Chapter 44: The stone steps are heavy, and the courtyard is deep
Li Mubai and Lu Yi glanced at each other, then stepped forward and arched their hands: "If the seniors have any questions, but it doesn't hurt to ask, Mu Bai will definitely tell you truthfully." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Zhuge Chong flicked his sleeves, turned around and walked into the hall, leaving only a lukewarm word for the two of them: "So it's best, then come in." ”
Lu Yi saw Li Mubai walking forward, and just wanted to call him, but Li Mubai quietly glanced at him and whispered: "There are many dangers here, you must be careful, remember not to be reckless." He strode towards the main hall, and Lu Yi had no choice but to follow quickly.
There is only a corridor and a few steps between the hall and Li Mubai, he stepped out but found that the scene changed suddenly, the main entrance of the hall suddenly disappeared, but saw a few cold plums and winter chrysanthemums appeared in front of him, swaying in the wind, quite lonely and high.
Li Mubai was taken aback for a moment, and hurriedly turned around, but found that the main entrance of the hall was behind him, and the old man in ochre was sitting on the Taishi chair in the middle with a sneer, Zhuge Jing and Zhuge Zhi stood at the door with their hands down and a smile, as if calling him to step forward, but Lu Yi beside him was nowhere to be found.
Li Mubai knew that there must be something strange in this courtyard, but there seemed to be a thought in his heart that kept calling him to go to the hall quickly, and he involuntarily stepped forward, but as soon as the thought arose, the originally cold and bleak courtyard suddenly shone with sunshine, and he wanted to sleep immediately.
"How can you raise your eyes in the middle of the night?" As soon as Li Mubai's thoughts arose, his raised right foot suddenly stepped on a loose stone, and suddenly there were two swishing sounds in his ears, and two plum blossoms suddenly attacked from the left and right, and the speed was far faster than the hidden weapon encountered in the woods outside the town before.
Picking leaves and flying flowers can hurt people!
The first thought that flashed through Li Mubai's mind was to dodge sideways, but at this moment, a thunderous roar suddenly sounded in his ears, and the scene in front of him suddenly disappeared as if it was torn and crumpled in mid-air, and he suddenly found that he had pulled out the jade sword at some point, and was facing the chest to stab it with a backhand, if this sword stabbed out, he would either die or be seriously injured.
Lu Yi hurriedly stretched out his hand and snatched the jade sword in Li Mubai's hand and put it back into the sheath, and whispered: "Brother Li, don't talk and listen to me, everything you saw just now is an illusion, these stone steps are strange, you will follow me into the hall later, no matter what scene appears in front of you, don't pay attention to it." ”
Li Mubai was puzzled and shocked in his heart, but he didn't say anything, but nodded quietly, and after a little investigation of the situation in the courtyard, he found that there was no cold plum and winter chrysanthemum in the courtyard at all, that is, Zhuge Jing and Zhuge Zhi were nowhere to be found, but the old man in ochre was still sitting motionless in the main hall.
It turned out that as soon as Lu Yi entered the last courtyard, he felt that there was something strange everywhere, especially at the door of the room where the old man in ochre was standing, even Zhuge Jing and Zhuge Zhi looked tense and cautious when they walked over, and as soon as the old man in ochre came out of his words and flashed into the house, he knew that the old man deliberately made things difficult for the two of them.
However, Lu Yi couldn't see the strangeness on the stone steps for a while, so he wanted to remind Li Mubai to be careful, but Li Mubai interrupted his words and stepped out with his head held high. Li Mubai strayed into the stone step formation, his eyes were full of illusions, and he couldn't help but get up, and Lu Yi quickly saw that he was behaving abnormally outside the formation.
When Li Mubai kicked him on the bulge on the second stone step, he drew his sword and stabbed his chest with his backhand, Lu Yi realized that it was dangerous, and a few stone steps turned out to be the eight formations of Zhuge Kongming besieging Lu Xun with a chaotic stone array, and he hurriedly calculated that Li Mubai's location was away from the fire, and it was the shocking door in the eight formations, so he hurriedly shouted, flew up and kicked him in the position of Kanshui, and swung out a palm that condensed his life's energy, and caused the wind of the dry sky in the stone formation to go against the direction. Li Mubai's right foot, which wanted to fall on the position of the thunder, stepped on the Jingmen of the position of Duze, Jingmen is one of the three major birth gates of the Eight Formations, and the illusion in front of him suddenly disappeared as soon as he stepped on it, and Lu Yicai snatched the jade sword in his hand at this critical moment.
Lu Yi's actions of peeping at the array, mental arithmetic, flying, stepping, palming, and grabbing the sword completely fell in Zhuge Chong's eyes, and he saw that Lu Yi not only caused the power of mutual restraint in the stone steps array to shake, but also rescued Li Mubai, who was disturbed in the chaos, and suddenly had the idea of loving talent in his heart, reached out and patted it lightly on the chair, and said in a slower tone: "Come in." ”
Zhuge Chong has studied the art of Qimen Dunjia all his life, and he has entered the realm of Dacheng ten years ago, and the ancestral mastery and ancient mastery can be said to be all extended, and even deduced and created dozens of formations, but there has always been a regret in his heart, that is, this body of mastery still has no mantle inheritance.
Among the four disciples of Ning, Jing, Zhi, and Yuan, the eldest disciple Zhuge Ning and the third disciple Zhuge Zhi are naturally quiet, while the second disciple Zhuge Jing and Zhuge Yuan are naturally active.
