This old-fashioned silver pocket watch is a relic left by summer, autumn and winter to summer, and there is the only family photo of the Xia family in it. Therefore, summer is cherished to the extreme, and it is always taken with me. At this moment, when I saw that the pocket watch was damaged, I couldn't help but shed tears when I was sad.

Seeing Summer's reaction, Qiu Hu was just depressed. He wanted to change the subject, but he didn't expect it to make Summer sad and cry again. I couldn't help but secretly regret it, I knew that I really shouldn't have mentioned it rashly. But now looking at the appearance of summer crying, he just had to bite the bullet and change the topic again.

"Summer, don't cry. See, how can the pocket watch shine? It looks like there's something hidden inside. Qiu Hu pretended to be surprised and said.

As soon as this statement came out, Summer also discovered the light in the cracks of the pocket watch. It was as if there was something glowing inside, and the light was shining through the cracks.

I've been with this pocket strap for many years, but I've never noticed anything out of the ordinary. Summer was curious, she bit her lip and thought about it for a moment, but decided to see what was going on.

Said to do it immediately, although the summer is small and weak, but only a little force, the already broken pocket watch shell was completely broken.

"Jingle ......" a crisp and pleasant voice sounded. A silver glittering ring fell from the movement and fell to the ground with a series of clanging sounds.

"Huh? Ring? "Ahh Space rings? ”

The two exclamations came from the mouth of Summer and Tiger respectively, and something that was radiating silver aura on the ground was clearly a ring.

Summer bent down and picked up the ring from the ground, held it in the palm of his hand, held it in front of him, and asked the tiger, "Uncle bearded, how can this ring be in my pocket watch?" Do you know what's going on? ”

She is also stunned now, she never thought that there would be a ring in her pocket watch.

Qiu Hu shook his head, he naturally didn't know why this was happening. But he knew very well that it was this ring that had absorbed his spiritual power just now. And it feels very similar to the space ring, but there is a clear difference, because the space ring does not actively absorb spiritual power.

Pick up the ring from Summer's hand and put it in front of your eyes to look at it carefully. I saw a silver glow on the surface, and there was no doubt that it was the light that burst out of spiritual power. The material of the ring is not gold or stone, and it seems to be very hard. There is no pattern inside and outside, more like a flat ring.

Trying to inject spiritual power into the ring, this time Qiu Hu seemed a little cautious. But the result still made him a little surprised, even if it was only a simple temptation. But the moment the spiritual power entered the ring, the spiritual power in his body was like a river bursting its banks, and it was uncontrollably surging towards the ring.

"Ahh An exclamation couldn't help but shout, and Qiu Hu's eyes widened, looking at the ring whose light was becoming more and more dazzling. He wanted to control his spiritual power to stop pouring towards the ring, but he couldn't.

Even though he was conscious at the moment, he knew that something was wrong and that he had to throw the ring away. However, his body had become immobile, and even his fingers were stiff, unable to move at all.

Summer was startled by the tiger's scream, and involuntarily grabbed the tiger's other arm hanging beside him. Shaking vigorously, he asked eagerly, "Uncle, are you okay?" Don't scare me! ”

However, before the words fell, a flower suddenly appeared in front of him. I saw that the ring suddenly burst out with dazzling golden light, and I couldn't open my eyes.

Summer subconsciously closed her eyes, but the golden light was only fleeting. Less than two seconds later, I could feel through my eyelids that there was no more glare in front of me.

One eye closed and one eye slightly open, when you see the situation around you. Summer was so frightened that both eyes opened at the same time, and they were wide open.

"This ...... What is this place? Summer blinked wide, looking at everything in front of her in disbelief. At this moment, there are no less than 100,000 questions in my mind, but the biggest question is "What is this place?" ”

Qiu Hu's body was now free, but the ring in his hand was gone. But he didn't care about that, but was equally attracted by the situation around him.

This is no longer a slightly empty cave, but a vast and boundless world. As far as the eye could see, except for a huge stone monument not far ahead, there was only blue sky, white jade, and an endless green lawn.

Even though his heart was shocked, Qiu Hu was a demon cultivator who had lived for hundreds of years after all. Naturally, his knowledge and mind were far from being comparable to that of Summer's teenage girl, and after his initial surprise, he quickly calmed down.

"Don't leave my side, let's go see the stele." Qiu Hu said cautiously. Coming to this strange place for some reason, there seems to be nothing else between heaven and earth except the stone tablet. If you want to solve the doubts in your heart, it seems that you can only go through the stone tablet.

"Hmm." Summer nodded in agreement, a small hand firmly grasping the sleeve of Qiu Hu's robe.

