Chapter 35: The Nine-Story Xuanjin Tower
The moment you move to the center of the city, you can see the thick and high gray walls of Cangwu Gate in the distance.
In order to maintain this different sense of mystery, Cangwumen has also worked hard.
It is said that the people who came out of it did not say a word about its secrets, only occasionally talked about the famous people on the combat power list, and then talked about how the list was arranged, but they kept their mouths shut, as if they had made an oath.
But there is still a well-known thing about Cangwumen, that is, its selection and assessment.
Because there will be losers, the details of the assessment are known to the people around them, and it has become an annual highlight.
It can be said that in the entire Pingcang City, the most luxurious and strict sect with the most rigorous assessment is not selected.
Its assessment site is a reddish-brown pagoda with the same height as the wall at the entrance, known as the Nine-Story Xuanjin Pagoda.
As its name suggests, the tower has nine floors, and it looks smaller and smaller the higher it goes, but it uses unparalleled space technology.
The person who came out of it said that if you don't enter it, you won't appreciate how big it is, and he will subvert your cognition, and the higher you go, the wider it becomes.
Each layer provides a Xuan Array diagram for participants to crack, and the Xuan Array can change the formation according to the preferences of the participants.
For example, for martial artists, in the four stages from the acquired martial artist to the martial saint, the most important thing is one breath.
This breath can be said to be the source of internal strength, and most of the martial artists also practice this breath to create moves and enter battle.
Just like the magic energy of a magician, the capacity of qi is also linked to cultivation, if the qi of the acquired martial artist is only as big as the mouth of a bowl, then the qi of the martial saint is as vast as a vast river.
The martial arts skills created with qi have no attributes, they are just very pure forms of attack, and they evolve in a variety of ways based on skill, speed, and strength.
And what moves each martial artist can create, and how powerful the moves are, completely depends on the control and creativity of qi.
And the Xuanjin diagram in this nine-story Xuanjing Tower can construct a large number of ways to use qi, just like solving a very difficult mathematical problem, purely depending on one's talent and understanding.
Again, for mages, it's even more interesting.
Of course, the Xuanjing diagram can also be converted into a complex structure of a single element, if you are a fire system, you can choose the fire system Xuanjing diagram, otherwise you will not be able to solve it in other systems.
The meaning of the above is reflected here, for the average mage, each stage above the intermediate level can realize two spells.
Even if this move can be subtly changed after being skillfully used, it is like a wind control technique. But after all, it can't break the fact that there are only two spells in one stage.
So these are the skills that mages need to think about and study, and what kind of skills they can understand depends on their mastery of the elements and their own talents.
And this coincides with what the Xuan Array Diagram is testing, that is to say, the higher the number of layers that the participant hits, and the more Xuan Array Diagram he cracks, the more powerful the skills he will realize in the future.
Of course, most of the talents cannot be changed, but the comprehension may be better as the cultivation increases.
Therefore, the students of the Cangwu Sect can also enter this nine-story Xuanjing Tower on a regular basis to better test their creativity and control, so that they can obtain better moves.
Then let's talk about this pagoda, the number of layers is obviously nine layers, and there is no doubt that one layer is more difficult than the other.
What's the difficulty?
The difficulty is in quantity and quality.
From the news from the mouths of the losers over the years, it is known that among the people who have entered the nine-story Xuan Array Tower, those who have ascended to the same floor do not mean that the potential is the same, and there are still differences between each layer.
The first layer is the simplest, with only four drawings.
By the second layer, the difficulty had increased, and the Xuan Array Diagram had become ten diagrams.
Then go up, the third layer, twenty pictures.
The fourth layer, thirty-four drawings.
Fifth floor, fifty-two drawings.
Sixth floor, seventy-four drawings.
Seventh floor, 100 drawings.
The eighth floor, one hundred and thirty drawings.
Up to the last floor of the 164 drawings.
The number of each layer increases, and so does the difficulty.
It is said that if someone can crack them all, then this person's talent is terrifying, and his comprehension of qi or elements can simply be compared to the top super-level or martial saints.
The promotion threshold given by Cangwumen is also quite strict, and the "four musts" are given to enter the sect.
First of all, the participant must be under the age of eighteen, and must have already entered the path of both professions, which means that the unawakened mage is not used at all.
And the cultivation must be below the middle-level mage or innate martial artist.
Finally, in the Nine-Layer Xuanjing Tower Trial, you must log in to the fourth floor or higher.
These four necessary conditions, reaching more than four layers, and increasing each layer incrementally by four, all demonstrate Cangwumen's reverence for the cultivation path.
After all, whether it is a martial artist or a mage, cultivation is four realms.
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The above is everyone's understanding of Cangwumen over the years, it can be said that there is only a combat power list inside, but the selection of the sect outside is clearly understood.
Due to the strictness of the selection system of Cangwumen, there are many people who come every year, but only about a dozen people are successfully promoted.
Most people are not afraid of making a fool of themselves, and they don't spend money to try, and they can also go in and experience the legendary pagoda and watch the difficult Xuanjing diagram, what if it helps?
This has also become a grand event in Pingcang City every year, and people from various academies will send people to watch, and these people who watch are also self-aware.
Most of everyone's psychology is: can't you watch the excitement if you can't choose it?
Therefore, the outstanding players every year will also be remembered by everyone, although the strength is still very low, but the future potential must not be underestimated.
As for why so many people came to participate and so few were selected, there is another reason.
It was because some time ago, the other two giants, Qingli Sect and Marugong Academy, had just accepted new ones, and many Tianjiao chose those two more dedicated sect academies.
Cangwumen, it's not that it's not as good as those two, it's just that his system is too unique, allowing mages and warriors to coexist?
Moreover, the competition in Cangwumen is extremely fierce and widely spread, and most people who participate in the selection just go in and have a casual look, and they still can't get by.
Most of them can often be eliminated on the second floor of the nine-story Xuanjing Tower, which has also become everyone's annual laughing point, compared to the four pictures on the first floor.
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On this day, it was snowing like fluff outside, and the snow was not heavy, and it looked particularly stylish in the warm winter sun.
Early in the morning, countless people gathered at the gate of Cangwu Gate, including Tianjiao, mentors, and ordinary people, and it is said that people from the City Lord's Mansion will also come to watch, and several guards have long been waiting in a special open space.
Half of them plan to participate in the trials of the entrance examination, have their own little circle with each other, and stand together to talk and laugh.
This scene of waiting for the gate of Cangwu Gate to open is like the appearance of parents waiting for the college entrance examination in reality.
On an inconspicuous street, Li Feng, who only showed his blue hair, was walking slowly in a brown windbreaker.
Obviously, on this day, half of the people in the city came to see the excitement, crowded through the flow of people, and Li Feng, who didn't know it, couldn't help but smile bitterly:
"Is it so lively today... How many people do you have to join......