As usual, Shachu got up early in the morning, opened the door, and prepared to go out to buy breakfast.

But today, as soon as I opened the door, I saw a man with disheveled hair sitting in front of the door, staring at the door with bloodshot eyes without blinking.

Sha Chu was shocked and thought that Li Xiu had killed the couple's parents, so the couple's son ran to the gate of Yard No. 7 to sit in protest.

Seeing Shachu coming out, the man sitting on the ground grinned and revealed a smile that was uglier than crying: "Miss, please help pass on the message and say that the con man is here to apply to join the technician team."

Sha Chu had heard Li Xiu talk about the cheating incident, so he knew what had happened when he heard the word "swindler". He opened the door and said, "Please sit in the hall for a while. I'll go get the chief."

The old man stood up from the ground, his body staggering a little. He looked like a seriously ill patient and even walked unsteadily.

Li Xiu was woken up by Sha Chu, and after dressing himself up, he came to the hall. He was shocked when he saw the con man's appearance.

"What's wrong with you? I should have only used two layers of illusion, right?" The old con man's look made Li Xiu wonder if he had made a mistake. He used not just two layers of illusion, but who knows how many layers, so he tortured the old con man like this.

In fact, Li Xiu himself knew that he would not make a mistake, but the con man looked too scary, as if he was terminally ill and was about to die.

The old con man said with a bitter face: "Director Li, you have caused me so much trouble. Now I can no longer distinguish what is real and what is an illusion."

"I only used two layers of illusion." Li Xiu said.

"I know you only used two layers of illusion, but how do I know if you only used two layers of illusion in my fantasy? Maybe it is still an illusion now, and I am still in the illusion... Maybe... The more I think about it, the more I think about it. This day is almost torturing me crazy..." said the old con man in pain.

Li Xiu smiled when he heard this: "The ignorant are fearless. You think a lot but are afraid because you know more and more. Only when you know more will you feel reverence and fear. It seems that you are about to truly realize the truth."

"I can't even tell whether I am real or fake, so what's the point of trying to understand the truth?" The con man sighed.

"So what if it's true? So what if it's an illusion? Life is nothing but a feeling. No matter whether it's true or an illusion, do what you want to do and act the way you want to act. Just feel happy and at ease." Li Xiu said.

"But I'm not sure if I am still myself now." The old man was struggling mentally.

"Does it matter? Is who you are really that important? Maybe you should think about who you want to be." Li Xiu said slowly.

The old man stared at Li Xiu in a daze. After a long while, he suddenly knelt on one knee and said, "Chief, please accept me into the team."

"You are already a member of my technician team." Li Xiu helped Lao Qian up: "I will let Sha Chu take you to complete the joining procedures. You should stay here for the time being and think about it carefully."

"Over there at the Sword Soul Gate..." Lao Qian hesitated.

"I will make arrangements for the Sword Soul Gate. You can go back and continue guarding it once you have thought it through." Li Xiu planned to guard the Sword Soul Gate by himself, which would be a good opportunity to condense some light veins for the Fire Lotus Sword.

After Lao Qian was transferred to the technician team, Li Xiu directly transferred him away from the Sword Soul Gate.

Other teams cannot easily replace the team members guarding the Trial Gate, but for the technician team, this is not a problem at all.

The magic armor masters who guard the trial gate can only guard outside the gate, unlike the trial participants who can enter the trial site to guard it.

Therefore, in the past, when there was the Magic Armor Group, only the Magic Armor Group could decide on rotation of duties by themselves, while other groups did not have this privilege.

At that time, no one had thought that the Magic Armor Group would be changed to the Technician Group, and that there would be so many high-level trial-takers, so this became a BUG, ​​a BUG unique to the Technician Group.

Li Xiu estimated that the Han family would not give up so easily and would definitely join others to find the president.

Li Xiu actually didn’t care when this BUG would be fixed. He just wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to make some money.

After Li Xiu made himself the guardian of the Sword Soul Gate, he immediately used the gem to enter the Sword Soul Gate without hesitation.

"It's a pity that I can't bring A Fei, Chu Jun and the others." Li Xiu appeared in the trial field.

