Chapter 76: The Road to Assessment
The horse steward Imperial Sword flew up with everyone and headed towards the place of assessment.
About a stick of incense later, the steward Ma landed in front of a mountain that was only a few hundred zhang high, and in front of the mountain, there were already many people standing at this time, and these people, more than 100 of them, were all outer disciples who could participate in the assessment next year, and they came early just to learn some experience, so that they could pass the assessment more confidently next year.
More than 100 people did not approach the front of the mountain, but were far away, dozens of zhang away.
Ye Xiaofan and the others came down from the flying sword, and in front of them, there was a step cut from white jade, leading to the top of the mountain, and in front of the steps, there was an old man and an old god sitting there.
"Meet Elder Quan!" Steward Ma led Ye Xiaofan and the five of them to the old man in front of the steps, and saluted respectfully.
"Hmm. Elder Quan didn't open his eyes, but just bowed his head and said, "Since you're here, let's start." ”
Steward Ma saluted Elder Quan again and said 'yes', then turned around and said to Ye Xiaofan: "Inner door assessment, I believe you all know that half an hour, reaching the top of the mountain, even if it is successful, those who do not reach the top of the mountain in half an hour will be regarded as unable to be promoted, continue to stay in the outer gate, wait for next year's assessment, now, start the timer!"
"Let's go!" Wu Qiong roared, and was the first to rush to the white jade steps, and then, Yun Shang, Gu Xiang, and Cao Bufan rushed over in turn, but Ye Xiaofan was the last, and he was not in a hurry to rush up the mountain.
"Xiaofan, you don't want to go quickly. Seeing that Ye Xiaofan didn't move, Steward Ma couldn't help frowning slightly, and said.
"Steward Ma, is there anything special about this step?" Ye Xiaofan asked.
"Don't say it, you have to experience it yourself. Steward Ma smiled slightly and shook his head.
"Oh. Ye Xiaofan nodded 'oh', and then walked towards the mountain.
At this time, Wu Qiong and the others had already rushed up dozens of steps, but I don't know why, it seemed that the higher they went, the slower their speed became.
Ye Xiaofan roughly estimated that there were thousands of steps, and he hadn't seen the top of the mountain.
"You have to experience it for yourself. The corners of Ye Xiaofan's mouth curled slightly, and he stepped on the first step, without feeling, and on the second step, he didn't feel it, until he reached the tenth step, he didn't feel that something was wrong, there seemed to be some flowers in front of him, some messy, and the steps seemed to be distorted.
"Phantom array?" After seeing the situation in front of him, Ye Xiaofan immediately thought of a possibility, a phantom array was arranged on this step, so there was a feeling of visual disturbance.
Ye Xiaofan was still a little unsure in his heart, in the past two days, he had taken the time to read some records on the Qingyun Formation Diagram, and he had a general understanding of the way of formation, but he had just dabbled in the formation, and he was not sure, only by continuing to go up could he be sure whether it was the case.
"Sure enough, it's a phantom array!" When he walked to the twentieth step, there were no steps in front of Ye Xiaofan, there was only a mountain road, tortuous, and the road was covered with bones, and the whole environment looked extremely gloomy.
"It's a pity that this phantom array is not the same level as the phantom array in the valley where Patriarch Qingyun retreated, it's too superficial. Ye Xiaofan couldn't help but smile when he saw the changes in front of him, and after muttering a word, he continued to walk forward.
He walked in a straight line, ignoring the bones on the side of the road, and not looking at the trees that blocked him, and walked straight forward step by step.
After walking dozens of steps, a palace appeared in front of Ye Xiaofan's eyes, the palace was full of clouds and mist, the fragrance was fragrant, and there were seven or eight beautiful girls in revealing clothes dancing, they were extremely thinly dressed, as if they were wearing a tulle, and their graceful carcasses loomed under the tulle skirt, full of infinite temptation.
When Ye Xiaofan saw this scene, he couldn't help but smile, unmoved, although it was good-looking, but in his opinion, everything here was full of illusion, and it couldn't be compared with the phantom array laid by Qingyun Ancestor.
Ye Xiaofan walked into the palace, and those women began to dance around Ye Xiaofan, scratching their heads at him one by one, full of charm and temptation, but, no matter how hard these women worked to be coquettish, Ye Xiaofan just continued to walk forward, not moved at all.
Out of the palace, a cliff appeared in front of Ye Xiaofan's eyes, bottomless, and there were gusts of cold hurricanes blowing up under the cliff, as if it was about to tear people apart, and there was obvious pain.
Ye Xiaofan didn't even look at it, he stepped over, and his body quickly fell down the cliff, but Ye Xiaofan's footsteps did not stop, and he still walked rhythmically while falling.
Under the white jade steps, Steward Ma showed a shocked face, especially the disciples behind him who came to watch the assessment, they were so shocked that they pointed at the jade steps and discussed.
Because, they saw that Ye Xiaofan's footsteps had not stopped since he stepped on the steps, and now he had walked in front of Wu Qiong and the others, and he had no intention of stopping, Steward Ma was also a person who had walked this road, and he knew very well what it meant to the outer disciples who had just walked this road, and if he wanted to keep walking up and not staying, how much test and temptation he had to endure to be so.
On the white jade steps, Ye Xiaofan had already walked more than half of the steps, and he was far away from Wu Qiong and them.
In the phantom array, Ye Xiaofan continued to step on his feet, no matter how he landed, he kept his heart and was unmoved!
After walking like this for an unknown amount of time, Ye Xiaofan finally did not continue to fall off the cliff, but stood in front of a fire path, on this road, the raging fire was burning, and as soon as he appeared here, Ye Xiaofan felt as if his whole body was about to be cooked.
"It's quite real. Ye Xiaofan smiled, didn't stay for a while, and walked straight onto the fire path, as soon as he entered the fire path, he felt that the clothes on his body were burning, very hot, as if he was going to burn him to the bones.
Ye Xiaofan didn't use spiritual power to resist this feeling of being burned, although it was very real, but he knew that it was all fake, everything was illusory, this fire path seemed to be an endless road, but Ye Xiaofan only walked a hundred steps, and the fire path disappeared, and a wave of water ripples came in front of him, everything disappeared in an instant, and the rest was a small ping, looking back, he found that he had walked thousands of steps, and he saw Wu Qiong and they were still walking up step by step, as if they were walking very hard, so reluctant。
"I guess if I hadn't been in the Patriarch's Phantom Array, I guess I would have walked extremely hard like Senior Brother Wu and them, right?" Ye Xiaofan looked at Wu Qiong and the others and whispered.
"The work of half a burnt incense has passed the first level, this is something I have never seen in hundreds of years!" Steward Ma looked at the incense stick inserted in the incense burner next to him, and exclaimed in disbelief.
"That's good. Just sitting on the side, Elder Quan, who was there with the old god, opened his eyes at some point, glanced at Ye Xiaofan, who was already standing on the floor and was looking down, and praised.