Chapter 86: Breaking the defensive formation and falling into confusion
Qingshi studied the Shimen Array, and after two days he finally figured out some ways to do it. This Shimen Array was relatively old, and its complexity should have reached level five.
Qingshi is a fourth-level formation master. Although it seems that he is only one level short of it, for ordinary formation masters, it takes at least thirty years of hard work to make up for this level.
But Qingshi is certainly not an ordinary formation master. He has the memory of the formation techniques of Xiao Lou, the seventh-level formation master, in his mind.
These memories are like an encyclopedia of formations. They are not knowledge that Qingshi himself has mastered, but when Qingshi encounters difficulties, he can look at them at any time to solve his doubts.
And as these memories are used in actual operations, these memories are slowly transformed into Qingshi's own things, rapidly improving Qingshi's formation cultivation.
As time passed, Qingshi became more and more knowledgeable about how to decipher the Shimen Mysterious Formation. However, Shen Binghong and Teng Shouqian were confused from beginning to end, and it was difficult for Qingshi to explain it clearly to them.
Even if he is as smart as Shen Binghong, he is only slightly better than Teng Shouqian. It is completely impossible to understand the Shimen Array.
Therefore, instead of being able to help Qingshi, they asked Qingshi to spend time teaching them. Teng Shouqian gave up research on the third day, and Shen Binghong had to give up on the fourth day. After that, Chen Tianye also came to study with Qingshi for two days. His level was not much better, and he gave up soon.
Next, Qingshi studied quietly, and finally fully understood the Shimen Array on the tenth day, and then spent another day thinking about how to crack it. And this shows that Qingshi has reached the threshold of a fifth-level formation mage.
Early that morning, Qingshi brought Shen Feiyun and Chen Tianye to help him break the formation. He did not let Shen Binghong and Teng Shouqian, who were formation masters, assist him because in terms of the formation breaking skills alone, Shen Feiyun and Chen Tianye were no better than Shen Binghong and Teng Shouqian. Teng Shou was inferior, but the Qi cultivation needed to break the formation, these two were naturally much stronger.
Qingshi's method of cracking was correct. After about an hour and a half of cracking it layer by layer, Qingshi finally showed a happy smile.
Qingshi said to Shen and Chen: "Brother Feiyun, press the three and four door nails on the left door with both hands, and Brother Amano press the three and six door nails on the right door. When I call, let's work hard together. This should be the last floor. ”
Shen Feiyun and Chen Tianye assisted Qingshi in breaking the formation. They had cracked the four-layer formation together. They had already memorized the positions of the copper nails on the door and immediately followed Qingshi's instructions.
Qingshi held down the one copper nail in the left door with his left hand, and the two copper nails under the right door with his right hand, and counted down in his mouth: Three two one, up!
The three of them exerted their strength at the same time, and heard a low rumble from inside the stone door. Then, the thick stone door slowly slid open to both sides, revealing the dark cave passage.
Seeing the stone door open, the three of them laughed. The four people outside the cave rushed over after hearing the movement, and they were all excited when they saw the scene.
It took a lot of energy and mental energy to unravel this magic formation. Qingshi took out a Qi-Returning Pill and swallowed it. He smiled and said: "This is the most difficult formation I have ever cracked. It's really tiring. , I have to make up for it.”
Duan Xiaoyu said with some distress: "Zhu Ping, this bitch is really bad. Let's go in and catch him, and see if I don't knock out all his teeth!" Then he started to walk into the cave.
Shen Binghong quickly grabbed her and said: "Oh, sister Xiaoyu, don't worry, it's so difficult just to enter this door. This cave may be very dangerous, so you have to be prepared no matter what! Besides, we have to let Brother Qingshi rest." Well!"
Duan Xiaoyu had to stop.
Qingshi smiled and said: "I don't need to rest, but there must be some weird and dangerous things in this cave. We have to be prepared." After saying that, he looked at Shen Feiyun.
Shen Feiyun looked at Qingshi and knew that his energy was only slightly weakened and there was nothing wrong with him. It would be fine if he took a few pills. He immediately thought about it and said: "There is no doubt that there are unknown dangers in this cave. We must be more careful. Let me, brother Amano, Qingshi, Qinghan and Xiaoyu go in, while Shouqian and Binghong you two stay outside to take care of them. .”
Teng Shouqian was a little disappointed, but he knew in his heart that Shen Feiyun's arrangement was correct, so he had no choice but to agree. Shen Binghong naturally had no objection.
Shen Feiyun took out two small jade tablets one inch square, handed one to Shen Binghong and said: "This is a pair of induction talismans. If I crush mine, yours will be broken at the same time. If you are here If the induction talisman is found broken outside, it means that we have encountered a danger in the cave that we cannot handle by ourselves. You two should go back to the academy immediately and report to Elder Liu, do you understand?"
Shen Binghong and Teng Shouqian both nodded in agreement.
After being prepared, Shen Feiyun took Qingshi and the other four people into the cave, each of them holding weapons in hand.
Shen Feiyun took out a lighting device that emitted bright light, waved his hand lightly, and the lighting device flew into the air more than two feet away in front of him, and the bright light fell down, illuminating the dark cave.
