Chapter 136 Sixth Floor
The fifth floor of the Nine-Layered Pagoda is much larger than the fourth floor, and as soon as Huan Yin entered this floor, he could feel a faint dusty smell that only classics have. It should be that the classics here are not often turned over, so this is the case.
At this time, there were only two disciples of Yijianfeng on the fifth floor. The small movement caused by Huan Yin's appearance attracted the attention of these two cultivators. They were ready to leave after watching for a while, but they didn't expect that someone would come at this time.
When they looked at the center of the fifth floor with doubtful eyes, they found that a young man wearing the Taoist robe of Wuliangmen appeared there, which made the two of them look stagnant.
"What is the purpose of the outside participating cultivators to spend so many spirit stones to come to the sixth floor of my Nine-Layered Pagoda in the middle of the night? This kid, don't you know that he can't understand the classics here?" The two Yijianfeng cultivators thought so. Because they can stand here, it means that their own sword-making attainments are high enough, and they are the real masters of Yijianfeng. A young boy who was not even from the sect, these two people could never have thought that he had passed the assessment and came up.
Huan Yin walked and looked on the fifth floor, and found that there were only two people on this huge fifth floor. It seems that there are not many cultivators who can reach this floor, and the number of classics here is much larger than before, so many books here are not often read by people, no wonder there is a dusty smell on this floor.
In this floor, Huan Yin saw "Miscellaneous Notes of Liangzhou" and some books on geology and environment in other states. In fact, these books are books that mortals usually read. In the eyes of most cultivators, they are simply disdained, but why did the Nine-Layered Pagoda arrange them on the fifth floor?
When Huan Yin just started to learn sword forging, he didn't understand this reason. However, as he looked through more and more classics, he found that there was actually no difference between immortals and mortals in knowledge. Some famous quotes written in mortal classics were even more profound than the insights in some cultivation classics.
The reason is that immortals are originally from mortals. If one blindly regards himself as a master of Taoism and disdains mortals on the road of immortal cultivation, it is equivalent to forgetting his roots. Those who forget their roots will not go far on the road of immortality.
On the contrary, some people, no matter how far they go on the road of immortality, never forget to understand the truth of the mortal world, and in the end they can return to the original state and make their way to immortality.
The reason why the Nine-Layered Pagoda has set up so many mortal classics on the fifth floor is probably that they really think that the knowledge in these classics is profound, and secondly, they want to remind these instrument cultivators who are focused on the road of immortality whether they have forgotten their roots.
In this fifth floor, Huan Yin still did not find the classics he wanted. Although he did not spend even a single spirit stone in the Nine-Layered Pagoda this time, he still had to feel depressed.
Because he had consumed a lot of energy in the previous assessment and felt a little tired. After fighting for such a long time, he still did not achieve his original goal. What a helpless thing it is.
"I'll break through one more level. If the sixth level doesn't have the classics I want, I'll come back next time." Huan Yin made up his mind and walked to the light curtain on the fifth level and pressed it with his hand.
The two Yijianfeng monks on the sixth level looked even more shocked than the monks on the previous levels. Because they clearly saw that the young man who had just arrived was going to challenge a higher level than theirs, they subconsciously thought that the young man was crazy.
However, when they saw that the young man's palm pressing the light curtain was so natural, as if he had pressed it many times before, they had another incredible guess in their hearts.
Huan Yin, who disappeared in the eyes of the two Yijianfeng disciples, was once again in the void. In the distance from him, pieces of materials were like stars, passing through the air one by one, and then fixed in front of him.
"The test for the sixth floor of the Nine-Layered Pagoda requires 500,000 casting materials. If you can recognize 100,000, you will pass. The test begins!"
At this moment, there are 500,000 kinds of materials in front of Huan Yin, and the number of materials that need to be recognized in this layer is the same as the total number of the previous layer. This difficulty is completely different from the previous test.
"500,000..." Huan Yin murmured, looking at the endless materials in front of him, he couldn't help but be surprised.
But after being surprised, Huan Yin's eyes became brighter and brighter, and the fighting spirit in his chest was ignited again: "Just take these 500,000 as the limit for today! Let me see how difficult it is for you!"
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At this moment, the light outside the Nine-Layered Pagoda has dimmed, but more and more One Sword Peak monks have gathered in the darkness, because it has been an hour since the blue light went out, but the foreign participating cultivator named "Huan Yin" has not come out yet. These One Sword Peak monks can almost be sure that Huan Yin is still challenging!
These cultivators of Yijian Peak are waiting for Huan Yin. They want to know which level Huan Yin wants to reach this time and which level he can reach.
