The Legend of Swing Sword and Execution of Demons

Chapter 756: Moon Viewing

There are nine dangers in Cangwu Mountain. No one would take the risk unless they have to or go there for adventure.

There are guides guarding Longhu Lane, not to prevent thieves, but to prevent people from accidentally entering it and falling into danger.

The Tower of Babel is also managed by people called tower keepers.

The tower keeper is responsible for overseeing the repair and cleaning of the Tower of Babel, as well as verifying the qualifications for entering the tower and strictly controlling and recording the number of people entering the tower.

Compared with Cangwu Mountain and Longhu Qixiang, the magnetic field energy at the location of the Babel Tower is completely gathered into the tower body. The Babel Order is the key to unlock the trial illusion inside the tower. Without the Babel Order, the entire Babel Tower is just a dead object that looks huge in size and exquisite in structure, but does not enshrine any gods or Buddhas and is empty inside.

It is said that since the construction of Warrior City, only thirty Tongtian Orders have been made.

Excluding those that have been eliminated due to wear and tear over time and those that have been collected by customs clearance holders, there are only sixteen pieces left.

Normally, only ten Tongtian Orders are circulated in the city, and the remaining six are kept by the tower keeper for backup.

The Tongtian Order is forged from a mixture of various rare materials, and is the key to activating each level of the trial illusion. The reason why its number is so small is not because the Wala people have limited financial resources and are reluctant to forge it.

If possible, the Oirat people would like to forge thousands and tens of thousands of Tongtian Orders so that the young men from the grassland can rush in and become talents as soon as possible.

However, the trial illusion of the Tower of Babel is too real and powerful, and the magnetic energy consumed is not small. Even though the wedge-shaped space split by nature in the basin may be able to provide energy for the illusion of the Tower of Babel for hundreds or thousands of years without stopping, the excessively frequent energy fluctuations and conflicts in such a limited space as the Tower of Babel will cause devastating blows to those who enter the tower and the tower itself.

In view of this, since the establishment of the Tower of Babel, there has been a strict order that only four Babel Orders can be used at the same time to activate different trial illusions.

For the 500 or so trial warriors in the city, the maximum number of Tongtian Orders that can be obtained in the Tongtian Qualification Battle that is held every three days is four. It is really a case of too many people and too little quotations. If someone happens to fight in the tower for several days and does not come out, the number of vacancies will be even fewer.

Every time you obtain the Tongtian Order, it is like passing through five levels and killing six generals.

Therefore, most of the trial warriors will not go into the Tower of Babel immediately after obtaining a Babel Token.

You have to conserve your energy and try to enter the tower to challenge in your best condition so as not to waste the trial opportunity you have fought for.

The tower keeper's duty at this time is to ensure that there are no more than four people in the tower, and registration is required for entering and leaving the tower.

This position is indispensable and is rotated to match the challengers who work day and night. Like the trial warriors, they have become permanent residents of the city of Badulu.

The tower keeper team consists of nine people.

It is an inherited age combination of one elderly person, three middle-aged people, and five young people.

The old man was the person in charge. He had gray hair and beard, cloudy eyes, and always wore a coarse cloth robe that was not the mainstream style of the Oirat.

He doesn't look like an Oirat, but more like a Zhongzhou person.

Leng Mei and Jiang Yichen have confirmed from many trial warriors that his identity should be one of the ten people from the Tianji Sect who were captured that year.

However, the two men felt that they had only been in the city for a short time and the information they knew was limited, so they did not dare to have any interaction with the old man.

I chose to enter the tower for the trial today and completed the registration procedures in a proper manner without any extra words to avoid any complications.

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Even a thief would have to leave if faced with a house with only four empty walls.

Even if the great thief Kong Yihen were to take a trip to the Tower of Babel, he would definitely return empty-handed, or even be trapped inside the tower, unable to escape.

In terms of architectural form, the Tower of Babel is a ten-cornered tower.

Each floor is of the same size, with ten walls on each floor, and both the walls and floor panels are six feet thick.

There is a double-opening arched vermilion door on each wall.

