On that day, an old man and a young man arrived at the foot of Maoshan Mountain. A white jade staircase thousands of steps long suddenly appeared in front of the little monkey's eyes, like a giant python, coiling the continuous peaks that could not be seen at a glance, reaching the depths of the clouds.

Looking up, in the depths of the clouds, giant trees stand, mountains are undulating, lush grass and forests, and the rich aura of heaven and earth hovers between the verdant grass and trees, looking up, making people feel that the mountains in front of them are becoming more and more boundless and vast. The fresh air between the mountains and forests flows slowly, like a stream, like the moon, which makes people feel refreshed and happy.

As soon as the little monkey entered the boundary of Maoshan Mountain, he felt the richness of the aura of heaven and earth here. Compared with the hundred bamboo forests, it is really a world of difference. If the bamboo forest is a small stream, then this place is like a river, lake and sea.

Along the steps, there is a trickling stream, clear to the bottom, which happily flows from the bottom to the top. The little monkey was dumbfounded, turned his head and asked, "What's the situation?"

Lao Dao stroked his beard proudly and said: "Do you think that only ordinary people want to enter this sect? ”

"Can you fool a little more fake?" said the little monkey as he walked to the brook and picked up a bend of water in his palm, which was not only clear, but in the palm of his hand, it seemed to be alive, and it rotated regularly along the palm of his hand.

Lao Dao said again: "Take a sip and try it." ”

The little monkey poured all the water into his mouth, and the water swirled in his mouth and rushed down his throat, cool and thorough, and soaked into his heart and spleen. The fatigue of walking halfway seemed to disappear when I was stirred by this cold and spiritual water. It's not just miraculous, it's miraculous.

"It's... How does this water seem to have a soul?"

Lao Dao said with a smile: "People have souls, but water can't have souls?" Everything is their own soul, the sword has a sword, the charm has a charm, and the Dan has a Dan, but ordinary people can't see, hear, or touch." "Good guy, at every opportunity, he will preach Maoshan morality to the little monkey.

The matter of the sword spirit, when I talked about the frost promotion sword that day, I heard the old man talk about it, but this water spirit thing is really incredible. Does it not mean that this water has become a living thing here?

Lao Dao looked at him with a shocked and incredulous face, thinking about how many years ago he had when he first came to Maoshan.

At that time, there was no such reverse stream, at that time, there were not so many sects, and there were no such complicated customs clearance procedures, with only a letter of recommendation, half an hour to successfully enter the mountain gate, you can become an official disciple of the sect, give the Dao charm and magic sword, and begin to practice under the guidance of the teacher.

I still clearly remember the first time he came to the foot of this Mao Mountain, holding a letter of recommendation worth 10,000 gold, carrying three sacks of luggage, and coming to the foot of this mountain under the send-off of his father and mother. At that time, looking at the nine peaks towering above the clouds, my heart almost stopped, my feet trembled, and my head was full of Venus.

With an ordinary peasant disciple like him, if it weren't for the fact that three generations of his family could farm, and he would help the outer sect elders who had no time to take care of the herb shed deal with his alchemy materials, how could he get that recommendation quota as much as gold.

Today, he has become one of the elders of one of the Nine Peaks, and the sect has also added a series of procedures for selecting disciples, assessments, and so on. Although it is cumbersome, it is also not allowed to do it, if it is as simple and easy as back then, Maoshan has long been overcrowded.

It is precisely because of that piece of paper that there is one less ignorant teenager in the world, and Maoshan has one more heavenly master and elder who maintains the order of the world.

And today, stepping on the ground that I stepped on many years ago, I have become the one who dominates whether others can get a referral quota. At this moment, how can you not feel it.

The little monkey looked back at the old man who was in a trance, and asked strangely, "Old Dao, what do you remember?"

Lao Dao didn't have the heart to laugh with him at the moment. Said solemnly: "See this step, right? This is the level you are going to pass." ”

The little monkey gasped, such a long step, I am afraid that there will be tens of thousands of steps, and it will take half a day to walk.

Lao Dao was very satisfied with his expression, and then smiled: "This winding mountain step has a total of four thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine steps, and every thousand steps is one level. Each level is guarded by a general. After passing these five levels and passing the five generals, you can see the mountain gate. ”

"Old Dao, didn't you say the six generals?"

"The mountain gate is the last one!"

"The mountain gate can also be a general, can it pit me?"

"Boy, there are divine beasts guarding the mountain gate, and the demons are difficult to enter, and there are even more formations arranged, and those who are not resolute will not be able to pass this level at all. ”

"Then I'm going to go through the five levels now, and then you're going to invite me to dinner behind the mountain gate?" the little monkey was eager to try.

"Don't worry. This master first went up the mountain to report the matter to the Senate and asked for a recommendation card for you. There is no recommendation card for you, and it is just for nothing. Seven days later, he broke through with thirty other outstanding disciples. ”

The little monkey was deflated, "Then what should I be doing these days?"

"Let's stay at the handyman and do them a favor. I'll say to their heads, get the card and come down to you. ”

While he was talking, at the corner of the mountain, two young men dressed as Taoist children came over, and when they saw Xuanxu from afar, they rushed all the way over, shouting as they ran: "Seventh Master, your old man is back! The little monkey looked at the two of them, about eleven or twelve years old, both of them were beautiful, like the subordinates trained by a big family, with a slightly excited expression, which showed that he not only knew the seventh master, but also was very familiar.

Running to the front of him, he was about to kneel, Lao Dao had already stretched out his hand to hold the two of them, and said with a smile: "Qingsong, Mingyue, but the day is gone, my crane, how well are you fed?"

The slightly fat Qingsong replied: "The crane of the Seventh Master Ancestor, how dare you slack off, you will know when you go back and see that we can raise him to be fat and fat, and he will not be able to walk and fly to the sky!

The little monkey heard from the side, these two little Dao boys, I'm afraid they were miscellaneous under the old Dao Peak, the old Dao was not there, helping to feed his cranes, the little monkey was a little surprised, and asked: "Don't you have a flying sword? You can control the sword, why do you still raise a crane?"

The old man replied dissatisfiedly: "What is a sword?"

"Weapons. I heard that it is the head of a hundred soldiers, is your Maoshan also sorted like this?"

"Why do you use weapons?"

"Naturally, it's a fight... Oh, that's what you call subduing demons. ”

"Then you say, if I just go out to hang out, visit a Taoist friend, drink a wedding wine or something, and still control a sword stained with demon blood?"

The little monkey opened his mouth wide and couldn't say half a word.

Seeing the little monkey's unceremonious tone of speech to Lao Dao, the two little Dao children thought it was a certain uncle who had never met, so they became polite and asked, "Seventh Master, who is this?"

Lao Dao said to the two boys: "This is a genius boy I met by accident at the bottom of the mountain, and I am going to let him take the entrance exam. ”

This time, it was the turn of the two little boys who had just looked at the little monkey to the third and fifth lines of high school, and their mouths were wide open, and they couldn't speak for a long time.

Where did the strange boy come from? He hasn't started yet, and he has no respect for the Seventh Master Ancestor who is high up in the sect, but he is casually like two brothers?

They didn't know that this teenager would make them open their mouths and unable to speak many times, so much that they were numb.