Mu Xue walked up the steps. This place was deep in the mountains and the terrain was a bit high. When the wind blew, the sound of pine waves could be heard in the forest.

Through the pine forest, you can see a wide river flowing quietly at the foot of the mountain.

Today is the full moon. The disk-like bright moon blocks the surface of the river and casts a sparkling silver light all over the river.

As I walked up this mountain road step by step, my restless heart gradually calmed down.

Every few steps, there is a relatively large platform, and a circular magic circle is drawn on the ground. Sometimes the magic circle lights up, and a doorway appears out of thin air. Children of different ages walk out of it, some in rich clothes.

In other words, there are also people with ragged clothes.

Some children were crying and walking slowly towards the top of the mountain with runny noses and tears. Others ran up the mountain with excitement in their eyes, heads held high and chests high.

At the end of the stone steps, there is a large ancient temple with a towering gate and majestic palaces. There is a large plaque hanging above the door with the words "Chongxu Temple" written on it.

Chongxu Temple is a monastery set up by the Guiyuan Sect in the human world. Chongxu Temples of different sizes can be seen in many towns. On weekdays, alms and disaster relief are provided in the temple, fasting and rituals are held, and worshipers from all over the world are invited to worship.

But as Ye Xingzhou said before, if the family wants to meet the child who has entered the mountain gate, they can go to Chongxu Temple in Jiulian Mountain to submit a message, which is right here.

At this moment, the gate was wide open and the hall was brightly lit.

There was a female monk in green sitting on the sill outside the door. When she saw a child coming up, she took the butterfly in his hand, registered his name and place of origin, and distributed a small piece of paper with his name written on it, which he called a talisman. Then he asked the child to

The little carrot heads with confused faces all gathered in the square in front of the main hall to wait.

A thousand-year-old temple with majestic towers, exquisite lacquer paintings and solemn majesty.

The new disciple couldn't help but look around with awe.

Mu Xue's attention was focused on the small piece of talisman in her hand. The name tag was filled with gold paint on the front, and there were fine spiritual patterns crisscrossing the back.

Gently rubbing it with your fingers, you can faintly feel the spiritual energy flowing along those complicated lines.

Although the material is not expensive, the craftsmanship is extremely sophisticated, and it is a spiritual weapon that is extremely difficult to imitate.

Among the children crookedly huddled together, it was inevitable that some would accidentally leave the talisman on the ground. The small card automatically flew up from the ground without any wind, and then slipped into their arms very thoughtfully.

From the moment they are registered, they will never leave their owner's side unless destroyed.

To be able to distribute such spiritual weapons to low-level disciples, it can be seen that there must be very skilled weapon refining masters in the Guiyuan Sect.

Mu Xue was itching for a while, wishing she could see the magic weapon refining process in the spiritual world as soon as possible, so that she could verify and compare with what she had learned.

A tall and sturdy man walked in outside the mountain gate. The man held two sleeping children in his hands. He smiled and said to the woman at the door: "I found two babies who were tired from crying and sleeping on the mountain path. Others.

Everyone is coming up."

The woman nodded at him, looked at the roster in her hand, and sighed: "After working hard for a long time, there are only one hundred and twenty-three people."

Mu Xue raised her eyes and saw that the man had muscles all over his body, dark skin, thick eyebrows, and piercing eyes. He looked very similar to those who practiced physical skills in the demon world.

The woman sitting by the door registering them was beautiful, elegant, and had a long-lasting medicinal fragrance all over her body. She looked like a medical practitioner who worked with elixirs every day.

It seems that the cultivation methods within the Guiyuan Sect each have their own strengths, and there is no single Tao method.

The female cultivator held up the glazed bell jar containing the lifelike butterfly with one hand, and turned her hand over to hold out a small and exquisite tapestry round fan. The small round fan was long in the wind and hovered at her feet.

She held up the hem of her skirt and stepped up to the fan, saying, "I'll go back and recover first."

With her skirt fluttering, she stepped on her fan and flew into the sky.

The tall and sturdy man was closing the mountain gate. Hearing this, he turned around and shouted: "Senior sister is so impatient, please wait for me."

He didn't even sacrifice his magic weapon, he just took off his feet and ran towards the back mountain, flying over the eaves and walking over the walls, wandering like a startled giant, disappearing after a few flashes.

When he said the first word, he was still at the gate, but the last word had already come from the mountainside of the back mountain.

Judging from the momentum, it seems to be in no particular order with the fan flying far and high along the mountain.

This hand that flew into the sky and escaped from the ground shocked all the children present and opened their mouths in surprise.

For a moment, those who cried couldn't care less about crying, and those who were full of arrogance couldn't care less about their pride. The only thought of the little children was when they could learn such a technique and fly up to the sky to play.

Three or four older female nuns walked out of the main hall, carrying palace lanterns and ushering hundreds of children inside.

The group passed through the majestic palace, the bell tower and the garden, and climbed along the steps of the back mountain for a long time, gradually reaching the top of the peak.

There is an inconspicuous boundary monument standing beside the mountain road here. The handwriting engraved on the boundary monument seems to have gone through thousands of years of baptism and has become blurred and difficult to read.

The moment they passed the boundary monument, the children around them were still walking around noisily without realizing it, but Mu Xue was suddenly frightened and held down the small piece of jade in her arms.

"After passing this boundary monument, we are inside the mountain gate of my Guiyuan Sect. Outsiders are not allowed in unless invited." The female cultivator who led the way said as she walked, "Those who have not been issued talisman and jade will not be able to enter again after reaching this point.

If you have to force your way through, you will only end up dead, so all junior brothers and sisters must remember this."

On the top of the mountain, there is another courtyard with nine entrances. The three words "Hua Yu Tang" are written on the door plaque. This is where new disciples have lived and studied over the years.

