Chapter 503 Artificial Screening
Luofu Mountain, in Zhuming Cave.
In the core area, on a fairy mountain, a small labyrinth-like mechanism is running, controlling the traps and 'tests' outside.
And next to it all, swaying an orchid.
The leaves are short and soft, with one flower per stem. The flowers are like jade petals, with six petals and three stamens. The color is like emerald, with no black veins and purple lines in the middle. The orchid has not yet opened, the buds have not been unearthed, but the fragrance is already spraying people.
The breeze blows by, and its fragrance reaches outside, making it especially quiet.
Li Qi took a deep breath and felt relaxed and happy. The book once said that orchid is the ancestor of fragrance and a symbol of virtue.
There is a saying: If the orchid root is not fragrant because it is not used, but when traveling with a gentleman, it is like entering the room of the orchid root and not hearing it for a long time, then it will be transformed into it.
Grandma Lan, I think she must be a gentle and elegant senior with the fragrance of a gentleman.
The two of them hurried forward, and Shen Shuibi hurriedly said to the orchid: "Grandma Lan, Grandma Lan! You -"
She suddenly stopped mid-sentence.
Li Qi's expression suddenly felt a little strange, and he chose to stand aside.
As mentioned before, this orchid is still alive.
But... there is no feeling of being 'alive'.
His mind was gone, and only his body was left, swaying, as if... the 'prize' for breaking through the maze.
This is a real adventure.
One, four-grade orchid!
What happened here was not difficult for the two of them to understand.
Li Qi patted Shen Shuibi on the shoulder and said: "It seems...Senior Lan protected his own life before he died. Knowing that he would not be able to survive long after the soul was destroyed, he used his last strength to set up these adventures and even spread them to the outside world. "Kung Fu."
"So...those fluctuations were a temptation. She threw away the inheritance of Luofu Mountain at the last moment. She hopes that Luofu Mountain can find a qualified successor in the future."
Yes, the successor. At the last moment, Granny Lan thought of the inheritance of Luofu Mountain. She might have thought that she was the only survivor under the Human Emperor's sword.
So, she designed this maze at the end and guided this series of problems. Everything outside was her plan. Those thousands of people, and even the countless people who may come in the future, were her selection of successors. 'Difficulties'.
The skills she spreads will attract these people to come and "break through". All the items on her body, including magic weapons, elixirs, and spiritual objects, are already placed here, and even her own body is also placed here.
Those ninth-grade, eighth-grade, and seventh-grade things outside are just bait distributed casually to attract low-grade people to come and break through the level. Although there are rewards for breaking through the level, they are just some sundries.
The real treasure, the real inheritance of Luofu Mountain, needs to pass all the tests and finally come to Zhuming Cave.
As long as one person passes the test, he will receive all the inheritance belonging to a fourth-grade powerful person, including her body.
The value of this fourth-grade orchid is self-evident, and it is probably far more than a fourth-grade world.
Then, it is logical to deduce what happened to Zhang Xin.
Zhang Xin is the person who accidentally picked up the inheritance. When he came to this place, he wanted to get in touch with the real inheritance and get the treasures inside.
But the inside of Luofu Mountain is too dangerous. Without the suppression of Luofu Mountain, the door of hell is wide open and ghosts are rampant all around. He doesn't dare to go there himself, so he mediates outside, looks for opportunities, and establishes relationships with those eighth-level people. relation.
At this time, he happened to meet Li Qi and the others, so taking this opportunity, Zhang Xin used the banner of Luofu Mountain and added benefits to attract the people outside, began to tangle with manpower, and rushed inside.
The result was also obvious. They successfully rushed inside, triggered the maze, and started the 'challenge'.
If someone succeeds, then... this person will become a direct disciple of Luofu Mountain and a direct descendant of Granny Lan.
"This is Grandma Lan's wish, so be it." Shen Shuibi shook her head: "Li Qi, how about staying here for a while? I want to see how many of the thousands of people outside can break in. "
"That's easy to say. Then I'll deal with the outside matters first. As for the clearance and assessment matters, you can take care of them here." Li Qi nodded. He didn't know what to say at this moment.
