The Gate of the Genkai

: Spiritual Palace

The sun was setting.

With a reward of nearly ten thousand taels in his pocket, Shi Mu walked back briskly.

He got nearly ten thousand taels of silver for just such a blacksmithing task, which made him quite satisfied, but he didn’t know if such a task would be possible again in the future.

He turned a corner from the foot of a mountain, and a large building with a pointed roof and gray tiles appeared in front of his eyes.

There are many buildings in the valley, and he didn’t pay much attention when he went to the blacksmith’s shop. At this moment, he glanced and found a huge plaque hanging in front of the gray building door, with the three characters “Lingfa Hall” written on it.

And in front of the gray building, there were more than a dozen people around for some reason, all looking into the hall curiously, but no one stepped into the hall.

Shi Mu couldn’t help being curious, and stopped in his tracks.

At this moment, suddenly a gust of wind gushed out of the hall, sand and rocks flew in front of the eyes of the people surrounding the door of the hall, and a strong force pushed them away.

With a sound of “huh”, a black shadow flashed past, wrapped in the strong wind and fell outside the door of the main hall, making a heavy and muffled blow.

The location of Shimu station is far from the gate, so it was not affected by the strong wind.

But with a flash of his eyes, he saw clearly that the black figure was a young man with a slightly dark complexion, who seemed to be about the same age as him, but his whole body was tightly bound by various green vines, wrapped into a rice dumpling , showing only a head and two calves.

This time he flew out of the palace gate, the black-skinned boy was obviously thrown hard, grinning on the ground for a long time, but he couldn’t get up.

“Brother Yue”

Two people rushed out of the crowd, should be familiar with the dark-skinned boy, but the two of them looked into the door with some fear, not daring to reach out to help the boy on the ground.

“If you have such a talent, you dare to come here to test it, and waste my time for nothing.” A slightly old voice came cursing from inside the door, with a very impatient tone.

The dark-skinned boy on the ground struggled a few times, and with the help of two companions, he finally broke free from the vines, and looked into the gate with a flushed face.

“Impossible. When I was in the family, I obviously asked someone to take a special test. I obviously have the talent of a warlock, and I have already started to learn basic spells.” The young man’s face was blue and red, and he argued unwillingly .

“Hmph, don’t confuse the outsider with the Warlock Apprentice and our sect. Who doesn’t know that the resources needed to cultivate a warlock are almost ten times more than those of a martial artist of the same level. You think that our sect will spend a lot of resources to train you who only have one degree of elemental induction. If you want to be a formally registered warlock apprentice in this sect, at least you must be able to make the induction crystal brighter to more than three degrees.” The voice inside the door became even more impatient.

Hearing this, the dark-skinned boy turned blue and red, and finally left in despair accompanied by two companions.

“There are still people out there who need to test the talents of warlocks. I will weigh them all by myself. If someone comes in randomly, it will not be as simple as just throwing them out. Hmph, have you spent a lot of time as old men?” The voice in the hall was cold again The cold came out, and then fell silent.

When the people watching outside the hall heard this, they looked at each other in blank dismay and began to discuss in low voices.

Shi Mu listened to everyone’s discussion, and after a while, he finally figured out that the Spiritual Palace here is the place where the Black Demon Sect uses to test the innate talents of beginner disciples.

However, the test here is not free, and each person will be charged 3,000 taels of silver.

Moreover, the person in charge of this place obviously has a weird temper. If the tester is not talented enough, not only the money was paid in vain, but he will probably be humiliated by him.

The people outside the main hall discussed for a while. Although some people were eager to try, but thinking of what happened to the dark-skinned boy just now, their courage was greatly weakened for a while, and no one dared to step into the gate of the hall again.

Shi Mu’s eyes flickered, recalling the generous missions that only warlocks had seen in Guangyuan Hall before, touched the thick silver ticket in his sleeve, and stepped into the hall door after hesitantly.

