Peace in the fairyland (3): True or false

When the white clouds dissipated and Xia Ruize landed steadily, Cheng Huaiqian, who was not far away, took a few quick steps to Xia Ruize’s side and reached out to support him.

“Let me see your rank?”

Cheng Huaiqian asked with interest, and then saw the number on the white jade tablet in Xia Ruize’s hand at a glance.

Cheng Huaiqian was very happy. He took out his stone tablet to show his lover, and his ranking was updated to “second”.

There was nothing unhappy about being squeezed out of the top spot by his lover. On the contrary, Cheng Huaiqian felt very happy in his heart. It was also good to have his lover on top.

After exchanging their results, Cheng Huaiqian introduced in a low voice, “The top 2,000 climbers are all concentrated in this area, and now there seem to be only a dozen people left on the white marble road.

They probably just started the test later, so their rankings may not change much, so there is nothing to worry about.”

While Cheng Huaiqian was speaking, a person was carried by the white cloud to a crowd in the distance. Xia Ruize noticed at a glance that there was a clear gap between the area in the distance and where he was, and the people in the distance looked at him with envy.

It seemed that although this young man who was just eliminated left the white marble road relatively late, the height he climbed was not high, ranking outside the top 2,000, so he was directly sent to the elimination area by the white clouds.

The two chatted casually while observing the surroundings. After waiting for another ten minutes, the white clouds sent the last young man who fell off the white marble road down.

It took a total of three hours for all the young people participating in the entrance selection to set foot on the white jade stone road, but after only one hour, the results of climbing the “Ladder to Heaven”, the first level of the Qingyang Sect’s entrance selection, were all known.

The two thousand people who had climbed the highest were gathered together by the white clouds and were now looking at each other.

Wang Teng, who was suspended in the air on the flying sword, waved his hand, and white marble slabs disappeared one after another. Soon, the “Ladder to Heaven” built with white marble slabs disappeared in front of everyone.

Then, Wang Teng announced to the crowd below:

“The first round of the entrance selection has ended, and the top 2,000 climbers have been selected. If you don’t have the white jade tablet, you have not passed the first round. Please return to Qingyang City as soon as possible. You are prohibited from staying at the foot of Qingyang Mountain without reason.

The relatives of those who pass the first test can temporarily stay at the foot of Qingyang Mountain, and then start the second test, “The Path to Self-Reflection.”

After Wang Teng finished speaking, those who knew they were eliminated had to dilly-dally in preparation for leaving the Qingyang Mountain. There was no other way, the Qingyang Sect was high and mighty, and no one dared to act recklessly in the Qingyang Sect’s territory.

Of course, there were also some people in the crowd with joyful expressions on their faces. Not only did they not go towards the distant Qingyang City, but they continued to approach Qingyang Mountain.

Anyone who saw it could tell that their younger generation had successfully passed the first test, and would probably pass the second test soon and officially join the Qingyang Sect.

Didn’t you see that they couldn’t suppress the joy on their faces at all? They were proudly enjoying the envious looks and attentive flattery from the people around them.

After watching the crowd begin to disperse, Wang Teng turned his attention back to the two thousand people below.

Wang Teng waved his hand, and the white jade tablets in the hands of the two thousand people were collected one after another, swaying towards the sea of ​​clouds above. The scene of thousands of white jade tablets flying at the same time really opened the eyes of ordinary people.

Not only that, after Wang Teng waved his hand again, the air in front of the two thousand young people who passed the “Ladder to Heaven” test fluctuated, and then a tall archway appeared with two big words “Qingyang Mountain” inscribed on it.

Behind the archway was a stone staircase paved with bluestone leading up the mountain.

“Wow!”

The sudden appearance of the archway caused another small exclamation, and then Wang Teng explained slowly:

“This is the mountain road leading to the top of the mountain. The first 500 people who reach the top of the mountain and see the mountain gate will have the opportunity to become outer disciples.

The next thousand people who arrive can voluntarily choose whether to enter the Qingyang Sect as servants, and the last five hundred will be eliminated.

I wish you all the best! “

After hearing the rules, some people looked miserable. How could people be eliminated?

However, more people could not wait to rush to the mountain road, wishing they could reach the top of the mountain immediately and join the Qingyang Sect smoothly.

There were a total of two thousand people entering the second level. It sounded like only five hundred people would be eliminated, but in fact, if you failed to make it into the top five hundred, even if you could stay in Qingyang Sect, you could only be a servant.

Just by listening to the name, you could tell that being a servant was not a good status. Those who had the capital to come all the way to Qingyang Sect to participate in the entrance selection had good conditions. Who was not the treasure of the family? Why would they have the patience to serve others?

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other and climbed up the stone road up the mountain.

The stone road was different from the “Ladder to Heaven”. What they stepped on were real stone steps. The people in front and behind had not disappeared. If they wanted to overtake the person in front, they needed to run forward and squeeze past.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huai dived steadily and quickly, and soon they passed a group of young people who were panting from exhaustion and walked to the front.

Qingyang Mountain was very high and the mountain road was very long. As time went on, the two thousand people participating in the second round of selection were separated. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian walked together and no one else was seen around for a long time.

Two hours later, after turning a bend in the mountain, a young man in fairy clothes stood by the road. He glanced at Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian casually and said two numbers: “500, 501”

Xia Ruize paused, stopped, and asked politely:

“Excuse me, sir, are you referring to our current ranking?”

The young man in traditional clothes asked back unhappily, “What else?”

The other party had a bad attitude, so Xia Ruize didn’t say anything more. Instead, he continued to go up the mountain road in deep thought. After walking for more than ten minutes, he still didn’t see any other candidates in front of him. Cheng Huaiqian beside him seemed to be getting impatient.

There was another turn, and the stone steps became extremely narrow, with a vertical mountain wall on one side and a steep cliff on the other. It looked really dangerous.

“Young Master Xia, watch your step!”

Cheng Huaiqian spoke in a gentle voice, and at the same time reached out to help Xia Ruize, as if he wanted to help him, but when he touched Xia Ruize, he pushed him hard.

Xia Ruize was caught off guard and stumbled suddenly. If this happened on flat ground, it would be fine, but he was on a steep mountain road at the moment, and his body was leaning towards the cliff. His center of balance was unstable and he fell directly down.

Xia Ruize reacted instantly and subconsciously reached out to try to grab something for leverage. Fortunately, he grabbed a small tree growing horizontally in the cracks of the rocks and stopped his falling trend.

The leaves and rubble on the small tree were knocked down by Xia Ruize. There was no echo of the rubble falling to the ground for a long time, which was enough to tell that the cliff was bottomless.

Xia Ruize looked up with a confused look on his face, and saw Cheng Huaiqian standing on the edge of the cliff, leaning his head and looking down. His handsome face was completely ruined by a sinister and vicious expression.

Cheng Huaiqian was stunned when he met Xia Ruize’s gaze. He didn’t expect that he was fine. He looked around and didn’t have any tools to give Xia Ruize another blow. After his expression changed several times, Cheng Huaiqian pretended to be worried and said loudly:

“Young Master Xia, you must hold on! I’m going to find someone to rescue you right now!”

After saying that, he strode towards the top of the mountain.

Xia Ruize was left alone, clinging to a small tree between the rocks, looking helpless and confused.

Xia Ruize really couldn’t figure out when he got tricked.

Xia Ruize was leaning on the sapling and thinking hard. Before he met the Qingyang Sect disciple who was reporting the number, Cheng Huaiqian gradually fell silent.

At the time, he just thought he was tired from climbing and didn’t take it seriously. But now he wondered if someone had replaced him at that time.

The person who pushed him off the cliff must not be the real Cheng Huaiqian.

But it was also true that Xia Ruize was completely unprepared.

Xia Ruize recalled again and again that everything he had experienced before was too real. Although he was good at constructing illusions, he could not find the slightest flaw in the environment he was in. Even the patterns on the leaves of the small tree next to him were completely different.

If he and Cheng Huaiqian were not new friends who had just met at the foot of the mountain as they appeared to be, he would probably really think that he was betrayed by his new friend.

Speaking of which, the ranking reported by the Qingyang Sect disciple was a bit strange. Their strength would never fall out of the top 500. It was exactly at the junction of outer disciples and servants.

What Xia Ruize never expected was that while he was still pondering the strangeness of this, Qingyang Sect gave him a bigger “surprise”!

He didn’t even notice that his lover had been replaced!

Xia Ruize propped himself up with his hands and stood on the sapling. He then bravely jumped up, grabbed the edge of the cliff and climbed up.

It had to be said that Xia Ruize was now becoming more and more interested in the Qingyang Sect. He couldn’t wait to know what kind of means were used to confuse the real with the fake?

With anticipation in mind, Xia Ruize walked a little faster. After walking for more than ten minutes, he saw two people arguing and fighting in front of him.

Xia Ruize felt very complicated when he saw the familiar figure on the fighting side, but the other side had already seen him and called out loudly:

“Young Master Xia, come quickly! As long as you and I work together to deal with him, we can secure the position of Qingyang Sect’s outer disciple!”

Xia Ruize approached the two fighting men with a very complicated expression. The man who was fighting with “Cheng Huaiqian” thought that the two were in the same group. He suddenly became very anxious and his movements revealed flaws. “Cheng Huaiqian” seized the opportunity and once again decisively pushed the man off the cliff.

The opponent was not as lucky as Xia Ruize. He failed to grab the life-saving tree, and only a series of terrified screams remained in the valley.

At this time, Xia Ruize, who was still more than ten meters away from “Cheng Huaiqian”, suddenly had a complicated expression on his face. He looked at “Cheng Huaiqian” and then at the empty valley. He really couldn’t tell whether the person being pushed down was a “real person” or a “fake”?

“Great, Young Master Xia, you have caught up on your own, and we can go together again. Hey, this is the bag of that man just now, my god, he actually has two bottles of Guyuan Pills!”

The victorious “Cheng Huaiqian” seemed to have completely forgotten about pushing Xia Ruize off the cliff. He greeted Xia Ruize with a smile, without a trace of embarrassment on his face. He also picked up a bundle scattered on the ground and started rummaging through it without any hesitation.

Cheng Huaiqian actually found the treasure. He excitedly took two bottles of the so-called “Guyuan Pills” and walked to Xia Ruize. He stuffed one of the bottles into Xia Ruize’s hand and introduced it in an amazed voice:

“This Guyuan Pill is most suitable for disciples who have just embarked on the path to immortality. With this Guyuan Pill, our cultivation will be much faster than others.

Now that my brother and I have both made it into the top 500, we will definitely be able to become outer disciples of the Qingyang Sect. With the help of this elixir, my brother and I will definitely perform better!”

Peace in the fairyland (2): Heartbreaking

However, the two figures overlapped and exchanged positions, and there was no sign of anyone being squeezed off the white jade slab.

After being amazed, everyone immediately realized that this must be the work of immortals. Even if there were no guardrails, there was no need to worry about falling off the white jade slab. In this case, what was there to hesitate about?

The young people around them immediately stepped bravely onto the white marble road.

When the young people preparing to take part in the selection let go of their hands and feet, the white marble slab seemed too narrow, and only two or three people could step on it at the same time.

