"Crackling", "Bang", "Bang"

Outside the house, the noisy sound of fireworks and firecrackers was mixed with the faint cheers and laughter of the people, so that Zhang Hao, who was sitting at the table, could not completely calm his heart. At this time, he glanced down at the four broken dragon scales placed side by side on the table again, and his brow furrowed tightly.

After returning home for two days and one night, using the fruit spirit pill given by Zhang Hongxing to restore the fatigue of spiritual sense, these four dragon scales that seemed to be engraved with ancient earth-shattering soul skills in the eyes of the old man attracted all of Zhang Hao's mind. Now, his spiritual consciousness has increased dramatically, but after really concentrating on research, it is still much beyond his expectations. Because the texture on each of these dragon scales is incomplete, and the complexity of the interlacing is almost maddening.

"There are so many textures that I can't figure them out in my current state. And most importantly, none of the textures are intact, and they are all broken at the edges. In this way, the already extremely complex texture trajectory is disrupted, and even a complete line cannot be figured out!"

Stretching out his palm and pinching his somewhat sore shoulder, staring at the texture of the dragon scales that changed its trajectory at an extremely slow speed, Zhang Hao sighed softly. At this time, he also realized that the texture on the dragon scales was indeed not simple, even if it was not a soul skill, it was also like a mysterious place hidden in the world. Because the four dragon scales are shaped like mountains, canyons, winding roads, and lush forests when viewed as a whole.

"Maps, like maps?"

The head flashed into inspiration, and his eyes quickly moved over the four dragon scales, gradually. The essence in Zhang Hao's eyes became more and more vigorous. Stay zuihou. The four images on the four dragon scales continued to hover in the brain domain, and finally there was a faint tendency to piece them together.

"Boom"

Suddenly, Zhang Hao directly stretched out his hands and compared the four dragon scales in front of him according to the pictures that were constantly fitting and patching together in the brain domain, and finally, after a few minutes of shiyan, looking at the four dragon scales at different angles, the edges could be connected together. Zhang Hao's face suddenly flashed with excitement.

The divine soul power swept carefully, although he still couldn't catch the trajectory of those complex textures, Zhang Hao was excited to find that where these dragon scales were connected, those broken textures could be connected together without any difference.

"One or three look at the incomplete area of this gap, this dragon scale is at least three pieces missing!"

"Huh"

His gaze swept from the topmost dragon scales to the bottom, looking at the stump of the building that appeared at the edge, but it was obviously the same whole, Zhang Hao sighed lightly and looked carefully: "The sharp corners on the surface of the first dragon scale look very similar to the peak position of a tower. The second and third images are triangular shapes. The spiral surface should be the body of the building, the fourth"

Looking at Zuihou, the upper half of a dragon scale resembles the base of the tower. Glancing at the lower half of the route, which looked like a labyrinth as a whole, Zhang Hao stretched out his palm and clicked on the dragon scales, and muttered to himself: "Look at it, even if you find this place, if you can't successfully pass through the maze route in front of you, it will still be difficult to enter this mysterious place." ”

"Squeak"

The next moment, there was a sound of pushing the door, and Zhang Hao waved his hand casually, putting away all the dragon scales on the table. Turning his head slightly, he saw Zhang Hongxing and Old Man Zan talking with smiles on their faces and walked into the big house.

"Hmm, boy, are you doing something bad?" After raising his eyes and looking at Zhang Hao's arm sweeping on the table, his face was obviously a little nervous when he turned his head, and the old man showed a stiff smile that no one thought he was laughing at, and asked.

"No, I've been studying the dragon scale you gave me for a long time. It's just that with my current spiritual sense, I still can't get a glimpse of the mystery. ”

You must know that even when Chan Qian mentioned these dragon scales, his face was extremely solemn, and it was related to the Holy Illusion Divine Tree and the Evil Kun, so Zhang Hao did not tell the old man that he had three dragon scales.

"Still not?"

Hearing this, the old man stopped and muttered, "Can you determine how many textures there are?"

Shaking his head with a wry smile, Zhang Hao replied: "There are too many, and the broken lines are intricate, and it is impossible to understand them deeply, otherwise it is easy to cause the spiritual sense to be lost." ”

"This is still the rotten dragon scale that I got from the Imperial Soul Hidden Soul Pavilion in exchange for helping a kid from the Hydration Chamber of Commerce refine the divine weapon?"

