"Welcome to the Volcano Trial Field. The A-level trial begins. The trial rules are as follows..." On a white platform, Li Xiu and Shu Wei stood on both sides of the platform respectively. They were wearing white tights and holding a golf club in their hands. A narrow path that meandered like a snake extended from the platform.
The narrow path is only one meter wide and its length is unknown. There is endless sea on both sides of the narrow path.
At the far end of the narrow path is a black mountain.
The rules are the same as what the Lord of Red Sand City said. There are a total of eighteen holes on this narrow path, and each hole is located on a circular platform with a diameter of four meters.
The distance between each hole ranges from 500 meters to 1,000 meters. Ordinary people simply cannot play that far, so it’s basically a dead end once they come in.
Only with the strength of a trial-taker can one hit the ball so far.
It can be said that ordinary people who participate in the A-level trials here are basically doomed to die.
There are no sand traps or anything like that here. If the ball falls off the winding narrow road, the trial will be considered a failure.
You can only hit the 500-meter hole with three shots at most. If you can't hit it in three shots, it will also be a failure in the trial.
You can only play four strokes on a hole of seven or eight hundred meters, and any failure will result in elimination.
You can hit five shots on a 1,000-meter hole, but the result will be the same if you miss.
After each ball goes into the hole, the next ball will be hit directly on the platform of the hole until all eighteen holes are played.
The difficulty of this trial is enough to basically eliminate ordinary people. Even for the trial-takers, if they don’t have skills and sufficient accuracy, they will basically die.
The only better rule is that all trialists who participate in the trial have absolutely invincible protection, that is, there is no way to attack other trialists during the game, and they can only win by competing.
Li Xiu agreed to participate in the trial because he knew about this rule.
Trial participants are also not allowed to touch other trial participants' balls with their bodies or clubs. That is a violation and will result in a trial failure.
The last rule is that the first trialist to finish eighteen holes wins, and the other trialists will be eliminated.
There are no other rules besides this. Participants can choose to play at any time, and they can pass the trial as long as they complete eighteen holes within the rules.
"Your name is Shu Wei, right?" Li Xiu looked at Shu Wei and asked.
"Yes, what do you want to say?" Shu Wei was very gentle because he knew that Li Xiu was already a dead man.
There are two important points in this trial rule. One is that the ball must be hit accurately, and the other is that the speed must be fast.
Shu Wei has the skill that guarantees he will succeed, so he will definitely succeed; in terms of speed, an A-level trialist is of course much faster than Li Xiu, so Li Xiu has no chance at all.
In Shu Wei's opinion, it was the rules that protected Li Xiu, otherwise he would not have given Li Xiu any chance and would have directly killed him here.
"This is a life-and-death duel, so I can only give it my all. Life and death are all up to fate, and I can't blame anyone. If you have any last words you want to convey to someone, you can say it now." Li Xiu said.
He had no grudges against Shu Wei, but under such rules, he could only use all means to keep himself alive. There was no other way.
However, killing someone who had nothing to do with him was not Li Xiu's original intention, so he wanted to know if Shu Wei had any unfulfilled wishes.
Shu Wei was so angry at Li Xiu's words that he laughed: "There is no way I will lose. To tell you the truth, I have a skill that can score a goal with 100% accuracy, so you will definitely be the one to die. But you don't have to leave any last words, I don't have that much time to meddle in other people's business."
"Then I feel relieved." Li Xiu smiled instead.
"What are you laughing at? Do you think I'm kidding you?" Shu Wei stared at Li Xiu coldly.
"The countdown is about to end. Do you really have nothing to say?" Li Xiu said calmly to Shu Wei.
"Get out! If it weren't for the rules, I would kill you right now." Shu Wei ignored Li Xiu lazily. Seeing that the countdown was about to end, he walked to the batting position, waiting for the trial to begin.
Li Xiu walked to his batting position, raised the club, and made a batting gesture.
The moment the countdown ended, both players swung their clubs and hit the ball almost at the same time, and their balls flew out almost at the same time.
However, Shu Wei's ball flew towards the circular table where the hole was, while Li Xiu's ball seemed to deviate from its trajectory and accelerated into the air.
