Soon after the soldiers left the Firmament Palace in two ways, Huan Qing Zhenren found Zhongyang Zhenren to play with him, and the two came to Qinxin Pavilion together.

"It's not that I'm talking about you, they're just children who haven't been deeply involved in the world, and now it happens to be a sinister person in the troubled world, and it's a bit difficult for you to let them do these things by themselves, right? I'll be heartbroken if they have something to do. "Although Zhongyang looks like five big and three thick on the outside, he is actually thick and fine, especially taking care of the feelings of the younger generations.

"Hehe, why is Senior Brother Zhongyang so anxious, the young man named Gao Che you fancy is by no means an idle person, and even to some extent, he may be more down-to-earth than Lan Yin's apprentice Birou." Huan Qing's evaluation of Gao Che also surprised Zhongyang.

"What's more, now that Kui is in the world, the martial arts are afraid that there will be waves again, if we don't confirm as soon as possible whether these descendants can take on the heavy responsibility of the Lord of the Ancient Divine Soldiers, what face will I have to meet the palace master who will be out of the customs soon." Huan Qing held a chess piece that had not been put down for a long time, and sighed thoughtfully.

"Well, I hope these children can pass these tests smoothly, and don't waste all our hard work." Zhong Yang said with some emotion after Luozi, but soon he became a little anxious again, "I don't know how Ling Rui Shaoxia is now, just pray that he doesn't meet any strange people near Jinfo Mountain." ”

"Oh, senior brother, do you mean that...... Those people?" Huan Qing placed two chess pieces, one black and one white, in the corner of the chessboard, and then received Zhong Yang's affirmative reply, "Well, if those people really haunt the vicinity of Jinfo Mountain as rumored, this is indeed a bit tricky." ”

When the two continued to play in the pavilion with a somewhat solemn expression, on the other side, after two days of climbing mountains and mountains, Ling Rui finally arrived at the Golden Buddha Temple, where all kinds of pilgrims were still flowing at this time.

However, to Ling Rui's surprise, when he was just about to enter the temple gate with the crowd, several strong monks walked out of the temple with a crazy middle-aged man with a disheveled head, accompanied by some incomprehensible crazy words shouted out by the man.

"Hahaha, the bull head and horse noodles are here, the ghost sent the evil officials to come, the Lord of Yama sent someone here to ask for his life, no one can escape, we will all be eaten by them, and there will be no bones left, hahaha......"

The monks unceremoniously threw the man into a pile of grass in the distance, and then after the man staggered away as if drunk, they also walked away. At the same time, the rest of the passers-by around Ling Rui also talked about this person, and one of them who knew him whispered to others that this person seemed to have joined a mysterious cult some time ago, and it is said that the people in this cult not only look strange, but some even eat people, especially preferring to eat young women.

Because of his eagerness, Ling Rui didn't pay much attention to such sensational rumors and the frightened looks of the onlookers that followed. He entered the temple and explained his intention to an older-looking monk, and he was guided to the room where the abbot of the temple was.

"The donor must be Ling Rui Shaoxia, right? There has been a book of flying pigeons in the Firmament Palace before, explaining to me your intentions. Hey, the letter said that there was another girl surnamed Ouyang who would also come here with the donor, why didn't she see her? The abbot asked with a somewhat solemn expression.

"In Xia Ling Rui, I have seen the abbot master. Miss Ouyang, because she was delayed by other things temporarily, she could not accompany her, and she would make a statement to the abbot master on her behalf. Ling Rui replied with a polite smile, but observing the abbot's strange face, he added a trace of vigilance in his heart at this time.

"Oh, I see, it's good that there are no accidents, after all, the villages and towns at the foot of the Golden Buddha Mountain have not been peaceful recently......" The abbot was a little speechless, with a somewhat sad expression on his face. Ling Rui then asked the abbot if there were any bandit bullies who were a danger to one side, and he was willing to take his sword and help eradicate these thieves, but the answer he waited for was advice that he didn't need to continue to inquire about these things.

Ling Rui saw that the abbot seemed to have something unspeakable, so he stopped investigating these rumors for the time being, and instead continued to ask him about the sword. The abbot replied that he wanted to take the sword of the current palace master of the firmament palace, called Cold Flame, and that the palace master of the firmament palace entrusted this sword to the Golden Buddha Temple for safekeeping when he was about to retreat a few months ago, and now this sword is being stored in the Blue Buddha Cave in the forbidden place of the mountain behind the Golden Buddha Temple.

Immediately afterwards, the abbot told Ling Rui that he had to go into the cave alone to get the sword, because the cave was set up with the Star Returning Yuan Array laid by the Firmament Palace, and the power of this array was not trivial, once ordinary people entered unless they broke out of the formation as soon as possible, they would definitely fall into a situation where they could not extricate themselves.

"Thank you Master Abbot for your advice, since the junior is entrusted by the Taoist masters of the Firmament Palace to come to your temple to get the sword, then no matter how many difficulties and obstacles there are in the process of taking the sword, the junior will also try his best, and please don't worry about the master abbot."

Seeing that Ling Rui was so resolute, the abbot didn't say anything more, and soon after, he accompanied Ling Rui to the entrance of the Green Buddha Cave, and watched Ling Rui stride into the dark Blue Buddha Cave with firm steps.

