Chapter 1: Discouragement
The mountain is not high, and there is a fairy name.
Fenglin Mountain is not more than a thousand zhang high, the radius is only seventy or eighty miles, in the land of thousands of miles, there are as many as seven mountains that are higher and wider than it, however, Fenglin Mountain is the most famous mountain within a radius of thousands of miles.
South to Guanping City, north to Hanjiazhai, east to Qingshui Stream, west to Qingzhu Mountain, the people within a radius of thousands of miles know that Fenglin Mountain is a spiritual mountain, and there are people who cultivate immortals in the mountain.
In the eyes of ordinary people, the four seasons on Maple Grove Mountain are like spring, but in fact, in summer, especially at noon, Maple Grove Mountain is also hot as if there is a fire burning underground.
Although Fenglin Mountain is the most famous spiritual mountain within a radius of thousands of miles, Mo said that in the entire Qingzhou, that is, in the Ming Dynasty, Fenglin Mountain is a small mountain with an infamous reputation.
Fenglin Mountain has a poor reputation in the southeast of Qingzhou, and the Earth Spirit Sect located in Fenglin Mountain also belongs to the lowest sect.
Most of the disciples in the Earth Spirit Sect were in the foundation building period, and they had not condensed the Yuan Dan, and they could not be invaded by the cold and heat, so at noon, most of the disciples stayed in the house to cultivate the Yuan Qi.
However, there are exceptions, at this moment, on the wide martial arts arena in front of the Earth Spirit Palace, there is a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old.
The young man was quite handsome, standing up, he should be more than seven feet tall, his face was as pale as paper, and there were many obvious mud spots on the part of his body that touched the ground.
Apparently, while the young man was kneeling on the ground, it was raining.
I don't know if after kneeling for a few days, the young man's back is still very straight, and the tablet held in front of his chest is also very straight.
When the shadow in front of the young man shifted slightly, a pair of young men and women who were also dressed in green clothes came to the front of the Earth Spirit Temple.
Walking up to the young man kneeling on the ground, the delicate-looking girl squatted down.
The girl obviously wanted to say something, but after she said "senior brother", she didn't say anything, and got up and stood up.
After the girl got up, the young man beside the girl who looked a little similar to her sighed, and walked on the steps to the door of the Earth Spirit Temple.
The girl also sighed lightly, and hurriedly followed.
After a while, the young man and woman disappeared into the Earth Spirit Temple.
The Earth Spirit Hall is a place for discussing important matters within the Earth Spirit Sect, and it is also the cultivation place of the head Huang Tianzhong.
The two of them entered the Earth Spirit Hall, turned to the right, and walked a few steps before they came to a gate with flashing yellow runes.
"Daddy!"
"Come in!"
After a deep voice came from inside the room, the yellow runes on the door flickered, and the door opened a thin slit for only one person to enter and exit.
As soon as the two walked in, the door shut.
Inside the gate is a small stone house, with only a stone bed on which a middle-aged man in a yellow robe sits cross-legged.
This middle-aged man is Huang Tianzhong, the head of the Earth Spirit Sect, and the young man and woman are Huang Tianzhong's son Huang Yijie and woman Huang Yimei.
"Daddy!"
After the two bowed to the middle-aged man, Huang Yimei spoke: "Dad, Senior Brother Changshan has been kneeling for nine days, if he kneels again, he may hurt the roots." ”
Huang Tianzhong frowned slightly, and said in a deep voice: "Yijie has already told him all the truths that should be said, but he can't figure it out himself." Your time is running out, so you have to focus on cultivation and don't mention this matter in the future. ”
Huang Yimei was obviously afraid of Huang Tianzhong, and after Huang Tianzhong's voice fell, she wanted to say something, but she opened her mouth but didn't say anything.
In the blink of an eye, two hours passed.
In the summer, at the end of the Shen period, the sun in the sky was still very strong.
When Huang Yijie and Huang Yimei walked out of the Earth Spirit Palace, there was still only Chang Shan kneeling on the martial arts arena in front of the Earth Spirit Palace.
After going down the steps, Huang Yijie and Huang Yimei stopped beside Chang Shan for a while, then walked to the edge of the martial arts arena, picked up two big swords from the weapon rack, and practiced martial arts.
After about another tea time, one after another young people in green clothes came to the martial arts arena.
These young people greeted Huang Yijie's brothers and sisters, and followed Huang Yijie to practice martial arts.
By the time of the unitary hour, the number of young people in the martial arts arena had reached hundreds.
Hundreds of people practiced martial arts together, and the momentum was quite loud, but Chang Shan was not affected by this momentum, and still knelt motionless.
After three minutes, the young people in the martial arts arena stopped practicing at the same time, sat cross-legged on the ground, and began to recover.
A quarter of an hour later, these young men stopped cultivating at the same time and stood up.
Standing up, a few cultivators left the martial arts arena, while most of the cultivators found an opponent of comparable strength to continue practicing martial arts.
After two o'clock, when the sky began to darken, the young people on the martial arts arena left the martial arts arena one after another.
When the martial arts arena was empty, Chang Shan got up and stood up.
Although Chang Shan's physique is different from ordinary people, he knelt for nine days, did not get a drop of water, and experienced rain and sun, at this time, as soon as he stood up, he felt dizzy and weak, and his body shook several times before he slowly stood firm.
"Master, you forgive the apprentice. ”
Chang Shan raised his head and stared at the Earth Spirit Hall for a moment, then lowered his head and glanced at the tablet in his hand, and staggered away from the martial arts arena.
Regardless of the foundation building period, the cultivation level of the cultivation world has nine levels: the Red Dan Period, the Orange Dan Period, the Yellow Dan Period, the Green Dan Period, the Green Dan Period, the Green Dan Period, the Blue Dan Period, the Purple Dan Period, the Silver Dan Period, and the Jindan Period.
