Two days later.

In the square where the sculpture of the measuring ruler stands, Gu Xin and Kong Ling converge again.

Kong Ling carried a yellow cloth bag on his shoulder, which contained seven days' worth of dry food and some necessities to enter the cave.

Gu Xin vaguely saw that in Kong Ling's bag, there seemed to be something that had been glowing. Originally, there was nothing curious, but Gu Xin suddenly reacted, wait, the vine forest cave is ...... Shouldn't it be pitch black, you can't see anything, and you need to bring your own lighting?

"Kong Ling, what's glowing in your bag?"

"A few golden stones, used for lighting in the cave."

"It's really a ...... for lighting," Gu Xin was numb.

Kong Ling stared at Gu Xin and asked rhetorically, "You didn't bring it?" ”

"Ahem, I brought it." Gu Xin was embarrassed. Originally, he wanted to directly ask Kong Ling to borrow two golden stones to make an envoy, but he suddenly remembered a stubble.

You can shine with something in yourself.

The Thunder Crying Stone he bought on the black market last time, that thing will discharge as long as it is activated, and it will be bright, enough to replace the golden stone!

Kong Ling did not ask.

There was a gloom in his eyebrows today, and he looked quite tired.

"What's wrong with you, you're not in good shape?" Gu Xin asked casually.

Kong Ling shook his head.

His voice was low, "Let's go into the cave first." It's been delayed for two days, and it's even more difficult to pick the green vines if you don't go in! ”

Kong Ling walked past Gu Xin, and Gu Xin felt a chill spread from Kong Ling's body. This is not to describe how cold Kong Ling's temperament is today, but to say that there is really such a cold air that spreads out of Kong Ling's body.

This kind of cold air is the residual Ice Yuan Force!

Gu Xin looked at Kong Ling's gloomy back and quickly caught up with him.

Kong Ling's Yuan Xin is Mu Yuan Xin, how can there be any remnants of Ice Yuan Force on his body. It seems that before he arrived at the square, he had a fight with which Bing Yuanxin...... And with such a depressed expression, he must have lost the battle.

Gu Xin smiled suddenly, speaking of Bing Yuanxin, he was quite familiar with it, the "upper-class phoenix senior brother" Qiu Li in the county master's flower-viewing banquet last time, he was a proper Bing Yuanxin, very upper!

The two of them left the Sword Courtyard together, marched along a small inlet of the Mirror Lake, and then continued to go deeper from the mountain road of Yihu Mountain, and finally walked through a steep downhill, and it took half an hour to come to the entrance of the vine forest cave.

This is outside the Sword Academy, so the Sword Courtyard has not been renovated, and there is no neat building in the Sword Courtyard around.

As far as the eye can see, the mountain stream is surrounded on all sides, the valley is foggy, and the mountain rocks arch into a pointed triangle cave entrance in the secret place in the corner, and there are tree branches, rattans, and wild grasses hanging everywhere, and you can also see the traces of water flowing on the stone wall.

Outside the entrance of the cave, between several old trees, there is a small shed, and there are four or five white-robed teachers of the Sword Academy sitting in small talk.

Seeing Gu Xin and Kong Ling coming, one of the teachers with a scumbag face directly beckoned and shouted, "Those two! This way! Come here! ”

Gu Xin and the others walked over, and the white-robed teacher of the Sword Academy leaned over and took out two small bags of things from the shed.

"Both of you are disciples who have come to take the Wood Origin Heart Exam? Let's take a note. ”

"Look! This is a distress token for the two of you, if you get completely lost in the cave, break the token and notify us immediately, and we will go in and rescue you. ”

"But remember, once you use the token for help, your big test will end here, and it will end the big test directly and calculate the score!"

"There is a roll of golden spider silk in the bag, which is light and durable, and it was lent to you by the Sword Academy, which can be used to tie up the emerald vines that you have picked. Be careful not to lose it, lose a roll for five hundred taels of silver, or thirty crystal nuclei. ”

"In this big test, the results only depend on how much emerald ivy you got when you came out of the cave in seven days, as well as the quality of emerald ivy. If you don't come out after seven days, a few of our teachers will go into the cave and find you and take you out of the cave. ”

"One last word of caution for you, don't be reckless! The special smell in the vine forest cave is poisonous, if the yuan power is exhausted and you are completely lost, hurry up and crush the distress token, don't drag it until the end of the seven days, wait for us to go in and find you! Be careful if you breathe too much poisonous gas, and you will be delirious in the future! ”

