The First Academy in the Cultivation World

Ling Yan'er carried Dongfang Zichu and Ling Ziye into the door. It looked like a small wooden house from the outside, but when they entered, they found themselves in a stone cave.

She looked around and found that there were only three of them here. The stone cave was not very big and the entire cave was an enclosed space, but there was oxygen. There was a circle of unknown flowers planted above their heads, emitting a faint white light.

"What's going on?" Ling Yan'er let go of Dongfang Zichu and looked around in surprise: "Escape Room?"

"Escape from the secret room?" Ling Ziye repeated Ling Yan'er's words. After looking around, he understood what Ling Yan'er meant.

Ling Yan'er knocked on the surrounding stone walls but didn't hear any unusual sounds. Apart from the glowing flowers above her head, there was nothing else in the entire cave.

Ling Ziye also observed the entire stone cave while Ling Yan'er was hammering and banging. Dongfang Zichu flew up and picked a glowing flower.

The picked flower no longer glowed. He handed the branch to Ling Yan'er. Ling Yan'er put the branch into her backpack and saw that the name of the flower was crystal flower. After clicking on it, the description was: a kind of stone flower that grows on the stone wall. After blooming, it glows for thousands of years.

This flower branch does have the characteristics of a crystal flower. It has no leaves, only a rhizome connected to the flower. The whole thing is transparent, and the shape of the flower is a bit similar to a lily.

Taking out the flower, Ling Yan'er said, "This flower is called a crystal flower. It's said to be a stone flower that grows on the stone wall. After it blooms, it will glow for aeons."

Then he looked at the flower in his hand and added something that wasn't in the description: "It should have been standing on the stone wall for thousands of years without fading, but it died when I plucked it. I don't know why it glows."

Ling Ziye said: "This flower has no spiritual energy, it is not a spiritual plant."

"It's not a spiritual plant, but it can still glow for thousands of years?" Ling Yan'er looked at Dongfang Zichu: "Did it have spiritual power before you picked it?"

Dongfang Zichu shook his head: "No, only the flowers glow, not the roots and stems."

Ling Yan'er was holding a crystal flower, which looked more like a glass product, but its weight was different. It was just like an ordinary flower branch.

But it feels very textured in the hand, and the sound of knocking is still very much like knocking on glass.

Ling Yan'er asked Dongfang Zichu to pick some more for her collection, but not to pick too many, otherwise it would be too dark without the light.

Dongfang Zichu picked more than twenty crystal flowers for Ling Yan'er. Ling Yan'er and Ling Ziye walked around the entire cave twice but didn't find anything.

This stone cave is cut neatly without any air holes, like an enclosed space, but it is full of spiritual energy and oxygen.

Dongfang Zichu also said that the crystal flowers seemed to have grown naturally from the stone wall.

However, the crystal flowers that only circled the roof did not look like they grew naturally, but were artificially planted. Natural growth would not be so regular, so this could be considered a hint.

But after more than half an hour of searching, the three of them still didn't find anything in the cave.

"I'll try it with the knife. Dongfang Zichu, you protect the dean." Ling Ziye said.

He stood in front of a stone wall with a knife in his hand. Ling Yan'er and Dongfang Zichu retreated to the farthest place from him.

Dongfang Zichu used his spiritual power to weave a barrier in front. Ling Yan'er took out a chair and sat down, then opened her backpack.

Then I realized that I was not mistaken when I looked at the crystal flower. The flying boat in the backpack was indeed gray. When I clicked it, a prompt said: Insufficient space.

The flying boat cannot be released from here.

Ling Yan'er had just finished reading the flying boat's instructions when she heard a ding sound and Ling Ziye's knife hit the stone wall.

Bad news, there's not a single scratch on the stone wall.

Good news, Ling Ziye’s knife was not damaged.

Ling Ziye then tried the experiment all over the cave, but it was the same as the first time. Even if he used the strength of the Out-of-Body Stage, it had no effect on the stone wall.

Ling Yan'er watched Ling Ziye put away the knife, and angrily punched the stone wall. The stone wall suddenly shook off a lot of dust, revealing four words: Heart feels like a knife.

