After going up the mountain, Jiang Beiran quickly learned the contents of his trial from the Taoist Priest.
"Bei Ran, cultivation is something that requires hardship and perseverance, and mining is the best way to exercise these two qualities. As long as you persist and pass the test of the mountain guard, Pindao will come to pick you up.
Zong.”
With these words and Jiang Beiran full of fighting spirit behind, the black-robed Taoist priest turned around and walked down the mountain.
'Master, I will definitely work hard to repay you for your kindness!'
After secretly swearing in his heart, Jiang Beiran followed a mountain guard into the mine.
However, such ambitions were completely extinguished the next day. The reason is simple: mining is too tiring!
Before Jiang Beiran traveled through time, he was just an ordinary second-year junior high school student. He didn't even attend a few physical education classes, and his physical fitness could be said to be quite poor.
His body has not been strengthened much since time travel, and coupled with the lack of nutritious food, it would be an understatement to describe his body as skinny.
Without any training, Jiang Beiran was taken to a mine by two mountain guards early the next morning. After getting to know a few taciturn workers, the mountain guards gave him a basket and a mining pick and told him to work hard.
In Jiang Beiran's imagination, mining should be like hitting a piece of ore a few times in a computer game.
However, in reality, the stench, sultry heat, darkness, and small mine environment immediately confused him. Where had he seen such a posture when he was in junior high school not long ago?
However, the two mountain guards obviously did not intend to give him time to prepare mentally, and directly pushed him towards the "den road" supported by wooden planks.
Because the "nest road" was of different heights, Jiang Beiran sometimes walked standing up, sometimes squatted, and sometimes even rolled on his back like a scarab beetle. Therefore, just after arriving at the mining site, his physical strength was almost exhausted.
There was no rest time. As soon as he arrived at the place, he was urged to dig by two mountain guards. As the saying goes, it is not difficult to see people carrying burdens. Jiang Beiran used to watch those workers wielding hoes on TV and always thought about how much effort it would take.
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However, in reality, he only smashed it a dozen times before he was so tired that his throat was on fire, and his hands were as if they were filled with lead, so heavy that he could not lift them up at all.
"Ha ha……"
Jiang Beiran, whose hands were sore, leaned on the mining pick and tried desperately to breathe in some fresh air. However, there was only a gas-like smell in the mine, which made him feel more and more dizzy the more he smelled it.
"Who asked you to rest? Do you still want to pass the trial?"
Just when Jiang Beiran almost fainted, a mountain guard came up and gave him a push.
Hearing the word "trial", Jiang Beiran took up his breath again and wanted to continue fighting, but he couldn't lift his hands.
'Alas! I am so useless. I'm sorry, master, I have let you down.'
Scolding himself in his mind, Jiang Beiran shook his head and said, "I...I really can't dig anymore."
"How many times have you dug? You can't dig anymore. How do you still want to join the sect?"
"Yes... I was useless. I will apologize to the Taoist Master. I let him down. I'm sorry."
After Jiang Beiran finished speaking, he sighed deeply and sighed inwardly. The protagonists in the novels he had read were all able to burst out with extremely tenacious will for cultivation. Why are he so weak? This broken system doesn't know how to help me.
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Jiang Beiran, who admitted that he was weak in his heart, was about to accept the outcome of failure calmly, when he felt a sudden sharp pain in his abdomen.
"Damn! You are such a loser. The few people who came in earlier have worked hard for months to get into the Bird Sect. You, this little bear, can't do it on your first day."
The mountain guard said while giving Jiang Beiran another kick.
Jiang Beiran was stunned by these two kicks. He only felt the world spinning, his head was buzzing, and an ominous premonition rushed into his heart.
However, before he could figure it out, the mountain guard squatted down, grabbed his hair and shouted: "You trash thing, listen carefully to me, what kind of genius do you really think you are to join the sect and become a human master?"
Let me tell you, you are a waste, now dig mines for me, if you can’t mine, I will kill you, do you understand!?”
Jiang Beiran shook his head after hearing this and shouted: "I want to see my master, I want to see my master."
"Your master? Hahahahahaha." The mountain guard laughed wildly for a while and asked: "What is your master's name?"
"My master's name is...my master's name is..."
Jiang Beiran was confused again. For two days, the Taoist priest never told him his name, and he never asked.
"I...my master is a Taoist from the Lihuo Sect. He brought me here yesterday. I want to see him, I want to see him!"
"Hahahaha." The mountain guard's laughter became even crazier, and then he kicked Jiang Beiran in the stomach: "You are still with Li Huo Sect, just have your spring and autumn dream, I will give you two choices now,
Either continue to stand up and mine, or lie down and be kicked to death by me, you only have three seconds."
As soon as the mountain guard finished speaking, three options appeared in front of Jiang Beiran.
[Option 1: Continue to lie down. Completion reward: Qinglian Secret Record (prefecture-level low-grade)]
[Option 2: Ask the other party to let you go down the mountain. Completion reward: Earth Fire Skill (top grade Xuan level)]
[Option 3: Get up and continue mining. Completion reward: Random basic attribute point +1]
"2!"
When Jiang Beiran was looking at the options, the mountain guard had already counted to 2 and kicked him in the stomach again.
At this moment, Jiang Beiran realized it! He understood that the content of these options was not important at all, just look at the rewards. The better the reward, the more dangerous the option!
Because judging from the strength of the kick just now, Jiang Beiran completely believed that the other party dared to kick him to death, and he would definitely die if he continued to lie down.
So before Shou Shan was about to shout out the "3", Jiang Beiran immediately chose three and stood up with a strong will to survive.
"Very good, isn't it still powerful? If you don't want to die, dig it out quickly! Do you hear me!?"
Although Jiang Beiran's whole body was trembling at this time, in order to survive, he still tried his best to lift the mining pick and smash it down.
Jiang Beiran was stunned for a moment when he saw the system prompt that he had floated before and the trace of strength that surged from his body.
‘Just finish it?’
When he chose [Ask the Taoist Master to accept me as his disciple] before, there was no immediate reward at all. Instead, it became a task. But now he just completes the options and gets the reward directly.
The huge difference in difficulty simply stunned him.
"What are you thinking about again!?"
When he heard the mountain guard...oh no, the supervisor yelled angrily, Jiang Beiran quickly continued to raise the mining pick and hit it.