Chapter 3 The Secret of Longevity

Where the eye of the fog array was, a five-foot copper mirror stood in the void, and the faces of all the people who entered the fog array flashed in the mirror, and their every move was watched by the bronze mirror.

Eventually, the flickering bronze mirror suddenly stopped, and it froze on a young man dressed as a scribe.

The young man was handsome, but his slightly sickly face was a little lacking in blood and energy. At this moment, he was sitting cross-legged in place, holding a jade slip in his hand, looking at it with novelty,

Changming Daoist and the other two Guiyuan Sect disciples all stood in front of the bronze mirror, calmly staring at the person in the bronze mirror.

"Pu Yuan!" An indifferent voice came out of Changming Dao's mouth, and he glanced back at the baby-faced Guiyuan Sect disciple behind him.

This disciple, known as Pu Yuan, respectfully bowed his predecessor slightly, and responded: "The disciple is here!"

"Take this junior disciple of yours out of the fog circle!" With a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, Changming Daoist re-fixed on the bronze mirror, looking at the young man in the mirror with interest.

"Yes!"

Seeing Pu walk away, the remaining elder Guiyuan Sect disciple looked at the young man in the glasses again with curiosity, and his doubts were even worse.

It was this young man who actually achieved the ethereal state of the spiritual platform. Even among the outer disciples of the Guiyuan Sect, there are only a handful of disciples who can do this.

Disciples of the Guiyuan Sect, it is only enough to be able to do this step.

What's more, this young man is just a mortal, a worldly person who rises and falls in the red dust, all of them are impetuous, and it is difficult to keep their hearts.

Although this fog array tests the mental nature of the people entering the formation, as long as they stay in it for two hours, they can pass the test. But this young man only took one hour to successfully pass the test.

"No wonder Uncle Changming would personally select exercises for him!" "Glancing deeply at the Changming Daoist who was indifferently in front of him, this Guiyuan Sect disciple was full of envy.

On the other side, Xu Mu, who was curiously stroking a large number of jade slips out of thin air, looked dazed as if he sensed something, and suddenly raised his head.

I saw that a disciple of the Guiyuan Sect who was about the same age as him and had a cute baby face was walking towards him with a smile on his face.

Xu Mu had an impression of him, it was Shi Cai who appeared outside the fog circle, one of the cultivators of the Guiyuan Sect, but he and another middle-aged Taoist had not spoken.

"Senior brother, congratulations, you have successfully passed the test!" Pu Yuan seemed to have a good temperament, walked up to Xu Mu with a playful face, and said loudly: "Senior brother, come with me, I will take you out of battle." ”

If Xu Mu still couldn't guess what this disciple meant, then he was really stupid, so he quickly stood up and responded modestly: "Thank you, senior brother!"

Smiling and nodding, Pu Yuan turned around and walked in front to lead the way, Xu Mu didn't dare to slack off and hurriedly followed.

"Senior brother, Xiao Ke has something unclear, I hope that Senior Brother will give advice!" Following behind Pu Yuan, Xu Mu finally had the opportunity to have formal contact with the disciples of the Guiyuan Sect, and of course he refused to let go of this good opportunity.

"You want to ask about the jade slip in your hand!" As if he had guessed Xu Mu's thoughts, Pu Yuan turned his head and swept the jade slip in the former's hand, and a hint of cunning flashed in his smiling eyes.

"Senior brother is really wise!" Xu Mu rarely had contact with people, but he didn't dare to hold back his doubts in his heart, so he had to ask hard.

"This is a cultivation exercise!" Pu Yuan is actually an extremely talkative person, this time he followed Changming Dao and his senior brother out, and no one spoke, and at the moment he saw that Xu Mu had doubts, and he also wanted to show off.

"This is the cultivation method?" Although there was a guess in his heart, but after getting Pu Yuan's affirmative answer, Xu Mu was still a little incredible.

Unexpectedly, what those people dream of is so easily obtained by themselves.

"Yes, this is still personally selected by Uncle Shi for you!" When talking about Changming Daoist, Pu Yuan had admiration on his face, and when he turned to look at the immortal formula in Xu Mu's hand, he was even more envious.

"I have thousands of exercises for the Yuan Sect, roughly divided according to the five elements, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth!"

"This longevity recipe is the wood attribute exercise, and it was personally selected by Uncle Shi for you, and it is definitely the most suitable for you to cultivate at the moment!"

"Uncle Shi picked?" When Pu Yuan talked about Uncle Shi, the first thing Xu Mu thought of was that among the three of them, the middle-aged Taoist who had never spoken a word had an indifferent face to fame and fortune, or was free and easy.

Since he personally selected it for himself, then this longevity recipe must be a very powerful exercise!

As if he had guessed what Xu Mu was thinking, Pu Yuan grinned and continued: "I don't know if it's powerful or not, but junior brother, cultivating the exercises is not to see whether it is violent or not, but to see whether it fits with yourself." ”

"No matter how powerful the exercises are, they are not suitable for your own cultivation, and it is just a waste of time for you to get them, but they are exercises that are in line with yourself, and you can practice them day by day. Then for oneself, this kind of exercise is a good exercise!"

