Chapter 075: Mountaineering and River Hunting Enclosure
In the anticipation of the people of Jingxiang, they finally waited for the day of the Jingxiang Palace test.
This Jingxiang Palace test is divided into three levels, which are mountaineering, river crossing, and hunting enclosure.
The so-called mountaineering is to climb the Yunwu Mountain in Jingdu City. Yunwu Mountain is located in the western suburbs of Jingdu City, the mountain is steep, towering into the clouds, it is the first peak of Jingdu City. Of course, the mountaineering level of the Jingxiang Palace Examination, the content of the examination school is definitely not to see who climbs the mountain well and climbs fast, but to go through the three tests of "Cliff Hundred Points", "Iron Rope Ten Roads", and "Cloud Steps Three Hundred" in the mountain.
As for crossing the river, it is to cross the Liuzhu River at the southern foot of Yunwu Mountain. The surface of the Liuzhu River is more than 100 zhang wide, and after the transformation of the formation, the cultivator soaks in the river water, which will aggravate the loss of qi in the body, and the deeper the personal cultivation, the more the impact will be, but the influence of the cultivator in the Qi condensation period and the Qi training period is slight. The deep water in the river not only has sharp stalagmites flowing wildly, but also captively raises a large number of demon beasts in the water, and the bottom of the river is potholes, whirlpools are frequent, and the downstream of the river is a waterfall with a drop of 100 zhang.
The last hunting enclosure is the Mulan enclosure that enters the Jingxiang royal family. This Mulan enclosure is a place where the Jingxiang royal family keeps demon beasts in captivity, plants medicinal herbs, and hunts and exercises, covering a radius of more than 300 miles, and there are elite soldiers guarding the periphery. According to the level of cultivation, the palace examiners are assigned their respective tasks, and enter the Mulan enclosure from the four gates of the southeast, northwest, and northwest for a period of three days, and the survivors who can successfully turn in the task have the qualification to enter the Jingxiang School Palace.
The entire palace test path is planned by the Jingxiang royal family, and there are heavy guards along the way, and the secret sentinel monitors.
Today's Yunwu Mountain, the traffic is busy, the crowd is rolling, spreading more than ten miles away, compared with a large military town market, it is several times more lively.
Hundreds of millions of people in Jingxiang Kingdom, the respect for Jingxiang School Palace is increasing year by year, from the family sect to the common people, all 25 years old and below can sign up to participate.
As many as 400,000 people have signed up for the Jingxiang Palace test this time, and you can imagine how enthusiastic the scene is at this time!
The Jingxiang palace test was personally led by the left general Zhang Quji, and the three passes of the palace test were respectively led by Yiwei general He Feiying, Xiuwei general Lin Caixiu, and Shouwei general Cui Zhu.
At the beginning of the day, the participants in the palace examination were guided by the sergeant and went up to the Yunwu Mountain in an orderly manner, and the momentum was quite strong along the way.
The cliff is hundred, located on the cloudy mountainside, across five or six miles away, like a steel knife, the palace test crowd is cut off, many people in front of this cliff, looking at the wall sighing, helpless. One thousand, more than one meter and six meters, and a hundred stone walls are steep stone walls more than 160 meters high, and climbing such a high stone wall is a difficult and dangerous thing for ordinary low-level cultivators!
"Oh my God, it's so high, how can this go up?"
"If you don't dare to go up, you can go down the mountain, and the palace test can withdraw from the test at any time. ”
"Ah...... Help me...... Poof......"
"Another one fell to his death!"
"Brother Sun, look, there are two green vines leading to the top of the wall. ”
"Sure enough, God help me!"
......
Under the cliff, there were disturbances and noisy people, Wang Ruoli took Ruan Jinglun, and followed the team of the children of the Wang family, unhappily and unslowly came to the open space in front of the wall.
I saw hundreds of sergeants who maintained order standing solemnly around the open space, and did not pay much attention to the people who participated in the palace examination, while the palace examiners showed their own magical powers, some climbed on the stone wall like geckos, some climbed the top of the wall with sharp weapons, some climbed the protruding part of the stone wall with the help of the wheel and axle hook, and some excellent children climbed to the top of the wall first and then hung down the rope, and more people used the two green vines that grew on the wall to climb up carefully in turn.