"Welcome to the Sword Soul Trial Field. The S-level Sword Soul Trial is about to begin. The rules are as follows..."

The rules were the same as the information given to him by the immortal old man, which was to learn a set of sword techniques from the sword spirit, and then wait for the score on the light screen. The score would determine whether he could pass or not.

For the C-level Sword Soul Trial, as long as you learn the sword skills to be 50% or 60% similar, you can pass it. The higher the difficulty, the more similar you must learn. For the S-level Sword Soul Trial, if the score does not reach the S-level, you will be judged as a failure on the spot.

Li Xiu directly encountered S-level difficulty. For others, this was very bad luck, but for Li Xiu, this was good luck.

A sword spirit whose face could not be seen and whose whole body was emitting light began its performance.

The sword spirit of low difficulty will be demonstrated repeatedly several times. The lower the difficulty, the lower the number of demonstrations and the difficulty of the sword technique.

In the S-level difficulty Sword Soul Trial, the Sword Soul will only be demonstrated once, and the difficulty of the sword technique is also the highest.

Li Xiu watched Sword Spirit demonstrate the complicated sword technique and then disappear without even a thank you.

Li Xiu held the sword automatically given by the trial field and directly copied the sword technique demonstrated by the sword spirit. His movements were exactly the same, with no difference at all.

He passed the level with an S-level score without any suspense, and the reward pattern also appeared.

You can choose two rewards: attributes, magic cores, trial badges and admission tickets. Li Xiu directly chose the trial badge and admission ticket.

Trial badges are considered hard currency among high-level trial-takers and are more useful than magic cores. Admission tickets are of course needless to say. Li Xiu came here just for the admission tickets, and he was lucky this time, as he got the admission ticket in one go.

As the admission ticket turned into a vortex channel, Li Xiu's body was also sucked into it.

A familiar scene, with a sword placed on the stone table. I heard that all the contracts in the Sword Soul Trial Field are swords, and there are no other types of contracts.

I heard that Lao Qian's phantom sword was also obtained from the Sword Soul Trial Field.

Li Xiu didn't want to listen to Changshengdeng's nonsense. When he was about to reach out to grab the sword, he suddenly saw a flash of red light at his waist, and the Fire Lotus Sword actually flew out by itself and slashed directly on the sword on the stone table, cutting the sword into two.

These bonds that have not yet been signed by anyone are all of the lowest level E. How can they withstand the attack of the Fire Lotus Sword? They were broken by one sword.

After the Fire Lotus Sword finished slashing, it flew back to Li Xiu's waist and coiled around him again.

"Oh my god, what's going on?" Li Xiu was stunned. How could the Fire Lotus Sword appear for no reason and cut off the contract he was about to take?

The contract was cut off and the Longevity Lamp floated up. Li Xiu followed the Longevity Lamp into the trial ground and kept thinking about this problem. After thinking about it, there seemed to be only one possibility.

The Fire Lotus Sword is too unique, it does not allow Li Xiu to have other sword contracts.

"This guy's temper is really not very good." Li Xiu still remembered that it was because he said something bad about the Fire Lotus Sword that this guy insisted on blaming him, which shows how bad his temper was.

I just didn't expect that it was so serious that Li Xiu was not allowed to use other sword contracts. This is a bit outrageous.

The sword had been cut off and Li Xiu had no other choice. Fortunately, he had not originally planned to cultivate another sword-type parasitic contract.

Li Xiu doesn't have the resources and time to cultivate parasitic contracts of various types, let alone sword-type parasitic contracts. He can't even cultivate symbiotic contracts.

The Land of Sword Soul was a little different from what Li Xiu had imagined. He heard from the old immortal that there were many sword soul-type monsters in the Land of Sword Soul. Not only were there a large number of them, but there were also many high-level ones. Moreover, the chance of dropping talent gems, skill rings, and even monster rings was very high.

However, the talents and skills here are all related to swords, so people who don’t practice swordsmanship will be at a disadvantage if they come here.

Originally, Li Xiu thought that the Land of Sword Soul should be a place where there were swords everywhere and countless flying swords circling in the sky.

But after entering, Li Xiu was a little disappointed. This place was like a huge workshop with many machines that Li Xiu had never seen before.

