There are a lot of spiritual stones...it's really a big pile!
It was really a big pile. The spirit stones scattered on the ground were collected and piled on the ground by Yanxuan and Li Jian. Tang Ping was picking there, picking out those that were not ordinary spirit stones. After picking them out, Lu Pingchuan was responsible for flying around constantly to dig out the fluorescent spirit stone ore from the cave wall and send it to Tang Ping.
Qian Chao went to set up the formation. There were too many spirit stones found here. If someone came down and saw it, it would definitely cause a fight. After all, there was such a big cave entrance there, and the spirit stones here, five people He didn't want to share it with others, so Qian Chao arranged several formations according to the hole he came down to prevent someone from accidentally breaking in.
After the formation was completed, Qian Chao was shocked when he came back. The spiritual stones had been piled up so high that they were much taller than Lu Pingchuan. Under the illumination of his glowing talismans, The bright lights were piled there. Li Jian was still in the cave picking up the scattered spirit stones. Lu Pingchuan flew down with a large piece of spirit stone mine and said:
"Come on, Sister Yan, it's your turn this time..."
Yanxuan smiled and reached out and patted the piece of spirit stone. Suddenly, with a "crash", the piece of spirit stone shattered into countless spirit stones and scattered on the large pile of spirit stones.
Qian Chao looked up and found that only a small half of the fluorescent spirit stone mines on the cave wall were left.
"Brother Qian, the spiritual stone mine on the surface is almost gone. Is there still more inside?" Lu Pingchuan asked.
"This... I'm not sure. I'll look for it." Qian Chao said and flew up, leaning close to the cave wall to investigate carefully.
Finally, after changing places, Qian Chao came back disappointed, holding a few jade stones in his hand for everyone to see.
"It seems that there is no more. If there were no blind beetles nesting here, there would be more spiritual stone mines. But the blind beetles hollowed out this place, so there are only so many spiritual stone mines left on the cave wall. Uh-huh. , and if you dig deeper, you will only find jade like this, and it seems that these are the only spiritual stones."
"So much, that's a lot." Yanxuan said with a smile.
"It's indeed quite a lot," Tang Ping also said, "A small aristocratic family probably wouldn't be able to produce so many spiritual stones, let alone these..."
Tang Ping pointed at the piles separated around her, and she could easily identify the middle-grade, high-grade or even mid-grade spiritual stones she found among them.
"We don't have any use for these middle-grade or top-grade spiritual stones yet, but these ordinary ones..." Tang Ping pointed at the large pile of spiritual stones, "Let's just divide them, how about it?"
"Yeah" Qian Chao nodded in agreement.
Li Jian walked around the cave, collected all the scattered spirit stones, came back and threw them on the pile. After listening to a few people talking, he looked up at such a large pile of spirit stones. sighed:
"Well, how many disciples come out to work hard to do a few errands, just to get a few spiritual stones from the Jingshiyuan, and how many people don't learn well outside, and do evil, just to get a few spiritual stones from the Jingshiyuan. They only grabbed a few spiritual stones from others, but with such a huge pile in front of you...if those people saw it, they would have their heads chopped off!"
Lu Pingchuan was flying down from above. After listening to Li Jian's words, he said with a smile:
"Whoever wants to grab it now, I will be the first to break their head. Hehe, come on, these are the last two pieces, that's all!"
"It's a good thing. It can be said that it can be found everywhere in the world. It just depends on whether you can find it. Well, there are so many spiritual stones. Boy Qian deserves the most credit!"
"Well, thanks to Brother Qian."
After a while, Tang Ping finished checking, then pointed at the small piles of spiritual stones beside her and said:
"Hey, this pile is of middle grade, this pile is of high grade, and the most precious thing in this pile is the mid-level spiritual stones. Unfortunately, no high-level spiritual stones were found. Those are the things even senior Lian Lian Dan covets! These are We don’t need it now, and it wouldn’t be good if others knew we had such a thing. How about we just ignore it for the time being and wait until we encounter a bottleneck that is difficult to break through?”
Several people nodded and had no objection to this.
"It's a big pile," Tang Ping pointed at the pile of spiritual stones in front of her that was much higher than Lu Pingchuan's, "divide it up!"
"Hey! Divide the spoils!" Lu Pingchuan shouted happily!
After a while, the large amount of spiritual stones was divided into five parts and put into the storage bags of five people.
"Alas," Yanxuan sighed happily, holding his storage bag and saying with satisfaction, "I don't have to worry about spiritual stones in the future."
