Chapter 196: Life and Death, Between Mysteries
It is a tall, empty attic with only one floor, supported by eight columns at the top. Zhan Chen's gaze was immediately attracted to the ground, because there was nothing else in this attic, except for a huge array drawn on the floor.
"This is the Innate Tai Chi Bagua Diagram!" Zhan Chen reacted immediately, he had glimpsed the scales and claws of this famous formation diagram in many classics.
Those classics have a common feature, that is, they pass on this array diagram to be divine, and praise it as the foundation of the world's spiritual array, saying that all the formations and prohibitions in this world are derived according to its changes.
That's all there is to the description of those classics, and the principles and changes of the innate Tai Chi Bagua diagram are either not mentioned at all, or vague. At the end of the reading, Zhan Chen's understanding of this array was limited to an impression.
At this moment, he heard a frightened cry from a person beside him: "What's going on, the door won't open!"
Zhan Chen reacted from his contemplation, looked at him and asked, "What can't be opened?"
Seeing Zhan Chen's question, the man immediately pointed to the door and replied, "Senior brother, the door to this exit is locked!"
"No!" the other three men cried out, desperately trying to pull the door open, but they tried to get the milk together, but to no avail.
Seeing this, Zhan Chen faintly had a bad premonition in his heart, and shouted: "You guys step back first, let me try it." ”
The four of them immediately did so, because in this room, only Zhan Chen's cultivation had reached the Martial King.
Zhan Chen stepped forward, grabbed the doorknob, dragged it hard, but the door didn't move, and took out the Chang Geng sword again, and slashed a sword at the door, but it only splashed a few sparks on the door, leaving not even a trace.
I don't know what materials this whole attic is made of, and it can't even hurt it with the king's soldiers.
Even Zhan Chen failed, and the five of them were at a loss, were they going to be trapped here forever?
"What are we going to do? We're going to die here!" two of them were already despairing.
Zhan Chen heard them shout like this, but his originally flustered heart calmed down, yes, what he needs most at this time is calm, panic, pessimism and despair will not solve the problem at all.
He turned around and looked at the huge innate gossip diagram on the ground, and his heart moved, the only way out was on this diagram!
"But what kind of formation is this? We've never seen it before. Several people cast inquiring glances at Zhan Chen.
"This formation is called the Innate Tai Chi Bagua Diagram, which is said to be the beginning of ten thousand formations, and it must contain mysteries. ”
"How do you crack that?"
"Calm down and let me think about it. ”
Zhan Chen began to carefully observe everything in this attic again. Suddenly, he saw two lines of words written on the two pillars on one side, but they were a pair of couplets, the upper one was: Qiantiankun Di Ji Tailai, and the lower one was: Leaving the fire and water and fire into fire.
These two lines of words are written in the bones of the fairy wind, handsome and extraordinary, and at first glance they do not seem to be from the hands of mortals.
Looking at these words, Zhan Chen remembered the three big characters of "Cold Mountain Mausoleum" that he saw when he first came here, although the handwriting was different, but the wind and bones were similar, and he immediately realized that this must have been written by the person of the Cold Mountain Dao!
The meaning of other words, maybe he is still ignorant, but the meaning of the four words "no Ji Tailai" is very clear, this is a hint that the way out is in this attic.
So he drew his sword, took his guard, gritted his teeth and walked towards the central formation, at this time, the other four people hid far away and waited for Zhan Chen to test it, because they had already become frightened birds.
The repeated distress has made them understand that there are mechanisms everywhere here, and if they are not careful, their lives will be at risk.
Just when Zhan Chen stepped into the center of the innate gossip diagram, the vision was born again, and the eight hexagrams surrounding the yin and yang fish suddenly bloomed fluorescent, like a light bulb that had been lit, which was extremely conspicuous, and this formation was activated!
"This is?!" Zhan Chen stood in the center of the formation and didn't dare to move, and his nerves were also highly tense, worried that something would happen.
But after a while, nothing happened, Zhan Chen breathed a sigh of relief, and wanted to step out of the formation again, but when his feet touched a shiny hexagram on the edge, he felt that as soon as he saw a flower, the surrounding scenery had undergone earth-shaking changes.
The other four people who were in the same room with him saw Zhan Chen's body turn into a streamer and disappear into the attic, and they were shocked and frightened for a while, and they didn't dare to move.
Having said that, when Zhan Chen opened his eyes again, he felt that he was in a strange place.
His first feeling was that it was hot! It was too hot! The whole floor was so hot that you couldn't put your feet down, and all around him there was hot magma, which gathered into a lake.
There is only one narrow iron bridge without guardrails on the "lake", which can only be passed by one person, and the bridge deck is very close to the magma, only three meters. It stretches all the way to the other side, about a kilometer away.
Zhan Chen looked behind him, and there was a thick wall. Obviously, to find a new way out, you have to cross the iron bridge in front of you.
