After Lingmu landed, he directly flicked his sleeves, swept open Li Mu's door, and said to him, "Let's go"

Li Mu walked out of the room and followed Lingmu to the courtyard. I saw Lingmu pinch a trick, I don't know what to say in my mouth, and then conjure a boat-like artifact out of thin air. It is about two feet long and five feet wide, which is suitable for two people. After Lingmu and Li Mu sat down, Lingmu shouted: "Get up!" The Lingzhou flew straight into the air dozens of zhang high, galloping in one direction.

This spirit boat flies at an extremely fast speed, and I am afraid that it is several times faster than the fastest horse in the world. And during the flight, a turquoise circular shield slowly formed on the periphery, isolating the howling wind.

Li Mu "went to heaven" for the first time, and he had a sense of novelty, constantly looking at this and that, but immediately he found that the scenery in his eyes was not much different from the experience in that dream, and the excitement in his eyes slowly dissipated.

Lingmu didn't know whether he was indifferent or disdainful of talking to ordinary people like Li Mu, and after sitting on the Lingzhou, he closed his eyes and didn't say a word. Li Mu didn't know what his temper was, and when he saw that he didn't speak, he obediently sat on the side, learning Lingmu to close his eyes and recuperate.

The flying boat does not stop all the way. After two days of flying in this strange silence, Lingmu finally opened his eyes.

Li Mu looked down, and saw that everywhere he could see, there were vast mountains, lush forests, and river valleys, but where was there any sect of cultivating immortals?

Regardless of Li Mu's incomprehension and doubts, Lingmu controlled the flying boat to slowly land on the mountainside of a barren mountain that looked very ordinary, and the two jumped off the Lingzhou.

After Lingmu put away the Lingzhou, he took out a black wooden plaque and pasted it on an ordinary stone wall in front of the two.

Li Mu looked intently, only to see that the inconspicuous mountain wall was like a stone thrown into the lake after the wooden sign was pasted, with slight ripples, and then the blue light flashed, revealing an entrance more than one person high.

Lingmu put away the wooden card and walked towards the entrance, Li Mu saw this and hurriedly followed.

From the outside, the door was gone, and the stone wall had reverted to its inconspicuous appearance.

After Li Mu walked into the light gate with Lingmu, he found that the place where he was located was a road about a zhang wide, and every few zhang above the road, there was a huge night pearl, which illuminated the entire road. The floor of the corridor is inlaid with neat bluestone slabs, and the surrounding walls are also built very neatly. However, it occurred to him that this might be an immortal method, not a human being.

Li Mu thought wildly in his heart, and after walking with Lingmu for nearly half an hour, he faintly saw a light shining out in front of him, but he finally came to the end of this road.

Xu is return to the sect for the sake of being in a good mood, Lingmu, who was walking in front, slightly quickened his pace, and after walking out of the corridor, he looked at Li Mu with a peculiar smile.

Li Mu felt a strong sense of anticipation in his heart, and he looked back at the road he had come, but suddenly found that it was already dark behind him. Along the way, the long corridors, neat bluestone slabs, and translucent night pearls seemed to have never existed. And in front of him, the place where the glimmer of light shines through seems to have become his only hope.

There was no way back for him.

Li Mu took a deep breath and stepped out of the corridor. Behind him, there is still an ordinary mountain and stone wall, but the scenery in front of him is very different.

After Li Mu walked out of the corridor, he only felt that the sky was bright in front of him, and he suddenly opened up. He looked up and saw a huge mountain peak standing in front of him. He stood at the foot of the mountain and looked up, and felt that the top of the mountain was as tall as the sky, as if there was no apex.

The mountain has a clear color difference, from bottom to top, there are five colors: black, white, cyan, gold, and purple. And the higher you go, the more sharp the mountain becomes. The whole mountain is like a sharp sword, reaching into the sky.

There are clouds and mist floating around the mountain, and the wind is coming and going. Occasionally, birds and flying boats fly in and out of it. Li Mu looked at it and saw that there were many houses and pavilions of different shapes in the mountains.

Not far from the foot of the mountain, there is a corridor-like building, in the middle of the wooden sign hanging, with neat and neat big characters on the three words "Xuanming School", left and right there are couplets said, "After passing this Xuanmen, go to the mortal extinguishing feelings; Behind the gate was a seemingly endless row of stone stairs that stretched straight up the hill.

On the side, Lingmu had already walked under the door, and he said to Li Mu lightly: "Can you see clearly, if you understand, then go up the mountain with me." By the way, I would like to remind you that after passing this door, the assessment of you will officially begin. Whether you can enter my immortal path and break away from the mundane depends on your creation. With that, Lingmu stepped across the porch and walked up the stone stairs of the mountain.

Li Mu secretly clenched his fists and followed.

After stepping up the stone staircase, Li Mu felt a little different.

The first feeling is cold, you know, it is the middle of the summer red sun, the stone stairs under the feet do not exude high temperature, but there is a refreshing chill penetrating, which is really abnormal; the second feeling is soft, the texture of the stone slab under your feet is like a tree, not the touch of a stone slab.

