Chapter 173: The Power of Death
To be precise, the strength of the sword intent in the passage is not particularly high, and it is generally safe to pass through when it reaches the peak of the mimic soul, so after Chi Yan was isolated with sword intent at that time, he easily arrived at the mountain gate at the end of the passage.
Fang just walked under the mountain gate, Shi Chiyan suddenly felt that the sword intent that was as majestic as a mountain and sea suddenly dissipated, and he suddenly broke away from the heavy pressure state, but the strength under his feet did not have time to converge, and he forcibly trampled on the ground.
Stunned, Shi Chi Yan quickly reined in his sword intent, and as soon as he adjusted his state back, a cloud of light and mist poured out of thin air from inside the mountain gate, rolling up his whole person and moving to the back of the mountain gate.
The light and shadow in front of him distorted for a few seconds, and Shi Chi suddenly regained his spiritual sense, and saw that he was standing at the foot of the White Bone Mountain, and a winding stone staircase mountain road in front of him led to the top of the mountain, but it was cut off by a thick and gloomy fog at a height of less than a point on the mountainside, and it was difficult to see the reality of the top of the mountain.
At this time, there were already many people standing at the foot of the mountain, all of whom had just successfully passed through the passage, and the weakest of them also had the cultivation of the late stage of the mimic spirit, one by one standing in front of the mountain road, staring at a huge stone placed in the center of the mountain road.
Seeing this, Shi Chi Yan walked over, and before he got close, he had already sensed a world-sharp sword path soul thought from the boulder, even though it was seven or eight meters away, his eyes were still shining with phantom light, like a bone sword floating and sinking in the depths of the Stygian Sea, and it was exuding sharp and powerful power.
After a pause, Shi Chi Yan first looked at the people in front of him, and saw that Gu Ye and several other plastic body members were not there in the later stage, obviously they had passed this level and climbed the mountain road in the rear.
The sword eyebrows frowned slightly, Shi Chi Yan stared at the boulder, and felt the sharp soul thought again, and at the same time, the hoarse voice of the bone master sounded in his ears: "The second level of the test, simulating the sword marks on the stone." ”
"Sword marks on the stone?" Shi Chiyan looked at the boulder, but he couldn't see half of the sword marks, although the shape of this boulder was strange, and it could even be said to be a little ugly, but there was indeed no trace on it, not to mention the sword marks, not even the scratch marks.
Not only him, but everyone else was also talking, and listening to their words, these people should not have seen the so-called sword marks on the boulder.
Shi Chiyan was staring at the boulder, and suddenly a person behind him was surprised: "This is the sword path carved stone?" ”
Shi Chi Yan turned his head and saw Cao Hong, Xuanyuan Yun, Shi Yirui, Sun Wei and others standing behind him, all staring at the boulder, and it was Cao Hong who spoke just now.
Seeing that Chi Yan's eyes were full of confusion, Cao Hong explained: "The sword path carved stone is the top swordsman who embodies the sword intent and leaves a mark on the entity, don't look at it with the naked eye, use the sword intent to sense." ”
Only then did Shi Chi Yan come to his senses, and while laughing at himself that he was really still a little white in the cultivation world, he unfolded his sword intent and stretched towards the boulder.
Rumble! When his sword intent touched the boulder, a boundless sword path power like an ocean emerged in front of him out of thin air, vast and boundless, and every trace of sea water was the purest sword path soul thought, which was filled with the breath of death, silence, and aging.
When the vast coercion reflected in his mind, Shi Chi Yan suddenly snorted, staggered back a few steps, his eyes were oozing two lines of blood, and his vitality suddenly weakened at this moment.
When Leng Buding saw Chi Di, it was as if he had suffered a heavy blow, Xuanyuan Yun, Sun Wei and others were all surprised, and at this moment, Cao Hong also suddenly screamed in pain, and her pretty face fell to the ground as pale as paper.
"What's going on?" Xuanyuan Yun pulled Cao Hong up and said in confusion.
Cao Hong seemed to be still immersed in some kind of terror, and he couldn't speak for a long time, but he took a moment to breathe before gritting his teeth and said: "The power of the dead, if you want to pass this level, you must be able to withstand the erosion of the dark qi. ”
"Stygian?" Sun Wei's cheeks twitched, and he said in shock, "How is it possible?" ”
If every ghost monk wants to ascend to the underworld in the future, he must undergo the cleansing of the underworld, grinding away the violent and uncontrollable ghost power, and transforming it into a lifeless and deadly power.
