"The assessment content of the second round of the selection competition is, climb Qiyuan Peak!"

When the man's voice on the stage fell, the contestants in the square thought they had misheard.

"Lord Examiner, the assessment of the second round of selection is just climbing Qiyuan Peak?"

Finally, someone couldn't help but ask.

"Exactly. ”

"My lord, but there are other restrictions?"

Another person confirmed the exit.

It is said that this Qi Yuan Peak has been seen from afar since the day Sha Li woke up.

As the main peak of the mountain range on Qiyuan Island, Qiyuan Peak is as high as 1,450 tenacity. It only takes an hour and a half for a strong mortal to reach the top.

Even if Yuan Xiu has not entered the realm of Kaiyuan, it will only take half an hour to reach the summit at the slowest pace. Isn't it too simple to use this as an assessment item for the selection competition?

"Contestants from all over the island who participate in the second round of selection will be considered qualified as long as they reach the top of the sky within the top 3,000. Other than that, there are no other restrictions. ”

"Also, return the token you used in the first round to the Shima Guard. This second round of assessment uses this white jade plaque, and you must hang this white jade plaque in front of you. ”

"The on-site island guards will sense and rescue you in time when you accidentally fall down the mountain or call for help on your own. ”

"If there's no problem, you can go now. This white Escape Order will send you not far from the foot of Qiyuan Peak. ”

"Let's go!"

With bursts of white light, the huge square returned to emptiness.

...

Sha Li looked at Qi Yuanfeng in front of him, but the expression on his face was stunned, and like all the contestants, his heart was in disbelief.

"Is this really Qi Yuan Peak?"

Sha Li saw the Qiyuan Peak in the past, although the mountain is dangerous, there are many cliffs, but there will also be a lot of ancient trees and strange flowers dotted on it, the closer to the peak, the more green the color is thicker.

At this moment, Qi Yuan Peak seemed to have completely changed its appearance, and it was divided into three layers from bottom to top.

The bottom layer is gray, the gray is reddish, the middle layer is dark brown, and the top layer is snow-white.

"Brother Sha, it's such a coincidence that I met you again. ”

Sha Li turned around and saw Yan Jihui, a girl in a green skirt, looking at him with a light smile.

"yes, I'm meeting you again. ”

Sha Li responded with a smile.

The girl in the green skirt slowly walked towards Sha Li and stood side by side with her.

"At the beginning, I felt that there was an article in the assessment of this round of tryouts, and I was finally convinced after seeing this Qiyuan Peak. ”

"Oh, I don't know what Miss Jihui saw? Qi Yuanfeng had seen this before. ”

"Eh, Brother Mo Feisha wasn't originally from Qiyuan Island?"

The girl in the green dress looked a little surprised.

"Not really. I was brought to the island by the Heavenly Pillar. ”

He had no memory of how he had come to the island, but he thought so.

"No wonder...... However, since I can remember, it is also the first time I have seen this appearance of Qi Yuanfeng. At first, I was very surprised. ”

The girl in the green skirt retracted her gaze and looked at Sha Li.

"Brother Sha, can you see the weirdness of this Qiyuan Peak?"

Sha Li saw Qi Yuanfeng become what he is now, although he was surprised in his heart, he was not clueless.

Since his awakening, in search of his memories, he has read a lot of books and consulted ancient books. I once read in an ancient book called "Heavenly Creation": The people of ancient times, there were strange craftsmen, good institutions, often looking for strange mountains and mountains to live, changing their momentum, changing their shape. The mountains are immortal, and there are caves inside.

"Perhaps among the ancestors on the island, there is one or a group of great Yuan cultivators who are good at civil engineering construction and mechanism formations. ”

"They transformed the interior of Qi Yuan Peak, but left its exterior intact. The transformation of the inside and outside is revealed, and it should be controlled by some kind of large formation!"

Although Sha Li did not guess all the facts, he was not far off.

Ignoring Yan Jihui's widening eyes, Sha Li looked at Qi Yuanfeng.

"The invisible barrier between where we are now and that Qiyuan Peak is naturally impossible to probe. ”

"The lower layer of the mountain should be a volcano, the middle layer of the mountain seems to be made of silt, and the top layer must be a snow-capped mountain, not to mention it. ”

"Brother Sha, you are really amazing, little sister, I really admire you more and more. ”

Sha Li listened, but didn't answer, just smiled faintly.

When Yan Jihui first saw Sha Li on the Silver Beach test ground, he was already a budding friend. At this time, I listened to him talk about the changes in Qiyuan Mountain, and I thought it was even more true. Seven points of admiration are true, and the remaining three points are actually deliberately said for the next trial.

"Moreover, the four venues of the first round of the selection tournament should be full of 6,000 teams left. ”

"Out of the 6,000, only 3,000 will be left in the end, and there may be a snatch for the quota. ”

"The rules also do not explicitly prohibit attacking other contestants, and it is estimated that it is also intentional. ”

"Brother Sha, you mean, snatching a promotion spot is a potential rule in itself?"

"All participants are reminded that the second round of selection can begin. ”

The command from the jade plate on his chest interrupted the conversation between the two.

"Brother Sha, after all, we are from the same division, why don't we go together?"

"Naturally. ”

As soon as Sha Li's words fell, a scorching breath hit him.

"Shada, you guessed it right, this first layer is indeed a volcanic layer. It's so hot before you get close, how can you endure it if you really want to climb. Although the girl in the green skirt said this, there was not much worry in her tone.