Gu Xin pointed at Kong Ling, "Teacher, I team up with him for reference, how do you calculate the results?" ”

The scumbag-faced teacher first glanced at Gu Xin, then at Kong Ling, and finally said to Gu Xin: "Oh, you want to help him pass this big exam?" You are also allowed to form a team, but you are limited to a maximum of two people per team. ”

"Since it is a team, the final score will be half of the points, first the total, and then one person will account for the half. Is it clear? ”

Gu Xin nodded while picking up the small bag containing the distress token and golden spider silk, indicating that it was clear.

Seeing this, Kong Ling also picked up the small bag and put it in his arms. His eyes were a little strange.

What the teacher of the Sword Academy just said, what do you mean by wanting to help him pass this big exam?

Does Gu Xin want to help him pass the big exam in the Tenglin Cave? It should be said that he Kong Ling is helping Gu Xin pass the big exam...... The teacher spoke, a little inexplicably.

Kong Ling asked, "We are in the cave, how can we be sure that how many days have passed?" ”

The teacher, who was still full of scum, replied, "In addition to the token and golden spider silk in the bag, there is also a slowly volatile amethyst stone, and the complete volatilization of the amethyst stone will mean the end of the seven days." ”

"Well, you two fill out the registration and go into the hole. Everyone else has been in for a day or two, and you two are quite idle. ”

The scumbag-faced teacher smiled at Gu Xin, "Is it because of your strength, not afraid of others picking it up?" Or do you want to use something special? Cheating will cancel your grades. ”

Kong Ling didn't react, picked up the pen and began to register.

Gu Xin was stunned for a moment, he glanced at the teacher with a scumbag on his face, and also picked up the pen to register his name.

The two of them took their things and officially stepped into the vine forest cave.

The entrance of the vine forest cave looks unremarkable, the entrance of the cave is full of branches and rattans, and it is still dark when you open it by hand, and you can only feel that you have entered a rocky road, until you go more than ten meters inside, turn a few zigzag bends, and only then do you have a slight light in front.

It was—a glowing, flowing ciphertext Sword Courtyard seal! Behind the seal, a small hole on the stone wall, which can only be passed through by one person, is the real entrance to the vine forest cave!

Outside the vine forest cave, in the small shed guarded by several sword academy teachers.

The middle-aged male teacher with a scumbag face was looking at the registration left by Gu Xin in shock.

"That Yuan Ling disciple just now, is it Gu Xin?!"

"Ah...... It's him. It is estimated that he is looking for the substitute exam, how can that kid be from the Yuan Spirit Realm. ”

"That kid, relying on his father's donation of the martial arts hall, has to find a substitute for every exam. It's not the first time, and the above doesn't care about him. ”

"I said why did you look so strange just now, when did our Sword Academy have another disciple of the outer courtyard of the Yuan Spirit Realm, it turned out to be Gu Xin's kid looking for a substitute exam!"

When the scumbag-faced teacher heard that it was a substitute exam, he immediately felt that what his colleagues said was reasonable.

That Yuan Spirit Realm disciple just now, how could it be Gu Xin!

Although he hadn't seen Gu Xin, according to the teachers who taught Gu Xin, Gu Xin hadn't even condensed his Yuan Xin, and he was still an ordinary person!

The scumbag-faced teacher was helpless, Gu Xin, this kid, if you are looking for a substitute exam, you can at least find a student from the Sword Academy to help you take the exam! You put this aside to find someone from outside the Sword Academy to help you take the test, can any cat or dog wear the clothes of the Sword Academy?

"I'll give it a word to the top. We, the teachers who specialize in invigilation, have someone to take the test on their behalf, so we should talk up. ”

The teachers sitting here are the teachers in the Sword Academy who are full-time supervising and protecting the disciples of the Sword Academy to participate in various exams and trials, and they are very powerful, but they usually do not participate in teaching.

So none of them had seen Gu Xin, and they all thought that Gu Xin, who had just entered, was a strange Yuan Spirit Realm who had come to take the test!

A male teacher slapped the table and said fiercely: "This proxy test is too arrogant!" Helped others take the test on their behalf, and teamed up with another disciple of the outer court, co-authored him, and helped both of them take the test? ”

Another female teacher said leisurely: "It's Gu Xin who is too arrogant." But who asked the family to donate the martial arts hall? Haven't you used the martial arts hall? I think it's good to use anyway. ”

......