Only then did Qingshi realize that Shen Feiyun had many magic weapons and spiritual weapons, and they were all very useful. Looking closely at his sword, it turned out to be an ordinary-looking long sword. It was as simple and unpretentious as him, with no grade.
According to Shen Feiyun's arrangement. Among the five people, Shen Feiyun walked in the front, followed by Wu Qinghan, Qingshi in the middle, Duan Xiaoyu behind him, and Chen Tianye at the end.
The crowd marched along the cave, and the lighting device was suspended and flying in front of them under the control of Shen Feiyun. The terrain began to decline. After descending a section of the slope, there was a more sloping stone staircase extending downward. After walking for several hundred steps, everyone felt that they were slowly entering the heart of the mountain and going deep underground.
This cave tunnel was not dug out of the rock completely out of thin air. It was dug along a natural crack in the mountain. As the tunnel deepened, the crack on the top of the cave became wider and wider. Suddenly, a lighting device appeared in front of it. The light suddenly dimmed. It turned out that the tunnel had reached the end, and the lighting device entered a larger space.
Everyone walked out of the tunnel one after another, and saw a huge natural cave in front of them. Shen Feiyun waved slightly, and the lighting device flew upwards, emitting a brighter light, illuminating the entire cave space.
Only then did everyone see the full picture of this natural cave space.
The top of this cave is about thirty feet high and fifty feet wide. Several trickling streams flow out from the mountain wall on the right side of the crowd, and slowly converge into a large pool at the foot. The water in the pool overflows and flows out from the opposite side, forming a A stream continues to flow forward, flowing into a deep, dark and huge natural cave tunnel.
Shen Feiyun controlled the lighting weapon and slowly flew into the cave tunnel. This tunnel was obviously naturally formed, and its scale was much larger than the artificially dug tunnel along the mountain fissure that he had just walked through.
Underneath this tunnel is the small stream. The water in the stream is very small now, but it can be seen that it also has violent times. The tunnel is obviously the result of the erosion of this underground stream over the years.
There is a wooden plank road built by hand on the stone wall on the left side of the tunnel. The plank road has obviously been unmaintained for many years and has become dilapidated. Several planks have been broken and have to be jumped over. Of course, this is not difficult for monks like Shen Feiyun.
Continuing to move forward and down along the tunnel, after walking for at least two or three miles, everyone finally walked out of the tunnel and came to a small stone platform. They saw that this stone platform was on the wall of a huge cave, with the top of the cave above them. It was at least a hundred feet high, and the bottom of the cave was almost fifty feet deep. The cave wall opposite seemed to be several hundred feet away, and there seemed to be several dark openings on the cave wall.
This huge cave has a faint light, so everyone can see the situation of this cave more clearly. Those bright lights came from the bottom of the cave. There was a large piece of flat ground on the right side of the bottom of the cave. There were some stone towers of uneven heights standing sparsely on the ground. Qingshi counted them silently, and there were thirteen in total.
There is a light source on the top of each stone tower. Although the soft light is not very bright, it is enough for Qingshi and others to see clearly.
In addition to these stone towers, there are many ruins of man-made buildings scattered at the bottom of the wide cave. Under the stone wall in the deepest part of the cave, there is a tall and lonely stone tower standing, and there is also a faint light source above this stone tower.
The small stone platform where everyone stood originally had a wooden plank road leading to the ground, but now it has been broken.
Shen Feiyun observed for a while, then released the small airship equipped by the academy and said: "Let's get down!" After saying that, he jumped on the airship first, and Qingshi and the other four people also jumped on. In just a few breaths, the airship descended to the cave floor. The ground is relatively soft sand.
As soon as everyone stepped out of the airship and stepped onto the ground, they immediately noticed a strange energy fluctuation on the ground. Qingshi shouted: "Not good!" He quickly looked back at the cave platform where he came from, only to find that it was now a stone wall. The entrance to the cave from which it came has disappeared.
When Shen Feiyun and others heard Qingshi's cry and followed Qingshi's gaze, they all noticed that the entrance to the cave had disappeared, and couldn't help but froze together.
Qingshi smiled bitterly and said: "We are trapped in a maze! It's my fault, I didn't even notice it."
"Everyone, don't panic!" Shen Feiyun said calmly, "Qingshi, you don't have to blame yourself. We have already anticipated the danger. It's not a big deal to fall into the maze. You can even crack the stone gate formation at the entrance of the cave. I believe you can crack this maze." It’s no problem.”
Qingshi looked around carefully, shook his head and said: "This maze is of a very high level and is very large. This entire space is a maze. Travel within the maze is unobstructed, but it is extremely difficult to get out. !”
"Brother Qingshi, I believe you can do it!" Duan Xiaoyu said, "Besides, it's just a maze, what are you afraid of?"
"The maze itself is not dangerous, it's just that you are trapped in it and can't get out. As long as you have enough time, there should be no problem in cracking it." Qingshi said with a wry smile, "But there is definitely not just one maze here. I’m afraid there’s something scarier than the maze!”
