Volume 2: Yin City Chapter 70: Final Assessment
Shen Qianqiu looked at the phantom in front of him, and said secretly in his heart: "Could it be that the master of this place is still alive, and it is not a phantom in front of him?"
The old man saw Shen Qianqiu's expression, and explained: "The old man's body has long since died, and now what you see is just the remnant soul of the body, just in the sea of knowledge of Xiaoyou, I felt a familiar breath, that sword should not have appeared in the world, can Xiaoyou tell me how you got this sword?"
When Shen Qianqiu heard this, he felt that the strength of this master of the secret realm must be amazing, and the remnant soul could feel the sword, although he did not deliberately release the pressure, but he was still far from the old man, and he could already clearly feel the momentum exuded by the old man.
After a little hesitation, Shen Qianqiu still decided to tell the truth, although the old man's strength was amazing, he didn't seem to be able to leave here, and even if the other people in Yin City knew about it, it would be difficult for them to understand the mystery.
"This sword was put into my soul by a person without my knowledge, and I don't know how he got it. ”
Hearing this, the old man touched his beard, squinted his eyes as if thinking about something, and then began to look Shen Qianqiu up and down, and said: "Xiaoyou's qualifications are not bad, it seems that what he said is true, how much has Xiaoyou comprehended the meaning of the sword?"
Shen Qianqiu opened his mouth and replied: "I only comprehended the first sword intent of the master of this sword when he was a teenager, and other sword intents cannot be comprehended for the time being."
The old man nodded and said: "It's not bad, the owner of this sword has some friendship with the old man, but unfortunately when the old man became famous, he was already in his twilight years, although he has known each other for a short time, but the friendship is enough, so to speak, it is also considered to be related to Xiaoyou, if Xiaoyou passes this test, the old man will prepare additional rewards." ”
Shen Qianqiu was overjoyed when he heard this, and was just about to open his mouth to thank him, but as soon as the old man raised his hand, Shen Qianqiu's whole person couldn't move in an instant, and he couldn't even move his gaze.
The old man said: "That being said, Xiaoyou's foundation does have some deficiencies, it seems that the few pills taken to improve the strength of the body, but there is still a lot of medicinal power, and Xiaoyou seems to rely too much on that special power, resulting in a lack of comprehension of sword intent, and the same is true for spiritual power, the sword intent is not heavy, but it is not heavy on Xiaoyou's body, this is not good, the old man has increased the difficulty of your second test a little, if Xiaoyou can persevere, then the old man will recognize Xiaoyou as his successor." ”
Hearing what the old man said, Shen Qianqiu had a very bad premonition in his heart, the strength of the old man was very different from himself, and some of the difficulties in the old man's mouth were probably not based on his own strength, but he couldn't make any action at this time.
With a wave of the old man's arm, Shen Qianqiu's eyes turned black again, and his figure disappeared into the white palace with the old man.
When Shen Qianqiu regained consciousness, his body was already able to move freely, and he faintly felt that the strength in his body seemed to have recovered, and the Chu Mang Sword Intent could actually be used normally at this time, Shen Qianqiu first summoned Guanhai and cautiously looked at the surrounding environment.
At this time, Shen Qianqiu found himself in a cave, and there was only one candle flame on the surrounding wall, as lighting, it was clear that someone had lived in the cave, and the candle flame had not been extinguished, but there was no one around.
Under the faint light that flickered and dimmed, there was silence in the cave, Shen Qianqiu took a few steps back, leaning against the wall, and the strong bloody breath in his nose was telling Shen Qianqiu that there was definitely a big problem here.
Shen Qianqiu tried to use the power of space to explore the surrounding environment, and found that although he could sense the existence of space at this time, he could not manipulate the space in any way.
At this time, Shen Qianqiu remembered what the old man said, he relied too much on special powers, it seemed that the space power in his body had been banned by the old man, and judging from the various circumstances in front of him, this cave was the real world, if he died here, he would be completely dead, what is the test in this environment? .
In the originally quiet cave, there was a sound of footsteps, not the sound of a human, but the faint sound of an animal stepping on the ground, and if it weren't for the sound of the candle flame shaking in the cave, no one outside would have noticed this sound at all.
At first it was a faint sound, then it grew louder and louder, not because the force of the animal's stamping increased, but because of the increase in numbers.
Where the faint light of the fire could not shine, countless green pupils appeared in the pitch-black shadows, and a black wolf with liquid dripping from its mouth stepped into the range illuminated by the candlelight.
The wolf's body was extremely thin, and the presence of ribs could even be seen on the side, but this wolf's eyes were full of longing for food, and just by smelling Shen Qianqiu's scent, saliva kept dripping from its mouth.
The black wolf kept roaring and wheezing, and Shen Qianqiu was holding Guanhai in his hand, he was already nervous to the extreme at this time, the last time he encountered this kind of hungry wolf in Shen Qianqiu's memory, it was when he was young, when he cut the wolf's throat with a dagger, the wolf was still struggling, wanting to tear off a piece of meat from his body, until the blood in his body was almost exhausted, the wolf fell to the ground and died completely.
The black wolf in front of him was clearly hungry to the limit, Shen Qianqiu had already spread his momentum to the extreme at this time, and the black wolf did not attack immediately because of this, but for these beasts, the desire for food would sooner or later overwhelm fear, and now they only want to eat meat.
