Cultivation

Shengbei came back soon, and brought two pancakes for Zhang Linggu, and a plate of milk for the cub, and he put the plate on the bed, but the cub didn't even smell it, which made him a little worried: "Ah , I don’t know what to feed you, don’t cubs drink milk after birth?”

Zhang Linggu gnawed on the cake, dipped some milk with one finger and brought it to the cub's mouth. The cub licked it and thought it tasted good. After licking it several times, Zhang Linggu pushed the whole plate of milk onto it In front of him, it happily ate.

Sheng Bei, who has always liked small animals, watched anxiously as the cub licked up all the milk, and then quietly lay down next to Zhang Linggu: "It really treats you like a mother, you should keep it first, and wait until you pass the mountain gate tomorrow." Ask Brother Feng how to install it."

What he wants to ask is not only how to arrange the cub, but also whether Senior Brother Feng knows what Senior Sister Mingying is doing to Zhang Linggu...

Zhang Linggu asked hesitantly, "Is the entry test difficult?"

"It's not difficult, that's climbing the mountain." Sheng Bei heard wolves howling outside, one after another, high and low, as if something broke into the range of the wolves and made the wolves uneasy. He stood up and walked out, and casually told Zhang Linggu :"sleep early."

Zhang Linggu was lying on the bed tossing and turning, what happened in this day seemed so unreal, Wu Jiuzi's bloodstained appearance appeared over and over again in his mind, as well as Mingying's gorgeous flames and weird smile before she died ...

After thinking in a daze for most of the night, he fell asleep in a daze. When he was woken up by the knock on the door the next day, he stared at the strange ceiling and was stunned for a long time before getting up.

Originally there were seven young people, including Zhang Linggu, a total of eight people, all wearing white robes with blue sleeves, their hair neatly combed in the crown, looking fresh and energetic.

They lined up in two rows and were led out of the village by Sheng Bei. Sheng Bei walked in front, and the snow on the ground parted to the two sides due to his footsteps, revealing a neat stone road. At the end of the stone road was the foot of Qianshan Mountain. The snow-covered stone steps extend into the clouds and mist halfway up the mountain, and the end of the stone steps cannot be seen at a glance. I just feel that I can walk into the sky by walking this way.

Standing in front of the stone steps, Sheng Bei said, "This is our entry point. We have tried Qianshan Mountain. There are [-] stone steps in total, which symbolize the [-] kinds of inner demons encountered in cultivation. It is a lonely and difficult thing. Everyone has to rely on their own little accumulation. Every bit of enlightenment is inseparable from hard work and persistence. The beginning of all things, the great way is simple, and the evolution is complex. What the master can teach It’s just fur, and it’s all up to you to figure it out on your own.”

Guo Sixian, a young man from the capital, asked, "Is there a time limit?"

His thin body looks like a frail scholar who can't lift his shoulders or hands. It is really difficult for him to finish it within a time limit.

When Yuan Qi heard his question, he immediately raised his eyebrows proudly, and winked at the person next to him.

Shangguan Li, a girl who also came from the capital, gave him a hard look.

"There is no time limit, just go up." Shengbei turned sideways so that the teenagers could see the stone steps behind him clearly: "[-] stone steps are not too many, the purpose of this entry test is just to let you understand , Tao is achieved step by step, and the most important thing is to progress step by step in a down-to-earth manner.

After finishing speaking, he threw out his sword and stepped on it, facing the wind: "I'll wait for you at the mountain gate."

I heard that the entry test was just climbing a mountain, and the eyes of the teenagers who had looked forward to Yuan Qi before had become different.

Yuan Qi was also puzzled. The entry test his father said was not so simple. Seeing that his prestige was disappearing, he insisted on a confident look: "It's not as simple as you think."

The stout young man Shi Lei stepped up the stone steps impatiently. He immediately felt a strong wind coming towards him. Unprepared, he was blown by the wind and couldn't stand. He took another step back: "Yeah."

Facing everyone's questioning eyes, he said honestly: "As soon as I stood up, there was a strong wind that made me unable to stand. It would take a little effort to climb more than 1000 steps."

"It's not easy to take a step forward, and that's the reason for the entry test." Yuan Qi immediately went up the steps before everyone else, and after taking two steps, he turned around with all his strength and pretended to be at ease: "Everyone, see you at the mountain gate."

Here, Shengbei didn't wait for them at the mountain gate, but directly flew Yujian to the temple. He couldn't find anyone in the place where he often sat in Fengyulou, so he thought about going to the Meilin in the back mountain.

A hundred hectares of red plum blossoms bloom like blood, which is the most beautiful scenery on the entire Qianshan Mountain, and there is a frozen waterfall on the hill at the end of the plum forest. The waterfall is as bright as a mirror, and the young people who are climbing the stone steps are shown in the mirror. Fengyu Tower set up a table in front of the waterfall to cook tea and read books.

When Shengbei landed on the ground, a gust of wind brought up a few petals of the plum blossom closest to the table, two of which flew to the table with the wind, and landed on the rice paper on which Fengyulou wrote.

Sheng Bei glanced curiously at the still ink-stained words: "The moon sinks to the west, Tanlang looks to the north, and the year is Jiazi... What does this mean?"

"I don't know, I saw it on the wall of the Taoist temple where Wu Jiu lived." Feng Yu Lou flipped through the book without raising his head: "Why don't you go to the mountain gate and wait, what are you doing here?"

Shengbei hurriedly said: "When Linggu was changing clothes yesterday, I saw a row of bones protruding out of place on his back. I lost a little real money and went in to check, but was ejected. A row of bloody runes..."

