"Star of Wisdom?" Qiushui turned his head sideways, a puzzled expression on his face. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Well, that's what we often call the Rising Star. Whenever the sun rises...... Well, before the moon goes down, it appears on the eastern horizon. Even among the many stars, it is considered the brightest one, so it is called wisdom. Zhu Jue nodded, and then unloaded the beads from the stone dragon's mouth. He wanted to explain the relationship between Venus and the Earth to Qiushui again, but then he gave up, after all, the place where he is now is not the original Earth, but a mysterious area known as the Dark Continent, and many things cannot be understood with common sense.

Immediately after, he came to the star map and began to look for something. Following the method of going up, north, down, south, left, west, and east, he first started to search from the right side of the star map. In front of him were bright stars, so bright that he couldn't open his eyes. After some effort, he found that there was a small groove somewhere on the right side of the star map, which was extremely difficult to identify with the naked eye, and he also relied on the tactile changes in his hand to find it.

"Are you sure it's okay?" said Boshu looked at him with some concern.

"Anyway, let's try it. Zhu Jue took a deep breath, and then inserted the bead into the groove. There was silence all around, and everyone's nerves tensed. Suddenly, there was a "pop" sound in my ears, which was very slight at first, then intensified, and the whole room trembled. In the stunned eyes of Qiushui and others, a stone statue slowly rose from the ground, with stone pigs, stone dogs, stone oxen, and stone horses...... In the blink of an eye, the room was surrounded by stone carvings, and there were eleven of them. These stone carvings are exquisitely crafted and lifelike, standing on a square platform, as if they are only temporarily asleep, and may wake up at any time. Before Qiushui and the others could come to their senses, a Tai Chi Bagua diagram with a diameter of about three meters appeared in the center of the room, and the yin and yang two instruments in the center slowly rotated, and the eight hexagrams around it emitted a faint light.

"This ...... Why did so many statues suddenly pop out?" Qiu Shui swallowed and looked around in shock, obviously not expecting the mechanism here to be so delicate.

"Either way, there must be a new clue in this. With that, Zhu Jue walked to the stone statues in a few steps and began to examine them one by one to see if he could find anything strange. Different from ordinary stone carvings, the faces of these stone carvings are full of fierce colors, which makes people feel a little creepy. For half a pillar of incense, Zhu Jue checked all the stone statues, but still didn't find anything.

At this time, Qiushui's excited voice came from his ears: "I know!"

"What do you know?" said Yan Boshu frowned, looking at Qiushui suspiciously.

"It's the zodiac!" Qiushui replied categorically. Listening to his words, Zhu Jue also began to observe the types of stone carvings: pirates, cows, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs, pigs, it is indeed the zodiac, but there is a white tiger statue missing. Why is that? For a moment, he fell into deep thought again.

"Legend has it that the White Tiger is the guardian of the West, is this reminding us of the location of the gossip?"

"Quite possibly. Zhu Jue nodded, "In this case, if you still follow the order of going up, north, down, south, left, west, right, east, then the hexagram corresponding to the left side is exactly the 'leaving' image!"

"Then what are you waiting for?" said Qiushui, who walked directly to the left side of the gossip, then squatted down and began to observe the hexagram in front of him. When he was far away, he didn't feel it, but as soon as he got close to the hexagram, he felt that the Yuan Force in his body began to stir, as if he was attracted by some kind of attraction. It seems that in order to activate the mechanism, it is necessary to first instill Yuan Li into the hexagram.

Zhu Jue was still standing in place, his brows furrowed slightly, he always felt that there was something incongruous, but he couldn't say that something was wrong. He shook his head, thinking that maybe he was overthinking, but as soon as he raised his head, he happened to see the stone dragon not far away. His face changed suddenly, as if he had thought of something, and hurriedly turned around, just about to open his mouth to remind Qiushui, but saw that Qiushui had already put his palm on the hexagram, and then slowly entered Yuan Li into it.

A series of chains and gears sounded in my ears, and it seemed that something was quietly changing. In contrast to Qiushui and Yan Boshu's excited expressions, Zhu Jue's face looked extremely solemn, as if something bad was about to happen. At this moment, two rows of dense small holes suddenly appeared in the four walls of the room. Zhu Jue was only stunned for a moment, and then shouted loudly: "Be careful, it's a mechanism!"

Immediately after, countless arrows shot out of the hole, threatening to shoot the three people in the room into a sieve. Qiu Shui's reaction was so fast, he directly raised the Tiansha in his hand and knocked down all the oncoming arrows. At the same time, he also mimicked a pangolin, and then shrunk his body, allowing the arrows to pierce his back, but not through his hard skin. And Zhu Jue waved his sleeves, forming a faint fire curtain around him, and before the arrow hit his body, it was burned to ashes by the scorching flames. The dense rain of arrows lasted for half a pillar of incense before slowly dissipating, and by that time, Qiushui and the others were already sweating profusely, looking a little embarrassed.

"What's the matter, are we wrong in our analysis?" Qiushui gasped, his face looking a little ugly.

"Hell, this arrow actually has a barb on it, it really hurts me...... Ouch!" At this moment, I saw that the back of the book was full of dense arrows, and almost all of them became a hedgehog. With each pluck, he let out a terrible scream. The cries echoed through the chamber and lasted for a long time.

"No, there is indeed a white tiger missing from the zodiac, and that's just a hint for us. Zhu Jue shook his head, not seeming to be surprised that they had touched the mechanism.

"And what's going on with that mechanism?"

"I mean the white tiger is not wrong, it is the wrong direction. ”

"Don't go around the road, just talk about it. Qiushui clasped his hands on his chest, and the word "Chuan" condensed between his eyebrows, as if he was a little irritated by the cry of Yan Boshu.

"Generally speaking, the white tiger does represent the West, but on the other hand, the green dragon also represents the East. Look at the position of the green dragon. As he spoke, Zhu Jue pointed his finger at Shi Long. I saw that the direction where the stone dragon was located did not completely correspond to the east in the hexagram, but was on the 'Gen' elephant in the southeast. If this direction is used as a benchmark, then the white tiger should be located on the northwest side of the "Dui" elephant. And just now, everyone simply determined the direction in the order of going north, down, south, left, west, right, east, which naturally caused problems.

"I see. That...... Try again?" At this moment, Yan Boshu had finished pulling out the thorns on his back, and he saw that his face was red, and his eyes were moist from pain.

"I'll do it. Zhu Jue took a deep breath and slowly put his hand on the gossip elephant. In fact, he didn't know the bottom in his heart, this place was so mysterious, he didn't know how many mechanisms were still hidden. If there is any more accidents, the three of them may not be able to carry it.