Chapter 731: Introductory Examination (Part II)
Everyone followed He Yue's steps closely and began to shuttle through the dense forest, but Zhan Chen found a strange phenomenon, her steps seemed to be gradually speeding up, at first everyone didn't feel anything, but later, everyone felt a trace of abnormality, because among the more than three hundred contestants, one-third of them obviously felt a little difficult to follow her footsteps. The mobile phone has no ads, and it saves the most data.
Finally, a beautiful woman asked loudly, "Elder He, can you slow down your pace?" β
He Yue didn't mean to slow down his pace at all, but said: "You just need to keep up with my footsteps, in fact, the assessment has already started just now, by the way, if you can't keep up with my speed, then before you reach the location of the first exam, you will be eliminated." β
Everyone suddenly realized after listening to her words, and they couldn't help but speed up their pace, but He Yue's speed was still accelerating, more and more people were left behind, and many of the contestants who were backward rushed forward with all their strength, but they could only watch Ouyang Hui's shadow gradually shrink, and finally disappeared into the depths of the dense forest.
They had to fly high into the air, trying to find out the traces of He Yue and the other contestants, but it was just a waste of time, because while they were doing these things, He Yue's speed increased again.
Zhan Chen, Lin Mufeng and several other male cultivators, with the cultivation of the Yuan Shen Realm, are naturally far ahead, and they are always in the first echelon. About half an hour later, Zhan Chen saw that the trees in front of him were gradually becoming scarcer, and their vision was broadening, and they were rushing out of the dense forest.
He Yue's speed did not decrease, and he was speeding in one direction, and after another hour or so, Zhan Chen saw from a distance, and it seemed that another tall building appeared in his field of vision, and he faintly sensed that their destination might be about to arrive.
The silhouette of the building was revealed, a nine-story tower with a height of more than 30 meters.
Before He Yue came to the tower, he really stopped. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and also stopped running, Zhan Chen looked back and saw that there were only more than 150 people left in the more than 300 people here, that is to say, half of the contestants had fallen behind in the running process just now, and these people were afraid that they would not be able to take the first exam, he couldn't help but shudder, and suddenly had a sad feeling of breeding rabbits and dead foxes.
At this time, I only heard He Yue say: "Everyone, you are about to start participating in the first level of selection, and as you can see, this tower behind me is the location of the exam. Next, you will enter the tower and reach the top floor in half an hour, and those who do not arrive within the allotted time will be eliminated. β
"What's inside this tower?" someone asked.
He Yue looked at her, showed a meaningful smile, and said, "You will know when you go in." Apparently she was reluctant to reveal any more. This makes everyone stupid, and the apprehension in their hearts is even more difficult to suppress.
Someone else asked, "So are those who have fallen behind just now considered to be eliminated? If they arrived here later, will they be disqualified?"
He Yue replied, "As long as you can arrive before you enter the tower, it's not too late, after all, the first exam has only started now, isn't it?" She turned her head and said to the two female disciples guarding the tower behind her, "You can open the door of the Magic Sound Tower." β
"Yes!" replied the two female disciples as they opened the mechanism of the door, and with a rumbling sound, the door was opened.
Zhan Chen looked in the direction of the gate, but what he saw was just a black patch, to put it bluntly, he couldn't see anything, the dark and deep gate, coupled with the strange name of "Magic Sound Tower", everything made people feel a kind of mystery and a kind of horror.
"Alright, you can go in, and when you reach the top of the tower, there will naturally be an invigilator to judge who is qualified. He Yue said, after her words were finished, everyone remained in place, and no one seemed to dare to enter the Magic Sound Tower first.
Seeing this, He Yue showed a playful smile, and said: "I didn't expect you to be quite humble, I want to remind you, just the moment the gate opened, the timer has begun, and you only have half an hour to reach the top of the tower!"
Only then did everyone suddenly realize that they were rushing towards the gate. Zhan Chen also followed everyone into the gate, he only felt that the surrounding scenery had changed dramatically as soon as he saw a flower, the entrance behind him disappeared, and the people around him disappeared, and there was nothing around, it was pitch black, only there was a long step at his feet, which stretched and stretched in the direction of the top of the tower, as if there was no end.
And Zhan Chen saw all this not with his naked eyes, but with his immortal sense, because the light around him had completely disappeared their traces, even with the eyesight of Zhan Chen's Yuan Shen Outside the Afterburner Saint Powerhouse, he could only see clearly what was three meters around him, and he couldn't see it clearly if he was a little farther away. However, in this case, the cultivator's immortal sense played a big role, being able to clearly identify the surrounding terrain.
