After I became an immortal in Uchimaki, I went from being a loser to becoming a group favorite.

Chapter 123 The Ninth Door
  There is a wonderful saying that if a person is unlucky, his teeth will become clogged even if he drinks cold water.

Nangong Ling didn't drink cold water, but he stepped on a living stone slab.

The moment the stone slab sank, he was desperate.

When he saw the man in black turning around and rushing towards him, he was shocked again.

The man in black pulled Nangong Ling over and protected him in his arms. The sound of a sharp blade piercing flesh rang in Nangong Ling's ears. There was a muffled groan above his head, and his heart sank.

Accompanying the arrow was the bronze figure originally standing in the corner of the room. The sound of the friction of bronze tools was no stranger to Nangong Ling.

Because he just made the wrong step that caused the bronze man to be "resurrected", and then he was forced to a door before reaching the room outside the stone wall.

He had only seen the bronze guard in the mechanism tower in books. It was said to be one of the most ferocious mechanism weapons developed by the first tycoon of the Nangong family back then.

The Bronze Man is invulnerable and extremely powerful. One Bronze Man can defeat a hundred people, let alone the six Bronze Man in the room now.

The weight of the person on his body suddenly increased. Nangong Ling knew that he must be injured, so he forced himself to calm down and quickly observed the surrounding environment.

There are eight doors surrounding the room, namely Xiu, Sheng, Shang, Du, Death, Jing, Jing, and Kai.

The three gates of Xiu, Sheng, and Open are auspicious, and the remaining five gates are inauspicious.

The door he entered just now had the Nangong family's pattern representing civil engineering painted in front of it. It belongs to the earth, and entering the door means life or death. Judging from the mechanism in the room inside the door, he entered through the door of death.

So if there is no pattern on the side, could it be a student?

No, since not every door has patterns painted on it, this means that judging based on the five elements is not the most accurate method.

How to judge?

His eyes turned from the ground to the beam. Just now on the ladder, he noticed a moon-shaped protrusion on the cover of the beam.

Nangong Ling narrowed her eyes.

When he entered the door, he had almost no chance to observe, and he was chased by the bronze man. He didn't know how the man behind him restrained the bronze man...

"Why are you so stunned!"

The man in black put one arm around Nangong Ling, with a look of hatred on his face.

"The difficulty of breaking through the level of the mechanism tower is the bottleneck every six months. Now on the sixty-sixth floor, the hidden weapons of the mechanism are changing in many ways. The room I brought you back to is not the room you entered at the beginning. The furnishings and layout are the same as before. It's generally the same, but in fact the arrangement of the concealed weapons has changed. I asked you to follow me, and even imitated my steps. Haven't you learned these in class?"

Nangong Ling was shocked.

The man in black dodged the attacks of several bronze men in succession, with cold sweat dripping from his forehead. Looking at Nangong Ling's expression, he looked depressed as if he couldn't count on this fool.

"Follow me. Whether you live or die, it's up to you."

As soon as the words fell, Nangong Ling was let go. The bronze men came from all directions. He followed the movements of the people in front of him step by step. After stepping on a few points without any rules, his feet suddenly became empty.

The feeling of weightlessness was not very comfortable. Amidst the howling wind, someone grabbed his feet and kicked him subconsciously, earning him a few angry curses.

Hearing the familiar low voice, knowing that it was the man in black just now, he unconsciously relaxed his mind and allowed him to drag him down in the air, pull him to his chest, and take him into his arms.

"Don't be afraid."

The body fell rapidly, and the sound that suddenly rang in his ears was faintly trembling, scattered in the wind, and seemed to be a little different from before.

Nangong Ling stretched out her arms to hug the man's waist. Just as he was waiting for a reply of "I'm not afraid," he suddenly heard an angry voice coming from above his head.

"If this arrow is poisoned, I will have to drag you down until I die!"

"..."

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  When he first broke into the mechanism tower, Nangong Xun reached the sixty-sixth floor.

