After dawn, the five people set off and continued towards the direction of the ruins.
Nothing happened in the morning. Only when noon was approaching, several people saw from a distance more than ten people in front of them flying over in two groups, causing the five people to slow down and become alert.
However, it was later discovered that the two groups of people were not coming for the five of them. It seemed that the ones in front were fleeing and the ones behind were chasing them.
However, the appearance of the five of them made these people, whether they were running away or chasing, stunned for a moment, and then the running away continued to run, but the chasing stopped, looking at Qian Chao and others, those who were running at the end saw Those people behind stopped chasing and couldn't help but turn around and say harsh words:
"Shangsuke! Remember what happened today. I will always ask you to get it back in the future!"
One of those who stopped and did not pursue them answered loudly:
"Okay! Then I'll wait for you, don't make me wait too long!"
When those who escaped passed by Qian Chao and others, they also found that these people were more or less injured and looked very embarrassed. In addition, the last one who said harsh words to Shangjie was not only injured, but even looked at him. Xiang Qianchao and others also looked at him fiercely, seeming very annoyed that his embarrassment was seen.
"Thank you, Senior Brother Shang, for your help, otherwise the junior brothers would be in bad luck today."
Some of those who stopped were bowing and thanking the dealer.
"You're welcome. You have to be more careful when you come out in the future."
The man said this.
Business introduction! Unexpectedly, he was the Shang Jie. Qian Chao secretly thought that among the well-informed people that Ma Hu had recommended to him, Cai Jian and Bu Yannong had both been found and had become acquainted with each other. However, this Shang Jie was not found in the sect. He I still remembered this person. I originally thought I would look for him when I got back, but I didn't expect to meet him outside the sect.
I looked at the man. He had an ordinary appearance but a tall figure. He had a shrewd and unruly air on his face. There were also several people with similar temperaments around him. It seemed that this man should be the business agent that Ma Hu mentioned. There are also some people around him who like to take care of unfair things outside. Therefore, he has a good reputation, but he has made many enemies.
But now is not a good time to talk, and several people have to rush to the ruins. It seems that they have to wait until they return to the sect to get acquainted with this person.
When Qian Chao and others passed by, Shang Jie looked at these little guys with low cultivation levels with some suspicion. He didn't know what these little guys were doing here, but in the end he didn't say anything, but asked the people around him After giving the order, several people turned around and flew away.
After all these people dispersed, Lu Pingchuan said with some pity:
"Hey, it's a pity that I came late and didn't see them fighting."
Yanxuan looked around and saw that those people were flying far away, so he said:
"Oh, this sect is really not peaceful. Something always happens. It seems that those who escaped just now wanted to rob others. I didn't expect that someone would take action to ruin their affairs."
Li Jian also understood something from what those people said just now, so he had a good impression of the man named Shang Jie. He said:
"This is probably how the hatred between Senior Brother Chen Xian and Xie You came about, and it was also the reason why Xie You was harmed."
Qian Chao said: "I want to get to know the man named Shang Jie after I return. This man is considered a well-informed person among the Qi Refining disciples in the sect. Many things that others don't know may be found out from him. This I looked for him before he came out this time, but I didn’t expect that he was always outside the sect.”
Yanxuan was a little confused and asked, "Why is he so well-informed?"
"This man can be regarded as a ruthless person. It is said that he hits very hard when fighting with others. Well, his reputation is not bad. I saw it just now. He is probably helping others to save themselves. There are some people around him who are following him. In addition, with his good reputation, some disciples in the sect are willing to ask him for help. The more people who ask him, the more things they will know. If you get to know him, you can know some things that others don't know."
…
In the afternoon of that day, after walking for a while, Qian Chao started to become cautious.
He always held a leather map in his hand, and while flying, he checked the flight routes of his group against the map. Sometimes he stopped to look carefully, and then went to a higher place to take a closer look.
Tang Ping and others knew that they were approaching the ruins, so Qian Chao was so careful, fearing that he might miss it.
And Li Jian also became cautious. After all, it was a ruin. If it were opened, there might be good things inside. Think about the time when Luo Ying and Wenyuan went out to open the treasure in the ruins. As a result, they were followed by more than a hundred people. From this point of view, the attraction of the things in the ruins to the monks was strong enough to cost them their lives. Therefore, when Qian Chao began to be cautious, Li Jian was also the same, always paying attention to the things around him. There is no trace of anyone else. If there were, a few people would have to deal with it carefully.
