To be precise, the strength of the sword intention in the passage is not particularly high, and one can usually pass through safely when reaching the peak of the imitation soul. Therefore, after Chi Shang isolated it with his sword intention, he easily reached the mountain gate at the end of the passage.
Just as he walked to the mountain gate, Shi Chishang suddenly felt that the sword intent that was as majestic as a mountain and sea suddenly dissipated, and he was suddenly freed from the heavy pressure. However, the strength under his feet had no time to restrain, and he stepped on a piece of the ground.
Startled, Shi Chishang quickly restrained his sword intent, and just as he adjusted his state back, a ball of light mist poured out of the mountain gate, rolled him up, and moved him behind the mountain gate.
The light and shadow in front of his eyes distorted for a few seconds, and Shi Chishang suddenly regained his sense of consciousness. He saw that he was standing at the foot of the White Bone Mountain. A winding stone mountain road in front of him led to the top of the mountain in a winding way, but it was nowhere near the mountainside. The height was cut off by thick and gloomy fog, making it difficult to see clearly the reality of the top of the mountain.
At this time, there were already many people standing at the foot of the mountain, all of whom had just successfully passed through the passage. The weakest among them also had late-stage cultivation of Soul Imitation. They were all standing in front of the mountain path, staring at a huge stone placed in the center of the mountain path. .
When Shi Chishang saw this, he walked over. Before he got close, he could already sense a sharp sword spirit from the boulder. Even though they were seven or eight meters away, there was still a phantom light shining in front of him, like a sword. The bone sword floating in the depths of the underworld is exuding sharp underworld power wantonly.
After a pause, Shi Chishang looked at the people in front of him and saw that Gu Ye and several other late stage body sculptors were not there. They had obviously passed this level and climbed the mountain road behind.
Jian Mei frowned slightly, and Shi Chishang stared at the boulder, feeling the sharp soul thought again. At the same time, Master Bone's hoarse, bone-grinding voice sounded in his ears: "The second test is to simulate the sword marks on the stone."
"Sword marks on the stone?" Shi Chishang looked at the boulder, but couldn't see half of the sword marks. Although the boulder had a strange shape and could even be said to be a bit ugly, there was indeed no mark on it, let alone a sword mark. There are no marks, not even scratches.
Not only him, but other people were also talking. Judging from their words, these people probably didn't see the so-called sword marks on the boulder.
Shi Chishang was staring at the huge stone when suddenly someone behind him said in surprise: "Is this a kendo stone?"
Shi Chishang turned around and saw Cao Hong, Xuanyuan Yun, Shi Yirui, Sun Wei and others standing behind him, all staring at the boulder, and it was Cao Hong who had just spoken.
Seeing Shi Chi Shang's eyes full of confusion, Cao Hong explained: "Sword engraving on stone is a top swordsman who embodies the sword's intention and leaves an imprint on the entity. Don't see it with your naked eyes, use your sword's intention to sense it."
Only then did Shi Chishang understand. While laughing at himself that he was still a novice in the world of cultivation, he unfolded his sword intent and extended it towards the boulder.
boom! When his sword intention touched the boulder, a vast and boundless kendo pressure emerged in front of him out of thin air. It was vast and boundless. Every trace of sea water in it was the purest kendo soul thought, and it was filled with The smell of death, silence, and aging.
The moment that vast coercion was reflected in his thoughts, Shi Chishang suddenly groaned and staggered back a few steps. Two lines of blood oozed from his eyes, and his vitality suddenly weakened by 30% at this moment.
Leng Buding saw that Shi Chi Shang seemed to have suffered a serious injury. Xuanyuan Yun, Sun Wei and others were greatly surprised. At this moment, Cao Hong suddenly cried out in pain, and fell to the ground with his pretty face as pale as paper.
"What's going on?" Xuanyuan Yun pulled Cao Hong up and asked confused.
Cao Hong seemed to be still immersed in some kind of terror and was speechless for a long time. However, he adjusted his breathing for a moment before gritting his teeth and said: "If you want to pass this level, you must be able to withstand the power of death." erosion."
"Dark Qi?" Sun Wei's cheek twitched and he said in shock, "How is that possible?"
Every ghost monk who wants to ascend to the underworld in the future must be washed by the underworld energy to wear away the violent and uncontrollable ghost power and transform it into a lifeless and deathly underworld power.
