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

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

"This adult, the assessment of the second round of selection is just climbing Qiyuan Peak?" finally someone couldn't help but ask.

"Exactly. ”

"My lord, are there any other restrictions?" Sha Li couldn't help but ask after hearing this. It is said that this Qiyuan Peak has been known since the day he woke up, as the main peak of the mountain range on Qiyuan Island, Qiyuan Peak is as high as 1,450 tenacities. 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 climb to the top of the sky within the top 3,000. Other than that, there are no 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!"

Bursts of white light shone brightly, and the huge square returned to emptiness.

Sha Li looked at Qi Yuanfeng in front of him, but the expression on his face was stagnant. Like all the contestants, I 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 Ji Hui, a girl in a green skirt, looking at him with a light smile.

"yes, I'm meeting you again. Shali 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 the selection competition, and I was finally convinced after seeing this Qi Yuan Peak. ”

"Oh, I don't know what Miss Jihui saw? Qiyuan Island has seen this scene before. ”

"Eh, isn't Big Brother Sha from Qiyuan Island?" the girl in the green skirt looked a little surprised.

"Not really. I was sent to the island by the Pillars of Heaven. He doesn't really remember how he came to the island, but everyone thinks so, and he thinks so.

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

The woman 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 Xiu who is good at civil engineering construction and mechanism formations, and they have transformed the interior of Qiyuan Peak, but left its exterior intact. The transformation inside and outside is revealed, perhaps controlled by some kind of large formation!"

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

Ignoring Ji Hui's wide eyes, Sha Li looked at Qi Yuan Peak, "The invisible barrier between where we are now and that Qi Yuan Peak is blocked, so naturally we can't perceive it. The lower mountain should be volcanic, the middle mountain seems to be silt, and the top layer must be a snow-capped mountain, needless to say. ”

"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 the girl in the green skirt first saw Sha Li on the Silver Beach test ground, she 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 only 6,000 participants. Of the 6,000, only 3,000 will remain, and there may be a snatch for the spot. However, the rules do not prohibit attacking other contestants, and it is probably 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 intended a conversation between the two.

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

"Naturally. ”

Before 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 already 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. It is difficult to see it on weekdays, but today there are nearly 100 flying in the same air. It seems that the island attaches great importance to this selection competition!"

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

The closer he got to the foot of Qiyuan Peak, the more scorching it became, and Sha Li's face didn't change much, but the girl in the green skirt was already covered in 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 ill intentions towards us, and a fight is inevitable at that time. Not to mention what happens 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. ”

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. ”

The girl in the green skirt looked around and found that all the contestants were doing the same thing, and her heart sank.

"Let's go up, it doesn't make much difference anyway. After Sha Li finished speaking, he directly stepped up the stone steps, and the girl in the green skirt had to follow.

"Huh!" because they had no luck to protect their bodies, and when the two of them stepped into the stone steps, the soles of their shoes were already burned, and a foul smell came to their noses.

"Just a little bit of breath under your feet. Sha Li spoke softly, and the girl in the green skirt also thought so.

The further up you go, the more noticeable the burning becomes. The whole mountain is gray, but the surface of the mountain is covered with dense red cracks, and hot winds come from the red cracks, domineeringly depriving the climbers of water in their bodies.

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 take it anymore, I give up!" a sturdy mortal was stretched to the limit, and the heat had evaporated his previously firm self-confidence with sweat. He gently pressed the mechanism on the jade plate on his chest, allowing the vitality contained in the jade plate to work.

Immediately after a birdsong, the island guard grabbed it on a crane and took it away from the mountain.

The two of them were silent and continued to climb, and now they were in the middle of the first layer of the mountain, which was also the hottest section. The girl in the green dress proposes to take a break here in order to recover.

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

Suddenly, a sense of crisis for no reason hit Sha Li's Zhihai, and he took the girl's hand without thinking about it, and said a word in his mouth. "Let's go!"

The girl was caught with her bare 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 the girl and jumped away, a narrow red crack suddenly burst on the mountain where they were before, and hot magma gushed out, quickly overflowing the stone path and spreading downward. Everywhere I went, the smell of burning was pungent and unpleasant.

The teams that followed behind Shali had not noticed the eruption of magma at first, but by the time they reacted, they were already close at hand. The weak cultivators were in a hurry, scolding in their mouths. However, no matter how angry you are, the rapid spread of magma is already on the way. They will either return to the base of the mountain or wait to be burned by magma. Finally, they reluctantly pressed the jade plate mechanism 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 go up through the mountain wall and a few stone path gaps to leave the magma area.

Sha Li pulled the girl to walk quickly, sensing that the vitality in the girl's body had gradually emptied, and she looked like she was falling down at any time.

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

"Miss Jihui, I'm offended!" After speaking, he ignored whether the girl in the green skirt agreed or not, picked her up gently, and climbed up quickly.

The girl in the green skirt was indeed shocked and ashamed at first, but looking at Sha Li's serious expression, she quickly thought about it in her heart, and did not say anything against it.

After about half an hour, they finally came to the end of the first layer of the mountain, and Sha Li put down the girl in the green dress, the sweat beads on her face were faint, but her breath was not disordered.

"Brother Sha, thank you. Without you, I don't know when I would have been here. The girl in the green skirt spoke sincerely.

"Not necessarily. Sha Li didn't look at the girl in the green dress, but stared at the brown and slippery mountain in front of him, his sword eyebrows slightly frowned.

"You can sit still and recover a little bit! This level doesn't seem to have to be as simple as the next level. ”