Chapter 175: The Road of Trials (1)

A month later, both the Trial Chain and the Trial Hole had been repaired and restored. Jian Ruochen and Jian Ruomu's formation cultivation was originally very high, but because they rarely really cared about the trial path array, they were exploited by Xiang An. Now, with the help of Xiang An and Qingshi, they quickly completed the repair of the magic circle.

The poisonous wounds of Jian Ruochen and the other three elders have all healed, Xiang An's body has also recovered, and the meridians in his body have also been connected, but the true qi of the whole body is not mobilized at most, because Qingshi gives him a qi dispersing pill every seven days to ensure that he cannot gather true qi and harm others.

Xiang An and Jian Ruoshu's storage spiritual weapons were all confiscated by Qingshi, but there were a lot of good things, of course, mainly Xiang An's things. He actually had a battleship more than 20 zhang long, the Xuanwei, which was one of the main warships of the imperial border army.

Qingshi asked Xiang An how the Xuanwei number got into his hands, but Xiang An turned a deaf ear and didn't say a word. Qingshi vaguely guessed that most of it was also the reason for the forbidden speech, so he had to not do a deep investigation.

On May 14th, the weather was fine, and a large group of people gathered again on the top of Juhua, and Qingshi was still the center, because today he was going to really accept the test and break through.

The people who came were basically the same as last time, but this time Jian Ruochen also came, and he had to personally preside over the assessment.

Qingshi walked onto the golden cloud disk with the Qinglian sword on his back, and Jian Ruochen smiled slightly after checking it: "Qingshi Xiaoyou, I hope you will play well to pass the test and see the immortal traces, and this opportunity will not be wasted." In public, he can't call his nephew directly.

"Yes, Senpai," Aoshi replied, "I'll do my best." ”

"Behave well!" Jian Ruomu said on the side, "You are not a disciple of my sect, so there is only one chance, but you must take advantage of it." ”

"Why don't you think about it and really join my sect?" Jian Ruoyun smiled and said, "If you pass, you will really be a disciple of the inheritance of the ligature, and if you can't pass it, you will still have five chances." ”

"Let's talk about this later," Jian Ruochen knew Qingshi's intentions, and didn't want to embarrass him, and said, "No matter what, Qingshi Xiaoyou is a good friend of my Immortal Sword Sect. Well, go for it! ”

"Big brother, be careful!" Chubby, who turned into a human, yawned and said, "I'll wait for you here." After saying that, he turned into a fluffy white monster, ran to the side and curled up and lay down, covered his head with his big tail curled, and fell asleep. Everyone in the Immortal Sword Sect was dumbfounded.

Qingshi stepped on the trial chain again, with the experience of the previous time, this time it was naturally easier, and it took about an hour for Qingshi to complete the trial chain.

There is not much experience that can be used in the second level, because every change in the stone pillar formation is different, and even if you walk on the right stone pillar, you may not be guaranteed not to fall. In addition to slipping, pillars can also shake, tilt, and even sink.

When the bluestone is about to reach the third platform, a stone pillar on the step continues to sink, the bluestone has not yet determined which stone pillar is the correct next step, it is about to be submerged in the water, the bluestone has no choice, so he had to cover one between the last two stone pillars, but fortunately, it was right.

There is another step that is even more dangerous, the stone pillar is thin and long, not only slippery but also shaking like crazy, Qingshi gritted his teeth and insisted, and finally calculated the location of the next stone pillar, but found that it was the farthest and highest of the eleven stone pillars among the candidates, which was more than three zhang away.

If it is on the flat ground, it will naturally pass with a slight jump, but the stone pillar under your feet can't borrow strength at all, let alone three zhang, it is estimated that you can't jump over one zhang. Qingshi had to wait for the next change, but the next change turned out to be no change, so he had to wait again, and this wait was a full half an hour.

If Qingshi is in normal times, it is no problem to stand on one leg for three days and two nights, but now it is difficult to hold on to standing for a moment. The left leg of the golden rooster was sore at first, then painful, and finally began to be numb, Qingshi knew that once the numbness reached a certain level, it would be difficult to control the stone pillar, so he insisted on playing with his life, and finally survived to the next change, and stepped to the next step.