"What's going on here, sister Yan? We will have more spirit stones in the future. I have already thought about it. When we build the foundation in the future, when we build our own cave, I will create a special room without a bed. , pour out all my spirit stones, and I’ll lie on them and sleep, haha!”
Lu Pingchuan's words made everyone laugh and shake their heads.
"Okay, since there is nothing here anymore, it's time to go over there and have a look." Qian Chao said.
"Yes, yes, there is a ruin over there that has not been opened."
…
Walking along the passage with light coming through, the five people discovered that at the end of the passage was a large underground stone hall.
This stone hall is also quite large. Although it is much smaller than the place where the blind man lived just now, it is square and square. The stone walls at the feet, on all sides, and on the top of the head are polished and extremely smooth. It can be seen that someone has deliberately carved them. It was repaired, and the reason why there is light here is because the top wall of the stone hall about five feet high above everyone's heads is inlaid with countless bright round stones.
These luminous boulders are densely packed, some are large and some are small. In some places, there are many densely packed together or there are only a few in a large area. There is no pattern to follow, making it difficult to see and touch. Clear your mind.
There is no exit or entrance to this stone hall except the entrance they walked in. With the shining round stones on the top of the cave, it is not dark everywhere, and they can see this place very clearly.
After a few people came in, they didn't dare to move around at first. They were worried that there might be some danger here, so they let Qian Chao lead the way. His eyes were shining with blue light as he looked around, looking at his feet from time to time, and walking forward bit by bit. , finally the blue light in Qian Chao's eyes disappeared and he said:
"There's nothing dangerous here."
"What kind of good thing is this?" Lu Pingchuan was greedy and leaned up to look at the top of the stone chamber.
"It's just an ordinary gem." Tang Ping also flew up and got closer to take a look, and the others did the same. "In the world, each one is probably worth a lot of money, but..."
Indeed, ordinary gems are nothing in the eyes of monks.
"Oh, what a pity...Hey! Brother Qian, is that the formation, right?"
After Lu Pingchuan landed, he pointed to a place in the center of the stone hall and said, not only he could see it, but also several other people could see that it was really different there. There was a round platform about a foot high on the ground, and there were also round platforms on the sides. Engraved with something like runes.
Since there was no danger, those people moved over to look at the round platform.
This stage is not big, it is more than enough for one person to stand on, but it is a bit crowded for two people to stand on. The table is made of a kind of stone that Qian Chao has never seen before. It is crystal clear and hard. Half of the runes on it are not recognized by Qian Chao, and even the table is full of circles and circles. runes.
Tang Ping looked up and looked around, and then looked down at the round platform on the ground. Intuitively, she felt that this thing that looked like a formation seemed to be different from the formation of the ruins that Boy Qian had opened before.
"Boy Qian, isn't this formation different from the ones you used to open the ruins before?"
"It's different, much more complicated... Well, I don't think this formation opens the ruins. This must not be a ruins as recorded in Senior Sister Luo Ying's book..."
Qian Chao said slowly that Luo Ying had never come down before, so it was normal for the records to be biased.
"Oh? It's not a relic, so what is this formation used for?"
"I don't know...but...it must have something to do with these shiny stones above the head." Qian Chao said and looked up again.
After hearing what Qian Chao said, several people also looked up.
"Then what on earth is this?"
Lu Pingchuan looked at it for a while and found it boring, so he asked again, but this time, Tang Ping tugged on his sleeves. Only then did he realize that several of his companions were looking at Qian Chao curiously, and Qian Chao raised his head. He stopped and walked around the stone hall, his expression extremely focused.
"What's wrong with Brother Qian?"
"I don't know," Tang Ping said, "At the beginning, it was like being possessed by a demon..."
"Maybe...you saw something weird, right?" Yanxuan said.
Qian Chao has been in this situation in the past. Whenever he sees something magical that he is extremely interested in, he will be like this. He will be completely absorbed in his own thoughts and turn a deaf ear to everything around him. At this time, several people His companions also knew not to disturb him and just let him fidget by himself.
Qian Chao started to wander around the stone hall with his head raised. Sometimes he even lay down on the ground and stared at the shiny stones above his head. Lu Pingchuan thought it was funny at first. , he also followed Qian Chao's example and lay down, but he didn't know what the bright spots on his head were at all. After staring at them for a while, he couldn't help but yawn greatly.
Knowing that this period of time would probably not be short, several people sat down. Yanxuan raised his head and looked again, and couldn't help but ask:
"What could be on top of this?"
