After the brilliance dissipated, the formation was no longer complete, and with the death of the old man, it also cracked, and the originally indestructible ground shattered like a spider web, and then became an ugly puddle of dead things. The spiritual power that originally supplied the Great Array was lost in an instant, and suddenly the surging spiritual power emanated from the fountain in the center, and the entire Spirit Medium Mountain seemed to shake.

I thought this was just the end, but it was just the beginning, everyone seemed to feel that there was a dragon under their feet passing through, and they were all unstable, but fortunately, the wall was strong and did not fall boulders, and Zhou Zhe and several people firmly leaned against the corner of the hall to stabilize their figures.

"Hum!" An invisible sound wave came from the bottom of the shattered array, and the whole world seemed to tremble. Then everyone felt a lightness in their chests, and they didn't feel a shake anymore.

"This is?" Zhou Zhe asked subconsciously.

"I don't know, it seems that the seal is broken, but we don't know what exactly is sealed, it may be dangerous to stay here, it's time for Zhou Zhe to withdraw. Xin Chai pulled up Lin Xiaoer, who was sitting a little sluggish on the side, "Don't embarrass your master, live a good life." If you want to cry, your nose will wait until it is safe to cry. ”

At Xin Chai's suggestion, the group prepared to leave the hall, and then the class returned to the city. But the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes.

"General, the orcs are coming, and the team led by Monger himself, they don't seem to want to rush inside, they seem to want to bury us alive here. Yu Deshui, who reported the news, had a baby face full of fatigue and panic.

"What's the panic! Brother Zhou will have a way out when he is here, and he is frizzy. Liu Dabeard reprimanded. Yu Deshui lowered his head a little aggrieved, like a child who had done something wrong.

"Let's go up and take a look, it seems that the people of Qiankun Gate have been defeated, and this time Meng Ge is afraid that the person who came is not good. Zhou Zhe led everyone to the top only to find that the situation was worse than he imagined, Meng Ge did not attack at all, but surrounded the entrance of the cave with three layers inside and three layers outside, and stuck out his head to be an arrow feather.

"Zhou Zhe, we are surrounded, and the orcs outside seem to be carrying stones to seal this place. Fang Fang looked panicked, this cave didn't seem to have a second exit, if the entrance of the cave was sealed, I was afraid that it would be buried alive here.

"Later, Brother Yuan Fang will take the lead and rush out, Xin will chase you to cover the two of them, Wang Rui, you will bring a few skilled hands, and first create an open space so that the brothers behind can come out. Don't save on arrows, fire, and oil bombs. Break out first and then figure out a way. "Zhou Zhe can only try this, even if there is Meng Ge on the opposite side, even if there are thousands of Praetorian Guards on the opposite side, but the battle between Meng Ge and Yan Han should consume a lot of physical energy, at this time, if you don't fight for your life, until Meng Ge and the Praetorian Guard army recover their physical strength, I am afraid there will really be no chance.

Yuan Yuan, who was holding a long staff, and Fang Fang, who was holding an umbrella, set up an accelerated wind attack array at the door, and began to charge under Zhou Zhe's order. Xin Chai then flashed red light and also came out of the hole, Wang Rui took a few veterans with crossbows and shields to rush outside over the acceleration array.

"Shoot, shoot!" As soon as Brother Yuan Fang showed his head, he was shot with a puff of arrows, although the two of them were strong, they were also staggered. Xin Chai, who accelerated and rushed out of the cave, saw Monge in the battle line at a glance, and the Akatsuki Saint rushed forward with it in her hand, she had to suppress Monge to open the gap for those who came after her. It's just that she miscalculated, Monge was surrounded by several leaders of the Praetorian Guard with red feathers and bone finger necklaces, and her defense was impenetrable, and the occasional cold arrows around her body made it difficult for her to make effective kills.

Wang Rui changed his sword and shield and charged out, and as soon as he came out of the cave, he was greeted by a rain of arrows. Wang Rui didn't dodge, he directly held the shield to block, and the spiritual power spread all over his body. Several later veterans followed suit to set up shield formations and counterattacked with the cavalry crossbows and fire oil bombs they had brought. It's just that the lethality of this kind of counterattack is really limited, the rain of arrows has hardly stopped, and from time to time someone falls to the ground with arrows, and the already not spacious hole is blocked by the corpse, which slows down the pace of the people behind him.

