Hard to be a master

Qi Shu nodded slightly at the monk, then turned to the four people beside him and said, "I'm sorry."

After getting Qi Shu's order, the four of them saluted Qi Shu together and then walked to a corner of Shengxiantai.Shengxiantai is a square platform with a height of only one foot. There is a three-foot-high blue-gray stone pillar standing on each of the four corners of the platform. Black iron chains are connected between the adjacent stone pillars, enclosing Shengxiantai.After standing still in their respective corners, the four of them raised their right hands and put them on top of the stone pillar in front of them. After giving each other a glance, they injected a powerful spiritual force into the stone pillar at the same time.

Everyone only heard a muffled sound coming from the ground, and then felt the ground under their feet tremble, and in the next moment, they saw the entire Shengxiantai suddenly raised a section.Accompanied by a loud bang, eight square stone platforms with a height of half a person rose up outside Shengxiantai at the same time, and the eight stone platforms just formed a circle with Shengxiantai as the center.Each stone platform is engraved with a hexagram, which is Kun, Zhen, Li, Dui, Qian, Xun, Kan and Gen from north to south.

After the stone platform settled down, the four people standing firmly at the four corners of Shengxiantai withdrew their hands at the same time, turned around and walked down Shengxiantai to Qi Shu's side.

"Thank you for your hard work."

Qi Shu nodded and smiled at the four of them, then turned to the well-dressed monk, indicating that he could start testing his spiritual power.After receiving the order respectfully, the monk glanced at Guan Jingxuan again, and yelled "Master Sui'an" in a strange way before walking towards the head of the subject's team, his contemptuous eyes made him extremely uncomfortable.

Suddenly feeling that the hem of her clothes was being pulled, Guan Jingxuan slightly hooked her body towards Shen Ziliu, and heard Shen Ziliu ask in a low voice, "Who was that person just now?"

Guan Jingxuan glanced at the monk who was explaining the use of Ascension to the Immortal Terrace to the testee, and said in a low voice: "He is Zhao Qingzhou, a monk of Wuchen, a monk of Zidan, who is responsible for the dispatch of supplies from Kunlun to the upper and lower levels, and is one of my elder brother's apprentices. The couch you are wearing, and the ingredients we used for cooking recently, are all arranged by him."

Shen Ziliu said: "Then you should be his uncle? Why is he so rude to you?"

"Shh." Guan Jingxuan made a silent gesture, and said in a low voice: "This matter is a bit complicated, I will tell you slowly when I get back."

Shen Ziliu obediently did not ask, but instead asked: "Then what should I do now? Should I queue up?"

Guan Jingxuan said: "We have nothing else to do, if Xiaoliu is not afraid of getting bored waiting, how about you go after they finish the test?"

Shen Ziliu looked at him and asked, "Will you wait with me?"

Guan Jingxuan nodded and smiled, "That's natural."

Shen Ziliu nodded and said, "Okay, I'll wait."

On that side, the test subjects have already started to walk to the edge of the stone platform around Shengxiantai to receive the test one by one in an orderly manner.The subject does not need to do anything, just put his hand flat on the hexagram embossed on the stone platform, if the hexagram image glows blue, it means that the person has a spiritual root.Different stone platforms require different levels of spiritual power to light up. The Kan hexagram in Zhengxi is the easiest to light up. Anyone with a solid spiritual root can make it light up.After lighting up a stone platform, the subject can continue to test until the stone platform can no longer be lit, so as to roughly know the strength of the person's spiritual power.

Starting from the Kan hexagram, the difficulty of lighting up the stone platforms increases successively from Kangen Zhen Xun Li Dui Kunqian. Most of the testees can successfully light up the Kan hexagrams, but the people who have been tested so far can light up the most stone platforms One of them is only to Li Gua.After looking at it for a while, Shen Ziliu found that not everyone started to measure from the Kan hexagram, and some directly started from the Zhen hexagram, so he raised doubts to Guan Jingxuan.

Guan Jingxuan explained: "It's not easy to come to Kunlun. Except for those who are dedicated to Taoism and want to enter the immortal sect no matter what, and have no conditions to test their spiritual power, most of the children selected by those aristocratic families have already undergone certain tests at the foot of the mountain. Those without spiritual roots have already been eliminated once in the family's internal screening."

Shen Ziliu said: "Then their spiritual power test is just a formality?"

Guan Jingxuan said with a smile: "Not necessarily. Kunlun's spiritual power test has its own standards. Even if the spiritual power is tested in other places, it may not necessarily pass the Shengxiantai test."

As if to confirm Guan Jingxuan's words, just as he finished speaking, he heard a slightly raised boy's voice coming from Shengxiantai.

"Impossible! I just tested my spiritual power last month! I have spiritual roots!"

The boy looked to be only seven or eight years old. He was wearing a jacket that was worth a lot of money at first glance. He wore a fine jade pendant and an exquisitely crafted silver sachet on his waist. He was dressed in gold, silver and jade at a young age. The haughty appearance is like a little adult.At this time, he was standing in front of the Kangua stone platform, patted the stone platform with his face flushed and shouted angrily.

Zhao Qingzhou glanced at him lightly, and said slowly: "You have tried from the Li Gua to the Kan Gua once, and if you fail, you will fail. Please leave consciously so as not to delay the next testee. The next one."

