Chapter 169: The Shadow Stone of the Gatehouse
"Is this the distribution map of the main courtyard of Chujiazhuang?"
Xia Qing looked at the simple picture drawn by Chu Qingying and groaned slightly.
If you want to understand the reason for the change in Dongyun City, you have to find the Chu family back to the source.
The mutation appeared after they issued a bounty, so now they must find the Chu family and ask the reason.
However, after a large-scale divine sense investigation by the five masters under Xia Qing, it was basically determined that the Chu family was in big trouble.
The main courtyard of the Chu family in Nuoda did not have a breath of life.
You must know that the Dao Realm master's divine sense urging can cover a range of nearly a thousand miles, and it can be said that he has swept all corners of the main courtyard, but he has found nothing.
Then there are only two possibilities, one is that there are no more living people in the entire Chujiazhuang, and the other is that they have hid in the high-level formation.
With the background of the Chu family, it is not difficult to discharge such a formation.
Chu Qingying, on the other hand, is more willing to believe in the latter case.
"The main courtyard is very large, but there are only a few places with powerful defensive formations."
Chu Qingying's face turned pale, and his fingers trembled a little to the several places specially marked out in the sketch.
Now her heart is completely messed up.
Her mother is just the concubine of the head of the family, and there is a high probability of being abandoned in the event of a major accident.
Most likely, they are separated by yin and yang.
"Don't worry, I can detect that there are still people in the Chu family, but for some reason, we can't detect it."
Fang Hao said in a deep voice.
He didn't comfort Chu Qingying purely, but through the art of derivation, he sensed that there were still people in Chujiazhuang, but when he wanted to further deduce his position, he was blocked by an inexplicable force.
"Senior Brother Fang......"
Chu Qingying said loudly, even crying.
Fang Hao gave her an encouraging look.
This made her heart calm down somewhat, turned her head to look at the map of the main courtyard, and said in a fixed voice:
"The main hall, the martial arts arena, the library pavilion, the residence of the head of the family, the ancestral hall of the Chu family, these five places, before I left, were the most tightly defended formations in the village.
So, they are likely to be hiding in it. ”
"So, now we can only search them one by one?"
Xia Qing said slowly.
"It's stupid, but it's the most effective." After Fang Hao made a simple arrangement of the route in his heart, he continued, "The main hall and the martial arts arena are at the front end of the main courtyard, separated from the left and right, and the library pavilion at the back, the residence of the head of the family and the ancestral hall of the Chu family are basically distributed inward in a straight line......"
"So, you're trying to say that you can either join forces in one place and search one by one, or divide the soldiers in the main hall and the martial arts arena in two ways, and then meet in the library pavilion and continue to advance, right?"
Xia Qing quickly guessed Fang Hao's intentions.
"Your Highness, I mean, to be on the safe side, for the main courtyard that we are not familiar with, it is best to join forces in one place......"
"But this king doesn't have that much time!" A trace of coldness flashed in Xia Qing's eyes, "The second brother is getting more and more excessive, this king must figure out the situation here as soon as possible and return to his father." ”
Without waiting for Fang Hao to speak, Xia Qing waved his hand and continued without hesitation:
"There are two ways to divide the soldiers, so choose one of them."
He pointed to the five masters who had followed him.
Fang Hao's eyes condensed slightly.
Dispersing strength is not a good thing.
And Xia Qing arranged for a master of the Dao to come over, seemingly providing shelter for himself, but in fact, it was not without supervision.
"If Your Highness insists on dividing the troops, then I don't have anything to say, but we can explore all the way independently, and we won't need His Highness's guards."
Fang Hao rejected Xia Qing's "kindness".
"Oh?"
It seemed that he didn't expect Fang Hao to refuse, Xia Qing glanced at him meaningfully.
"In that case, then you should pay more attention."
Xia Qing didn't forcibly arrange the guards to Fang Hao and them.
"By the way, Your Highness, this is my special talisman, which may have some effect on the erosion of the suspected outer way."
With that, he took out a few talismans.
Xia Qing picked one up with great interest, looked at it over and over in his hand, and didn't feel anything special.
"This king will accept it, and you will also pick one?"
He turned to ask the five road guards behind him.
The first person glanced at it, shook his head and said:
"Your Highness, our own exclusive means of protection will not be a child."
When he said this, his tone was calm, but Fang Hao clearly saw a trace of disdain in his eyes.
Fang Hao silently put away the talisman.
What needs to be done has been done, and the rest depends on your lives.
"Without further ado, let's go."
Xia Qing immediately got up, and the five masters of the Dao Masters followed closely and walked towards the gate of the main courtyard together.
Fang Hao and the others also followed.
Everyone glanced at the three words of dragon flying and phoenix dancing on the gatehouse again, and was about to step in, but was suddenly interrupted:
"Wait!"
It's Fang Hao.
He stared at the corner of the gatehouse and asked Chu Qingying:
"What's that?"
Everyone looked in the direction he pointed, but it was a crystal stone.
"That's a shadow stone, generally speaking, the big sects will be arranged at the mountain gate to record some emergencies."
Chu Qingying explained.
"So......" Fang Hao jumped up and took off the Shadow Stone, "Can we go through it and see what the hell is going on?" ”
After saying that, he had already crossed the Dao power into the shadow stone.
In front of everyone's eyes, a translucent image was revealed.
What is recorded is the beautiful scenery of pear blossoms in front of the gatehouse.
Fang Hao accelerated the flow of the image and found that it was still this unchanging beauty.
"How long can this shadow stone record?"
He asked Chu Qingying.
"My impression is about half a month."
"Well, I think we can record when everyone is just about to enter the Thundering Valley."
Fang Hao increased the input of Dao Force and pulled the image of the Lingering Stone to the limit time it had recorded.
I finally saw the figure.
Ten Dao Realm powerhouses.
The tallest of them is enough to have an eight-star driving road.
The others are above five stars.
"Looks like this is the first batch of guys to enter the Thundering Valley, and they've also been passed to the main courtyard?"
Xia Qing was also attracted by the image in front of him.
"Do you know the one who wears the butler's costume and has a blank expression?"
Fang Hao pointed to an old man who walked in front of ten people and seemed to be leading the way, and asked.
"That's Fauber! He was the butler of the main courtyard and one of the few people who had kindness to me when I was a child! ”
Seeing the familiar face, Chu Qingying became excited.
Ten days ago, this Fu Bo came out to lead the way, maybe everyone is fine, just hiding in the formation?
"His expression was wrong."
Xia Qing said suddenly.
Everyone looked intently and found that the Fu Bo in the image looked a little too wooden, as if carved out of wood.
Just as he entered the gatehouse with the ten Dao Realm masters, he suddenly looked up at the Shadow Stone, and Mu Ran's face suddenly pulled out a strange smile!
Fang Hao and the others suddenly felt that the cold hairs behind their backs stood upright.
At this moment, Fu Bo is like spanning half a month, through this photo stone, and they are staring at each other!