After the gate of filial piety was the gate of fraternal duty.
Fraternal duty meant fraternal love and mutual help. If extended broadly, it could also be extended to friends helping each other.
With the experience of the gate of filial piety, everyone had considerable vigilance toward the gate of fraternal duty. Although it was called fraternal love, it basically had nothing to do with true fraternal love. Just like the test of the gate of filial piety, although it implicitly stipulated that the principle of filial piety must not be violated, the people who passed it actually didn't show the true filial piety — giving a treasure to a cultivator who was not related to them was considered filial piety? How could there be such a ridiculous thing!
The test of the eight virtues was just a cleverly designed checkpoint, which tested the wisdom and adaptability of the participants, not simply the eight virtues. However, this was also in line with people's understanding that the eight virtues of the sage were the mortal world's virtues, not the virtues of a cultivator. For example, filial piety. When a cultivator embarked on the Immortal Path, they had to cut off the mortal world's karma, and filial piety was almost impossible to talk about. After all, compared to the long life of a cultivator, the dozens of years of parents were really insignificant. Moreover, on the path of Immortal Cultivation, it was impossible to always be with their parents. According to the rule of 'three unfilial to have no descendants', there were almost no filial children in the Immortal Cultivation World.
If it must be said, it was nothing more than filial piety to the Master, but that was far from the concept of parents and children.
Thus, the remaining several virtues had different meanings for cultivators … However, at this time, it was useless to think too much about it. If they didn't enter the gate, they wouldn't understand the design of the master of the sword tomb.
After the first trial of the gate of filial piety, people found that the gate could indeed only be opened once. Although two-thirds of the people hadn't participated in the test, the gate of filial piety would still not be opened again. Therefore, the second entrance test was to dispatch the whole army.
Fortunately, these eight gates could only be opened one by one. Before the end of the second trial, the third gate would not be opened. Otherwise, the complexity of this game would increase again. Because, according to Wang Lu's habit, it was very likely that after gaining a temporary advantage, he would immediately let Bai Shixuan and Liu Li open the back door, and then quickly give up the test and destroy that door. In the end, Wang Lu would defeat the other zero virtue opponents with one to two virtues.
"Don't worry, the Ancient Sword Tomb will not allow that kind of situation to happen. It needs to observe the fights and competition between cultivators, and not simply select cultivators who have passed the eight trials. After all, no matter how extraordinary the rules are, they are still dead, only the fights between people are alive."
Wang Lu's words made many people's hearts sink.
The next seven stages would only get more and more difficult …
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In fact, everyone's guess was right.
After entering the fraternal duty gate, many people did not expect what happened.
In the beginning, the scene of the fraternal duty gate and the filial piety gate was similar. It was also a long and narrow dark passage, with dozens of people walking in it. However, this time, it was the Shengjing Sect team that acted as the vanguard, lest like the filial piety gate, Wang Lu took the lead and dominated the whole game in one fell swoop.
However, the fraternal duty gate and the filial piety gate were different. At the end of the passage was no longer a narrow stone chamber. After walking for about the time to drink a cup of tea, a bright and spacious square appeared in front of the crowd.
On the square, a stone tablet was hung upside down. The stone tablet was still engraved with strange ancient handwriting, which was translated as follows:
Rules:
1. Brothers on the wall, resist the insult from outside.
1. Two people in a group, become brothers (sisters).
2. Each person holds one hundred chips, which are used to resist the insult from outside and inside the wall, and the proportion is freely distributed.
3. If the total amount of chips used by the two people in each group to resist the insult from outside exceeds (including) one hundred, they can successfully resist the insult from outside and get double the amount of chips as a reward. If the total amount is less than one hundred, it will be regarded as a failure in resisting the insult from outside and lose the qualification to pass.
4. After the two people in each group successfully resist the insult from outside, the winner and loser will be determined according to the number of chips inside the wall. The one with more chips wins and gets all the reward chips for resisting the insult from outside. If it's a tie, the reward will be divided equally.
5. Those with two hundred or more chips pass.
2. Relevant requirements
1. Virtual chips cannot be copied, destroyed, or issued in any form in violation of the rules.
2. Participants will distribute the chips according to their free will, and cannot make decisions on behalf of others in any way.
3. Those who have more than two hundred chips can get the reward from the exchange list after passing the test.
4. After grouping, there is a time limit to make a decision. If no decision is made within the time limit, it will be regarded as a forfeit.
After reading this row of rules, everyone kept silent.
The rules were not difficult to understand, and they didn't seem to have too many twists and turns. Compared to the rules of the filial piety gate, it was much simpler.
However, after experiencing the big reversal of Wang Lu in the first round, no one dared to look down on these few lines of words. Who knew if there was a hidden killing intent in these seemingly ordinary statements? After all, in the filial piety gate, there were three ways to be unfilial, and having no descendants was the worst, which really left a deep impression on people...
Needless to say, Shengjing Sect, Kunlun Immortal Sect, and Ten Thousand Arts Sect began to seriously study the rules of the filial piety gate. In these few lines of words, countless hidden meanings were chewed out. Before long, everyone's eyes lit up. Obviously, each of them had their own ideas.
