Instantly, the surroundings were quiet, and countless eyes were cast towards him.
"It's getting more and more exciting." Fang Yuan smiled in his heart. Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, he waded through the river and stepped onto the other side.
Suddenly, he felt a layer of pressure.
This pressure came from the spiritual spring deep in the sea of flowers. The spiritual spring produced vitality, and because the vitality was too rich and abundant, it caused pressure.
But soon, a burst of light spots rose from the flowers at Fang Yuan's feet.
The light spots swayed, covering Fang Yuan's whole body, and finally all poured into his body.
"This is the hope Gu." Fang Yuan murmured in his heart. Although the person in charge did not explain, he knew it very well.
Each of these light spots is a Gu.
The Gu is called hope.
There is an ancient legend about the hope Gu.
Legend has it that when this world was just formed, it was a wilderness with wild beasts rampant. The first human appeared, named Ren Zu. He ate raw meat and drank blood, and his life was very difficult.
In particular, there was a group of wild beasts named Dilemma, who particularly liked the taste of Ren Zu and wanted to eat him.
How could Ren Zu fight against this group of beasts called predicaments without a body as strong as a rock or sharp teeth and claws as a wild beast? His food source was very unstable. He hid from place to place all day long and was at the bottom of the food chain in nature. He could hardly survive.
At this time, three Gu came to Ren Zu and said to him, "As long as you use your life to support us, we will help you through the difficulties."
Ren Zu had no choice but to agree to the three Gu.
He first used his youth to support the largest of the three Gu, which gave him strength.
With strength, Ren Zu's life began to improve. He began to have a stable food source and the strength to protect himself. He was brave and fought hard, and defeated many predicaments. But he soon suffered. In the end, he found that strength was not omnipotent. It also needed to be restored and cultivated, and could not be squandered at will.
Moreover, for the entire predicament beast group, his strength alone was too small.
Ren Zu learned from his pain and decided to use his most youthful and strong middle age to support the most beautiful of the three Gu.
So, the second Gu brought him wisdom.
Ren Zu had wisdom, learned to think and reflect, and began to accumulate experience. He found that using wisdom was more effective than using strength in many cases. Relying on wisdom and strength, he once conquered many targets that he could not conquer before and killed more predicaments. He ate the flesh of predicaments and drank the blood of predicaments to survive tenaciously.
But the good times did not last long. Ren Zu got old and got older and older.
This was because he offered his youth and middle age to the strength Gu and wisdom Gu.
When people get old, their muscles atrophy and their brains can't work fast.
"Human, what else can you bring to us? You have nothing to offer us anymore." After the strength Gu and wisdom Gu found this, they left heartlessly.
Ren Zu lost his strength and wisdom, was discovered by predicaments, and was surrounded by beasts. He was old and could no longer run. His teeth fell out and he couldn't even chew wild fruits and vegetables.
He collapsed to the ground powerlessly, surrounded by dense predicaments, and his heart was full of despair.
At this time, the third Gu said to him: "Man, please worship me, I can help you out of your predicament."
Ren Zu said with tears: "Gu, what else can I have? You see, Strength Gu and Wisdom Gu have abandoned me. I am left with only old age. Compared with youth and middle age, old age is not worth mentioning, but if I offer old age to you, my life will end immediately. Although I am surrounded by difficulties now, I will not die for a moment. I still want to live a little longer, even for a second. So go away, I can no longer offer you."
The Gu said: "Among the three Gu, my request is the smallest. Human, you just need to give me your heart."
"Then I will give you my heart." Ren Zu said, "But Gu, what can you bring me? This desperate situation now, even if Strength Gu and Wisdom Gu return to my side, it can't change it."
Compared with Strength Gu, this Gu is the weakest, just a small light spot. Compared with Wisdom Gu, this Gu is the dimmest, and can only emit a faint white light, not gorgeous at all.
But when people gave their hearts to this Gu, it suddenly bloomed with infinite light. In this light, the predicament beasts shouted in fear: "This is the hope Gu, retreat quickly, we are most afraid of hope."
The predicament beasts immediately retreated in panic.
Ren Zu was stunned. From that moment on, he knew that when facing difficulties, he should give his heart to hope.
At this time, the hope Gu merged into a beam of light and entered Fang Yuan's body.
Because of the pressure from the outside world, they quickly gathered in Fang Yuan's abdomen and spontaneously gathered into a ball three inches below the navel.
Fang Yuan suddenly felt the pressure relieved a little.
He took a step and continued to move forward.
With every step, there would be a continuous flow of hope Gu flying out of the sea of flowers, entering his body and joining the light ball.
The light ball became larger and brighter.
But the person in charge on the other side of the river frowned.
"The number of these hope Gu seems to be a little small." Many elders who had been secretly paying attention to Fang Yuan couldn't help but feel depressed when they saw this scene.
The clan leader also frowned. This was definitely not the atmosphere that a first-class qualification should have!
Fang Yuan continued to move forward despite the pressure.
"Those who have taken less than ten steps do not have the qualifications to practice. Those who have taken between ten and twenty steps are of Grade D. Those who have taken between twenty and thirty steps are of Grade C. Those who have taken between thirty and forty steps are of Grade B. Those who have taken between forty and fifty steps are of Grade A. So far, I have taken twenty-three steps."
"Twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six... twenty-seven." Fang Yuan counted silently in his mind. When he reached the twenty-seventh step, he seemed to hear a bang. The light ball between the two kidneys in his abdomen had accumulated to the limit and suddenly exploded.
This explosion only occurred in Fang Yuan's body. Outsiders could not detect it at all. Only Fang Yuan felt a kind of earth-shaking mystery in an instant.
In an instant, the hairs on his body stood up, his pores closed tightly, and his mind was like a bowstring that was suddenly pulled apart, suddenly tensed. Immediately, his mind
suddenly went blank, and his whole body became limp, as if he had fallen into the clouds. His heartstrings relaxed, his hairs straightened, and all the pores in his body opened. All of a sudden,
a layer of sweat appeared all over his body.
This process may sound long, but it is actually very short. It came quickly and ended very suddenly.
Fang Yuan lost consciousness for only a moment, and then he came back to his senses.
He secretly focused his mind and looked inside his body, and found that an orifice appeared out of thin air between the two kidneys below the navel.
The orifice was opened successfully!
This is the hope of immortality! !