However, except for the first-layer tower gate used for entry and exit, the other gates are specially constructed real wall fake doors.

These doors are the key to the formation that creates the illusion inside the tower. Without the unique skills of the Tianji School, they cannot be easily dismantled or destroyed.

Therefore, each vermilion gate is also a key sub-project that needs to be repaired by the tower keeper.

Ten walls, ten doors, ten lamps, stairs going up the walls on both sides, and two grooves on the wall at the entrance of the stairs for embedding the Tongtian Order.

This is basically all the scenery on each floor of the Tower of Babel.

If there were no Babel Order, the entire Babel Tower could be considered a fairly solid prison.

If the Tianji Sect had been able to tamper with the Tongtian Order at the beginning, the Tongtian Tower might have been able to trap those who entered the tower in an illusion for a long time.

Even if you don't think about being trapped, standing in this space that is three meters high and nearly ten meters square, one can't help but feel insignificant.

Jiang Yichen looked around the tower and thought so.

After a moment, he inserted the palm-sized Tongtian Order into the groove on the right wall.

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The two grooves on the left and right sides of each floor of the Tower of Babel represent the "Babel Trial Mode" and the "Battlefield Trial Mode" respectively.

No one can make choices on behalf of the trial warriors who enter the tower.

But everyone said that if you can't pass the battlefield trial, there is no need to go through the Tongtian trial. Leng Mei and Jiang Yichen just followed the local customs and tried to walk the path that others often took.

After everyone enters the tower and embeds the Tongtian Order, they will enter an independent challenge illusion that will not affect each other. Leng and Jiang deliberately staggered their entry into the tower by half an hour.

Although they were fighting independently, for two people who were able to fight their way out of the blockade of a thousand people in the First Line Canyon, this "battlefield trial mode" was not difficult at all. It allowed them to fully stretch their muscles.

During the challenge, Jiang Yichen experienced something strange.

Although the ten captured Tianji sect members compromised with the Oirat people to build the Tower of Babel, they at least kept their eyes on the battlefield trial mode.

Although the elite soldiers in the battlefield trial mode are armed with swords, spears, axes and other weapons, this mix of eighteen martial arts is not as powerful as pure sword weapons or spearmen relying on formations.

There are ten elite soldiers on the first floor, twenty on the second floor, and ten more elite soldiers on each floor.

It was not until the seventh level, with seventy elite soldiers, that large-scale swordsmen, spearmen, and axemen were able to create enough danger to threaten Leng Mei and Jiang Yichen by combining different weapons and changing formations.

However, the formation has a fixed pattern, and it becomes stronger by taking advantage of the momentum.

Where there is power, there are traces to follow, and where there are loopholes and flaws to exploit.

With the experience of Leng Mei and Jiang Yichen, it only took them less than an hour to complete the tenth level of the battlefield trial mode.

The first-level opponent in the Tongtian Trial mode is the weird old man Ke Baixie.

Jiang Yichen had heard more about the deeds of the Fourteenth Evil Man when he was young on Xishan Island. Since he left the island and entered the martial arts world, there has been almost no news about the strange old man.

The strange old man was obviously not a martial arts genius. He had a very difficult time learning martial arts. By the time he went astray and became notorious, he was already nearly 70 years old. It was six or seven years ago that he disappeared after being chased for thousands of miles in Xijiang County for disrupting Fengmingxuan's business.

Many people speculated that given the old man's temperament, he would never hide his identity, and that he might have died of old age and illness without anyone paying attention to him, or that he had been killed by an unknown villain without anyone noticing.

Now that he can see the appearance of a celebrity in the Tower of Babel, even if this celebrity is a big villain, he can compete with him from a distance and test himself. Jiang Yichen feels that this trip is worthwhile.

Just like the soldiers in the battlefield trial mode are all elites selected from thousands of miles away in real life.

Thanks to the huge magnetic field strength, all the masters in the Tongtian Trial Mode are several points stronger than their original peak levels.

The reason for this is to make up for the inherent defect that the illusion imaging cannot be the same as the real person.

