On the Importance of Chinese Characters

"Don't be angry, don't be angry." Xuan Hei, who was questioned suspiciously, was completely unaffected. He took a sip of tea and waved his hand. Suddenly, several rare elixir that could purify source power appeared in front of Zhuang Yunzhou and Fang Qiling. Fengyang fruit.

Xuan Hei gave the fruit to them, and persuaded them with a smile like his own grandfather: "No, I'll eat it for you. Don't be angry after eating. It's useless to be angry. You still have to face me for a long time. "

A lifetime is long enough.

"What do you mean?" Zhuang Yunzhou keenly noticed the deep meaning hidden in his words.

"It means you can't get out." Xuan Hei looked at Zhuang Yunzhou with compassion and sighs in his eyes.

"Can't you get out?" Zhuang Yunzhou's eyes sharpened, and he said in a deep voice, "Could it be a lie that you can get out of the tower just by passing through the tower?!"

Xuan Hei scratched his head: "You doll, the questions you ask make it difficult for me to answer. The answer can be said to be yes or no."

Xuanhei's words made the two of them really confused. The phantom in front of them should be called the pagoda spirit of Xuanhei Pagoda. Judging from their experience along the way, this pagoda spirit is not a good thing. When he is really talking to you in front of your eyes, it is difficult for you to feel bad for him.

With a smiling face, every wrinkle is full of kindness, and he doesn't get angry when he is questioned and disgusted. He looks very tolerant when looking at people, just like an admirable elder.

Zhuang Yunzhou stared at him, waiting for an answer.

Xuan Hei sighed: "It's a lie, because at first the tower didn't need any customs clearance conditions, you can enter and exit at will. It's not a lie, because now it is true that you can only get out if you meet the customs clearance conditions. "

When he said this, there was a look of regret in Xuan Hei's eyes.

Zhuang Yunzhou breathed a sigh of relief: "Then, all we need is to pass through the pagoda."

There was a look of pity in Xuan Hei's eyes again. He looked at the stunning young man in front of him and shook his head: "The key is, no one can pass the tower."

"What do you mean?" Fang Qiling heard an ominous meaning from Xuan Hei's words.

"The Xuanhei Pagoda has existed for 4000 years. During these 4000 years, there have been so many amazing and brilliant people in the Xuanhei Pagoda. Haven't you ever wondered why no one can leave the tower? As long as the people of the Spirit Race are successful in cultivation , the lifespan will continue to increase, and the longest lifespan can be up to 4000 years old. Only 120 talents are left in [-] years. Have you ever thought about the reason for this?"

"Of course I've thought about it. Even if it's an internal struggle among the spirit clan, after such a long time, there must be some extremely talented people who can pass the test at the end of their lifespan." This is also what Zhuang Yunzhou, Fang Qiling and others are extremely puzzled about. a little.

Xuan Hei let go, the teacup in his hand disappeared into the air, he looked up at the sky that seemed close at hand: "Before you, a total of 4000 people climbed to the No.810 floor in the past 12 years, just like you There are also six people who came up at a young age."

Zhuang Yunzhou took a light breath, and had a premonition that Xuan Hei's next words would not be good.

"I can't get out...not because I don't have the ability." Xuan Hei stayed for so long to vaccinate the two of them, and finally said it out, "It's because there is no source material!"

"All the first-level source materials on this layer are all destroyed."

it's broken? !Without the source material, even if he has great abilities, he still can't complete the assessment of No.12 floor, that is to say, they are about to be trapped here... for a lifetime?

Zhuang Yunzhou only felt a ringing sound in his ears, and the sharp sound even entered his brain, causing his eyes to suddenly go black, and unconsciously he bit his back teeth tightly, and it took him a while to recover.

He stared at the person in front of him, eyes full of anger, and said word by word: "Why, what, what, what, what, what?!"

The person in front of him is the Tower Spirit of the Tower of Inheritance, so only he can do this.

Zhuang Yunzhou's whole body was trembling with anger, the berserk source force quickly condensed on his fist, and the bursting palm wind was pushed out violently by him, rushing straight towards Xuanhei.

Hong Guang penetrated Xuan Hei's body, causing a burst of illusory ripples, and hit the wall behind him. The powerful attack made the ground shake twice.

Xuan Hei did not speak, but looked at Zhuang Yunzhou with tolerance.This made him even more angry, and the second palm that was almost venting was about to be struck immediately.

Fang Qiling reached out and grabbed his palm, restraining his movements, and said in a low voice, "Yunzhou, calm down. He didn't do this."

"Who else could it be if it wasn't him?" Zhuang Yunzhou tried to break free from Fang Qiling's grasp. At this moment, he couldn't listen to Fang Qiling's words at all.

Fang Qiling had no choice but to hold him firmly in his arms, holding his wrists with one hand, and stroking his hair with the other hand: "Calm down first, there is no limit to the road, we can do it Get out! We can definitely get out!"

Buried his head in Fang Qiling's arms, his breath was full of Fang Qiling's scent, the constant soothing of the warm palms on his back made Zhuang Yunzhou gradually stop struggling, he closed his eyes in Fang Qiling's arms, let himself rest for a moment, and then slowly Slowly straightened up, said in a low voice: "...I'm fine."

