Chapter 20: Breaking the Formation (II)
The sky was more cloudy, and sometimes there were a few dull thunders, the wind was blowing, and the sound of "wooing" was blowing in the gaps between the mountains, and I was only wearing a single coat, and a burst of coolness immediately came up.
It was pitch black inside the stone gate, and the three masters and apprentices lit the prepared pine oil torches, led by Uncle Li, and walked in tentatively little by little.
Inside is a tunnel leading to the underground, and the black hole is bottomless, like a big mouth, quietly waiting for the prey to throw itself into the net. Uncle Li held a torch and walked cautiously down the bluestone steps on the ground, looking left and right at each step.
"Master, is there any mechanism here? hidden weapons, traps?" I felt like I was in a movie at this time.
"You think this is in a novel, where are there so many mechanisms, even if there are, after a thousand years, they have long since lost their effectiveness, what I'm worried about is not these physical organs, but the traps of the Maoshan faction, this array of people is extraordinary, it is likely to set up some traps here, you also have to be careful, if there is something wrong, immediately sue me!" Uncle Li said as he spoke, but his attention was always on this road.
After listening to this, the two of us also raised our vigilance and walked on the steps with great caution. In this way, the three of them went down the winding tunnel little by little, about fifty or sixty meters, and suddenly a circular space appeared in front of them, with a diameter of about eight meters, and the seven openings were evenly distributed on the four walls of this circle.
Looking at the holes in front of me, I took out the compass and wanted to walk over and test them one by one, but just took a step forward, Uncle Li suddenly shouted: "Don't move, don't walk around!" But it's still too late, I have taken this step out, after stepping on the ground in front of me, I did not stop, but continued to fall, into the dirt, I feel that my foot is like stepping into the air, there is no resistance at all, but at this time the center of the body has leaned forward with this step, in the hope of collecting is not able to take back, as if walking down from the edge of the cliff, the whole body fell into the dirt at once, I secretly said bad, in the ambush.
At this critical moment, my strong hand grabbed my left hand, which was about to sink into the earth, and pulled me up from the ground with all my might. It turned out that Tie Zhu saw that his younger brother suddenly fell into the dirt, so he hurriedly reached out and grabbed him and pulled him up.
After coming up, I was shocked into a cold sweat, and then looked at the seemingly safe circular space in front of me, as if it was full of infinite killing opportunities. "Master, what's up ahead, how did I fall into the dirt?"
"I told you to be cautious, if you don't listen, you will suffer, if it weren't for your brother's quick eyes, you would be in danger," Uncle Li saw that I was fine, and he also breathed a sigh of relief, and reprimanded him very harshly: "I have already said, there must be a mechanism here, and this circular space in front of you is actually a mechanism, and I have already told you about this mechanism just now." ”
"Did you say that?...could it be....that this one, like the stone gate at the entrance, had been tricked by the trick of shifting objects and changing the scene?" I asked.
"Well, that's right, you raise the torch up and see what it looks like up on it. After Uncle Li finished speaking, the iron pillar leaned over and raised the torch high, and sure enough, there were 7 holes in the upper part of the space, exactly the same as the one below.
"Good fellow, this mechanism can still be used like this, it's much more powerful than the one at the door. I thought to myself. At this time, Uncle Li had already taken out a spell and threw it into the circular space, and recited the spell again according to the method just now, only to hear the sound of "bang!", after a burst of white smoke, looking at this circular space again, it scared me a lot. There is only one of the seven holes just now, and on the ground of the circular space, there is only a narrow passage, which leads to the hole in a zigzag way, and on both sides of the passage is a trap more than three meters deep, and the bottom is densely covered with short knives more than two feet long, all of which are pointed upwards, although it has gone through more than a thousand years, but if it falls on it, it will be very uncomfortable, I am very afraid, if I wasn't pulled by the eldest brother, I would have become a sugar gourd.
Uncle Li was also shocked when he saw it, fortunately there was nothing wrong, otherwise he would not be able to explain to Wang Gui, so Uncle Li was careful with 120,000 points, and took the two of them to enter the passage on the other side along the narrow passage in the middle. The passage here is much wider than the one I came in just now, and the further you go inside, the wider it becomes, and you can almost pass the car, which is probably the passage used to transport the coffin when arranging the formation.
In the end, the three of them came to the bottom of the passage very smoothly, and a circular space with a diameter of about 100 meters was presented in front of everyone.
The main body of this underground space is round, and the top is curved, like a large bowl clasped to the ground. There are many square pits of the same size densely distributed on the ground, and there is a willow coffin in each pit, and the coffin here is not as big as the pine lotus coffin dug up next to the fish pond, and it is very simple, after all, this place is only used for raising shade corpses, and there is no need to use those large coffins in array. Willow wood and locust wood are both feminine wood, and they can naturally gather yin qi, and it is perfect to use it to install a shadow corpse, looking at the scene in front of them, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang are nothing more than that.