When people outside the hall saw Shi Mu go in, they all showed surprise and whispered to each other about Shi Mu’s identity.

Regardless of the situation outside, Shi Mu walked slowly towards the hall.

Behind the gate of the hall is a wide corridor several feet long, and after passing, there is a solemn and solemn hall.

The hall is quite spacious, but there are not many decorations. There is a large mahogany table near the left hand side. An old man in gray robe is sitting lazily behind the table, holding a yellowing scroll in his hand, and is reading it with relish.

On the right side of the main hall is a circular stone platform about a foot above the ground, about the size of Zhang Xu, covered with curved runes.

Around the stone platform, crystal pillars with the thickness of a bowl are set up. They are colorful, and each one is different. Moreover, the surface of these crystal pillars is engraved with lattice stripes, which are divided into nine grids from bottom to top, which looks extremely mysterious. .

After Shi Mu saw the stone platform and crystal pillars on the ground clearly, a look of astonishment appeared on his face.

The old man behind the mahogany table raised his head when he heard footsteps.

This old man is thin and small, with gray hair, triangular eyes, and sharp mouth monkey cheeks. He looks mean.

The old man rolled his eyes strangely, put down the scroll in his hand, did not stand up, and glanced at Shi Mu.

“Report your name and identity to those who come for the test.” The old man in gray robe snorted and said in a cold tone.

“I’m Shi Mu, a new disciple who just joined the sect two months ago.” Shi Mu cupped his hands and said.

The gray-robed old man looked Shi Mu up and down, and said with a sneer: “I just saw the role model outside, did you have the guts to test the talent of a warlock? It’s just a fluke mentality.”

Shi Mu’s expression changed when he heard the words, and he remained silent.

“I’ve seen people like you a lot. If you don’t practice hard, your mind is full of unrealistic thoughts. Although the Spiritual Palace is a place to test the talents of disciples and warlocks, I don’t want to bother testing cats and dogs. I don’t want to waste money. If you are suffering again, get out quickly.” The gray-robed old man glared at Shi Mu and said coldly.

“Senior, since this disciple came in, he is already mentally prepared. This is a three-thousand tael silver bill. Please, senior, take the trouble to test this disciple.” Shi Mu took out three silver bills from his body and put them away calmly. On the mahogany table.

The grey-robed old man showed a trace of surprise on his face, squinted his eyes and looked at Shi Mu for a while, Shi Mu looked calm and stood quietly.

“Hmph, the brat is quite brave.” A strange look flashed in the gray-robed old man’s eyes, he snorted and stood up.

“Come here, stand on the stone platform.” The gray-robed old man walked to the side of the stone platform, and took out a jade ruler from his arms. It was engraved with colorful runes, which was somewhat similar to the patterns on the stone platform.

Shi Mu was overjoyed, and hurriedly followed what the old man said, and stood on the stone platform three steps at a time.

The gray-robed old man was chanting something in a low voice, a burst of green light emerged from his body, and poured into the jade ruler in his hand.

Jade rulerA series of runes lit up quickly, and the gray-robed old man waved his hand, and a beam of colorful light shot out from the jade ruler and merged into the stone platform.

buzz

All the patterns on the circular stone platform lit up, emitting various colors of light, and at the same time, the buzzing sound of the air vibrated loudly.

Shi Mu’s face changed slightly, various lights shrouded his body from the stone platform, a warm breath poured into his body from his feet, swam around quickly, and flowed back to the stone platform.

The brightness of the pattern on the stone platform suddenly dimmed, but the surrounding crystal pillars changed.

A blue crystal pillar, a red crystal pillar, and a black crystal pillar shone with light at the same time.

The three crystal pillars all light up from the bottom position first, and the light rises upwards.

Among them, only one square of the blue crystal pillar lit up, two squares of the red crystal pillar lit up, but the black crystal pillar jumped to the position of five squares at once, emitting a scorching black light.

Seeing this scene, the old man in gray robe was dumbfounded. :