Chapter 189: Introductory Test
The morning mist in the valley had not yet lifted, and the road leading to the Sushang Valley was covered with spring flowers all over the mountains, and ordinary monks would immediately lose their direction once they set foot in it, that is, they could not find the entrance to the Sushang Valley and could not find the way they came.
Hua Ruxue wears a white hat, the hat rattan mat is made of bone, and a layer of white yarn hangs on the four edges, and others can only distinguish their gender through the tulle.
She found the right moment to blend in with a group of young monks wearing veils or masks, and her presence did not attract much attention in the midst of the noisy crowd.
After moving forward for a while, Hua Ruxue followed the crowd and stopped in front of the sea of spring flowers, and she curiously pricked up her ears and asked for news about the Sushang Valley entrance test without a trace.
"A maze array has been applied to this sea of spring flowers, and when the time comes, the formation will be solved, and the entry test will officially begin." It was the monk surnamed Lu in the teahouse yesterday who spoke, with a single name of the word "Wei". ap.
Since yesterday, Lu Wei "accidentally" said that Jia Xiuyuan had the Heavenly Fire Spirit Root, and the two of them have become the objects of everyone's compliments.
Lu Wei unscrupulously enjoyed the pursuit of the people around him, as if he was the one who possessed the Heavenly Fire Spirit Root. At this moment, he happened to tell Jia Xiuyuan what he knew about the entrance test.
"After the test began, although this Lost Array disappeared, there were other formations in the sea of flowers. Do you know how to do it?" Lu Wei said to Jia Xiuyuan familiarly.
Jia Xiuyuan couldn't help frowning as he looked at the sea of flowers under the morning mist, "I only cared about improving my cultivation in the past, but I didn't ...... it."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Lu Wei: "Senior Brother Jia, don't worry, the entrance test will start in a while, and you will follow me."
Lu Wei didn't lower his voice, but all the monks who were preparing to take the entrance test, including Hua Ruxue, heard it.
Hearing this, Jia Xiuyuan couldn't help but show a grateful look to Lu Wei, and he hurriedly thanked, "Thank you Senior Brother for your generous help, if you don't meet Senior Brother, what if you don't meet Senior Brother?"
"Senior brother doesn't have to be polite, taking care of junior brother is my duty as a senior brother." Lu Wei lowered his eyes slightly, revealing a humble and loving look, as if the two were brothers who had grown up together since childhood, rather than Taoist friends who had just known each other for less than half a month.
As soon as the words fell, countless compliments rang out.
Hua Ruxue retracted her gaze and pulled the white veil on her hat boringly, she was not surprised that Lu Wei and Jia Xiuyuan could mix together, the former had been in the monk world for many years and wanted to rely on Jia Xiuyuan to get ahead, and the latter wanted to rely on Lu Wei to integrate into the monk world, and the two had a relationship of mutual achievement.
As for why Lu Wei conveyed to everyone that "you can successfully reach Sushang Valley by following him", it is nothing more than bringing a Jia Xiuyuan is a belt, and bringing a group of people is also a belt, there is no difference.
Seeing that those people didn't continue to talk about the level of the entrance test, Hua Ruxue had no choice but to shift her gaze to the reincarnation stone that had been lost in the soul sea all night.
"There are three levels in the Sushang Valley entrance test, what are they?"
Hua Ruxue asked softly, this time she didn't have any hope for the response of the reincarnation stone.
The Eight Bitter Trees that covered the reincarnation stone slowly removed its branches and leaves, and a blue stone came into view, and the "Wordless Decision" that had been silent all night on the surface of the Sea of Souls emitted bursts of golden light as if it had just woken up.
One stone, one exercise, the tacit understanding is a bit excessive.
Reincarnation Stone said: "The second level of the entry test is bone age, and only monks under the age of twenty can pass it."
It seems to be a reminder that Hua Ruxue should pay attention to this level.
"What about the others? I'm only fifteen years old, so what's so hard?" Hua Ruxue asked, as for last night's "she couldn't open the wordless and never get a response from the reincarnation stone", she chose not to mention it for the time being.
The reincarnation stone sighed silently in his heart, he didn't know whether to tell Hua Ruxue that the outsider who hid in Sushang Valley last night released his divine sense, and in order to avoid the other party's detection, he had to temporarily seal the "Wordless Decision", and he was hiding on the Eight Bitter Tree.
He didn't know how to explain to Hua Ruxue "the fact that she was already 100 years old", all he could do was secretly help her cheat......
When the time came, the fog in the valley was blown away by the refreshing morning breeze, and in the distance, two monks flew swiftly over the tender yellow Ying
A sea of spring flowers.
The two monks were dressed in red, the women's clothes were embroidered with gold thread with entwined peony patterns, and the men's clothes were embroidered with silver threads with cloud patterns, which was the only dress only the disciples of the Sushang Valley lineage.
Someone around whispered, "In the past, all the people who came to answer were the inner disciples in red and white clothes, but this year, it was the disciples of the lineage who came in person."
As they spoke, everyone looked in one direction.
Jia Xiuyuan.
The reason why they could let the descendants come in person, they could only think of one: Jia Xiuyuan, who had the Heavenly Fire Spiritual Root.
Jia Xiuyuan stared at his toes with red ears and slightly, in order to avoid the hot gaze of everyone, if there was a crack in the ground under his feet, he was afraid that he would not hide in it immediately.
"Ahem, Senior Sister Xuanrui, the time has come, let's start quickly." The male monk of Edgeworth coughed lightly, and motioned to the wolf-like senior sister on the side to quickly close her gaze.