Shu Wei was still admiring the perfect arc he had hit, but suddenly he saw a ball enter his sight, getting closer and closer to the ball he hit.
Shu Wei's pupils kept shrinking, and the expression on his face became more and more horrified, even distorted.
When the two balls collided in the air, he couldn't help but roar: "What are you doing... You are looking for death..."
He regretted, he was angry, he was at a loss, and he was even more unwilling to accept it.
Li Xiu had clearly reminded him, but he didn't take it to heart at all.
If he could be more careful and let Li Xiu hit the ball first, or if he could hit the ball faster, instead of deliberately pursuing the beauty of the swing and the flight arc of the ball, but swinging with all his strength, the ball Li Xiu swung would not be able to catch up with his ball.
But he was too confident, thinking he had already won, and did not understand the rules at a deeper level.
The test taker cannot touch the other party's ball, nor can he touch the other party's ball with his club, but it does not say that his own ball cannot touch the other party's ball.
But how could Shu Wei have imagined that Li Xiu would use this method?
Trying to hit his ball with it in the air was much more difficult than getting it into the hole.
After all, the hole was fixed and could not move, but his ball was flying fast in the air. Li Xiu was not holding a gun, but a golf club, and the balls flew out almost at the same time. How could he judge the flight trajectory of his golf ball? It was simply impossible.
Moreover, Shu Wei had not expected that Li Xiu would use such a method that would hurt both sides.
But when he saw the two balls collide, his ball fell into the sea, while Li Xiu's ball actually changed direction and flew towards the circular table where the hole was. His distorted face was full of disbelief.
"Impossible... Impossible..."
Bang! Clang!
Shu Wei's ball fell into the sea, while Li Xiu's ball fell into the hole of the round table.
"I will kill you..." Shu Wei pounced at Li Xiu angrily, but when he was in mid-air, the Ring of Trial blew his body into pieces, and blood and flesh splattered all over the ground.
"Life and death are all left to fate." Li Xiu didn't even look at it, and walked out of the platform directly and headed towards the circular table where the golf hole was.
If there were someone watching here, they would never have thought that Shu Wei would lose like this. It was such a humiliating and frustrating loss.
On the following holes, Li Xiu hit every ball into the hole with one stroke, without even considering hitting the ball a second time.
He scored holes-in-one in all the first seventeen holes, and Li Xiu finally reached the end of the narrow path, with the mountain in front of him.
After careful observation, Li Xiu's expression became a little strange. The eighteenth hole was actually at the top of this mountain.
To be precise, the pass of this mountain is the eighteenth hole, because this is a volcano, and the pass with thick smoke is the hole.
The golf hole is very big, but the mountain is a thousand meters high. Even with Li Xiu's current strength, it is impossible for him to hit the ball to a height of a thousand meters in one go.
When hitting the ball on the ground, the ball can slide in the air, and the vertical height of the hit is far less than the distance of hitting it on flat ground.
Fortunately, this is a par 5 hole.
Li Xiu looked at the steep mountain wall. Although it was not ninety degrees, it was at least sixty or seventy degrees, and it was quite smooth. If the ball fell on it, it would be almost impossible for it not to roll down.
After careful observation, Li Xiu swung the club and hit the ball towards the mountain wall.
The ball landed on the cliff and started spinning rapidly on a protrusion that was just big enough to hold the ball. It looked like it would fall off at any moment.
But the ball didn't fall down, and when it finally stopped, it stayed firmly there.
Li Xiu climbed up the mountain wall using his hands and feet, and found a good position to hit the ball again.
On the third shot, Li Xiu hit the ball directly towards the crater, and the ball drew an arc and fell into the crater.
Boom!
A lot of thick smoke came out of the crater, followed by red magma. That thing actually erupted.
Li Xiu turned around and ran down the mountain, unleashing all sorts of powerful skills, almost using all his might.
The light screen never appeared, so the trial was not over. Li Xiu couldn't get out and could only run desperately.
Magma gushed out from the mountain pass, heat waves surged behind it, dark red magma fell from the sky, and black smoke covered the sky.
Li Xiu can now only be thankful that he has become a true trial-taker, and that the Fire Lotus Sword and the Dark Mirror are no longer a burden to him, otherwise he would have surely died.
