Chapter 209, Seven Glory Formation
Several people came to the stele again. Qingshi carefully inspected the base of the stele, but found no traces of stone masonry like the base of the statue. It seemed that the entire stele and its base were completely carved from a single huge stone. This was obviously not true. Too likely.
Qingshi thought for a while and asked Duan, Chen and Xiang to step back a little. However, he exhaled and punched the stone monument. The fierce punch turned into a vaguely transparent fist and flew towards the stone monument. It instantly grew bigger like a bullfight hitting a huge stone monument.
"Good Qigong!" Xiang An applauded the horse loudly.
After the fist hit the stone tablet, the black stone tablet suddenly started to send out a wave of water ripples from the impact point, spreading in all directions along the body of the tablet. Several people were surprised. They all naturally knew that this meant that the stone tablet was protected by a triggering defensive array. What Qingshi's fist hit was the energy barrier of the array.
In general defensive formations, the enchantment aura forms a sphere or hemisphere around the object to be defended, but the defensive enchantment of this stone tablet is directly attached to the body of the monument. Such a defensive formation is naturally More concealed, more effective, and more energy-saving.
Duan Wutian and Chen Tianye had never seen such a magic circle before, and they were both dumbfounded, while Qingshi and Xiang An looked at each other with a tacit understanding. Because the two of them had seen such a magic circle before. It was the iron chain test at the first level of the trial road in the forbidden area of the Immortal Sword Sect. The black iron chain was protected by the aura of this magic circle.
It is said that the road to trial was laid out by the founder of the Immortal Sword Sect, the Sword God Tuji Ancestor. Could it be that this Poseidon is really the same god as the Sword God?
Everyone was stunned when they saw that the black stone tablet began to change. The ripples traveling along the body of the stele seemed to have peeled off a layer of black film covering the body of the stele, revealing the golden color inside. In an instant, that The huge stone monument that was originally dark and lifeless turned into a golden monument with shining golden light.
The golden monument with shining golden light looked majestic and gorgeous, but it immediately gave off a terrifying sense of pressure and danger. Its pressure is not too great for the four of them, but the dangerous aura is very frightening, much greater than the dangerous aura they felt when they first set foot on the island.
Only now did they understand that the dangerous aura they felt that day did not only come from the evil spirit, but also came from this stone monument.
The stone tablet was transformed into a gold tablet, and the words on the tablet also changed. In addition to the six clumsy words 'Poseidon's Resting Place', several lines of clumsy large characters also appeared on the back of the tablet.
Qingshi and the others did not need to go behind the stele to see the words, because the golden stele seemed to have become translucent, and the writing on the back gradually appeared, and it was also vaguely visible from the front.
Then, those lines of handwriting were projected in front of several people and floated in the air. Each word was as big as a cow's body and golden light flowed. The gorgeous light and shadow effect rushed towards them with an aura of coercion and danger, which made several people feel extremely shocked. .
"Lao Xiang," Qingshi said after a while, "look at what these words say."
The other three people also came to their senses, and Xiang An agreed to quickly identify the words.
After a full quarter of an hour, Xiang An said: "I can't translate it word for word, but the meaning is very clear."
"Hurry up and tell me!" Duan Wutian said.
"It's nothing more than a warning to future generations not to disturb Poseidon's rest," Qingshi said, "right, Lao Xiang?"
"That's right," Xiang An said, "The inscription warns that anyone who dares to disturb the rest of the sea god will have three endings: one is to be killed by the sword of the tomb-guarding divine soldier; the other is to be buried in the belly of the tomb-guarding divine beast; the third is to be buried under the tomb-guarding divine beast. To bear the wrath of the sea god, to be cursed and punished by heaven, and to die without a burial place.”
"Bah! Who are you scaring?" Duan Wutian spat, "Any tomb on the mainland has these threats, curses, etc., haven't they all been stolen?"
"Well..." Chen Tianye said thoughtfully, "The divine soldiers should refer to the original tomb guardians, and the divine beasts probably refer to the ghost bats, sea spirit beasts and other spiritual beasts outside. As for the cursed ones, God's punishment is nothing more than a pretentious threat."
"I don't think so," Xiang An shook his head.
"It is definitely not a pretentious threat," Qingshi asserted. "Although the tomb guardians have dispersed and the spiritual beasts have been avoided by us, this is only a peripheral protection. The tomb must be extremely dangerous. Just look at the defensive array of this stone tablet. You should know that the method of the person who set it up is extremely clever. I have learned the trial path of the Immortal Sword Sect, and the techniques are exactly the same as here, but that is just a trial, and this place can kill people. "
"Alas!" Xiang An sighed, "Qingshi is right, the formation method of the trial road is very similar to this one. I tried to crack the third level of trial ladder in the hope of getting a glimpse of the fairyland, but the result was that I almost lost my life. As Qingshi said, the purpose of that magic circle was to test rather than hurt people's lives, so I escaped by chance. If I encounter the same magic circle here, I will definitely die."
"Didn't Qingshi pass the trial?" Chen Tianye said, "Then you should be able to handle it."
"I'm afraid not!" Qingshi thought for a moment and said, "More than 90% of people who fail the trial will not be life-threatening. The formation mechanisms in this tomb are life-threatening. I'm really not sure."
