Volume 1 Above the Silver Mist, Sitting Alone and Looking Down Section 25 North Grotto
As the old saying goes, "character determines fate", "where is sacred", here is "name determines origin". Hu Shandiao's surname Hu made him a national of Chu, but because he did not match the surname Hu Xingshan, Hu Shandiao became an orphan of Chu, and the name "Crow of Cage Ridge" matched a place called "Cage Ridge", and he became a wild man of Cage Ridge.
The Crow of Cage Ridge did not know that he was secretly stretching out his finger because of his resentment, but Hu Shandiao recognized the identity of the player, he tried his best to suppress his dissatisfaction at this time, and respectfully asked this person named Hu Shandiao to go with him to the nearby "cylinder building".
The game ID determines both the origin and the fate, perhaps with the word bird crow in the name, the Crow of the Cage also received the cultivation of this family when he became one of the many sons of the Cage Savage family. This family has an incomplete Xuandao-"Lei Zhenzi", although it is only "nine, eight, seven" three ladders, but it is experienced enough.
Therefore, when the Cage Crow was in the "Birdman" profession of the ninth echelon of "Lei Zhenzi", although he endured all the hardships, he did not lose his nature and successfully crossed this hurdle. However, when the "Birdman" period affected his mentality, there was something abnormal in all aspects.
Lei Zhenzi Xuanjing's eighth echelon number profession "Cloud Thunder Drum", this profession is not to become a "drum" or a drummer, but to obtain its own professional equipment. Only those who have the "Cloud Thunder Drum" can have the ability of "Thunder", and the Cloud Thunder Drum can only be obtained by the professionals themselves, and the Cage Ridge Savage Family cannot provide the finished product, but knows how to obtain it.
The Cage Crow's family itself is a native of Cloud Prison City, because when Cloud Prison City did not appear, the cliff where it was located was called "Cage Ridge". Therefore, the savage family that has lived here for generations is very trusted by the Black Turban Army, and there is no resistance for the Caged Crow to enter Cloud Prison City.
The Cage Crow's career progress is simply to collect enough "colored clouds", and when the career progress is reached, these colored clouds will automatically be refined into "Cloud Thunder Drum". Simple requirements don't mean it's easy to do, the Cage Ridge Black Evil has been in Cloud Prison City for nearly a month, but it has only collected 10 colorful clouds, and this is only 10% of the career progress.
The Crow Crow knew that even if he succeeded in climbing the ladder, it would not be possible to "climb the ladder", and delaying the progress for too long would not only affect the reward, but also reduce the success rate of the "climb". Therefore, the crow has a great grudge against anyone or anything that hinders his accumulation of "colored clouds", and it should have been his brother (Zhuang Renxuan's entourage) who led the way, but his brother let him come if he had something.
If nothing happened, the Crow didn't mind doing things for his brother, but it happened that he got the news that a "colorful cloud" was captured, and when he was about to go, he was dragged by his brother to "work". Due to his brother's high status in the "bird people" family, once the Crow Crow rebelled, it would affect the distribution of resources, so the Crow had to give up catching colorful clouds to serve Hu Shan Eagle.
Hu Shandiao naturally doesn't know what kind of path this player is taking, but once all players recognize that the other party is a player, they always have to set up a lot of resistance. Because, of course, there are three thousand Xuanjing, but the "ladder" is limited, there is no limit to the number of people below the six ladders, and there are more than six ladders, so without knowing what the other party's Xuanjing is, everyone is their own competitor.
"Taishang Laojun" Xuanjing means everything to Hu Shandiao, and he will only treat it calmly when he knows that the other party is not a competitor. Therefore, before knowing what kind of path this player (Cage Crow) was, Hu Shandiao did the same thing as the rest of the players, that is, to do his best to "expose" him.
There are only two kinds of real identities for players to expose, offline and death, the online is silent and has no movement, but offline and death have "light", only the light of "real people". Therefore, in order to expose this player, Hu Shandiao knew in advance that he was going offline, and asked an NPC to pretend to be "passing by" together, or let this player die in front of the NPC.