This speed was really not enough compared with the huge crowd of people preparing for the exam. In a short period of time, young people who were a little far away could not get close to the examination location at all and could only worry anxiously without knowing the situation.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huai were hiding relatively far away from the white marble road. They knew they would have to wait for a long time before it was their turn to participate in the selection. They looked at each other and started to act in tacit understanding.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were very strong. They reached out and pulled quietly, and the people blocking the road in front were pushed to the sides, making room for the two of them to get closer to the assessment location.

In this way, the two of them manually split up and gradually approached the white marble slab road.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian worked in perfect harmony and quickly approached the target, which made life difficult for others.

The servant who originally followed Cheng Huaiqian did not have the strength of the two and could not keep up with their pace. If he missed a moment, Cheng Huaiqian would have squeezed to the front. If he missed another moment, the servant would completely lose sight of the “Fifth Young Master” in the vast crowd.

Just as Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were busy splitting up, a young man who had already climbed onto the white marble slab road missed a step during the climb and fell from mid-air.

“ah!”

The family members who came to accompany the exam were paying close attention to the situation on the white marble slab and witnessed the whole process with their own eyes. Although it was not their own child who fell, the crowd still subconsciously cried out in surprise.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked up at the same time, and saw a young man falling screaming and being caught by a white cloud. With a confused look on his face, the white cloud slowly lifted him up and lowered him to the ground.

“Wow!”

The crowd was once again amazed at the miraculous methods of the immortals, and cast even more eager glances at the immortals who were still suspended in the air on their flying swords.

Xia Ruize also became more interested in cultivating immortals. His eyes lit up and he used more strength in his movements, wanting to quickly get closer to the white marble road.

Finally, more than ten minutes after the entrance selection officially began, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian made their way to the lowest white jade slab and stepped on it.

But after actually stepping onto the white marble slab, the two of them suddenly realized that they were the only ones on the entire white marble slab? !

Xia Ruize climbed up a few stone slabs easily and couldn’t help turning his head to look back. He saw that the noisy crowd below was still there, but the young people closest to the white marble road had disappeared one by one.

Xia Ruize guessed that as long as one stepped onto the white marble slab, one would actually enter a unique space. The white marble slab road that seemed to be crowded with people was actually divided into countless spaces, and everyone faced a dedicated examination room.

Xia Ruize turned around in amazement, really curious about what kind of method this was.

His interest piqued. Looking up at the white jade slab suspended in the air in front of him, Xia Ruize continued to climb without hesitation.

From the perspective of the family members waiting at the foot of the mountain, a large number of young people stepped onto the white marble pavement. Their figures were stacked one on top of another, and many people could stand on one step without anyone being squeezed out. They were so amazed that they didn’t even dare to make a loud noise, but just watched their children’s performance with their eyes fixed.

For the young people standing alone on the white marble slab, as they climbed higher and higher, some began to panic.

The figures of the onlookers below were getting smaller and smaller, and even the expressions on their faces could no longer be seen clearly. Clouds and mist began to appear all around, and they were standing on a small stone slab with no protection.

The young people who participated in the selection knew that they would be fine even if they fell, as the white clouds would hold them up, but this did not reduce the fear in their hearts.

The more they told themselves not to think about it, the more they kept thinking about it. Some people’s legs couldn’t help shaking. Climbing became difficult. Every step up required great determination. Cold sweat kept dripping from my forehead.

For those who found the climb more difficult, their entire bodies became stiff and they had to use both their hands and feet to climb up holding onto the stone slabs one by one, fearing that they would accidentally fall.

But the reality was that one of them would accidentally fall off the white jade slab and end their assessment.

Every young person who fell from the white jade slab could get a small white jade tablet from the white clouds. The number displayed on the tablet was the ranking of their climbing height.

It was a pity that this ranking kept changing and was heartbreakingly delayed.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were not afraid of heights. This lack fear probably came from the confidence that they knew they could protect themselves even if they accidentally fell, so they climbed up step by step on the white jade slabs with determination.

Half an hour later, the group of young people who had climbed the highest had already reached a height higher than the sea of ​​clouds, and the crowd watching below could not see them at all even with their eyes wide open.

There were still a lot of young people waiting to step onto the white marble slabs in front of them.

It took a full three hours for all the young talents who came to participate in the Qingyang Sect’s entrance selection to step onto the white jade stone road.

This was because after several physical conflicts among the young people in the queue, the immortal with the flying sword finally came out in person to maintain order. Under the immortal’s command, five or six people could step onto the white jade slab at the same time, greatly increasing the speed.

When the last young person who participated in the selection stepped onto the white jade slab, there were already tens of thousands of young people who had completed the assessment.

After most of the young people who had completed the assessment found their families, the whole family stared at the number on the white jade tablet, watching with fear and horror as the number continued to grow.

Once the number on the white jade tablet was greater than two thousand, the small tablet would break away from the palm of the holder, fly up slowly and disappear into the clouds.

This meant that the holder had climbed to a level outside the top 2,000, and had no chance of entering the second stage of the Qingyang Sect’s disciple-recruiting assessment, and thus had no chance of entering the Qingyang Sect.

The devastated family could only slowly retreat away from the central area.

The families whose children were still on the white marble road took the trouble to inquire about the situation and learned that the reason most of the young people fell from the white marble road was not because they were afraid to climb up, nor were their movements stiff so as to cause mistakes. The most common reason they heard was that they could not climb anymore.

It literally meant that they couldn’t climb anymore. It was said that after climbing to a certain height, they would feel pressure all over their body, as if they were carrying a mountain on their back, and they had to use all their strength to climb each stone slab.

In addition, the young people on the white marble slab could only see their own progress, but not others. Without a reference, they didn’t feel too nervous. Many young people who were born into wealthy families and had never suffered any hardship easily gave up when they felt difficulties, and then they were eliminated.

After this news spread, new news soon followed. It was said that the “Ladder to Heaven” was testing the cultivation qualifications of the young people participating in the selection. The better the qualifications, the higher they could climb. Those who felt too much pressure and could not climb up were actually not qualified enough.

This truth was really heartbreaking, but soon no one cared about those who were eliminated. What everyone cared about were the young people who still remained on the white marble road.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were both men of strong minds. More than ten minutes after they stepped onto the white marble road, they vaguely felt a slight increase in pressure around them. They immediately understood the challenges they might encounter, and climbed more carefully thereafter.

Two hours later, the two had climbed more than 500 layers of white jade slabs. The pressure around them increased greatly. Even though they both felt the difficulty, they never had the slightest thought of giving up. They would rather stay and rest for a little longer than give up the hope of climbing to the next level.

What Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian didn’t know was that they were already the two people who had climbed the highest level so far, and at this moment, many people on the top of the mountain were watching their movements.

“Whose families are these two people who climbed the highest? Why have I never heard of them before?”

A middle-aged man sitting at the top seat asked with a smile, a gleam in his slightly narrowed eyes.

In fact, the Qingyang Sect would take the initiative to pay attention to the younger generations of some large secular families, especially those secular families that prospered because of the frequent emergence of immortal cultivators.

After all, a big family meant abundant resources to train the younger generation from an early age, allowing their own children to win at the starting line. Moreover, those young people had the blood of immortal cultivators, so they were more likely to embark on the path of immortal cultivation again.

This time, the Qingyang Sect opened its doors to recruit disciples, and they had some guesses about which young people would be the first to come out on top. However, the reality was completely different from their expectations. The two young people who climbed the highest on the “Ladder to Heaven” were both strangers, and their information was still being urgently collected.

“I do know that the third one is Li Shunchen¹ from the Li family. This kid has a weak name, but he has a very powerful talent. He is also the great-nephew of the inner sect elder Li.”

The other person responded casually, but there was not much smile in his words, because Li Shunchen was dozens of levels lower than Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian.

“Very good. It is precisely because our Qingyang Sect opens its doors to the public and does not ask about the origins of its disciples that we have been able to recruit so many talented young disciples. Now we have discovered a group of good talents. Great! In the long run, our Qingyang Sect will surely prosper for thousands of years!”

Watching the young people’s assessments for a long time inevitably became boring, so the immortals of Qingyang Sect found their own entertainment, and some joined the group chat to pass the time.

Xia Ruize, who was unaware that he was being watched and commented on, gradually felt the strain. Every time he stepped onto a stone slab, he could feel an additional layer of pressure all over his body. This pressure acted on his entire body, making it difficult for him to breathe.

Finally, after a long time, Xia Ruize was pressed down by the heavy pressure and could not move at all. He could not even lift his fingers. He lay on the white marble slab to rest for a while, then his body tilted and he fell off the slab.

Immediately, soft white clouds caught him and carried him slowly down to the ground.

After leaving the white marble road, Xia Ruize immediately felt relaxed, and the heavy pressure on his body disappeared completely. However, the strength he had consumed had not recovered immediately, so he simply relaxed and sank into the white clouds.

The white cloud automatically put a white jade tablet into his hand. Xia Ruize raised his hand and took a look. There was a number “one” written on the white jade tablet.

1. Shunchen can mean Dust ↩︎

Peace in the fairyland (1): Getting Started

In the newly built manor’s master bedroom, the door was locked, the curtains were closed, and the two owners of the manor lay side by side on the wide bed.

“It took us a whole year to go from death to resurrection to upgrading. It’s quite tiring.” Cheng Huaiqian stared at Xia Ruize’s profile, gently touched his lover’s hair, and smiled, “If we can successfully upgrade to the Golden Book Area this time, the frequency of missions will probably continue to decrease, and we can relax and rest.”

In July of a year ago, the two who died unexpectedly met in the novice mission world of the endless world. Now, as their strength in the endless world continued to increase, their bodies in the real world were increasingly deviating from the scope of normal people.

Not to mention them, just talk about Xia Ruize’s parents. They were getting healthier and healthier under the influence of Xia Ruize often spending his survival points to bring out treasures from the endless world, and they looked younger and younger day by day.

Xia Ruize recalled his experience of the past year and felt a little emotional, but he still tapped Cheng Huaiqian on the head and said with a smile: “Don’t talk nonsense, don’t set flags randomly.”

Cheng Huaiqian smiled ingratiatingly, the two held hands tightly, smiled at each other, and then everything went dark before their eyes. The mission to upgrade the Area officially began.

When Xia Ruize opened his eyes again, he found himself standing among a group of young people ranging in age from teenagers to thirty-somethings. There were a lot of people surrounding him and it was very lively.

Xia Ruize immediately locked onto Cheng Huaiqian who was not far away. Their eyes met and then they looked away tacitly.

After confirming that his lover was not far away, Xia Ruize subconsciously relaxed a lot and began to observe the surrounding environment.

A quick glance around revealed that there were probably tens of thousands of people gathered here, standing on a flat area at the foot of a mountain.

The mountain in front of them was so high that the top could not be seen, and the clouds were lingering in the middle of the mountain, like a fairyland.

The advantage of having a large crowd was that it was convenient to collect information. Xia Ruize listened carefully to the whispers around him and indeed gained a lot of information.

“Qingyang Sect only opens its gates once every three years to recruit disciples. Whether becoming an outer disciple or a servant is a great opportunity. In any case, you must be selected!”

“Qingyang Sect is one of the three major sects. Whenever it opens its gates, there are always a large number of people trying to get in. Your family has spent a lot of money to send you to participate in the entrance examination. No matter what kind of test you encounter later, you must hold on!”

“Your father has spent a lot of money to find out. The examinations for the Qingyang Sect’s entrance selection this year should be the ‘Ladder to Heaven’ and the ‘The Path to Self-Reflection’. One tests the qualifications for cultivating immortals, and the other tests the character of disciples. No matter which one it is, you must remember it. The secret is to persist as long as you can. The longer you persist, the greater the possibility of entering the Qingyang Sect!”

