"Sure enough, someone gave up."

In the study room of Lishan, Lin Tuo sat quietly in the rattan chair, overlooking the thread of the ether that had obviously begun to diverge, some of which had stopped or returned, and the other part was still continuing.

"There are still a lot of people in Qin Tianjian's team, but there will definitely be fewer and fewer people in the future, well, those scattered ones are really easier to lose."

Lin Tuo commented in his heart, and his eyes were suddenly attracted by a thick aether line.

It was alone in the wasteland, far away from Qin Tianjian's team, and it was not clear whether it was a great demon with a profound cultivation or a human powerhouse.

After thinking about it, Lin Tuo didn't go over to look at it.

After all:

"If you can persevere, you can meet sooner or later, and if you give up halfway, there is no need to meet."

Yes, even if this "Wasteland Trial" was not deliberately designed by him, it was just a convenient means, but Lin Tuo would never regret those who gave up halfway.

This kind of person, even if he gives away the spell book, there is a high probability that he will not be able to achieve anything.

Shaking his head, Lin Tuo didn't look at it anymore, turned his head and went to supervise Huaxi's work again.

……

Next.

Day 4.

Day 5......

Lin Tuo didn't enter the sand table again, just observed, and the etheric line that continued to move forward was greatly reduced.

On the evening of the fifth day, Lin Tuo thought about it, briefly adjusted the downwind direction and gear, and then put his hands into it, forcibly moving a large area of cloud floc from the south of the sand table.

Stacked on top of each other and gathered at high altitudes to avoid being blown away quickly.

……

Meanwhile.

On the wasteland, the monks who walked silently against the sand suddenly noticed that the wind had decreased considerably.

Not only that, but they soon spotted clouds that were rapidly gathering high in the sky.

"The wind is light!"

"Look, those clouds ......"

In the queue, Lu Tang listened to some voices coming from the front, which were all Qin Tianjian powerhouses with advanced cultivation talking.

The five-day high-intensity trek and the sandstorm were extremely difficult even for the monks.

In particular, as we entered the fourth day, the team had exhausted the last bit of water.

Along the way, he did not receive fresh water, so he had to collect and chew the plants in the wasteland to obtain the juice during his rest.

Those juices were naturally extremely bitter and very little, and Lu Tang almost spit it out when he ate the first bite, but he finally gritted his teeth and endured it.

If you're lucky enough to catch some of the beasts of the wasteland, you're lucky.

The long trek, the consumption of physical strength, and the wear and tear of will have also screened most of the candidates.

Based on Lu Tang's observation, up to now, the rest of the people who can still keep up with the queue are only less than one-tenth of the original candidates.

And, most of them are almost at their limit.

"If you continue like this, you will die of thirst before you are tired to death." Lu Tang was in a daze, but his legs were numb and heavy moving forward.

At this moment, he heard the voices in front of him, and his chaotic mind sobered up, raised his head, and was stunned to find that countless clouds were rapidly surging from all directions.

It's extremely fast, it's not normal.

"Sure enough...... There is a transcendent power in this wasteland! As soon as the thought arose, the clouds overhead turned black, and then ......

"Click!"

A hideous flash of lightning flashed, followed by a thunderclap.

Lu Tang found that almost all the people around him trembled subconsciously, and so did himself, this was instinct, it was the fear of life to Tianwei, embedded in the depths of his body.

However, when the thunder swept over and the rain fell, the fear turned to joy!

"Water!"

"It's water!"

"It's raining!"

The candidates next to them with numb expressions seemed to be "alive" in an instant, and shouted excitedly with hoarse voices and chapped lips.

"Bang ......"

When the wet raindrops hit Lu Tang's dusty face, they instantly washed out mud traces.

Water...... Almost instinctively, he opened his mouth and tilted his head back.

The candidates beside him, and even some of the Qin Tianjian masters, also made similar moves.

The rain was pouring down, the cold wind was blowing, the surrounding scenery seemed to be blurred, and those rare and low plants also stretched their branches and leaves, trying to accept the rain and dew.

Soon, Lu Tang's clothes were soaked, but he didn't realize that some candidates around him were even lying on the ground, lying on their backs, in a large shape, and the order to rest came from the front of the team at the right time.

Front of the queue.

Wang Xundao was also looking at the sky, the wind and sand for days, this first-class grandmaster powerhouse also looked extremely embarrassed, his body was full of dust, and at this moment, it turned into mud.

