Chapter 33: The Praying Mantis Catches the Cicada
Qu Yi stood in front of the mural, pricking up his ears to pay attention to Qu Xu's movements, while carefully observing the mural in front of him. He looked up and down the murals, there were not many elements on it, the main body was only the Moon Palace in the sky, Chang'e who was running to the moon, and Dayi who wanted to keep on the ground. The rest, such as clouds and glow, are only minor elements. The mechanism must be somewhere in this mural!
He looked closely, but not just at the fresco, but at the secret that was hidden within. Formations, with the experience of being on the first floor, it is very likely that the manuscript hidden on the second floor is also hidden in a mechanism hidden by the formation. So to crack the mechanism, then finding out the formation is the fastest way.
After careful observation, he found a few strange lines, and when he combined these lines, the prototype of a formation was roughly revealed. With this beginning, Qu Yi hurriedly accelerated the pace of searching, and Qu Xu was almost here.
But this search doesn't matter, and that formation is getting bigger and bigger. Taking the clouds in the sky and the line drawings of the distant mountains on the earth as the edges, through the cirrus clouds and the lines of the people's clothes, and laying the hidden lines under the background color, he actually found a faint large circle array! The complexity of it is simply something that a person who has studied the formation for a year or two can understand.
"Are those elders serious? How can people solve this problem by setting up such a thing, is it intended to be left to the last group of people to come in? No, it shouldn't be like this, is it possible that Qu Xu knows where the solution to this formation is? Those bad old men!"
Qu Yi's gaze quickly moved up and down on the mural, his palm pressed against the mural, and gently applied qi to draw the whole picture of the formation under the primer in his mind with the feeling of feedback. Soon, a complex, layered array appeared in his mind.
Then now it's time to unravel this formation!
But Qu Xu is not far from him, and it is estimated that there will not be much time left for him. Will he be able to solve it in such a short time?
It was useless to think more, and now all he could do was give it his all. Even if he didn't make trouble for his sister, he would embarrass the elders. He really wanted to see what kind of expression those elders would have when they saw that it was not Qu Xu who got the white-level manuscript, but Qu Xin!
A quick dissect of the structure of the formation identified five main structures. But which of these five structures is the key to cracking the formation? Where are these structures that are the key points? Time is not enough, Qu Xu has already reached the place where he is only three lines away, and there should be the last part he is responsible for. He should be shouting Qu Feng in a moment.
What to do, what to do, and to sneak attack Qu Xu? But he has no confidence in being able to defeat Qu Xu.
Suddenly, his eyes met the eyes of the jade rabbit in Chang'e's arms in front of him. The eye is in the center of the core area of a major structure. It suddenly occurred to him that it was impossible for Qu Xu, who had no knowledge of formations, to figure out such a complex formation, so the best way to tell him the location of the mechanism was to tell him a clear counter.
With this in mind, he looked at the entire mural again, and then overlapped the formation in his mind with the mural. It seems that only the eyes of the Jade Rabbit are in line!
He didn't have time to think about it anymore, so he immediately gathered his qi on the tip of his fingers, and then slowly placed it on the eyes of the Jade Rabbit. Qi entered the formation, and then flowed throughout the entire formation, and a "click" sounded in his heart, and the formation was activated!
There was a soft "click", and a square brick at Qu Yi's feet suddenly popped out halfway. He was overjoyed, and immediately crouched down, pulled out the heavy bricks, and sure enough, in the dark compartment inside, a white scroll was lying in it, waiting for someone to take it out.
Qu Yi was naturally not polite, and only when he held the manuscript in his hand did he really see the appearance of the scroll. The scroll is about fifteen centimeters long, not thick, and the white cover is embellished with broken gold, and the white tiger totem in the four elephants is faintly visible in the light. The feeling to the touch is very different from ordinary silk, it is a special material, and only this special material can be used to write manuscripts of martial arts and mental methods.
Manuscripts of martial arts and mental techniques are two completely different things from ordinary books. As long as the book is copied, you can read it whenever you want as long as it is not damaged. Manuscripts, however, are often read at a fixed number of times, and they are no longer useful when they are finished. The key to determining this number of times is the quality of the materials used and the skills of the scribe.
This manuscript is probably the kind that can only be read once. And the original is naturally hidden in the Qu family's library and will not be easily taken out to show people. And no one will read directly with the original, which is the basis for copying, and every time you read it, you lose the power in it. The more advanced the scribe, the more he was able to produce as many manuscripts as possible while reducing the power of the original.
Qu Yi didn't know what the level of the Qu family's scribes was, but since he could take it out and give it to them as a reward, it would definitely not be something precious that could be read repeatedly.
He turned the scroll over and looked at it, and on the cover of the manuscript, five big characters were written with a brush: Tenglong Wind Thunder Palm!
This should be the name of the martial arts recorded in this manuscript, and it sounds quite powerful. And the white broken gold cover shows that it is a white-level inferior martial art. Although it is only the lowest level of white-level martial arts, the white level is the white level, and it is definitely not comparable to the Xuan level. I am afraid that the other manuscripts in the second floor at this time are not as valuable as the volume.
After taking the scroll, Qu Yi restored the scene to its original state, and planned to leave quietly and hand over the manuscript to Qu Xin. But at this time, not far behind him, Qu Xu's voice suddenly came: "Brother, where are you?"
This shout frightened Qu Yi immediately against the wall, pricked up his ears, and pricked up his ears to carefully pay attention to Qu Xu's movements. Now they're too close to each other, and if they're not careful, they might run into each other unexpectedly, and that's going to be bad.
Hiding the scroll in his arms, Qu Yi began to move cautiously, for fear of making a sound that would make Qu Xu notice the abnormality. And Qu Xu was also very strange at this time, there was no reply to his shouting, only silence.
Why is this, could it be that Qu Feng didn't hear his voice?
He frowned, and shouted again, still without an answer, at which point he realized that something was wrong. He quickly ran back to the corridor on the outer edge, and at a glance, there was no figure in front of him.
What was going on? Could it be that someone had come earlier than them? how could this be, how could it be faster than him? Could it be that Qu Feng had hidden the scroll to himself? His gaze became fierce, and he ran down the corridor, looking for any clue.