Lao Dao beckoned Tian Qing to climb the mountain and fly the boat, and then gently rushed to the boat, and the boat immediately took off and flew into the air.

This is Tian Qing's first time in the sky.

He looked down with some horror, and saw that the small village with a radius of one mile had become a palm-sized boundary as the boat flew higher and higher, and the river surrounding the village had turned into a jasper streamer.

Tian Qing was a little afraid of heights, but after enjoying the beautiful scenery of 'everything is small at a glance' for a while, he felt sick in his stomach and didn't dare to continue looking down.

"Hehe, Xiaoyou, the first time you are flying in the air, don't look down, just look into the distance" Lao Dao found Tian Qing's abnormality and said.

"Old immortal, I'm going with you, is it to learn this method of flying clouds and fog?"

Lao Dao smiled and said: "Hehe, Xiaoyou, you don't have to call me an old immortal, just call me Ma Zhenren, what is it to soar through the clouds and drive the fog, if you learn the true meaning of Taoism, it is a trivial matter to travel for nine days."

"Oh," Tian Qing replied stupidly. "Can you travel for nine days?"

"The old man is naturally not good, he must at least cultivate in the infancy period for nine days, although the old man has lived for more than 200 years, but he has not reached that point" Lao Dao said with a smile.

"More than 200 years?" Tian Qing was shocked.

"Is there such a thing, can people really live for more than 200 years?" Tian Qing said in amazement.

"Hehe, Xiaoyou, you haven't stepped into the realm of cultivating immortals yet, you will know when the time comes, if you cultivate to a certain level, don't say two hundred years, it is two thousand years, and twenty thousand years can also be achieved" Ma Zhenren explained.

"Live for a thousand years, isn't it only Wang Ba and the turtle can do it" Tian Qing was still shocked in his heart, and began to keep fantasizing.

One magical fantasy after another came to mind. After all, even if he became the prime minister, how could he compare with the temptation brought by "soaring through the clouds and mist, becoming immortals, and immortality"? Thinking of this, Tian Qing's heart was completely excited, and he couldn't hope that the old Taoist flying boat would be three points faster and quickly fly back to the Daomen.

"Hehe, Tian Xiaoyou, why are you in a daze?" Lao Dao chuckled and asked.

Tian Qing came back to his senses and said, "I didn't expect that the legends in those strange books are true, and there really exist in the world like you."

"Hehe, of course ordinary mortals don't know about our existence, but if you want to become an immortal, it's harder than climbing to the sky," Lao Dao explained.

"Come, little friend, stretch out your hand, the old man will take a closer look at your qualifications" Lao Dao seemed to think of something and said.

Tian Qing is naturally obedient to Lao Dao now, and obediently stretched out his hand and handed it to Lao Dao.

Ma Zhenren stretched out his index finger and put a pulse on Tian Qing's wrist, and then recited the spiritual formula and closed his eyes lightly.

Tian Qing only felt a cool energy penetrate from his wrist and quickly rotate around the veins of his body. He couldn't help but be thrilled by the energy.

But when I looked up at Ma Zhenren, I found that he was motionless, like a dead log lying there.

Although Tian Qing was uncomfortable, he had to wait slowly, not daring to disturb him in the slightest.

After a stick of incense, Ma Zhenren opened his eyes, shook his head, sighed, and said to himself, "Alas, it's a pity, although there is a thunder spirit root, but it is the body of the five spirit roots of 'gold, thunder, water, earth, and wood', and the spirit roots are too mixed, I am afraid that there is no hope of building a foundation in this life."

Although Tian Qing didn't fully understand Ma Zhenren's words, he could also hear from his words that there seemed to be some flaws in his qualifications. Tian Qing's heart that was originally excited to fly to the sky instantly sank to the bottom, and his heart was extremely frightened, very worried that Ma Zhenren would regret it and send him home again, in that way, not only would he not be able to learn immortal arts, but his family might also collapse because of various contradictions.

I saw Ma Zhenren groaning for a while, stroking his beard, as if he thought of something, and his face instantly looked much better. The old Taoist said, "Tian Qing, although you have a thunder spirit root in your body, but you are the body of the 'miscellaneous spirit root' that is often said in the immortal cultivation world, the path of cultivation will be extremely difficult, and it is very likely that it will be difficult to move an inch, are you still willing to follow the old man to look back and practice?"

