After Waking up Beside the Villain

As far as the eye can see, except for a straight upward rugged mountain road, there are only thick white mist and lead clouds that completely cover both sides of the mountain road.

Chu Yunsheng was walking on the road to the sky used in this trial, and he had the illusion of stepping on the top of the nine clouds in a trance.

Looking at the invisible end and blessings and misfortunes hidden in the clouds and mist, he subconsciously felt a kind of hesitation and hesitation.

All kinds of unpredictable and dangerous scenes appeared over and over in his mind, as if he would be torn into pieces by the wind blade if he walked a little further, or he would be chopped into coke by the thunder and lightning of heaven's punishment, or unknown The purgatory fire spewed out from under his feet, burning him to ashes.

The indescribable panic instantly surrounded Chu Yunsheng's body and mind, covering his mouth, nose and eyes like lumps of impermeable mud, making him feel the strong despair of being drowned in a swamp.

His breathing stagnated suddenly, and his chest rose and fell violently.

At some point, Chu Yunsheng's footsteps on the mountain road slowed down, and even stopped, like an invisible hand wrapped in a whirlpool, stopping him from moving forward, pushing him back, and returning to the original place.

"It's not like me..."

Chu Yunsheng looked ahead and whispered suddenly.

All human beings have the seven emotions and six desires, as well as fear and cowardice, which cannot be eradicated.

But in many cases, to accomplish certain things and achieve certain things, one must be sober and fearless.

This is what Chu Yunsheng understood very early on.If he didn't even understand this, he probably wouldn't be standing in this part of the world.

The flinching and cowardice only stayed for a few breaths, and then quietly faded from Chu Yunsheng's mind.With the sudden enlightenment of the mind, the fog covered by the mountain road ahead seemed to dissipate a little, and a huge shadow of the bronze porch was faintly drawn.

Chu Yunsheng looked up and continued to climb the mountain.

But apart from the obstacles that magnified fear and cowardice at the beginning, it seemed that there were no other tests in the following journey. Chu Yunsheng walked thousands of steps forward without encountering any abnormalities.

He didn't think that the road to heaven that Shangqing Mountain specially used to test the predestined people of the Qianlong card would be so simple, so even though he was exhausted with the passage of time and the hardships of the mountain road, he never let go of his vigilance.

There was no morning and evening changes on the road to the sky, but Chu Yunsheng calculated according to the number of steps he walked, and estimated that about two days and three nights had passed.

During this period, every time he walks [-] steps, he will take a short rest and meditate for a while to restore his spirit and aura and relieve fatigue.And this cycle of progress and rest, he has done too many times.But the road ahead is still as foggy as ever.

Gradually, an uncontrollable suspicion arose in his heart——

Maybe this road to the sky itself has no end, just like practice, there is only hopeless climbing forever;

Maybe he is lost on this road, has gone in the wrong direction, and will never reach the end;

Perhaps he is destined to be unable to rely on his own strength to see the future clearly. This also shows that most monks are always eager to improve in their lives, but they also always know that they have reached this point, and they can only use up their lifespan in vain. , despair and sadness...

Slowly, the firm stone in Chu Yunsheng's heart, which symbolizes indomitable progress, gradually turned into powder as if being ground by the ruthlessness and hopelessness of the years.

Sitting cross-legged on the side of the mountain road, he changed from a state of meditation to a state of laziness and slack without strength, and the boundless negativity drowned him like a silent tide.In the drowsy comfort that floated slightly, he heard a distant and illusory voice.

"Cultivation is like sailing against the current. Those who climb the road to heaven should go forward bravely and stick to their hearts."

"However, I know that your cultivation level is low and the difficulty is serious. Therefore, those who have passed a hundred steps to the sky can stop retreating. Anyone who has passed a hundred steps has aptitude and chances that are in line with my supernatural path. worry……"

Chu Yunsheng suddenly opened his eyes.

