Zhuoyi didn't know how many years he had been walking on the endless plank road. At this moment, his hair and beard were all white, his eyes were sunken and hollow, and he looked like an old man.
At this moment, he was like a walking machine, walking forward without being affected by the scene around him.
At this time, the plank road has reached the end, but Zhuo Yi is unmoved: "You want to trick me into stopping again! Try the same trick again!"
"Zhuoyi, stop!" The power of the sea star of mind fluctuated, and a purple star gate slowly emerged. Xiaojiu was suspended in mid-air and shouted to Zhuoyi.
However, Zhuoyi had already experienced a lot, so he naturally thought that this was another test for Xiaojiu, so he waved to Xiaojiu and continued walking forward, muttering: "Huh? You're lying to me again!"
As the mind body of Jiu Lie Tomb, Xiao Jiu naturally knew the contents of the level. Therefore, she was not surprised at all when she saw Zhuo Yi looking like he had no hope for life and could only move forward.
The end of the plank road was already in front of Zhuoyi, but he seemed to have not seen it. He stood still against the wall of air and kept trying to move forward.
"Zhuoyi, the first level is over!" Xiaojiu flashed to Zhuoyi's side and continued: "Do you want to go out and take a rest now, or do you want to continue to pass the remaining two levels?"
Zhuoyi did not answer Xiaojiu, but still kept walking hard, muttering: "I want to be the greatest Star Man, and I want to protect the people I want to protect!"
"Alas!" Xiaojiu sighed after looking at Zhuoyi's appearance. She waved her delicate hand and the plank road continued to extend for hundreds of meters. At the end of the plank road, there was a small square. In the center of the square, there was a very small tree. The saplings stand in the wind.
Zhuoyi didn't seem to notice all this. He continued to move forward. Finally, he came to the square and stared at the growing sapling. He was stunned for a long time.
"Is it over?" Zhuoyi stopped and his old voice came out hoarsely.
At this moment, the environment of the mind sea changed, and Zhuo Yi noticed that green and vibrant grass quickly grew in the small square. At this time, it started to rain gradually. And the growing sapling gradually grew taller and stronger, and in Zhuo Yi's eyes, it grew into a towering tree.
After the fragrance of flowers, there were many fruits on the giant tree. Just a "plop" was heard, and a fruit fell from the tree and fell on the grass, exuding a refreshing fragrance.
Zhuoyi picked up the fruit on the ground, looked at it, smelled it, touched it, and seemed to have some insights. Xiao Jiu did not disturb Zhuo Yi. The purple star gate behind her opened again and disappeared into the sea of thoughts.
As soon as Zhuo lifted the fruit, he heard a "squeaking" sound, and then he took a hard bite of the fruit. Suddenly, Zhuo Yi couldn't help but let out an "ah" with the indescribable feeling of comfort.
As the fruit entered his stomach, Zhuo Yi looked much younger. However, Zhuoyi didn't notice it, he just felt very comfortable. So I took a few more bites.
When the fruit was eaten, the giant tree in front of him also disappeared, and Zhuoyi noticed that he had returned to his original body. At this time, he looked twelve years old again.
"Is it finally over?" A smile appeared on Zhuoyi's face. At the same time, the purple star gate appeared. Zhuoyi opened his eyes again and found that he was locked in an iron box.
"Bang" the box door was opened, Xiaojiu looked at himself with a smile and said: "Congratulations, you passed the first level!"
Zhuoyi sat up and looked at the iron box where he was lying, feeling a little confused. Before he could ask, Xiaojiu said: "This is the dormant chamber. Your mind body has been separated from the body for 93 days. In order to prevent your body from dying, I put him in this dormant chamber."
"Sleep chamber?" Zhuo Yi scratched his head and jumped out of the iron box.
"So, next, do you want to continue with the next two levels, or...? You can make a request to me!" Xiao Jiu paused as if something suddenly occurred to him.
"According to Jiu Lie's will, the holder of the order can make a request to me every time he passes a level. Now that you have passed the first level, you can walk alone in the sea of thoughts. You can ask me for your current needs." Xiao Jiu smiled, Zhuo Yi was in a daze.
