Chapter Fifty-Four: The Great Snow Formation
The Snow Treading Formation is an extremely ancient formation. A rookie-level sacrificial Dao like me, even if I can memorize its activation spell, with the insignificant spiritual power in my body, it is not enough to successfully cast it.
Therefore, this great and glorious task naturally fell on Wu Jiu.
In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the snow treading array, Wu Jiu went to the sacrificial workshop alone to buy the materials to be used in the formation. As for me, I took the obstructive Chu Tian back to the school first, waiting for Wu Jiu's good news.
After returning to school, Chu Tian said goodbye to me and went back to the underworld to report the situation here. I, on the other hand, sat quietly on the bed alone, looking at the white angels falling from the sky outside the window, and my heart couldn't help but feel sour.
For me, who grew up in the north, snowflakes will undoubtedly evoke those sweet and sour memories in my heart, and the moment these chaotic emotions touch my heart, they turn into drops of crystal tears, slowly flowing down the corners of my eyes.
As the color of the sky gradually became gloomy, the snowflakes became bigger and bigger, and soon the gray road surface was paved with a layer of pure snow white. Seeing this, the sourness at the corner of my mouth slowly disappeared, replaced by a faint joy.
After all, if you want to successfully perform the snow treading array, enough snowflakes are one of the necessary conditions.
If there is only a shallow layer, I am afraid that the Snow Walking Array has not yet found the whereabouts of the Netherworld, and it will slowly lose its effectiveness due to the lack of snowflakes
Soon, Wu Jiu rushed back from the sacrificial workshop, but to my surprise, what appeared in his hand at this moment was nothing other than a rune with a pale purple color all over his body.
In my impression, arranging the formation is an extremely cumbersome matter. Not only should you memorize the various magic points of the formation, but also accurately calculate the energy storage between each magic point. After all, the deviation of energy fluctuations between the two magic points is too large, and it is very likely that the magic circle that has been so hard arranged will fall short.
And the materials for arranging the formation are also very important, if you use extremely ordinary materials when arranging the formation, then no matter how long your formation is, you will not be able to give full play to its true strength. And the snow formation we are going to set up right now is no exception.
But Wu Jiu didn't buy any materials, so wouldn't he have worked all afternoon in vain?
Looking at the confusion on my face, Wu Jiu smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, and immediately pointed to the rune in his hand, and then handed it to my hand.
He looked at it, only to find that at this moment, on the front of the lilac rune, two ancient texts were written with black paint.
On the periphery of these two ancient texts, there is a circle surrounded by small characters, and the two ancient texts are encased in it.
As the circle continued to expand, tiny words spread throughout the rune, and successfully formed a cage-like structure.
I seem to have seen this kind of rune structure somewhere, but I can't think of anything at this time.
"Uncle Wu, what are you doing?" Carefully returning the rune in my hand to Wu Jiu's hand, I asked in a puzzled whisper.
"Boy, the paint used to draw this rune is a collection of all the materials needed for the Great Snow Formation. This is the only one that can replace that large bag of physical materials, which is quite practical. As the words continued to blurt out, I could find that Wu Jiu's expression became obviously sour: "It's just that the price is a little more expensive, 300,000 yuan." ”
"Okay, Uncle Wu, if you don't spend these 300,000 yuan, how can you earn Liu Yinsi's five million?" Looking at Wu Jiu's expression as if he had been cut meat, I really couldn't cry or laugh.
"Liu Yinsi, this time I, Wu Jiu, helped you complete the task, if you dare not give me money, you see that I will not turn your Yin Si Temple upside down." After listening to my words, Wu Jiu gradually soothed the displeasure on his face, and then shouted at the ground with an angry face.
On the side, listening to Wu Jiu's "bold words", I really didn't know whether to praise him or hit him.
At the beginning, I always felt that there was something wrong with what Wu Jiu said, but later I realized that Liu Yinsi had also asked Wu Jiu to help him many times before.
It's just that Liu Yinsi is very picky, and eight times out of ten, he will find all kinds of reasons to prevaricate the commission.
And the remaining two times, although the money was given, the quantity was pitifully small, and it could not match the price promised at all.
This is why, after Wu Jiu accepted the task this time, he would have the words "If Liu Yinsi doesn't give him money, he will make a big fuss in the Yin Si Palace" and the like.
Thinking of this, I smiled helplessly, and then pulled Wu Jiu to the school cafeteria, eating while waiting for the night to fall.
Because it's winter now, it's already dark. Coupled with today's snowfall, the sky is dark.
So, at about five o'clock, the sky was already getting dark.
On the other hand, the snow on the ground, under my test, is already about two knuckles thick. Although this level is not particularly thick, it is enough for the next snow treading array.
