Chapter 22: The Labyrinth
Ning Yuan, who had been attracted by his own state since he came to his senses, finally felt the faint vibration of the ground and the faint beast roar that could still be heard even from the mountain wall of an unknown number of feet.
Looking up at the pitch-black dome of the mountain wall, Ning Yuan's eyes flickered. He knew that the beast tide had begun.
Ning Yuan raised his hand and used Qimen to sense it, and found that about seven days had passed.
Speaking of Ning Yuan's knowledge of Qimen, this is thanks to the old man of his family.
Thirty years ago in the real world, ten years before the establishment of the Coalition Government of the Stars, in order to seat their respective countries in the coalition government, the Ruins opened up a virtual game world as a stage for the competition of various countries.
The knowledge and ability of Qimen that Ning Yuan mastered was obtained by Ning Yuan's father in that void area. Because he thought it was useful, he passed it on to the three of them.
After feeling his physical condition a little, Ning Yuan nodded with satisfaction. Bigu Pill is indeed worthy of being a necessary cultivation elixir for cultivators.
As far as a rookie like him who has just cultivated is concerned, seven days have passed in one cultivation, and those senior cultivators are afraid that the time for one cultivation is even longer, not to mention the legendary retreat of several years and decades at every turn.
If there were no supplemental pills like Bigu Dan, I am afraid that a simple practice could make a cultivator starve to death. That is not cultivation but death. However, cultivation itself is a matter of perseverance, and if you want to achieve something, it is almost inevitable that you will stay up for time.
Taking the human race as an example, the average lifespan of the Terrans of the Stars is one hundred and twenty years old, and the average lifespan of the Terrans of the Nino Continent is one hundred and twenty-five years old. The best cultivation time for the human race is forty-eight years from the age of twelve to sixty. And it takes almost one to two years from the beginning of cultivation to the condensation of the "Qi Species", and it takes another three to four years from the "Qi Species" to the opening up of the "Qi Sea", and according to the shortest average time, it takes almost four years for the human race to become a real soldier-level cultivator from the beginning of cultivation, that is, sixteen years old. And it takes about six years to go from the soldier level to the husband level. From this point of view, in fact, Xu Yong's qualifications are really good.
The shortest recorded record from the husband to the lieutenant level is ten years on the Neno continent, and the average is almost fifteen to eighteen years. The shortest record from lieutenant to school rank is also ten years, but this record is the result of the demon himself being the lord of a city, and there are rules to protect him from being restricted by the rules of the city-state. If you calculate the breaking limit of the city-state rules, this average time is basically impossible to calculate.
Let's put it this way, the best time for the human race to cultivate, or the best time for the human level to lay the foundation, is those forty-eight years. In these forty-eight years, even if it only took you twenty years to cultivate from a mortal to the rank of captain, as long as you can't become a city lord or get a school-level breakthrough quota in a certain city-state in the remaining twenty-eight years, then no matter how fast your cultivation speed is and how demonic your talent is, you can only be stuck at the captain level and cannot advance an inch.
Why do the rules of the city-state restrict a practitioner's breakthrough? It has been said before that it is because of resources, but there is another reason that is the restriction of the world rules of the Nino continent.
When a practitioner breaks through from the human level to the earth level, he will receive the gift of the world, which is simply to prolong his life. How many years? Three times your original lifespan. After the average lifespan of one hundred and twenty-five years old, the lifespan of the human race will increase to six hundred years. If you break through to the Heavenly Rank, your lifespan will be nine times that of the Primal Rank, that is, 5,400 years old.
Cultivators conquer heaven and earth to create and compete with heaven and earth, and the fundamental laws of the world have to limit the number of people who break through in order to maintain the orderly development and operation of the world. This is also the reason why the rules of the city-state limit the number of cultivators who can break through the ground level, and every time a cultivator above the ground level breaks through a great realm, he will usher in the Heavenly Tribulation Trial.
Of course, the rules for the player's cultivation as a special descending group will be different. At least the cultivation time of the human level will be much shorter than that of the aborigines, although the requirements and restrictions for breaking through the ground level are the same as those of the aborigines, but the cultivation speed after the breakthrough will also far exceed that of the aborigines, of course, they need to face the test of the Heavenly Tribulation like the aborigines.
But no matter how the system is favoritic, there must be a degree of love for the rules. And Ning Yuan's cultivation speed is obviously beyond the outline. Although seven days have passed, since Ning Yuan opened his eyes and officially began to cultivate the "Three-Edged Spear Technique", there was only one short crown, that is, three hours.
From a mortal to a soldier-level preparatory cultivator in three hours, this speed is definitely a 99% super-class existence among tens of billions of players.
Ning Yuan estimated that if he posted it on the forum at this speed, he would definitely be killed. So let's make a fortune quietly.
Fortunately, Ning Yuan is a wild player, and he wasted a lot of time in the early stage, otherwise even if Ning Yuan is unwilling at this time, his name will also be hung on the list of demons on the homepage of the forum for people to admire.
As mentioned earlier, the game world of Nino Continent is a kind of preparation for the resurgence of the star civilization after a hundred years of reality, which is related to the quota of real resources, and is full of competition. Therefore, the player forum has hung the names of the first one million players who have become soldier-level cultivators among all the players who have entered the Nino Continent on the homepage of the forum, which not only arouses the competitive spirit of players, but also gives those realistic forces an opportunity to bet.
