As Shao Xi walked, he recalled the previous fight with Qin Chuan. In this fight, neither side had figured out the opponent's approach.
Shao Xi only knew that Qin Chuan should have practiced sword skills before, and the information Qin Chuan got from him only proved that he practiced sword skills and had good body skills.
As for other aspects, neither side has tried out much. This is also because Shao Xi is not obsessed with fighting, but only aims to get through this level.
Shao Xi understood why Shen Bugai arranged for four people to set up these four checkpoints and let the visitors pass through these four levels before meeting him. The purpose was to test the visitors' details.
Take advantage of the situation to find out the martial arts skills of the person coming, and use this to determine the opponent's identity.
Everything else can be disguised, but the martial arts performed in the face of crisis cannot be faked.
No matter whether the apparent identity is true or false, once the martial arts method is discovered, the master's inheritance can be found out from the source of the martial arts, and other details can be found out from this starting point.
Considering that the Ghost Emperor's Mansion is well-informed in the world, it is not difficult at all to find out a person's identity.
Another reason for setting up these four levels should be to measure whether the visitor is qualified to meet Shen Bugai. With the status of the Ghost Emperor's Palace in the world, the person who wants to ask the Ghost Emperor's Palace to take action is definitely not an ordinary person.
Either he is an expert in the world of martial arts, but he doesn't bother to take action on some matters.
Either he is powerful, and although he has no ability to take action, he can use a large amount of wealth to let others do certain things for him, then the person sent to negotiate the business must also be a master.
In short, the people who can ask the Ghost Emperor's Mansion to take action are not ordinary people, but it is just not convenient for them to take action themselves.
To put it bluntly, the Ghost Emperor's Mansion will not accept low-end business, and it will cost a lot to ask them to come forward.
The Wangchuan River, Naihe Bridge, Sansheng Stone and Bianhua Flower are the four barriers to screen customers. Even those who are not qualified cannot be hired even if they have money.
So far, there is no business in this world that the Ghost Emperor's Mansion cannot complete, and the only failure was the one in Zhiqiu Town.
Although they succeeded in killing Ruan Haoyang, they also paid the price of two masters. What's more terrible is that they didn't get what they were looking for.
For the Ghost Emperor's Mansion, this is unacceptable to them. No matter what the price is, they will use all means to successfully complete the next task.
According to past practice, when a strange face like Shao Xi appears in Xinjing Tea House, even if he has a life-threatening card in his hand, he will not be easily brought to the Ghost Emperor's Mansion without knowing the details.
But Shao Xi showed the copper pill to the shopkeeper before. Gui Emperor's Mansion must also know that the copper pill belonged to the Ruan family back then, and it was exactly what they wanted to get from Ruan Haoyang.
Now that this object appeared in Shao Xi's hands, it naturally attracted the attention of the Ghost Emperor's Mansion, so he made an exception and allowed him to enter the Ghost Emperor's Mansion.
But after coming back, whether he is qualified to meet "Judge Impermanence" to negotiate terms of exchange still depends on Shao Xi's own abilities.
If he didn't even have the ability to change his mind after seeing Shen Bu, he would definitely not be able to keep this copper pill even if it was placed on him.
Shao Xi had no doubt that if he failed due to lack of strength during the process of breaking through, the other party would kill him without hesitation and take away the copper pills from his body.
If he is not even qualified to see Shen Bugai, then he is not qualified to put copper pills on his body.
This is the operating logic of the Ghost Emperor's Mansion, and in fact it is also the common operating logic in the world.
If you don't have the ability, you are not qualified to negotiate terms with others, and you are not even qualified to have the price to negotiate terms.
If what others want can be easily obtained from you, who will choose to sacrifice their life for you in exchange? The easiest way is of course to attack you directly.
If you think about it carefully, everything in this world is like this.
In addition to having chips in hand, people entering the game must also have the ability to escape from the game. Without this ability, entering the game with rich chips in hand will definitely be a dead end.
In the final analysis, the real capital is still yourself. Only if you have enough ability can you use the chips in your hand to negotiate terms with the other party.
It seems that the other three people we will face next will not be easy, and the remaining three levels will only be more difficult than the last.
However, Shao Xi has no fear in his heart. Judging from the fight with Qin Chuan just now, the martial arts of the three people behind him should be between the late sixth grade and the peak sixth grade. None of them should have reached the "Qi Transformation Realm".
If even the four people under Shen Bugai have entered the "Qi Transformation Realm", then there will probably be very few people in the world who can come to discuss business with the Ghost Emperor's Mansion. This threshold is really too high.
Shao Xi moved forward along the firelight and came to the place where the firelight was concentrated in front.
There were many more fire pots here than when he was at the river before, which illuminated the area very brightly. What made Shao Xi find it interesting was that there was another dark river in front of him.
But what is different from before is that there is a stone bridge on this river. Although the bridge is not wide, both sides of the bridge are filled with iron basins burning with flames, extending to the other side of the river. It seems that this is my own The second level to pass is the Naihe Bridge.
Then the opponent he has to face should be "Naihe Bridge Woman" Liu Naihe, right?
Shao Xi came to the bridge and looked around, but saw no one, so he looked up and looked across the bridge.