"Brother Li'er, there are a lot of people over there, should we go too?" Ruan Jinglun saw that the palace examiners under the two green vines were surrounded by water, and they couldn't squeeze in.
"No need, just a hundred stone walls, let's climb up directly. Wang Ruoli glanced at the cliff, said confidently, and turned his head to look not far away, where Wang Ruoxi, the leader, was discussing the strategy of going up the wall with several young people in the clan.
There was also a team of Xie family's children walking next to it, and I saw that the Xie family was led by Xie Lingju and Xie Lingqiao respectively, divided into two groups, and they were clearly distinguished.
As for the team of the Sima family, it was led by Sima Yue, and I heard that it had passed through the cliff as early as half an hour ago.
"Who's that guy?"
"Bastard, what does he want to do!"
"It's so hateful, he actually cut down the green vine!"
"He's so mad, isn't he afraid of causing public wrath?"
"That person seems to be Cao Biao of the Lingyun Sect. ”
......
Just as Wang Ruoli Ruan Jinglun was talking, a figure flashed on the top of the wall, and the knife fell, and the two green vines were cut off, and the green vines suddenly fell down the wall, along with a dry palace tester who climbed up along the green vine, but when he saw the vine break and the person fell, he fell down a pile miserably, and he was densely overwhelmed, and the screams of oops, oops, the screams came and went, and it seemed that the number of casualties was not a few.
In the meantime, a few sharp-eyed people recognized the person on the wall who cut off the green vine, which was Cao Biao of the Lingyun Sect.
The Lingyun faction has always been not enthusiastic about the Jingxiang palace test, and even has three or four palace tests, and has never sent a disciple to participate. Unexpectedly, more than 30 disciples were sent to this palace test, including Cao Biao and Yue Qinghuan, two outstanding disciples in the foundation building period.
Wang Ruoli glanced at the sergeants around him slightly, and saw that he didn't make the slightest movement, so he only chuckled at the corner of his mouth at the moment, and took Ruan Jinglun with him and climbed straight to the wall.
This level of stone wall is not very difficult for Wang Ruoli in the foundation building period and Ruan Jinglun in the qi cultivation period, and the two of them worked hard with their hands and feet, with the help of the protrusions and gaps of the stone wall, and after hundreds of ups and downs, they successfully climbed to the top of the wall. Turning around and looking at the black pressure of the palace examiner under the wall, he was still making all kinds of efforts to climb the stone wall.
In this palace examination, a total of 52 children of the Wang family signed up for the participants, and their cultivation was above the Qi Condensation Period, among which there were 11 people in the Qi Nourishment Period and two people in the Foundation Building Period. The cultivation of the children of the Wang family is quite not weak among the palace examiners, and the party quickly passed through the cliff and came to the "Ten Iron Ropes".
The so-called iron cable ten roads, also known as iron cable stone road, the focus is not on the stone road, but on the iron cable.
Legend has it that there used to be a narrow stone road here, circling through the secluded, along the peak, straight to the top of the mountain, there are ten iron cables fixed on the side of the stone road, in order to do the fence, but later encountered the strong people of the spiritual realm fighting in this law, the spirit law is raging, flattening the stone road, breaking the peak, so that now standing in front of everyone, there is no peak, there is no stone road, only an unfathomable abyss, and ten cold and desolate huge iron cables, all the way to the clouds and mist in the mountains, and I don't know where the end of the iron cable leads.
Most of the palace examiners trembled on the trembling iron cable, and only some people who believed in their self-cultivation would walk quickly on the iron rope, and even some people with low cultivation were holding the iron rope and slowly moving all the way over.
Wang Ruoli saw that Wang Ruoxi, as the leader of the family's children, arranged for his fellow clansmen to help each other and cross the iron rope in an orderly manner, just like a leader, not as hostile to himself as he was a few months ago, nor did he deliberately target himself.
Wang Ruoli patted his head, didn't think about it anymore, and Ruan Jinglun selected the third iron cable from the left, and went up cautiously, and after a while, he entered the clouds and mist in the mountains, only to see that the whole body was white, and the huge iron cable trembling lightly under his feet felt subtle, as if walking in a sea of clouds, open to the sky.