……

No matter how low the sounds around him were, Xia Ruize’s mental power could sense them.

Xia Ruize listened thoughtfully. It sounded like a sect called Qingyang Sect was about to open its gates to recruit a new batch of disciples. The young people gathered here all wanted to join the Qingyang Sect, and were waiting together for the so-called entrance selection to begin.

Interestingly, this so-called Qingyang Sect seemed to be a sect that taught the cultivation of immortals.

Xia Ruize couldn’t help but think that the current situation was so similar to the previous mission world.

In the magic world, young people who passed the divine selection could enter the academy to learn magic. In this mission world, it was very likely that those who pass the entry selection could learn what they called immortal cultivation.

If this was true, then this was a world where one could master a bloodline through self-study!

“It would be great if this world was like the last world, a complete welfare world, with little danger and lots of rewards.”

Xia Ruize said to Cheng Huaiqian in his heart, but he thought that this was probably just his wishful thinking. They were in the extremely demanding Golden Book Area mission world, so it shouldn’t be that simple, right?

Just as Cheng Huaiqian was about to reply in his heart, a young man who was following him took out a jug of water and asked Cheng Huaiqian attentively: “Fifth Young Master, do you want some water?”

This question was like a key that unlocked a piece of information in Cheng Huaiqian’s mind. He thought about it for a moment, then said to Xia Ruize with interest:

“The mission world in the Golden Book District seems to be more rigorous. I have an identity and background in this world. I am a bastard from a small family in a small country and a small city. My name is also Cheng Huaiqian.”

Xia Ruize paused, because as soon as Cheng Huaiqian finished speaking, some identity information appeared in his mind. The “Xia Ruize” in this world was an orphan who lived in his ancestral home outside the city of Roco in a small country called Longda.

Xia Ruize moved his fingers. This was really interesting.

After confirming that they did not know each other’s identities and backgrounds, Cheng Huaiqian ignored the servants chasing after him and urging him to drink water, and walked straight to Xia Ruize, smiling and taking the initiative to talk:

“My name is Cheng Huaiqian. I see that you are here alone. I wonder how confident you are?”

The servant behind Cheng Huaiqian looked a little surprised. He couldn’t understand how their humble and cowardly Fifth Young Master dared to take the initiative to make friends outside. He didn’t dare to interrupt Cheng Huaiqian too obviously, so he could only put away the water bottle in his hand.

Xia Ruize’s eyes swept across the water bottle in the servant’s hand. The servant’s malicious intentions were very obvious, but he didn’t know what was in the water bottle.

As his thoughts turned, Xia Ruize started talking to Cheng Huaiqian with a smile on his face. The two of them seemed to hit it off right away and soon became close friends.

As time passed, the servant hiding behind Cheng Huai became more anxious and tried to interrupt several times, but was interrupted by Xia Ruize every time.

Seeing the atmosphere around him getting more and more heated, and realizing that the time for Qingyang Sect to open its doors and accept disciples seemed to be approaching, the servant could no longer bear it, and forced the water bottle in his hand into Cheng Huaiqian’s hand, and shouted:

“Fifth Young Master! Before you left, Madam asked me to take good care of you. I dare not let you do anything wrong.You have been talking for so long. You should drink some water!”

Cheng Huaiqian finally turned his gaze to the servant beside him. His look was meaningful, and made the servant more and more nervous.

However, Cheng Huaiqian was too lazy to talk to him any more. He simply picked up the kettle to fill himself with water, drank two sips, and threw the kettle to the servant. He completely ignored him and concentrated on chatting with Xia Ruize.

As for the obviously problematic water, Cheng Huaiqian naturally did not drink it. As soon as the water came out of the bottle, it was transferred into space.

If they had not just entered the mission world and the current situation was unclear, Cheng Huaiqian would probably had forced the water into the other person’s mouth. Now, let him stay active for a while longer.

As the sun rose higher, more and more people gathered on the plain in front of the mountain. They had all come for the Qingyang Sect to open its gates and recruit disciples. The young people who were going to take part in the selection were excited, and the elders who accompanied them were also nervous.

This mission world was divided into the fairyland where immortals live and the secular world where ordinary people live.

There were three major sects, six major halls, and thirty-six mountain gates in the fairyland, all of which were sects for cultivating immortals. These sects lived in seclusion, each with its own mountain top, and each had its own time to open its mountain gate to recruit disciples.

Those secular families who were bent on the pursuit of immortality would take their children to seek advice everywhere according to the time when various sects opened their doors to recruit disciples, trying to send their children to immortality to learn the immortal arts of moving mountains and filling the sea.

The Qingyang Sect, one of the three major sects, was opening its mountain gates to recruit disciples today. From the royal family to the common people, everyone in the secular world wanted to get a chance to join the Qingyang Sect, so people had been gathering here waiting a few days ago. Today was the official time for recruiting disciples, so even more people had gathered here.

These were the information briefly mentioned in the identity background introduction. According to their background, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were both ordinary people who were trying to embark on the path of cultivating immortals. They had been waiting for many years for the Qingyang Sect to open its gates and recruit disciples.

At nine o’clock in the morning, the crowd, which had been unusually noisy due to the gathering of tens of thousands of people, suddenly became quiet, and the quietness seemed to be contagious, quickly infecting the entire crowd.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked up at the mountain in front of them, following the gazes of the people around them. They saw a group of people riding flying swords slowly flying downwards.

They were all dressed in gorgeous clothes and looked like immortals, so elegant and graceful that people were so envious that they were speechless for a moment.

Because of this, tens of thousands of people quickly calmed down and welcomed with envious eyes a group of immortals hovering in the air right in front of them.

Xia Ruize’s eyes lit up when he saw the flying sword. It was actually the flying sword! This mission world was so interesting that he couldn’t wait to embark on the path of cultivating immortals.

“I am Wang Teng, an outer sect elder. On behalf of Qingyang Sect, I welcome everyone to come here to participate in the Qingyang Sect’s recruitment of disciples.

I declare that the entrance selection has officially begun!

The first level is the ‘Ladder to Heaven’. The first two thousand people who climb the highest will enter the second level. Without further ado, let’s get started now!”

The group of immortals riding flying swords was led by a middle-aged man with a serious face. He spoke to the tens of thousands of people below.

He clearly just moved his mouth, but the sound seemed to echo in everyone’s ears, allowing everyone to hear it clearly.

Xia Ruize was curious. It seemed that this was the method used by those who practiced Taoism?

As Wang Teng finished speaking, white marble slabs as long as arms and as wide as palms began to descend from the clouds, extending all the way to a height of two palms above the ground, forming a dazzling white marble road.

Wang Teng waved his hand towards the white marble pavement, making a gesture of invitation, but he just watched quietly.

The young people closest to the lowest layer of white jade slabs were startled by this sudden change, and some of them couldn’t help but take two steps back.

Of course, when someone retreated, someone else advanced. The other young man who was closest to them gritted his teeth and stepped onto the white marble slab with a determined look.

Just like that, he climbed up the white marble slabs without any guardrails. It seemed that this young man, who was the first to step onto the white marble slabs, was very nervous. He clenched his fists, stared at the slabs, and carefully raised his legs step by step.

The young people nearby saw that someone had taken the lead, and remembered that the outer sect elder of Qingyang Sect had said before that only the top 2,000 people could enter the second level, and there were probably 30,000 to 40,000 people who wanted to participate in the Qingyang Sect’s disciple recruitment. Fearing that they would lose their qualifications if they were late, they hurriedly stepped onto the white jade slab.

The young men following closely behind not only stepped onto the white marble slabs, but also quickened their climbing speed. They were about to overtake the people in front of them on the narrow and unprotected white marble slab road, and the crowd watching below suddenly exclaimed.

Exit

After packing up a large table of delicious food from the restaurant in Silver Page Area and returning to the team space, the three of them sat around the table, eating and chatting.

“No wonder Lao Shi said that there are very few trialers in the Golden Books Area. I have been flying with you for so long and still haven’t been able to meet the requirements. I’m afraid it will be even more difficult for others to achieve it.”

Gao Hexuan’s voice was full of emotion. After being briefly surprised when he learned about the conditions for upgrading to a higher zone after passing through the main temple, he quickly figured it out.

He was considered an experienced old trialer, but after visiting so many mission worlds, he had only seen two such super-powerful trialers like the ones beside him.

He could get perfect ratings for every main mission in the mission world, but no one would believe it if he told them. Generally, it was good enough for a trialer to get an excellent rating, and what they pursued in their daily lives was just a passing rating, like him before he had the support of his big teammates.

Therefore, the first condition for upgrading to the Golden Books Area could screen out 80% of the trialers.

Don’t even think about getting three perfect ratings in a row. It would take about a year and a half in real life to get eight excellent ratings in a row. Who knew what kind of mission worlds they ould encounter in the meantime? And how could they guarantee that they would always get excellent ratings?

As for the second condition of upgrading the Golden Books area, submitting 10,000 survival points was also a big problem for the trialers whose most mission rewards were not enough to even improve their strength.

Probably only the two big guys could develop extended missions on a daily basis, and could obtain a large number of survival points through various operations. While buying in the Lord God store to improve their strength, they could also have a lot of survival points left over.

Other trialers may only keep a minimum number of survival points on hand to prevent mission failure all year round, and the other survival points needed to be carefully calculated and exchanged for strength from the Lord god.

As for the last condition, it was even more difficult to have physical fitness data above 160 points.

The bosses could develop extended missions in every mission world, and even always complete the extended missions perfectly, getting a lot of rewards and greatly improving physical attributes.

But for other trialers, it would be good if they could get extended missions. The biggest possibility was that they would only get a passing evaluation after getting them. The improvement of physical attributes mainly depended on the rewards of main missions and the exchange of survival points, so the gap between physical qualities was getting bigger and bigger.

Apart from anything else, Gao Hexuan’s physical attributes after following the big bosses in many mission worlds were just close to 100 points, and when he first met the big bosses, the average physical attributes were only more than ten points. The result of holding on to the right big brothers was that his strength soared like a rocket.

Taking himself as a reference, Gao Hexuan even suspected that the average attribute of other trialers in the Silver Page Area was only around fifty points.

……

After repeated consideration, Gao Hexuan clearly realized that the requirements for promotion to the Golden Books Area were so high that he would probably never be able to achieve them by himself. Even with the help of two big teammates, he still couldn’t achieve it. What did this prove?

This showed that  Golden Books Area didn’t want mediocre people like him, but geniuses like the two big teammates!

“Brother Cheng, Brother Xia, thank you for taking me with you for so long. I am so grateful! My greatest luck is meeting you. Hahahaha, the Lord God has treated me well!

But I also know myself well, and the Golden Books Area doesn’t want someone like me.

I have considered it carefully. I am not going to upgrade to the Golden Books Area. It is fine for me to stay in the Silver Page Area. With my current strength, I can still complete the missions in the Silver Page Area.

Besides, hey, we can still chat there, you can go and see if the missions in the Golden Books Area are difficult. If they are too difficult, remind me, I will be in the Silver Page Area for the rest of my life.”

Gao Hexuan smiled and squeezed his eyes. They could talk to each other in the real world. If the two big teammates were promoted to the Golden Book Area, they could hint him in the real world if they found anything wrong.

