Li Shiming came to the giant drum. The drum did not look big in the sky, but when he really stood in front of it, he would find that the diameter of the drum surface alone was three meters.
His divine sense fell on the giant drum and checked its condition.
The skin of the giant drum is made of an unknown creature, and there are natural runes on the surface of the skin. The drum body is made of fourth-grade spiritual wood, and the drum stand is made of the bones of powerful creatures.
The drumstick next to the giant drum is a long bone. Both the giant drum and the drumstick have reached the fourth level of aura.
Although this giant drum had not been refined into a magic weapon, he had heard Asura beat the giant drum and knew that the power of the giant drum was extremely terrifying.
He tried it and put the giant drum into his own space item.
He had inherited the legacy of the Six-Fingered Sound Demon. Although the Six-Fingered Sound Demon's major was the zither, he had also dabbled in other musical instruments.
Therefore, this giant drum is still of some use to him, especially of this grade. A fourth-grade giant drum is definitely a top treasure in the Northern Shu Continent.
After Li Shiming received the giant drum, he had some greedy thoughts. Since Asura could not find him, he flew around in this space, trying to find another giant drum with Asura next to it.
Obviously, the fact that this single giant drum was discovered must be due to something going on with the Asura here. He spent quite a bit of time and still couldn't find any other giant drum.
Finally he found the palace here, but he did not see any Asuras around the palace.
But as he approached the palace, he understood why there were no Asuras guarding it.
The palace was pitch black with intricate reliefs on it. He didn't know if it was the palace itself or the reliefs, but when he was a hundred meters away from the palace, he felt a terrifying pressure.
In his perception, this pressure was even many times greater than that emitted by the Nascent Soul Patriarch.
However, the pressure from the Yuanying Patriarch not only has an effect on the mind, but also on the physical body.
The pressure emanating from the palace has an effect purely on the spiritual level.
On the spiritual level, Li Shiming's ability to endure is extremely strong. He has one hundred and ninety-one brains to share the mental pressure.
No matter how strong the mental pressure is, when it is reduced to one hundred and ninety-first, the damage it can cause is reduced to the extreme.
So even though Li Shiming felt the pressure from the palace was very strong, he still walked towards the palace gate.
The first one who couldn't bear it was the Heavenly Ghost. The Heavenly Ghost signaled to him that the Heavenly Ghost was almost invulnerable, but this did not include attacks on the spiritual level.
Even with the weakening of the Heavenly Demon's outer shell, the Heavenly Ghost itself is only of the third rank, and will not be able to handle the mental suppression if it exceeds its tolerance.
Li Shiming's mind moved, and he put the Sky Ghost into the computer room.
He walked towards the palace gate step by step. With every step he took, the pressure from the palace increased.
When he was one meter away from the palace gate, he felt that he had reached his limit. The mental pressure weakened to one hundred and ninety-first, but the pressure generated by the palace in front of him was too strong.
He didn't even think about the fact that this was a cave heaven set up by a great Mahayana master to select successors, and the only one who could catch the eyes of a great Mahayana master was an ancestor in the Nascent Soul stage.
Since he has to choose, he won’t be an ordinary Nascent Soul stage ancestor.
Besides, according to the judgment of the master of this room, Zhai Ge, a Nascent Soul ancestor with weak strength would find it difficult to reach the pinnacle even if he inherited his legacy, and he would not be able to keep this inheritance.
Therefore, all the tests here are carried out according to the standards of the top geniuses among Nascent Soul cultivators.
Who would have thought that Li Shiming took advantage of one loophole after another and actually reached the fourth level, passing it with only one meter left.
He looked up and could see the plaque above the gate, which read 'Asura'.
Li Shiming didn't dare to move forward. His life-saving magic weapon IBMz15 sent a warning. If the mental pressure increased further, IBMz15 would not be able to bear it and would collapse.
He looked at the last meter and thought of a possibility.
Without any hesitation, he took out the fourth-grade meridian-locking disk, sat on top of the fourth-grade meridian-locking disk, and his Nascent Soul-level spiritual vein was opened.
