====The third update today, there will be more in the afternoon ====

"Brother Ziling!" Zhou Xiang ran over and stopped when he saw that the atmosphere was not right. He didn't know what happened. Zhou Ziling stood up and asked, "Xiangzi, how is your family's affairs?"

"What else can it be?" Zhou Xiang sighed and said slowly: "At least my mother's treatment has improved a lot. My elder brother is not bad either. My father is in poor health. My brother will handle the matters in the Zhou family courtyard in the future. I believe he will not treat my mother badly. I can go to practice Taoism with confidence!"

Zhou Ziling smiled and said, "I didn't expect that you and my brothers will have a day to meet. It seems that your master will let you participate in the selection!"

"I can't compare to you!" Zhou Xiang smiled and said, "I felt your power just now, so I came to see you. Oh, forget it, I won't mention this!"

Zhou Xiang also knew that Zhou Ziling must be angry that Zhou Da was taking a concubine, but Zhou Ziling wanted to practice Taoism. Zhou Da had no other descendants, so he could only take a concubine and have a son. Zhou Ziling was stuck in the middle, so it was difficult to do it.

Zhou Ziling shook his head and said slowly: "If it were before, I wouldn't have gone to practice Taoism anymore. But now I'm in big trouble. If I don't practice Taoism, I will harm the family. As long as my mother is fine, I won't worry!"

Zhou Xiang smiled and asked, "Then when are you going back to the mountain?"

Zhou Ziling patted Zhou Xiang and smiled and said, "Just now. Where are you?"

Zhou Xiang nodded and said, "I have to wait a few more days!"

Zhou Ziling smiled slightly and said slowly: "Xiangzi, remember, don't forget who you are. Don't forget your roots!"

After saying that, Zhou Ziling chanted a spell, flew up, and disappeared into the sky.

"Son!" Zhou Da said ashamedly: "Dad is helpless! The Zhou family cannot be without descendants!"

Mrs. Wang ran back to the inner room in tears. Zhou Xiang shook his head and bowed, "Uncle, I'll say goodbye first."

After Zhou Xiang left, Zhou Da greeted the guests for a while and left the seat.

"Why are you back so soon?" Taoist Qi saw Zhou Ziling rushing into Qishan Temple with a frustration and joked: "Are you not used to the secular troubles?"

Zhou Ziling did not respond, but locked the door and kept silent. Taoist Qi shook his head and walked into the pharmacy to get medicine for Zhou Ziling. Although Zhou Ziling had consolidated the early stage of Qi refining, he still needed to be well conditioned. Thinking of the selection half a month later, Taoist Qi recalled the prospect of participating in the selection. In a blink of an eye, three years have passed. Zhou Ziling is no longer the naughty and can go to the world alone.

Soon, half a month passed, and the day of selection came. During this half month, Zhou Ziling locked himself in the house all day long and studied Taoism, which was vaguely showing signs of breaking through the early stage of Qi refining.

When it was time to select, Taoist Qi took Zhou Ziling to the top of Qiyun Mountain. This was a 100-meter-square-meter-square-meter-square-meter-square-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-degree-square-de

Pebbles are laid on the top of the mountain. These pebbles have different colors and are arranged into a huge Tai Chi Bagua diagram. Standing on the top of the mountain, you can immediately feel the pressure from the sky. Taoist Qi told Zhou Ziling that this pressure is the power of Qiyun Fairy Mountain floating above.

Because the spiritual energy gathered in Qiyun Fairy Mountain is too sufficient, such a pressure will be generated. However, in order to avoid affecting Qiyun Mountain below, this power is bound within the range of the top platform of the mountain.

Zhou Ziling saw that in addition to him, there were hundreds of deacons here waiting for the start of the selection. Zhou Ziling felt a little surprised. There were only hundreds of people on Qiyun Mountain. Apart from a dozen elders, dozens of handymen, the remaining formal disciples and deacons, they should be only fifty years old. Why did so many people suddenly appear?

