Chapter 25: Breaking through the Barriers

After waiting for a few days, no one came down, although the immortal cultivator was extremely patient, but there were few people muttering: "This person's breakthrough is also stumbling, luckily succeeded, it should be that the qualifications are not good, it will not take much time to consolidate the realm, and it has not come down yet, is there another change?"

Just as he was in doubt, he suddenly saw clouds gradually gathering on the mountain peak. At first, no one cared, but when the clouds gathered more and more, someone reacted: "What! Is there someone who wants to break through again? When did the breakthrough become so easy, one after the other?"

This time the sensation was even better than the last time, just like pouring a scoop of cold water in a pot of boiling oil, and the noisy chatter could not stop. Many monks were so excited that their eyes lit up, and they all said that after practicing in their lives, it was the first time they had seen someone break through one after another, and those small families and small sects couldn't sit still. Some monks had sharp eyes, and they had already seen some: "The sect master of the Guiyuan Sect is here!" "That's the head of Fulongguan!" "Look! That's the elder of the Lu family! The seven great families are also here!"

At this time, the clouds on the mountain peaks gathered thicker and thicker. Compared to last time, the cloud color is reddish this time, and it is much more beautiful. "Well, it's a fire attribute monk who is about to break through! It's the fire energy that gathers!" and the speed at which the energy gathers is also faster. In the midst of everyone's discussions, just like last time, the fire vitality also formed a funnel, which was much bigger than the one last time. Even some low-level cultivators can now see that the person who broke through this time has better qualifications than the previous one. Those who had bad intentions secretly called it lucky, knowing that the other party must be prepared, so they didn't go up to die. He didn't know that Xiao Tian and the three of them were just seeking a breakthrough with the determination to pursue the Heavenly Dao, and they didn't consider any successes or failures, let alone guarding against ill-intentioned people.

After the fire energy funnel gathered and formed, it was also suddenly poured down quickly. This time, the pouring was much smoother, although the speed was getting slower and slower, and finally it almost stopped, but it never stopped, and the shape of the vitality funnel has been relatively stable, and the onlookers feel that this breakthrough is very certain. Finally, the last shred of vitality disappeared, and the summit fell silent again.

A few days later, in the early morning, in the midst of everyone's eyes, three men finally came down from the top of the mountain, two men and one woman, both of whom were tall and muscular, but one was slightly more slender and the other more burly. The woman was also tall and veiled. It was Mo Da, Wu Yuemei and Xiao Tian.

Seeing these three people, the crowd once again burst into exclamations: "It's Mo Dasha! It's actually him who broke through!" "Whisper!People are now the predecessors of the foundation building, do you want to find death?" "That woman must be the Yuemei Fairy, it turns out that the two of them have both broken through!" "Senior Mo is kind-hearted and has always been helpful, and his old man has been able to break through, it is really the way of heaven!" "Who is that young man? Could it be that Senior Mo has accepted disciples? Isn't I having no chance?" "You don't know him?" It's really rare and weird, isn't he the body refining cultivator who has been following Senior Mo, known as the human shield?"

In the midst of the discussion, some of the fast-responding monks, as well as the monks who had always been friends with Moda and could speak, had already surrounded the three of them in the middle, congratulating one after another, their faces were full of enthusiasm, and they were all elated, and that kind of joy was nothing more than a breakthrough by themselves, but only God knows what they thought in their hearts. The representatives of the sect families stood at the front, congratulating and promising huge profits and trying their best to win them over. The Elder Zhuji of the Lu family also frequently showed favor and invited the two of them to be Elder Keqing.

Mo Da was annoyed, but it was not easy to refuse, Wu Yuemei said softly: "Thank you for your love, it's just that the two of us will break through, it will take time to consolidate the realm, I want to go home today, and then visit you later, how about it?"

