After running into the jungle, everyone did not stay away, but just went deep into the jungle for a short distance and stopped. Everyone's physical strength reached its limit, and even if they wanted to run, they could not run.

Tianyou did not urge everyone anymore, but patrolled around him for a while and soon returned to the place where everyone rested.

"Have you found anything?" Seeing Tianyou appear, Guan Qingye Qiang cheered up and asked.

"The surrounding area is safe, and there are no traces of monsters and beasts. But I don't know where the flying sword flies!"

"I seem to feel a little refreshing breath, in that direction." A student who came out said.

Tianyou thought this person was quite special, and just wanted to ask in detail, but he didn't expect that everyone else had confirmed this statement. It seemed that everyone could vaguely feel the refreshing breath, and everyone swears to confirm that the breath was emitted by the flying sword.

It would be okay if one or two people were like this, but except for him, the remaining ten people all reacted, which made it difficult for Tianyou to understand because only he felt nothing.

In order to find out the situation, Tianyou asked Guan Qingye in detail, and Guan Qingye also explained the situation. When the flying sword first appeared, it emitted this refreshing aura. It seemed that as long as it was around it, the whole body would be full of strength, and the mind would become extremely clear, which always made people feel very comfortable and in a very good state.

It is said that when the flying sword was in the hall, this feeling was extremely strong. Now that the flying sword has left, you can still feel an extremely faint slight fluctuation.

Guan Qingye’s explanation was very clear, but Tianyou became even more confused. “Everyone felt that breath, why didn’t I? Could it be because of that protective cover?”

After being added with a protective cover, Tianyou immediately discovered that his spiritual vision ability was interfered with, but he didn't care at the time because he did not rely on spiritual vision to act. But now it seems that the existence of this protective cover not only did not help, but instead interfered with his own mission. But thinking about it, Ying Ying was kind enough to ask someone to send a BUFF, and the interference should be just an accident.

Of course, Tianyou would not have thought that this protective cover was not given by Ying Ying, but by Lu Zhengyi who asked the female servant to send it. Of course, the purpose of this thing was not to protect him, but to isolate his spiritual sense, make him lose his direction and unable to find the flying sword, which led to Tianyou being eliminated.

Unfortunately, although Lu Zhengyi's conspiracy was good, he might have fallen if he was the other person, but Tianyou was not affected at all because he was not alone.

In previous years, there were not a group of people, but they were eventually rushed to pieces by the army of deceased. When they ran out of range, they were almost all solo. If these scattered people wanted to find the flying sword, they could only rely on that refreshing breath to pursue, which was actually an extremely strong remnant of spiritual energy.

Because this strong spiritual energy remains are very strong, even if you are not in the spiritual awakening stage, as long as you are a person with a certain talent, you can sense a faint breath. The purpose of Zixiao Palace is to judge whether a student's sensitivity to spiritual energy meets the standard. Anyway, as long as you can feel this breath, it should at least meet the minimum requirements of Zixiao Palace for disciples.

Unfortunately, although Lu Zhengyi's plan temporarily caused Tianyou to lose his spiritual vision ability, he did not expect that they were so fast this time. Not only did they run out more people than in previous years, but the crowd was not completely dispersed, and they automatically gathered together when they left.

Although he probably guessed that his spiritual vision was disturbed, Tianyou did not intend to remove this layer of protection, because he had other ways, and he would just follow others.

While everyone was still recovering their strength, Tianyou took out a coffin nail, which was one of the few used for logging before, and then he recycled it.

He placed his stone hammer on the ground and used three small stones to keep the corner stable. Then he began to rub the coffin nail hard on the hammer head.

Of course, Tianyou didn't want to grind the embroidery needle. The coffin nails are not modern iron nails. This thing is not cylindrical, but quadrilateral pyramids, and the bottom is as thick as a finger. You have to grind it into an embroidery needle with bare hands. Don't even think about it for a week.

