A simple life starts with two steamed buns, two dumplings, an egg, and a big bowl of porridge. After Xia Xiao and A Zhu unanimously decided, they would add an egg and a meat bun to their breakfast in the future, because an egg is always not enough. The more this kind of life is, the more interesting it is, because only by treating every tiny point as a source of happiness can we be more patient and accomplish great things.

If you can't stand the loneliness, you won't be able to enjoy the prosperity in the future. Xia Xiao and A Zhu didn't know what would happen in the future, but at least they could endure it. After a few more days of practice, Xia Xiao and A Zhu couldn't stand the truth anymore. It happened that the progress of practice was relatively fast, so they decided to go up the mountain.

The senior sister said that if you want to reach the top of the mountain, you can't just walk, so their chances of success are not high. But it doesn't matter, everything has the first step. Only when the first step is taken, there will be unlimited possibilities in the future.

"Are you ready?"

Xia Xiao and Ah Zhu looked at each other, seeing the determination in each other's eyes. Just as they were about to step onto the stone bricks, they were startled by the movement beside them. It was not a good thing to be disturbed by other sounds at such a sacred moment. But a white light rolled down from the top of the mountain like a hedgehog, rumbling through the pine forest and lying not far from them.

This kind of scene can still be seen in the academy. Xia Xiao and A Zhu were curious and ran over to help the injured person. But the latter was covered with thorns, and Xia Xiao and A Zhu could not help. Their vitality was like a piece of brittle paper under it, and was easily pierced. It was not until the white steel thorns softened and turned into a head of white hair that could drag down to the legs that Xia Xiao and A Zhu reached out their hands with good intentions.

If this wasn't the academy, they wouldn't have done this. There are many bad people in the world, some are young, some are old, specializing in blackmail. When something goes wrong, violence will be unreasonable, so you need to think twice before doing anything. But the academy is different. According to Xia Xiao's judgment, this old man must have failed in climbing the mountain.

I heard that many people in the academy are always striving to reach the top of the mountain, but the number of the thirteen closest to him has only decreased by one after so many years.

The sound of "ouch" in pain attracted Xia Xiao and Ah Zhu, and they saw the pale old face, which seemed to be seriously ill and incurable, and full of endless fatigue and panic. Ah Zhu was extremely surprised and asked:

"Are you all right?"

"It's okay! I'm just tired from climbing. I'm going to go back and rest for a few days and come back later."

The old man stood up, patted his clothes, shook off the dust, and left as usual, but he would definitely come back again. He was a warrior cursed by the mountaintop, and he had to go up no matter what, whether that time was three hundred years, five hundred years, or a thousand years, he had to go up. His persistence was not exposed in any part of his body, and his steps were no different from those of the little hooligans in the market, but Xia Xiao always felt that he had repeated this process at least a thousand times.

"Let's go."

Xia Xiao took Azhu a few steps forward but was stopped by the old man.

"Senior, what's the matter?"

Xia Xiao was polite and modest, and Azhu followed suit.

"You are Xia Xiao, right?"

Xia Xiao nodded and agreed, saying that it was right. As long as Xia Xiao's identity was confirmed, Ah Zhu beside him would be easy to guess. The old man really guessed it, and then raised his head, looked at the top of the mountain, and said very mysteriously:

"It's hard for you to get up there, even if it's you. But try it, it's worth trying, but be careful and don't try too hard!"

"Thank you, senior."

The old man who turned away added another sentence with a rash temper.

"By the way, my name is Zhong Wanli, remember my name."

"Remember, send off the senior respectfully."

In the blink of an eye, the white hedgehog-like old man had disappeared from the spot, as if he was far away from this world. Ah Zhu stood on tiptoe and looked towards the town, but saw nothing.

"Is this old man also some important person?"

After walking through the bushes and onto the road to the top of the mountain, Ah Zhu asked his doubts. As expected, the more casual the person is, the less he should be underestimated.

"Senior Zhong was once one of the thirteen people closest to the top of the mountain. He was very strong."

"How strong?"

"At the level of asking questions."

Actually, Ah Zhu didn't know where Wendao was strong. She didn't have such an accurate concept. Just like the three big pots of food she mentioned, people who didn't know how big the pots were had no idea how much food was in them. But Wendao was stronger because it was young, luxuriant, fruitful, curved, and towering. A basin was bigger than a cup, a bowl, a ladle, and a pot, and it was called a pot, so it must be able to hold a lot of food.

Everything seemed to be like this, but soon, Xia Xiao and Ah Zhu's attention was focused on the road under their feet. They walked for a long time and finally reached the edge of the pine forest. There were fewer trees here, and the needles on the stone bricks became sparse and no longer piled up. There were more shrubs, but they were all bare and not very pretty. But it didn't matter, they didn't come here to enjoy the scenery.

"Tell me if you feel uncomfortable."

Xia Xiao reminded her and Ah Zhu nodded repeatedly. She didn't dare to joke with her own life. Such a strange place made her hair stand on end and she looked forward with caution and fear.

The bushes were much smaller than the wide pine forest, and we passed through them quickly, but the stone-paved road under our feet was also much steeper. Looking forward along it, it seemed as if we were looking straight at the sky, not the top of a mountain.

The magical feeling and the vague fear of distant things made Ah Zhu want to stop, but it was too early to stop here.

He kept watching Xia Xiaoru at the other end of the mountain road entering the sea of ​​clouds. What would that scene be like? He couldn't imagine it at the moment, but he said firmly:

"Let's go a little further!"

Whether for Ah Zhu's life experience or for himself, Xia Xiao wanted to climb to the top of the mountain. What he saw from the top of the mountain must be wider than it is now. Therefore, he took that extremely important step, completely leaving the cover of the bushes and entering the alpine meadow. Ah Zhu followed behind, and the two of them moved forward together.

Xia Xiao once had a lucky feeling, thinking that he shouldn't think too much about it, but now that they have come this far, he and Azhu are still on the same path, there must be some other meaning, but it's hard to know what it is.

The meadow on the mountain was like a desert that had been moved away from the wilderness. It was extremely desolate and lifeless. Even the bushes that were much worse than the pine forest were better than it. But in such a meadow, Xia Xiao and Azhu walked vigorously, as if they were full of energy. The previous desire to retreat was defeated by fighting spirit. It was not difficult for Xia Xiao to do this, but it was too unusual for Azhu to do the same.

Xia Xiao had his own way. He kept chatting with Ah Zhu to attract her attention. When they stopped to take a short break, Ah Zhu looked back and felt proud of having walked such a long way. She even wanted to continue walking.

To Xia Xiao, Ah Zhu's emotions were a good thing. While ensuring safety, they continued to climb. Because the steepness of the road gradually reached 30 degrees, he did not dare to ask Ah Zhu to look back, and he could only move forward. When they reached a certain height, they knew that there was no way back except forward, and even if they returned to the mountainside for a short time, it was only to prepare for the next climb.

The sudden feeling made Xia Xiao feel that he had entered the Tao, but this meadow was too long, and he gradually had some hallucinations, as if he had walked a lifetime, and he didn't know how long he would have to walk. The fatigue came from all directions, filling him up in an instant, making him unable to endure the cycle of reincarnation. But the push from behind made him turn around, and what he saw was Ah Zhu's pretty little face.