4. The Road to Worship the Mountain

Huang Chang walked very carefully in the middle of the bridge - there were no handrails on both sides of the bridge, and it was terrible to accidentally fall down. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info he had just cautiously approached the bridge with curiosity and looked down, but there were white clouds below, and he couldn't see anything.

"I've been walking for almost an hour......

Huang Chang secretly estimated to himself that he felt that he had been walking upwards since he got on the bridge, but the slope of the road was not large, so the physical exertion was not too large. The golden bridge deck under your feet is slightly soft, as if you are slightly sunken with each step, and it feels like stepping on the hard plastic runway of the previous life, which is a good thing for people who walk up - it is not easy to slip under your feet.

The surroundings were quiet, with clouds drifting in from time to time, and fog in the front and back directions. Occasionally, a few people walked past him quickly, and soon disappeared into the clouds ahead. Some people would say hello as they passed by, saying things like everyone working together, but many more just walked by silently and quickly, apparently trying to finish the road in a hurry.

Huang Chang had been slightly delayed for a while when he set off earlier, but he was not in a hurry or slow at the moment, and he was relatively backward among the more than 300 disciples who worshiped the mountain. However, he was not in a hurry because of this, the advantages brought to him by the memory of his previous life were not only scientific knowledge, logical thinking and reasonable judgment were also an important part - he had secretly calculated when he heard that Immortal Master Mu say that he was required to walk the Golden Bridge before dark and arrive at the Immortal Mountain: with the altitude of the Immortal Mountain, if he really asked to climb it step by step completely on his own, even the best mountaineers in his previous life would never be able to complete it in one day, let alone these children who were generally only ten years old.

Of course, in this Xianxia world, a person's physical strength should be stronger than in his previous life. When Huang Chang was befriending other candidates a few days ago, he also met people who had practiced breathing and breathing kung fu -- that is, internal skills, and even light skills, most of these people came from rich families, and they were very arrogant in their words and deeds. When the golden bridge was just opened, most of these people jumped up, and they ran away without a trace, and they didn't know where to rush at this time.

However, according to Huang Chang's previous investigation, there were such people in previous assessments, but their chances of passing were not higher than ordinary children. This can also be seen from the age distribution of successful people who worship the mountain - it stands to reason that fourteen or fifteen-year-old children must be much stronger in physical strength than eight or nine years old, but almost all the candidates that Huang Chang came into contact with are adamant: worshipping the mountain gate depends on the chance, and the eight or nine-year-old children who have the opportunity can enter, and if the opportunity is insufficient, there are many people who can't worship at the age of fourteen or fifteen - the previous records have indeed proved this.

Therefore, Huang Chang had always had a suspicion before, and the time limit announced by Immortal Master Mu today proves this even more - this assessment is nominally about mountain climbing, but in fact it is not about physical fitness, and most of it is not about mountaineering skills and speed. This "golden bridge" can definitely make eight or nine-year-old children, fourteen or fifteen-year-old children, and even those who have practiced kung fu level in physical strength and speed, and only in this way can the so-called "chance" theory be explained.

In his previous life, Huang Chang studied at a prestigious university, and he was admitted with his college entrance examination results, and his ability to cope with various exams is definitely stronger than anyone in this world. On the eve of graduation, I went to countless units to find a job, and I was also familiar with the inspection of human resources managers of various companies - the difficulty of passing the inspection of those people was probably not much lower than that of worshipping immortals. According to Huang Chang's experience, in order to cope with the examination well, the first thing is to determine what aspect the other party wants to examine you. Only by being targeted can it be possible.

If you think about it carefully, it is meaningless for the Immortal Family to accept apprentices and investigate the physical fitness or mountaineering skills of a group of children whose bodies have not yet grown into children. As for the talent and qualifications, they have been tested before, and if they can't meet the standards, they can't come up at all, so what will this "golden bridge" test them?

-- Patience, will, mind, and perhaps quality, these are the only things that Xianmen needs to know. Therefore, if you want to cross this bridge, the important thing is not how long it takes, but whether you can show the quality that satisfies Xianmen.

Therefore, the previous reminders of the two immortal masters of Mu Chen were certainly kind, but I am afraid that they also carried a little bit of inducement - if there were really people who turned back because they heard these words and encountered some difficulties, such a person who was not strong-willed, presumably the immortal sect would not accept it.

And the attitude that should really be held, Immortal Master Mu pointed him out alone:

――Don't hesitate!

Huang Chang, who had figured this out, walked more and more calmly, with a confident smile on the corner of his mouth.

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The fog seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, and even the sun on the top was obscured, and the surroundings were white, and even the road ahead could only be seen a dozen paces away. In the distance, it was a haze.

At some point, the soft golden pavement under my feet has disappeared and has been replaced by a rough gravel road, and the sand and gravel particles are getting bigger and bigger, and finally even to the point of being awkward. However, this point has no effect on Huang Chang, and his special platform shoes are more than enough to cope with this situation.