Those machines are different from the machines on Earth. There are no screws or seams to be seen. It seems as if they were born that way.

The entire machine is like an assembly line. From the steelmaking furnace at the beginning to the hammering machine at the back, sword blanks are hammered out in an endless stream and finally transported out of the workshop by a conveyor belt.

Li Xiu didn't see any evil spirits, so he walked outside along the direction of the conveyor belt. When he arrived at the door of the workshop, he immediately saw many evil spirits outside.

Those evil spirits that looked a bit like ghosts were guarding outside the workshop. Once a sword embryo was teleported out, they would immediately swarm over and start snatching the sword embryo.

The demon spirit that was rushing in the front rushed into the sword embryo. The sword embryo suddenly shone with light, as if it suddenly came to life. It soared into the sky with amazing sword light, and flew away in the blink of an eye.

"This is quite interesting. What's going on with this factory? Was it built by the demons themselves, or by the demons? What benefits will it bring if those demons attach themselves to the sword embryos?" Li Xiu pondered to himself.

There are too many evil spirits outside, and the speed of casting sword blanks in this workshop is too slow. It will take at least three to five days to complete a sword blank from steelmaking to sword casting.

Those evil spirits outside are roaming around and will only gather in greater numbers.

Li Xiu observed carefully and did not find any particularly high-level demon spirits outside. The highest one was probably S-level. It was hard to say whether there were any super spirits, but there were definitely no light-based spirits.

However, their quality is quite good. Just from what Li Xiu saw, there were two dazzling ones and quite a few sparkling and colorful ones.

Li Xiu pushed open the door of the workshop and walked out. Before he could make any move, the Fire Lotus Sword rushed out by itself.

Rays of fire lotus sword lights burst out from its body, and in the instant they swept across the sky, many demons were killed by them.

The light-based Fire Lotus Sword was like a tiger entering a flock of sheep. Not a single living demon spirit was left where the sword light passed. Even the demon cores were directly shattered by the Fire Lotus Sword, and the energy flowing out of the demon cores was absorbed into the sword.

"This guy is so domineering!" Li Xiu had no intention of stopping it. Anyway, the reason for coming here was to enhance the light veins of the Fire Lotus Sword. It was so proactive that it saved Li Xiu the trouble.

The Fire Lotus Sword continued to charge and kill nearby, and soon all the evil spirits gathered near the workshop gate were killed.

Unfortunately, the demon spirit killed by the Fire Lotus Sword did not even have a demon core left, but two talent gems and a skill ring were found.

This explosion rate is already quite good. Li Xiu put away his talent gem and skill ring and looked around.

This is a large plain. In the distance, you can vaguely see a workshop similar to the one here. There should also be demons gathered there waiting for sword embryos.

Unfortunately, the Longevity Lamp cannot leave this workshop. If you want to go to other workshops, you can only take risks.

Fortunately, Li Xiu’s current strength is no longer what it used to be. He has even killed Zhu Ling, so this kind of place is not very dangerous for him.

Li Xiu summoned the pink nightmare and rode it towards the workshop in the distance.

Although Li Xiu's running speed is much faster than Pink Nightmare now, he doesn't want to waste his energy in a hurry.

When he saw the demons gathered outside another workshop from afar, the Fire Lotus Sword flew up by itself and brutally killed all the demons.

Li Xiu looked around the workshop. If you only looked at the outside, it was not much different from the previous workshop. They were basically the same.

The only difference was that Li Xiu couldn't push open the door of this workshop. He tried hard to destroy the door, and the light energy released was decomposed by the electric light that appeared on the door.

"These workshops are really weird. They even have self-defense systems." Li Xiu became even more curious about these workshops that manufactured sword blanks.

It’s a pity that there is no sword blank yet, otherwise Li Xiu would really like to make a sword blank to see what the sword blanks made in the workshop are like.

When Li Xiu was studying the workshop door, the Fire Lotus Sword had already eliminated all the evil spirits and obtained some talent gems and skill rings.

Li Xiu continued to look for other workshops with the Fire Lotus Sword. On this plain, there was a workshop every few dozen miles, and it was unknown how many workshops there were.

