Chapter 116: The Destroyed Ancient Array
Monk Jingyuan looked solemn like a Buddha statue, but his eyes looked around betraying the monk's true thoughts. When passing by a huge water banyan tree that was more than five zhang thick, Monk Jingyuan's eyes suddenly lit up, and he stopped and landed on the stone platform on the side.
This banyan tree is much shorter than the one at the entrance of the mountain, but it is unusually thick, and the trunk and aerial roots that emerge from the water alone occupy the water surface three or four acres wide. While other ancient trees grew upward, this big tree seemed to grow horizontally, short and stocky.
Under the trees, there are large and small smooth stone platforms, on which one can step on them and walk in the shade of the trees, and under your feet you can see the cold and clear water of the lake. The two stepped on the stone platform one after the other, pacing slowly, and the only sound in their ears was the sound of the breeze blowing the canopy, which was very pleasant.
"The aura is rich, the scenery is beautiful, and it is a blessing to live in this kind of cave blessed land~" Monk Jingyuan said with a look of enjoyment.
"Okay, don't pretend, you've thought of coming here a long time ago, what do you want to do?" Yang Xiu pierced the other party mercilessly and said directly.
"My Buddha is compassionate,"
Monk Jingyuan stood barefoot on the stone slab, kicked the lake water that had just passed the surface of his feet, made a splash, his face suddenly became solemn, and said, "Brother Yang, what do you think are the chances of winning this war between the barbarian demon beasts and the human race?"
Yang Xiu was stunned, but he didn't expect the other party to suddenly turn the topic here, and confirmed that the other party was not deliberately changing the topic, Yang Xiu said: "It's hard to say." Since both sides have the super power of the reincarnation realm, it is estimated that these powerful monks on both sides will not make a move, and the rest depends on the number and strength of the Qi Sea Stage monks on both sides. ”
"Brother Yang's eyes are like torches. ”
Monk Jingyuan patted his ass first and continued: "How many years have the three countries of the Green Basin been established, how many years have the demon beasts been suppressed in the wilderness. Now it's so easy to follow the spirit tide to backtrack and counterattack. Now that the two sides are in full swing, the battle situation has reached a stalemate, and I heard that the demon beast army has begun to look for reinforcements. ”
Yang Xiu's heart moved slightly, and he said, "You want to win over neutral forces?"
"That's right. Several super families in the wilderness were invited, and the big leader of the demon clan came forward, and it is estimated that this face will not be given. ”
"What kind of cultivation is the leader of the demon clan?" Yang Xiu immediately asked when he heard this.
"The body of a half-immortal. Monk Jinghai's lips moved slightly, and he spat out four words. Yang Xiu had already expected it in his heart. Not too surprised, nodded slightly without words. Wait for the other party's next words.
"The Snapping Turtle clan has a long heritage, and several of its secret treasures have the power to penetrate the heavens and the earth, and they are famous in the ancient wilderness. Now the strength of their clan is far less than before, if one of the treasures is taken by the demon beast of the main battle......"
Monk Jingyuan stood his Zen staff on the stone slab. Looking up at the stout tree in front of him, he said, "The consequences are unimaginable. ”
Yang Xiu's eyes lit up, and after thinking about it, he didn't expect that Monk Jingyuan and the old man Li Zhuo had this idea. It is needless to say that the value of the treasures in this small Lushan can be seen by the big demon beasts, and they also know how terrifying the threat is.
"So you came to Xiaolushan with me, in fact, to find out the truth of that treasure?" Yang Xiu understood the cause and effect of the matter, and said suddenly.
Monk Jingyuan nodded, turned his head to look at a few guards in the distance, and said, "Yes." Both the old man and the eldest prince were very worried. The strength of the snapping turtle clan today is not as strong as it was back then, but the heritage is still there, and it is not surprising that there are any terrifying things hidden. Brother Yang is from Ningguo. The war in my hometown continues, so I guess I won't ignore this matter. ”
Yang Xiu glanced at the other party and nodded with a smile. It seems that today is my lucky day, I can still encounter this kind of thing when I bring a monk here, I can't go to the front line, and it's not bad to wreak havoc in the back.
According to what the monk Jingyuan said. The thing that the demon beast drew this time was actually a formation diagram of an ancient array.
The ancestor of the Black Snapping Turtle clan relied on two things to become famous all over the world - extraordinary defensive spells and profound formation techniques. It is said that in the snapping turtle family, some of the most talented offspring were born. On the back shell, there are mysterious formations and ancient immortal texts. As the age and cultivation gradually increase, the formation immortal inscriptions on the turtle shell will become clearer and more complex.
Relying on this talent, many seniors in the clan are formation masters, and presumably Xiao Xuan's grandfather is also one of them. The killing array is out, the corpses are ambushed, and even the monks of the Qi Sea Period have no power to resist, and the power can be seen!
It is said that there is an ancient formation hidden in Xiaolu Mountain, which was created by a certain turtle clan power thousands of years ago, and the power is earth-shattering, and the power of different people is not the same. Legend has it that this senior once relied on this formation to destroy a strong enemy of the Great Perfection of the Qi Sea with the cultivation of the middle stage of the Qi Sea, and everyone who heard it was shocked.
"Do you know where this big array is hidden?" Yang Xiu asked with a frown.