Pass through the seal of the real entrance of the Fujilin Cave.

Gu Xin vaguely felt that the air around him had changed, and it seemed to be filled with a vague smell. But at the moment, the smell is still very faint, almost inaudible.

"Here, it feels a little weird." Gu Xin said suddenly. The environment here gave Gu Xin a strange feeling.

Kong Ling opened the yellow cloth bag on his shoulder, took out a golden light stone and pinched it in his hand.

Suddenly, there was light around the dim surroundings.

"The first time I entered the Fujilin Cave, I felt uncomfortable the first time I came, the space at the entrance and exit was too narrow, as if it was going to squeeze people to death. The back gets bigger, and once we go inside, there's a big cave where we can rest, and we should be able to see other people. ”

"Just follow me."

After passing through the glowing seal, it is not the inside of the vine forest cave. The vine forest cave itself is buried deep underground, and in fact it has to pass through an extremely narrow stone tunnel that extends downward.

This stone road can touch the head, can not turn over, one person can barely pass by getting up sideways.

Gu Xin and Kong Ling followed one after the other, along the stone road, and went inward.

The hard mountain walls on the left and right squeezed the two of them, and the narrow stone road brought an indescribable feeling of suffocation. Except for the sound of footsteps and clothes rubbing against the stone wall, there was not a single sound in their ears, as if they had been buried deep in the earth.

The entire entrance stone road, inclined down, only the golden light stone in Kong Ling's hand glowed coldly, and the front and back were dark and dark, I don't know how far I have to go to end, and I don't know how far I have walked behind me, which makes people gradually lose the sense of distance.

"It's too crowded, it's still blowing, it's cold, how long?"

"Pampered. 100 meters long? I haven't measured it. ”

Gu Xin estimated that the two of them had walked at least three hundred meters, and this rugged, sloping depressing stone road that went deep into the ground suddenly ended, and the eyes became open and bright.

The two of them drilled out of the stone road, and actually came to a huge underground karst cave in the air, and at the end of this stone road, there was a convex rock several meters large in the middle of the cave.

Kong Ling held the golden stone in his hand, walked to the edge of the convex rock and pointed to the empty cave in front of him, "This is the largest resting place in the vine forest cave!" Right at the entrance, the two of us have run out of energy, and we can return here to rest and recover. ”

This huge karst cave is two or three thousand meters wide, and at least hundreds of disciples of the Sword Academy are resting here, either one or two people, they have piled up a large number of golden stones around them, forming a small stronghold.

If you look at the mid-empty convex stone at the entrance, these small strongholds are like lights lit in a dim cave.

Kong Ling was more familiar with this place than Gu Xin, and he began to look left and right for the open space in the cave, and he also wanted to find a place to be a resting place for the seven-day big exam like other Sword Academy disciples.

"We also find a place to stay, and then we have a fixed place to rest for the next seven days, which is safer."

"It's best to find a stone that protrudes from mid-air under your feet to settle on, away from the bottom of the cave, where there is water at the bottom, and it is inconvenient to get wet."

"Found it, Gu Xin, you follow me...... Can you jump over such a long distance? ”

Gu Xin glanced at Kong Ling, "Don't worry, I can jump over." ”

Of course, Kong Ling didn't let Gu Xin jump, so he jumped onto the stone platform he chose that was raised in the middle of the cave. Kong Ling meant to let Gu Xin jump from the convex rock at the exit to some footholds next to it, and then the two of them slowly turned around to the stone platform.

"That's good, you jump with me." After Kong Ling finished speaking, he jumped to a small bulge next to him, and hung on the stone wall of the cave with one hand and one foot like a spirit monkey.

Before leaving with Kong Ling, Gu Xin looked back at the entrance and exit of the narrow stone road that the two of them had just passed.

Who would have thought that this narrow and long stone road is the only entrance and exit of the vine forest cave. Gu Xin always felt that it was not very safe, with such a narrow entrance, I was afraid that if something happened to me, it would be sealed by the mountain rocks. Why don't you expand the Sword Academy?

However, even if it is sealed, it will not be a big deal. With the strength of the group of teachers in the Sword Academy, it is really sealed and then a road is carved out on the spot.