Chapter 1 Guiyuan Sect
Guiyuan Sect is located in the depths of the Zixia Mountain Range, with endless mountains and churning mist.
There are also fierce beasts that discourage mortals, and under normal circumstances, no one will step into this forbidden area.
Even hunters from nearby villages would not go into the mountains to hunt, after all, there are more than just wild beasts that drink blood.
The most terrifying thing is the demon beast that is rumored to be able to breathe flames and fly to the sky and the earth in the mortal world.
But this year is different, this year is the 20th annual ceremony of the Guiyuan Sect.
The scope of apprenticeship includes all classes, down to the villagers in the mountains, the merchants in the city, to the nobles of the imperial city, and the children of the eunuchs, as long as you have cultivation qualifications, you can worship the mountain gate.
All in all, it is possible for any teenager or girl under the age of twenty.
At the moment, it is upright in the morning.
On the periphery of the Zixia Mountain Range, thousands of children who came to seek immortal fate were loosely gathered together, and in front of them was the purple mist of the Zixia Mountain Range that did not retreat all year round.
Everyone was full of curiosity about the Guiyuan Sect, or they exchanged their heads and ears, or raised their eyes to look around.
In the crowd, a handsome young man of sixteen or seventeen years old, dressed as a scholar, was particularly eye-catching.
Not to mention the outstanding appearance, just the natural noble temperament cultivated in strict etiquette training since childhood, has made some girls around who are just starting to move, frequently look sideways.
It may be because the weather is slightly cool in the early morning, and it is even colder under the fog.
The young man's brow furrowed all the time, and after a moment his body trembled, and then he bent slightly, his forehead drooping, and he let out a dull cough.
"Ahem~~"
Coughing violently, causing the boy's fair face, the whole body turned red, showing a sick state.
Xu Mu's right hand was clenched into a fist and placed it under his mouth, trying to suppress his voice, but it still attracted the attention of the surrounding eyes.
After all, his outstanding temperament is too eye-catching.
The trembling of his body caused by coughing accelerated the flow of blood throughout his body, making Xu Mu's thin body slightly warmer, and after a long time, he finally stopped speaking.
"Alas!" Xu Mu seemed to feel the strange gazes of the people around him, and sighed deeply in his heart, he had been frail and sickly since he was a child, and his body was extremely fragile.
Wind and cold miscellaneous diseases, which are nothing to ordinary people, can make him bedridden and even life-threatening.
Being able to live to this day is completely due to the large amount of resources and drugs used by their family, hanging his breath, otherwise he would have died long ago.
In addition, in the early morning of the Zixia Mountain Range, the air was already cool and abnormal, and the cold, which was nothing to mortals, had already made him cough non-stop.
With a self-deprecating wry smile on the corner of his mouth, Xu Mu took a deep breath of cold air mixed with mist, which made the stinging sensation in his throat caused by coughing slightly relieved, and then cleaned up his mood, and his eyes began to wander around.
Those who were able to come here were all teenagers and girls with cultivation talents who had passed the preliminary review of the foreign disciples of the Guiyuan Sect.
In Pingyang Prefecture, where Xu Mu is located, I heard that only ten of them have passed the preliminary audit test, and he is one of them, and his two elder brothers do not have this fate.
Thinking of his two elder brothers, the corners of Xu Mu's mouth couldn't help but provoke. For the Guiyuan Sect, his two brothers are extremely hot-eyed, Xu Mu was dragged by them to the Guiyuan Sect to review the disciples for review, who knew that the two elder brothers did not pass, but it was he who passed the audit.
It's really intentional flower arrangement, flowers into willows, unintentional willows, willows into flowers.
Thinking of the resentful eyes of the two brothers before leaving, Xu Mu couldn't help but smile again.
He came to return to the Yuan Sect, not to become a cultivator who flew to the heavens and retreats, but to seek a way to restore his body, hoping that after getting started, he would be able to practice the long-rumored immortal family exercises, and slowly improve his physique, die young or something, Xu Mu didn't dare to think about it at all.
After thinking about it, Xu Mu put his hands that were already frozen cold under his nose, above his mouth, and slowly let out a breath of hot air, wanting to warm his hands slightly.
