Chapter 81: Wheel of Life and Death

At this time, Li Yan was standing in a field of spiritual valley. He straightened up, holding the hoe with one hand and wiping the sweat from his forehead with the other. Even with the physique of a cultivator, he was exhausted after hoeing two rows of weeds.

This task was accepted a few days ago. When he found the third senior brother, he just took out a hoe from the hut and threw it to him without any instructions. Li Yan didn't care at the time. Isn't it just farm work? He has been doing this since he was a child. Otherwise, he really didn't dare to take it easily. He can be regarded as an expert, but when he really went to the field, he was dumbfounded.

Li Yan took the hoe and asked about the place. After the third senior brother's cold answer, he flew to the spiritual valley field on the flying spiritual tool.

This is a spiritual valley of about hundreds of acres, with each tree shining with golden green light. Li Yan is like facing a shimmering valley wave halfway deep. From these spiritual valleys, he feels the vigorous fluctuation of spiritual energy. The breeze blows up and down the valley waves. From a distance, the golden green light spots sway together, making people feel that the world is vast and full of vitality.

His task is to hoe the weeds of ten acres a day, otherwise he will be deducted a low-level spiritual stone. Li Yan certainly thinks there is no problem. After he sighed at this pastoral scenery, he took off his robe, rolled up his sleeves, and saw a lot of weeds when he came to the ridge. He took a deep breath, stood still with his front and back feet, and then he hoeed it down. There was a "clang" sound, which made Li Yan's hands numb, but there was only a shallow trace left on the ground, not to mention the cluster of weeds that did not move at all. After a pause, Li Yan raised the hoe again, exerted all his strength, and there was another "clang" sound that was louder than before, and there was still only a shallow trace left on the ground. The traces were not much deeper than before. Li Yan was a little bit unbelievable. He was about to bend down and dig the soil here with his hands. At this time, a voice came from behind him, "Junior brother, you can't do this. Is it the first time?"

Li Yan looked back and saw that a man was standing between the ridges in another field a few dozen feet away. He should also be weeding. However, he did not release his consciousness just now, so he did not notice that there was someone else here. The other party may have heard the loud noise here and noticed Li Yan.

Li Yan turned around and bowed, "I'm sorry to make this senior brother laugh. This is indeed the first time I have accepted this task, but I don't know what to call you, senior brother?"

The man was of medium build, about thirty years old, with a short beard and a very refined look. Li Yan did not release his consciousness, and it was estimated that he was also a cultivator in the foundation building period. The man did not release his consciousness either, otherwise he would have called Li Yan "nephew" after seeing his cultivation level.

"I am Zhang Kui from Sixiang Peak. May I know who this junior brother is?"

"Oh, I am Li Yan, a disciple from Xiaozhu Peak." Li Yan replied with a smile.

"Oh? Li Yan... Li Yan? I remember. It seems that he is a junior brother from Xiaozhu Peak who joined the sect a few years ago. I heard him talk about him when I was chatting with Daqiao before." The middle-aged cultivator was stunned when he heard this. After thinking for a while, he laughed.

Li Yan smiled and nodded, thinking, "It's not strange to hear this from Senior Brother Seven."

"Why? Junior Brother Li came here without learning the method from Senior Brother Yun?"

Li Yan couldn't say directly that Senior Brother Three just gave him the hoe and he didn't know about this place until he asked, so he could only scratch his head.

Zhang Mei seemed to understand something. "Haha, I know. I'll tell you. It's not too difficult. The hoe in our hands is not an ordinary thing like a farmer's. It is also a primary spiritual tool. When hoeing the land, you need to inject spiritual power into it. However, the weeds in the valley are most afraid of gold spiritual power, followed by fire spiritual power. If you use wood spiritual power, water spiritual power, and earth spiritual power, not only can they not be removed, but it will help their roots spread more wildly. That's it." After saying that, he nodded to Li Yan, and then bent down to do his work. Li Yan also hurriedly returned the greeting, knowing that he was a favor for others to give so much guidance, otherwise he didn't care. At this time, he also remembered that there was such a reminder when he took this task, the requirements were gold and fire spiritual power, but he didn't know it at the time, and later he ignored it. It turned out to be like this. So the Guishui Sutra in his body started to work, and the golden spiritual power took shape in an instant. The next moment, it was injected into the spiritual hoe. The hoe was slightly golden, and Li Yan turned the hoe and dug it down. With a slight "swish" sound, the land had turned up, which was really as Zhang Kui said.

