Nan'an is a small country in the Lingxi continent, and the Shuangfeng Valley is at the junction of Nan'an and Lingshui, because of the enhancement of Nan'an's national strength and friendly exchanges with neighboring countries in recent decades, Nan'an has been at peace for more than ten years. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Twin Peaks Valley is named for the beautiful scenery of the twin peaks, and the Twin Peaks Valley is full of verdant mountains all year round. And our story begins in this picturesque place.

In the spring of March, the twin peaks valley is verdant. Between the valleys is a river channel. The river curved and swirled like a giant serpent of extraordinary length. However, the water is very clear, and although you can't see the bottom of the river, you can see fish swimming happily in the water. Not far from the mouth of the valley was a small boat with two people standing on board. One was dressed in a plain linen coat and was propping up a pole. And the other person is dressed in silk and satin, and he is a scholar.

"Ask where is the trace of the immortals? Mango shoes break thousands of weights, walk through the grass and trees, and stand on the peaks, I am the peak. The richly dressed man stood at the bow of the boat, looking out at the valley of the Twin Peaks not far away, and chanted thoughtfully verses of unknown origin.

The poet's voice was full of vicissitudes, and the wrinkles on his face were prominent, but he could still see a little majesty, he should be an old man over sixty years old and in a high position for a long time. Although this old man is old, he does not have a trace of old age.

This old man's name is Gan Qingyun, and he was originally the prime minister of Nan'an. However, he resigned from his official position because he was bent on seeking immortals and wanted to go to the Great Qin Empire to worship the immortal gate in order to find the art of immortality. And Wolong Village, Qingniu Town, Shuangfeng Valley, is Gan Qingyun's hometown, and he hasn't been back for more than 30 years, after all, everything is wrong.

Thirty-eight years ago, twenty-three-year-old Gan Qingyun left Wolong Village and went to the capital of Nan'an to take the exam with the hope of the whole village. Gan Qingyun was overjoyed to be the champion, and planned to write a letter back to the village to report the good news, so that the parents and wives in the village could also settle down. Unexpectedly, more than 2,000 people in the entire Qingniu Town disappeared mysteriously, and the imperial court also sent people to investigate, but the result was still nothing. It's just that the investigation results show that on the day of the incident, the sky of the entire Qingniu Town was covered by a layer of blood-red blood clouds, like a man-eating giant beast, but the blood cloud lasted less than a quarter of an hour before disappearing, and the people of the entire Qingniu Town also disappeared with the disappearance of the blood cloud.

Since then, the town has been considered an ominous place, and no one has moved to live in the town again. For so many years, Gan Qingyun has also been investigating this matter, but he has no clue. This can be regarded as one of the purposes for him to go to the Qin State, after all, the Qin State even has the method of immortality, and there will definitely be a way to find out the reason.

Gan Qingyun's Nan'an country is a martial country, from high-ranking officials and nobles to peddlers and pawns. Although Gan Qingyun was born in the countryside, his family is poor. But he was not a powerless scholar who exercised his body since he was a child, and later because of his very good martial arts qualifications, he was accepted as a closed disciple by a certain martial arts master.

Gan Qingyun began to practice martial arts at the age of twenty, entered the innate realm at the age of thirty, and served as the prime minister at the age of thirty-five. Officialdom is on the rise, internal strife is calm, and external enemies are resisted. Since Gan Qingyun stepped into officialdom, he began his legendary life.

Gan Qingyun stood at the bow of the boat with his hands behind his back, looking at the gurgling water in front of him, thinking that he was about to leave this country, and his heart couldn't calm down for a long time.

Three years later, the border of the state of Qin.

"Finally came out. An old man in ragged clothes and a gray face muttered to himself breathlessly. This old man is naturally Gan Qingyun, and at this time he has just come out of the forest from the mist.

Out of the misty jungle, Gan Qingyun vaguely saw a long city wall with no end in sight not far away.

The closer he got to this wall, the more shocked Gan Qingyun became. The city wall in front of him was about 20 feet high, and the soldiers defending the city were also very burly.

This old man is naturally Gan Qingyun who came to the Great Qin Kingdom to seek enlightenment. There were three gates here, one large in the middle and two small on both sides, in a symmetrical shape. The large city gate is ten zhang high, and there are two big characters written on it - "Cliff City", but this imposing gate is closed, and the two small city gates open on both sides of it are also four or five zhang high.

After Gan Qingyun entered the city, he found an inn, first, to fill his stomach, and secondly, it was easier to ask what he wanted to know when people came and went every day in this inn.

After some inquiry, Gan Qingyun knew a little about Daqin's cultivation. It turns out that there are five holy places of cultivation in Daqin, which are the royal holy land of the royal family, the holy land of Haoran Academy, the Taoist holy land of Taoist Sanqingguan, the holy land of Buddhism, and the holy land of ten thousand demons of the Demon Gate. These five holy lands represent the five super forces, and countless other small forces are countless. Among the five holy places, only Haoran Academy has the widest number of disciples.

All sects value cultivation qualifications, and Haoran Academy is no exception, but Haoran Academy also has a criterion for accepting disciples, if the qualifications are low, but there are Haoran righteous people, they can also be included in the door. As for what this Haoran righteousness is, Gan Qingyun didn't figure it out, he only knew that Haoran Academy would have Haoran righteousness liquid when accepting apprentices, and after drinking this thing, they would know if you had Haoran righteousness.

Haoran Academy will hold an apprenticeship conference every year, and there are less than three months before Haoran Academy's next apprenticeship conference, Gan Qingyun also took this time to inquire about some things, after all, it is not a bad thing to know more.

It turned out that the Haoran Academy in Yacheng, where Gan Qingyun was located, was just a small branch of Haoran Academy, and Haoran Academy had set up countless branches across the country to accept disciples.

It is getting closer and closer to the day when Haoran Academy accepts apprentices, and there are more and more people in Yacheng, most of them are coming from other places, and they are all here to seek immortals and ask. There are strong men with horizontal faces, bare chests and breasts, and there are also polite, gentle and elegant scholars, but a white-bearded man like Gan Qingyun is only counted on one hand.

"Recently, there have been a lot of unfamiliar faces in Yacheng, are those people here to participate in the recruitment meeting of Haoran Academy?" Gan Qingyun found the shopkeeper in the shop and asked, he had lived here for some days, and he was also very familiar with the shopkeeper.

"How can it, if Haoran Academy accepts so many apprentices every year, then it won't blow up their mountain gate! Most of these people have poor cultivation qualifications and have no Haoran righteousness, Haoran Academy will not accept them. They have all joined some small sects, and they have come here to buy some cultivation items, such as books, talismans, pills, etc., which is like this at this time of year. The shopkeeper saw that the God of Wealth was asking him questions, and hurriedly replied. During this time, the shopkeeper received a lot of reward money from Gan Qingyun, and he naturally knew everything about his answers.

"After these people have purchased these things, they have to go back to continue cultivating, and they only come out once or twice a year. The lives of these practitioners are really boring. It's okay to be an ordinary person. The shopkeeper continued.

Listening to the words of the shopkeeper, Gan Qingyun looked thoughtfully at the people coming and going on the street.

Seeing that Gan Qingyun didn't react, the shopkeeper didn't pay attention to it anymore and beckoned the other guests to go.

"I don't know what my cultivation qualifications are, but I hope to enter the academy. Gan Qingyun thought so in his heart, but he was at a loss for the future.