About half an hour later, everyone saw a circle of azure light from the thick snow mist, like a crown on the mountain peak.
The spring flowers were blooming in the mountain peak, and the temperature was pleasant. It was obvious that this place was unusual.
This was the "trial ground" that was passed down by word of mouth among the magic warriors.
Everyone landed steadily on the thick grass on the top of the mountain. Chu Feng was about to put Si Qi down, but Si Qi shook his head and said, "My feet can't touch the ground. You see, there is grass here."
Chu Feng froze.
Si Qi laughed and said, "Just hold me."
After that, he unbuttoned his slightly hot mink coat, clung to Chu Feng like a boneless person, and whispered in his ear, "You will protect me, right?"
Chu Feng's ears seemed to be burned by fire and turned red silently. Just as Si Qi was about to point it out, someone in front found the entrance to the trial ground. It was a dark, damp cave with only a few fungi emitting fluorescent light.
A group of people hurried over.
Si Qi followed the team and was led into the cave by Chu Feng. This environment, which was extremely clear to the magic warriors, was so dim that Si Qi could only vaguely see a vague human figure.
Unfortunately, he could not see Chu Feng blushing because of his teasing.
Everyone walked forward slowly, always alert to the movements around them.
Although Si Qi could not see, he could get a lot of information in the dark based on the voices of people around him.
"It's a scorpion!"
"Fuck! The shell is so damn hard!"
"Why are there so many burnt corpses?"
"Someone came here before. Look at the footprints on the moss. They have all stepped into puddles."
The startled conversations echoed in the crowd, and the tense atmosphere lingered in everyone's heart. Si Qi lay in Chu Feng's arms, staring at the fluorescence around him. The dark cave was like the night sky, and the fluorescence emitted by the fungi was the stars in the sky.
He suddenly said, "Stop."
The noisy voices around him suddenly quieted down. Chu Feng stopped, and so did the others.
Everyone held their breath and listened carefully to Si Qi's next words.
Si Qi paused for a long time on purpose, bringing everyone's tension to the highest point, and then pointed to the high and deep cliff in the distance with a curious and joyful tone, and said coquettishly: "The flowers are so beautiful, like stars, pick them for me~~~"
Everyone: "…………"
They looked down at the dark cliff that seemed to lead directly to hell, and the gorgeous and charming sea of flowers that looked like a cluster of bright stars.
This scenery is indeed so beautiful that it makes people intoxicated, but it is more like the Lycoris radiata blooming on the other side of the underworld, and the sea of death flowers growing on the miserable white corpses. If you want to get it, you have to pay the price of your life.
Chu Feng looked down at the cliff that stretched straight down and there was no point of support.
He said to Si Qi, "I'll go alone." Si Qi hugged Chu Feng's waist tightly and said, "No, I want to go down and take a closer look at the sea of flowers."
Chu Feng didn't say much. He lifted Si Qi from his arms to his back and said, "Hold tight."
Huang Bo hurriedly said, "Master! It's too dangerous. You should stay up there!"
Si Qi said rudely, "If you know it's dangerous, then I'll go down with you?"
Huang Bo's face turned green when he heard this.
"This..."
Si Qi patted Chu Feng's shoulder. Chu Feng stood with his back to the cliff, and then jumped back without hesitation.
Everyone screamed and rushed to the edge of the cliff to look down nervously.
In the next second, many flying knives appeared between Chu Feng's fingers and flung towards the stone wall below.
The flying knives pierced steadily into the extremely hard stone wall and were stepped on by Chu Feng's toes, followed by the second, third, and fourth knives.
After a while, Chu Feng reached the deepest part of the cliff and stood opposite the sea of flowers. Without asking Si Qi how to pick them, he took out a silver instrument, cut off the main trunk below the flower, put one in Si Qi's hand, and kept one for himself.
Then, he threw the silver instrument into the sea of flowers for future generations to use.
Si Qi smiled and said, "I was wondering why you were so cooperative this time. It turns out that you know this flower."
