Chapter Seventy-Four: Hidden Profession: [Son of Qiankun]
By the third layer, I was completely confused.
There was no torch lighting around, and it was really hazy pitch black.
Quietly took out my baby [Night Flower] and sniffed it on the tip of my nose, and my vision was as bright as ever.
At this time, I realized that there were actually other players standing around, but the number was completely insufficient compared to when I first entered.
Unlike me, who has a secret treasure, there is no mage among these people, and they can only wave their hands back and forth like a blind elephant, because the previous common leveling locations were in open areas such as forests and lakes, and players had almost no contact with the terrain such as caves and crypts.
Therefore, these people couldn't even take out a torch for a while, so they could only open their eyes blind.
But this is also normal, there are really few people like me who dig ant nests, sweep worm holes, drill goblin cellars, and pound old cattle mines.
Feel like a tomb robber......
The quality of the surviving players is not as uneven as before, and the people who can get here have more or less some skills, and they don't dare to act rashly without vision, just quietly waiting for the follow-up players, wanting to see if there are any people carrying torches or props.
No one took the lead to explore the way, and naturally I didn't dare to take risks easily.
A new batch of players spawned in, and luckily there were a few mages, and the mages held bright fireballs in their hands, illuminating the place a lot.
There is even the [Dawn] class, and the fireball after charging becomes as big as a millstone, which is simply a small sun, and the light around it is bright in an instant.
"Damn, I guess we can't get by, the second-layer guard boss is already at the dark gold level, and further down, will there be a holy spirit level, or even a god level?"
The only players are discussing with each other and exchanging their opinions, and some of them have already conceived the idea of retreating, shocked by the terrible boss before, and do not want to make fearless sacrifices again.
The speed with which negativity spreads is astonishing, and after a short time, many players choose to return to the city where they are, terminating this first expedition, maybe they haven't gotten any considerable benefits, but just by not losing one level, such a simple stop loss has already made them satisfied.
It is indeed true that spending money to find guilt, losing a level without getting any benefits, the risks associated with the adventurous spirit are always beyond people's imagination, and the competition is close at hand, and the importance of the level is becoming more and more obvious.
With less than 100 men left, we headed for the only hole, and the mages among the remaining men became the vital illuminators, and people actively crowded them in the middle of the group to prevent them from hanging up, thus preventing the whole group from going any further.
I didn't have to worry about the vision, so I quietly followed the last position, leaning against the wall and carefully following the crowd, once the night vision effect passed, I quickly and quietly took it out and continued again, in order not to let others notice, I could only keep a safe distance from them.
And the people who came to this place with me no longer have god-level characters, at least none of the gods I know so far have come here, and they are all ordinary players after a brief glance at the past.
The corridor stretches for hundreds of meters, and then it comes to the end, where the rooms are not as large as before, but the left and right decorations are beautiful, with lifelike animals carved on the walls and colorful murals.
I looked over and found nothing related to gossip, just some symbolic figures such as dragons and tigers.
In the middle of the room, ten pillars of light suddenly lit up, and the floor below the pillars of light was a few moving sections with obvious cracks.
A few of the players who knew how to go over first, each choosing a pillar of light to stand in it, and the size of the pillar of light was just right for a player.
With the exception of the five warriors, everyone else chose to wait and see.
After the player under the pillar of light was still for more than ten seconds, the pillar of light suddenly changed color, from the original pure white to dazzling gold, completely enveloping the players in the pillar of light in the light, and people outside couldn't see what they were doing at all.
After a moment of dazzle, the players were gone, and only the activity section where they had been standing was refilled.
The players lamented everywhere, not knowing what had just happened, some people said that those people had hung up and returned to the city, others said that it was a test method, and most of the players did not dare to repeat the behavior of the players in front of them, but still watched, hoping that the gaze again could detect any clues.
"Do you have to step on it first, and then teleport to the clearance location?" This idea came to my mind, and after hesitation, I made the second group of brave people who dared to eat crabs, and stepped into the pillar of light with three or four other players.
The golden light gradually became dazzling, and even I didn't know what was happening, only that my eyes were completely filled with gold, and then I turned my eyes and appeared in a strange place.
I looked around, and it was the size of a normal middle school classroom, and it was completely enclosed with no entrance.
Then, the room suddenly brightened, as if the walls were shining with crystalline light.
