The protagonists have golden fingers

The Heaven Rank General Election is coming to an end soon, Gu Zhuangcheng is lying on the table, counting the Heaven Rank Cards he has obtained in the past four months.

He didn't want to show too much limelight, so he only had thirty or forty cards in his hand, which wasn't too bad, but it wasn't very good either. It belonged to the middle and lower grades, but it happened to be stuck at the lowest level of promotion. .

There are two stages in the selection of heavenly ranks. The first stage is to obtain the heavenly rank cards. From high to low rankings, those who get the number of cards below the average will be eliminated.

This time, the Tianjie selection was rather rushed, and No.1 was only a few brands of 120.

Many people sighed, saying that this time the Tianjie general election may not find any good seedlings.

Gu Zhuangcheng shook his head in disdain, how could there be no good seedlings?

It's just that they are all hiding their strength - other people don't know it, but he knows it clearly. If there is no such group of people, before the next heavenly election comes, the immortal cultivators will probably be slaughtered!

At this time, this group of advanced candidates were all arranged in the same residence, each with a room, and lived a luxurious life with good food and drink for half a month.

Most people know in their hearts that this may be their last time to enjoy themselves, so they don't take the upcoming games to heart, but instead hold the mentality of muddling along, eating, drinking and having fun all day long.

"Gu Zhuangcheng, why are you still bored in the room? The competition is about to start!" Suddenly, a head poked in from outside the door, with an anxious expression on his face.

Gu Zhuangcheng flicked it casually, put the Tian Tier cards that had spread all over the table into the storage ring, and said in his mouth, "Here we come!"

The two hurried to the square, as expected, the square was already crowded with people, besides these contestants, there were also the sect backers of these people.

Seeing the seniors of his own sect, this group of people looked like quails, listening to the teachings of the seniors with low eyebrows, not even daring to show their breath.

In contrast, Gu Zhuangcheng stood alone in the corner of the square, turning into a strange flower.

The man who went to the room to look for him before finished talking with his senior brother, turned his head and saw the young man leaning against the corner alone. He couldn't bear it, so he lingered over and asked, "Hey, my senior brother is here." , do you want to go say hello to him?"

Gu Zhuangcheng looked at him a little speechlessly, really not knowing how to evaluate this child.

At this moment, he really, really wants to break open the opponent's brain to see if there is a bucket of flour in addition to a bucket of water!

Gu Zhuangcheng was silent for a moment, then sighed suddenly, his eyes filled with a strange light: "Zhao Xiaodao, have you forgotten that when your senior brother saw me, he had to call me uncle?"

"Ah?" Zhao Xiaodao rubbed his head, and only after being reminded by the other party did he realize that Gu Zhuangcheng is the owner of Jiuyan Building. Although he is not very old, he is only a cultivator, but his status is a year higher than all of them. Well, logically speaking, it was his senior brother who should come to visit Gu Zhuangcheng!

Zhao Xiaodao wept bitterly: "I... I forgot..."

Gu Zhuangcheng patted his head pityingly, his eyes full of kindness: "Okay, let's go play. I still have something to ask."

Zhao Xiaodao nodded in disappointment, and left obediently.

Gu Zhuangcheng heaved a sigh of relief after successfully fooling the person away.Sure enough, no matter how long it took, he couldn't cope with an enthusiastic child like Zhao Xiaodao.

"Make up." Just as he was about to close his eyes and take a nap, he heard Shen Yan's voice, "Why are you here alone?"

The young man opened his eyes impatiently, and looked at the person not far away unkindly.The man was wearing a blue gown with a white gauze over it, and he looked so ethereal, so beautiful.But in Gu Zhuangcheng's eyes, it made him feel completely disgusted.

He let out a long breath, lowered his head and muttered to himself: "Why is everyone threatening me with cigarettes?"

Since the first life, the relationship between him and Shen Yan has been full of disasters. If the two of them hadn't insisted on being together, they would have been separated countless times.

"Shen Yan" didn't notice it yet, with a gentle smile on his face, his eyes were like sparkling lake water, reflecting the sun, very beautiful.

Gu Zhuangcheng looked around and found that the square had changed, replaced by a scene he was very familiar with - Qingming Mountain.

For him, Qingming Mountain is where everything begins and where everything ends.

Ever since Shen Yan was brought to Qingming Mountain, their fates have been entangled together, endlessly.

Gu Zhuangcheng sighed again, he straightened up, staggered to "Shen Yan", and watched him quietly.

This "Shen Yan" is a little shorter than him, and he needs to raise his head slightly to see his eyes.

Facing Gu Zhuangcheng's cold eyes, "Shen Yan" showed a gentle smile: "Zhuangcheng..."

"You're not him." Gu Zhuangcheng was too lazy to talk to such a fantasy, and interrupted him mercilessly, "When he calls me, he always calls me by my first and last name."

It was a very impolite and rude name, but Shen Yan liked to call it that, and Gu Zhuangcheng didn't feel offended.