Gao Hexuan took the initiative to withdraw from the team. After all, when the two bosses were promoted from the Bamboo Silk Area to the Silver Page Area, they stayed in one more mission world because of him. This time the gap was not one or two mission worlds that could be caught up. He was too embarrassed to delay his teammates for so long.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were silent for a while. The situation became very obvious once the conditions for promotion were listed. Either they separated from Gao Hexuan and promoted themselves.

If they wanted to continue to team up with Gao Hexuan, they had to stay in the Silver Page area for more than seven mission worlds before they had a chance to consider upgrading the area together.

After exchanging a glance, Cheng Huaiqian held out the juice in his hand and clinked glasses with Xia Ruize and Gao Hexuan, then he made the final decision:

“Okay! Let’s go to the Golden Book Area to find out the truth first. Take care in the Silver Page Area!”

Gao Hexuan clinked glasses with his two big teammates and drank a whole glass of juice in one gulp to hide his slightly red eyes. He followed Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian to fight in many mission worlds. They trusted each other with life and death, so naturally they had a special relationship. Realizing that they would be separated soon, even though he had thought it through rationally, he was still reluctant to leave emotionally.

Xia Ruize was also somewhat reluctant to leave. Gao Hexuan was a teammate selected by him and Cheng Huaiqian. After so many mission worlds, he was a rare person who earned their trust.

The opportunity to move up an Area was bright before their eyes, and it was hard to pass up.

Xia Ruize patted Gao Hexuan on the shoulder, feeling reluctant but not too worried. Compared to the silent, self-abandoned young man when they first met, Gao Hexuan had grown a lot now, and was capable of standing on his own in terms of both strength and knowledge.

Cheng Huaiqian changed the topic, and the three of them talked about the mission world and real life, enjoyed a good meal, agreed on the next time to meet, and left the endless world.

After three days of rest and adjustment in the real world, Xia Ruize and the other two met again in the Endless World. All three of them had a large number of survival points, which could be exchanged for many things from the Lord God.

Especially Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, who were only prepared to retain a small number of survival points and exchange the rest for strength.

They were about to face the mission of upgrading to a higher zone. The extremely high conditions for upgrading made Xia Ruize and Cheng Huai attach great importance to the upcoming challenge.

After a large-scale purchase, Xia Ruize and the other two gathered in the team space and each used a [Coordinate Anchor Point].

The [Coordinate Anchor Point] allowed them to gain three months of training time before the upgrade mission, which was really valuable.

Not to mention that Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian also had the [Rule] bestowed by the will of the magic mission world, which meant that they could cultivate their other abilities in the magic world.

As for Gao Hexuan, after he was promoted to a big magician, the three of them were soon forcibly taken away by the Lord God. It was a good opportunity for him to consolidate his magical abilities, which would become his main means of attack in the future.

After using the [Coordinate Anchor Point], the three of them appeared in a courtyard in Dudinyak City the next moment. This courtyard was very close to the Grand Hall of the Magician Association, and similar courtyards nearby were  specially prepared for powerful magicians.

There were no more than thirty powerful magicians in the entire human continent, and they enjoyed the second-highest support in human society after the Magic Saints.

Xia Ruize and the other two had been promoted to the big magician realm one after another. It was a rare concentrated promotion in many years. The Magicians Association did not have time to prepare the corresponding resources. The three of them did not care. After all, they felt that they would leave eventually, so there was no need to go through so much trouble. It was enough for the three of them to just share a courtyard.

At this moment, they appeared in the courtyard assigned to them. The servants who took care of them in the courtyard were no different, as if they had always been there and had never left.

In fact, after checking, the three found that the current timeline was almost the same as when they escaped.

Calming down, the three of them concentrated on their cultivation. Their food, clothing, housing and transportation were all carefully arranged. Apart from their cultivation, they ignored worldly affairs and occasionally gave guidance on the research progress of the R&D team when they were free. This had already made all parties very satisfied.

After all, they have now been promoted to big magicians, and big magicians had no mandatory obligations other than taking turns to guard the battlefield.

The contributions of Xia Ruize and the other two were greater than those of the soldiers themselves, so there was no one to restrict their behavior, allowing them to enjoy themselves freely.

For three whole months, the three of them were completely obsessed with consolidating their strength. When they left the magic world again, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian felt more confident.

After staying in the endless world for a few more days, sitting in a small restaurant listening to news from all sides and relaxing, the three of them prepared to leave the endless world.

The last thing before leaving was to go to the main temple. Under the witness of the Lord God, Gao Hexuan applied to withdraw from the team. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian agreed. Gao Hexuan’s name disappeared from the team contract signed at that time. Since then, Gao Hexuan officially withdrew from the team.

The team spaces that were originally merged together were naturally separated, and Gao Hexuan’s space was separated out.

Gao Hexuan suppressed his reluctance and joked:

“Brother Cheng, Brother Xia, come on! Haha, but don’t be too stressed. If we fail the upgrade mission, you can come back and take me flying.”

Cheng Huaiqian smiled and patted Gao Hexuan’s shoulder, Xia Ruize hugged Gao Hexuan, and then Gao Hexuan was the first to leave the endless world. He was afraid that he would cry if he didn’t leave quickly.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian took final inventory and confirmed that they had made all the preparations they could before leaving the Endless World.

In the real world, sales of the Little Nurse No. 1 robot were booming.

The factory’s production capacity could not even keep up with consumers’ enthusiasm for purchasing. The stock put on the shelves every morning was sold out before the evening.

The more popular the product was, the more positive reviews it received from all sides, and it was praised as a safety product that everyone must have. As a result, more people were interested in the Little Nurse No. 1 robot and were eager to buy it.

The reputation of Little Nurse No. 1 even spread overseas as some of its products were sent abroad. Foreign media began to report that China had an intelligent medical robot that far surpassed similar products.

When this news spread back to China, people’s enthusiasm for Little Nurse No. 1 reached a new level.

The hustle and bustle of the outside world could not disturb Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian. They usually stayed in the private research institute under their name to do experiments together.

With the experience in the magical world, Cheng Huaiqian also began to be interested in research and development.

Of course, what interested him more was that he was always sticking to his lover. He could see his lover’s handsome face as long as he looked up. What he was doing didn’t matter.

More than ten days passed in a blink of an eye, and it was July 9th. According to usual practice, each zone upgrade mission was on the 9th of the month. Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian made preparations in advance and did not go out on that day.

Sure enough, the  Golden Books Area’s upgrade mission was also on the 9th, and the two received a reminder that the mission was about to begin.

TN: Hey guys! the next chapter will be the beginning of the last arc so I decided to change the update schedule, I’ll update 5 times per week, one chapter per day from Monday to Friday

The World of Demons (18): Application

Cheng Huaiqian stepped forward and tried to push the door, and found that the door, which looked extremely heavy, was easily pushed open.

Xia Ruize and the other two walked in. The door closed behind them. What appeared in front of them was a huge bottomless pit. A circle of simple stairs spiraling downwards was attached to the stone wall around the pit.

The three of them walked to the railing and looked down. It was pitch black below and the stairs gradually disappeared into the darkness. They couldn’t see where the bottom of the stairs was at all.

The three of them were holding the magic lights they had developed themselves. They shook the light poles to power the lights in their hands and walked down the stairs.

The three of them walked for an hour at their speed, and the dark environment around them finally changed. They leaned over the railing and looked down, and there was a dazzling light at the end of their sight.

Realizing that they were almost reaching their destination, the three of them couldn’t help but quicken their pace. Of course, there was still an hour between seeing the light and actually reaching the end of the stairs.

During the last hour of the journey, the surrounding environment changed a lot. The magical elements in the air became more and more dense, and they could even feel the magical elements actively entering their bodies with every breath.

When they actually stood on a small platform at the end of the stairs, the magical elements around Xia Ruize and the other two had become so dense that they were visible.

The magical elements of green, red, yellow, gold and blue were intertwined together, making the entire space appear colorful and gorgeous.

Xia Ruize and the other two touched the edge of the platform and looked down carefully, but they could only see brilliant magical elements. Even when they released their mental power, the entire area of ​​observation was filled with magical elements.

After searching in vain, Xia Ruize and the other two followed the magician’s instructions and sat down on the platform to start drawing elements into their bodies. Then they discovered that the magical elements here were so dense that they did not even need them to draw them in; they were rushing into their bodies on their own initiative.Moreover, these magic elements were extremely pure. Even if a large amount of them flew into the body in a short period of time, it didn’t make them feel uncomfortable. The obedient magic elements quickly turn into magic power.

After realizing this, Xia Ruize and the other two quickly stopped drawing elements into their bodies and instead continued to cast magic to consume the magic power stored in their bodies.

As they consumed magic power, more magical elements took the opportunity to flow into their bodies and turned into magic power, replenishing their consumption in time.

In other words, they completely skipped the process of introducing elements into the body during daily practice. They only needed to continuously cast magic to complete the cycle of practice, thereby continuously increasing the upper limit of the body’s ability to carry magic power.

In addition, even after casting hundreds of spells in succession, Xia Ruize and the other two did not feel tired. They only felt that their mental energy consumption was very small and they were still full of energy.

They had to say, it felt so great to practice next to the source of the world. Just one hour of practice was equivalent to half a month of practice on the battlefield with the help of potions. There was no feeling of fatigue, nor any obstacles, and the magic practice was smooth sailing.

Xia Ruize and the other two were completely immersed in their magic training and were unaware of the passage of time.

An unknown amount of time had passed before the three of them gradually came out of their state of immersion in cultivation. As a result, they found themselves sitting outside the gate of the secret realm. The magic circle on the gate behind them had dimmed, and the magician in charge of them was waiting beside them with a smile.

“You have been practicing there for five days. How do you feel?”

The magician asked with interest.

The time each group of people who entered the top-secret secret realm stayed in was not exactly the same, but it was generally between two and three days. This time, Xia Ruize and his two companions stayed there for five days before being sent out by God. He wondered if it was because fewer people entered the secret realm or for other reasons?

Xia Ruize and the other two stood up, felt the surging magic power in their bodies, and immediately found a familiar magician to borrow a magic spell of a higher level. They couldn’t wait to try it out.

The result of the attempt was even more exciting. Cheng Huaiqian and Gao Hexuan were still a little short of being able to successfully chant magic of a higher level, but Xia Ruize successfully cast the high-level fire magic, Rain of Fire, on his first try.

The magical power in his body was so strong that it actually supported him to chant the 5,000-word spell!

Upon hearing the news, the five magic saints of the Magicians Association were all amazed and had to admit that Xia Ruize was truly a person favored by God.

It was the same as entering a top-secret secret realm to practice next to the source of the world, but not every magician who entered could be promoted to the level of a big magician.

Having witnessed the power of high-level spells with their own eyes, the three of them became obsessed with cultivation around the clock, even after leaving the secret realm, in order to consolidate the benefits they gained from the secret realm.

In addition, the Magicians Association sent the best training resources to the three of them, and as a result, the training speed of the three of them was very gratifying.

Xia Ruize continually shortened his mage-level spells with each casting, while Cheng Huaiqian and Gao Hexuan were able to chant longer and longer spells.

Half a month after leaving the secret realm, Cheng Huaiqian and Gao Hexuan also successively advanced to the level of big magician.

At this moment, they received an urging reminder from the Lord God, asking them to leave the mission world as soon as possible.

