Fulu Rubik's Cube

Yu Tingzhang slowly opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was the flat, snow-white snowflake rune paper.

The dense handwriting on it looked so familiar, and the first question on it made him recover all his memories.

'Question: There are 110 spiders, dragonflies, and cicadas in total, with [-] eight legs and [-] pairs of wings. Please answer how many of these three insects are there? '

Yu Tingzhang shuddered, and suddenly raised his head to look around.

Suddenly, I realized that I was sitting in the hall of the second trial of the 'Innate Qi Nanzong'.

There are thousands of testers neatly sitting around, but some seats have long been empty.

And the other testers who were still sitting in front of the table stood upright, closed their eyes slightly, and remained motionless, only their facial expressions were constantly changing, as if they were in a dream.

'what?dream? '

Yu Tingzhang's heart skipped a beat, and he finally came to his senses.

'Could it be that I've been in a dream before, so it's no wonder that I didn't die after the self-explosion. '

'If this is the case, is the experience in the dream the real test? '

Thinking of this time, Yu Tingzhang glanced at the seat beside him.

But seeing Luo Jiujiang maintain the same movement, but her expression revealed the color of fear.

Yu Tingzhang's heart tightened, not knowing what would happen in her dream.

Just as he was thinking, a Southern Sect disciple quietly walked in front of him.

Mai Guanzhong!
'Hey, how could someone I know appear here? Didn't I go through a dream test? '

Mai Guanzhong stretched out his index finger to make a 'shut' gesture around his mouth, and then waved to him.

Yu Tingzhang stood up full of doubts, and walked out with Mai Guanzhong.

It wasn't until he stood up that he noticed something strange.

Hundreds of 'Dharma Eye Compass' arranged in the hall are actually flashing very faint and light halos.

The radiation range of these halos is only about three feet, covering about twelve people.

But the halos emitted by all the 'Dharma Eye Compass' intertwined, but enveloped the entire hall.

'Is this why I'm in a dream? '

While thinking, he followed Mai Guanzhong to leave the hall quietly, and suddenly he felt that someone was watching him from behind.

Looking back, I saw a Jindan real person sitting cross-legged on a 'one-foot plate' hanging in the air, looking at me with a smile.

Yu Tingzhang recognized at a glance that this person was one of the hundreds of people who were wiped out by a burst of purple light before the mutation.

At the same time, this person is also the examiner of this trial.

At this moment, Yu Tingzhang was finally very sure that all his previous experiences in the dream were really a trial.

Outside the hall is an incomparably wide rooftop, where nearly 2000 people are gathering here at this moment, most of them are casual cultivators participating in the trial.

Except for a few of these testers who were silent, the others gathered together excitedly and discussed something loudly.

Because there were too many people talking, the loud voices formed a cacophony, but nothing could be heard clearly.

There are more than 200 gold and silver Dharma protectors with helmets and armor standing around, shining brightly under the sunlight.

In addition, dozens of Southern Sect disciples in white robes wandered among these testers, calming everyone's mood.

Mai Guanzhong took Yu Tingzhang to a place with few people and stopped.

"Are you sober?"

Yu Tingzhang turned his head to look at Mai Guanzhong, hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice:
"Fellow McDougall"

Before he finished speaking, Mai Guanzhong stopped his words with a wave of his hand, and said with a straight face:

"Why, don't you recognize me as a senior brother after you come out?"

Yu Tingzhang's heart trembled, and the messy thoughts in his mind were pulled together by a thread.

Stutteringly said:

"You mean the previous dream was real?

No, I mean you are in my dream too? "

Mai Guanzhong turned his head and looked at the mountain peak of "Xianrenzhi" with the middle finger standing in the distance, and sighed for no reason.

"I didn't know all this until I came out."

Then he fixedly looked at Yu Tingzhang, and said word by word:
"Everything we experienced in that dream before was actually a trial, but we didn't expect that we were also one of the testers."

Yu Tingzhang stared at Mai Guanzhong dumbfounded, and asked a little uncertainly after a while:

"What about the others?"

"Same!"

"Same???"

Yu Tingzhang's eyes were straightened, he kept muttering to himself, and his mind was in chaos.

In that dream-like trial, there were sect disciples, casual cultivators, and ordinary people, and even the various resources they carried.

Yu Tingzhang made a rough calculation, and the initial population of the four gathering points may add up to no less than 2 people.

Can so many people enter the same dream?

Countless spells, endless sea of ​​insects, prayers of ordinary people, bone pain at the time of injury and various emotions at the time of self-explosion, can all of these really be reflected in dreams?

The 'Congenital Qi Southern Sect' can actually manifest the feelings of all beings in a dream, so...then how strong is this sect?

As a practitioner, although he is a casual practitioner, he has experienced and heard a lot in the world, but Yu Tingzhang has never heard of a dream that can envelop tens of thousands of people together.

And everything in the dream is so real.

There are so many people, including Daoist Jindan and tens of thousands of Nanzong's own disciples, but none of them realize that they are actually in a dream. Isn't this a bit too scary?

If so, is he in a dream or in reality at this moment?
Yu Tingzhang stretched out his hands and looked at it for a while, and suddenly he pinched his right hand hard with his left hand.

The severe pain made him frowned slightly.

"Haha! Does it hurt?"

Mai Guanzhong asked with a smile, and then said with a strange expression:
"I tried a similar method when I first came out, but it didn't work."

After he finished speaking, he sighed and said:

"I asked the elders of the sect. This trial is a special magic circle constructed by the head of our sect, Ruyi Zhenjun, using illusions and dreams, called 'Fantasy Realm'.

