"This tower is far less narrow than you think. The interior is a separate space of its own, so if you want to enter it, you must pass through the space door on each floor."
Guardian Liu made a gesture of invitation, "Everyone, please come in. The power of the tower is limited. If you enter too late, I'm afraid it will be closed again."
"Guardian Liu, what does this mean? Then we can still come out?" someone asked.
"Of course it's okay to come out, but the rewards retained at each level are limited, and probably can't satisfy everyone." As soon as Liu Hufa finished speaking, a large amount of aura erupted throughout the valley.
Since the number of places is limited, the only way to win is to compete!
"Weak people, don't think too much and just quit. You are not qualified to participate."
Sui Jianyong and Wen Shu said softly.
Their breath, like silk threads, cut through the entire valley, making a large number of monks feel the feeling of swords on their necks. As Jie Feier also showed an indifferent look, most of the monks retreated.
Facing these geniuses, their numbers are meaningless, not to mention that not everyone is like Yun Ye and has elders behind them. If they dare to complain, they may have to face orders.
"Lord Dao Ji, please participate in the trial as soon as possible. We will monitor the situation."
People from Xie Feier's group said.
They are all far weaker than Xie Feier, and even if they enter, they will not be able to compete for the final inheritance qualification.
"..."
Jie Feier glanced at Yun Ye coldly, then stepped directly into the space vortex, and her breath completely disappeared.
"You are on the Qilin list and can be admitted."
Sui Jianyong spoke, and then he and Wen Shu stepped into the vortex.
Although it is just a word, no one dares to disobey it.
Among the monks present, not many have been on the Qilin Ranking. Kong Qu and Feng Gongxiao count two.
The remaining three Yun Ye don't know each other, but they don't have any of the contemporary Qilin Ranking Talents. They are all old people who are already a hundred years old and have achieved the Dharma Realm for a long time.
Yun Ye didn't have much interest in these people, so he took Ha Qie through the vortex gate.
Then, a group of disciples were left watching them leave in silence.
Many disciples of Yuntian Lingzong's Emerald Lake asked: "Can't you see what's inside the tower?"
It was different from before. There was no projection on the tower at all. What Su Xinshan had experienced and what she had passed were not projected.
"The relics were created by ancient powers and even saints. As long as they can still function, it is easy to isolate the divine law." Someone shook his head.
These words made many people feel heartbroken and uncomfortable. In other words, what happened next was completely black box, and they could not see the first-hand live broadcast.
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After Yun Ye crossed the whirlpool gate, he directly arrived at a high platform.
Then he suddenly felt something was inexplicably wrong.
Involuntarily, he summoned the Book of Reincarnation.
"Fate: B(A+)→D(C+)"
"Destiny has declined?"
"No, it should be said that my luck has declined!"
What increases in Yun Ye's destiny from level C onwards is all about luck, not destiny.
This reduction is too outrageous, almost directly clearing it to zero.
Just as Yun Ye's thoughts arose, a piece of information suddenly poured into his mind.
"The Great Ceremony of Nine Lives Divine Laws is a trophy of our sect. Although it is not a Taoist code, it still has various wonderful uses. It is a pity that these methods have their own destiny and cannot be obtained by force."
"To this end, our sect has arranged a high tower of creation that can realize all possibilities, allowing the grand ceremony to evolve into nine levels of trials, in order to reach the top and inherit the Nine Lives."
"It's a pity that after three thousand years, the moment of reincarnation has arrived, but no one has passed the trial and obtained the final nine-life magic... Is this destiny?"
"Before each inheritor dies, the tower will not be opened again. The testers of future generations should pursue their destiny."
"The first level of trial: knowing your destiny."
Yun Ye stood on the high platform, surrounded by darkness. As this information poured in, the surrounding scene changed rapidly, and a remote rural village appeared in sight.
This scene chooses a farmer as the perspective and begins to evolve his life.
From the moment they are born, farmers are fed and hungry, and when they are just two years old, they can help with housework.
When he was less than six years old, he was already working in the fields.
Younger brothers and sisters were born one by one and died one by one. Those who were lucky enough to survive shared his pressure.
When a younger brother is born, the parents will be happy; when a younger sister is born, the parents will be sad.
The family is centered on the eldest son, the farmer. After his father died of illness, the farmer became the master of the family.
