Yang Ze stood in front of the mountain road, carefully examining every step he could see. It doesn't seem to be any different, it's all made of granite slabs. The stone face is also a little uneven, and stubborn grass grows in the cracks of the stone slabs, as if telling people their age. At this time, the sun had completely disappeared behind the Nine Star Peak, and the shadows cast down made this hiking trail even more eerie.

It's too late! Xiao Tian saw that Yang Ze was still there to check, and he couldn't help but step on the stone steps......

At the entrance of Guoyuan Village, the village chief sat on a big stone with a small flower braid to bask in the sun. The little naughty ghosts are still frolicking by the river with bare butts, the third uncle and the fourth uncle, the second aunt, the little black child, everything is so harmonious.

The village chief was still so happy to smile at Xiao Tian.

"Baby, have you been admitted? It doesn't matter if you can't pass the exam, your third uncle left you a roast rabbit leg today......

The village chief's smile slowly turned hideous, and then his facial features continued to distort into another appearance.

Ouyang Shaogong! Xiao Tian was startled. I saw Ouyang Shaogong holding a sharp blade, grabbing the pigtails beside him, and stabbing down one by one, stabbing back with a weird laugh.

Yes......

Xiao Tian shouted like a madman, and then directly teleported over and directly pierced Ouyang Shaogong's heart with his Hidden Blade. Ouyang Shaogong didn't die, he still smiled very hideously. At this time, the harmonious atmosphere in the village suddenly changed greatly, and from the beginning of living and working in peace and contentment, the smell of chickens and dogs became a hell on earth in an instant.

White maggots wriggle everywhere, and small fish by the river are pecking at rotten flesh from dry bones. Suddenly, all the corpses slowly crawled towards Xiao Tian, and the little girl who was stabbed to death next to him also woke up again, hugging Xiao Tian's thighs tightly and biting the flesh and blood on his legs.

"Did you get in...... Did you get in......"

The corpse kept questioning while moving, Xiao Tian felt very guilty in his heart, very guilty, very painful, he was sorry for the father and the villagers in the village, he killed the uncles and brothers in the whole village............ Yes...... Yes......

Yang Ze watched Xiao Tian push himself away and step on the steps, but the impatient Xiao Tian stood motionless on the first step like this, and his face became worse and worse. He didn't have time to think about it, and the two vines in his hand immediately wrapped around Xiao Tian and dragged Xiao Tian back directly from the steps.

"Brother!

Xiao Tian's teeth trembled, and he said to Yang Ze with a frightened face.

"Sure enough, there is a problem!"

Yang Ze now somewhat understands what these candidates have experienced on this step. These steps seem to magnify the deepest emotional desires in people's hearts countless times, and only by overcoming their inner self can they successfully reach the top of the mountain. At the foot of the mountain, the waste wood was apparently eliminated by the stone steps.

Yang Ze looked at the sky, there was not much time left, and he couldn't bother on this step anymore. If you climb the steps step by step like these people, it is not enough to say whether you can climb or not, even if you can climb it, the time is not enough.

Everyone looked at Yang Ze and the others' sad looks, and they felt that their frustration after the failure of the mountaineering suddenly alleviated a lot. Especially Li Haoran, who was sitting paralyzed under the tree, he couldn't help laughing out loud at this time.

"Don't stop in front of Jiuxing Mountain, if you want to enter the palace, climb the steps first. ”

Yang Ze looked at the poem on the archway and found that there seemed to be something he couldn't find. The stone steps in front of this go up the mountain, and the width of the stone slab is just over one meter. In addition to the width of the stone slabs of the steps, there are more than 20 centimeters of hard ground on both sides, but they are overgrown with weeds.

Combined with the words on the archway and the design of this step, Yang Ze made a bold assumption.

"Xiaotian, you go and try it again, this time you don't step on the stone slab of the steps, I will use vines to surround you first, and you step on it from the weeds next to you. ”

To do all this in order to confirm whether Yang Ze's own assumptions are really correct.

"Brother, it's okay!"

I saw Xiao Tian's feet stepping on the grass on the side, and he didn't have the hallucination just now. Yang Ze was not at ease, and asked Xiao Tian to continue to walk forward a few steps again, seeing Xiao Tian turn around and look surprised, Yang Ze did not hesitate anymore and ran up directly.

The two raced against time all the way, stepping on the weeds on the side of the road. Because they didn't climb the mountain along the steps, as long as it was a small mountain stream that was not too far away, the two jumped over it directly. In this way, the speed of climbing the mountain is much faster than climbing the mountain step by step.

The small ditches and streams along the road jumped over, and the larger ravines were also swept over by Yang Ze using vines. At the last moment when the afterglow of the setting sun disappeared into the horizon, Yang Ze and the others finally stepped on the flat ground at the top of the mountain as they wished.

Normally, it takes less than half a day to climb the mountain, but they can do it in less than half an hour with this method. Which people at the foot of the mountain scolded the young man who started to talk eloquently, and what climbed the stairs was the test of the Nine Star Academy. Everyone rushed up and stepped on their legs, and few of them could successfully reach the top, but just now these two guys didn't follow the routine at all, and they climbed to the top of the mountain without even touching the steps, which made them embarrassed.

The trail was blocked again. The candidates who could still move swarmed up again, the weeds on both sides of the steps were trampled into mud, and many of the people you pushed me to flash were squeezed onto the steps again. But this time the stairs were really just steps, there were no illusions, and everything seemed normal.

One, two... Ten people... Hundreds of people...... More than an hour later, the platform at the top of the mountain was crowded with people, but they were stopped by a middle-aged scholar in a Confucian robe. Everyone looked at the group of people behind the scholars, and some of them couldn't stand squatting on the ground anymore and crying......

In the middle of the moon, Yang Ze was very glad that he had cleared the customs by luck again. I saw that the design of the mountain road steps was unreasonable, and I figured out the poems on the torii. made Yang Ze and Xiaotian the two become the winners of the final pass of the academy exam at the last moment.

In fact, the problem of this mountain road step is not clever, it just takes advantage of people's preconceived psychology.

The recklessness of the first three candidates, coupled with the mental hints of the poems on the archway, made everyone enter the blind spot of thinking, thinking that only by stepping on the steps can they climb the mountain, ignoring the purest goal of everyone at the beginning, "mountaineering".

Since it's going to be a mountain climbing test, it doesn't matter what method he uses. If you can't walk the steps, you can find another way, and it's always okay to climb the cliff if you can't climb it. They are all cultivators, and even if they climb the cliff, it is only a matter of time. But it was precisely this mountaineering question that eliminated 670 out of the 700 candidates, leaving only 30 people, including Yang Zexiaotian.

Yang Ze looked at the more than 600 emotionally out of control candidates, and suddenly realized that his previous identity as a scumbag really had nothing to do with IQ, and he was really smart......

Everything that happened under the mountain was clearly seen by the old man at the top of the Nine Star Peak.

"This kid is capable! He found this loophole in such a short period of time. I remember that the last time I used this method to climb the mountain was the boy from more than 20 years ago. Even the boy climbed halfway up the mountain and couldn't support it, so he fell to the side of the road before he had no intention of discovering this secret. ”

The old man felt sorry when he thought of the fluted boy back then. I can't figure out that the disciple of the Fire Sword Alliance inheritance is inappropriate, but he unreasonably ran to the desert grassland to kill wolves, and he has been gone for twenty years without news. The baby daughter of the old man who harmed the fire imprisoned herself in Qingyan Mountain like a widow.

"Alas...... What a sin!"

The old man sighed, turned around and looked in the direction of the mountain down, staring at Yang Ze with an expectant expression......