Radiant Light
The same applies to all those who are still persevering on the Heart-Questioning Road.
Encouraged by this surge of encouragement, they all exerted their utmost efforts to overcome the predicaments they were facing.
In Tong Jialiang's dream, the flame, which was suffocating under the endless darkness and reduced to a faint sliver of light, was suddenly stirred up by a gentle breeze that seemed to come from nowhere.
The wind blew in gusts.
Hand in hand, they gently pulled the tiny flame up a little, then a little more.
The little flame finally grew stronger and more robust.
Tong Jialiang felt the clear, resonant voice that had been ringing in his mind gradually fading away.
It grew smaller and smaller until it disappeared completely.
At that moment, Tong Jialiang heard a new voice speaking to him from the depths of his heart.
The new voice said:
"Stand up."
He slowly opened his eyes and realized that he had been curled up on the ground, holding his head, without even realizing it.
The surrounding darkness seemed to be dispelled layer by layer as this new voice appeared again and again.
He saw the light.
I saw the clear blue sky outside.
I saw the sun, shining brightly high in the sky.
Somehow, he felt as if something inside him had changed.
Tong Jialiang subconsciously raised his hands and found that a layer of pitch-black substance mixed with rings of radiant light was seeping into his body.
After they completely disappeared from his skin, he vaguely realized that something seemed different about him.
But he didn't know what it was.
In the final moments of his memory, he looked up again and gazed directly at the radiant light in the sky.
So bright, so warm.
If only this sunlight could always be in his life, he would never want to be trapped in endless darkness again.
He then lost consciousness.
When Tong Jialiang regained consciousness, he found himself surrounded by a white mist.
Around him were many others who, like him, seemed to have just come to their senses.
After everyone woke up, they were all in a daze and couldn't quite figure out what was going on.
After a long while, they remembered that they had entered the Lingxian Sect's Heart-Questioning Road and recalled their experiences on the Heart-Questioning Road.
It took some time for people to emerge from the complex emotions of their dream experience.
As they looked around, they wondered whether they had passed or not.
From within the crowd, as if hearing everyone's thoughts, a man who appeared to be a frail, scholarly young man spoke softly:
"Um... what I heard before was... that if you don't pass the Heart-Questioning Road, you'll be teleported directly back to the foot of the mountain..."
Wen Yuejun chimed in from the side:
"That's right, you'll be teleported out if you fail."
Upon hearing this, someone exclaimed happily:
"But we're not at the foot of the mountain now, does that mean we've made it through?!"
Upon hearing what he said, everyone quickly looked around and discovered that there were about a hundred people in this white area.
Considering the large number of people who came to participate in the assessment before, the hundred or so people in front of them were not many at all.
A pretty young girl pinched the handbag at her waist and mustered up her courage to speak:
"In the 'Heart-Questioning Road, I defeated that villain! I must have passed!"
Hearing her say this, everyone recalled their own dreams and gained some understanding of the situation.
They are all people who have conquered their nightmares!
"Yes! We definitely passed!"
"That's right, that's right!"
As they spoke, they saw the white mist around them rapidly receding.
The surrounding scenery gradually came into view.
An ancient and beautiful peach tree appeared before everyone's eyes.
On the peach tree, a handsome young man dressed in a white robe, with a belt adorned with jade, casually sat on a slender peach branch.
He rested his chin on one hand and his other hand on his knee, looked down at them, smiled, and said:
"Everyone present, would you be willing to join my Lingxian Sect, become a member of the sect, and devote yourselves to cultivation?"
His voice was clear and melodious, yet also carried a hint of the magnetism of a young man just coming of age.
Third Miss He was below, looked up in surprise when she heard the voice that had appeared in her dreams countless times over the past three years!
It's Immortal Lin!!!
In her eyes, the boy on the peach tree seemed to be shining!
"I do!"
Before anyone else could react, she had already exclaimed in surprise.
Then everyone realized what was happening and quickly answered in turn.
Having just emerged from seclusion and not even had time to change his clothes, Lin Xiao, who had only taken off the coat he had worn for a year, looked at the number of disciples constantly increasing on the system's disciple panel and felt very satisfied.
A system notification sounded in my mind, indicating that the task was complete. "[Number of disciples has reached one hundred]".
And the sound of the task reward being successfully issued.
He was in a very good mood.
Good things happen as soon as you leave the pass; this is a good omen.
Meanwhile, Qin Jianghe Sun Yigao, who were checking the physical condition of those who had left the mountain and monitoring the condition of those who hadn't left the Wenxin Heart-Questioning Road, discovered that everyone in the Heart-Questioning Road had vanished in the blink of an Heart-Questioning Road!
The black aura that had previously lingered around everyone had long since dissipated under the washout of the previous layers of vortexes of Origin Qi.
They were stunned for a moment, then Sun Yigao spoke up:
"Don't worry, it's very likely that the sect leader has emerged from seclusion."
With that, he was the first to rush back up the mountain.
Liu Yunan turned around and succinctly announced to everyone that the Lingxian Sect Sect's recruitment conference was now over, and then returned to the sect with everyone else.
After they all left, the village chief of Xiushui Village appeared and began to handle the arrangements for the subsequent flow of people.
Meanwhile, inside the Lingxian Sect...
The newly recruited disciples were brought to the sect square built by Liu Yunan and his group in just a few breaths by Lin Xiao.
Although he had been in seclusion, he carefully read every system notification message after emerging from seclusion.
Therefore, while he wasn't entirely aware of all the changes that had occurred within the sect during this period, he had a general understanding of them.
Especially when a sect acquires a new location or building, how could the system possibly bear not to give it a reward?
Lin Xiao glanced at the number displayed on the disciple panel. Subtracting the original number, a total of 132 new disciples were recruited this time.
Not many.
Given their sect's current reputation in the Pusi Kingdom, he thought there would be even more.
However, considering the system's latest notification about the Heart-Questioning Road when he came out of seclusion, all of this was due to interference, so he wasn't too disappointed.
Considering that the Heart-Questioning Road had suddenly been forcibly increased in difficulty, and that this group of new disciples was still able to withstand that intensity, he felt that perhaps this was a blessing in disguise.
Having had this experience, this new batch of disciples must have a temperament far superior to that of ordinary people.