Tang Ping and Yan Xuan woke up from their dreams almost at the same time and sat up together!
Both of them were breathing rapidly. Although the expressions on the faces of the two girls could not be seen clearly at night, it was not difficult to imagine their shock from the heavy and rapid breathing!
After her breathing had calmed down, Tang Ping hesitated and said:
"Sister Yan, do you feel it?"
"I feel it. Is this the bottleneck of... Xiaowu Pass... Xiaowu Pass?"
"That's right...exactly!"
"But..." Yanxuan became even more strange. She turned to Tang Ping, "But we didn't do anything. We were resting and not practicing. Why did we get to this point all of a sudden for no reason? ?”
"This... I can't explain clearly," Tang Ping said, but her eyes looked in the direction of Jiu Xuan in the darkness of the room. The two of them didn't do anything, but maybe one of their partners did. What "Go and ask Mr. Qian, Brother Li and Brother Lu tomorrow to see how they are doing. It's always a good thing."
"Hmm...it's just a little strange." Yanxuan said.
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At the same time, Li Jian also woke up in the middle of the night.
While he was sleeping soundly, Li Jian suddenly felt as if his whole body was imprisoned by a layer of steel armor, unable to move, which suddenly woke him up from his deep sleep.
What's going on here?
This feeling is somewhat familiar, but also strange.
In the past, whether several people faced bottlenecks before a breakthrough in cultivation or real breakthroughs, it was always after hard cultivation or hard struggle.
If a breakthrough in cultivation is regarded as walking a hundred miles, then the bottleneck is the moment after people have walked ninety-nine miles. At this time, the end is not far away, but the two legs are also filled with energy. It was as heavy as lead, and the whole person was even more exhausted. He was unwilling to move forward even half a step. This last mile was the so-called bottleneck.
The reason why the bottleneck of Xiaowu Pass is important is because if daily breakthrough is regarded as walking a hundred miles, then breaking through from the fourth level of Qi Refining to the fifth level of Qi Refining will almost have to walk more than a thousand miles. Moreover, there are many forks in the road. If you accidentally go wrong, you have to go back and start over. This always makes the walker tired and tired, unable to move forward, and just wants to sit down and rest for a while. But at this time, the road ahead is still far away. And it became increasingly rugged and difficult to walk.
I don't know how many of the qi refining disciples in the sect have been delayed by this small fifth level, lingering on the fourth level of qi refining. I don’t know how many people have felt the bottleneck of Xiaowu Pass, but they have never been able to truly break through. The bottleneck has become a pass that has them stuck.
But this time, Li Jian was most curious.
Compared with previous situations, this time it is difficult to say that it happened after a fight. After all, it has been almost half a month since the fierce fight that night, which is somewhat unjustifiable.
And it was not after hard training that he felt the bottleneck of Xiaowu Pass just after sleeping until midnight. This made Li Jian very puzzled!
Looking out at the pre-dawn night in the bamboo hut, Li Jian shook his head and secretly thought to wait until dawn to ask some of his companions to see if they also felt the bottleneck of this small five levels.
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Only Lu Pingchuan felt nothing about this.
It can't be said that he didn't have any performance. The thunderous snoring in the night suddenly stopped. It seemed that Lu Pingchuan was having trouble breathing, and it was as if someone pinched his nose with his hand. After a moment, He finally took a breath again, and then the drum-like snoring sounded again.
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Qian Chao fell on his back behind the desk, bleeding from several wounds on his body.
He had been lying down for a while, and now he was no longer panting violently. In the severe pain, he stretched out his hands with difficulty to grab something to support himself and sit up again. Unexpectedly, as soon as he reached out, he felt a sharp pain in his ribs, which made him He almost screamed, and had to "hiss" inhale the cold air while trembling. Finally, after gathering enough strength, he turned over with difficulty and then slowly sat up again.
At this time, Qian Chao didn't notice at all that he had reached the bottleneck of the fifth level in cultivation. Although he was injured in many places all over his body and was in bloody pain, his eyes were full of excitement.
After sitting firmly, Qian Chao saw the water mist mirror on the desk again. He grabbed it, held it in his hand and looked at it repeatedly, and then he coldly looked at the mirror in his hand as if he were talking to a person. Leng said:
"Give up, just stay in there with peace of mind!"
After saying that, he threw the mirror on the desk with a clang, and then started to check his wounds with a grin on his face.