As soon as Tian Qing heard this, seeing that the old Tao did not turn him away, he thought about it and said: "Of course the disciple is willing, only by enduring the hardships can he become a master, and the disciples are willing to endure this hardship."

"Well, on the path of cultivating immortals, qualification is only one aspect, the heart, patience, and understanding are also crucial, and it is extremely rare to have the heart to endure hardships. Then I will take you back, and what you can develop into is up to your own creation."

"Thank you for the grace of the old immortal," Tian Qing solemnly bowed to Ma Zhenren and said.

Ma Zhenren nodded, then closed his eyes, and meditated in the boat, motionless.

The flying boat was still moving fast, and Tian Qing didn't dare to disturb when he saw Ma Zhenren meditating on the spot, so he began to look at the beautiful scenery in the distance, and he also longed for the appearance of the fairy family once described in the book.

The boat flew away from Tian Qing's hometown, all the way to the south, the original plains and fertile fields had disappeared, and low mountains and hills appeared. The crowd has also become scarce.

The low hills stretch for thousands of miles, all green and endless.

With the sound of the wind whirring in his ears, Tian Qing gradually discovered that the low mountains began to become taller, and even many thousands of mountains appeared. Torrent waterfalls in the mountains, strange peaks and strange rocks, endless.

......

I don't know how far I flew, and a cloudy and white mountain range appeared in front of Tian Qing.

This mountain range is composed of about a dozen peaks and is hundreds of miles in radius. At this moment, it is entangled in clouds and mist, which adds a touch of mystery.

Tian Qing found that there were also many more people in the air who flew in small boats, dust, and even in the shape of leaves, and these people were all in a hurry, looking like they cherished time like gold.

The boat plunged headlong into the clouds, and the thing that made Tian Qing stunned happened again, this originally vague green mountain immediately changed its appearance, from the halfway point of the mountain peak began to be densely packed with pavilions and pavilions, and the majestic giant halls were all over the mountain, I am afraid that the Forbidden City where the legendary emperor lived did not have the architectural grandeur in front of him!

Ma Zhenren drove the flying boat, landed in front of a house halfway up the mountain, and walked in with Tian Qing. There was only one person in the room, it was a young horse-faced Taoist priest, and when the horse-faced Taoist priest saw the old Taoist in front of him come in, he quickly stood up, stepped forward to greet him, and said respectfully, "Uncle Ma, what are your orders?"

"Ma Lian, this is the alien spirit root disciple brought back by the old man, you can register it according to the treatment of the alien spirit root disciple, but its qualifications are limited, don't register it as an alien spirit root in the disciple register, I won't stay long, you can arrange for him, by the way, don't mention this matter to outsiders, I will report it to the real person in charge."

After seeing the horse-faced Taoist priest saying yes again and again, Ma Zhenren turned around and left.

The horse-faced Taoist priest looked at Tian Qing carefully, and had already regarded Tian Qing as a relative of the old Taoist, and said with some envy, "I didn't expect that the junior brother actually has a strange spirit root, and the treatment in the door is several times better than that of ordinary disciples, the junior brother is really lucky." ”

In fact, Tian Qing still didn't understand what the words "spiritual root", "alien spirit root", "miscellaneous spiritual root", "foundation building" and other words mentioned by this group of Taoist priests meant, but after all, he was a teenager, and after seeing the horse-faced Taoist who was more than ten years older than him made such envious eyes and words, he couldn't help but feel a little complacent in his heart.

But the horse-faced Taoist priest praised himself so much, which also made Tian Qing a little embarrassed, Tian Qing said, "Senior brother has won the award, the younger brother has just come to Guiguan, and I hope that the senior brother will take care of it."

"This is natural, by the way, junior brother, you better say your name first, I can register you" The horse-faced Taoist priest saw that Tian Qing was also polite, without the appearance of those geniuses in the general gate, and he also had a lot of good feelings for this young junior brother who had just started.