Facing this face that was exactly the same as Shen Yan's, Gu Zhuangcheng frowned slightly, suppressing his disgust: "Also, he won't laugh so disgustingly."

The expression of "Shen Yan" immediately changed, and the originally exquisite facial features looked particularly ferocious and distorted at this moment.

Howling unwillingly, he turned into a skinny monster, and his hands turned into long claws, trying to pounce on Gu Zhuangcheng's hands.

A thin layer of light shrouded Gu Zhuangcheng's whole body, and before the claws touched him, they burned with a bang, and the monster screamed, watching the flames covering the whole body, rolling on the ground in pain.

Gu Zhuangcheng pressed his right hand on the short knife at his waist, took this opportunity to rush forward, drew out the short knife and slashed fiercely, the screaming sound stopped abruptly, the monster's intact head rolled twice on the ground, and finally stopped not moving.

The surrounding scenery began to gradually change, and finally turned into the square where he was before.

However, there was still no one in the square, and Gu Zhuangcheng was not surprised when he saw this.

He knew that those people should still be in the illusion at this moment, as long as they successfully broke free from the illusion, they would be able to return to the square.

He looked around and found a wooden sign not far away, more than half a meter high, with a few lines of small characters written on it, and a big arrow drawn to signal people to move forward.In front of the wooden sign is a long staircase leading to a palace hidden in the clouds.

Gu Zhuangcheng looked up and stepped on the first step.

As soon as he stepped on it, he felt a resistance pushing him away, as if he wanted to push him off the steps.

Gu Zhuangcheng sneered, and immediately circulated his spiritual power, resisting this force, and continued to walk up.

This step is called "Tongxian Terrace". As the name suggests, successfully completing this step is equivalent to successfully standing out, entering the list of heavenly ranks, and changing from a cultivator to a cultivator.

It's just that the Tongxian Terrace is towering into the sky, and there is a strong push and resistance. It needs to use the spiritual power to fight it all the way. If you are not careful, you will be pushed down.I don't know if Gu Zhuangcheng will fall to his death, but it is certain that he will be half crippled.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, he gradually felt powerless, as if his legs were no longer his own, and he had to use all his strength every time he lifted them.He panted violently, and a layer of ice slowly formed on his eyelashes.

"It's about time for Mr. Gu to pass the "Tongxiantai" now, right? "Su Xiaoqin picked out the herbs in the basket, as if talking to herself.

On the side, Shen Yan, who had finished dealing with affairs in the pavilion and came out to bask in the sun, paused slightly, pursed the corners of her mouth, and did not speak.He knew that what Su Xiaoqin said was actually for himself.

"I don't know what's going on now." Su Xiaoqin sighed, "Speaking of which, Mr. Gu is also pitiful. There are so many people in the building, but none of them went to see him. Even if it's just to say a few words, encourage him. Okay!"

"You care about him so much, why don't you go?" Shen Yan fiddled with a pot of camellias without raising her head.

Su Xiaoqin's eyes widened when she heard the words, and she waved her hands again and again: "No, no, no, I'm not from Jiuyanlou, what am I going to do? Isn't this causing him hatred for nothing?"

Shen Yan raised her eyebrows with a half-smile: "You also know that it is easy to attract hatred if you are too high-profile?"

Su Xiaoqin scratched her head and smiled embarrassedly.

Shen Yan was too lazy to look at her dog-legged expression, he closed his eyes lightly, thinking back to the time when he boarded Tongxiantai.

He was different from others, he didn't feel very tired, even at the end he was numb, but he was not hindered much, when he wanted to stop, there seemed to be a force pushing him forward from behind Continue to go.

But these words should not be spoken out, it is too hateful and not worth it.

"Speaking of which, Pavilion Master, what did you see in the illusion back then?"

Su Xiaoqin was quiet for a while, and finally couldn't hold back her curiosity, and asked.

Shen Yan opened her eyes: "You want to know?"

"Yeah!" Su Xiaoqin nodded her head, her face full of longing.

Everyone's illusion is different. Some people need to face the most feared thing in their hearts, while some people face a beautiful dream.

What Su Xiaoqin was facing back then was a beautiful dream, if she hadn't suddenly remembered the threat she had received, she would have been addicted to it and couldn't extricate herself!

And most of the cultivators in Yunzhuang Pavilion are like her, few of them fall into the nightmare.

Shen Yan is one of them.

Shen Yan was silent for a moment, then slowly said: "Su Xiaoqin, have you ever heard a word?"

"what?"

"Curiosity killed the cat." Shen Yan said expressionlessly, "Do you want to be that cat that died early?"

Su Xiaoqin heard what he meant, shivered fiercely several times, and shook her head again and again: "No, no, forget it, forget it, I don't want to know!" She still doesn't want to die young.

Shen Yan smiled lightly, and closed her eyes again.

The illusion back then...

It was a frightening nightmare, but to Shen Yan, it was undoubtedly a sweet dream that made him want to sink into it.If given a choice, he would rather never wake up.