Trial of Strange Fire
Qian Luo no longer paid attention to what was happening over there with Zhang Yong, and focused her attention on the monster in the cave in front of her.
"This isn't a demon beast, it's a spirit beast guarding a strange fire. Bred by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, it's extremely difficult to reproduce. It's hard to find any trace of it here, so it must have come from another continent."
"This spirit beast is called the Blazing Sun Flame Beast, and it loves to absorb strange fire."
Qian Ruixue patiently explained, "This beast is glowing red, with clouds of flames burning around it. Anyone who gets close to it will be burned by its flames."
Qianluo was very surprised when she heard this and looked at him in surprise: "How do you know so much?"
Qian Ruixue was stunned for a moment, then pulled the two of them back and hid in a gap nearby: "It was Zhang Yong's voice that woke it up. It will definitely look in the direction of the sound soon, and then you can take the opportunity to go in."
However, no one expected that the Sun Flame Beast was so attached to the strange fire treasure. When it heard the noise outside, it just raised its head and made a "snoring" sound, but was unwilling to leave the strange fire for a moment.
Its entire body is fiery red, the flames burning like flowing clouds, its eyes are very much like those of cattle and sheep, revealing clear stupidity, and it looks like a cub, no wonder it treasures the strange fire so much.
There was a look of great confusion in its beautiful eyes, perhaps wondering who had disturbed its dream. It smacked its lips and continued to sleep.
Qian Ruixue pondered: "...Is there fire?"
Qianluo took out an unused Firestorm Talisman, then put it away like a treasure. "The Firestorm Talisman is much more powerful than our Fireball Techniques. Why don't you use Fireball Technique to draw it out?"
Qian Ruixue felt that her stinginess was very similar to that of the Sunfire Beast: "Okay, I'll lure it out, and you take the opportunity to get the fire."
Qianluo stopped him and said, "Wait, how can you be sure that it won't carry any strange fire with it?"
Qian Ruixue sighed and patiently explained, "The strange fire is extremely powerful, and ordinary Sun Flame Beasts would never carry it with them. Although they are flame beasts, they are also afraid of being burned by the strange fire, so they can only stay near the strange fire and carefully absorb it from time to time."
This statement makes Qianluo seem shallow in knowledge and a frog in a well.
"Okay, then you go and lead them away."
As soon as she finished speaking, Qian Ruixue's figure disappeared from her sight and landed at the entrance of the cave. The Sun Flame Beast stood up vigilantly when it saw the person coming and sprayed a red flame at him.
The flames shot up into the sky, so powerful!
The flame is about three meters long, and the residual heat can be felt even from such a long distance, which shows that the Sun Flame Beast is quite powerful.
Moreover, this is just a cub, and we don’t know if his parents or family are nearby. If he encounters a large sun-flame tree, how can he escape?
In the Sims, all of their group died under the flames of this cub. If the family came again, they could find a place to bury it.
Qian Ruixue used fireball magic to attract the cub's attention. Sure enough, the greedy Sunflame Beast stopped spitting out flames, but instead stared at the ball of fire in his hand.
Its eyes look in the direction the fireball is pointing.
The boy's voice was low and hoarse, hinting at temptation: "Come here."
The Sunfire Beast seemed bewildered. It couldn't help but step out of the cave it had guarded for many years and followed the human monk step by step.
Good opportunity!
She saw the Sunflame Beast disappear nearby, and immediately jumped out and walked into the cave.
There was no extra decoration in the cave, only a white jade standing there with a ball of purple flame hanging in the air.
This ball of purple flame does not look like the powerful strange fire described by everyone. It seems to have no attack power and there is no feeling of heat wave.
If the Sunflame Beast wasn't so precious, she would have suspected whether this ball of purple flame was fake.
"What on earth is this?"
"Why can't I feel any heat?"
At the critical point of seizing the fire, she felt something was very strange and had to use her last simulation chance!
