Chapter 1013 Playing tricks
Yun Ye looked at the snow-capped mountains below and said softly: "It is because of their weak bodies that they have made sufficient preparations in other aspects. To a certain extent, their survival rate is actually higher than that of Sean and Ku He."
Fan Xian nodded and said: "Indeed, judging from the results, two thousandths and five thousandths are indeed more than twice as high!"
At this point, Fan Xian paused and asked with a smile: "So, what are you going to do with them?"
Yun Ye thought for a while, drank all the tea in the cup, then put down the cup and said: "Anyway, they can be regarded as the forerunners of the human world to set foot in the Arctic. It is a pity to kill them like this."
Fan Xian smiled and said, "Think about it, they are all from Tian Xiangzi!"
Yun Ye glanced at the five people marching hard on the stone steps of the snow-capped mountains below, and said calmly: "Tian Xiangzi is dead. After these people got the news that Bai Yujing was in the north, they did not continue to be my enemy."
"In addition, they went north and went from a team of a thousand to a team of five. They went through many difficulties and dangers and suffered a lot of torture. I am not a devil. I have harmed them to this extent. That's about it. , there’s no need to be aggressive.”
Fan Xian smiled and said, "So, you have settled your grudges?"
Yun Ye chuckled and said, "My side is clear, but as for them..."
Fan Xian shook his head: "What they think is not important. What is important is that your Bai Yujing has not been completed yet. Although everything is shocking enough to them, it is still far from what you expected."
"In this case, are you sure you want to let them go back?"
Yun Ye fell silent, and after a moment he sighed softly: "If you have any ideas, just say it!"
Fan Xian smiled slightly: "Such a large palace complex would be less lively if there were only robots. I think you can recruit some people and let them manage the palace for you."
"In other words, we are recruiting some handyman disciples and outer disciples. If someone comes here again in the future, we can let them deal with it, so that the Bai Yujing will not be unable to handle it or be too rigid."
"After all, humans are much better at pretending to be gods than robots!"
As he said that, Fan Xian turned around and looked at the five people walking on the snow-capped mountains with a chuckle.
"After going through all kinds of difficulties and dangers on the trip to the North Pole, seeing the awe-inspiring cave heaven and the steel giant, as well as the thousands of stone steps on the snow-capped mountains, it was a spiritual baptism for them."
"After passing this level and giving them a little sweetener, are you afraid that they won't become Bai Yujing's followers?"
Yun Ye was startled for a moment, then looked thoughtfully at the snow-capped mountains.
After a moment, he whispered: "In that case, I'll trouble you!"
Fan Xian was stunned: "Huh?"
Yun Ye pointed at himself and said: "Xitong knows me, but it's hard for me to come forward. I have to be a handsome and unparalleled young man, Master Fan, a poet immortal, to convince these ignorant mortals!"
"..."
Hearing Yun Ye's unabashed compliments and flattery, Fan Xian twitched the corner of his mouth and sighed, "Okay, I'll let you succeed once."
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"call--"
The howling cold wind echoed around them, like a sharp steel knife, blowing across the faces of Xitong and others.
Xitong gritted his teeth, raised his heavy legs, and walked upward step by step, silently and firmly.
Although he didn't know the meaning of what he did, nor what exactly existed at the end of the stone steps, these were no longer important to Xitong and others.
If they stepped onto the stone steps with confusion at the beginning, then now, as they continued to move forward, their mood gradually changed in silence.
Looking at the corner of the cornice sticking out at the end of the stone steps, for some reason, they didn't want to give up.
Even if the legs are as heavy as lead, even the exposed skin has lost all feeling in the cold wind...
Just like Fan Xian said, for these people, suffering is not only suffering, but also a rare baptism.
In addition, these five people are the winners selected after brutal elimination, and they are the best choices in terms of body and will.
If such a person can withstand this baptism, he will definitely be transformed as a result.
In this way, five exhausted people marched silently in the howling cold wind.
Although they don't want to give up midway, they all want to climb to the top of the snow-capped mountains. Even if they can't see the immortal, they still want to see what the top of the mountain looks like. But unfortunately, in the world of materialism, the body is greater than the spirit after all.
So, after climbing more than 800 steps in a row, someone fell down. It was the big man with four broken fingers.
When Xitong and the other three heard the voice coming from behind, their originally fuzzy spirits suddenly cleared and they quickly turned around to look.
When they saw the big man with a severed finger lying on the stone steps, four people, including Xitong, looked sad.
The two who had escaped hesitated for a moment, turned around, and continued to move upward.
Xitong and another person stopped and seemed to be planning to go over to see the condition of the man with the severed finger.
At this moment, the steel puppets who had been ignoring them suddenly reacted.
More than a hundred steel puppets on the stone steps stopped what they were doing, then turned their heads, their eyes emitting blue light, piercing through the wind and snow on the mountainside, staring at the two Xitong who were trying to return.