However, these martial arts masters who created illusions are not very strong.

The strength lies in the lack of emotional fluctuations, lack of energy and other changes in psychological and physical conditions.

Their weakness lies in the fact that they are not as good at thinking as real people, their moves are not agile enough, they don't have the skills of an antelope hanging on a horn, and they are unable to display brilliant killing moves that come from a stroke of genius.

Regarding this, there is an unwritten rule in the city regarding the "Tiantian Trial Mode".

——Trial insights and experiences can only be exchanged verbally. It is strictly forbidden to record the trial process in the form of text or images.

This move is all to prevent the brave men in the trials from seeking quick success, exploiting loopholes, taking unconventional approaches, and taking shortcuts, while ignoring the true meaning of the trial process of tempering and polishing.

Jiang Yichen came here originally for quick passage and had no such concerns.

There is no need to exploit loopholes when dealing with first-level opponents.

The strange old man's movement speed was not agile, and his body movements were not good enough. Even though the big-headed scepter in his hand could smash people's heads into pieces, and he could also use the big-headed scepter as a giant spinning flying stick, Jiang Yichen could break it with the word "fast"!

The vicious demon Shabao on the second level is also one of the fourteen evil men.

Shabao was a born dwarf who was abandoned in his cradle.

He has a baby face and even though he is in his thirties or forties, he looks no different from a seven or eight-year-old child.

They like to feed on milk and will accept anyone, including humans, cows, horses, sheep, pigs, dogs, wolves, etc. Their notoriety came from destroying farmers' pig sheds and shepherds' sheep pens.

They often fantasize about mature women as their mothers, and gain sympathy and gain benefits through pathetic descriptions and pitiful life stories.

He once offended the Lady of the Netherworld Sect and was beaten so hard that he fled away in fear. He even nearly had his tongue pulled out and his lips cut off. Since then, he has not set foot in the southwestern region of Zhongzhou for ten years.

Sha Bao not only practiced the innate boy's kung fu, but also immersed himself in the Corpse Demon Sutra. His body was as hard as iron, his lightness kung fu was strange and erratic, and he was also proficient in the use of hidden weapons and flying needles.

Jiang Yichen was fortunate to have the "Frost and Snow Qi" by his side, and he even advanced it to the "Warm Ice Art" with extremely sharp icy Qi. Only then could he continuously output icy freezing air in this huge space to restrict the movement of the evil treasure and kill it with one blow.

Even so, the second level alone took a full half hour.

The opponents in this Tongtian Trial mode are stronger than the previous one. Jiang Yichen has to meditate and regulate his breathing before going to the third level to "fight" the Poison Fairy Wang Zhizhi again.

Before entering the tower, I had heard that the tower contained four of the fourteen evil men: the weird old man, the vicious demon child, the poison fairy and the one-eyed thief.

  At first Leng Mei and Jiang Yichen were quite puzzled. Even though these four could barely be regarded as representatives of the old, young, women and the disabled in Zhongzhou's martial arts world, and their martial arts features and techniques had their own merits, there was always some gap between them and the influential figures on the stage at that time. Wasn't this contrary to the original intention of building the tower?

What's more, at that time, Wang Zhizhi was well-known in the martial arts world as the "Poison Fairy of Yunze Realm" and had not yet been listed among the fourteen evil people because of her "cruel and cruel" character.

After witnessing the perfunctory treatment in the "Battlefield Trial Mode", Jiang Yichen could more or less understand the conflicting feelings of these Tianji Sect disciples.

They did not want to miss the opportunity to create a masterpiece that would last forever, nor did they want to be branded as traitors because of the effectiveness of this masterpiece.

Therefore, they only picked out ten unique masters from the Zhongzhou martial arts masters with whom they had actual negotiations and replicated them into the illusion. This would neither lose the original intention of building the tower, nor expose the ability characteristics of people like Xiao Yutong and Yan Qing who were listed as the top enemies by the Wala, nor humiliate the reputation of those Zhongzhou martial arts heroes, thus achieving the best of both worlds.

