August 25th, the weather was clear and crisp in autumn.

Wen Jing gritted his teeth and grabbed the grass roots and stones beside the mountain road, climbing the almost 90-degree vertical rock.

There were people in front and behind him, who were climbing up the most dangerous cliff as hard as he was, and they were in great pain, just wanting to climb up this most dangerous cliff as soon as possible.

When the mountain gate was opened, the new disciples should gather in Qingxu Hall. This hall is the main hall of Qingxu Sword Sect, located halfway up the main peak Yurong Peak, with a mountain on one side and cliffs on three sides, surrounded by white clouds. Disciples need to rely on the wind or fly with flying instruments to fly up.

For a fifth-level Qi training disciple like Wen Jing, there is no other way except climbing.

For thousands of years, countless people have climbed the mountain from here. This road is no longer dangerous. There is only a cliff about 15 feet high, which is a great test of people's willpower.

Wen Jing held on to the tree trunk on the top of the cliff with great difficulty, and with a push of his right foot, he finally stepped on the flat ground.

Looking around, white clouds floated by like mist, which made people feel relieved.

This is the legendary fairyland.

"In front of you is a bluestone ground that can accommodate thousands of people. It is flat and smooth. In the middle

stands a bronze statue, about ten feet tall. A young Taoist with fluttering sleeves, a smile on his face, standing with a sword in hand, looks lifelike. A giant python is coiled beside him, half a person's height, majestic and intimidating. On the left and right sides of the square, there is a huge bronze tripod every few feet, with green smoke floating up and a clear smell. The giant tripod is engraved with portraits and legends of Jindan monks from past dynasties, attracting many new disciples to watch and sigh.

At the end, a hall is built against the mountain, with a huge golden plaque hanging on it that reads "Qingxu Hall". In front of the hall are eight pillars, about ten feet high, and magnificent."

- Excerpted from "The Tribulation of All Living Beings".

This describes the scene when Jun Yan went up the mountain and saw the Qingxu Palace for the first time.

Wen Jing had imagined it more than once.

Now that he saw it, the real scene was even more shocking and exciting.

He was lucky to be able to travel through a book and see the world. He entered a positive radio and television textbook, without any plots that would discourage people, such as the protagonist turning evil or the world being destroyed. He was really happy, very good...

Wen Jing took in the beautiful scenery, appreciated it for a while, and finally calmed down.

He quietly opened the character values ​​of everyone.

Pa pa pa pa pa -

the small boxes were opened one by one, all green, showing that the character value was positive. Wen Jing took a rough look, the lowest was about 100, and the highest was 800. Everyone's value is floating, not static.

He subconsciously looked at the man with the highest character value -

he was dressed in white, with a slender figure, standing in front of the bronze statue, but his face could not be seen clearly.

Who is this? The gathering of all the righteousness in the world...

Suddenly, a red frame appeared in his sight.

Negative character value! Evil?

While searching, the red frame suddenly disappeared.

After a while, it suddenly appeared again.

Wen Jing raised his eyebrows, followed the red frame, and his eyes fell on a boy of fourteen or fifteen years old. He was wearing an old dark blue shirt with a few patches sewn on it, and dressed like a farmer. The boy's face was cold, but handsome and elegant, and there was a sense of grandeur in his gestures, which was really inconsistent with his clothes and age.

The character value kept floating between positive and negative.

Good and evil, wavering?

Surprised people were talking behind him. Wen Jing turned around and suddenly blushed.

A purple-clothed woman jumped up from the cliff. She was about fifteen or sixteen years old. There was a faint red mark on her left cheek, as if she was injured while climbing. However, her jade-like face was like a holy white snow lotus, pure and beautiful, and she was cold and elegant.

All the male disciples stared at her.

Wen Jing stole a few glances at her, and his heart was surging.

He had thought about this purple-clothed woman many times in his heart.

Ji Keqing.

...The eternal heroine in his mind.

She was also the woman he hoped to marry Jun Yanzhi when he was following the novel.

