After hearing this, Ning Tao looked up and looked around, and found that he was in a familiar home, with a look of confusion on his face.
When Ning Feng saw Ning Tao's appearance, he waved his hand in front of Ning Tao's eyes and said, "Hey, brother, come to your senses. What are you thinking about? Get up quickly, or our dad will beat you soon."
Ning Tao got up quickly after hearing this and went outside the house. His father, Ning Hutou, was warming up in the courtyard. When he saw Ning Tao coming out, he asked with some concern: "A Tao, what's going on today? Are you feeling unwell? Usually you But you got up earlier than your brother, why did you sleep for so long today? Come warm up with me and get ready to go out for morning exercises."
After hearing this, Ning Tao and Ning Feng followed his father in doing warm-up exercises. However, Ning Tao didn't know what he was thinking at this time and was a little distracted.
After a while, Ning Tao came back to his senses and pinched himself secretly and found that it hurt.
Go out and come to the back mountain primary school together. This place still looks familiar. After everyone practiced boxing together, when they returned home, their mother had already prepared meals for them and others. After eating the hot breakfast, the two of them took the old cow out of the house...
The simple and familiar day passed quickly. Lying in bed at night, Ning Tao looked at his sleeping brother beside him, but he couldn't fall asleep. He came to the yard and looked at the bright moonlight, twinkling stars, and everything in the sky. It's all so real.
It made him wonder if his experience in Yaowang Sect was just a dream, but this dream was so real.
It's just that Ning Tao has no intention of telling his family about his experience in Yaowang Sect...
One year passed quickly. During this year, Ning Tao privately tested the methods of cultivating immortals he had obtained many times, and found that they had no effect at all. He had fully concluded that everything he had experienced in the Yaowang Sect before was Everything is a dream.
On this day, Ning Tao, who was herding cattle, was practicing boxing with his younger brother. Suddenly he noticed black smoke billowing from the village in the distance, so he hurriedly called to his younger brother who was practicing boxing aside.
The two men rode on the old ox and rushed home with whips whipping around. When they arrived at the village, they saw that the entire village was littered with corpses and blood flowed into rivers. Many houses had been devoured by flames and thick smoke billowing out. .
Several barbarians were chasing the surviving villagers on horseback, holding spears and machetes in their hands. Women's screams were heard in some houses.
When Ning Tao and Ning Feng saw this, they left the old cow aside and rushed towards their homes along the path.
When they came to the yard, they saw their father pinned to the wall with a spear and their mother lying in a pool of blood. Ning Tao and Ning Feng's eyes were red. They rushed forward and hugged their father and mother's cold bodies, shaking and shouting. , tears covered the whole face.
But no matter how they shouted, the cold bodies of Ning Hutou and Yang Xiuniang didn't respond at all.
At this time, several barbarian soldiers outside rode horses and passed by the courtyard gate, laughing wildly from their mouths. They regarded the frantically fleeing villagers as prey and chased them playfully.
When Ning Tao and Ning Feng saw these enemies, they roared, picked up the weapons scattered aside, and staggered towards the outside of the courtyard.
Suddenly, Ning Tao suddenly felt as if something was grabbing his arm, and then he heard a voice in his ear: "You can't go back after leaving this door!" Ning Tao was stunned when he heard this.
But at this moment, Ning Tao saw his younger brother who rushed out of the yard and was picked up by the barbarian soldiers on a spear and held high in the sky. His body was still twitching unconsciously.
At this time, the voice that had just appeared sounded again, "Put down your hatred and come with me, leaving the green hills behind without fear of running out of firewood!"
Ning Tao, who had just calmed down a little, saw his brother being killed, his eyes turned red, and he roared and asked, "Can you avenge me?"
"Can."
"Then thank you, avenge me!"
After saying that, he broke free from the invisible force that restrained him, roared and rushed out, raised the hunting knife in his hand high, and shouted: "Avenge me!"
Immediately afterwards, he was stabbed in the chest by a spear, but Ning Tao had already thrown the hunting knife in his hand as the spear came closer.
"ah……"
Ning Tao was lifted into the air by the spear, and then he fell heavily to the ground. The barbarian soldier looked at the long knife that penetrated his chest in disbelief. Blood came out of his mouth "Gurgling..." and he pointed. Ning Tao fell off his horse without saying anything.
Ning Tao, who was dying, looked at his brother beside him and his parents in the yard, and stretched out his hand to touch them, but he no longer had the strength to approach them.
Ning Tao's eyes slowly became unfocused, and darkness slowly swallowed Ning Tao's body. When the darkness completely swallowed Ning Tao's body, Ning Tao in reality suddenly opened his eyes.
At this time, there was no hatred between the country and the family, and there was no blood feud. I was the only one standing in front of a white jade archway shrouded in clouds and mist. Dragons and phoenixes danced and wrote the three characters "Yao Wang Zong". On both sides, there were also written: "The road to immortality is long and long, and I have traveled through hundreds of realms." Beginning to ascend to immortality."