No one knows how far he can reach. No one knew that what really stopped him from continuing was that he found the ninth door among the eight doors leading to the sixty-seventh floor.

It needs to be calculated based on the Five Elements and the Nine Palaces and Bagua.

"As all disciples of the Nangong family know, the Eight Gates of Zhongshengmen belong to the earth. They are located in the Gen Palace in the northeast and are responsible for good fortune. Ordinary people may think that finding the Shengmen is the way out."

The man in black, Nangong Xun, was sitting on the ground, leaning against the wall, while Nangong Ling was bandaging his right shoulder that had been hit by an arrow.

After landing, without waiting for Nangong Ling to react, the man in black gritted his teeth and pulled out the sharp arrow. The smell of blood immediately filled the darkness. Nangong Ling panicked for a moment, then heard a rustling sound, followed by a deep voice.

"Will you bandage it?"

After taking the medicine bottle handed over by the man in black, his vision suddenly became clear.

The man in black had a small luminous pearl in his hand at some point. The darkness in the close range was expelled, and his ordinary eyebrows were reflected in the dim light.

Afterwards, Nangong Ling told Xiao Hei that at that time, he had this face deeply imprinted in his heart.

Seeing that he was just bowing his head to bandage and not paying attention at all to the good qualities of being humble and asking questions, the man in black muttered to himself, "No wonder he's still stuck on the 30th floor after more than half a year."

Nangong Ling didn't hear this sentence clearly, but Xiao Hei and Tang Ling heard it clearly.

However, Tang Ling thought that compared to ordinary Nangong family disciples, Nangong Ling was able to reach more than 30 levels in just half a year at such a young age, which was already quite good.

It's a pity that Nangong Xun is not an ordinary disciple. Just like Song Nan, it is difficult for these geniuses to understand the hardships of mortals like her.

The man in black continued to explain.

"You have also discovered that it is difficult to find the correct birth door according to the method of the Five Elements, so you need to find the location of Gen Palace, that is, the northeast direction. If it is daytime, you need to calculate the moonrise time based on the sun's shadow. Now it is night, and you need to calculate the moonrise time based on the current time. Calculate the northeast direction based on the moonrise time and moon phase changes, and the door indicated in the northeast direction is the Shengmen."

Nangong Ling bandaged him, and suddenly remembered the full moon-shaped protrusion he had seen on the ladder.

Sure enough, I heard the man in black say: "There is a button on the beam in the room. As long as you press it, a hole will open in the wall, and the moonlight will shine through."

It sounds simple, but each step requires precise calculations and involves a wide range of knowledge. Nangong Ling couldn't help but look at the man in black.

The man in black said: "Don't look at me. Although I know the method, I have never tried it."

In fact, after Nangong Xun realized that there was a ninth door in the room, he immediately stopped trying to break through the door and wrote down the layout of the room in his mind. After asking after leaving the tower, he learned that the people who entered the tower were all born according to their original door. When the calculation method reached the sixty-seventh floor, my curiosity was aroused. I went back and calculated it over and over again.

It is said that except for the first head of the Nangong family, no one has broken into the top of the tower in thousands of years.

This discovery allowed him to retain some illusions.

Could it be that the ninth door is the shortcut to the top of the tower?
  He told Nangong Fenglin about this, but he only got a confused answer.

He is not a diligent person, and he is not willing to pursue everything to the end.

In the two years since I broke into the tower, I have sometimes studied hard and sometimes left it alone. All my achievements have been used in a few unorganized steps tonight.

But he accidentally entered the ninth door.

I didn't expect it to be located on the ground.

After listening to the man in black's simple explanation, Nangong Ling never took her eyes away from his face.

"What?" The man in black touched his face.

Nangong Ling said coldly: "Brother, is he an inner disciple of the Nangong family?"

　Today I read a short essay written by a colleague in the office, and I couldn't help but sigh. Things written by people with good writing skills are really smooth and comfortable to read...

　　
  　
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