Tian Qing said: "The field is the field of the field, and the green is the green of the grass"

"Hehe, the name of the junior brother is down-to-earth, for the brother Ma Lian," the horse-faced disciple said with a smile.

Hearing this name, Tian Qing not only sighed, this Ma Lian's parents are really prescient and can foresee their son's future appearance, are the parents of the horse-faced Taoist priest also have a horse face?

"Okay, Senior Brother Tian, here is a manual and Taoist uniform that new beginners need to know, the manual contains the door rules and the necessary common sense in the immortal cultivation world, you take it, I will take you to your residence", Ma Lian finished registering, took out a booklet and a suit of clothes and handed it to Tian Qing, and said.

Tian Qing hurriedly thanked him.

Then Ma Lian took Tian Qing to a small courtyard, pointed to one of them and said, "Senior Brother Tian, this is a temporary residence, there is still a vacant room in that courtyard, and the other two rooms have already been inhabited by disciples, but don't worry, these two neighbors of yours are also disciples who have just started, and you don't need them to have any strange tempers, which is not good for you."

Tian Qing couldn't help but be a little moved when he saw Ma Lian taking care of him so much, and said very gratefully, "Thank you senior brother for taking care of me, junior brother is unforgettable."

"Haha, what I'm waiting for my brother is your sentence, with the qualifications of my brother's alien spirit root, sooner or later, one day I will be able to soar, don't forget to be my brother when the time comes!

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Half a month has passed since Tian Qing came to Qingyuanguan. Tian Qing finally had some preliminary understanding of the basic common sense of the immortal cultivation world.

First of all, cultivating immortals is divided into nine great realms, practicing qi, building foundations, forming pills, turning infants, concentrating on the mind, refining the void, distracting the gods, Mahayana, and crossing the tribulation. Each realm is divided into nine small realms, and only after experiencing ninety-nine or eighty-one breakthroughs can one truly become immortals.

The second is Tian Qing's most doubtful spiritual root theory.

From the booklet given by Ma Lian, I know that the spiritual root is divided into five types: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, and the spiritual root also directly determines the qualification of immortal cultivators. The best qualification is naturally the "Heavenly Spirit Root" composed of a single spirit root, and this kind of immortal cultivator is extremely easy to break through the bottleneck because of the scarcity of spirit roots, and there are no accidents, and they can often cultivate to a very high realm. Therefore, this kind of monk is called the darling of the heavens, and the title of heavenly spirit root also comes from this, but this kind of monk is one in ten thousand and extremely rare.

Secondly, there are two kinds of spiritual root monks. Although the monks with the two kinds of spiritual roots are much inferior in terms of qualifications compared to the monks of the Heavenly Spiritual Root, they are still scarce, and there is an innate advantage in breaking through the bottleneck, and it is almost effortless to cultivate to the foundation building period, and it is a matter of course. Therefore, such monks are called 'Earth Spirit Roots'. This kind of monk is also very rare, but every year each sect will recruit more or less a few, and they will be carefully cared for as little emperors in the sect.

As for the third and fourth spirit roots, they are the qualifications of most immortal cultivators. This kind of spiritual root cultivator not only has many bottlenecks in cultivation, but each bottleneck is very difficult to break through, if this kind of immortal cultivator does not have a large number of immortal cultivation resources, most of them will not be able to build a foundation in their lifetime, and stop at practicing qi.

As for Tian Qing's Five Spirit Roots, it is a joke in the immortal cultivation world, because this kind of monk has a characteristic, it is impossible to build a foundation successfully, at least for thousands of years, no one can build a foundation successfully, and the speed of Qi cultivation is extremely slow, even in the early stage of Qi training, it is difficult to break through.

The Root of the Evil Spirit is a special branch. These spiritual roots are mutated from normal spiritual roots. Including thunder spirit root, wind spirit root, sword spirit root, instrument spirit root, and so on. Immortal cultivators with these spiritual roots often have abilities that ordinary spiritual roots can't obtain, and they are often not opponents of alien spiritual root cultivators. Monk Lei Lingen can practice the power of thunder and lightning, and the power is huge. The Wind Spirit Root Monk can use the power of the hurricane to make his attacks extremely tricky. The Sword Spirit Root Monk is a natural sword cultivator. And the Soul Root is a genius refiner.

