Chapter 8: The winding path leads to the secluded road
Although the golden-armored man in the battle robe did not release any coercion, it made all the young people present involuntarily have a feeling in their hearts...... that feeling as if the powerhouse of the Qiankun Holy Courtyard in front of him was in control of his own life and death, and the illusion that he couldn't help himself made people feel very awkward.
"Dongzhou Nanban, tens of thousands of tribes, you are lucky to be able to arrive here, there are more teenagers like you who have missed the opportunity to worship the Qiankun Holy Courtyard for various reasons. The golden-armored man stood in the void, looking down at the hundreds of thousands of young men from various tribes below, and said in a gentle voice, "We, the Qiankun Sacred Academy, want to select the most talented one thousand people from among you and recruit them into the core of our Qiankun Sacred Academy. ”
"Hundreds of thousands of you are vying for a thousand places. ”
The rules are as follows. ”
"Later, all of you will teleport to the Enlightenment Tower in the trial space, each of which has nine floors, starting from the first floor, passing through the first layer to enter the second floor...... until you give up admitting defeat or are forcibly teleported out of the Enlightenment Tower. ”
"Rankings are calculated based on the number of floors you have reached in the Tower of Enlightenment and the progress you have made in cracking the rune array. ”
The words of the golden-armored man made the hundreds of thousands of teenagers below sluggish.
Although there is a close relationship between cultivation and talent, it is obvious that as long as the talent is outstanding, no matter how low the cultivation is, you can pass the trial.
On the contrary, this kind of assessment has an invisible advantage for those teenagers from weak tribes. The tribe is small, and the cultivation resources that can be provided are naturally far inferior to those of the big tribes, if it is a test of combat power, the vast majority of teenagers from small tribes are obviously not the opponents of those big tribe teenagers, even if they are talented, they can't do it without cultivation resources, just like a good woman is difficult to cook without rice, no matter how clever her cooking skills are, she also needs raw materials to be able to use them.
The mysterious powerhouse representing the Qiankun Sacred Courtyard disappeared again without a sound after a simple announcement.
"Everyone prepares, and the trial begins immediately. The Blood Pupil Monks at the front of each team shouted in unison.
"Come on. ”
"Well, each of them makes their own efforts. "Trial space, teenagers from various tribes bless each other, the competition is too fierce, only a thousand people out of hundreds of thousands can qualify, under such a terrifying elimination rate, no one can guarantee that they will be able to qualify, but whether they can change their fate depends on this time, which makes all the teenagers have enough energy.
"Xia, I'm waiting for you in the Qiankun Holy Courtyard!"
"Di Qing, you have to come on!"
Xia Mu and the silver-haired boy Di Qing encouraged each other.
Suddenly......
Airplanes!
An invisible strange power spread from the token in each teenager's hand, and then as if echoing from afar, hundreds of thousands of black towers in front of him burst out one after another pitch-black pillars of light at the same time, and the pillars of light crossed the void and descended, leading the teenagers away.
It is a huge tower that rises to a height of 100 feet and stands on a barren land.
Brush!
Xia Mu appeared in front of the tower, looked around, there were pitch-black towers in the distance, not close to each other, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "This trial space built by the Qiankun Holy Academy, an enlightenment tower is so tall, you can imagine how vast this world is, and how many powerful people there are." ”
And the enlightenment tower standing in front of Xia Mu's eyes is as majestic as a mountain, as high as a hundred zhang, occupying a circle of dozens of zhang, standing on this vast land, tall and majestic.
Xia Mu looked up at the Enlightenment Tower, there was a number on the tower door, which was the same as the token in Xia Mu's hand, 11,000.
There are nine layers of the Enlightenment Tower, each layer has nine rune barriers, crack a rune barrier, in order to continue to advance, once you give up, the trial is over.
There are two ways to pass through the rune barrier.
The first is to break the trick with strength, you don't need to understand and see the rune barrier clearly, but to blast out a channel with absolute strength, but this method is not long-term, because the further you go, the more powerful the rune barrier will be. The second method is to comprehend the rune barrier, as long as you can understand it, the rune barrier will automatically open a passage for the trialist to enter the next level.
When all the trialists ...... failed, the trial ended, and finally the top 1,000 teenagers were selected to be given the status of core disciples of the Qiankun Holy Academy.
Your current progress rank will be displayed on the token.
"Rune Barrier ......" Xia Mu looked at the token and couldn't help but shake his head: "All failed, the trial is over?" What does this mean, it means that the Qiankun Holy Courtyard does not think that anyone can break through the Enlightenment Tower. ”
Obviously, this is the conclusion reached by the previous trials, and no one has ever cleared the Enlightenment Tower.
"The Great Dao of the world, different paths lead to the same end, although I don't know what this rune barrier is, but since it is the Enlightenment Tower, I want to come to the same as the cultivation method I have come into contact with. Xia Mu frowned and thought about it, he didn't know the cultivation method of this world, but he was confident that he could crack it.
Obviously, this enlightenment tower is more and more difficult to break down layer by layer, and the more complex the rune barrier will become, the more difficult it will become.
"This says that you can break the trick with force, the first layer, as long as you have the power of a thousand catties, you can pass, the second layer needs three thousand catties of strength, the third layer needs six thousand catties of strength, and so on, if you want to pass the fifth layer, you need ten thousand catties of strength, obviously, this is for those who are strong in the flesh, or open the power of the bloodline of the tribal youth. Xia Mu shook his head, this method was not suitable for him, so he could only choose to comprehend step by step.