Tang Ping shook her head. She had heard and seen a lot of weird things, but at first she thought that the bright spot on her head was just for lighting, but Qian Chao's behavior made her feel that there was something inside. It's also quite weird.
"What do you think the top of your head looks like?" Li Jian said suddenly.
"Oh? Brother Li, what do you think?"
"Well, I think... the tops are shining little by little, and there are so many of them. At first glance, they look like stars in the sky at night..."
Li Jian's words were meant for casual conversation, but they suddenly resounded in Qian Chao's mind...
The stars in the sky at night...
Star……
star map!
Then several companions were surprised to see Qian Chao flipping up from the ground. He took his storage bag and began to rummage. After finding a few things from it, he raised his head and walked in the stone hall. Stroll back and forth.
"Well...it's starting again!" Tang Ping said helplessly. Now she can only wait. When Qian Chao figures it out, he will naturally come and explain it to everyone.
Lu Pingchuan put a big arm behind his head and said:
"Brother Qian wakes me up later when he opens this formation..."
Tang Ping quit, pushed Lu Pingchuan a few times, and said:
"Don't sleep, Brother Lu, you snore so loudly when you fall asleep!"
Yanxuan burst out laughing, and Li Jian shook his head.
Lu Pingchuan couldn't sleep, so he could only do things and talk. He suddenly thought that Tang Ping had to kneel down very respectfully when summoning Qingluan, so he asked:
"Sister Tang, when you brought that big bird over, why did the spell look so weird and why did you still kowtow?"
"Yes, I'm curious too?" Yanxuan also became interested.
"Well, that spell is actually a spirit-summoning ritual, which was really handed down from the long past. It is said that a long time ago, the world was still a world of various monsters and beasts, and humans only accounted for a minority. Among the various spiritual beasts, those There are also many extremely powerful true spirit level spirit beasts. It seems that the cultivating families at that time would often enshrine a powerful one. Whenever they prepared a sacrifice or something, they would use this method to summon the one they enshrined. The true spirit is the method I used, and then the true spirit comes in response to their call and enjoys the sacrifice. When the family is in danger in the future, it can be summoned again to resolve the disaster for itself."
"That is to say, the blind bite at that time can be regarded as a sacrifice offered by Miss Tang to Qingluan, right?" Li Jian asked.
"Yes, that Qingluan should be a spirit bird at the level of a true spirit. If it is summoned for no reason and the true spirit gets angry, that would be a serious matter. Fortunately, the blind stingray can be seen by Qingluan, otherwise I would not dare to Use that method."
"Hey, can we ask the big bird to help us if we find that big insect-like monster in the future?" Lu Pingchuan asked.
"Well, it's almost the same, but there are limitations. Firstly, Qingluan must be able to see it, and secondly, it can't be too far away."
In this way, the four people watched Qian Chao's actions while talking.
I don't know how long it took, but Qian Chao came close to the round platform and sat there for a while, tracing the runes on it with one finger. After a while, he stood up staggeringly and raised his head. Looking at the top of the head again, Tang Ping noticed that Qian Chao was holding a few things in his hands, which were actually the scattered wood chips he had found before.
After a while, Lu Pingchuan snored and was pushed up by Tang Ping. He sat there muttering and talking with a few people.
"There must be a big secret here, otherwise Brother Qian wouldn't be like this. It seems that a lot of time has passed, right?" Yanxuan said.
"Not bad!" Qian Chao came over at some point and sat down with excitement on his face. "There is indeed a big secret here!"
"Do you understand?" Tang Ping knew there must be some clues when she saw Qian Chao's expression.
"Is there any treasure here?" Lu Pingchuan was concerned about this.
"Uh... honey, there is none here," Qian Chao said. Lu Pingchuan was immediately disappointed, "But this secret is not a small one!"
"Oh, what's the secret?"
"Well, if I want to tell you this secret, I have to thank Brother Li. If it weren't for Brother Li's words, I wouldn't have guessed what secrets are hidden here."
"Oh?" Li Jian was very puzzled, "Which sentence did I say?"
"Brother Li said that the bright spot above the head looks like the stars in the sky at night. It was this sentence that inspired me." Qian Chao said.
"Then...could it be that these bright spots above our heads are really stars?" Tang Ping looked up and asked.
"Exactly, but the ones on top of the head are very general. The top..." Qian Chao raised his head and pointed upward with his hand, and drew a big circle, "This is the star map of our entire Central Continent!"
"What……"
"star map……"
"What is the star map for?"
"Come!" Qian Chao stood up, "Come this way..."
"look!"