After walking the bluestone of the trial cave, he was exhausted and covered in cold sweat. Look at the time, it took a full five hours.

There was no medicine that could restore true qi and physical strength as well as mental power, so Qingshi had to sit down and run the true qi recovery. The altitude here is very high, the aura in the air is thin, and the recovery efficiency is extremely low, so Qingshi has to spend a lot of time recovering and adjusting in order to ensure that the last level is in good condition.

Qingshi quickly settled down, and when he felt more energetic and recovered more than ninety percent, he came back to his senses, looked at the sun and felt the time, it was already noon on the second day.

Bluestone walked out of the trial hole, and in front of him was a stone platform, a steep and narrow stone staircase that meandered up the mountain wall, like a long snake coiled on a huge stone pillar.

The stone steps are only one foot wide, naturally there are no railings, and some of the stone stairs are hewn out of the rocks, and the whole road is recessed into the mountain wall; In some places, a stone pillar is inserted horizontally into the mountain wall as a staircase, and all of them are suspended outside the peak.

Qingshi stood in front of the lowest stone steps, from here you can't see the top of Juhuading, there is only a void in front of you, the clouds flow low at your feet, there are no other peaks around, only far away, you can see the top of the snow-capped mountain with silver light.

Qingshi took a deep breath and resolutely stepped onto the trial ladder.

As soon as he stepped out, Qingshi felt that his body seemed to sink slightly, and a faint white light that was imperceptible began to appear on the surface of the stone staircase. No one informed him in advance of the content of the third test, which was a rule on the one hand, and on the other hand, the test that everyone encountered was similar and not exactly the same. Saying it is not necessarily helpful, but it may be misleading.

Now that Qingshi knows, the steps here are obviously also part of a magic circle, and there is no doubt that they are a gravity trial. With each step he took, the gravity slowly increased, and by the time the bluestone had taken a hundred steps, the gravity had doubled or so.

Qingshi was secretly frightened, gravity trials are not uncommon, there is a gravity room in Tianlong Academy, Qingshi often went in to practice back then, and the maximum gravity he once added to himself to twenty times, that is already the gravity limit that the gravity room of the academy can produce.

Now that he has only taken a hundred steps, his gravity has doubled, and Qingshi secretly thinks that it will increase to a hundred times in the end, which is really fatal.

Without thinking too much, Qingshi continued to move forward, these gravity were not too difficult for him at the moment, but he had to deal with more than just gravity. Walking on such a treacherous ladder will naturally have a great impact on people's psychology, and the feeling of fear and dizziness is inevitable.

The consumption of gravity is huge, and the thin aura in the air makes it difficult to replenish it, but fortunately, for Qingshi, these difficulties are not enough for him to stop for the time being.

Soon, bluestone walked to the sign of a thousand steps, and by this time, the gravity had indeed reached ten times. Qingshi did not stop, still moving forward step by step, he knew that the real difficulties may not have begun yet.

It took about half an hour for Qingshi to walk up the stairs marked with three thousand, and the gravity came to thirty times. After advancing ten more steps from here, Qingshi found that the difficulty came, and the gravitational growth at this time was no longer according to the previous law, but increased tenfold on the previous basis. In other words, it used to double every 100 steps, but now it has to double every 10 steps.

For the first time, Qingshi stopped and wanted to take a break, but he found that it was too slow to recover his true qi and physical strength here, and if he wanted to recover slowly, nine hours would not be enough time to complete the ladder.

Helpless, Qingshi had to grit his teeth and continue to move forward, and walked three hundred steps in one go, and the gravity came to sixty times, Qingshi really felt a little difficult to hold on, and his legs were so heavy that he had to use the strength to lift an inch.

Taking another step, Qingshi felt that the gravity increased and changed, yes, from here, each step doubled the gravity, and Qingshi felt that with every step, a mountain was added to his body.