After hesitating for a moment at the bridge, he found that his wheezing was getting heavier and heavier, because it was so hot here, and every second he stayed in was a drain on his stamina.
"No, I have to go!" Zhan Chen finally decided to take the first step. However, as soon as his feet touched the iron bridge, he almost couldn't help jumping up, because the temperature above it was amazingly high!
The pain eased slightly, and he was expected to go to the other side of the bridge, suddenly gritted his teeth, forcibly held back the sharp pain in his feet, and rushed towards the opposite side with all his might.
At first, the road was smooth, and he crossed nearly 900 meters, but at the last moment, the originally calm magma lake began to become tyrannical, churning and roaring.
Suddenly, a ten-meter-high wave was set off from the surface of the lake, and it hit him head.
Zhan Chen's pupils shrank suddenly, if he was hit by it, he would have to reimburse him directly.
At this moment of life and death, a thousand miles of pride suddenly rose in his chest, and he took out the Chang Geng Sword and rushed towards the magma waves.
"A sword in the sky!" Zhan Chen roared, a sword stabbed out, and the human sword became one, turning into a sharp lightning, directly shooting through the magma and flying to the other side.
Finally, he felt that his knees were weak, so he sat on the ground, took off his boots and looked at them, and there was a wry smile, it turned out that a pair of feet had been burned, and even smelled a faint smell of burning.
He immediately changed into a new pair of boots, struggled to his feet, and walked towards the finish line, where he found another Innate Tai Chi Bagua Teleportation Array that was exactly the same as the one he had seen earlier in the attic.
Seeing this, Zhan Chen couldn't help but be stunned, thinking to himself, where will it lead this time? But no one answered his question, and he had no choice but to step on it again. A flash of light flashed, and his figure vanished.
After a trance, Zhan Chen opened his eyes and was completely stunned, this was an attic, there were only eight columns, and two of them had the couplets he saw first written on them.
The upper link is: whether the sky is in the sky and the earth, and the lower link is: the water and fire are from the fire.
In the middle of the attic, there was still an identical innate Bagua diagram teleportation array.
Everything seemed to be back to square one, except that the four people who had come in with him had disappeared, and now he was the only one in the attic!
He didn't know if he had returned to his original attic or had been teleported to a new attic.
But he didn't need to know, he just had to follow the arrangement of fate, step on the teleportation array again, and disappear again......
This time, when Zhan Chen opened his eyes, he found himself in a secret room, which was very small, less than five square meters. After some fumbling, he finally found the mechanism to open the door and activated it.
With a dull thud, the stone door opened, and across him was a pitch-black passage that led in no known direction.
Out of the stone room, Zhan Chen calmed down his nervousness a little, chose a direction, and began a new adventure.
In the secret passage, the silence was terrifying, and he could even hear his footsteps clearly, and suddenly there was a whistling in the darkness.
Zhan Chen's reaction was quick, and he instinctively took a few steps back, only to hear a series of "ding, ding, ding", as if something had been shot through.
He hurriedly followed the sound, and couldn't help but feel a chill on his body, it turned out that the wall, which was only half a foot away from him, had been pierced with hundreds of steel needles about 20 centimeters long.
Zhan Chen clearly remembered that just now, he tried to use the Chang Geng Sword to slash at the wall with all his might, but the result was that not a single trace was left.
After this incident, Zhan Chen became more cautious, but he was still hit, and the soles of his feet suddenly collapsed and a big hole appeared.
Fortunately, he reacted in time, and at the moment of crisis, he grabbed the edge of the cave entrance and barely fell into the bottomless underground.
Finally struggling up from the ground, he walked towards the end of the passage again, his eyes were determined, and there was only one thought in his heart, that is: to live!
After many traps, Zhan Chen finally came to the end, and sure enough, the same situation appeared again, it was still the gossip teleportation array.
Zhan Chen stood up, and disappeared into the secret passage, and when he opened his eyes again, it was still the original attic, the original teleportation array.
He had to go on the journey again mechanically......
The third time, he appeared in a dense forest, which was full of all kinds of poisons, which made people unguardable, Rao is Zhanchen was very careful or landed, fortunately he had a high-grade antidote pill, and he did not die.
The fourth time, he appeared in an ice labyrinth, where the temperature was as low as minus 100 degrees, and after staying in it for a long time, he was about to freeze, and he had to quickly find the teleportation array to escape, but fortunately, he was lucky enough to survive again.
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However, this life-and-death adventure continued, and Zhan Chen never knew what kind of desperate situation would await him behind the teleportation array.
"I can't go on like this!Otherwise, I'm going to die sooner or later, there must be some way to get out, and the secret is on that couplet!" Zhan Chen's mood became more and more anxious, and he tried to guess the mystery hidden on the couplet.