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On March [-]rd, climb to Sendai.

In the folks, this is the day when the whole family climbs the mountain, but in fact, this day is the day when Miaoling Palace opens the immortal gate to select immortal talents.

For other exams, there are a lot of questions you can ask before you go, but if you change to Xuanxian, there is only one question left - "Are you full?"

Du Yingying asked everyone, seeing that everyone nodded, she also nodded and said: "Today, let's go to the real Xiantai."

Only Ah He and Ji were left at home, and Lao Du's family went out.

I still remember that the neighbors who asked the fairy today poked their heads out of their caves: "You must climb up!"

Du Yingying waved to them to thank them.

Originally, Wang Jianxiu wanted to send them to the fairy gate, but Du Yingying refused.

In Du Yingying's opinion, looking for immortals has to be like looking for immortals. Although there are fewer legends about immortals in recent years, in the myths and legends she heard when she was a child, people have to walk long distances by themselves. It is only after going through untold hardships that one can climb into the fairy gate.

The sword cultivators have already sent her home to a place so close to the fairy gate, so they will walk the last part of the way by themselves.

Since they didn't know what they were going to do when they climbed to Xiantai, they made preparations within their ability. For example, they prepared enough food and drink. They didn't know if there were many mosquitoes in the mountains. Du Yingying asked each of them to bring A jar of insect repellent ointment, not too much, not too little, everyone carried a small pannier on their backs, Angelica's pannier was bigger, and he even carried Da Xinglang on his back.

"I want him to see the day of going to Xiantai. If he doesn't fall asleep, he will definitely go up with me." That's what Angelica said.

She didn't think there was any problem with his doing so, Du Yingying seemed to take over Du Nan from his chest, to relieve the child's burden somewhat, but unexpectedly Danggui refused.

"It's okay, Du Nan is not heavy, and Xiao Xinglang can help me fix Da Xinglang firmly by restraining him. It's just right."

After finishing speaking, Danggui hurried forward a few steps as if he was afraid that Du Yingying would snatch Du Nan.

Du Yingying: ... Do you think that I am as happy as you, hugging him so happily...

But Du Nan knew his weight, patted Xiao Xinglang and Danggui, he slid off Danggui, and then walked forward by himself.

These people keep hugging him, but in fact he is already walking very well, okay, he can still run!

Thinking in his heart, Du Nan ran two steps, turned around to look at the others after a while—meaning: look at me, they will all run away.

Danggui smiled and took a few steps to catch up with him: "I know you're walking well, but this is a strange place, it's not safe, should I drag you?"

As he spoke, he stretched out a white, tender and slender palm. The fingers of a 12-year-old boy are already very long.

After all, Du Nan didn't refuse him, but stuffed his own white steamed bun hand into it.

Danggui led Du Nan to the front, Du Yingying walked in the middle, Zhu Zixuan and Du Yuhan walked behind hand in hand, and started their own journey of seeking immortality.

They are now walking to the depths of Qinglong District.Looking around, the mountains are covered with clouds and mist, and the limited field of vision is all white—the sides are steeply cut mountain walls, and the ground is a stone road that has been flattened to reveal the white inner core. This is also a mountain originally. It was just cut off by the sword cultivators, or during the process of practicing the sword, or when they were fighting, just like the place where they lived, there are traces of the painstaking practice of the sword cultivators everywhere in the Qinglong District, and the sword marks are full of chills. In other words, even Du Yingying, who doesn't understand swords, can feel a slight chill.

This is also what the old Du family saw with their own eyes during the few days they lived here. If they hadn't seen Xiao Wang Jianxiu and the others practicing swords with their own eyes, they would never have imagined that these terrible marks were actually made by human beings.

The flood in their place was also prevented by the sword cultivator, no wonder they can occupy such a good place, the sword cultivator is very powerful.

The sword marks left by the sword repairers spread all over the mountains, almost reshaping the topography of the Qinglong District. The originally majestic and huge mountains became steep, but the ground became flat. The sword marks left on the stone ground became new waterways. Well, when the river water comes to this kind of place, it will automatically divide into several streams, and several streams flow straight and straight on the white stone ground, weakening the killing intent and showing a trace of vitality.

But I'm afraid they are the only ones who think so.

It wasn't long before they started seeing other people on the road.

Basically they are walking alone, some are carrying heavy luggage, some are as light as they are, and some are dressed in rags, walking for a long time at a glance, without anything else people.