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To understand what happened after Qian Chao was injured in the illusion, we naturally have to go back in time to that time.
After being injured, Qian Chao found that the various illusions that continued to appear in front of him were very different from before!
In the past, all illusions followed one rule, that is, as long as Qian Chao could endure it and not take action, he would not be harmed in any way.
This is also the reason why Qian Chao dared to take the risk of letting himself look in this mirror, but this is also based on the rune formations that he can understand, but the formations contained in this mirror are not Qian Chao's. They can all figure it out, but the ones he can figure out all follow that rule, so he overgeneralizes that all illusions caused by this mirror are like this, so he suffers a loss.
He recognized more than 40% of the runes contained in this mirror, and he was vague about less than 30%. Although he gained a lot of knowledge in the process of experiencing the illusion, there were still two points. He didn't recognize Cheng Duo's runes, but these were the runes he didn't recognize. When he first saw them, he felt a little strange. It seemed that he had seen them somewhere, but he couldn't remember them.
Qian Chao now understands that most of the illusions he encountered before were caused by formations composed of runes that he knew or were vague about. Now that he has injured his shoulder, those illusions that he cannot understand or understand are The rune formations were activated one after another.
When Qian Chao experienced the illusion again after being injured, he thought that as long as he did not take action, he would not be harmed. However, when he stood on a cliff opposite the fake money tide again, he suffered a loss. The fake money tide smiled ferociously. When Jian Fei stabbed him, Qian Chao thought he had already been struck by his own sword anyway. No matter how the guy pretending to be himself struck, as long as he didn't do anything, he wouldn't be hurt until the opponent's spiritual sword stabbed him. , when the severe pain made him tremble uncontrollably, he realized that the illusion in front of him was different from what he had experienced before.
The illusion has changed for the second time. It no longer peeps into Qian Chao's heart, but now, no matter whether he takes action or not, any attack launched in the illusion can cause him harm!
After the attack was successful, the fake Qian Chao showed a proud look on his face. He looked at Qian Chao, who was hunched over and shaking uncontrollably, and then launched a fatal attack.
Countless spiritual swords, like a swarm of locusts, were densely packed towards Qian Tide. Judging from the sword he just received, if he was pierced by these flying swords, he would have to wait for others to arrive after dawn. When Qian Chao came to his residence to collect his body, Qian Chao leaned back and fell from the cliff to avoid the locust-like spirit swords. As a result, the group of spirit swords did not slow down when they reached the cliff, and even made a sharp turn. He chased straight down!
He's still clinging to me!
Qian Chao fell from the cliff on his back, with the sound of wind whistling behind his head and ears, and in front of him were clusters of cold and sharp sword edges!
Fake Qian Chao relaxedly walked to the edge of the cliff and looked down, as if wondering whether Qian Chao would fall to death or be stabbed to death by random swords.
Qian Chao quickly thought about countermeasures while falling rapidly.
In the Blue Eyes Technique, this world was completely different from what he had experienced before. In the previous illusion, he could only find the formation that caused this illusion, and the rest could not be seen. But now it's different. There seem to be countless runes on the sky, half of them are messy like stars. Only the formation composed of the few lit up runes triggers the current illusion.
But what made Qian Chao secretly complain was that he could only recognize two or three of the dozen or so runes in that formation!
The current situation is like walking on horseback and looking at a monument. If a person riding a horse on the inscription can recognize all the words on the inscription and that person has good eyesight, he can naturally read it at a glance; People who have never read it can still deduce the approximate meaning of those words based on the words above and below. Even if they don’t know how to read, they can always understand the general meaning of the inscription. If they are almost the same, they can be considered a fool’s errand. Even if the person passing by on horseback has good eyesight, after taking a quick look at it, he finds that he only recognizes a few words on the stone tablet and does not know what the rest means, then there is no need Thinking that he can figure out what this inscription means.
Qian Chao is now a man with good eyesight. He thought he could understand the inscription when he rode by, but when he passed by, he was surprised to find the runes that triggered the illusion in front of him... He only recognized a few of them!
Now Qian Chao was completely panicked, and for the first time he began to blame himself for not being so reckless, but regretting was of no use. Since he had never seen that formation, then... a dead horse should be regarded as a living horse. Get medical treatment!
Thinking of this, Qian Chao, who was falling, made a few hand gestures in his hand, and then tapped somewhere in the void.