Taoist Qi saw Zhou Ziling's question and explained: "Qiyun Xianshan is one of the three major sects of Wuyue Kingdom, and Taoism is also the national religion of Wuyue Kingdom. The diocese of Qiyun Xianshan occupies two-thirds of the territory of Wuyue Kingdom. The Taoist temples within this range are all under the name of Qiyun Mountain. Naturally, disciples of these Taoist temples are also qualified to participate in the selection."

Just as Taoist Qi was explaining the reason to Zhou Ziling, the wind and clouds suddenly changed in the sky. Then, there was a loud bang, as if there was a huge force falling. The entire top of Qiyun Mountain was shaken.

The disciples in Qingyi all looked at the scene in surprise. A huge archway appeared on the top of the mountain. The archway was twenty meters high and ten meters wide. It was pure white all over, surrounded by fairy clouds, and it was so majestic. It was engraved with four big characters - Qiyun Fairy Mountain.

The head of the sect took a few steps forward and said proudly: "Dear disciples, the selection of Qiyun Fairy Mountain has begun. Now, as long as you can walk through this archway and climb the ladder of heaven, you can become disciples of Qiyun Fairy Mountain. You will naturally know the above rules after you go up. I believe you have been looking forward to this day, so I won't say much. You can do whatever you want!"

After the head of the sect said that, the elders signaled their disciples to walk towards the archway. The first person walked over without any danger, which greatly encouraged the other disciples.

Everyone couldn't wait to walk towards the archway.

"Bang", with a dull sound, some disciples were bounced away. Other disciples just took a light look and continued to walk towards the archway. From time to time, disciples were bounced away, but more disciples still passed through the archway!

Zhou Ziling also easily walked through the archway. Taoist Qi's hanging heart finally fell down. He breathed happily and showed a satisfied smile.

After Zhou Ziling and others passed the archway, Taoist Qi and others could not see them. However, in front of Zhou Ziling and others, there was not Qiyun Fairy Mountain, but a long staircase. Everyone looked up and could see Qiyun Fairy Mountain floating in the air. This staircase had been disappearing in the clouds, as if there was no end.

Some disciples had already walked up the ladder and wanted to reach the top of the mountain first. Zhou Ziling looked around and saw that Zhou Xiang was already on the ladder and was still in a relatively high position. Zhou Ziling smiled slightly and stepped onto the ladder.

As soon as Zhou Ziling stepped onto the ladder, he felt a huge attraction. This attraction made him difficult, and he had to use his skills to resist this force. These ladders were only a simple stone slab, completely suspended in the air, giving people a feeling of instability. Coupled with this force, it made everyone feel even more panic.

Taoist Qi once repeatedly instructed Zhou Ziling that the road to cultivation of immortals is full of difficulties and difficulties, and only those with firm will can achieve something and cultivate immortality. It seems that this ladder is the time to test their will!

Zhou Ziling calmed down and slowly walked towards the fairy mountain floating in the clouds. Walking on this ladder requires a huge amount of true power. But strangely, whenever Zhou Ziling consumed almost the same amount, a force would always emerge to restore Zhou Ziling's spirit.

"Ah!!!" Suddenly, a scream came from above. Everyone looked at it. A disciple actually stomped down and quickly fell to the ground. At this time, several white figures flashed, grabbed the disciple, took him down the ladder, and sent him back to Qiyun Mountain. Everyone was stunned. The stairs that the disciple had just stepped on had disappeared.

Immediately afterwards, another disciple fell off the ladder. This time everyone could see clearly that as soon as the disciple stepped down, the ladder disappeared, and the disciple was directly pulled down by a force.

Zhou Ziling quickly turned his head, stopped looking more and climbed up faster and faster. Soon, Zhou Ziling caught up with Zhou Xiang and asked, "Are you okay?"

