After losing its third tail feather, the rooster completely lowered its proud head, staring at Yang Zhen with a look of horror, and uttered three words at the fastest speed it had ever done. " Snake Road Gui Si, Yin Gui Hai, Yang Gui Chou..."
Yang Zhen was completely bewildered. He slapped the rooster on the head and shouted angrily, "Speak like a human!"
The rooster looked at Yang Zhen with disdain, and seeing that Yang Zhen was about to pluck his feathers again, it hurriedly said, "Human speech! Human speech!"
Upon hearing this, Yang Zhen nearly had Yang Dianfeng. The Shameless Cat, standing nearby with a strange expression, said, "Kid, that Flirtatious Chicken is speaking human language; it's a counting term from the ancient times."
Hearing the Shameless Cat's words, Yang Zhen was taken aback and asked in surprise, "You know? What kind of numbers are these? And what is the Snake Road?"
The Shameless Cat, head held high and looking smug, thought for a moment and then said blankly, "Forgot!"
Damn, they're all so unreliable!
The Spirit Maiden Hongluan spoke up at this moment, " The Snake Road should be that peculiar path on the Ghost Crossing Ravine. The entire path is covered with square restrictions, and there are two walls on the side of the path. One wall leads straight to the other side, while the other wall is not parallel but at an angle."
Yang Zhen found it strange and asked, "What kind of lousy road is this?"
The Spirit Maiden Hongluan gave a bitter smile and said, "Normally, it's fine; those restrictions won't be triggered, and anyone can easily pass through. But once the Celestial Venerable Ziwei awakens, the dense restrictions on the Snake Road will open. It's said that only one path is passable; the rest are dead ends!"
It wasn't until Yang Zhen saw the so-called Snake Road that he truly realized how damn difficult it was to walk.
In short, this was an incredibly wide road, covered with countless square grids of restrictions, each about a foot in size. As the Spirit Maiden Hongluan had described, there was a wall on each side of the road, also covered with a dense row of restrictions. However, these restrictions differed from those on the ground; they were all protruding circular restrictions.
As for how to walk this path, it made Yang Zhen curse incessantly. This path was not a straight one, but rather two walls divided into yin and yang, with the slanted one being yang and the straight one being yin. When passing through, one had to start from the yin wall and walk towards the yang wall at a certain angle, lighting up a series of slanted restrictions along the way. When one reached the yang wall, one had to press the circular restriction on the wall to turn back and walk towards the yin wall. This process of walking repeatedly resembled the crawling of a snake, hence the name "Snake Road ".
For so many years, no one has been able to pass through this Snake Road. The reason is that from the first restriction on the Snake Road, you can only follow the restriction in a certain order. There are nearly tens of thousands of restriction blocks. If you click on one wrong one, you will be blown out of the Snake Road with a bang. At best, you will be seriously injured; at worst, you will lose your life. There are no exceptions!
"Damn it, whoever set up this barrier is definitely a madman!" Yang Zhen muttered to himself, looking at the dense array of barriers, his trypophobia was about to flare up. He grabbed Hua Youyue's hand and said, "Little girl, let's go. This path is blocked. Whoever wants to go can go, but we're not going."
Laozi it, even though Yang Zhen had forgotten most of his probability knowledge, he still knew that if he didn't know the secret, the chance of getting lucky would be much smaller than winning the lottery.
With so many restrictions, who knows how steep the slope is, or which restriction to activate? Even if you stumble upon the right line and activate the restriction on the opposite wall, you can't just recklessly try every single restriction around your feet. You wouldn't have enough lives that way.
Yang Zhen cursed and grumbled, but after pulling twice without being able to budge Hua Youyue, he turned around hesitantly and asked, "What's wrong? This thing isn't something an ordinary person can walk on. Listen to me, we're not going anywhere."
Hua Youyue turned her head and smiled, saying, "I remember now, in the counting method of the ancient times, Gui Si represented thirty, Gui Hai seemed to be twice Gui Si, which is sixty, and as for Gui Chou... it should be fifty..."
"That's right, that's it!" the Shameless Cat exclaimed excitedly, then looked at Hua Youyue with suspicion and asked, "Little girl, how did you come to know the counting methods from the Eternal Era?"
Hua Youyue was taken aback, shook her head, and said, "I don't know."
"Don't know?" Yang Zhen was taken aback, then his eyes lit up, and he said, "Wait, let me think..."
Yang Zhen squatted on the ground, drew two lines with his finger to represent the two walls, and muttered to himself, "Damn, two non-parallel lines, and a line that bends back and forth between the two lines, knowing three angles, this... this looks more and more like a math problem?"
Math problem?
Yang Zhen was completely baffled. Why were there math problems here?
After realizing this, Yang Zhen laughed heartily and said, "Wait a minute, all of you. Once this genius solves this ridiculous problem, I'll take you all over there."
Everyone stared at Yang Zhen with bewildered expressions, their faces filled with suspicion. The Shameless Cat sidled up and asked curiously, "Kid, what's a math problem?"
Yang Zhen took a deep breath and explained, "Mathematics is the most difficult subject in our hometown. It often leaves people scratching their heads in frustration. Anyone who fails a test will be abandoned by the whole world and can only do manual labor like bricklaying."
"Huh?" The Shameless Cat was taken aback and said, "You mean that kind of brick that killed Lin Tianli? That's not bad, sounds like it has a promising future."
Yang Zhen looked at the Shameless Cat with disdain and said, "What do you know!"
The rooster, having finally regained its freedom, did not rush to escape. Instead, it stood arrogantly in front of Yang Zhen, glancing sideways at Yang Zhen as he scribbled on the ground, slowly tidying its plumage.
Hua Youyue, her expression also revealing curiosity, squatted down in front of Yang Zhen and asked, "Can you untie it?"
Yang Zhen smiled confidently and said, "Just you wait, there's no math problem in this world that this... this academic genius can't solve!"
Upon hearing this, Spirit Maiden Hongluan, Xiu'er, and the others exchanged bewildered glances before squatting down around Yang Zhen. After watching for a while, they only saw Yang Zhen start pulling his ear as he continued drawing.
The Shameless Cat sneered, looking at Yang Zhen with disdain, and said, "Scratch his ear!"
The Flirtatious Chicken paused for a moment upon hearing this, then pulled its head out from under its wing, looked at Yang Zhen, and said with a haughty expression, "Scratching cheek!"
"Get lost!" Yang Zhen roared, glaring at the two scoundrels, then said in bewilderment, "Wait a minute, what happened to their supposedly off-the-charts talent? How come they can't even solve a simple math problem?"
This is too difficult! This thing is just too hard!
Yang Zhen seemed to have returned to the classroom, struggling with a math problem, when suddenly a cry of surprise came from the Ghost Crossing Ravine.
"These people... seem to be disciples of Elder Gu, established sect!"
"What? Disciples from sects outside the realm have also arrived?"
"It's them. I didn't expect them to come too. This Snake Road must be extraordinary, it's even alarmed them."
"Who are they?"
Hearing the murmurs around them, everyone except Yang Zhen turned around to look, and was immediately taken aback.
A group of young cultivators in snow-white robes walked towards them. Their demeanor was elegant and their gaze was calm. However, the faint aura emanating from their bodies made it clear at a glance that they were no ordinary people.
Especially the two young cultivators, a man and a woman, who led the group, were like a gentle breeze, their eyes as bright and vast as a starry sea in the deep night of a snow-capped mountain.