In that distant little black house

After Lu Guijiu was sent to the Xuanwu Conference venue by Zhang Jingmo, he entered the restricted venue alone.

At the entrance of the venue, there were already many new disciples standing. The younger disciples were about the same age as Lu Guijiu, fifteen or sixteen years old, and the older ones were close to thirty.

The Xuanwu Conference is held every 20 years, and all disciples of the Lingxu Sect who are over 15 years old at the time of the holding must participate, and all disciples can only participate once in a lifetime.

When Zhang Jingmo joined the sect, he also participated in the Xuanwu Conference, but his talent has never been shown in cultivation.At that time, he was already able to refine the elixir by himself, but he did not achieve any dazzling results in the Xuanwu Conference, but he barely persisted until the end.

After Lu Guijiu arrived at the scene, he handed over the wooden card in his hand to the monk who was waiting by the side. The monk looked at the wooden card, then at Lu Guijiu, with an indistinct pity in his eyes, he said : "Are you Zhang Jingmo's disciple?"

Lu Guijiu nodded.

The man said: "Be careful, don't force yourself."

Lu Guijiu didn't expect this person to say such a sentence. He only knew that Zhang Jingmo covered up his cultivation for him, but he didn't know that there were already all kinds of strange rumors in Lingxu Sect.

Because Zhang Jingmo completely disappeared with Lu Guijiu after refining the Huo Rong Pill, and returned to the sect after a few years. After returning to the sect, he closed the door to everyone. From the outsiders' point of view, it is naturally extremely weird.As a result, news about Zhang Jingmo's madness continued to spread among the Lingxu faction. Most people had heard about Zhang Jingmo, who was provoked by Taoist Cen, so they insisted on sending their disciples to die...

And because of Zhang Jingmo's special status, he has a good relationship with most of the people in the sect, so the person who took Lu Guijiu's wooden card inevitably had a little bit of sympathy for Lu Guijiu.

Lu Guijiu didn't know why, but he still thanked him warmly, then turned and left.

The person who received the spirit card saw Lu Guijiu turning around, thinking that such a handsome young man would die in this mountain because of his master's vanity, so he also sighed softly.

Lu Guijiu walked among the crowd, and followed the guide on the path into the mountain.

The venue of the Xuanwu Conference is at the top of the mountain, but the guide will only lead the disciples to the foot of the mountain and let them climb up by themselves.When the disciples reached the top of the mountain, they would see several boulders floating in the sky. On each boulder, there was a bamboo slip floating. The numbers on the bamboo slips were what the disciples were fighting for.

Fortunately, the Lingxu sect would not let the disciples kill each other, so they stipulated that once they touched the bamboo slip, they could not be taken away by others.If he hurts someone maliciously, he will be punished—naturally, this punishment will definitely not be fatal.

At this time, there were two to three hundred Lingxu disciples in the Xuanwu Conference, and among these two 300 people, all of them were elite talents, so they were favored by the elders of Lingxu Sect and accepted as disciples.

Standing among the crowd at the foot of the mountain, the two men are very conspicuous. They both wear the same clothes and the same hairstyle. If you take a closer look, you will find that the two men look exactly the same.

Lu Guijiu looked amusedly, and the disciples next to him were also whispering. After hearing this, Lu Guijiu realized that these two disciples, who were seventeen or eighteen years old, were actually the opponents Zhang Jingmo had urged him to do.

One of them was called Gong Huaiyu and worshiped under the head of the sect, and the other named Gong Yujin was worshiped under the disciple of a Nascent Soul Elder of the Lingxu Sect. The two had worshiped different masters, but their talents were the same against heaven. Almost at the same time, they entered the fifth floor of the Qi refining period.

Gong Huaiyu is the younger brother, and he tends to be a bit more evasive. He joked with his brother while walking, and the two of them were especially eye-catching among the crowd.

Compared with them, Lu Guijiu was much more low-key. He looked towards the endless mountain, and heard the guide say loudly: "The rest of the road is up to you."

The disciples responded in unison.

The guide said again: "No matter what happens, as long as you don't want to continue, just crush the wooden sign in your hand, and someone will appear to pick you up."

Lu Guijiu looked at the plain wooden sign in his hand, and put it into his arms.

The guide said again: "Keep in mind that life is the most important thing. If you lose your life in order to fight for the first place, it will be a loss-making business."

