The examination began!
The Path of Refining the Heart lay across the void, connecting the secular world with the academy.
The crowd of cultivators looked at each other with some hesitation, none of them daring to be the first to go.
“Since everyone is so polite, I’ll be the first to go on the road.”
A burly cultivator walked out.
With steely eyes, he stepped onto the Heart Refining Road first.
Just after stepping on the first step, his pupils were lax and he fell into disorientation.
“Interesting!”The lanky cultivator quickly regained his clarity and continued to step out on the second step, once again falling into a state of disorientation.
Going back and forth several times, he ascended dozens of steps, not slowing down.
“It doesn’t seem very difficult!”
“Let’s go up as well and try the Path of Refined Heart.”
“Let’s go, don’t let them get ahead of us, I’ll start breaking in soon.”
A group of cultivators discussed a few words and stepped onto the Path of Refining Heart to undergo the test of the illusory realm.
Qin Li did not follow the crowd, but quietly observed.
Soon!
A hundred or so steps in.
A few Immortal Lords were so confused in their thinking that they actually walked to the edge of the steps and fell down of their own accord.
Those Immortal Lords didn’t fare well either, the further back they went, the longer they lost their concentration, and some of them were already sweating profusely.
“It seems that the further back, the more terrifying the illusions become.”
Qin Li was prepared in his heart and stepped onto the first white jade step.
At once!
The scenery around him changed drastically.
A bunch of riches actually appeared behind him, gold and silver jewellery, jade and agate, antiques and paintings, all of which were treasures of immense value.
If an ordinary mortal saw this, he would definitely turn around and grab the treasures, but Qin Li was an Immortal Dignitary, who regarded gold and silver as dung, and ignored them before stepping onto the second step.
The scenery changed again.
Above the court hall, the princes and feudal lords fell on their heads and worshipped, shouting long live long live ten thousand years old.
“Who would be interested in this when they’ve all become immortals.”Qin Li shook his head and quickly stepped towards the third staircase.
One after another, he crossed several hundred white jade steps.
Immortal herbs lure, dan formulae and pills, supreme immortal weapons, various feats, enemies chasing and killing, demons and monsters in turmoil, extreme darkness, mists and mists, exotic treasures out of this world, and heavenly crises ……
Qin Li was considered an eye-opener, there was a time when a fifth-grade elixir tempted him, and even the fragrance of the medicine was simulated, causing him to tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk.
However, after getting used to it, the illusion was just like that, rather routine, and could basically be ignored.
“Senior, you are awesome, you actually managed to walk here.”
Suddenly, eighteen nymphs appeared in front, with exquisite looks, delicate curves, and pavilions, some hot, some gentle, and some lovely …… personalities varying, but all of them were wearing a layer of semi-transparent white veil, which was so light that it couldn’t cover anything ……
“Senior, come to accompany us?”
“It should be called little brother, it’s really handsome!”
Eighteen fairies surrounded them, warbling and fluttering, ordinary men simply couldn’t hold on.
Qin Li, however, shook his head, “Several big sisters, each of you are not as beautiful as my wife, and you still dare to come out to seduce, how ridiculous.”
“How dare you insult us, sisters, kill him!”
The eighteen fairies’ faces changed drastically, their originally beautiful skins transformed into red-powdered skeletons, alive with eighteen evil ghosts, and it was revolting to look at them.
“Disgusting!”
Qin Li snorted coldly, stepping out and breaking the illusion, the evil ghosts behind him all disappeared.
“Congratulations, you’ve passed the Heart Refining Path!”
In front of them stood two old men with white hair, wearing uniform Daoist robes with the word “Xixuan” embroidered on them, holding a list of names in their hands and recording them.
“What is your name?”The old man asked.
“Qin Li.”Qin Li replied.
The old man laughed, “Very well, you are strong-willed and indifferent to all temptations, you have passed the test. You wait by the side first, when the test is over, we’ll bring you into the Xixuan Mysterious Realm.”
To the side were dozens of futons, which should be for those who had passed the test to rest.
Qin Li naturally walked over.
Suddenly!
He felt that something wasn’t right ah!
Wasn’t the guide Han Asked?
And where did these two old men appear from?
Could it be ……
Qin Li bit the tip of his tongue.
The sharp pain caused him to instantly wake up.
Those two old men had disappeared, while he had already reached the edge of the steps, and if he took one more step, he would fall off the Heart Refining Path and lose his chance to take the test.
“That was close, I didn’t expect the ‘successful examination’ to be an illusion as well, I almost fell for it.”
Qin Li gathered his contempt and forged ahead.
The illusionary realm at the back becomes more and more dangerous and twisted, making it impossible to defend against.
Cloud Palace Wonderland, ten thousand tortures, hellish misery, ghosts crying and wolves howling, mysterious Jedi ……
At one point, Qin Li saw the Ao Tian Immortal King’s pursuit, and another time, he saw Consort Xia Yu about to go into labour, telling him to stop and help.
