Chapter 66: Strangeness Arrives in the World
At that time, there were hundreds of cultivators who first entered the ruins of Yunshui Tiangong.
Most of them were in the Qi Refining and Foundation Building stages.
They thought it was just an ordinary ruins, but they didn't expect that Yunshui Tiangong was full of weirdness. This group of cultivators were caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties.
In the end, only less than one-tenth of them came out alive.
Among them, there was a man named Sikong Yi.
This man was only in the late stage of Qi Refining and looked ordinary.
Everyone thought he was just lucky to survive.
No one thought that it was this inconspicuous Sikong Yi who, after returning to Wanxian Island, handed in the "Yunshui Tulu" and completed the bounty mission of up to 100,000 contribution points.
After Sikong Yi received the reward, he left Congyunhai through the ultra-long-distance teleportation array and disappeared from everyone's sight.
Since then, Sikong Yi has never appeared again.
"Search for information related to weirdness and sect ruins." Li Fan slowly recalled what he had seen in his previous life and said to Tianxuan Mirror at the same time.
In an instant, hundreds of thousands of messages popped up.
However, most of them could only see the first few sentences. If you want to get the complete information, you have to pay a certain amount of contribution points.
Li Fan was not stingy and immediately spent 100 contribution points to buy the most popular "Guide to Survival in Sect Ruins".
The author of this guide is Qi Yuanzhou, who is also a casual cultivator.
He has been exploring and wandering in various ruins for many years, and has been practicing to the Golden Core Realm before joining the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance.
Qi Yuanzhou is naturally extraordinary because he can always escape from the sect ruins full of dangers.
The "Guide to Survival in Sect Ruins" he summarized is also popular among many cultivators and regarded as a guide.
The ruins of Yunshui Tiangong are treacherous and dangerous. Although Li Fan has foresight, he dare not take it lightly.
He read it carefully at the moment.
The ancient catastrophe came, and countless sects were destroyed, leaving only ruins and broken walls in the world.
Some of these ruins have been explored countless times by cultivators over the years, and they are clean and have nothing valuable left.
Some of them have not been fully explored because the ruins are too dangerous and huge. Nowadays, many cultivators still venture into them every year, either for cultivation methods or to seek opportunities for breakthroughs.
Others are those sects that have been hidden by caves and formations and have never come out. This type of sect is completely undeveloped virgin land, and it can be said that there are opportunities everywhere. Once it appears in the world, it will definitely attract surrounding cultivators to flock to it.
The various experiences in "Survival Guide to Sect Ruins" are aimed at the latter two types.
The guide mentions that in today's cultivation world, all valuable and worth exploring sects can be divided into two categories.
One is without weirdness.
The other is with weirdness.
If there is no weirdness, then as long as you are careful to guard against the formation mechanism, there is generally no particularly huge danger.
But if there is weirdness, you must be very careful.
The so-called weirdness refers to the various strange phenomena that cannot be measured by common sense in the ruins.
Weirdness seems to not belong to this world, and often has its own unique rules.
Weird rules are also divided into strong and weak.
In the world of immortal cultivation, it is customary to classify the strength of weird rules.
According to the highest realm of cultivators that can be affected, it is also divided into Qi Refining Level Weirdness, Foundation Building Level Weirdness, Golden Core Level Weirdness, etc.
If the cultivators in the weird coverage area have a lower cultivation level than the strength of its rules, they must follow the weird rules.
Once violated, they will inevitably die.
If the cultivation level is higher than the strength of the weird rules, they may not be affected by the weirdness and avoid death.
But no matter how high your cultivation level is, you can't change the weirdness.
Even a strong man in the Hedao period can't change the weird rules of the Qi Refining level.
It is even more impossible to save the cultivators who violate the weird rules from the weirdness.
Once a living being enters the weird range, it will be triggered.
Only when the number of deaths reaches a certain number, or the strange rules are cracked, can the monks who enter it leave.
The guide gives an example.
One hundred and fifty years ago, a cave suddenly appeared on an unnamed island near the mainland in the west of Congyun Sea.
Since its appearance, there has been a glow from it, illuminating the sky for hundreds of miles.
Many monks were attracted by the precious light and entered to explore.
After some investigation, the monks found that this cave was built by Master Hongzhi, a Yuanying cultivator in ancient times, before his death.
There are more than ten sets of skills hidden in the cave, and countless magic weapons.
These monks were overjoyed and began to rob.
At this moment, a terrible thing happened.
All those monks who smiled because they got the skills or magic weapons, all had their heads flying inexplicably.
The smiles on their faces were completely frozen.
In just a moment, more than half of the monks present died.
The remaining monks were also terrified, thinking that there were some restrictions on those magic weapons.
They left the treasures on the ground and did not dare to move, and fled from the cave.
After the news spread, monks who did not believe in evil came to test.
After they took the treasures for a long time and did not trigger any restrictions, they all showed either disdainful or happy smiles.
Then their heads were separated and fell to the ground.
Only one monk with a natural facial paralysis survived.
But he was also frightened by this horrifying scene, and just took a magic weapon and ran away.
The news of another group of people being destroyed shocked all the jealous monks around.
And the paralyzed monk who had escaped by chance and got the treasure of the cave naturally attracted everyone's attention.
But no matter how he was pressed, the paralyzed monk said that he didn't know how he survived.
Later, a smart man thought for a long time and said the secret.
In this cave, laughing is forbidden.
No matter what the reason, once you smile, your head will fall off.
Although this matter sounds absurd, after the smart man walked into the cave calmly and took out a technique with a calm face and safe and sound, all the monks believed it.
So they followed suit and took out all the treasures in the cave.
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What happened in Master Hongzhi's cave is the most typical and simplest weirdness, which only contains one rule.
In fact, the weirdness in the ruins of the sects is often compounded by multiple rules.
Weirdness is naturally extremely dangerous. If you don't know the rules, you will die if you are not careful.
But after mastering the rules of the weirdness, the risk of the weirdness is almost zero.
Qi Yuanzhou summed up dozens of experiences based on his personal experience of surviving the weirdness several times.
First: Stay calm at all times.
Under the cover of weirdness, anything incredible can happen.
Second: Don't act rashly.
If you don't understand the rules of the weirdness, the faster you move, the faster you will die.