The Floating Cloud Continent, 108,000 miles long, 704,000 zhang wide, is said to be the ancient immortal Floating Spirit Son when he cultivated, the essence of heaven and earth condensed around his body, and solidified over time. On the edge of the continent is the unfathomable sea of the sky, into which it is said that someone has ventured into it, but no one has ever returned. However, everyone on the Floating Cloud Continent firmly believes that the Floating Cloud Continent, in the Xiao Sea, is only the tip of the iceberg.

Either because of the historical inheritance of cultivating immortals, or because the Floating Cloud Continent itself is rich in aura, today, on the continent, there are more than 9,000 famous and systematic sects of cultivating immortals, of which there are more than 600 disciples above 1,000.

The Lingyun Sect is a major sect within the top 100. There are 7,400 inner disciples, occupying the entire Lingyun Peak. At the same time, due to the benevolence of the head of the sect, in the process of helping the weak and helping the poor, there are countless disciples who have income from the outer sect, and under the Lingyun Peak, within a radius of dozens of miles, the cultivator villages that live together are all built by the outer disciples of the Lingyun Sect.

"It is difficult to build a foundation, and it is difficult to build a golden pill. Looking at the spiritual clouds for 3,000 feet, he sighed and refined his qi for six hundred years. It is difficult to buy elixir for poverty, and plough the thin fields day after day......" Lying on the roof, Wan Peng sang this song that was circulated among the outer disciples. He didn't know if he was depressed or calm in his heart right now, or if he didn't feel anything at all.

Thirteen years. When he was six years old, in the midst of a famine, he was accepted as an outer disciple by the Lingyun Sect. Because his parents' whereabouts were unknown and he was young, he was placed in a settlement at the foot of the mountain so that his inner disciples could take care of him. From then on, he began to follow the older elder brothers of the outer gate to practice the more basic qi refining method, and he always hoped that one day he would be able to build a foundation and enter the inner gate, and truly start the path of cultivating immortals of the Lingyun Sect. However, in the past thirteen years, he has witnessed no less than ten people entering the inner gate from this settlement, nearly half of whom are his junior disciples, but he has never broken through. Now, he is one of the senior brothers who has lived in this settlement at the top of the ranking, but in terms of cultivation, he is very low.

Four layers of gas refining.

It is said that in the inner gate, it only takes a year for most people to reach this level.

Thinking of this, Wan Peng couldn't help but smile bitterly again. He never believed how bad his qualifications were, because with his unforgettable memory, he was afraid that there were few people in the entire mountain of this Lingyun Sect who could compare with him. However, once he fell to the cultivation level, since he reached the fourth floor, he had stagnated.

This stop is ten years. Wan Peng also consulted some disciples of the inner sect for this reason, but did not come up with any breakthrough answers. There is even an inner brother in the condensation period who said that if this is really the case, it is the fate of the immortals, since there is no relationship with the immortals, it is better to go back to farming earlier.

But Wan Peng didn't give up. He always had a vague feeling that there was a reason for that. Moreover, he began to cultivate immortals at the age of six, and he never let go of this feeling. He was not frantically pursuing any achievements, but regarded cultivation as a kind of life of his own.

"Senior Brother Wan, you are here. A man about the same age as Wan Peng half-climbed from the ladder to the roof, "I'm looking for you everywhere." ”

The person who came was called Wang Yi, Xiao Wanpeng was two years old, and he entered the outer gate a year later than him. Since the two were lonely at the time, they naturally developed a deep friendship in taking care of each other. "What's the matter, Wang Yi, what's the matter with me looking for me so late?"

Wang Yi sat down beside Wan Peng, "Senior brother, in three months, it will be this year's inner door selection meeting." ”

Wan Peng listened, but there was no reaction, and after more than ten seconds, he slowly exhaled, "I know." How's it going for you?"

"It doesn't feel good. Wang Yi seemed a little unenergetic, "It is said that in this year's selection meeting, in addition to cultivation and cultivation, several items have been added, namely pills, instruments, charms and formations. ”

Wan Peng still said so calmly, "This is also normal. Theoretically speaking, cultivating at the inner gate, cultivation is to be cultivated at the same time as the four items of the Dan Weapon Rune Array, but in our outer gate, in order to be able to enter the inner gate, the vast majority of them only work cultivation, and cultivate in order to enter the inner gate. Now, in the south and west of the continent, war has broken out again, and although our northeast is peaceful, it is also secretly tense. It makes sense for the inner door to choose people like this. It is said that in previous years, those who were selected from the outer gate had to spend a lot of effort on the basis of tutoring. ”

Wang Yi sighed, "Then, in this way, I'm afraid there will be few people who can enter the inner door." His voice was depressed, "It's finally reached the level of foundation building, if you can't enter the inner door, all these years of hard work will really be wasted." ”

Wan Peng sat up from his lying position, "Between the inner and outer doors, the identity of the disciples, whether in the sect or in the immortal cultivation realm, is indeed a world of difference. But don't forget, we don't cultivate immortals for the sake of identity. If you think about me, I am still on the fourth layer of qi refining, and the distance between me and the inner door is getting farther and farther away. ”

Wang Yi also felt that he might have said the wrong thing, and couldn't help but apologize again and again. Wan Peng didn't mind, and casually chatted with him about the content of the four major items of the Dan Weapon Rune Array. Over the years, my cultivation has not increased, but I have not read less books in all aspects, and it was very complicated at the beginning, but later, I also sorted out a set of systems by myself, and my understanding of some of the contents is becoming clearer and clearer.