He began to face the landlords and the government. He had to pay most of the year's harvest, and his bones were knocked out and his marrow was sucked out.
It was extremely difficult to support several people in the family, so he chose to give his old mother and sister less food, and only ensured the labor of the men.
But even so, a drought brought all their efforts to naught, the fields failed to harvest, and food prices began to skyrocket. Not only that, the government also asked them to continue to pay various inexplicable taxes, otherwise they would be punished with a knife.
The farmer had to sell a large amount of land to pay taxes, but this was still not enough, so he sold several of his sisters.
In this way, he could barely cope with the drought and the small officials in the government.
But all his land already belongs to the landlord. If he wants to continue to survive, he can only rent the landlord's land. This will reduce the already small harvest and probably not be able to feed his family.
Then he starved to death.
Because there were many people vying to plant the land, but he didn't get it.
"What led to the tragic fate of the farmer's family."
This question is the first test.
"What a classic question."
Yun Ye sighed, then fell into deep thought.
This is indeed a classic. If a professional scholar were to answer it, he would definitely be able to analyze it thoroughly, from society to individuals, from class to race.
However, Yun Ye's knowledge system is neither systematic nor profound, so when faced with this question, it seems quite simple at first glance, but after thinking about it carefully, he cannot sort out the answer immediately.
Therefore, Yun Ye thought about it for a long time.
To be honest, he never expected that he would encounter such a problem even after cultivating the world of immortality.
Should he answer the answer that suits the world, or the answer that he thinks is correct?
What is the correct answer to this so-called nine-life divine law test?
After a while, Yun Ye gave up thinking about this issue. He had no information to prove his guess. Now he could only choose one and gamble his luck.
"A grand ceremony with its own destiny... let's take a gamble. The chance is 50%. Why not take a gamble?"
Yun Ye lay down, closed his eyes, and began to think.
With the blessing of divine magic, he can carry out certain deductions in his mind to avoid overlooking many details.
According to general logic, the reasons for the farmer's family's misery naturally start from the nearest and end at the farthest.
The most recent part is the exploitation and oppression by the landlords. If the landlords had not raised food prices to force farmers to sell their land during the famine years, the farmer's family would not have collapsed quickly and eventually starved to death.
The second is the corruption of the government, which is very active in collecting taxes during normal times. However, during the famine, it not only fails to provide relief to the farmers, but also continues to collect various exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, which increases the burden on the farmers. As a result, the farmers and their families have to sell their land to survive, and eventually starve to death.
Of the two, land annexation by landlords is the more superficial reason.
It can only be said that as long as people still have desires and there are various natural disasters, the farmers at the bottom will definitely be exploited and destroy themselves to maintain the interests of other classes.
The existence of the government is a deeper reason. If the government system was better, less corrupt, and could suppress the landlords, the situation of the farmers would not decline rapidly. But unfortunately, given the ancient environment, it was impossible for the government to be clean.
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Historically, when wise kings existed, the country was often more stable and prosperous. This is because wise kings generally knew that the people were the foundation of the country's stability, so they would take the initiative to suppress the gentry class...
Of course, the premise is that you have the ability to suppress the gentry class. In this case, you can call yourself a wise king.
During this period, ordinary people will have a better time, and there will be no peasant uprising that subverts the country.
Natural disasters and man-made disasters are the main reasons for the miserable fate of farmers at the bottom.
But taking a long look at history, this is obviously only one of the reasons.
There are other reasons that cannot be ignored at all.
For example, the population is exploding.
Even if the government does not squeeze people and landowners do not exploit them, with the explosive population growth in the feudal dynasty, sooner or later there will be insufficient land and forced layoffs will be necessary.
In other words, insufficient productivity and uncontrollable population growth are also one of the reasons for the miserable fate of the bottom farmers.
If modern people experience the life of ancient farmers for a few days, they will probably come back crying and working as community animals and consumables.
In modern times, you can live and fish without getting married or buying a house, but in ancient times, you could barely survive starving to death. This is a huge difference. If you make a comparison, it is difficult to say that the people at the bottom of the modern age are miserable.
The direct cause of this situation is insufficient productivity.
Although 90% of the resources are also taken up by the upper management, one total is 10,000 and the other is 100 million. The final results are very different.
