Chapter 114: Teleportation Array
Just as Ah Jiu was interrogating those Bagen nobles, a not-so-good news came: the Hazhnao Sea was gone.
Hearing this news, Guo Yang was slightly stunned, and couldn't help but secretly regret that he was still too young, and he was carried away by a little victory.
However, the matter has come to this point, and it is too late for Guo Yang to regret it.
"Ah Jiu, quickly lead people down the mountain, guard Ah Rishan Haizi, and don't let that jackal slip out of the water." As Guo Yang spoke, he walked quickly towards the summit of the Bagen Divine Peak.
The twelve guards were on the spot, and at first glance, they were defenseless, and they were blacked out by the Hazhnaohai patriarch.
Guo Yang squatted down and examined it carefully, frowning.
There were no scars on the corpses of these people, but the skin all over their bodies was shrunk in a large circle, wrinkled, and looked extremely strange.
Anu also squatted down, tore open the clothes of those corpses, and examined them more closely, and finally found that there was a faint purple mark the size of a finger on the back of these people's hearts.
"Young Master, look." Anu pointed to the purple mark, also frowning.
Guo Yang leaned down, pointed the tip of his index finger on the mark, stared and thought, a little puzzled.
"This is not a fatal acupoint of the human body, why is this death occurring? Moreover, the skin of these people has dried up in a large circle, and it seems that the essence has been sucked away in an instant. Anu murmured, confused.
"You're right, these people have been sucked away from their qi and blood essence. I remember that last time in the underground palace of Nanyan Kingdom, in order to open the stone door of the main hall, one of my arms was almost devoured, and I lost a lot of weight. Guo Yang stood up slowly, his expression a little solemn.
"Young Master, I didn't expect that the leader of this grassland tribe turned out to be a cultivator, which is a bit tricky." Anu also blamed himself for his carelessness, if he had found a way to attack the peak in the first place and kill that Harinao Sea, there would not be so much trouble.
Guo Yang pondered for a moment and said: "Actually, this is also a good thing, at least let us know that there are also cultivators on the grassland, which can be regarded as a wake-up call for us." ”
Guo Yang took out a large box, silently recited a few strange spells, and with a "hum", a large group of red-billed little hummingbirds flew out, and after a short pause, they flew towards Bagen Divine Peak in all directions.
In an instant, hundreds of small red-billed hummingbirds flew back, hovered above Guo Yang's head, and quickly flew towards a large canyon.
"Let's go." As Guo Yang spoke, he unfolded his body and chased those red-billed little hummingbirds into the valley.
Anu also spread his body and followed closely behind Guo Yang.
Soon, Guo Yang and Anu came to a strange rocky place under the guidance of the little red-billed hummingbird. There is a small lake there, and on the stone wall on the other side of the lake, there is an inconspicuous cave, if it were not for the guidance of the little red-billed hummingbird, I am afraid that it will not be found for a while.
Guo Yang looked left and right, walked to a pine tree the thickness of a bowl, brushed the ground, drew a knife, cut down the tree, and split two pieces of a long zhang.
Each of them picked up a piece of wood and threw it at the center of the lake. At the moment when the wood fell into the water, the two of them jumped up with an arrow step, and with a light touch on the wood, they leaped up again with the help of force, and in a blink of an eye they arrived in front of the stone wall on the other side of the lake.
Guo Yang held a knife in his right hand, took out a night pearl in his left hand, and entered the stone cave vigilantly.
Anu was also on full defense, following Guo Yang for more than ten steps.
That Harinaohai patriarch turned out to be a cultivator, so he didn't dare to be careless at all, and if he wasn't careful, he might be overshadowed by that jackal.
At the beginning of the stone cave, more than ten zhang, similar to those ordinary caves, the stones are in the road, like an abandoned black blind man's nest, exuding a pungent smell of animal bones and mold.
Dig into a rocky cave that twists and turns, like a dog's hole, and then enter a wide passage.