In this way, Li Yan was busy between the ridges, but after half an hour, he straightened up, sweating profusely, and his face was a little pale, because the spiritual power in his body was empty. Originally, with his spiritual power at the seventh level of the Condensation Stage, let alone hoeing ten acres of land, even the hundred acres planted by ordinary people would not have any reaction. But this spiritual valley was very strange, quite hard, and the weeds in it were nearly three feet deep. If he infused less spiritual energy, he couldn't hoe it at all, and if he infused too much spiritual energy, it would be wasted. After two furrows of cultivation, his spiritual power was almost exhausted. Looking at the remaining large fields, he couldn't help but sigh, "It seems that another spiritual stone has flown away." He would need more than ten hours to recover through meditation, so how could he finish it in one day?

The days passed by with little profit and much loss. Two months later, in the evening, Li Yan looked at the ten acres of clean and grass-free fields, and the corners of his mouth curled up.

During this period of time, he lost a lot of spiritual stones. Although he also took on the task of watering the Mowang bamboo, plus the spiritual stones he received every month, he still owed the Mission Hall 26 spiritual stones. However, this situation should be less in the coming days.

Although he lost a lot of spiritual stones, Li Yan also learned a lot, such as the rational use of spiritual power, the rapid conversion of the five elements of spiritual power, and the improvement of the spiritual power recovery speed and the purity of spiritual power, etc., which benefited him a lot. During this recovery practice after weeding, he actually upgraded to the late seventh level of the Condensation Stage. It was so natural that he had no preparation at all, and he was naturally very happy.

The days passed in this fulfilling day by day. Every day, Li Yan was busy between the spiritual plant garden and practice, like a hardworking little bee.

One day, Li Yan got up early in the morning, washed up simply, and opened the gate array, and went straight to the Mission Hall. He still owed the Mission Hall 26 spiritual stones. He had to hurry up, otherwise he would owe 27 by next month. The interest of this sect was really scary.

However, recently, due to the fact that a large number of foundation-building monks in the sect went out for training, a lot of tasks have accumulated in the task halls of various peaks, so there are still some tasks that he is familiar with, such as the Mowang bamboo task and the spiritual valley watering task. Zhang Kui said that the main task hall of Laojun Peak has accumulated a large number of tasks, but I think these tasks will disappear soon after the foundation-building selection is over. He has done basically the same tasks as Zhang Kui in recent months. Zhang Kui is not a good fighter, otherwise he would also go to the task hall to take the outgoing tasks, so that he can earn more spiritual stones, and he did not sign up for this foundation-building competition. There are still many people in the Wuliang Sect who only focus on improving their realm and want to achieve immortality, and they are not all fighting lunatics.

Li Yan has not taken other types of tasks recently. He only concentrates on watering Mowang bamboo and weeding the spiritual valley field. He first earns some spiritual stones to pay off his debts. After leaving the courtyard, he was about to release the flying spiritual tool, and saw a flash of light in the sky above the bamboo forest, and a huge scroll fell down.

"Junior brother, slow down, I'm here at the wrong time." A gentle voice came from the front.

Li Yan was stunned, not knowing why the senior brother came to him so early in the morning, and he quickly bowed, "Hello, senior brother, if you have something to say, just send a message in the token, I'll go over, why bother to run all the way."

Li Wuyi had put away the magic weapon and walked over steadily, "Haha, I think it's better to talk about this in person, and I'm not always in the main hall."

Li Yan couldn't help but feel puzzled when he heard it. It seemed that something made the senior brother come to him. It must be a big deal.

So he opened the gate again, and the two walked to the courtyard and sat down on the stone bench. Li Yan took out the tea set and poured two cups of tea. He was not a person who liked to eat and drink, and usually just drank plain water to quench his thirst. This tea was sent by Zhang Kui in the spiritual plant garden.

Li Wuyi took a sip of tea and felt his mouth full of saliva. He nodded and his face became serious.