"What choice should be made between the unknown future and the foreseeable arrangement, whether to go on the invisible road ahead... This is like whether a person is doomed to die, so whether a person's life is meaningless, it is a ridiculous question."

"But it is also an ancient problem."

After Baiyue City threw away the magic robe that obviously had the aura of demon cultivation, Chu Yunsheng, who was only wearing a simple white shirt, revealed a trace of laziness and casualness that was different from usual in such a passive and casual way, but when his voice fell to the ground, In an instant, this laziness disappeared.

All the confusion and hopelessness were swept away from his eyes.

He didn't burst out any sharpness, but slowly straightened his back like an ancient and restrained sword that hadn't made a strike.

"Fear, negativity, laziness...these are all weaknesses in human nature."

After sweeping away the decadent inertia, Chu Yunsheng returned to normal again, got up and continued on his way.

He analyzed the experience of the two levels just now, and had some guesses about this road to heaven.

at the same time.

On the same long road to heaven, in different clouds and mist shadows, there are seven other figures who are walking or resting like Chu Yunsheng, a total of four men and three women.

Some of them were terrified, as if they were trapped in a nightmare of death, and it was difficult to break free; kind of struggling.

A few of the seven people have reached the second level, and the illusory voice gradually sounded in their ears.

"You can stop, you can retreat, as long as you pass the first [-] steps, you can pass the level and enter the mountain gate... But there must be more benefits if you continue to move forward, otherwise this road to heaven will just end, why bother to announce it..."

"I can leave this ghostly place...but am I really willing?"

"I'm too tired, I can't hold on anymore, this rule is simply to relieve my suffering... But maybe it's just a part of the test..."

In the face of this voice, everyone has their own reactions, some waver and hesitate, some grit their teeth and think.

Above their heads, the boundless sea of ​​fog and clouds shrouded a road that was half illusory and half solid.

Two elders of the outer gate who were in charge of monitoring stood under the bronze porch, looking into the fog below from time to time.

One of the elders of the outer sect looked at the figures struggling on the foggy road, and said with a smile, "The disciples of the Qianlong brand in this sixty-year-old are all of good aptitude. It's rare that no one backs down now... "

Another elder said: "Before they don't know that retreating will cause them to lose the hidden dragon card and the hidden care given by the future sect, they still have some Dao heart to give up immediately."

"After all, they are all 'young dragons' selected by the potential dragon card..."

As he said that, the elder suddenly paused, glanced at the other elder, lowered his voice, and said with a strange meaning: "Feng Daoyou, I don't know if you heard a rumor about this Jiazi Qianlong brand disciple recently. Have you ever..."

The smile on Elder Feng's face was instantly full of gossip, and he said, "You heard about it, too? Speaking of which, when the rumors first came out not long ago, I saw the head teacher rushing to the mountain behind the punishment hall." , but when I left later, I was full of sorrow and joy."

"It seems—"

The two inner sect elders smiled at each other, and then focused their eyes and consciousness on the road to heaven, as if they were looking for something.

Even if he has some guesses about the road to heaven, there is nothing he can do with Chu Yunsheng's cultivation level, and he can only be more targeted and cautious when continuing to move forward.

And as if to confirm Chu Yunsheng's conjecture, he then encountered the tests of greed, jealousy and lust one after another.

What makes Chu Yunsheng quite strange is that this road to heaven seems to be able to vaguely sense his emotions——

When his greed is magnified, it becomes a paranoid possessive desire for a man with a vaguely familiar face who looks like Yin Zheng, and an endless and crazy exploration of some research.After his jealousy was magnified, he saw Yin Zheng joining hands with others, and declared to himself that that was the love of his life.

And his lust is that in those several worlds, for hundreds of years, his limbs have been intertwined night after night, and his skin has been attached to each other.

Those gentle, affectionate, hot, unbearable, unable to extricate themselves.

But all of this, for Chu Yunsheng, is not so much a test, but a re-discovery of himself.