The passage is quite high, Guo Yang stretched out his hand and couldn't touch the top, about a zhang wide, paved with bluestone steps. The air in the passage was very humid, and the bluestone steps were covered with dark green moss, which was extremely slippery to step on.
Guo Yang squatted down, looked at it carefully, nodded slightly, and said in a low voice: "There is a person's footprint, which is still new, and it should be left by the Harinao Sea." ”
"Young master, be careful, that jackal seems to be quite difficult." Anu nodded and whispered.
Guo Yang handed over the night pearl to Anu, and walked quietly in front of him, fully on guard, wearing a white linen cloth without wind, obviously transporting the power of the spirit and demons.
The passage has been downward, Guo Yang and Anu walked for half an hour, but they still did not come to the end, it seems that the white and fat Bagen nobleman is right, this cave is really connected with the bottom of the water of Ah Rishan Haizi.
The two of them walked down for about a cup of tea, and came to a stone door. On the stone door, there is a very strange pattern, a circle, two fish in the middle, one yin and one yang, one and the other, rotating, exuding a light blue soft light.
Guo Yang and Anu stood in front of the stone gate, a little helpless. Guo Yang seems to have seen this kind of pattern somewhere, but he can't remember it for a while.
He tried to bring the knife closer to the mysterious pattern, but was pushed by a soft force, and it swirled with the two fish-like patterns, one yin and one yang.
Guo Yang suddenly felt a tightness in his chest, and a rather domineering force penetrated his arm through the knife, making him suffer a small loss.
He staggered, his face pale, and a trace of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.
Anu was startled, hurriedly stepped forward, and stretched out his hand to help Guo Yang.
"It's okay, I accidentally suffered a small loss. This is a kind of Xuanmen prohibition, and the power is quite strange, but it should be a relatively superficial one, so I'll try again. Guo Yang wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, inserted the knife into the scabbard, slowly breathed, and stretched out his two palms.
He slowly probed, placing his two palms close to the two fish-like patterns, one yin and one yang, and slowly injected the power of luck and demons.
The pattern suddenly lit up, and it immediately returned to its original shape.
Guo Yang nodded, and pressed his hands up again, injecting more spirit and demon power.
The pattern flashed and stopped spinning abruptly. There was a soft "click" sound from inside the stone door, and it opened with a bang.
Guo Yang took advantage of the light of the night pearl in Anu's hand to see the situation behind the stone gate clearly at a glance.
Behind the stone gate, there is a small stone room, about more than ten zhang in size, in the middle, there is a small stone platform, a bit like the altar of the demons, but there is a big difference.
Guo Yang cautiously stepped into the stone chamber and walked to the stone platform.
I saw a circle of stone platforms, carved with hundreds of strange symbols, a bit like Zhong Dingwen, but it seemed to be more complicated and ancient. All the strokes of those symbols seemed to be crooked, and none of the strokes were straight lines, which made Guo Yang a little surprised.
This kind of complicated writing, Guo Yang has seen, that is, in the depths of the underground palace of Nanyan Kingdom, the prohibition of the opening of the two stone doors uses this kind of pattern text that is obviously older than Zhong Dingwen.
Guo Yang guessed that these runes should be related to the runes left by the demons in the underground palace of Nanyan Kingdom. At the very least, they should belong to the same era.
The stone platform as a whole is circular, but the runes are arranged in an octagonal shape, and on each side, there are lines composed of six ancient runes.
Guo Yang slowly stepped onto the stone platform, carefully identifying the lines composed of those ancient runes, his brows gradually tightened, and he seemed to be a little confused.
The patterns composed of these runes are dismantled separately, and Guo Yang knows them, isn't this the eight basic forms of "Yi"? However, when combined, it is completely different, between lines and lines, between patterns and patterns, each other, which is quite different from the "Returning to Tibet" known by Guo Yang.
