At the foot of Quhua Mountain, in a large hall in the outer courtyard, more than 30 elders from the outer gate gathered together. They are talking about this year's nominees. According to the past practice, the recommended person must be approved by more than half of the elders of the outer sect.

However, this year's candidate disciples seem to be a bit too many, and they have reached thirteen. The elders were unwilling to retreat, and for a while they argued.

An elder proposed that the candidate disciples should compete in a competition, and whoever is stronger will be selected. As soon as these words came out, there was a lot of opposition. Obviously, there seemed to be something wrong with the candidate disciples they had recommended.

In this case, one of the elders refined the previous proposal to have the candidate disciples compete in one game, but only three remained, and then voted. As soon as this remark came out, although there were some opponents, they agreed more.

After Lin Man'er left from the courtyard, he planned to go to the elders of the outer gate and tell them that he was very strong and his performance was amazing. However, the gate of the outer courtyard was crowded with disciples, and they had the same idea as Lin Man'er.

In the crowd, two disciples fought. For a time, the flames of war spread, causing a scuffle. Lin Man'er didn't want to cause trouble, so he dodged left and right, wanting to take advantage of the chaos to squeeze in. Originally, he was going to go in, but who thought that his actions would cause dissatisfaction among the disciples and point the finger at him.

Lin Man'er was buried in the ground for a month, and his temper was much better, so he chose to back down. However, his concession became a sign of cowardice in the eyes of the disciples. For a while, the disciples attacked him even more fiercely.

Lin Man'er slapped the flame palm to force everyone back, and said with some annoyance: "If you want to make another move, don't blame me for being polite." ”

A disciple learned from Lin Man'er's tone and said, "I'm so scared, why are you not polite to me?" As soon as the words fell, there was a burst of laughter. At the same time, the other fighting disciples stopped one after another and looked at Lin Man'er with ill will.

Lin Man'er couldn't bear it anymore, he kicked under his feet, jumped up, and sent a sword in the air. The sword came out like the wind with a hint of thunder.

Someone among the disciples exclaimed, "He is a sword immortal, run away." ”

As soon as these words came out, all the disciples slammed around like headless flies, and even one disciple crashed into Lin Man'er, but before he could get close, he was kicked away by Lin Man'er.

After all the disciples left, Lin Man'er put away the mourning sword, and just as he was about to go in, he heard someone calling him behind him. He turned around and saw that a young man dressed in the uniform of an outer disciple was limping towards him.

Lin Man'er felt a little familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere. When the man approached, Lin Man'er looked at him, his body was thin, his face was haggard, and his messy beard made the whole person look very decadent.

"Do we know each other?" Lin Man'er asked.

The man was visibly stunned when he heard this, and a trace of disappointment crossed his eyes.

Seeing this, Lin Man'er hurriedly added: "I think you are very familiar, and I can't remember it for a while. ”

"Brother Man'er, I'm Ji Yunquan!"

When Lin Man'er heard it, the more she looked at it, the more she felt like it. He asked, "What did you do like this?" ”

"Alas! It's hard to put into words! Ji Yunquan sighed.

Lin Man'er looked at him, and always felt a sense of twilight, it was hard to imagine that this person was Ji Yunquan back then.

"What's wrong with your leg?" Lin Man'er said with concern.

Ji Yunquan waved his hand, as if remembering something, and asked, "Why are you here?" ”

"I'm coming to the elders and asking them to recommend me as an inner disciple." Lin Man'er replied truthfully.

"So you're an outer disciple now?" Ji Yunquan said with some surprise.

"Well, I took the assessment, and my grades were not very good, so I became an outer disciple." Lin Man'er said with an embarrassed smile on her face.

"I've also heard about this year's assessment, so it's good to be alive." After speaking, he sighed again and said, "It's inconvenient to talk here, let's change places." ”

Ji Yunquan led Lin Man'er to the place where he practiced. Along the way, Lin Man'er seemed to want to ask something, but the words never came out of his mouth. Not long after, the two came to a small courtyard, the environment was not bad, at least better than Lin Man'er's courtyard.

Ji Yunquan took out a pot of wine, filled it for Lin Man'er, and raised his hand to signal him to drink it first. Lin Man'er drank it all, and when she saw that Ji Yunquan was going to pour wine, she politely refused.

Ji Yunquan didn't force it, and directly lifted the wine jar and drank it. Seeing that he drank most of the jar of wine, Lin Man'er took the jar of wine.