At the same time, a large Heaven appeared under my feet, and eight different gates appeared around me, in front of which were covered by a crystal barrier, each filled with eight characters of Bagua.
Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Gen, Dui, Kan, Li.
According to the mantra, dry is the sky, Kun is the earth, earthquake is thunder, Xun is the wind, Gen is the mountain, Dui is the ze, Kan is the water, and the separation is the fire.
Following the formula, I entered the barrier, and then reappeared in a new room, and as before, a word was generated at my feet, and eight different doors appeared.
Relying on my unfamiliar mantra, I forced my way through the five gates that kept appearing, and when I stepped into the last gate, I appeared in a dark and silent place, surrounded by a hollow and boundless, as if deep in a black hole, and there was nothing but the ground under my feet.
"After all, it's still here......"
A long sigh sounded out of nowhere, the silence was long, and the long-awaited tone of anticipation sounded heartbreaking.
In order to keep me safe, I slowly took out the [Night Flower], wanting to renew the night vision effect that I had gone.
But the moment I took out the [Night Flower], the flower stem was pulled out of my hand by an inexplicable force, and in a panic, I hurriedly grabbed left and right, but I didn't touch anything.
"Spend the night! It's actually a night's sleep! Hahaha, hahaha......"
The voice rang out again, and I was a little hairy laughing.
"Young man, do you only have one [Night] plant?"
The sudden inquiry made me a little stunned, he actually knew the name of this flower?
I swallowed a mouthful of saliva and replied tremblingly, "Yes......, yes, it's just this one, nothing else......"
Listening to the meaning of that voice, I want to take away all my treasures.
"Hehe, but I, I clearly smell the fragrance of [Yin and Yang] and [Jishi]~"
Big brother, you're a dog, right? You can smell it in my backpack? Does my backpack smell bad?
However, his explanation also reminded me of what the village chief and the pharmacy owner had told me, if it was true, then this voice must have something to do with the legendary peerless master.
The most useful [Night] is gone, and it's useless for me to keep the remaining [Jishi Flower] and [Yin Yang Flower], so I just don't do it all and take it out for him, maybe there will be some equivalent exchange rewards.
"You really have good eyesight, the younger generation is too clumsy, that's right, I have all the flowers, right here." With that, I took out the two remaining flowers from my backpack, twisted one in each hand, and held it in my hand.
A force came from the left and right, confiscating all the flowers in my hands.
"How many years? How many years! ”
The voice was a little excited, as if I had seen my long-lost child, and I could even hear the tremors in his words.
"Ahem, that ...... The juniors still have something to ask. Seeing that I, the original owner, was being left aside, I kindly reminded the voice.
"What's the matter, tell me about it?"
I took out the [Soul Scroll] that I had been carrying from my backpack and held it in my hand with some caution: "That, you have also taken away the things of the junior, I don't know, do you know the information about this peerless master?" ”
According to what the village chief said, these three flowers should have additional clues or follow-ups, and no matter how bad they are, they should be rewarded.
Before the words fell, the [Soul Scroll] in my hand was also taken away by an inexplicable force and disappeared into the darkness.
It was quiet, and there was no sound.
……
Big brother, after a while, you obviously robbed me of four things? Is there really nothing that says you should give back?
The silence did not last long, though, when a small area in front of me suddenly brightened up, and an object resembling a chessboard appeared next to it, and a box was placed next to it, filled with stones depicting hexagrams.
I squatted down and picked up the hexagram to look at it, and counted it carefully, and there were exactly eight hexagrams.
And the chessboard is not a chessboard, but a three-by-three nine-square grid, which seems to be for me to put these eight hexagrams into it according to some kind of requirement.
"The previous formation arrangement method is all innate gossip, so I'll test your rest." The voice rang out, and then I was given a difficult question.
Most people think that there is only one type of innate gossip, and it is only called "innate gossip number".
But in fact, there is also the acquired gossip, and the hexagram of the acquired gossip is different from the innate gossip, the arrangement of the acquired gossip is Kan one, Kun two, Zhen three, Xun four, five for the middle palace, Qianliu , Dui seven, Gen eight and Lijiu.
"Qianliu, Kanyi, Gen 8"
"Seven, five, three"
"Kun 2, Lijiu, Xun 4"
I don't understand the general truth, but I am not stumped by these basic sequences, and I am chattering one by one, and I put these hexagrams one by one according to the grid of the nine-square grid.