As if afraid that these four words were not conspicuous enough, they were outlined with some unknown golden powder, which sparkled brightly under the light.

"What are these words?" Ling Ziye withdrew his hand and asked curiously at the four words that were revealed.

When Ling Yan'er heard Ling Ziye's words, she suddenly realized that the four words she saw were not translated, but the simplified Chinese characters she was familiar with!

Ling Yan'er suddenly jumped up from the chair and stood next to Ling Ziye. No matter how she looked at it, these four words were the simplified Chinese characters she was familiar with, not the characters here. She took what she saw as what she read, without any translation.

Ling Yan'er looked at it for a long time before asking Ling Ziye beside her, "Don't you know these four words?"

Ling Ziye asked doubtfully, "I should know him?"

After Ling Ziye finished speaking, he looked at Dongfang Zichu. Dongfang Zichu spread his hands. He didn't recognize these words either.

Ling Yan'er was silent. Did the textbooks she saw have the same characters as the other teachers'? This was the first time Ling Yan'er had pondered this question.

Because she had only seen simplified Chinese characters, and Hua Qingfeng had said before that the information on the work badge would help him become familiar with the textbooks, she did not continue to teach the contents of the textbook to the teachers who came later.

She always thought that everyone saw the same simplified Chinese characters in the textbooks, but now Ling Ziye did not recognize these four simplified Chinese characters.

Ling Yan'er was stunned for a moment before she said to Ling Ziye, "These four words are 心,如,刀,刺."

Ling Yan'er pointed and introduced them to the two of them word by word.

"My heart feels like a knife stabbing me." Ling Ziye repeated, looking at the four words and saying, "These four words couldn't have been written for no reason, right?"

Ling Yan'er nodded: "Definitely not."

She looked down at the phone in her hand, but the screen was off and there was no response.

But she took a look around the room and said, "Escape Rooms are nothing more than solving riddles and lantern riddles. Why don't you try photographing the other walls?"

Then Ling Yan'er turned on her phone and searched directly for "heart as sharp as a knife". The first result was a riddle for "heart as sharp as a knife".

Ling Yan'er clicked on it and saw the answer, which was the word "must".

The analysis is: "Heart like a knife" can be understood as the character "heart" being pierced by the "knife". When the character "knife" pierces the character "heart", its shape is similar to the character "must", so the answer is "must".

By the time Ling Yan'er finished reading the answers, Ling Ziye had already finished photographing the other three walls.

But there were only words on two walls, and Ling Ziye breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the words on those two walls, because they were words he was familiar with.

The two questions were, one was asking what material was missing from the recipe, and the other was to guess a monster.

Although Ling Ziye didn't know the recipe for the pill, Ling Yan'er had the cheating device of the library, so she quickly found the ingredients for the recipe.

The monster Ling Ziye was very familiar with it and guessed it.

But even if the three guessed the answer to the puzzle, they were still trapped inside.

"Why can't I get out?" Dongfang Zichu looked around curiously, and even used his spiritual power to pat the remaining wall.

No matter how you photograph the remaining wall, there is no text visible like the other three walls.

Although Ling Yan'er had never played an escape room before, she was familiar with the rules. She said, "There are two possibilities. One is that the remaining wall is another way to see the words on it. The other possibility is that we need to carve the words into the wall."

"My cultivation level at the out-of-body stage can't even leave a trace on this wall, so how is it possible for me to carve words on the wall?" Ling Ziye said depressedly.

No one knew what kind of stone this wall was made of, but it couldn't even damage his cultivation.

I don’t know what level of cultivation the person who was able to leave words on this stone wall had.

Ling Yan'er pondered for a moment and said, "It's impossible for an escape room to have unsolvable puzzles. This stone chamber only has one thing."

The three of them looked up at the crystal flower above their heads, which was still glowing unconsciously.

Dongfang Zichu said, "Indeed, this crystal flower grows on this stone wall, so it can definitely write on it."

If it wasn't hard enough, how could it grow on the stone wall?

If the crystal flower has such characteristics, even if it does not glow and is not a spiritual plant, it is worth collecting it.

Ling Ziye and Dongfang Zichu both flew up to pick the crystal flowers, and Ling Yan'er silently turned on the flashlight on her mobile phone.