Tian Qing also finally understood why Lao Dao, who accepted him into the sect, was very eager at first, but later ignored him. It turned out that his qualifications were basically impossible to build a foundation in this life. The inability to build a foundation means that even if the spiritual root is as strong as thunder, the spiritual root will not be of substantial help to the sect. However, Tian Qing's words to the old Tao on that day, "Only when you suffer hardship can you become a master" is indeed Tian Qing's motto. Ever since his father sent him to a private school when he was a child, he has worked a hundred times harder than those children who studied together, and his understanding of poetry and books is extremely profound. So much so that Mr. Private School patted Tian Qing's father on the chest and assured that Tian Qing would be able to take the Xiucai Exam within three years.

Although Tian Qing knew that his qualifications were not suitable for cultivating immortals, he had already recognized the path of cultivating immortals, and he decided that he must persevere no matter whether he succeeded.

Tian Qing was pondering his path of cultivating immortals, when a knock on the door broke Tian Qing's contemplation.

"Senior Brother Tian, open the door quickly, open the door quickly!" An anxious voice came from outside the door.

Tian Qing smiled a little bitterly in his heart, he seemed to be really targeted by the person outside the door.

Tian Qing pushed open the door of the house, and a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl appeared in front of him. The girl has dark skin, a beautiful face, smart eyes, and a bright spirit, but a gray-white robe looks a little mismatched on the girl's body.

It was only because the girl was illiterate that she couldn't read and could not read the text of the manual issued by the sect, and Tian Qing helped her read the manual, and the two became acquainted.

This girl was a new disciple of Tian Qing's small courtyard. His name is Yang Qi.

"Senior Sister Yang, why are you in such a hurry," Tian Qing asked with a puzzled expression.

"You don't know yet, today the real person in charge of the throne is going to gather all the new disciples and assign them to the peaks they belong to. ”

"Isn't this matter at ten o'clock in the afternoon, I naturally know" Tian Qing looked at the sun that had just risen, and said suspiciously.

"Oh, you who have read the book are roundabout, the meeting place is the Zhengyang Hall on the top of the mountain, which is more than twenty miles away from here, and it may be too late to go now, hurry up, hurry up!" the girl tugged at Tian Qing's sleeve and said.

Tian Qing was speechless for a while, but remembering the steepness of the mountain he saw on the old road flying boat, he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly climbed the mountain with the girl.

The mountain is really steep, and after Tian Qing exerted his strength to eat, the two finally came to the top of the mountain before noon.

A large hall of more than 100 zhang square circle appeared in front of Tian Qing, and a large plaque on the door beam of the hall was engraved with three golden characters 'Zhengyang Palace'.

The two of them walked into the hall, where hundreds of new disciples had gathered. Most of these disciples were in their teens, and some of them were even younger than six or seven years old, and they didn't know how to climb such a high mountain. There were so many people in the hall, Tian Qing and Yang Qi naturally couldn't walk side by side because of the plot, and the two were separated by accident.

After a cup of tea, three leisurely bells rang, and nine people wearing cyan robes walked in, and the old man surnamed Ma, who went to pick up Tian Qing into the sect, was also among them, these people were of different ages, the big one looked close to the sixtieth birthday, and the hair and beard were all white, while the younger one looked like a young man. These Taoists are obviously seniors who are similar to the old Dao surnamed Ma.

These Taoists walked to the front of the main hall and talked about each other, sometimes arguing loudly, sometimes stroking their palms and laughing, without a trace of the calm and indifferent image of the gods in Tian Qing's mind. Obviously, these seniors are also very enthusiastic about this assignment of disciples.

After a while, after several new disciples who were gasping for breath walked into the main hall, a majestic voice came into everyone's ears, "Silence!

