Chapter 208 The Essence of the Sword of the Outer Dao, the Supreme Ruler of the Nine Realms

The content of the assessment for ascending to the long level is actually not complicated.

Many people can figure out the key as long as they calm down.

But that’s how people are, the more thirsty their hearts are, the harder it is to maintain a normal mind.

Most monks are so obsessed with climbing the first stage of the long stairway to heaven that they can no longer see anything else in their eyes except the thousands of miles of stairway that is so long that it is difficult to see the end.

Many people who stopped to visit the tea stalls also thought they had been eliminated after waking up.

Coupled with the fear of the immortals in their hearts, they did not even have the courage to set foot on the long steps to the sky for the second time, and chose to 'descend the mountain'.

It can be said that the main reason why they were eliminated was that they did not understand the real assessment content of the Climbing to the Heaven Rank.

After all, the True Immortal Trial is to select those who have a chance to become immortals.

If becoming an immortal was that simple, this world would have been filled with immortals long ago.

Although the Ascension to Heaven is just an entry test, two-thirds of the people have already been sent out.

The remaining one-third also encountered their own troubles.

Lu Chen was on his way to heaven.

What he saw this time was no longer the original beautiful scenery of mountains and forests with birds singing and flowers fragrant.

Instead, there was a dark and ruined sky.

I saw a bloody sun hanging high in the sky, turning the entire world into blood red.

Under this bloody sun, there are a large number of twisted monsters crawling.

These monsters are male and female, old and young.

But without exception, these guys all look like monsters and monsters with a hideous appearance.

He looked at countless monsters trying to rush through the long steps to the sky and attack him.

Lu Chen suddenly had four more spiritual swords around him.

These spiritual swords surrounded him, forming a special barrier.

The Black Dragon Sword, the Shangqing Yun Sword, the Taotie Fierce Soldier, and the Jue Tian Sword.

The appearance of these four swords instantly caused the monsters around the Dengtian Changjie to start retreating continuously as if they had seen their natural enemies.

"Does the state of mind manifest..."

Lu Chen looked at the scene around him and immediately guessed the reason.

Because the monsters that appeared around were all existences that Lu Chen had encountered before.

Among them are magic corpses, heretic sword demons, and other evil spirits encountered in other game dungeons or outside dungeons.

Lu Chen laughed when he looked at the demons and ghosts who were still showing their teeth and claws despite being afraid of him.

"I can kill you once, then I can kill you a second time, a third time... or even make you never stand up again."

With that said, Lu Chen took steps towards the top of the long stairs to the sky.

Although ascending to the Heavenly Stage this time did not limit Lu Chen's cultivation level anymore.

But its difficulty is much higher than the first time.

Because this time Lu Chen was no longer simply mountain climbing.

Instead, you need to climb the mountain while killing monsters that suddenly appear around you.

Lu Chen didn't think about flying directly to the top of the long steps with his sword.

But every time Lu Chen's feet left the long steps to reach the sky, he would feel a huge, irresistible gravity pressing on his body.

There is no doubt that this is the way to prevent Lu Chen from using tricks.

There may be shortcuts to the ‘Tao’ in reality.

But there is no ‘Tao’ represented by the long steps to the sky.

If you want to go to the top of the mountain here, you have to go up step by step.

And as Lu Chen walked higher and higher.

The monsters appearing around also began to become more and more powerful.

Some monsters from the Golden Core stage even began to appear among them.

In this regard, Lu Chen had to use the sword field of the Hedao realm to kill.

But the more Lu Chen killed, the more monsters appeared around him.

Slowly, countless demons and ghosts occupied the surroundings of the Climbing Steps.

The corpses of the monsters and the scattered blood even dyed the entire Waitianchang Step red.

But it was as if Lu Chen couldn't see any of this. He just stared at the top of the mountain not far away.

At the top of his mountain, he saw several beings with unclear faces hiding in the clouds around the top of the mountain.

The Long Step to the Sky is several thousand meters high, and the size of those monsters is even more exaggerated than the Long Step to the Sky.

Lu Chen visually estimated that the size of these monsters might even exceed tens of thousands of meters.

Just looking at them, Lu Chen could feel a terrifying sense of oppression.

It's hard to describe this feeling in words.

But it is real.