What Tianyou is doing now is actually planning to magnetize this coffin nail. The iron tool will be magnetic as long as it is rubbed. This principle exists the same as the Shenzhou Continent. But for some reason, the Shenzhou Continent has no geomagnetics, so the compass cannot be made. However, as a time traveler, Tianyou of course tried to make a compass, and the final result was the "pointing needle".

When Tianyou first completed the pointer, he thought that his compass had been successfully made, but he was frightened. The magnetic needle made according to the compass principle did not point at all in the Shenzhou Continent, but directly aimed at the place with the highest concentration of spiritual energy within a certain distance nearby. During the first experiment, this thing pointed directly at a mysterious demon in Qingyuan Mountain. Fortunately, it was a flying monster, and flew directly over Tianyou's head. Because of the changes at that time, Tianyou discovered that the magnetic needle always pointed to the mysterious demon instead of the direction he thought.

Of course, Tianyou also conducted many experiments after that, gradually figured out the rules and understood some principles.

Although I don’t understand the specific principles, the flow of spiritual energy seems to produce characteristics similar to magnetic fields, and this magnetic field has pulse characteristics and does not always exist.

This pulsed magnetic field will attract all metals within a certain range at the moment it appears, but because of the inertia of the matter itself, the magnetic field will often disappear suddenly before the metal can move. This leads to the magnetic field produced by spiritual energy, although the strength of the magnetic field can be very high, it will not directly absorb the metal object.

However, although this is suitable for large pieces of metal, it is not suitable for extremely light metals. This instantaneous magnetic field will still have a certain force on extremely light metals such as metal dust or metal needles. Of course, this force is very small and small, which is almost impossible for people to feel. However, if the metal needle is made into a compass, or a magnetized metal powder is thrown into the sky, you will find that the magnetic field has a weak impact on them. The magnetic needle will turn and point to the spiritual energy source, and the metal powder will also shift towards the spiritual energy source during the fall.

Of course, because this phenomenon is very weak, many reasons may interfere with this phenomenon being discovered. This has led to no one on the Shenzhou Continent and I know this principle. Only Tianyou, a time traveler who has seen the compass, mistakenly thought that he had completed the compass, and he foolishly used this compass that was not as good as this one to guide the direction.

Although everyone saw Tianyou rubbing the nails in the coffin, they only thought he was processing weapons and didn't care. Tianyou's movements were not slow, so they quickly completed the processing process.

After the magnetization is completed, the next step is simple. Find the approximate center of gravity of the coffin nail based on the feel, and use another coffin nail to create a pit at this center of gravity. It does not need to be too deep, just a little depression is enough.

The last one is simpler. Put a coffin nail with a sharper tip on the ground, and then point the recess on the magnetized coffin nail at the tip of the coffin nail and put it on.

With only a sharp point, the friction resistance of the coffin nails above will be very small, and the spiritual energy magnetic field will attract the coffin nails above, allowing them to rotate slowly, and finally point to the direction of the spiritual energy source. Of course, because of the characteristics of the spiritual energy magnetic field and the processing of this coffin nail are very rough, it takes a while before it can slowly rotate to the correct direction, and will not point out the direction as quickly as the compass used on the earth.

When the coffin nails above stabilized, Tianyou looked up and looked in the direction. It turned out that it was not the direction where the flying sword left. Thanks to this, otherwise chasing along the direction would only lead to the wrong direction.

After confirming the direction, Tianyou began to urge everyone to rush on the road again. Everyone knew that it was not the time to rest, so they quickly set off again. But what they didn't know was that several high-level disciples from Zixiao Palace were planning to cause some trouble for them.

This area and the flying sword are arranged by Zixiao Palace, and the purpose is to select disciples. Just like there must be an invigilator for the entrance examination, Zixiao Palace will certainly not really throw people over and ignore them at all.