Throughout the ages, no weapon cultivator has ever directly reached the sixth level of the Nine-Layer Pagoda, not even the ancestor Lan Yanzi of Yijian Peak has done it.
Back then, Lan Yanzi entered the Nine-Layer Pagoda and broke through five levels in one breath, which has become a legend of Yijian Peak. Because weapon cultivation is a gradual process, no one can reach the sky in one step.
Especially the sixth level, all the cultivators of Yijian Peak know its difficulty. The total number of materials for the first to fifth levels is less than half of the total number of the sixth level, and the rarity of the sixth level materials will also increase significantly.
You should know that to participate in the assessment of the Nine-Layer Pagoda, not only sufficient knowledge is required, but also amazing willpower. Because identifying so many materials at one time will bring great burden to people's spirit. Many knowledgeable and powerful weapon cultivators have never passed the high-level assessment of the Nine-Layer Pagoda, precisely because they cannot bear the pressure of continuously identifying a large number of materials.
Although weapon cultivators are immortals and have far surpassed mortals in spiritual power, the high-level assessment of the Nine-Layer Pagoda of Yijian Peak requires cultivators to continuously identify a large number of materials in the void. Take the sixth-level assessment where Huan Yin is now, the minimum requirement is to identify 100,000. If it reaches the seventh level, or even higher, the number required by the assessment is simply unimaginable!
Even if it is a cultivator, even if the cultivation is not bad, but repeating an action in the dark 100,000 times, even hundreds of thousands, millions of times, and the brain needs to constantly think and recall what he has learned on weekdays, such pressure and mental loss, how can it be easily borne?
Back then, Lan Yanzi only passed the fifth level at a time. Maybe it was not because he was not knowledgeable enough, but he could not bear it mentally.
Now the disciples of Yijianfeng outside the Nine-Layered Pagoda are constantly speculating about Huanyin, but there are only a few who are still optimistic that he can continue to pass the sixth floor. After all, no matter how high Huanyin, an "outsider participating in the test", has a high level of talent recognition, he can never be better than their ancestor Lan Yanzi. What's more, to pass the sixth floor, you need to identify another 100,000 materials, which I'm afraid no one can bear.
However, if these cultivators of Yijianfeng knew that Huanyin had not only completed the requirements of passing the test since he broke through the first floor of the tower, but also completely identified the materials of an entire floor every time, they would definitely be shocked countless times more than they are now.
Huanyin has loved reading since he was a child, and his pursuit of knowledge has not changed to this day. So for Huanyin now, swordmaking has long become his interest. Especially for identifying materials, every time he can get to know a new material through classics, he will be very excited. So in fact, although the test in the Nine-Layered Pagoda is like torture for most weapon cultivators, it is a rare learning opportunity for Huanyin.
Huan Yin likes the assessment in the Nine-Layer Pagoda, so for him, the mental loss caused by participating in this assessment is not that great. In addition, he is of the best character, so the pressure he can withstand in the assessment of the Nine-Layer Pagoda is naturally far greater than any other cultivator. This is why Huan Yin has been able to persist until now and can still continue.
As time passed, more and more disciples of Yijian Peak came to the Nine-Layer Pagoda, because three hours had passed and Huan Yin had not come out yet. You know, if he didn't come out, he didn't fail. So, they were all looking forward to whether they could witness a miracle.
In the crowd at this moment, there was an outstanding young man standing. He was tied up in black clothes, with an unsheathed blood sword on his back, staring at the word "Huan Yin" that appeared in the blue light column representing the fifth floor.
This young man was Yue Qingfeng. He knew that the "Huan Yin" in the light column was the Huan Yin who had frustrated him repeatedly. Because he knew that Huan Yin, this "waste", had an amazingly good character and was of the best. Perhaps only a person of the highest quality could have fought in the tower until now without coming out.
Moreover, he felt that only Huan Yin had such ability to be admired by everyone and to attract everyone's attention. Although Yue Qingfeng was unwilling to accept this fact, as long as Huan Yin was there, his glory would be overshadowed.
Yue Qingfeng was now just an assistant teacher, an assistant teacher who had never thought of participating in the weapon master selection test. Because he had only been a disciple of Yijianfeng for a few years, no one could become a weapon master within a few years.
"You want to become a weapon master in your teens, how is that possible! Did Sister Yu choose you because you have surpassed me in every aspect?" Yue Qingfeng clenched his fists tightly and said in words that only he could hear.
I don't know since when, the "waste" at the Immortal Fate Conference, the little boy who made himself disdainful, has grown to the point where he looked up to him, making him, who has always been the focus of everyone, a spectator of this boy.