Chapter 36: The Array Master of the Hundred Stone Steps

Lan Shou pointed at Long Yu, laughing and shaking his head. "You, you are just beginning to fall in love, but you don't know that Gan Lu'er is a big devil. No one in the outer pavilion chased her. I heard that anyone who got close to her basically turned into wood."

Long Yu looked at Lan Shou with an unhappy face and kicked Lan Shou on the butt. "Not as bad as you said." Lan Shou raised his middle finger in front of Long Yu, "Are you here to learn something or to fight with others?"

Long Yu touched the back of his head and looked at Lan Shou with a harmless look, "I want to borrow your room to take a shower. My room is occupied by Lu'er, so it's not very convenient." Lan Shou looked at Long Yu with an incredulous look, and then looked at Long Yu with a comforting look.

"Brother, you are miserable enough. The room of the young master of the Divine Sword Pavilion has been occupied by a female devil. You are helpless enough." Lan Shou looked at Long Yu with a sad face. "No, when I went up the mountain, I let Lu'er stay at my place." Long Yu looked at Lan Shou calmly.

"Come to my place to take a shower. If you don't think it's unfair to your status, you can stay at my place anytime." Lan Shou leaned his right hand on Long Yu's shoulder. Long Yu wanted to shake off Lan Shou's hand, but he was still held tightly.

Along the way, Lan Shou talked and laughed with Long Yu. Lan Shou told Long Yu about the latest news about the goddesses in the outer chamber. Long Yu only responded with a few words occasionally, and Lan Shou became more and more excited. Long Yu shook his head, thinking that he was not careful in making friends.

After about 20 minutes, Long Yu arrived at a remote place. Lan Shou waved and ran directly inside. Long Yu was pulled inside. Long Yu looked at the surrounding environment. A three-story palace appeared in front of Long Yu, surrounded by many strange flowers.

Long Yu followed Lan Shou into the palace, which looked very much like an imperial palace. However, Long Yu found it strange that it was spotless and deserted, as if Lan Shou was the only person living there.

Lan Shou showed off his palace in front of Long Yu, who thought it was indeed magnificent. Lan Shou took Long Yu to the back of the palace, where there was an open-air garden with a pavilion in the middle. Under the pavilion was a fish pond with several white fish swimming in the water.

Lan Shou took Long Yu to a room, and Long Yu looked at a zither on the table. Lan Shou saw that Long Yu liked it very much, "Do you want to learn illusion?" Long Yu looked at Lan Shou in confusion, "What is illusion?"

Lan Shou shook his head. "There are alchemists, poison masters, forgers, rune masters, formation masters, vein finders, tomb explorers, barrier masters, illusionists, and carving masters on Shenjian Mountain."

Lan Shou touched the xylophone and said, "For those of us who practice Taoism, everyone knows a few other professions. We can have four or five xylophones, and the worst ones can have two. Because everyone needs different things, so everyone needs something to assist themselves."

Long Yu touched the back of his head and asked, "What are the characteristics of these ten professions? How to distinguish them?" Lan Shou looked at Long Yu with a frown. "You can imagine that weapons have all kinds of styles. These are just the ten mainstream professions. There are many other professions that few people will learn, such as weapons and magic, necromancers, and body soul masters. There are many kinds of professions."

"I thought there were only four professions, but I didn't expect there would be so many. What are the differences between their characteristics?" Long Yu looked at Lan Shou in confusion. Lan Shou sat beside the piano and played it clearly. Long Yu entered a strange space, full of icebergs, and suddenly there were thunders everywhere. Long Yu went to many places, and he could feel the changes in the weather in each place.

"This is an illusion. A powerful master plays it with his heart, allowing people to enter a place invisibly and then directly obliterate them. The characteristics of each profession depend on the kind of people and situations you encounter during the battle. It's hard to tell at a glance. Take a shower first and I'll take you to see it later."

After Lan Shou prepared inside the house, he left. Long Yu took off his clothes and sat cross-legged in the bathtub, looking at the bright red petals floating on the water. He really enjoyed this kind of life, and he had to admire Lan Shou.

About half an hour later, after Long Yu finished washing up, he walked out of the room. He saw Lan Shou reading a book in the pavilion, looking very engrossed. Long Yu walked to Lan Shou's side and took a look at him, looking at him with contempt.

Lan Shou looked at Long Yu cautiously, saying that he could lend him other books, but not this one. Long Yu smiled evilly at Lan Shou, "You think the old tree with twisted roots is better, or the cart with divine power is happier."

Lan Shou looked at Long Yu, and put his hand directly on Long Yu's shoulder, with a lewd smile on his face. "Children should not look at anything indecent, haha." Long Yu followed Lan Shou out of the palace again, talking and laughing, and walked towards a place called Yunji Pond.

Long Yu looked at the deep pit of the stairs. There were ten stairs surrounding a circle, and underneath was a ring. Long Yu looked at the ninety-nine steps from the outside to the bottom, and there were people competing on each step.