Wang Lu also seriously read the rules twice. After thinking about it in his heart, he couldn't help but shake his head. "What does this have to do with brotherly love? This is clearly a prisoner's dilemma, moreover, it's a prisoner's dilemma full of malice! "
According to the rules, it was easy to draw such an inference: there were only two possibilities to successfully pass the test. The first was that the two brothers used all 100 chips at the same time to resist the enemy's humiliation, and when the final settlement came, each of them would get 200 chips to pass the test.
The second was to use part of the chips to resist the enemy's humiliation, and the other part would be inside the wall. As long as the chips used for the internal fight were more than the opponent, they could defeat the opponent and monopolize all the reward money … Although they haven't seen the exchange list yet, it was likely that there would be an amazing treasure.
Of course, it didn't matter whether it was a treasure or not. The important thing was that under such rules, any rational person, unless they had a high degree of trust in the other party to the point of ignoring reason, must win the game of "inside the wall" by stepping on the opponent's corpse to pass the test.
However, the more interesting part of this game was right here.
If one wanted to win the test of "inside the wall", how should the chips be distributed? First of all, they must at least ensure that the defense against the enemy's humiliation would not fail. Thus, the required 100 chips must be divided equally among everyone. Because no one was stupid, once the chips used to resist the enemy's humiliation were used, the chips inside the wall would be less than the opponent's.
If it was divided equally, it would be 50 chips per person. However, the result was that neither of them won. In the end, they could only get 100 chips each, and both of them were eliminated.
Therefore, it seemed that the "inside the wall" method was unsustainable. If they wanted to win the game using the "inside the wall" method, wouldn't it be a dead end? Thus, they could only return to the first method, which was to simultaneously come up with 100 chips to resist the enemy's humiliation. In this way, both of them would pass the test, and everyone would be happy.
However, what if the other party also thought so? If the other party also thought that they could only pass the test by coming up with 100 chips to resist the enemy's humiliation, then as long as they put out a chip to resist the enemy's humiliation, they could win (100 + 99) * 2 = 398 chips!
Thus, the problem was further complicated, which made it difficult to solve in a rational way. In the end, even though they knew that their choice was to perish together, they still couldn't help but choose it.
Moreover, there were still several key questions that couldn't be read by just reading the rules.
For example, the most important one: How were the brothers divided into groups? Voluntary union, or was it chosen by the sword tomb? Unsurprisingly, it should be the latter. Voluntary union? That would be too easy for everyone. However, if they were randomly divided into groups, the advantage of Shengjing Sect was overwhelmingly strong — they had too many people.
According to the rules of this test, the number of people was more important than anything else. Even if Wang Lu went against the heaven's will, at most, he could guarantee that he alone could pass the test, but he absolutely could not block the action of Shengjing Sect people. Moreover, according to his speculation, it was likely that he himself would not be able to pass this test.
Thinking to this, Wang Lu's heart was moved. He quietly pulled Liu Li and Bai Shixuan over and explained the key to them.
A moment later, in the filial piety stone chamber, that cold voice rang out.
"The test begins!"
The next moment, a purple light shone under everyone's feet, and then they were transported by the irresistible transmission spell of the sword tomb to a narrow grid that was independent of each other.
In the grid, there were two stone tables. On each table, there were two pieces of paper and a pen. The pen and paper were not ordinary objects, but at this time, they were only used to record the participants' chip allocation plan.
One piece of paper was written with 'outside', and the other one was written with 'inside'. As long as the pen wrote the number on the paper, the chip allocation would be completed.
However, the important thing at this time was not the allocation plan, but...
"Wang Lu, I trust you've been well since we last met!"
Along with the familiar voice that rang in his ears, Wang Lu inwardly sighed with emotion. Sure enough, he turned his head and saw little sister Wangyue Luanyu behind him. The woman's face was calm, her delicate hand holding the brush, and the ink gently fell on the paper.
"Yo, your action is quite agile."
Wangyue Luanyu softly said, "Wang Lu, do you want to pass the test? As long as you promise me one thing, I will immediately write '100' on the outside, helping you to easily win … As long as you promise me one thing. "
Wang Lu laughed. "Little sister Wangyue, can I ask you a question?"
Regarding Wang Lu's rhetorical question, Wangyue Luanyu somewhat didn't expect it. "What do you want to ask?"
"I want to ask, you've obviously suffered a big loss, so why can't you correctly understand your own IQ?"
"You!?"
"As the deputy of Shengjing Sect Team, your responsibility is to implement the will of team leader Jianglu, not to act arbitrarily and think yourself clever. Do you want to make a deal with me to help me win? We've just formed a feud of killing our father, and now you want to repay me with your body, do you think I'll be fooled? "
Wangyue Luanyu was silent for a moment. "I do want to make a deal with you."
"Unfortunately, I already have someone I like, so I'm not interested in your deal."
With that, Wang Lu turned around and, under Wangyue Luanyu's incredulous gaze, wrote down his own allocation plan.
Without any concealment or concealment, in front of Wangyue Luanyu's face, he calmly and calmly wrote on the paper that symbolized 'inside'...
100！
"Okay, I'm done, it's your turn."
Wang Lu put down the brush and indifferently looked at Wangyue Luanyu.
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