Chapter Seventy-Four: (The Second Floor of the Flesh Tower)
Huzi raised his head and saw the Ruyi Orb emitting a milky white light high in the air.
The milky liquid that had just flowed out of the first stone trough had now been poured into the second stone trough.
Huzi asked strangely, "Why did the Ruyi Orb stop flowing energy?"
The one-eyebrow fairy smiled and said, "That's because your cultivation has reached a bottleneck, and it's time to break through." Only by passing the second test will you be able to activate the Orb of Wishful Wishes again and continue to infuse the stone trough with energy. ”
Huzi understood and replied, "I see." ”
But the fairy with a single eyebrow was a little impatient: "Okay, don't grind, go up and accept the second test!" said that, he threw Huzi into the air with his hair.
Huzi screamed, but quickly settled down and put his palm on the stone ball in the air. I heard the stone ball make a "whoosh" sound, and the figure of the tiger disappeared.
【Body Tower 2nd Floor】
Surrounded by cliffs, a large pillar-like platform stands in the center, and above it is a phalanx similar to the first floor.
Huzi felt his body suspended in mid-air, and one second he was still discussing tattoos and tests with the Yimei Fairy, but the next second there was silence. He fell to the ground, and it was the same phalanx as before, but the fairy with one eyebrow didn't know where he went.
Huzi asked in surprise and said, "What the hell is this place?"
A voice sounded from behind, unable to distinguish between men and women, and said, "The chosen one ......"
Huzi turned his head sharply, but there was no figure behind him, only a large rock standing alone.
Huzi was surprised and asked, "The stone can also speak, isn't it weird?"
The voice said, "Boy, I'm not the stone in front of you. I am the spirit of the tower that guards this tower of the flesh. ”
Huzi looked up and saw the top of the unattainable tower.
"Talin?"
The voice replied, "Yes." I am also the guide of the Seven Righteous Tests of Jizo. And the stone in front of you is your second test opponent. ”
Huzi looked at the stone opposite, which was as tall as three of himself, and there was a circle of strange runes carved on the stone.
He asked the voice with some disaptlenness, "Opponent, am I going to defeat it?"
The voice calmly replied, "No, the condition for victory is to push it off the platform." ”
"Ah...... It's going to push this boulder down......." Huzi looked at the boulder and stared at it for a long time.
The voice seemed to know that he was not moving, and said, "What's the matter, boy, are you scared?"
Huzi shook his head, started the preparatory activities, and said, "No~No~~~"
The voice didn't answer for a while, as if it was speechless.
I only heard Huzi continue: "I still prefer the test of strength to the competition of spells!"
The voice laughed, "Hehe, really interesting boy...... There is no time limit for this test, and I will not explain anything during the process. Then below, the test begins. ”
Huzi rolled up his sleeves on his big arms, tied up a horse, built up his momentum, and shouted, "Okay! Huzi is full of fire!" and ran towards the stone with a shout.
The boulder looks like there are not thousands of catties but also hundreds of catties, and Huzi remembered the wheelbarrow that the old man let him pull at this time, and he only felt that it was a piece of cake. At this moment, he paused his feet on the ground, and pushed the large stone forward with all his strength, and the stone made a clicking sound, but it did not move.
After a while, Huzi was soaked with sweat, and the sweat slid down his feet. He slipped and fell to his knees on the floor, panting desperately.
How could it be, it's not normal. Huzi said to himself.
He looked up at the huge stone, and although he was sweating, he also enjoyed the tense muscles of his body. He looked up and down, and was suddenly stunned: Huh, strange...... Something seems wrong...... But after thinking about it carefully, I don't know if this stone has really changed.
Huzi knocked on his head and said secretly: "Hurry up, fool, now is not the time to be distracted!"
Thinking like this, Huzi put all his attention on pushing the stones, and the sound of hey-hey-hey-hee suddenly resounded throughout the pagoda.
After a stick of incense, the tiger fell to the ground, looking on his back, not knowing where he was. He sat up and looked at the large stone beside him, a long mark had appeared on the ground, and it was obvious that the stone had really been moved. Huzi looked up at the boulder, and finally remembered what he had just thought was wrong—the pattern on it seemed to have become shallower.
At this moment, the large stone was already in the center of the platform. Although Huzi felt strange in his heart, he couldn't help but be excited when he saw that he was about to complete this test, and said to himself: "But now is not the time to care about this, you have to push it down in one go!"
