Today is the test meeting of the Ling family, a large family in the Qianyuan Dynasty.
In this conference, the cultivation of children over the age of ten will be tested. Only those who have reached the sixth level of Yuanqi Mirror and above can be cultivated by the family.
"Vitality mirror, third stage, level, low level." The old man glanced at the text on the vitality test stone tablet and said expressionlessly.
"Sure enough, it's still level three." The young man sighed slightly and walked off the testing platform.
However, there was some cynicism in the audience.
"Look, isn't this still the third level? It was the third level three years ago. The whole family thought he was a genius. No, he is just a loser."
"It's a pity that the family's resources are gone. In order to train him, the family has spent countless miraculous medicines. Unfortunately, there is still no progress in three years."
"That's right, if those pills could be used by me, I might be in the sixth stage of the Vitality Mirror now."
"Give it to you? It's a waste of money to give it to you. If his father hadn't been the clan leader's biological brother, this kind of waste would have been driven out of the family long ago."
"Okay, stop saying a few words. The purpose of coming here today is to test your cultivation, not for you to make noise." Suddenly a cold voice sounded from the audience.
When everyone saw that the person was Ling Lie, the eldest son of the family patriarch, they all shut up obediently.
In just a moment, the young man had already walked to his seat and sat down.
"We are from the same family, but we are so mean?" The young man closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He opened his eyes and looked at the people around him. What appeared in those people's eyes were some with contempt, some with sympathy, and some with sympathy.
of deep thought.
"I, Ling Tianxing, have I ever been so down and out that I was so pitied by others?" The young man closed his eyes again, but his heart felt as uncomfortable as if he had knocked over a five-flavor bottle.
At this time, the old man on the stage continued to shout: "Next, Ling Shuangshuang."
I saw a girl standing up from the seat far away from the boy and walking towards the stage.
"Release your vitality and place it on the stone tablet." The old man said still indifferently.
I saw Ling Shuangshuang's hands placed on the stone tablet, wrapped in a layer of cyan vitality.
A word slowly appeared on the test stone tablet.
The sixth level of the Vitality Mirror, level, intermediate.
"That's great. I have met my father's requirements. If I am less than six steps, he will definitely not let me go out to play."
Ling Shuangshuang walked off the stage happily and returned to her seat.
"Next..." On the stone platform, every time the old man called someone's name, a young man or girl would walk up to the stone platform.
Ling Shuangshuang turned to look at the young man not far from her, but her thoughts went back to three years ago.
Three years ago, news suddenly spread from the Ling family that the head of the Ling family, Ling Yi, his younger brother, and his third son, seven-year-old Ling Tianxing, had broken through the ninth level of the Yuan Qi Mirror and began to move towards the realm of enlightenment.
Whether they were sent to other places to do business or in charge of affairs in the county, the Ling family all sent expensive gifts and congratulations.
At that time, Ling Tianxing was also very happy. At the age of seven, when other people's children were playing with paper kites and playing house games, he had already reached a state that even an eighteen-year-old child might not be able to reach.
The Ling family all believed that he had an unlimited future and great potential, and even the patriarch gave him some privileges to use some of the family's resources.
There were also voices of appreciation and praise all around.
But suddenly one day, for some reason, all the cultivation of the talented young man Ling Tianxing disappeared into nothing overnight.
In the past three years, no matter how much diagnosis and treatment the family tried, they could not find the cause.
Ling Tianxing was only seven years old, so you can imagine how big of a blow it was to him.
However, Ling Tianxing is an anomaly. He is only seven years old, but his mental endurance is very strong. Even if his cultivation level is gone, he still insists on practicing every day.
A miracle happened.
When Ling Tianxing was eight years old, he cultivated Yuan Qi again, and his cultivation speed was not as fast as before. On his eighth birthday, he broke through the second stage of Yuan Yuan Qi Mirror and reached the third stage.
I thought that with such hard work and perseverance, I could continue to improve my cultivation, but three years later, Ling Tianxing could only linger at the third level of the Yuan Qi Mirror. No matter how hard he tried, he could not break through the third level.
Ling Shuangshuang's thoughts slowly returned to reality. He looked at Ling Tianxing. Although he looked strong on the surface, she knew that he was actually very lonely. He was once a genius, but now he was ridiculed by his family members.
"The last one, Ling Lie." The old man said loudly the last person.
"This is Ling Lie, the clan leader's son. He is only fifteen years old this year. I don't know what level of cultivation he has reached."
"The vitality is placed on the stone tablet." The old man still had an official tone.
"Look, Ling Lie's vitality is yellow. Isn't that the earth attribute's vitality?"
"Earth attribute vitality is difficult to cultivate. I didn't expect that Ling Lie would...what, be at the ninth level, the peak?" Everyone was surprised when they saw the level displayed on the stone tablet.
No change could be seen on Ling Lie's face, which still had a resolute expression.
After getting off the stone platform, the old man finally said: "This year's test is over. Anyone who is under twelve years old or over ten years old and has reached the fifth stage of the Yuan Qi Mirror can receive certain family resources. Well, I have met the standard.
It has been recorded and someone will bring you to collect it later."
After the test was over, everyone dispersed one by one.
Ling Tianxing returned to his residence, lay down on the bed, and stared at the roof for a while.
"Bang bang bang..."
There was a knock on the door.