Since we know that this big array has the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth, we will not hesitate to find out how to figure it out, and if we have the chance, we will even destroy it! The formation is similar to the Dao Talisman, and it is extremely terrifying to improve the strength of the monk, and the difference in scale that makes it more powerful than the Dao Talisman is the difference in scale. Ideally, Yang Xiu would be able to kill several or even a dozen opponents of the same rank with the improved Spirit Explosion Talisman, but with the same powerful formation, the number of dead people would probably be counted in hundreds or even thousands.
"I don't know, but definitely near this ancient tree. ”
Monk Jingyuan shook his head, saw Yang Xiu frown, and said in a low voice: "It's good that the eldest prince can find this bit of news." It is rumored that after the old age of the black snapping turtle, he felt that this formation violated the harmony of heaven and killed too many people, so he destroyed the formation map and threw it in Xiaolu Mountain, and the specific location was really not found. ”
Yang Xiu didn't know in his heart that it was already shocking that Monk Jingyuan could tell so many secrets and find the ancient tree, maybe it was the news that the eldest prince got from the city lord of Qincheng.
Monk Jingyuan has been wandering around the tree, just looking for clues. Yang Xiu also began to look left and right with his hands behind his back, and a few guards behind him saw that the two of them were studying this ancient tree, and couldn't help but be a little puzzled, there are not a hundred or ninety such ancient trees in Xiaolu Mountain, what kind of circle are these two people turning around?
The tree is surrounded by aerial roots, and there are many broken stone slabs between the cracks of the aerial roots, and it seems that there was once a wall or something like this. Between the two thick air roots, Yang Xiu suddenly stopped, poked his head and looked in for a while, his expression changed.
"This ......!" With just one glance, Yang Xiu knew that Monk Jingyuan had found the right place.
The air roots are so thick and tortuous that no one can hold them. Deep in the gap between the two aerial roots is a square stone, the color of which is very different from the surrounding stone platform, showing a slippery mutton fat white color. The stone was soaked in water, but the surrounding underwater stones and tree roots were tightly obscured by dark green moss, and only this large jade-like square stone was clean and new.
In the eyes of ordinary people, the surface of jade is as smooth as ice, and there is nothing abnormal except for the strange appearance. But in Yang Xiu's eyes, the jade side facing up was densely packed with white Chinese characters, mixed with some complex and incomprehensible patterns. These marks are very shallow, and they are difficult to detect with the naked eye when they are above the water.
"Monk, do me a favor,"
Yang Xiu suppressed his excitement and beckoned to Jingyuan, "Go and entangle those two guards, I want to do something here." ”
Monk Jingyuan reacted immediately, his eyes glanced between the gaps in the roots of the trees, and he was happy when he saw the white jade stones, and then nodded at Yang Xiu, with a kind smile on his face, and walked towards the two young men with big turtle shells on their backs not far away.
Yang Xiu saw Monk Jingyuan take out a bronze bowl with golden light, and said a few words to the two guards, the two of them immediately looked surprised and smiled, and followed Jingyuan to a stone table under the canopy in the distance. Seeing this, Yang Xiu immediately closed his eyes and comprehended the words on the stone with his heart.
This is only a paragraph of a certain article or exercise, and it is only more than 300 words, but it is the same ancient seal character as the Mixed Yuan Sutra. Yang Xiu browsed it, and immediately rejoiced in his heart: It was really a formation!
What surprised Yang Xiu even more was that the white Chinese characters as small as mosquitoes and ants were evenly distributed in the water under the ancient trees in as many as eight places in the east and west, tightly wrapped by tangled roots. Yang Xiu quickly came to the conclusion that these stones that resembled white jade were originally a whole, and a huge square stone tablet was knocked into several pieces and buried under the water, maybe it was the big tree that was planted after burying these wreckage.
Now the roots of the tree are spreading outward, and one of the gravels has been brought out, if it weren't for the reminder of Monk Jingyuan, Yang Xiu wouldn't have imagined that there would be something else under the tree!
The formation has a total of more than 8,000 words, which are interspersed with eight graphics. Yang Xiu's heart is lucky, this is just a formation, not an exercise, and after removing the details of the formation technique, the required materials, the terrain, the requirements for spiritual power, etc., there are only less than 500 words that really involve the part that you want to visualize and comprehend.
These five hundred words are the core of the entire formation!
Yang Xiu condensed his mind and began to visualize and remember in his heart. The ordinary people of Xiaolushan don't know about the secrets here, but the elders and patriarchs must know that large-scale destruction can only save their lives here, and there is no guarantee that there will be no copies elsewhere. Yang Xiu planned to write down all the formations and find a way to bring them to the master when the time came.
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"Donor, please see, the Buddha said that he is born in his heart, blessed by God, and the cause and effect of the two are indispensable,"
Monk Jingyuan held the copper bowl, pointed to a pool of clear water inside, and said to one of the guards with a thin neck and a big head: "This copper bowl can see the past and future lives in people's hearts, what did the donor look at in it just now?"
"Hey...... A big beauty. The other party scratched his head and said.
"Good, good, it seems that the donor will have a peach blossom relationship soon, congratulations~"
Monk Jingyuan smiled and said solemnly with the Buddha in a low voice. The other party shook his head when he heard this, and he looked proud, and he had already begun to imagine which beauty he might meet recently. The other person waited for a long time, and hurriedly came over to let Jingyuan see his fortune.
Monk Jingyuan nodded, and at the same time glanced at the direction where Yang Xiu was without a trace, and his eyes froze: on the other side of the ancient tree, a group of more than a dozen people were walking far away, and it seemed that the destination was where Yang Xiu was. (To be continued)