Huo Jing silently recited the steps in his mind, the first step on the ladder, the second step, the third step, bowing, the fourth step, the fifth step, the sixth step, the seventh step, the eighth step,

The ninth step, kneel down and kowtow, get up, the first step...

Huo Jing, who had already exhausted all his physical strength, almost suffered from back pain. When he bent over, his spine hurt like needles. The steps were made of hard stones. When he knelt down, his knees also hurt to the bone. The most terrible thing was to see

The simple action of "standing up" requires gritting one's teeth to do it.

Time passed minute by minute. He didn’t know how long he had walked. Huo Jing’s head was a little dizzy. When he looked up, he still couldn’t see the top of the mountain, only a pile of bones on dozens of steps. “It turns out there are still people climbing up to the top.

here."

Huo Jing smiled bitterly, took the ninth step, knelt down and kowtowed, stood up with difficulty, wiped the sweat from his forehead, exhaled helplessly, with a bitter look on his face, looked at the endless stairs, and shook his head: "That's not it at all.

There’s no end in sight.”

After a while, Huo Jing took out Zhao Ya's embroidery. The sentence "He is the best in my heart." appeared in Huo Jing's mind. He was slightly startled, then looked at the endless ladder and murmured:

"It will climb up."

"Climb up, become a disciple, kill old man Dongshan, and go to the place where the phoenix was born to find Ya'er." Huo Jing muttered silently in his heart, walking out with one step, swaying with two steps, bowing with three steps, and swaying with four steps...

Eight steps in a daze, nine steps kowtow, bite the pale lips, stand up, and continue moving forward.

Time passed minute by minute, and he finally surpassed the pile of bones. However, these dozens of steps took half an hour. With the danger of falling down from the inclined ladder at any time, Huo Jing continued to move toward

Climb forward.

"There are still bones." Huo Jing murmured and continued to crawl forward indifferently.

Time passed by minute by second. He didn't know how long it had been. Huo Jing estimated that there were more than thirty corpses. Then, he finally reached the limit. There was a hint of bitterness in the corner of his eyes. He kowtowed there, but after raising his head, he could no longer stand up.

He said, "Ya'er, I'm sorry."

Huo Jing was tired and couldn't climb anymore. He lay on the step, breathing the weak oxygen, and murmured: "Father, mother, sister, Ya'er, Xian'er, I promised you, but Jing'er broke his promise."

.”

Huo Jing said that he would return home safely.

Huo Jing felt extremely tired and his eyelids were heavy, but he tried hard not to let them close. He knew that once he closed them, he would never be able to open them again. "Is this the end of my road?" Huo Jing said

With a bitter smile, he wanted to become a strong man, "I'm really unwilling to do so."

Then, the eyes slowly closed.

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"Jing'er!" In a bamboo house at the back of Hutou Mountain, Liu Xin, who was placing tableware, suddenly felt a sharp pain in her heart. Crystal liquid flowed out of the corner of her eyes unconsciously, and then her whole body went limp to the ground, unconscious.

"Mother?!" Xian'er, who was practicing outside, and Huo Shishi, who was reading a book, suddenly heard the cry and couldn't help being startled. They quickly ran into the bamboo house and saw Liu Xin, who was so limp on the ground, and Huo Shishi

His expression changed, and he quickly ran over, picked up Liu Xin, shook her gently and shouted: "Mom! Mom, what's wrong with you?!"

"Xin'er!" Huo Ju also rushed in immediately and took Liu Xin from Huo Shishi's hand. His brows were furrowed. He felt that he was still breathing, so he calmed down a little. The position of his fingernails in Liu Xin's body was

With a pinch, Liu Xin, who had fainted, gradually woke up.

After all, this was just a brief coma.

"What's going on?" Yu Mo also followed. He also heard Liu Xin's shouting and Huo Shishi's anxious voice. When he arrived, he saw Liu Xin passed out.

"Mom." Huo Shishi's beautiful eyes were red and she looked at Liu Xin anxiously, holding Liu Xin's hand in her little hand.

"Mother." Xian'er knelt down on the other side and looked at Liu Xin anxiously.

"Xin'er, what's wrong?" Huo Ju asked gently when he saw Liu Xin gradually opening her eyes.

"Ms. sir!" Liu Xin lay in Huo Ju's arms, crying heartbrokenly. Her voice was hoarse and she choked with sobs: "Jing'er, something happened!"

Hearing this, everyone's faces turned pale and changed.

Huo Ju and Huo Shishi had the most serious faces. The last time Liu Xin woke up from a nightmare and said that Huo Jing was in trouble, Huo Jing was surrounded and killed by 40,000 troops and almost couldn't come back. This time Liu Xin

Xin fainted directly. What happened to Huo Jing?!

"Brother Huo Jing!" Xian'er was also sobbing.

"Don't cry, what's going on? Tell me clearly." Huo Ju was also very anxious, but he didn't dare to urge Liu Xin to tell him what happened to Huo Jing. After all, Liu Xin was in extremely bad condition at this time, and Huo Ju didn't dare to act carelessly.

yell at her.

"I don't know where Jing'er is." Liu Xin cried and said, "I only know that Jing'er is dying. My husband, please go save him and save our child!"

