Volume 2: Jade Promise Chapter 44 I Call Calm, I Am Not Calm
When I was a child, the elders often told me that when someone was walking at night or on a mountain road, they would suddenly feel themselves in endless confusion. No matter how they walked, they would find themselves going around a "ghost wall"!
When encountering this kind of "ghost wall" situation, people with strong bodies and sufficient yang energy may have a chance to survive the circle until dawn, when their yang energy increases greatly and the ghost energy dissipates, and they can successfully escape.
If you happen to be a person with a weak body and insufficient yang energy, you may end up walking into those "roads" that you cannot see during the day and do not exist at all. You will walk along those "roads" until you are exhausted and fall into eternal darkness, and you will never be able to come back...
Tang Zheng stopped when he realized that no matter how he walked, it seemed like he was doing nothing.
Regardless of whether there is such a thing as a "ghost wall" in the Xingyao Continent, in short, he is now facing a difficult situation that is very similar to the legends he had heard before.
In the past, he had heard many people talk about the so-called scientific explanation of this "ghost wall".
Some say that this is because the strength of a person's left and right feet is inconsistent. When they get lost, they lose the ability to correct their direction. Walking for a long time will form a big circle or even return to the starting point. This statement is the most widely circulated.
Another theory is that there are slight differences in the left and right vestibular systems of the human brain, and occasional walking in circles is caused by the brain sending weak erroneous signals to the muscles and joints.
There are even some psychiatric experts who say that this is just a hallucination caused by mental anxiety.
But no matter which one it is, it is completely inconsistent with Tang Zheng’s current situation.
As a two-star peak warrior, Tang Zheng's ability to control every muscle in his body has long exceeded the imagination of all experts on Earth. Whether he is running, jumping, or walking, Tang Zheng can fully ensure that the strength of his left and right feet is completely consistent.
Even if his brain sent the wrong signals to his muscles, he would quickly notice it by where his footsteps landed.
As for the hallucinations caused by mental anxiety, to be honest, although Tang Zheng is a little unhappy now, he is still far from reaching the level of anxiety...
Since scientific methods cannot solve the problem.
Tang Zheng had no choice but to think of other solutions.
If the environment you see is no longer useful for finding the route, close your eyes.
If your ears hear nothing but annoying whispers, close them.
…
Without eyes and ears, what else can guide me?
Tang Zheng stood there, feeling it quietly for a moment, and suddenly laughed. The star power circulated throughout his body, covering every important part of his body, making the defense tight, and then he walked slowly.
Forward, left, right...
Tang Zheng closed his eyes, as if he had received some special guidance. Although his steps were slow, each step was firm.
Closer and closer, it’s here!
The blade of the dagger in Tang Zheng's hand suddenly popped out, and a star of light shot out from the blade at a high speed, shooting straight ahead.
"Zheng——" followed by the clear sound of the sword.
"Pa, pa, pa!" Clear applause suddenly rang out in front of Tang Zheng. "Not bad, not bad. You are worthy of being a candidate who got full marks in two subjects, Tang Zheng. I didn't expect you to break the illusion set by Xiao Xixi so quickly."
The creepy hoarse female voice whispering in his ear disappeared. It was replaced by a series of loli voices with childish tones but pretending to be mature in tone. Tang Zheng opened his eyes.
Sure enough, the scenery before his eyes had completely changed. The several natural landmarks that Tang Zheng had memorized while chasing the little fox reappeared before his eyes.
The thunder and lightning in the sky also reappeared.
Although the weather was normally bad enough to make people upset, after experiencing the dark cage that was like a dead air just now, even this familiar bad weather made Tang Zheng feel much better.
Tang Zheng breathed a sigh of relief and stood there looking at the girl who suddenly appeared in front of him.
The girl was about sixteen or seventeen years old. She was wearing a gorgeous lake blue dress, with jingling jewelry all over her body and an ancient and exquisite long sword hanging from her waist. In her hands, she was holding the little white fox that had stolen the rabbit meat from Xiao Lingling. She was stroking its white fur and looking at Tang Zheng with interest.
However, these did not arouse Tang Zheng's much interest.
Only the nameplate hanging around the girl's neck made Tang Zheng look concerned.
The nameplate was of the same style as the one worn around the waist of almost every candidate in the forest, with no difference. However, the number on the nameplate was very special to Tang Zheng.
Number, 0001.
The target nameplate number that Tang Zheng had never found was now hanging on the waist of the girl with a hint of pride between her eyebrows.