Finally, Qian Chao determined the location of the ruins and flew over along the ridge of a mountain range with a few companions.
Several people have a common understanding of the so-called ruins, that is, when they find them, they should be full of dilapidated and abandoned courtyards, pavilions that have been lost in the years, and the ruins are filled with weeds. Occasionally, you can brush aside the clumps of weeds. See the carvings left on the bluestone below from an unknown age.
Speaking of which, this was not the first ruins that the five of them found. They did not find any treasures in the first ruins, but there were some good spiritual herbs, and Qian Chao also found two magic circles there.
But it always looks like a ruins, which is consistent with the five people's understanding of the ruins.
So when Qian Chao led his companions there, several of them were a little confused. Because Qian Chao stopped, they all stopped. They thought this was just the way to the ruins, but when they saw Qian Chao's expression , then I realized that this place is a ruin!
This is just a stone platform halfway up the mountain. Under the stone platform is an abyss of ten thousand feet. You can faintly hear the sound of water coming from under the abyss. If you can still hear the sound of water from such a high place, there must be a The river flows below. The stone platform is not big, because there are no overgrown weeds. If you look closely, you can see that the stone platform is not naturally smooth. One side of the stone platform is a cliff, and the other side is a mountain wall. Although this stone wall is not shiny, it is flat and upright, and it is not natural. There are many pothos vines hanging down from the top, covering half of the stone wall. In addition to the vines, there are also many struggling to get out of the cracks in the stone wall. Miscellaneous branches grow randomly, and the top of the mountain is reached further up.
No matter how you look at this place, it doesn’t look like a ruin. Tang Ping couldn’t help but ask:
"Is this the ruins here?"
Qian Chao said: "Yes, this is it."
"But...it doesn't look like a ruin here!"
Qian Chao smiled and said: "Then what do you think the ruins should look like? Is it a ruin with a few broken houses and a circle of collapsed walls?"
"But... this is such a small place, even if it is a ruins, where can the treasure be hidden?"
"This place was definitely not like this originally. I mean, this mountain was definitely not this high before. Our location should have been at the foot of the mountain. I don't know when, what reasons and changes changed the original appearance of this place. The landform must have been extremely shocking at that time. It was like the sky was collapsing and the earth was collapsing. Flat places collapsed into deep gorges. Mountains suddenly rose up. The earth shook. Ground fire surged out and engulfed everything. Then it was flooded by the diverted river water. , in the fire and water, the manor built here was destroyed, and here..."
Qian Chao said, pointing to the stone platform at his feet and the mountain wall next to it.
"The manor built on the mountain must be the deepest part of the manor, because it is closest to the mountain, and it follows the bulging peaks to the mountainside. It is precisely because this is the deepest part of the manor, so it was also the place where the manor was built. The place where the sect or aristocratic family living here collects things is what we now call a treasure trove."
Several people listened and could not imagine that such earth-shattering changes could happen here.
Tang Ping curled her lips and said:
"Speak as if you have seen it before! Only by opening it can you prove that this is a real ruin."
Qian Chao smiled, looked around again, and said:
"Don't worry, I'm sure this is the ruins, but we should be more careful. Brother Li, we should walk around here for a while. If this place is opened later, if others see it here, we may be in trouble. We Let’s take a look around first.”
Listening to what Qian Chao said, it seemed that he had found the place where the treasure was hidden. Naturally, the few of them didn't want anyone else to mess with it when it was opened, so Li Jian led the way around the place and determined the area. Only when there was no one else around did he fly back to this stone platform.
"Okay, now there is no one else here. Mr. Qian, is it time to open the ruins and take away the treasures inside?"
Tang Ping was a little anxious.
Not only her, but also Li Jian, Yan Xuan and Lu Pingchuan were all curious about the ruins that were about to be opened and the treasures inside.
"This ruin may not be easy to open, it will be a bit troublesome, but..." Qian Chao looked at the stone wall of the stone platform and said, "It can definitely be opened."