At this moment, Zhuoyi suddenly remembered everything he had done with Xiaojiu on the plank road, and his cheeks suddenly felt like fire. He turned red, glanced at Xiaojiu's still attractive figure under the long costume, and smiled evilly.
After being baptized by the lone sea of thoughts, Zhuo Yi can no longer judge him by the standards of a 12-year-old.
"Huh?" Xiao Jiu looked at Zhuo Yi and seemed to understand something. As the Nine Lies Mind Body, how could she not know what was in the first level?
"I'm just a mental body!" Xiao Jiulian moved lightly and walked up to Zhuo Yi. He pinched his orchid finger and lightly scratched Zhuo Yi's chest, teasing him.
Zhuo Yi was so frightened that he quickly took a step back. Looking at Xiao Jiu's beautiful appearance, he cursed in his heart: "This Jiu Lie's first generation star master is definitely an unruly person."
"Women are like tigers!!! How scary!"
Then he said: "Sister Xiaojiu. I want skills, star skills, light skills, and weapons!"
Xiaojiu looked at Zhuoyi's lustful but not courageous look, covered his mouth and burst out laughing. The sound was like the wind chimes on the high tower, it was very beautiful.
"According to the requirements, if you don't pass the three levels, I can't give you any skills, star skills, light skills, or star weapons. But considering that you don't know anything, the next two levels may be too much for you. No, I can provide you with these." Xiao Jiu said, and three books and a spear appeared in front of Zhuo Yi.
Zhuo Yi raised his brows slightly, rubbed his hands excitedly, and thought to himself: This Nine Lies Tomb is so magical, and anything you take out is definitely something that can only be found in the world.
Then, he eagerly took the book and was dumbfounded: "Basic shooting? Basic steps? Basic skills?"
"And this?" Zhuo Yi held the spear and shook it, with a look of disgust on his face: "It's actually a mortal?"
"Then, what grade do you want?" Xiao Jiu saw Zhuoyi's appearance, which she expected, so she asked teasingly.
"At the very least, how about giving me a sacred weapon to play with?" Zhuo didn't hide the disappointment on his face at all, and his words were like a lion's mouth.
As soon as Xiaojiu heard the word "holy artifact", her eyebrows suddenly stood up, looking angry: "You think the streets are full of holy artifacts! Do you want them? Don't you want to give them back to me?"
Upon hearing Xiaojiu's words, Zhuo Yi, who was still stubborn, quickly held the book and the spear in his arms, protecting them tightly while smiling coquettishly: "Hahaha! Yes! Yes! Yes! Of course! Sister Xiaojiu, I’m just kidding. There’s no way you can take something back after giving it to someone else.”
Things are a bit bad, but it’s better than nothing! It can just make up for Zhuoyi's current situation of not knowing anything.
Seeing Zhuo Yi like this, Xiao Jiu couldn't help laughing and scolding: "Stubborn mouth!"
Then, Xiao Jiu waved his hand, and many long plates quickly moved to Zhuo Yi.
When Zhuo Yi saw it, his eyes instantly lit up: "Wow! Sister Xiaojiu! You are so kind!"
So without any politeness, he quickly rolled up his sleeves and started eating hungrily.
It can be said that Zhuo Yi has never eaten decent food since he entered the God Burial Mountains. Now, with delicious food in front of him, how could he resist the temptation on his tongue?
Seeing Zhuoyi's appetite, Xiao Jiu had an envious expression on his face.
"Here! Sister Xiaojiu!" Zhuo Yi broke off a huge piece of chicken leg and handed it to Xiaojiu.
Looking at the chicken legs that Zhuo Yi handed over, Xiao Jiu was stunned for a moment, then rolled his eyes at Zhuo Yi and said angrily: "You are trying to make me angry, are you?"
"Ah?" Zhuo Yi looked confused.
"Idiot! The mind body doesn't have any feelings!" Xiao Jiu rolled his eyes at Zhuo Yi and sat down on the moved chair.
"Then..." Zhuo Yi was about to say something, but Xiao Jiu interrupted him.
"You want to say why you are in the mind sea, does it feel so real?" Xiaojiu pouted and continued: "That is the feeling of your body transmitted to your mind body."
"A mindless body like mine has no six senses."
