Chapter 5: The Trial of the Four Elders 1
The next day, Xia Mingxi slept until three o'clock in the morning before she was woken up by the maid who came to call her, and went to the welcoming living room yesterday with Mo Dye Cheng. The hall was still the same as yesterday, the difference was that Mo Yushen and three of the people behind him were not there, only a man who looked thin was left, he was dressed in a green robe, holding a green gemstone scepter made of ancient wood in his hand, he saw that Xia Mingxi had only come now, and his eyes were still sleepy, and a trace of displeasure flashed in his eyes, but he was quickly suppressed by him.
He looked at Xia Mingxi, cleared his throat, and said, "Today, I will supervise you to conduct the first level of the trial, watch." As he spoke, he picked up the scepter in his hand, drew three clockwise circles in front of him, pinched one hand and put it in front of his mouth, and whispered: "The ancient gate of trials, I summon you in the name of the Mo family elder!" After speaking, where he drew a circle, a semi-oval-looking brown-red gate suddenly appeared, two people high, and a lifelike fire dragon that looked like it was soaring in gold and red on both sides, and the surrounding auspicious clouds were also delicately depicted in bright red like blood, which looked very imposing.
"Your mission in the first level is to retrieve a copy of the Ghost Shadow Steps, a copy of the Superior Exercises ----- hidden in the place of trial. The time is limited to one day. After a day, the door will close and you will be trapped inside forever, and if you come out and fail to bring it back, I will personally put you to death! After saying that, he turned into a wisp of green smoke and flew out. After he left, a map suddenly flew into Xia Mingxi's hand, and the door opened automatically.
"Just find a book......? Is it that simple?" Xia Mingxi looked at the map and said to the Ink Dye City beside her.
Mo Dye Cheng glanced at her, "Simple, heh, although I haven't been there, but let's not talk about the difficulties on this road, this 'book' alone is enough for you to bear, you must practice at least to the first realm first, and it will follow you, because all the superior exercises have their own spiritual wisdom, and for hundreds of years, many people have been trapped in it until they turn into white bones." And the most recent is that three years ago, there was a person with extremely high talent who strayed into the place of trial, but he has not returned. This little man ......" thought as he suddenly clenched his fists.
Xia Mingxi looked at the darkening face of Ink Dye City, and felt that it was better to go first, so she folded the map and walked in. And when she entered, she was teleported to another place.
It was an endless forest, she had just been teleported to the edge of the forest, surrounded by a large field of fragrant pink flowers, but gloomy white bones could be seen everywhere on the ground, and the roar of a beast was heard from time to time in the forest, but what made Xia Mingxi herself strange was that she was not afraid, and there was a familiar feeling.
She didn't think much about it, and hurried into the forest, her time was very limited. [Note: The time on both sides is not the same, and an ordinary day is equivalent to five days in the Land of Trials.] ]
Unlike Xia Mingxi's imagination, after entering the forest, she didn't encounter anything, although she could still hear the sound of beasts, but she never saw it.
She squatted in a clearing, boredly plucked a piece of grass on the side of the road, and played with it in her hand.
"What a place, I've been walking for so long, and I still haven't touched anything. But...... The air in this forest is still quite fragrant, and there is not a single flower except for the entrance...... Wrong. Xia Mingxi seemed to realize something, suddenly stood up, looked at the grass in her hand carefully, touched it, felt that something was wrong, suddenly seemed to think of something, threw the grass, covered her mouth and nose tightly with her hands, closed her eyes for a while, and then opened them, but a different scene appeared in front of her.
Her surroundings were no longer forests, but desolate deserts, and what had not changed was that in front of her, there was still a field of fragrant pink flowers, and the ground was still covered with eerie white bones.
Xia Mingxi smiled, [Heh, no wonder, flowers that can create illusions...... That uncle is ruthless enough, no wonder there are so many white bones on the ground, and no one has ever gone out, so I'd better go first. She was just about to leave, but after thinking about it, she turned around and went to the flower field to pluck some flowers and put them in the pockets of special shorts with zippers, so that if she was in danger, it might be useful. And the pocket is separated from the outside world, so you can't smell it.
After making sure that it was safe to smell it, Xia Mingxi hurriedly moved away from the flower field and headed along the next location marked on the map.