However, his eyes were extremely bright, and his spirit, which had been slightly sluggish, quickly recovered in the torrential rain.

"Click-"

An electric light illuminated the heavens and the earth.

Faintly, he seemed to see an extremely large black shadow on the horizon in front of him.

"Heaven and earth are abnormal, and above the wasteland, there is indeed a miracle." He muttered to himself, and the vitality of his whole body was blowing, blowing the rain away.

At the same time, dozens of miles away.

On a certain hill, the white-haired demon sitting cross-legged also stared ahead, his eyes flashing with electric light, and faintly, it seemed to show the shadow of a huge tree.

After a five-day sandstorm, on this twilight, it rained in the wasteland.

……

"In that case, it should be possible."

Leaving the mountain study, Lin Tuo silently looked at the fluttering rain, knowing that soon, these forcibly detained clouds would disperse, but the muddy earth would also hinder their speed.

This can certainly be a test, but it can't really kill so many people with thirst.

……

Day 6.

The heavy rain dissipated, and the storm reappeared, but because of the rain, there was less sand and dust in the wind, which finally made Lu Tang feel a lot better.

A heavy rain also allowed the team to regain some energy and move on, but surprisingly, many candidates decided not to follow.

The reason is simple.

First, following the team before was also to ensure that he could live, after all, although the masters of Qin Tianjian had a cold attitude towards them, they would not watch people die.

However, after this heavy rain, the problem of drinking water was solved, which also gave the team more confidence.

Second, according to the rules of the previous martial arts examinations, the top one-tenth of all candidates can basically be admitted, and if they stop now, there is a great possibility of being admitted to Qin Tianjian.

And continuing to follow, although it will make you higher in the rankings, will also increase the danger, after all, the further back you go, the fewer companions you have.

In addition, most of the candidates' physical fitness is also on the verge of limit, and they can no longer keep up with Wang Xundao's speed.

Lu Tang knew this, he didn't say anything, just silently continued to follow.

At this time, there were only twenty or thirty candidates left in the team.

And the destination is still far away.

……

The seventh day passed in a flash.

When the time came to the early morning of the eighth day, when Lin Tuo woke up from his sleep and pushed the door out of the house, he was blocked by Huaxi next door with big dark circles:

"Teacher! I...... I'm done translating! ”

When he said this, Huaxi's whole person was excited like prostration.

Seven days.

Do you know how I got over these seven days?

Translation, Transcription, Typesetting, Drawing...... Every time you make a mistake, you have to start over the whole page.

The work of partiality can't be fast, a negligence, a mistake in copying a word has to be reworked, Huaxi feels that he has not written more than seven words in his life.

Kindness...... This is not an illusion, after all, in the wasteland, paper and pen are precious things, although after coming to Lishan, he was also forced by Lin Tuo to learn to write seriously, but he has never worked so high-intensity.

"Oh? I'll take a look at the first draft. When Lin Tuo heard this, he was also shocked, and hurriedly went to check.

Well, in order to reduce errors, the number of words on each page is not too much, so there is a large stack of handwritten paper.

Lin Tuo looked at it, admired it in his heart, and secretly thought that it was quite good except that the words were a little ugly.

But fortunately, it is written with a pen, even if it is ugly, the ugly is not the same style as the calligraphy system of the Dasheng Dynasty.

"Very good, hard work, go to sleep, look at the dark circles under your eyes."

Lin Tuo rubbed Huaxi's hair and said with a smile.

"Yawn~" Huaxi was reminded by this, sleepiness suddenly surged, hehe smiled, and went back to sleep satisfied after receiving the praise.

As for Lin Tuo, he took the manuscript back to the study, scanned it, and printed it...... The main thing is that the input method does not have a Shengguo font library, otherwise it would not be so troublesome.

In the study.

After scanning and sorting it out with his laptop, Lin Tuo watched the printer start to spit out PDF files one by one, and his eyes also turned to the sand table.

Well, under his unremitting obstruction, Qin Tianjian's team was still a long way from its destination, and the rest of the scattered monks almost stopped.

However, the extraordinarily thick aetheric line that I had paid attention to before was still in the first queue, and even faintly, it was faster than Qin Tianjian.

"It's really tough." Lin Tuo sighed with emotion, and raised his hand to cut off the power supply of the small fan.

It's ready, and there aren't too many people left, so there's no need for this.

……

At the same time, the team above the wasteland also noticed that the eternal wind had finally stopped.

"The wind has stopped?"

"What's going on?"