At this moment, a demonic wind suddenly rose, and a fierce black eagle suddenly rushed down from the sky, opening its claws and grabbing the woman. Everyone shouted, not knowing what to do with this demonic beast, but saw a gust of wind passing by Wen Jing, and a white light hit the black eagle.

"Senior Brother Wenren!" Someone in the crowd shouted in surprise.

The purple-clothed woman sneered, and a purple light fell on the black eagle like lightning. The black eagle was hit by the purple and white lights from front and back, and its feathers caught fire. It screamed a few times and flew away with its wings flapping.

The people around immediately exclaimed and talked about it.

"At such a young age, you have such a high level of cultivation!"

"Has she reached the twelfth level of Qi training?"

"She is extremely talented."

"She is also so beautiful..."

The man in white who was in front of the bronze statue just now came over. From a closer look, he was so elegant that he made people sigh and feel inferior.

He said politely, "I am Wen Renmu. This is the eagle raised by my junior brother. I accidentally frightened the girl. Please forgive me."

He clasped his fists and waited for her reply.

The man was handsome and the woman was beautiful. Together, they formed a beautiful picture that made people intoxicated.

Unexpectedly, the woman in purple glanced at him coldly, said nothing and left.

The man in white was slightly stunned.

He was just helping out out of kindness, but how did he offend the woman?

He was not angry at all. He looked at her back a few times and smiled slightly.

Wen Jing was standing far away, already stunned.

This "hero saves the beauty, self-indulgent" plot is the first acquaintance between Wen Renmu and Ji Keqing in the book.

Wen Renmu is the eldest disciple of Tianheng Peak.

Tianheng Peak is the mortal enemy of Huishi Peak.

Therefore, Wen Renmu is Jun Yanzhi's mortal enemy.

Now, Jun Yanzhi has not yet made any achievements and fame, and the conflict between the two is not obvious, but in the future they will fight openly and secretly, and their power will be like water and fire. However

, the system shows that Wen Renmu's character value fluctuates around 800, and is classified as "righteous and virtuous, worthy of the admiration of thousands of people."

Ah bah bah bah bah bah——

...When encountering a strong enemy on the road, he abandoned his fellow disciples and fled first, and then covered up the facts and framed others, just to maintain his noble reputation. Is this also called "deserving the admiration of the masses"?

Just as he was daydreaming, a man in blue slowly entered his sight. Before he could react, a striking and glaring red frame jumped out.

[Character value: -1000. The crime is heinous and anyone can punish him.]

The man in blue stood in front of the hall, as quiet as an ancient tree, silent and silent.

Wen Jing looked at him silently.

There must be something wrong with Jun Yanzhi's data.

The character values ​​of others are constantly fluctuating, but his is still and unchanged. This does not seem like data measured by the system, but rather like a bug.

Otherwise, if Wen Renmu "deserves the admiration of the masses", but Jun Yanzhi "can be punished by anyone", where is justice?

Thinking of this, my mood suddenly improved, and the sky was a little bluer than before...

A long dragon roar sounded in the Qingxu Hall, and the test began.

The new disciples hurriedly lined up to let the Qingxu disciples test their age and cultivation with "bone measurement" and "heavenly eye technique". Only

those under the age of fifteen and above the fourth level of Qi training can enter the Qingxu Sword Sect.

...It also depends on whether each peak accepts them.

For example, Tianheng Peak and Wangyue Peak only accept a few people every year, and the rest of the disciples can only sigh.

After a while, some people who cheated were eliminated, leaving 72 people, who were arranged according to their spiritual roots and qualifications for selection by the heads of each peak.

The basic spiritual roots are of the five elements, in other words, gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.

More than 90% of immortal cultivators have four or five spiritual roots, which are very mixed and not concentrated. They absorb spiritual energy slowly and cultivate slowly, only slightly better than ordinary people, so they are also called "false spiritual roots" or "waste spiritual roots".