“Alas, this is really a case of throwing it away after use, like crossing the river and destroying the bridge!”

Cheng Huaiqian joked after receiving the task reminder.

But he was just talking and he didn’t mean to not leave. After all, they had stayed in this mission world for more than four months, which was the longest stay so far.

Of course, corresponding to the long time was a huge reward. Not only did they obtain the magic bloodline through self-study, but with the help of the natives of the mission world and the source of the world, relying on a large amount of training time and training resources, they raised the level of the magic bloodline to a high level. The harvest was amazing.

All three were very satisfied with what they had gained from this world.

Therefore, after receiving the urging from the Lord God, Xia Ruize and the other two hurriedly memorized all the magic spells of the magician realm, and confirmed that the research team organized by the Magicians Association had grasped the correct research direction, research ideas and research methods. They even developed two new civilian magic products under the guidance of the three and launched them on the market. They were pleased and were kicked out of the mission world by the Lord God with a full sense of accomplishment.

After returning to the endless world, Xia Ruize and the other two received a prompt to complete the hidden extended mission.

[Hidden extended mission: Uncover the truth of the world and protect the mainland!

Mission Rating: Perfect

Mission Rewards: 5,000 survival points; three blessings; +8 for all attributes (extra reward for perfect mission evaluation)]

[Hidden extended mission: Thank you from God!

Mission status: Completed

Mission evaluation: Perfect

Mission rewards: Reward 16,000 survival points; two coordinate anchor points; Rule x1; Reward all attributes +16 (extra reward for perfect mission evaluation)]

What caught Xia Ruize and the other two’s attention the most was the reward for the second hidden extended mission.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaian received a perfect mission evaluation. In addition to the rewards of [Coordinate Anchor Points] and [Rule], which they had never heard of before, the rewards of survival points and attribute points were also far more generous than in the previous mission world.

Gao Hexuan received an excellent mission evaluation. Although he did not obtain the [Rules], he was also rewarded with a [Coordinate Anchor Point].

After carefully studying the Lord God’s explanation, the three of them understood that the so-called [coordinate anchor point] meant that they could return to the magic mission world again and stay for three months each time. They could go back as many times as they had coordinate anchor points!

Moreover, the time spent in the magical world would not affect the time in the outside world at all. In other words, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian had six more months of training time!

The more valuable reward was the [Rule].

After detailed research and even consulting the Lord God, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian finally understood that this [Rule] was a gift given to them by the will of the magic world.

After the rule was integrated into their bodies, they would receive more tolerance and preferential treatment when they entered a similar world with strict rules that excluded foreign abilities.

If they first obtained the rules sent by the will of a certain mission world and then entered this magic mission world, their means of attack would not be so restricted, which would be equivalent to a complete destruction.

It was precisely because they had deeply experienced the feeling of being restricted by the rules of the world that Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian understood the value of this rule.

Although Gao Hexuan did not obtain the [Rule], he was already very satisfied with obtaining the [Coordinate Anchor Point]. If he had not clung to the thighs of his two big teammates, he would probably not even have heard of such a high-end reward.

After counting the harvest from this mission world, Xia Ruize and the other two did not go to the hotel in the Silver Page Area to rest as usual, but went directly to the main temple.

According to the practice of the previous two upgrades, after receiving perfect evaluations for three main missions in the Silver Page Mission World, they should be able to apply for an upgrade. They couldn’t wait to see the upgrade conditions.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian had always been yearning for the high-level areas. According to their experience along the way, the higher the level of the area, the higher the difficulty of the mission would be, but the mission rewards would also increase. Most importantly, the constraints on the trialers from the endless world and the Lord God would become less.

Even though they were warned by the Lao Shi not to hold out for promotion when they first arrived in Silver Page Area, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian had always been working towards this goal in their hearts.

After arriving at the main temple, the three of them submitted applications for upgrading to the Lord god at the same time. Afterwards, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian received a response from the main god. After reading the conditions for upgrading, they looked at each other in silence.

There were three conditions for upgrading from the Silver Pages Area to the Golden Books Area:

1. Get a “perfect” rating for three consecutive mission world mainline missions in the Silver Page Area or get an “excellent” rating for eight consecutive mission world mainline missions

2. Submit 10,000 survival points

3. All four physical fitness data are above 160 points

The first two conditions were relatively simple, but the problem laid in the third condition.

After leaving the magic world, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian’s physical data had basically increased to more than 200 points. All three conditions were met, and the two could submit applications for upgrading.

But Gao Hexuan did not meet the third condition. Although he had followed the two bosses for five mission worlds, only his mental strength had broken through to 104, and the other three were around 90 points, which was still a long way from the requirements of the upgrade zone mission.

Gao Hexuan was feeling strange because the Lord God didn’t respond at all, and suddenly he found that something was wrong with his two teammates. After asking, he found out why he didn’t get a response from the Lord God, it was because he didn’t meet the conditions, so he couldn’t even see the requirements for the promotion zone!

The World of Demons (17): Promotion

If there was a low-cost daily necessity engraved with a magic circle, which ordinary humans could and will use, and it was promoted, then every time ordinary humans used it, the magic circle on the daily necessity would be activated, thereby stirring up the surrounding magic elements and promoting the generation of new magic elements.

Ordinary humans could not chant magic, but at least they had hands and feet, so the three of them researched a new magic circle that could convert force into magic power and activate the magic circle.

For example, the first lighting lamp they developed actually had a joystick connected to the back of the bamboo lamp. Just by manually shaking the joystick for a while, it can activate the small magic circle and make the bamboo lamp light up.

Of course, for the bamboo lamp to stay lit, the rocker has to be shaken from time to time.

In short, this was a simplified version of the lighting that was not that easy to use, but it could be regarded as the realization of the original idea of ​​Xia Ruize and the other two.

After the lighting lamp was developed, the three of them asked ordinary workers in the magic tower to try it out and confirmed that it could activate the magic circle and light up the bamboo lamp.

Afterwards, the three of them also tested putting a lighting lamp in a transparent cover, artificially absorbing the magic elements in the transparent cover, and then continuously shaking the joystick to activate the lighting lamp. After a day, new light-spot-shaped magic elements would appear in the transparent cover.

After repeated experiments confirmed that the magic version of the lighting was the finished product they wanted, Xia Ruize and the other two invited magicians Sophia and Onet to verify it.

If they also thought that this kind of lighting was useful and supported its promotion, then everyone who used this light would contribute to making the world a better place.

Sophia and Magician Onet understood this world more deeply than the three outsiders of Xia Ruize, and of course they were more aware of the superiority of the three’s ideas. They couldn’t help but get excited after listening to the introduction of the three young people.

Urging Xia Ruize to keep shaking the joystick, the two magicians carefully felt the fluctuations of the magic elements around the lighting.

The two extremely excited magicians confirmed the effect of the magic circle on the lamp, and even made a magic version of the lamp from scratch.

It was truly confirmed that this lighting had the advantages of low raw material cost, simple and easy to carve magic array, and the ability to stimulate the generation of new magic elements.

After coming to this conclusion personally, the two magicians could no longer hold back. The next day, they did not go to the battlefield to calm down. Instead, they grabbed Xia Ruize and the other two and boarded the teleportation array directly to Dudinyak City, the largest city in the Eastern Continent and the headquarters of the Magicians Association.

The Magicians Association not only controlled all magicians, but also all ordinary humans. It was the actual power institution in the Eastern Continent. All power and strength were concentrated in the Magicians Association.

The headquarters of the Magicians’ Association was located in the center of Dudinyak City. The auditorium, which was hundreds of meters high and made of white jade, was the most conspicuous landmark in the entire city. People passing by look at the auditorium with respect and admiration.

The two magicians led the three young men into the auditorium. They did not even give them time to appreciate the magnificent interior decoration of the auditorium. They directly took them to the back to ask for an audience with the leader of the Magicians Association, the Magic Saint.

The two magicians were called away first, and Xia Ruize and the other two were arranged to wait in a greenhouse.

It was spring at that time, and all kinds of flowers were blooming in the greenhouse, vying with each other for beauty. The variety and colors were so dazzling that it was dizzying.

The three of them waited patiently for half an hour, and a magician in a black robe with silver edges came to find them and took them to the venue.

The huge conference hall covered with brightly painted murals was a circular shape with a depression in the middle. The surrounding seats were filled with high-ranking magicians, with five magic saints wearing white robes with gold edges sitting at the highest point.

Xia Ruize and the other two were led to the circular depression in the center of the podium and couldn’t help but look around. The surrounding magicians and magic saints had their eyes fixed on them since they came in, their eyes full of curiosity and inquiry.

Five magic lamps were being passed from one important person to another. The oldest of the five magic saints sitting in the center asked kindly:

“Why don’t you tell us in person how you developed the lighting?”

The atmosphere in the meeting hall was full of sturdy and powerful energy, but Xia Ruize was not afraid. He calmly repeated the explanation he had given to the two magicians before:

“We hope to create low-cost, popularizable daily necessities engraved with magic circles, preferably something that ordinary people can use and will use on their own initiative.

Candles are expensive, lamp oil is expensive and does not burn well, and when we were young, we were always troubled by light when we lived underground, so the first thing we thought of was lighting. “

Xia Ruize explained it in more detail than before, and added his own identity and background, which made everyone in the meeting nod their heads repeatedly.

Sophia and Magician Onet had actually explained the principles and effects of the lighting lamp clearly before. The reason why Xia Ruize was asked to explain it again was that the bigwigs had not yet recovered from the shock and wanted to hear the creator’s true thoughts.

As the lights in the hands of the big shots continued to illuminate, everyone in the venue, who were at least magicians, keenly sensed the new magical elements.

As Xia Ruize talked about the prospect of promoting lighting into thousands of households, they couldn’t help but imagine in their minds that every household would use manual lighting and thousands of ordinary people would help to stimulate more magical elements.

Everyone present knew the situation in the mainland better than Xia Ruize and the other two outsiders, and they also knew the benefits of promoting lighting. So after Xia Ruize finished his speech, the bigwigs at the venue fell into a heated discussion.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian, who were being escorted out of the venue, looked at each other and smiled in tacit understanding. The matter was settled.

When the Magicians Association wanted to push something with all its strength, the progress of this thing on the human continent would inevitably be rapid. Soon, the first batch of magic version lamps were produced and promoted in Dudinyak City.

Magicians’ associations, academies, government halls, squares and other public areas were the first to install unique-style lighting fixtures. Many stores also stocked low-priced lighting fixtures, and at the same time, they also promoted how to use the lighting fixtures.

As if overnight, the novelty of the lighting spread among ordinary people.

Ordinary citizens were very curious about lighting, because the lighting installed in public areas such as squares was powered by the crank operated by whoever used it.

There were always people who tried to shake the joystick with itchy hands, and when the light really came on, people around them would exclaim at how bright and easy to use the light was.

In addition, the price of lighting lamps was not expensive. Just thinking about having such a lamp will save you from having to spend money on lamp oil for years. After experiencing the benefits of lighting lamps in public areas, some families decisively bought lamps to take home. Even some farmers with slightly worse conditions could afford to buy a lamp if they gritted their teeth.

You have to know that the Magicians Association promoted lighting not for the purpose of making money but for saving the world. After the Magicians Association subsidized part of the cost, the price of lighting was extremely competitive.

