249 Whose Voice Was Tha (1/2)

Whose was that cold voice?

Upon hearing this question, everyone was stunned.

Was this even needed to be asked? Of course this was the sword tomb’s explanation aid, to prompt the participant to carry on the test according to the rules. What else could it be? Was this even a problem?

However, soon, when they carefully thought about it, they finally found the problem.

Explaining the rules for the participants and prompting them to carry forward the procedure… these were just the function of the sound, not its identity.

In other words, whose voice was explaining the rules and prompting the participants?

There was a lot of possibilities. For example, it could be an artificially refined, intelligent creature, or maybe it could be just a simple voice recording spell… However, what about what it said a moment ago!?

”Due to unexpected change, temporary changes were done to the eight virtues trial. All the trial results from the previous four gates would be accumulated in this trial. Anyone who passes this trial also passes the previous four trials, therefore, winning the last five virtues.”

No matter how hard this voice tried to conceal it, it was hard not to think about it when they pondered it over again. For the ancient sword tomb, Liu Li destroying the four gates was undoubtedly an accident; the master of the tomb couldn’t expect that someone would actually be so boorish. And even if it was expected, the five into one reaction was too bizarre… In any case, the obvious implication was that, there was an intelligent being who was controlling the overall situation from behind.

”But so what? What is the relation between this and your conclusion?”

One of the vice team leaders of the Shengjing Sect, Wangyue Luanyun, could not help but ask, ”Isn’t it very normal for an intelligent being to exist in a true immortal level ancient sword tomb? Intelligent beings are everywhere, what’s so strange about it?”

”What’s so strange about it?” Wang Lu chuckled. ”If there’s an intelligent life, why is there a need to design this b*llshit eight virtues trial?”

Seeing that many people still didn’t get it, Wang Lu patiently explained, ”The rules of these eight virtues trials are cumbersome and rigorous. They were designed to be able to operate even if no one runs them. And in the general mechanism design, there’s no need to add an intelligent being as an aid, because there’s an obvious conflict between the strict and careful rules and the autonomy of an intelligent being.”

Upon hearing about this explanation, people began to be lost in thought as they pondered about it. One by one, the Ten Thousand Arts Sect people fell into meditation; regarding mechanism design and other things, these people have done a lot of research. They especially have done a lot of homework before coming to this ancient sword tomb.

”In other words, for the trial of this level, this intelligent being is likely an intruder, not the original set up.”

”And then?”

Wang Lu asked, ”And then? Being invaded by a foreign intruder, this eight virtues trial has lost its original intention, and instead carried the will of the intruder.”

Jianglu pondered out loud, ”If we start to analyze from the design… from the point of view of the sword tomb master, designing the levels and trials should be to choose a talent, or a fated person to inherit, but these eight trials…”

Wang Lu said, ”Without the existence of this strange intelligent being, it can also be understood that after a long period of time, the established procedures have been damaged, resulting in the change in rules, turning into something abnormal that no one could expect it. Such cases are not rare in the Immortal Cultivation World of the Nine Regions. However, since we have realized the existence of this intelligent being, it means that all of these can be adjusted, or even deliberately adjusted. That intelligent being wants to frame us to create internal division so that we end up fighting each other.”

”But what good is this for it?”

”Actually, we don’t really need to know what are the benefits for it, but it’s not difficult for us to make rational guess that, as long as we are aware that if something is good for him, it’s probably not good for us.”

Jianglu asked, ”So you suspect that after this level, not only we might not even obtain the treasure, we might even have to compensate with our lives? And all of the rewards from the previous first three gates are just baits to lure us to continue to play?”

”Otherwise, do you have a better explanation for everything that we’ve been through? The test of virtue has been transformed into an ugly game of exposing human nature; even though I have tried to end the game in an extreme way, I encountered this five gates into one move. It seems like the figure behind this game is exhausting all its mean so that we continue to play.”

Upon hearing this, Jianglu suddenly asked, ”So you’ve long discovered that something isn’t right? Why didn’t you tell us earlier?”

”I began to realize that something is wrong when the rules of filial piety appeared. At that time, I felt that the antagonism of the test is too strong. Even if the master of the tomb wanted to separate the participants with fit quality from the unfit through internal competition elimination, blatantly sowing discord is just too extreme. But first, I am yet to have the full grasp on things. Secondly, I was also not sure of the control capacity of that person behind the scene. What if I tell you the truth and lightning strikes me dead, leaving my Junior Sisters as widows? So my idea is the same as you were at first, to treat it like normal and try to win. Especially after passing the first level, the half level cultivation base reward is a pretty heavy chip.”

Towards this, Jianglu’s reaction was just a cold humph.

Wang Lu said, ”However, in the second trial, I quickly realized that things are not that simple. The pointedness of the rules is too strong. The retaliation came too fast, as if it deliberately wanting me to lose. The third trial the situation seemed to turn over again. Therefore, I guessed that, perhaps these eight trials are intended to pit ourselves against each other into a stalemate, so that in each level, we would give it all, to expose the ugliness of human nature to the extreme.”