Then several people watched Qian Chao close his eyes. When he opened them again, blue light shone in his eyes and looked around.
He walked on the stone platform and looked down. After he came to a corner near the stone wall and looked around, he pointed down with his hand, turned back to his companions and said with a smile:
"This is where the formation is."
Several people followed over and looked at where Qian Chao pointed. Although the stones there were as flat as elsewhere, they were indeed different from other places. The stones there were arranged one by one into three sets. Circles together.
Qian Chao looked at the three circles. With the help of the Blue Eyes Technique, he could see three layers of circles composed of runes under the three circles. This was the formation.
"Well, the formation is not difficult," Qian Chao said, looking back at the stone wall. "If the formation is opened, I guess the door to the treasure house should be on that stone wall. Well, of course it might also be there." This stone platform.”
There are a total of twenty-one runes arranged in three circles in the formation, with seven in each circle. Qian Chao cannot recognize all of those runes, but since it is a formation, there are rules to follow. In Qian Chao's view, the runes used in the formation all have five-element attributes. Each rune in each circle has a mutually reinforcing relationship or a mutually restraining relationship with the adjacent runes, and then they are opposite each other up and down. The same is true for runes. Rotating the formation made of stones means changing the positions of the opposite runes inside and outside the three circles. It is possible to create a row of three runes that grow from the inside to the outside or from the outside to the inside. If the seven columns of runes in the three circles are all in a mutually reinforcing or mutually incompatible relationship, then the formation will be solved.
"I'll give it a try first. If it works, please note that there is an entrance open there."
As he spoke, Qian Chao stretched out his hands towards the formation.
There was a flash of light on his hands, and in the eyes of Tang Ping and others, the three circles made of stones began to make a muffled sound of "creeping", and the three circles began to rotate.
Although Qian Chao is now a monk at the fourth level of Qi Refining, he suffers from the fact that his spiritual root qualifications are not very good, and the Blue Eyes Technique is a very spiritual energy-consuming spell. Therefore, after a cup of tea, as the magic circle rotates , there was already a flush on his face, it was obvious that he had consumed too much spiritual energy.
Tang Ping and others couldn't help, so they could only watch from the side.
Finally, Qian Chao's face flushed and he shouted softly: "It's done!"
Then he turned to look at the stone platform and stone wall.
Naturally, several of his companions followed suit and looked over.
Unfortunately, it was quiet on the stone platform, and there was no movement on the stone wall. Nothing abnormal happened, and no entrance to the treasure house that Qian Chao mentioned appeared.
This made Qian Chao a little embarrassed. He lowered his head and walked around the stone platform, stamped his feet, looked at the stone wall carefully for a while, and slapped it with his hands. Unfortunately, there was still no change.
Li Jian flew up and searched around on the stone wall covered by vines, while Tang Ping hung outside the stone platform and looked down to see if there were any changes.
Several people searched for it, but the result was still the same, no change occurred!
"Hey, did you get that formation right?" Tang Ping came over and asked in a low voice.
"No," Qian Chao shook his head and said, "I must have cracked the formation, but... wait for me to try again."
After saying that, Qian Chao took out a piece of earth spirit stone and held it in his hand. He formed a hand gesture with one hand and kept turning the formation around. After a while, it seemed to be done. He turned around and looked over again. Several companions also searched again, but still nothing happened.
He fiddled with it like this for a while, and several times he looked back when the formation stopped. As time went by, even the spirit stone in his hand became much smaller under his constant absorption, but there was still no abnormality. condition occurs.
Several companions looked at Qian Chao, whose face was still flushed, and each thought that it would be difficult to open this ruins this time.
Seemingly noticing the disappointment of his companions, Qian Chao smiled and said, "Wait for me, this ruins can definitely be opened."
After saying that, he no longer played with the formation, but placed a case in the middle of the stone platform. He took out a pen and paper, drew the formation on the paper, and then sketched it on the paper. Start thinking.
Several people had no choice but to wait for him.
Lu Pingchuan was bored and patted the stone wall and said:
"Since Brother Qian said that the door to the treasure hiding place is on this stone wall, how about I punch it here and open it directly? Why do we have to use some formation?"