Chu Feng: "Yes, but I didn't notice anything wrong until you pointed it out to me."
Chu Feng raised his head and looked at the darkness above. His eyes fell silently on the faces of the guest officials who were expressionless and didn't worry about Si Qi's safety at all, but he knew what was going on.
The air flow under his feet carried his body to lightly jump onto the flying knife, and returned to the original place in a few breaths.
Huang Bo and others quickly surrounded him, and immediately asked Si Qi about his well-being with both heartache and anxiety, and then were impatiently driven away by Si Qi.
The magic warriors nearby witnessed the whole process of picking flowers. After hesitating for a moment, they didn't say anything extra. With cold sweat on their foreheads, they bravely jumped down.
Some people were not strong enough, and they shouted in panic as soon as they jumped down. They fell to the bottom of the cliff in one breath, and there was no sound after a short scream.
Others jumped down carefully, and soon climbed up with a crystal white flower that was incompatible with their temperament.
Some people really didn't dare to gamble with their lives. They stood hesitantly on the edge of the cliff, begging the people around them, hoping that they could bring them a flower.
But everyone was a competitor, so no one would pay attention to him. He rolled his eyes and walked away.
Huang Bo and others watched the farce quietly and did not participate in it.
It is common for Si Qi to like flowers, gems, and gorgeous clothes. In the past, the Si family spent a lot of money and resources to collect these flashy things. Everyone complained, but could do nothing about it. Only this group of people would really take Si Qi's spur of the moment seriously and risk their lives to pick a useless white flower.
The person who got the flower pinned the flower on his waist and continued to walk forward behind Chu Xun. The crystal clear flowers were like stars, moving slowly in this dark and mysterious cave, like the Milky Way coming towards you, romantic and charming.
Many men who do not understand romance found themselves in this galaxy, muttering, "It's quite beautiful..."
Many people nodded in agreement, and for the first time felt the beauty that the original owner had always pursued but had never been recognized by anyone.
At this moment, a strange sound suddenly came from the front. Many people with excellent hearing consciously slowed down their steps, put their palms on their weapons, and calmed down at the same time.
A moment later, the crowd in the darkness deep in the cave collided head-on with the team with fluorescent lights behind them.
The people in the dark were obviously stunned, wondering why these guys in front of them were wearing a flower.
A moment later, the person on the opposite side suddenly said, "Hey, isn't that the guy being held Si Qi?"
Under the light of the flower, more and more people clearly saw Si Qi being held in Chu Xun's arms. So there were more and more similar voices, and everyone seemed to have a slight commotion because of his appearance.
This strange reaction made Si Qi raise his eyebrows, and he had a vague guess in his heart.
Sure enough, someone turned around and said, "Brother Si, your elder brother is here!"
Others saw the masters wearing the uniforms of the unified family around Si Qi, and Chu Feng who was holding Si Qi in his arms, and couldn't help but said in a gloomy tone, "You can't even walk, and you still need someone to hold you. Is your leg broken?"
"I really don't know what mortals are doing in a place like this. Is it embarrassing?"
"The younger brother with potential and courage has to fight alone, while the weak and incompetent waste is protected so well. The future of the Si family is really worrying!"
Si Qi's mouth curled up a smile, and his lazy tone made people shudder, "Why, barking so loudly, are you afraid that you will live too long?"
His face turned cold, and he ordered the guests around him: "Kill them for me!"
As soon as these words came out, the group of people who were cursing on the opposite side suddenly quieted down, and they were so scared that they quickly drew their knives and took a defensive posture.
Si Qi smiled and said: "Go on, keep talking, whoever speaks first, I will chop you into 180 pieces and throw you out to make flower fertilizer!"
As soon as these words came out, those who wanted to speak didn't know how to speak.
Instead, the guests standing behind Si Qi tried to persuade him to stay in harmony, saying, "Young Master, this is not good. How can you kill people at will?"