"Nine-story Enlightenment Tower, each layer has nine rune barriers, although there is no time limit, but the rune barrier consumes the soul mental power, once the spiritual soul mental power is exhausted and it has not been cracked, it will be automatically teleported out, so the key is to crack it quickly!"
"Well....... comprehension just now may be very slow, but I have the Kyushu inheritance for comparison, as long as I understand a little bit about the cultivation system of this world, it will naturally get faster and faster. Xia Mu smiled.
Brush!
Xia Mu turned into an afterimage and appeared in front of the door of the Enlightenment Tower, and then collected his mind and entered the first floor of the Enlightenment Tower.
This is a winding stone road, under the feet of Xia Mu, is a floating rock about ten zhang square, and in the front, countless large and small floating rocks are scattered and arranged, forming a channel that can not see the end at a glance, on both sides of the channel is a bottomless abyss, the fog is hazy, and nothing can be seen clearly.
As soon as he stepped on the stone path, the words on the token in Xia Mu's hand suddenly changed: the first layer of the Enlightenment Tower, the winding path leads to the secluded road, and there are nine rune barriers, and only by cracking these nine rune barriers can you directly teleport into the second layer.
"Winding paths lead to secluded paths. ”
Xia Mu thought silently in his heart, walked forward along the stone path, and soon came to the first rune barrier.
This is a rune array, exuding a weak spiritual light, just so horizontal on the stone road, blocking the way ahead, one by one or straight, or curved arcs outlined together, forming the veins of the avenue runes, this is the most primitive spirit array, has nothing to do with the realm of cultivation, mortals can also comprehend.
On the other side, there were hundreds of beings in a square in the Qiankun Holy Land, sitting around at will, among them were men in golden armor robes, hundreds of holy elders, and some outstanding disciples, Xia Youlan was among them.
The trial scene that took place in the Enlightenment Tower was clearly projected above the square, and hundreds of thousands of mirror images projected the trial progress of each teenager in real time.
"This one named Bo Ya is really powerful, and he rushed to the first place as soon as he came, and he is worthy of being the top genius of the Desolate Ancient Tribe. ”
"Hmmm......"
"It's really fast, the speed of this Bo Li's dissolution formation is really amazing, he has broken through the eighth rune barrier in one fell swoop, and he is about to enter the second layer. ”
"The ancient style of the Heavenly Wind Tribe is also good, and now it ranks sixth, and it has broken seven rune barriers. ”
Hundreds of masters of the Qiankun Sacred Academy let go of their divine senses and easily grasped the dynamics of each teenager's trial, and those with high strength, like the golden-armored man, could easily grasp the trials of hundreds of thousands of teenagers, even those elders could also watch tens of thousands of teenagers at the same time.
For these elders with high strength and real power, a talented disciple is also hard to come by.
"It's okay, there are a few good seedlings this time. The golden-armored man sat on a large chair while examining the trials of hundreds of thousands of teenagers, then closed his eyes and stopped looking.
There was nothing to pay attention to at the beginning of this trial, the further you go, the more difficult the rune barrier will become, and only in the later stage can you really see who is really talented, as for Na Boya, in the eyes of the golden-armored man, it is just good.
"What are you doing with this little idiot?" On the square, Xia Youlan searched for a long time before she found Xia Mu's mirror image, which made Xia Youlan frown slightly, this guy can't even crack the first rune barrier.
Not bad!
At this moment, Xia Mu sat on the huge rock block in front of the rune barrier, carefully looking at the rune barrier, the straight lines and arcs that looked incomparably simple, there were extremely rich changes, he had never seen it, the runes could be used like this, and the runes were outlined into a formation diagram to form a whole.
A new cultivation system that was deep and bottomless, so vast that it could not be seen was presented in front of his eyes.
This rune array is a tree, containing six complete runes, and the rune veins formed by connecting together are crystal soft, intersecting and weaving in the void, like a big tree.
This big tree has trunk branches and leaves, branches and new shoots, and exudes green fluorescence, which makes Xia Mu amazed.
What a mysterious technique, carefully observed, Xia Mu only felt that it was extremely novel, whether it was a branch or a new sprout of leaves, it was a part of the rune barrier, and it affected the whole body.
This is a whole, and if you want to break it, you need to understand the entire rune barrier.
Xia Mu's enlightenment directly took several hours, and he belonged to the bottom part of hundreds of thousands of people, and basically no one paid attention to it.
Xia Youlan observed for a long time, and a touch of surprise gradually flashed across her face.
When her gaze fell on Xia Mu's fingertips, the surprise on her face became even stronger, as if she had seen something incredible.
Being able to be qualified to watch the trial in the square, Xia Youlan is also well-known in the Qiankun Holy Academy, although her cultivation is not the highest in the field, but her talent is extremely good.
But now, she couldn't understand what Xia Mu was doing, and the other party's strange behavior seemed more like a way of learning than cracking.
"What did this little fool learn in the tribe?"
She fell into thought, Xia Mu had been sitting in front of the first rune barrier for a long time, she didn't think that Xia Mu had no ability to crack it, and the person who could survive alone in the Southern Wilderness for a few days and be safe and sound would not even be able to crack the first rune barrier?