Tang Ping advised: "Brother Lu, I've also heard people say that even if you smash the place where the formation is hidden, you won't be able to find what's hidden inside. You'd better wait for Mr. Qian."
Lu Pingchuan had no choice but to continue waiting.
Not long after waiting, several people saw Qian Chao suddenly put the pen in his hand on the paper and said:
"I must have cracked that formation. No, the problem is not with the formation!"
As he spoke, Qian Chao raised his head, looked at his companions, and said:
"Sister Yan, Brother Li, please go and search nearby to see if there are any spiritual herbs or anything nearby. You don't have to go far, just look nearby."
Yanxuan and Li Jian didn't understand why Qian Chao asked them to find the spiritual grass. Is it possible that finding the spiritual grass can open the ruins?
But after all, they had always had confidence in Qian Chao's intelligence, so they nodded and flew away together.
"Hey, Mr. Qian, what are you doing?"
"The formation I deciphered is definitely correct. The problem lies elsewhere, here..."
As he spoke, Qian Chao stretched out an arm and drew it in the air, seeming to include the stone platform and walls.
Tang Ping still didn't understand, so she asked again:
"Is it possible that if Sister Yan and Brother Li find the spiritual grass, you can open this ruins?"
After hearing this, Qian Chao suddenly smiled and said:
"Don't worry, Sister Yan and Brother Li should not be able to find the spiritual grass."
This made Tang Ping curious again, but then Qian Chao started to get busy again, so she did not ask again.
Qian Chao took out the cinnabar that had been ground long ago from the storage bag, took out a tea cup, and took out a pot of spiritual wine that Tang Ping gave him, and mixed the cinnabar thoroughly with the spiritual wine in the tea cup. He took out a new pen and a stack of yellow talisman paper.
After dipping the pen tip in cinnabar in the tea cup, Qian Chao glanced at Tang Ping and Lu Pingchuan who were looking at him curiously, and said calmly:
"Believe me, this ruins can definitely be opened."
The red lines on the brand-new talisman paper were winding and winding. Tang Ping didn't understand these, and naturally Lu Pingchuan didn't understand them either. But nothing happened, so they watched Qian Chao keep drawing there.
After finishing two pictures, Qian Chao's complexion began to turn slightly red again.
At this time, Yanxuan and Li Jian, who had gone out to look for spiritual grass, flew back.
After Yanxuan fell, he said to Qian Chao:
"Brother Qian, we've looked for it, but there's no spiritual grass around here?"
Qian Chao nodded and said:
"It's exactly what I thought. Wait for me, wait until I finish painting, and then we can open the ruins."
After saying that, he lowered his head again and carefully drew the talisman.
It was the first time for Li Jian to see Qian Chao making talismans, and he watched with interest.
"Brother Qian, what are you doing?" Yanxuan asked Tang Ping in a low voice.
Tang Ping said softly:
"That's a talisman, but I don't know what it's for. Mr. Qian just said that you and Brother Li shouldn't be able to find the spiritual grass. It seems that it's a good thing that you can't find the spiritual grass. We should wait for him for the rest. Well, I can’t understand it either.”
Qian Chao made a total of six talismans. After painting these six talismans, his face flushed and he looked very tired, but his eyes were bright.
After sitting for a while, Qian Chao stood up and came to the formation. He picked out one of the six talismans, placed it in the center of the formation, and then took out a spiritual stone and pressed it on it.
Seeing several companions following him and looking at him curiously, he said:
"Sister Yan and Brother Li looked for it just now, but couldn't find the spiritual grass."
Li Jian and Yan Xuan nodded after hearing this.
"That's right. In fact, I didn't realize this place until later." As he spoke, Qian Chao pointed at the stone platform and the stone wall with his hands. "The spiritual energy here is very sparse and thin. It's not a place with strong spiritual energy." Place, right?”
After hearing this, several people felt it for a moment. As expected, they nodded again.
"That's right," Qian Chao continued while placing a talisman on the outside of the formation and pressing a spiritual stone, "The spiritual energy here is not strong, so it is naturally not a place where spiritual grass can grow. But no matter what There used to be a family or a sect here. As long as it is a place where cultivators gather and live, they will definitely not choose such a place. If they want to choose, they will choose places with strong spiritual energy and preferably with spiritual veins passing through. Living and practicing, right?”