It was getting late, and Wang Yi left after talking to him for a while, and Wan Peng was still lying on the roof by himself. The previous calm disappeared without a trace at this moment, and Wang Yi stirred up the bitter water that he had not succeeded in cultivating for many years.

I don't know how long it took, but he suddenly felt a slight shock from a piece of broken jade around his waist.

Someone came into their house!

He sat up alertly, listening to the movement around him. However, apart from the sound of the wind, there was no abnormal noise.

Could it be an illusion? He couldn't help but hold the piece of jade, and then he was shocked again.

That's right, there are people!

In his own room, there is a set of shadow arrays. It was a very low-level formation that he had written down after picking up a broken book in the garbage of the inner door, and it wasn't even a formation. As long as the refining qi reaches the first level, it can be set up to activate, and its effect is that within the formation range of the shadow array, as long as there is any non-foreign object, it will be reflected in the eye of the array, that is, the jade of Wanpeng.

Of course, the Shadow Array was only a small practice when he was getting started with cultivation, and the range of the real Shadow Array was only two meters square, and it was impossible for him to feel the changes in the array after the arranger left the array. However, it is precisely because Wan Peng has seen so many and miscellaneous books over the years that he has improved this array with his own spirit of study, and now it has become one of his gatekeepers. Perhaps no one would have thought that such a low-level formation and such a weak aura drive could allow Wan Peng to know if there were any living people in his house within three miles.

Wan Peng didn't move on the roof, and he knew that acting rashly under unknown circumstances would often bring more danger. He sat like this, breathing evenly and slowly, as if to merge with the night.

But his thoughts didn't stop for a moment. I'm just an outer disciple, who came here so late to do what? Stealing things? I have been cultivating wholeheartedly for many years, and I don't have any savings, so I can't become the target of thieves. Besides, in this Lingyun Sect's jurisdiction, there are no mountain bandits and road thieves at all, even if they are really stealing, they may be forced by life, so steal it.

Thinking of this, he relaxed a little more. However, he found that the piece of broken work had been vibrating, and that the person must have been moving around in his own room.

That's weird. There are only two boxes in Wanda's house, and none of them are locked. If it is stealing, this kung fu should have found his own money, take it and leave. Are you looking for something? The problem is that you don't have any.

It took about a pillar of incense for the broken jade to stop vibrating. Wan Peng waited a little longer before coming down from the roof, a little alert, but pretending that nothing had happened.

When the lights were lit, the room that I thought would be a mess was as clean as ever, and no one looked like it had been touched at all. Regardless of the windows and doors, there was no sign of anyone entering.

Could it be that there is something wrong with this formation? But before that, I had already tried it many times.

Wan Peng closed the doors and windows, sat down at the table, embedded the broken jade in a small groove on the table, then took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and the aura in his body slowly flowed from eight points on the table to the broken jade along his fingers, and then spread out from the broken jade, slowly spreading to every corner of the room.

Ordinary shadow arrays don't have this kind of effect. However, Wan Peng's efforts in the Shadow Array have been thousands of times that of ordinary people. With the improvements, he can now use this method to discover everything in this room.

The herbs are there, the tools are there, the cultivation materials are there, and the few broken books I collected are still there. After feeling these things, Wan Peng breathed a sigh of relief. After all, if you lose these things, it will take some effort to buy them all. After that, it's your own money, and it's still there. I thought it was just someone coming in to look for it, but when he didn't find anything rich and left, he suddenly noticed an anomaly in a corner.

There was a brick there that had been moved.

Wan Peng opened his eyes and stood up. After making sure that there was no danger around, he walked to the corner, touched it with one hand, and then pulled it out with a force.

No, to be specific, it should be half a block. The other half, which has been taken away, is now brand new.

Looking further into the cavity that had formed in the wall because it was half missing, there was a yellow cloth bag. Wan Peng took it out, opened it layer by layer, and found that it was a jade tablet.

In the Floating Cloud Continent, there are three general ways of writing. The lowest level is paper and cloth, which is directly written and printed, and anyone can read it. The next level is the jade slip, which needs to be driven by aura when reading, and the content is read, and different grades of jade slips need to be driven by different levels of aura, such as the foundation level, you need to use the drive of the foundation level, and the Jindan level also needs to be driven by the Jindan level. The highest level is the power lock device, which uses a special secret method to seal the text into the device, and only by using the corresponding secret method can it be read in a way.

Wan Peng's heart suddenly became suspicious, looking at this jade slip, the workmanship is very particular, it should not be of a low level, who could it be, what kind of thing will it be to hide it to me? Could it be that someone stole it out and prepared to transfer the stolen goods temporarily?