Chapter ninety-one, doubts
While everyone was talking and laughing, they heard Zelda's voice coming from the main trial tower: "Everyone, can you help me come out?"
"Can't you come out by yourself?" Qingshi asked curiously. As he spoke, he walked over to check, and Chen Tianye quickly followed.
"No," Zelda said. "When the other two manned trial towers were not breached, this place was always in the poisonous fog, so we couldn't come out. Later, only my main tower was left. This monster couldn't break the earth connection under the main tower, so it simply sent those little hell bat beasts to destroy the access control mechanism of the main tower. In this way, even if it stops casting poisonous mist, I won't be able to get out."
Qingshi walked over and circled the main tower twice, and found that, as Salda said, the access control mechanism of the main tower had been destroyed, and it was indeed destroyed by violence from the outside.
Qingshi thought for a while and then began to repair the entrance guard of the main tower. Chen Tianye said to Qingshi alone: "Is there any danger in letting this old man out? He is a master of the Golden Core Realm!"
"It's okay!" Qingshi also said: "Didn't he say that he has not recovered from his poisonous injuries and his cultivation has dropped to the middle of the Yuan Dan realm?"
"What if he lies?" Chen Tianye was still a little worried.
"Don't worry," Qingshi said, "In this magic circle, even if he really still has the cultivation level of Jindan realm, he can't make trouble. I will find a way to restrict him. You and Brother Feiyun should pay more attention. The key is that if I don’t let him out, I won’t be able to get in!”
Chen Tianye then sent a message to Shen Feiyun, Duan Xiaoyu and Wu Qinghan, asking them to also stay on guard.
The access control mechanism for entering and exiting the trial tower is not complicated at all. Qingshi used a few spirit stones to repair it in less than two moments.
"The tower door has been repaired," Qingshi and Chen Tianye took a few steps back and said, "Senior, please come out."
The trial tower made a slight creaking sound, and a narrow doorway appeared in the tower, and a thin old man with a stooped body walked out of the doorway. I could see that he had messy white hair, a long white beard, and the black and gray robe on his body was very dirty and shabby, and its original color could no longer be seen.
After walking out of the tower door, he straightened up subconsciously, stretched his body, and said excitedly with tears in his eyes: "It's been three hundred years! I didn't expect that I would finally get out of this stone tower one day! Alas!... .”
"Senior, don't be too sad!" Qingshi said, "As long as you trust me, senior, we will definitely let you walk out of this cave and return to the ground."
"Thank you, little friends!" Zelda bowed deeply to Qingshi and others, and said, "You young heroes from Tianlong Academy are indeed extraordinary. Of course I trust you. I believe you can help my old man see the light of day again. !”
"To be honest, senior," Qingshi said, "I am not only an array master, but also a fourth-level alchemist. Since senior has been poisoned for a long time, you might as well use your true energy to let me see how powerful the poison is and whether it can be cured. "
When the true energy is circulated, the momentum will be released, and others can roughly judge his level of cultivation. Qingshi wanted to use this method to test his true energy cultivation level.
"No, no, no!" Zelda waved her hand, "I have been poisoned for too long, and it cannot be solved overnight. I don't dare to trouble my little friend anymore. If I can get out of here, I can find a way to detoxify myself. .”
"Senior, don't you believe in my medical skills?" Qingshi smiled, "If I can help senior detoxify and restore his strength to the golden elixir realm, then we will have greater confidence in dealing with the monsters."
"You want to deal with the monster?" Sarda said in shock, "This is absolutely impossible. I think the monster was not as powerful as it is now. We have two Jindan realms, eight Yuandan realms, and sixteen Ningdan. The high-level Qi Realm monks came prepared and attacked together, but in the end they were unable to kill it. You all know our outcome. Now you actually want to deal with it? No, no, no, we still find a way to get out of here first. Returning to the ground is the right way!"
"Since senior is unwilling," Qingshi said, "we will never force it, so please ask senior to rest in the magic circle on the left. We may have to set up a magic circle within the scope of the trial tower. I know that this monster is not It’s easy to deal with, but I have to give it a try anyway.”
Qingshi was originally unwilling to imprison Salda in the magic circle. It would be rude to do so. However, Zelda neither showed his Qi cultivation nor wanted Qingshi to diagnose his poisonous injuries, which shows that he might be hiding his condition. Since he was not sincere first, Qingshi was not polite.
"This..." Zelda was stunned for a long time and could only say, "Okay, you must be careful and don't enter the attack range of the monster! Remember this!"
After saying that, he walked into the defensive array that Qingshi had first arranged. Qingshi no longer was polite and immediately disconnected the defensive array from here, preventing him from coming over. Qingshi didn't believe in Salda like Shen Feiyun did.
After Zelda was isolated, Qingshi asked Shen Feiyun to accompany him into the main trial tower to find out.
The main tower has basically the same architectural structure as the other trial tower, except that it is larger and has more complex facilities.
There are six floors in the underground trial room of the main tower. The sixth floor contains the general control hub of the entire trial tower group. This is what Qingshi is looking for.
After being busy for more than an hour, Qingshi finally figured out the situation of this general control hub.
Qingshi said to Shen Feiyun: "This is the control center of the entire underground cave formation. The earth veins are deeper underground here. After the earth veins are led from here, they are divided into more than a dozen branches, which reach other trial towers, including the Beast Suppression Tower. .”
