Chapter 135: Endless Ladder
Because the big bird had already been killed, the prayers of the students behind took effect immediately. The www.biquge.info waited for a while to make sure that the iron rope would not suddenly shake again, and the gang dared to continue to climb forward.
Tianyou was entangled for a long time and decided to take this prey across the bridge, even if people want to find trouble, they can fight for it on the basis of reason, anyway, they are legitimate defense, and they will be reasonable wherever they say. However, when Tianyou had just tied up the prey and was about to continue crawling forward, the big bird on his waist suddenly began to glow, and the bird corpse weighing more than twenty pounds actually decomposed into dots of light particles in a few breaths and dissipated, and finally only an empty rope noose was left on Tianyou's waist.
"Damn, are you really a monster used for testing? If you die, you still have an automatic refresh?" Looking at the disappearing bird corpse, Tian Youjue's must be some kind of illusion or something like that that Zixiao Palace used to test students.
There is such speculation, it can only be said that Tianyou is too ignorant of the soul summoning system. The summons summoned by the psychic relying on the demon soul should actually be counted as a kind of soul projection, and the essence of death is that the projection is damaged, which does not mean that the summon will disappear from there, but it will indeed have a certain impact on the demon soul. Every time the soul projection is destroyed, the demon soul will lose a part of the soul, it doesn't matter once or twice, if there are too many times, it will lead to the loss of the soul, and the potential of the personality will change greatly, and the soul will collapse and disappear completely.
In fact, even if it is not for the sake of the pet, the summoner will usually try to avoid the pet being killed. One is that the summon will have a cooldown period after it is killed, and the other is that it is likely to cause damage to the summoner himself.
Although the use of the demon soul to summon only a soul projection, the collapse of the projection will not only cause the demon soul to be damaged, but also deplete the soul energy, so the second summon must wait for the injured demon soul to recover its energy first, and it is obvious that the summoned will not be able to continue to participate in the battle during this time.
As for the summoner's own injury, this should be considered a side effect of the soul contract.
The existence of the soul contract allows the user to manipulate the summon to fight at will, and as long as an idea can drive the demon pet like an arm. But the control is two-way, and when the summon is attacked, the damage sensation is fed back to the summoner. Experienced summoners will cut off the soul connection at the moment of injury to avoid damage, but the owner of the white bird is obviously just a rookie, not only did he not save his summon, but he didn't even have time to cut the soul connection, and the result was that he really felt all the damage suffered by the big bird.
Although these injuries were applied to the big bird and did not really hurt him, because the feeling transmitted by the soul contract was completely real, the body and soul mistakenly thought that he was really hurt, so there was a stress reaction, which is why the person later spurted blood. He wasn't actually hurt, he just thought he was hurt.
Seeing the big bird disappear, Tianyou was a lot more relieved, because he thought that this meant that the big bird was just a test prop, and he was not really killed by himself. So he happily sped up, and in a short time he was on the other side of the bridge.
The clouds and fog at this end of the rope bridge are much lighter than on the opposite side, and the visibility is okay, at least you can see your feet clearly, but the good receiver did not appear, and what is more troublesome is that the location of the cable bridge connection is actually a fork. In addition to the three forks in the direction of the rope bridge, there were no answers, and Tianyou didn't dare to walk around by himself.
Fortunately, after waiting for a while, I saw a figure hurriedly running on the mountain road on the left, and when I got closer, I found that this was still an acquaintance, and it was the disciple surnamed Qu who helped him handle the name post before.
"I'm sorry to keep you waiting. Qu Feng began to apologize from afar, and then ran over out of breath.
How dare Tianyou make a score with other people's formal disciples, besides, he just arrived, and hurriedly politely said that he didn't care, he had just arrived.
After some politeness, the song pointed to the road on the right and asked, "Do you see that road?"
Tianyou nodded hurriedly, "I saw it." ”
"You just need to ......" Qu Feng didn't finish speaking, when he suddenly heard the sound of chains behind him, and as soon as the two turned around, they saw that the mountain was trying to climb up.
"Tianyou, pull me quickly!" Seeing Tianyou standing on it, Dashan immediately called out for help.
The most difficult part of climbing under the bridge is how to get back to the bridge, because after climbing the entire rope bridge, the physical exertion is too great, and this originally not very strenuous action has now become extremely difficult.
Tianyou said sorry to Qu Feng in front of him, and then hurried over to help, dragging the mountain up in one fell swoop. He didn't see it, Qu Feng showed an extremely annoyed look behind him, but when he turned around, he immediately took it back.
