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Chapter 6 - zhenqi cliff
There were two places in the Haoran Sect where disciples who had committed a crime were imprisoned. They weren't expelled, nor were they put to death.
One was the Kuxin Cave, the other was the zhenqi cliff.
At most, they could just stay inside for a few more years. However, very few disciples who made mistakes while entering the zhenqi cliff would be able to come out.
Moreover, a very small number of disciples who came out had their mouth shut, and did not talk about the zhenqi cliff at all.
Many people from the Haoran Sect guessed that the zhenqi cliff might not be a place to punish disciples.
They had analyzed it from the disciples who had entered the zhenqi cliff. Although these erroneous disciples had all kinds of mistakes, none of them were people who had rendered outstanding merits for their sect.
There was also another reason. Since he had Kuxin Cave, why take off his pants and create a zhenqi cliff? Furthermore, Haoran Sect, zhenqi cliff, even linked together, it was Righteous Energy. This was simply too tasteless.
Luo Changting brought Chu Qianye past two mountain peaks, walked along a rugged path for a long time, and finally arrived in front of a bamboo forest.
Luo Changting raised the ivory tablet, and a middle-aged man with a desolate expression walked out from the bamboo forest. Chu Qianye swore to himself that he had looked carefully, but he could not see where the middle-aged man came out from.
The middle-aged man took the token and said, ”You can go back now.”
Luo Changting wanted to say something but hesitated. He really wanted to enter the zhenqi cliff to see what exactly the mysterious zhenqi cliff was, but this middle-aged man actually directly sent him off.
Luo Changting would naturally not do something as unreasonable as making a fuss. He kindly pushed Chu Qianye's shoulders, pushed him towards the bamboo forest and said: ”Work hard, I think highly of you.”
Chu Qianye bowed emotionally, then casually waved his hand and turned around to leave. The middle-aged man said expressionlessly: ”If you want to come in, then hurry up, don't dawdle.”
Chu Qianye revealed a smile and quickly entered the bamboo forest. After entering the bamboo forest, Chu Qianye realized that there was a zigzag path leading to a distant place.
The middle aged man led the way in silence, while Chu Qianye followed behind obediently. The middle aged man did not lie or pretend to be a External Elder, but Luo Changting had to be an expert of great background.
At the end of the deep path, there were nine forks in the road. The middle-aged man stopped and said, ”You can choose any one of them.”
Chu Qianye wanted the middle aged man to help him with his choice. When he looked at the middle aged man with hope, the middle-aged man said indifferently: ”The bubbles on your feet are self-made, you have to choose which path to walk on. If others choose for you, then in your entire life, will you be able to improve?”
Chu Qianye bowed respectfully, and then walked towards the middle path.
Seeing this, the middle-aged man's brows twitched as he asked: ”Why didn't you choose a different path?”
Chu Qianye stopped at the fork in the road and laughed, then said with an extremely serious expression: ”Walk along the main road in the middle, and the main road will be open and open.”
The middle-aged man no longer spoke.
Chu Qianye glanced at him, then turned around.
He reckoned that the middle aged man would not continue to lead the way, if not, he would not have stayed still. Chu Qianye carefully walked along the long and narrow cave.
After Chu Qianye walked in, the middle-aged man took out an empty book, and wrote a few lines on the first page: On the seventh day of the tenth month, in the year of Wuyin, Chu Qianye entered the zhenqi cliff from the fifth route. The reason for this was because he had to take the big road in the middle of the road, which was open and open. This child should be a cautious person.
The last sentence was the middle-aged man's evaluation. His duty was to lead the way and also observe the choices made by the disciples who entered the zhenqi cliff. One could deduce many problems in detail and thus deduce a person's character and conduct.
The middle-aged man closed the book, and then raised his brush to add a few words: Chu Qianye, as the weakest disciple who entered the zhenqi cliff, was also the only disciple who chose the fifth method.
To be sent to the zhenqi cliff, although he had made a mistake, it was definitely because he had made a great contribution to the sect and his strength and talent were definitely not ordinary.
Because of this, they had to either choose the first from the left or the first from the right. They had to go through all nine forks in the road and choose between the left and the right.
Chu Qianye did not know that there were limited spots on each path. If there were nine people on one of the paths, then no one else could enter.
For all these years, the zhenqi cliff had sent in many disciples, but the person holding the most eighty-one disciples had never appeared. Why was this so? Those disciples that were locked in, other than those few that went out, where did the rest go?
More than half of the forks in the road already met the quota of nine people, so many disciples had no choice but to choose again and again.
But only Chu Qianye chose the fifth passage at the center without hesitation.
There was no light within the deep and dark cave. As Chu Qianye focused his eyes, he slowly walked forward with light footsteps. After walking for an unknown amount of time, it was probably night outside that arrived as specks of starlight appeared in front of Chu Qianye's eyes.
The biting cold astral wind whizzed over from afar, hitting his face painfully. Only now did Chu Qianye see that he was on a platform halfway up the mountain.