After the Zhou people destroyed the merchants, the first thing they did was to make a big move, conquer everywhere, and completely defeat the old merchant department of the year. The second thing is to collect the world's "Returning to Tibet" and burn it, claiming that it is a ghost and witchcraft, which is not in line with the benevolence of heaven, and it is strictly forbidden for anyone to practice it.
It is difficult for ordinary merchant descendants to see the scriptures of "Returning to Tibet", coupled with the deliberate erasure of the Zhou people in recent years, the "Returning to Tibet" that is regarded as a classic by the merchants, royal families and nobles has basically been completely erased, leaving no trace.
But Guo Yang was born in a big nobleman, although he suffered the destruction of the country and his family when he was three years old, but later when he practiced the cultivation of the true exercises, his father Guo Lu had passed on all the knowledge he had learned to Guo Yang, so he knew a lot about the scriptures of "Returning to Tibet".
As for the "Zhou Yi" pursued by the Zhou people, it was only controlled by the Zhou royal family at that time, and outsiders had no way of knowing its contents. However, Guo Yang speculated that the "Zhou Yi" should have inherited some of the basic contents of "Gui Zang", and was re-written after detailed deduction by King Wen of Zhou.
And the stone platform carved in front of him is even more complex and mysterious than the scriptures of "Returning to Tibet" known by Guo Yang, so it is very likely to evolve from the classic of "Lianshan" pursued by the Xia people.
However, because Guo Yang has never seen the three scriptures of "Lianshan", "Returning to Tibet" and "Zhou Yi", he can only speculate on his feelings.
Guo Yang searched the entire stone chamber, and found no other secret doors or mechanisms, so he returned to the stone, frowning and pondering.
The two of them followed the footprints of Harinao Sea all the way to this point, but the person disappeared out of thin air, which made Guo Yang feel a little incredible.
"Young Master, look here." Suddenly, Anu seemed to have discovered something.
Guo Yang walked over quickly, but saw Anu squatting on the ground, reaching out and digging out a thumb-sized dark gray stone from a card slot on the stone platform.
"Young master, look at it, this stone is a bit weird." Anu frowned and said, "There is such a card slot on the eight sides of this stone platform, if I hadn't approached and picked it with my fingernails, it would not be easy to find." ”
"Everything?" Guo Yang took the stone and probed it repeatedly, but he didn't have a clue for a while.
"Yes, the eight symmetrical directions, each with a card slot, each with such a stone inserted into it." As he spoke, Anu walked to the other side and pulled out another stone, which was also dark gray, no different from ordinary stones.
"This kind of stone ......" Guo Yang groaned, turned his hand and took out a spirit stone, put the two stones together, and compared.
"This kind of stone should also belong to the spirit stone, but it is two or three times larger than our spirit stone, and according to the quality of the stone, it should be higher than these spirit stones we have at hand." Guo Yang frowned and said.
"Could it be...... Medium-grade spirit stones, or high-grade spirit stones? Anu's eyes widened and she said in surprise.
"Quite possibly. However, it is impossible to judge at present, after all, we have only seen this kind of spirit stone. Guo Yang shook his head and sighed, and put away the spirit stone and the stone that had lost its spiritual energy.
"There is a card slot on the stone platform, which can be inlaid with spirit stones......" Guo Yang slowly squatted down, stretched his fingers into the card slot, and slowly groped for a while.
With a twist of thought, he casually took out eight spirit stones and inserted them into eight slots.
Just as he inserted the last spirit stone, there was a muffled bang, and those ancient arcane runes on the stone platform suddenly lit up, turned golden, and spun rapidly.
In the blink of an eye, those golden runes transformed into two fish-like patterns, one yin and one yang, forming a bright and strange pillar of light. In the pillar of light, those runes were like living creatures, rapidly changing and merging, and they were about to form a whole.
With a soft "click", the pillar of light visibly dimmed, and finally returned to its original state, which was some ordinary ancient arcane runes.
In the eight slots of the stone platform, the eight spirit stones turned into powder and spilled out.
"This is the Ancient Teleportation Array!" Guo Yang muttered, his face very solemn.