"Ah?" Zhuoyi was even more surprised. Could it be that when the mind sea did that to Xiaojiu, his body also did the same to her?
"It's like when you're dreaming, it feels very real. It's the feeling of your body. In fact, it's the effect of certain hormones or nerves." Xiaojiu continued to explain.
"Okay!" Zhuoyi breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't want to be labeled a pervert by Xiao Jiu just after he met her.
"Hormones? Nerves?" Zhuo Yi heard two new terms.
"I'm too lazy to explain to you, but you will understand later." When talking about the second part, Xiao Jiu looked at Zhuo Yi provocatively: "You are in the sea of thoughts and can't stand my temptation. In fact, it is a kind of hormone called hormone that is causing trouble!"
Zhuo Yiyi obeyed and was instantly embarrassed: "It's over, it turns out she knows what I did..."
"Hormen? I didn't see him?" At the same time, a confusing name made De Zhuoyi couldn't help but ask.
Xiao Jiu didn't answer Zhuoyi's words, but just rolled his eyes at him.
Three days later.
In a space in the Jiu Lie Tomb.
"This is the endless ladder to heaven!" At this time, Xiao Jiu pointed to the endless staircase in the starry sky not far away and said.
"Hiss!" Zhuo Yi's heart went cold.
"This is, I have just experienced the torture of my soul, and I have to go through the torture of my body! Can people pass this?" Zhuoyi looked up at the stairs to which he didn't know where to go, crying for the thin man. Childlike face.
"I remember the first generation Nine Lies Star Master told me: People who can pass the three levels are no longer human!" Xiao Jiu said, looked at Zhuo Yi and smiled evilly, and continued: "So, I am very suspicious. Are you a man?"
"I..." Zhuo blushed for a moment and avoided looking at Xiaojiu.
"Hahaha!" Xiaojiu smiled happily when he saw that his teasing was effective.
"Zhuoyi! The second level and the third level, as I told you the day before yesterday, they are connected to each other. In other words, after you pass the second level, you must immediately meet the third level! As long as any level If you fail in any link, you will die without a burial place. Are you sure that the assessment is about to take place now? Don't you want to wait any longer?" Xiao Jiu looked solemnly and looked at Zhuo Yi with concern in his eyes.
Although Xiao Jiu is only a mental body, her relationship with Zhuo Yi in the past few days has already made her and Zhuo Yi develop feelings. She really doesn't want the little boy in front of her who makes her happy to be buried in front of her eyes.
Xiao Jiu seemed to realize something, shook her head, and mentally muttered: "What's wrong with me? Why did I start to have feelings? Shouldn't I be a ruthless system?"
However, no one answered her.
In the past few days, Zhuo Yi has realized the dangers of the next two levels from Xiao Jiu. However, he has no intention of giving up, because his dream is: "Become a great Star Man and protect the people I want to protect!"
"Sister Xiaojiu! I still have many important things to do, and there are many people waiting for me to protect. There is no waiting in my life! If I die in this endless ladder to heaven, it will be my life! My father told me since I was a child Once said: 'When ancient star warriors meet, even if the other party is the best star warrior in the world, even if they know that they are outmatched, they will still show their sword!'"
"This is the spirit of the bright sword!"
"Even if I die, I will die on the way to pursue my dream! Even if I know that I will die this time, I will still set foot on this endless ladder to heaven! I want to see how terrifying it is."
Zhuoyi said, already stepping onto the stairs.
"Sister Xiaojiu! I'm so happy that I have a beautiful girl like you accompanying me these days!" Zhuoyi stepped onto the stairs, turned around and smiled at Xiaojiu.
"It's a pity that in the sea of thoughts before, it was all an illusion!" Zhuo Yi unscrupulously looked at the bright moon and spring water in Xiao Jiu's gauze, smiled bitterly, and without looking back, walked towards the end of the stairs step by step. .
Xiao Jiu was stunned by Zhuo Yi's words. When she came to her senses, Zhuo Yi had already walked dozens of steps.
She smiled, shook her head, nodded again, bit her red lips for the last time, and shouted loudly: "I believe you! Zhuoyi!"
Zhuoyi was walking on the ladder and made a receiving gesture with his left hand.
Xiao Jiusu's chest was rising and falling, and she was very happy: "So! I also have feelings..."