"Junior brother, I came here to tell you something important. Recently, Master and Master's Wife have been in seclusion, and I am in charge of all matters in the peak. Yesterday, I received the order from the Sect Master and went to Laojun Peak. I listened to the instructions of the senior uncles about the picking in the secret realm next year. Some time ago, Jindan masters from Taixuan Sect, Pure Land Sect, and Shibuyuan came to our sect to discuss this matter. The three sects proposed that after the picking next year, they wanted to open another small space of the Life and Death Wheel in the secret realm for a big competition. This Life and Death Wheel existed tens of thousands of years ago. It was opened for trial after the Jindan stage cultivators picked in the secret realm. However, after the foundation-building stage cultivators entered the secret realm to pick, the Life and Death Wheel was closed. Only Master and others know the reason for the closure.

The Life and Death Wheel should be a bloody magic weapon refined by the ancient cultivators in the secret realm. It is held in a huge sphere in the secret realm, with twenty passage entrances extending from different directions to the center of the sphere. Each passage must be led by a high-level cultivator with a realm less than his. Thirty-six monks stood on it. These twenty roads were independent and unrelated. At first, each road was only ten miles long, but as the monks continued to move towards the center of the ball, the length of the road would continue to extend toward the ball. These roads were constantly twisting and moving in the ball, like twenty flying

bands. From the overall point of view, it looked like an irregular rotation in a ball, but the people on it would not feel the shaking of the road they were on, so it was called the Wheel of Life and Death. In this process, there will always be two roads that will intersect at the end during the extension process, so no one can know which two roads intersect. At the moment of intersection, the ends of the two roads will stop extending, and the seventy-four monks on the two roads will meet. At this time, both sides must fight. When only thirty-seven or less monks are left, the two roads will become one road again and continue to move towards the center of the ball. "

Speaking of this, Li Wuyi glanced at Li Yan, and Li Yan lowered his head in some contemplation.

"Junior brother, don't you have any curiosity or questions?" Li Wuyi took a sip of tea and asked intentionally or unintentionally.

"Big brother, I think there must be some reason for both sides to fight, otherwise both sides can just wait there for the end, such as the whole team will die if they can't reach the center of the ball, or there will be a huge threat when the two roads intersect."

Li Wuyi praised after hearing this, "Junior brother is really smart. Although he didn't guess it right, he guessed the key point. This life and death wheel is a competition of speed. The first three groups to reach the center of the ball can enter the center of the ball. The center of the ball is divided into four layers. Everyone can reach the first layer, and the teams that reach the center will be transferred to different layers in order. There will be different levels of generous rewards. These rewards are much more generous than picking outside, but the things obtained cannot be owned by individuals in the end. Everyone can choose a treasure first, or simply give up the treasure and exchange it with the sect for the equivalent of spiritual stones. The rest must be handed over to the sect. These sound inhumane. After all, this is what everyone in the team fought for with their lives, why should they hand it over to the sect? But even so, everyone is scrambling to go there. Any treasure there may be something you can never get in your life, or even something you can never see, so it is very precious. The sect has spent so much resources to cultivate your growth, and it takes a lot of precious resources to open the secret realm, so most of the treasures you get must be handed over to the sect. "

Li Yan nodded when he heard this. Of course, he agreed with this point of view, and he also understood the reason why the senior brother explained it to him, which was to let him know that if he went there, he should not have any barriers to the sect in the end.

"As long as everyone reaches the first level in the center of the sphere, there will be no death, but there will be no reward. In the end, they will be teleported out with the other three-level team members. In other words, everyone who stays on the path will die. That kind of death is watching the people around you die one by one, which is unbearable. People may even go crazy and attack their teammates before they die.

Because this sphere will automatically open once the 20 paths are full of 740 people. From this moment on, the sphere will continue to shrink and compress toward the center of the sphere. During this shrinking process, a large area of ​​black shadows will appear on the edge of the sphere. It is like a huge black curse pressing down from the sky. As long as the human body touches these black shadows, whether it is the magic tools, magic treasures, or human flesh and bones, they will instantly turn into ashes, and no one will be spared. So when the two roads intersect, both sides must fight desperately to open the extension of the road before the large area of ​​black shadows arrive when the sphere continues to shrink, otherwise they will die soon."