"Starburst."
"Instantly extinguished."
After reading these two cold words, Yu Mengling felt sharp pain all over his body. Before he could figure out what happened, his vision went dark and he lost consciousness.
"Brother Yu, you are here too."
When he finally regained consciousness, he heard a somewhat familiar voice.
"Yu Wencheng! Weren't you eliminated?" Yu Menglin opened his eyes and asked subconsciously.
As expected, it was the young master of the Yu family, Yu Wencheng, who was wearing a black robe with patterns of animals embroidered on it.
"That's why Brother Yu can see me here." Yu Wencheng smiled politely, turned sideways, and pointed into the distance.
Then he said: "In this dust-eating place!"
"The place where dust is eaten?" Yu Menglin repeated the word in a low voice and began to slowly look at the place where he was now.
There is a huge circular square made of white jade. There are seventy or eighty people in the square, all gathered together in twos and threes, talking to each other.
Outside the square, there is a bottomless void, empty of anything.
Is this square floating in this boundless void?
His eyes moved and looked in the direction pointed by Yu Wencheng: that was the center of the square.
In the center, there is a huge stone tablet. On the stone tablet, golden characters flashed, and it looked like there was something written on it.
Looking beyond the stone monument and looking behind it, you can see pieces of white jade floating in the air, forming a staircase. Round and round, winding, spiraling up.
Looking up the white jade stairs, there is still only a dark void, endless.
But if you keep looking and follow the stairs, you will finally reach a mysterious place that emits hazy and colorful light.
"What exactly is this place?" Yu Menglin said with shock in his eyes.
"The defeated will return home and live in the dust." Yu Wencheng sighed quietly, with a sad look on his face.
He smiled softly, his smile was a little bitter, as if he was helpless.
"Brother Yu, come with me to see the stone tablet." Yu Wencheng extended his hand to invite.
Yu Menglin nodded and didn't say much.
[The losers return to the place where they eat dust]
The two of them stamped their feet and stood in front of the stone tablet, looking at the words on the tablet.
"This first sentence should be an introduction to this place." Yu Menglin thought as he looked at the golden words.
"Well, everyone thinks so." Yu Wencheng spoke up, agreeing with the former's guess, and introduced: "Everyone here is a person who did not die in the jungle and was eliminated. Therefore, they are: losers. .”
What? !
Yu Menglin's pupils shrank and he quickly reached out to touch his left waist.
Gone!
Yu Menglin's movements froze for a moment.
For his own safety, when he came out for training, the head of the family, Yu Tianling, gave him a surrogate puppet.
Death Puppet: As the name suggests, it is a puppet that dies on behalf of its master.
After he refines the puppet, if it is fatally injured, the damage will be transferred to the surrogate puppet, which is equivalent to an extra life.
But now, the puppet is gone.
In other words, he "died once."
"It's your bad luck. After suppressing my cultivation, I couldn't use many of my methods, but now they are all restored. Moreover, your elder brother's sword is pretty good. So, I must deal with you as soon as possible."
Xing Ruolan's plain voice echoed in his mind again, and he couldn't help but tremble all over.
For a moment...
In just a moment, Xing Ruolan could kill him.
If Jungle hadn't automatically considered my "death once" as elimination, I might have really died at the hands of Xing Ruolan.
Thinking of this, Yu Menglin couldn't help but feel scared, but at the same time, there was a deep sense of joy in his heart.
"Xing, Ruo, Lan..." He read out the name word by word and murmured: "What a terrible guy."
"Huh?" Hearing Yu Menglin's murmur, Yuwen Chengli understood what was going on.
"It turns out that Brother Yu was eliminated by Xing Ruolan." Yu Wencheng showed a wry smile, looked at Yu Menglin with a little sympathy in his eyes, and said, "Xing Ruolan can be said to be the second evildoer I have ever seen in my life. People."
"She is proficient in the method of star movement. It is said that as early as when she was condensing spirits, she had attacked and killed powerful cultivators."