Qiu Hu was very vigilant and slowly walked towards the stone monument with Summer, the distance was only a hundred meters, but it was a full five minutes of walking. Because with every step he takes, he will be on guard, lest he will touch some powerful trap. Fortunately, there was no danger along the way, and there was nothing unusual about the lawn under your feet.

The stele is rectangular, with a wide surface of nearly one meter, and a narrow face of only a dozen centimeters, but the height is twenty meters. The whole body is black, but the surface is very smooth. When I got closer, I realized that it looked like a black mirror. And the material doesn't look like stone, it seems to be some kind of special metal.

"Those who participate in the test should stand in front of the Babel Monument, the first layer of the test is about to begin."

The sudden sound seemed to fall from the sky and resounded throughout the world. The language of this voice is not Chinese, nor English, nor even any language on earth. But there is a certain magic, and when you listen to it, you immediately understand what it means.

Needless to say, in the summer, even the tiger was taken aback.

And on the surface of the black stele in front of him, many golden words began to appear, and when the streamer flashed, the ground seemed to be shaking faintly.

"What's going on?" "What's going on?"

Almost unanimous inquiry, but no answer. Qiu Hu and Xia looked at each other, and they both saw doubt and surprise in each other's eyes.

"You are numbers 12125 and 12126, start the first layer of testing immediately, good luck to you."

As the last word was finished, Xia and Qiu Hu found that their bodies suddenly flashed with a white light. Then the white light disappeared, and he was already standing on a huge stone platform.

Summer and Qiu Hu have been separated at this moment, leaving her alone in this strange place, and her heart is very panicked and frightened.

"Uncle Bearded, where are you? Where are you? Summer shouted a few words, but didn't hear any answer. In this empty place, there was not even an echo.

At this time, a black stone slab suddenly appeared out of thin air on the stone platform, which looked like a blackboard. On the blackboard, several golden rays of light appeared, forming a tic-tac-toe pattern.

"Huh?" Summer was very strange, blinking her eyes and looking at some of the symbols floating on the black slate. Although she had never seen these symbols before, when her eyes saw them, she knew what they meant. Those symbols actually represent one to nine, these nine numbers.

"You need to fill in the blanks from one to nine, so that the three numbers in each row, column, and slash add up to fifteen."

Hearing that voice coming from nowhere, Summer was still a little panicked, but somehow calmed down a lot. She didn't expect the so-called test to be like this, and she couldn't help but be amused when she thought that she had played this number game with her classmates at school not long ago.

Since it's a game, the original nervousness is gone, replaced by a playful and curious nature. Summer didn't hesitate to fill in the nine numbers into the spaces of the tic-tac-toe, and it took less than ten seconds to finish.

But that was just the beginning, and as Summer filled in the middle space with the last number five, a burst of golden light suddenly flashed on the black slate.

Then, in the Tic-Tac-Toe, up, down, left, left, up, right, up, right, down, and down, eight identical Tic-Tac-toe shapes appear in these eight directions. And the symbols, which represent numbers one to nine, also appeared at the same time. Each number has eight each, making a total of seventy-two.

"Keep in mind the test rules, the same number is not allowed in every tic-tac-toe area, and the number of each diagonal line in every row and column is not allowed to be repeated."

The voice reappeared, but the new rules were announced.

At this moment, Summer was a little dumbfounded, looking at the blanks, I only felt that a head was almost the size of two heads, and my whole body and my head hurt.

"It's dead, it's dead." The summer was very frustrating.

The previous cross-hatch game was just because she had played it with her classmates and had an impression in her heart, so she easily won it. But now faced with an eightfold increase in space, she didn't know what to do.

If a normal person might spend a little time calculating, they could complete this number game. But for summer, it's an impossible task. Her brain domain development is only 6%, which is one percentage point lower than normal, and her reasoning ability is quite limited.

Facing the black slate that gave me a headache, Summer was a little annoyed and angry. She reached out and swept down the nine numbers that had been filled in the middle one by one, simply not leaving a single number in the space.

"Hmph, the hero hands in a blank slate, and the hero gets zero points! I just don't fill in anything, see what you can do with me! Summer said angrily. After more than ten days of study, I didn't learn much knowledge, but I learned a lot of rhetoric.

However, as soon as the words fell, the black slate suddenly disappeared out of thin air, and the voice sounded again, "Congratulations to No. 12126 for passing the first layer of testing, please return to the monument to accept the reward." ”

Summer only felt a flower in front of her, and by the time she came back to her senses, she had already returned to the previous stone tablet.