Just chattering like this, Huzi let out a loud shout, put his hands on the big stone, and his true qi ran around his body and poured into his palms.
But the big rock was not as obedient as before, but stood in place, not moving.
Huzi looked forward and saw that the runes on the stone had gradually disappeared. At the same time as the rune disappeared, a strong wave of energy erupted around the stone, sending the tiger away.
Huzi screamed and almost fell off the platform, but at the last moment, he grabbed the side wall of the platform with his hand. After a while, he easily climbed up, panting to the side, glaring angrily at the big rock.
At this time, Huzi was surprised to find that it had returned to the center of the platform, and the runes on the stone had clearly emerged.
Huzi was covered with scars all over his body, and the two arms that had just touched the big rock were the most stressed, so the pain was even more unbearable at the moment. Huzi lay on his stomach next to the circle, lying on his back with his feet facing the sky, covering his arms with both hands, rolling and screaming, but the voice of the tower spirit did not appear as promised. In the empty pagoda, he was the only one left after all.
He stood up indignantly, and tried to kick the stone twice, but at last he held back, and said hatefully: "Damn!
Speaking of which, thinking of Fang Cai's hard work, Huzi was unwilling. He once again transported his true qi according to the method taught by the Great Master, gathered all the energy of his body in his arm, and pushed the stone forward.
The stone moved. Huzi was about to be proud, but found that the runes on the stone seemed to be lighter again.
Odd...... Huzi muttered to himself in his heart.
"Could it be that the pattern on the stone is some kind of mysterious spell? As you push, the color of the pattern becomes lighter, and when it disappears completely, it pushes people off the platform!"
Thinking of this, Huzi looked at the edge of the platform, and fell into deep thought: "-But what is puzzling is that why did the stone return to its original position? And why didn't you just push me off the platform? The force of the spell disappeared in the middle? Is this a coincidence? Or is there something inside?"
Huzi sat cross-legged against the big rock, and this question kept coming to his mind.
"—what the hell am I going to do?"
Thinking like this, the true qi roamed around his body, slowly recovering the exhaustion on Huzi's body. He didn't know exactly how long he had been here, or when he would be able to get out. The only thing that can be done at the moment is to pass this test and obtain the inheritance of the Jizo Golden Body.
Huzi slowly closed his eyes, felt that the strength around his body had almost recovered seven or eight points, and then stood up, and he already knew what he should do:
"The best way to figure it out is to keep trying!"
Huzi stood up, looked at the huge stone in front of him with confidence again, and took a deep breath.
The pagoda resounded with the voice of the tiger.
"Hey—"
"Ha-ha-ha-ha!"
"Huh!"
"Hey, hey, hey!"
Near the edge, the stone ricocheted the tiger away as the runes vanished.
Fortunately, this time Huzi was prepared, and while being bounced away by the stone, Huzi aimed his hands at the energy wave: "Since it's a spell, then-Zaiyi should be able to absorb it!"
At the same time as Huzi did this, the pressure in front of him suddenly weakened a lot. The energy wave seemed to be centered on the tiger and scattered on both sides.
However, before Huzi had time to be happy, a black stone suddenly popped out of the big boulder, bounced twice on the ground, and smashed heavily on Huzi's feet.
Huzi held his feet and jumped around in distress, cursing the boulder in front of him. Fortunately, this time I finally didn't fall off the platform in embarrassment. Huzi was thinking like this, and before he could stand firmly, he fell on the stone bricks, smashing his nose and swollen face.
He jumped to his feet and cursed at the stones, "Damn, you damn it! Broken stones!"
As he spoke, he found that the stone had returned to its original place again.
Huzi hugged the soles of his feet, sat cross-legged on the ground in distress, shaking his head, not knowing what to do.
"Damn, I won't throw in the towel so easily!
- Calm down, I must be calm.
- No, if you think about it, there will be flaws......"
Huzi sat on the ground, staring at the stones in front of him. The boulder didn't move, as if it was laughing at itself.
I'm a person who scares even myself when I'm serious...... This is the mark left by the pushing stone, which is five bricks away...... Isn't that the example of five stone bricks that allows a spell to be charged once?"
Huzi looked at the marks on the ground, as if he was learning abacus in school as a child, and studied it carefully.
In the second layer of the empty and lonely body tower, only the sound of Huzi carefully checking was heard. If the fairy or the eldest lord saw Huzi's serious expression, he would just nod with satisfaction and say, "The son can be taught."