Zhuge Chong was originally very optimistic that his second disciple Zhuge Jing would inherit his mantle, and he would be called the elder of the clan after a hundred years, but although Zhuge Jing was intelligent, he was helpless but the kind of person who couldn't stay idle, and studying the formation was boring and boring.
Therefore, when Zhuge Chong saw that Lu Yi was so young, he was able to break through the Taiji Mixed Yuan Array, the Yin and Yang Liangyi Array and the Eight Formations of the Stone Steps that he had laid out, and he immediately had the intention of loving talents and soliciting them.
Lu Yi followed his master Wu Hanjiang to learn the art of Qimen Dunjia, but he had never heard of the master's eight array diagrams, and just now he remembered that this was Zhuge Ancient Town, and the town of towns and towns must be Zhuge Kongming's eight array diagrams that have been passed down through the ages, and the eight array diagrams have many similarities with the Bagua Array, so he had to try rashly in order to save Li Mubai.
Therefore, although Lu Yi was in the position of Kanshui at that time, if Zhuge Chong let the Eight Formations Diagram work, he would only have to do anything in vain, he was betting that Zhuge Chong did not really want to kill them, otherwise the two of them would have been murdered in the birch forest.
At this time, hearing Zhuge Chong's tone softened slightly, Lu Yi quietly touched Li Mubai, who was pale, and the two walked towards the hall side by side.
After entering the hall, the surrounding situation suddenly changed again, although there were only a few faint lights in the hall, but the air was warm, compared with the courtyard, it was a world of difference, at this time, the eyes of the two of them invariably fell on the sand table in the right, and the situation in the sand table was no different from the two of them trapped in the forest.
I didn't expect that this old man in ochre clothes seemed to be unsightly, but he was not only proficient in the Qimen formation, but also completely able to deduce the situation in the forest in a different way, this Zhuge Ancient Town is really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon! Lu Yi thought secretly.
Zhuge Chong saw Lu Yi and Li Mubai staring at the sand table in front of them, and the expressions on their faces were also uncertain, and he immediately smiled and said, "What? Didn't you expect the old man to give you this hand? But the old man didn't expect that you two little dolls would be able to break the old man's method of locking the fog. ”
Li Mubai has been involved in the rivers and lakes for more than ten years, and this is the first time he has been called a "little doll", but he doesn't have a temper, who let himself be hit by the other party's calculations one after another, and he has been caught in the battle several times?
Lu Yi didn't care, and said with a smile: "I'm sorry, old-timer, we don't mean anything else, we just don't want to sleep on the mountains at night, so we want to go into the town to rest, what kind of 'fog locking method' you said we don't know what's going on, and the fog is gone." ”
Zhuge Chong's status in the family is respected, second only to the patriarch Zhuge Kai and the second elder Zhuge Yuan, and no one has dared to give him a sloppy eye for decades, at this time, when he heard Lu Yi's words, he was immediately angry and funny, and couldn't help but quip: "According to what you say, is the old man's 'method of locking the fog' not enough, and the fog ran away by itself?" ”
Lu Yi hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no, how is it possible?" Old-timer, you have the whole world, the two of us haven't seen your face and are almost tortured to death by you, I said you see that we came to complain at night, it's almost the middle of the night, and it hasn't touched the bed yet, let us go, what's the matter, it's not too late to talk about tomorrow, isn't it? ”
Lu Yi is young and not as experienced as Li Mubai, but he is the best at this kind of thing, when he was a child and didn't want to practice martial arts, Master Wu Hanjiang's face was cold, he used this trick to deal with it, it was a hundred trials and tried, at this time, he noticed that Zhuge Chong's attitude towards the two of them was like the two of them, and he had a premonition that nothing good would happen, so he planned to prevaricate the past tonight, and the next day he would slip away.
Li Mubai was also reluctant to deal with this white-bearded ochre-robed and unfathomable old man, so he hurriedly arched his hand and said: "Zhuge senior, it is the two Mubai brothers who are reckless, Mu Bai is here to make amends to you, but now that it is late at night, it is really inconvenient to bother you too much, please forgive me." ”
"What? Is my old man so annoying? Zhuge Chong suddenly slapped the table and stood up, and immediately startled Li Mubai and Lu Yi, for fear that there would be any more organs in this room, but fortunately everything was as usual, except that Zhuge Chong continued to go berserk, "Ruined the old man's 'fog locking method', and broke the old man's Tai Chi Mixed Yuan Array, and now he dares to leave without answering the old man's question?" I think you two will have to sleep on the streets tonight, even if you don't sleep on the top of the mountain. ”
"Huh?" Lu Yi then remembered that Zhuge Jing and Zhuge Zhi had slipped away quickly just now, and they didn't mention the matter of arranging guest rooms to him at all, and his face suddenly said like a bitter melon, "Senior, isn't this okay?" ”
Zhuge Chong snorted coldly and said, "Now you know that this is not good?" Then answer my question obediently! ”
Lu Yi continued to say reluctantly with a bitter face: "What questions can you ask." He yawned as he spoke.
"The first question, are you called Yu Chengmian or Yu Mian?" Zhuge Chong's voice was not loud, but it sounded in the ears of Lu Yi and Li Mubai like thunder, and the two of them suddenly fell asleep.