"Yes, Young Master, we can't do such a thing."
"The secret realm is too dangerous. We can't make enemies at will."
Seeing the attitude of the Si family's guests, the group on the opposite side immediately became arrogant and sneered, "Si Qi, do you think you can do whatever you want just because you are the young master of the Si family? Compared with Si Wu, your character is completely different! Pah!"
"That's..." Si Qi said slowly, "After seeing you, Si Wu was insulted by you, but he kept silent and let you belittle him. He is indeed as different as heaven and earth from me."
The group of people were so angry, "When have we ever insulted Brother Si!"
"Brother Si is far superior to you in terms of character and ability! I respect him as a person and feel sorry for him! Why is it that a waste like you is protected by a group of masters, but brother Si can't even bring a helper and can only enter the secret realm to adventure alone! Who do you think you are?"
"If it weren't for Si Wu leading us through those dangerous situations, how could we have only injured so few people!"
"Danger?" Si Qi laughed out loud, "Ha! Then I really need to broaden my horizons. What kind of danger is this!"
The group of people were simply furious with Si Qi's boastful remarks, but when they saw so many guests around Si Qi, and thought about Si Qi's character of killing people at the slightest disagreement, they just endured it and didn't say anything more.
I just felt a little choked up in my heart, thinking about how Si Qi would die when I encountered danger later.
The two of them walked in the cave in a clear and distinct way. Soon, thousands of thorns densely crawled all over the cave in front of them, and the sharp needles like knives could be seen with purple-black mucus toxins on the top.
If you want to pass this area, you must deal with these things.
Si Wu was worthy of being the most popular magic warrior in the past two years. He immediately stepped forward without hesitation, raised the big sword in his hand, and encouraged in a passionate tone: "Brothers, follow me to kill--!!"
"Kill!" A group of people followed with a roar, and saw Si Wu raising the big sword and swinging it at the ground, blowing up the thorns in front of him and opening up a short passage. Then everyone rushed forward along the passage, holding weapons and fighting bloody battles with the living thorns.
The sounds of fighting in the darkness were thrilling. From time to time, one could see the radiance of martial arts flashing in the darkness. Si Qi leaned in Chu Feng's arms and watched from the sidelines. Seeing Si Wu's situation, the guests could not help but say to Si Qi, "Young Master..."
"No hurry, you stay here and don't do anything." Si Qi glanced at the group of people and said slowly, "After all, your mission is to protect me, isn't it? Do your own duty well."
"…………"
The group of people in front fought bloody battles for more than ten minutes before they forcibly killed a path in this cave full of thorns.
After they broke through, the thorns on the rock wall crawled to the ground, devouring the bodies that died tragically.
Following Si Qi, the people wearing flowers quickly ran after him, taking advantage of the situation.
After repeating this process several times, the people in front were exhausted from following Si Wu, but the flower team behind them was fine. This contrast made the people in front very angry, and they said angrily: "Fuck! You guys are using me like a knife! I'm done with it!"
Si Wu comforted them: "The content of the trial falls on everyone fairly, and we can't do it for them. The harder we work, the more the secret realm will favor us, and everything is worth it."
Although this is the truth, the fire in my heart can't be suppressed. He couldn't help but provoke Si Qi and the others, "You guys, you've become cowards by following the soft-footed shrimp! Do you dare to rush to the front like Brother Si!"
The Flower Team's faces turned red with anger, "Shut up! What do you know!"
A group of people quarreled with each other and came to the next corner. The irregular spurting of scorching flames and spikes covered the entire tunnel, which made people's scalp tingle just by looking at it.
This time the people around Si Wu were amused and said with a sneer, "Ha, let's see how you take advantage!"
Si Wu was the first to step forward and said, "I'll go first, brothers can refer to my route of action and come over here!"
It was because of Si Wu's style of taking the lead in everything that these careless and rough-hewn talents had become so close to him in just one day. They were moved and said, "Take care, brother Si!"