I saw a short and thin figure on the other side of the stone bridge across the underground river. The figure looked a little stooped. Although I couldn't see clearly the appearance of her clothes, I could tell that it was a mother-in-law.
The figure stood motionless and did not speak, but Shao Xi could feel a sharp gaze looking at him from the other side of the bridge.
The aura exuded by the mother-in-law made Shao Xi, who was standing on this side of the bridge, feel that the chill around his body had increased a bit. Before the two of them met, they could already feel the strong murderous intention on the other side. It seemed that the other side had already moved. He wanted to take his own life.
Shao Xi was a little confused. The other party had never met him before, so why did they have such serious murderous intentions against him when they met without even saying a word?
Could it be that it was because he had passed the level of Wangchuan River before?
But isn’t it your own rules to come to the Ghost Emperor’s Mansion and pass the four levels? Just because he passed the first level, the person in the second level wants to put him to death?
Ordinarily it shouldn’t be!
So Shao Xi raised his hands to the mother-in-law on the other side of the bridge and said, "This junior has come to the Ghost Emperor's Mansion to ask for an audience with 'Judge Impermanence'. I don't know how to cross the bridge? Please give me some advice from my seniors."
The thin and hunched figure opposite him remained motionless, but the eerie and hoarse voice that came from him made people feel a little chilling.
"It's easy for you to cross the bridge. If you drink the bowl of soup in my hand, you can cross the bridge if you still live."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the figure starting to shake, looking a little staggering, and slowly walking towards the bridge from the other side of the bridge step by step.
As the figure gradually came out of the darkness, Shao Xi also saw the other person's appearance clearly.
She was a short and thin old woman, with a hunched back and chest, her legs were a little bent, and every step she took forward seemed a little difficult.
Wearing a green cloth, his snow-white sparse hair was pulled into a bun on the back of his head, and his head was covered with a dark blue turban.
Her face was full of wrinkles, but her slightly yellowed eyes were shining brightly, forming a strong contrast with her aging-looking figure.
She was seen holding a small jar tied with hemp rope in her right hand, and a black bowl in her left hand, which contained most of a bowl of green, yellow and turbid soup.
Although her body shook violently when she walked, the soup in the bowl seemed to be still, without any shaking at all.
Those dry chicken claw-like fingers held the edge of the bowl firmly. Although it looked casual, Shao Xi knew that this person had quite deep inner strength.
Only by pouring enough vitality into the bowl can the soup in the bowl and the black bowl become one body without any shaking.
Could this be Po Meng? Is it Meng Po Soup she is holding in her hand? He also said that if he drank this soup, he could cross the bridge without dying?
This is clearly treating yourself as a fool!
Not to mention whether the stuff in her bowl was poisonous or not, it was greenish-yellow in color and turbid. I'm afraid a normal person without some special quirks wouldn't be able to drink it, right?
At this time, the old woman had walked to the center of the bridge, raised her baggy eyelids, looked at Shao Xi standing at the end of the bridge with extremely sharp eyes, gently raised her left arm, and slowly raised the hand in her hand. The black bowl seemed to be handed to Shao Xi.
"[expression] [expression] [expression] [expression]..., sir, don't be polite! As long as you drink the bowl of soup from your mother-in-law, your mother-in-law will let you cross the bridge. If you don't want to drink it by yourself, your mother-in-law will feed you herself." You are."
Shao Xixin said, who knows what is in that bowl of yours, it’s weird that you know how to drink it!
If she doesn't want to drink, she will feed herself herself. This service is quite "intimate"!
But even if I beat myself to death I wouldn't drink the turbid yellow soup. The old woman's intention couldn't be more obvious, she just wants to fight with me!
But why are her eyes filled with murderous intent? Have you ever offended him?
Shao Xi also walked to the center of the bridge, raised his hands to Liu Naihe and said: "Mother-in-law, I wonder if I can stop drinking the soup in your hand? Why don't I ask my mother-in-law to make some other requests and see if I can do my best?" Satisfy my mother-in-law.”
"If others don't drink, we still have to discuss it, but you can't. You have to drink today, and you have to drink even if you don't want to! You played tricks on my old man by the river before, and you must drink Meng Po soup today! "
His old man? It turned out that Qin Chuan, the "Old Man of the Forgotten River", turned out to be her wife. No wonder this old woman stared at her with a murderous look!
She thought that she had tricked Qin Chuan before, so she wanted to vent her anger on her wife's behalf on the Naihe Bridge.
But if you vent your anger, why do you have to fight with me to the point of death?
Needless to say, if she drank the bowl of soup in her hand, she might have gone to the real Naihe Bridge.
Only a fool would listen to you!
But looking at his current posture, he was either willing to be poisoned by her, or he was going to fight her and defeat him.
But looking at the old woman who was unable to stand firmly in front of him, Shao Xi hesitated for a moment.
Although Qin Chuan looked old before, his body was still strong, but what should he do with the old woman in front of him who looked like she could be blown away by a gust of wind?
Even if you know she is a master, it seems that winning is not honorable!
Why did I meet these two old guys when I first came here today? Isn't this challenging the moral bottom line of a good young man like himself?
