Chapter 92: Inside the Cave of the Imprisoned Tiger
Late at night, Shi An released all sixty-four divine senses again and checked the surrounding environment first. Yuan Daozi was really afraid that he would go out to look for it, so he had already sent more people, although they were all disciples of the Qi Refining Period of the outer sect, but the number of them was already as many as fifteen, all over the entire meditation lake.
After the divine consciousness was withdrawn, Shi An took out a set of relatively tight-fitting dark clothes and changed them, then quietly pushed open the door of the house, and after taking a look at the operation of the "Upside-Down Five Elements Array", he wrapped his whole body with his divine consciousness and flew directly to a height of more than ten zhang. Although he hadn't used the Imperial Flying for some years, his current divine sense was far from being comparable to when he was in Zijun Mountain, and he could barely do it by flying a distance of about a mile in one go.
These disciples in the Qi refining period had no divine sense, and they all relied on their naked eyes to observe the ground conditions, but they didn't know that Shi An was swaggering across the Meditation Lake under their eyelids, heading straight for the center of the Four Elephant Temple.
"Where will Uncle Shi be imprisoned?" No one gave Shi An any hints, standing on the roof of the Chuangong Hall, looking around, the entire Sixiang Temple was pitch black. "Where do you start? Forget it, let's look for each of the four directions. ”
Sixty-four divine consciousnesses swam silently towards the east like ghosts in the dark night.
Three hours later, Shi An sighed, collected his senses, and quietly sneaked back to the hut.
For another two nights, Shi An had already checked in all four directions, but he had not directly found Yuan Miaozi's whereabouts. The only suspicious place is in the northernmost back mountain of the Four Elephants, where there is a cave and a formation outside the cave. Different from the small micro formations of other caves, it was a formation with a powerful formation spiritual pressure, which made it difficult for his own to explore the divine sense, so he decided to take a trip in person tomorrow evening.
When he was a child, he was in front of the Tiger Cave in the back mountain.
Through the hazy moonlight, Shi An carefully inspected the formation, and the formation map did not cover a large area, only more than a zhang, forming a light shield that only emitted a faint light, but the spiritual pressure released was extremely large, enveloping the entire cave.
He was taken aback after careful observation, and even almost screamed, it turned out that the formation was an intermediate formation from the spirit world called "Qiankun Enchantment" listed in the "Continuation of Formation Tips". How could this formation be placed here? Could it be that there are still spiritual realm formation mages in this realm, or there are monks who have learned from the spiritual realm array mages?
Don't worry about it, it's the most important thing to go first and see if Uncle Shi is among them. Shi An calmed down and pondered the cracking technique of this array.
Strictly speaking, there are actually two professions in the formation world: array division and formation breaker, which are generally referred to as formation mages in the outside world, but there are strict differences in the industry.
The formation division design the formation to achieve its function for the patron, hoping that there will be no flaws and make the formation run for a long time, and the formation breaker is also at the request of the patron to find the flaws and break the formation. The magic is one foot high, and the road is one foot high, and at the same time, the magic is one foot high, and the formation and the formation are like a pair of spears and shields, always in a state of eliminating the other, so it is no secret that the formation division and the formation breaker have a lot of grievances in the industry.
And the fact is also interesting, the continuous improvement of the overall level of the formation world stems from this deep grievance.
Whether you admit it or not, every formation has its fatal loopholes, and it is only a matter of time before they are found and cracked, and once the loopholes are found by the formation breakers, they can easily break this formation. On the other hand, once it is broken, the formation division can also realize the loophole of this formation, so it can be avoided in the future formation. In this way, the battle between the Formation Breaker and the Formation Breaker eventually formed a self-improvement system in the formation world in which the Array Breaker designs the formation, the Array Breaker finds the loopholes, the Array Breaker fills the loopholes, and the Array Breaker finds new loopholes.
Of course, the level of the formation division is mainly reflected in whether the function of the formation is strong and whether the loopholes are obvious, which is divided into high, medium and junior levels, and the level of the formation breaker is also high and low, the more high-end the formation breaker, the more disdain to solve the problem with low-level simple and crude methods, for them, breaking the formation is not the goal, finding the loopholes of the formation division is the fun.
Objectively speaking, Shi An is a formation master, and his current level is below the intermediate level or above, and he has very little contact with breaking the formation, although there are star points in the "Formation Tips" and "Formation Essentials Continuation", he has not paid attention to it, for him, it is important to cultivate the spirit formation and earn spirit stones in the middle and low-level formations.
Thinking so, he was in trouble today. Although he didn't have the pleasure of finding loopholes as a mid-to-high-level formation breaker, he didn't want to be confused with a low-level formation breaker who relied on hitting, smashing, prying, and other means to complete it, because he knew that this array had a formation rune group used for vigilance, and once these simple and direct methods were used, it would inevitably be exposed.
After carefully looking at the formation for a few hours, although there was no clue, the details of the formation were completely familiar. So he took advantage of the darkness to rush Ming back to the hut and plunged headlong into the cave stone.
