If the rules of this filial piety trial were reviewed from the beginning, it was not difficult to find out that the way to pass this trial was actually very simple.
The key to pass the trial was extracted: filial piety. If one only considered the conditions and rules of filial piety, that is, the children should give back twice the amount to their parents for their upbringing. Thus, many people's first reaction would be to string the relationship of the participants together, parents corresponding to their children, children corresponding to their children's children, and so on. In fact, this was also the correct way to solve this trial. At most, only the leader of the team could not be filial. Considering the potential rule of being unfilial, at most, the people at the end of the team would be excluded, sacrificing two people, and the remaining twelve people would all pass the trial.
How could they sacrifice half of the people in the beginning? Moreover, filial piety turned into deceiving one's father, what exactly was this filial piety trial testing?
However, one could not blame the Shengjing Sect people for not being able to make sense of the situation, because the designer of this room undoubtedly harbored a lot of malice. Outside of the core rules, there were a lot of misleading items. For example, the identity card setting was completely misleading. On the stone table, the parents card and the children card were piled up, which made people subconsciously separate the two, never thinking that it was one and the same.
In fact, if not for the existence of the identity card, and only considered the concept of parents and children, anyone would think that the parents must be other people's children, and most of the children would also be other people's parents.
In addition, parents and children had to correspond with each other, and each person could only hold one card … These were all rules that hinted to the trial-takers, whether intentionally or unintentionally, that they had to step over half of the people's corpses to pass this stage.
Coupled with Wang Lu's professional adventurer quality, from the very beginning, he gained the upper hand by making a show of strength, using various means to deceive and mislead, it was no wonder that the Shengjing Sect cultivators couldn't think of the truth of this trial.
However, one could not blindly blame Wang Lu for being cunning and insidious, because basically, everyone entered the stone room at the same time and read the rules, so how could Wang Lu, from the very beginning, identify the correct solution and not be disturbed by the misleading items? Instead, he added fuel to the fire, trapping Shengjing Sect?
This was the difference in the way they thought. When Wang Lu extracted the core of this trial and discovered that the most suitable way to complete this trial was to string everyone together, what he needed to do next was to find a way to convince himself that all the other obstacles could be eliminated in a suitable way.
For example, there was a subtle difference between one identity card and another identity card. For example, the correspondence between parents and children did not mean that the parents' identity cards and the children's identity cards corresponded to each other … Explanations like these could achieve the initial predetermined goal without violating the rules: to string them together.
Therefore, since it made sense, it was naturally best to explain the problem in a way that made sense. Furthermore, from an academic point of view, the fewer the assumptions, the more reliable the theory was. Thus, the Concatenation Method only needed to assume that there were two sides to the metal plate, but the Concatenation Method needed to assume that the filial piety test was a trap.
Comparing the two, naturally, the Concatenation Method was more credible.
From the perspective of thinking, it was actually not that bizarre. If there was no interference from Wang Lu, allowing everyone to think independently, at least more than half of the people in Shengjing Sect could quickly come up with the correct answer. Unfortunately, as Wang Lu said, this was a game of confrontation. From the beginning to the end, they didn't have the space to think smoothly.
"Then, the next step is to complete the parenting and filial piety in this order."
Wang Lu said and then made his own arrangement, which was simply listed as: Zhou Mumu (parents) — Liu Li (children) — Wang Lu (parents) — Hai Yunfan (children) — Ye Feifei (parents) — Shengjing Sect person A (children).
In this way, only Kunlun Sect's Zhou Mumu and Zhang Li were eliminated. However, Kunlun people were actually quite straightforward. "It doesn't matter, elimination is elimination. Being able to drag eight Shengjing Sect people down with me, my heart is happy."
In this regard, Wang Lu also returned the favor by instructing Liu Li to give Zhou Mumu a big gift in the way of filial piety: thirteen mysterious sky crystals!
As the lead disciple of one of the Five Uniques of the Wanxian League, Zhou Mumu, of course, was not short of money. However, thirteen mysterious sky crystals was still a number that could not be underestimated, thus, Zhou Mumu gladly accepted it. Although compared to the mysterious sky crystals, she wanted Wang Lu's help in the next few tests.
In fact, this time, Ten Thousand Arts Sect had completely taken advantage of Wang Lu. If not for Wang Lu's trick to completely wipe out Shengjing Sect people, under the pressure of Shengjing Sect people, it would be very difficult for these two people of Ten Thousand Arts Sect to smoothly pass.
When the filial piety procedure was completed, the cold voice sounded again. This time, it was not the ruthless elimination, but rather, "Congratulations to Liu Li and Wang Lu … for passing this test!"
Under the jealous and hateful eyes of Shengjing Sect people, the metal plates on their chests turned into balls of light and integrated into Wang Lu and the other two people's bodies.
Wang Lu felt a warm force flowing through his whole body. His primordial spirit involuntarily shook, and each shock wave set off a wave of excitement and joy.
It was like taking a very high purity hallucinogenic elixir. However, a moment later, Wang Lu felt that in this boundless pleasure, there was also a trace of pure inexplicable energy, which was far purer than the ordinary surrounding spiritual energy. Although the amount was not large, after it poured into his body, it aroused a wonderful reaction. Wang Lu felt that all the buildings and plants in his Jade Mansion, under the urging of this aura, grew taller and moved toward a higher level. The Void Core in the middle of his Jade Mansion also absorbed the energy and gradually condensed out more entities … After an unknown period of time, the tide-like pleasure gradually disappeared, and the turbulence in his Jade Mansion also stabilized. Then, Wang Lu's cultivation base rose by half a level.