Naturally, the place where his hand tips should be is a rune formation. Although this is to treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor, this is not random. Now Qian Chao is in this world. It can be seen as being surrounded by many rune formations. There are many rune formations. I don’t know how many of them he has not experienced, but one thing is that Qian Chao can only experience them at the same time. An illusion, and whenever an illusion appears, the original one will replace it and disappear.
This is what Qian Chao had in mind. The illusion in front of him cannot be broken. After a while, even if he does not die, he will be seriously injured. Then he must not let this illusion continue. He must activate another formation in advance. , it is better to replace the one in front of you with a new illusion than to watch yourself being pierced by a random sword!
Generally speaking, people trapped in illusions cannot change the illusion they are in. Assuming that Qian Chao is trapped in Tang Ping or Lu Shuang's illusions, it is futile for him to do so, but after all, he is in the illusion now. The illusion is caused by a refined bronze mirror, and if the refined object can trigger a power similar to that of a monk's illusion, it must rely on the rune formation that has been imprinted in it for a long time. This makes Chu Tong Runeology Qianchao seized the opportunity.
A bit of spiritual energy from Qian Chao's technique activated a formation that was ready to go in advance.
There was a trance in front of his eyes, and the cold light of the group of spiritual swords became distorted, and finally disappeared. Qian Chao also breathed a sigh of relief, and finally escaped.
However, the fake money tide who was standing on the cliff to witness Qian Chao being torn apart by random swords was both angry and surprised by the real money tide's actions!
Qian Chao also saw the guy before entering the trance, and looked at him for a moment, because after a moment the world was distorted and the guy disappeared, but the look on the fake Qian Chao's face surprised Qian Chao !
Disappointed, surprised, angry, unwilling!
This is beyond the scope of an illusion!
It really seemed like one of Qian Chao's enemies was sparing no effort to hunt him down!
Is this guy... more than just an illusion?
Was that illusion too real, so Qian Chao had this illusion?
Or should I say that this mirror is weird? It is more than just a mirror!
Before this question could be resolved, the world around Qian Chao changed.
The speed of his fall suddenly slowed down, but suddenly there was a cold force around him that kept squeezing him. Originally Qian Chao secretly breathed a sigh of relief and was about to take a closer look at what was around him. When Qian Chao was squeezed by the force, he exhaled the air in his lungs, but a string of white bubbles came out of his mouth. While struggling, Qian Chao also choked on two mouthfuls of salty sea water. When the wounds on his body were soaked by the sea water, the pain was even more severe!
Only then did he realize that he was actually in an unknown depth of sea water. The ever-changing sunlight above his head shone through the sea water, but it was much dimmed when it hit Qian Chao's depth, and Qian Chao was looking up at this moment. The body is slowly falling.
Qian Chao himself can also arrange some simple formations, and his formations are not phantom formations, but real five-element formations. With his understanding of formations... He waved his hand and felt more and more The resistance brought by the colder sea water... What I was in now no longer looked like an illusion, but more like a real Five Elements Formation, and it was much more complicated than what I could arrange.
That mirror... Qian Chao thought... it was definitely not what Tang Yatou said. It could only be used to perform powerful illusions!
Because what he is in now definitely does not look like an illusion!
A giant creature above slowly swam over with its fins and tails swaying, completely blocking the sunlight. The long roars of sea beasts from nowhere in the sea rang out, and the waves swayed with the fins and tails of the giant thing swimming above. The turbulence spread, Qian Chao's body turned unexpectedly with the turbulence, and he saw an endless darkness under him, pitch black. He didn't know how long it would take him to reach the bottom of the sea if he fell like this, but... ...It must not be able to reach the bottom of the sea. In the darkness below, the dots of light seem to be motionless but are getting brighter and brighter. It is the unknown sea beast that is attracted by the blood of Qian Chao's wound and is coming from A sign that money is coming from below.
Got to go!
Qian Chao thought.
The big mouth of the hurried sea beast almost covered Qian Chao, but when the big mouth closed, Qian Chao's figure became trance-like, and then disappeared. With a "click", the sea beast clicked. The bite was empty, and he shook his head and looked around in confusion, but when he saw the huge thing above, he turned around in horror and went down again.
This is indeed not an illusion!
Finally coming out of the water, Qian Chao took a deep breath. Water was dripping from all his clothes and pooled at his feet. Qian Chao held his knees and panted, but when he stood up After straightening up, he realized that he was back on the edge of the cliff where he had just been injured, and the fake Qian Chao was looking at him in surprise. Looking at his position, it seemed that he was standing on the edge of the cliff just now and looking down. A place to look around.
how?