In fact, Tianyou was not wrong at the beginning. The figure he saw standing in the air was one of the invigilators, and there were actually many such people nearby. Although the combat power of those lonely ghosts and zombies is very average, they are things that can hurt people after all. With the level of Zixiao Palace, you are not afraid of being injured, but it would be bad if you really kill a few. Zixiao Palace has a transcendent status, but it has not yet reached the point of blatantly taking human lives. On the one hand, the invigilators are invigilators, and on the other hand, they are also protecting.

However, now the invigilator has another job, which is to make trouble.

If you want to see the students' ability to sense spiritual energy, you cannot let them get together. Otherwise, as long as one person can sense it, the whole team will be qualified?

The team dispersed before leaving during the test in previous years. This is the first time they encountered this situation this year, so after thinking about it, they decided to take action to disperse this group of students. Of course, the invigilator's actions have increased the difficulty, so they can't really cause any problems.

In order to achieve this goal, an emergency mission was issued in the sect, and a large number of disciples with summoned objects came to help the battle, so as to impersonate the previous army of dead people to disperse everyone.

Tianyou, who was about to be attacked, was moving at a constant speed in the forest. This forest was not as difficult as the dense forest on Qingyuan Mountain. The gap between the trees was strong and the ground was quite flat. More importantly, there was no existence that could threaten everyone. The most powerful creature was just a wild boar.

In such a relaxed environment, everyone will naturally advance faster. If it weren't for the serious physical loss, they would probably be twice as fast.

"Tianyou, do you think we will run to the finish line easily?" It seemed that there was no danger, and Dashan also relaxed a lot. He had always been worried about not being able to pass the assessment, but now he thought he had overcome the final difficulties, so he became brisk.

Tianyou, who had no spiritual sense, could only hold the formation behind him for the time being. He was also quite leisurely without exploring the way. He heard Dashan's words and teased him: "Have you heard a word?"

"What's the matter?"

"Those who travel a hundred miles are half ninety."

Everyone around him heard Tianyou's words, Guan Qingye savored it and praised: "Good sentences, good sentences. Walking a hundred miles, the first ninety miles is just the beginning, and the difficulty lies in the last ten miles. Tianyou, have you really never entered the school? Why do I think your words are better than what my master said?"

"Please call me a genius." Tianyou deliberately joked, which made the tired people laugh for a while, and thus became much more energetic. As for the issue of stealing Earth's cultural works, Tianyou was not worried at all. The Shenzhou Continent is different from the ancient Chinese in many time travel novels. Although there are Qin, Wei, Zhao, and Chu here, it is a bit sceptical. More importantly, this is not a world dominated by Confucianism. Survival competition is the main theme. The atmosphere of worshipping literature in various countries is very ordinary, but almost everyone is martial.

In such a world, you can't cause much storm even if you speak so well. Besides, Tianyou didn't go to school well in his previous life. Apart from his deep hobbies, what are the poems, songs, and what are they? Tianyou said that he had never heard of them anyway. Now he is just the parts he wrote down occasionally in life, which really makes him unable to find a few words.

Everyone was talking about Tianyou's classic words, and the atmosphere was very good. Unexpectedly, someone suddenly turned his body and rushed out. Then he saw a swaying movement on the surrounding ground. His bone hands stretched out from the ground, groping around to find something to grab.

"Attention!" Tianyou reminded loudly, then quickly retreated, and the crowd around him immediately dispersed. Fortunately, the area of ​​bone hands was not large, and there was only a small area.

The people who scattered did not intend to give up the man in the middle, but before they could pass, a large group of skeleton soldiers suddenly surrounded him at some point.

It is completely different from the skeletons that stood up in the cemetery before. These skeleton soldiers are nearly two meters tall, with extremely thick bones, are wearing simple armor, and are neatly armed. Some are holding swords and shields, while others are even carrying bows.

"You save people first." Tianyou shouted and rushed towards the nearest skeleton soldier. As a result, before the person could get a nearby person, the other party suddenly raised his bow and shot an arrow at him. Tianyou hurriedly rushed and jumped away. The bow and arrow flew over his body, almost hurting him.

