Chapter Seventy-Three: The Maze
As soon as he finished speaking, a person suddenly appeared in the hole where the wall collapsed, and the hole was originally pitch black, and he couldn't see anything clearly.
Although Liang had warned me before, I was still taken aback.
It wasn't until I came back to my senses that I could see that there was a girl standing outside the entrance of the cave, who was older than me, and she was very good-looking, with very long hair, and from time to time she exuded a very light fragrance.
Her name is Lu Renshuang, 17 years old, and she is the nephew of Tunmeng, because of the relationship between the seniority of the teacher, she has to respectfully call me "Uncle Shi" when she sees me, and I only call her "Renshuang".
In fact, Renshuang has changed a lot in the past two years, and it is difficult for me to remember what she looked like when I first met her, but I remember that she seems to be the same as now, she is a rather beautiful girl, the length of her hair has not changed, and her body fragrance is natural. In addition, what impressed me the most was the string of silver bells on her ankle.
It was a string of anklets strung with very small silver bells, and when Renshuang walked towards us, the silver bells would make a very faint but very crisp "jingle bell" sound, and the sound would reach people's ears and make people relax in an instant, as if at that moment, every hair on the top of the head suddenly became soft.
She came to Senior Brother Zhuang and Senior Brother Feng and saluted very respectfully: "Master, Senior Uncle." ”
By the way, I missed one thing just now, Lu Renshuang is a disciple of Senior Brother Zhuang.
After that, Lu Renshuang looked at me and Liang Houzai again, and asked me Senior Brother Zhuang: "Why have these two junior brothers never met?" ”
Senior Brother Zhuang looked at me and smiled a little helplessly, he first patted Lu Renshuang on the shoulder and said to me, "Lu Renshuang, my apprentice." After that, he said to Renshuang: "This is your Uncle Zuo!" Didn't you see him when he was apprenticed? The other is Liang Houzai, a friend of your Uncle Zuo, a descendant of the corpse chaser. ”
Lu Renshuang looked at me in surprise for a while, and then hugged my fist: "Uncle Zuo." ”
I was really a little unaccustomed to being called Uncle Shi suddenly, and I didn't know what to say at the time, so I laughed dryly at Lu Renshuang.
When I laughed, Lu Renshuang kept staring at me, as if she was curious about me, but in front of Senior Brother Zhuang, she probably didn't dare to lose her manners, so she quickly withdrew her eyes and said to my Senior Brother Zhuang: "Master, Senior Uncle Ancestor, they have already arrived at the town gate." ”
Senior Brother Zhuang nodded, and let Lu Renshuang lead the way in front, while he and Senior Brother Feng walked into the cave one after the other, and when they entered the cave, Senior Brother Feng beckoned to me and Liang Houzai, signaling us to follow.
In the depths of the cave, it was pitch black, and I could clearly hear everyone's footsteps on the way.
This also makes me even more puzzled, how did Lu Renshuang suddenly appear at the entrance of the cave silently just now?
After walking a short distance, I saw some small bright green spots on the ground, and there were nine spots in total, lined up in the middle of the road. Senior Brother Feng said to me, "These glow-in-the-dark stones are mixed with our special Yin and Yang soil, and they are placed here for the purpose of making array eyes. These arrays can't be broken, and if you want to get out of this place, you can only step on them in a specific order. ”
Senior Brother Feng rarely speaks like he does now, and there is a trace of pride when he says every word, and I feel that those glow-in-the-dark stones on the ground may have been arranged by Senior Brother Feng.
After that, Senior Brother Feng walked up to the luminous stones, and stepped on the first stone four times with the sole of his left foot, and then stepped on the second stone eleven times, each stone was stepped on differently.
Senior Brother Feng stepped on it, while slowly moving towards a luminous stone at the very end, the light emitted from the stone had a very hazy feeling, Senior Brother Feng's figure was reflected by this light, and it seemed to become hazy, until the soles of his feet stepped on the last luminous stone seven times, Senior Brother Feng's whole person was shrouded in that light.
That kind of scene is really a bit difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, the light emanating from the stone is obviously very faint, and Senior Brother Feng is covered in it again, but after a moment, I can't see Senior Brother Feng's figure.
He disappeared inexplicably like this!
Senior Brother Zhuang came up and patted me, and I woke up from my shock.
Senior Brother Zhuang smiled at me and asked me, "Do you remember how many times you have to step on each stone?" ”
I thought about it carefully, and nodded at Senior Brother Zhuang again.
After that, Senior Brother Zhuang asked me to step on those stones first, saying that it was to let me feel the mastery of Yuxian's lineage.
I followed the example of Senior Brother Feng and stepped on the moonstone with my foot, and when the soles of my feet touched the first stone, I felt a chill run down the soles of my feet and rush up to my chest. Fortunately, this coolness does not make people feel uncomfortable, it only appears for a moment, and then disappears without a trace.
