The place Ji Chengying mentioned was actually called Xie Yuan.
Xie Abyss, whose full name is Xie Sui Abyss, is a place used by the Xuan Department to select top assassins.
People who belong to the Xuan tribe are divided into two categories. One category is like Gongsun Fu who is lurking in the Tang Dynasty, and belongs to the dark chess. The nature of the dark chess is similar to that of the alien army. It can be said that the dark chess was established in imitation of the isolated army.
Lurking in various yamen of the divine capital city, he collects information for the emperor. Although there is a commander, the commander is just like a lone messenger, responsible for uploading and distributing information. The only person An Qi is loyal to is the emperor.
Starting from Emperor Shunhe, it was not until one year after Ji Chengying ascended the throne that the Xuan Department completed the arrangement of the secret chess of various departments in Shendu City. The reason why the arrangement was difficult was to keep it secret. To keep it secret, it was necessary to penetrate into each department through relatively complicated methods, and even some
All dark chess players have passed the formal examination of the imperial court.
In order to ensure the loyalty of Anqi, everyone has the handle in the emperor's hands.
The second type of people in Xuanbu is Sashiko. The word "thorn" in the word "thorn" naturally refers to assassination, and the meaning of "child" refers to mice. In other words, these people must hide like mice.
Waiting for opportunities in the darkness.
Because of Sashiko's special nature, he must be cultivated from infancy, which is exactly the same as cultivating disciples alone.
Sashiko was raised intensively since she was a child. In addition to teaching knowledge and instilling the idea of loyalty to the emperor, she also strengthened her body and learned various methods and techniques of assassination.
Generally speaking, when a Sashiko is trained to be 8 years old, he must participate in the first trial, and the content of the first trial is a blood bath.
What is a blood bath?
Every Sashiko must choose an animal to raise when he is 7 years old. When he participates in the blood bath at the age of 8, he needs to kill the animal with his own hands. Killing the animal that has been raised by himself for a year is just the beginning, because killing
The way to die is to slit the throat and bleed. If the blood of the animal raised is not enough for a bucket, then you have to kill other identical animals with your own hands until the bucket is full.
As an 8-year-old child, let alone bloodletting, just letting him kill an animal that he has raised for a year is a kind of psychological destruction. When the 8-year-old Sashiko endured great grief and killed the animal and bled it,
But when they were told that a bucket full of blood was needed, they had to kill the same kind of animals they had raised. When they saw those same kind, they would definitely think of the one they had just killed. This was the second time.
Heavy destruction.
After the bucket is filled with blood, you need to use a bowl to collect the blood with your own hands and pour it from your head until all the blood in the bucket is poured on your body. This is the third level of torture.
Just imagine, what will an 8-year-old child look like after doing these things?
But for Xuanbu, this is still the first selection. Children who can survive this level can continue to receive training until they are 13 years old. They can participate in the second trial, and this trial will no longer face animals.
But people.
The people who had to be killed in the second trial were strangers, most of whom were homeless and no one would trace them even if they died. What Sashiko had to do was to kill these people with his bare hands and absolutely not use weapons.
The purpose is to let them feel what it feels like to take away a person's life with both hands.
Whether it is strangulation or beating to death with fists, you must use your own hands.
The third trial was at the age of 15. This time Sashiko began to act alone. Usually, they were asked to go from one place to another on the grounds of passing on some kind of confidential information. They were not allowed to kill or hurt anyone along the way.
Other than that, other methods are not limited. However, in the middle of the process, Xuanbu will send people to pretend to be bandits, capture Sashiko, lock him up somewhere, and use various torture methods to extract a confession from him.
The third trial has the highest elimination rate. Only five or six people can survive it out of a hundred people. But these five or six people who can survive are the assassins that the Xuan tribe really needs. The others will be different from the first two trials.
The losers are secretly imprisoned somewhere together, and they still learn how to assassinate and fight all day long, just to be used by Xie Yuan who selects the top assassins.
The fourth trial is to perform a real assassination mission accompanied by the commander. If you can successfully complete it, you can truly become a member of the Xuan tribe.
There are also levels within the Xuanbu. The higher the level of Sashiko, the better treatment he will receive. Food, money, and women are naturally indispensable. The most important thing is that he can gain a way to strengthen his body and extend his life, which is called
The elixir of essence.
There are two ways to improve your own level. One is to complete various tasks assigned by the emperor. However, there are actually not many assassination tasks, so the second way has naturally become the choice of most people, that is
Challenge the evil abyss.
The Evil Abyss is also a place, a natural cave. The cave is divided into nine floors from top to bottom. In addition to various deadly mechanisms, each floor also contains those losers who have not passed the test in the past.
For these losers, if one of them can kill the Sashiko who comes to challenge, they can rejoin the trial and become the real Sashiko. However, this is just an impossible vision given to them by Xuanbu.
That's it. You must know that since they have failed long ago, they must be inferior to the real Sashiko in some aspects, so in the end, they will just become the dead souls of those who challenged the evil abyss Sashiko.
