The sun is setting.

Shi Mu carried nearly 10,000 taels of remuneration and walked back briskly.

Just such a task of striking iron got nearly 10,000 taels of silver, which made him quite satisfied, but he didn't know if he would have the opportunity to encounter such a task in the future.

He turned a corner from the foot of a mountain, and a building with a large area and gray tiles with a spire appeared before him.

There were many buildings in the valley, and he didn't pay much attention to it when he went to the blacksmith shop, but at this moment, he swept his eyes and found a huge plaque hanging in front of the gray building, on which were written the three big characters "Spirit Law Palace".

For some reason, there were more than a dozen people in front of the gray building, all looking curiously towards the hall, but no one stepped into the hall.

Shi Mu couldn't help but be a little curious in his heart and stopped.

At this moment, suddenly a gust of wind poured out of the hall, and everyone around the entrance of the hall saw a burst of flying sand and stones, and a strong force pushed everyone back.

With a "whew", a black shadow flashed, wrapped in the wind and fell outside the door of the main hall, making a heavy and muffled sound.

The location of Shimu Station is far from the gate and has not been affected by the storm.

But his eyes flashed, and he saw clearly that the black shadow was a young man, with a slightly dark complexion, and looked about the same age as him, but his whole body was tightly bound by various blue-green vines, wrapped into a rice dumpling, and only a head and two calves were exposed.

This time flew out of the temple gate, and the dark-skinned boy was obviously not lightly fallen, and he grinned on the ground for a long time, but he couldn't get up.

"Brother Yue!"

Two people immediately rushed out of the crowd, they should be familiar with the dark-skinned young man, but the two looked at the door with some fear, and did not dare to reach out to help the young man on the ground for a while.

"Dare to test this talent, waste Lao Tzu's time in vain!" a slightly old voice came out of the door, scolding, and the tone was very impatient.

The dark-skinned boy on the ground struggled a few times, and with the help of his two companions, he finally broke free from the vines, and looked into the gate with a slightly flushed face.

"Impossible, when I was in the family, I obviously asked someone to test it, I obviously have the talent of a warlock, and I have already begun to learn basic spells. The young man's face was blue and red for a while, and he argued unwillingly.

Who doesn't know that the resources required for the cultivation of warlocks are almost ten times more than ten times that of martial artists of the same level, do you think that this sect will spend a lot of resources to cultivate warlocks like you, who only have one degree of elemental sensitivity? If you want to become an officially registered warlock apprentice of this sect, you must at least be able to make the induction crystal shine to more than three degrees. The voice inside the door became even more impatient.

When the dark-skinned boy heard this, his face turned blue and red, and finally accompanied by his two companions, he left in a gloomy manner.

"There are still warlocks out there to test their talents, all of them are for me to weigh clearly, and if someone comes in randomly, it won't be as simple as just throwing them out. Hmph, do you spend a lot of time as old men!" The voice in the hall came out coldly again, and then fell silent.

When the people outside the hall heard this, they looked at each other for a while and began to talk in low voices.

Shi Mu listened to everyone's discussions, and after a while, he finally figured out that the Spirit Law Hall here was the place where the Black Demon Gate was used to test the talent of the introductory disciple warlock.

However, testing is not free here, and a fee of 3,000 taels of silver is charged per person.

Moreover, the person who is in charge of this place obviously has a strange temper, if the person who is tested is not talented enough, not only will he pay the money in vain, but most of them will be humiliated.

The people outside the main hall talked for a while, although some people were a little eager to try, but remembering what happened to the dark-skinned boy just now, their courage was greatly reduced for a while, and no one dared to step into the temple door again.

Shi Mu's eyes flickered, thinking back to the generous tasks that only the various warlocks he had seen in the Guangyuan Hall before, and then touched the thick silver ticket in his sleeve, and after a cross-heart, he stepped into the palace gate.

When the people outside the hall saw Shi Mu entering, they all showed surprised expressions, and they all turned their heads and inquired about Shi Mu's identity.

Shi Mu didn't care about the situation outside, and walked slowly towards the hall.

Behind the gate of the temple is a wide corridor several feet long, and after passing it, there is a solemn hall.

The hall is quite spacious, but there are not many furnishings, near the left hand side of a large mahogany table, a gray-robed old man sitting lazily behind the table, holding a yellowed scroll in his hand, is reading with relish.

On the right side of the main hall is a circular stone platform that is a few feet above the ground, the size of a zhang, and it is painted with curved runes.

Around the stone platform, there are crystal pillars with the thickness of the bowl mouth, colorful, each one is different, and the surface of these crystal pillars is carved with lattice stripes, which are divided into nine grids from bottom to top, which looks extremely mysterious.

After Shi Mu saw the stone platform and crystal pillar on the ground, his face suddenly showed a look of surprise.

The old man behind the mahogany table heard footsteps and raised his head.

This old man is thin, with gray hair, triangular eyes, and sharp-beaked monkey gills, and looks mean.

The old man rolled his strange eyes, put down the scroll in his hand, didn't stand up, and glanced at Shi Mu.

"Come and test, give your name and identity. The gray-robed old man snorted and said in a cold tone.

"In Xia Shimu, a new disciple who just joined the sect two months ago. Shi Mu arched his hand and said.

The gray-robed old man looked Shi Mu up and down, and said with a sneer: "Won't you not see the role model outside just now, right?"

Shi Mu's face moved when he heard this, and he was silent.

"People like you have seen a lot, and they don't cultivate well, but their minds are full of unrealistic thoughts. Although the Spirit Law Hall is a place to test the talent of disciples and warlocks, the old man is not bothered to test cats and dogs, and he doesn't want to waste silver taels and suffer hardships, so get out quickly. The gray-robed old man glared at Shi Mu and said coldly.

"Senior, since the disciple has walked in, he has already been mentally prepared, this is three thousand taels of silver tickets, and I ask the seniors to bother to test it for the disciple. Shi Mu took out three silver tickets from his body and placed them on the mahogany table quietly.

The gray-robed old man showed a hint of surprise on his face, squinted his eyes and looked at Shi Mu for a while, Shi Mu looked calm and stood quietly.

"Hmph, the kid is not bad. The gray-robed old man's eyes flashed with a hint of color, snorted, and stood up.

"Come, stand on the stone platform. The gray-robed old man walked to the side of the stone platform and took out a jade ruler from his arms, which was engraved with colorful runes, which were somewhat similar to the patterns on the stone platform.

Shi Mu was overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly stood on the stone platform in three steps and two steps according to what the old man said.

The gray-robed old man whispered something in his mouth, and a burst of green light appeared on his body, which was injected into the jade ruler in his hand.

The runes on the jade ruler quickly lit up, and the gray-robed old man waved his hand, and a colorful light shot out from the jade ruler and merged into the stone platform.

Buzzing!

The circular stone platform is lit up with patterns and emitted various colors, while the humming air reverberates.

Shi Mu's face changed slightly, and various colors of light emanated from the stone platform enveloped his body, and a warm breath poured into his body from under his feet, and he swam around quickly, and then flowed back to the stone platform.

The brightness of the pattern on the stone platform suddenly dimmed, but the surrounding pillars changed.

A blue pillar, a red pillar, and a black pillar shone at the same time.

The three pillars of crystals all lit up from the bottom first, and the light went up.

Among them, the blue crystal pillar only lit up one square, the red crystal pillar lit up two, and the black crystal pillar suddenly jumped to the position of five squares, emitting a scorching black glow.

The gray-robed old man was stunned when he saw this.