Is this the spiritual eye opened by the pineal gland in the brain
Yan Liqiang opened his eyes and looked at the space that had become normal again in his eyes, and his heart was filled with shock.
The 108 exotic beast core crystals were still placed on the table. They all looked the same from the outside, but at this time, Yan Liqiang was no longer confused. He stared at the exotic beast core crystal that looked completely different from the others just now, then walked up to it and took it in his hand.
He closed his eyes again and opened his spiritual eyes. The beast core crystal in his hand turned into a ball of blue light, and the strange rune was faintly visible in the light.
Open your eyes…
The exotic beast core crystal is still the same exotic beast core crystal.
"It turns out that the Death Gate of the Sword Cave Crystal Tower is really the Sword God Sect selecting disciples who can inherit the legacy of the Array Master!" Yan Liqiang muttered to himself. At this point, if he still didn't understand what the sixth level test was, then he was really too stupid.
He had almost never come into contact with the profession of array talisman master. The only thing he had come into contact with related to array talisman masters before was the spiritual array talisman that the Shatu priest protected himself. When he first saw the energy shield that emerged from the Shatu priest's body and could prevent arrows from penetrating, Yan Liqiang was so surprised that his jaw almost dropped. He had never thought that in this world, in addition to martial arts, there were such incredible secret methods.
The world is unpredictable. In the blink of an eye, he might become a formation master in this divine realm of heaven.
After standing there blankly for a while, with all kinds of thoughts turning over and over in his mind, Yan Liqiang took the exotic beast core crystal in his hand, came to the iron table in the middle of the house, and without hesitation, put the exotic beast core crystal in his hand into the groove in the iron table.
It was magical to say, at the same time that the exotic beast core crystal was put in, the exotic beast core crystal that had just emitted a strange red light suddenly emitted a bright blue light, illuminating Yan Liqiang who was standing in front of the iron table with a dark blue color. Then the iron table sank silently into the ground, and on one wall of the room, a crystal door slid open silently, revealing a passage leading to the seventh floor.
Yan Liqiang took a deep breath and walked towards the passage.
At the entrance of the passage, there is still a line of words.
—Those with natural spiritual eyes and extraordinary talents can go to the seventh floor.
What kind of test is there on the seventh floor of this crystal tower? With this question in mind, Yan Liqiang took a deep breath and walked up to the seventh floor. In less than half a minute, Yan Liqiang arrived at the lobby on the seventh floor.
Unlike the sixth floor, the entire hall on the seventh floor is very spacious. In the entire hall, there is only one iron table that is larger than all the iron tables downstairs. On the ground next to the iron table, there is a pile of square brick-like things. Yan Liqiang walked closer and saw that the things on the ground next to the iron table are not bricks, but square metal blocks. There are numbers engraved on each of the metal blocks. There are exactly 81 metal blocks in total, and the numbers on the blocks are also from 1 to 81.
"What are you doing?" Looking at the things on the ground, Yan Liqiang scratched his head. Seeing a piece of paper on the iron table next to him, Yan Liqiang picked up the paper directly.
—Congratulations, you are one in a million disciples of the Sword God Sect who can come here. You have proved your qualifications to come here with your strength, luck, and extraordinary talent. Even if you cannot pass the next level, you will still get the reward for entering this level. The reward for this level is "The Combined Sword Technique", one of the four great skills of the Sword God Sect. "The Combined Sword Technique" is an innate secret method that can directly point to the great way of heaven and man, and it is by no means comparable to ordinary skills and secret books. In addition, you can also obtain the right to use the Canglong Cave in the Dijian Valley for seven years of cultivation. You deserve all of this.
—The test of the seventh floor is the last level in the Gate of Death. For many people, this level is also the most difficult one. After passing this level, there will be no more tests. You will have a smooth journey and directly enter the ninth floor. If you can pass this level of the seventh floor, then your rewards will be greater. Not only can you get all the rewards of the seventh floor, but at the same time, on the ninth floor, you will have a greater gain. That gain is the strongest inheritance of the Sword God Sect. It will lead you to a more glorious path. This path will definitely make you famous all over the world and stand at the peak of humanity in the entire Silver Continent in the future. At the same time, it will also allow you to have an unparalleled status in the Sword God Sect.