"Whew, I'm tired!" After coming up from the mountain, he lay on the ground very unfiguratively and moved his limbs there, and his hands and feet were sore and unbearably sore all the way.
Tianyou looked at Dashan amusedly and didn't say anything, but turned back to Qu Feng and said, "Let's just go down this road next, right?
Qu Feng glanced at the mountains on the ground, and was about to say something, but suddenly there was a sound of Guan Qingye behind him, and there were many people talking behind him, obviously Guan Qingye and their gang had already arrived here. Tianyou had already interrupted someone's conversation just now, and he was embarrassed to come again, so he simply kicked the mountain, "Go and help, I'll ask the way down first." ”
Dashan didn't complain about anything, he got up and went over to help, while Tianyou continued to wait for the song to explain what to do.
originally thought that the road just now was to go, and Tianyou asked more than once to make sure that there were other things that needed attention, but I didn't expect Qu Feng to speak again but the conversation changed.
"No, no, what I was just about to say is that as long as you take that path, you will be eliminated directly. That road leads to the Demon Beast Valley below, and you can't get out if you enter it with your current strength. This is the right direction, and you follow this road to the next test site, and there are people on it to answer it. Rest assured, there is no fork in the road, as long as you follow the steps, you will never go wrong. Oh yes, bring me your name post and I'll score it for you. ”
After listening to the words of the song, Tianyou immediately politely handed over the name post, but watching him score and write a review on the name post, Tianyou muttered in his heart. "What's the matter with this person? You just told me that if you take the middle road, won't it be over? What does the right one mean? If you run into someone who is in a hurry, wouldn't you be taking the wrong path if you run out halfway through the conversation? Could it be that this level is a test of patience? It won't be such a child's play?"
Of course, Tianyou couldn't imagine that Qu Feng deliberately pointed out the wrong way and wanted him to be eliminated, but unfortunately when he was about to say it, the mountain arrived. After that, Qu Feng weighed it and wanted to point Dashan and Tianyou to the wrong road together, but at this time, they arrived one after another. As soon as there were too many people, he didn't dare to continue to guide the way.
It wasn't him who was guarding this intersection at all, and the man who had just summoned Snow Eagle vomited blood and fainted, so he deceived the senior brother who was originally in charge of this place in the name of saving people. Although the senior brother knew that it was important to save people, he also knew that there could be no one here, because the road on the right really led to the Valley of Demon Beasts, and below were all places where the sect raised low-level demon beasts. If these new students break in by mistake, it will not be good if they are dead or injured, so they can't leave.
The final result is that Qu Feng volunteered to take this errand, and he picked up everyone here, anyway, as long as he pointed out the way and scored the students who crossed the bridge in order, it was not too difficult, and the senior brother was relieved to save people first after explaining the task.
After Qu Feng got this opportunity, he knew that Tianyou must be the first to arrive, so he came up with such a way to deliberately point the wrong way for Tianyou to eliminate, but unfortunately, because of the delay of the snow eagle, the distance between Tianyou and the people behind was shortened, and the people behind arrived one after another before they had time to be pointed in the wrong direction.
It doesn't matter if Tianyou points a person in the wrong direction, there is a way to explain it afterwards, but if a group of people are all pointed to the wrong route, the immortal elders will find out, and he can't hold back, so in the end he can only give up the original plan.
Although I really want to give Tianyou a zero score, it's a pity that these people know that Tianyou is the first to arrive, so this full score must be given. The helpless Qu Feng opened the famous post and was about to score upwards, but suddenly found the 6 extra points added by the senior brother in front of him, and suddenly the whole person was not good. I wasted a lot of hard work, and it was easy to take the risk of pitting out the 20 additional points of Tianyou, and in a blink of an eye, I actually added 6 points back, did I do it in vain before?
I gritted my teeth and wanted to erase the 6 points, but the brush words couldn't be erased, and even if it was altered, it would arouse suspicion. If it's a legitimate alteration, forget it, he can't stand the questioning of this small action, so dare to mess with the famous post? Helpless, he can only hate to write a record of adding 20 points to the first place clearance in the back, and he didn't even write a comment.
Tianyou didn't care about it, took back the name card and looked at it for 20 minutes, and then put it away, and then began to help the people behind climb the rope bridge.
They weren't going to help everyone, so they started climbing up the road when all of them came over.
This mountain road is even more pitiful than the one in the morning, the steps are almost built on a steep slope of seventy or eighty degrees, and there are no handrails on either side, you can only climb up with your hands and feet, except that you don't have to worry about the foothold, it feels almost like rock climbing.