Uncle Li came to a pit, and knocked on the coffin erected in the pit with the crutch he carried with him, and found that the top of the coffin was very thin, and it must have been deliberately made by the people who arranged the formation to facilitate the appearance of the shadow corpses.
Uncle Li asked the two apprentices to check all the coffins to see if they were empty, and by the way, they also counted the number, and after a while, after the inspection was completed, there were a total of 5,000 coffins, all of which were kept relatively intact, and there were no empty ones, Uncle Li nodded with satisfaction, and then led the two of them straight to the white jade pillar in the center.
In the center of the underground space is a circular bluestone platform with a diameter of five meters, and a white jade pillar more than two meters high stands in the middle. The three of them walked up to the stone platform and found that the jade pillar was carved with strange characters, and on the stone platform, with the jade pillar as the center of the circle, strange figures were engraved in the east, west, south, north, southeast, northeast, southwest, northwest, and eight directions.
"You see, the characters engraved on this jade pillar are the spells of Maoshan, which can be inserted into the jade pillars on the ground to absorb the yin energy of the leylines, and the pattern engraved on the bluestone is the formation of the Maoshan faction, which can increase the range of Yin Qi absorbed by the white jade pillar of the Yin Symbol, each pattern on it represents the range of one mile, and there are eight patterns in each direction, indicating that this array can gather yin qi within a radius of eight miles, which can at least maintain the needs of five thousand shadow corpses in the array, we must break this array and cut off all the sources of yin qi here, so that these shadow corpses can slowly die。 Uncle Li explained slowly.
"So how do we break this formation?" I asked.
Uncle Li circled around the pillar a few times on the bluestone platform," This array is just a formation that gathers yin qi, it is quite easy to break, just like our five-turn gathering yang array, as long as the main facilities in the array are destroyed, and there will be no danger, the only trouble is that the main body of this array is the white jade pillar, it is not easy to destroy it, by the way, by the way, the same array, with different materials as the main body, the power will be different, the worse the material, the smaller the power, like this array, if the willow wood is used as the middle pillar, then it can only be equipped with a maximum of two sections of pattern array, that is, it can only absorb the yin qi within a radius of two miles, and the maintenance time is only one year at most。 ”
"Oh, I see, no wonder you found such a large stone compass to set up the Five Turns Gathering Yang Array. After listening to Uncle Li's explanation, I understood a lot of truths, "Then how do we break this jade pillar?"
Uncle Li smiled and said, " First of all, this white jade pillar has been deposited for thousands of years, and it is full of yin qi, and it must be cleared of its internal yin qi before it is broken, otherwise it will be invaded by its yin qi when it comes into contact with it, so I asked you to find red saltpeter powder, only with this can you quickly remove its yin qi, and secondly, the white jade pillar is hard, and it is quite difficult to break the spell on him, but fortunately, we have a heavenly thorn in our hands, which is his nemesis, now think about it carefully, the heavenly thorn and red saltpeter powder are both big red hand things, but we inadvertently got it, it seems that this qiē is providential, then let's go with the sky and start to break the formation!”
In this vast underground space, the light of the torches is as weak as fireflies in the field, and the three torches can only illuminate the bluestone platform in the center, and the farther away is engulfed by the boundless darkness. I looked up into the darkness, and the thought of the thousands of shadow corpses buried there filled every nerve in my body.
Uncle Li is squatting on the ground, using the sky tattoo on the pattern of the bluestone platform Maoshan Juyin Array to depict another character, this kind of character and the characters on the spell are all words that communicate with the spirit world, whether it is arranging the formation or dismantling the formation, it must be completed through it, the iron pillar and I followed closely next to the master, carefully observing his every movement, until all the characters were drawn.
Then, Uncle Li lit three incense sticks in each direction, and then walked down the Qingshi platform with two apprentices and came to the south. "Next, I will first break the Yin Gathering Array engraved on the stone platform, the movement may be a little bigger, you should be psychologically accurate!"
"Well, don't worry!" I thought, how much movement can I make to scare the two of us?
"Master, what did you just engrave on it?" Iron Pillar asked.
Uncle Li took out another talisman from his arms and put it on the heavenly thorn, "That is called" Qi Po ", it is specially used to break the formation engraved on the wall or on the ground, you see that this talisman on the sky thorn in my hand is the introduction of "Qi Break", as long as I recite the spell and insert the "Introduction" into the array, I can immediately trigger the Qi Break, and all the aura generated by the surrounding spells will be dispersed, and the Maoshan formation is mostly made of carving spells on the ground, and "Qi Po" is their biggest nemesis, look at it, and show it to you for the teacher. After speaking, I saw Uncle Li pinching a mark with his left hand, reciting the mantra in his mouth, and then threw the heavenly thorn in his hand obliquely into the sky, forming a beautiful arc, which was accurately inserted in front of the white jade pillar in the array.