Si Wu's strength was indeed very good. A group of people nervously watched Si Wu break into this section of the agency road where one could die on the spot if they were not careful. His movements were neat, bold and careful throughout the whole process, which made people sweat in their palms, but at the same time, they couldn't help but cheer for him.
Three minutes later, Si Wu arrived safely on the other side, and the group of people were extremely happy.
"Good! Brother Si has already made it through, and I can't fall too far behind!" A strong man shouted excitedly, and followed Si Wu's example and rushed into the sea of fire. In the first few steps, he narrowly avoided the gushing flames, but in the last few steps, he was obviously unable to do so. At a certain moment, he was hit by the sudden flames above his head, and he didn't even have time to scream. He just disappeared, leaving only a little bit of scattered black residue falling from the air.
The faces of the people waiting there changed slightly, but no one was afraid. They roared, "We can't keep Brother Si waiting for too long!" and
rushed over immediately.
Then it was the third person, the fourth person, until everyone had passed.
The members of the Flower Team swallowed their saliva and said to Si Qi: "Master Si, we also..."
"What also." Si Qi asked back: "Don't you see that these agencies are very dangerous? And you stupidly rushed over, do you have any common sense?"
A group of people whispered: "But isn't the secret realm full of dangers..."
Uncle Huang stood in the crowd a little anxious.
Si Wu has left their sight. They must protect the safety of Master Si Wu. They must not stay where they are or even go back the same way.
The priority of protecting Si Wu's safety is obviously higher than killing Si Qi.
Of course, it would be better to kill Si Qi while protecting Si Wu's safety.
Huang Bo weighed the pros and cons for a moment, then organized his words and said, "Young Master, you can't inherit without passing the test, so you better hurry over..."
Si Qi turned a deaf ear and said to Chu Feng, "Chu Feng, it's so hot here. I'm wearing so many clothes, I'm almost suffocated. Hurry up and block the fire."
Chu Feng heard the reminder and took a close look at the fire outlet. Sure enough, he saw strange fruits buried in various places in the wall, spewing fierce and hot flames irregularly.
Chu Feng didn't know what kind of fruit this was, but Si Qi mentioned that it would be fine as long as it was blocked. He tapped the ground lightly, and invisible power spread to the front.
The soil near the fruit seemed to have life, slowly wriggling, wrapping the fruit inside and blocking the fire outlet.
In an instant, the flames that were strong enough to burn a strong demon warrior into ashes were turned off just like that, and the people behind couldn't believe it.
"What's going on?"
"What did Senior Chu do?"
Chu Feng understood the reason after seeing the result.
The temperature of the flames here was extremely high, and it was no problem to crack rocks and burn soil, but the wall in front of him was intact, without any problems, and the ground was solid enough to support the feet of warriors walking over, which showed that the soil here was not afraid of fire at all and was the nemesis of this kind of flame.
Si Qi said that using soil to block the flames was undoubtedly the most correct choice, and it was also a simple truth that could be understood by careful thinking, but no one around thought about this. Instead, when they saw danger and difficulties, they subconsciously wanted to follow Si Wu and rush forward.
But from common sense, when encountering danger, one should first avoid it, find a solution, and then go forward when it is safe. This should be the choice a person should make.
Si Qi said coquettishly: "There are still many thorns, Chu Xun, you should break them all quickly."
Chu Xun understood and followed Si Qi's instructions.
A group of people in the back watched Chu Xun dote on Si Qi and did whatever Si Qi said. No matter how outrageous and unreasonable Si Qi's request was, Chu Feng would never refuse it. This tolerant attitude was really enviable.
But at the same time, they, the followers, were lucky. Because Si Qi's request was exactly what everyone was worried about, and Chu Feng was so powerful that he could do anything, so no matter how daunting the test was, Chu Feng could easily crush it. As expected, he
was a strong man who was only one step away from the holy realm, and he really didn't care about this little trouble.