At least for the time being, the series of numbers in their system records is still of some value to the system.
A month later, Ning Yuan finally completed the evolution of "Three-Edged Gun Technique" and successfully awakened the "Yanyan" talent.
As Ning Yuan expected, as a spiritual calculus talent, "Yan Yan" is very powerful for the blessing of Qimen Shushu. Originally, Ning Yuan could only calculate time to "days" using Qimen ability, but now he can accurately calculate "seconds". Even if you don't take the initiative to open the "Yanyan", the thinking ability that is passively improved by the talent can also be accurately calculated to the time of the earth's branch.
With the improved thinking deduction ability of "Yanyan" and the powerful memory reproduction ability of "Sunset", coupled with the spearmanship ability that still needs to be tested in actual combat, Ning Yuan finally has a seven-point grasp of seizing the opportunity.
That's right, it's "seven points".
Even though his strength has undergone earth-shaking changes, Ning Yuan's grasp of obtaining this opportunity has only improved from "five points" to "seven points".
For Ning Yuan, there is no difference between "one point" grasp and "five points" grasp, they are both gambling. Half chance and half half.
Although the "seven points" grasp is still gambling, at least it is already gambling with confidence and preparation. The chances are slightly higher than the original half-to-half.
Don't underestimate this slightly higher chance, which is basically the difference between heaven and hell.
After Ning Yuan replenished a Bigu Pill, he adjusted his state to the best, looked up at the huge Secret Realm Dunjia Gate, took a deep breath, and raised his feet to step into the door.
As Ning Yuan stepped in, the ripples on the stone gate began to ripple.
After walking out of the Dunjia Gate, Ning Yuan appeared in a stone compartment, and behind him was a closed stone door that had just extinguished the ripples.
From this moment on, he will completely lose his way out.
Ning Yuan glanced at the compartment vigilantly, turned on the "sunset" and began to compare it with the memory of the boundary line.
"It's the same as I remember." Ning Yuan said secretly in his heart, "It seems that at least there won't be much deviation here." ”
Ning Yuan, who was a little relieved, maintained the memory of the boundary line in the state of "sunset", and walked out of the compartment to officially step into the first trial place of the secret realm.
A huge stone monument nine feet high divides the space outside the compartment into two passages, left and right.
On the stele is a huge "Qin" character, and the words "life" and "death" are engraved on the top of the left and right passages.
This is a huge labyrinth, Ning Yuan can only choose to enter from one of the two passages of "life" and "death", once he enters a certain passage, the entrance will be immediately sealed, and there is no choice but to move forward.
In the realm, Ning Yuan used cheating to go through the two passages of "life" and "death", and the intact nine lives were consumed in two at the "life" gate and four at the "death" gate.
After Ning Yuan reproduced the relevant memories, he chose the "death" door without too much hesitation.
In general, the "life" door is a little simpler than the "death" door, but the benefits are slightly worse.
In this case alone, Ning Yuan is inclined to choose the "birth" door, but the choice of the "life" and "death" doors is also related to the qualification to enter the last door. Ning Yuan could only choose to live towards "death".
After stepping into the "death" door, the passage behind him was closed by a broken dragon stone, and the moment the eyes fell into darkness, the lights on the two walls of the passage automatically lit up, emitting a dim light to illuminate the passage.
Ning Yuan looked at the bluestone slabs distributed under his feet and fixed his mind, while comparing his memory, he pinched the Qimen Seal Recipe, and carefully calculated the direction.
With the blessing of the "Yanyan" talent, Ning Yuan followed the guidance of the darkness and looked at the bluestone slab on the right, compared his memory and stepped on it carefully.
Safe.
"Same." Ning Yuan muttered, finally having some confidence in the realm memory of this labyrinth.
However, in line with the principle of caution, Ning Yuan did not pass according to Meng Lang's memory, but chose to carefully and slowly compare his memory while calculating.
In this way, he carefully advanced a hundred steps, exactly the same as the safe path in the memory of the boundary line.
Seeing this situation, Ning Yuan's confidence in the reliability of the boundary line memory increased greatly, and he unconsciously wanted to speed up.
However, when Ning Yuan just wanted to move forward directly according to his memory, the movement of his left hand subconsciously brushing his neck made him calm down instantly.
The mark of his first death was a stark reminder of the consequences of his carelessness.
Ning Yuan's originally somewhat relaxed mood instantly tightened, and he almost made the same self-righteous mistake again.
Ning Yuan, who had calmed down, raised his hand and touched his neck, took a deep breath, and once again compared his memory while calculating.
After taking another fifty steps, Ning Yuan stopped.
Then I began to rejoice that I didn't have the urge just now. The direction of the one hundred and fifty-first step is different from the one in memory.
Sure enough, the memory of the boundary line inevitably deviated.
After Ning Yuan vigilantly tentatively stepped on the calculated direction to confirm safety, the deviation of this boundary line was confirmed.
Everything is just as originally envisaged, and the memory of the boundary line can only be used as a reference in the end.
In the continuous calculation and memory comparison, there are three positions in the channel of the first paragraph that are different from those in memory, and the result is a victory of calculation.
After walking the first section of the passage of five hundred and sixty steps, Ning Yuan came to the first parting of the road.