Chapter 31: The Sword (8)
The four feet were clearly still greedy for the cool and smooth on the big stone road, but they had to move slowly......
The two of them staggered and struggled slowly, they did not seek speed, they did not seek to hear, but they wanted to reach the third level smoothly.
Goo has observed, and there don't seem to be any restrictions on these steps, and there are no artificial obstacles.
However, Xu is aura around her was different, which caused Gugu to be unable to flexibly drive the qi volume to help her legs walk, and more seriously, she began to be unable to perceive the flow of energy around her.
In short, she no longer wants to reach the next level through clever and convenient magical powers, she can only be like Shaoyi who walked in front, honestly, step by step to overcome all kinds of difficulties and constraints......
This seems to be the deep meaning of the Sword Pavilion to test and polish her as a deputy swordsman, Gu Gu pondered.
After an arduous trek, Shaoyi and Gugu finally stood in front of the five-story stone steps of the Sword Pavilion.
......
There are only five stone steps.
Looking upward, each floor is made up of a four-foot-long, complete granite paving.
The plane and longitudinal plane of granite are flat and smooth, and the two adjacent granite steps do not need to be glued and docked to be naturally integrated, and there is no gap visible to the naked eye.
One or two people stood quietly in front of the stone steps, trying to adjust their breath, and there was no need for words to communicate at this time.
She set the silver fir aside and crouched down.
Gugu leaned her face to the boulder, and as soon as she breathed out of the hot breath that had been under the sun, it instantly condensed into a white frost, sprinkled on the ground, and the frost fell to the ground.
The stone steps had been covered in a layer of transparent crystals, which Goo had concluded was a thin layer of ice.
With all her might, she slammed the silver fir wood up the stone steps, trying to poke the ice off the ground with the silver fir wood in her hand. However, the ice did not shatter, but spread like a mad venom along the roots of the silver fir tree......
For a moment, half of the silver fir wood had become white, and ice crystals were formed little by little.
Goo hurriedly put away the silver fir wood and quickly stepped back. She didn't forget to look back at the scorching sun above her head, and muttered, "It's really a ghost under the sun, and there is a cannibalistic cold on the stone steps." Could it be that this ancient stone step is protected by the cold?"
As she spoke, she looked at the five stone steps, indeed, it was most appropriate to describe these five steps with sword qi cutting tofu. The steps are straight and horizontal, crisp and firm.
Suddenly, Goo leaned down, her face cleared, she pressed her abdomen, her whole body trembled from the sharp pain, and large drops of sweat rolled down her forehead.
This cold really hurt Goo, although she wanted to try her best to maintain a normal posture, so as not to affect Shaoyi's judgment and play, but at this time, she was obviously not in an ordinary state of Goo.
Come to think of it, this incomparably hard granite is a Quaternary glacial relic like the silver fir tree. After experiencing the Quaternary glaciers, the heavens locked the power of the extreme cold into the steps.
Rather than damaging the steps, this made the granite stronger and more lethal.
......
Behind is the scorching sun of the sun, and in front of you, there is the fierce cold air of the stone steps.
Seeing that Goo's condition was not good, he decided that he would take the lead.
So far, the two have not made the next move, and have only quietly guarded the place, patrolling the front of the steps...... This left the big guys in the square confused what they were waiting for.
In the eyes of many villagers, Shaoyi and Gugu are just stained with luck. For this Sword Pavilion sword, they had already made a pre-estimate and placed bets one after another. Most people bet that this volatile third hurdle will be the one less thing to stop.
......
The long shadows of the two were reflected diagonally and side by side on the stone steps, leaving a large shadow on the stone steps that were far from the sun.
Shaoyi's gaze stayed in this shadow, for a long, long time......
Suddenly, he noticed something.
Shaoyi took over the role of Googo's outpost, gestured to Googo's eyes, and then slowly walked to the stone steps. This time, he was amazed to find that when his eyes were not focused, what the far-sighted, relaxed eye saw was a large plane with parallel straight lines (if you count the line on the ground), and there were still vertical three-dimensional steps.
Could it be that the eyes are hallucinating?
The figures standing side by side hit the stone steps, and the shadows actually cut across the stone steps, reflecting the meridian lines.
On the steps, the criss-crossed warp and weft lines (note: the edge of the steps) form a flat chessboard.
As a result, Shao first moved slowly in front of the stone steps, back and forth, left and right, and once again relaxed his eyes without focusing. Sure enough, after a while, he saw the complete chessboard of the plane again......
Not only that, but he also discovered the "key points" on the stone steps: the connecting points at the intersection of warp and weft...... It turns out that the cold air is the falling piece, and the connection point is the falling place of the chessboard.
When Shaoyi emptied his mind, the cold sunspot began to move.
It turns out that I can control the cold and use the cold as a chess piece.
In the chess game, Shaoyi used his divine sense to activate a cold chess piece, and carefully landed on a decent position on the chessboard.
The sunshine dots on the stone steps were instantly arranged in a circle, and wherever the sunshine dots went, it was equivalent to a white child.
One less and one step, the game between the two sides begins.
At this time, the autumn moon on the Pinghu Lake, the mountains are still, and the sunspots are steadily falling......
Seeing its shape and hearing its sound, the general pipa immediately urged, and Bai Zi was not timid to let go......
Lonely boat, fishing alone in the cold river and snow, the sunspot is at ease on his own......
The waves crashed on the shore, the angry horse flew sand, and the white son was born, eat it, don't let it, eat it again, don't let it......
On the chessboard, the killing momentum is unabated, but in the quiet place, it is bloody and bloody.....
The two sides are like rain hitting bananas, falling faster and faster, full of chessboard and Zhou army densely packed, invulnerable......
Everyone was wondering, how could the usually capable Gugu stand on the side stupidly? How could Shaoyi be nervous to wander left and right in front of the stone steps, stupid and stupid?
Only Elder Leng Ke watched with relish, and when the shadow hit the stone steps and caused a deviation, Elder Leng would fill in in time and use his divine sense to draw the shadow of the meridian line straight again......
At that time, the sunspot was still alone in the boat, and the "one son is unique", but now he can no longer swim leisurely, and the sunshine and white son have eaten it thousands of mountains and birds.
In the first game, the one less sunspot lost.
In the second game, Bai played first.
Bai Zi is obviously very powerful, and he also has the means to recruit. Therefore, as soon as he came up, Bai Zi changed his brutal style, played chess, and became civilized and elegant.
The one less sunspot defended step by step and did not dare to slack off. He repeatedly backed down and chose to get aside and eat the surplus food himself.
Baizi was very vigilant at first, and refused to let go of his body to pursue the weak Kuroko, and only blindly established his own territorial kingdom on the ground.
At the same time, Shaoyi used Kuroko to set up a territory, although the territory was small, but he thought that it was still very effective, and almost formed a siege.