"Let's go. ”

With the opening of the second round of the selection competition, nearly a hundred island guards riding flying beasts swept over the heads of the contestants, leaning on the middle layer of Qiyuan Peak, hanging in the air.

Sha Li looked at the four-legged and four-winged flying beast in the air, and was very surprised.

"This beast's name is Fu Bird, it is a descendant of the fat relics of ancient beasts, and its temperament is fierce and violent, and it is extremely difficult to tame. ”

"On weekdays, it's hard to see even one, but today there are nearly 100 flying in the air. It seems that the island attaches great importance to this selection competition!"

"Are you a descendant of alien beasts again?" Sha Li remembered the record in the "Chronicles of the Mountains and Seas" and whispered to himself.

The closer he got to the foot of Qiyuan Peak, the more unbearable the heat became, and Sha Li's face didn't change much, but Yan Jihui was already covered with fragrant sweat.

"If you can't stand it, luck is hot, so why put up with it?"

"Brother Sha should know that from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, you still need to go through three layers of mountains with different attributes. ”

"On the way, there may be people who have bad intentions towards us, and then a fight is inevitable. ”

"Not to mention after passing the second round of tryouts. I think most of the contestants will do their best to keep their energy alive. ”

"That's right. Sha Li glanced at Yan Jihui and nodded slightly.

Sure enough, after the two of them came to the foot of the mountain, they looked left and right and found that many of the contestants were sweating profusely, but most of them were not lucky to resist the heat.

"Brother Sha, let's try to choose a road with fewer people. ”

"I'm afraid, that's what everyone thinks. ”

After listening to Sha Li's seemingly casual sentence, Yan Jihui looked around and found that all the contestants were also doing the same thing, and his mood suddenly sank.

"Let's go up, it doesn't make much difference anyway. ”

After Sha Li finished speaking, he had directly stepped up the stone steps, and Yan Jihui had to follow.

"Phew!"

Due to the lack of luck to protect their bodies, the soles of their shoes were already scorched when they stepped into the stone steps, and a foul smell came to their noses.

"Just a little bit of breath under your feet. ”

Sha Li reminded him, and Yan Jihui also thought about it.

The further up you go, the more noticeable the burning becomes. The entire first layer of the mountain is gray, and the surface of the mountain is covered with dense red cracks. Streams of hot air came from the red cracks, domineeringly stripping the climber of water in his body.

Sha Li and the girl in the green skirt followed more than a dozen groups of contestants one after another, most of them walked in pairs. Some of them were already hot and sweaty.

"I can't stand it, I give up!"

A sturdy mortal had reached the limit of his endurance, and the heat had evaporated his previously firm self-confidence with sweat.

He gently pressed the small bracket on the jade plate on his chest, allowing the vitality contained in the jade plate to work.

With a birdsong, the island guard on duty grabbed him with a crane and took him away from the mountain.

Sha Li and the two were silent and continued to climb. Now they were in the middle of the first mountain, which was also the hottest section. Yan Jihui proposed to take a break here in order to recuperate.

Shali did not object. Although he only carried a small amount of vitality to protect the soles of his shoes, Yan Jihui had already mobilized a large amount of vitality to resist the heat earlier, and the consumption of vitality could be imagined.

Suddenly, a sense of crisis for no reason hit Sha Li's Zhihai, and he took Yan Jihui's hand without thinking about it.

"Let's go!"

Yan Jihui was caught with her hands, whether it was the woman's subconscious shyness, or the self-defense consciousness formed by the Yuan over the years, she was told to withdraw her hand.

But somehow, she let Sha Li pull it, and she didn't have the slightest intention of resisting.

As Sha Li pulled Yan Jihui and jumped away rapidly, a narrow red crack suddenly burst on the mountain where they were before, and scorching magma gushed out.

The lava quickly overflowed the stone path and spread downward. Everywhere I went, the smell of burning was pungent and unpleasant.

The teams that followed behind Shali did not notice the eruption of magma at first. By the time the reaction comes, it's just around the corner.

The weak cultivators were in a hurry, scolding in their mouths. However, no matter how angry they may be, the rapid spread of the lava is already in place, and they will either return to the base of the mountain or wait to be burned by the lava.

In the end, many people reluctantly pressed the jade plate and accepted the fate of leaving.

And those who have cultivated to a strong Yuan do not hesitate to spend a lot of Yuan Qi, gather the only remaining Yuan Qi at their feet, and quickly climb up through the mountain wall and some stone path gaps, leaving the magma area.

Sha Li pulled Yan Jihui to walk quickly, sensing that the vitality in her body had gradually emptied, and she looked like she was going to fall down at any time.

"It's not an option. Sha Li thought in his heart.

"Jihui girl, offended!"

After speaking, regardless of whether Yan Jihui agreed or not, Sha Li gently picked her up and accelerated her climb.

Yan Jihui was indeed shocked and ashamed at first, but looking at Sha Li's serious expression, he quickly thought about it in his heart and did not struggle.

In less than half an hour, they finally reached the end of the first layer of the mountain.

Sha Li put down Yan Jihui, the beads of sweat on his face were faint, but his breath was not disordered.

"Brother Sha, thank you. Without you, I don't know when I would have been here. ”

Yan Jihui's voice is sincere.

"Not necessarily. ”

Sha Li didn't look at Yan Jihui, but stared at the brown and slippery mountain in front of him, his sword eyebrows slightly furrowed.

"You can sit still and recover a little! Climbing this level does not seem to be easier than the previous one. ”