"Since it is the longevity recipe that Uncle Changming personally selected for you, then you don't have to doubt that this exercise is definitely the most suitable for you. ”

"I really envy my junior brother, I didn't have any blessings at the beginning, let the elders personally choose the exercises for me, otherwise my cultivation should have reached a higher level!"

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Calmly listening to Pu Yuan's nagging words, Xu Mu had even more doubts in his heart, he was actually the elder of his uncle's generation, and he personally selected the exercises for himself, he didn't know why, but this favor had to be written down no matter what.

Just by listening to the envious tone of this Guiyuan Sect disciple, one can imagine that it is an unattainable thing to be able to obtain an exercise that fits oneself in the early stage of cultivation.

With complicated thoughts, Xu Mu followed Pu Yuan through the fog formation left and right, and finally walked out of the formation and came to a clearing!

There is no longer a trace of fog in the surrounding area.

Suddenly, Xu Mu seemed to sense something, his eyes froze, and he turned his head to look behind him.

A bluestone tablet rises from the ground, I am afraid that there are more than 30 zhang, three simple inscriptions of the vast atmosphere, carved on it.

Return to the Yuan Sect!

The stele surrounds the breath of the years, exuding an invisible majesty, so that Xu Mu, who has first known this stele, has a heart beating wildly, and can't help but have the urge to kneel down and worship.

Is this where the mountain gate of Guiyuan Sect is located?

As if sensing Xu Mu's shock, Pu Yuan smiled lightly, patted the former's shoulder, and comforted: "Don't be nervous, your senior brother and I almost knelt down when we first started!"

"Senior Brother Xie reminds!" put away the horror in his heart, Xu Mu calmed down for a long time, and asked suspiciously: "Senior brother, why do you only see the stone tablet and not the mountain gate!"

"Hehe, you'll know later!" Pu Yuan obviously had other important things to do, and after taking Xu Mu here, he waved his hand and turned to leave.

"Wait here for a while, I'll come when I go!

By the time Pu Yuan's aftermath dissipated, his figure had disappeared again in the thick fog in front of him.

Xu Mu had no choice but to continue to wait in place.

Then he had nothing to do, so he simply began to play with the jade slip that recorded the longevity technique.

"I seem to have forgotten to ask about a very important thing, how should I read the contents of this jade slip......"

Another half an hour passed, and the fog was churning in front of me, as if someone had come out of the fog circle.

The leader was the other disciple of the Guiyuan Sect who had just eliminated the person who did not match his heart outside the Zixia Mountain Range.

He was followed by a man and a woman, Xu Mu had some impressions of these two people, they were both one of the many disciples who came to participate in the entrance review outside the Zixia Mountain Range.

The man is eighteen years old, with an ordinary appearance, but he always has a faint smile at the corner of his mouth, and a pair of deep eyes seem to be able to see through people's hearts.

The woman is dressed in a light veil, seventeen years old, although she looks beautiful, but there is a chilling coldness between her eyebrows, she is an iceberg beauty.

When Xu Mu observed the two of them, they also looked Xu Mu up and down, obviously they were surprised that Xu Mu walked out of the fog circle faster than themselves.

"Xu Mu has seen Senior Brother!"

Although his eyes swept over the two of them, Xu Mu did not dare to slack off on the official disciples of the Guiyuan Sect, and hurriedly bowed respectfully.

"Hmm!" nodded slightly, in response, this Guiyuan Sect disciple was obviously not as good at talking as Pu Yuan, and after bringing the two of them here, he got up and left, without saying a word on the way.

"In Xia Ning Zhiyuan, I don't know what to call the little brother!" Seeing the disciple leave, the man who always had a smile on his face spoke first.

"Junior brother Xu Mu, I've seen Brother Ning Zhiyuan!" Maintaining basic etiquette is the rule of Xu Mu's etiquette training since he was a child, not to mention that the person who can come out so early is obviously not simple, I am afraid that he has already passed the audit, and it is impossible for him to slack off.

After Xu Mu and Ning Zhiyuan got to know each other, they both looked at the iceberg-like beauty, she didn't look like she was easy to talk to, so no one of them asked the latter.

If you hit a cold nail, it's very embarrassing.

"Rosewood!" Although her appearance is cold, this woman is also smart, and without waiting for others to ask, she has already guessed the thoughts of Xu Mu and the others, and responded coldly.

The voice was crisp, but the tone was still too indifferent, obviously not wanting to talk more.

Now that everyone has expressed their positions, of course Xu Mu and the others can't be entangled with her too much, and the two continue to talk familiarly.

"It turns out that Brother Ning's ancestor is a disciple of the outer sect of the Guiyuan Sect, it is really disrespectful and disrespectful!" After talking, Xu Mufang learned that Ning Zhiyuan's ancestors were already disciples of the Guiyuan Sect, and later because of his advanced age, there was no breakthrough in his cultivation, so he went down the mountain and came to the mortal world again.

By the time Ning Zhiyuan arrived, he was already the third generation of heirs, because his cultivation qualifications were quite high, so he was sent by his ancestor to the Guiyuan Sect to participate in the entrance test.