Qian Chao pointed to the top of his head, and then took out something, which was a square piece of wood with dots on it. He had found it before. There had been many speculations about this thing before, and even Tang Ping even joked that it was Chess records.
"Look up here again," Qian Chao said, pointing to the dots of different sizes densely scattered on the wood chips. "Ignore the small dots here, just look at the big ones above, and the ones above our heads." Is it right?"
Several people looked up at the top of their heads for a while, and then looked down at the wood chips in Qian Chao's hand. Sure enough, if the small dots on the square wood chips were ignored, the remaining large ones were indeed the same as the ones above their heads. There is a one-to-one correspondence, the position, the ratio of distance and distance, and the orientation of each other are exactly the same.
"But..." Tang Ping was still confused.
"Look here again!"
Qian Chao ignored it and took everyone to another place. He pointed at his head and took out another wood chip. Sure enough, the bright spots on it matched the dots on the wood chip.
"Unfortunately, there are still two pieces, and I can't find the corresponding position." Qian Chao took out the last two pieces and looked at them. "I now suspect that the star map drawn on it...is not from our Central Continent, but from other places." Where..."
"Boy Qian!" Tang Ping finally couldn't help it anymore, "How do you know that the thing above your head is the star map? Even if it can be matched with the wood piece, it may not be the star map?"
Qian Chao looked at Tang Ping strangely, and then asked:
"Girl Tang, don't you look at the night sky at night?"
"I……"
"Come on," Qian Chao walked to a place and pointed his head with his hand, "What time is it now? If it's night, when we go out, look up and see if there are a few bright stars in the sky arranged like this. .”
"It seems like this, A Ping." Yanxuan said. She had some impressions. She often practiced the Phoenix Fire Sword in a deserted place at night. Sometimes she would look up at the stars and miss her mother in her hometown, so she had some idea of the arrangement of the stars. Some impressions.
"Okay...then...what if it's an arrangement of stars in the sky? What's the use of these?" Tang Ping asked again.
"Of course it's very useful. I just figured it out..." Qian Chao took a few steps, looked up, and pointed at "The few stars above should be my hometown, at night in Qi State. There are a few brightest stars that can be seen, but I have no impression of them. Alas, I am still most familiar with the stars in the night sky above the Five Spirit Sect."
Then Qian Chao pointed to the round platform in the center of the stone room, looked at his companions and said:
"And this formation is a teleportation formation!"
…
Teleportation array!
"Boy Qian, please explain it in detail. I'm very confused now!" Tang Ping said.
The rest of the people are also waiting for Qian Chao to explain this clearly.
"This world must be very big. It is so big that even the ancestors on Yuhu Mountain may lose their way and don't know where they are. Moreover, Zhongzhou is not the only place in this world. There must be a land as vast as ours in Middle-earth somewhere far away in the sea, otherwise..."
Having said this, Qian Chao took the two pieces of wood that he could not distinguish and shook them in his hand.
"Otherwise, the star map depicted on these two wooden pieces should be found here."
"You mean, what's drawn on these two pieces of wood...is an extraterrestrial star map?" Tang Ping asked.
"Exactly," Qian Chao said, "Because the world is so big, monks may not know where they are when they arrive at a place, so they have to identify the direction and know how far away they are from where they started. In what direction, this is probably the reason why we have this star map."
"Then...how did they go to such a distant place?" Yanxuan asked.
Qian Chao smiled and pointed at the round platform.
"It is through this that this magic circle can teleport people to places unknown how far away in an instant... There is a saying in the book that the spiritual veins in the world are all connected to each other, including all of us in Central Continent. The spiritual veins everywhere, including those between Central Continent and those unknown distances outside the territory, rely on the spiritual veins and the formations used for teleportation. Without spiritual veins and only formations, it cannot be done. vice versa."
"Hey...there are both spiritual veins and formations here, does that mean..." Lu Pingchuan's eyes lit up.
"Well, I can recognize that this is a teleportation formation, but I don't know how to use this formation. There must be many strict conditions, and how to make this formation work, I don't know now. …”
"Brother Lu! Where are you going?"
"Hehe, just asking, if Brother Qian figures it out in the future, can we go to places far, far away?"
Tang Ping asked without waiting for Qian Chao's answer:
"Then how did you figure out that this formation is for teleportation?"
"Do you still remember the formation we found where we encountered the evil beast?"
"Um."
"That formation is somewhat similar to the one in front of you, but the formation at the evil beast is much simpler than this one. That formation can't teleport people away, but can teleport... souls away. Do you remember?"