Seeing Tianyou rushing out, the others were not idle either. Pang Dahai waved a stone hammer and rushed towards a knife and a skeleton soldier with a shield. As a result, the shield was fine after one hammer, and his stone hammer was broken. Before he could react, he suddenly got hit in his chest and was knocked away instantly. He fell far away before landing.

The other people around were similar. The combat power of these skeleton soldiers was much higher than that of the previous zombies. Everyone had no resistance at all. Even one-on-one, they could only be crushed. Fortunately, these skeleton soldiers seemed not to run and could only approach everyone at the speed of walking.

The fallen student who was pressed on the ground by countless bone hands suddenly shouted to everyone: "Don't worry about me, run away."

Although everyone didn't know each other, they had shared hardships last night. This person saw the situation clearly. If everyone ran away, there would be hope. Staying behind to save him would only turn everyone in.

After hearing his words, someone wanted to try again, but Guan Qingye thought about it and said, "Brother, I'm sorry, let's withdraw first."

Everyone was stunned for a moment, but they realized that staying was useless, and using impulse would only end all. In the end, everyone stopped thinking about it and turned around and ran away.

Tianyou thought that these things were very slow and if they were pulled away, they might have a chance to save people, so he loudly told Guan Qingye to let them go first, and he ran in another direction.

After the crowd on Guan Qingye ran, they didn't expect that the skeleton soldiers would run, and they were completely disdainful of running. Now everyone was not so relaxed and could only run desperately. Fortunately, the skeleton soldiers seemed to be not as fast as everyone's running, but they gradually drove everyone in different directions in the constant pursuit, and the entire team finally ran apart.

After running for a while, everyone finally got rid of the chasing skeleton soldiers, but looking around, there was no trace of anyone else except himself, and even shouting loudly, they could not get a response.

Helplessly, the scattered people had to carefully follow the breath of the flying sword toward the end. Anyway, everyone knew that it was the goal, and the remaining people should concentrate there in the end.

Tianyou was the only person who did not run forward. He walked around and threw away the skeleton behind him and ran back to the position where he had been attacked. However, the bone hand on the ground and the student were nowhere to be seen. After searching carefully, there was no blood. It was estimated that the other party gave up the selection qualification using the return scroll.

Everything he should do was done. Tianyou had a clear conscience, so he took out the finger needle made of coffin nails and measured the direction. Now no one is leading him, so he can only find the route himself.

After finding the direction with the fingertip, he started again. After only two steps, a blue-purple light ball suddenly flew out of the woods behind him. If it were the past, he had super strong spiritual vision ability, he shouldn't be unable to avoid this thing, but now his spiritual vision has been blocked, so naturally he has no reaction at all.

The light ball was right behind Tianyou, and it burst into a large blue flame, which instantly caused Tianyou to fall. Enduring the severe pain behind it, Tianyou did not pause, and gritted his teeth and hid it behind a big tree. Only then did he have time to check the injuries on his body.

Just now, he was very injured, and his back was already charred, and the attack seemed to be corrosive. The wound hurt so much that it was still expanding.

"Damn it, what kind of protective cover is this given by Ying Ying? Why is it useless at all?"

If it was the protective cover arranged by Ying Ying, it would of course be useful, but the problem is that this was arranged by Lu Zhengyi. The one he asked the servant to bring was not a protective cover in the general sense, but a thing that looked like a protective cover but actually had no function. In other words, this thing has no protective effect except disturbing Tianyou's spiritual sense.

Tianyou didn't know why the protective cover did not take effect, but he thought the opponent's attack level was too high, so the protective cover could not be blocked, and he was not angry, but just thought about countermeasures seriously.

Obviously there is an enemy nearby who can cast spells, and what is even more annoying is that he doesn't even know where the enemy is.