It didn't seem much, but when converted, it was equivalent to more than a year of Wang Lu's hard work. And if he had all eight virtues, wouldn't he be able to immediately raise his cultivation base by four levels?
… Was this the benefit of virtue? Letting good deeds be rewarded with good deeds was indeed a good way for people to pursue virtue. At least, it seemed so.
Thinking more deeply, Wang Lu couldn't help but smile. He turned around and saw that the other people who passed the test also had a blush on their faces. Obviously, they had experienced the taste and benefits of virtue. After that, Wang Lu was ready to leave with Liu Li. However, just as he turned around, he heard Wangyue Luanyu's gnashing teeth voice, "Wang Lu, this time you win, but Senior Brother Jianglu will not let you go!"
"Let Jianglu say this to me. You don't have the qualification to provoke me."
Actually, from the beginning, Wang Lu didn't really put Wangyue siblings in the same position as him. He was the lead disciple of Lingjian School, so as one of the Five Uniques, only the lead disciple of Shengjing Sect, or someone with a similar position as the lead disciple, had the qualification to have a face-to-face dialogue with him. Even Jianglu, who led the team this time, actually lacked the weight, let alone Wangyue siblings.
As for offending Shengjing Sect? So what if they offended them? Before this test, perhaps there were still some scruples, but after this test, the cohesion of the three sects had been greatly strengthened. Lingjian School had obtained the leading position, and their team strength could completely compete with Shengjing Sect.
The next game would only be more interesting.
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After walking out of the filial piety gate, the cultivators from the four sects came forward to inquire about their well-being, and then impatiently asked about what happened inside the gate.
After the filial piety gate, everyone felt that the bizarre trial rules were inconceivable, and they also had a new speculation about the eight virtues trial. However, in any case, having reached this step, even if it was a mountain of swords or a sea of fire, they could only tread through it. In other words, no matter how absurd the rules were, at least they had to pass the test first.
Then, when they learned that Wang Lu almost single-handedly led this trial and successfully wiped out the eight people team of Shengjing Sect, the reactions of the several sects were different.
Bai Shixuan just lightly congratulated him, seemingly indifferent to the filial piety gate trial. Zhan Ziye wholeheartedly cupped his hands across his chest. This was a rare show of respect from the always arrogant representative of Ten Thousand Arts Sect. The cultivators of Kunlun Sect had a slightly complex feeling. After all, both Zhou Mumu and Zhang Li failed to pass the test. However, considering that Wang Lu defeated the Shengjing Sect … he could still be regarded as a respectable teammate.
However, in the eyes of Shengjing Sect, they couldn't wait to pull out their tendons and tear their bones into eight pieces.
Over the years, when had Shengjing Sect ever suffered such setbacks and insults? Even though Suan Xian Sect had a big business, it was inevitable that they would encounter bumps and bumps all over the Nine Regions. Shengjing Sect was relatively magnanimous about this. Unless it was a key issue, otherwise, it didn't matter if they were taken advantage of by others. However, right now, these twenty-five people represented the elite disciples of Shengjing Sect, yet they were actually played in the palm of someone's hand and even maliciously deceived. How could they tolerate this?
"Senior Brother, we are incompetent, we are willing to be punished according to the sect rules."
"Humph!" Regarding the Wangyue siblings' panic, Jianglu just coldly humphed. "After we return to the Central Region, go and receive your punishment. Now, I want you to honestly deal with the matter in front of you!"
"Yes!"
Jianglu didn't blame the Wangyue siblings too much for their failure. In the final analysis, letting his two deputies face the famous Wang Lu was indeed his own mistake. At that time, he should have personally come forward. However, who could have thought that the trial after the filial piety gate would be like that? According to Jianglu's speculation, if it was a competition of spells and fighting ability, the Wangyue siblings would not lose to Wang Lu. However, who would have thought that it would be a pure scheming game! At that time, Shengjing Sect just made a relatively standard choice. In the handbook that Shengjing Sect summarized and distributed to the disciples, it was indeed written that when the road was unclear, it was best to avoid personally leading the team to explore the road.
However, such a thing would only happen once. From the second trial onwards, Jianglu would personally come forward to challenge the next seven trials, not leaving any chance for Wang Lu.
Of course, in terms of scheming, he knew that he was not Wang Lu's opponent. However, after many years of cultivation, he also had a wealth of experience in dealing with opponents who were exceptionally scheming — otherwise, he wouldn't be the team leader.
Let's wait and see from the second trial.
Jianglu's eyes were firmly locked on the not far away Wang Lu.
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"Tsk, it feels like I'm being stared at by a perverted idiot."
Wang Lu suddenly frowned, sighed, and then looked up at the sky. The clear sky between the mountains had gradually been shrouded in a layer of haze.
"Brother Wang's talent is outstanding, so it's inevitable that you'll become the target of public criticism." Hai Yunfan smiled, but then he immediately restrained himself and said with a sinking voice, "Brother Wang, I always feel that this eight virtues test is a bit strange. Although the filial piety gate does have the concept of filial piety, but …"
Wang Lu waved his hand. "Don't think about it. Even if it's just a gimmick, the test is, after all, an insurmountable barrier. It's nothing more than a reminder that what you need to pass the test is not necessarily virtue. "
Then, Wang Lu talked to himself in his primordial spirit.
"Moreover, I always feel that the victory of the filial piety gate is not because I can see more than others, but because Shengjing Sect has more people than us …"
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