Everyone came to Wenxin Mountain and felt nothing. Only Man Gu could clearly feel that his strength was declining, and his body's various standards were getting closer to everyone else's.
The boiling blood of the ancient barbarians in his body has calmed down and can no longer provide him with a steady stream of power.
Everyone looked at me, and I looked at you, and finally they all looked at the strongest man.
"I'll go first." Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Man Gu was not polite and simply became the first person.
First level, second level, third level...tenth level.
The first ten steps were very easy for Man Gu. Starting from the eleventh step, the pressure gradually appeared. He felt like he was carrying a stone slab on his back. The higher he climbed, the heavier the stone slab became.
But it's still within the acceptable range.
Keep climbing.
Mangu gasped twice, stabilized his breathing, and walked towards the twentieth step.
Mangu climbed the twenty steps, his steps became increasingly difficult, and his speed on the steps became slower and slower.
On the twenty-ninth step, Man Gu's back began to sweat, soaking his clothes. He had to stop, panting heavily, and sit on the steps to rest.
"Even sitting is stressful." Man Gu gritted his teeth and muttered to himself, too tired to speak. He now just changed from standing to carrying the stone tablet to sitting, and his recovery of strength was very slow.
Seeing how difficult it was for Mangu to walk, everyone knew that this mountain was difficult to climb, and their hearts trembled.
Someone said solemnly: "I heard the elders of the tribe said a similar place. This Wenxin Mountain can test the heart of seeking the Tao. The simpler the heart, the firmer the will and the purer the heart of seeking the Tao. Mangu was born in the ancient barbarian tribe.
Genjin is famous, and even if it is so difficult for him to climb, we are afraid that it will be even harder for us!"
"Does the meditation formula help calm the mind?" Someone else thought of a way.
The requirement for the third level is to climb to the fiftieth level, and it does not require the top few to pass the level. They are not in a competitive relationship now.
Everyone nodded, thinking this was a good idea. The elders in the family had taught similar formulas, which were used to cultivate one's moral character.
Lu Yang opened his mouth, he didn't know any meditation formulas.
"Do you want me to teach you a meditation formula?" Meng Jingzhou asked.
Lu Yang shook his head: "No need for now, I'll think of other ways."
When Meng Jingzhou saw this, he did not forcefully teach Lu Yang the formula.
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Meng Jingzhou woke up from trance and felt that his heart was as peaceful as ever.
The meditation formula works!
Meng Jingzhou's time in meditation was longer than that of ordinary people. When he woke up, the others were already at the 20th or 30th level. They were sweating profusely and it took a lot of perseverance to take another step forward.
Big drops of sweat covered my cheeks, and I didn't even have the strength to wipe my face.
Someone wanted to find another way, thinking that there would be pressure only on the steps, so he walked around from the mountain next to the steps to the fiftieth step. However, when he reached the mountain next to it, he found that this method did not work. The higher the mountain, the higher the pressure.
big.
There are also people who want to use magic weapons, but find that the magic weapons have lost their power. No matter how magical the magic weapons are, they cannot even be activated, and they become a pile of junk.
No wonder Dai Bufan wasn't worried about them using magic weapons.
Lu Yang lags behind everyone, the most conspicuous one.
He squatted on the tenth step with one bare foot, deep in thought, not knowing what he was observing.
"What are you doing? Others have climbed far away." Meng Jingzhou asked curiously.
Lu Yang remained silent, holding a shoe in his hand.
Lu Yang threw the shoes away and they landed on the eleventh level: "Pick them up and try."
Meng Jingzhou didn't understand what Lu Yang meant, but he still did as he was told. Then he found that the shoes were heavier than usual, as if there was something pulling on them underneath.
Meng Jingzhou seemed to understand better. He threw the shoes to the twelfth step and found that the shoes fell at the same speed as the 11th step and were heavier than the 11th step when picked up.
"What pattern did you discover?"
Meng Jingzhou frowned: "If the object does not fall to the ground, the pressure will not be transmitted to the object. Only when the object falls to the ground and comes into contact with the ground will there be additional pressure?"
"That's right." Lu Yang punched his palms with his fists. It was rare for someone to think the same as him and he was very happy.
Meng Jingzhou was thoughtful, and in a quiet state, his thoughts were spinning quickly: "The steps are sloping, and there are so many trees here. We can build a '7'-shaped ladder. One end of the ladder is buried in the ground, and the other end goes straight to the third floor."
Fifty steps."
Lu Yang said firmly: "Yes, this third test should test our wisdom. This is the standard answer!"
Meng Jingzhou understood Lu Yang's thoughts and quickly asked another question: "How do we cut down trees?"
They don't have axes or saws, so how can they chop down trees to make ladders?
"Do you have any sharp magic weapon on you?" Lu Yang had already thought of this question.
He thought about cooperating with others, but unfortunately others couldn't understand his idea.
Meng Jingzhou took out a dagger: "This is what the clan elder Sai gave me for self-defense. But with the help of my thoughts, the speed is comparable to that of the Golden Core stage, but it can't fly in Wenxin Mountain."
"It doesn't matter, as long as it's sharp." Lu Yang said with a smile. The Meng family is a wealthy family. Even if the magic weapon they refine can't be activated, its sharpness is far superior to the axes and saws in the world.
Perfect for cutting down trees.
"Come here and take a look. I have already designed the drawings when you entered meditation."
Lu Yang took Meng Jingzhou to a piece of soft sand, where he drew the drawing designed by Lu Yang, which was a "7"-shaped ladder.
The two discussed it for a while and then started taking action.
The Meng family's dagger was really sharp, and the thick trees were like paper in front of the dagger. The two of them quickly whittled the trees into pieces of wood with peculiar shapes.
Monks are just like mortals within the scope of Wenxin Mountain. The trees that can grow here are naturally the most common ones.
Soon Meng Jingzhou discovered another problem.
"How to connect these two boards? Don't say we don't have nails. Even if we have nails, we can't join such a thick board."
“Have you ever heard of mortise and tenon construction?”
"No."
Lu Yang had no choice but to take the dagger and cut the joints of the wooden boards into a mortise and tenon structure while explaining the wisdom of the world to Meng Jingzhou.
"This protruding part is called a tenon, and this recessed part is called a mortise. Together they form a mortise and tenon structure. The biggest feature of the mortise and tenon structure is that it is extremely strong without using nails on the object."
Meng Jingzhou listened very carefully. The Meng family used spiritual energy and weapon refining techniques to make weapons, and did not need a mortise and tenon structure.
Everyone on the steps was sweating and panting from exhaustion, just to climb the fiftieth step and become the first to pass the level.
Perhaps the first one to pass the level will be appreciated by the Taoist sect and then be focused on cultivation.
Everyone also understands why there is no time limit. Mountain climbing consumes too much physical energy. If you stay for a long time, you will be so hungry that you can't even stand up, let alone climb the mountain.
At the bottom of the steps, the two of them were sweating profusely, panting from exhaustion, and spent a long time cutting down trees. After several trials and errors, they finally made the ladder.
The ladder has a weird shape, thin at the top and thick at the bottom, and curved at the end. It is more like a huge "7" than a ladder.
The surrounding bare land looked like it had been chewed by a giant pig monster.
Some Taoist disciples secretly glanced at Dai Bufan, but they remembered that senior brother Dai Bufan loved to show off his lush Wenxin Mountain.
The corners of Dai Bufan's eyes twitched and he clenched his fists unconsciously.