In stark contrast to this is the rich man asking the immortal who is sitting next to him in a sedan chair carrying eight large sedan chairs.

There are many people of every kind, and there are even more rich people who sit in sedan chairs and ride beasts.

I think so, the children of aristocratic families always know more about cultivating immortals than ordinary people, not to mention that the road to immortality is long, and it is better to have more money. Those who can come here are not ordinary people with a firm heart, or children of wealthy families with power , I don't know how their fairy roots are, anyway, before the selection, the number of these rich children should be more.

The only thing all of them have in common is caution.

Cautiously, everyone moved forward in silence.Especially in the sky, I don’t know if it’s the rules or something, no one uses birds or other flying methods to go to the test site, even those rich kids, they basically use human sedan chairs, and the bearers run like flying on the white ground, They were sweating a lot along the way, but the people in the sedan chair thought they were running slowly and urged them to run faster.

"Can it still be like this?" Du Yingying was dumbfounded. They were in a small place, and there was no one who hired servants at home, let alone bearers.

"Why not? Nowadays, on this road of seeking immortals, rich girls basically sit in sedan chairs." Hearing her words, someone next to her said to her: "It is said that a rich girl once came by spaceship to choose immortals. The sword cultivator was hacked by a company and a boat. After that, the people who came to choose immortals defaulted to not taking empty roads, and they dared not ride on beasts, for fear of polluting the ground. .”

"The one who passed the exam is the bearer or her?" Du Yingying frowned.

"The only way to go to Xianmen is to take a sedan chair. When you really go to Xianmen, you will naturally have to walk by yourself." The man said again.

Looking at the sedan chair that had disappeared into a small black spot, Du Yingying said, "I don't think she was chosen by the bearer in the end."

"Then how can it be? The cultivation of immortality depends on talent. The child of a rich family has been nourished with various herbs since he was a child, and his bone marrow is penetrating. He is better than ordinary people."

"Then according to this, wouldn't the ones who passed the exam be the daughters of the owner of the herbal medicine shop?" After Du Yingying finished speaking, she picked up the speed again, and she decided to target the small sedan in front and try her best to catch up.

The time to ascend to Xiantai was at noon, and at two quarters before noon, the Du family finally arrived at the gate of Xiantai.

Uh... To be exact, there are still at least ten miles away from the fairy gate, right?When they passed by, the front was already full of people, a sea of ​​people, Lao Du's family had never seen so many people in their life!

And there could be more people. When they first arrived, the old Du's family was at the end of the team. Not long after, as the people behind them arrived one after another, there was also a pile of heads behind them.

Looking around, teenage girls and boys are the most, probably around Angelica's age, followed by Zhu Zixuan and Du Yuhan's age.

As for Du Yingying and Du Nan, the two of them just happened to be pinched head to tail. It seems that there is really no scene of their age, just them!

After simply looking around, Du Nan looked forward—this place is also in the mountains, or deeper than the Qinglong District. I don’t know when the transition started. Unlike the bare Qinglong District, the mountains here are green and green. There are many clouds, and there are more clouds and mist. From a distance, there is a white cloud and mist at the end.

And the fairy gate is in front of the end shrouded in clouds and mist.

Two bright and colorful pillars rise up to the sky, and the two ends of the horizontal railing on the top have eaves and are raised high. In the center of the horizontal railing, there is a plaque with a big "Xian" character written on it. There was a sense of wonder.

The same material as the pillar, the two doors below the "Xian" plaque are also radiant, like crystal, but more colorful than crystal. Between the mountains on both sides, it is unclear what was used to fix it.

This is the fairy gate - Du Nan thought.

There are many people who have the same idea as him, but there are so many people present so quiet, it is precisely because everyone is attracted by this fairy gate.

"It's noon, open the fairy gate—" Just as everyone was staring at the tall fairy gate, a deep female voice came.

I couldn't tell where the voice came from, it seemed to be in the mountains, or it seemed to be right next to their ears, solemn and solemn, just before the voice fell, the fairy gate standing in front of everyone's eyes suddenly cracked a small gap , the gap gradually became larger, and finally it was completely pulled away from the inside.

Then, people saw a little man in white on the ground behind the fairy gate.

Wearing a white gauze crane skirt, the whole body is white, and there is a thick and faint ink color at the trailing end. The man's black hair is loosely tied behind his back, and his eyebrows are very faint. Standing there, she seems to see everything in her eyes. People, and it's like there's no one.