So the question is, since there are not enough resources, why don’t farmers just not have children? Isn’t it enough to give all the resources to the landlords? How can the untouchables deserve to live?
But it still doesn't work.
Not to mention whether uneducated ordinary people have this self-control ability, even if they do, if ordinary farmers become extinct, people born in landlord families will gradually become side branches, then become the same surname, and finally become untouchables.
If landlords and bureaucrats do not exploit the bottom class and if there are no servants to serve them, then there is no point in their existence. Even if there is forced procreation, untouchables will flourish.
This kind of thing is especially common in the era after many years of war. The government will force young people to get married and have children when they reach the age. Otherwise, they will be fined. Anyway, there are many ways to increase the number of slaves.
This is what Yun Ye understands. It can be simply understood as being squeezed by landlords, but it only goes to this step. It is just reincarnation and does not solve the problem.
After knowing the essential situation, we can make targeted arrangements, not to mention jumping out of reincarnation, but at least extending the reincarnation.
Yun Ye submitted his answer, and then the words on the first level of the trial collapsed, revealing the word "Passed".
This made Yun Ye thoughtful.
Then, he entered the second level.
On the second floor, the farmer's story continues to develop, but the view is enlarged to the entire county.
As exploitation and oppression continued to intensify, and after another major drought came, tens of thousands of victims appeared, and some people raised their arms and started a massive peasant uprising.
The question at this level is how to successfully complete the uprising.
Before answering this question, the scene changes and tells a lot about the background of this world.
This is probably what it felt like before the Tang Dynasty, where the clans were extremely powerful and there were independent and independent armies everywhere.
Peasant uprisings in this era not only had to deal with government suppression, but in any city they went to, the local rulers would fight desperately for their own interests.
If officials do not implement a policy of non-resistance, the chance of success of a peasant uprising is too low.
Extremely difficult.
However, the difficulty is still not as high as in modern times, so Yun Ye directly copied the answer.
After a while, the scene was automatically deduced according to Yun Ye's answer.
Yun Ye has already deduced the magic method, and has a more complete memory. It is full of details. He has explained all the possibilities.
All situations encountered during the deduction were resolved one by one.
In the end, this path proved to be possible to achieve dynasty change.
So we passed the second floor and entered the third floor.
The following problems become more and more complex, and gradually move from the mortal dynasty to the immortal dynasty.
However, Yun Ye noticed that as he continued to answer, the questions were getting closer and closer to the world he wanted to realize, that is, the world of great harmony.
When we have almost reached the seventh level, the problem has become how to complete the struggle under the rule of real people and give ordinary people a more decent way to live. Of course, the starting point is still poor.
At this point, Yun Ye began to fail, and the answers he gave could not be verified through deduction many times.
This made him constantly reflect on the problem and gradually noticed a large number of problems that he had not noticed in the past.
After thinking of various ways and finally solving the seventh floor, the eighth floor became even more desperate. Beings stronger than real people appeared. Such powerful monks acted as enemies and a ruling group.
There are very few directions that Yun Ye can choose, and no matter what he chooses, he cannot achieve the final victory.
In the end, he had to change his thinking and began to carry out ideological transformation on a family basis, defining the meaning of the family's existence as "creating a harmonious world."
Starting in this way, he gradually grew from poor to rich, and spread his branches, growing into a spiritual family. In the end, the family gained power beyond real people and overthrew the rule...
It can be said that by the eighth level, the chance of success for mortals is already negligible, and it must be passed down from generation to generation to have any hope.
If history is long enough, in ten thousand or one hundred thousand years, there will always be such a person who appears and creates a family that will not change until the world is changed.
However, although this probability is low, it is much higher than Yun Ye's previous mention.
Yun Ye had previously planned to succeed in his life and tried every possible means. As far as probability is concerned, nothing is absolute, and it is not impossible to succeed in his life.
However, if the probability is so low that no one can appear in the entire history of the Red Sky Realm, he will not be able to pass the test.
The kind of situation where the world suddenly encounters a catastrophe, leading to the complete destruction of the Red Sky Realm's ruling class, is completely unacceptable here.
Then comes the ninth floor...
Yun Ye passed through this level directly for unknown reasons.
On this empty floor, he was still on the platform, the only difference was that there was an extra book.
In the moment of visual inspection, Yun Ye learned all its information, including its origin, its power, and its knowledge.