Looking at all this around him, Zhan Chen thought: "What's going on? What about Lin Mufeng and the others? It seems that I was teleported into an independent space, if I guessed correctly, then the other people should be in a similar situation to me now, as long as I climb up this staircase, I can reach the top of the tower, but since there is a space in the Magic Sound Tower, the distance to the top of the tower is an unknown number, He Yue said just now, we only have half an hour, so it seems that I have to start moving forward immediately." β
Thinking of this, Zhan Chen no longer hesitated, took a footwork, stepped on the stairs, and rushed upward.
"Jingle bellβjingle bellβ" At this moment, more than one such sound sounded around him, as if a breeze had blown the wind chimes, but these sounds were mixed together, and they seemed chaotic, without any rhythm at all, and they were getting louder and louder, echoing in Zhan Chen's ears, making people upset and dizzy to hear.
Zhan Chen secretly scolded in his heart: "The Qin Xiao faction really loves to work the sound, and it can actually get along with this method to torture people." β
Suddenly, Zhan Chen's right ear jumped, he felt a threat coming towards him, and subconsciously took a step back, and sure enough, he saw an invisible wind blade coming from his right side, almost brushing against his nose, the power of this move was not great, it was only equivalent to a blow from an ordinary Immortal Yuan high-level cultivator, but Zhan Chen's cold sweat was shocked.
"It's so dangerous, I'm almost about to be hit by the wind blade, there are all kinds of bells playing in this corridor, distracting my attention, and the surroundings are pitch black, the wind blade is formless and colorless, and mixed with this bell sound, which makes people unguardable, fortunately, my immortal sense is already extremely powerful, I can detect the attack in advance, and after breaking through the power saint, I have obtained a talent similar to a demon beast 'Di Ting', so I can avoid the blow just now." β
The so-called "Di Ting" is the name that Zhan Chen later called for the supernatural power he obtained, in the last battle between the human race and the demon clan in Cangyue City, he relied on this supernatural power to anticipate the attack of the demon beast's thunder power in advance, so as to play the opponent in the palm of his hand.
And just now, although the bell in the corridor was chaotic, Zhan Chen still used his extraordinary ear power to hear the sound made when the wind blade attacked, so he could dodge in time.
"The wind blades in this corridor are not very powerful, even if the contestants are attacked, at most they will be injured, and they will not be life-threatening, and the purpose of their existence is probably to slow down our travel. Zhan Chen immediately thought of the purpose of this mechanism.
At the same time, he began to understand a little bit what this exam was testing them. If it was said that following He Yue to the Magic Sound Tower before was to test the cultivation of the test takers, then there would be more things to test in this level. Dealing with such a trap in the dark also tests the cultivator's soul power, concentration and reflexes, and if the test taker has a good understanding of the meaning of sound, he or she will have an advantage, because they have a strong ability to recognize sounds, and can easily detect the sound of the wind blade attacking in the bell sound, so that they can calmly dodge it.
"These bells and wind blades can't stop me, I'm going to move forward faster!" After knowing the mechanism here, the fear in Zhan Chen's heart was gone, and he began to speed up, using his hearing far beyond the same level, he easily dodged one attack after another, his speed became faster and faster, and it didn't take long for him to rush through the exit of the last layer.
At nine minutes and twenty-four seconds, Zhan Chen calculated the time for himself to clear the customs, and then began to look around, and was surprised to find that there were already five people in the room, none of these five people were men, all of them were women.
Zhan Chen focused his gaze on one of the female cultivators wearing an indigo Luo skirt, because he felt that the other person's body exuded a unique aura, as if it was one with the air, and her person was obviously standing there, but it gave people the illusion that she didn't exist at all.
"So powerful, who is that woman?!" Zhan Chen was secretly shocked, this was the embodiment of the comprehension of the artistic conception of the Immortal Dao to a very high realm.
As if sensing Zhan Chen's gaze, the woman also turned her head, looked at Zhan Chen, and smiled at him slightly, with a hint of playfulness in her smile.
Zhan Chen realized his gaffe and quickly turned his gaze away, and just when he was embarrassed, a familiar figure appeared at the door-Lin Mufeng, he was the sixth person to arrive.
Lin Mufeng was stunned for a moment when he saw Zhan Chen, and then called out happily: "Brother Zhan, I really didn't expect you to be one step faster than me." β
This sentence also relieved Zhan Chen, and Zhan Chen immediately greeted him very happily and said with a smile: "I was just lucky, but fortunately, both of us passed the first level." β
"Yes, it's worth celebrating. β
"Hehe, it's too early to talk about celebration, wait until we all become disciples of the Qin Xiao Sect. β
"We're going to make it through both of us. Lin Mufeng said with a smile.
"Well, yes, it must pass!" Zhan Chen's eyes flashed with determination.