Hu Shandiao saw that the state of the Caged Crow was a little abnormal, or that the mood fluctuations were very strong, so he deliberately "embarrassed" the Caged Crow, so that he could accumulate more negative emotions, and it would explode after reaching the peak. Hu Shandiao was prepared to deal with the other party's outburst and tried to kill it in the shortest possible time.
Death is a common occurrence for the player, but the player is not unafraid of death, they are afraid of dying in front of NPCs, which means that their initial efforts to disguise their identities are all in vain, and the losses are many times more severe than the death penalty.
Hu Shandiao's strategy is still very effective, but the timing is not on his side, the cage crow has already noticed that Hu Shandiao is deliberately embarrassing himself, which makes him very angry, his exposed skin and tendons are rising, and the fierce light in his eyes flashes, just when he is about to suppress it, the person who came down from the tube tower has arrived.
Hu Shandiao sighed secretly and sighed pity.
The crow of the cage ridge is pale, he is afraid, and when he is afraid, those negative emotions disappear temporarily, and his reason is also restored, he is not a person whose IQ needs to be recharged, and he found the clues as soon as his thoughts were sorted out. But the cage mountain black evil is not sure that Hu Shandiao is the player, and the NPC is also very deep in the routine.
The player can't report that the player is a "real person", but he can "pick" in front of the NPC, Hu Shandiao can't make a plan and then go up again, and when he went to the tube tower with the black clothes and gold silk sleeves and a mediocre appearance, he said a lot of bad things about the waiter. However, Hu Shandiao did not find out the details of the Cage Crow after all, if he knew that the Cage Crow was indigenous, he would not have said bad things at this time.
Compared with Hu Shandiao, the people of Cloud Prison City naturally believe in the natives of the Caged Crow, after all, these people have lived here for much longer than them, and the Black Turban Army also needs the help of these natives very much. The natives have lived for a long time and know the history of this place in detail, and the top leaders of the Black Turban Army are all outsiders, although there is a lot of information, they also need the assistance of the locals to determine.
There was no success in the plot, Hu Shandiao could only express regret but did not take it too seriously, and entered the "pavilion cover" on the top floor of the tube building with the mediocre person. There are four people standing at the bottom of the pavilion, three of whom are the previous "interview" officers, Hu Shandiao has a bottom in his heart, and obviously he has a conclusion about his promotion to the head of the "Holy Army".
During the interview, the thirty questions asked by the three examiners were actually not the point, the focus was actually to drag out the time, and the room in the interview was just as Hu Shandiao expected, a place that could detect "Xuan Xiu". However, because of the long time for the effect to be played, the examiners need to delay the time, so that the "house" can complete the test.
After detecting that Hu Shandiao is Xuan Xiu, the examiners will not make a fuss, although the low-ladder Xuan Xiu cannot be said to be as many as a dog, but there are quite a lot, as for the problem of a wild Xuan Xiu mixing into the Black Turban Army, Ye Xuan Xiu mixed into the high-level of the countries abounds, not to mention the Black Turban Army that fell into the grass.
After determining that Hu Shandiao was Xuan Xiu, he carried out the next step of the test, that is, strength, and Hu Shandiao got rid of illusion in a very short time, which made the five examiners speak highly of him. People with potential need to be wooed, which is why Hu Shan is invited to carve to the top floor of the "tube building", and the first step in wooing is to "get acquainted".
The appearance is not one of the interview examiners, this person is called "Xia Yan", another middle-aged man with a white face and no single eyelids and small eyes is called "Zuo Meng", and the rest are the three examiners who Hu Shandiao knows the name and has the initial impression. But the three examiners obviously had other thoughts, and after meeting Hu Shandiao, they made excuses for each other to leave, and there were only Hu Shandiao, Xia Yan, and Zuo Meng under the lid of the tube pavilion.
