"Three soul-building pills?"
The words "soul-building pill" immediately caught Zhangsun's mind.
"I thought it was some kind of reward."
Lu Xiaoran said with some disapproval.
"Why, isn't the soul-building pill precious enough?" Changsun turned around and asked.
"That... soul-building pill is quite precious. It is of great use to warriors at the warrior level when they break through to the charioteer state. But after all, it is only beneficial to warriors below the charioteer state."
Although Lu Xiaoran said this, she still knew how precious the soul-building pill was.
"But how many people are stuck in the realm of magicians throughout their lives, unable to fly in the air." Changsun said.
"This shows that our boss, Lu, has lofty aspirations and is still in the realm of being a mere charioteer." Li Yuan interjected.
"Damn fat man, you are making fun of me!"
Even a rebellious person like Lu Xiaoran dare not underestimate the gap between the realm of magicians and the realm of charioteers. How many geniuses have stopped in front of this gap.
Li Yuan quickly laughed and said he didn't dare.
"Why, Changsun, are you interested in this soul-building pill?" Lu Xiaoran asked.
"Yes, I am in urgent need of soul-building pills." Changsun replied.
"You are still in the traveler realm, are you in such a hurry?" Li Yuan asked.
Lu Xiaoran grabbed Li Yuan and said, "There is so much nonsense. Since the eldest grandson said it is urgently needed, it is useful. Just take it off."
Li Yuan shrank his neck.
"I'm just asking, and I'll just listen to you."
The eldest grandson turned to look at the four people behind him, Lu Xiaoran, with a sincere expression without any pretense, and asked, "You don't need it?"
Lu Xiaoran folded her fan, showed her signature smile, and said, "It's just a soul-building pill, do you think the four of us can still be short of it?"
The eldest grandson looked at the four people. One was the sixth son of Luliang Trading Company, the other was the third son of the Minister of Household Affairs of the Tang Dynasty, the second son of Prince Tang, and the adopted son of Prince Tang.
The identities of the four people indeed do not lack soul-building pills.
The eldest grandson didn't say much, but he kept the four young men's sincerity in his heart.
…
Many freshmen in the square entered the trial tower one after another. After entering, the eldest grandson discovered that the space inside the trial tower was much larger than it looked from the outside. There was actually a snow mountain in the center!
"This is the Xumi Mustard Seed Talisman?" Changsun asked.
"Awesome, eldest grandson, do you still have research on Fu Dao?" Lu Xiaoran praised.
"I learned a little from time to time."
The eldest grandson did not explain that Wuming also taught the eldest grandson Fu Dao when he was practicing in Minghai.
The students who entered the trial tower were all shocked by the snow-capped mountains in front of them. Only the eldest grandson was attracted by the runes around him.
Looking around, I couldn't even see the edge of the trial tower. I could only see the runes of light and dark running around, like elves in the night.
What Changsun didn't notice was that in addition to being attracted to the runes, Tang Xiaoyi was also looking at these runes, even more fascinated than Changsun.
"Same as the news I got, the first level of the trial tower is Fengxue Pass. This level is relatively simple, we just need to climb to the top of the mountain." Li Yuan said.
Lu Xiaoran asked: "Fat man, is the information you gathered reliable? Is this as simple as this?"
"Boss Lu, it's reliable. This is information obtained from past candidates, and it won't change." Li Yuan said with a smile.
…
"The trial...begins!"
Accompanied by the loud sound of drums, all the new students set off to the top of the mountain.
Half an hour passed, and new students were withdrawing from the trial one after another.
Changsun and others also reached halfway up the snow mountain.
"Damn it, I finally know what it means to run to death in Wangshan Mountain. Why can't I reach the top of the mountain?" Li Yuan said with heavy breaths.
"Damn fat man, stop talking nonsense. If there was a fat horse like you, I would have killed it and eaten it." Lu Xiaoran said rudely.
"Boss Lu, how can you expose someone's shortcomings like this?" Li Yuan complained.
"If you weren't so slow, fat guy like you, we would have reached the top of the mountain long ago." Lu Xiaoran said angrily.
"You don't even look at my size and your size. I carry so much more weight than you. It's already very difficult." Li Yuan said unfairly.
While Li Yuan was complaining, Tang Xiaoyi, who had been observing the runes around him, said, "There are changes!"
As he said this, snowflakes suddenly started to fall around him.
Tang Hao watched the snowflakes falling from the sky, reached out to catch them, and said, "It's normal for snow to fall on the snow-capped mountains... No, why did these snowflakes get into my body?"
I saw the snowflakes falling on my body and immediately melted into my body.
Changsun also discovered something strange. After the snowflakes got into his body, he could not detect any abnormality. However, Changsun's mental power was extremely large, and he observed the body carefully. He found that after entering the body, these snowflakes immediately melted into the true energy. As the number increased, It actually froze the true energy bit by bit.
Changsun's face changed slightly and he said: "Don't save your energy, rush to the top of the mountain as fast as possible!"
The other four people were not as keen as the eldest grandson, but they also noticed that something was wrong. When they heard the eldest grandson's reminder, they immediately rushed to the top of the mountain using their true energy without hesitation.
The surrounding freshmen also had keen senses and noticed the abnormality, and they accelerated towards the top of the mountain like their eldest grandson.
Gradually, new students around them became exhausted and turned into ice sculptures and were eliminated.