Retracting her gaze regretfully, she slowly glanced at the monks present, took out the momentum of a descendant disciple, and said, "You have worked hard all the way, and the test rules of Sushang Valley this year are still the same, with a total of three levels. They are maze, touch the bones, and supernatant. Before the test officially begins, I would like to remind you that if you have passed the double decade, please leave quickly."
"Do you have any questions?" Xuan Rui asked politely, she glanced at Jia Xiuyuan lovingly, and then announced aloud:
"The annual introductory test of Sushang Valley has officially begun."
As the words fell, the monk slowly disappeared into the sea of spring flowers.
Hua Ruxue stared at the sky not far away through the tulle, and there was Xuan Rui and her junior brother standing there, but in the blink of an eye, the two disappeared without a trace.
She hadn't sensed any spiritual power fluctuations, those two had neither used the formation runes nor the teleportation array, they were only the cultivation of the Jindan stage, and they had such magical powers?
If you learn it, are you still worried about running away and being caught?
However, even though the two had left, she could still feel their breath.
"I can't see them, but I always feel like they're still here."
"Well, the cloak of invisibility." The reincarnation stone explained, "You can hide your body, but you can't hide your breath. You can only deceive the monks who are still young in cultivation."
"Like me?"
While speaking, Hua Ruxue followed everyone into the sea of spring flowers unhurriedly, and set a small goal for herself in the bottom of her heart, after entering the Sushang Valley, she would ask the senior brothers and sisters for three or two invisibility clothes, in case of emergency.
In the first level of this introductory test, Lu Wei led the way at the front, and almost all of them passed, and only a few monks who refused to go with Lu Wei were eliminated because they did not walk out of the sea of flowers within an hour.
In the second level, Hua Ruxue relied on the reincarnation stone god to cheat unknowingly, and it was easy to pass.
Until the third level of the supernatant.
Hua Ruxue followed Lu Wei, Jia Xiuyuan and others into a dimly lit room.
The house was filled with smoke and the smell of sandalwood wafted through the nose.
Without waiting for the flowers to be like snow to identify what kind of elixir was mixed with sandalwood, the house that did not see the light of day suddenly changed.
The sunset shines through the window on the wooden planks made of pear blossom trees, and at her feet are pieces of white and flawless pear petals, the evening breeze blows slowly, and she can't help but rub her nose with the rich fragrance of pear blossoms that she has not seen for a long time.
Hua Ruxue turned to look outside the house, and as soon as she raised her foot and was about to open the door, she saw the closed heavy door "squeak" and someone pushed open.
"Little wolf cub, are you ready for the frost? I've counted all the altars, so don't think of stealing them."
"Don't listen to him, he's drunk before he drinks it."
It was Su He and the cat demon who spoke, and the cat demon took heavy steps, and the snow-white coat color seemed to blend with the soft pear blossoms on the wooden board.
They were followed by Su Ye and the Butterfly Demon, who lazily crawled on Su Ye's shoulders until he entered the pavilion and flew up.
"Little fox, little fox, see what I brought you? Your favorite clove tea! Taste whether you like it or not!"
Su Ye still silently found a corner to sit down, but this time, Hua Ruxue found that his eyes had been following the butterfly demon.
followed by Su Li, who was evasive, and Su Yue, who was full of worries.
Su He couldn't wait to open a jar of frost, and the crisp breath in the frost immediately replaced the rich pear blossom fragrance and poured into the tip of his nose.
Hua Ruxue stood still, staring at the open door, quietly waiting for something.
For a long time, it was so long that Su He's noisy voice became smaller in his ears, and it was so long that the warm golden sunset outside the door gradually disappeared.
At the last moment of sunset, a tall figure stepped into the pavilion with the afterglow, breaking into the eyes of the flowers as black as snow.
Su Yi was dressed in green clothes, his long hair was tied up high, and there was a hint of a smile in his amber eyes, he stood in the sunset, stretching out his hand to the flowers like snow.
A gust of wind suddenly broke out outside the house, and the pear blossoms fell like rain.
The air was mixed with the smell of flowers and frost, and though she had not tasted it, she felt that she was drunk.
Otherwise, why would she not be able to walk?
She slowly moved her steps, walked in the direction of Su Yi, and walked towards the door of the house.
With every step, her figure shrank a little, and when she walked to Su Yi's side, she had already become what they called a little fox.
Fox tail, animal ears, innocent and cute appearance.
She raised her head slightly to see that Su Yi was lying in the palm of her hand, a glass candy as dazzling as the starry sky.
That's her favorite thing ever.
When she wanted to eat it, she found that the candy had broken on the ground at some point, and she hadn't eaten it since. Even later, Su Yi gave her many, many sweets, so much that she couldn't eat them all in her life.
Hua Ruxue raised her familiar immature little hand, and the moment her fingertips touched the candy, the glass candy and the person who gave her the candy were slowly covered by the black mist.
Also swallowed by the black mist was her Sunwind Pavilion.
In a trance, she returned to the day when the demonic qi broke out in the White Tibetan Valley, saw the empty Luoying Valley, and picked up the broken wooden plaque on the ground.
There are Su He, Su Li, Su Ye......
Turning around again, Luoying Valley suddenly turned into a forest of no return, and turned into an extremely cold pool.
She saw the plain-clothed swordsman wearing the mask, pulled out the scabbard in his hand, and the moment the mask shattered, she saw the swordsman's face and the firmness in his eyes.
It's Su Yi.
"Don't draw your sword!" She tried to shout, but her throat was too dry to make any sound.
She wanted to step forward and kill the eight-eyed silver snake, but her limbs seemed to be wrapped in countless chains, and she couldn't break free.
Until the white light invaded her vision, and everything was nothing.