"It should be a blood deed." Feng Yulou handed the page of the book in his hand to Shengbei to read: "If Wugui dies, I will definitely bring back his only apprentice. Mingying was married between her son and Zhang Linggu With the blood contract, if her son dies, the spiritual bone will not be able to survive, so I have to protect her son."

"Hey, Senior Sister Ming Ying has too many eyes." Shengbei said with a sigh: "The spiritual bone said that Senior Sister Ming Ying used a spell to hit a sword in the spiritual bone. It looks like it's made of a spine, could it have something to do with the row of bones behind him? Could it be broken by giving the sword to the blood pact?"

"I don't know... I'm looking up the books." Fengyulou began to immerse himself in the books again: "If you have nothing to do, look through the books over there."

"Where am I free, I still have to pick up those kids." Sheng Bei got a headache when he heard reading, and he opened his mouth heartlessly: "It would be great if the second senior brother was still here, the second senior brother must know that What is a sword."

Feng Yulou turned his head to look at the plum grove next to him. This plum grove was planted by the second brother for 50 years. The thousand mountains are covered with snow all the year round. Only this patch of red plums is in full bloom, bringing a piece of beauty to this monotonous whiteness. Beautiful.

It's a pity that the flowers are here, the scenery is here, but the people are gone...

Fengyulou said: "Smart people don't live long, so only you and me are left here."

Shengbei consciously said something wrong, and explained in a somewhat pale way: "I didn't mean that."

Qianshan Ziwei Xingyao is the leader of astrology and hexagrams in the world. It has Fengshui, four phases and eight pillars, and Qimen Dunjia is all good. Anyone who eats this bowl of rice in the world, even if they cannot enter the gate of Ziwei Xingyao, even if they are in Qianshan If you kowtow to the bottom, then when you go back and talk about the thousand mountains, you will come like a cloud.

In those years, the Guanzhong Jingtang was often open and famous all over the world. There were disciples practicing martial arts in the forest and discussing Taoism.

Especially in Fengyulou's generation, there are quite a few amazing talents, but it's a pity that those who died, those who were possessed by demons, and those who disappeared, left him and Shengbei, one of whom was not interested in anything except kendo, And the other has no talent in astrology, so Ziwei Xingyao has been almost forgotten by the world of cultivating immortals for a hundred years.

The two people in front of the ice waterfall sighed at each other and were speechless. Shengbei looked at the waterfall with some embarrassment. From above, eight young people could be seen struggling to climb the stone steps. They were separated because of their physical strength.

The previous entry test was naturally not so simple, but unfortunately these two couldn't test any astrological talents, they could only use the simplest and rude way, climbing the stone steps, adding a little wind, and those who could withstand the mountain gate were considered mentally intelligent. Firm and barely acceptable.

Shengbei noticed that Zhang Linggu was walking in front of Guo Sixian calmly, which happened to block most of the wind for Guo Sixian, saving Guo Sixian a lot of walking effort: "Senior Brother Wu Jiu's apprentice is as good-hearted as he is."

"There's only one word difference between being kind and heartless." Fengyulou continued to turn over the book with his head bowed.

Shengbei felt bored and was about to leave, but from the waterfall, he saw a few dolls holding umbrellas in the middle of the stone steps. The dolls all looked like little Taoist boys, with smiling faces and two stitches on their cheeks. Hongbu: "Yeah? This is not a doll that Second Senior Brother made for us

? ”

"I saw it a few days ago, and I took it out to shake the ashes." Feng Yulou replied casually: "Ziwei Xingyao established a religion based on astrology and divination. If it is handed down to you and me, it is considered to be in decline. This time, some families are selected. For the children who learn the origin, I hope that some of them can learn from their predecessors, so that the inheritance of my sect will not be ruined."

The eight teenagers were divided into three groups because of their physical strength. Although the difference was only a few stone steps, they were divided into three groups.

Yuan Qi and the stout Shi Lei walked in the front, Guo Sixian was the weakest and was dragged by Shangguan Li to barely keep up, Zhang Linggu also fell behind because he helped Guo Sixian out of the wind, and the other three boys walked in the middle.

"Huh?" Shi Lei saw eight dolls placed on the stone steps in front of them. These dolls are exquisitely crafted, holding small umbrellas and wearing floral skirts, with a smiley face sewn on their faces, and two round red dolls on their cheeks. Bu, the appearance is very cute: "Is this also a test? There are eight dolls, and we are also eight people. Could it be that one person chooses one?"

Yuan Qi didn't know what was going on, he responded vaguely, and was half a step behind without showing any signs, allowing Shi Lei to take the lead.

Shi Lei stretched out his hand to grab the doll closest to him, but the doll suddenly knocked, gave out two brisk giggles, opened the umbrella and held the umbrella handle for a turn, the goldfish on the umbrella jumped out of the umbrella, puff puff Shi Lei spat out three ice edges.

The icicles were not too fierce. Although Shi Lei was a bit fat, he dodged nimbly. The three icicles hit the ground and immediately exploded into three icicles. The rag doll was standing on one of the icicles holding an umbrella. Giggled and laughed twice.

It seems that these dolls cannot be touched.

Yuan Qi cautiously wanted to pass between the two dolls who were a little far away. Just as he passed, the remaining seven dolls opened their umbrellas and jumped up at the same time, flying around those young people, and the seven umbrellas opened at the same time. , A large piece of ice edge was shot out, and the teenagers behind were startled for some reason, and they were very embarrassed to hide for a while.

Each of the icicles hit the ground into icicles more than ten feet high, and those that were close together formed an ice wall. The shadows on the ice seemed to be standing behind people, which was somewhat confusing. An ice maze has been built on the spacious stone steps.

But at the same time that the ice formation was completed, the wind that made it difficult to move stopped.

When Zhang Linggu saw those dolls flying into the air, he turned his head and said to Guo Sixian: "Be careful..."