It is rumored that the Black Turban Army is not really rebellious, but wants to excavate the ruins in Zhijun Mountain, after talking with Xia Yan and Zuo Meng, Hu Shandiao determined that this is not a rumor, the Black Turban Army is indeed excavating the ruins, and has been digging for fifty years. From the fact that there is still a large area in Cloud Prison City that belongs to the forbidden land, it can be inferred that it will take at least another fifty years for the Black Turban Army to excavate.
And the cloud prison city is not the "treasure" that Hu Shandiao thinks, it is a "spiritual treasure", although the magic weapon and the spiritual treasure are only one word difference, but the magic weapon has a complete soul, although the spiritual treasure also has a soul but will not think independently.
The founder of the Black Turban Army is called Hu Wulie, who is the owner of the "Cloud Prison City", and he created the Black Turban Army after refining the "Spirit Treasure" of the "Cloud Prison City". However, the Black Turban Army was used to deal with the Chu State, and it was the high ladder number Xuanxiu who was summoned by "Sudden Wulie" who really excavated the ruins.
Hu Shandiao was puzzled when he heard this, Yunjiao City recognized the Wulie as the main one, why there are still a large number of areas that belong to the forbidden land?
Zuo Meng, who was white-faced and beardless, replied, "Those forbidden places are shrouded in Cloud Prison City, and they do not originally belong to Cloud Prison City."
About half a month ago, Hu Wulie and his high ladder number Xuan Xiu entered the forbidden land north of the "Cloud Prison City" to carry out a new round of excavation, but when it came, Hu Wu Lie and his eight high ladder number Xuan Xiu did not come out. The high-level of the Black Turban Army naturally wanted to probe, but found that there was a change in the forbidden place, and Xuan Xiu, who had more than seven ladders, could not enter.
The seven ladders are a watershed, it belongs to both the low ladder and the middle ladder, and if the number of seven ladders is successful, it determines its own "Xuanjing".
After losing more than a dozen seven-ladder Xuan Xiu, the Black Turban Army did not dare to send people in, and then it was divided into three factions, one faction was secretly trying to usurp power, one faction was neutral, and the other faction wanted to save Hu Wulie. If it is not neutral, the usurper faction and the rescue faction are evenly matched, and under the mediation of the neutral faction, there is a plan to establish a "holy army".
"Even if the number of low ladders is all over the ground, it will be very difficult to gather a thousand people, right?" Hu Shandiao asked.
"That's nature", Xia Yan, who had a mediocre appearance, replied, "The Holy Congjun is just a pretense, and the only one who really wants to enter the North Cave is a person."
Hu Shandiao's eyes widened, personal? More than a dozen of them have died in front of them!
Xia Yan waved his hand to tell Hu Shandiao not to worry, he said, "The North Cave is a forbidden place that traps the city lords, and that place really doesn't know why there is a ban on the number of ladders, and only seven ladders and below can be entered." Not all of the first people sent in were dead, and two escaped alive, but they died after saying the word 'too much.'"
"Too many people?"
"There must be a lot of people, but when you enter, you can't rush in, you have to wait for a while, and you can only enter one at a time."
The top brass of the Black Turban Army worked together to capture the seven war beasts, trap them with rope-like treasures, and then push them into the North Cave, thus slowly coming to the conclusion that they would enter one at a time, and then enter one after two incense sticks. However, although the war beasts have intelligence but no humanity, most of them have lost their language function, and they are hostile to everything, so they can't get much information from the mouth of the war beasts.
When Hu Shandiao had just arrived at the top floor of the cylinder tower, Xia Yan and Zuo Meng told the inside story word by word, which made Hu Shandiao know that he only had two choices, one was to die in Cloud Prison City, and the other was to join the Holy Army. It is simple to die in Cloud Prison City, but when he is resurrected, he is still in Cloud Prison City, which exposes the identity of the real person, so Hu Shandiao has only one choice.