Families with this light would send their children to shake the light pole as soon as it got dark, and soon the room would be bright. Other family members would also often shake the light pole a few times while chatting or doing things.

In this way, the whole house was bright until bedtime.

Many families simply left some easy work to do at night, and even used the lights to do some extra manual work to supplement the family income, and used the saved daytime time to focus on farming.

No one would refuse such cheap and easy-to-use lighting, especially for civilians living underground, where lighting had become an indispensable item in the home.

Soon, the lights became popular from Dudinyak to the entire continent. In just one month, tens of thousands of lights were sold.

Many people discovered that simply adding a small lamp could actually bring about a huge change in their lives.

The top leaders of the Magicians Association also discovered that the lighting’s effect in stimulating the creation of new magical elements was beginning to show results.

In Dudinyak, the city where lighting was first promoted and the largest number of lights were used, several precious spring rains had recently fallen, greatly alleviating the drought in the farmland.

Farmers around the city all had expectant smiles on their faces.

The rivers, which had exposed large areas of riverbed due to less and less rainfall in the past few years, also saw a significant increase in water volume after several spring rains.

A variety of small wild animals in the mountains a few dozen miles outside the city are unusually active, allowing hunters who enter the mountains to hunt to reap rich rewards.

……

For the common people, the scattered news was just a few words of regret in their spare time, but for the Magician Association that was constantly collecting information, it was proof of the abundance of magical elements around Dudinyak City after the promotion of the lighting.

Good weather and good harvests depended on abundant magical elements!

In addition, there were many magic saints and magicians with keen perception in the city of Dudingjak. Their personal experience had also proved that the magical elements around the city were more abundant than before. Facts had proved that the solution proposed by Xia Ruize and the other two young men was correct!

During the month of promoting the lighting, Xia Ruize and the other two were not idle. The Magic Saint personally summoned a group of magicians who were good at magic circles. Under the leadership of Xia Ruize and the other two, they were trying to research new items with magic circles that ordinary people could use.

Xia Ruize and the other two did not resist the idea of ​​taking in apprentices. It was better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. They would eventually leave this mission world, so it was better to pass on their research ideas to the natives of this mission world before leaving. Even after they leave, this mission world could still develop its own ideas and develop more products.

As new magicians, Xia Ruize and the other two were pardoned by the Magic Saint himself and did not have to serve in the main battlefield. Instead, they stayed at the headquarters of the Magicians Association for experiments.

After all, the new magical elements brought about by the promotion of their developed products are far more than the magic attacks they cast personally on the battlefield.

So a month later, with the efforts of everyone, Xia Ruize and the other two led the research magic talents assigned to them to develop a magic fire stove.

At this time, they had been in this mission world for more than three months, which was the longest time they had stayed in a world.

After the magic fire stove was successfully developed and quickly promoted, Xia Ruize and the other two prepared to go to the battlefield to collect some treasure chests, and then prepare to leave the mission world.

However, after they expressed this idea, the magician in charge of taking care of them at the headquarters of the Magicians Association quickly stopped them and happily told them that in view of their great contribution, the five magic saints would join forces to open a top-secret secret realm for them to assist them in their cultivation.

“The secret realm you are going to is where God resides, and it is also the place closest to the origin of the world. There, you will feel the purest magical elements. Believe me, your cultivation progress will be rapid.”

The magician personally led Xia Ruize and the other two to the entrance to the secret realm located in the basement of the auditorium of the Magicians Association headquarters, introducing them as they walked.

“This secret realm is the highest level of our association. It is only opened once every ten years, and each time we select ten of the best young people at that time to enter.

This time is a special event, and the five Magic Saints have opened it specifically for the three of you. After you enter, follow the stairs to the bottom, and then seize the time to practice. When the secret realm ends, you will naturally be sent out by the gods. “

Passing through layers of guards and magic circles, the four arrived at a tall door engraved with magic circles located hundreds of meters underground.

The five Demon Saints were already waiting here, and when they saw Xia Ruize and the other two, they smiled and nodded. As they began to chant magic, the magic circle engraved on the door gradually lit up.

The magician pointed to the brightly lit door ahead, smiled at the three young magicians, and encouraged them, “Go!”

The World of Demons (16): Ideas

Magician Onet was indeed recognized as the kindest senior. Even though he was often frustrated by the questions asked by three bold and difficult young people, he would always answer the questions that he could.

This veteran magician knew a lot of inside information, and sometimes the information he accidentally leaked could inspire the three of them.

Xia Ruize and the other two, who were taking advantage of the situation and were getting more and more demanding, simply proposed to become the followers of the magician Onet and live in his magic tower.

On the one hand, Magician Onet was fond of talents, but on the other hand, he was really afraid of the three particularly hard working little guys. Not only did he vacate three guest rooms for them in his magic tower, he also allowed them to use the laboratory in his magic tower.

In the end, he gave in step by step, and even his study was occupied by the three of them.

Another five days passed, and with the help of several bottles of magic potion every day, Xia Ruize and the other two increased the upper limit of magic power stored in their bodies to the point where they could cast several magicians-level spells in succession.

The stronger the three were, the more demon generals they “killed” on the battlefield, the more treasure chest potions they would obtain, and they would always maintain a high cultivation speed.

At the same time, the three people’s in-depth investigation finally came to a conclusion: the truth was as Wizard Onet said, the magic element gap in this world was getting bigger and bigger, and the whole world was gradually declining…

The cooperation between humans and monsters could only delay this process, but could not completely stop it.

Due to the shortage of gold, it was difficult for humans to find new metal mines, and the prices of various metal-made tools for production and life were gradually rising.

The lack of wood element had caused trees to wither, vegetation to decrease, and the climate to change drastically.

The lack of water, drought and little rain, and the drying up of rivers had directly led to serious reductions in farmland production. Even though civilians had put in tremendous effort to take good care of the farmland, the amount of food they harvested was still getting less and less, and the food shortage situation on the entire human continent was becoming more and more serious.

Due to the lack of fire, temperature regulation problems occurred, extreme weather increased, and winters became colder. The cities originally located in the northernmost part of the mainland had to move southward as a whole.

Lack of earth element, poor soil, reduced crop yields…

The lack of magic elements affected human production and life in all aspects, making human survival difficult.

According to historical records, several decades ago, ordinary civilians could not only feed their families after working hard in the fields for a year, but they could also accumulate some wealth from the food they sold.

But now, several decades later, the output from the farmland of most civilian families was not enough to feed their own families, and life was extremely difficult.

The proof of this was that the students who passed the divine screening decades ago were able to study in the academy for a few months, fully enjoy the joy of learning, and then be sent to the battlefield.

But now, those who passed the divine selection could only stay in the academy for ten days. The ten-day short-term training quickly produced magic apprentices who could cast magic like an assembly line, and then they were rushed to the battlefield and urged to cast magic non-stop.

The three of them didn’t know much about the monsters’ situation, but they thought that the monsters had a hard time too, otherwise they wouldn’t have cooperated with humans in “fighting” for so many years. Even though most of the time it was their bodies that were broken, they had no complaints.

After confirming the problems in the mission world, it turned out that the root cause was that the “Source of the World” as God had obtained fewer magic elements, so the output was naturally less. The next step was to find a solution.

The principle of the solution was actually very clear, which was to try to make more magical elements between heaven and earth.

Based on the current discoveries of humans and monsters, this effect could be achieved when humans cast magic, monsters launch attacks, and magic circles were operated.

But this was far from enough to fill the gap in the source of the world.

Xia Ruize and the other two saw an encrypted research document from magician Onet. According to the statistics of the almighty, even if human magicians consciously cast magic non-stop from morning to night every day, only 10 additional magic elements would be produced in the process of absorbing magic elements and then casting them out.

Each time the magic teleportation array was used, it caused the surrounding magic elements to surge and could also generate 10 new units of magic elements.

The problem was that the requirements for magicians on the human side had become extremely strict. After graduating from academy, they were forced to stay on the battlefield for five years. The six-hour defense mission every day could even drive some fragile people crazy.

Even after completing the five-year garrison mission, magicians who wanted to continue to improve had to stay on the battlefield to obtain potions, because the Magician Association strictly controlled the circulation of potions, and exchanging potions with combat performance was the most feasible way.

If a magician really couldn’t stand the hardship of being stationed on the battlefield, he could return to his hometown and enjoy a relatively peaceful life, but he had to serve on the battlefield for another year every three years…

All of this military service was compulsory. If magicians wanted to have a better life than civilians, they had to pay a corresponding price.

Under such a harsh compulsory military service system, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian decisively gave up thinking of ways from the direction of human magicians, and turned their attention to the magic circle and the ordinary humans who made up the absolute majority.

Recent in-depth research had allowed Xia Ruize to understand more details that Master Onet had not previously explained.

For example, in addition to being consumed to maintain the operation of the world and being absorbed by magicians and monsters, the magic elements between heaven and earth would also naturally settle in the bodies of ordinary humans over time.

It was just that ordinary humans could not cast magic like magicians. The magical elements in their bodies would not re-enter the cycle of the source of the world until they died.

Even though the amount of magic elements deposited in an ordinary human’s body was small, it was still a huge gap considering the huge number of humans.

Because of this, whenever the number of humans and monsters increased, the magic elements of the entire world would not be enough. Until natural disasters consumed most of the population, the world would gradually return to balance.

But no one living today wanted to lose their life.

After discussing it, Xia Ruize and the other two came up with the solution of allowing a large number of ordinary humans to join in the cycle of stimulating the regeneration of magic elements by utilizing magic circles.

The three not only borrowed the power of Magician Onet to read a lot of information about magic circles, but also got to know Magician Sophia, the guard of the fourth area of ​​the main battlefield, through Magician Onet.

Magician Sophia had done in-depth research on magic circles, and Xia Ruize and the other two wanted to ask her for advice.

Magician Onet knew that the three kids wanted to contribute their strength after knowing the truth about the world.

Although he didn’t want the three guys he favored to use up a lot of their training time to mess around with magic circles at this stage, after all, generally only those who had no hope of further advancement would devote their energy to minor fields such as magic circles.

But Xia Ruize and the other two repeatedly assured that it would not affect their training and would not delay their daily battlefield defense missions. Magician Onet was simply no match for the three little guys and had to acquiesce.

After all, if they didn’t try hard, how could they understand that they couldn’t do it?

Magician Sophia had heard of the reputation of Xia Ruize and the other two before. After all, there were not many young people who could be promoted to magicians so quickly after graduating from academy and going to the battlefield. What she did not expect was that these three people were also interested in studying magic circles.

What magician Sophia didn’t expect was that Xia Ruize and the other two were quite talented in magic circles, especially Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian. It was really pleasant and satisfying to be able to teach such talented students who could draw inferences from one instance and make progress every day.

In addition to teaching, Mage Sophia generously lent a laboratory in her magic tower to Xia Ruize and the other two who wanted to try experiments, and even helped them find a lot of exotic materials.

From then on, Xia Ruize and the other two spent six hours a day on defense on the city wall, and the rest of the time they stayed in the laboratory in Magician Sophia’s Magic Tower and never went out. Moreover, they focused on doing experiments and often appeared on the battlefield late at night or early in the morning.

Within a few days, the three non-Hua Country trialers, Gardner, and the students from Bei’an City all discovered one thing: they could no longer see Xia Ruize and the other two.

