After hesitating for about half a second, Jia Chao decided to follow the stretched out pillar to the opposite mountain peak.
As a nerd with obsessive-compulsive disorder, Jia Chao suffers from a disease that will kill him if he doesn't fully explore the maze.
Relying on the protection of the safety rope, he quickly followed the vines to the opposite mountain peak.
Then he climbed along the road on the mountain wall without stopping, and after climbing about three to four hundred meters, he came to the end of the road.
What appeared above his forehead was another rope ladder nearly two hundred meters long!
Because with the assistance of the safety rope, he could stop and hang on the rope ladder to rest at any time, so this rope ladder that was a huge test for others was not so scary.
Even so, when he climbed to the end of the rope ladder, the muscles in his hands and feet were already weak.
At the end of the rope ladder is a one-square-meter bluestone. Standing on this bluestone, you can see the surrounding clouds and mist.
Directly in front of the big bluestone, there is a cave.
There is a stone door at the entrance of the cave. There is a yellow rune painted on the stone door, and there is a black rune on a raised stone next to the cave.
Jia Chao looked at the two runes and guessed that the yellow rune should be used to open the stone door and end the trial, and the black rune should be used to continue the trial.
Jia Chao activated the black rune without thinking, and this time a three-finger-thick rattan hung from the mountain wall.
He looked towards the top of the rattan. It was filled with clouds and mist, and it was impossible to tell where it hung down from.
The cane is about two or three meters away from Jia Chao's position, and you can only catch it by jumping over.
He glanced down again, feeling a little panicked for a moment.
In fact, this Sabertooth Peak trial is a secondary test of physical strength. The real test is the feeling of fear at high altitudes.
He turned his head to open the stone door and leave, but found that the yellow rune turned gray. He immediately understood what he had missed.
In desperation, he had no choice but to jump towards the vine.
Although it was thrilling, I still managed to catch it. Under the influence of inertia, he began to sway along with the rattan.
The cane was very long, allowing Jia Chao to swing back and forth hundreds of meters above the ground. Coupled with the wind blowing from nowhere, Jia Chao was so nervous that he clung to the cane.
After swinging back and forth several times, he finally mustered up the courage to open his eyes and look around.
He found that there was another mountain peak opposite him, and a protruding platform was diagonally below him.
To reach that platform, you can only use the inertia of the pendulum and take the wind into account.
After swinging back and forth several times, he finally found the pattern of the cane's swing. As expected, he was drawing an ellipse in the air.
With the trajectory, he can make predictions. At this moment, he felt that the geometry knowledge he had forgotten after the college entrance examination was back.
At a certain point in the elliptical trajectory, he let go of his hands and let himself fly towards the opposite mountain peak.
He closed his eyes in mid-air and handed over his fortune and life to fate.
Judging from the placement point, fate favored him. Just because he fell almost flat on the platform, he felt that he almost suffocated.
After waiting for a long time, he felt that his body, which was numb from the fall, had some feeling.
Slowly getting up from the ground, he was surprised to find a huge pool next to him. He didn't notice this when he was in the air.
The water in the pool was very strange, it was an almost red color, and it was bubbling as if it were boiling.
A palm-wide path extends to the middle of the pool, where it ends.
Jia Chao didn't dare to enter the pool rashly. He wandered around the platform and found that there was no other way out.
Seeing that there was no way to go, Jia Chao looked towards the middle of the pool. This time he discovered that there was a rope ladder above the pool swinging back and forth with the wind.
Obviously, to climb to the rope ladder, you have to walk along the path in the pool to the middle of the pool.
However, the water in the pool looked quite unnatural, so he casually pulled off a few weeds from the mountain wall nearby and threw them into the pool. As a result, the few grasses turned into foam and disappeared the moment they fell into the water. .
Seeing this scene, Jia Chao felt bad. If the position where he landed was just a little bit off, wouldn't he also turn into a ball of bubbles?
He looked at the animal skin boots on his feet and then at the palm-wide road, and couldn't help but feel lucky that he was well prepared.
You must know that there is no such thing as the latter in Nushi's strategy!
So he took off the spear from his back, held it in front of him with both hands, and walked across the path like a tightrope.
Relying on the protection of the animal skin boots, Jia Chao's feet did not get any water or slippery, but he did not notice that the water in the pool suddenly boiled more violently.
He just stood at the end of the path, raising his head and looking at the swinging rope ladder.
Finally waiting for an opportunity, the surrounding wind suddenly stopped for a moment, and the swinging rope ladder stopped directly above Jia Chao due to gravity.
Without any hesitation, Jia Chao jumped on the spot and grabbed the rope ladder, then quickly climbed up two steps, and then he hung the safety hook on the rope ladder.
Just when he thought everything was fine, something happened!