In the accumulation of very different memories from life to life, and in the complicated and difficult entanglement with another person again and again, anyone may get lost.

Chu Yunsheng was no exception.

So he often examines himself and makes clear what he thinks.

He is very clear that his exploration of certain fields must be endless but limited, and anything without limits will only bring bad results, but for Yin Zheng, it is companionship rather than monopoly, freedom rather than lock. Poverty and restriction are desires arising from love and responsibility, not the temptation of beauty and youth.

These three tests are like a mirror, allowing him to see his thoughts and cognitions more clearly again.

So in these three levels, he almost never stopped, so he walked over soberly.

Soon, Chu Yunsheng saw the complete outline of the bronze porch in front of him and the two figures there, and also saw clearly the distance of the last section of the mountain road.This means that he is about to pass the test of ascending to heaven and officially enter Shangqing Mountain.

But at this moment, the clouds and mist on both sides of the mountain road suddenly boiled, and an invisible force suddenly crashed into Chu Yunsheng's body, making him unable to even defend himself.

This force was extremely cold, and Chu Yunsheng had a feeling that his soul and body would be completely frozen almost as soon as it entered his body.His foundation-building consciousness hidden deep in his soul was affected by this force, and he could no longer suppress it, and it was about to burst out immediately.

A disciple at the first level of Qi Refining has the divine consciousness that only existed at the Foundation Establishment stage, so there is something wrong with it without even thinking about it.

What's more, this foundation-building spiritual consciousness was cultivated by the original magic cultivation technique, and it has the aura of magic cultivation. If it is really drawn out, the two figures in front of it will probably attack with a spell immediately.

The crisis was suddenly triggered without warning, and the foundation-building consciousness was about to be exposed in an instant.

Chu Yunsheng's eyelashes formed fine frost, and at the moment before the divine consciousness was about to break through the divine soul and appear, he directly thought of it and destroyed his spiritual consciousness.

The severe pain that almost tore the soul made his forehead bulge, and a trace of blood spread from his mouth.

But his expression didn't change much, as if he was just enduring an inexplicable cold attack.

However, Chu Yunsheng found that after his consciousness self-destructed, this force was still wandering in his soul and dantian, as if he was still searching for something and did not relax.

And at this moment, in the depths of the clouds where no one could see, a tiny orange cat's hair fell from the sky without a sound and landed in Chu Yunsheng's hair.

The warmth came back, and the power that brought the cold quickly faded away.

Chu Yunsheng opened his eyes as if feeling something, but did not move.

After the freezing feeling on his body completely dissipated, he slowly moved his hands and feet, climbed up the stairs, walked through the last section of the mountain road, and came to the huge and towering bronze porch.

Standing under the bronze porch were two middle-aged monks who were tall and thin, one tall and the other thin. They both showed a little inexplicable inquiry when they saw him coming to salute.

Among them, the tall monk nodded slightly to him, signaling him to continue to leave here, and it would be over.

When he passed through here and was about to leave the bronze porch, he heard a faint voice from behind: "He is the fastest, do you think it is him... yes, the age may not be right..."

Chu Yunsheng guessed who the two Shangqingshan elders were looking for.

Without thinking too much, he gathered his thoughts and walked out of the bronze porch. The scene around him changed instantly, and he was back near the examination place at the mountain gate, but this was obviously inside the mountain gate, and it was closer to the resting house of the assessment disciples some.

There was an open space in front of him, and there was a rock near the bronze porch. A thin young man in a smoky blue inner disciple uniform was holding a jade slip, leaning against the rock without standing, as if he was bored.

"Who doesn't know that unless you give up halfway, you will definitely not be able to get out of this road for seven or eight days. This is only the third day. What's the point of sending me here so early? You are usually a good brother and sister. When it comes to work, I only think about making arrangements for your good junior brother... On this hot day, you should nest in the cave and set up a pure heart formation, blowing the cool breeze, eating the little spirit fruit, watching Take a look at Bai Xiaosheng's picture of spring drama..."