Everyone couldn't help but stop, and even a little uncomfortable, in the team, Lu Tang, who was already embarrassed and couldn't see the extravagance, felt the resistance that slowly disappeared in front of him, and was a little puzzled:

How did it stop?

What's going on?

Thinking like this, he couldn't help but raise his head and try his best to look ahead, and as the storm subsided, the sky and earth obscured by the wind and sand in the distance slowly cleared.

Previously, the wind and sand were all over, and they couldn't see clearly ahead.

You can only rely on the compass of Qin Tianjian and move forward according to the direction of the star map.

"Ahh

"What's that?"

"Look!"

In the exclamation, Lu Tang was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes widened suddenly, looking at the scene in disbelief:

I saw that as the wind and sand fell, on the horizon in the distance, there stood an extremely tall giant tree connecting the sky and the earth.

This immediately caused a riot in the ranks.

Although this world is still in an era similar to the Han and Tang Dynasties, it at least knows the truth of "near big and far small".

No matter how tall the mountain is, it is far enough away to be extraordinarily small.

But at this moment, the giant tree in front of everyone is clearly far away, but it is so huge, doesn't this mean that its original height will exceed the highest mountain in Shengguo?

How can it be?

This is not something that can be born on earth.

Unless......

Lu Tang's heart suddenly moved, and he looked at the monk who was in charge of finding the direction.

I saw that the monk had already unfolded the map in his hand at this moment, and with the help of the instrument to locate and measure, and after a while, he shouted excitedly:

"There it is! The location marked on the star map is in that area! ”

His voice was somewhat distorted with excitement.

Trekking all the way before, although everyone didn't stop, they didn't have doubts in their hearts, worried that they couldn't find the specific location, after all, the star map was not so careful.

More worried, finally arrived, and found nothing.

It was only at this moment, when the wind and sand stopped, that they finally saw the giant tree, and there was no doubt in their hearts, and the whole team was full of excitement.

"The wind and sand have stopped, speed up and go!" Wang Xundao's voice swept through the team and took the lead in looking forward.

However, although the giant trees had been cleared, as he set foot on the road, Lu Tang deeply understood the saying "looking at the mountain and running a dead horse".

But fortunately, without the wind and sand, the journey is indeed much easier.

In the blink of an eye, the seventh day passed.

Then came the eighth day.

Day 9.

……

When the time came to the afternoon of the tenth day.

Qin Tianjian's team finally arrived under the "giant tree".

In fact, a day earlier, they had stepped into the shaded area.

However, the branches and leaves of the landscape trees are not very luxuriant, so there are still large areas of sunlight in the gaps, and they will not be completely dark.

At this time, there were only a few dozen people left in the entire team, and there were less than ten candidates left, and even the elite of Qin Tianjian was also a few less.

Some stayed, together with those who stopped, to ward off possible dangers.

Lu Tang is the one in the best condition among the remaining candidates, but Rao is so, and he is almost exhausted, and he is only supported by a will.

I didn't notice that the hard soil of the wasteland was no longer under my feet, but fine sand...... Even, his vision is a little blurry.

Feeling the sound of the wind above his head passing through the huge foliage, he saw a clear, blue lake in front of him, with a few green leaves as large as a ship floating on the lake.

On the shore of the lake, under the giant trees, there seems to be a simple wooden house.

The wooden house is really not pretty, but in this mysterious place, it looks extraordinarily dusty.

Suddenly, the door of the hut was pushed open.

A girl wearing a black cloak and no hood, who was about a teenager, walked out, and didn't seem to be too surprised to look at Wang Xundao, at the strong man of Qin Tianjian, and at Lu Tang and these candidates.

In the black and white eyes, there is a slight resentment for no reason.

The team stopped, and the embarrassed, refugee-like crowd led by Wang Xundao looked at the girl in awe:

"I'm here from Kyoto ...... the Great Living"

"I know." Huaxi didn't give Wang Xundao any face, and interrupted, her accent was still the Shengguo dialect of six hundred years ago, which fell in everyone's ears, and she could naturally understand it, but with a hint of ancient rhyme.

The more mysterious.

"The teacher knows that you are coming, and he has been waiting since the morning," Hua Xi said a little unkindly, and then turned his head to look at the wooden house behind him in the puzzled eyes of everyone, and shouted in a crisp voice:

"Teacher, they're coming."

In the next second, Wang Xundao, Lu Tang and others saw that a figure pushed the door and walked out slowly.