Thirty steps, gravity increased to ninety times. Qingshi didn't dare to stop anymore, because he couldn't recover if he stopped now, and it would only make his consumption even greater, but Qingshi also had to pause and think about it, he judged that the increase in gravity could not go on like this, otherwise it would be nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine steps, and I was afraid that no one would be able to bear it.

Judging from the current situation, 3,000, 300, and 30 are all hurdles, so there should be the last three steps in the gravity test. Bluestone guess, these three steps will probably come to an end, and then there is another kind of test, from the situation of the ladder should also be the case, after three steps of the ladder, the stone wall recessed into a five-foot deep stone niche, the stone niche ground has a slightly glowing circle, bluestone guess that should be the end of the first stage of the ladder test.

If that's the case, based on previous experience, it's likely that each of these last three steps will increase the gravitational force tenfold. Qingshi was really afraid that he would be crushed by these last three steps.

One step out, Qingshi felt his body sink down suddenly, his legs couldn't help bending down, the huge pressure seemed to be a giant hand to press him to his knees, and then let him throw his five bodies to the ground, Qingshi gritted his teeth and snorted, the green tendons on his forehead burst out, and the muscles and flesh of his whole body were entangled. Taking a sharp breath, Qingshi exhaled and roared: "Get up!" ”

A force inspired from the bottom of his heart made Qingshi stand up straight, and then took two steps in one breath, stepping on the 3333rd step. At this time, his body was under a hundred and twenty times the gravity, and Bluestone tried to stand up straight and wanted to enter the stone niche on his right, but it was difficult to move under his feet.

Qingshi was ready to try it, and suddenly felt a lot lighter on his body, and then, the gravity began to gradually subside, and in less than half an hour, the gravity level slowly returned to the normal level.

Walking into the aperture of the stone niche, Qingshi immediately felt a rich aura injected into every pore of his body, and the feeling was extremely comfortable, and Qingshi hurriedly sat down cross-legged to absorb the aura to replenish consumption.

Soon, the true qi began to fill, and the physical and mental strength gradually returned to the peak state, such a speed and method of recovery that Qingshi had never experienced. He really wanted to continue to absorb the aura to run the Dahuang Gong Method, but unexpectedly, once his own consumption was restored, the aura slowly began to decrease, and after a while, it disappeared completely, and the aperture on the ground also flickered, and then disappeared.

Qingshi secretly estimated the time, and felt that it had been almost three hours since he walked up the stairs, and for a high-level monk like Qingshi, the error in estimating the time was extremely small.

The test time to pass the entire ladder is up to nine hours, and now it took three hours for Qingshi to go through the first stage, which means that he has not won time for the later levels, and there is no time to delay.

According to his calculations, there should be two more levels behind, and each level should also be 3,333 steps.

Qingshi stood up and stepped on the stairs to continue moving forward without hesitation.

Stepping on the first step of the next step, Qingshi stopped and sensed it, there was no change in gravity, and there seemed to be no other changes, but Qingshi knew that the test must exist, and the hazy white light slowly rising from the stone staircase could be determined.

Sure enough, after walking three steps, Qingshi suddenly found that a feather arrow flew from the front, and the feather arrow suddenly appeared from the void with a strong sound of breaking the sky, shooting straight at Qingshi, and the momentum was compelling.

Qingshi stretched out his hand and pulled out the Qinglian sword on his back and flicked it gently, the long arrow missed its head and shot at the rock wall, with a soft sound, the long arrow turned into a cloud of smoke and dust after hitting the rock wall, and then disappeared without a trace.

Qingshi knew that it was not a real feather arrow, it was a spiritual energy conjure, just like the trial puppet in Yunlu and the weapon in its hand.

As soon as the first feather arrow disappeared, the second and third followed one after another, followed by more and more feather arrows, and Qingshi parryed and dodged while moving forward, and after walking less than a hundred steps, the arrow was already as dense as a torrential rain.

The long sword in the hand of the bluestone is as fast as lightning, those feather arrows can't touch the corners of the bluestone's clothes at all, and the bluestone moves as fast as the wind, not only dodging and moving lightly on the narrow mountain road, but also climbing up quickly along the mountain road, less than a stick of incense, the bluestone rushed to the thousand-step mark of this section of the ladder.