Compared with the instability of ghost energy, the more stable underworld power is actually equally dangerous. The former can make people have extreme temperaments and easily lose control, while the latter can completely eliminate all emotions and desires, making them look like saints without desires and desires. But in fact, It becomes ruthless and indifferent.
Therefore, for ghost monks, the underworld energy is like explosives and cannot be easily touched. That is to say, in the Ji Ming stage, the soul realm is sublimated to support the soul body, so that it can withstand the washing of underworld energy.
But the strongest among the young heroes now are only in the late stage of body shaping. If they can withstand the cleansing of the underworld, this test will clearly ask them to die.
Everyone was at a loss when Xuanyuan Yun suddenly frowned and said, "No! Where is Gu Ye?"
"He's not here," Sun Wei replied subconsciously, and then he noticed something was wrong, "Either he died, but there should be a body, so he passed? How could..."
"Perhaps it's not as serious as we thought." Shi Chishang rubbed the center of his eyebrows. Previously, he had lost 30% of his vitality by the power of death in the sword mark, and almost exploded due to the turbulence of the soul sea. Only now did he slowly recover.
Seeing that everyone had seen it, Shi Chishang said in a deep voice: "I just sensed the power in the sword mark. It was not pure Nether Qi, but the power of death mixed with Nether Qi. The power of death is the main body. ."
"It seems that Gu Ye and the others were able to pass this level because of this." Sun Wei frowned.
Shi Chishang shook his head and stopped talking. Instead, he concentrated his thoughts again and visualized the vast Dead Sea.
The others also shut up silently when they saw this, and began to work hard to sense the sword marks in the boulder.
Time passed quietly, and dozens of people arrived here one after another, and most of them were silent, trying hard to capture the existence of the sword mark.
In the blink of an eye, half an hour had passed. Just when the second level was silent, Cao Hong suddenly trembled, and a sword shadow seemed to appear behind her head. In an instant, the sword intention that had been lingering around her suddenly emerged. Wisps of death aura.
Just a few seconds after Cao Hong successfully visualized it, Shi Chi Shang standing next to him also had sharp eyes, and the sword intent around him suddenly turned into deathly silence, as cold as frost, but with a despairing desolation.
As the sword intent emerged, Shi Chishang's face seemed to have undergone some changes. Faintly, it seemed that he had matured a little more. Before, he was only twenty-three or four years old, but now he has become twenty. The appearance of being seven or eight years old is not obvious just because the span is not large.
Slowly exhaling a breath of turbid air, Shi Chi Shang Jian frowned. Although this time he successfully visualized and mastered a new sword intention with the help of the mirror soul mark, but as a price, he lost four years of his life. longevity.
Death Sword Intent! Different from the Aurora Sword Intent and the Killing Sword Intent, this Sword Intent is a double-edged sword, which can not only destroy the opponent's vitality, but also reduce one's own lifespan.
With a sigh, Shi Chishang looked at Cao Hong and felt happy: "Cao Hong, you have grown up."
"Get out!" Cao Hong spat angrily with a dark face.
Girls care about age very much. Cao Hong was only twenty-two years old, but now she looks twenty-four years old, almost as old as Yu Lewei.
Shi Chishang smiled, glanced at Shi Yirui, Xuanyuan Yun and others who were still concentrating on the induction, and said in a deep voice: "Let's wait and go in."
Cao Hong was in a bad mood and didn't say anything, just nodded.
The two waited for a while, and more than twenty people opened their eyes one after another, shaking their heads in distress, apparently unable to sense the sword mark from the beginning to the end.
And Shi Yirui quickly opened her eyes. She was not a swordsman in the first place, and the ghost-catching technique she originally practiced had nothing in common with the method of death from the underworld, so she tried hard for a while and then gave up quickly.
Soon after Shi Yirui woke up, Sun Wei, Xuanyuan Yun and others also opened their eyes one by one. However, only Xuanyuan Yun successfully understood the method of underworld death, and the others, including Sun Wei, the outstanding figure of the Sun family, failed. Touch the edge of this method.
Xuanyuan Yun's reaction was almost the same as Cao Hong's. The moment she opened her eyes, her face turned livid. If she hadn't been cold and arrogant, she would have started to curse.
Shi Chishang sighed and said helplessly: "The matter is now over, there's no point in thinking about it anymore. Xiao Shiyi, you and Sun Wei and the others should stay here for now. Cao Hong, Xuanyuan Yun, let's move on to the next level."