There is another rule for participating in the Evil Abyss, that is, you can abstain at any time, and there will be no penalty for abstaining. After all, Sashiko has been trained with great difficulty this time, and the purpose of setting up the Evil Abyss Challenge is just to select the best among them.
Since the establishment of the Xuan Department, there have been countless people who have challenged Xie Yuan. Most of them have only challenged to the third floor. Now the leader of the Xuan Department, Aoki, has only reached the fifth floor, while Su Mu has reached the seventh floor.
When Su Mu challenged him to the seventh floor, not only did he shock everyone in the Xuan Department, even Ji Chengying, who had just ascended the throne, was so shocked that he couldn't open his mouth for a long time after hearing this, because Ji Chengying had seen the Xuan Department's design of Xie Yuan, let alone
It's already the seventh floor, and it's incredible to be able to break through to the third floor.
However, Su Mu gave up after completing the seventh level challenge. He didn't think he couldn't complete it, but because he was too bored. He also told Aoki that it was not because he was really good, but because everything had rules. If
Without redesign, sooner or later someone will be able to defeat Evil Abyss as easily as he did.
Although Su Mu was indeed powerful, Aoki still scolded him in person for being too conceited.
Su Mu asked back: "Second Dad, if I was really just conceited, I would have been chopped into pieces long ago when I carried out the missions you assigned me to escape death."
Indeed, although Su Mu was arrogant, he was not without brains. Then he told Aoki why he could easily reach the seventh floor. The first was those traps. Although they did cause death, each trap had ways to crack and escape.
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The reason is very simple. If it is not designed in this way, anyone who enters will definitely die. These mechanisms are to make things difficult for challengers, not to kill challengers.
Furthermore, all mechanisms are made of machinery. Since it is a machine, there must be rules. Even if it seems random, it is just pseudo-randomness that hides its own rules.
Therefore, what Su Mu needs in the entire evil abyss is calmness and patience, and the rest is ruthlessness.
The ruthlessness Su Mu mentioned was naturally to deal with those eliminated who were waiting for a second chance in the evil abyss. In order to kill the target, these people would come up with any method, and it could be said that they would do anything.
These eliminated people will try every means, whether it is sneak attacks in secret or begging openly, and the women among them will even seduce them directly. When Su Mu faces these people, he will never talk nonsense or even look at them twice.
, directly raise the knife and drop it.
When Su Mu broke into the fifth floor, he faced about fifty eliminated people armed with various weapons. This was also the reason why Qingmu, the leader of Xuanbu, did not break through because there were too many people. No matter how strong he was,
No matter how strong you are, you can't guarantee that there will be no blind spots when fighting. What's more, human physical strength is limited.
Su Mu did not choose to retreat, but did something desperate. He retreated directly in front of a wall to avoid being attacked on his back. Then he used his foot to pick up an iron gun on the ground, and used the gun tip to hit three times in front of him.
Draw a line half a foot away.
"This is the line between life and death," Su Mu held up an iron gun and looked at the eagerly eliminated candidates in front of him. "Whoever crosses this line will die."
After saying that, Su Mu retreated with the iron gun in hand and rested against the wall. While recovering his strength, he paid close attention to the group of eliminated people in front of him who had become ghosts.
Those eliminated naturally knew that Su Mu was resting and were unwilling to give this chance, so the first five people rushed forward with weapons in hand. However, when they crossed the line of life and death, their heads were chopped off by the iron spears that swept over them.
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Five people fell down almost at the same time. The remaining people did not flinch, but they were also shocked. You must know that the iron gun was thrown from the mechanism, and its weight could not be easily lifted even by martial arts practitioners.
However, Su Mu held it very easily, as if this boy was born with supernatural powers.
Su Mu smiled and said: "No? Then we'll just waste it. Anyway, there is no time limit to challenge Xie Yuan."
Those eliminated started to irritate and ridicule Sumu in various ways.
Su Mu laughed again when he heard this: "Isn't your purpose of irritating me just to get me to leave this wall and fall into your encirclement? That is in vain, because this wall is too comfortable."
Seeing that verbal stimulation was of no use to Su Mu, that group of people launched a second wave of attacks. This time, there were ten people who crossed the line of life and death. After Su Mu killed three of them with an iron gun, he used
He killed seven more with his own weapon. After the battle, the iron sword in his hand had curled up and could no longer be used.
Su Mu leaned back against the wall again: "Fifty minus fifteen equals thirty-five. Why don't you all go up together? There might be a chance. Don't die in groups. Attacking in groups is the best way."
Su Mu deliberately panted when he spoke to make those people think that he was exhausted. Therefore, the remaining people looked at each other and rushed forward together with an angry roar.
Su Mu smiled again, with only two words in his eyes - idiot.
These thirty-five people are not soldiers who have received collective training, because the assassins of the Xuan Department all perform tasks alone, and naturally they do not understand formations, let alone coordinate operations. Therefore, the thirty-five people rushed up together to produce the first