The Earth Spirit Sect is just a small sect at the bottom of the stream, and the sect is not said to be a master who can fly to the sky above the Green Dan stage, and there is not even a cultivator in the Yellow Dan stage realm. The Earth Spirit Sect was able to dominate within a radius of thousands of miles, relying on the three Orange Dan Stage cultivators, Huang Tianzhong, Duan Chen, and Shang Yun.
Shang Yun is Chang Shan's master.
Unlike Huang Tianzhong and Duan Chen, the two masters of the Orange Pill Stage cultivated by the Earth Spirit Sect, Shang Yun only joined the Earth Spirit Sect after surviving the first Heavenly Tribulation and reaching the Orange Pill Stage.
The reason why he chose to join such a small sect as the Earth Spirit Sect, which only has seven star arrays, is completely to repay the kindness of the late head of the Earth Spirit Sect, Zhang He.
Since joining the Earth Spirit Sect, in the past thirty-seven years, Shang Yun has put all his energy into developing the Earth Spirit Sect.
Three years ago, when Shang Yun rescued Chang Shan and accepted him as an apprentice, he once told Chang Shan that his life's ambition was to develop the Earth Spirit Sect into a large sect with masters of the Green Dan Period.
Shang Yun didn't want to tie Chang Shan to such a small sect as the Earth Spirit Sect, but he once told Chang Shan that if he made any achievements in cultivation, he hoped that Chang Shan could help the Earth Spirit Sect develop and grow.
A month and a half ago, Shang Yun desperately protected a piece of Star Pattern Stone that he had obtained by chance, also for the sake of the Earth Spirit Sect.
Shang Yun can definitely be said to be benevolent and righteous to the Earth Spirit Sect, but after Shang Yun's death, the Earth Spirit Sect not only had no intention of avenging Shang Yun, but instead formed an alliance with the Liu family of Qiping Mountain, who killed Shang Yun.
Chang Shan read a lot of books when he was a teenager, and he also knew what it meant to "take revenge for a gentleman, ten years is not too late." ”
However, after the Earth Spirit Sect formed an alliance with the Liu family of Qiping Mountain, would Huang Tianzhong still think about avenging Shang Yun?
Chang Shan really didn't know if Huang Tianzhong planned to avenge Shang Yun, so he wanted to ask him for an explanation. Who knows, Huang Tianzhong refused to see Chang Shan on the one hand, and sent Huang Yijie to persuade Chang Shan to give up and avenge Shang Yun.
Knowing that Huang Tianzhong did not have the intention of avenging Shang Yun, Chang Shan felt unfair for Shang Yun, and he wanted to leave the Earth Spirit Sect, but he did not want to disobey Shang Yun's will before his death, and he was very reluctant to the Earth Spirit Sect in his heart, so, with a trace of luck, he knelt in front of the Earth Spirit Hall with Shang Yun's tablet, hoping to impress Huang Tianzhong and make him change his mind.
Day after day, Chang Shan became more and more disappointed.
Chang Shan knelt in front of the Earth Spirit Hall for nine consecutive days, but Huang Tianzhong didn't even come out to see him, which made him completely disappointed in Huang Tianzhong and the Earth Spirit Sect.
Frustrated, Chang Shan decided to leave the Earth Spirit Sect immediately.
Chang Shan left the martial arts arena and walked along a road that went down diagonally for about a tea time, and came to a wide land more than two miles long and seventy or eighty zhang wide.
This wide area is called a knife ping, and according to legend, it is cut out by a master.
There are hundreds of large and small square courtyards on Yidaoping, and these courtyards are the residences of the inner disciples of the Earth Spirit Sect.
Chang Shan walked along the path by Yidaoping for more than 30 zhang, and suddenly two young men walked out of a small courtyard seven or eight zhang in front of him.
As if he didn't see two people suddenly appear in front of him, Chang Shan's footsteps did not stop.
Although Chang Shan has only been in the sect for three years, he has not shown too high talent, but his master Shang Yun is the person with the highest cultivation in the Earth Spirit Sect.
Therefore, before Shang Yun died, most of the disciples who started much earlier than him would call him Senior Brother.
And now, when these two young men walked towards Chang Shan, they had a sneer on their faces, obviously trying to find Chang Shan's unhappiness.
However, they used to call Chang Shan Senior Brother used to be called, and the fear of Chang Shan in their hearts had not completely disappeared, and when Chang Shan walked in front of them unruly, they subconsciously made way for Chang Shan.
It wasn't until Chang Shan walked past them that they came back to their senses.
After glancing at each other, the slightly taller young man sneered at Chang Shan's back: "The backer is gone, and he is so lost and depressed, what a waste!"
"Senior brother, people pretend to be pitiful or not, it's pitiful enough, let's not rub salt on other people's wounds. ”
"Rubbish!"
The slightly taller young man snorted coldly at Chang Shan's back, then turned around and walked forward.
The other young man laughed at Chang Shan a few times before turning around.
When Chang Shan woke up from his deep sleep, he wandered around without relatives and for no reason, feeling what makes people's hearts sinister and insatiable, but he didn't feel what the world is hot and cold.
After Shang Yun died, in this place where Changshan was his home, he really felt what it meant to be in the hot and cold world.
Chang Shan's father taught him since he was a child that he should be kind and humble when he got along with others, so when Shang Yun was alive, he did not show a trace of domineering.
Unexpectedly, Shang Yun died, but many of those who had been with him well before spoke ill of him.
Although Chang Shan is a little unrelenting, but the voices of those two young people are not small, how can he not hear them?
"There's really nothing to miss here!"
With a hint of loneliness, Chang Shan walked into his small courtyard.