Therefore, even though Lu Chen was already only about a hundred steps away from the top of the mountain.

But the last hundred steps made it extremely difficult for him to walk.

Because every time Lu Chen took a step forward, the monsters around the top of the mountain would get closer to him.

Not only that, Lu Chen seemed to be able to feel the excited eyes of those monsters.

As if expecting something.

When Lu Chen reached a distance of fifty steps, he could already slightly see the appearance of these monsters.

One is a weirdo with three heads and six arms, two heads resembling those of a bird, and in the middle is a head that looks like an old human being.

Not only that, his head was very inconsistent with his body.

The two bird heads are not only two or three times larger than the human head.

Even the neck connecting the two heads is much longer than the human head.

Even his skin was covered with disgusting bird feathers.

Half human, half bird.

In addition to these three weirdos, the others next to him are also indescribable terrors.

One is a female Bodhisattva with closed eyes, with a beautiful appearance and holy Buddha light.

She has the beautiful yearning of the world for Bodhisattvas and Buddhas.

But all this only stays on the upper body of this female Bodhisattva.

The lower body of this female Bodhisattva is hollowed out, revealing the ribs and spine.

And in the position of the ribs, there is a six-fingered Buddha baby sitting upright.

The lotus platform under the seat is made of countless corpses.

Because the blood of these corpses has dried up, it looks like he is sitting on a black lotus from a distance.

The other terrifying existence next to this female Bodhisattva is a huge zombie.

Unlike ordinary zombies with green faces and fangs.

The mouth of this huge zombie seems to be sealed by something, and there are strips of silk thread-like sutures between the lips.

However, the biggest feature of this zombie is not these, but his eyes.

Not only does he have only one eye, but this eye also occupies one-third of the area of ​​his face.

In addition to the weird sealed mouth, and the nose with no nose bridge, only nostrils.

This zombie gave people an indescribable sense of weirdness inside and out.

When Lu Chen saw these three, he immediately thought of their identities.

Because Lu Chen had seen these three, or rather, had seen statues representing them, in the special copy, the Sword Formation Ruins.

The three-headed weirdo was the ancient 佡 worshiped by Daqian Mountain, named ‘Daqian Tianyu Zhen佡’.

The female Bodhisattva, or the female Buddha, was the ancient 佡 worshiped by the Black Lotus Sect, the Great Compassionate Black Lotus Buddha Mother.

The last giant zombie was the ancient 佡 worshiped by the Shi佡 Cave, the Immortal Heaven Shi佡.

The reason why they appeared here was because this was the manifestation of Lu Chen’s state of mind.

Looking at these three ancient 佡, Lu Chen took a deep breath and then walked towards the top of the mountain.

And just when Lu Chen walked to a certain distance, the three ancient 佡 seemed to have lifted some kind of restriction, and they all reached out to grab Lu Chen.

In that way, it was like three diners grabbing the food on the table.

If it were someone else, they might have been scared silly by now.

They couldn't react at all.

But Lu Chen was not afraid, but responded to the three big hands.

"Roar!"

Accompanied by a dragon roar, Lu Chen's Molong Sword turned into a golden dragon and rushed towards the hand of the Black Lotus Buddha Mother.

But such a golden dragon of sword energy, which was hundreds of meters long, seemed extremely small in the hands of the Black Lotus Buddha Mother at this time.

It was not even as long as one of her fingers.

On the other side, Daqian Tianyu Zhenxian released a head and kept approaching the direction where Lu Chen was.

And the one who responded to him was Xu Bai's Juetian Sword.

The Juetian Sword flew out, and the power of the forbidden law was immediately cast from the sword.

Not long after, the Juetian Sword, which was only three feet long, turned into a half-real and half-virtual sword of the soul.

This sword can not only ignore most of the magic skills, but also cause real damage to the enemy that almost ignores defense.

But compared to the huge head of Daqian Tianyu Zhenxian, the hundreds of meters long Sword of Absolute Heavenly Soul looked like a toothpick.

As for the last Immortal Heavenly Corpse, Lu Chen dealt with it together with the Taotie Soldier.

The Taotie Soldier was completely liberated, and the Taotie Eye at the connection between the hilt and the sword suddenly opened.

Then the Taotie Soldier turned into a huge blood-colored Taotie and rushed towards the Immortal Heavenly Corpse.