"Well, that's what you said at the time. So... can this really teleport people? If someone steps on it, only their soul will be teleported away, but their body will remain. Then they will not die all at once!"
This was a pouring of cold water on Lu Pingchuan's head, who was just about to make a move.
Qian Chao smiled and said:
"There is indeed a teleportation formation, but it's hard to find a way to arrange it now. Remember the 'Thousand-Year War' we talked about before. According to what I read in the book, it seems that it started from there. From that time on, teleportation formations became forbidden spells. Not only were monks no longer allowed to set up such formations, but many teleportation formations at that time were also destroyed, just to prevent those monks from outside the territory from passing through again. The formation invaded Central Continent. This formation has been underground for who knows how long. Judging from the few runes on the periphery, I judge that it is the kind of formation that can teleport monks away, but it is just because it is too complicated. , I can only understand a small part. This is a large formation composed of many formations. I can’t understand how the many related formations inside it work. Of course, what Tang Yatou said is also a possibility. , but I still think this is the formation that can teleport people out. I will study it slowly in the future. After all, it is closely related to the knowledge of spiritual veins. Many things are not understandable now. However, Brother Lu, this formation The method itself is a relic, but it is not a formation that opens the relic, but this is unmistakable."
"Hehe, it's okay. I got a lot of spirit stones today. Hey, brother Qian, think about it carefully. Maybe we can go out through this magic circle in the future, so how much leg energy will we have to save."
"Then...who set up this formation?" Li Jian asked.
"This... it's hard to say," Qian Chao said, "I'm afraid it's been too long..."
"The current legends about teleportation formations are all focused on the past 'Millennium War'. It is said that when the monks from outside the territory invaded Central Continent, they were teleported through similar formations. After our monks from Central Continent repelled them, they Start looking for the leftover formations everywhere, and then destroy them. If Qian Xiaozi is right about the one in front of him, it must have been very long ago. In the later 'cross-sea battle', those invading monks from outside the territory But they came on various large ships, and I didn’t hear that they came using a magic circle.”
"Then...will someone else...appear from here?" Yanxuan said with some worry.
"That possibility is too small. Having been defeated twice, those people should have a long memory."
Qian Chao looked at the wood chips in his hand and said leisurely:
"I'd rather put them all together and see how big the world is!"
Another point, Qian Chao knew in his heart that even if he could get a set of wood pieces in his hand, they could only be used to identify the direction after teleportation. Where could such a magic circle exist? There was no mark on the wood pieces. If you can use the array in the future, you can either arrange it yourself, or find one that has been arranged in front of you.
…
Next, Qian Chao took out a pen and paper and described the formation in detail for future study. Not only that, he even traced the star map above his head, which cost a lot of time. time.
"It's better to seal this place when we go out. Otherwise, without the blind bug, someone might come down and find this place." Tang Ping said.
In fact, according to Tang Ping's mind, it would be good if this place could be destroyed, but Qian Chao would probably be reluctant to part with it, and maybe the five people here would really be able to use it in the future, so he gave up the idea.
When they flew out of the cave, the night breeze was blowing outside and the sky was filled with stars. The five people spent an entire day in the cave unknowingly. They worked together to seal the entrance of the cave with nearby rocks, and then Also covered by the white sand here, there would be no clue if anyone came here after this.
At this time, Tang Ping looked up at the stars in the sky, and really recognized a few of the brightest stars in the sky. She saw that the arrangement was really consistent with the arrangement of the glowing round stones on the top of the stone chamber.
"Did you see it?" Qian Chao saw Tang Ping raising her head and knew that she was distinguishing the stars above her head.
"I can see it!" Tang Ping nodded, "It is indeed the same as the inside."
"How many such formations will remain?" Li Jian said.
"Well, will our sect also have this kind of formation?" Yanxuan asked.
"That's not something we Qi Refining disciples can know. Take your time, we'll know it later!"
(Author's note: Regarding the teleportation formation, it has naturally appeared in many classic fantasy novels, and it will naturally be involved in my story. This chapter is the one I discovered when Qian Chaozhen opened the first ruins by himself. The foreshadowing laid by the wood chips, originally I was thinking of launching this setting later, but if it were later, I am afraid that the five people will either do bad things and have to escape, or the five people will escape from death in the face of a powerful enemy. When , the appearance of the teleportation circle was a bit sudden, so it was necessary to launch this setting earlier. In fact, it is not too early, it is more than two million words, haha. Dear readers, do you want to read my story? Live life with a heart, don’t be in a hurry, I will describe the whole story bit by bit, please take your time and read, thank you!)