—Some of the previous levels test your character, some test your strength and luck, some test your courage, some test your talent, and some test your aptitude. This level will test another kind of talent and aptitude of yours.
—There are eighty-one grids on the iron table in front of you, and there are eighty-one numbers on the ground next to you. You put the numbers into the iron grids. As long as the sum of the horizontal line, the vertical line, and the two diagonal lines in the iron grids is equal to 369, the last door will open for you.
—The Way of Heaven, all things are forms, and its spirit is numbers!
Yan Liqiang read it twice and his mouth opened involuntarily. He never thought that the final test of the seventh level would test his mathematical ability. The eighty-one squares in front of him, the eighty-one metal characters on the ground, and the requirements on the paper clearly required him to complete a ninth-order magic square within a limited time.
The rewards on the seventh floor were not related to the formation master, but the seventh floor level was closely related to mathematics. This made Yan Liqiang wonder, does it mean that to become a formation master, one also needs to have good mathematical ability? The word formation in the formation master's name seems to have some connection with mathematics...
The last sentence on the note - Heaven's Way, all things are forms, and its spirit is numbers! Yan Liqiang read it carefully twice and found that this sentence is very meaningful. This sentence may be difficult to understand for people in this world, but for people like Yan Liqiang, his understanding of this sentence is definitely more profound, because all the science he saw and knew in his previous life was based on mathematical research. To some extent, this is also a touch of "Tao"...
In the Silver Continent, when it comes to the Nine Palaces, many people can name it - the Nine Palaces means two and four are shoulders, six and eight are feet, three on the left and seven on the right, nine on the head and one on the feet, and five in the center. The Nine Palaces is the simplest third-order magic square. The Nine Palaces Wind Shadow Step that Yan Liqiang practiced before is a martial art that evolved from the Nine Palaces.
Above the third-order magic square, there might be people who would study the fourth-order or fifth-order magic square, but Yan Liqiang had never heard of anyone studying magic squares above the fifth-order. Even a master of mechanisms like Zhang Yourong stopped his research before the sixth-order. For many martial arts practitioners, asking them to complete a sixth-order magic square is like asking them to die. Even if they were given ten years, they might not be able to study it. It would be better to let them fight on the stage of life and death.
If someone else, even an elder of the Sword God Sect or a master of mechanisms like Zhang Yourong, faced with this level, they might go crazy. But for Yan Liqiang, looking at the level in front of him, he felt that this was simply a benefit given to him.
"Could it be that the person who set this level knew that I had a nickname called the Little Prince of Mathematics in school in my previous life?" Yan Liqiang murmured to himself. There are actually many ways to solve such an odd-numbered magic square. For example, Robert's method, Basche's method, and the triangle cut-and-fill method can easily get the final answer. And there is definitely more than one correct answer to the ninth-order magic square. In the blink of an eye, at least two correct answers popped up in Yan Liqiang's head.
With the answer in his head, Yan Liqiang's hands were not idle either. He bent down and picked up the metal cube with the character "一" engraved on it from the ground, and inserted it into a grid on the iron table in front of him.
It took less than two minutes. When the last number on the ground was inserted into the last grid on the iron table, the iron table sank silently into the ground, and the crystal door of the last level finally appeared in front of Yan Liqiang.
—Those who are in harmony with the Tao, please go to the highest level of the Death Gate!
There was still this sentence hanging at the entrance of the crystal door. Yan Liqiang took a look and walked straight up.
This time the journey up was particularly long. Because there was no eighth floor, Yan Liqiang went directly to the highest ninth floor.
The space on the ninth floor, the highest level of the crystal tower, is smaller than the space on all the floors below. In the middle of the ninth floor, there is an ordinary wooden table. There is a futon on the ground next to the wooden table. Two boxes made of pure gold are placed on the wooden table. Yan Liqiang walked to the wooden table, sat cross-legged on the futon, and opened the first gold box on the left hand side. Inside the gold box, there was a secret book with a strange texture. The material of the secret book was a bit like the half of the golden bell cover that Yan Liqiang obtained. There were three flashing words on the secret book - "Combined Swordsmanship".
Yan Liqiang took a deep breath and suppressed his inner excitement. Then, he opened the golden box on his right hand side. Inside the golden box was a strange crystal with a few words on it - "Tai Yi Zhen Fu Jing".
This time, Yan Liqiang swallowed his saliva...
(End of this chapter)