Another afternoon, Dugu Zhishui sat in a teahouse and waited for the test to end in Qingming Square. Seeing that the flow of people around the square gradually dispersed, he saw a few people quietly follow.

The men had gone to a liquor store for a drink, apparently celebrating something. After they were full of wine and food, the people walked out of the wine shop together, supporting each other, and they seemed to be stumbling a little. At this time, it was getting late, and the clouds in the sky were very thick, and the places where the lights did not reach were extremely dark. Dugu Zhishui's whole person was hidden in the darkness, and he followed far behind those people.

A few people turned into an alley through a few brightly lit streets, Dugu Zhishui pretended to hang out, and was about to follow in, when he suddenly felt someone peeping behind him. He turned into the alley as if nothing had happened, jumped up to the roof of the house next to him in the darkness, and waited quietly on the roof.

After a while, two people sneakily followed from the direction where Dugu Zhishui had come, and walked through the alley in front of him. The corners of Dugu's mouth hooked, he had already recognized those two people, they were the two subordinates of the Yue family, and they often followed behind Yue Jianling. He leaped through the night on the rooftop, chasing after his previous target, and had not gone far when suddenly there was a metallic sound in the darkness ahead. He lowered his body and kept his breathing to a minimum. He vaguely saw an additional person in the alley, who stopped in front of the previous four, and his whole body was covered in black robes.

At this moment, the four people who had just passed the first round of selection were all armed with weapons, and their angry cheers could be heard from time to time in the alley.

"What the hell are you...... Be...... Be...... Who is it?"

"Want to grab ...... Grab our certificate, I'm afraid you don't have that ability!"

"Hmph, thief, dare ...... Dare...... Dare to be wild in front of us and others, and see if the master doesn't fight...... Blow your dog's head. ”

It's just that the four of them had just been drinking freely in the wine shop, and now they were still with their tongues knotted, swaying from side to side, and unsteady on their feet. Their words sounded more like drunken madness.

"Tsk, the old man wants to see how you juniors blow my head. An old sneer came from under the black robe. Dugu Zhishui's eyes narrowed slightly, this old man is a martial artist.

There were suddenly a few crisp bone cracking sounds in the silent alley, Dugu Zhishui hibernated quietly, and the black-robed man twisted the neck of the fourth person and threw the corpse on the ground casually. He fumbled around the four corpses and found four white pieces of paper, which stood out in the darkness. Putting away the four pieces of white paper, the black-robed man walked away.

After the black-robed man left, Dugu stopped the water and went down to investigate, and after confirming that all four of them were dead, he quietly left the place. On the way, he saw that the two subordinates of the Yue family were still scurrying in the dark, and looking in their direction, he should soon see those corpses. With Dugu Zhishui's temperament, he wanted to help the four of them, but when he realized that his realm was below the old man, he dispelled the idea. When the road is uneven, draw a knife to help, at least you have the strength to draw a knife, he is not a good person who does not measure himself.

The guess in Dugu Zhishui's heart was confirmed, and he couldn't help but pinch a cold sweat for Yuetong. In the night, he hurried back to Yue's house.

The first round of Shenwu Altar enrollment and selection lasted for ten days, and on the eleventh day, a map suddenly appeared on the blank paper that Yue Tong brought back, and there was a route on the map. Dugu Zhishui followed Yuetong out of the city with the guidance of the paper route, and rode into the depths of the mountains hundreds of miles outside the city. At the same time, figures from all over the city left the city, spreading in all directions.

In the depths of the mountain, a white mist gradually rose in the forest, and soon the surrounding scenery became blurred, and Dugu Zhishui found that the deeper he went into this forest, the fog became thicker, and even if he and Yuetong were next to each other, they could no longer see each other.

"It's over, Brother Zhishui, I can't find my way. Yuetong took the map in her hand and turned around blankly, but she didn't know where to go. "Brother Zhishui, Brother Zhishui, are you there, don't scare me. ”

"I'm here, right next to you. Dugu's voice came from the side.

Yuetong turned her head to look, but there was nothing in front of her. "What now?"

"Let me think about it. Dugu Zhishui tried to use his divine sense to probe his surroundings, but he found that his perception could not penetrate the fog at all.

"How can this be?" Dugu Zhishui was puzzled in his heart, it is said that the selection of disciples in this Divine Martial Altar should be based on the assessment of a certain ability of the candidates, but what use can this fog be in addition to making people lose their way and find no way out? What kind of ability does this fog want to test the candidates?

Dugu Zhishui was puzzled, "I don't know what the use of this fog is, so I can only walk and see it first." ”

"Okay. Yuetong took off his sword from his horse and handed one end in the direction of Dugu Zhishui, "Prevent us from getting separated, Brother Zhishui will pull my sword." ”

Dugu Zhishui groped and grabbed Yuetong's sword, and the two began to grope their way forward in the forest. The more you walk, the more strange it feels, the surroundings are too quiet, except for the sound of their horses' hooves and breathing, there is no other sound, it is a dead silence, so quiet that people panic in their hearts. After only a stick of incense, Yuetong couldn't stand it.

"Brother Zhishui, I'm so scared, there won't be ghosts around here, right?" Yuetong's voice trembled a little, obviously panicked.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here. Dugu Zhishui scratched a few times beside him and touched Yuetong and patted her shoulder.

The two continued to walk down, Dugu Zhishui took the map in Yuetong's hand, and the route on the map ended when it reached this forest, without any other hints or instructions.