After everyone climbed up for a while, the clouds began to fade and fade, but the mood of everyone became worse and worse, because as the visibility improved, as far as the eye could see, a ladder-like stone staircase stretched out of everyone's sight as if there was no end, and this terrible length really made everyone's hearts tremble.
Although the cultivator has excellent physical fitness, he is not a robot. I started to climb the mountain early in the morning and climbed until noon, and everyone's bodies were completely exhausted. At lunchtime, I recovered a little, walked a mountain road, climbed a rope bridge, and lost the strength I had just recovered.
Now everyone is exhausted, and the stone steps in front of them are not many miles long just as far as the eye can see, and the part behind that is blocked by the mountains and forests is impossible to guess. This height made everyone dizzy at once, and many people simply stunned in place and began to be in a daze.
"Oh my God...... This...... This...... You've been here like this every time before?" Dashan suddenly remembered that there was a person behind Guan Qingye who had participated in this assessment for the third time, and he should have known the situation, so he hurriedly turned around and asked.
When the man heard the question, he immediately smiled bitterly: "I must have walked this road, but if you want to ask me what is behind me, I don't know at all." ”
"Why don't you know since you've walked by?" Tianyou also asked curiously.
Guan Qingye replied for the man, "Don't ask. Zixiao Palace doesn't know what means are used, all those who fail the assessment will not remember anything after going down the mountain, and those who pass must be bound by the door rules, and the selection content of the test is not allowed at all, so no one in the outside world knows the specific selection method of Zixiao Palace's disciples so far. In addition, I heard Lu Meng say that the test items of Zixiao Palace are not static, even if someone leaks it, it is useless. When it is our turn, it may not be the way it used to be. ”
While a few people were talking, one of them suddenly said to Guan Aoba, "Brother Aoba, I have decided to give up. ”
"Why?" Guan Qingye asked the man in surprise, "You don't want to join Zixiao Palace, isn't this your wish?"
Many people around him also persuaded him, but the man still shook his head and said: "I know my own ability, I can't climb to the end of this road, instead of being eliminated desperately, it's better to stop here, I really can't go up." Keep up the good work!" he said and began to turn around and walk down.
Looking at the departing man, everyone fell silent for a moment, and then everyone began to think. After a while, some people proposed that they should give up too, and soon two more people gave up and continued to climb. They were completely out of energy now, and the steps in front of them seemed to have no end, and there was no hope in sight. If it's the morning when you're feeling energetic, you might be able to give it a try, but now ...... A lot of people know they're hopeless.
Guan Qingye wanted to stop everyone from giving up, but when the words came to his lips, he swallowed back, there are some things he can't decide for others. The guy in the mountain didn't have the slightest intention of keeping these people who left, but looked very happy. These people are basically the children of powerful people, and he has a bad relationship with these people, so where will he feel sorry for them.
After a while, they looked back and found that there were only about 30 people on the steps who were following them, and even their team of seven was only in their early forties. You must know that there were more than 100 people in the team before crossing the bridge, and the more than 60 people who disappeared did not know whether they were stopped by the rope bridge, or were frightened by the ladder like the previous ones, of course, it is more likely that there are both.
After crawling for nearly an hour, many of the team had lost their physical strength, although they had rested several times in between, but this almost vertical ladder was too much physical energy, and Tianyou had once again dressed everyone in a string with ropes, which was equivalent to pulling everyone up. But even so, the team's movement speed is getting slower and slower, as Tianyou and the others are drastically declining in physical fitness.
"Heavenly ...... God bless ...... You...... Leave us alone...... You go on your own. Guan Qingye gasped and tried to say this.
Tianyou is also panting badly at this time, no matter how good his physical fitness is, there is a limit, and now he is almost at the limit. Guan Qingye saw that Tianyou was also reaching the limit, so he said such words. It was easy to help before, but now it's purely everyone dragging down Tianyou, which is obviously unreasonable. Guan Qingye is not the kind of undisciplined person who takes advantage of others and is not enough, he is a gentleman, and he knows etiquette, he can't do this kind of thing that drags others down.
Dashan also gasped and said, "Guan Qingye is right this time, God bless you leave us alone...... Let's go first. ”
"There is no time limit here, if one hour is not enough, it will be two hours, and if it is not one day, it will be two days. As long as we don't give up, there will always be a time when this mountain will reach the top, and there will always be a moment when this step will come to an end. We are now the fastest group, no matter how few disciples Zixiao Palace accepts every year, there must always be a few, right?