It's a pity that his hands, which have been numb from the cold, can't feel the heat at all, but his lips are frozen by the cold palms.
In desperation, I had to put down my palms.
He simply pricked up his ears and began to hear the whispers of a few people around him.
"We've been waiting almost an hour for how long we're going to stay here!"
"It's just, there's nothing here, it's all fog at a glance, it's so boring!"
"It's rare to have a fairy fate! We don't know how lucky we are to be standing here! Don't complain."
......
The waiting time is a bit long, after all, they are all teenagers, and they can't help but lack patience, and many people are starting to complain!
But there are also people who are nervous, after all, those who can get this far are lucky.
Xu Muwan smiled, patient, perhaps for him, he is the best at this temperament that his peers disdain to have.
Because of his fragile body, since he was a child, he couldn't play like an ordinary child, and more often, he just sat quietly and watched his two brothers fight. Once he sits, he can not move for half a day.
On the contrary, it is the cold that most people ignore, but it is a kind of torture for Xu Mu.
Just when Xu Mu sighed, he seemed to remember something, his palm reached into his arms, and took out a piece of dim sum wrapped in delicate lotus leaves, which was the glutinous rice cake that his mother specially made for her before leaving, his favorite.
As soon as the dim sum was taken out, the faint sweet smell inhaled, Xu Mu smiled slightly, and his appetite suddenly increased.
Then, ignoring the strange and sluggish gazes of the surrounding teenagers and girls, he took a small bite of his own food.
"Who is this guy, we are all so nervous, he still has time to eat dessert!"
"I don't know, looking at his clothing and temperament, the family shouldn't be simple!"
"What's the use of a good family, it's a sick seedling at a glance, I just paid attention to it, and I coughed for a long time!"
......
When these idlers' children were judging Xu Mupin's head.
Outside the thick mist, three figures dressed in yin and yang robes were carefully looking at all the people in front of them who came to worship the mountain gate, and everyone's every move could not escape their eyes.
It was as if the churning mist, which was impossible for mortals to see, did not exist in their eyes.
Among the three, a middle-aged man with a white face and beard is the leader.
"This batch of little guys, patience is really poor, the road of cultivation, the creation of heaven and earth, going against the sky, accompanied by loneliness, such a heart, how to talk about cultivation!"
The eyes were full of lightness and coldness, although they were far away, but like the whining sound from the crowd, they couldn't hide from the ears of the middle-aged Taoist and said coldly:
"Remove these impetuous people from the primary list, and I don't have to waste the resources of the Yuan Sect!"
"Yes, Uncle Changming!" The middle-aged Taoist spoke, and the two Guiyuan Sect disciples standing respectfully behind him, of course, did not dare to be disobedient, and hurriedly counted those disciples with poor hearts, which were a large number of names.
"Huh!" Suddenly, the indifferent Changming Daoist seemed to have found something in the crowd, and sighed lightly, and the corners of his mouth provoked a smile, "Interesting, this little guy actually has the leisure to eat sweets!"
Following the gaze of the Changming Dao people, it was where Xu Mu was, who was biting into the sweet glutinous rice cake in small bites, immersed in the sweet and greasy Xu Mu, and didn't know that his every move was taken into the eyes of the Changming Dao people.
It's been more than halfway through.
"Are they all listed!" Changming Daoren's voice sounded again.
"Uncle Changming has been listed, a total of 439 people, all of whom have been removed from the list!"
One of the Guiyuan Sect disciples hurriedly responded respectfully.
"Okay, let's go out and meet this batch of disciples, I hope that after the retest, there will be a few people left!" glanced back indifferently at the two disciples, and the Changming Daoist walked out slowly.
"Alas, this year, Uncle Changming, the Iron Mask Daoist, is the envoy of the entry review, and those disciples are going to be unlucky. In the rear, watching the Changming Daoist walk out slowly, the disciples of the Guiyuan Sect, who were obviously older, sighed helplessly.
"That's right, I hope I can still leave a twelve!" On the side, a disciple with a baby face who was on the younger side shrugged his shoulders and obviously agreed with his senior brother's words.
Then, the two didn't dare to stay longer, and hurriedly followed Uncle Shi.