This kind of family established by outer disciples in the mortal dust has an inextricable relationship with the Guiyuan Sect, and their outstanding descendants will naturally be sent to the Guiyuan Sect for cultivation.

While Xu Mu and Ning Zhiyuan were talking, people came out of the fog formation one after another, but the number of people was slightly smaller, sparse and sparse, and in the end, there were only eighty or ninety people.

You must know that there were one or two thousand people waiting outside the Zixia Mountain Range before, and it was preliminarily determined that there were people with cultivation talent.

In the end, there was not even a tenth of what was left.

Of course, those who can stay are happy and excited.

When the Changming Daoist took Pu Yuan and another Guiyuan Sect disciple out of the fog circle, the number did not exceed one hundred, and it was fixed at ninety-five.

Changming Dao was the first time he spoke in front of everyone for so long, but the first sentence almost made everyone speechless.

"Yes, more than I expected!" his eyes swept over the remaining disciples, and then calmly ordered: "Congratulations, you ninety-five people are already official disciples of my Guiyuan Sect. ”

"Li Qing, Pu Yuan, for your juniors, test your qualifications!"

"Yes!

Li Qing and Pu Yuan got the order, walked out from behind Changming, and one of them came to everyone with a tortoise shell engraved with a talisman.

Li Qing said loudly: "You are already a person who has been preliminarily detected as having cultivation qualifications in the mortal dust, and the cultivation qualifications, also known as the spiritual root, although they are classified into one category, they are also divided into high and low, and then, the disciples whose names are read by Senior Brother Pu Yuan will be listed in turn to test the spiritual root!"

"Linggen!" Xu Mu muttered in his heart, listening to the tone, it seemed that these ninety-five people were already disciples in the sect, and there would be no surprises.

And for beginner disciples, checking the spiritual root is an indispensable part.

I hope that my spiritual root will not be at the bottom! Otherwise, I will be embarrassed, after all, my own exercises are personally selected by the Changming Daoist, so don't let people down too much.

"Xiao Ling is out of the queue!" A young girl tensed her emotions, walked out of the crowd, and hurriedly came to Li Qian.

"Hold the tortoise shell with the palms of both hands, and close your eyes tightly!"

Following Li Qing's guidance, the moment Xiao Ling pressed the tortoise shell with both hands, a burst of light blue light burst out from the tortoise shell.

"Lower grade water line spirit root!" Glancing at the tortoise shell, Li Qing held the jade slip with his other hand and recorded Xiao Ling's information.

"Next!Wang Yang!"

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The test disciples, one after another, stepped forward, most of them were mainly low-grade spiritual roots, and occasionally a medium-grade spiritual root would appear, which aroused the envy of all the disciples for a while. Among them, the young man who was caricatured at the entrance of the fog array before and called himself Tian Xiaonian was the middle-grade Jinxing Linggen.

Xu Mu found out that Tian Xiaonian had also passed, and with a sweep of his eyes, he also found the purple-clothed red-haired young man who had satirized Tian Xiaonian.

These two people are really close to each other.

It's just that the red-haired boy's face was a little unsightly after Tian Xiaonian was rated as a middle-grade spiritual root, obviously because of the latter's excellent qualifications, he felt that he had offended a somewhat tricky guy.

"Hehe!" Tian Xiaonian also found the red-haired boy, and scolded the latter with bad intentions.

Just as Tian Xiaonian was proud, the crowd was in a commotion again.

I saw a burst of light that had never been seen before, blooming on the tortoise shell in the hands of the test disciple Pu Yuan.

"Ning Zhiyuan, the top-grade earth spirit root!"

Ning Zhiyuan was the man who had talked to Xu Mu before.

"The first high-grade spiritual root has appeared!"

"Good guy!"

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Everyone cast envious and jealous glances at Ning Zhiyuan, even Li Qing, a disciple of the Guiyuan Sect who was responsible for Ning Zhiyuan's detection, all responded with a kind smile, "Congratulations to Senior Brother Ning Zhiyuan, the path of cultivation must be smooth all the way!"

"Senior Brother Xie, Senior Brother Xie!" he himself looked extremely calm, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, obviously he had already known that he was a high-grade spiritual root before, after all, his ancestor was a disciple of the outer sect of the Guiyuan Sect, and he had his own means.

If there are still people at the scene who are relatively calm after Ning Zhiyuan detected the top-grade spiritual root, then there are only three people.

Xu Mu, Changming Daoren, red sandalwood.

Changming Daoist didn't even raise his eyelids, with an expression outside the gods. As the uncle of the Guiyuan Sect Master, he has never seen any kind of genius disciple.

Rosewood didn't say anything, she had a cold expression from beginning to end.

Xu Muma, calmly touched his nose, his character since he was a child is that he can handle anything calmly.

It is precisely because of his extraordinary state of mind that the Changming Dao people have some appreciation for him and choose exercises for him, after all, even Ning Zhiyuan is not qualified to let the Changming Dao people personally choose the exercises for him.

"Xu Mu!"

Where Pu Yuan was, he pronounced Xu Mu's name, he quickly collected his mood and walked to the tortoiseshell.