Yang Zhen began to live as a prisoner day after day.
There are about fifteen thousand prisoners working outside the giant cauldron. They are all foundation-building monks and are guarded by three Jindan-level real people and monsters. Below them, there are thirty Zifu or third-level monsters, as well as one hundred and fifty supervisors with late-stage foundation building cultivation, plus hundreds of followers in the mid- and early-stage foundation building stages, forming an extremely tight guard net. .
Zhuang Hong, the supervisor of Yang Zhen's group, had a total of 103 prisoners under his care.
Among them, Pei Jian, who has completed the foundation building, has the highest cultivation level and the most powerful combat power. Even if his feet were bound, Zhuang Hong couldn't hold on for a hundred breaths in front of him. The two had several fierce tit-for-tat conflicts with Mai Mang. After each incident, Pei Jian was punished with a thousand lashes, but Zhuang Hong was finally frightened by his beatings.
Supervisor Zhuang's boss is a ferocious demon bear that is extremely hostile to humans. Every time Zhuang Hong complained, he would often be scolded or even beaten violently. Over time, Zhuang Hong did not dare to find trouble easily.
So he could only let Pei Jian do what he wanted.
As a result, dozens of prisoners gathered around Pei Jian to support and look after each other. Almost all of these people have had fights with supervisory followers, been beaten severely by the whip, and eventually became people that Zhuang Hong and the others did not want to deal with.
Among them was Yang Zhen. On the third day of his arrival, he had a fight with the follower named Xiao Hei and received a hundred whippings. Then he was watched by Pei Jian and became one of them.
This brought him a lot of convenience.
For example, since then, Supervisor Zhuang no longer dared to increase his workload at will, nor did he dare to find fault with his completion. After the day's work was done, several people chatted together in twos and threes, and Supervisor Zhuang turned a blind eye.
Apart from the fact that there are no spiritual stones to earn, compared to the pressure of working in the cauldron, it is actually several times easier.
I also learned about Pei Jian's experience during a casual chat.
He was originally the helmsman of a certain Hong Tan Society, with more than a dozen brothers under his command. Last summer, the Red Tan Society came under severe attack when one of their subordinates was arrested and rebelled, revealing their hiding place. Of the thirteen men, three were killed and the rest were captured.
"There are eleven of us, including three female nuns. We haven't seen each other since we were captured. The other seven are all in this workshop with me."
Pei Jian recalled hoarsely.
Yang Zhen immediately thought of the flower house in the market in the mountains, and felt secretly in her heart.
"You, the helmsman, are not dead, and they must all be alive as well." He comforted.
"Live, live," Pei Jian said with a sad smile: "It's better to die than live! As long as you live, there is hope. I hope they all live well."
Obviously, he didn't have any guesses about their situation.
Seeing that the atmosphere was a little sad, Yang Zhen changed the subject and said, "Brother Pei, tell me, when will the work outside the giant cauldron be completed?"
"Recently, thousands of people have been added one after another, and the progress has been much faster. It is estimated that all the talismans will be completed in up to thirty days." Pei Jian replied.
"Thirty days!" Yang Zhen's expression changed slightly.
"What's wrong?" Pei Jian looked at him in surprise.
"It's nothing," Yang Zhenqiang said with a smile: "I don't know what kind of fate will be waiting for us in thirty days."
"It's just a matter of death." Pei Jian sneered.
The two were silent again.
…
Yang Zhen felt a little uneasy in her heart.
On the second night after throwing the small bluestone into the grass, he went to the tripod again and got in touch with Yiyi.
"The formation below is about twenty feet in diameter," Xiao Xiancao said: "It is made up of four formations, namely the trapping formation, the killing formation, the spirit gathering formation, and a star formation."
"The first two formations are mainly for defense to prevent someone from sneaking in and destroying it. The spirit gathering formation collects and gathers the spiritual energy released by the top quality spiritual stones and supplies it to the giant cauldron. The last star formation is the core of the creation furnace of heaven and earth."
"The weakest of these formations is at the fourth level. With the current strength of the few of us, even if it takes a hundred years, we may not be able to crack it."
"But, we are very lucky," Xiao Xiancao said happily: "The bases of these formations, including some fifth-level spiritual materials, are all earth materials. Our small stones can just be sneaked in. !”
It seems that Yiyi is in a really good mood, and she even joked about it with a pun on "little stone".
And what she said about "sneaking in" is Xiao Qingshi's unique characteristic.
It can be transformed into any soil, even the legendary sacred soil, but the latter is still beyond the power of bluestone, whose rules are not yet perfect at this moment. But the various earth-type spiritual materials that exist in the Zhenyu world are no longer a problem.
After being transformed into the same material as the base of the formation, the stone can be melted into it and slowly penetrate until it finally passes through the formation and enters the core location.
Throughout the process, the formation will not be affected in any way.
This feature is incredible.
certainly
, this process cannot be accomplished overnight, it will take a long time.
"In about fifty days," Xiao Xiancao estimated, "we can reach the center of the formation and find the top-quality spiritual stone."
At that time, they will use a trick to replace this top-grade spirit stone with hundreds of top-grade spirit stones. The total amount of spiritual energy contained in the two is almost the same, so it is not a big problem to continue to maintain the operation of the giant cauldron. Of course, the actual effect will be greatly reduced. But by that time, not to mention whether they can detect it in time, even if they notice it, those who want to find out the cause will not be able to do it in a short time.
As for how to escape from the center of the formation in time after obtaining the best spiritual stone, it is much simpler.
"[Yin Yang Lingxi Jue], as long as sister Yue'er senses her brother with this mental method, I will leave the rest to this fairy." Yiyi said confidently.
This is their entire plan for planning the best spiritual stone.
By the night of the third day, Yang Zhen could no longer sense the existence of the small bluestone, which meant that this magical stone had been integrated into the formation.
During this period, Zhao Yue'er and others were hiding in the bluestone, and Yang Zhen's [Yin-Yang Lingxi Jue] could not sense her either.
Of course, whenever he has free time every day, he will run this mental method and try to make contact.
Twenty days have passed and everything is going well. According to their estimates at the time, it would take at least forty days to complete the installation, both inside and outside the cauldron, which should be enough time.
However, the increasing number of prisoners made his calculations seem to be a little off.
When the Dingwai project is completed, what will be the fate of these people?
Will it kill the donkey?
Yang Zhen looked up at the sky, and saw a flying boat flying over his head and landing on top of the square tripod.
Not only are there more and more flying boats going to the outside of the cauldron, but also inside the cauldron.
The boy was even more worried.
…
Pei Jian's estimate was very accurate. One month later, with the final knock, all the runes outside the tripod were inscribed.
More than 17,000 foundation-building prisoners gathered under the giant cauldron, anxiously awaiting their fateful verdict.
Two huge flying boats came from the southern sky.
At the same time, Yang Zhen, who was secretly operating the [Yin-Yang Lingxi Jue] again, suddenly felt a heartstrings move!
He sensed Zhao Yue'er!