Faced with the body and last wishes of a senior, perhaps waiting for the dust to settle is the best way to deal with it.
Li Qi left silently. He knew that he was of no use here. Let the rabbit be alone.
As for him, it would be best to go out and finish the chores first. After that, the rabbit should calm down, and then talk about comforting things.
Li Qi left here and went outside, pulling Lao Ma to continue searching for the remaining materials, such as spiritual herbs.
Shen Shuibi was sitting in the fairy mountain here, looking at the scene in the mini maze. The things outside had been mapped here.
Here, you can clearly see the performance of the little Taoist priests outside.
There have been casualties, but not many. Granny Lan's character is not to kill, but...after all, no one controls the difficulty, so there are inevitably casualties.
However, there are also many people who have benefited greatly, and some even achieved breakthroughs on the spot.
Some of those magic weapons and elixirs were also taken away.
then……
Many Taoist priests are almost crazy.
After two or three days, they began to form cliques and factions, intrigue and split into different forces, gathered together with different Yangshen Zhenren as the core, and each tried every means to eliminate dissidents in this maze ruins and put various spiritual treasures in their arms.
There were only a few thousand people, but several "wars" broke out.
Their Tao hearts were confused by these things.
When have these people ever seen such a high density of spiritual treasures? Moreover, there are many seventh-grade ones among them. They only need to break through the level and pass the test of the ruins to get them.
As for how to keep them after getting them, that is their own problem.
In just three days, more people died at the hands of their own people than in the ruins, and much more.
The ruins accidentally killed dozens of people at most, and the thousands of casualties were all done by the Taoists themselves.
Ouyang Dongsheng and Liu Dewang turned against each other directly. The two families fought for seven seventh-grade magic weapons, with more than a hundred casualties. In the end, they had to find another one and were forced to share it equally.
Under such circumstances, the old Taoist priest had to hide. He didn't want to get involved in these things, nor did he want to take risks. If he was besieged, he probably wouldn't have the chance to go back to see his apprentice.
So he found a place and honestly became a turtle.
After all, he was also an eighth-grade, and other people didn't dare to do anything to him, nor did they want to provoke him, lest the old Taoist priest join the forces of others, so they just let it go.
However, after all, he was still a cultivator, and he unexpectedly found that there was a puzzle in the place where he hid, which aroused his nature.
Anyway, he was idle, so he hid while solving the puzzle.
As for Zhang Xin.
He was the only one here who understood the true intention of this relic.
So, he didn't fight for it meaninglessly, because he knew that these were just petty gains, scattered garbage next to the real great opportunity, and the smell of a piece of meat.
Just some smells made these people so crazy, it was really... ignorant.
Therefore, he didn't care about the fights of others, pretending that he had no intention of snatching anything, and hid like the old Taoist priest. The only difference was that the old Taoist priest really hid his head, while he was wandering around, looking for the real opportunity.
Shen Shuibi just sat there, watching them quietly.
These people were too ordinary. In her opinion, there was no candidate who could be the successor of Luofu Mountain.
Not to mention that they had extraordinary cultivation talents like Li Qi, they couldn't even be human.
However, this should be just the first batch, right?
Or... it's not the first batch anymore?
The screening mechanism set up by Sipin before his death should ensure that there are a steady stream of people coming to join this screening.
Granny Lan was really afraid that the inheritance of Luofu Mountain would disappear. She shouldn't have done such a thing before. In Shen Shuibi's memory, Granny Lan had always been a gentle and kind person.
"Don't worry, Granny Lan, you don't have to worry. Luofu Mountain has not been destroyed, and the queen has not died. There is still a chance to start over..." She sat next to Lanhua and said to Lanhua.
Although I know that the other party can't hear it, it's for myself.
But...
Is it really there?
I'm afraid it's not. The moment I accepted Li Qi's proposal, it meant that the opportunity of the Luofu Mountain was handed over in exchange for a chance to live.
The Sun and Moon True Lead Cauldron, the road has been cut off.
His road ends here.
For a practitioner, there is nothing more painful than this. Your road, the truth you pursued throughout your life, the ultimate goal you have spent countless time exploring, but it was smashed by someone and you will never see it again in this life.