Wang Pei clapped his palms with the jade slips intermittently, and yawned sleepily while wandering his thoughts.

But as soon as he opened his mouth, a figure suddenly walked out of the bronze porch in front of him, and the jade tablet in that figure's hand shone with a ray of light, shooting into the jade slip in Wang Pei's hand.

As soon as Wang Pei stopped knocking on the jade slips, he almost forgot to close his open mouth.

He looked down suspiciously at the time in the jade slip, and then raised his head to look suspiciously at the young man walking in front of him. He couldn't help but said, "It's only the third day, right? Why did you come out so soon?"

Wang Pei didn't suspect that Chu Yunsheng was not a disciple of the Qianlong card, or that he quit halfway, because in those two cases, he would not come out of the bronze porch.

Seeing Wang Pei's reaction, Chu Yunsheng knew that he came out too early, and might even break some records and common sense.He didn't explain anything, but asked flatly: "Brother, is three days fast?"

Wang Pei opened his mouth, stared at Chu Yunsheng for a while, and said: "Soon... But it's not the fastest, you should be able to rank in the top five within a thousand, and the other four, excluding the fallen one Outside, the remaining three are already the elders of the inner sect of the sect, some are the masters of the peak inside the sect, and some are stationed outside... You boy, as long as you practice hard in the future, your future is limitless."

Wang Pei looked at Chu Yunsheng and sighed, as if he saw a spiritual genius rising, so he decided to show the amiable side of an inner sect brother.

Twirling the corners of his mouth, Wang Pei showed a bright and friendly smile towards Chu Yunsheng, and said in an extremely friendly and enthusiastic tone: "Brother, the road to heaven is over, and the next step is to assess where to go. Have you decided where to sign up? Brother, I His name is Wang Pei, and he belongs to Danfeng..."

"Our Pill Peak not only has a pleasant scenery, but also has a lot of aura. We also have a priority supply of various elixir. When walking on the road, senior brothers and sisters will feed them from time to time. Those elixirs are very valuable. You can go outside and ask for several spirit stones. ...When you can make alchemy yourself, the spirit stone will be like a snowflake, and it will be put into the storage bag..."

Chu Yunsheng suddenly had the illusion of returning to the modern age and facing the salesman in the sales office.

But right now he is destined not to go to Danfeng to get involved in Xiao Ni's affairs.

So before Wang Pei continued to sell enthusiastically, Chu Yunsheng said: "Thank you, Senior Brother Wang, Danfeng is very good, but I have already signed up for the Artifact Refining Hall."

Wang Pei's enthusiasm stopped abruptly: "You actually like blacksmithing, alas...but you haven't been assessed yet, so you can change it."

He hinted at Chu Yunsheng, but Chu Yunsheng smiled faintly and shook his head.

Wang Pei couldn't figure out why some people would like to go to the Qiqitang to work poorly and make money, and they would not want to come to Danfeng to make alchemy and make a fortune.But Chu Yunsheng had already made a choice, and he didn't have to force others to make things difficult for him, but he was a little confused and disappointed.

After briefly introducing Chu Yunsheng to the assessment of the Artifact Refining Hall, Wang Pei asked, "It's a coincidence that you came here. You haven't come to the other four places today, but the Artifact Refining Hall and Pill Peak have already started the assessment. Are you planning to come?" Rest for a day before going to the assessment, or go now?"

"It's all right now."

Chu Yun said, and then looked at Wang Pei: "I have something to bother senior brother. Please don't mention to other beginners that I walked the road to heaven in three days."

Wang Pei was slightly surprised, then suddenly smiled and said: "It seems that you are still low-key. It's better to keep a low profile. In the world of comprehension, you can live long enough with a low profile."