After a long passage accompanied by stars and candles, Ling Rui came to an open hall deep in the cave. Since the hall was so dim that it was difficult to see anything clearly, there happened to be a candlestick by the door that looked like there was still lamp oil left, so Ling Rui subconsciously used the flint and steel he carried with him to ignite the lamp oil in the candlestick. Then, to his surprise, the lit lamp continued to spread along the two recesses in the wall until the entire hall was completely lit.

Before Ling Rui could see the specific layout of the hall, with the loud sound of gears turning, the curtain covering the walls around the hall was gradually opened, and the ground in the center of the hall was slowly opening to both sides. Immediately afterward, twenty-eight wooden figures slowly appeared from the recess open in front of Ling Rui under the control of the mechanism, and at the same time, Ling Rui also noticed the appearance of paintings on the walls that had previously been covered by curtains, which seemed to record some kind of martial arts moves.

After the wooden people were fully raised, the four huge turntables "southeast, northwest, northwest" under their feet began to activate, and the wooden people completely blocked Ling Rui's way to the inner room in the high-speed movement.

"The four spirits of the heavens, with the four directions, so it turns out that this array is actually transformed from the twenty-eight constellations recorded by the ancients. Fortunately, I had heard about the operation of the twenty-eight constellations on the rivers and lakes before, and I believe that it should not be too difficult to break this formation. Ling Rui thought so in his heart, and then he cautiously began to approach the wooden human formation that was rapidly spinning.

When Ling Rui seized the opportunity to successfully break through from the Suzaku Seven Houses in the south, he suddenly felt that several figures flashed in front of his eyes, and the movements of these figures made him feel a little familiar. He forced the nervousness in his heart to settle down, and then looked up suddenly, only to find a black figure as if holding some kind of weapon at him. Ling Rui subconsciously hurriedly dodged sideways, but he unluckily stepped into another wooden man formation, and then he was hit hard by a fast wooden figure and fell out of the formation.

"It seems that this is not an ordinary star formation, there is still a mystery hidden in it." Ling Rui blamed himself in his heart for underestimating this formation, and then he thought about it alone outside the formation for a while, and found that many of the movements made by those figures were consistent with the martial arts on the wall, and even the weapons in their hands were exactly the same. Thinking of this, Ling Rui thought that the black shadow that had suddenly attacked him just now might just be a phantom reflected in the mural.

Ling Rui tried to enter the formation again, this time he was going to ignore the black shadows running towards him, and instead concentrate on breaking the barrier of the twenty-eight wooden figures. However, Ling Rui had once again underestimated the power of the Star Returning Array, and the first blow inflicted on him by these black shadows that had originally seemed to him to be all illusions made him feel as uncomfortable as if he had really been attacked by a living person.

Since he was told by the abbot not to destroy the mechanism here, otherwise the mechanism in the stone chamber where Cold Flame was located would automatically lock and never be opened again, so Ling Rui did not dare to act rashly even if he was carrying a Qilin Sword. He realized that these black shadows were not pure phantoms, and hurriedly dodged around as if he had done the first time, but because he had lost some care, he still escaped from the battle after being hit several times by the wooden man, covering the pain all over his body.

"This ...... What the hell is going on?" Ling Rui was a little confused for a while, and then he sat down cross-legged and calmly recalled in his mind the scenes he had experienced in the formation, and at the same time thought about the countermeasures that could restrain the formation.

Ling Rui lowered his head to adjust his breathing, but this bowing made him suddenly notice that although he could clearly feel the pain caused by the black shadow in the formation, he didn't seem to have any injuries on his body, which was really a bit unreasonable.

"Could it be...... Could it be so?" Ling Rui seemed to suddenly realize something, he stood up and closed his eyes, listening intently to the sound of the wooden man turning, while trying his best to paint a sketch in his mind of the location of each of the twenty-eight constellations.

"I see, the wooden figures in the Nakshatra Circle are arranged according to the position of the stars, and move in an orderly and regular manner according to the different times when the stars appear. Once two seals with the same internal force echo, the internal force of the seal may be partially released in a short time gap, so these black shadow illusions will bring real internal force damage to themselves. ”

After thinking everything out, Ling Rui confidently broke into the formation again, dodging each of the Black Shadow Illusion's movements accordingly, and bringing the same dodge to defuse the next wooden man's attack that followed him. This method really worked, Ling Rui quickly dodged the surprise attack of the mural's black shadow, and at the same time, he quickly smashed the wooden people who were grinning at him in the order of the stars.

Soon, after nervously avoiding the attack of the last black shadow and the wooden man, Ling Rui, who was sweating profusely, finally managed to break through the formation and came to a small stone room on the other side of the hall. At this moment, what caught his eye was an indigo blue sword with a somewhat unpretentious shape on both the hilt and the scabbard, which was quietly placed on a wooden sword platform that was fixed on the stone table.

Ling Rui held the sword in front of his chest with both hands with a slight sense of accomplishment, and a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of his mouth with beads of sweat. And as the sword left the sword platform, it seemed that the corresponding mechanism was touched, and the hall was restored to the original state before the Star Returning Array was opened.

Ling Rui returned to the temple safely, and at the same time, the letter sent to him by Ouyang He's entrustment of Gao Che to send Black Eagle also arrived in his hands smoothly.

"Xiaohe, wait for me, I'll come to Chengdu to meet you, I hope you and Miss Lu can all go well and be safe!"

Ling Rui quickly said goodbye to the abbot and rode out of the Golden Buddha Temple, and in a roadside teahouse he passed by, the man who had been thrown out of the temple before, and still looked a little crazy, was staring at a young woman who was helping in the teahouse, and an indescribable strange expression slowly appeared on his face.