In fact, this thing is also very simple, it is a very ordinary nine-square grid, as long as the sum of horizontal and vertical and diagonal addition, it is equal to 15.
"Boom~"
There was a tremor all around, and then the grid collapsed into slag, and a brand new nine-square grid rose from below.
Do you have to do it again?
I put it up again the way I had just arranged, and nothing happened.
Isn't that right?
What kind of routine is this?
But the doubts only dissipated in a moment, my father once discussed gossip with me, and I vaguely remembered that there seemed to be another way to place the nine-square grid, and the name seemed to be called a ......, called a ......
That's right! Taiyi God Number!
Taiyi turns the palace counterclockwise 45 degrees, with the Qiangong as one, the Ligong as the second, the Gen Palace as the three, the Zhen Palace as the fourth, the fifth as the Middle Palace, the Dui Palace as six, the Kun Palace as seven, the Kan Palace as the eight, and the Xun Palace as the nine.
Taiyi Yin and Yang run the eight palaces, and none of them enter the middle five palaces.
And the extra grid is the [middle] palace that Taiyi does not enter.
The house number series of innate gossip and acquired gossip are different, and I don't know how to mix them, and this Taiyi god number makes my head even bigger.
It's just that I was influenced by my father and kept these things in my mind, and no matter how profound the truth is, I don't understand it at all.
The nine-square grid that suddenly appeared now, although I can't continue to eat all over the world with one trick, but I know a little about the gossip of the day after tomorrow, and I happen to remember this Taiyi god number.
"Xun Jiu, Li Er, Kun Qi"
"Earthquake 4, 5, 6"
"Gen San, Kan Ba, Qianyi"
After the rearrangement was completed, the nine-square grid collapsed again, and then no new one appeared.
And suddenly there was a loosening of my feet, and then I lost the feeling of stepping on it, and I just felt like I had fallen into some abyss, and I had not been able to finish it for a long time.
"Ahhhh......h
……
After a long shout, I hit the ground hard, but it didn't hurt anything.
I hurriedly checked my personal status, and the system's prompt left me dumbfounded.
【Tomb of the Heavenly Master】, the ninth floor.
I got up and looked around with my incredulous eyes, and suddenly, one by one, the torches came from near and gradually lit up, and a long passage appeared in front of me, guiding me forward.
I looked carefully to the left and right, and found that there was really no other way to go, but to follow the path in front of me.
"Wow, wow, wow......"
The atmosphere here was extraordinarily quiet, the beams of torches burned straight up, and only when I passed by, there was a momentary sway, and the sound of lonely footsteps accompanied me, following me step by step.
At the end, a tall door, tightly closed, I stretched out my hand and tried to push it, but it didn't move.
I took a few steps back, but the door slowly opened on its own, and there was no sound from such a heavy door, only a very slight slicing to the left and right.
Inside, there is a staircase that goes up in a circle, and hundreds of stairs are emitting faint fluorescent, glass-like luminous piano keys.
At the end of the steps, a coffin was placed upright, quietly illuminated by the light of the stars, sacred and peaceful.
Everywhere else, even the ground beneath your feet, was just pitch black, making the steps and the coffin look as if they were floating in the universe.
I stepped in, the door behind me closing silently, leaving me with no room to retreat.
Stepping on the steps, I went up step by step, the echo echoed softly in my ears, every time the footsteps fell, there would be a ripple on the steps, but the soft light color was not like water, but like fine stars.
The footprints are undulating, and the stars are scattered.
The many steps separated me from the coffin, and I walked for more than ten minutes before I reached the coffin, watching the starlight splash on the coffin lid, quiet and pleasant.
"I can't imagine that after all, it will gather dust again."
A soft sigh suddenly came from the coffin, and the tone was mixed with inexplicable sadness and regret.
"Senior, ...... you, is that the legendary Heavenly Master?" I stood upright beside the coffin and asked cautiously.
"Heavenly Master? How dare you ......, it's just an ordinary man. His voice was extraordinarily modest, and he was not interested in the people of the world giving him this name.
The light on the coffin suddenly turned from weak to strong, and gradually brightened, but this light was not dazzling, it looked extremely comfortable, and I didn't want to leave my sight for a moment.
Then, a hazy soul shadow passed through the coffin lid and floated out of the coffin, with white beards and ancient fairy winds, gently sitting on the coffin.
