Chapter Ninety-Three: Unpredictable (I)
Ling Qingyun had just stepped into the tower with his hind feet, and before he could see the scene in front of him, he felt a strong wind blowing behind him, followed by a loud bang, and everything in front of him suddenly sank into darkness.
"I wanted to take a good look at the unique scenery inside the tower, but before I could get a glimpse of it, I couldn't see my fingers. Ling Qingyun was helpless, he understood that it was just that the door was closed, he didn't feel panicked, and he didn't try to push and pull the door behind him to see if it could open, since he had made up his mind to come in, why should he consider retreating? After all, whoever enters the Trial Tower hopes to stay as long as possible, and he has never heard of leaving early.
"According to the rules of the Trial Tower, I should observe the situation first, and if the trial I encounter can be handled, I will go to the next level. Ling Qingyun said to himself: "Although I shouldn't be unable to even bear the second floor, let's stay on the first floor for a while, but I didn't seem to find the stairs up the stairs after a quick glance before, so it must be ......."
He stopped talking and began to observe this dark world, the field of vision was very dark, darker than the forest at night, after all, this was an inner room without doors and windows, and the light from the outside world could not penetrate the slightest, Ling Qingyun stood for a while, only to feel that this place was not only dark but also silent, but it made people feel a sense of isolation and loneliness.
"I wonder if this is a trial?" Ling Qingyun thought to himself, even if the Bright Moon Stone Hall had light and runes to refer to, it was really an unprecedented experience to be completely immersed in darkness and silence, but to be honest, he was really not afraid of loneliness, he only needed to turn his hand and summon the wordless book, and immerse himself in it for ten days and ten nights.
Of course, if he took advantage of the opportunity to enter the trial tower to read the book, it would be too tyrannical, Ling Qingyun naturally did not put this idea into practice, but stretched out his hand and walked forward, you can't look at it, you can always touch it, right? The way to climb to the higher levels is always to be found, and there may be some rune marks on the tower wall to observe, but he walked dozens of steps and still didn't touch anything, he couldn't help but be surprised, and after walking nearly a hundred steps, he still found nothing.
"Am I standing still?Caught in an illusion?" Ling Qingyun was puzzled, when he suddenly felt a chill fall on his body, and then his face changed slightly.
In just a few breaths, Ling Qingyun felt that the temperature of the environment in his place had plummeted, at first he only felt a burst of coolness, as if he had walked into a cave on a dog day, and soon this coolness became cold, like a winter day, and then this icy cold exceeded the limit of Ling Qingyun's life experience, and his body couldn't help but tremble, and his heart was terrified.
"This kind of cold is not as good as being immersed in ice water, isn't it? If a gust of wind blows, wouldn't it be going to freeze me directly into an ice sculpture?" Ling Qingyun couldn't help but be shocked: "The coldest thing I know is none other than the cold chalcedony spirit jade mined in the northern country, and the cold here can be compared to the cold chalcedony spirit jade everywhere, it is simply beyond the human body to bear, could it be that this is the first level of the trial tower?"
Thinking of this, Ling Qingyun immediately recited the mental method silently, using the Haoran Wind and Thunder Technique to run the true qi around the body, relaxing the meridians and invigorating the blood to resist the cold, accompanied by the true qi flowing through the meridians over and over again, in which the energy was constantly converted into heat and diffused throughout the body, and at the same time the blood flow accelerated, the muscles trembled, and the body was really vigorously exercising to generate heat. On weekdays, such a fortune would make Ling Qingyun sweat profusely with just a cup of tea, but at this time, Ling Qingyun did not sweat, but felt that his trembling body was becoming more and more stiff and paralyzed, and the cold really pierced into the bone marrow, making him gradually unable to move.