"In other words, this is the source from which the earth veins are led out." Shen Feiyun said, "The earth veins of other trial towers and even the beast suppressing tower are all tributaries led from here, and the control hub of the earth vein array is also here?"
"Not bad," Qingshi said.
"So," Shen Feiyun said thoughtfully, "The monster wants to control the branches of the Beast Suppressing Tower and bypass the main hub to cut off other branches. Is it impossible?"
"That's right!" Qingshi said, "The reason why I don't believe in Zelda is for this reason. If he is telling the truth, the connection between the other two trial towers and the earth veins was really destroyed by the monster, then This monster’s formation cultivation is so powerful that this is almost impossible.”
"Could it be like the entrance guard of this main tower, which was destroyed by the hell bat from the outside with brute force?" Shen Feiyun asked.
"No," Qingshi said flatly, "The earth veins are all deep underground. Hell bats cannot destroy them. Even if they can drill into the ground, they cannot destroy them. These hell bats are not monsters. They have no intelligence and it is absolutely impossible to learn It is impossible to achieve the formation technique with brute force alone.”
"So Salda lied?" Shen Feiyun said, "Or there are no other people in those two trial towers at all, or the trial towers where those people are located were cut off by his control of the earth's veins?"
"It is true that the connection between the earth veins of the two trial towers was disconnected," Qingshi said. "It was most likely done through this main hub, and naturally it was most likely done by Zelda. But if those two trial towers There’s no point in doing this when there’s no one in the tower and it’s empty.”
"If there are people in those two trial towers," Shen Feiyun said, "then what's the benefit of cutting off their earth connection and killing those people?"
"I can't think of it!" Qingshi shook his head and said, "Obviously, Zelda is not a demon slave."
"Yes!" Shen Feiyun nodded, "That's for sure. We don't know the truth of the matter, but Salda may have lied to us, and we must be careful about him."
"Yes," Qingshi said, "Brother Feiyun, go say hello to them. I will study the ground conditions here to see if there is any way to deal with the monsters."
Shen Feiyun agreed and went out, and Qingshi began to conduct in-depth research on the earth's veins and control hubs. It took another two hours before Qingshi came out of the main tower. Shen Feiyun and the other four people surrounded him when they saw Qingshi coming out.
"Brother Qingshi, how's it going?" Duan Xiaoyu asked anxiously, "Is the plan you thought of feasible?"
"No," Qingshi shook his head and said, "I originally wanted to use the power of the earth's veins to attack the monsters, but now I find that this method is not feasible."
"Tell me more specifically." Shen Feiyun said.
"That's right," Qingshi said, "I originally wanted to cut off the branch that the monster beast can use, so that it and its little beasts can no longer use the power of the earth vein, and we can find a way to kill them all first. Its little beast, then use up its energy, and finally clean it up."
"However, I discovered that the branch of the earth vein is the same as the Suppressing Beast Tower. The Suppressing Beast Tower uses more than 70% of the energy of this branch of the earth, while the monsters can only use less than 30%. If this branch is cut off, then the Suppressing Beast Tower will use more than 70% of the energy of the branch. The beast tower will have no energy source, and it will no longer be able to bind the monsters. Therefore, disconnecting the earth veins is absolutely impossible."
"Is there no other way?" Chen Tianye asked.
"There are still ways," Qingshi said, "but let me tell you another discovery first."
"What did you find?" Duan Xiaoyu asked eagerly, "Say it quickly."
"It's about that Zelda," Qingshi said calmly, "Now I can confirm that the one who broke the connection between the two trial towers cannot be a monster, otherwise it would have given away its own one. If it is broken, it will be much easier than breaking these two. If that were the case, it would have been able to cut off the energy source of the beast-suppressing tower and get rid of its bondage. "
After a pause, Qingshi continued, "So Salda must have lied to us, but we don't know why. I always feel that he is not a good person."
"Okay," Shen Feiyun said, "It's impossible for us to completely trust him. No matter why he lied or what truth he wanted to cover up, he can't threaten us now anyway. You'd better tell us your solution. "
"Now we have several options," Qingshi said. "First, I can find a way to crack the maze, and then we go out directly and report back to the academy to Elder Liu, so that the academy can solve the problem; second, we can directly send a message to the guardian Qian and Binghong, ask them to report back to the academy and ask the academy to send elders to solve the problem."
"Oh, Brother Qingshi!" Duan Xiaoyu said anxiously, "Why are there two methods here? It's obviously just one method, and it's a method without a method, so we won't be able to complete the task!"
"It's not completely impossible to complete the task," Qingshi said with a slight smile, "I'm afraid you won't be willing!"
"What other evil ideas do you have?" Chen Tianye stroked his mustache and said, "Let's talk about it first."
"If we want to catch Zhu Ping," Qingshi said with a smile, "We can negotiate with the monster. Maybe it will hand Zhu Ping over to us."
"Negotiation?" Everyone stared at Qingshi with wide eyes.
"The struggle does not have to be a life-or-death battle, not to mention that we have no grudges against the monsters." Qingshi said with a smile, "Sometimes, compromise is the best choice. We can do this..."
After Qingshi's explanation, Shen Feiyun and the other four finally agreed with Qingshi's opinion. Even Shen Feiyun felt that it was inexplicable that he would agree with Qingshi.