Lan Shou pointed to the bottom of the stairs and said, "There are various elites competing on the ten stairs. Whoever wins will be ranked. Whoever stands at the bottom of the arena will be the top expert in Shenjian Mountain. This is the classified arena. There is a mixed arena in front, which is for comprehensive strength comparison."

Long Yu looked at the people around him, some were going down, some were going up, and each stone step corresponded to what he had learned. Long Yu looked at his own situation, forging, illusion, and formation.

Long Yu followed Lan Shou's instructions and walked to the stone steps of the forging technique, where an old man handed out a jade token. Long Yu bowed to the old man and said, "Senior, I want to go in and challenge the forging technique."

The dragon head stroked his beard and said, "Boy, do you know the rules?" Long Yu shook his head. The old man gave Long Yu a jade slip. Long Yu opened it and saw:

The Yunji Pool is divided into two pools. The left pool is for contests of various arts and no fighting. All disciples who enter can only use the props inside and cannot use the things in the ring. The materials wasted by the alchemists and blacksmiths can be exchanged for finished products or purchased with points. Private transactions are allowed, but no robbery is allowed. The right pool is for contests of personal cultivation, and it is not allowed to kill fellow disciples. Violators will be thrown into the mine cliff and will not be allowed to come out for ten thousand years.

Long Yu returned the jade slip to the dragon head and bowed, "Junior understands. Please let me enter the Yunji Pool." The old man threw a jade token to Long Yu, "Write your name on it, take the test, and if you pass, you can challenge the Yunji Pool below."

Long Yu performed a master's salute to the old man and used his spiritual sense to carve the word "Long Yu" on the jade plate. The jade plate showed Long Yu's information: Young Pavilion Master Long Yu, in the stage of spiritual cultivation and enlightenment. Long Yu looked at the simple words, which were really too few.

Long Yu walked to the back of a house, which looked a bit strange. Just now, people could enter but now no one was there. There were ten doors in front of him, corresponding to the positions of alchemist, poison master, forger, rune master, formation master, vein finder, grave explorer, barrier master, illusionist, and engraver.

Long Yu was very embarrassed. His zither could not transform into illusions. He could challenge the forging technique and the formation technique. Long Yu hesitated between the forging technique and the formation technique, and chose to enter the formation technique.

After Long Yu entered, there were two doors with a sign in the middle: Crack the formation within the specified time and become a 100-step formation cracker of the Divine Sword Pavilion. Ensure that the formation is not cracked within the specified time and become a 100-step formation formation master of the Divine Sword Pavilion.

Long Yu was at the entrance of a formation master, and there was an hourglass inside. There was a hole on the side of the hourglass, which read: Verification of the identity jade card. Long Yu put the jade card in, and the sky changed.

Ten minutes later, the formation began, and the hourglass began to leak sand and stones. Long Yu looked at the stones placed on the ground and quickly controlled the stones to form a three-layer Bagua formation. Long Yu felt that someone was entering the formation, and Long Yu kept controlling the rotation of the formation.

Although Long Yu couldn't see who it was, he guessed that someone must have cracked his formation in another space. Suddenly, it seemed very interesting. Is this the way to fight? Long Yu controlled the formation to rotate once a minute and sat quietly in the middle of the formation.

Watching the hourglass falling little by little, it seemed as if time was really long. After ten cycles, the last drop of sand in the hourglass ended, and Long Yudi's jade token floated to Long Yudi's hand. Long Yu took a look at it: Young Pavilion Master Long Yu, Enlightenment Stage, One Hundred Stone Steps Formation Master of the Divine Sword Pavilion.

Long Yu walked out of the door of the room and looked at another door. After waiting for a while, no one came out. Long Yu wanted to go in and see. The room was also pitch black, and there was no one there. Long Yu patted the back of his head, "This is the barrier area. I am in a space and I can't see anyone at all."

Long Yu walked out directly, not interested in breaking the formation. Long Yu strode out of the door, and Lan Shou seemed to be waiting for someone at the door. Long Yu patted Lan Shou on the shoulder, "Who are you waiting for, Fatty? It's not someone's girl, is it?"

Lan Shou subconsciously glanced at Long Yu and took two steps back, looking very Myanmar-like. "Who else can I wait for?" Long Yu looked at Lan Shou with ill intentions. Although he had known Lan Shou for only a day or two, he seemed to be an honest person.

"Fatty, did you bring the stuff?" A curse came over, and Long Yu looked in the direction of the voice. An elegant woman slowly walked towards Lan Shou's position.

The graceful figure, small steps, and red clothes. A circle of cloth wrapped around her hair, and a white and tender face. Long Yu saw that the woman's temperament was like that of a queen, giving people a hot feeling.

Lan Shou, who was standing beside her, ran to the woman like a docile puppy, trying to show his affection. Long Yu was stunned. This was not Lan Shou's style. The next move made Long Yu's jaw drop.

The woman in red took Lan Shou's arm, exchanged glances with Long Yu, and left. Long Yu saw the woman in red's eyes full of contempt. Long Yu saw Lan Shou and the others off, shook his head, and looked at himself.

His clothes were in tatters, and he looked like a beggar from somewhere. Long Yu took out a set of clothes from his ring, put them on, and walked down the stone steps.