Lu Xiaoran looked at the eliminated freshmen around him, his face became increasingly ugly, and he cursed: "Damn fat man, didn't you say it's easy!?"
"I don't know either. Previous candidates didn't mention this." Li Yuan also felt strange.
Just when the two were about to argue again, Tang Xiaoyi spoke again: "There are changes again!"
As he said this, a strong wind suddenly blew around him.
The eldest grandson reacted the fastest. He rushed in front of the four of them with one lunge, slashed forward with his right hand, and held up an arrow-shaped barrier in front of him to separate the strong wind.
"Hey, this guy is interesting!"
Sitting on the top of the snow mountain was Yun Xuezhi from the Wenwen Academy. At this moment, he was paying attention to his eldest grandson and couldn't help but marveled.
"This kid is not in the realm of a traveler and can't release his true energy, but he can actually use his understanding of the sword's path as a guide, supplemented by his true energy, to achieve the release of his sword power. Not bad, not bad," Yun Xuezhi said to himself.
At the same time as Changsun rushed forward to split the strong wind, Lu Xiaoran also reacted, stood behind Changsun and said: "Change into an arrow-shaped formation!"
The four of them immediately shrank behind Changsun's barrier, and the pressure caused by the strong wind was immediately relieved.
But even so, Tang Xiaoyi, who was the weakest in cultivation, was about to be unable to hold on.
Tang Hao, who was standing beside him, hugged Tang Xiaoyi. At the same time, Lu Xiaoran and Li Yuan also changed their positions, forming a triangle with Zhang Sun, surrounding Tang Hao and Tang Hao in the middle.
Seeing that the four of them were ready, the eldest grandson took the lead, breaking through the strong wind and leading the four of them to run towards the top of the mountain at high speed.
The four of them ran wildly for a while, obviously feeling that their physical strength and energy could not keep up.
Changsun and Lu Xiaoran were fine here, but Li Yuan was already out of breath and struggling. In addition, Tang Hao and Tang Xiaoyi were obviously a little out of their depth.
Changsun stretched out his left hand to signal the others to stop and rest.
Lu Xiaoran stepped forward, patted her eldest grandson and said, "Let me come."
Lu Xiaoran took out the folding fan from his waist, inserted it into the snow on the ground, and raised it into the air. The snow on the ground drew an arc along with Lu Xiaoran.
Before the rising snow fell, Lu Xiaoran opened the folding fan, and the true energy poured into the folding fan. With a wave of his right hand, a burst of cold air was released, and the snow in the air immediately condensed into a hard snow wall.
Lu Xiaoran took out a breath and said, "Take the time to take a rest. With such a strong wind, this snow wall may not last long."
Having said that, the five of them didn't waste any time, sat cross-legged, and took the time to recover.
Although the snowflakes floating in the air were strange, fortunately, there was plenty of spiritual energy in the trial tower, and the eldest grandson felt that his true energy had been restored to some extent after a while.
Just when Changsun was about to stop his work, he suddenly discovered that there was something strange about the evil spirit in his body.
After arriving on the mainland, without the nourishment of evil thoughts, the evil spirits in Changsun's body seemed to have fallen into dormancy.
However, at this moment, Changsun discovered that the evil spirit was like a child stealing food. It had quietly awakened, and when he was not paying attention, it had spread out its tentacles and flowed along his veins. When it encountered the snowflakes entering the body, it immediately rushed to prey on them. .
Changsun looked at it for a while and found that these snowflakes did seem to be evil thoughts, but they were not too pure.
However, since the evil spirit can refine it, the current problem is solved.
After Changsun's consciousness exited the body, he found that except for Lu Xiaoran, the others were still in meditation. Lu Xiaoran was sitting behind the snow wall, observing the teams passing by.
Changsun leaned over and said, "What did Boss Lu find?"
"There are many masters among this freshmen class."
Changsun looked at the passing team and found that this was indeed the case.
Being able to get to this point already shows the strength of these teams. Among them, there are some freshmen in the teams who are full of energy and seem to be unaffected by the strange snowflakes and strong winds.
"His grandma, I don't know what these old men in the academy want to do. Isn't it just to add three more soul-building pills, or to increase the difficulty of the trial?" Lu Xiaoran scolded.
The eldest grandson didn't bother to complain with him and asked, "What can Boss Lu do?"
Lu Xiaoran turned to look at her eldest grandson and said: "This strong wind is not a big problem. The trouble is that these strange snowflakes have the ability to freeze people's true energy. My true energy is cold and it is hard to adapt to it. If I guess It should be the 'Ningxue Talisman' of Yun Xuezhi, the dean of the Academy of Literature."
"You mean these snowflakes are runes?" Changsun asked.
"Yes, Yun Xuezhi's runes are the most peculiar. The true energy on the runes flickers on and off, making it difficult to figure out. No one knows the secret of his runes." Lu Xiaoran said.
After being reminded by Lu Xiaoran, the eldest grandson woke up from his dream. No wonder he felt that these snowflakes seemed like evil thoughts but not like them. It turned out that the caster combined evil thoughts and true energy into runes.
Changsun suddenly felt a lot of inspiration coming to his heart. It was difficult to combine the true energy and evil spirits in his body before, so could he use runes to combine the two well?
Changsun wrote down these ideas for future experiments.
Looking at these snowflakes again, I immediately sighed at the inscrutability of the talisman caster. At the same time, the eldest grandson was a little surprised that there were people with the same evil spirits as himself.
