed by Bai Lin, and some places were even scratched red, he still didn't pull it away. He even stretched out his other hand and gently stroked Bai Lin's head.
And under Bai Fan's comfort, Bai Lin's trembling body also calmed down a little.
Bai Fan couldn't enter Bai Lin's illusion to help her, and he couldn't know what she encountered in the illusion.
The only thing she could do was this insignificant appeasement, and she secretly prayed in her heart that she could survive this illusion trial on her own.
Baiyun Sect, Qiyun Mountain, Baiyun Palace.
The elder of the Heavenly Courtyard looked at Bai Fan in the water mirror with a lot of nature.
The Xuanxu Daoist also looked at this child who was saved by himself and Fang Yiyun, and was a little surprised.
Not only Xuanxu, no one present would have expected that the first to wake up would be Bai Fan.
"This person is ......" some elders asked puzzled, obviously not very deep about Bai Fan's image.
You must know that it is only noon, and it has not been three hours since the start of the assessment, so you wake up so quickly, and your heart is visible.
"It's normal for the elders not to have an impression of this man, and his results in the first round are not worthy of attention. The Heavenly Elder explained.
However, there is also something commendable, because he is also the only one who bears the pressure and persevers to the end, and his consciousness remains clear. ”
He was the one who sent Bai Fan back to the lounge before, but there was one thing that the dean didn't say that day, and that was about Bai Fan's physique being unable to cultivate at all.
But just because he doesn't say it doesn't mean that others won't say it.
"With such perseverance and temperament, it doesn't look like what this age should have, it can't be a monk who has rebuilt with some old monster, right?" After listening to the words of the elder that day, one of the ground elders couldn't help but ask with some doubt in his heart.
In a sense, he really got his guess right.
The question raised by the local elder also made the other elders think of this possibility, and they all started to talk about it.
"So, he's very likely a spy sent by the Demon Dao?" One of the people, the elder looked cold, looking at it like that, he was going to capture him in the Heart Refining Tower now.
"Elder Mingyang, you are also too arbitrary, and it is also possible that there is a righteous path monk who has failed to cross the tribulation and has to recultivate. Another ground elder retorted.
"It's also possible to ......"
All the elders told their own conjectures, but they were all based on the possibility that Bai Fan was a recultivator.
"Stop, I can testify that this kid is not what everyone thinks, and he is not a demonic scheming. Xuanxu on the side couldn't listen to it anymore, and opened his mouth to interrupt everyone's various conjectures.
and told the story of helping Bai Fan with Fang Yiyun before.
"After that, I also deliberately checked his spiritual root, alas...... , The result is nothing, his body can't hold the aura at all, which power would choose a waste without a spiritual root as the object of grabbing?" Xuan Xuan explained with some amusement.
Everyone thought about it, it was the same thing, wasn't that a mortal? If you were yourself, you wouldn't choose such a mortal as the object of seizure, wouldn't that be self-cutting off the immortal path?
Therefore, all kinds of suspicions about Bai Fan's identity have also come to a conclusion.
"If there is no spiritual root, then why ......"
The other elder asked again.
"Probably my apprentice, I can't bear it, I want to give him a chance......" After the Xuanxu Daoist sighed, he stopped explaining.
"It turned out to be Master Fang's nephew, but isn't this even more desperate?" Another ground elder held his beard and said disapprovingly.
"Hmph, mortals are mortals, even if you are given the opportunity, the result is the same. One of the deans sneered and looked at Bai Fan in the water mirror.
Some of the elders present agreed, while others disagreed.
"Oh, then tell me how we are different from those mortals?" Another Heavenly Elder, who had been silently watching everyone, retorted at this time.
"A little more supernatural than mortals, or do you live longer than mortals?"
"When the catastrophe comes, you still have to hide, and after failure, you are even more dissipated, and there is no chance of reincarnation. ”
"If you fight with the Demon Gate, if you fail, you will also be killed, or even worse, your soul will be extracted and refined into an upper-level resentful spirit, and your body will be refined into a puppet. ”
"A friar with a better posture is more likely to become the plaything of the Demon Gate for the rest of her life. ”
"How is this kind of you and me different from those mortals, and what qualifications do we have to despise those mortals?"
The old man's tone was not stern, and his voice was not loud, but he questioned the elder of the invincible man.
Everyone also found that the atmosphere was a little delicate at this time, and they all closed their mouths.
"Mingyeol, don't say it. Mingyang on the side reminded in a whisper.
"Heh, what's the matter? Elder Tianqu, you value this little doll so much?" Instead of following Mingyang's advice, Minglie took a step forward and chose to confront Tianqu.
"After all, it's not because this trial is the home of your Heavenly Academy. Now that there is such a good heart, and someone comes out to smash the field, of course he will not be happy. Myeongyeol said with a sneer.
Tianqu just closed his eyes and did not respond to Mingyeol's sarcasm.
"Mingyeol, shut up!" Mingyang next to him scolded loudly, trying in vain to stop Minglie's rude actions, and the surrounding elders also moved back slightly.
"Speaking of which, you Heavenly Court haven't recruited disciples for nearly two hundred years. ”
"If you think about it, there should not even be ten disciples in the Heavenly Academy now. ”
"What's the matter now, you have moved the idea of accepting disciples? Or look at a mortal, the Heavenly Court has really declined. ”
As he spoke, Minglie shook his head and sighed, as if he was worried about the Heavenly Court again. But the contempt in the words is not disguised at all, and it is fully revealed.
In fact, everyone present would not think that he was thinking about the Heavenly Court anymore, otherwise he would not openly smash the field, but the elders had some expectations in their hearts, after all, if they contradicted the Heavenly Court in public, if Tianqu did not stop it, it would definitely affect the prestige of the Heavenly Court in the future.