"Get out of the way!" Lin Xiaoer shouted, and the fire oil bombs that were tied together were thrown by him far away into the Praetorian Guards who were shooting arrows, and immediately exploded a gap. Lin Xiaoer picked up a cavalry knife and round shield that fell to the ground, and rushed forward with a hard shoulder, the arrow could only leave some bruises on his body, which was very painful, but Lin Xiaoer continued to push forward without saying a word. The gap left everyone with room to maneuver, but it didn't stop there.

Zhou Zhe just glanced at the situation outside under the cover of the sergeants, and his scalp was numb, and the mountain road was like a line of fire, densely packed with Praetorian Guards, and nearly a thousand people were blocked on a narrow mountain road. From time to time, the sergeants who were hit by cold arrows were at least severely wounded, and some of them were shot in the abdomen and chest, and their internal organs were damaged and killed on the spot.

"Keep shooting, fight your way out. Wang Rui roared loudly, at this moment, his second-order strength was no longer able to support the shield of the spiritual power possession under the thin spiritual power of this Spirit Medium Mountain.

The Yuan Fang brothers struck and rushed in front, killing one person and taking a step forward, while the dense arrow feathers behind the orcs never stopped, and where there was a vacancy, someone would fill it, and every step forward was a casualty. Zhou Zhe also observed everything on the battlefield from time to time when shooting with a cavalry crossbow.

"Click!" a small stone landed on the helmet. Zhou Zhe subconsciously looked up, and in an instant, the dead were all gone, and a huge stone above his head was about to fall.

"Get out of the way!" Zhou Zhe shouted, fell to the side, and several sergeants who reacted quickly dodged past, while the slightly slower ones were directly hit by falling rocks and died on the spot.

"Withdraw to the cave, don't mess around. Zhou Zhe had to give this order, even if it was an order to leave some people behind. When the people in front of them heard this order, they were attacked by a wave of arrows

Harvested life.

"Withdraw to the cave, don't fall in love, the rear team will withdraw first, and the Yuan Fang brothers will break off. At the edge of the hole, throw all the oil bombs that can be thrown. Zhou Zhe roared and shouted a second time. This time the sergeants reacted

Come over and retreat one after another.

"Brother Zhou will go first, I'll break the back!" Lin Xiaoer turned around and pushed Zhou Zhe into the cave, and then began to hold the shield in one hand and pull the corpse on the ground with the other, clearing a way for the retreating crowd.

"Bang!" A bowstring sounded, and the sharp arrow directly pierced Lin Xiaoer's armor and hit him in the waist and abdomen.

"Bang!boom!boom!" There were more and more arrows from the orcs who had lost their suppression, and Lin Xiaoer's body was almost full of arrows in order to clear a way for his comrades.

"Bang!" Lin Xiaoer, who had an angry face, grabbed the arrow shaft with one hand and broke it, and continued to cover the arrow for everyone. Even so, many people were killed or wounded by arrows, until the Yuan Fang brothers also retreated into the cave.

Xin Chai then flew backwards as well, and entered the hole with his speed. In a short period of confrontation, both sides suffered countless casualties, and the number of Praetorian Guards led by Meng Ge was already superior, coupled with the terrain encirclement, Zhou Zhe could not break out of the encirclement no matter how he rushed. When they saw Lin Xiaoer being supported into the cave by the Yuan Fang brothers with blood all over his body, everyone was silent, they entered the cave to cover Lin Xiaoer's inheritance, but they didn't expect the Qiankun Gate to retreat so quickly, and they were surrounded by Mengge. They blamed Lin Xiaoer in their hearts, but they couldn't hate it, if it weren't for him, he might have died himself.

Looking at the wounded people all over the ground and the corpses that were seriously injured and died soon after entering the cave, Zhou Zhe felt deeply wrong, but there was nothing he could do. There may be other ways out of the cave, but only maybe.