The moment the three of them walked out of the fog, all whispering came to an abrupt end,
"The Guiyuan Sect disciple entry review has begun, and all the disciples who have passed the preliminary examination have stepped forward!"
The elder Guiyuan Sect disciple stepped out, his voice was not loud, but it clearly reached the ears of every disciple present.
Fang Cai's complaint, there was no trace of it, and everyone dared to hurriedly follow the instructions of the disciples of the Guiyuan Sect and nervously walked in front of the three of them.
The initial review has passed, and it is almost a kick in the door, and I don't want to leak.
Xu Mu also just swallowed the last bite of glutinous rice cake to keep up with the pace of the public.
"Before the retest, there is another thing to announce," his eyes shuttled through the countless crowds, and after scanning them all, the Guiyun Sect disciple waved his arm, and a jade slip floated up from his hand.
After Yu Jian flew to a certain height, a light curtain shone brightly, and hundreds of names appeared on the light curtain.
This was the first time these teenagers and girls had seen the miraculous methods of cultivators, and they had not yet come back to their senses in shock and excitement.
The next words of the Guiyun Sect disciple made everyone tense their nerves.
"Let's take a closer look! all the people recorded in this jade slip have been eliminated!"
"What's the matter, we obviously didn't do anything, why were we eliminated!" A tall young man dressed in brocade immediately spoke up, his face excited, because he found his name in this light curtain!
"Yes, it's all together, why should we be eliminated!"
"It's not fair, we need an explanation!"
......
Someone took the lead, and many famous children in the light curtain were born to cater to them, after all, this is related to whether they can worship the Guiyuan Sect and have a chance to ascend to the sky in one step!
Seeing that the crowd was boiling, the elder Guiyuan Sect disciple frowned, and subconsciously looked back at Changming Daoist.
Changming Daoren's expression was leisurely, and he obviously didn't mean to speak, or he didn't bother to open his mouth at all.
At the same time, it can be regarded as a hint that the Guiyuan Sect disciple will deal with it himself.
The disciple of the Guiyuan Sect understood what to do, his eyes lit up, and in his body, which was not particularly tall, a fierce aura suddenly erupted, and pure Yuan Li rose to the sky.
To everyone, he felt as if he had just looked like a mortal, and in an instant, he turned into a fierce dragon.
It made the teenagers who had never seen any cultivator methods shake their bodies, and there was a fear and awe of him in their hearts.
The crowd that was still shouting just now stopped abruptly.
Xu Mu's face turned pale for a while, the target of the Guiyuan Sect's disciples to release the coercion was all of them, but his physique was the worst, and he almost stood unsteadily under the sudden coercion.
"Is this the Guiyuan Sect! Cultivator! The existence of being a human immortal in the world. ”
Finally got used to this coercion that seemed to be pressing on his chest, Xu Mu was inexplicably shocked in his heart.
He finally knew why his two brothers were so envious of him after learning that he had passed the preliminary examination, and why his father and mother did not hinder him in the slightest.
Even his father, the powerful father who played a pivotal role in Pingyang Prefecture, had an incredible and excited look in his eyes.
"I see!
Finally calmed down the double pressure of his mood and body, Xu Mu glanced over the light curtain, and did not find his name, so he breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, his luck seemed to be good.
Then, his eyes swept over the children who had just shouted about unfairness, and found that several of them were people who had shown impatience or complained in the process of waiting.
But the people who had just returned to the Yuan Sect were not present, how did they know, could it be that they had been monitoring their every move.
After thinking about it, Xu Mu was afraid for a while, but fortunately he didn't say a word, and his behavior was decent.
"I know you're not convinced, but I'll tell you the truth, in fact, when you were the first to arrive in this Luoxia Mountains, we were already one step ahead, and everything you have is in our eyes. ”
"The people recorded in the jade slips are all people who are in an irritable mood in the process of waiting! The road of cultivating the truth, seizing the heaven and the earth, going against the sky, accompanied by loneliness, such a heart, how can we talk about cultivating the truth!"
In the end, the disciples of the Guiyuan Sect even applied the evaluation of the people who had only grown into the Dao, and those who were originally unconvinced in their hearts no longer dared to refute in the slightest, and some even lowered their heads in shame.
It turns out that it's because of this, is this such a simple reason?