Compared with the instability of the ghostly qi, the more stable spiritual power is actually just as dangerous, the former is to make people have an extreme temperament and is easy to lose control, the latter is to completely wear out the seven emotions and six desires, like a saint who has no desires and no desires, but in fact, it has become ruthless and indifferent.
Therefore, for the ghost monks, the underworld qi is like explosives, which cannot be easily touched, that is, when it comes to the period of absorbing the underworld, the soul realm can support the soul body after sublimation, so that it can withstand the washing of the underworld.
But now the strongest of these young generation heroes is only in the late stage of body shaping, where can they withstand the washing of the underworld, this assessment is clearly to send them to death.
Everyone was at a loss, and Xuanyuan Yun frowned suddenly and said, "That's not right! What about the grain industry? ”
"He's not here," Sun Wei replied subconsciously, and then realized that something was wrong, "Either he fell, but there should be a corpse, so he passed?" How could it be ......"
"Maybe not as serious as we thought." Shi Chi Yan rubbed his eyebrows, he had been cut alive by the power of death in the sword mark before, and he almost exploded in the turmoil of the soul sea, but he slowly recovered at this moment.
Seeing that everyone had seen it, Shi Chi Yan said in a deep voice: "I have just sensed the power in the sword marks, it is not pure dark qi, but the power of death mixed with dark qi, and the power of death is the main body." ”
"It seems that Gu Ye and they can pass this level because of this." Sun Wei frowned.
Shi Chi Yan shook his head, and no longer spoke, but focused his mind again, contemplating the vastness of the Dead Sea.
Seeing this, the others also silently shut up, and began to work hard to sense the sword marks in the boulder.
Time passed quietly, and dozens of people arrived one after another, most of them silent, trying to catch the presence of the sword mark.
In the blink of an eye, half an hour had passed, and just when the second level was silent, Cao Hong's delicate body suddenly trembled, and a sword shadow seemed to appear behind her head.
It was only a few seconds after Cao Hong successfully visualized, and Shi Chi Yan, who was standing next to him, also had sharp eyes, and the sword intent around his body turned into dead silence, cold as frost, but with a desperate desolation.
With the emergence of that sword intent, Shi Chiyan's face seemed to have undergone some changes, faintly, it seemed to be a little more mature, he was only twenty-three or four years old before, but at this moment, he has become twenty-seven or eighteen years old, but because the span is not large, it is not obvious.
Slowly exhaling a breath of turbidity, Shi Chi Jian frowned, although this time he relied on the mirror soul seal, he successfully visualized and mastered a new sword intent, but as a price, he lost four years of life.
Death Sword Intent! Different from the Aurora Sword Intent and the Killing Sword Intent, this Sword Intent is a double-edged sword that can not only extinguish the vitality of the enemy, but also reduce one's own longevity.
Sighing lightly, Shi Chiyan looked at Cao Hong, and was unhappy: "Cao Hong, you have grown up." ”
"Get out!" Cao Hong's face darkened, and she spat angrily.
Girls are very concerned about age, Cao Hong was originally only twenty-two years old, but now she looks twenty-four years old, looking about the same age as Yu Lewei.
Shi Chiyan smiled, glanced at Shi Yirui, Xuanyuan Yun and the others who were still meditating, and muttered, "Let's wait and go in again." ”
Cao Hong was in a bad mood and didn't speak, just nodded.
The two of them waited for a while, and then two dozen or so people opened their eyes one after another, shaking their heads in anguish, apparently not being able to sense the sword marks from beginning to end.
And Shi Yirui also opened her eyes quickly, she was not a swordsman, and the ghost capture technique she had cultivated had nothing in common with the method of death, so after working hard for a while, she quickly gave up.
Soon after Shi Yirui woke up, Sun Wei, Xuanyuan Yun and others also opened their eyes one by one, but only Xuanyuan Yun succeeded in comprehending the method of death, and the others, together with Sun Wei, the master of the Sun family, failed to touch the edge of this method.
And Xuanyuan Yun's reaction was almost the same as Cao Hong's, the first time she opened her eyes, her face turned iron-blue, if it weren't for her cold and arrogant temperament, I was afraid that she would directly scold.