Gardner was lucky because he was familiar with the dispatcher in the dispatch office and knew that Xia Ruize and the other two were just not sure when they would go to the battlefield and were still in Sack City.

But the three non-Hua Country trialers didn’t know about this. They only knew that they hadn’t seen the three Hua Country trialers for a long time. In addition, someone swore that they saw Xia Ruize and the other two leave Sack City through the teleportation array, so they thought that the three had left by some unknown method.

After a few days, the three non-Hua Country trialers could no longer stay.

After being promoted to magician, they found that the magician realm required too much magic power. After practicing hard for more than half a month, they realized that at their current training speed, it would probably take several years to be promoted to the next realm.

But they had been in this mission world for long enough. Being tied to the city wall every day was too hard, and the food provided by the dispatch office was really bad.

Previously, the three non-Hua Country trialers were unwilling to leave because they had a conflict with the three Hua Country trialers. But now they realized that the three Hua Country trialers had actually left the mission world a long time ago, and they suddenly felt that they were stupid.

So the three non-Hua Country trialers immediately spent all the gold coins they had obtained, used the library reading time they had exchanged for to memorize the magic spells, and then left the mission world.

Of course, Xia Ruize and the other two who were obsessed with the experiment didn’t know the news of their leaving the mission world.

A month later, Xia Ruize and the other two, who still had not received any urging from the Lord God, finally came out of their dead-bed state in the laboratory. They brought their research results to find Sophia and Magician Onet.

In fact, the two magicians did not agree that three young and promising magicians were obsessed with studying magic circles at this age, but the young guys were too persistent and they could only let it go.

They really never thought that one day they would be solemnly invited by the kids to visit their new achievements. The two magicians found it very interesting and walked into the laboratory occupied by the kids, chatting and laughing all the way.

Gao Hexuan, who was guarding the laboratory door, immediately closed the door. Cheng Huaiqian blew out the oil lamp, and the laboratory suddenly fell into darkness.

“What are you guys talking about?”

Onet asked with a smile on his face. He was really impressed by these three naughty guys who wanted to fly to the sky.

But the next second, the laboratory was brightly lit.

The two magicians were all attracted by the glowing lamp in Xia Ruize’s hand. It was a shiny bamboo tube that emitted extremely bright but not dazzling light. The light emitted by the palm-sized bamboo tube actually illuminated the entire laboratory.

“What’s this thing?”

After being stunned for a moment, Magician Sophia inquired with interest. She didn’t expect that these three little guys would really come up with something new.

While asking the question, Magician Sophia walked to the side of the bamboo lamp. She had never seen such a bright object that was not dazzling even if stared at for a long time. She observed it carefully out of curiosity and suddenly noticed that there was a magic circle engraved on the bamboo lamp.

This bamboo lamp was connected to a long lamp pole, on which there was a magic circle engraved.

Magician Sophia’s expression became serious, and she was eager to ask Xia Ruize to explain their results.

Xia Ruize smiled and began to introduce in detail the research and development ideas and final results of the magic version of the lighting they developed.

The solution to the shortage of magic elements that the three had decided upon after previous discussions was to bring into play the power of ordinary humans, who had an absolute numerical advantage. It would be best if ordinary humans could stimulate the increase of magic elements in a certain way.

Guided by this idea, the three of them came up with the idea of ​​developing daily necessities engraved with magic circles.

The World of Demons (15): The truth

The three young men who had originally had great prospects all looked dejected. Magician Onet realized the seriousness of the situation. He frowned and looked back and forth at the three young men standing in front of him, and let out a long sigh.

He had to admit that although he was promoted to a magician because of his hard work, he had indeed met some people favored by God over the years. They were always very talented in magic. Not only did they have a very high affinity with magical elements, but their mental talent was even more amazing.

Young people with strong spiritual talents were always very sharp and good at observation. They could easily notice some details that others overlook, and then follow the clues to grasp the truth.

It had to be said that these sharp-witted youngsters sometimes really gave their elders a hard time.

After observing for a while, Onet found that the three young men were indeed as weak as eggplants hit by frost. They had lost all their fighting spirit, and their eyes and faces were full of confusion about the future. He knew that perfunctory treatment would not work.

With another long sigh, Magician Ornet waved his hand to signal the magician beside him to leave the study, and said to the three young men:

“You can get to the bottom of this if you want, but I will place a magical restriction on you. Before you are promoted to big magician, what I said to you today will only be known to you, and you cannot tell anyone else. Are you willing to promise?”

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were delighted when they heard this, and nodded quickly, promising not to tell anyone what they heard. Then they looked at Onet with burning eyes, waiting for him to clear up their confusion. Their intuition told them that they would get some important news today.

“Your guess is actually correct. Even if there were no human guards on the city wall, the monsters would not attack.” Onet smiled bitterly, “This is because the real relationship between the demons and our human race is not hostility, but cooperation.”

The explosive news made Xia Ruize and the other two’s eyes light up immediately, completely attracting their attention.

The truth was actually completely opposite to what the human race had been promoting? And it seemed that those who knew the truth were not isolated cases, which was very interesting.

“The reason why we humans and monsters have been fighting for so many years is not because we have nothing to do, but because the world needs us, and God needs us!

When you studied magic in the academy, you should have learned from the very beginning that the practice of a magician is actually to introduce magical elements from the outside world into the body, and then use specific spells to connect the magical elements in the body with the magical elements from the outside world, and then cast powerful spells.

Have you ever thought about where the magic elements between heaven and earth come from?”

Without waiting for the three young men who were lost in thought to respond, Onet continued to explain:

“The ‘God’ we respect was also called the ‘Source of the World’ in ancient times. The magical elements between heaven and earth were originally generated by the Source of the World.

At the same time, the source of the world also needs to absorb magical elements and undergo purification before it can continuously produce more magical elements.

There must be sufficient magical elements between heaven and earth to maintain good weather and the health of mankind.

But as the number of humans and monsters increased, and humans mastered magic better, a problem arose: the magic elements supplied by the source of the world were gradually insufficient to support the joint consumption of humans and monsters. In other words, there were not enough magic elements between heaven and earth. “

As he spoke, a sad look appeared on the white-haired magician’s face. “It shows that the world cannot function normally. Various natural disasters continue to occur, and all living things are wiped out. Humans and monsters cannot resist the natural disasters and can only die in large numbers.

Only when the number of humans and monsters is reduced to a level that the source of the world can supply them can they have a chance to prolong their life and recuperate.

After two cycles of this great cycle of life and death, humans and monsters have finally found a way to delay. “

Looking at the three young men who were stunned, Magician Onet smiled bitterly and continued:

“Someone has discovered that no matter if it is a human or a monster, when they introduce magic elements into their bodies during cultivation and then use magic to attack, the magic elements bred in the bodies of humans and monsters will enter the world together.

In other words, magicians and monsters can be seen as infinitely abbreviated versions of the source of heaven and earth.

Although the amount of magic elements that a magician or a monster can produce on their own is very small and just a drop in the bucket, if all human magicians and monsters work together to continuously release magic attacks, they can barely replenish some of the magic elements needed between heaven and earth.

So more than a hundred years ago, the powerful people of humans and monsters jointly agreed to use the excuse of monster invasion to make humans and monsters fight for many years, and to keep the truth secret. Only those who have been promoted to great magicians can know a little bit about it. “

After listening to the explanation of Magician Onet, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were speechless for a long time. They even vaguely wondered in their hearts whether this white-haired old man was making fun of them.

No matter how many guesses they had in their minds, they could not have guessed that the truth would be like this…

Human magicians and monsters were all tools for nurturing magic elements. The so-called war was actually just to urge magicians and monsters to diligently perform magic attacks…

This was probably not the first time that Magician Onet had explained this to someone. He was used to seeing expressions of doubt about life and the world on the faces of people who had just heard the truth, so he quietly gave them some time to digest this huge shock.

“I see that most battles between humans and monsters end with humans winning and monsters dying. Why are monsters still willing to cooperate?”

After a moment’s silence, Xia Ruize felt that there were still some details he couldn’t figure out, so he asked directly.

If the two sides cooperated, how come the casualties of humans hiding in the solid walls were far less than those of monsters?

But the white-haired and silver-bearded magician behind the desk smiled and replied, “What if the monster is not really dead?

You asked about a piece of information that is also blocked and known only to a few people. The reason is very simple. Monsters and humans are completely different species, and you cannot look at monsters the same way you look at humans.

The real core of a monster is actually its soul fire. What you see on the battlefield is just its shell. As long as the soul fire in its lair is not extinguished, it is not a big problem even if its shell on the battlefield is broken. It is just a matter of spending time to cultivate and condense a new shell. “

Walking out of the study in the tower, Xia Ruize and the other two had expressionless faces. They returned to the room assigned to them, leaned against the wall, looked at the densely packed monsters below, and fell into deep thought.

“This mission world is really… really unique…” Cheng Huaiqian sighed faintly, “The main mission is the easiest. You can stay here after completing it. You can get a treasure chest even though you just killed the monster’s body. And, human magicians are just a group of ‘air purifiers’?”

“If what we have learned is the true secret of the mission world, it seems to be true…”

Xia Ruize curled his lips and said helplessly, “I think the hidden mission of this mission world is for us to help this world find a way to solve the crisis of insufficient supply of magic elements.

Didn’t the main mission hint say, ‘The war that has been burning for years will eventually burn the continent to ashes’? It is very likely that it will be harmful for humans and monsters to delay by means of war. It is possible that the pot will eventually collapse due to the war.”

“Whether what the other party said is true or not remains to be verified. Our more important task now is to obtain the potion. Isn’t it to allow us to cast magic continuously? Arrange it!”

Cheng Huaiqian slapped the city wall and said casually.

“Let’s not talk about those that are too far away. It is more important to attack the monster below to get the treasure chest and potions to practice magic. Those bottles of potions may contain the hard work that the monster spent to cultivate a body, so we must cherish them.”

Under the leadership of Cheng Huaiqian, the three of them turned to discuss the next plan in the heart network, and stopped being in a daze externally, and started fighting honestly.

As time went by, everything seemed to be the same as before, yet something seemed to be different.

From that day on, Xia Ruize and the other two no longer extended the defense time of the Great Wall on their own. Instead, they left the city wall as soon as the six-hour defense time was over every day, but no one could tell where they went.

One time when Gardner was relaxing with his friends, he saw Xia Ruize’s figure flashing by in an alley. He seemed to be chatting with a traveling merchant.

You should know that after the training, Gardner did not alienate his relationship with the eight newcomers from Bei’an City. They belonged to the same Seventh District, and not only would they greet each other when they met, but they would also make appointments to carry out defense missions together.

Although Gardner felt a little uncomfortable that the newcomers he was teaching had reached the level of magician faster than himself, he still tried to adjust his mentality, humbly asked questions, and learned from experience.

So Gardner soon discovered that Xia Ruize and the other two could not be made to meet up recently. Not only that, they were hardly seen at all. He even went to the small building to wait for them but failed to catch them.

The three non-Hua country trialers also soon discovered that the three Hua country trialers that made them jealous had been doing something unknown recently and had been rarely seen.

What were Xia Ruize and the other two doing?

They were conducting a practical investigation.

After reviewing and comparing a large amount of historical materials, they increasingly felt that what Magician Onet said was likely the truth.

After accepting the explanation of Magician Onet, they looked back at the things that had made them feel uneasy before, and it seemed that everything could be explained.

So Xia Ruize and the other two decided to visit and investigate.