The boy kicked the stone platform in front of him angrily, and cursed: "Impossible! There must be something wrong with your broken platform!"

Zhao Qingzhou's expression froze, and he said coldly: "If you offend Gua Shi, you will be punished."

As he spoke, Zhao Qingzhou slowly raised his right hand, and several of the boy's attendants immediately pushed aside the crowd nervously and rushed to the boy's side, protecting him in the middle.

The headed entourage held a sword and said loudly: "My little master is the third son of Qingzhou Governor's Mansion, don't be rude!"

The boy raised his head and looked at Zhao Qingzhou arrogantly, but he heard Zhao Qingzhou sneer, and then he swung his sleeves suddenly, those people were instantly enveloped in a raging snowstorm, and an invisible force pushed them to the outside of Shengxiantai , until they were pushed twenty or thirty feet away, the wind and snow that enveloped them gradually calmed down. A group of people who were arrogant just a moment ago were all curled up on the ground trembling, their lips were blue and purple, their faces were pale, and they were covered with knots from head to toe. frost.

Zhao Qingzhou recruited a disciple who came with him, and ordered: "Throw these lunatics into the hot spring at the foot of the mountain, and they will never be allowed to step into the Kunlun territory again."

The disciple took the order, took a palm-sized gold-plated box that Zhao Qingzhou handed him, and silently twisted a trick, and immediately took the few people who had fallen to the ground in a mess, and then Yufeng went down the mountain.

Zhao Qingzhou turned around and was satisfied to see that the other subjects were slightly shocked by the unexpected incident just now, and said slowly: "To enter my Kunlun, you must first give up your status in the mortal world. Everyone here is only a monk. This identity. If you want to gain a higher status and more respect, then work hard to improve your cultivation, and rely on your own strength to reach a higher level."

Speaking of this, Zhao Qingzhou glanced over Guan Jingxuan, and continued: "If you can't let go of your current reputation and status, then you don't have to take the test. Kunlun is not a suitable place for you. Please think carefully about it." .Okay, next one."

After hearing Zhao Qingzhou's words, some subjects were obviously shaken, but none of them left.

As time passed, the test team gradually shortened. Except for two or three testees who were taken away on the spot by the watching monks, the other testees who passed the test were still staying near Shengxiantai, waiting for the unified arrangement of Tongdao Peak .Those who failed the test could only leave on their own, but no matter whether they were frustrated or unhappy, no one dared to make another mistake.

Halfway through the test, the first subject who could light up the Dui Gua stone platform finally appeared.It was a young man who was about the same age as Shen Ziliu. Although his appearance was not as good as Shen Ziliu's, he was still a handsome young man who would not be submerged in the crowd, and his temperament was definitely better than Shen Ziliu's.Judging by his attire, this is a kid from a good family. He came alone, with a plain long sword with a scabbard on his back. Judging by his figure, he should have practiced martial arts or even practiced Taoism. A bit of the demeanor of a cultivator.His test results aroused the amazement and envy of the rest of the testees, and some of the onlookers obviously liked him more.

The few venerables standing on the side of Shengxiantai didn't have any special reactions. They have been in Kunlun for so many years, and they have seen the wizards who directly lit up the Qiangua stone platform like Lingxifeng. This performance is not worth it. They make a fuss.However, Qi Shu is still willing to give encouragement to the junior who performed so well in the test.

Qi Shu smiled slightly approvingly and asked the young man, "What's your name? Have you ever studied cultivation under the guidance of others?"

The young man bowed to Qi Shu with a straight expression, and said neither humble nor overbearing: "Hello Yue Qi, my name is Zi Lan, I have studied martial arts with my family's martial arts teacher for seven years, and I have never been in contact with cultivation, but I have determined since I was a child to worship Kunlun and become a sword repair .”

After finishing speaking, the young man took a sneak peek at Mrs. Wen who was beside Qi Shu, his eyes gleaming with passion and anticipation that couldn't be hidden.Mrs. Wen didn't miss his gaze, but just smiled at him without expressing anything else.

The young man lowered his head in disappointment, but he quickly calmed down, and when he looked up at Qi Shu, his eyes were clean and firm again.

Qi Shu said: "You are very talented and persevering, which is very good. I hope that you can be diligent and restrain yourself in the future, and you will be able to do something in the future."

After the young man thanked Qi Shu for his teaching, he walked down the Ascension to Immortal Terrace, and soon there were monks walking towards him.

Guan Jingxuan suddenly sighed softly: "Another naive young man who doesn't know the danger of Wujian Peak..."

Shen Ziliu turned his head to look at him, and was about to ask what this sentence meant, but Qi Shu suddenly said: "Jingxuan, take the kid next to you to test it."

Guan Jingxuan and Shen Ziliu looked at Qi Shu with a little surprise at the same time, but Qi Shu just smiled and nodded at the two of them without further explanation.

Sensing that Shen Ziliu became a little stiff in an instant, Guan Jingxuan, who had already adjusted, bent down and patted Shen Ziliu's shoulder lightly, pretending to give him a comforting smile while tidying his clothes, and whispered: "Don't worry, be brave to test, we What was agreed will not change."