"Do you have to be stumped by this first level?" Ling Qingyun was shocked, he had thought that he would encounter all kinds of trials or creations after entering the Trial Tower, but he had never thought that just the simple cold would be so difficult to deal with, but how could he easily admit defeat? Thinking of this, Ling Qingyun couldn't help but grit his teeth, secretly running the essence of the Xuanyuan Swinging Qi Method, but it made the true qi run speed suddenly increased, as if the true qi in many meridians turned from ordinary water flow to turbulent agitation, and under the rapid operation, the ice and snow melted immediately, baking Ling Qingyun's body like a furnace, finally resisting the cold, and the stiff parts also warmed one after another.
Without waiting for Ling Qingyun to breathe a sigh of relief, he was shocked to feel the chill in his body gradually increase, and his body that had just warmed up quickly became cold and stiff again.
"This test, but when it is strong, it is strong?" Ling Qingyun was shocked: "Could it be that I should stop running my true qi?" No, even if I haven't used my true qi, the cold is enough to kill, it is useless to show weakness, it is better to make myself stronger!" Thinking of this, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "You might as well try this trick!"
So Ling Qingyun held his breath, maintaining the high-speed operation of his true qi while outlining the Dao pattern in his heart, and engraved it on his flesh and blood little by little with his spiritual power, until his body was almost unable to move, and several streams of heat suddenly flowed through his whole body from his chest, blocking the cold again, but it was a body rune that Ling Qingyun had not used since he left the Mingyue Stone Hall that played a role.
This time, the chill finally stopped increasing, but continued to surround the surface of Ling Qingyun's body, constantly snatching the heat from the young man's body like a ghost, Ling Qingyun frowned slightly, but he only cared about running the true qi and supporting it to the death, but his true qi was limited after all, and it became less and less under the erosion of this cold, but he didn't know how long he struggled to fight for the last bit of true qi in his body was finally frozen in place by the cold, and he couldn't move for half a minute like the boy's own stiff body.
"I don't know what I look like at this time, covered in frost and snow, or really frozen into an ice sculpture?" At this time, Ling Qingyun couldn't even move his eyes, and only his brain could rotate slightly, and his body that had lost consciousness would not respond to the slightest pain, but the brain responsible for directing the body was useless, and his thinking became more and more slow: "I heard that after my body is frozen, it will be shattered as long as I knock it lightly, maybe I am in this state......" Thinking about it, it was obvious that his whole body had been frozen, Ling Qingyun still felt a chill welling up in his heart.
Suddenly, Ling Qingyun's thinking became clear, and a certain indescribable feeling made his eyes widen in surprise, and he felt a warmth rising from the dantian, flowing through the whole body along the meridians, and the blood recirculated everywhere he passed, and the muscles regained their strength after a burst of numbness, Ling Qingyun couldn't help but move his body, only to feel that his whole body was warm all over his body, and there was no stiffness in his whole body, the depleted true qi was refilled and flowed all over his body, he couldn't help but stretch his limbs, this mood was as pleasant and relaxed as waking up and stretching his waist.
Soon, he discovered the surprise.
"My physical body seems to be a little stronger?" Ling Qingyun flicked his arm, and shot out a golden true qi with a flick of his fingers, and couldn't help but light up his eyes: "Even the true qi is more condensed, this freezing and thawing is actually helping me refine my physical body?"
"It seems that this chill is constantly increasing, forcing me to run my true qi at the fastest speed, so as to fully tap my potential and maximize the effect of this body refining!" Ling Qingyun suddenly became enlightened, he had also tried various body refining methods, of course he understood the key, but after he had cultivated to the peak of the Thousand Forging Realm, his physical body and true qi could not be advanced, and he became a little stronger, this was the long-term benefit of consolidating the foundation, it was really an unexpected joy.
Suddenly, Ling Qingyun's eyes lit up, so that he couldn't help but close his eyes, and when he opened them again, he saw that this layer of trial tower had already shone with a white light from nowhere, surrounded by bare tower walls, but in the middle was an upward spiral staircase, Ling Qingyun clearly remembered that when he pushed the door, he didn't see this staircase at all.
