There is a hidden cave on the northern slope of Ulu Mountain.
The cave is deep and deep, extending all the way to the heart of the mountain, extending in all directions like a spider web.
There are many large and small caves in the cave. There is a piece of feldspar embedded in the rock wall of one of the caves, which emits bright light.
"Two thousand seven hundred days!"
Under the Changming Stone, a burly man sat cross-legged on the ground. His complexion was a little pale because he had not seen the sun for many years.
The burly man let out a sigh, stretched out his finger, and scratched the stone wall.
The hard iron stone wall was scratched deeply like dirt under his fingers.
Hundreds of "zheng" characters are carved on the rock wall. He Shanfeng carved one stroke every day to record the time.
More than five hundred straight characters mean more than seven years.
“I don’t know when this day will end!”
The burly man stood up and sighed: "If I had known this, I should have fled to the Di An Sect!"
This man was over eight feet tall, with thick eyebrows and a black beard that covered his mouth.
It was He Shanfeng who was the target of Zhao Lin's mission.
At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps coming from the cave.
A tall and thin monk wearing a red robe came in and said, "Fellow Daoist He, how are you thinking about it?"
He Shanfeng glanced at the tall and thin monk and asked instead, "Do you agree to my conditions?"
The tall and thin monk smiled softly, "As long as Fellow Daoist He hands over the weapon refining method of Chenghua Sect, we will send you safely out of the Ba territory."
"Leave Pakistan safely? What next?"
"Then you're free to go wherever you want."
He Shanfeng's expression was slightly cold, "It's easy to say this. Chenghua Sect wants to get rid of me and then hurry up. If I go out, won't I be courting death?"
The tall and thin monk quickly said: "That's not possible. This is the territory of our Nanzhu Sect. How can the Chenghua Sect kill people casually?"
He Shanfeng was unmoved, "My request is to join your sect and become an honorary elder. If you don't agree, I'd better not mention the method of refining weapons."
The tall and thin monk frowned, "Young Daoist He is a wanted criminal of Chenghua Sect. Joining our sect means that we will fall out with Chenghua Sect. This matter is serious and is still under discussion..."
He Shanfeng said impatiently: "Then you can discuss it slowly, my conditions will not change." After speaking, he turned his head and never looked at the tall and thin monk again.
The slender monk's eyes flashed with cruelty, "Young Daoist He probably also knows that every one or two months, Chenghua Sect sends monks in, nominally to do business, but in fact we all know that they are looking for you."
"They will find you sooner or later, aren't you afraid?"
He Shanfeng laughed and said, "Let them come, I'm not afraid of anyone in the Qi Refining Realm. If one comes, I'll kill one, if two come, I'll kill a pair."
The tall and thin monk sighed helplessly, turned and left without saying anything else.
After a while, He Shanfeng sneered, "You think I'm a three-year-old child? If you hand over the weapon-refining method, I will be useless. I'm afraid I'll sell you out if you turn around!"
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"Are we looking in the wrong direction?"
After several days of searching without success, Zhao Lin began to doubt his own judgment.
If He Shanfeng was not hiding in a place with abundant spiritual energy, and he could just find a nook in the mountain and hide a cat in it, where would he go to find it?
"I don't know the true face of Mount Lu, just because I am in this mountain."
Looking at the vast forest sea, Zhao Lin suddenly remembered a poem and recited it twice, and his heart moved.
"Brother Du, we won't go back to the market tonight, but will stay on the mountain. I want to observe whether there is any change in the spiritual energy in the mountain at night."
Du Zhen naturally had no objection, and just reminded: "It's all up to fellow Taoist Zhao, but it is said that there is an evil spirit in the mountains at night, so you should be more careful."
"It's okay, we are on the top of the mountain and will not be affected."
The two settled down in a sheltered spot on the top of the mountain.
Zhao Lin released Li Feng and asked him to stand guard on the treetops not far away.
At night, it gets dark, the mountain wind howls, and the forest waves rise and fall.
Every once in a while, Zhao Lin used his qi-watching technique and looked around.
The spiritual energy gradually faded, and the Yin energy slowly emerged.
By the time of the child's hour, the spiritual energy has faded away and the yin energy has become stronger and stronger.
Especially somewhere on the mountainside, the black and gray air is particularly strong.
Zhao Lin became suspicious, woke up Du Zhen, pointed to the foot of the mountain and said: "There is a change in the breath, let's go and take a look."
Du Zhen's Qi-gazing skills were only small, and there was no abnormality. However, he trusted Zhao Lin very much. He rubbed his face with his hands to wake himself up, "Okay!"
The two walked quietly to the mountainside and searched for a while, but found nothing.
"I heard that spiritual energy is like Yang energy, rising during the day and lying down at night. Is this normal?"
Du Zhen whispered.
"It's not normal. Where there are spiritual veins, the spiritual energy subsides at night, but it's impossible not to be gone at all."
Zhao Lin shook his head firmly, but Du Zhen's words reminded him, and he took out a formation stone from the lock bag.
Buzz…
The formation stones made a sound.
"There is a magic circle!"
This formation stone is the spirit-sealing formation carved by Zhao Lin himself. If he encounters a similar formation, he will feel it.
This situation now means that there is a similar magic circle that focuses spiritual energy nearby.
"what happened?"
Du Zhen didn't understand the formation, but he knew something was wrong, so he immediately asked.
"Someone has set up a magic circle near here."
Zhao Lin explained, turning to look at Du Zhen, "Who do you think it could be?"
Du Zhen perked up and said, "He Shanfeng?"
"It's possible, but I'm not sure yet. Let me see what the magic circle is first."
Zhao Lin took out a blank array stone and an array pattern knife from his locked bag.
Holding the formation pattern knife, pouring spiritual power into it, moving the knife like flying, and carving five formation patterns on the formation stone.
These five formation patterns are not the formation patterns of a certain magic circle, but the most basic formation pattern, called the Five Elements Pattern, which represent gold, wood, water, fire, and earth respectively.
When a formation stone engraved with five elements patterns is placed in a magic formation, it will generate a reaction, test the properties and functions of the magic formation, and then deduce what kind of magic formation it is.
Du Zhen's face was full of admiration and he didn't say a word for fear of disturbing Zhao Lin.
In half a stick of incense, the formation pattern was carved.
Zhao Lin held the formation stone with one hand and stared at the formation patterns on it.
The formation stones seemed to be attracted by some kind of force, and spiritual energy flowed in the formation patterns, constantly changing into various colors, gold, green, cyan, blue, yellow...
"I understand, that's how it is!"
Zhao Lin clenched his fists with both hands and bumped them lightly.
He turned to Du Zhen and said: "This formation is called the Inverted Spirit Absorbing Formation. It is a second-level magic formation that can absorb the surrounding spiritual energy into the formation and at the same time reflect the evil energy from the ground. It has a strong camouflage effect."
"I guess it was most likely arranged by He Shanfeng. He used to be the head of the Weapon Refining Hall, so it's not surprising that he has a magic circle."
Du Zhen was ecstatic when he heard this, "No wonder, this thief is hiding so deep!"
Zhao Lin nodded lightly, "Now we can use this formation stone to find this person." (End of Chapter)