[This simulation consumed 1 point, 0 simulation opportunities remaining, and 0 points remaining.]
Start simulation
At 18, you finally found the Strange Fire, but after a while, you discovered that it had lost its warmth. Suspicious, you reached out to touch it, but unexpectedly entered the Strange Fire Trial Space.
[Three days later, you failed in the strange fire trial and unfortunately passed away.]
[After the simulation is over, you can choose one of the options to convert.]
[Choose 1, 18-year-old cultivation level]
[Select 2, 18-year-old training items]
[Select 3, 18-year-old life memory]
It turned out to be the Strange Fire Trial. As expected, treasures aren't easy to come by, but what exactly happened during the Strange Fire Trial? Why did she die?
She didn't believe that with her determination she couldn't break through the strange fire trial.
She chose [Life Memories], and in an instant, all her memories flooded into her mind.
It turns out that the so-called strange fire trial actually requires passing three levels, otherwise the strange fire will not recognize you as its master.
The first one is that true gold is not afraid of fire, which means that only those who are not afraid of fire can obtain the strange fire. No matter how many heat waves or flames you experience, you must endure it on your own.
The second is the illusion of strange fire. In the illusion, people who have obtained the strange fire are immersed in great joy. After they come out of the cave, they will go out to enjoy special treatment, but they don’t expect that they have actually lost themselves in the illusion and finally burnt themselves to death.
The third level is the Soul Trial, the most difficult, as it's neither an illusion nor reality. Or perhaps it's both. This level is complex, and passing it requires burning one's soul.
This level is different from the first level's determination and the second level's greed. It tests the most vulnerable part of a person's life, the past that they dare not recall. Therefore, it is both an illusion and reality, because what is presented is the facts that happened to you in the past.
Qian Luo was defeated at the third level, because the third level showed her a past that she would never dare to recall and a future that she would never dare to predict, that is, the death of Grandma Qian and the passing of Qian Ruixue.
Grandma Qian’s death was an established fact, but Qian Ruixue’s death also appeared in the illusion, which made her unable to distinguish between illusion and reality, directly hitting her soul and causing her spirit to be extinguished.
Grandma Qian and Qian Ruixue are the two most important people in her life. They are her family, the family she lives with.
She couldn't abandon her family!
She must get the strange fire, and Zhang Yong and his group are still eyeing it covetously!
Qianluo calmed down, took a deep breath, and reached out to grasp the purple flame.
At the same time, a purple light burst out!
The wind blew up the girl's messy hair, revealing her smooth forehead and illuminating the amber pupils in her eyes. The bright light was comparable to the sun and the moon, and it was as radiant as the golden sun, shining brightly!
The Trial of Strange Fire begins!
At the first level, she once again experienced the raging flames in her memory. They were thousands of feet high and unbearably hot. The flames before her were like a boundless chasm that she could not cross no matter what she did.
She could feel the heat in her body growing higher and higher. The flames almost burned her clothes and hair, and even penetrated into her mouth and nose. Her whole body was covered with burning purple flames.
It was like the fireworks from hell, emitting the color of the underworld, as empty as the ghosts of hell, appearing to be one after another, but in fact it could burn the skin and flesh, and burn the lungs!
She almost curled up, frowning.
Tell yourself not to be afraid, because the more afraid you are, the faster it will burn and the higher the temperature will be. The strange fire will not recognize such a master.
She gradually relaxed, the temperature was no longer scorching, and the purple flames also diminished. She relaxed her hands and feet and stood up from the ground. In the end, the purple flames had no temperature to her, like water.
In this empty space, purple flames lit up the road ahead.
She is no longer a burning flame, but a guiding light.
The second level was to test the owner's greed. Getting rich overnight was the dream of everyone in the Lower Three Districts, longing for the day they would find a treasure or encounter a great opportunity to rise to prominence.