Fortunately, the magma behind him cooled down immediately after rushing into the sea. However, the magma immediately stirred up boiling hot steam in the sea water. Li Xiu felt like a crab stuffed into a steamer, and his skin was scalded red.
Run! He ran as fast as he could without looking back, and from time to time he had to dodge the magma balls falling from the sky. When Li Xiu felt that his back was not so hot, he turned around and saw that the magma behind him had covered a small part of the narrow road. Fortunately, the sea water cooled it, and the magma could not flow further.
The light screen finally appeared at this time: "Congratulations on completing the A-level trial. Rewards are being randomly generated... You can choose two rewards..."
After a while, four patterns appeared on the light screen, including talent, attributes, magic core and admission ticket.
Li Xiu chose the attribute and admission ticket without hesitation. The tingling pain from the bracelet and the energy surging in his body made Li Xiu feel a perverse sense of comfort.
The A-level attribute reward increased his embryo quality from 1 to 1.1. Li Xiu calculated that if he continued like this, he only needed to participate in ten A-level trials to reach the limit of 2 and be promoted to a D-level trialist.
The green admission ticket was projected in front of Li Xiu and turned into a green vortex, sucking him in.
The copper lamp and the stone table appeared again, but there was still no metal coffin. Only a green hat lay there quietly.
"This..." Li Xiu looked at the green hat and his expression became a little complicated.
The shape of the hat is that of an old-fashioned gentleman's hat, with a dark green crown and brim, and a grass green ribbon decoration in the middle of the crown. To be honest, the color and shape of the hat are quite nice.
If I take it, this thing seems a little unlucky. If I don’t take it, I have completed the trial at such a great risk, and the contract is right in front of me. I feel a little disadvantaged if I don’t take it.
"Let's pick it up and try it first." Li Xiu originally planned to come in and take a look at the situation first.
If it was a Glory Contract, he could consider using it as his own Symbiotic Contract, and then he wouldn't have to go to the Sea and Sky Trial Field. If it wasn't a Glory Contract, he would just give up.
Now seeing this thing, I would definitely not choose it if it wasn’t the Glorious Contract.
Li Xiu reached out and pinched the brim of the hat. The hat was much lighter than he had imagined, not even as heavy as the Fire Lotus Sword. This made Li Xiu feel more confident. He was sure that this was not the Glorious Contract.
"Trial-taker, please use your blood and contract to complete the life agreement..." The strange voice sounded again.
Li Xiu looked at the hat that was emitting a faint green light and asked calmly, "What grade of contract is this?"
He was basically certain that the grade of this green hat would not be very high.
"The last gentleman is Glory Contract..." Li Xiu was stunned when the strange voice gave the answer.
"The Glorious Contract... this thing is actually the Glorious Contract... are you sure?" Li Xiu asked again in disbelief.
"That's right, it is the Glorious Contract." The strange voice answered with certainty.
Li Xiu looked at the gentleman's hat with a faint green light in his hand, hesitated for a long time, and finally prepared to put it back.
"I don't want the Glorious Contract either..." Li Xiuyi made up his mind and put the hat back on the stone table. He thought to himself, "The Blood Pattern Revolver is my true destiny contract. I have to get it. How can I be blinded by other Glorious Contracts? This is absolutely not allowed."
Li Xiu thought about it and said, "I didn't expect that there would be a Radiant Deed here. No wonder even the Lord of Red Sand City is fighting for this trial gate. I can let Chu Jun come and try it in the future. He is handsome and has a good temperament. He is a handsome guy. Only he can be worthy of this Radiant Deity. I just don't know if he will still be a hat if he comes here."
Ten minutes passed quickly, and the bronze lamp in front of Li Xiu went out, plunging him into darkness. When it lit up again, he had already arrived at the gate of the trial.
Zhou Bailong and Mr. Yu were both shocked when they saw Li Xiu appear in front of the trial gate, their faces full of disbelief.
"Boss Zhou, it seems that both you and I are lucky." After saying this, the Lord of Red Sand City smiled and walked towards Li Xiu, patted Li Xiu on the shoulder and said, "Well done, I will give you the best celebration banquet when I return."
"Can it be cashed?" Li Xiu asked.