These illusions were all over the place, he even saw the Seven-coloured Pagoda opening up, which hid a path to heaven, and he also saw that inside the Cave of the Past Life, was a supreme divine medicine that brought back the dead.
However, Qin Li resisted the temptation of all of them.
Finally!
Qin Li walked through nine hundred and ninety-nine steps.
All the illusions dissipated into thin air, revealing the original world.
Golden Gate Mountain was still Golden Gate Mountain, and Han asked to stand just to the side, his expression as normal.
“Could this be an illusion as well.”Qin Li was much more cautious, just afraid of being underhanded, leading to the loss of all his efforts.
Han asked seemed to understand Qin Li’s thoughts and said, “I am not an illusion. You passed the examination, and from now on, you and I will be master and brother.”
Qin Li nodded and retreated to the side.
It was at this time!
He had the chance to observe his surroundings.
On the Heart Refining Road, there were only hundreds of cultivators left, most of which were Immortal Exalts.
And underneath the Heart Refining Road, the remaining cultivators were gathered, all of whom had been confused by the illusions and fell down, losing their qualifications. But they didn’t leave, just to see who had succeeded.
After waiting for half an hour.
One after another, there were cultivators who passed the examination.
Chen Jin Yi also walked up to the top and greeted Qin Li.
In the end, one hundred and twenty-three people passed, seventy-five Immortal Zun cultivators, and the remaining ones were Immortal Lords, the elimination rate was frighteningly high.
“The trial is over, the mountain gate is closed!”
Han asked, shouting loudly.
The Heart Refining Path flew back into the void rift, incidentally reeling Qin Li and the others in.
The spatial rift closed, just as the gate closed, completely severing its connection with the outside world, leaving behind only a crowd of empty grieving losers.
In the secret realm of the Academy.
The spiritual qi was extremely high, five or six times that of the outside world.
The surrounding scenery is infinite, beautiful peaks and spiritual mountains, waterfalls and springs, ancient trees are pale and green, which also hides a lot of spiritual medicines, second and third grade who can be seen everywhere, fourth and fifth grade is not rare, Qin Li even saw the rare sixth and seventh grade immortal grass.
“Immortal blessed land.”
The crowd marvelled.
Chen Jinyi was also self acquainted and licked his face to get close, “Senior Brother Han, what should we do now that we’ve entered Xixuan Academy?”
Han asked, “You guys first go with me to pay respects to the seniors.”
After flying all the way.
The crowd arrived at a gentle green mountain.
It had beautiful scenery, abundant spiritual energy, and was surrounded by streams, making it a feng shui treasure, but what was creepy was that it was densely filled with graves.
At a rough estimate, there are tens of thousands of graves here. Moreover, the graves faintly transmitted a few wisps of terrifying residual power, representing the grave owner’s horrifying cultivation in his lifetime.
“The ones buried here are all Immortal Kings and Immortal Elders!”
“What a terrifying number, what exactly happened once.”
“Aren’t we going to pay our respects to our seniors? Why have we come to the Grave Mountain.”
The crowd murmured, uncertain.
Han asked and explained, “Those buried in these graves are your seniors.”
“You should all have joined Xixuan Academy in order to break the Immortal King Curse, and to tell you the truth, there is no curse at all.”
“Promoting to the Immortal King realm will go off the rails, this is because the Immortal King realm is an incomplete realm, some of the gong methods that claim to be able to cultivate to the Immortal King realm have a large number of fallacies, once one makes a mistake in the operation of their gongs, their immortal energy will go out of control, their blood veins will retrograde, and they will die of seven-orifice bloodshed.”
Chen Jin Yi was very surprised, “I see, but how is it that the cultivators of the academy can safely advance to the Immortal King realm?”
Han asked and explained, “It’s because the seniors in these graves experimented with themselves and tried out a correct cultivation path.”
“After you join the academy, you’ll be given a puzzle to solve, and the process of cracking it is so treacherous that if you’re not careful, you’ll go off the deep end and be buried here.”
“For the last time, if you want to join the academy, you will burn incense for the seniors. Those who are afraid, I will send you away.”
The words fell!
The entire room fell silent.
Qin Li raised his eyes and looked at the graves that filled the top, feeling empty and desolate.
Tens of thousands of Immortal Venerable Immortal Kings had gone before and after, with a passionate blood, in order to carve out a correct path of cultivation, yet they all fell here, how unwilling.
It was only at this moment that he understood that cultivation realms didn’t fall from the sky, but were piled up with human lives.
Perhaps the Immortal Exalted Realm, Immortal Lord Realm, and Golden Immortal Realm, had all had similar tragedies at one time or another, only that time was too far away, and people had long since forgotten the heroes who blazed the trail ahead.
“I choose to withdraw!”
Some people got scared and weakly raised their hands.
Then, one after another, a dozen people, raised their hands and chose to leave.
“People have their own aspirations!”Qin Li shook his head and took a few steps forward, lighting a sandalwood incense and inserting it steadily into the worship incense burner.