Sensing the gaze of the steel puppet, Xitong and the two men immediately stopped, with large amounts of cold sweat dripping from their foreheads.
……What does it mean?
Are they not allowed to rescue their companions, or are they told that they cannot return?
No matter what the real situation is, they have no intention of testing the bottom line of these steel men.
Xitong looked at the man, turned around silently, and continued to climb the steps.
Seeing this scene, hundreds of steel puppets looked away and continued busy with their work.
After the four figures of Xitong disappeared into the wind and snow, a steel puppet came from the side, lifted up the unconscious man on the ground, and then injected him with a shot of milky white liquid.
After doing this, the steel puppet let go of the big man, turned around and left silently.
Not long after, the eyelids of the big man lying on the ground moved slightly, and suddenly he opened his eyes and stared blankly at the surrounding scene.
"How is this going?"
The big man got up from the ground and looked at his hands blankly. He felt as if a warm current was emerging from his body, constantly nourishing his spirit and body, which had already reached the limit.
Not only that, he even felt a slight itching sensation in the severed finger that had long been unconscious...
The big man stood there for a while, then raised his head and muttered to himself as he looked at the fierce wind and snow in front of him.
"...Is this Bai Yujing?"
After saying that, the big man's expression hardened, he took steps again and continued to move upward.
In the wind and snow nearby, a young man in white clothes was suspended in the air, quietly watching the big man's back.
The next second, the wind and snow came, blowing away the figure of the young man in white, leaving only the whistling sound still echoing.
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After that, the four leading Xitongs also fell one after another.
Every time someone falls, a robot will stop other people from rescuing, let them continue moving, and then wait until they are farther away before injecting the milky white liquid into the fallen person.
During this process, the young master in white, or rather Fan Xian, would be watching from the side until he continued on his journey and then quietly disappeared.
Naturally, he didn't come here to watch the excitement. When the robot injected [body repair agent] into the fallen people, he had actually explored the souls of those people and mastered their past.
Strictly speaking, among these five people, only Xitong can be regarded as a remnant of Tian Xiangzi's command.
Although the other four people also participated in this trip to the North Pole, they were not the same people as Xitong.
They come from different forces, some are from the Tang Dynasty, and some are from the Western Regions, but without exception, these powerful forces inside and outside the Tang Dynasty are secretly supporting Tian Xiangzi and want to use Tian Xiangzi's power to seek immortality.
These are all things that Fan Xian expected, and he is not interested in these forces.
What really interested him was the source of motivation that supported these people until now.
Just like Xitong, he has no wealth, no worries, and is not eager to seek immortality. It is just because he is grateful for Tian Xiangzi's kindness and regards him as his teacher, so he firmly embarks on the northward journey to serve as a teacher. The purpose is to help Master Tian take a look at what he was passionately pursuing during his lifetime.
Another example is the big man with the broken finger. His name is Mou Feng. He is thirty-two years old this year. He used to be a swordsman in Guanzhong. His martial arts is superb and he is not inferior to Xi Tong. But later, his family suffered a disaster. A big shot valued his martial arts and avenged his blood. After that, he became that man's retainer and dead soldier.
This time I came here because I was entrusted by that person. It can be said that the desire to repay the kindness is far stronger than the thought of seeking immortality.
As for the remaining three, they each have their own reasons for not being humane.
The two people who escaped were named Pan Wu and Yan Fu. They were both from the Central Plains. They still had relatives in the Tang Dynasty and were concerned about them, so their desire to survive was the strongest among the five.
The last man's name was Kui Lang. He was the only one from the Western Regions among the five, and he was also the one with the strongest heart for pilgrimage.
After being injected with the [Physical Repair Agent] and climbing up the cold stone steps, Kui Lang's state of mind had already changed. He firmly believed that the trip was meaningful and became enthusiastic about climbing the stone steps.
Fan Xian felt that this guy had the potential to become a fanatical believer...
Of course, no matter what purpose these people had before, after experiencing this 4999-step climb, they will quietly change deep in their hearts.
Finally, Xi Tong, who had fallen twice, was the first to reach the top of the stone steps.
What appeared in front of him was a continuous palace complex, with tall courtyard walls and a brown door standing in front, surrounded by wisps of white clouds, which were still lingering and drifting even if the cold wind blew.
Xitong stared blankly at the scene in front of him, the thoughts in his heart surging like waves.
At the same time, the four people from behind came one after another and stood beside Xitong, looking ahead with complicated expressions.
Kui Lang was the most excited. After he climbed the last step, he knelt down without hesitation and continued to worship the gate in front of him and the continuous palace behind it.
Perhaps it was detected that five people were gathering together. At this moment, the closed door suddenly opened slowly.
A long voice floated out from the crack in the door and fell into everyone's ears.
"come in……"
"You have obtained the qualification..."