"No problem!" Zhou Xiang laughed happily when he saw Zhou Ziling, and cheered up his breath and said firmly: "It's much easier to climb the stairs than to cultivate land!"

Zhou Ziling nodded and said with a smile: "Okay! I'll take a step first!"

Zhou Xiang nodded, and Zhou Ziling quickly walked forward. The ladder seemed to have no end forever. Before he knew it, Zhou Ziling had been walking for several days and nights. Finally, he passed through the clouds and saw another archway.

This archway is much smaller than before, similar to the ordinary archway. Zhou Ziling saw that behind this archway, there was a small platform, and then there was an ordinary staircase. It seemed that the archway was the end of this archway!

Zhou Ziling walked up to the platform and found someone waiting on it, a table, pen, ink, paper and inkstone. An old Taoist priest in white robe was drinking tea leisurely.

Zhou Ziling walked over and bowed, "Senior! Disciple..."

"So fast?" the Taoist priest exclaimed: "Did you climb up from below?"

Zhou Ziling nodded. The Taoist priest quickly looked Zhou Ziling up and down and murmured: "It took only four days to climb the ladder. You broke the record. Oh my god, is it another guy with a single spiritual root?"

The Taoist priest quickly picked up the pen and asked, "After saying that, who is your master?"

Zhou Ziling bowed and said, "My master's surname is Qi, so he is..."

"Master Qi is right?" The Taoist priest didn't raise his head, and then wrote down Taoist Qi's name, and then said to Zhou Ziling: "Put a handprint on it, you need the whole palm!"

Zhou Ziling dipped in ink and covered his handprints. The Taoist priest blew his breath, and the paper quickly folded into a paper crane, flapped its wings, and flew away.

The Taoist priest waved his hand and said with a smile: "Go to the top, there is a place to register!"

Zhou Ziling nodded and continued to walk forward. This time, there was no longer the attraction. Zhou Ziling couldn't help but look down, and could only see a cloud, but not the ground. It seemed that there was a barrier blocking it from the ground!

When he arrived at the registration office, the Taoist priest asked Zhou Ziling to press a handprint and wrote a name. It was considered as registering Zhou Ziling. Zhou Ziling took a sign. The Taoist priest pointed not far away and said lightly: "There is the place where your disciples live outside the door, go find a house by yourself. Then go there to register."

Zhou Ziling saw that not far away, there was a floating mountain with densely packed small courtyards on it. The entire Qiyun Fairy Mountain was divided into separate hills, and there were roads connected between these hills.

Zhou Ziling went to the accommodation area to sign up, got a booklet and a new sign with Zhou Ziling's name on it.

The Taoist priest who received the reception said, "Go and find a house. As long as there is no sign on the door, there will be no one. Your class is in the seventh district, don't go wrong. There are other things in this booklet, please read them yourself. Congratulations on passing the test!"

Zhou Ziling bowed and went to find his own house. There are eight areas here, surrounded by a circle. The arrangement of the houses is also based on the image of the Bagua. There is a archway in front of each area with a sequence of partitions written on it. Zhou Ziling came to the seventh area, and the houses here were 1 zhang wide from each other, and the walls and houses were all made of wood. But these woods seemed different from ordinary wood. Zhou Ziling vaguely felt that the walls were barriers, separating the walls from outside the walls.

Zhou Ziling opened the manual and found that this was to prevent eavesdropping and peeping. After all, everyone is a monk, who has no secret? Naturally, he doesn't want to be seen casually. These barriers were arranged by several old monsters from the Mahayana period. It is said that all the old monsters have ascended. In other words, no one knows how to break these barriers now.

Zhou Ziling found a two-story house with a back, and there was a cliff behind the window. Zhou Ziling liked this feeling of openness very much. Put the sign into the groove on the wall column, and the house was considered his.

Before reaching the foundation-building stage, all of them must practice here...

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Chapter completed!