Peace in the fairyland (1): Getting Started

In the newly built manor’s master bedroom, the door was locked, the curtains were closed, and the two owners of the manor lay side by side on the wide bed.

“It took us a whole year to go from death to resurrection to upgrading. It’s quite tiring.” Cheng Huaiqian stared at Xia Ruize’s profile, gently touched his lover’s hair, and smiled, “If we can successfully upgrade to the Golden Book Area this time, the frequency of missions will probably continue to decrease, and we can relax and rest.”

In July of a year ago, the two who died unexpectedly met in the novice mission world of the endless world. Now, as their strength in the endless world continued to increase, their bodies in the real world were increasingly deviating from the scope of normal people.

Not to mention them, just talk about Xia Ruize’s parents. They were getting healthier and healthier under the influence of Xia Ruize often spending his survival points to bring out treasures from the endless world, and they looked younger and younger day by day.

Xia Ruize recalled his experience of the past year and felt a little emotional, but he still tapped Cheng Huaiqian on the head and said with a smile: “Don’t talk nonsense, don’t set flags randomly.”

Cheng Huaiqian smiled ingratiatingly, the two held hands tightly, smiled at each other, and then everything went dark before their eyes. The mission to upgrade the Area officially began.

When Xia Ruize opened his eyes again, he found himself standing among a group of young people ranging in age from teenagers to thirty-somethings. There were a lot of people surrounding him and it was very lively.

Xia Ruize immediately locked onto Cheng Huaiqian who was not far away. Their eyes met and then they looked away tacitly.

After confirming that his lover was not far away, Xia Ruize subconsciously relaxed a lot and began to observe the surrounding environment.

A quick glance around revealed that there were probably tens of thousands of people gathered here, standing on a flat area at the foot of a mountain.

The mountain in front of them was so high that the top could not be seen, and the clouds were lingering in the middle of the mountain, like a fairyland.

The advantage of having a large crowd was that it was convenient to collect information. Xia Ruize listened carefully to the whispers around him and indeed gained a lot of information.

“Qingyang Sect only opens its gates once every three years to recruit disciples. Whether becoming an outer disciple or a servant is a great opportunity. In any case, you must be selected!”

“Qingyang Sect is one of the three major sects. Whenever it opens its gates, there are always a large number of people trying to get in. Your family has spent a lot of money to send you to participate in the entrance examination. No matter what kind of test you encounter later, you must hold on!”

“Your father has spent a lot of money to find out. The examinations for the Qingyang Sect’s entrance selection this year should be the ‘Ladder to Heaven’ and the ‘The Path to Self-Reflection’. One tests the qualifications for cultivating immortals, and the other tests the character of disciples. No matter which one it is, you must remember it. The secret is to persist as long as you can. The longer you persist, the greater the possibility of entering the Qingyang Sect!”

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No matter how low the sounds around him were, Xia Ruize’s mental power could sense them.

Xia Ruize listened thoughtfully. It sounded like a sect called Qingyang Sect was about to open its gates to recruit a new batch of disciples. The young people gathered here all wanted to join the Qingyang Sect, and were waiting together for the so-called entrance selection to begin.

Interestingly, this so-called Qingyang Sect seemed to be a sect that taught the cultivation of immortals.

Xia Ruize couldn’t help but think that the current situation was so similar to the previous mission world.

In the magic world, young people who passed the divine selection could enter the academy to learn magic. In this mission world, it was very likely that those who pass the entry selection could learn what they called immortal cultivation.

If this was true, then this was a world where one could master a bloodline through self-study!

“It would be great if this world was like the last world, a complete welfare world, with little danger and lots of rewards.”

Xia Ruize said to Cheng Huaiqian in his heart, but he thought that this was probably just his wishful thinking. They were in the extremely demanding Golden Book Area mission world, so it shouldn’t be that simple, right?

Just as Cheng Huaiqian was about to reply in his heart, a young man who was following him took out a jug of water and asked Cheng Huaiqian attentively: “Fifth Young Master, do you want some water?”

This question was like a key that unlocked a piece of information in Cheng Huaiqian’s mind. He thought about it for a moment, then said to Xia Ruize with interest:

“The mission world in the Golden Book District seems to be more rigorous. I have an identity and background in this world. I am a bastard from a small family in a small country and a small city. My name is also Cheng Huaiqian.”

Xia Ruize paused, because as soon as Cheng Huaiqian finished speaking, some identity information appeared in his mind. The “Xia Ruize” in this world was an orphan who lived in his ancestral home outside the city of Roco in a small country called Longda.

Xia Ruize moved his fingers. This was really interesting.

After confirming that they did not know each other’s identities and backgrounds, Cheng Huaiqian ignored the servants chasing after him and urging him to drink water, and walked straight to Xia Ruize, smiling and taking the initiative to talk:

“My name is Cheng Huaiqian. I see that you are here alone. I wonder how confident you are?”

The servant behind Cheng Huaiqian looked a little surprised. He couldn’t understand how their humble and cowardly Fifth Young Master dared to take the initiative to make friends outside. He didn’t dare to interrupt Cheng Huaiqian too obviously, so he could only put away the water bottle in his hand.

Xia Ruize’s eyes swept across the water bottle in the servant’s hand. The servant’s malicious intentions were very obvious, but he didn’t know what was in the water bottle.