He opened his blazing eyes and looked at me, as if they had penetrated my mind, sharp and yet humble.
【Qiankun Saint Venerable】(God Level):
???
……
Just after I was bold and reckless, and quietly checked the attributes of the Heavenly Master, the three words "Respect God Level" made me almost kneel down for him directly.
God-level.
The highest level of monsters in the game "King".
Not one of them.
Big brother, little brother didn't mean it, you let me go, don't kill me!
I talked to people for so long a day, but they turned out to be one of the strongest existences in the game!
It's over, it's over!
It doesn't matter if I die once, but activating this terrible existence is afraid that I will be buried with all the players in the dungeon......
If this matter is leaked out, I guess the whole town will have to chase and kill it until the novice village doesn't dare to come out.
Cool cool~
"You're afraid."
He spoke slowly, in an unusually approachable tone, not at all intent on hurting me, but as if he was reminiscing about me.
"Ah......, many, so offended, Heavenly Master, you dissipate your anger, dissipate your anger..."
"Hehe," he smiled softly, his tone thick and low, and his dragon-like voice invisibly revealed an indisobedient majesty, "I don't want you to be too restrained." ”
I don't want to say that, but human instinct is like this, and I have to restrain it.
I didn't dare answer, just stood there with a stiff grin, mentally prepared for everything to be blown into ashes.
He didn't look at me anymore, he looked up at the top of his head, and the endless darkness cast that light on him like the night sky, like a god descending into the world.
Then, he pinched out the three flowers from the void, put them in the air in front of him and set them still, and then took out the [Calm Spirit Scroll], briefly flipped through a few pages in his hand, closed the book, and the scroll instantly turned into nothingness and disappeared, leaving only the three flowers.
"Before I was alive, my favorite was these three flowers, when I was dying, the world changed, and I could only go out to defend the enemy in order to protect this mountain range where heaven and earth gather spirits; But I never thought that I was old and frail, and I died nine days away, and here I had already arranged a tomb, and my soul returned here, lonely for countless years, and the only thing I remembered was these three flowers..."
He caressed the petals lovingly, stroked the flower stem, and the technique was very gentle.
Then he took the three flowers in his hand and handed them to me.
"Now that I have only this remnant soul left to live, I might as well give you this flower, I don't know, what do you think?"
"Does the player Xingyu accept a gift from the Celestial Master?"
My old man, you're messing with me, aren't you? As soon as the front foot finished speaking, he was reluctant, and the back hand asked me if I wanted it? Do I dare?
If I want to come down, I'm afraid I'll have to let this old man scatter all my three souls and seven spirits.
"No."
I don't want a gift from the Heavenly Master, unless he shoehorns it into me.
"This three-flavor flower can be cultivated into a [Star Stepping Pill] that greatly improves your cultivation, you actually have the courage to give it, it is really beyond my expectations." After refusing, the Celestial Master sneered, as if he had seen something interesting.
"This flower is your life's painstaking cultivation, the younger generations have been preserved so far in order to be able to one day return to the original owner, today I am fortunate to see your deity, of course, you have to return it with both hands, how can you swallow it alone? Not to mention what cultivation is improved, just the little watering on the petals of the flower branches and flowers is not comparable to the so-called cultivation. ”
Since I didn't ask for anything, then of course I had to stop the loss and put gold on my face.
The Celestial Master's face was full of nostalgia and relief, he took back the flowers handed over, gathered them into nothingness, and then turned around and grabbed a scroll from the coffin beside him, and placed it solemnly in my hand.
Then, the soul that had been nagging for a long time disappeared, and only an echo echoed in the boundless darkness.
"Go with my long-cherished wish, and when I say goodbye, I will not let you be so calm and chic, when the swords will face each other, see what you have created!"
The echo shook the bleak atmosphere, shaking a halo of light that spread continuously, and I was enveloped in the halo, and then lost my vision.
The light faded, and I was already on the top of a high mountain, looking down on the wilderness, completely unaware of what was happening.
It's as if all the things I saw and heard just now were just a dream of Nanke.
Only the scroll clenched in his hand can prove all this.
I slowly rolled the scroll between my hands, and the large letters of Hejin came into view.
【The Art of Qiankun】:
Item Description: After use, you can obtain the hidden class [Son of Qiankun].