Sack City gathered people from 3 large cities, 12 medium-sized cities, and 46 small cities belonging to the human race in the continent of Buddenbaston. So many people from different places gathered in one city, and there were everyone from magicians to civilian warriors, providing the three with enough samples for investigation and visits, allowing them to indirectly collect information from all cities.

Xia Ruize and the other two deliberately arranged the defense of the upper city wall in the middle of the night, leaving the daytime free. By selling potions exchanged from the Magicians’ Association in exchange for the opportunity to use the magic teleportation array, they personally went to some randomly selected cities to conduct field investigations and gain a deeper understanding of the situation.

They also went to three large cities and specifically searched the public libraries in those cities to collect more information.

Also, Xia Ruize and the other two visited Magician Onet without any shame, and relying on the fact that they already knew some of the blocked information, they boldly asked him questions that they had not yet figured out.

The World of Demons (14): Adventure

But the choice of Xia Ruize and the other two was different from others. When they were magic apprentices, they boldly aimed at the demon soldiers and attacked.

Now that they had become magicians, their target of attack immediately changed to the demon general. Even if their attack power was not strong enough at the beginning and the attack interval was long, it would not prevent the two of them from joining forces to attack the demon general again and again.

Only when there was no demon general in the corresponding area being defended, would the two of them fall back and target the demon soldier.

In short, the two of them never let themselves be idle, and they made full use of their time on the battlefield every day, using strong self-discipline to urge themselves to make continuous progress.

Gardner, who was watching from the sidelines, remained silent. Fighting in the same room, he could more clearly feel the difference between him and the boss. It was probably that ordinary people always pursued stability when facing challenges, while the boss pushed himself to pursue the limit.

Another five days passed, and Gao Hexuan and three non-Hua Country trialers were promoted to official magicians one after another after their courageous pursuit. This series of promotions was enough to stimulate Gardner and the two indigenous newcomers in the same batch.

At the same time, the news of the big movement here gradually spread. The news that six magic apprentices were promoted to magicians in a short period of time was really amazing. This showed that they were extremely talented. Some veteran magicians and even mages vaguely heard the news.

After all, official magicians could be regarded as the backbone of the Magicians Association. Their combat effectiveness was very considerable. Some small cities relied on the protection of resident magicians all year round.

Correspondingly, magicians could obtain more information.

Xia Ruize found some interesting records on the second underground floor of the library. For example, it said that the war between humans and monsters started more than 160 years ago, but the overall war situation did not seem to have changed much from the beginning to now.

More than a hundred years ago, the city of Sack built inner and outer walls to determine the city’s layout, and then this layout was fixed.

In the past 160 years, the monsters had breached the outer city wall of Sack City six times, but had never breached the inner city wall. In other words, the monsters had never crossed Sack City to attack the cities behind.

The same was true for several side battlefields outside the main battlefield. They had encountered crises, but they would eventually turn danger into safety.

Moreover, in the past one hundred years or so, humans had never planned to cross the city wall to counterattack the monsters’ territory. Humans and monsters were stuck to each other on the main and side battlefields that formed a line on the map.

After reading a lot of historical records, Xia Ruize and the other two always had a feeling that the monsters were like emotionless background boards. They seemed to be born with only one goal, which was to invade the Eastern Continent. As for why they invaded, there was no record at all.

Most of the literature and documents on the second underground floor of the library had been searched. Xia Ruize and the other two were watching this war between humans and monsters that had been deadlocked for hundreds of years from the perspective of bystanders. There was always a strange sense of disharmony.

Doing the math, they found that they had been in this mission world for more than thirty days, making it the longest mission world they had stayed in.

Although they didn’t know when the Lord God would force them to return, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian still became nervous. After discussion, they decided to take the risk.

On a new day, Xia Ruize and the other two did not rush to the battlefield. They waited until most people in the inner city went behind the city wall. Then they hid themselves and went to the home of the guard magician Onet in the seventh district of the main battlefield.

Magician Onet had a tall and imposing magic tower in the inner city. He was currently on the battlefield, so the guarding force in his magic tower was probably relatively weak.

Although Xia Ruize and the other two’s attacking moves as trialers were restricted by the rules of the mission world, their abilities in other areas still worked, such as covering their bodies and allowing them to sneak into the illusion of the magic tower.

They believed that at their current training speed, they would not be able to be promoted to magicians in a short period of time, so they decided to take a risk and try another way before being forcibly kicked out of the mission world, and try to get some inside information from higher-level magicians.

Xia Ruize and the other two had considered carefully before choosing Magician Onet as their target.

According to the information they had collected so far, among the eight magicians guarding the eight battle zones in the main battlefield, Magician Onet had worked as an academy teacher for more than 40 years before being promoted to magician, and was best at teaching young people.

If a young person had doubts and wanted to ask a magician for advice, the probability of getting an answer from Magician Onet was the highest.

In short, Magician Onet was the kindest and most caring one among the eight town guards…

If they were caught by accident, this person would probably be the most likely to let them go.

Xia Ruize and the other two, who entered the magic tower for the first time, were unfamiliar and curious about the internal structure of the magic tower. The interior of Magician Onet’s magic tower was divided into five floors, including the reception area, the area for students and followers, the experimental area, etc. The three of them explored each one.

There weren’t too many restrictions inside the magic tower, so the three of them were able to check out various areas from the first to the fourth floors fairly smoothly, until they were blocked when they tried to reach the fifth floor.

There was a door engraved with magic patterns on the stairs leading to the fifth floor. Xia Ruize, who had just started to read information about magic circles, studied it for a long time and shook his head, indicating that he had no way to crack the door.

The three of them simply tried to climb up to the fifth floor from the outside of the magic tower and found the window of the room on the fifth floor. Fortunately, the window was easier to handle and was opened by Xia Ruize using telekinesis.

The three of them jumped into the room and immediately realized that the fifth floor was probably Onet’s bedroom and study, which was the key area they were exploring. The three of them immediately worked together to try to find some secret information.

At this moment, there was a commotion coming from the direction of the inner city gate in the distance. Looking from a high vantage point, Xia Ruize discovered that Magician Onet, who was supposed to be guarding the main battlefield, was hurrying back.

Xia Ruize immediately realized that they might have accidentally touched the mechanism set up by the owner of the magic tower due to lack of knowledge and were exposed, so the three of them immediately prepared to retreat.

At the last moment, Xia Ruize closed his eyes and concentrated his energy to quickly scan the entire study room, then he and his teammates jumped out of the window and down the magic tower. They did not run away immediately, but hid not far away to observe the situation.

Sure enough, Magician Onet rushed into his own magic tower as if he knew what was going on, but no further news was heard from him afterwards.

Xia Ruize and the other two calmed down for the time being, preparing to observe carefully to see if there were any abnormalities before deciding on their next course of action. After all, they did not know much about the magical world and were worried about suffering losses without knowing it. Moreover, they also needed to organize the information they had collected from the magic tower.

The three of them used gold coins to buy reading time in the library. They ignored the ups and downs of the outside world and spent the rest of the day in the library sorting out information and discussing plans.

It was a new day again. After Xia Ruize and the other two went to the battlefield, they were arranged by the dispatcher to the top of the third floor of the city wall.

Compared with the first and second floors inside the city wall, the top of the city wall was more comfortable. Xia Ruize and the other two all liked to go to the top of the city wall, but they were not assigned to the top of the city wall by the dispatcher every day.

After fighting for four hours, the three of them took a break and had lunch. They wanted to continue fighting after lunch, but unexpectedly, an expressionless middle-aged man in a blue robe walked up to them and invited them:

“Three of you, Lord Onet invites you.”

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian felt nervous and instantly alert. They had just secretly visited Magician Onet’s magic tower yesterday, and the other party happened to invite them today?

With their minds racing, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other and, without refusing, obediently followed the gray-robed man toward the tower in the middle of the top of the city wall.

In the middle of the top of each defense zone’s wall there was a two-story tower, which was dedicated to the magician guarding this zone.

The first floor was used by the guards to command battles and issue orders, and the second floor was the guards’ private space.

Under the watchful eyes of a group of guards, Xia Ruize, Cheng Huaiqian and Gao Hexuan followed the man in blue robes up to the second floor of the tower.

In the study on the second floor, the silver-haired and white-bearded magician Onet was sitting in a chair writing a letter. He looked up and nodded slightly to Xia Ruize and the other two who entered the study, then continued to write the letter with a feather pen.

There were no other chairs in the study, so the host left them here and the three of them could only stand and wait.

Ten minutes later, Onet finally put down his quill and looked up at Xia Ruize and the other two. After examining them, he asked directly, “Why did you three enter my study without permission?”

After hearing these words, Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were shocked but also felt relieved. As expected, they accidentally revealed their true identity and were caught by the other party.

Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other. Since they were caught, there was no point in making excuses. Cheng Huaiqian simply asked back:

“We just want to know the answer. If no one goes up to the city wall to defend today, will the monsters really invade Sack City?”

After asking this question, Onet, who was sitting in the opposite seat, was stunned for a moment. He once again carefully observed the three young men standing in front of him, and finally smiled and said:

“I see that you all come from ordinary civilian families, but I didn’t expect that you are not only gifted in magic, but also very observant.”

This answer made Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian’s eyes light up. Onet’s words almost confirmed their guess. There was indeed something strange about the war between humans and monsters.

But then Onet changed the subject and said bluntly:

“But these things have nothing to do with you for now. You can study them in depth when you become a magician. The most important thing for you at this stage is to cultivate well and not get involved in those messy things!”

The older white-haired magician educated the three young people earnestly and sternly.

Young people are always very rebellious and are bound to make mistakes. Just like a young tree cannot grow straight without being struck, young people who make mistakes need timely admonition from their elders so that they can grow straight and strong.

In fact, before Xia Ruize and Cheng Huai sneaked to Sack City, Onet had already heard the names of these two people.

After they actually went to the battlefield, Onet paid some attention to their performance. To his surprise, the two young men successfully became magicians in a very short time, proving their extraordinary talents.

Of course, what surprised Magician Onet even more was that these two daring guys actually targeted him. He didn’t know how they managed to sneak into his magic tower?

When Onet found the silver powder that was unique to his study on Xia Ruize and the other two, he was really angry and amused.

These three guys were really too bold and arrogant. They were about to soar to the sky relying on their talents. He must take this opportunity to suppress their arrogance, otherwise they may cause even greater trouble in the future.

Xia Ruize was quick to sense that Onet had no ill intentions, so he showed a look of dejection and said weakly:

“We worked hard to cultivate magic in order to become stronger as soon as possible and to be more useful on the battlefield, but now we suddenly find that the truth is different from what we thought before. We feel powerless and can’t find the meaning of continuing to work hard to cultivate…”

Xia Ruize’s expressions and tone were very accurate, perfectly portraying a talented young man who was originally full of ambition and hardworking, but after accidentally discovering a hint of the truth, the pillar of his heart collapsed for a long time and he lost the motivation to fight.

Xia Ruize’s words really made Onet’s expression serious. He looked at Xia Ruize with wise eyes, as if he wanted to see through his true thoughts.

Cheng Huaiqian on the side immediately added with a wry smile: “Since one more or one less of us won’t affect anything at all, why should we force ourselves to work hard day and night?”

Gao Hexuan immediately followed the two big teammates and showed a decadent expression, thinking about the game that he had played dozens of times but failed to complete.