In the end, the instinct of the beast defeated the only remaining departure, as the first black wolf pounced on Shen Qianqiu, the wolves behind all launched an attack, Shen Qianqiu only had Chu Mang and Hanmei Sword Intent at this time, Hanmei Sword Intent also had some defensive functions, and Chu Mang Sword Intent existed completely for attacking.
Looking at the black wolf that was rushing towards him in mid-air, Shen Qianqiu waved Guanhai, and a sword with the first mang's sword intent instantly concentrated the black wolf's fragile waist, but the imaginary sword cut into two did not appear, but knocked this black wolf away.
Shen Qianqiu suddenly realized that these black wolves were not ordinary beasts, their fur defense was extremely strong, and their vitality was also very strong.
The second black wolf had already followed closely and bit towards Shen Qianqiu's leg, the golden sword intent above the sea disappeared, replaced by the Hanmei sword intent, and when the sword body touched the black wolf, the black fur instantly formed a layer of frost.
But this was completely unable to block the attack, and when it moved, there was already a sound of shattering, and the black wolf was still biting towards Shen Qianqiu's leg, Shen Qianqiu hurriedly took a few steps back, and his back had already hit the wall behind him.
Shen Qianqiu was shocked at this time, leaning against the wall was undoubtedly an act of death, this posture could not swing the sword vigorously at all, the wolves were closer to Shen Qianqiu at this time, and Shen Qianqiu could already smell the fishy smell emanating from the mouths of these beasts.
Shen Qianqiu held Guanhai in his hand, took a few steps forward, Guanhai kept swinging, and the long sword was chopping, chopping, stabbing, and teasing in Shen Qianqiu's hand in various ways, either killing or knocking the black wolf in front of him away, leaving himself some room to fight.
In the black background, new green pupils continued to appear, and the number of wolves seemed to be endless, Shen Qianqiu even felt that if he killed one black wolf, two new black wolves would join the battle.
Under the flickering candlelight, dozens of black wolf corpses were already covered at this time, and the battle finally stopped temporarily, the reason for the pause was not that Shen Qianqiu had killed all the black wolves, but that the new wolves were scrambling to devour the corpses of their companions, which gave Shen Qianqiu a little time to breathe.
The current Shen Qianqiu is no longer a soul body, and the intense physical and mental consumption during the battle has made Shen Qianqiu feel tired.
Shen Qianqiu looked at the wolves fighting for the corpses with a solemn gaze, the number did not decrease at all, once the wolves were devoured, the attack would only become more ferocious, and he wanted to break through, but he didn't know how far the dark cave was from outside, once he was held up by the wolves, he would be attacked on all sides, and at this time, without the help of space power, without this faint light, he couldn't even clearly judge where the attack was coming from.
The corpses of dozens of black wolves, there was not much meat on their bodies, the hungry wolves even swallowed the fur into their stomachs, and even the white bones were bitten and eaten, Shen Qianqiu looked at the scene in front of him, and his heart was cold, if he died in this place, the end would only be worse.
The wolves' feeding soon ended, and the wolves who tasted the delicious food had a stronger desire to attack in their eyes, as long as they could taste the meat, what about death?
Next, the attack of the wolves was even more ferocious, with teeth and claws, or pounce or scratch, the attack of the wolves drowned Shen Qianqiu in it, Shen Qianqiu didn't notice it for a while, and was scratched by a black wolf, and the smell of fresh blood made the wolves even more crazy.
Shen Qianqiu was also shocked when he looked at the blood, I don't know when the flesh had actually recovered to this point, although the wound had disappeared in a few seconds, but the madness of the wolves lasted for a long time, and the more rapid attacks, desperate bites in exchange for injuries, made Shen Qianqiu's pressure increase several times.
Shen Qianqiu used Guanhai to stab into the mouth of the black wolf in front of him, leaving a corpse, this round of attacks finally ended, leaving more than a hundred wolf corpses on the ground this time, but the speed at which the corpses disappeared even faster.
Looking at the astonishing disappearance speed of the wolf corpse, Shen Qianqiu held on to the wall and tried his best to recover the state of his body, but no matter how he recovered, the consumption would always be faster than the recovery, and the wave of attacks just now, if it lasted for one more minute, Shen Qianqiu would reach the limit.
Shen Qianqiu ignored the bloody gas in the air and the stench emitted by the beast, and breathed heavily, hoping to make his body recover a little more, at this time Shen Qianqiu was a little nostalgic for the advantages of the soul body, so that he would not have to be exhausted to such a point.
At this time, Shen Qianqiu suddenly found that the scope of the light seemed to begin to shrink, and the position that could have been seen clearly was now swallowed up by the darkness.
Shen Qianqiu raised his head and looked at the candle flame above, the light of the fire at this time was getting smaller and smaller, and it seemed that the fuel was about to run out.
The wolves who were devouring the corpses actually stopped eating at this time, and in the darkness, a pair of green pupils were staring at Shen Qianqiu, the white bones of the same kind were naturally not as attractive as the flesh and blood of this human being, and the silent cave was full of the greedy gasps of the wolves.
Looking at the situation in front of him, Shen Qianqiu knew that the moment the candle flame disappeared, the wolves would launch one last attack, and there were only two results, one was that he was eaten by the wolves, and the other was that he killed all the endless wolves.
Shen Qianqiu remembered what the old man said about increasing the difficulty, and said in his heart: "Where is this some difficulty, this is obviously to let yourself die here."