"Xiao Xixi has the strength of three stars now. Once you mistakenly enter the illusion array set by it, even a three-star warrior will have to expend a lot of energy to escape. For a warrior with the peak strength of two stars, it is already difficult not to be deprived of his will by it, and it is even more difficult to break the array. At present, only my brother can break Xiaobai's illusion array with his genius sword intent and the peak strength of two stars. How did you do it?" The girl asked without waiting for Tang Zheng to speak.
"Haha, if I tell you, can you give me the nameplate hanging around your neck? " Tang Zheng did not answer, but asked with a smile.
"You wish." The girl's big eyes moved from Tang Zheng to the little fox in her hand that was chewing the rabbit meat with relish. She suddenly clapped her hands and smiled, her chin slightly raised: "Do you think I can't guess if you don't tell me? Xiao Xixi's magic array sealed your eye sense, ear sense and body sense, and you found the way to your nose sense, and walked to the center of the array step by step by smelling the rabbit meat that Xiao Xixi had taken away, right?"
Tang Zheng gently waved his folding fan and did not comment.
The girl looked at Tang Zheng's attitude, snorted, and continued: "Although you broke the illusion array, you only broke it by chance because Xiao Xixi snatched some food. It's not a big skill if you think about it. It's still far from comparable to my brother!"
Hearing the girl's nonsensical words, Tang Zheng was speechless. If she didn't have the number 001 nameplate hanging around her neck and the little fox also had Xiaotang's target nameplate hanging around his neck, he would have turned around and left. He didn't have the patience to waste time with this girl who suddenly showed up.
However, Tang Zheng had just finished dinner in the middle of the night and hadn't even picked his teeth when he was despised by the little fox for no reason. He was also tricked by an illusion array. After he finally escaped from the array, the fox master suddenly appeared and demoted him again for no reason. Even a clay man would be furious.
Tang Zheng shook his head and snorted in almost the same tone as the girl, then sneered, "Only an idiot would think that breaking the formation this time was an accident. Even if the little fox didn't steal my meat, I could find the center of the formation ten miles away just by the smell of fox on it."
"You, you are talking nonsense! Xiao Xixi is very clean. There is no smell on it that you said. I think you are talking nonsense!" The girl replied angrily when she heard Tang Zheng's words.
"Really? Don't you know that if you smell the same scent every day, no matter how special the scent is, you won't be able to smell it. For example, it's as obvious as the fox scent that also led me to find the 'Yaoshan Mirror Lake Fragrance' here. You have been using this top-quality perfume for quite some time, right? Can you still smell this scent on yourself now?" Tang Zheng squinted his eyes and teased.
"You, you pervert, you lecher!" The perfume used by girls in the boudoir had a very private feeling, and it was exposed by a strange man. The girl was obviously a little embarrassed, and her delicate and pretty face suddenly turned red.
However, what she couldn't accept the most was that she subconsciously sniffed and found that she really couldn't smell the scent of her once favorite "Yaoshan Jinghu Fragrance"... This guy, although hateful, seems to be really good.
"My name is calm." The girl thought of this and drew out the long sword from her waist with a "clang".
"How can you be calm..." Tang Zheng couldn't help but complain about her name.
A blazing white light suddenly lit up behind her, and disappeared in just a moment, like a small flash of lightning, echoing the violent lightning in the sky.
While calmly pointing his sword forward, he locked onto Tang Zheng from a distance and angrily said, "Asshole, stop talking nonsense. Don't you want the nameplate on my body? Come, fight me. You don't have to defeat me, and it's impossible to defeat me, but as long as you get the nameplate yourself, it will be yours!"
When Tang Zheng saw Leng Jing's extremely strange constellation, the gleam in his eyes faded slightly: "The Leng family's direct descendant, the 'Wild Lightning' constellation... her name is Leng Jing..."
Wild Lightning, the most core and orthodox star sign , when it lights up, it is like thunder and lightning in the sky, flickering and unpredictable. Warriors with too great a difference in strength cannot even tell whether a Leng Family warrior has emitted a star sign, or how many stars are on the star sign.
Relying on this extremely magical astrological phenomenon, the Leng family had produced strong men above the nine-star level for three generations in a row. Even in recent generations, there were three warriors who had reached the nine-star level. Among the eighty-one families in the Xingyao Continent, their strength was still quite good.
This was the first time that Tang Zheng had truly seen the aristocratic-level constellations, and judging from the three stars hanging high in the constellations that flashed by each time behind Leng Jing, she was already a genuine three-star warrior.
A three-star warrior of sixteen or seventeen years old could be called a genius if he was calm, even among the direct descendants of an aristocratic family.
"What's wrong? Are you scared? Don't dare to fight?" Leng Jing saw that Tang Zheng didn't reply for a long time after seeing that he showed the horoscope, so he raised his eyebrows and asked loudly.