As his thoughts turned, Xia Ruize started talking to Cheng Huaiqian with a smile on his face. The two of them seemed to hit it off right away and soon became close friends.

As time passed, the servant hiding behind Cheng Huai became more anxious and tried to interrupt several times, but was interrupted by Xia Ruize every time.

Seeing the atmosphere around him getting more and more heated, and realizing that the time for Qingyang Sect to open its doors and accept disciples seemed to be approaching, the servant could no longer bear it, and forced the water bottle in his hand into Cheng Huaiqian’s hand, and shouted:

“Fifth Young Master! Before you left, Madam asked me to take good care of you. I dare not let you do anything wrong.You have been talking for so long. You should drink some water!”

Cheng Huaiqian finally turned his gaze to the servant beside him. His look was meaningful, and made the servant more and more nervous.

However, Cheng Huaiqian was too lazy to talk to him any more. He simply picked up the kettle to fill himself with water, drank two sips, and threw the kettle to the servant. He completely ignored him and concentrated on chatting with Xia Ruize.

As for the obviously problematic water, Cheng Huaiqian naturally did not drink it. As soon as the water came out of the bottle, it was transferred into space.

If they had not just entered the mission world and the current situation was unclear, Cheng Huaiqian would probably had forced the water into the other person’s mouth. Now, let him stay active for a while longer.

As the sun rose higher, more and more people gathered on the plain in front of the mountain. They had all come for the Qingyang Sect to open its gates and recruit disciples. The young people who were going to take part in the selection were excited, and the elders who accompanied them were also nervous.

This mission world was divided into the fairyland where immortals live and the secular world where ordinary people live.

There were three major sects, six major halls, and thirty-six mountain gates in the fairyland, all of which were sects for cultivating immortals. These sects lived in seclusion, each with its own mountain top, and each had its own time to open its mountain gate to recruit disciples.

Those secular families who were bent on the pursuit of immortality would take their children to seek advice everywhere according to the time when various sects opened their doors to recruit disciples, trying to send their children to immortality to learn the immortal arts of moving mountains and filling the sea.

The Qingyang Sect, one of the three major sects, was opening its mountain gates to recruit disciples today. From the royal family to the common people, everyone in the secular world wanted to get a chance to join the Qingyang Sect, so people had been gathering here waiting a few days ago. Today was the official time for recruiting disciples, so even more people had gathered here.

These were the information briefly mentioned in the identity background introduction. According to their background, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were both ordinary people who were trying to embark on the path of cultivating immortals. They had been waiting for many years for the Qingyang Sect to open its gates and recruit disciples.

At nine o’clock in the morning, the crowd, which had been unusually noisy due to the gathering of tens of thousands of people, suddenly became quiet, and the quietness seemed to be contagious, quickly infecting the entire crowd.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked up at the mountain in front of them, following the gazes of the people around them. They saw a group of people riding flying swords slowly flying downwards.

They were all dressed in gorgeous clothes and looked like immortals, so elegant and graceful that people were so envious that they were speechless for a moment.

Because of this, tens of thousands of people quickly calmed down and welcomed with envious eyes a group of immortals hovering in the air right in front of them.

Xia Ruize’s eyes lit up when he saw the flying sword. It was actually the flying sword! This mission world was so interesting that he couldn’t wait to embark on the path of cultivating immortals.

“I am Wang Teng, an outer sect elder. On behalf of Qingyang Sect, I welcome everyone to come here to participate in the Qingyang Sect’s recruitment of disciples.

I declare that the entrance selection has officially begun!

The first level is the ‘Ladder to Heaven’. The first two thousand people who climb the highest will enter the second level. Without further ado, let’s get started now!”

The group of immortals riding flying swords was led by a middle-aged man with a serious face. He spoke to the tens of thousands of people below.

He clearly just moved his mouth, but the sound seemed to echo in everyone’s ears, allowing everyone to hear it clearly.

Xia Ruize was curious. It seemed that this was the method used by those who practiced Taoism?

As Wang Teng finished speaking, white marble slabs as long as arms and as wide as palms began to descend from the clouds, extending all the way to a height of two palms above the ground, forming a dazzling white marble road.

Wang Teng waved his hand towards the white marble pavement, making a gesture of invitation, but he just watched quietly.

The young people closest to the lowest layer of white jade slabs were startled by this sudden change, and some of them couldn’t help but take two steps back.

Of course, when someone retreated, someone else advanced. The other young man who was closest to them gritted his teeth and stepped onto the white marble slab with a determined look.

Just like that, he climbed up the white marble slabs without any guardrails. It seemed that this young man, who was the first to step onto the white marble slabs, was very nervous. He clenched his fists, stared at the slabs, and carefully raised his legs step by step.

The young people nearby saw that someone had taken the lead, and remembered that the outer sect elder of Qingyang Sect had said before that only the top 2,000 people could enter the second level, and there were probably 30,000 to 40,000 people who wanted to participate in the Qingyang Sect’s disciple recruitment. Fearing that they would lose their qualifications if they were late, they hurriedly stepped onto the white jade slab.

The young men following closely behind not only stepped onto the white marble slabs, but also quickened their climbing speed. They were about to overtake the people in front of them on the narrow and unprotected white marble slab road, and the crowd watching below suddenly exclaimed.