When the three of them returned to Moda's residence, the door was already crowded with monks who had heard the news, and even those who knew the opportunity had put congratulatory gifts and attached prayers. Wu Yuemei came forward to send everyone away, and after clearing up, Mo Da said: "No one cared about it before, and I was at ease, but this breakthrough caused a lot of trouble." Wu Yuemei smiled and said, "You just get cheap and sell well." Then don't break through and retreat to the Qi refining period. All three laughed.

After a few more days, the three of them calmed down, discussed it, and felt that the scattered cultivation was really weak, and now that they had broken through to the foundation, they couldn't feel at ease, and it was better to rely on one force. Wu Yuemei also thinks that the qualifications of the two are not outstanding, and they defect to big forces, which is also dispensable, it is better to rely on a small sect family, which can not only hold each other, but also share more interests, the so-called "rather be the head of the chicken than the queen of the cow" is nothing more than that. Xiao Tian and Mo Da also thought that this was the best way out, and after discussion, they decided to go to a smaller sect called the Qingyun Sect and become a guest elder. This kind of position is generally a fictitious position, and there is no need to be in the sect at ordinary times, and there is no need to make any contribution to the sect, but when there is a dispute in the sect, or when the disciples in the sect are in danger, they must have to help. Moda is used to being idle, and he is most reluctant to participate in the affairs of the sect, which is very much in line with him. The master of this Qingyun sect is just a monk in the middle stage of foundation building, and there are two foundation building elders in the sect, one in the middle stage and one in the early stage, they are all overjoyed to learn that Mo Da and the others are willing to succumb to the sect, and their own sect can finally speak in the small forces. Therefore, the two sides hit it off, and the guests and hosts were happy.

A few days later, in the early morning, the genius was slightly bright, and there were already three people standing outside the west gate of the city, two men and one woman, it was Xiaotian and Mo Dawu Yuemei. Xiao Tian arched his hand and said: "The two brothers and sisters don't need to be sent, Xiao Tian is going to pursue the dream in his heart, no matter how bumpy the road ahead is, I have the confidence to keep moving forward." The two brothers and sisters take care, and there will be a time to see each other in the future. Mo Dahao smiled heartily: "When I first met my brother that day, I never expected that you would have great ambitions, but I looked down on you as small." Brother, you must not be in the pool, I will sit here and wait for your good news!" Wu Yuemei remembered something and said: "You Brother Mo is confused, and I am also careless, and I have never asked your real name for so long since we have been friends. If you don't tell us your real name, when you have a great achievement in the future, it will reach our ears, and we don't know who it is!" Xiaotian also smiled: "Don't blame my brothers and sisters, I'm confused." My surname is Su, and my father had high expectations for me that day, so he named me Aotian, which made my brothers and sisters laugh. Mo Da said: "Good name! My generation of monks, I don't have the ambition to look up to the sky and change my life against the sky, why bother talking about cultivating immortals! As an elder brother, I expect you to make great achievements!" Xiao Tian said: "Xiao Tian left here today, it is Su Aotian." Don't say much, when we get together again in the future, we will talk to my brothers and sisters. After saying that, he arched his hand, turned to the west, and without looking back, he strode away. Mo Da and Wu Yuemei didn't reluctantly return to the city until they couldn't see him anymore.

Xiao Tian went all the way to the west, walked for a long time, felt something in his heart, stopped and looked back, only to see that Hongwu City had become a small dot with shadows. Pressing down the emotions in his heart, he silently shouted in his heart: "This world, I, Su Aotian, are here!" turned around and walked forward.

At about the same time, in the Ice and Fire Cave in the back mountain of the Gu family in Xuanwu City, Gu Yuntian was still undergoing the baptism of ice and fire.

