Chapter 21: The Eight Battles of Fuxi
Even if Gu Xiaoxiao can cross the long street, if it weren't for his intention to help, we wouldn't have thought that Gu Xiaoxiao was pushing open the closed door, and a dazzling light shone out, and we subconsciously reached out to cover it, and there was no obstacle through the long street, presumably because Gu Xiaoxiao opened the door to the second floor, and the trial here disappeared.
Through the light that came through the door, the long street where we had been before disappeared without people, and there was a hole in front of us that was full of lush and towering trees, which did not seem to grow randomly, but seemed to be regularly side by side.
I thought that the trial waiting for us on the second floor must be tricky, but looking at the rows of towering trees in front of me, I had no clue at all.
"This is ......"
"Order the ministers to guard the tower here, and the ministers are only responsible for leading other things, and the ministers will abide by the law and never say much." I wanted to ask the envoy for the details of this second trial, but he interrupted us and told us very seriously. "If you want to pass the trial, you must do it yourself, and the underworld is just a guide, and nothing else can be helped."
He obviously knows that I am the Emperor of Hades, but now he is reincarnated as a human, and he has said that this Hades Tower is still forged by my own hands, and I now somewhat understand why he was ordered to guard the tower, such a stubborn and inflexible person will definitely obey the dispatch without any mistakes, but I didn't expect to dig such a big hole for myself, and now I am to blame for jumping in and saying that in the end.
It seems that the envoy is at the end of his words, he has no intention of going on, what is the second layer and how to get through it is up to us, but in any case our way is blocked by this lush and towering tree, maybe the entrance to the first level is on the opposite side of the woods, and the problem now is to get through this woods.
"Looking at the woods, which are not small, and there is no clear passage, we are likely to get lost when we walk in like this." Yun Duruo said as she tore a piece of fabric from her clothes and tied it to a branch of the tree.
We walked a few steps forward, I turned around and suddenly found that the envoy did not follow, but held the incense plate in his hand and stood quietly where we just entered, it seemed that he would not follow us into the second floor, such a stubborn old man should be here to guard the tower for more than a thousand years, I don't plan to find out anything from his mouth, turned my head and followed everyone to the depths of the woods.
Ye whispered that there was something else in the Glazed Exquisite Pagoda, but she was not wrong, the previous long street and the woods here were like two completely different spaces, not to mention that the envoy also told us that the Glazed Exquisite Pagoda was immeasurable, and there was no need to hope to find a margin here.
We walked aimlessly, not knowing what awaited us in front of us, but after walking for a long time, all the same or even exactly the same towering trees, slowly we also found some rules, these trees are not growing here in a disorderly manner, it seems to be arranged in an orderly way to plan the passage ahead.
At first, there was only one passage, but as we went deeper, the branches began to appear, and we walked through the dazzling passages like headless flies.
"Die!" Han Yu stopped in front of him, took a deep breath, and turned to us.
Our front was blocked by a row of dense trees, through the gap to find that the back of the trees is still dense trees, it is impossible to cross, we can't remember how many times we have encountered the way forward, and when we are about to turn around and look for a new passage again, we realize that the branches behind us are intricate, and we can no longer remember those we have walked.
Even if we remember, it's hard to tell, because when we returned to the entrance of the branch, we suddenly found that all the passages were the same, no matter how we looked at it, it seemed that what Yun Duruo had worried about at the beginning finally happened.
We had lost our way in the woods, so we chose a left-hand passage and left signs along the way to prevent further missteps.
"This is not a solution, looking at these towering trees as if they are arranged here according to some law, we are afraid that we will not be able to get out at all if we walk around without a clue." Han Yu walked in the front, and said worriedly as he walked.
"The trees here are so tall and shady that we can't even tell where we can go without a reference." Looking up at the intertwined shade of the trees, he said. "The envoy said that the trial will only become more and more dangerous, we almost didn't break through the first layer, and now that we have reached the second layer, it must not be as simple as just getting out of this wood."
Click!
