Chapter 1082 Climb to the Top of the Mountain
Liang Yan, Ji Lai and Li Xiran gradually slowed down after leaving the intersection.
They had been delayed for a long time in the previous battle, and they were not in a hurry at this time. Instead, they wanted to be wary of others setting an ambush in advance.
Especially Li Xiran, after using the "Dragon and Tiger Fighting Technique", is now a little weak and can only rely on elixirs to slowly restore his spiritual power.
They walked for about half a stick of incense before they arrived at the second fork in the road.
"What a strong smell of blood!"
Li Xiran frowned and looked forward.
I saw that this intersection was made up of four mountain roads, and on a big tree in the middle of the road, there were six headless corpses hanging upside down! These corpses were covered with bloodstains and seemed to have been brutally tortured, which was shocking.
At this moment, a middle-aged man wearing linen clothes and carrying a long sword stood in front of the tree with his hands behind his back.
Although it was just a back view, Liang Yan recognized this person at a glance.
"Situ Kuangsheng!" Liang Yan called out his name.
The middle-aged man did not respond, still staring at the body on the tree, looking thoughtful.
"Did you kill all these people?" Ji Lai asked with a frown.
“No!”
The person who answered this question was not Situ Kuangsheng, but Liang Yan beside him.
"Look at the sword and know the person. If these six people were killed by Situ Kuangsheng, they should have sealed their throats with a sword. They would never have died like this. Looking at the marks on the corpses, the perpetrator should be very serious. He likes the pleasure of killing others," Liang Yan analyzed lightly.
“Oh? You know me quite well!”
Situ Kuangsheng chuckled and responded for the first time, but he still didn’t look back, still staring at the tree. Corpse, he continued: "This There were no traces of struggle near the place. The six people on the tree must have been bewitched by magic or other magical powers, and then they were brutally killed after they lost resistance. This also explains why they could not crush the candidate order in time. Card, escape from here Get out."
"Why is this so?" After hearing this, Li Xiran said with confusion: "If you just want to pass the assessment, can't you just ask the other party to hand over the token? Most of them are unparalleled cities Why do the monks in the area insist on killing each other? Are they here to kill people and steal treasures? "
"Hey, I'm afraid the perpetrators are not greedy for treasures, nor are they here to take part in the assessment. "< br>
Situ Kuangsheng pointed to the six corpses on the tree, and then said: "None of the storage rings on their hands have been taken away. I just checked, and even the exquisite stones are kept inside, and there is nothing missing. "
"What?"
As soon as he said this, Ji Lai and Li Xiran's expressions changed, and even Liang Yan frowned.
"What do you mean, your Excellency, the perpetrator just wanted to kill people?" Liang Yan asked.
“Almost.”
Situ Kuangsheng nodded and said: "These people are not here to take the test at all, but to kill people!"
"That's wrong!" Li Xiran on the side suddenly shouted: "There are only four mountain roads in total here. "There are two dead people on the tree, one for ourselves and one for Daoist Situ. So which mountain road did the murderer come from?"
"Haha, the rules for going up the mountain along the mountain path were set by Ye Qing, the examiner of the third round. As long as you walk out of the mountain path, it will leave traces on your body. Wushuang City will have its own way to detect it by then. Even if you climb You can't pass this round of assessment even if you go to the top of the mountain. But these people have no intention of taking part in the assessment, so how can they abide by the rules?" Situ Kuangsheng said calmly.
"You mean they did not go up the mountain along the established mountain road, but shuttled between the various mountain roads, searching for their prey?" Li Xiran said with some surprise.
This time Situ Kuangsheng did not reply, but stared at the six corpses on the tree for a long time. After a long silence, he said to himself: "Wuwei Taoist Pang Zhaochun, Cangming Ku Li Ding clicked his tongue, although your magical powers are ordinary in my eyes, this death scene is a bit too ugly."
After he said this, he turned back and glanced at Liang Yan and others, and suddenly said: "From now on, the nature of this assessment has completely changed. The examination has turned into a hunt. The entire vast green mountain, It has also turned into a hunting ground. With your magical powers, continuing to go up is like risking death if you want to save your life. If so, it would be the wisest choice to go down the mountain immediately."
"Send yourself to death?"
After listening to Situ Kuangsheng's advice, Ji Lai and Li Xiran looked at each other and both looked at each other. He turned to Liang Yan, only to see him staring at the body on the treetop, seemingly not listening to what Situ Kuangsheng said.