He started to practice the 'Five Rhythms Qi Training Art' here. He had sensed the loosening of the bottleneck in his promotion long before. Now, by practicing the 'Five Rhythms Qi Training Art', the bottleneck in his body was immediately broken.
A large amount of spiritual energy poured into his body, and the five golden elixirs greedily absorbed the spiritual energy. When it reached a critical point, the five golden elixirs shook together, and the quality of the golden elixir improved.
Right in front of the Ashura Palace, he was promoted to a late Jindan cultivator.
After being promoted to a late Jindan cultivator, his ability to withstand mental stress improved somewhat.
Because he had just been promoted, only one tenth of the spiritual power in his body remained. However, his spiritual power was more condensed and its power had increased several times.
If he were to fight now, to be honest, he might not be as strong as before. He could only fight for a short time. Once the battle lasted too long, his spiritual power would not be enough to meet the needs of the battle.
But fortunately, he did not need to fight. With the help of his mental endurance improved to the late Jindan stage, and after calculations by his life-long magic weapon IBMz15, he took the last step, which was also the last meter.
He only felt as if a huge mountain was pressing down on his spirit. If this pressure continued for more than two breaths, he would not be able to bear it.
He didn't need to endure more than two breaths. After taking this step, he entered the gate.
As soon as he entered the gate, he felt a sense of relief, and all his mental stress disappeared.
He looked back outside the door, shook his head with lingering fear, and breathed a sigh of relief.
If the test outside the palace was one meter longer, he would not have been able to pass it.
"If I hadn't received the spiritual energy reward before, I might have to wait until the Nascent Soul ancestors came!" Li Shiming thought with emotion.
Of course, joining up with the Nascent Soul ancestors is the worst option, even though he is the best alchemy master in the Northern Shu Continent and can provide the Nascent Soul ancestors with the best alchemy.
But he didn't know whether the Yuanying ancestors would capture him and search his soul for the gains in this cave.
You know, even if he really took out the rewards he got from the cave, the Yuanying ancestors would wonder if he was hiding something.
The reward from the cave is not an ordinary spiritual object, but something that even the Nascent Soul ancestors are jealous of. It is also related to Li Shiming's future cultivation, so he doesn't want to give it out.
He originally thought that the spiritual energy reward he got in the second level was the worst, but only then did he realize that without the reward for the second level, he would not be able to pass this level at all.
It was because IBM z15 absorbed a large amount of spiritual energy that the 190 CPU virtual brains had their own spiritual energy, which enabled it to withstand such terrifying mental pressure.
Li Shiming observed the hall and found another space door in the middle.
On the surrounding walls were the glorious history of the Asura clan. The scenes of war and death made him feel manic.
He looked away, everything here was too strange. He had previously thought that Asura was fake, but the reliefs in this palace showed extremely detailed history.
The natal magic weapon IBMz15 recorded everything in the hall and used it as material for future research.
He did not stay here for long and entered the space gate.
When Li Shiming appeared in the familiar room, his body suddenly stepped back, frightened by what he saw.
Anyone who has seen Asura would react the same way, or even more violently, if an Asura suddenly appears in front of them.
He calmed himself down, and through his Divine Vision he discovered that the Asura in front of him was blocked by a restriction.
This reminded him of the protection measures for the reward items. The protection measures for this Asura were the same as the previous reward items.
"Congratulations on passing 'Asura'. You are the first person to pass the test of 'Asura' and you will receive a reward!" As he was thinking, an emotionless voice came.
Li Shiming looked at the restrictions on the Asura in front of him with some fear as they disappeared. He was afraid that the Asura in front of him would attack him.
Although it was very unlikely that the rewarded Ashura would attack him, the appearance of such a mythical being before his eyes still made him unable to suppress his instinctive fear.
Asura was motionless, seemingly lifeless.
In fact, in Li Shiming's perception, Asura does not seem to be alive.
He tried to use his divine sense to probe into the past. When his divine sense came into contact with Asura, he discovered that this Asura was indeed not a living being. A message was transmitted back from his divine sense.
This is a puppet made from the body of Asura. Only monks who have passed the test of Asura Palace can drive it. If a monk whose spirit is weaker than this standard is forced to drive it, his spirit will be backfired.