Then, the voice was heard again.

"All those who choose immortals, please go through this door." Just one sentence, and then fell silent.

However, at this moment, the fairy gate is wide open, and the person standing at the front has already seen part of the scene inside the gate—although the sky still looks cloudy and foggy, but the ground...

There is no ground at all!Behind this fairy gate is a cliff of ten thousand zhang!

The people in front immediately started talking.

"God, this... this is a cliff, how do we move forward?" Someone immediately asked.

"Yes, yes, we are here to search for immortals, but we are not immortals, and we cannot fly with a sword. We cannot cross this cliff..."

People said everything in a hurry, but the god didn't seem to hear it, and just moved aside, obviously to make way for everyone and let them move forward.

However, in this way, everyone hesitated even more, and some even questioned whether the fairy gate was real or not.

"It is said that we climbed to the immortal gate from the fairy gate, but no one has ever said what the fairy gate looks like. Could this be a fake fairy gate? This is a test given to us by the gods. Let us find the real fairy gate first? "

This statement sounded reasonable, and more people backed away hesitantly.

On the contrary, Dang Gui, who was standing behind the old man, was thoughtful.

"Cultivating immortals is to cultivate the misty fairy fate. If you can see the road, you can see the fairy fate. But if you can't see the road, you don't have the fairy fate..."

His voice was so soft that only Old Du's family could hear him.

However, just as the people in front dispersed one after another, there were two people behind who continued to move forward.

One is a well-dressed rich woman; the other is...

With familiar clothes and attire, Du Nan recognized at a glance that the other party was a bearer he had seen on the road.He didn't know which of the bearers it was, but the sedan chair and the bearers were of the same color, and his grandma was talking to others at that time, so he was more impressed.

It was the bearer of the sedan chair that his grandma said might be chosen by the bearer.

The girl shook her paper fan lightly, and said something similar to Angelica: "Looking for immortals is naturally looking for immortal fate. If you can't even see the road, naturally you don't have immortal fate."

After she finished speaking, she lifted her skirt and walked slowly behind the fairy gate, but at this moment, the bearer had already stepped into the cliff.

He stepped in, but he didn't fall at all, as if walking on flat ground, people saw his figure slowly disappearing into the clouds and mist.

"Oh, I was taken first." The girl smiled again, clapped the paper fan in her hand and closed it, pinned the fan to her waist, and walked over second.

"It's fake! This is a blindfold! There is actually a way inside!" The people who were still retreating couldn't help it, and rushed into the door one after another—but this time, most of them They didn't move forward as smoothly as the teenagers and girls before. At that time, many people fell down with long screams.

In this way, many people behind stopped outside the fairy gate.

Some people stopped outside the fairy gate, some people chose to return, and some people chose to move on.

Outside the fairy gate, people have three choices.

And in everyone's choice, Lao Du's family finally came outside the fairy gate and became the first row of people who were about to make a choice.

"Mother, do you want to go this way... I... I'm a little afraid of heights..." Zhu Zixuan hesitated.

"Why didn't I hear you say that you are afraid of heights when climbing trees to pick apricots?" Du Yingying glanced at him first, and then whispered to the others: "Anyway, I see that there is a road, and it is quite easy to walk, so I will go with you." It’s the same as the road in Yuhan Town where you work when you’re on a errand.”

"I also saw that there is a road, but it's not as spacious as in Baiyu Town, but it's similar to the road in the village." Du Yuhan also took a look carefully, and she said to her husband in a low voice: "I asked, this fairy selection meeting It is very rare to hear that someone lost their life for no reason, and the next [-]% will be followed by others, so don’t worry too much.”

"You pull me, even if you fall, I'm strong enough to pull you." She said again.

Zhu Zixuan held his wife's hand tightly, sweating on his brow, and said, "Okay, at most it's like playing a jumping machine once."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Danggui with a little worry: "Danggui, can you see the road?"

Angelica nodded: "Yes."

It's just that he didn't say what road he saw.

"As long as you see it, let's go." Zhu Zixuan said casually.

Du Nan: ... Has no one thought to ask me?

Come on, his father is his mother, no one really wants to ask him, or Danggui saw his dissatisfaction, and pinched his little face: "Du Nan must be able to see the way, I will take him later." Looking at you, you have to watch the road carefully, if I get lost, I can only count on you to take me out."

Du Nan nodded.

Then, looking at each other for the last time, the old Du family held hands and stepped into the fairy gate together——