And at the moment when it disappeared, I had a faint feeling, I felt that the light on the luminous stone suddenly became brighter, and every time I stepped on a stone, this feeling would be stronger, but I also knew in my heart that this was just an ethereal illusion, the light on the luminous stone did not become brighter, and the cave was still dark, I don't know why, Senior Brother Zhuang, Liang Houzai and Lu Renshuang's figures seemed to be becoming more and more blurred.
The last time I stepped on the ninth glow-in-the-dark stone, it suddenly became brighter.
I looked up and found myself in a wide, bright tunnel, lined with tall stone walls made of stone slabs, on which there were lit torches every meter or so, and the light of the fire reflected the dragon reliefs on the walls.
I was surprised when I felt someone tap on the shoulder, and when I looked back, I saw Senior Brother Feng smiling at me, but except for Senior Brother Feng, the others were gone.
I opened my mouth and looked around for a while, making sure that this was not an illusion, and then asked me Senior Brother Feng, "How can I ...... How did you get here? ”
Senior Brother Feng smiled and said, "Actually, you have been here since just now. ”
I didn't understand what Senior Brother Feng meant, so I asked, "No, what's going on, why can't I understand?" ”
Senior Brother Feng waved his hand at me and said, "I can't explain this in too much detail, the inheritance of our three veins can't communicate with each other. ”
At the moment when I was talking to Senior Brother Feng, Liang Houzai also came to my side, I don't know how he appeared here, and I don't know when he appeared, but when I felt someone around me gasping and turned around to look, Liang Houzai was already standing beside me.
After Liang Houzai, Lu Renshuang and Senior Brother Zhuang also appeared in the tunnel in turn, everyone seemed to appear out of thin air, and the position where everyone appeared was in the blind corner of my vision.
Not only me, but at the moment when they appeared, including Liang Houzai and my Senior Brother Zhuang, they didn't see them.
Although I also knew that the inheritance of the three veins of the Soul Village could not be communicated, I was really curious, and finally I couldn't help but ask Senior Brother Feng: "What is going on in this place?" ”
Senior Brother Feng smiled and said, "This kind of thing, I can't say it, I can't say it." Hehe, but one thing can tell you, there are some special arrangements in this tunnel, and when you walk in it, you will have a sense of time and space. In fact, time and space are not chaotic, what is confused is only your sense of space. ”
After Senior Brother Feng finished speaking, Senior Brother Zhuang added next to me: "Actually, it is an ecstasy array, Yu Xian is proficient in 36 kinds of large arrays and 72 kinds of small arrays, this kind of ecstasy array can only be regarded as the simplest of the 72 small arrays." ”
As he spoke, Senior Brother Zhuang pulled a torch from the wall and walked towards the dark place at the end of the tunnel.
Senior Brother Feng followed closely behind Senior Brother Zhuang and asked Senior Brother Zhuang, "Don't you also have 108 formations in that vein of Tunmeng?" ”
Senior Brother Zhuang nodded: "Yes, to put it mildly, the formation of your one vein is still extended from Tunmeng, but over time, the difference between the two veins is getting bigger and bigger." Most of your Yuxian formations involve feng shui, and the formations on Tunmeng's side are all used for divination. ”
Listening to the two senior brothers discussing the matter of the formation one by one, I felt sour in my heart.
There are so many formations in the two veins, but we are upright, all the formations add up to only six or seven, my master has told me many times, among all the formations in our vein, the most powerful is the sealing array, but even this formation, compared with those formations of the Yuxian line, it is also far from the same.
Although Senior Brother Feng and Senior Brother Zhuang are the same as me, they are all disciples of the Soul Village, but after all, they are different lineages, and in my heart, I always hope that the inheritance of our upright lineage can be a little stronger than the other two in that regard.
At the end of the tunnel was a pitch-black hole, there seemed to be no light in the hole, and the whole hole was like a huge black curtain, tightly connected with the tunnel.
But when Senior Brother Zhuang walked into the cave with a torch, I found that the hole was actually very shallow, and it didn't take a few steps to reach the end, but the walls of the cave were all painted black, which gave people a bottomless feeling.
When I reached the edge of the cave, Brother Zhuang suddenly smiled evilly at me, and then I saw that he had put out the torch with something.
As soon as the torch was extinguished, my heart rose to my throat.
At that time, I was standing on the edge of the entrance of the cave, and it was dark inside, which made me feel like I was standing on the edge of the cliff, in the dark, I couldn't see Senior Brother Zhuang, but I felt that the cave in front of me was very high and deep, and I felt that a few centimeters away in front of me was an abyss, and I knew what the hole in front of me looked like, but I couldn't bear to have such a feeling.