"Take care of the others!I'm fine!" Lin Xiaoer threw away the bumpy round shield that was shot by heavy arrows, began to unload his armor, and pulled to the position of the arrow wound, he simply bit the three arrow shafts, the green tendons on his head burst out, and he tore off the silk lining that had been glued to the wound, everyone couldn't bear to look directly, Xiao Mao covered his eyes on the side, and tears rolled in his eyes. Zhou Zhe knew that his life would not be in danger when he opened the blood cultivation, and he couldn't bear to look at it anymore.

"Wang Rui, how is the battle damage?"

"60 were killed, almost everyone was wounded, there were not a few fire oil bombs, there were still some arrows, and I could only barely defend it. Wang Rui, who has always been cold, is also a little afraid at the moment, if he rushes just now, I'm afraid he will explain it all outside.

As soon as the words fell, the Praetorian Guards began to shoot arrows at the entrance of the cave.

"Get out of there. Liu Dabeard beckoned the sergeants to organize a defense, but the expected attack did not come, and the orcs directly blocked the cave with stones of different sizes. The sergeants were all a little panicked, and even the Yuan Fang brothers stood up and looked at Zhou Zhe, wanting to ask him to come up with an idea, Xin Chai leaned against the stone wall and said nothing.

"What should I do? The roads are blocked. One of the recruits shouted in some panic. The other sergeants also stirred up. Panic began to make the crowd restless like it would be contagious.

"Zhou Zhe, get an idea!" Wang Rui whispered beside Zhou Zhe. Zhou Zhe continued to be silent.

Seeing that the boss was also silent, some of the originally calm veterans also began to whisper, and the eyes that looked at Zhou Zhe and Lin Xiaoer seemed to begin to change, all of which Zhou Zhe saw in his eyes, and he also relied on this corner, not thinking, but observing the sergeants' every move. The atmosphere in the cave was oppressive and suffocating, and the occasional groans of the seriously wounded stirred everyone's nerves.

"Alas! It's been eight lifetimes. Why is there such a thing!" Debiao is like a tiger in a cage circling around the base of the wall.

"General, give me a word, what should we do?" an anxious sergeant couldn't stand the suppression and said to Zhou Zhe.

Zhou Zhe looked at the young sergeant in his twenties, who was still wounded, and shook his head. Suddenly, all the sergeants exploded the pot, as if a red-hot soldering iron had fallen into the water, and all kinds of discussions immediately followed.

"We're going to die here, we're all going to die here. ”

"I don't know if the handsome will give us a family pension, this is a life without seeing people and dead without seeing corpses, what should I do?"

The veterans who have followed Zhou Zhe for a long time are slightly better, and there is no shortage of them who ask for battle.

"Brother Zhou, when we get to the night, let's blow up the hole with a fire oil bomb and rush again, I don't want to die here. ”

"Yes, Brother Zhou, Team Wang has a word! What to do, let's listen. ”

"Yes, we're not afraid of death, but we don't want to die so aggrieved. When he died, he had to kill a few dog-raised orcs. ”

"What's the noise? Go back and sit on one side, even if you fight, you have to recover your strength. Zhou Zhe waved his hand again to summon Wang Rui, whispered a few words in his ear, and called out Yuan Fang's brothers, Lin Xiaoer, Xin Chai, Yu Deshui, and Liu Maosheng to go down to the hall where the underground array was located. It's not that he has no choice, it's just that the method is too risky, and although the team's recent battles are dangerous, they have not reached the place of life and death, those recruits are still recruits, and he doesn't think that archery and throwing fire oil bombs can train recruits into veterans. The greatest combat power that can still exert training at the moment of life and death is a veteran, this is what Qu Hui told him, whether he is a marshal or the commander of a battalion, if all his subordinates can't stand the test and the baptism of the battle array, they are weak chickens, even if you give them good equipment, no matter how generous the treatment is, it will be in vain, and everyone will change when it comes to life and death. So no matter when and where, as long as it is not a person who fights the world, there should be a card in his hand, what Zhou Zhe needs at this moment is a veteran who can listen to his orders and dare to fight in the land of life and death. So hang them, not comfort them. Let Wang Rui control this group of mixed teams of old and new is because Wang Rui is at least prestigious, and if there is chaos, he can still suppress the scene.