Ji Yunquan suddenly laughed and asked, "You want to ask me, how is my leg lame?" Seeing Lin Man'er nodding, he smiled bitterly, "Crippled." ”

Ji Yunquan once gave Lin Man'er a book of cultivation exercises, and coupled with Xuemei's factor, Lin Man'er had a very good impression of him. Now, if someone dares to bully Ji Yunquan, then he can't sit idly by. "Who hit it?" he asked. Tell me that I broke his leg too. ”

Ji Yunquan shook his head, he told Lin Man'er about this, not to let him stand out for himself, but to let him recognize the reality.

"You want the elders to recommend you to become an inner disciple, that's impossible."

"Why?" Lin Man'er was puzzled.

"Why? Because a practitioner is also a human being, he has human nature, and human nature is greedy. ”

"Are you saying I didn't give a gift?" Lin Man'er remembered what Qi Meng said.

"Yes! Practitioners need resources to climb up, and this is especially evident here. ”

"Doesn't it mean that as long as you perform amazingly, you can also get a referral place?"

When Ji Yunquan heard this, he was slightly stunned, and then replied: "Yes, that's right, but what is amazing enough?" With that, he poured himself another bowl of wine.

"I'm a sword immortal now."

As soon as the words fell, the wine bowl in Ji Yunquan's hand fell to the ground, he looked at Lin Man'er in disbelief, and asked, "Are you a sword immortal?" ”

Lin Man'er took out the mourning sword and slashed at the big stone in the corner of the wall, and the stone shattered instantly.

Seeing this, Ji Yunquan's eyes lit up with a glimmer of hope, but this glimmer of hope dissipated after less than three breaths. He said to Lin Man'er: "If you were a month earlier, maybe you really had a chance, but unfortunately you were a month late." ”

"What do you mean?"

"A month ago, Elder Ding's descendant disciple Ren Wushuang advanced to the Immortal Realm. After that, after about three days, Dean Dongfang's descendant disciple Feng Lan advanced to the Immortal Realm. At the same time, Vice President Zhu's descendant disciple Pei Yongsi was promoted to the rank of Little Sword Immortal, and he was still a pure sword cultivator. ”

"What does that have to do with me?"

"Of course it does. If you become an immortal a month earlier, that is, the first to become an immortal, then the elders will have to nominate you to ascend. But now, they won't. ”

"Why?"

"Because the focus is gone, you are no different from those outer disciples who have become immortals now."

Lin Man'er thought for a while, and soon understood the truth. But he had worked so hard that it was almost impossible to advance a month earlier. Then he now has only the second way left, and that is to fight up.

Ji Yunquan disagreed, and he persuaded Lin Man'er to give up this idea as soon as possible. Lin Man'er was extremely unhappy with his decadent appearance, and scolded: "Look at your current appearance, you are like an old dead earth dog, without any human appearance. ”

Ji Yunquan slammed the wine jar and roared, "You actually said that I was a soil dog? Then you go and fight, I want to see how you live your life. ”

Lin Man'er smashed his fist on the stone table, and the four or five inches thick stone table was smashed by him. He pointed to Ji Yunquan and said word by word: "I'll go now." ”

When he walked to the door, Lin Man'er remembered what Xue Meito had brought to Ji Yunquan. He took it out of his wrench, added a few bottles of healing elixir, and threw them on the ground together.

"Your sister sent it, do you want to follow it?"

After Lin Man'er left, Ji Yunquan walked over to pick up the package, and when he saw the letter Xuemei gave him, he was so frightened that he threw it away. He hid in the house, took out another jar of wine, and drank it wildly, as if only being drunk could give him a moment of peace. He was lying on the bed, his eyes misty, and a familiar voice seemed to come to his head.

"Apprentice, don't give up, otherwise you won't be blind to the teacher's death!"

Immediately after that, Xuemei's voice came again.

"Don't call me that, you were just picked up by me, we don't know each other."

"Ji Gongzi, you and I broke off many years ago. Now, I am honored to have you to come and see me. However, from now on, I hope you will not come to disturb my life. ”

After that, Qi Meng's voice came again.

"I can only give you three years at most, and if you can't become an inner disciple after three years, forget about me!"

Ji Yunquan couldn't stand it anymore and pounded wildly at the wall. After a period of catharsis, he gradually calmed down. Looking at the fist prints on the wall, he decided to step out and open the letter. After reading the content, Ji Yunquan looked up to the sky and roared.

Quan'er, practice with peace of mind, Sister Lingshi will solve the matter for you.