But whether it was the Sword Intention True Dragon, the Absolute Heavenly Sword, or the last Taotie Soldier.

In the end, they only caused trouble to the three ancients.

The Sword Intention True Dragon was crushed on the spot after it touched the palm of the Black Lotus Buddha Mother.

After the Absolute Heavenly Soul Sword touched the Daqian Tianyu Zhen, it couldn't even leave a scar on the opponent's face and broke on the spot.

The fate of the Taotie soldiers was the worst.

Although the blood-colored Taotie bit the finger of the Immortal Heavenly Corpse with all its might,

the result was as if the blood-colored Taotie had been bitten by something in its blood vessels.

It was absorbed and turned into a dried corpse in an instant.

Seeing that his three swords had no effect, Lu Chen was not surprised.

Because the gap between him and the three ancient corpses was so big that it could not be described in words.

And this was just the strength of the three ancient corpses in his imagination.

The actual situation might be more terrifying than this.

But knowing that it was impossible to do it and doing it anyway was also a choice.

Looking at the head and two hands that covered the sky and attacked him, Lu Chen just watched calmly without any reaction.

But just when the head and two hands were about to fall to the top of the mountain where the long steps to heaven were located.

An invisible sword energy suddenly cut through the sky.

For a moment, the time of the entire world seemed to be banned by half.

A bright blood line appeared on the neck of Daqian Tianyu Zhenxian, the wrist of Heilian Buddha Mother, and the fingers of Immortal Tianshi.

The next second, Daqian Tianyu Zhenxian's head, Heilian Buddha Mother's palm, and Immortal Tianshi's broken fingers fell from the air.

They fell into the sea of ​​blood and corpses full of evildoers and demons beside the long steps to heaven.

Lu Chen raised his head and saw a man in black with an unclear face standing on the top of the mountain, looking down at him.

Although Lu Chen was sure that he had never seen this person.

But he felt a sense of familiarity from the other person.

Before Lu Chen could think more, the other person's figure disappeared at the top of the mountain.

After the other party disappeared, all the ancient people who were originally located around the Climbing Steps also disappeared.

Lu Chen lowered his head and found that he had arrived at the gate of Guyue Cave without knowing when.

That is right below the Juxian Bell.

At this time, he was the first monk to arrive here.

At this time, Lu Chen did not feel happy because he was the first to resist.

Because at this time, he had been thinking about the mysterious man in black who appeared in the 'Mood Manifestation'.

You must know that there will be no existence in the manifestation of the state of mind that the monk is unaware of.

Not to mention, Lu Chen felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity from that man.

He must have met or been exposed to something related to this man somewhere.

More importantly, in my opinion, the other party is even more powerful than the three ancient statues.

It is possible to cut off the bodies of three ancient statues with one sword.

Thinking of this, an idea suddenly flashed in Lu Chen's mind.

Yes, the last person who appeared must be the one who used the 'Heretic Sword', or the 'Immortal-Slaying Sword'.

For some reason, Lu Chen actually knew the other party's name clearly in his mind this time... Jiujie Jifa Jijun.

The reason why Lu Chen knew this was because the lucky little golden dragon he met in the dungeon: Carrying Hercules once said these words.

But at that time, Lu Chen didn't know why, but he couldn't understand the notes of these words.

In other words, it was because of some restriction that he couldn't understand it.

But just now, he recalled the meaning of these words.

Thinking of this, Lu Chen immediately memorized the words 'Jiujiejifajijun'.

And prepare to see if we can get any information about him.

Just when Lu Chen was thinking about this, a voice came from behind him.

"Friend Lu Dao!"

Shangguan Yunmeng looked at Lu Chen who had appeared outside Guyue Cave and waved happily.

Then, without waiting for Lu Chen's reaction, she happily ran next to him and said with admiration: "Friend Lu Dao, everything is exactly as you said. The long step to the sky that you step on this second time is... The true path to heaven.”

"If it weren't for you, I would have been eliminated."

Hearing this, Lu Chen said with a smile: "Time is also destiny. Maybe it's not all my fault that you can pass. It's also your own destiny."

"ah?"

Shangguan Yunmeng looked confused and didn't understand why Lu Chen said this.