Time is pressing, this time he is really full of firepower, the big and small blue and yellow four split souls read the introduction of the common techniques for breaking the formation in the "Formation Tips" and "Formation Essentials Continuation" respectively, and the main soul focuses on the content introduction of the "Qiankun Enchantment".
Approaching the middle of the night, Shi An smiled and jumped out of the Cave Sky Stone, the way to crack this array has been found, just use your brain more in the cloth cracking array.
Shi An knew that it was not appropriate to directly set up a cracking formation outside the cave, not only because of the long time of setting up the formation, but also because the movement was too large to attract the attention of others, so he had an idea, why not carve all the formations on a stone slab, although the effect of the formation was extremely small, but as long as he could break the Qiankun enchantment through a small hole that could pass through the cave stone, it was enough.
After a whole day of trying, he finally made an intermediate formation condensed on a stone slab the size of half a foot, called "Boundary Array", this formation is one of the quite secret formations in the "Continuation of Formation Tips", the main function is to break through the defense of the middle and low-level formation enchantment, even in the spirit world, there are not many people who understand.
According to this line of thinking, he quickly made a second stone slab formation, this formation is called the "Misty Formation", which can form a dense fog area that even the divine sense cannot see through after activation, Shi An is ready to use it with the Cave Sky Stone, with its cover, even jumping into the Cave Sky Stone in front of the enemy's eyes will not be discovered.
After some testing, the two small slate formations could all achieve the expected functions, and Shi An thought that this was his first creation. So I was smug for a long time. But he didn't know now that only a few days later, he would find out that by mistake, he had actually refined the most basic and rudimentary array disk.
Outside the Qiankun Enchantment Formation, Shi An took out the Stone Slab of the Boundary Formation.
A low-grade spirit stone was placed at its spiritual source, and the slate formation was activated with a "hum", and a one-foot-square light and shadow appeared directly above it. Shi An slowly approached the Du Gate of the Qiankun Enchantment, and at the moment of contact with its light mask, a hole of the same shape as the light and shadow appeared on the enchantment, seeing this situation, he smiled heartily, raised his hand and threw the Dongtian Stone into the cave through the hole, and jumped into the Dongtian Stone and entered the cave together. After jumping out of the cave stone, the moment he reached out and took this stone slab formation into the cave, the Qiankun enchantment returned to its original state.
The cave was filled with the smell of dampness and decay, and Shi An didn't dare to move forward rashly, so he slowly looked forward with his divine sense. More than a dozen zhang away is the central hall of the cave, and there is nothing except that there is a person sitting upright in the middle, and that person is Yuan Miaozi.
Shi An hurried a few steps to get closer, only to see Yuan Miaozi's eyes closed, a golden rope was firmly binding him, and a golden talisman was sticking to the rope. He called softly, "Uncle Shi, Yun An has come to see you." ”
Yuan Miaozi did not react, as if she was deeply settled, her hair and beard were fluffy and messy, and her face was pale, and she did not respond in the slightest. Shi An estimated that the talisman was in play, so he tore it off and pulled the golden rope again, but he couldn't pull it at all, so he had to give up. At this time, Yuan Miaocai opened her hazy eyes as if she had just woken up from a big dream.
When he saw that it was Shi An in front of him, he immediately shouted in a demonic voice: "Yun An, what are you still doing here, don't leave quickly, if Yuan Dao sees you, he will kill you." ”
Shi An hurriedly made a silent gesture to him, and Yuan Miaozi quieted down. After seeing where he was, he lowered his voice and asked Shi An: "Yun'an, how did I get to the Prison Tiger Cave?" I remember that just now a few outer disciples carried me away, and then Yuan Dao came over and didn't know what to do on this talisman, and I was unconscious. ”
Shi An sighed and said, "Uncle Shi, you have been wronged, it should have been a year ago that you were tied up here." How do I get this rope open?"
"Don't bother, this is the natal magic weapon that Yuan Dao found someone to refine, and his heart is connected, not to mention that you can't solve it with your current ability, even if you solve it, Yuan Dao can also be perceived at once, but it's troublesome, so be it." ”
"That can only wronged you again. Shi An was a little uneasy.
"It's okay. Yun'an, why are you here?"
"I made an agreement with Na Yuan Dao that I could meet you in a year, but he broke his promise, so he ran out to find it himself. Finally, the hard work paid off, and I finally found it here today. ”
Yuan Miaozi froze, "Oh, it's been a year?" Yun'an, has Yuan Dao embarrassed you this year?"
"I didn't feel embarrassed, I was just under house arrest by him, and I could only sneak out while he was unprepared. Shi An said half-truthfully.
"Alas, it was I who harmed you, and if I had strongly opposed your conversion to the sect, there would have been no such things. Yuan Miaozi said with some frustration.
"Uncle Shi, don't say that, it's my idea to come back, and you're helping me. What is hateful is that Yuan Dao, from the beginning he wanted to calculate me, and even you and he lied, when he discussed with you to clear my name in public, he didn't do it at all. ”