The wound that Lin Xiaoer pulled out of the arrow had already scabbed over in a short period of time, and Xin Chai had judged before the action that he was now a third-order, unless Meng Ge did it himself, there were almost no half-orcs who could kill him in this spirit medium mountain. When Zhou Zhe got off the corridor, he threw Lin Xiaoer a spider egg, as long as he ate it, he would be a lively Lin Xiaoer again, not to blame Zhou Zhe for being cruel, because they were born in hell.

"Have you got an idea for calling us to this hall?" said Xin Chai with a grin, walking at the front of the line like a strong woman.

"Yes, there is, but it's more dangerous, so I'll dry them first. And I don't know if there will be danger below this seal, so I called a few of you, I really should have brought Brother Yuan Fang down just now to see, the originally powerful seal here has been lifted, although the ground is cracked, but if you want to go below, it is estimated that you have to start with this fountain. ”

"It's a strange place. As soon as Yuan Yuan went down to the hall, he noticed the strangeness here.

"Senior brother, is it the lighting array of this wall? Obviously, the seal on the ground has collapsed, but the lighting array of the wall is still intact, and there seems to be a powerful spiritual power fluctuation here. ”

"The two of them guessed well, there should be something under this hall, but there is nothing else in this hall except for the fountain in the center, Lin Xiaoer, try to see if you can move this fountain away." Everybody's here to help. Zhou Zhe commanded everyone.

The material of the fountain seems to be jade, which is smooth and warm to the touch, but it is as solid as a rock, and Lin Xiaoer's distant brothers have not moved a single inch after making enough efforts.

"Get out of the way!" Xin shouted and sprinted forward from the wall, then rose into the air and kicked on the fountain, and then rolled over the air and landed on the other side of the fountain, still not shaking the slightest.

"It seems that I can't move, and then I will think of other ways. Xin Chai was also helpless, the foot that was infused with her peerless knowledge and the spiritual power of her whole body was still ineffective, which could only mean that this thing was deeply embedded in the ground of this hall. Xin Chai tried the material with the Akatsuki Saint again, except for a series of sparks, not even a single mark was left, it was so strong.

"Why can't this spiritual fluid get in your hands, it seems to be the same as if it doesn't exist, could it be that there is something else wrong with this fountain?" Yuan Yuan said after trying the spiritual fluid in the fountain.

"This fountain is like four leaves of spirit grass, but there are four runes on this leaf, which is really strange. I've been refining runes for decades, and I haven't heard of two other runes. Fang Fang touched his smooth chin and circled around the fountain.

"There should be four runes. Zhou Zhe's words almost shocked everyone's jaws, although Zhou Zhe had entered the side of the Spirit Grass, but where could there be four kinds. Looking at everyone's inquiring eyes, Zhou Zhe continued, "The last time on the altar on the top of the mountain, Yan Han used the mastery of reversing yin and yang, do you remember? At that time, I thought that Yan Han just combined the yin and yang runes to form a huge spiritual power blast, but in fact, there were four runes. It wasn't very clear at the time, but here you look. In addition to the two common yin-yang runes, there are also two types of runes that seem to be yin-yang runes as well. It's a bit similar to the runes that Bitter Cold once used. If there really are two other kinds of runes, the original large array in this hall should also exist, such a powerful spirit array, I don't believe there is. Look for them all. Zhou Zhe spoke again, and everyone felt that it made sense, and began to look for it in the cracked hall. From time to time, compared with the other two runes on this central hot spring, they collectively looked at it again and again, and Zhou Zhe shook off the bad taste in his mind and looked at it carefully.

The ground cracked very evenly, and most of them were cracked into square bricks along the road lines. Some of the bricks have runes on them, while others don't, which is obvious, which makes it much easier for everyone to find.

"Here's a piece. ”

"There's that too. Xin Chai and Liu Dabeard, who had searched for the other two runes, took one to the central fountain for comparison, and sure enough. Zhou Zhe didn't guess wrong.

"There are really four runes, hurry up and print them. Yuan Yuan and Fang Fang tore off the corners of their clothes, and smeared ink on the stones to rub two new runes, completely forgetting where they were.