Each rope is far apart, and at this time it is impossible to distinguish the picture of the other nine iron ropes walking, but there are occasionally one or two terrible screams in the ears, I don't know if the palace tester was careless at his feet, fell directly into the abyss, or was plotted by someone, and died tragically on this iron ropeway.
When Wang Ruoli and the two calmly walked out of the clouds, it was the end of the iron cable, and what caught their eyes was the stone platform between the mountains, only to see that the stone platform was more than ten miles wide, the platform was full of clouds and mist, and the green shade on the edge of the platform in the distance was lush and green, which seemed to be connected with the clouds on the edge of the sky.
Wang Ruoli had just stepped on the stone platform, and at this time, a group of young people came down from the fourth iron rope next to him, one of whom was a young man with a wicked smile on his face, who actually returned to the iron rope and learned from Cao Biao of the Lingyun faction.
Strange to say, these thick iron cables were not known to be made of what kind of material, and they were cut by the sharp sword of this good young man, and they did not even lose a single inch of iron filings, but the young man's sword could not be cut and chiseled, and was broken in two.
Coincidentally, from behind the fourth iron rope, a young man with a hooked nose came down, and when he saw that the young man was cutting the iron rope, he immediately raised his eyebrows, and was full of anger, and the golden gun in his hand was picked and slapped, and the young man with a good thing was directly thrown into the abyss, only to hear a miserable cry, from top to bottom, long echoes in the abyss.
"Zhu Qian, you dare to kill the children of my Huan family!" Seeing that the young man was shot down into the abyss, the leader of the group of young people said angrily.
"Kill and kill, what is the use of such a black sheep. Zhu Qian, a young man with a hooked nose, was not afraid.
"Then please leave an explanation at the Golden Gun Gate. "The young man who is the leader of the Huan family, named Huan Zhou, is young and ambitious, arrogant and domineering, and has recently cultivated to a big rise and broken through the foundation building period.
"Who is afraid of whom!" "Just the Huan family, why be afraid!" "Come on!" "Down with them!" The people from the Golden Gun Gate who followed closely from the fourth iron cable came behind Zhu Jian one after another, and the two teams were deadlocked, foaming at the mouth and scolding each other. Seeing that both sides are not convinced by each other, the situation is getting more and more intense.
"Take me with a sword!" Huan Zhou stabbed with a sword.
"Eat me a shot!" Zhu Jian came up with a gun and fought with Huan Zhou.
The two sides come and go, chaotic fighting, such a melee situation has attracted many palace testers who love to join in the fun, stop and watch.
"Stop! On top of the palace test, private fights are prohibited, and violators will be severely punished!" The chaotic crowd of palace tests on the side of the stone platform was vigorously lined up, and a team of sergeants with armor ran over, and the first middle-aged man who looked like a captain shouted loudly.
As he spoke, the captain waved his hand, and the sergeant behind him rushed into the melee Huan family and the disciples of the Golden Gun Gate, punching and kicking those disciples who still refused to stop fighting, and forcibly pulled the two disciples apart.
The disciples who were originally fighting faced these tiger-wolf-like soldiers, although most of them were stronger in cultivation, they didn't dare to resist too much. A private brawl is reasonable, but if there is a conflict with the sergeant who maintains order, it is not as simple as withdrawing.
"Count your fate today. Because Huan Zhou had just entered the foundation building period, he suffered a small loss against Zhu Qian, and he was a little indignant in his heart, "You wait for me!"
"Huangkou child, waiting for you at any time. Zhu Jian mocked Huan Zhou's short stature, raised his gun and retreated, turned to the captain and said politely, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry to cause trouble to the captain." ”
"If you fight privately, you will either continue to climb the cloud steps for 300 steps, or withdraw from the mountain, and if you are found to have violated discipline, you will be severely punished. The school captain coldly swept away the disciples on both sides of the private fight, and judged.
"Lord Captain is so powerful......" Huan Zhou was unconvinced, and there was a strange voice on the side.
"Huan family boy, don't make mistakes, there is a way, jump high, and it hurts to fall. The captain's words became colder, and his eyes looked at Huan Zhou coldly, "I am the captain Gao Yong under the command of General Yiwei, if there is anyone who is not convinced, you can write to the generals, hum!" As he spoke, he arranged for his sergeants to divide his troops to guard each iron cable exit.
The disciples of the two sides didn't dare to say more, so they had to go to the mountain in a huff.