"Here we come." Ling Tianxing stood up and opened the door.
"This is Brother Ling Lie, come in quickly." Ling Tianxing opened the door and saw Ling Lie standing outside the door with a smile on his face.
"Oh, no, no, I have something to do later. I have only one purpose here. Although you are now at the third level of Yuanqi Mirror, I think you will definitely be able to recover in the near future, and you will still be that genius.
"Ling Lie stood at the door and said to Ling Tianxing.
"Brother, you have been caring about me like this for the past three years. I understand what you mean. You don't want me to be discouraged. Thank you for treating me like this." Ling Tianxing bit his lip and said bitterly.
After hearing what Tian Xing said, Ling Lie frowned and said, "Tian Xing, I know some people in the family used to be jealous of you, but now that you are like this, they don't help but add insult to injury and even make sarcastic comments. It's just because they know they are not as good as you. If
If you still care about these things, you don’t want me to know you anymore.”
Ling Tianxing was startled, and suddenly laughed loudly, "Haha...Brother, I made a mistake. My family will always be my family. No matter whether I will be like this in the future, the first thing in my heart is still the family. Within the family,
All the people are my relatives, no matter how they treat me, I will still treat them the same as before, and I promise that I will not have any other thoughts."
"Okay, okay," Ling Lie said the word "ok" three times in a row, "Tianxing, as long as you say this, it will be fine. If it's okay, I'll go back first."
"Well, brother, walk slowly."
"You kid...I'm leaving..." Ling Lie finished speaking and turned around to go back.
After closing the door, Ling Tianxing felt a little better. When he was on the test bench, everyone was talking about him as a "waste", and only brother Ling Lie was still helping him. Although Ling Lie was a child of his uncle's family, he was very fond of himself.
But he was like his own brother, which couldn't help but make Ling Tianxing feel better.
"Tsk, tsk, brotherly love is deep!" Suddenly, a voice sounded in Ling Tianxing's mind. This voice was deep and vicissitudes of life.
"Who?" Ling Tianxing quickly pulled out the short knife tied to his leg, and then moved his body to the corner of the wall.
Although Ling Tianxing is only ten years old now, his father, Ling Yi, has taught him a lot of fighting skills. Like now, if he hears the sound but doesn't know the direction, he just leans his back against the wall, then the only one who gets attacked is
From the front, if you stand stupidly in the middle of the room, others can attack you from the front, back, left, and right directions. These are just some tricks that Ling Yi usually teaches him, but Ling Tianxing keeps them in mind and practices them all the time. Now he is using them
use.
"Come on, your reaction is quite flexible." It was said again.
"Who the hell are you? Don't be pretentious here." Ling Tianxing was already nervous. After all, he was only a ten-year-old child. Now there was only him in the room with a weird voice. How could he not make people nervous? Fortunately, it was still dawn.
of.
"You really want to know who I am?" The voice seemed to be teasing.
"Hmph, stop pretending. This is the Ling family. As soon as I shout, the experts from the Ling family will gather over immediately. You won't be able to escape even if you want to." Ling Tianxing also started thinking.
"In the past thousand years, you are still the first person who dares to threaten me. No, you should be a little brat. Haha, okay, I will tell you. I have a bad name, and my name is a ghost. I specialize in sucking mortals.
You know how to make a living by relying on your vitality." The voice laughed.
"Evil ghost? You..." As soon as he heard the evil ghost, Ling Tianxing knew that the other party was joking, but the following sentence "living on sucking vitality for a living" moved him.
Ling Tianxing put away the short knife and put it in his cuffs. He cupped his fists and said, "Senior, although I am a child, my father told me that evil spirits do not dare to travel during the day. Senior, please stop joking.
But senior actually said that if you suck the vitality, you won't mean to harm me."
"Oh? Why is this?" a human voice asked.
"Because three years ago, I was the only one in the Ling family who had no vitality, and now I only have the cultivation level of the third level of Yuanqi Mirror. Since senior said that he would absorb vitality, it must be because of me. I believe that senior is not someone hired by the family to come here.
The ones I treat are the guests of my father. Otherwise, if the senior is joking, wouldn't it be more frightening to say that it is an evil ghost who comes to seek life?" Ling Tianxing smiled, he knew that this senior had no ill intentions towards him.
"Huh? Are you really only ten years old? Why do you always talk in the same way?" The voice was an interested one.
"Senior, please show up!" Ling Tianxing cupped his fists and bowed again.
"Show up? Hehe... I really want to do this, but I can't do it. Look what's on your right hand?" the voice said seriously.
"Right hand?" Ling Tianxing opened his right hand and looked at it, "Except for two rings, there is nothing else."
"Do you know what these two rings are?" the voice said excitedly.
"The ring on the middle finger is the Qing Emperor Fulong Ring given to me by my father three years ago, and the ring on the ring finger is a ring I picked up in a back mountain three years ago." Ling Tianxing said truthfully.
"Blue Emperor Fulong Ring? This name? Haha, Qing Emperor Fulong, but it's also appropriate. Well, it's time to tell you that I am the soul in the ring on your ring finger."
"A soul?" Ling Tianxing opened his mouth.
"Humph, you old man, I didn't expect you to still have a complete soul. Unfortunately, I only have three souls and six souls, one soul is missing." Before Ling Tianxing could react, another woman's voice appeared in his mind.