But Lu Chen knew very well that what he said was not polite, but what he really meant.

Because for some reason, Lu Chen saw the shadow of his old friend in Shangguan Yunmeng.

It’s a small leaf in reality.

Shangguan Yunmeng and Xiao Zizi are both road crazy, and they are also very lucky.

If it weren't for the fact that Shangguan Yunmeng and Mu Xiaoye's traditions were quite different, one was a swordsman and the other was a physical practitioner.

And their looks...

Lu Chen looked at Shangguan Yunmeng as if he was observing something carefully.

Shangguan Yunmeng immediately became a little cautious when he looked at her like this.

She looked at Lu Chen nervously and asked cautiously: "Friend Lu, why are you watching what I am doing? Is there something on my face?"

Hearing this, Lu Chen seemed to have come to his senses, and then he said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I just suddenly felt that you are a bit similar to a friend of mine."

"Y-really?"

Shangguan Yunmeng was not angry and said with a smile.

Lu Chen nodded and looked at her with complicated eyes.

Because of the way they were dressed, Lu Chen didn't notice that the facial similarity between Mu Xiaoye and Shangguan Yunmeng was close to 80%.

If Shangguan Yunmeng were changed into modern clothes and her hair cut short.

Lu Chen would even think that she was Mu Xiaoye's biological sister.

Reminiscent of Shangguan Yunmeng Luchi and his seemingly good luck.

Lu Chen vaguely had a ridiculous idea.

But because this idea was difficult to verify, Lu Chen finally had to keep it in his mind.

Just when Lu Chen had mixed feelings, Shangguan Yunmeng looked at the huge bronze door in front of the two of them and couldn't help but said, "Fellow Daoist Lu, how long have you been here?"

"I'm just one step ahead of you."

"Then do you know when we can go in?"

"It's probably not time yet. When the time is right, this door will naturally open."

"Oh, that's how it is."

Out of absolute trust in Lu Chen, Shangguan Yunmeng immediately took a short rest next to Lu Chen.

In the following time, some people came here one after another and passed the test of ascending to the sky.

Among them were other disciples of the Qingyun Sect, such as Yi Hanqing and Ming Miao Wang.

There are also disciples from Yuxu Mountain, such as Li Xueke and others.

There are also Fozi Juechen who is similar to Xiao Leiyin, Quan Tianren Xingli from Wushen Mountain, etc.

In addition to them, this time the True Immortal Trial unexpectedly included many people from outside the top ten sects.

You must know that at this time in previous years, people from the top ten sects usually accounted for the majority of those who entered Guyue Cave.

But this time is different, among all those who have passed the long steps to ascend to the sky and are qualified to enter Guyue Cave.

People from the ten major sects only accounted for one-third.

The remaining two-thirds are occupied by other sects and a few casual cultivators.

Therefore, the number of people qualified to enter the True Immortal Trial this time actually reached an astonishing three hundred people.

This has never happened before.

After these people came out, they all smiled and greeted Lu Chen with a good attitude.

Only the people from Wushen Mountain were rude to Lu Chen, as if they regarded Lu Chen as a thorn in their eyes.

Lu Chen didn't care about this.

After all, he had stepped on Wushen Mountain's face at the Heroes Gathering before.

It would be strange if they could treat him well.

Besides, Lu Chen had no interest in these people at this time.

Although they had some ancient power.

But Lu Chen could see that most of the ancient power on them was passive.

In fact, there were only 25 people that really caught Lu Chen's attention.

Among them, there were seven people from the Giant Spirit Sect in East Shenzhou, six people from the Wuxiang Valley in South Shenzhou, and nine people from the Seven Mysterious Sect in West Shenzhou.

The remaining three people were from other small sects that Lu Chen didn't know.

And these 25 people were the evildoers who were qualified to enter the True Immortal Trial this time.

As for the other evildoers, they were all eliminated.

Lu Chen secretly observed them and memorized their appearance and aura.

And they knew nothing about this.

At this time, they were even secretly observing others.

Their purpose was also very simple, that is, they wanted to quietly devour some Zhongzhou's major sects' geniuses in this True Immortal Trial, so as to improve their own qualifications.

They thought of themselves as hunters, and the Zhongzhou geniuses present were their prey.

However, the positions of hunters and prey are not fixed...

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