"Fellow Daoist Situ advised me to leave, so what do you want to do?" After a moment of silence, Liang Yan suddenly asked.
“Me?”
Situ Kuangsheng licked his lips and suddenly smiled: "Of course I am not here to take part in the assessment. The reason why I signed up for the competition is just to challenge the monks from various sects. However, this year's candidates are so disappointing to me. I thought Cang Yueming was already the top in this assessment I am a master, but I didn’t expect that there is someone more powerful than him. Haha! With such a good opportunity, I, Situ Kuangsheng, naturally want to learn a lesson!”
“Are you crazy?”< br>
Ji Lai frowned and said: "These I don’t know what the origin is, but I can actually kill six monks of the same level from Wuwei Dao Sect and Cangming Cave. The strength is simply unbelievable. You are alone, and you still want to trouble them? "
"Hehe! My Situ Kuangsheng's swordsmanship is Live to the point of death. Today’s battle is the battle of enlightenment that I have been waiting for for a long time!”
Situ Kuangsheng was very excited. After saying these words, he strode forward without looking back. He walked out of the mountain road and disappeared into the depths of the vast white mist.
At the intersection, Liang Yan, Ji Lai, and Li Xiran looked at each other in silence for a while.
After a while, Li Xiran said hesitantly: "I didn't expect that there would be such a change in this assessment. Now there are dangers in the mountain. In my opinion, it is better to give up the assessment and go down the mountain to inform Senior Ye Qing. Let her solve this problem."
"Give up the assessment?" Liang Yan shook his head and said with a smile: "Do you think it is safe to go down the mountain now?"
"What do you mean?" Ji Lai frowned.
“Although I don’t know the origins of these people, since they dare to kill people in a big way, there must be an ambush below the mountain road. I may not be able to escape if I look back now. Besides, I finally came here. , I have no intention of giving up the opportunity to join Wushuang City.”
There are still some words that Liang Yan has not said, which is Nokibai's first request for him: to keep Li Xiran and join her in the Bihai Palace of Wushuang City. This matter is related to the magic mark on his body. Besides, the other party's first task is not too difficult. Liang Yan doesn't mind completing this task first and then seeing the other party's subsequent plans.
So at this moment, he will never give up the assessment, nor will he let Li Xiran go down the mountain alone.
"Then what should we do next?" Ji Lai asked from the side.
Liang Yan pondered for a while, raised his hand to cast a spell, put all the storage rings of the six people on the tree into his sleeves, and then said: "With these people's exquisite stones, we have already It’s enough to pass the test, so what we have to do now is to hide our aura as much as possible. As long as we can reach the top of the mountain safely, we can leave the rest to Wushuang City.”
"Hide your own aura?" Ji Lai shook his head and said, "I'm afraid this is not easy to handle. These perpetrators obviously have extremely good detection skills. If we want to reach the top of the mountain without them, I'm afraid it's not realistic. "
" Hehe, I have already considered this. "
Liang Yan smiled slightly and said: "Liang is best at hiding himself, so he is naturally confident that he can do it. Hiding the truth. As for you, please forgive me for a moment and take shelter in my gourd."
"This"
Li Xiran and Ji Lai thought about it for a moment, then nodded in agreement. Said: "Since Brother Liang has made this decision, we have nothing to hesitate about. We just hope that Brother Liang can act cautiously and never take risks."
"Don't worry, I'm careful enough in my work, and I will definitely let you pass this assessment successfully."
After Liang Yan finished speaking, he raised his hand and patted the Taixu gourd on his waist, and a streak emerged from it. The green glow engulfed the figures of Ji Lai and Li Xiran.
The two people did not resist at all and allowed Qingxia to lead them into the gourd.
The Taixu Gourd is its own realm, with a radius of tens of thousands of miles. There are also many secrets such as sword pills and fairy trees. Naturally, Liang Yan will not let them move around at will, and will only put them in a valley. Among them, there was a barrier set up by Qi Ling Xiaojiu around them, and neither of them could leave the valley for even half a step.
After doing all this, Liang Yan made another secret with one hand and activated the "Tian Ji Bead" and "Yuan Mu Dao" spells in his body at the same time. The whole figure almost turned into nothingness, and then walked up the mountain road.