The disciples all laughed, as if they felt that the guide was joking.

Seeing this, the guide didn't say much, he just waved his hand, indicating that the disciples could enter the mountain.

Then I saw disciples in twos and threes stepping onto the path paved with bluestone slabs one after another.

Just as Lu Guijiu was about to step forward, someone behind him bumped into him heavily. When he turned his head, he saw a young man in his 20s sneering at him, that smile was full of malice .

I think this person is the apprentice of Taoist Cen.

Lu Guijiu glanced at him indifferently, as if looking at an insignificant bug.

When the man was stabbed by Lu Guijiu's gaze, he immediately became angry, and he said in a low voice: "You'd better crush the wooden sign now, otherwise, I will definitely smash your eyes before you die." Dig it out and send it to your master..."

Lu Guijiu lazily interrupted the man: "Good dogs don't bark."

The man glared at each other, but because of the guide who was still standing aside, he shook his sleeves and left.

Lu Guijiu ignored him, chose a small path and went to the mountain.

The fog in the mountains is not an ordinary fog. Lu Guijiu covered his eyes with spiritual energy, but he couldn't see through the hazy fog. Instead, Lu Shu, who had been silent all this time, said, "What a big battle."

Lu Guijiu said, "Huh?"

Lu Shu said: "You Lingxu faction are really rich and powerful, such a large formation is actually used to select disciples?"

Lu Guijiu said: "A big formation? Is this a formation?"

Lu Shu said: "Of course, you are only at the fifth level of the Qi refining stage, and you will definitely be confused by the formation. If you come here after you have the Nascent Soul's great power, you will find that this place is just a pile of rocks. "

Hearing this, Lu Guijiu walked to the side of the road, reached out and knocked on the trees beside the road, and said, "Is this tree real?"

Lu Shu said: "It's not just a tree, there is nothing real here."

As soon as he finished his words, there was a roar of a tiger in the mountains and forests. The roar of the tiger was thick and long, and one could tell that the tiger was not an ordinary thing.

Lu Guijiu smiled and said, "It really isn't the real thing."

Lu Shu said: "Huh?"

Lu Guijiu said: "I just thought about whether there would be any wild birds and beasts in this dense forest, and here comes one."

After he finished speaking, he saw a white-fronted fierce tiger with eyes hanging out from the forest. The tiger was surrounded by thick mist, its bloody mouth was slightly open, and there was even fresh blood hanging around its mouth, obviously it had just finished hunting.

Lu Guijiu asked curiously, "If I am bitten by it, will I die?"

Lu Shu said helplessly, "You can try it."

Although Lu Guijiu was curious, he would not try anything. He took out a flying sword from his sleeve, nodded slightly at the tiger, and said, "Please."

As soon as the word "please" came out, the fierce tiger rushed towards Lu Guijiu. Lu Guijiu bent down to avoid the pounce, then turned around and slashed at the tiger with his sword.The tiger was also very nimble, and immediately turned around when it failed to make a pounce, so that the blade that Lu Guijiu stabbed at had just brushed past its side.

At this moment, the distance between Lu Guijiu and the tiger was very close. The tiger let out a low growl, and then slapped Lu Guijiu's head again. The watermelon was smashed to pieces with one claw.

Lu Guijiu stepped down and flew up to avoid the blow. What Lu Guijiu didn't expect was that when the tiger saw Lu Guijiu flying upwards, it also chased after him with a cloud of mist.

If Lu Guijiu faced the enemy for the first time, he might be in a panic. However, the training that Zhang Jingmo asked Lu Guijiu to do before showed its effect at this time. Seeing the tiger chasing him, Lu Guijiu pretended to go to the forest Running away, the tiger saw that Lu Guijiu wanted to escape, so he speeded up. After several runs, he finally caught up with Lu Guijiu, and then bit Lu Guijiu's leg hard.

It's just that after this bite, the tiger instantly knew that he had been fooled, because what he bit into his mouth was not meat at all, but hard wood.

Lu Guijiu, who was supposed to fly in front of him, appeared directly above it, and the flying sword in his hand pierced fiercely, piercing the tiger.

The tiger roared in pain, but no blood flowed from his body, but a cloud of smoke rose up, and when the smoke cleared, a red crystal appeared on the ground.

Lu Guijiu picked up the crystal and looked at it, but he didn't recognize what it was.