"Save? Where to save?" Huo Jing looked anxious and helpless.

"It's okay, Jing'er will be fine, she'll be fine." Huo Ju's eyes were slightly red, and he patted Liu Xin's weak body and comforted her.

Liu Xin kept holding Huo Ju in pain until she was tired and her voice became hoarse. Huo Ju could only knock her out by hitting her on the back of the neck, then carried her to the bed and looked at each other with Huo Shishi who followed.

, all with bitter faces.

Huo Ju really wanted to go find Huo Jing, but where to find him, and he was also worried that as soon as he left, Liu Xin would run out randomly, and then there would really be chaos.

"Jing'er, don't let anything happen to you!" Huo Ju said bitterly in his heart. The last place Liu Xin dreamed of was the county town, so Huo Ju naturally rushed there quickly. This time there was no place, and Huo Jing left Anling again.

The county was gone, and trying to find him was like looking for a needle in a haystack. Like bamboo shoots, Huo Shishi, Xian'er and Yu Mo were sitting outside the bamboo house, and the atmosphere was very dead.

"Brother Huo Jing!" Suddenly, Xian'er couldn't help sobbing and cried.

"Xian'er." Huo Shishi hugged Xian'er, but her eyes were wet and red, and they cried together.

"This..." Yu Mo sighed. He had the least relationship with Huo Jing here, and he had also experienced the destruction of his family. He was not very sensitive to death, and he had not seen it with his own eyes.

When Huo Jing died, according to Liu Xin's feeling, Huo Shishi and the others cried like this, which was still difficult for Yu Mo to understand.

Late at night, the faint starlight shone through the window into the bamboo house. Huo Ju sat next to Liu Xin, looking at her solemnly. When he saw the tears flowing from the corners of her eyes while she was sleeping, his heart ached again, and he quickly held his big hands.

Holding Liu Xin's little hand for a long time, she felt a tremor in Liu Xin's hand, and then her eyes slowly opened.

Liu Xin looked at Huo Ju who was guarding Zhaojin, saw the anxiety and self-blame in his eyes, smiled slightly, and said hoarsely: "Jing'er, it's okay."

Outside the bamboo house.

Suddenly, Yu Mo noticed footsteps behind him, looked back, and whispered to Huo Shishi next to him: "Your mother is out."

"Mom!" Huo Shishi quickly got up and ran. When she saw the smiles on her parents' faces, the stone hanging in her heart fell to the ground.

"Jing'er is fine." Huo Ju smiled bitterly, then glared at Liu Xin and said, "Look what you are fooling around with? It makes everyone worry about you." At this time, Huo Ju dared to joke to lighten the atmosphere.

.

Hearing this, Liu Xin smiled and leaned into Huo Ju's arms. Her throat was so sore that it hurt to speak. And it was not that she was messing around, but that she really felt that she was about to lose her child at that time, and she was still here.

By then, the heartache had disappeared, and he knew that his son was fine.

Hearing this, Xian'er also stopped crying, and at such a young age, she also showed an innocent smile.

"It's finally over." Yu Mo stretched. He didn't really believe that the mother could know that the son was in danger, because he had never been a parent and didn't understand what "a child is a piece of flesh that fell off the mother's body."

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Time passed day by day, six days later.

On the top of a mountain, an old man stroked his white beard, looked at Huo Jing, and smiled slightly. After many years, he finally accepted a disciple. Although he still has not passed the fourth level, but three bows and nine kowtows are enough.

It's considered a apprenticeship, but as for the fourth level, it was added by the old man.

"Am I dead?" Huo Jing felt warm in his body, then slowly opened his eyes and started working. Then he saw an illusory old man in front of him, blinked his eyes, and took a breath for a while.

The tone is, "I succeeded??? But haven't I not climbed to the top of the mountain yet?"

"Wake up." The old man said lightly with a smile, and then said with a smile: "Want to know why?"

"Yeah." Huo Jing nodded, feeling a strong sense of restraint next to the old man.

"You can't climb this ladder to the end. Over the endless years, more than a hundred people have climbed up the ladder, and there are dozens of people who have climbed much higher than you. But in the end, they were all killed by me." The old man said calmly.

.

Hearing this, Huo Jing's face was startled. He climbed higher than him and was killed?

"Actually, as long as you step on the ladder to heaven and bow once, you are my disciple. If you are in danger, I will naturally save you." The old man said with a faint smile.

"Master, then why are they still dying?" Huo Jing was overjoyed at first. After bowing once, he was the master of this super strong man. Huo Jing had kowtowed thousands of times, so naturally he should call the old man master at this time.

, but what Huo Jing didn't understand was why the old man only saved him.

"You don't need to know this, you just need to know that they deserve to die and you deserve to live." The old man smiled lightly, because those people cursed the old man when they were desperate, and cursed their own masters after they became disciples, so the old man naturally sent them to reincarnation.

, it’s already pretty good without breaking up their souls.

The reason why he did not rescue him until the last moment was to see the truest quality of a person at the end of his life. He yelled at the old man for playing with them. Naturally, the old man did not bother to keep him alive. Huo Jing thought of his relatives, who are naturally affectionate and righteous people.
Chapter completed!