Neither Xiang An nor Qingshi dared to act rashly, so Chen Tianye and Duan Wutian were naturally disappointed. A few people discussed it for a while and decided not to touch the tomb of the gods for the time being. When everyone's strength improves in the future, Qingshi will go to the Immortal Sword Sect to thoroughly study the trial path, and then excavate it.
Several people turned around and headed towards the outside. Duan Wutian was unwilling to give in. After walking a few steps with muttering, he turned around and threw a flying spear at the golden monument. The flying spear was naturally blocked by the energy field and flew out, but this time Flying guns also triggered new changes.
As Duan Wutian's flying gun was bounced away, the shining golden stele suddenly emitted a strong halo of light, and a golden lightning bolt shot out from the top of the golden stele, pointing straight into the sky.
In an instant, the sky was dark, the earth was dark, the wind was strong, and the sky above the monument suddenly became dense with dark clouds, forming a terrifying giant whirlpool. The vortex contained countless purple arcs, which seemed to pour down at any time.
At the same time, the golden writing hanging in front of the monument was blown away by the halo and disappeared, replaced by the head of a terrifying monster. It opened its bloody mouth three feet wide and gave a shocking sound to the four people. There was a frightening roar, and the roaring sound wave was rolled up by the strong wind, blowing so hard that several people could hardly stand.
"My mother!" Duan Wutian shouted wildly, "You're so cruel... run away!"
Qing, Chen and Xiang didn't need him to say anything, they naturally ran very fast. In the blink of an eye, several people ran under the wall, and then jumped onto the wall. Just as he was about to jump off the wall and continue running away, Qingshi suddenly stopped and shouted: "Wait!"
The other three people didn't know what he meant, but they all stopped and looked at Qingshi.
"Shoot another one!" Qingshi said.
"What?" the three of them asked at the same time.
"Brother Seven, try shooting another flying spear!" Qingshi said loudly to Duan Wutian.
"Still you think you haven't provoked me enough?" Duan Wutian shouted, "Okay! Shoot him again..."
Another flying gun shot at the golden monument, and was bounced away without any surprise. Duan, Chenxiang and the others looked at Qingshi in confusion.
"Shoot again!" Qingshi said, staring at the golden tablet.
So, Duan Wutian continued to fire the flying spears, launching ten in a row, and without exception, all of them were bounced away.
"This..." Duan Wutian held up a flying gun and said, "Are you still shooting? There is no change!"
"That's right!" Qingshi nodded and said, "There is indeed no change. No need to shoot anymore." After Qingshi said that, he turned around and jumped into the siege, walking towards the golden monument.
The monster's phantom roared at Qingshi again, but apart from the terrifying roar, Qingshi was not attacked at all, and within the vortex of black clouds above the sky, the terrifying purple electric arc did not bombard downwards once.
Qingshi walked steadily to the golden monument and stopped a few feet away, even closer than before. Those terrifying scenes were still there, and the monster roared every few breaths, but Qingshi was very safe.
"It's an illusion!" Xiang An shouted.
Chen Tianye and Duan Wutian also understood, and the three of them immediately flew down to Qingshi.
Yes, these are all illusions. Although they are terrifying, they are not lethal. Qingshi experienced the third level of the Trial Road, the Trial Ladder. For a moment, he remembered the illusion in the Trial Ladder, and suddenly understood it. After trying it, it was all an illusion.
After a while, the illusion gradually disappeared, and then the golden stone tablet slowly darkened, and finally turned into the original black.
After Qingshi waited for all the illusions to disappear, he took another step forward and blasted two air-piercing fists towards the black stone tablet. Then, the scene just now was staged again, with light and shadow floating, fear text appearing, phantom beasts roaring, and thunder about to strike. However, It was all a scare, and no actual attack occurred. Eventually, all illusions of light and shadow fell silent again.
"This thing turns out to be really scary!" Chen Tianye laughed.
"Yes!" Duan Wutian said, "Why are you so afraid of it? Dig it, dig it!"
"What we see now is a phantom formation," Xiang An said. "Not everything in the tomb is meant to scare people."
"Don't be afraid!" Qingshi said with a slight smile, "I can see the way to this magic circle, it won't trouble me. No matter what is in the tomb, break this magic circle first."
Yes, Qingshi has discovered that this formation is the Seven Glory Formation recorded in the Taixuan Sutra. When Qingshi passed the trial of the ladder, he was inspired by the illusion of the ladder to remember part of the Taixuan Sutra, which was the Seven Glory Formation.
Now seeing that this illusion was exactly the same as the illusion of the ladder, Qingshi quickly understood that this phantom formation was just a variant of the Seven Glory Formation, and its level seemed to be inferior to the complete Seven Glory Formation, so Qingshi calmed down.
"Have you recognized this formation?" Xiang An asked in surprise, "Can you crack it?"
"Yes!" Qingshi nodded.
"But this is just an illusion array," Xiang An said, "If we really want to find the tomb passage and enter the tomb underground palace, there will definitely be a maze of killing arrays. Can you guarantee that they can be cracked?"
"There's no guarantee," Qingshi smiled, "but you can try."
Qingshi is confident that since the person who set up the formation used the Qihuang Formation, most of his formation routines are included in the Taixuan Jing. Qingshi has few opportunities to encounter high-level formations included in the Taixuan Jing. , every time he encountered it, he would combine theory with practical operation, which not only improved the level of the array, but also unlocked more contents of Taixuan Jing. When encountering the Seven Glory Formation at this time, Qingshi would naturally not miss the opportunity to crack it.