This is a simple truth, and a few people nodded again.
"And there were indeed many monks living here. But now the spiritual energy here is so poor, there is only one reason."
Qian Chao said as he placed another talisman and pressed it with a spiritual stone.
"Don't show off!" Tang Ping said dissatisfied.
Qian Chao smiled, stopped what he was doing, stood up straight and said:
"This used to be a place with very good spiritual energy. Otherwise, there would be no monks living here and leaving these ruins. But now that the spiritual energy here is so bad, it means that the spiritual veins have changed their course, just like a river. Sometimes the river changes its course. , the floods overflowed, and finally the flow direction of the river changed. The same is true for the spiritual veins. When the mutation occurred here, it changed its direction like a changed river. Without the spiritual veins, the spiritual energy here became what it is now. It looks very bad."
This path is explained clearly, but it can only explain why Yanxuan and Li Jian can't find spiritual grass nearby. What does it have to do with this formation?
"What does that have to do with this formation?" Tang Ping asked.
"Of course, all formations are related to spiritual energy. Think about it, are the formations we discovered outside before, as well as my Soul Locking Formation and Hidden Spirit Formation, all related to spiritual energy?"
This is true. They once discovered the Hidden Spirit Array on a small island in a large river. The spiritual grass in the array was of excellent quality but had not been discovered by monsters. They also found changing spiritual veins on the stone walls on both sides of the river. The directional formations and the spirit-locking formation absorb the spiritual energy of the people or monsters in the formation, while Qian Chao's own hidden spirit formation prevents the fluctuations of the spiritual energy of the people in the formation from spreading outside the formation. Sure enough, formations are all related to spiritual energy.
Qian Chao continued: "So, the formation here must be related to spiritual energy."
He pointed to the formation where several talisman papers were placed on the ground.
"The reason why the formation was cracked by me, but the treasure hiding place cannot be opened, is because there is almost no spiritual energy here. There is no spiritual energy. Even if the formation is cracked by me, the treasure hiding place will not be opened. Open, that’s why.”
That's what he said, but several companions knew very little about this formation technique, so they could only nod in confusion, and then continued to look at Qian Chao.
Tang Ping asked: "Then what are you doing with these talismans and spiritual stones, so that you can open the treasure house here?"
Qian Chao nodded and said: "Thanks to the Heaven and Earth Prison we visited a few days ago, I learned a lot. The formation composed of these talismans is a simplified one from the many formations there."
Speaking of this, Qian Chao had a somewhat complacent expression on his face.
"With the help of this magic circle, I can make the spiritual energy in these spiritual stones disperse quickly. It can probably simulate the way the spiritual energy was diffused here back then. Then the magic circle can almost be opened."
When Tang Ping heard the word "almost" in his words, she knew that Qian Chao was probably not very sure, so she said:
"Can it be done?"
"Uh... it should work. If not, I still have a way, but it will be a lot more troublesome."
After saying this, Qian Chao lowered his head and placed five talismans in a circle outside the formation, each with a spiritual stone pressed on top.
"I'm going to start," Qian Chao said, his hands were sparkling again, and he was ready to activate the magic circle again. "This time it should be successful!"
Several companions looked at him quietly.
The first thing Qian Chao activated was the formation he created using a talisman. As soon as his hand movements began to change, the strange words written with cinnabar on the talisman began to turn red. Almost at the same time, five I personally felt a strong spiritual energy spreading around me.
Then Qian Chao activated the original formation on the stone platform, and the three layers of circles made of stones rotated "rollingly". When each stopped, the three layers of circles began to glow slightly.
During this process, the five people only watched the rotation of the formation. When the rotation stopped, they all noticed a slight shaking on the stone wall behind them.
Li Jian was the first to turn around and look.
Li Jian said excitedly as he looked at a stone door slowly opening in the stone wall.
"Brother Qian, it's done!"
Lu Pingchuan was overjoyed: "Hey! It's open, it's open!"
Yanxuan looked there and murmured: "It's indeed opened."
Tang Ping was excited: "It's yours! Mr. Qian!"
Qian Chao looked at the entrance of the cave and somehow said, "No wonder Senior Sister Luo can't open this place... No wonder!"