Looking at the contemplative appearance of the old man, Zhang Hongxing shook his head speechlessly, and then waved his hand at Zhang Hao and said with a smile: "Xiao Hao, cultivation has to combine work and rest. Today is New Year's Eve, there is a fireworks festival in the family evening, and the family banquet is about to be set up, so you can also go out and relax. Old man Zan usually likes to tinker with some strange things, and he has studied the broken dragon scales for decades, but he can't figure it out, so don't follow him to figure it out. Young people should go out and walk around more, be more energetic, and be more energetic. Staying in the room all day with my head stuffy is going to get moldy!"

"Okay, I'll go out. Stretching his arms comfortably, Zhang Hao stood up and answered.

"Grandpa, what does the Imperial Hidden Soul Pavilion mean?" Zhang Hao asked curiously as he walked towards the door of the house, remembering the origin of the dragon scales mentioned by Zhang Hongxing.

"This is the preservation pavilion of the illusion body martial arts and soul skills left by the Zhengyuan Empire thousands of years ago. After the split of Zhengyuan Dalu, because of the dispute in the Hidden Soul Pavilion, it almost caused the three empires to go to war, and finally after discussion, the high-level of the three parties sealed all the martial arts and soul skills of the Hidden Soul Pavilion in the dust, and set up a large confinement array, with a total of three opening keys, which were kept by the emperors of various countries. And every ten years, when the next generation of juniors grows up, the three kingdoms will each take out the key, open the big array, and each send ten young people under the age of twenty-five to enter the Hidden Soul Pavilion and compete. Subsequently, a total of six places will be born, and they will enter the three soul skills and three phantom martial arts channels in the high, medium and low respectively. ”

"It just so happens that this year is the opening year of the Hidden Soul Pavilion, and it is said that one of the two dusty tenth-level phantom body martial arts in it has appeared, so this competition has attracted the attention of the royal family. No, Shui Tenglong also mentioned this matter when he chatted with the second ancestor last night, and wanted to invite you to participate. Zhang Hongxing explained as he walked.

Looking at the serious expression on Zhang Hongxing's face, Zhang Hao was puzzled: "Is this competition cruel?"

"Not bad. ”

Walking into the courtyard, I looked up at the clusters of fireworks that rose in the sky from time to time. Zhang Hongxing sighed: "Nine-level and ten-level phantom body martial arts. Generally, it is inherited and preserved in the major shili. But if an outsider is a cultivator, he must join the shili to be eligible. And under a country, a large number of outstanding illusionists at the beginning of their cultivation, if their martial arts skills at home are relatively inferior and they don't want to join other shili to serve, and they also want to practice high-level martial arts, they have formed an unclear rule, and in the end they can only enter the four major academies. ”

"But even on the bright side. These illusionists all have free bodies, but in fact, because of the lineage, even after graduation, they all maintain a very close relationship with the instructors of the academy, and the tutors of the four major colleges are inextricably linked with the royal family, so most of these people belong to the royal family. ”

"Therefore, Royal has always attached great importance to the construction of learning resources in the college. In the Elemental Control Illusionist Academy, there are two level 10 and 3 level 9 phantom martial arts, all of which are provided by the Empire, and once the young people who enter the school can stand the test of talent and background, they will become apprentices of the Divine Master Realm Master. and allow the cultivation of these high-level phantom body martial arts. ”

Zhang Hongxing turned his eyes to look at Zhang Hao and said, "After all, the high-level phantom body martial arts collected by the royal family are limited. Therefore, it attaches great importance to the martial arts resources in the Hidden Soul Pavilion. And every year, we will try our best to select outstanding juniors under the age of twenty-five in the empire to chase. In the competition of the Hidden Soul Pavilion more than two hundred years ago, the Shanlan Empire won the quota of the high-level phantom body martial arts channel, and at that time, there happened to be a tenth-level phantom body martial arts seal in it that dissipated and was taken away. So, for more than 200 years, they opted out and never participated. ”