"Haha, of course." The Lord of Red Sand City laughed happily.
Watching the Lord of Red Sand City and Li Xiu leave together, Zhou Bailong had a complicated expression: "How did he win?"
"Fortunately, you didn't gamble with the Lord of Hongsha City, otherwise you would have lost both the wife and the army this time." Mr. Yu said thankfully.
"I really didn't expect it." Zhou Bailong shook his head and smiled bitterly. He could never have imagined that the person who came out would be Li Xiu.
Li Xiu originally wanted to go directly back to where he lived to find Chu Jun, and then return to Chongshan City overnight.
However, the Lord of Hongsha City insisted on giving Li Xiu a gift and asked him to go to the City Lord's Mansion first no matter what.
Li Xiu was holding the Ghost Mask Demon Costume in his hand, so he was not afraid of what the Lord of Red Sand City might do.
After the Lord of Hongsha City brought Li Xiu to the City Lord's Mansion, he actually took him to where he lived and opened the passage leading to the underground vault.
"The things here are all the collections I have collected in Hongsha City over the years. Are they interesting?" After the Lord of Hongsha City opened the heavy door of the vault with his fingerprints and irises, he walked in with Li Xiu and pointed to the glass cabinets on both sides used to display the collections.
Li Xiu saw clearly what was inside the glass cabinet and couldn't help but frown.
Inside the two rows of glass cabinets that were several dozen meters long were neither antiques, calligraphy or paintings, nor jewelry and jade, nor magical equipment or weapons of any kind.
The things placed in there were actually pieces of skin. Those skins seemed to be cut from people's backs and then peeled off in one piece. After being straightened with silk threads and side cabinets, they were hung in the glass cabinet.
At least dozens of such skins are displayed in two glass cabinets that are dozens of meters long. They look weird and eerie, and extremely scary.
"What is this?" Li Xiu asked the Lord of Hongsha City.
"What do you think this is?" The Lord of Red Sand City asked with narrowed eyes.
"Human skin?" Li Xiu said.
"Yes, it's human skin." The Lord of Hongsha City did not refute but actually admitted it.
"You killed someone and skinned him?" Li Xiu had long heard that the Lord of Hongsha City was extremely cruel and tyrannical, but he did not expect that he would be so perverted.
"I peeled the skin, that's right." The Lord of Red Sand City looked at Li Xiu with amusement. Seeing that Li Xiu's face was getting uglier and uglier, he smiled and said, "But I didn't kill anyone."
"I didn't kill anyone, so how did you peel off this skin?" Li Xiu asked coldly.
"Do I need to kill someone if I want to peel off my own skin? Do I have to kill myself first and then peel off my skin?" The Lord of Hongsha City said with a smile.
"Your own skin?" Li Xiu looked at the human skins in astonishment.
"Yes, these are all my own skin. Every year, I have to peel off a layer of skin, otherwise I will feel uncomfortable all over, can't eat, and can't sleep well... This is the skin I peeled off sixty-one years ago... This is the skin I peeled off fifty-nine years ago, and it is also the one I am most satisfied with. At that time, I was at the best age..." The Lord of Hongsha City told Li Xiu the origins of these skins as he walked, as if he was not talking about human skins but antiques.
Finally, I reached the end of the vault, where there was a sandalwood shelf with a black wooden box on it.
The Lord of Red Sand City picked up the black wooden box and handed it to Li Xiu. He looked at him with a smile and said, "Take a look at it after you go back. If you like what's inside and are interested in it, you can come to me anytime."
Li Xiu didn't ask what it was. If the Lord of Hongsha City wanted to say something, he wouldn't let him go back and watch it again.
The Lord of Red Sand City took great pains to bring him here, only to show him the human skins, give him a wooden box, and then take him away from the underground vault.
"Your aesthetic taste is quite unique." When Li Xiu was about to leave, the Lord of Hongsha City looked at him and said this without any context.
Li Xiu was a little confused at first, not knowing what the Lord of Hongsha City meant. Then he immediately discovered that the Lord of Hongsha City was not looking at his face, but at a higher position.
Li Xiu's face changed slightly, and he quickly reached out and touched his head. The touch from his fingers made his face look a little ugly in an instant.