By the time the Wala's trial warriors were able to pass the tenth level, no one knew how many years had passed. Even though there were only a few masters from Zhongzhou that the Wala expected to deal with in the tenth level illusion, it was of no avail.

After all, the Tianji Sect had few members to begin with, and although the Oirat people could force them to submit once, they did not have the time, manpower, and resources to force them to start over again, let alone ensure that the next Tower of Babel would be as they wished.

The old man guarding the tower was the only disciple of the Tianji Sect that Jiang Yichen had seen so far.

I wonder whether his nine fellow disciples regained their freedom after the Tower of Babel was built, or whether they had already died?

Thinking of this, Jiang Yichen finished regulating his breathing, gathered his thoughts, and went up to the next level.

Wang Zhizhi is no easy person to deal with. She is able to poison two major gangs, make groups of righteous people in the martial arts world retreat, and even Xiao Yincai, the leader of the Yinsha Sect in the church, is troubled and dare not provoke her.

However, without the support of the natural environment, Wang Zhizhi's proud poison attack was of limited use in the bare Tower of Babel.

The long whip in his hand was not as versatile as the divine whip Shen Bian used.

In addition, Jiang Yichen had once tempered his meridians with thousands of spider poisons, so he had an excellent ability to resist poison.

After withstanding the chain of poison arrays set up by Wang Zhizhi with all her strength, he defeated it in one fell swoop, taking less time than dealing with the evil treasure.

Next, Sun Yewang on the fourth level and Gui Jianchou on the fifth level failed to pose much of a hindrance.

The first time Jiang Yichen heard of Sun Yewang was at the Hundred Flowers Conference. Later, he learned from Shadow Buddha that Sun Yewang had appeared outside the Southern Shaolin Pagoda and snatched the "zhe" seal from the Jinyiwei.

Shadow Buddha said that the incarnation method was not the genuine technique of transforming into Three Pure Ones. Sun Yewang relied too much on the incarnation to fight multiple enemies, putting the cart before the horse and using auxiliary means as the main attacking tactic. His original strengths were turned into weaknesses.

Knowing the shortcomings of the incarnation technique, Jiang Yichen easily handled the challenge of the fourth level.

The reason why he was able to defeat Xiao Youming's father was because he was too familiar with his opponent's tactics.

This previous generation of Ghost-Seeing Sorrow was more handsome than Little Youming, and the three strands of purple hair in his long loose hair added a touch of evil charm.

Guijianchou possesses Piaoying's domineering and fierce aura, as well as Han Wuyue's ability to hide and sneak as well as his patience in waiting for the right opportunity to act. He can be considered as half a fellow disciple of Jiang Yichen.

Therefore, no matter how strong he was, Jiang Yichen could almost predict every move and style in advance, so there was no real threat. He was defeated by Jiang Yichen's repeated defensive counterattacks.

In the "Tongtian Trial Mode", you will be awarded the title of "Ba Tu Lu" after passing the sixth level of challenge.

It is obvious that the sixth level is a hurdle, and the strength of Ma Lou, the master guarding the level, is extraordinary.

In the past ten days since entering the city, when Jiang Yichen heard other people talking about Ma Lou, he still felt quite unfamiliar with it.

It was not until I saw the purple gold iron rod that I suddenly realized I had seen it in Li Zixuan's hand.

Although both are Shaolin lay disciples, Ma Lou's stick techniques are more impactful and defense-penetrating than Li Zixuan's.

For a moment, Jiang Yichen was beaten by the three stick methods of standing stick, poking stick and chopping stick, and he was at a loss as to what to do.

  He barely held his sword to block the incoming chopping stick, but his body was blasted against the wall three feet away!

Jiang Yichen felt his eyes go dark, and he saw not only the spinning stars, but also the full moon in his hometown.

I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival and a happy family reunion!

Also: Black Myth: Wukong, a milestone domestic 3A masterpiece. It is impossible to play it on the computer, but I have played it for several hours on many live streaming platforms. I have always wanted to get into the book, and that is this classmate Ma Lou, haha.