"And the Hengfeng Empire and the Evil Master Family are together, and the juniors who participate represent the younger generation of the more elite of the two empires, so in order to weaken each other, this competition of more than 200 years, once there is an opportunity, both sides will kill each other mercilessly. ”

Sighing deeply, Zhang Hongxing shook his head and said: "Among these ten people, two from the empire and two from each of the four major families, although the martial arts obtained are distributed to the four major academies, the juniors of the major families can also go to the academy to study for free. However, the Cheng family's selection of people in the past hundred years has been vain and wrong, and the juniors sent are not only mediocre in strength, but most of them choose to wait and see after entering. Since the Wang family is the Cheng family's ass worm, the situation is the same. Therefore, over the years, the Tianshui Empire has gained very little in the Hidden Soul Pavilion, and because the overall strength is always inferior to the number of four, the casualty rate is also high. ”

"I see!"

Zhang Hao's face was abrupt. An illusionist can only practice one illusion martial art in his life, and he cannot change it. But even if the talent meets the cultivation requirements, the high-level phantom body martial art is not something that anyone can practice. Because depending on the type, the illusionist's divine soul attribute also needs to match it. For example, the Liliang type of martial arts are suitable for the earth attribute, or the martial arts that focus on overcoming rigidity with softness are suitable for the water attribute, and so on. If there is no martial art that matches it, no matter how talented the divine soul is, in the end, it will have to settle for the second best thing and choose a lower-level martial art, and the power of the resulting burst will be much weaker. It is expected that there is an additional level 10 phantom body martial art in the Hidden Soul Pavilion, and if it can be obtained, it will continue to benefit some excellent illusionists in the empire, and it is no wonder that the royal family will value it so much.

"The dragon scales in the hands of the senior Zan were obtained from the Hidden Soul Pavilion, you must know that the Zhengyuan Empire has existed on Dalu for tens of thousands of years, and there must be a lot of treasures collected during this period. It is necessary to go and check it out, and if you can get another dragon scale, I guess the mysterious place will be clear. ”

Thinking of the key parts that were just missing after the four dragon scales were put together, Zhang Hao's mind swelled in the dark, and Zuihou said, "When did the competition in this Hidden Soul Pavilion start?"

"The people of the Hengfeng Empire arrived at the Azure Capital five days ago, and opened the Hidden Soul Pavilion about two days later. ”

"Since the Hidden Soul Pavilion is a tenth-level phantom body martial art, it definitely can't fall into the hands of the Hengfeng Empire. We were invited by Shui Tenglong's predecessors to let me go to the Hidden Soul Pavilion. ”

"The four people of the Wang family and the Cheng family faction can't exert any strength at all, and once you enter the Hidden Soul Pavilion, your position will be scattered and disrupted. After all, there is no shortage of outstanding juniors in the Hengfeng Empire, such as the existence of the four major families of Tianshui, if you encounter a few Holy Master masters besieging you, the old man is afraid that you will make a mistake"

"Grandpa, don't worry. Could it be that you have forgotten that I have now mastered the Soul Bell and Wu Peng's Great Soul Claw?" Zhang Hao smiled slightly, his face full of confidence.

"Although you have mastered a high-level soul technique, you are still in the Legendary Realm after all, even if you can defeat two or even three masters who have just entered the Saint Master Realm like the Qin Domain. But if you meet a few people in the Eightfold Small Realm and have divine beasts, won't it be too risky?"

"Brother Hao, you finally came out. Come with us to the annual family light meeting. ”

The next moment, before they could answer Zhang Hongxing's words, Bing Yao and Meng Yurou walked out of the house hand in hand, followed by the fat man, and Xiao Wu, who was holding two little paws in his arms and each holding a firework. Immediately, Zhang Hao was grabbed by one of the two women who came and walked towards the courtyard gate.

"Brother, don't worry. If he wasn't sure, Xiao Hao would definitely not entrust Da Ying to the Soul Pavilion and his party. Seeing that Zhang Hongxing still had some worry on his face, the old man on the side smiled.

Hearing this, looking at Zhang Hao's figure being pulled away, Zhang Hongxing caught a glimpse of the old man's solemn face, nodded slightly, and then explained loudly: "Remember, there are still two hours before the family banquet, and when you go to the Dongchang compound, don't delay the time!"

"Got it!" (To be continued......)