"This is the ladder to the higher levels, and it seems that I will only appear after I pass the trials of this level. Ling Qingyun looked at the stairs and his eyes moved slightly: "The chill of this first layer is so tricky, but it also has a miraculous effect of refining the body, and the test of the second layer must be even more powerful, and the benefits should be greater!"
The so-called wealth and danger are sought, Ling Qingyun didn't hesitate for long before choosing to step on the stairs, only to feel that stepping on this stone staircase was like stepping on cotton, not only the feet, but the whole person floated up.
"Could it be that there is a test when you go upstairs?" Ling Qingyun was secretly vigilant, so he stepped on every step step by step, and when he was only a few steps away from the second floor, he suddenly felt a gust of evil wind from above, so he subconsciously drew his sword out of its sheath, and made a sonorous sound in the face of the attack.
"Attacked before you even went upstairs?" Ling Qingyun felt that this trial tower was really not easy to use common sense, and when he looked up, he saw a man in a hunting suit glaring at him viciously, and roared angrily and slashed the short knife that had been cut out of the gap by the sword again, this time Ling Qingyun had already prepared, raised his wrist lightly to pick the man's short knife away, and took advantage of his horror and retreat directly to the second floor.
"He Fangxiao is small, he dares to break into my Qinglong camp!" Ling Qingyun heard an angry roar just after he appeared, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, but when he looked around, he found that this was actually a camp surrounded by a wooden fence, and there was a big man with a scar on his face standing at the door of the camp tent in the middle and glaring at Ling Qingyun, and the previous roar was made by him.
"Although this camp is not large, the area is at least worth dozens of trial towers, how can the trial tower create such a space?" Ling Qingyun was secretly surprised, but he didn't take the scar-faced man and the so-called Qinglong camp in his eyes, and when he glanced back, he found that the ground behind him was flat, but there was no trace of the previous stairs.
"The way to come is gone, this trial tower really has no way back. Ling Qingyun muttered, but angered the scar-faced man: "You yellow-haired boy dare to ignore the owner of this camp?
Immediately, several big men came out in response and rushed towards Ling Qingyun with a roar.
"It's obviously a cottage, what is it called the Qinglong Camp?" Ling Qingyun sneered, and with a slight slash of the sword in his hand, the man who had launched the sneak attack widened his eyes and fell down holding his throat. Several big men were suddenly startled when they saw this scene, and their movements were a little slower, but Ling Qingyun rushed directly, and a lightning-fast sword easily cut the throat of the big man in front, and the rest of the big men were even more shocked, and they hurriedly beckoned their weapons towards Ling Qingyun but couldn't wipe the corners of the young man in green shirt in front of him at all, but the green feng in Ling Qingyun's hand was like a ghost, every sword would take a person's life, and several fierce and vicious big men suddenly became cold corpses.
"The blood is warm, their demeanor and movements are no different from real people, and even the feeling of weapon clash is extremely real. Ling Qingyun wiped away the blood splashed on his face and was secretly surprised: "But I don't know if all this is an illusion, or if the trial tower condenses the enemy to fight with me, if it is just an illusion, it doesn't seem to be so real." ”
"What else does this camp master have for advice?" Suppressing the doubts in his heart, Ling Qingyun looked at the scar-faced big man and said indifferently, he saw from the beginning that this scar-faced big man was only the strength of the Stone Spirit Realm, and those few minions were even more unbearable, and the strongest was only five thousand forgings, and it was not as good as the weakest freshman of Nanming Academy, what was there to fear from this kind of opponent?
Seeing that several good men under his command died under the young man's sword in a blink of an eye, the scar-faced man also had his pupils constricted, and then he roared with a hideous face: "Give it to me, kill this kid!"
Before the words fell, minions armed with various blades rushed out of the many tents and rushed like a tide towards the young man standing alone in the middle of the camp!