Did he accidentally activate the previous formation again?
The counterfeit money tide was unwilling to give him any more chances. After being stunned for a moment, he launched an attack.
Qian Chao's body flashed to the side, and then with a "boom", the cliff was hit hard by something. Qian Chao felt his feet loosen, and he was caught off guard and fell from the cliff together with countless falling rocks. Up and down.
This time the wave of counterfeit money came out faster, and the locust-like swarms of spiritual swords came even more urgently. However, there was a "ding-ding-ding-ding" sound in the cold light, and the large and small rocks that fell from the cliff were almost chopped into pieces. It fell into pieces, but the money in it disappeared.
"Damn it!"
Fake Money Chao cursed bitterly, then immediately raised his head and looked into the air.
On the sky, there was a formation that was glowing slightly, and Qian Chao must be there.
Then the figure of the fake money tide disappeared from the world for a while.
At this time, Qian Chao was standing on the top of a hill and looking around. The vast forest below the mountain spread to the end of the world. But at the end of the world, thick smoke mixed with flames was rolling in. With the sound of flapping wings in the air, a heat wave rushed straight down. Wherever the heat wave passed, the trees first dried up. Then flames burst out from the scorch. Qian Chao looked up and saw a big bird like a floating cloud, fluttering its fiery red wings, coming towards the hill where he stood!
Is that... a fire phoenix?
When Qian Chao was about to take a closer look, he suddenly heard the sound of a sword. When he turned around and looked over, he saw the fake Qian Chao standing not far behind him, and the layers of flying swords had already arrived in front of him!
What a pity, Qian Chao thought secretly, he still wants to see more of it!
Then Qian Chao's figure was in a trance and disappeared from the world.
"Damn!" The fake money tide was really angry. "How did he know!"
When the fake money tide found the real money tide again, they found that the real money tide was in a dark and dilapidated big city, being surrounded by countless vicious and ugly guys with wings on their backs, like Yakshas. However, Qian Chao didn't seem to be in a hurry to escape, but looked around with gleaming eyes, letting those guys surround him.
But when those guys pounced, they found that their pounce was in vain. Then these guys discovered the wave of fake money that was watching in the air. They were almost exactly the same. Those Yaksha-like monsters screamed and surrounded him. .
Here, among the many formations, the fake money tide is not invincible. Compared with the terrifying monsters in various formations, the only thing the fake money tide can do better than them is that it can freely move in many formations. He was traveling through the law, but now the boy could suddenly be like him, which made him very puzzled. At this time, the curiosity of the fake money tide temporarily suppressed the murderous intention, and he thought in his heart: Let him escape again. , this kid is weird, he seems to know a lot about this place, no, you must catch him, and then ask him carefully!
Just before those Yaksha-like monsters attacked, the figure of the fake money tide also disappeared, leaving only angry screams.
When he found the money tide again, he was facing a poisonous dragon-like python emerging from the deep pool. At this time, the fake money tide appeared behind the real money tide. Maybe he came a step too late, or maybe it was the real money tide. Qian Chao deliberately deceived him, and when the python opened its mouth to spit, the figure of the real money Chao disappeared, but the extremely fishy poisonous wind spit out by the python dangerously enveloped the fake money tide, shocking him. He quickly dodged and became furious at the same time.
How dare you plot against me!
Fake Money Chao thought bitterly.
In this way, two money tides, one true and one false, started chasing each other among countless formations.
It should be noted here that every time Qian Chao escapes, he takes risks. He doesn't know what he will face next, and the fake money Chao is catching up more and more urgently, so maybe he is there. In the dangerous formation, he was in danger or accidentally fell into the trap of fake Qian Chao. After a chase, Qian Chao had a lot of wounds on his body, but in the end, he was firmly in control of the initiative, especially with so many people. After being injured for the first time, he became more and more alert. Often when the counterfeit money tide only saw his back, he would disappear again.
Although he was hurt, Qian Chao became more and more excited, because in his opinion, there was no better opportunity to figure out and learn those strange and mysterious runes. In addition, he discovered that he later encountered His formations were almost never the same, which made him eager to remember everything he saw. The only annoying thing was that there was always a tail following him, so Qian Chao had to carry the fake one again and again. Together with Qian Chao, they kept running back and forth among the many formations.