Looking at his body, he saw that his knees and arms, which had been bruised with blood on the steps, had no wounds at all, and on the inside of the archway, stood the headmaster and many elders.
Taking a closer look, Yang Song and Zhang Yong, the children who had embarked on the path of spiritual refining with him, were already standing beside everyone. Senior Brother Yang Feng, whom he was familiar with, was also standing among the elders, looking at him with a smile.
At this moment, Ning Tao didn't know that everything he had just experienced was an illusion.
At this time, the leader smiled and said to Ning Tao: "Ning Tao, congratulations!"
Ning Tao shook off the distracting thoughts in his mind, raised his hands and saluted, "I have met the leader, elders, and brothers."
The leader shook the whisk in his hand and said, "Disciple Ning Tao, come here and wait."
Upon hearing this, Ning Tao quickly came to stand beside the other boys and waited.
And these Taoist boys who had passed the examination and became official disciples were chatting with Ning Tao in a low voice, asking what Ning Tao had experienced...
From the conversations among the people, Ning Tao knew that what Yang Song, who came from a scholarly family, experienced was that he failed to take the provincial examination. Faced with the disappointment of his elders in the family and the ridicule of his peers, he could not let go of his former pride. He was depressed at first, but finally overcame this mentality and worked hard. Finally, he gained the status of a scholar, and when he was proud and proud, he came to his senses.
Zhang Yong, on the other hand, had to give up his ideals and become a farmer in order to make a living. He shouldered the heavy responsibility of the family on his small shoulders. When recruiting soldiers, he finally refused to face the life that could be seen at the end of his life and persuaded him. My own parents joined the army, made some small achievements, and returned to their hometown honorably with the recognition of their parents and the envy of their fellow villagers...
Time passed little by little, and the sun that was hanging high in the sky began to set little by little. When the sky was filled with colorful clouds, no one finally came out of the illusion.
At this time, Ning Tao discovered that the children who walked to the gatehouse had no eyes, stood blankly, sweating all over, and showing signs of pain.
If he can't hold on, an elder will come forward, wake up the boy with magic power, take him back from the platform in front of the door, and let him stand on the other side to wait.
Those Taoist boys who successfully experienced this test stood there with dull eyes and calm expressions.
Only children who wake up from it on their own are considered to have passed the entrance test, while those who do not wake up on their own are still trapped in the illusion and have not passed the illusion.
At this time, an elder standing in front of the crowd said to the leader standing at the front: "Master, it's almost time."
The leader nodded and said, "Well, let's wait another half hour. Wait another half hour before forcibly awakening these Taoist boys to prevent them from being immersed in illusions for a long time and losing themselves."
The elder sighed after hearing this, and said with a hint of pity: "It has to be like this, but these Taoist boys will really need to practice for a period of time to make up for the damage to their minds."
When it started to get dark, the leader standing at the front said: "It's almost time. I'll ask all the junior brothers to work with me to remove the restrictions and wake up these Taoist boys who are still immersed in the illusion."
After everyone heard the words and promised, they worked together to use their magic power to perform the magic in their hands.
A whirlwind was seen, like a tornado, blowing away all the clouds and mist on the entire staircase from top to bottom, revealing a white jade staircase that was only two to three hundred meters long.
Ning Tao was able to see the entire staircase and touched his nose in embarrassment.
It turns out that what I thought was a long staircase turned out to be just like this. When I looked up, I saw Senior Brother Yang looking at me with a narrow smile. Ning Tao smiled back awkwardly...
When the clouds and fog dissipated, the Taoist boys who were still standing on the platform and steps in front of the archway groaned, opened their eyes, and looked a little pale.
When these Taoist boys saw the people standing in front of them and Ning Tao and others standing on one side, they didn't know that they had failed the entrance examination.
Without waiting for frustration, the master uncle said: "The entrance examination is over. Taoist boys who have not passed the examination need to work hard and go back to rest their minds. I hope you can perform differently in the next examination!"
After saying that, he waved his whisk, and a dozen senior brothers came out from behind and took away the Taoist boys who failed the examination.
After everyone left, the master uncle said: "Yang Song, Zhang Yong, Ning Tao... come here!"
Ning Tao, who passed the entry test, and the other twelve Taoist boys stepped forward and waited for the master's admonishment.
"The road to immortality is long, and you have to go through hundreds of realms before reaching immortality. The road to immortality is bumpy, rugged, and extremely dangerous. Taking this step is to compete with God for your fate. Now you have overcome the illusion in your hearts and officially become the outer disciples of Yaowang Sect. I hope you will continue to work hard and go further on this road in the future!”
When Ning Tao and others heard the admonition, they saluted and thanked them. The leader nodded slightly when he saw this.
Then he turned to an elder beside him and said, "Junior Brother Yu, I have to ask you to arrange the remaining matters!"
After saying that, he turned into a rainbow and left. The rest of the people also looked at the twelve Taoists with smiles and left one after another. Only a few elders, Ning Tao and others were left...