But soon the slope of the road suddenly increased, from a slight upward slope to a large steep slope that almost reached a 40-degree angle, but fortunately, there were steps on the road under the feet, but these steps were high and low, and the size was different, and it was very awkward to walk. In some places, you need to use both hands and feet to climb up. Some of the stone chips at the edge of the steps are as sharp as knives, and if you are not careful to step on or lift them, you may cut your hands and feet.

"Is this a test of our patience and carefulness?"

Huang Chang whispered to himself, while climbing up cautiously, this time it was really a bit of a mountain climbing. The more you go up the stairs, the more chaotic it becomes, and in the end there are no more stairs at all, but just a chaotic stone slope made of stones of various sizes, which is piled up in a state that is easy to collapse and pile up an upward passage that has almost reached 70 degrees, and when you look down, it is cloudy and mist, and the bottom is not visible, as if it is an abyss, and some stones feel very loose when you step on it, as if they are about to collapse at any time.

"Looks like I'm going to have to test my guts. ”

Huang Chang smiled to himself, his feet became more and more careful, and every step he stepped on had to be slightly harder, and only after confirming the safety of the foothold would he exert his strength to press the weight of his body up. There were a few times when he stepped on loose stones that had slipped down, but most of them were very strange, and they were staggered and crumbling by him, but they remained stable after all.

"Well, it's just patience and meticulousness, and guts, but not the skill of mountaineering - it's actually a step, it's just a little steeper, and it will shake. ”

Huang Chang thought he had realized the mystery of this mountain road, but he soon realized that he was too naïve - the test of the golden bridge was much more than that.

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Gusts of cold wind blew from behind, mixed with raindrops, and soon grew into a violent storm that struck him wet. Huang Chang finally frowned, encountering hurricanes and rains when climbing the mountain is the most dangerous, and the key is that it is easy to attract lightning. Under normal circumstances, he should find a place to take shelter and wait for the rain and wind to stop before acting. But in this current situation, God knows how long the wind and rain on this golden bridge will last, so Huang Chang continued to move forward after a little thought, and walked forward step by step against the wind and rain with difficulty.

After walking for a while, I finally left the rainy area, and the wind and rain finally subsided. But Huang Chang was not happy - his whole body was drenched in rain, and the temperature around him was getting colder and colder. The raindrops gradually turned into snowflakes, and the wind slowly picked up, and at some point the snow appeared under your feet, and soon it was so thick that it almost reached your knees. Fortunately, at this time, the road was finally smoother, and Huang Chang trudged through the snow step by step, the cold wind in his ears was biting, and his whole body was almost frozen.

"Jin Qiaojun, you're a bit too much, for teenagers, it's easy to get pneumonia by playing like this, do you know?"

Huang Chang muttered very dissatisfied, for some reason since he stepped on this golden bridge, he had a feeling of sudden enlightenment and relaxation in his heart. You must know that in his previous life, Huang Changke was also a lively and cheerful person who loved to play and dance, participated in several clubs in college, and was still an athlete.

However, since he came here, he has been acting as a "young man", and sometimes even his parents have to listen to his opinions, and he doesn't look like a child at all. Because of the special treatment he received from his parents since he was a child, he always felt that he had some kind of responsibility for this family, and he did not dare to relax at all. Until this moment, when it was really time to fulfill his responsibilities, Huang Chang relaxed instead, and faced this assessment related to his life fate with a relaxed and comfortable attitude - even if he was in the cold storm and snow, he couldn't see anything in the white expanse in front of him, and if he walked any further, he seemed to be about to die in the snowdrift, but he still maintained a normal heart.

And his material preparation is not comparable to that of ordinary teenagers - I saw Huang Chang take out a small gourd from his backpack, which contained strong wine. He poured some into his mouth, jumped in place a few more times, and suddenly felt a lot warmer all over his body.

"This test is obviously a bit too harsh for ordinary children, I guess it won't drag on for too long, work harder to get through!"

Huang Chang encouraged himself with such words, and insisted on moving forward despite the pain that his hands and feet were about to be frozen. Sure enough, after about ten minutes of walking, the snow storm gradually dissipated and the temperature finally returned to normal levels. And the strangest thing is that he actually dries out at some point, although there is still a little damp and cold, but it is very different from the feeling of being soaked before.

At this time, Huang Chang was tired and hungry, and he didn't have a hard top, so he found a place to sit down and take out dry food, drink water, eat and drink, and hurry up to recover his strength. His dry food consisted of pounding the best beef jerky into meat floss, mixing it with refined salt and honey, and then wrapping it in bread. It doesn't taste great, but it has an excellent energy boost.

It is impossible for this kind of dry food to be sold as a finished product, and it is specially made by his family under his guidance. Thinking of the warmth when his father and mother took turns to fight and smashed the meat pieces into pine powder with a wooden hammer in the dim light, Huang Chang's heart was filled with warmth. It seemed to be telepathic, and at this moment he seemed to hear the faint call of his family behind him, asking him to go home.

But Huang Chang just smiled, stood up, and walked forward without looking back.