He used a secret method to hide his aura. In order to be cautious, he did not walk very fast. The remaining section of the mountain road took about an hour.
Along the way, Liang Yan saw several more corpses. He didn’t know which sect they were, but they were unlucky disciples. The death conditions were horrific.
Everyone was already dead, so Liang Yan was naturally not polite. He roughly checked the storage rings of these people and put them all into his sleeve.
The monks who came to participate in the assessment were all top disciples of various sects, and each of them was wealthy. Liang Yan obtained their storage ring, and his financial resources naturally increased greatly.
Especially in the storage rings of some monks, there are also magical secrets of their own sects. Although these secrets recorded in the books are not the top magical powers of their respective sects, Liang Yan's "Tao Sword" "Sutra" cultivation has come to an end when it reaches the golden elixir stage. At this time, I also want to know more about the various magical spells of Antarctic Immortal Continent, so as to broaden my future cultivation path.
He walked along the way and collected a dozen storage rings. It was not until the fog in front of him gradually dissipated that he realized that he had reached the top of the mountain.
The peak of this nameless mountain is quite large. It is surrounded by lush greenery and planted with all kinds of rare and exotic plants. In the middle of this flower garden, there is a lotus pond.
In the small pavilion by the pond, there is an old Confucian sitting in a brown robe and a scribe's scarf.
Although this man is over sixty years old, his eyes are sparkling and he is dressed very well. There is an emerald green flute stuck in his waist, and the three-inch beard under his forehead seems to have been carefully trimmed. However, at this time, his clothes were fluttering, and he looked like an old man.
“It’s actually him!”
Liang Yan was stunned for a moment. Isn't this person the "Senior Nan" he met in "Tianxing Academy" that day? According to Ji Lai, this person was also the creator of the "Hundred Flowers Book". In his early years, he traveled around the world and included a hundred beauties with excellent temperaments in the Antarctic Fairy Continent in the book. No matter how he sounded, he didn't sound like a serious monk.
At this moment, besides the old Confucian, there were two other people in the pavilion.
One of them is dressed in white as snow, and is Mu Hanxue, known as the "Ice Mountain Snow Lotus", while the other is wearing a black robe with a sallow complexion and looks sickly.
The three of them were talking and laughing in the pavilion. They seemed to be having a great time talking, especially Mu Hanxue. Every time she whispered a few words, it would make the old scholar laugh.
At this time, Liang Yan had already climbed to the top of the mountain, and several people in the pavilion naturally noticed it. The old Confucian smiled for a while, then turned his head and looked at Liang Yan.
"Oh? You actually climbed to the top of the mountain?"
Old Confucian seemed to be in a good mood. At this time, he laughed and said: "It seems that you are also hiding it, since you have passed the third round. For the assessment, come to the pavilion. The old man is the examiner of the fourth round, Nantian Xing from Zhengyang Palace!”
Liang Yan did not step forward immediately after receiving this person’s invitation. The ground stopped.
This scene in front of me is so unusual. You must know that the entire mountain peak has been turned upside down. I don’t know how many monks who participated in the assessment have died halfway. Even I relied on the cover of the Tianji Pearl and was careful all the way. Be cautious before reaching the top of the mountain.
But Mu Hanxue and the man in black seemed to have arrived here a long time ago, and they were chatting and laughing with the fourth-round examiner. They didn't seem to have experienced any battle, which was a bit strange.
Thinking of the news that Nogibai once told him, he had some doubts before, but now he can't help but believe it.
"Why don't you come in? In fact, my fourth round of assessment rules are very simple, that is, enjoy the flowers in the pavilion. As long as you can distinguish which parts of the surrounding flower beds are illusory and which ones are real, you can You can pass my assessment." Nan Tianxing stroked his beard and said.
"Senior!"
Liang Yan, who was standing outside the pavilion, suddenly said: "Did you know that there is a kind of Gu called 'Sanqiu Fate Gu'?"
As soon as "Three Autumn Fate Gu" was spoken, Nan Tianxing, who was originally smiling, immediately changed his expression and shouted with some seriousness: "Boy, why are you talking about this?"
"Because there is one next to you!"
"What?!"
Nan Tianxing was slightly startled, and his eyes subconsciously glanced at the two people beside him, only to see Mu Hanxue's confused eyes , and the man in black was calm and calm, as if there was nothing strange about him.
(End of this chapter)