The Twelve Heavenly Temples was probably the most memorable abandoned dungeon in Tomono Kakaze's memory.
The so-called Abandoned Instance Dungeons were those that had already been designed and completed, but in the end, they were abandoned by the developers.
There were many such abandoned dungeons in Sword Maiden Online. It was said that 108 dungeons were designed and created when the game was first launched. However, only 98 of them were used while the remaining ten were abandoned.
Apart from that, the game would add a new dungeon every year.
Of course, these dungeons were created after thorough discussions and confirmed that there were no problems.
However, there were always some special circumstances that happened in the past two hundred years. As a result, these dungeons had to be abandoned after they were completed and would never appear in front of the players again.
There were many reasons for this. Some of them were because the dungeon's story was found to be inconsistent with reality and was forced to be abandoned. Some of them were because the plot of the dungeon caused dissatisfaction with the family members of the characters involved in the dungeon and was forced to be abandoned. There were also problems with the difficulty of the dungeon that made it difficult for the players to complete the dungeon and was forced to be abandoned. However, the most common reason was that the dungeon could not pass the review of the Sword Committee after it was created.
"The Twelve Heavenly Palaces" was such a Instance Dungeon. In fact, "The Twelve Heavenly Palaces" was one of the oldest Instance Dungeons in "Sword Maiden Online". It was one of the 10 Instance Dungeons that were abandoned when "Sword Maiden Online" was first launched. It was said that some beta players were lucky enough to play this Instance Dungeon. In the game's official website, there was also information about "The Twelve Heavenly Palaces".
However, when the game started its open beta, the dungeon was completely removed.
Later on, there was some news that the dungeon did not pass the review of the Sword Committee. As for the reason, no one could figure it out because the Sword Committee was too lazy to explain such things.
Therefore, when Tomono Kakaze heard that Guhan had unlocked the Twelve Heavenly Temples dungeon, her childish face instantly turned sour.
She did not even bother to say another word to Guhan. She closed her eyes and began to search for the dungeon.
The search went on for a full hour. Finally, he opened his eyes helplessly and said to Guhan, "Don't enter this dungeon for now. I have to report this dungeon to the research institute and let them deal with this problem."
"I suspect that it's very likely that the research institute will directly close this dungeon from the backend. If you're in the dungeon at that time, it'll become very troublesome. Your consciousness may even be trapped in this dungeon forever. So, before I give you accurate information, you are absolutely not allowed to enter this dungeon."
"Could this dungeon be a backup plan left behind by the Heaven Shrouding Sword Emperor?" Based on his previous encounter, Gu Han instinctively guessed that this was also something left behind by the Heaven Shrouding Sword Emperor.
"Impossible!
This isn't some minor modification of the dungeon's data. It directly created a new dungeon on top of your sub-dungeon tree. This requires a very high level of authority. Even I don't have that kind of authority. The backup plan that Zhe Tian Jiandi left behind would definitely not be able to do this. "
After saying that, Tomono Kakaze hurriedly disappeared from Guhan's sight. She was probably going to report the situation to the research institute.
With Tomono Kakaze's warning, Guhan did not dare to enter the Twelve Heavenly Temples dungeon again. Instead, he immediately logged out of the game and began to search for information related to the Twelve Heavenly Temples in the history forum.
In fact, Guhan had a slight understanding of the Twelve Heavenly Temples. The so-called Twelve Heavenly Temples was actually a test that Kenzu had left behind for the future generations.
It was said that when Kenzu was 50 years old, he suddenly felt that he was getting old. At the same time, his biological son was only two or three years old. If anything happened to him, his abilities might not be able to continue.
Therefore, Kenzu announced to all humans that he would build 12 palaces on a mountain outside of New Yanjing City called the Skyscraper Cliff. These 12 palaces would be set up with different tests.
Sword bearers below the level of an immortal sword would not participate in this test. If anyone could successfully pass all the tests of the 12 palaces, they would be able to become Kenzu's disciple and become Kenzu's personal disciple.
Becoming the personal disciple of the most powerful Kenzu in the world was naturally the dream of countless people.
In a short period of seven or eight years, tens of thousands of people participated in the Twelve Heavenly Temples test. However, among these tens of thousands of people, not a single one of them had passed all 12 palaces.
Later on, Kenzu actually took back the Twelve Heavenly Temples and announced to the public that he would not accept any more disciples.
This matter, which had caused all the sword bearers to flock to, slowly died down and gradually became a small story in street literature.
Perhaps many people in this world knew the name of the Twelve Heavenly Temples. However, very few people knew what the tests of the Twelve Heavenly Temples were.
After exiting the game, Gu Han flipped through the books for a full four hours. However, all of the information was about the story of the Twelve Skyscraping Palaces. There wasn't a single written record of the trials of the Twelve Skyscraping Palaces.