Shi Chiyan sighed and said helplessly: "The matter has come to this point, it's not interesting to think about it, Xiao Eleven, you and Sun Wei and they should stay first, Cao Hong, Xuanyuan Yun, let's enter the next level." ”
Cao Hong and Xuanyuan Yun both had cold faces and didn't speak, Shi Chi Yan only had another wry smile when he saw this, and walked towards the mountain road in front of him, pointing at the sword when he was approaching the boulder, and slashed forward with the sword intent of the dead death, easily separating the barrier in front of the mountain road, and then stepped in.
As soon as he stepped on the mountain road, the scene around Shi Chi Di changed suddenly, and the stone steps that were originally only two meters wide under his feet suddenly expanded wildly, and in a blink of an eye, it had turned into a square of thousands of square meters, and the whole square was empty, only a bone sword was inserted in the center.
Shi Chi Yan was observing the bone sword, and the obvious voice of the bone master suddenly sounded in his ears: "The third test, pass the nine-layer mountain path of the White Bone Mountain." ”
Shi Chiyan's heart moved when he heard this, and he knew that the square he was in at this moment should be the first layer, and if he wanted to pass through this layer, he would probably have to land on the bone sword in the center of the square.
Thinking of this, Shi Chi Yan secretly used his soul power, and walked towards the bone sword with his heart guarded, but until he walked in front of the bone sword, nothing abnormal happened.
Shi Chi Yan stood in front of the bone sword in confusion, thought for a long time, tentatively stretched out his hand to the bone sword, until he held the hilt of the sword, and his eyes showed a little sudden light.
From the perspective of ordinary people, this bone sword is only inserted in the brick cracks of the square, but Shi Chiyan, who has already mastered the method of death, keenly perceives that there is some kind of connection between the bone sword and the square, and only by destroying this connection can the bone sword be pulled out.
Knowing that if he wanted to pass the level, he had to pull out the bone sword, and Shi Chi immediately used his soul power, and the sword intent of the dead was blessed in his right hand, and he struggled to pull it up, but he didn't want the bone sword to be as stable as Mount Tai, no matter how strong his pull power was, he never moved, let alone was pulled out.
To no avail, Shi Chi Yan stopped his hand and stared at the bone sword with a frown.
Unlike most of the ghost monks, Shi Chi's body has been tempered many times, which is comparable to that of a martial artist of the same level, and the power just now is enough to overturn a small mountain, and this kind of power cannot pull out the bone sword, indicating that brute force is not the right way.
was thinking carefully about how to draw the sword, Shi Chi Yan suddenly raised his sword eyebrows, looked at the blade of the bone sword with a hint of surprise in his eyes, squatted down, and his mind wrapped the blade of the sword, carefully sensing it back and forth.
It took a long time for Shi Chi to straighten up and show a smile.
Holding the hilt of the sword again, Shi Chi Yan did not rush to draw the sword this time, but used the Death Sword Intent, and it did not enter the bone sword at all, as if sensing something.
Half an hour later, Shi Chi Xuan took a breath and withdrew his hand, but after half an hour, his face was extremely pale, and the right hand that had just held the hilt of the sword was even more withered, like the old man's hand that had lost its moisture.
"Aging?"
Shi Chi Yan muttered in a low voice, his eyes flashed with brilliance again, he took a deep breath, his soul power and sword intent spread all over his palm again, and then he held the hilt of the sword for the second time, but this time, the bone sword that was still standing trembled slightly, and it was actually pulled out of the ground by him little by little.
As the bone sword was continuously pulled out, the sword intent of the death that lingered in Shi Chi's right hand gradually became more and more of an idea called aging, and whenever a living creature touches it, it will pass away and decay its longevity.
After the bone sword was completely drawn, Shi Chi Yan suddenly snorted, directly released the hilt, and then dispersed the death sword intent, looking at his right hand with rough skin with an ugly face.
As early as before coming to participate in the assessment, Shi Chi Yan had tempered his physique several times, and his skin was not a cream of clotting cream, at least it was delicate and silky, but at this moment, his skin was rough and dry, like a farmer who had worked in the field for many years.
Shi Chiyan was staring at his right hand, the square around him suddenly buzzed and collapsed, and he also returned to the mountain road, and to his left and right stood Cao Hong, Xuanyuan Yun and a man.
Looking at the three of them, Shi Chi Yan stepped on the second layer of steps, and suddenly the surrounding scene changed again, and the steps expanded into a square, and a bone sword was also inserted in the center of the square.
With the experience just now, Shi Chi Yan didn't hesitate too much, and went straight to the bone sword, grabbed the bone sword, closed his eyes and sensed it.