Everyone came to the Heart-seeking Mountain and felt nothing. Only Man Gu felt that his strength was declining, and his physical standards were close to everyone else's.
The boiling blood of the ancient barbarians in his body calmed down and could no longer provide him with endless strength.
Everyone looked at each other, and finally looked at the strongest Man Gu.
"I'll go first." Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Man Gu didn't hesitate and simply became the first person.
Step 1, step 2, step 3... step 10.
Man Gu walked easily on the first ten steps. From the eleventh step, the pressure gradually appeared. He felt like he was carrying a stone slab on his back. The higher he climbed, the heavier the stone slab became.
But it was still within the tolerable range.
Continue to climb.
Man Gu panted twice, steadied his breath, and walked towards the twentieth step.
Man Gu climbed the twentieth step, his steps became more and more difficult, and his speed of climbing the steps became slower and slower.
At the 29th step, sweat had begun to seep out of Man Gu's back, soaking his clothes. He had to stop, panting, and sit on the steps to rest.
"Even sitting down is stressful." Man Gu gritted his teeth and muttered to himself, too tired to speak. He just changed from standing to carrying the stone tablet, and his strength was restored very slowly.
When everyone saw that Man Gu was walking so hard, they knew that this mountain was not easy to climb, and their hearts skipped a beat.
Someone said in a deep voice: "I have heard the elders of the tribe talk about similar places. This Questioning Heart Mountain can test the heart of seeking the Tao. The purer the heart, the more determined the mind, and the purer the heart of seeking the Tao. Man Gu was born in the ancient barbarian tribe and was famous for being stubborn. Even he had such a hard time climbing, I am afraid it will be even harder for us!"
"The meditation formula can calm the mind, does it work?" Someone else thought of a way.
The third level requires climbing to the 50th step, and does not require the top few to pass the level. They are not in a competitive relationship now.
Everyone nodded, thinking this was a good idea. The elders in the family had taught similar formulas for self-cultivation.
Lu Yang opened his mouth, but he didn't know any meditation formulas.
"Do you want me to teach you a meditation formula?" Meng Jingzhou asked.
Lu Yang shook his head: "No, I'll think of other ways."
Seeing this, Meng Jingzhou didn't force Lu Yang to learn the formula.
...
Meng Jingzhou woke up from his meditation and felt his heart was more peaceful than ever before.
The meditation formula works!
Meng Jingzhou's meditation time was longer than that of ordinary people. When he woke up, others were already at the 20th or 30th level, sweating profusely. It took great perseverance to move forward one more step.
Big drops of sweat covered his cheeks, and he didn't even have the strength to wipe his face.
Some people wanted to find another way, thinking that there would be pressure only on the steps, so they went around the mountain beside the steps to the 50th step, but when they got to the mountain next to it, they found that this method did not work. The higher the whole Wenxin Mountain was, the greater the pressure was.
Some people wanted to use magic weapons, but found that the magic weapons had lost their power. No matter how magical the magic weapons were, they could not even activate them, and they became a pile of scrap metal.
No wonder Dai Bufan was not worried about them using magic weapons.
Lu Yang lagged behind everyone and was the most conspicuous.
He squatted on the tenth step with one foot bare, thinking about something, and I don't know what he was observing.
"What are you doing? Others have climbed far away." Meng Jingzhou asked curiously.
Lu Yang was silent, holding a shoe in his hand.
Lu Yang threw the shoe and it fell on the eleventh step: "Try to pick it up."
Meng Jingzhou didn't understand what Lu Yang meant, but he did it anyway. Then he found that the shoe was heavier than before, as if something was pulling it underneath.
Meng Jingzhou seemed to understand something. He threw the shoe to the twelfth step and found that the shoe fell at the same speed as the eleventh step. When he picked it up, it was heavier than the eleventh step.
"What pattern did you find?"
Meng Jingzhou frowned: "If the object does not fall to the ground, the pressure will not be transmitted to the object. Only when the object falls to the ground and contacts the ground, will there be additional pressure?"
"That's right." Lu Yang punched his palm. It was rare that someone thought the same as him. He was very happy.
Meng Jingzhou was thoughtful. In a quiet state, his mind turned quickly: "The steps are inclined. There are so many trees here. We can build a '7'-shaped ladder. One end of the ladder is buried in the ground, and the other end leads directly to the fiftieth step."
Lu Yang said firmly: "Yes, this third test should be a test of our wisdom. This is the standard answer!"
Meng Jingzhou understood Lu Yang's idea and quickly raised another question: "How do we cut trees?"
They don't have axes or saws. How to cut trees to make ladders?
"Do you have a sharp magic weapon?" Lu Yang had thought of this question a long time ago.
He thought about cooperating with others, but unfortunately no one else could understand his idea.
Meng Jingzhou took out a dagger: "This is a dagger that the elders of the clan gave me for self-defense. It can be activated by the mind, and its speed is comparable to that of the Jindan stage. However, it can't fly in the Heart-seeking Mountain."
"It doesn't matter, as long as it is sharp." Lu Yang smiled. The Meng family is a big family. Even if the magic weapon they refine cannot be activated, its sharpness is far beyond the axes and saws in the mortal world.
It is just suitable for cutting trees.
"Come and see, when you entered the meditation, I have already designed the drawings."
Lu Yang took Meng Jingzhou to a soft sandy land, where the drawings designed by Lu Yang were drawn, which was exactly the "7" shaped ladder.
The two discussed it briefly and started to act.
The Meng family dagger was really sharp. The thick trees were like paper in front of the dagger. The trees were quickly cut into pieces of strangely shaped wooden boards by the two.
The cultivators in the Heart-seeking Mountain are the same as mortals. The trees that can grow here are naturally the most common ones.
Meng Jingzhou soon found another problem.
"How do we connect these two wooden boards? Not to mention that we don't have nails, even if we have nails, we can't connect such thick wooden boards."
"Have you heard of mortise and tenon structure?"
"No."
Lu Yang had no choice but to take the dagger and cut the joint of the wooden board into a mortise and tenon structure while explaining the wisdom of the mortise and tenon structure to Meng Jingzhou.
"This protruding part is called a tenon, and this concave part is called a mortise. Together, they form a mortise and tenon structure. The biggest feature of the mortise and tenon structure is that it is extremely strong even without using nails on the object."
Meng Jingzhou listened very seriously. The Meng family used spiritual energy to refine weapons, which was a weapon refining technique, and there was no need for mortise and tenon structure.
Everyone on the steps was sweating and panting, just to climb the 50th step and become the first to pass the level.
Perhaps the first to pass the level will be appreciated by the Taoist sect and then focused on cultivation.
Everyone also understood why there was no time limit. Climbing mountains consumes too much physical energy. If you stay for too long, you will be too hungry to even stand up, let alone climb the mountain.
The two people under the steps were sweating profusely and panting with exhaustion. They spent a long time cutting down trees and finally made a ladder after several trials and errors.
The ladder has a strange shape, thin at the top and thick at the bottom, and curved at the end. It is more like a huge "7" than a ladder.
The bare land around it looked like it was bitten by a huge pig monster.
Some disciples of the Wendao Sect secretly glanced at Dai Bufan. They remembered that Senior Brother Dai Bufan liked to show off his lush Wenxin Mountain the most.
Dai Bufan's eyes twitched and he clenched his fist unconsciously.