But for Qianluo, this illusion was similar to the Bagua maze she had encountered in the cave before, both of which were designed to confuse the other party's mind and cause him to die from greed.
So she passed this level easily.
The third level is here.
The level she feared the most was in [Life Memories]. After witnessing the passing of Grandma Qian and the sudden death of Qian Ruixue, she was in so much pain that she lost her heart and died in flames.
But now she knows all the trial methods, she will definitely be able to pass it!
"Xiao Luo, Xiao Luo..."
Who is calling her nickname?
Qianluo's eyes suddenly became unfocused and her thoughts became confused.
She looked in the direction of the sound and saw a kind-looking old lady appear in the void ahead. She had silver hair and a kind face. She was wearing patched old clothes. She hugged the baby in front of her and smiled: "From now on, your name will be Xiaoluo. Take my last name, so how about Qianluo?"
The little girl giggled, and the old woman, who had been lonely for many years, found the meaning of life at this moment: "Xiaoluo, my good child, grandma will definitely raise you!"
It was Grandma Qian, and the scene changed.
She was combing the little girl's hair. "Xiaoluo, we're going to have our spiritual roots tested tomorrow. Are you afraid?"
The little girl was adorable, puffing out her cheeks. "Don't be afraid! What five spiritual roots? Four spiritual roots? I'm so smart and cute, I must have natural spiritual roots or dual spiritual roots!"
She held the little girl in her arms and sent her to the ancestral hall to test her spiritual roots: "Okay, okay, our little Luo is the smartest!"
Three minutes later, she hugged the little girl, tears in her eyes: "It's okay, five spiritual roots are not bad, grandma also has five spiritual roots, isn't she still alive and well?"
The scene changes and the little girl is already ten years old.
This was her tenth birthday, and the old man prepared longevity noodles and a birthday cake for her. Although his life was already very difficult and he was wearing patched clothes, he still had money to buy these things.
In order to support Qianluo and Qian Ruixue, the elderly woman went out to pick up garbage and do rough labor, doing the hard labor that middle-aged men were unwilling to do. She only earned 10 spirit beads an hour, and at the end of the day, she had to work 10 hours to earn 100 spirit beads.
And these things cost her three days' wages.
"Grandma, your hand..."
She put her chapped hands behind her back and wiped away her tears: "Xiaoluo, blow out the candles quickly. Today is your 10th birthday. Grandma is so happy today. 10 years ago, you were just a baby in my arms, and now you've grown up so big."
The old woman's tears streamed down her wrinkles. Everyone thought she was crying for joy, but only she knew that her time had come and she would never see Xiao Luo again.
The last scene is when Grandma Qian is passing away. She strokes the girl's hand over and over again, praying that she will live a hundred years without worries.
Grandma Qian's voice rang in her ears. It turned out that this was what she was thinking.
"What should I do with my little Luo? She is so small and so cute."
"Old Ancestor, our little Luo has five spiritual roots and is a girl, so there are many difficulties."
"If I could use the last bit of my life, I would be willing to exchange it for Xiao Luo's bright future."
Her old and kind eyes looked at her gently like the compassionate Buddha: "Xiao Luo, Xiao Luo."
Qianluo couldn't hold back any longer and stepped forward to grasp this last memory.
She made a shrill sound: "Grandma!!!"
The world was spinning, and scenes of memories appeared before her eyes, like a movie played in reverse, over and over again.
"Xiao Luo."
"Test your spiritual roots."
"Birthday."
"A hundred years without worries."
"Xiao Luo, Xiao Luo, Xiao Luo..."
Qianluo was in so much pain when she saw these scenes that she completely forgot that it was an illusion. She forgot everything and only remembered the times she had spent with her grandmother.
With a "boom", a purple flame suddenly appeared, flashing a dim light, like a lotus blooming in the empty space.
At this moment, a voice suddenly appeared, mysterious and unpredictable.
"You Ming Zi Yan and your family, what do you choose?"
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