Although Qian Chao enjoyed it, the fake Qian Chao became more and more surprised and angry. He found that the boy could only shuttle back and forth among many formations at first, and could only be chased by him, but later he wanted to catch up with him. It becomes more and more difficult. Often the kid has disappeared just as he catches him, and he can only look for him again. However, as time went by, it was as if this kid gradually learned more secrets in this formation, and actually began to use every formation he experienced to launch undetectable counterattacks against himself, but he did so cleverly. , if he hadn't been here for who knows how long and was extremely familiar with this place, he might have really suffered at the hands of that kid.
As a result, the anger accumulated in the hearts of the fake money tide finally broke out. When they caught up with the money tide for the last time, the fake money tide did not take action, but roared:
"That's enough! Since you want to see it, let me give it a good look and let you see it all at once!"
Qian Chao stopped. He didn't expect that this guy would be so angry and furious. He turned around and watched the fake Qian Chao's body slowly fly upward, and then the sky slowly dimmed, and then Qian Chao looked at On the extremely dark sky, runes like stars in the sky appeared one by one, and now he could see them without using the Blue Eyes Technique.
Originally, he had seen all these in Qian Chao's Blue Eyes Technique, but now it was the fake Qian Chao who showed him. Qian Chao looked at it for a moment, and his heart almost jumped out of his throat, because at this time, Qian Chao looked at it. He discovered that when he used the Blue Eyes Technique before, whether he looked at the mirror or observed the rune formations in the formation, all the runes were like a plate of loose sand. In addition, Qian Chao did not recognize many of them, so it was difficult to identify the formations. You always have to make some guesses, and now perhaps the fake money tide did this intentionally, wanting him to see it more clearly. The positions of the runes all over the sky have changed somewhat, and they are more regular. From the middle All around, the runes were scattered one by one. As long as they could form a formation, they were close to each other, shining silently like the constellations composed of stars in the night sky.
And precisely because of the rules, in Qian Chao's eyes it was like a well-organized chess game, and his eyes were like sparks falling into dry firewood, shining with strange light!
He remembered why those runes he didn't recognize were so strange that he felt as if he had seen them before somewhere!
Finally remembered!
When did I see it? At that time, I and several of my friends were in extreme danger and could not escape. They could only be at the mercy of others. There, Qian Chao risked his life and used the "jade" in an almost desperate situation. "Hai Jing" finally gave him the beginning of the "Blue Eyes Technique" that he could not do without now. With the help of this, he could clearly see the strange scenery around him, including countless complicated and clumsy runes.
What was the full name of the formation that trapped him at that time?
By the way, I remembered it!
Senior Brother Guan Shanqi who died there had a very proud smile on his face at that time. He even chopped off the stone platform below with his feet and said to himself in a good mood:
"I'm not afraid to tell you. In the future, if you understand, you can tell the other four, so that the five of you will not be confused your whole life."
"this……"
"It is an ancient relic, the Five Elements Transformation Spirit Formation to Suppress Evil Lock Demons. Of course, only a small part of the original formation remains, but it is the core part, the Five Elements Transformation Spirit Formation, also called the Small Five Spirit Formation! "
(For the above, see Volume 2: Lugu Youming, Volume 33: Seizing the Spiritual Root.)
Little Five Spirit Array...
There is actually a Little Five Spirit Formation in this "Water Mist Mirror"!
I didn't know anything about the formations at the time. Even if I learned some formations later, there was no way that the Little Five Spirits Formation would be involved. I gradually stopped caring about it. Plus, it took so long. No wonder I just feel like it after seeing it now. It’s like I’ve seen it there!
No wonder...
But... the Little Five Spirit Formation is engraved in a small mirror. Why is that!
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"How is it! Do you understand?"
Seeing the horrified look on Qian Chao's face, the fake Qian Chao finally became proud. He was tired of chasing Qian Chao, so he activated all the formations at the same time, so that Qian Chao could no longer escape. Okay, let's just have a final showdown with this kid here. We can't let him run away again!
"Now that you understand, just accept your death and you won't be able to go anywhere this time!"
As he spoke, the fake money tide's robes puffed up automatically without any wind, as if they were about to take action!
Qian Chao looked up at the curtain and slowly lowered his head after listening to the other party's words. At this time, he had vaguely figured out one thing.
Staring at the fake Qian Chao's posture ready to go, Qian Chao asked softly:
"Before you take action, can you tell me how long you have been imprisoned here?"