How desperate is this?
It's like telling a physicist that physics does not exist. For a person who pursues truth all his life, all his dreams and passions are directly extinguished.
This is especially painful for the immortals.
Why do immortals want to live forever?
It's not because they are afraid of death, but because they use their limited lives to pursue the Tao, which they will never catch up with. Therefore, to live forever, they must prolong their lives. They must use their endless lives to endlessly pursue the end of the Tao until they reach the end.
The path is broken, so what is the meaning of this long life? All that is left is pain. Endless life is no longer an advantage, but a torture.
Shen Shuibi knows that the troubles of sentient beings are nothing more than seeking but not getting, greed but inability, love but no results, living with confusion, and following ignorance. This is even the foundation of the trouble demon.
If life wants to survive, it must have its own pursuits. Life without pursuits is just suffering.
However, only the lowest level of life will pursue material desires, pursue food, clothing, and reproduction.
Going up, life has no thoughts about material desires. What it pursues is vanity, identity, status in the hearts of others, and wanting to be recorded in history.
Going up further, this kind of life already feels that even if it is recorded in history, what is the use? They want to realize their ambitions, want to establish a certain system, want to write a great book, want to surpass their own limits. This is their goal, and what they pursue is self-realization.
Going up further, it is the pursuer of the Tao.
The so-called self-realization is nothing but self-satisfaction. The true seekers of the Tao seek nothing but the ultimate truth, the foundation of everything.
The severance of the Tao tells them that the door of ‘truth’ will be closed to them forever, and they will never achieve this greatest goal in their future lives.
This is the cruelest form of 'asking for something but not getting it'.
How many people whose path has been cut off have had their minds collapsed because of this, been invaded by demons of trouble, and finally become demons?
The pillar of Luofu Mountain, the Sun and Moon True Lead Cauldron, is about to face such a future.
She said the chance to start over...
In the future, is it possible for a first-class product to appear in Luofu Mountain?
Shen Shuibi couldn't see that kind of future, the opportunity of the first-grade avenue, all the worlds... The only one known is the one in the hands of the Sun and Moon True Lead Cauldron, the others have been used, some have become real first-grade, and The powerful person eventually died together with that opportunity, and was annihilated together.
Yes, who said that if you have a great opportunity, you will definitely be promoted?
Dreaming, the great opportunity just gives you a chance to try. If you fail... you will be responsible for the consequences.
Therefore, after Shen Shuibi was silent for a while, she chose to change her words——
"Grandma Lan, what I just said was wrong. It's not that we can go back, but... we can continue to go on, just like you risk your life to leave a legacy. Since we are not destroyed, Luofu Mountain will continue to pass on. There will definitely be people who come to the end of the path. Although the path of the leader is cut off, he is still a second-level person who can hold up the sky. As long as the sky doesn't fall and there are still people alive, there will always be people who will continue to walk. "
She said this to the orchid.
In this case, the only way is to go on.
"However, I still can't leave Granny Lan here, but I will help you improve the methods you left behind, so that one day you can find a suitable successor."
Shen Shuibi said and began to arrange the remaining methods.
Strengthen the maze, add cycle spells, add new methods, place new prizes, and improve the logic of award distribution.
Shen Shuibi even took out her own alchemy furnace, the one that had helped her and Li Qi escape from danger several times, and then put a set of seals on it.
This is a set of alchemy methods. After a while, when Li Qi arrived, he asked Li Qi to use the magic weapon assembly line and the magic weapon silkworm to set up an automatic alchemy mechanism here to replenish the consumed prizes.
She didn't know how to do this, so she could only leave it to Li Qi.
As for the raw materials for alchemy...
Those who died in this maze assessment mechanism should be very good raw materials, so a corresponding collection device must be made...
Shen Shuibi was remodeling the maze, preparing to extend the life of the maze to more than four hundred years.
By this time, a suitable successor should be found, right?
After doing this, Shen Shuibi left another paragraph, telling the story of Granny Lan, for the final winner.
It was already five days later that all these things were settled.
At this time, Li Qi also came back.
It's time to return to Wushen Mountain.