Some immortal cultivators have two or three spiritual roots, which are slightly more concentrated and absorb spiritual energy faster, so they are called "true spiritual roots".

Immortal cultivators with "heavenly spiritual roots" are, as the name suggests, the favorites of heaven. They have only one attribute, which is very concentrated. Their cultivation speed is several times that of ordinary people, and they have no bottleneck when they form the elixir, which makes everyone jealous. Unfortunately, heavenly spiritual roots are rare, and there are only a few people in the five major sects.

There is another kind of mutant spiritual root which is also very rare. It is formed by the mutation and sublimation of two or three attributes, and the speed of cultivation is extremely fast.

Wen Renmu is the only heavenly spiritual root of the Qingxu Sword Sect, which is of the earth element. Ji

Keqing is a rare mutant ice spiritual root, which is formed by the mutation and sublimation of water and earth.

Jun Yanzhi's qualifications are more mediocre than the two. He is a true spiritual root of gold and wood.

Wen Jing has five spiritual roots, gold, wood, water, fire and earth, which is a useless spiritual root.

Although his qualifications are the lowest, he has a special physique, the three-yang body.

The three-yang body is very rare, and it is difficult to produce one in thousands of years. The speed of cultivation is second only to the heavenly spiritual root.

If he tells it, he will definitely be favored by the masters of all peaks.

But the Qingxu Sword Sect would not test him for no reason whether he had the Three Yang Body, and Wen Jing would never tell.

He lined up in eight rows with the other seventy-one people and stood in the Qingxu Hall, waiting to be questioned.

There was a high platform in front of the disciples, and a dozen Taoists were sitting on the platform, both men and women, with different styles, but all of them were outstanding and extraordinary. The man in the middle was wearing a light yellow Taoist robe, with a crane-like immortal style and warm and bright eyes. He should be the current leader of the Qingxu Sword Sect, Xi Fang.

In addition to Xi Fang, there were fourteen Taoists sitting on the high platform.

In other words, one peak master did not come.

This is needless to say, and it can be guessed.

Jun Yanzhi's master Duan Xuan has not shown up for many years, and the peak masters have already had a tacit understanding. Since he had no intention of accepting disciples, why did he waste time in Qingxu Palace?

The peak masters took a quick look at the qualifications, appearance, and behavior of the new disciples, picked a few people out of line, asked a few questions, and asked them to answer one by one. Next, the disciples left Qingxu Palace, and more than a dozen peak masters discussed and decided whether everyone should stay or go.

As a useless spiritual root with all five elements, no one would care, and no peak would want to take him in.

Sure enough, Ji Keqing and another spiritual root with wind attribute mutation were called in first.

Next, the true spiritual roots were also called into the palace one after another.

Soon, the three spiritual roots and four spiritual roots also entered one after another, leaving only eight people, many of whom were frowning and about to cry.

One of the eight people turned out to be the blue-shirted boy who was both good and evil.

Wen Jing looked at him silently, and the boy happened to look at him and smiled.

Wen Jing remembered the prompt in the system just now.

[Character value: 1. He has good intentions and can be friends with him.]

[Character value: -1. He has evil intentions and needs to be careful in making friends.]

...Should I make friends or not?

The young man smiled and said, "My name is You Si, what's your name?"

"... Lu Jing."

"Lu Jing?"

"Jing means thorny."

"The road is full of thorns, it's hard to move forward, it's quite interesting..."

"..."

"Which branch do you want to go to?"

Wen Jing glanced at him and said, "Any branch is fine."

The young man smiled and said, "Now that you and I have come to this point, we can only let others choose us, and we can't choose others."

"Not bad..."

You Si's words were measured, he didn't sound like a farmer's son, but rather like a well-educated son of a noble family...

Should I make friends with this friend, or not?

I have never heard of his name, at least he has nothing to do with Jun Yanzhi.

At this moment, a disciple in a light yellow Taoist robe walked out of the Qingxu Hall: "There are eight people left, follow me in."

The people on the ground stood up at the same time.