"Zhou Zhe, these two runes have been found, but how did you get down to this hall? Although the old man is powerful, how can I think this is unreliable, there are no doors and stairs. Xin grumbled.

"It may not have been possible before, but it is very likely that the original large array was destroyed. Zhou Zhe was full of confidence at the moment. "Brother Yuan Fang, find a way to make a bright lighting array on the surrounding walls, we have a job to do. ”

"What did you find?" Xin Chai was confused, looking at the busy crowd.

"Yes, I remember what the old man said? He was knocked down the mountain, and when he woke up, he was sealed, that is, there was no seal here. So what was the situation here before this seal was formed? The orcs were able to use the spiritual power infusion on the top of the mountain to become a blood cultivator earlier, and they were not injured by the spiritual energy tank on the top of the mountain, which means that this fountain was here earlier than the seal. Since this is the case, the seal here relies on the fountain to supply spiritual power, so what was the spiritual power of this fountain supplied before? There is only one answer, the ground here was also some kind of spiritual array before, and the seal was not newly depicted, but was formed by disrupting the original pattern of the large array here and the formation pattern on the old man's body, you see here. Zhou Zhe pointed to the place where the old man had woken up.

"The masonry is not broken or turned into powder, but piece by piece to give way to the human shape, and this is the evidence. ”

"But what does this have to do with the runes of the central fountain?"

"That's what we're going to do, and since this is a man-made building before antiquity, it's certainly not a dead end. There must be a passage up and down, and the opening of this passage should be hidden, as long as we restore the original formation of the hall, it is possible to open the passage. ”

"But such an ancient formation, how can it be restored? I'm afraid the two brothers of Yuan Fang won't be able to do it!?" Xin Chai understood it, but he was not optimistic.

"The mountain people have their own clever plans, you can see it!" Zhou Zhe winked at Xin Chai and sold Guanzi, in fact, he had already thought about it, this formation is definitely not traceless, at least one by one the bricks and stones are finally connected to the fountain, and each pattern also needs to be connected to each other to form a loop, which reminds him of the poker given to him by the old man in the noodle restaurant, whether it is also a formation that made him here. Without thinking deeply, Zhou Zhe began to act, nearly a thousand different stones were marked by Zhou Zhe from 1 to 1000 numbers, although everyone didn't quite understand, they could only watch from the sidelines. Zhou Zhe ripped off the silk lining on his body again, and simply drew the horizontal bars and vertical lines on each stone, the horizontal bars and vertical lines without any rhyme, this is to treat the spirit array as a circuit board, after all, this is Zhou Zhe's profession. Finally, mark the number, pull out the green jade sword, cut it into rags, and start the puzzle.

Everyone didn't understand, even Xin Chai was bored, Brother Yuan Fang looked at it for a while, at first they were just curious, but after seeing it, the two of them were not calm at all, Zhou Zhe's previous words they heard in their ears and felt that it was a fantasy, but they were unwilling to give up a trace of hope, and now, the two of them are completely convinced, just in terms of this mind, although the two have been immersed in the spirit array for many years, they have never thought of using such a seemingly child's play to restore the ancient array.

An incomplete puzzle composed of 1,000 rags, without the mother picture, how long do you have to fight? Everyone's answer is different, and when everyone was already asleep, Zhou Zhe handed over the answer sheet. Even halfway through, Wang Rui sent someone down three times to ask how the situation was, but he didn't delay Zhou Zhe's answer. A spirit array that did not follow the distribution of Dao rhymes and runes at all, and only followed the completion circuit, was restored by Zhou Zhe on the rag.

"Now, as I said, in the order in which I put them on these rags, arrange each masonry in its fixed place. Let's go!I'll rest for a while!" Zhou Zhe leaned on the edge of the fountain after overusing his brain, and slowly closed his eyes. What everyone was actually most afraid of was that there was nothing to do, and they ordered several people to act quickly. Xin Chai didn't do physical work, but sat next to Zhou Zhe, stretched out his two hands, and massaged Zhou Zhe's temples. Zhou Zhe only cared about enjoyment, and he didn't even bother to open his eyes.