The two of them walked non-stop, but the forest seemed to be boundless, and I don't know how long they had been walking, it seemed to be a day, or it seemed to be a few days, or it could be just a few hours, and the passage of time in such a place was difficult to measure. Yuetong became more and more scared, and then the whole person was a little nervous, and kept looking for words to talk to Dugu Zhishui, Dugu Zhishui could only try his best to cooperate with her and tell her some stories he had seen in books before.

Later, Yuetong dragged Dugu Zhishui's arm and refused to let go of it, and then she simply came over and rode with Dugu Zhishui, and directly stopped him and hugged him. Being hugged by a little girl made Dugu Zhishui feel a little embarrassed, but Yuetong refused to let go of the hug, seeing her curled up behind him in fright, he couldn't break her hand. He always felt that something was wrong, but he just couldn't grasp that point, "What's wrong?" he kept asking himself.

"Brother Zhishui, we won't meet the legendary ghost hitting the wall, right? You see that we haven't walked out for so long, and we haven't bumped into anything else, maybe we're just blindsided by ghosts. ”

"What nonsense, those are all lies, don't scare yourself, where did the ghost cover your eyes......" Dugu was helpless, but suddenly he was full of excitement. "Ghost blindfolds!yes, why didn't I think of that!"

"Look, I'll just say it's a ghost covering your eyes. Yuetong looked around in fear, for fear of a sudden grimace.

"I'm not talking to you, I'm talking about illusions. Dugu Zhishui looked serious, he looked at the hazy white mist around him with a complicated expression, and twisted his arm a few times.

After a few moments, he was sure that he was in a dream. This illusion is not very clever, there is not even a real pain here, there is no scenery around except fog, if you want to classify the illusion, this should probably be the lowest. They were still walking in the woods before, and the fog was slowly rising, and the whole process of change was quite logical, so he didn't notice it. It turned out that I was already in a dream at some point.

"Illusions, so what we're seeing now is fake?"

"Well, you're dreaming. ”

"But if you are dreaming, Brother Zhishui, why are you in other people's dreams?" Yue Tong bent over and suddenly poked his head out of Dugu Zhishui's side.

"Huh......" Dugu Zhishui was startled by her voice, and reached out to press her head back.

"But I want to wake up, it's a nightmare. If it's a beautiful view, and a few handsome guys can accompany me on the trip, I'd be happy to continue dreaming. ”

"Isn't this me?" Dugu Zhishui talked to her while thinking back to the method he had read in the book to dispel the illusion.

The most direct way to get rid of the illusion is to wake up from the severe pain, that is to say, to self-harm in the illusion, and there is no other way for ordinary people to fall into the illusion than this. But there are some special mental methods that can keep people sanity, which is a more clever method. However, there are very few such mental formulas, and people's divine consciousness is something mysterious and difficult to control, and it is not easy to cultivate one's divine consciousness. The people who can create such mental formulas are all geniuses.

Dugu Zhishui once read some mental formulas that could break illusions in the cave of the Holy Mountain, and now in retrospect, he can still remember some fragments.

"Con......templating the mind and breaking thoughts, only I am one, one gives birth to two, and two gives birth to complexity, complexity adds to the body, and the mind is scattered;

"What are you talking about?" Yue Tong looked at him babbling and didn't know what he was reading, with a hellish expression.

"Don't talk nonsense, follow me. ”

"Oh. ”

"Con......templating the mind and breaking thoughts, only I am one, one gives birth to two, and two gives birth to complexity, complexity adds to the body, and the mind is scattered;

In the dense forest, in a clearing, there are a number of men and women, their faces frightened, tired, or indifferent, with different expressions. They all closed their eyes as if they were asleep, and some young people in white clothes were shuttling through the crowds, observing the expressions and physical states of the people on the ground.

"Ah! Come out! Come out quickly! Lao Tzu is not afraid of you, there is a kind of Lao Tzu to come out...... You come out for Lao Tzu! What kind of ability is it to pretend to be a ghost!Ah......hh

Suddenly there was a hoarse and angry scolding in the silent clearing, followed by uncontrollable cries. A young man in his twenties had his eyes closed, his hands clutching the air in front of him, and his legs kicking around. The white-clothed young man who was patrolling the forest hurried over and shook a sachet at the tip of his nose.

After a moment, the young man suddenly fell silent and opened his eyes. He sat up blankly, looking at the "corpses" all around him, and was a little stunned for a while.

"You're eliminated. The young man in white glanced at him lightly and pointed in a direction, "Hurry up and get out of here." ”

The young man on the ground didn't react for a while, but after a while he realized what the man in white meant, and immediately became angry, "What do you mean? How did I get out? So far, you haven't even told us what the second round of the test is! Why did you eliminate me for some reason!"

"The second round of testing is long over, those who were killed and those who killed others have been eliminated, and those who killed people are permanently blacklisted. This is the third round of testing, you didn't survive the allotted time in the illusion, go out of it yourself, it won't look good if we let us do it. The white-clothed man was exposed, and a wave of qi bent the grass around him, and the young man on the ground felt the breath of the other party, and his face suddenly changed greatly, and he hurriedly got up and fled from this place.

The originally silent forest began to become strange with the departure of the youth, and bursts of screams of pain or despair or anger began to come from the clearing, and people were constantly struggling on the ground with their eyes closed, and the people in white gradually became busy, more and more people were awakened, and more and more people were eliminated......