"Rumor: She was a new cultivator and was besieged by more than a dozen cultivators. She won."
"According to the intelligence in my palace, the latter rumor is true, and Xing Ruolan won without any injuries! Among the people who besieged her, there was a fourth-level cultivator. But those cultivators are all dead!"
Listening to Yu Wencheng's introduction, Yu Menglin couldn't help but feel a chill on his back, and his throat rolled subconsciously.
"We are in the same realm, and Yu is really impressed that Brother Yu managed to escape from this woman's hands with his life." Yu Wencheng cupped his hands and said.
Then he joked: "If I meet him in the dense forest, I'm afraid I won't even be able to come to this dust-eating place."
"A fluke, a fluke."
Yu Menglin broke into a cold sweat and said "lucky" twice. At the same time, he secretly thought to himself: Yu Wencheng and Xing Ruolan are indeed from the same city, but they understand her so well.
Alas, if I had known this information earlier, I should have given her the mark as soon as we met, and I wouldn't have been like this now: not only was she eliminated, but the surrogate puppet was also lost.
Yu Menglin turned his attention to the stone tablet again and looked at the second line of text.
[Create a way to reach the sky and give you a way to fight back].
Yu Menglin glanced at the floating steps.
It seems that this is the way to fight back.
[The winner goes straight to the treasure tower].
[The loser will reach the bottomless abyss].
After reading these two sentences, Yu Menglin subconsciously turned his eyes and looked at the endless void around him.
"Is there any danger on this road?" Yu Menglin asked.
"Brother Yu, do you know the meaning of the word "guili"?" Yu Wencheng did not answer, but asked a question.
"I left and then came back, and I came back and left again..." Yu Menglin thought.
"Not bad." Yu Wencheng pointed to the glowing place with one hand, and then his fingers slowly fell back to the first step.
"Leaved and came back."
“Once you fail, you’re back in the dust and never get back to the first rung.”
"Of course." Yu Wencheng pointed to a bloody spot and said, "You might also fall to death."
"Brother Yu, look." Yu Wencheng stepped towards the first step.
His feet passed through the steps, as if the white jade steps didn't exist at all.
"I have failed twice. I can no longer step on the first two steps. If I want to challenge again, I must first jump on the third step and then start going up."
Yu Menglin took a deep breath.
The defeated ones return to the place where they eat dust.
The road to heaven leads to the bottomless abyss...
Yu Menglin was horrified, "What danger is there on this staircase?"
"This place is isolated from the outside world. Although there is air, there is no food." Yu Wencheng shook his head and looked around the entire square. Some of his answers were inappropriate.
Yu Menglin did not interrupt. He knew that Yu Wencheng still had something to say.
"Cultivation means you can go without food for a long time, but it won't last forever. If we can't leave, we will one day starve to death."
"There is no spiritual energy in the square. Here, we cannot practice and improve our realm. Moreover, we cannot restore our strength by absorbing spiritual energy."
Yu Menglin sighed silently.
During his previous observation, he found that someone had a sallow complexion and chapped lips, and his eyes were gnawing at others, but he did not attack others.
It turns out that here, every point of strength is lost, and there is no guarantee of victory. Who dares to rob others?
"Only by stepping on the stairs can you feel the spiritual energy. But once you come down, the challenge will be failed."
"This is a dead end." Yu Wencheng pointed to the white jade stairs with complicated eyes. He sighed longly and then slowly finished: "It is also the only way to survive."
"What's the danger on the stairs?" Yu Menglin also became nervous.
Yu Wencheng raised three fingers.
"The gravitational bonds are stronger each layer."
“When you step onto a flight of stairs, the stairs you walked on before disappear. There is no way out.”
"At the end of the stairs, there is a small platform. There is the most terrifying gravity restraint, the nearest light of hope, and those who block the light, the spiritual energy will not be exhausted, and know all our means..."
Yu Wencheng took a deep breath and smiled weakly:
"Own!"