At this time, it had been fifteen years since he and Luo Wentian first entered the cave. Ten years ago, Luo Wentian had achieved a successful refining body, and the meridians of his whole body were already solid, and he was able to withstand the vitality of heaven and earth. He was already in a high realm, and after the defect of his weak body was eliminated, he had cultivated to the ninth stage of qi refining in only a few months, and when he felt the opportunity to break through, he went out of the cave and went home to break through. Before leaving, he instructed Gu Yuntian to cultivate well in this Ice and Fire Cave, and strive to break through the limit of his own bearing every time, and left many methods for the cultivation of the Divine Soul, so that when he was physically tired, he would be relieved by cultivating the Divine Soul. Luo Wentian didn't come back as soon as he left, and Gu Yuntian kept cultivating in the Ice and Fire Cave. Whenever his body adjusted to the pressure, he would advance dozens of meters, and he didn't know the specific distance, in short, he didn't stop until his skin and flesh cracked. In the cave, he didn't know how long it had been, how far he had advanced, his body had been almost numb to the pain between repeated injuries and recovering, and in the silent world of emptiness and darkness for a long time, the cultivation of the divine soul had made a lot of progress, but for the heaven and earth vitality, he still couldn't absorb it.

Over the years, his body's endurance has improved greatly, and the time spent in a new place is getting shorter and shorter each time, but this ice and fire cave seems to have no end, and he can only feel bursts of cold and heat waves coming from ahead, and he can never see the ancient lava and polar cold jade ice.

On this day, I was cultivating, and as usual, I was tossing myself to exhaustion, and then silently nourishing my soul. Suddenly, my heart moved, I felt a familiar breath, and I knew that it was my mother Bai Xiufei who came, so I slowly collected my work and said, "Mother, you are here." ”

Bai Xiufei hummed softly and asked, "Tian'er, how is your cultivation?"

Gu Yuntian couldn't help but shake his head: "Mother, the child is dull, and he can't absorb the vitality into his body so far." He was very depressed.

Bai Xiufei let out another "oh" and said, "I can't feel it, it's nothing." But God, we can't cultivate here, it's time to go out. ”

Gu Yuntian was in a hurry and said, "Why, I feel that I can't absorb the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi yet, and I still want to continue cultivating here!"

Bai Xiufei said: "Tian'er, you forgot, you are twenty-four years old this year, and the clan stipulates that if a junior is over twenty years old and cannot cultivate, he must go to the outer courtyard and do what he can for the family." As early as a few years ago, Gu Yuming in the second room mentioned it many times, first, he was afraid of your father, and secondly, the head of the family was partial, and he just pretended to be deaf and dumb, so he delayed these days for you. But the more time passes, the more opinions of some people in the clan become, and the head of the family also inquired about this matter a few days ago, and your father and I are reluctant, so we have to come and call you out. After speaking, his heart was bitter and unspeakable, and he couldn't hold back and didn't cry.

Gu Yuntian then remembered that there was such a rule in the family, and his heart was at a loss, and he just muttered, "Yes, it turns out that I am already over twenty years old, so I am really a waste who cannot cultivate for the rest of my life?"

Bai Xiufei heard that his heart was like a knife, he endured his sadness, and said: "That's not necessarily, it's not like there are things in the outer courtyard all day long, I'll ask your father to tell you, find you a quiet errand, and you can continue to cultivate." ”

In Gu Yuntian's heart, there was a voice shouting frantically: "No, I can't go to the outer courtyard! The outer courtyard is full of mortals who can't cultivate, doing some business for the family to make a living, and going to the outer courtyard means that in this life and this life, the cultivation journey has come to an end." I'm not reconciled!" I felt uncomfortable, and I unconsciously had some whimpering sounds in my mouth, but I still said to Bai Xiufei: "Mother, I still want to try again!"

Bai Xiufei said helplessly: "It's okay, half a month later will be the day when the clan will hold a coming-of-age ceremony, and after this day, you will be allowed to go to the outer courtyard." If you cultivate with peace of mind first, you may be able to reap the rewards in these two days. I'll go out and talk to your father first, and you must remember not to rush in!"

Gu Yuntian thought blankly: "Half a month! Half a month, what can I do in half a month? Could it be that in this life, I am just like mortals in this world, birth, old age, sickness and death, and ashes? If so, what is the difference between dying early and dying late?" Thinking of this, he made up his mind: "This time, I will sacrifice my life to go deeper, at most, I will give this life here, and save myself from suffering those troubles again." "I have a certain idea, and I strode forward.