As soon as Tianyou said this, everyone hesitated. No one wants to be eliminated if they can pass the assessment, so if they are slow, they will be slow, and there will always be a time to reach the top.
"Okay, we'll listen to you, let's continue when everyone has rested enough. If you are tired to death, you have to climb to the top of the mountain and die again. With the words of the green leaves, everyone cheered up again, but unfortunately the physical fitness is really to the limit, and the speed is still like a turtle speed, of course, it is many times better than those who are following behind.
As his physical strength continued to decline, there was no one in the team to speak, and even Tianyou could no longer maintain the rhythm of breathing, only a violent gasp. When the sun set in the west and the sky turned orange, everyone finally reached the corner of the staircase they had seen earlier. The staircase, which almost went straight up, made a turn here and gradually extended to the other side of the mountain, so that the back part could not be seen below. Many people have speculated that this is probably the end of the day, but some people think that this is only half of it.
Anyway, this was a goal, and everyone finally gritted their teeth and climbed up, but when everyone turned the few big trees that blocked their view, they were completely stupid.
There are still endless stairs up here, as if there is no end to it. A little farther than the length they had climbed before, there was a gazebo at the end of the stairs. But the problem is that you can't see what's behind the gazebo from here. Maybe that's the end, maybe it's just another twist.
"Green ...... Aoba ,...... We...... Still...... Are you still climbing?" I was able to numb myself constantly, but it's good to be here. But now it suddenly turns out that this is not the end, and it may not even be the midpoint. How long is it to get to the top? Or can they get to the top?
"Don't stop, keep going. When everyone was confused, Tianyou suddenly stood up. "Don't stop, let's get on. Try to climb to that gazebo before midnight. If that's the end, we'll win, and if it's just the next turn, we'll sleep there and continue tomorrow morning. ”
"Do you want to climb?" Many people were sad and didn't want to move, but Tianyou kept urging them, and even pulled up the people who were still sitting on the ground in the past, and finally everyone had no choice but to continue to go up, although the speed was very slow, although the stop-and-go, but the team was moving up little by little.
Soon the sky was completely dark, and Tianyou stopped to let everyone drink water and eat, but fortunately everyone brought dry food, so they didn't go hungry, and it was just the right time to take a break.
When others weren't paying attention, Tianyou took out a miniature crystal bottle from the worry-free bag, which contained a drop of light blue liquid, which emitted a faint fluorescence in the dark. This was the last phoenix tear left after selling it to Bai Qi, and Tianyou hesitated whether he should use this thing. He was sure that if he poured this phoenix tear into the water bag and diluted it, everyone would definitely be able to rush to the top of the mountain with just one sip each. But is it really good to use up something so precious for the sake of a test? The point is that the test is time-limited, which means that they don't get obsolete because they're slow. In this case, it is even less necessary to use it.
Stuff the phoenix tears back again, and when everyone finished eating, everyone began to continue on the road. On both sides of the stairs were steep slopes of seventy or eighty degrees, covered with dense vegetation, and there was nowhere to stay, and if you wanted to rest at night, you had to climb to the gazebo, or at least there was flat ground.
The Zixiao Palace at night is terrifying, there don't seem to be birds and beasts on the mountains here, not even insects, and nothing can be heard except for the sound of the wind and the shaking of leaves. Walking and stopping, everyone finally arrived at the pavilion before midnight, and even Tianyou was almost paralyzed from exhaustion.
Tianyou, who climbed the pavilion, didn't have time to call out to the people below, first stretched out his head to look at the situation outside, he was also very worried about whether this was a turning point or an end, but when his head stretched out the last step, what he saw was an old man with fairy wind bones standing in the center of the pavilion nodding and smiling at him, and there were two adults on both sides of the pavilion, a man and a woman, and behind them were dozens of official disciples of Zixiao Palace.
Tianyou was stunned for a moment before he suddenly reacted, and hurriedly tried to climb up, but as soon as he exerted his strength, the rope on his waist tightened and pulled him down. Because his legs were weak, he only felt that his body was about to fall backwards as soon as he was crooked, but fortunately, the man next to the old man reacted quickly, stepped over and reached out to hold Tianyou, and pulled it back with all his might.
"To ...... It's to the top!" Dashan was pulled up the steps after Tianyou, and when he saw so many people and the buildings behind the crowd, he reacted in an instant. This damn ladder is finally at the top.