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sound of something being stepped on from the soles of Yun Duruo's feet, and the passages here were all turtle-like patterns, all of which were exactly the same in size and shape, and no one had paid attention to what was under their feet after walking for so long.
All of us were focused on Yun Duruo's corner, and a tortoiseshell slab under her feet had collapsed, and then we heard a loud roar coming from a distance, rustling like the sound of leaves rubbing against each other.
While!
Before we could react, we only heard that the big trees on both sides of the passage we were standing on suddenly began to squeeze towards us from the left and right, we didn't expect that these towering trees could be moved, presumably the loud noises we heard before were caused by the big trees moving in other places, just hesitated and the passage had become narrow, we hurriedly rushed out to the end of the passage, and looked back while running, the previous passage merged together, and those towering trees intricately changed positions with each other, Soon countless new passages appeared.
I took Yun Duruo's hand and told the others to be together no matter what, and to escape without a purpose in the ever-changing woods, until the loud noise in our ears slowly subsided, we stopped panting.
"There's a hidden mechanism here, it should have been triggered by Du Ruo just now." Han Yu gasped and said.
"What's more troublesome is that the trees here can be moved and repositioned, which means that the passage we pass through is not fixed at all, but constantly changing directions." I said worriedly, frowning. "So even if we leave signs along the way, it doesn't help, because if the trees change position, the previous passage will disappear and we ...... We're stuck here! ”
I didn't want to admit this fact, but the current situation is far more complicated and dangerous than we expected, since Yun Duruo can trigger the mechanism, there must be more than one mechanism here, but the passage on the soles of our feet is all exactly the same turtle pattern, it doesn't look like the slightest difference, I don't know which piece will trigger the mechanism, it can be said that we are trapped here now and it is difficult to move an inch.
"Although these trees are tall, I think there are places to climb, and we will only sink deeper and deeper into this woods if we run around like this, and we still don't know the pattern here." Looking up at a big tree next to us, he said calmly. "Climb to the top of the tree, look into the distance, first see the environment here, and then decide how to go."
That's right, the most important thing now is not to get separated, I'm worried that I will accidentally trigger the mechanism again and cause a change, so now all actions must be together, I let take care of Xiaoxiao, I took Yun Duruo to climb up the big tree with Han Yu.
It took a long time to climb to the top, and we opened our mouths in shock when we opened our mouths in shock, we always thought that this was a forest, but now we found that as far as the eye could see, there were all such towering trees, and they formed a huge circular labyrinth of height and height.
There were countless passages intricately arranged in it, and there was no edge in sight, and we had walked for so long only to realize that the position we were standing on was only the edge of this circular labyrinth.
Don't say that you can see the passage out, even if you pass through here unimpeded, it will take a lot of time to pass through here, Han Yu suddenly his face became more and more solemn, and his brows furrowed even tighter.
"What's wrong?" Yun Duruo asked in surprise when he saw Han Yu's unusual expression.
"This labyrinth is round, but I looked at it carefully for a long time, and this circle seems to be ......," Han Yu said sternly after taking a deep breath. It is Taoist gossip. ”
"Gossip?" We all looked at Han Yu. "Why is it gossip?"
"Hugh, life, injury, Du, death......" Han Yu didn't answer us, but stared at us again for a long time, muttering to himself while turning his head to look, and finally looked up in surprise. Eight doors! Could it be that this is the ancient flood in Taoist rumors! ”
"What is the Fuxi Eight Absolute Formation?" We don't understand why a formation makes Han Yu so frightened.
"Fu Xi created the innate gossip according to the turtle pattern, and based on this, the formation of heaven and earth, flying dragons and birds, tiger wings, and snake plates can be changed into eighty-eighty-sixty-four different formations, and the beginning and the end are the same, the advance and retreat are impermanent, such as the twelve stars twisting the four directions, and the changes are endless." Han Yu said to us in a panicked voice. "This array is arranged according to the eight gates, and only Jimen can get out, which means that this gossip maze has always been constantly changing, but there is only one that can really go out!"