Under my leadership, Wu Jiu and I came to the school's playground smoothly. When my eyes were fixed on the white snowflakes that had accumulated all over the ground, my mind suddenly flashed with memories of my childhood.
Although the innocence of snowball fights with children at that time is far away from me, those memories are especially precious to me.
"Boy, you are here to help me protect the Dharma, and you must not let anything disturb my spell-casting process, otherwise, 300,000 yuan will be spent in vain." Seeing me in a daze, Wu Jiu slapped me in the face, and then commanded me sharply.
Probably because of the cold environment, the seemingly hard slap just now didn't hurt as much as I imagined. Still, it lifted my spirits and watched my surroundings closely.
But when I recalled what Wu Jiu had just said to me, I suddenly laughed. The reason why he, a guy who picks the door, asked me to help him protect the Dharma is not to protect his personal safety, but for the so-called 300,000. This kind of spirit of not dying for money, I still don't want to study.
After seeing that I was vigilant, Wu Jiu slowly sat cross-legged on the ground of the playground. His hands were pointing at each other, condensing the aura in his body at his fingertips, and then in the void in front of him, he depicted some words that ordinary people couldn't see at all.
Even though I, as a priest and a celestial master, could barely read the words, I couldn't understand the meaning of them.
After all, the history of the Snow Treading Array is ancient, so its activation spell is naturally composed of ancient words. And for me, a little Heavenly Master who is still not knowledgeable, it is indeed a little difficult to see these ancient characters.
As the ancient characters in the void continued to increase, the light purple light on Wu Jiu's palm was also slowly condensed.
When the purple light was at its strongest, Wu Jiu immediately took out the lilac rune from his pocket, and then directly pasted it on the ground in front of him.
I only saw that the moment the runes settled, those ancient words suspended in the void quickly rushed into the light purple runes on the ground as if they had been pulled away.
The moment all the ancient words entered the rune, a dazzling purple light flashed. And what followed it was a strong breath of wind.
The wind breath swirled in place, sweeping the white snowflakes on the ground, condensing above Wu Jiu's head.
Immediately above the rune, the purple light flashed, and suddenly a lilac circular pattern with the rune in the middle appeared on the ground covered with snowflakes.
And the ancient characters that Wu Jiu had written in the void just now turned into purple seals, slowly appearing from the edge of the purple circle, and quickly gathering to the center at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally gathering into the lilac runes.
At the moment when the ancient words converged, the snowflakes condensed on the top of Wu Jiu's head suddenly exploded into tiny molecules. It permeated the entire sky, and faintly released a lilac light, like the purple stars in the sky.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Wu Jiu hurriedly put the netherworld's hair on the rune, only to see that the moment the two touched, the hair was beaten into a small molecule very similar to the former under the action of the rune, and slowly rose up and gathered with the former.
After a while, a purple light appeared in the sky, extremely eye-catching. However, it didn't last long, and after a few seconds, it slowly condensed into dazzling dots of light, attached to each snowflake that fell from the sky.
When the snowflakes landed, the lilac points of light were linked together under the action of the snowflakes, weaving a thin purple thread and extending all the way to the northwest.
With the appearance of this thin purple line, my long-tense spirit was finally able to get a trace of relief. And at this moment, I can be sure that at the end of this purple line, there must be the hiding place of the netherworld.
Thinking of this, we no longer hesitated, but followed the direction of the purple line at a very fast speed.
Although treading the snow and searching for plums can help us find the place of the netherworld, it will not last long, and once the snowflakes in the sky will cover the purple light spots on the ground, then all our previous efforts will be in vain.
So, we must hurry up now, and reach the Netherworld's hiding place before the purple line disappears.
Following the guidance of the purple line, Wu Jiu and I came to a residential area. Here, the families are single-family houses and look rich. At the end of the purple line, it appears outside one of the particularly luxuriously decorated villas.
Come to think of it, this is supposed to be the hiding place of the Netherworld.
Thinking of this, Wu Jiu no longer hesitated, quickly stepped forward and knocked on the door of this villa, and at this moment, quietly held the two thunder rods in the palm of his hand.
"Who?" Shortly after the knock on the door, the voice of a hoarse old woman slowly floated out of the room.
"Old man, please open the door, we are from the police station, and we want to come to you to learn something." As soon as Wu Jiu's words fell, the closed door in front of him slowly opened, and then an old woman's face slowly appeared in the sight of the two of us.
Although the old man's face was covered with wrinkles, the anger on her face did not get any attenuation because of this: "People have been missing for five days, and you only know that it is too irresponsible to come to investigate." ”
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