For Wang Pei, this kind of thing was absolutely necessary, so he agreed to Chu Yunsheng's request without much hesitation, and then pointed out a way for Chu Yunsheng to go to the examination place of the Artifact Refining Hall.

According to the direction Wang Pei pointed, Chu Yunsheng saw a simple stone house standing beside a forest, and an old man with long beard was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed.

On the other side, farther away, stood a huge alchemy tripod several tens of feet high, and several inner disciples in smoky blue clothes were organizing the assessment.There were a huge number of assessors, they lined up in two teams and went to the stone platforms around Danding to participate in the assessment, which was in stark contrast to the desertedness in front of the stone house.

Chu Yunsheng glanced at Dan Ding, and found Xiao Ni with a sullen face and jealous eyes in the corner.

He followed Xiao Ni's gaze, and as expected, he saw Shan Rourou being surrounded by two handsome male disciples.

Chu Yunsheng wanted to warn Danfeng about the assessment, but the current situation made it difficult for him to find a chance.

Calmly withdrawing his gaze, Chu Yunsheng walked to the stone house and bowed slightly to the old man with closed eyes: "Elder, I'm here to participate in the examination of the Artifact Refining Hall."

The elder didn't open his eyes, but said slowly: "Come to participate in the assessment of my refining hall, why did you just look at Danfeng?"

As if he didn't feel the elder's petty dissatisfaction at all, Chu Yunsheng replied indifferently: "Look at the fun."

Hearing this, the elder opened his eyes and looked at Chu Yunsheng for a while, half amused and half surprised, but he didn't see any disobedience on his face, so he said with a smile: "Your answer suits the old man's appetite. Go in, Choose any refining room at random, and if you can refine a first-level middle-grade magic weapon within three hours, you will pass the test."

Chu Yunsheng had known for a long time that the assessments in various parts of Shangqing Mountain were practical, so he was not surprised. He still had a little bit of foundation in the art of magic, and it was not a problem to refine a first-level magic weapon.

Handing the Qianlong card to the old man, Chu Yunsheng pushed the door open and walked into the stone house.

After entering the door, Chu Yunsheng realized that facing such a small stone house, how did the old man say "choose a refining room at random", because although the stone house is small, it is a magic weapon or a spiritual weapon. The inner space is the size of a square, and there are dozens of doors in a row, all of which are refining rooms.

But Shangqingshan, as well as the entire cultivation world, had a decline in refining equipment, so he was the only one who participated in the assessment among the dozens of refining rooms.

I chose a refining room to enter, and in the center there was a stove the size of a water tank, with red flames jumping inside, and all kinds of refining materials and strange metal gems surrounded the walls.

Chu Yunsheng looked around and had already determined the item to be refined.

Outside the stone house, after Chu Yunsheng went in for the assessment, Yuan Dongshan, the invigilator here, stared at the Qianlong card in his hand and became dazed.

After a while, he came back to his senses, and there was still some disbelief in his eyes.

He knew that Qianlong brand disciples were future candidates for the inner sect, he also knew when the road to heaven would open, and he knew what kind of future he might have if he walked out of the road to heaven in three days, so he was very puzzled.

Such a genius with a bright future, who would be scrambled by the invigilators or elders of the Six Peaks of Shangqing Mountain if he stood up and shouted, and even the elders of the inner sect would be tempted to help him cancel his status as a handyman disciple and accept him as a disciple in advance, how could he come here? Their refining hall?

"Maybe it's because I really love the art of refining."

Yuan Dongshan sighed sincerely.

Just as he was thinking about the choice of genius here, there was a muffled sound in the stone house, like something suddenly exploded.

Yuan Dongshan was startled, and suddenly stood up and looked at the stone house, for fear that the genius who had just arrived would die young.

But this stone house is his spiritual weapon, he can sense part of the changes inside, and realized that Chu Yunsheng seemed to have just exploded, protected by formations and inscriptions, and did not suffer any harm, so he hesitated again and tried again. sat down.