At that time, tens of thousands of people had participated in the Twelve Heavenly Temples test. Among these tens of thousands of people, there should have been at least a few thousand people who had recorded the stories. This was something that could not be hidden.
At the same time, this had happened after the apocalypse. Therefore, it could not have been included in the list of destruction after the cultural apocalypse.
Therefore, it was clear that the information about the Twelve Heavenly Temples had been deliberately blocked by the Sword Committee.
However, this did not matter. The Sword Committee's blockade was not difficult for Guhan. In the past, Guhan had a hacker friend that he could borrow. Now, for Guhan, this was just a matter of communication.
Therefore, Guhan immediately called Lu Xihua. After a few seconds, Lu Xihua's voice, which he had not heard for a long time, rang in Guhan's ears.
"Teacher!" As soon as he heard Lu Xihua's voice, Guhan acutely felt that something was wrong.
Lu Xihua's personality was very calm, like a reliable big sister.
However, Lu Xihua's voice was very melodious, like a yellow oriole.
At this moment, Lu Xihua's voice was very low. Clearly, this was not a change in the vocal cords, but a change in Lu Xihua's mood.
Lu Xihua seemed to be in a very low mood, so even his voice was low.
"Xihua?
What happened in Yuzhang City? "Guhan asked in surprise.
"Grand-great Master … Grand-great Master, he …" Lu Xihua's voice was intermittent, and his voice was filled with a sobbing tone. Coupled with the mention of the words' Grand-great Master ', no matter how stupid Gu Han was, he still reacted. It was likely that his cheap master Liu Lei had encountered a huge problem.
"Don't cry. You are the Sword Pavilion Master. You must not cry!"
Guhan used a firm voice to help Lu Xihua stabilize his emotions. Then, he calmly guided him. "Tell me, how is my teacher now?
Could it be that he … "
"No … Grand-master is still alive, but Grand-master, he …" Lu Xihua choked for a long time. "But Grand-master can't make it. The doctor said that Grand-master can only hold on for a few more days at most. He's going to … going to …"
"How could this be?
Before I left, Teacher told me that he could hold on for another year or two! "
Guhan's voice instantly grew louder. It was clear that Guhan, who had just been helping Lu Xihua stabilize his emotions, had become a little unstable himself.
However, when Lu Xihua heard that his master was about to explode, he calmed down and began to comfort his master softly. "Yesterday, two Yu-Class Yuan Kou appeared in our Yuzhang City's Safe Zone. They surrounded two Spirit Sword Rank swordsmen, dozens of Famed Sword Rank swordsmen, and hundreds of Ancient Sword Rank swordsmen."
"Ancestral Grandpa immediately rushed over to help. Although he succeeded in rescuing the trapped sword-bearers, he was unable to do so.
However, Ancestral Master was also injured by two Universe Level Yuan Kou when he was fighting with Yuan Kou.
After returning, Ancestral Grandpa continuously coughed up blood for the entire night. In the morning, the doctor said that Ancestral Grandpa's Purple Palace had already dried up. It was just that Ancestral Grandpa had been forcefully holding on until now. "
"However, the battle yesterday completely injured Ancestral Grandpa's Purple Palace. The sword marks in his Purple Palace have already begun to disperse … At most, in two or three days, all the sword marks will disappear … will disappear …" Lu Xihua couldn't continue speaking. However, Guhan now completely understood Liu Lei's situation.
The sword marks in a sword-bearer's Purple Palace would disappear due to many reasons. For example, self-diagnosis, or if it was forcefully dispersed by Yuan Kou.
However, these situations weren't enough to kill the sword-bearer. At most, the sword-bearer would become an ordinary person, and their life wouldn't be affected.
However, once the sword marks of the sword-bearer began to disperse, it meant that the sword-bearer had reached the end of his lifespan. The sword-bearer was about to die of old age.
With the development of modern medicine, there were no diseases that modern medicine couldn't cure. Only the natural death of old age due to the end of one's lifespan was something that modern medicine couldn't cure no matter what.
When an ordinary person died of old age, they would just close their eyes and collapse their legs. There wouldn't be any signs before this.
However, the death of a sword-bearer was different. Before the sword-bearer died of old age, the sword marks in his Purple Palace would involuntarily and uncontrollably disperse.
At the same time, all of the sword-bearers would enter a state of deep sleep.
When the sword marks in the Purple Palace completely dispersed, the sword-bearer would die along with the sword-bearer. The sword-bearers would also completely lose their bond with the sword-bearer and return to the sword pavilion to wait for their next sword-bearer.
It was obvious that Liu Lei had entered this state.
Just like what the doctor said, in at most two or three days, Liu Lei would leave this world forever.