Cao Hong and Xuanyuan Yun both had cold faces and said nothing. Seeing this, Shi Chishang could only give out another wry smile and walked towards the mountain road ahead. When they approached the boulder, they pointed their swords at each other and used the Death Sword Intention to move forward, easily. Parting the barrier in front of the mountain path, he stepped inside.
As soon as he stepped onto the mountain road, the scene around Shi Chishang suddenly changed. The stone steps that were originally only two meters wide under his feet suddenly expanded crazily, and in the blink of an eye, they had turned into a square of more than a thousand square meters. The entire square was empty except for There is a bone sword stuck in the center.
Shi Chishang was observing the bone sword when Master Bone's distinctive voice suddenly sounded in his ears: "The third test, pass the nine-story mountain road of White Bone Mountain."
When Shi Chishang heard this, his heart moved, and he knew that the square he was in at the moment should be the first floor, and if he wanted to pass this floor, he would probably fall on the bone sword in the center of the square.
Thinking of this, Shi Chishang secretly circulated his soul power and walked towards the bone sword with a wary heart. However, until he walked in front of the bone sword, nothing abnormal happened.
Shi Chishang stood in front of the bone sword in confusion. After thinking for a long time, he tentatively stretched out his hand to the bone sword. Only when he grasped the hilt did his eyes show a hint of light.
From the perspective of an ordinary person, this bone sword is just inserted into the brick cracks of the square, but Shi Chishang, who has mastered the method of underworld death, keenly senses that there is a certain connection between the bone sword and the square. Only by destroying this connection can the bone sword be pulled out.
Knowing in his heart that he had to pull out the bone sword to pass the test, Shi Chishang immediately activated his soul power, blessing the Death Sword Intent on his right hand, and pulled it out with all his strength, but he didn't expect that the bone sword was as stable as a mountain, no matter how tyrannical his pulling force was. , never wavering, let alone being pulled out.
After pulling out to no avail, Shi Chishang stopped and stared at the bone sword with a frown.
Unlike most ghost monks, Shi Chishang's physical body has been tempered many times and is comparable to that of warriors of the same level. The force he pulled just now was enough to overturn a hill. This kind of strength cannot pull out the bone sword. , indicating that brute force is not the right approach.
While he was thinking carefully about how to draw the sword, Shi Chishang suddenly raised his eyebrows and looked at the blade of the bone sword with a hint of surprise in his eyes. He squatted down and wrapped his thoughts around the blade, sensing it back and forth carefully.
After a long while, Shi Chi Shang straightened up and showed a smile.
Holding the hilt of the sword again, Shi Chishang did not rush to draw the sword this time. Instead, he circulated the sword of death and penetrated the bone sword bit by bit, as if sensing something.
After half an hour, Shi Chishang gasped and took back his hand. But within half an hour, his face turned extremely pale, and the skin of the right hand that had just held the sword hilt was withered, like an old man's hand that had lost its moisture.
"Are you aging?"
Shi Chishang murmured in a low voice, his eyes glowed again, he took a deep breath, his soul power and sword intention spread across his palm again, and then he held the hilt of the sword for the second time, but this time, the bone sword that was still standing was It trembled slightly, and was actually pulled out of the ground bit by bit by him.
As the bone sword was continuously pulled out, the meaning of the Death Sword that lingered in Shi Chishang's right hand gradually took on the meaning of aging. Whenever a living being touches it, its vitality will flow away and its longevity will decrease.
When the bone sword was completely pulled out, Shi Chishang suddenly grunted, let go of the sword hilt, then dispersed the Death Sword Intent, and looked at his rough-skinned right hand with an ugly expression.
Before coming to take the assessment, Shi Chishang had tempered his body several times. His skin could not be said to be thick and smooth, at least it was delicate and smooth. However, at this moment, his skin was rough and dry, like a farmer who had been working in the fields for many years.
Shi Chishang was staring at his right hand when the surrounding square suddenly hummed and collapsed and shattered. He also returned to the mountain road, and on his left and right stood Cao Hong, Xuanyuan Yun and a man.
After looking at the three people, Shi Chishang stepped onto the second step. Suddenly, the surrounding scene changed again. The steps expanded into a square, and a bone sword was also inserted in the center of the square.
With the experience he just had, Shi Chishang went straight to the bone sword without much hesitation, took hold of the bone sword, and closed his eyes to sense it.