Some red mist suddenly burst out of the pool below and wrapped around his legs. This sudden change shocked Jia Chao, and he immediately held his breath and climbed up.
But before he could climb two steps, he lost the strength and could only let himself hang on the rope ladder like a piece of bacon.
At this time, those crimson clouds began to penetrate into his body, and he felt as if the pores all over his body were being poked with needles.
For a moment, the severe pain made Jia Chao almost lose consciousness, and countless phantoms of people and animals appeared in his mind.
He saw those people and animals pouring into a dark place. With their influx, the darkness was broken, and there was light like the beginning of Pangu.
As the light spreads, the space gradually stabilizes, forming a territory as big as a football field.
Then a person suddenly appeared in the middle of the space, and Jia Chao found that the person looked exactly like himself.
At this time, the influx of people and animals began to rush towards the man in the middle. Only then did Jia Chao notice that those people and animals looked very extraordinary.
They all seem to be powerful, the men are strong, the women are also strong, and the animals include all kinds of ferocious and unusual beasts.
People were holding weapons such as spears and bone knives, while the beasts showed their fangs and steel claws. It seemed that they were going to attack the being in the middle who looked like themselves.
At this moment, the existence that looked like him suddenly transformed into a chaotic auburn ball.
Immediately afterwards, countless roots shot out from the auburn ball. As soon as those people and animals rushing at the front touched these roots, they turned into a puff of smoke and were sucked in by the ball.
The whole process lasted for an unknown amount of time, until all the shadows of people and animals in the space turned into smoke and disappeared, leaving only the auburn sphere in the middle of the space.
The sphere no longer looked like a chaotic mass at this moment, but became very solid, like a ball of mud.
Not long after, the surface of the mud began to crack, and pieces of eggshell-like objects began to peel off.
When the shell was peeled off, a little human appeared inside.
This little person is a newborn baby. When he opens his eyes, the space suddenly becomes colorful.
Seeing this scene, Jia Chao was extremely shocked. He looked at the baby and found that the baby seemed to feel his presence.
The moment his eyes met the baby's, an inexplicable force pushed towards him.
Jia Chao woke up instantly. When he opened his eyes, he found that he was still hanging on the rope ladder, swinging back and forth above the pool.
The water in the pool was still red, but it didn't look like it was boiling as much.
Jia Chao clenched his fists and felt that his body seemed to have recovered a lot, so he began to climb up the rope ladder again.
This rope ladder is more difficult than the two rope ladders I have climbed before. Because the lower end is not fixed, the rope ladder swings back and forth.
The most important thing is that most of this rope ladder is suspended in mid-air, unlike other rope ladders that are close to the mountain wall.
So the whole climbing process is like walking in the clouds, making people scared every moment.
After climbing for an unknown amount of time, Jia Chao saw that the sky was gradually getting dark, and stars and the moon appeared in the sky.
His tired limbs made him a little weak, but the empty place below left him with no way to retreat.
Finally, with willpower, he finally climbed to the end of the rope ladder.
The rope ladder hung from a stone bridge protruding from the mountain wall. After climbing the stone bridge, Jia Chao lay down and rested for nearly half an hour.
When he finally regained consciousness in his hands and feet, he stood up and looked around.
There is only half of the stone bridge. The end of the stone bridge leads to a cave with a faint light of fire.
When Jia Chao entered the cave, he saw a bonfire inside and a short, fat little old lady sitting beside the bonfire.
The little old lady was roasting a tuber of an unknown plant over a bonfire. The smell from that thing made Jia Chao's stomach growl.
The sudden sound made the little old lady turn her face. The moment she saw Jia Chao's figure, the little old lady's mouth widened, revealing a lot of missing teeth.
Immediately afterwards, the little old lady stood up on the spot, and immediately ran to the exit at the other end of the cave like a gust of wind. She took out a leg bone of an unknown animal from the wall and beat it on a drum next to it.
After a moment, several figures appeared at the entrance of the cave, and one of them, a tall figure, took the lead in approaching Jia Chao.
Jia Chao looked at the person coming by the firelight. He looked ordinary, somewhat like an actor named Gu in his previous life.
The visitor looked Jia Chao up and down, breathed a sigh of relief and asked:
"A Chao from the Flame Stone Tribe?"
Jia Chao was stunned. He didn't expect that the other party actually knew him, so he nodded seriously.
After receiving an affirmative answer, the burly man put his hands on his hips and laughed a few times.
"Hahahaha! I didn't expect you to come up from here! Ayun and your little girlfriend are still looking for your body down the mountain!"
Jia Chao: "Huh? Do they think I'm dead?"
"Yes! There are more testers who fall from Sabertooth Peak every year than there are people in your tribe! It's just..." The burly man frowned and looked at Jia Chao, "How did you pass the blood spirit test with your strength? ?”
