Chapter 109: The Proving Ground
"Sir?" Ye Xu asked weakly.
"A hidden rune, why, you can't see the trick?" the old man asked with a frown.
"I haven't taken a closer look yet!" Ye Xu hurried closer and carefully observed the faintly glittering runes.
Depending on the pattern of the runes, it should be inclined to use light, using tiny runes that constantly vibrate to affect the surrounding light, causing the light to fold multiple times, so that the image seen by the outside world remains unchanged.
"Awesome!" Ye Xu said with sincere admiration.
"Have you never looked for new runes recently?" The cold words made Ye Xu's back tingle, and he immediately found a reason: "No, there have been a lot of things recently, and my every move has been closely watched, and I don't dare to take action at all." ”
"He's going to save his life now!," the dwarf old man interjected.
"If he is good at runes, can he still be afraid that someone will do something wrong?"
"If his body is proficient, wouldn't his ability to save his life be even better!"
"Those who cultivate the body must eventually cultivate their gods, and it is always good to be one step earlier!"
"I don't agree! The cultivation is to the extreme, even if there is a divine sense attack, it can be completely ignored!"
"Nonsense, that's the attacker's lack of cultivation!"
"Would you like to try it?" the short man squinted at the old man defiantly.
"Both gentlemen are great talents, and if they make any earth-shattering movements and attract the prying eyes of outsiders, it will be even more difficult to deal with. I think, should we get down to business first?" Ye Xu saw that the smell of gunpowder was getting stronger, and immediately dissuaded him.
"Hmph!" the two snorted coldly almost at the same time, and stopped looking at each other.
"This gentleman, can you advise?" Ye Xu said to the vague figure beside him.
"I only care about your safety, their lives and deaths have nothing to do with me!" Listening to his tone, he really didn't care about the lives of the two of them.
"I don't need you to protect him!" the two suddenly reached a startling agreement.
"Do you want to try?" the voice was cold, and the figure flickered more frequently.
"Just talking!" the two agreed again.
"This is the testing ground?" the short old man looked around, full of disdain.
"The front part is the lightning area, and the back is gravity plus lightning. Ye Xu hurriedly explained.
"I'm afraid it's more than that!" Mr. Gao Slender casually punched out an ethereal rune and fell into the middle of the space, and a shock flashed, and the entire space immediately underwent earth-shaking changes.
The original level of the ground changed in height, and the area of lightning exchange became a platform, forming an extremely deep ravine around it, and the blades were all over it, emitting a cold light. An extremely thin steel cable was connected to the gravity zone at the other end, and Ye Xu saw clearly at this time that the ground in the original gravity zone was all composed of huge circular giant blades, which were slowly rotating.
The proving ground was surrounded by a circle of black stone statues, and the dark unknown creatures shimmered slightly. The perimeter of the statue is covered with a large number of bows and crossbows, and the naked eye can see that thin steel wires are connected to the round giant blades, and because the giant blades rotate slowly at this time, the bows and crossbows are slightly stretched at this time, and they have not reached the level of bursting.
The walls of the ravine are full of tiny holes, and it is impossible to tell what will eject anything, and based on the burn marks near the holes, I am afraid that the spewing is not something that is easy to match.
In addition to the thunderstorm in the air, there were also bright red clouds like fire, and the orange-red color in it immediately reminded Ye Xu of the orange-red grinding disc under the Xinxin Bridge.
"Damn! I didn't experience most of it at the time!" Ye Xu stammered in a cold sweat.
"This is just a restoration of the time-space images at that time, they are all illusory scenes, and the momentum here is about to be lost, so you can take advantage of it. The old man shook his head and said, "To go through such a life and death experience, it seems that those who can pass can indeed lead a party!"
"Can you find that seal?Do you need a realm spirit stone to run here?Is it possible to control its strength?" Ye Xu asked excitedly.
"You can see the faint point of light at the bottom of the ravine, it should be the hub here, if there is a seal, it must be here!" the old man frowned and said, "But if you want to enter, you have to activate this cultivation ground again, and the only way is to provide it with basic power, let it run, and return to its original appearance before you can enter it." ”
"I have the Realm Spirit Stone, but how do I enter?" Ye Xu saw that he was expected to control here, and his heart immediately itched.
"Seeing that the hall on the opposite side is not, enter it, there will be a passage leading directly to the hub!"
"Sir, are these enough for you?" Ye Xu took out two handfuls of spirit beads in a row and handed them to the old man.
"No," before the old man finished speaking, the short man immediately interrupted, reached out and took the spirit bead, after looking at it, his brows furrowed slightly, and he said lightly, "These are almost!"
The tall and thin old man narrowed his eyes, glanced at the man, and nodded slowly.
As the spirit bead sank into the ground, the entire space began to tremble, even if he had seen the scene of the old man's virtual appearance, but now he really saw the fire cloud emerge, the sword mountain stabbed out, the statue shining, and the giant blade roaring, which still made Ye Xu extremely excited. In particular, the magnificent palace rising from the ground on the opposite side is even more impressive.
"It's your turn!" the short old man cushioned his feet and patted Ye Xu's shoulder with a smile.
"Me?" Ye Xu felt that something was wrong, and his expression stiffened.
"Is it still me?"
"But," Ye Xu took a few steps back, looked at the tall and thin old man, and asked with a bitter face, "Sir, can't you dig through the ground?"
"Yes!" Ye Xu immediately nodded frantically.
"But then you have to destroy the structure here, even if you get control, it's a ruin, what do you want it for?"
"Me!" Ye Xu looked at the slightest light not far away, and his heart was troubled.
"Let's go over!" A small hand pushed on his back, Ye Xu involuntarily rushed towards the thunder sea, and a terrible thought rose in Ye Xu's mind in his eagerness, and he hissed: "Sir, did I give you too many spirit stones?"
"Hey!" the old man shook his head and whispered, "Who told you to take out so much at once?"
Stepping into the sea of thunder, although Ye Xu was nervous in his heart, he was still quite confident in the face of thunder light, but he didn't expect that as soon as he stepped in, the ground immediately began to tremble and fall, and countless knife tips began to pierce the ground irregularly, cooperating with the landing point of lightning, blocking the direction of his progress.
"Damn!" the purple dragon appeared, blocking the lightning in the sky, Ye Xu rushed forward at great speed, and without running a few steps, the black shadow on his side flashed, and the two leopard-shaped stone sculptures swooped in, and the dark claws slashed at each other, which was worthy of passing by Ye Xu.
The thunder light hit the black panther, not causing them to have any delay at all, but instead making it extremely fast, and almost instantly there were several more scratches on Ye Xu's body.
The blood wolf axe in Ye Xu's hand slashed wildly, "Sonorous!" A few times, there were a few more faint scars on the body of the stone leopard, which was the same as the blade that bounced up in the ground, and the stone leopard also cooperated with lightning and blades, so that Ye Xu's forward movement almost came to a standstill, and he could only stay in place and defend passively.
The tall and thin old man saw that the people around him had invested a few more spirit beads, and he couldn't help frowning and asked, "Isn't it a bit too much?"
"No! Only when you are placed in the place of death can you experience the way of life and death!" The short old man's eyes flashed, and his gently flicking body was eager to try, as if he was about to rush into the door.
"What if I die?" the old man was still a little uneasy.
"There's me!" said the fluttering voice.