A total of 360 "eyes of wisdom and compass" were set up in the trial hall this time. Wherever the formation is covered, everyone will be involved.

According to the elders of the Zongmen, each person's mind will manifest a body exactly like himself in this "dreamland".

Because it is condensed from one's own mind, it can be regarded as oneself.

And everything experienced in it, including actions and thoughts, will exist and be remembered. "

Yu Tingzhang was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked:
"Then what is the final result of this 'dreamland'?"

Mai Guanzhong said with a half smile but not a smile:
"I have also asked about this point. Everyone in the 'dream' will eventually die. Otherwise, how can we see a person's character."

Yu Tingzhang finally understood.

'Oh, so this is the real trial. '

'In that kind of life-and-death juncture, anyone will fully expose their own character, hehe, 'Xiantian Qi Nanzong' is really a good method. '

With so many thoughts in his heart, Yu Tingzhang couldn't help showing a sarcastic look on his face.

No one is willing to have their hearts opened like this, and the move of "Innate Oneness Southern Sect" has touched everyone's bottom line.

Yu Tingzhang's intention to join the 'Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect' has faded a lot.

He looked up at the excited testers not far away, presumably they had the same thoughts as himself.

Mai Guanzhong kept observing Yu Tingzhang's expression, and guessed his thoughts through some changes in his expression.

"Junior Brother Yu, do you feel that this trial has violated your dignity?"

Yu Tingzhang said lightly:
"Fellow Mai, I am not from the same school as you, so there is no need to call you that."

"hey-hey!"

Mai Guanzhong sneered twice, and said sharply:

"Nearly [-] practitioners participated in the trial this time, if they were not screened, how many people with ulterior motives would be mixed in.

In the "Fantasy Realm", this gate is only constructing a hopeless situation, and will not interfere with it.

Our disciples and all the testers didn't know anything about it before they got out of the "dreamland", which means that everything we have experienced is fair.

The reason why you feel that your dignity has been damaged is just that you feel as if you have been tricked and lost face.

But the purpose of our sect is not only to screen those practitioners who really want to join our sect, but also to allow everyone in the trial to analyze themselves and find their own shortcomings.

Even if they are unwilling to join the sect in the end, this trial will improve the mood of many people.

Your trial is just incidental, and our sect pays more attention to the performance of our disciples in this trial. "

As Mai Guanzhong said, he slightly raised his eyes to look at Yu Tingzhang, who had an ugly face, and said leisurely:
"Hehe, don't think too highly of yourself. I don't know how many people will be stuck with the three test questions. Not everyone has the opportunity to join our sect."

Yu Tingzhang gradually came to his senses at this time.

Thinking about the performance of Zhongnanzong disciples and the behavior of many casual practitioners in the "Dreamland" before, my heart tightened slightly.

The trials in the "Fantasy Realm" should be the most important. Even if outsiders can't see them, they can get a better understanding of the character of the trialists by asking the disciples of the Southern Sect.

Among the three test questions, the test of strength and the test of "Fantasy Realm", I should still meet the requirements of "Nanzong of Xiantian Qi", which can be seen from Mai Guanzhong's attitude towards himself.

It's just that I'm afraid I answered very badly in the test on the record in the hall.

"Can I join the 'North Sect of Xiantian Yiqi'?" '

Yu Tingzhang felt a little uneasy, and at this moment he had already figured it out.

The 'Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect' is the one who chooses, and I am only chosen. Whether I can join the Southern Sect is not up to me to decide.

The reason why I felt embarrassed and rejected the 'Xiantian Qi Nanzong' before was only because I felt that my privacy was seen through in full view, which made it very uncomfortable for casual cultivators who are used to hiding themselves.

In fact, if you think about it from the perspective of Nanzong, you can completely understand this move.

After a moment of silence, Yu Tingzhang sighed softly and said:

"This 'Fantasy Realm' is really amazing."

Mai Guanzhong said slightly proudly:
"Of course, I heard that someone in the door has proposed to build this 'dreamland' permanently and build a large place with this as the core.

These include the "martial arts field" for enhancing combat experience, the "practice field" for deriving martial arts and supernatural powers, and the "school military field" for deriving formations and large-scale operations.

How is it, great?
Do you want to join this door? "

Yu Tingzhang's heart skipped a beat, and he could already imagine the powerful effect of this 'dreamland' from just a few words of Mai Guanzhong.

After all, there is no real death here, and everyone can try out the thoughts in their hearts one by one.

Take the simplest analogy.

If you get a powerful method of supernatural power practice, if you make a mistake in practicing this supernatural power, you will cause serious injury or even death to yourself.

Generally speaking, no one dares to try cultivation easily, but now with this 'dreamland', it is easy to find every mistake and cultivate it successfully.

In addition, if a 'martial arts arena' is really established, the combat abilities of the disciples of the Southern Sect may be extremely terrifying.

One death after another is enough for everyone to find their own weaknesses and strengthen their abilities.

Now it is not whether I want to join Nanzong, but whether Nanzong is willing to recruit me.

Yu Tingzhang asked with some trepidation:

"Senior Brother Maimai, you see that I called you Senior Brother during the trial, and you even wore the clothes of our sect. You should be regarded as a disciple of our sect, right?"

Mai Guanzhong was taken aback when he heard the words, he couldn't help laughing and said:
"Looking at your thick eyebrows, big eyes and simple and honest appearance, I didn't expect that your skin is also very thick!"

While smiling, he cupped his hands and saluted Yu Tingzhang.

"Junior Brother Yu, welcome to join our sect!"