Fang Qiling exchanged a glance with him, then let go of his embrace.

Zhuang Yunzhou took a deep breath, and looked back at Xuan Hei: "What's going on?"

Xuan Hei sighed: "This tower did it by itself."

"what?!"

Facing the two shocked faces, Xuanhei revealed a shocking secret: "The body of the Xuanhei pagoda is an ancestor, and it has its own consciousness."

"Zuyuan?! Impossible!" Zhuang Yunzhou replied almost reflexively. If the Xuanhei Pagoda is the Zuyuan, then it is impossible for it not to respond to the Xuhai Shenshan, and he does not believe that the awakened Zuyuan consciousness will make such a move. kind of thing.

"It is indeed an ancestral source." Xuan Hei smiled, "It was obtained by Peng Gui accidentally when he was [-] years old. At that year, Peng Gui still hadn't found the ideal apprentice candidate in his heart."

"It was discovered that Zuyuan had his own consciousness in the fifth year before Peng Gui's death. The newly awakened Zuyuan consciousness is very pure, because of its own ability, it often appears as a little doll of the spirit race. Peng Gui loves him very much. , pamper him like a human being, raise him, and name him Xuanbai."

"Unfortunately, after five years, Peng Gui's lifespan will end, Xuanbai is very reluctant to let him go, and bestows a generation of Genesis Art on Peng Gui, and he uses this Origin Art to create me."

"The two of them made an agreement: Xuanbai would help Penggui find a suitable successor. So, after Penggui's death, Zuyuan turned into the Xuanhei Pagoda, and I, as the spirit in the pagoda, chose the desired successor. .”

"And the reason why this tower has twelve floors is not because the person who masters the tower is the successor, but a game for the successor—a game to break through and win prizes."

"Peng Gui is a very gentle and good man. He has done good deeds all his life, and left 87 ruins to give back to the spirit race. We randomly hide in the 87 ruins, and recruit those who value us to secretly assess them. Just throw it back, and it was very harmonious for a while."

"But in the tenth year after Peng Gui's death, Xuanbai once went out to play and disappeared for a long time, and something was wrong when he came back. Unfortunately, I didn't pay much attention to it at the time. Later, when I found out that something was wrong with him, it was already too late. An evil force has corrupted his mind."

"Xuanbai is already impatient to listen to me. He has completely fallen into paranoia. He always feels that some of the candidates we discussed before are not worthy of being Peng Gui's apprentice."

"He rewrote the rules."

"Every time is more stringent, and each time is more excessive. At first, it was only required to clear the customs, and then the age for entering the tower was lowered, and then the 'continuous' condition was added, and then there was a time limit..."

"He is stingy with giving source materials and supplies. He believes that only the strong after the fight have the need for further selection."

"Then he limited the maximum age of the pagoda. Those who have not passed the pagoda before the age of 250 lost the qualification to continue—he killed them all."

"The last time the rules were added was 900 years ago, when he destroyed all the source materials of a generation in the secret realm. This time Xuanbai finally stopped. He believed that only those who found a way out from the desperate situation could inherit Peng Gui inheritance."

"In the current Xuanhei Pagoda, no one can live to be 250 years old."

"This is the real reason why there are only more than 2000 people left after so many years."

Xuan Hei looked at the two of them lovingly and guiltily.

Zhuang Yunzhou finally understood why Zu Yuan was like this. 4000 years have passed, if that evil force has always existed, the current Zuyuan should have lost his mind and only has obsession. Such Zuyuan would not be able to respond to the call of Shenshan at all.

He was silent for a while: "After I entered the tower, no one mentioned that no one has a lifespan of at most 250 years. Did you do it?"

Xuan Hei nodded: "I only have this bit of strength left. If I let them know, they will only fight harder, and more Spirit Race people will die."

"The rules for the top of the eleventh floor list..."

"It's me too." Xuanhei said, "I told Xuanbai that it would be more intuitive to choose the right candidate, and he agreed. Xuanbai is the maker of all the rules in this tower, and I can only find some loopholes in it."

"The hidden reward is..."

"Make a request to me." Xuan Hei said, "As long as I can do it."

"E.g……"

"For example, completely open the gate of heaven, allowing you to come in and out and pick all the things you want; another example, changing the time flow in the space, so that you have a longer remaining time; even, creating a world you want on this layer .”

"Create a world I wish..." Zhuang Yunzhou chewed on Xuan Hei's words, "The last supper?"

Xuan Hei looked at him gently: "At least you can live the rest of your life happily. In your hope, you can even become the master of one realm and dominate the whole world."

Zhuang Yunzhou smiled and shook his head: "This is too pathetic." He paused, his bright black eyes looked at Xuan Hei calmly, "I've decided, the reward I want."

"What is it?"

"My request is, before leaving the tower, please change the time flow for me when I need it."

"Since Zu Yuan wants someone who survived a desperate situation to be the successor of Master Penggui, then I will give him one!"

"There are three days left before the passage of the pagoda is closed. After three days, I will leave the pagoda!"