Li Shiming woke up from the joy of obtaining such a powerful puppet. He passed the test of Asura Palace by cheating, which did not mean that his spirit had reached the standard.
In other words, the Asura Puppet he obtained, like the Ghost Bracelet and the Blood of the Body Refining Master before, can only be looked at. It is unknown how long it will take before he can use it.
He couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head. This cave was too advanced.
He put the Asura puppet into the mustard seed ring, and then he was teleported out.
Just when he thought he was about to arrive at another space, he suddenly found himself in a hall, and the space gate was not far in front of him.
"Is this level so easy?" Li Shiming said to himself in surprise.
The previous tests were all held in huge spaces, which were almost equivalent to a world.
And this time's test, you only need to walk the distance in front of you to enter the space gate.
Before he left, he took a look at the layout of the hall.
The walls, the ground, and the dome are all covered with human faces, old and young, male and female, some laughing, some sad, some crying, some angry, some worried, some with greed on their faces, and some with surprise in their eyes.
It seemed as if all the emotions in the world appeared on the faces of the people in the hall.
"This is 'humanity'!" Li Shiming understood a little.
He took a step forward and the scene in front of him changed. He turned into a newborn baby, being held in the arms of a young woman, with a handsome man standing next to him.
A strange energy was clouding his consciousness, but his life-saving magic weapon IBMz15 was blocking this strange energy.
If this strange energy succeeded in clouding his consciousness, he would become that baby and be trapped in its life.
Because his consciousness was not obscured, only one day after he became a baby, the world before his eyes was shattered.
At this moment, Li Shiming took a step just right. According to the calculation of his life-saving magic weapon IBMz15, only a breath of time had passed.
Li Shiming knew that he had just fallen into an illusion, but the illusion was too real. If his consciousness was really blinded by the strange energy, perhaps that would be his real life.
He didn't understand the meaning of this test, but with his life-saving magic weapon IBM z15, he boldly took the second step.
In the second step, the scene in front of his eyes changed again. This time he became a beggar. The strange energy appeared again, trying to cloud his consciousness, but it failed again.
Another day passed, the world was shattered, and he returned to reality and took the second step.
Then with every step, he would change his identity and enter a new world.
He has become a scholar, an official, an emperor, a farmer, a bandit, a knight, etc. However, due to the existence of his natal magic weapon IBMz15, he can stay sober every time he enters. He knows who he is and will not take on these identities.
After ten steps in total, he entered the space gate.
Li Shiming did not realize the difficulty of the test of humanity, but in fact this test was more difficult than the previous ones.
As for the previous tests, as long as you find the right method and have enough strength, you can pass the test.
But this level is a test of one's heart. The test will send the monks into one illusion after another. These illusions, combined with the power of the Palace of Humanity, will make the monks who enter the illusion forget everything about themselves and become the identity arranged by the illusion.
The identity arranged by the illusion will encounter countless tests, and these tests are conducted from various aspects of human nature. Once lost in them, you will fail the test, lose yourself forever, and turn into a human face on the wall of the hall.
Li Shiming appeared in the room for receiving rewards. He saw a dark golden jade slip protected by a ban on the table in front of him.
"This is a jade slip of martial arts techniques!" He frowned slightly, not showing much joy.
He is not bad at martial arts. The 'Five Rhythms Qi Training Technique' he is currently practicing is the most advanced martial art. In terms of body training techniques, he has the 'Taiqing Black Turtle Technique'.
Most importantly, the condition of the five golden elixirs in his body made it impossible for him to practice other skills.
"Congratulations on passing 'Humanity'. You are the first person to pass the test of 'Humanity' and you will receive a reward!" An emotionless voice came.
Sure enough, as the restriction on the dark golden jade slip on the table in front of him disappeared, the reward this time was this dark golden jade slip.
Although he was reluctant, this was the only reward. Besides, the skills that a great Mahayana master could bring out must be of extremely high quality, and might be useful in the future.
Li Shiming reached out and picked up the dark golden jade slip. Just as he put it away, he was sent out of the reward room.