In the face of Minglie's confrontation, Tianqu still looked as usual and did not respond, which also made others doubt the Heavenly Court in their hearts.
Mingyang's eyes were already red, and he didn't know what his junior brother was thinking, why he wanted to find fault with it.
There was also one person who didn't participate in everyone's arguments, just kept looking at the situation in the water mirror. This person was the Heavenly Elder who first informed Bai Fan of his identity.
He didn't even pay attention to other people's attitudes, and he didn't seem to care much about Tianqu all the time.
In the eyes of all, this indifference is closer to a kind of arrogance of ignorance.
Seeing that Tianqu and the other Heavenly Elder were like a piece of wood, they let him be sarcastic and slanderous. A nameless fire welled up in Minglie's heart, like a fist hitting a ball of cotton, and he was extremely aggrieved.
"Hehe, I think it's impossible for the Heavenly Academy to do it, and when I see a person who meets my own conditions, I hurriedly accept the disciples and are busy finding a successor for the Heavenly Academy, right?"
"Since you are so tired, it is better to let go of the mountain you belong to and let our human courtyard take charge, anyway, there are only a few of you, and you can't use so many resources, and it is a waste to keep them. And everyone is from the White Cloud Sect, which can be regarded as a reasonable use. ”
The two of them still ignored it, and Ming Lie finally couldn't suppress the anger in his heart, and cursed: "I heard that Elder Tianqu, your master also accepted you as an apprentice because of your 'blandness', and now it seems that there is indeed a teacher, and there must be an apprentice." ”
In fact, in Ming Lie's heart, he had already seen that the Heavenly Courtyard was not pleasing to the eye, obviously there were only a few people, but he occupied a big mountain, plus the people around him were always respectful to the people of the Heavenly Courtyard, which made him even more unhappy, he was originally the pride of the sky, and he was an innate sword body, and in his early years, he worshiped under the Baiyun Sect and entered the Sword Pavilion, which could cause the sound of the rare spirit sword and sword, and he was even more beautiful, and his cultivation was also thousands of miles a day, but even so, the attitude of the people around him always made him feel that he was inferior to the people of the Heavenly Academy, even if it was an ordinary disciple.
Mingyeol is not only dissatisfied with the Heavenly Court, but more of a jealousy.
Everyone looked at him in surprise when they heard Minglie's words, insulting someone else's master was a great disrespect to him, let alone insulting him in front of him.
The other Heavenly Elder, who had been looking at the water mirror, also turned his gaze and looked at Ming Lie with interest.
Mingyang's face changed even more, and he hurriedly explained, "Elder Tianqu ......"
Before he finished speaking, Mingyang found that he couldn't speak any way. His eyes changed from panic to panic.
Others don't know the horror of the Heavenly Courtyard, but he Mingyang still knows, back then, he was as invincible as Minglie, and some looked down on the Heavenly Courtyard, but later his master knew about it, and told him with a serious face that no one in the Heavenly Courtyard could be underestimated.
He didn't think so, until he accidentally saw the people of the Heavenly Court make a move, he was completely frightened, and made him understand that the gap between him and it was like a mortal and a cultivator, which could not be compared at all.
At this time, Tianqu, who had been closing his eyes, also slowly opened his eyes, looked at the smug Minglie, and responded for the first time: "Elder Minglie, then what do you think is the difference between us and mortals?"
Minglie's face was stunned, his brain had not eased up, and after thinking for a while, he thought that he was referring to the previous argument, and said with a smug smile: "I only believe in my own strength, and the strong are respected!"
"So, then..... Dream life. ”
Tianqu only responded with one sentence.
In the blink of an eye, Mingyeol only felt that his consciousness was in a trance, and when he opened his eyes again, he saw a strange big face and an unfamiliar ceiling, and he wanted to make a sound, but he could only let out a cry.
In the blink of an eye, Myeongyeol has turned into a newborn baby.
At the age of five, the general in the family was copied because of his high merits;
At the age of ten, he was adopted by bandits by sleeping on the streets;
At the age of fifteen, he became the right-hand man of the bandit leader;
At the age of twenty, he killed the head of the bandits and succeeded in ascending to the top;
At the age of twenty-two, the thief was copied by the imperial court, and he escaped and was rescued, and met the love of his life, intending to change his ways;
At the age of thirty, he became a hero, but he also offended many people;
At the age of thirty-one, the enemy came to the door, and he was away, his wife was defiled by him, and his children were sold;
At the age of thirty-three, he killed all his enemies, destroyed all people, and was wanted by the whole world;
At the age of forty, he met another person he loved;
At the age of forty-five, he was plotted by his lover and died...
"Whew, ha!"
The moment Ming Lie lost consciousness, he opened his eyes and returned to the White Cloud Sect.
"This is, Baiyun Sect, I... I'm back!" Mingyeol's expression was completely different from the previous second, one was so proud that there was no one in his eyes, and the other was surprised with joy and emotion, completely like a different person.
Everyone looked at Ming Lie with a very abnormal expression, maybe everyone in the White Cloud Sect thought it was a blink of an eye, but for Ming Lie, it was indeed a whole life, that life, he was just a mortal, and he lived there for forty-five years.
"Then, Elder Minglie, can you tell me the difference between us and mortals again?"
Tianqu still looked at Minglie with a chuckle and asked.
Ming Lie came back to his senses, and his eyes were no longer arrogant, but fearful.
"You! Leave. ”
This time, Minglie didn't dare to say more, and he didn't even look at the assessment, but chose to leave quickly, never daring to stay here any longer.
Although everyone looked inexplicable, they could guess a little bit about Minglie's changes, it might be what Tianqu did secretly, but they couldn't guess what it was.