After seeing that everyone was quiet, a middle-aged man with a bearded beard walked up to the new disciples. Lang Sheng says:

"I am Liu Changqing, the real person in charge of this view, and the Taoist number is Qingxuzi. Today, I will assign you the mountain to which you belong, and those with outstanding talents can also be accepted as disciples by all real people. ”

"Qingyuan View has a total of nine peaks, and each peak has a real person"

"This time, a total of 337 disciples were recruited from the people, of which six were Di Linggen disciples, namely "Wang Peng, Zhang Ran, Zhu Jun, Liu He, Wang Yuan, and Ma Yong"

Among them, there are three disciples of the Alien Spirit Root, namely "Yang Qi, Chen Kuang, and Li Zhibin"

"Ladies and gentlemen, the number of these disciples is just right, one person per peak, you wait for careful teaching, don't miss the talent"

"The rest of the people, equally divided"

After finishing this speech, which was similar to a work report, the long-bearded Taoist stroked his beard with his hand and said, "Those who are talented and talented in the earth spirits and alien spirits must not be arrogant and slack off in their cultivation, and those with average talents should not give up their cultivation due to various setbacks, most of them are children of the secular world, of course, there are many disciples of the immortal family, but no matter who it is, you must cherish this opportunity, in addition, this door is a small ratio a year, a large ratio in three years, and those who are not qualified in the big competition will be sent to the miscellaneous department to do miscellaneous labor."

After Qingxuzi read it aloud, the heads of each peak also tacitly agreed to the decision to divide the disciples, and after dividing the nine genius disciples, all the masters began to enter the crowd of new disciples and choose their favorite disciples.

Tian Qing was not disappointed that he was not listed as a 'key cultivation object', judging from his qualifications, if it wasn't for the old way of releasing water, he might not be able to join the Qingyuan Concept.

All the real people in the main hall walked up to the new disciples and began to choose their favorite disciples.

In the end, Tian Qing was selected by Lao Dao surnamed Ma. And Yang Qi, a girl who is familiar with Tian Qing, has long been assigned by nine real people because she is a strange spirit root.

The mountain in charge of Lao Dao surnamed Ma is called Yuzhu Peak, which is the same as the other eight peaks, and is a place dedicated to cultivating qi training disciples. If the talent is good, it is more likely to be favored by a certain great monk in the Dan period, and directly accept him as a disciple, so as to fly to the sky, even if it is a Dan, it is very possible.

And if the disciple is not qualified in the big competition, it will be miserable, and he will go directly to the chores.

On the path at the foot of Yuzhufeng.

The two Qingyuanguan elders walked on the mountain road with a new group of disciples. Yuzhu Peak mountain green bamboo flocks, insects chirp birds, breeze breeze, quite a fairy style.

The two leading Taoist priests were idle.

"Senior Brother Wang, do you know why the sect recruits so many disciples among the people?" said a short and fat Taoist priest mysteriously.

"Hmph, who knows what those real people in charge think, I think that when I entered the sect, the family took a lot of effort!" Senior Brother Wang said angrily.

"Hehe, I heard that one of the Supreme Elders in our sect is not long in time, and now it coincides with the endless battle between the two realms of righteousness and demons, this is to recruit geniuses and renew the life of the sect!" Humpty Dumpty Daoist sneered and whispered.

"Huang Ming, you don't want to die, how can you say this in front of so many people! Elder Taishang is also something you can discuss, if you let someone with a heart hear it and report it, you will be punished for facing the wall, and you will be abolished at worst!" Senior Brother Wang was shocked when he heard what the short and fat Taoist priest said, and his expression was a little flustered.

"Oh, my Senior Brother Wang, these are children. What can you say, let alone rumors. Hehe, but now I'm really sorry to let me face the wall, if we really start a war with those ruthless demon cultivators, we will be cannon fodder, and we will die. The short and fat Taoist priest didn't seem to be worried about anything, and said with a big grin.

The two of them took the new disciples to a mountain wall with many caves carved out of the mountain wall, which was where the new disciples lived.

Humpty Dumpty Taoist priest said: "Choose for yourself, little ancestors"

Then the two left regardless of it.

All the disciples were a little excited, and rushed towards the cave. I want to urgently see where I am going to live.

Tian Qing picked a cave on the side and walked in. The cave is about two feet in circumference, and the walls are extremely smooth, and I don't know what has been excavated by something. There are several small glittering stones on the roof of the cave, which emit a soft glow so that you don't lose sight of things inside the cave.