While hesitating, he suddenly heard footsteps. Tianyou grabbed the stone hammer beside him with one hand, calculated the distance and suddenly jumped out from behind the tree, and then he swung it over with a hammer without even looking at it.

Dong, bang... the stone hammer hit a large shield and shattered in an instant, and behind the shield was the kind of skeleton soldier I had seen before.

The skeleton soldier who blocked the attack without saying a word, waved the short sword in his hand and slashed it. This was obviously not the same skeleton soldier as before.

Tianyou had no shield, so he could only turn over and retreat. As a result, the wound on his back pressed to the ground, which almost fainted. Fortunately, he was determined and rushed over. After turning over and avoiding the attack, Tianyou immediately turned over to the side, and a thud came from the side. The skeleton soldier indeed smashed the shield to the ground. Thanks to his reaction in advance, he avoided this.

"Damn it, where is this man from? Why is it so difficult to deal with?"

Behind a big tree not far away, Huo Zhiming frowned and muttered. He also took over an emergency task, but he not only received a sect task, but also had a private job.

The task assigned by the sect is very simple, which is to let them use their summoning objects to disperse the group of students. The condition is that they cannot cause casualties or at most minor injuries. But this private job is a bit special, which is escaped by junior brother Lu Zhengyi. The content is to injure this student named Tianyou. It is best if he fails to complete the test and is eliminated, or he can be forced to teleport away using the scroll.

Although the sect's mission requires that the trainees cannot be injured, Huo Zhimingjue accidentally injured one or two, and it should not be a big deal. As long as it is not beaten to death, it is enough. So this guy took two tasks in peace and then came to deal with Tianyou.

However, I originally thought that a student who had not joined the sect could be knocked down with one move, but who knew that this guy's body was terrible. He ate his soul ball hard without any defense and could continue fighting. A normal person should take half of his life at this moment. Not to mention fighting, it would be good to be able to move by himself.

Tianyou didn't know this, he knew that the skeleton soldiers in front of him were too difficult to deal with. But the main reason was that he had no weapons.

Usually, Tianyou likes to arm himself neatly before entering the mountain, which is a habit he developed in his previous life. At that time, his mountaineering coach told him that no matter how much preparation he made before entering the mountain, it would not be too much. Tianyou remembered that in the subsequent adventures and challenges the limits, he also realized the importance of this sentence, so he usually made complete preparations. This time it was a test, and his things were asked to stay. As a result, he was unarmed in the face of the skeleton soldiers and had no time to make weapons temporarily.

Another attack was difficult to dodge. Tianyou saw the opportunity and copied the skeleton soldier's lower plate. He kicked the opponent's leg bend, but he almost sprained his ankle. Tianyou really felt that he couldn't start when dealing with the skeleton soldier without weapons.

In fact, not only Tianyou has no idea how to start, but Huo Zhiming also has the same feeling of no idea how to start. Tianyou is as flexible as a rabbit, constantly circling around the skeleton soldier. His cultivation level is not very high, and his command of the skeleton soldier was delayed. As a result, he is one step slower every time and can never cut off the flexible guy.

Helpless Huo Zhiming could only temporarily release his control over the skeleton soldiers and start activate the summoning spell again.

Tianyou, who was in the process of being in front of him, suddenly felt a gust of wind coming from behind. Unfortunately, it was too late to sense it. The wound on his back was caught again, and blood was splattered in an instant. Tianyou gritted his teeth and dodged to the side, avoiding the second combo of the skeleton soldiers. Otherwise, he would be attacked continuously by the unknown enemy and the skeleton soldiers behind him. Even if he had eight lives, he would have to suffer this.

Tianyou, who had hurriedly avoided a distance, suddenly turned around, but found that there was a translucent ghost around him. This thing was not quite the same as a ghost, only the upper body was clearer, and the lower body was so empty that there was almost no legs. However, the expression of this ghost was extremely ferocious, and he was roaring at Tianyou at this moment.
To be continued...