At this point, the rain of arrows is no longer so dense, but the speed and power of the feather arrows are faster, and it is even more difficult to block and dodge.

There are fewer feather arrows, but there are two more other hidden weapons, one is an extremely small flying needle, this kind of thin needle is very hidden, Qingshi didn't notice that his left leg was hit by a needle, and he suddenly felt numb.

Qingshi couldn't help but be surprised, knowing that as long as he took a few more stitches, he would be slow to move, and then he would soon be shot into a sieve.

The second kind of hidden weapon is a kind of curved flying knife, which will turn when flying, and the trajectory is difficult to predict, so that people can't guard against it, and Qingshi was also scratched by this flying knife in two places after walking more than a hundred steps.

After Qingshi was hit by the hidden weapon, he was originally a little panicked, and then found that he had no other problems except for injury, and it seemed that he would not be judged to fail unless he was shot and lost his combat power, or if the injury reached a certain fatal level. As for whether or not or how many hidden weapons were hit, it does not seem to be the basis for success or failure.

Qingshi's heart was a little more stable, and suddenly he had an idea to use the five elements of true qi to perform the Xuanjin hand martial arts, and the next flying knife came over, Qingshi deliberately used his left hand to make a gear, and sure enough, the flying knife touched Qingshi's arm as if it touched the mountain wall, and immediately turned into flying ash. And Qingshi doesn't feel pain, and the flying knife can't hurt himself at all.

Qingshi is overjoyed, the dark Dao Xuanjin hand is really a good martial art. As soon as his heart was horizontal, Qingshi strode forward, waving the long sword in his right hand, and actively blocking with his left hand, those feather arrows and hidden weapons hit his arm, unable to cause damage at all. And the occasional fish that slips through the net hits the body or legs, and at most it can only scratch a little skin.

The time it took for bluestone to reach the 2,000-level mark was actually faster than the first 1,000-level.

Qingshi continued to move forward without hesitation, and after that, there were a thousand steps, and the feather arrows were more and more powerful, and Qingshi simply stopped deliberately dodging, just running the Xuanjin hand martial arts with all his might, the long sword to protect his head and his left arm, and to rush forward. Ignore the hidden weapon in your body at all.

A thousand steps were completed quickly, and the dense hidden weapons on the next steps were almost overwhelming, but Qingshi didn't care about the three-seven-twenty-one pipe chong, suddenly, bluestone rushed onto a small stone platform, and there was no road ahead, Qingshi couldn't help but be stunned, and at this time, all the hidden weapons also disappeared.

Qingshi understood, and the 3,333 heavenly ladder of the second stage was completed.

There was a metal circle on the ground of the stone platform, and the bluestone stood in it, and the circle began to glow faintly, quickly replenishing the consumption of bluestone.

After stabilizing his mind, Qingshi couldn't help but be surprised when he found that the time had only passed for two quarters of an hour, and then he took a closer look at it and realized the reason why he had passed this level so easily.

In fact, the key to the easy passage of bluestone is not in the Xuanjin hand, but in the consummation of the nine true qi. Those feather arrows and hidden weapons that seem to have no damage to Qingshi are actually very powerful, and the defense effect of Qingshi's Xuanjin hand using the Five Elements True Qi is far stronger than that of the Xuanjin hand activated by ordinary metallic true qi.

For example, if it is Xiao Jilai, it is also the consummation of the Yuan Dan Realm and the same Xuanjin hand martial arts, but I am afraid that the scimitar will not cut through a little skin but directly into the meat.

In addition, the faster you go, the more the hidden weapon is fired, according to the way the bluestone moves, other people will have been shot into a sieve long ago, and the bluestone is not afraid of the damage of the hidden weapon, so it doesn't care how many hidden weapons there are.

Another point is also very important, that is, the super recovery power brought by the consummation of the nine true qi of Qingshi, for example, when Qingshi had not yet run the Xuanjin hand martial arts, he was hit by a needle, he was just a little numb and it was fine, if it was someone else, that needle was enough to numb his left leg for a long time, and it would be completely useless if he took a few more stitches.