This time he forgot about life and death, and his courage was heroic, and he walked dozens of steps at the beginning and never felt unusual. Gradually, I felt that my body's endurance had reached the limit, and I still gritted my teeth and moved forward step by step. The skin and flesh on his body were scorched by the heat wave, and the blood and muscles just came out, and in an instant, they were frozen into ice by the cold current. This kind of alternating torture of hot and cold has long been unbearable, and at this time, under the persistence of perseverance, it is just struggling to support itself. The damage to the body gradually increased, becoming weaker and weaker, and the consciousness became more and more blurred, thinking, "Am I dying?" I don't know how long I walked, and I don't know how long it was, but I suddenly felt that there seemed to be light in front of me, and I saw a red light flickering, and I thought to myself: "Is it an illusion? Or is that the red light the light from the eternal lava? He didn't know that if it was in a brightly lit place, he could see that from nowhere, there were drops of tiny white dots, which gradually turned into intermittent white lines, and finally joined into a continuous white line, extending all the way to his feet.

It was as if he was in a nightmare, with the boundless darkness in front of him, the cold and the heat around him, and the torment of the cold and heat seemed to be endless. Finally the painful feeling disappeared little by little, and it felt like I had come out of the darkness, and I could faintly hear someone talking and sobbing in my ears. In a blur, Gu Yuntian slowly came to his senses.

At this time, I heard a voice crying with joy: "Tian'er, are you awake?"

Gu Yuntian opened his eyes, and in front of him was a face with a smile and tears, his expression was haggard, his eyes were red and swollen, it was his mother Bai Xiufei, where was there an immortal cultivator at this time, and there was no difference between it and a mortal mother in the world. He didn't remember what had happened at all, but asked, "Mother, what's wrong?"

Bai Xiufei said: "This is home, you are in your own bed." ”

Gu Yuntian was stunned for a moment and said, "Mother, why did I come out? Aren't I cultivating in the cave?"

Bai Xiufei was distressed and angry, and couldn't help complaining: "Didn't you still say, didn't you tell you not to rush in? That day, I went out and told your father that you still wanted to have an interview in it, so I couldn't bear to blow your mind, I didn't want to think about it, and I almost killed you." Is this cave of ice and fire so easy to enter? Where have you gone? If it weren't for the coming-of-age ceremony in half a month, but twenty days later, a month later, your father and I would have gone in again, where would you still have your life?"

Gu Yuntian only remembered what happened before he fell into a coma at this time, it turned out that he couldn't hold on and passed out in the cave, and his parents only found out after entering the cave, so he took himself out for treatment. It seems that he didn't succeed after all, thinking of this, he couldn't help asking: "Now that the coming-of-age ceremony is over, right? You were seriously injured this time, and the third elder said that the fault was not that your body was strong, and your life was already lost. You should recuperate from your injuries first, and then talk about it when your injuries are healed. ”

After Gu Yuntian woke up, his injuries recovered extremely quickly, and in only five or six days, the injuries all over his body were already healed. Bai Xiufei didn't want his son to move to the outer courtyard, so he only used the excuse of recuperating from his injuries to drag on day by day.

On this day, an uninvited guest came to the courtyard, and when he entered the door, he shouted loudly: "Yuntian, is the injury okay?"

Bai Xiufei could hear the voice, it was Gu Yuting's peer brother Gu Yuming. Among the disciples of the family, there are often fierce battles in the open and in the dark, and this Gu Yuming is extremely incompatible with his own one, knowing that it is not good for him to come, Bai Xiufei did not respond.

Gu Yuming pretended to be unknown, and said to himself: "Yuntian is no longer in trouble, I, as an uncle, have come to send him to the outer courtyard today." I have made arrangements so that he will not be bullied. "Smiling, very proud.