Lu Shu was well-informed, so he knew this thing, he said: "This is the Fire Spirit Crystal. Although there is only a small piece, it is enough to be worth a piece of high-quality spirit stone." After he finished speaking, he was amazed , "Rich, you Lingxu faction are really rich!"

Lu Guijiu ignored Lu Shu, put away the Huo Lingjing, and started on the road again.

The time for the Xuanwu Conference is set for one month. After one month, whoever gets the most bamboo chips will be No.1.And because of the inalienability of the bamboo chips, almost all the disciples who want to win the ranking must reach the top of the mountain as quickly as possible.

Lu Guijiu walked in the mountains for a few days, and with the help of Lu Shu, he quickly figured out the laws of the mountain.It turns out that this mountain is not so much a test of cultivation, but a test of heart.

After entering the mountain, the more you fear something, the more something will appear. If a female disciple who is afraid of snakes, insects, rats and ants enters the mountain, it will be very sad to think about it.

Lu Guijiu is open-minded, and has never had anything to be particularly afraid of, but after he knows that killing the beasts here will drop fire spirit crystals, he sometimes deliberately fantasizes about some beasts.When they appear, kill them and take away the fire elves.

After this behavior continued for five or six times, Lu Guijiu had to stop, because he found that the monsters he summoned were stronger each time, and the last time, he was even scratched by the beast fiercely. Almost scratched an arm off.

Having suffered such an injury, Lu Guijiu also knew that it was not easy to take advantage of his senior, so he had no choice but to give up this idea for the time being, calm down and continue climbing up the mountain.

Lu Guijiu really took advantage of it, because the disciples who entered this formation were only at the beginning of the fifth level, and they would not be able to kill the beasts formed by the aura of this formation so easily.

But Lu Guijiu believed that he was already in the middle of the fifth level, and he had the "Blood Hell Heavenly Book"'s Zhiyang aura, so he easily killed five or six wild beasts before he tasted the pain.If Zhang Jingmo found out about this, I'm afraid he would be angry for a while, because when he entered the Xuanwu Conference, he couldn't kill a single beast, and was chased by a giant python. His spiritual energy was exhausted, and he almost left the venue early.

There are not many perverts like Lu Guijiu, so on the way up the mountain, a large number of disciples crushed the wooden sign and chose to give up.

Some of these disciples were unstable, and the wild beasts they imagined were more terrifying than the other, while some were weak in strength, not to mention unable to kill the wild beasts, and even unable to escape.

Lu Guijiu didn't know, but in just half a month, half of the people in the mountain had disappeared.

During the past half month, Lu Guijiu also met some brothers from the same school in the mountains and forests, but in most cases, he found each other first.Because he doesn't know whether the other party is good or bad, and he doesn't want to waste extra energy on the way, so Lu Guijiu usually hides first.

Lu Guijiu traveled day and night, only thinking about reaching the top of the mountain as soon as possible.

However, the weather was not good, half a month later, there was a heavy rain in the mountains.The rain from this torrential rain was extremely cold, and when it fell on the skin, one could feel the chill soaking into the bones.

Lu Guijiu was not afraid, he had already practiced Zhiyang Spiritual Qi, and the colder the environment, the more suitable it was for him to practice.The cold rain falling in the sky now gave him some motivation.

Just walking and stopping like this, just when Lu Guijiu thought he was about to reach the top of the mountain, he met an acquaintance again - the pair of twins he saw at the mountain gate.

When Lu Guijiu found them, the two were standing under a tree eating dry food, and they seemed to be taking a rest.The two of them were neatly dressed, and there was no sign of fatigue in their expressions. Presumably, they had not encountered any fierce battles.On the other hand, Lu Guijiu, because of the spirit beast, his right arm was injured. Although it was only a skin trauma, the clothes he was wearing looked a bit embarrassed.

The atmosphere was quiet for a while, and one of the twins suddenly said, "Come out."

Lu Guijiu didn't move.

The man said again: "Don't hide, you are so far away, I can smell your stench." He said with a look of disgust on his face.

The other twin also said coldly: "Come out."

Lu Guijiu still didn't move.

The younger brother, Gong Huaiyu, who was more irritable among the twins, took out something from his sleeve and threw it directly in the direction of Lu Guijiu.Lu Guijiu tensed up and was about to get up, but saw a person flying out not far from him, catching the object thrown by Gong Huaiyu.

