Li Chuan remembered Chang Xiao and Jin Rong's description of the orange sky, and couldn't help but open his eyes wide and stare at the changes in the sky. Above the boundless sky, orange gradually filled the sky, and bright and soft light kept flowing.
In the flow of light, a giant beast spread its wings and soared in the midst, its fierce eyes looking at Li Chuan and the others through hundreds of millions of years.
Even though Li Chuan knew that it was just an afterimage left in time, he still subconsciously took a step back.
When he raised his head again, the ancient mysterious monster disappeared, and a cruel battle scene unfolded on the sky. He saw the earth split into an endless abyss, hot magma spewed out, and he fell in the strange sea of fire. One monk after another.
The sea of fire was extinguished, and the orange sky gradually faded its brilliance and turned into a dead darkness, covering everything like a thick black cloth.
The light of the Tianzhu shines lonely, streaking across the vast forbidden area of Wochi, like ripples caused by stones thrown on the water.
Spots of light shone in the darkness like stars.
After a long time, Wen Guying came back to his senses and said: "So that's how it is, that's how it is."
"What's wrong?" Li Chuan asked.
Jiang Mei explained: "The picture that appeared on the sky just now is the scene where the ancient monster beast collided with the Tianzhu, causing the spiritual veins to break and the sweet spring to be polluted."
"Have you seen it before?" Wen Guying asked Chang Xiao.
Chang Xiao recalled it and said, "No."
"How often does this kind of spectacle happen?" Li Chuan asked.
Chang Xiao looked at the sky and replied: "It's hard to say. Sometimes I can see it every day, and sometimes it doesn't appear for a long, long time. I also try to get closer to the sky and enter the picture, but as long as I have such an idea, I can’t get out no matter what.”
"I, I think Tianzhu is also conscious. It has always been with me. No matter where I go, I can see it as long as I look back." Chang Xiao said with some relief in his tone: "Mr. Jiang said that I It is the life that was born from Tianzhu, so...so it must have been protecting me."
"If you want to know the truth, then continue to search." Jiang Mei said to Chang Xiao: "What happened hundreds of millions of years ago can still be reproduced in the Wochi, and what happened to you will definitely be here, too. Found the clue."
"Well," Chang Xiao made his decision and said, "I will."
After a day's journey, even Wen Guying and Jiang Mei felt a little tired, so they camped to rest.
Li Chuan still stayed in the formation. At this time, he had completely adapted to the light that penetrated the formation, and felt that he could let Jiang Mei let in some more light tomorrow.
He lay down fully clothed. The runes of the formation looked a little blurry in the rich light. From the angle where he lay, he could still see the silhouette of one or two characters on the Tianzhu.
After closing his eyes, he felt heavy sleep coming over him.
That night, he had no dreams.
When he woke up, Gong Er walked up to him holding a piece of white stuff and said, "Brother, this has fallen from the sky. Senior Brother Wen said this is fairy rock white jade. Eating it can improve spiritual understanding!"
Li Chuan reached out and took it, took a bite, and felt that he was biting on a ball of cotton wool, and then the cotton wool melted in his mouth and flowed into his stomach. It's not bad and tasteless.
"Brother, how's it going? Do you want more? I've lost a lot!" Gonger said.
"Bring some more," Li Chuan said.
Soon, Gong Er brought several more pieces. Li Chuan took them and suddenly felt as if he was in jail and asked for food and drink.
Soon after eating, Jiang Mei came over to adjust the formation for him, and then he continued to dismantle it word by word. Maybe it was because he had gotten enough sleep and had adapted to the light of the Tianzhu, or maybe it was because he had taken Xianyan White Jade, but his speed was much faster than yesterday. As the pattern was completed bit by bit, he had the illusion that his consciousness was slowly rising along the Tianzhu.
What does it feel like to look down from the highest point of the Tianzhu?
As the days passed, Li Chuan spent all his time staring at the Tianzhu except when he was sleeping. Even in his dreams, there were all strange words twisting around. Only when the orange sky appeared occasionally did he stop, take a breath, and admire the appearance of the monsters and monks from tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Finally, he finished breaking down the last word, but the pattern was still incomplete.
What's missing?
Li Chuan took out the "Classic of Patterns" and turned to the middle page. The light from the Tianzhu fell on the page. Li Chuan felt that the pattern on that page seemed to stand up from the page, but in a daze, the pattern lay down bit by bit.
He put away the Pattern Sutra and planned to take a walk around. At this time, he had completely adapted to the light from the Tianzhu, and Jiang Mei's formation had been removed two days ago.
He walked slowly around the Tianzhu. After completing the circle, Gong Er and Pang San followed behind him.
"Brother, have you learned the new pictures?" Gonger asked.
"It's still a little bit worse." Li Chuan walked, feeling that the depression in his heart gradually dissipated, "This pattern is partly illusion and partly reality. I can only understand these two points at the moment. How are illusion and reality connected? Yes, I can’t understand.”
He thought about the pattern of slowly lying down and said, "It should be just a little bit close."
"What else is missing?" Gong Er asked.
"Maybe, we need to think about it again. If we still can't figure it out in a few days, then we have no choice but to leave here..." At this time, Li Chuan saw Wen Guying, Jiangmei, and Changxiao, and he immediately turned towards them. Go. After getting closer, he heard Wen Guying ask Chang Xiao: "Is this right here?"
Chang Xiao replied: "Yes, I feel the river water surging underground. In a few days, there will be a river here with many silver fish in it, which tastes very delicious."
Seeing Li Chuan coming, Wen Guying said to him: "Master Chang said that a river will appear here. Brother Jiang and I suspect that this river is a sweet spring water hidden in the netherworld."
Then he asked Li Chuan, "Have you finished your retreat? What do you think?"
Li Chuan said: "I've probably solved 90% of the problem, but there are still some key points that I can't figure out." Then he asked Wen Guying and Jiang Mei for advice. Although he still didn't find the answer, he also learned more. some ideas.
When he was about to go back and try again, the surrounding sky suddenly turned orange again, this time the orange was more reddish, flowing under the light of the sky pillar.
Li Chuan saw that their faces were also covered with a layer of orange.
Chang Xiao said: "It's just the past few days. The sky will be orange for the past few days, and it will not dissipate until the small river appears."
Li Chuan felt a change at this time, a change that he was very familiar with, surging.
(End of chapter)