If there is no fear of life in the Liufeng assessment, generally it cannot be interrupted.

Just in case, Yuan Dongshan separated a ray of consciousness and focused on the changes in the stone house.

Not long after, there was another sound of the fryer.

Yuan Dongshan's eyebrows jumped and he remained calm.

Half an hour later, there was a bang, and the stone house of the fourth-order spirit weapon seemed to tremble slightly.

Yuan Dongshan stroked his beard, looked at his stone house, a look of distress flashed across his face, and at the same time he was a little confused about what exactly Chu Yunsheng was refining.

An hour later, there was a loud noise, and the wall of the stone house swelled a bit. There were a few gazes from Dan Ding opposite, as if they heard the movement here.

Yuan Dongshan sat upright, pretending he didn't hear anything.

An hour and a half later, the ground and the surrounding trees shook, and the inscription on the outer layer of the stone house shone slightly.

Yuan Dongshan's face twitched, and he began to calculate how many times these inscriptions and formations can last, whether to repair them, and how much spiritual stones it would cost to repair them: "What the hell is this kid refining? He doesn't have any spiritual weapons. It’s a lot of noise, after so many bombings, maybe he doesn’t know how to refine weapons... If he really can’t make it, should he pass it, or let him pass it reluctantly?”

Two hours later, the loud noise was like thunder, and it was shockingly dull.

On the top of the stone house, there seemed to be thunder gathering faintly, which was barely visible.

Yuan Dongshan's futon seemed to be pricked by needles, and he couldn't sit still.

His expression was already a little distorted, and he was only able to suppress the urge to rush in and drag Chu Yunsheng out by talking about geniuses.

When approaching three hours, a thunderclap suddenly sounded.

Yuan Dongshan raised his eyes suddenly, and saw a bolt of lightning that was as thick as a log hit the roof of the stone house, and was quickly absorbed and dispersed by the stone house.

"This time it's not a fryer that triggers the thunder. It's the breath of heavenly tribulation... This kid, no, this genius actually forged a top-grade magic weapon?"

Yuan Dongshan couldn't hide his surprise all over his face.

Whether it is a magic weapon, a spiritual weapon, a magic weapon or a spiritual treasure, generally low-grade, middle-grade and high-grade are easy to obtain. The first-order ultimate magic weapon is also much stronger than the ordinary second-order magic weapon, and its value is also high.

Even as the elder of the outer sect of the Artifact Refining Hall, he has never forged a top-quality item, which shows how difficult it is.

Yuan Dongshan immediately attributed all the fryers before Chu Yunsheng to the genius style of striving for perfection, and no longer cared about it.

Hearing a burst of exclamation and discussion from the opposite side of the Danding, Yuan Dongshan felt a little flattered, and immediately stood up to meet Chu Yunsheng who came out of the stone house door.

In the mood to show off to Danfeng with high eyebrows, Yuan Dongshan raised his voice not deliberately, and asked Chu Yunsheng: "The assessment is over, judging by the movement, you should have refined a first-order top-grade magic weapon ?”

Chu Yunsheng nodded: "Yes."

There was a slight inhalation sound from Danfeng.

Yuan Dongshan was very satisfied, he continued to stroke his long beard, and asked kindly: "What are you practicing?"

Chu Yunsheng took out an orange-yellow object from the storage bag, and replied, "A cat litter box that can automatically clean cat's buttocks and shovel excrement."

As if their voices were emptied in an instant, everyone in Danfeng who was eavesdropping fell silent.

Yuan Dongshan's hand stroking his beard trembled, and pulled out a large handful of beards—a cat, a litter box?Then what kind of evil thing is his mother!

At this moment, a sound as cold as jade hitting each other came, breaking the eerie silence of the assessment office.

"Is it your idea that he came to test the device?"

Yuan Dongshan shuddered inexplicably as he clutched his fallen beard.