The endless climb to the sky tests the limits of the human body and a person's perseverance.
Just after walking a few hundred steps, Zhuoyi felt nothing. But as he climbed more and more steps, the fatigue in his body became more and more obvious, and finally the muscles in his legs even felt tingling.
"Tick-tock, tick-tock..." At this time, Zhuoyi's sweat kept falling, and the sound of his body kept beating his heart.
"One, two..." Every step Zhuoyi takes is a breakthrough of his body's limits.
"One hundred...ah..."
"Hufufu..." Zhuoyi stopped on the stairs, looking at the endless ladder, gasping for air.
"What is your dream?" Zhuoyi asked himself loudly.
"Become a great Star Man! Protect the people I want to protect!" Zhuoyi answered himself loudly.
"Come again...one...ah...ah..." Zhuoyi took another step.
Finally, Zhuo Yile lay down on the stairs, but his eyes were still firmly looking at the end of the stairs.
"Don't give up!" Zhuoyi cheered himself up and began to slowly crawl toward the end like a lizard.
I don't know how long I have been climbing. At this time, Zhuo Yi's body was pressed against the stairs, and his face was full of exhaustion.
A hoarse voice came from his throat: "I...my dream, my dream is..."
He was so tired that he didn't even have the strength to speak.
"It would be nice to have a bed." Zhuoyi thought this way, and saw beds neatly arranged on both sides of the stairs. There were endless beds along the stairs. He didn't know how many there were.
"Haha... Do you want me to get rid of it once and for all?" Zhuoyi looked at the bed he dreamed of and smiled bitterly.
"Only a fool would lie on the bed!" Zhuoyi knew that this was either an hallucination caused by being too tired, or a temptation set by the examiner.
Its purpose is just to make yourself fail.
"Hahaha..." After understanding this, Zhuoyi turned over, looked up at the stars, and laughed.
At this time, the sweat on his clothes had solidified into white traces.
"My dream..." Zhuo Yi repeated his dream in a voice that only he could hear.
Then, he slowly climbed towards the end of the stairs.
"Can't sleep!" Zhuo Yi raised his eyelids hard to prevent them from falling.
He knew that if his eyelids fell, he would never be able to open them again.
"I still have Han Qier...and my mother...and Xiaoxiang...and Xiaojiu..."
In Zhuoyi's head at the moment, he only felt tired and sleepy...
His eyes were sunken, with huge dark circles like panda eyes.
At this time, the fatigue was like a demon in the abyss, constantly pulling on Zhuoyi's legs, trying to drag him into the eternal darkness.
His hands were trembling, his feet were trembling, even his clenched teeth were trembling... In short, every muscle in Zhuoyi's body was trembling at this moment...
"I...I..." He couldn't even say what he wanted to say anymore.
Finally, his body reached its limit, and Zhuoyi no longer had the strength to raise his eyelids.
"Zhuoyi! There is still one level..." Xiao Jiu's urgent voice came from his mind.
"First level?" Zhuoyi opened his eyes again, used all his strength, and slowly moved one level.
"Are we here?" Zhuo Yi kept asking in his mind.
"There's still one more level to go! Come on..."
"There's still one more level. I'm going to try my best to climb up..."
"One more level and you'll pass..."
"Quick, the last level, the people you want to protect are waiting for you..."
…
Zhuoyi closed his eyes and gritted his teeth. He didn't know how many steps he had climbed. Anyway, he didn't believe Xiaojiu's words.
"Zhuoyi! Cheer up! I won't lie to you this time, the last level."
"Really?" Zhuo Yi smiled bitterly in his heart.
"This is so many last steps. Alas...dream...is so difficult..."
"Really, Zhuoyi's last level... you believe me..." Xiao Jiu shouted anxiously.
"Believe you once." Zhuo Yi opened his eyes with difficulty and tried hard to hold on. He did see that it was really the last step.
On the last step, there is a familiar square, small saplings...
"Hahaha...hahaha..." Zhuoyi used his last bit of strength and finally rolled up the last step. He looked at the sapling not far away and completely passed out.
Xiao Jiu's cheers seemed to be heard in his mind.
"Zhuoyi, good job...Zhuoyi..."
