Chapter 5 I think the third level tests wisdom
When everyone came to Wenxin Mountain, they didn't feel anything, only Man Gu, who obviously felt his strength was declining, and all the standards of his body were getting closer to everyone's.
The boiling blood of the ancient barbarians in his body has returned to calm, and can no longer provide him with a steady stream of strength.
Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and finally look at the strongest bone.
"I'll come first." Mangu saw that everyone was looking at him, so he was not polite, so he simply became the first person.
First order, second order, third order... tenth order.
The first ten steps were very easy for the barbarian to walk. From the eleventh step, the pressure gradually appeared. He felt that he was carrying a stone slab. The higher he climbed, the heavier the slate became.
But still within the acceptable range.
Continue to climb.
Mangu panted twice, held his breath, and walked towards the twentieth step.
Barbone ascended the 20th step, his steps became more and more difficult, and the speed of stepping up the steps became slower and slower.
At the twenty-ninth step, Mangu's back had already begun to ooze sweat, soaking his clothes. He had to stop, panting heavily, and sat on the steps to rest.
"Even sitting is stressful." Mangu gritted his teeth, talking to himself, too tired to speak. Now he just changed from standing and carrying the stele to sitting and carrying the stele, and his recovery speed was very slow.
Everyone saw how difficult it was for Man Gu to walk, so they knew that this mountain was not easy to climb, and their hearts skipped a beat.
Someone said in a deep voice: "I heard something similar from the elders of the clan. This Mountain of Questions can test the heart of seeking the Tao. The purer the heart, the firmer the heart, the purer the heart of seeking the Tao. The barbarian comes from the ancient barbarian clan. Gen Jin is famous, even he can climb so hard, we are afraid that it will be even harder!"
"Meditation formula can make the heart settle down, is it effective?" Someone else thought of a way.
The third level requires climbing to the fiftieth level, and does not require the top few to pass the level. They are not in competition now.
Everyone nodded one after another, thinking that this is a good way. The elders in the family have taught similar formulas for self-cultivation and self-cultivation.
Lu Yang opened his mouth, he doesn't know any meditation formulas.
"Do you want me to teach you a meditation formula?" Meng Jingzhou asked.
Lu Yang shook his head: "No, I'll think of other ways."
Seeing this, Meng Jingzhou didn't forcefully pass on Lu Yang's formula.
…
Meng Jingzhou woke up from the trance, and felt that his heart was unprecedentedly peaceful.
Meditation formula works!
Meng Jingzhou took longer than the average person to enter the samadhi. When he woke up, the others were already at the 20th and 30th steps, sweating profusely, and it took a lot of perseverance to move forward.
Big drops of sweat covered his cheeks, and he didn't even have the strength to wipe his face.
Some people want to find another way, thinking that only the steps will cause pressure, so they go around from the mountain next to the steps to the fiftieth step, but when they reach the mountain next to them, they find that this method does not work. big.
Some people thought about the magic weapon, but found that the magic weapon had lost its power. No matter how magical the magic weapon was, it couldn't even be activated, and it became a pile of broken copper and rotten iron.
No wonder Dai Bufan is not worried about their use of magic weapons.
Lu Yang was the most conspicuous behind everyone.
He squatted on the tenth step with one bare foot, thoughtful, not knowing what he was observing.
"What are you doing? Everyone else has climbed a long way." Meng Jingzhou asked curiously.
Lu Yang remained silent, holding a shoe in his hand.
Lu Yang threw the shoe away, and it landed on the eleventh step: "Pick it up and try."
Meng Jingzhou seemed to understand a little bit. He threw the shoe to the twelfth step, and found that the falling speed of the shoe was the same as that of the eleventh step. When he picked it up, it was heavier than the eleventh step.
"What pattern did you find?"
Meng Jingzhou frowned: "If the object does not hit the ground, the pressure will not be transmitted to the object. Only when the object hits the ground and makes contact with the ground will there be additional pressure?"
"That's right." Lu Yang beat his fists on his palms. It was rare for someone to think the same as him, so he was very happy.
Meng Jingzhou was thoughtful, and his mind turned quickly in a peaceful state: "The steps are inclined. 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 second 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 and saws, how can they cut down trees to make ladders?
"Do you have a sharp magic weapon?" Lu Yang thought of this question a long time ago.
He thought about cooperating with others, but unfortunately no one else could understand his idea.
Meng Jingzhou took out a dagger: "This is what Zu Laosai gave me for self-defense, but it can be driven by thoughts, and the speed is comparable to that of Jindanqi, 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 rich family, and even if the magic weapon they refine cannot be activated, its sharpness is far superior to the axes and saws in the world.
is just right for cutting trees.
"Come and see, when you entered meditation, I have already designed the blueprint."
Lu Yang took Meng Jingzhou to a piece of soft sand, where the blueprint designed by Lu Yang was drawn, which was a "7" shaped ladder.
After a little discussion between the two, they started to act.
The Meng family's dagger was really sharp, and the thick trees were like paper in front of the dagger. The trees were quickly whittled into pieces of wood with strange shapes.
The monks in the area of Wenxin Mountain are the same as ordinary people. 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 connect such thick boards."
"Have you ever heard of the mortise and tenon structure?"
"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 mortal wisdom to Meng Jingzhou.
“The protruding part is called the tenon, and the concave part is called the tenon. Together they form a tenon-tenon structure. The biggest feature of the tenon-tenon structure is that it is extremely strong without using nails on the object.”
Meng Jingzhou listened very carefully. The Meng family used spirit energy to refine their weapons, which is a refining technique, and they don't need a mortise and tenon structure.
Everyone on the steps was sweating and panting tiredly, just to climb the fiftieth step and become the first one to clear the level.
Perhaps the first one to clear the level will be appreciated by Daoist sect, and then focus on cultivation.
Everyone also understands why there is no time limit. Mountaineering consumes too much energy. If they stay for a long time, they will be too hungry to even stand up, let alone climb a mountain.
The two of them under the steps were also sweating profusely, panting from exhaustion, and spent a long time cutting down trees. After several trials and errors, they finally completed the ladder.
The ladder has a strange shape, thin at the top and thick at the bottom, and curved at the end. It is not so much a ladder as it is a huge "7".
The bare ground around it looked like it had been bitten by a giant pig demon.
Some disciples of Wendao Sect secretly glanced at Dai Bufan, but they remembered that senior brother Dai Bufan liked to show off his lush Wenxin Mountain the most.
Dai Bufan's eyes twitched and he clenched his fist unconsciously.
Attached is a schematic diagram of Lu Yang's mountain climbing
(end of this chapter)