At this time, the formal disciples in the back also ran over one after another to help drag them up one by one. The rope on his body was also untied, and he was helped to sit in the pavilion.
The elder looked at Tianyou and his party with a smile, and then said, "I am the Great Sect Master of the Treasure Sect of Zixiao Palace, Zhenyuan Shangxian, I just passed by here, and I heard that someone has reached the top of the mountain, so I am waiting for you here. ”
"Immortals. "Tianyou and several people wanted to salute, but as soon as they moved, they were stopped by reaching out to stop.
"No need to be polite. You should have all reached your limit by now, and it is a matter of perseverance to be able to get here. Originally, as long as you persisted until noon tomorrow, you would have passed, and no matter where you climbed, we would send someone to guide you up the mountain. However, it is not easy for you to persevere and climb to the top of the mountain.
For more than 1,000 years, there were only 1,000 people who could reach the top of the mountain before noon on the second day, and less than 100 people who could arrive before midnight. In this way, I will wait for special approval for you today, and allow you and the other seven to give each of you an extra three points. ”
As soon as they heard that an extra 3 points were added, everyone hurriedly thanked them, but they were still stopped.
"Well, you must be exhausted today, I have ordered someone to prepare food and hot water, you can rest in peace when you are finished, and someone will notify you to start the next test tomorrow at noon. You wait and go. ”
God bless them and hurriedly thanked them, but this time the other party didn't stop them.
After being brought to the dinner table, everyone ate a little and was taken to the bathing place. I didn't expect that there was a large bath on the top of the mountain, and it felt like a hot spring, but this is the top of the mountain, so it seems that there should be no hot spring. However, everyone didn't think about it, and after soaking in the pool, they couldn't help but moan.
Although I learned that I didn't have to climb to the top of the mountain to pass the level, because of the extra three points, everyone felt that the previous hardships were not in vain, and everyone was very grateful. In the last part of the road, almost everyone was dragged up by him, and if it weren't for God's blessing, it is estimated that at least half of this group of people would not have reached the top of the mountain.
Because they were so tired, everyone fell asleep unconsciously after soaking in the pool for a while, and even Tianyou fell into a state of half-dreaming and half-waking. What they didn't notice was that the disciples who sent them over looked at them with great envy, because this pool of water was not just as simple as warm water, and it was not too much to say that it was to wash the muscles and cut the marrow. Even the disciples in the sect only have one chance to use it for free once a month, and if they want to use it more, they will consume the sect's contribution points, and they can only be exchanged twice at most, that is, they can be soaked up to three times a month. As for outsiders...... That's not even a thought about it.
God bless them have not yet become official disciples to get a chance to soak in the Immortal Pool to wash the muscles and marrow, this kind of good thing is something that ordinary people dare not think of, not to mention soaking once tonight, tomorrow's assessment will definitely take advantage of it, this is almost a set of entry did not run.
While God blessed them to enjoy the Ascending Immortal Pool, Lu Zhengyi was scolding the Qu Feng. "What? Why did you get him to the Welcome Courtyard? Didn't you let you take Yoo Hyun-ming to interfere? How did he cross the Feiyun Bridge?"
"We really don't blame us for this! Senior Brother Liu summoned his Snow Eagle to intercept on the bridge at that time, who knew that kid also had a demon pet, and his archery skills were amazing, he actually shot Senior Brother Liu's Snow Eagle halfway, and then ......"
"What? He actually shot Snow Eagle to death? How did he shoot an arrow in the air?"
No matter how the style of music is explained, Lu Zhengyi just doesn't believe it anyway. Although he also knew that Tianyou was powerful, Xueying was a regular demon pet after all, and there was no reason why he couldn't be a quasi-monk in the physical training period. Besides, at that time, it was already very difficult for people to hang on the rope bridge, how could they still have the ability to shoot arrows? And with such a strong wind, and the line of sight is not good, what kind of archery skills do you need to shoot the Snow Eagle to death? As for Tianyou's demon pet, Lu Zhengyi knew that the mocking wind was hatched, but after arriving in the royal city, he never saw the mocking wind again, and he didn't know that the mocking wind had changed greatly, so he naturally didn't believe that Tianyou and the mocking wind could kill the snow eagle together.
"Hmph, when you arrive at the Welcome Courtyard, you will arrive at the Welcome Courtyard, tomorrow I will see me go out in person, don't think about coming in this Zixiao Palace. A hunter in the mountains, I won't let you have a day when you will be on an equal footing with me. Lu Zhengyi made up his mind with hatred. (To be continued.) )