Anyway, the Fire Lotus Sword has killed at least a thousand demons along the way, but it's a pity that it didn't encounter any super spirits or light-based spirits. It got a lot of talent gems and skill rings, but it didn't have a single demon ring.

Even with so many demon cores, the Fire Lotus Sword was still unable to condense a vein of light. It seemed that it was too troublesome to condense a vein of light by only killing low-level demons and absorbing the energy. I didn't know how many demons I had to kill to condense a vein of light. I still had to kill high-level demons.

After wiping out another group of demons outside a workshop, Li Zhengxing was about to head to the next workshop when he suddenly heard a noise coming from the portal next to the workshop door, and a sword embryo fell out of the portal.

There was no evil spirit here to compete with Li Xiu, so Li Xiu reached out and grabbed the sword embryo. He saw that the sword embryo was in the shape of a bronze dagger. The blade and hilt were less than two feet long. The hilt was cloud-shaped, and there were fine fish scale patterns on the blade.

The sword blade was not sharp at all because it was not sharp at all. Li Xiu reached out and touched the sword, only to feel a chill passing through his fingertips.

"It's strange. There is not even any fluctuation of light energy on the sword embryo. Why are those evil spirits scrambling to rush into the sword embryo?" Li Xiu looked at the Fire Lotus Sword, but the Fire Lotus Sword did not move at all, as if it had no intention of destroying the sword embryo.

Li Xiu held the hilt of the sword with one hand and the tip of the sword with the other, then applied pressure to the sword blank, causing the sword body to gradually bend.

Snap!

When the sword body bent to a certain degree, it broke directly, and the bronze dagger broke into three pieces.

"The strength of the sword embryo is about the same as that of ordinary S-level materials. It makes sense for low-level monsters to want a sword embryo as protection. The strength of those S-level monsters themselves is no worse than that of a sword embryo. What's the use of them having this sword embryo?" Li Xiu still couldn't figure it out.

Riding on the pink nightmare, Li Xiu continued to look for the next workshop. When he was about to reach the new workshop, he saw from afar that there was only one demon in front of the gate of that workshop, unlike the noisy outside the doors of other workshops.

"Super spirit or light-based?" Li Xiu saw the bright light on the demon spirit. The blue light was so bright that people could hardly open their eyes. The light energy fluctuations were very strong. It was not only a demon spirit of brilliant quality, but also must be of a very high level.

While Li Xiu was still thinking, the Fire Lotus Sword had already rushed over with sword light all over the sky.

However, that demon spirit did not allow itself to be slaughtered by the Fire Lotus Sword like the previous ones. Instead, the ghostly blue demon spirit's arms turned into blue lightsabers, which continuously collided with the Fire Lotus Sword's light.

Red and blue lights suddenly exploded continuously, and shock waves swept down from the sky, crashing into the ground and causing it to raise dust.

Li Xiu sat on the back of the pink nightmare and watched the battle between the Fire Lotus Sword and the evil spirit from afar. He was somewhat surprised to find that the Fire Lotus Sword was actually at a disadvantage.

“Although its light energy is stronger than the Fire Lotus Sword, it has not yet reached the level of crushing it, and it has not used soul casting. It should be at the light-based level, but it has more light veins than the Fire Lotus Sword, and its light energy is much stronger than the Fire Lotus Sword, so it can suppress the Fire Lotus Sword.” Li Xiu roughly judged the strength of the evil spirit.

Although the light energy of the Fire Lotus Sword was not as strong as that of the evil spirit, it still attacked powerfully. Rays of Fire Lotus sword light overlapped like lotus petals and slashed towards the evil spirit.

Unfortunately, all the fire lotus sword lights were shattered by the evil spirit's arms that turned into lightsabers, and could not hurt it at all.

When Li Zheng was about to help, he suddenly heard a noise coming from the workshop door and a sword blank fell out from the exit.

It was a dark two-handed sword, the blade was as black as ink, and there were strange symbols and pictures engraved on the hilt and guard. Although it had not been sharpened yet, it gave people a cold and chilling feeling.

The demon spirit that was in the middle of the battle actually dropped the Fire Lotus Sword and rushed towards the sword embryo that had just fallen out.