That person was a beautiful young woman, she was only seventeen or eighteen years old, she was wearing a white dress, she smiled very sweetly, she said: "Brother Huaiyu, don't be so fierce."

Gong Huaiyu sneered and said, "You are looking for death."

The woman said: "Send the Buddha to the west, you have helped him for so long, why don't you help me a little longer?"

Gong Huaiyu sneered and said, "Do you want me to really send you back to the West?"

The woman seemed unwilling, and acted like a baby again, but Gong Huaiyu just responded with sarcasm, but Gong Yujin didn't even bother to say a word.

Seeing this situation, the woman knew that she couldn't please her, she rolled her eyes, and tears filled her eyes a moment later, Gong Huaiyu's face changed when she saw this, and before she could utter her voice, she heard The woman cried out: "So many wolves, it's so scary!" After she finished speaking, she stretched her hand into her sleeve, crushed the wooden signboard for participating in the meeting, and disappeared in front of the three of them in a blink of an eye.

Gong Huaiyu: "..."

The most terrifying thing in the world is not a villain, but a domineering woman. The villain still wants to make money, but if the domineering woman gets angry, she doesn't care about anything.

After the woman disappeared, the three of them heard howling wolves one after another.

Lu Guijiu, who was originally a spectator, fell into this matter inexplicably, and he was not in a good mood.

Gong Huaiyu was also very angry with that woman, he said: "Brother, why did you let her follow us, it's better now."

Gong Yujin said coldly: "Have you forgotten what your master told you?"

Gong Huaiyu was a little discouraged when he heard the words, he said: "Then what should we do?" He had just finished speaking when he heard the howling of wolves getting closer, "There must be twenty or thirty wolves in this pack! "

Gong Yujin sighed, "What else can we do? Let's run." After he finished speaking, he was lucky enough to run away, and it seemed that he had no intention of fighting the wolves at all.

Gong Huaiyu also quickly followed Gong Yujin and ran up the mountain.

Lu Guijiu couldn't do it, so he had no choice but to decide by luck and ran away from another road.

As a result, as we got to the top of the mountain, there were fewer trails. After the three of them ran wildly for a stick of incense, not only did they not get rid of the wolves, they also met at the next intersection.

Lu Guijiu was not surprised, but Gong Huaiyu and Gong Yujin did not expect to meet Lu Guijiu here.Lu Guijiu and the two of them looked at each other, seeing the alert look in each other's eyes.

However, the howl of the wolf behind him did not give the three of them a chance to say anything more, and the three of them quickly reached a consensus in their eyes - get rid of the wolf first.

So the three of them ran wildly on the small road, Lu Guijiu deliberately suppressed his speed, ran in the last one, and made a look like he was exhausted and forced to run away.

Seeing this, Gong Huaiyu and Gong Yujin were a little relieved. In their eyes, Lu Guijiu's cultivation was only the fourth level of the Qi refining period, and he must have spent some spiritual power before.Running away now, I am afraid that it is not far from exhaustion.

Both Gong Huaiyu and Gong Yujin didn't mind losing one more opponent.

Originally, both Gong Huaiyu and Gong Yujin thought that Lu Guijiu was being chased by wolves and forced to crush the wooden sign, but they didn't expect that although this kid was already panting heavily from exhaustion, his steps were flimsy, and his face was pale, his speed was amazing. It still didn't slow down, but the voice of the wolves gradually became smaller, apparently being thrown away by the three of them.

Gong Huaiyu and Gong Yujin looked at each other, and actually slowed down in a very tacit understanding, and they didn't know what they were thinking.

When the three of them stopped, Lu Guijiu was already sweating profusely. He sat on the ground in an involuntary manner, gasping for breath, and stuffed the pill in his mouth. It was obvious that he was about to run out of strength.

Gong Huaiyu asked, "What's your name?"

Lu Guijiu said, "My name is Lu Guijiu."

Gong Huaiyu was a little unhappy when he heard the words, he said: "You are Lu Guijiu?"

Lu Guijiu nodded.

Gong Huaiyu said displeased: "Why didn't you say it earlier?"

Lu Guijiu said, "What would have happened if I had said it earlier?"

Gong Huaiyu suddenly laughed again: "If you tell me sooner, we will help you—" let you get out of the sea of ​​suffering earlier.