Chapter 16: The Circle
The speed of climbing the thief cave is definitely not as fast as climbing the mountain outside, but after nearly two days of rushing, Zhang Jingyi is very sure that the angry thunder tiger will definitely not be able to catch up with them, maybe the occasional demolition of the wall and tiles is okay, a tiger wants to dig a hole in the mountain? This is a little too funny.
The robbery hole that had been drilled for almost a day and a half had not yet come to an end, Zhang Jingyi couldn't help but have great respect for the tomb robber back then, what a huge project this must be!
The fire fold had already burned out, and most of the time he was in a hurry, Zhang Jingyi looked at it with the faint light emitted by the spirit stone. Luckily, the cave isn't spacious, and it's enough to illuminate.
However, as the man and the dog climbed for another two hours, their faces became more and more shocked, and the wall of the thief cave turned from pure dirt to a pile of rubble, and finally it turned out to be an incomparably hard rock!
Being able to pierce holes in boulders is definitely not something that one person can do, or rather, if it is really a one-man job, this guy is definitely not an ordinary person.
With great amazement, I climbed up for another hour in this pierced boulder, and came to a level tunnel, where it finally came to an end.
The end of the cave was not an imaginary exit on the mountainside, but a curtain of light that emitted a faint blue. In this curtain of light, you can faintly see some dim runes, which are constantly circulating in it, flashing with strange light.
"This is...... Circle?" Zhang Jingyi said in surprise, and the "lazy cat" also observed it carefully, and nodded to obviously confirm this statement.
Although none of them are cultivators, they have never eaten pork and seen pigs run away, and they have read so many books, and they can always see some basic common sense about the cultivation realm. For this kind of magic circle, Zhang Jingyi saw it for the first time with his own eyes, and he was extremely shocked.
"If there is a magic circle, is there something terrible sealed in it?" Thinking of this, Zhang Jingyi hesitated a little.
Before he could make a decision, the earth dog on the side directly picked up a piece of gravel on the side and threw it at the circle.
The moment the stone came into contact with the blue circle, the runes in the light curtain gathered on the contact surface at an indescribably fast speed, and the stone turned into powder in an instant. Now I saw that a man and a dog were horrified, and even stones could be blown into powder, wouldn't they be looking for death if they wanted to go in with a body like them?
Looking at the dim color of the rune, it has obviously been many years, and I am afraid that the power is far less than the original, but even so, it can easily break stones! Zhang Jingyi threw several pieces of broken stones into it, and observed it very carefully, and found that a few stones just thrown over did not consume much power of the magic circle at all, and the brightness of the runes did not change at all.
"Lazy cat, this is miserable, we will definitely not be able to pass such a strong magic circle. It took me two days to climb the cave to get here, but I didn't expect it to be a dead end! We can't go back down again, right? We voted for the Thunder Tiger's Imperial Spirit Grass, I'm afraid it won't be willing to leave in a month or two, and we will already starve to death by then. Zhang Jingyi said helplessly.
Speaking of the Imperial Spirit Grass, this person and dog suddenly felt their stomachs rumble.
Zhang Jingyi took the last two remaining spirit grasses, picked two leaves for the "lazy cat", and chewed two pieces himself. Soon, this hunger began to dissipate, as the fatigue of continuous climbing slowly subsided.
It seems that this Imperial Spirit Grass is different from the previous first- and second-order elixirs, it seems that the medicinal effect is easier to absorb, and there is no longer that uncontrollable burning sensation. However, after thinking about it, this grass was originally intended to better control the spiritual power in the body, and it seemed to play a guiding role, so it seemed reasonable.
The man and the dog rested for a while, and when they were fine, they threw stones at the circle, and at the end of the passage at this level there was no gravel, and the front of the circle was full of powder, and they were bored next to each other.
"Hey, lazy cat, are we going to die here?" Zhang Jingyi said, looking at the earth dog in front of him. Wang, and in response to him were two dog barks.
"You know what? I really envy those days when the family is reunited. Zhang Jingyi continued, "I hope that one day I can see my father and mother, and me, the three of them get together." And, of course, your quirky dog, I really didn't expect to have such a smart puppy as you in our house. ”
Zhang Jingyi smiled and touched the head of the "lazy cat", but this time it didn't call.
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Hearing Zhang Jingyi's words, Xu Mo actually felt a little guilty, this young man should not have fallen into such a predicament, it was because he wanted to change his physique to hunt for treasures, so he ended up like this. But what I didn't expect was that this twelve-year-old little master would actually take a risk for his dog, and come to grab the treasure in front of three cultivation masters plus a third-order demon beast.
Speaking of which, it was Xu Mo who harmed his little master.
Now that it has reached this point, he can't advance or retreat, Xu Mo decided to let it go, anyway, he will die horizontally and vertically, so let's gamble, that is, he suddenly broke free from Zhang Jingyi's arms and rushed quickly towards the light curtain of the magic circle.
Xu Mo had seen in some books that some extremely old magic circles were actually very fragile, but they just didn't break because they didn't see blood. After all, what the circle needs to seal is a living thing, so throwing stones or something into it will consume almost negligible energy from the circle.
And every time after seeing blood, the energy of this magic circle will be reduced due to the erosion of blood and vitality, of course, the stronger the master rushing to death, the greater the energy consumption.
Now that this circle is very weak and vague, if you are lucky, you may be able to reduce it after being stained with blood.
"Lazy cat, what are you going to do!? Come back quickly!" Seeing the dog in his arms suddenly running towards the light curtain of the magic circle, Zhang Jingyi couldn't stop it in time and was quite anxious, and immediately yelled.
However, Xu Mo did not respond, and he didn't hit it with his whole body, but stopped in front of the magic circle, stretched out his dog's paw and touched the light curtain.
According to the previous rubble, it was all shattered, and this dog's paw was probably also wasted into a pool of blood.
When Xu Mo closed his eyes and was ready to endure the severe pain, he felt that his dog paws were only slightly cold, but there was no pain. "Could it be...... I didn't even feel any pain when the magic circle was cut?" Xu Mo thought to himself.
But when he opened his eyes, he found that his forelimbs were just sticking into the curtain of light, and the runes were not gathered, but wandered there as if nothing had happened.
Surprised, Xu Mo took the dog's paw back, but found that it was intact!
"What the hell is this magic circle? It only protects against stones and not living creatures?" Xu Mo burst out of excitement and screamed with joy.
This scene was also seen by Zhang Jingyi, and he stayed there and didn't know what to say, was this magic circle specially used as a prank to rectify people? When he walked in front of the light curtain and put his hand in and took it out again, he found that he was really safe and sound.
"Ahahahaha! You're too good, lazy cat, let's go in and have a look!" Zhang Jingyi laughed.