He endured the strange feeling and followed closely behind Lingmu, climbing up step by step. After walking for two hours, the stairs in front of him seemed to be far from the end, and still extended upward. Li Mu looked back, only to see that the clouds and mist below had been obscured, and he couldn't see clearly.

Fortunately, after he washed the essence and cut the marrow, his physique was very different, otherwise he would have been tired and couldn't stand it after climbing for so long. And the chill from his feet was like maggots on his tarsal bones, slowly gathering between his legs and feet. With each step up the stone staircase, his legs became heavier and numb.

Lingmu in front of him still didn't mean to stop, and he didn't look back, only silently leading the way. After walking like this for another hour, Li Mu only felt that his legs were as heavy as lead, and it took a lot of strength to take every step. To make matters worse, the chill from the soles of his feet grew heavier, and ice crystals formed on his shoes that were visible to the naked eye. He could feel his toes being frozen one by one, slowly losing consciousness.

Li Mu knew that this was the assessment that Lingmu had said before, so he didn't say a word, gritted his teeth and followed Lingmu tightly, but his speed inevitably slowed down. But the spirit wood in front of him didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, and his speed also decreased, maintaining a position of several steps with Li Mu.

After another two hours, the sky had already darkened, and the setting sun shone on the huge mountain peak, dyeing Li Mu's pale face with a layer of golden luster.

The beads of sweat on Li Mu's face fell on the stone slab, shattered into thousands of small droplets, and disappeared. It now takes him nearly a quarter of an hour to take every step, and with each step he takes, he feels like he can't take the next step. But whenever he wanted to give up, there would be a voice in his heart that roared wildly, reminding him that he couldn't give up. Because giving up is failure, failure is death, and death is no revenge!

Moreover, the experience in that dream had sharpened his endurance greatly, and the pain that directly acted on his consciousness at the beginning did not knock him down, not to mention the numbness of his legs at this time?

Therefore, even though his legs had gradually stopped obeying, Li Mu still relied on his super willpower and climbed up step by step with a climbing-like posture.

It was completely dark, but the staircase emitted a faint light that illuminated the way forward. Li Mu's face was pale and terrifying, his hands and knees were all worn out and bleeding, but he was still gritting his teeth and insisting on climbing forward.

The wind at night became turbulent, and Li Mu not only had to climb up, but also borrowed the stone ladder to avoid being blown off the cliff by the strong wind.

The clothes on Li Mu's chest had been worn out in the process of crawling. There was a faint moonlight shining on him, but on a huge mountain, there was not a single sound emanating strangely. It was as if all the sound of insects, the wind, and the voices of people had been swallowed up by this strange mountain.

There was no trace of the spirit tree in front of him, as if he had never existed.

A large amount of blood loss and intense fatigue made Li Mu's consciousness a little blurred, and many scenes passed in front of his eyes like a marquee, and finally fixed on the scene where he left his hometown for the first time and went to Yedu to take the exam, and his parents and friends sent him off.

On the mountain steps, Li Mu was lying reclining, facing the moon. He seemed to see the scene of his mother's chatter telling him when he was leaving, the silent appearance of his father, and the reluctance and blessing in the eyes of his friends......

Under the bright light of the moon, Li Mu finally fell unconscious.

Lingmu appeared out of nowhere, and looked at Li Mu, who had fainted on the ground and covered in blood, with a look of appreciation.

This time, Lingmu went to Daqi to investigate the matter of Gui'an, and brought Li Mu into the door, which was just a convenient matter. Under normal circumstances, the entrance assessment of a mortal like Li Mu did not need to be carried out by him personally. But when He Qiu was in Yedu, he said things for Li Mu several times, although he was dissatisfied in his heart, but for the sake of He Qiu's grandfather's face, he still reluctantly agreed.

The assessment of the first level of the Xuanming faction, called the "Ten Thousand Steps Cold Stone", tests the willpower of the beginner. Even if you are a mortal martial arts master and have strong physical strength, it is only a small help.

The mystery of this level is the rising chill in the stone steps. This chill accumulates layer by layer, not only paralyzing the legs and feet, but also eating away at people's willpower step by step. If there are weak-willed people, at most they will not be able to pass the 100 steps, and in the past, there were outstanding new disciples who came here for assessment, and the best ones could not move forward after climbing about 500 steps. He had never seen a mortal like Li Mu who had climbed for nearly eight hours and had passed nearly two thousand stone steps.

Moreover, the role of the stone steps here is not only used to assess newcomers, but also for the disciples in the door to sharpen their willpower. As far as Lingmu knows, those who can pass through two thousand ladders are at least the level of the backbone disciples in the sect.

Lingmu didn't know that the pain of calcining his consciousness experienced in Li Mu's dream was more than ten thousand times better than the paralysis of this cold. Therefore, the effect of the cold of this stone ladder on him was only to paralyze his body. The erosion of his willpower is minimal.

Lingmu sighed twice, then bent down and picked up Li Mu's body, turning into a white light and flying towards the mountain.