This place is no better decorated with gold and jade than Chongxu Temple.

The walls of the courtyard are mottled with red paint, and the floor tiles are covered with moss marks. It is very simple, giving it a sense of silence in the mountains and the weight of time.

Looking from the top of the mountain, you can see endless fertile plains to the south, with a large river winding around the mountains like a silver dragon. To the north, there are endless mountains, with nine main peaks towering into the clouds, and the peaks are shrouded in clouds and mist.

It’s rare to see the true appearance during this period.

Occasionally, one or two points of colorful light shine out from the fairyland shrouded in clouds and mountains, like morning glow or a rainbow, daring to compete with the moonlight.

"Senior sister, what kind of lights are those? Are those places belonging to our sect? When can we go there and have a look." Some children couldn't help but point at the flashing neon lights and asked the leading female nun.

"That is the realm of the inner sect. Ordinary disciples cannot enter."

The elderly female cultivator, looking at this group of excited and excited junior brothers and sisters, remembered the first time she went up the mountain, and couldn't help but sigh,

"Among you, if there are one or twenty of you who can catch a glimpse of the secrets of heaven and are chosen by the teacher to join the inner sect, you are considered a good person. The rest of you can only be like me, senior sister, learning some superficial techniques to prolong your life.

, it’s just better than ordinary people.”

Children who have just entered the school are bound to be high-spirited. A boy in splendid clothes and a jade crown was unconvinced and said: "We are selected from tens of millions of people to receive the fate of immortals. As long as we practice diligently, how can we not become immortals?"

Take a fancy, my mother said, I was chosen to be a god."

The female cultivator who led the team didn't seem angry at all, and said calmly, "Then I wish my junior brother good luck in immortality and that he can enter the court as soon as possible. Don't be like my senior sister who has been like this for decades and still hangs around helping in the Huayudang."

After entering the Huayu Hall, new disciples are uniformly distributed with bedding, clothing, and simple toiletries. Men and women are separated, and each room is equipped with a large bunk, sleeping six disciples in each room.

It was a day of hard work, surprises, ups and downs, and two sections of mountain climbing. Many young children were tired and sleepy. Although the environment was unfamiliar and novel, they still fell asleep as soon as they touched the pillow.

There was cold mist in the mountains, but I didn't feel wet or cold. The moonlight shone hazily on the ground through the window paper.

Mu Xue was lying in her own corner, covered with a thick quilt, looking at the moonlight on the ground through the window lattice with her eyes open.

She could feel that on this mountain peak, the aura of heaven and earth was obviously strengthened.

This is only the outer gate of the Guiyuan Sect. It seems that the Jiulian Mountains must have strong spiritual veins, and a powerful mountain-protecting array has been set up here to restrain the spiritual energy, making it a paradise for practitioners.

After being reborn, Mu Xue had already realized that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the spiritual world was very thin, far less abundant than in the demon spirit world.

Perhaps because of this, this space did not breed a large number of demons born from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth like the demon spirit world. Ordinary mortals were able to live and work in peace and contentment in this world, prospering, and countless densely populated towns and countries were born.

The children beside Mu Xue fell asleep one by one. Amidst those slight breathing sounds, the subtle aura in the air spread across the surface of the skin like a faint fragrance in the wind.

So unpredictable, yet so familiar and kind, it made all the pores of Mu Xue's body feel comfortable bathing in it.

She did not dare to introduce spiritual energy into her body too early, so she had no choice but to let them flow in and out with her breathing. However, her spiritual consciousness flowed unconsciously along with these wandering spirits of heaven and earth.

First, it followed the long-standing blue bricks covering the ground like a tide, then spread out through the paper windows, and arrived at the courtyard where the moonlight was like water.

There was no one in the courtyard, except for the bright moon hanging high in the sky.

Mu Xue was lying in the house, but she seemed to be standing in the courtyard. When she looked around, she suddenly found a person sitting on the roof opposite.

The man had his back to Mu Xue, sitting cross-legged and meditating, with the silver moonlight flowing all over his body.

There are people who collect the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in this place and regulate their breath into tranquility?

Mu Xue didn't want to alarm others, so she quietly withdrew her consciousness.

The man on the roof suddenly turned his face, his cold eyes peering down from above.

Her consciousness suddenly retreated into the house, and Mu Xue woke up from her sleep in an instant.

She was reincarnated and had no cultivation at all, but after years of practice, her spiritual consciousness was condensed and her mental power was very strong.

When I arrived at such a place with abundant spiritual energy, I relaxed for a moment while half asleep and half awake, and began to travel unconsciously to explore the unknown environment.

Mu Xue opened her eyes wide in the darkness, recalling the scene just now. Unexpectedly, the sect would send disciples to guard the Huayu Hall. It was not known whether it was to protect or monitor these new disciples.

Although the monk on duty just now had good cultivation, he ran very fast and should not have been discovered.

"You...can't sleep either?" A soft and waxy voice sounded in the darkness, and the girl sleeping next to Mu Xue quietly lifted up the quilt and poked her little head out.

"This place is so quiet, I can't sleep at all. My name is Xia Tong, what's yours?" she said.

"Zhang...Zhang Erya." Mu Xue announced her first name in frustration, then changed her words, "You can also call me Xiaoxue, this is my nickname."

"Xiaoxue, I'm so hungry. I wonder when breakfast will be served here?" Xia Tong quietly stretched out his hand from the quilt, holding a small piece of light yellow rock sugar in his hand, "Do you want to eat it? Fortunately, you are out.

When the time comes, my mother will carry it with me."

Mu Xue reached out and took it, saying, "Thank you."

In fact, she quietly put the candy into her sleeve and did not put it in her mouth.

Who would eat from a competitor at a time like this?
To be continued...