Chapter 5: Initial Test of Immortal Fate
Bai Yunshu didn't want to go over, so he turned around silently and planned to go outside to take a look.
I arrived early, so there weren't many people in the backstage. Geng Jihuan had already gone to the admissions desk to take charge, so I wasn't needed for the time being.
Most ordinary people are testing their fate with immortals outside, and only those with fate with immortals will be allowed in to choose a sect.
This is a two-way selection process. There is a fairy stone outside the field, which is five meters high and six feet wide. It has complex dark patterns and various strange characters engraved on it. It emits a faint green fluorescence, as if it has vigorous vitality.
Many people were queuing up in front of the Immortal Stone, looking around and discussing a few words.
There is no age requirement for testing one's fate as an immortal. Some people's fate as an immortal comes late, some are born with intelligence, and some are unknowingly influenced or chosen because of good deeds.
Those who have a connection with the immortals will emit blue light when their hands touch each other. The stronger the light, the deeper the connection with the immortals.
There were disciples maintaining order on the scene. There was a passage between the inner and outer fields, and the walls of the passage were covered with recruitment posters from various sects.
Those who had tested their chances of becoming immortals and came in were all gathered by the wall, discussing which sect was best.
Bai Yunshu looked around the outside field but did not see the figure he expected.
There is no queue either.
Didn’t you come?
She lowered her eyes and walked to the front of the enrollment poster.
Everyone was discussing excitedly, and all kinds of voices were heard.
"Oh, each major sect has its own advantages. Xuanying Sect's publicity is overwhelming, which is really confusing, but other sects are also very strong, and they even have better cultivation resources."
"Bai Yunshu? The one written in the storybook? My grandfather's great-grandfather said she's gentle as water, yet incredibly powerful. I wonder if I'll ever have the chance to become her disciple."
"Want to become her disciple? The Way of the Common People is the most difficult to cultivate. Besides, she never came back up after she fell. Be careful, she might ask you to repair the barrier."
"Why not? Repairing the barrier is also for the benefit of the people of the world. It's worthwhile to practice for this life. Let's go, let's go and see other places."
"Let's wait and see. Their sect only has one person in the Good Fortune Stage, and he's the Sect Master. But I heard that the Sect Master doesn't plan to accept any disciples."
“…”
The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously. Bai Yunshu tightened his hands in his sleeves, feeling a little helpless.
A storybook? Gentle as water? Poisoned by rumors again.
If there ever comes a day when the barrier needs to be repaired, she will do it herself without the need for anyone else.
Her life was destined to protect the people of the world and prevent the ancient demon king from being born.
It was destined a long time ago, so long ago that she spent this stolen time in fear.
People who were discussing the issue came and went, and they all said similar things.
Bai Yunshu leaned against the wall and stopped listening.
As I get older, I don’t care what I hear.
She was looking outside, and after a long time, she saw the familiar figure.
Yin Huan was standing at the back of the team. She was squeezed in the middle because of her thin figure. She was wearing a tattered coarse cloth gown and carrying a large bag on her back. Her red eyes were particularly eye-catching.
She was out of place among the people around her, so Bai Yunshu noticed her at first sight.
Yin Huan's eyes were fixed on the Immortal Fate Stone, and she pursed her lips slightly.
She wasn't nervous, it was just... the same scene reminded her of some past events.
Of course, this was not her first time here, nor was it her first time to test her fate with immortality.
When they were testing her fate with the immortal, her father took her hand and motioned her to place her hand there.
Until now, she can no longer remember her father's face, and can only recall fragments of important events from the past.
She was only fourteen at that time.
She was very hesitant and resisted reaching out, but she couldn't resist her father's urging.
"Xiao Huan'er, stop messing around. The people behind are waiting."
There was no choice, so she compromised and put her hand on it.
The Immortal Fate Stone does not divide people into different classes, but only divides them into those with immortal fate and those without. Whether you are an emperor or a beggar, you have to put your hand on it.
The dazzling blue light made everyone present exclaim in surprise.
But she was not surprised. She just lowered her head and looked unhappy. She was also afraid that others would notice something.
This blue light is not his own.
Not long ago, when my father went up the mountain to chop firewood, he met an old immortal cultivator who was seriously injured and unconscious.
He was barely breathing, his body covered in blood, and there was no way to save him.
The father didn't want to meddle in other people's business, so he just took a fancy to the bag around his waist and stole it.
There have been severe droughts in recent years, and it is common for people to not have enough food. Who would be willing to save someone who has nothing to do with them?
There was no money in it, only a few scattered pills. My father cursed it as bad luck and threw it on himself.
"Eat it and see if it helps. In a few days, those hypocritical people will want to recruit disciples again. Go and try your luck. If you are chosen by the Xuanying Sect, you will get an extra bag of rice and flour."
She dared not eat...
But looking at her mother sitting in the corner embroidering in the moonlight, and the empty rice jar at home, she compromised.
Even if she didn't have a destiny with the immortals, she couldn't escape the fate of being married off.
With my younger brother, there is one less mouth to feed at home.
Why not give it a try? If it's poisonous, then dying will relieve my mother of her burden.
She took the pills and didn't feel any discomfort at first, but later she had unbearable abdominal pain and fainted several times.
She cried out in pain, as if worms were eating away at her internal organs, but it was in vain.
The mother was extremely anxious, but she had no money to find a doctor for her, so she kept telling her to be patient.
She thought she would die there, but three days later she opened her eyes and saw the rising sun at dawn.
At that moment, I suddenly felt that it was great to be alive.
Before setting out to test her fate with the immortal, her mother touched her head and spoke reluctantly.
"Xiao Huan'er, go ahead. You have a better future. If you can become an immortal and embark on the path of cultivation, that would be the best. That's what everyone dreams of."
But she immediately changed the subject.
"If you can't, don't come back. Find a job outside to support yourself, okay?"
She felt ironic when she heard those words, but also felt that she could not blame them.
Her mother was extremely cowardly and her father was selfish. They had long wanted to marry her to the family of Er Shazi at the entrance of the village in exchange for some copper coins and food and oil.
Is the path to immortality truly what everyone dreams of?
It's nothing more than being selected by a big sect and getting a bag of silver to support your younger brother.
She walked into the inner court and chose Xuan Yingzong, who was in the limelight at the time.
No reason, just to have an extra bag of rice and flour. After all...Mother said she hadn't eaten steamed buns for a long time.
In fact, she is an extremely selfish person and wanted to strangle her younger brother to death when she had him.
In that environment, she was resentful.
Not for them, she has to plan for herself.
"Once you join the sect, your home in the mortal world will no longer have anything to do with you. Xuanying will be your home from now on."
She nodded, watching her father happily take the bag of silver and rice, hugging her brother and muttering
"Come on, let's go buy some sesame cakes for Xiaobao, and then we'll go home."
Many people around him looked at my father with envy, saying, "I really envy you for having such a good daughter. Unlike the one in my family, who is just a burden."
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