A group of people smiled and easily passed this level that their predecessors had risked their lives to pass, and soon caught up with the people in front who were covered in dust and frightened.
When the group saw Si Qi and the others coming over unscathed, they were stunned and said in disbelief: "You, how did you get here so quickly?"
"And none of you died?"
"That's impossible!" "
How is that impossible?"
A group of people laughed and said, "We have the protection of the great god Chu Feng, how can there be any danger." The
group of people on the opposite side subconsciously looked at Chu Feng, with uncontrollable awe and yearning on their faces.
This world is ultimately advocating force, and the strong are respected.
However, there are many people who flatter and say, "Of course, it's also thanks to our Young Master Si."
"Haha, that's right, it's thanks to Young Master Si!"
Everyone laughed and thanked Si Qi, and the group on the opposite side was puzzled and asked, "What did Si Qi do?"
Uh, yes, what did Si Qi do? The Flower Team was immediately stumped by the question, and refused to answer vaguely. They shouted over, "Why are you asking so many questions? Why do you care so much? You are so long-winded..."
Uncle Huang received Si Wu's inquiring look and said with a smile, "Thanks to the young master for asking Senior Chu to solve those problems, we were able to get here smoothly."
The group of people on the opposite side understood it instantly, and said "Oh~", and glanced at Si Qi with contempt, thinking that Si Qi was indeed a weakling who only knew how to flatter others, a useless piece of shit!
How could such a guy enjoy such good treatment... Haha.
They were not convinced, and went to comfort Si Wu, the biggest victim, with dark faces. Si Wu just smiled helplessly. He stood here "alone", opposite Si Qi who was surrounded and guarded by dozens of guest elders. At first glance, he really looked like a little pitiful.
He comforted the brothers he had just met and led everyone to continue walking down.
Every time was a difficulty, every time was a challenge.
The team in front followed Si Wu and suffered a lot, and finally fought all the way to get here.
Then a group of people stopped in front of a dark door.
"What's wrong with this thing?"
They tried carefully for a long time, but were not attacked by the black door. They wondered, "Is it testing our attack power? Does it want us to destroy it?"
Si Wu suddenly said, "No, look carefully, there are words on the door!"
A guest of the Si family followed up and said, "Yes, and it is ancient characters."
The magic warrior standing next to Si Wu exclaimed, "Brother Si, you even know ancient characters? You are really knowledgeable!"
Si Wu replied humbly, "I have only learned a little bit, and I can understand the general meaning."
"It's amazing that you can understand it. A rough man like me doesn't like reading at all."
"Me too, I feel sleepy when I read."
Chu Feng read the words on the door and found that this was a question to test knowledge reserves, asking people to choose one out of five things, and choose the one that doesn't fit in.
Why did so many dangerous martial arts levels in the front suddenly become literary tests here?
No, that's not right.
Chu Feng reacted.
Those levels that looked like martial arts tests in the front were actually literary tests!
Just like the soil around the flame fruits, as long as you think carefully, you can find a way to crack it. It doesn't take much effort at all.
A group of people talked at once, "So this question is to find the difference?"
"I see that the others look like plants, and the fourth one is a bird. We should choose the bird!"
"What's that look in your eyes? Can that be a bird? It's clearly a phoenix statue!"
"Could it be the color? Except for the second one, the rest seem to be red."
Everyone carefully identified the pattern on the door, and finally agreed that the difference must be chosen based on color.
"The second one?"
"It's definitely the second one."
Si Qi couldn't help but say, "Are you sure it's the second one? Maybe..."
"Don't worry about it, it's the second one!" The guy frowned impatiently, and then the person standing in front of the second pattern seemed to deliberately go against Si Qi, and immediately knocked on the pattern. It seemed that Si Qi's eyes were full of provocation.
Unfortunately, this guy didn't feel proud for long. The next second, his hand that was pressing on the answer fell apart along his body without warning, and soon turned into pieces of the same size of minced meat that fell to the ground.
Everyone was stunned.
"…………"
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