After daybreak, the five of them set out on their way in the direction of the ruins.

Nothing happened in the morning, only when it was close to noon, a few people saw from a distance more than a dozen people in front of them flying over in two groups in a hurry, making the five people slow down and become alert.

However, it was later discovered that the two groups of people were not coming for the five of them, it seemed that the front was on the run, and the back was chasing.

However, the appearance of the five of them made these people stunned whether they were fleeing or chasing, and then they continued to flee, but the chasing stopped, looking at Qian Chao and the others, those who fled at the end saw that the people behind them were not chasing, and couldn't help but turn around and say cruel words:

"Merchants! You have remembered for me what happened today, and I will always ask you for it back in the future! ”

One of those who stopped not to chase replied loudly:

"Good! Then I'll wait for you, don't keep me waiting too long! ”

When those who escaped passed by Qian Chao and the others, they also found that these people were more or less injured, and they looked very embarrassed, and in the end, in addition to the injuries of the last person who spoke cruelly to Shang Jie, even the eyes that looked at Qian Chao and the others were vicious, and they seemed to be very annoyed that their embarrassment was seen.

"Thank you Senior Brother Shang for your help, otherwise the junior brothers will be unlucky today."

Some of those who stopped were thanking the broker.

"You're welcome, you still have to be careful when you come out in the future."

The man said.

Introduction! Unexpectedly, he was Shang Jie, Qian Chao secretly said, among the several well-informed people that Ma Hu had recommended to him, Cai Jian and Bu Yan were found, and they could be regarded as acquaintances, but this Shang Jie was not found in the sect, and he kept remembering this person, and he thought that he would look for this person when he went back, but he didn't expect to meet him outside the sect.

looked at that person, his appearance was ordinary, his figure was tall, his face was so shrewd and unruly, and he was followed by a few people with the same temperament, it seems that this person should be the business agent that Ma Hu said, and there are some people around him who follow, and he always likes to take care of uneven things when he sees them outside, so he has a good reputation, but he has a lot of enemies.

However, now is not a good time to speak, and several people still have to rush to the ruins, and it seems that they will have to wait until they return to the sect to get acquainted with this person.

When Qian Chao and a few people passed by, Shang Jie looked at these little guys with low cultivation with some suspicion, and didn't know what these little guys were doing here, but in the end they didn't speak, but after giving an order to a few people around them, a few people turned around and flew away.

After these people dispersed, Lu Pingchuan said with some pity:

"Hey, it's a pity that I was late and didn't see them fighting."

Yan Xuan looked left and right, and saw that those people had flown away, so he said:

"Alas, this sect is really not peaceful, something always happens, it seems that those who escaped just now also wanted to rob others at first, I didn't expect someone to take action to ruin their affairs."

Li Jian also understood a little from what those people said just now, so he didn't have a bad impression of the person named Shang Jie, he said:

"Maybe that's how the grudge between Senior Brother Chen Xian and that Xie You came about, and that's how it hurt Xie You."

Qian Chao said: "That one is called Shang Jie, I want to get acquainted with him after I go back, this person is considered a well-informed person among the qi refining disciples in the sect, and many things that others don't know may be able to be inquired from his mouth, I also looked for him before coming out this time, but I didn't expect him to be outside the sect all the time." ”

Yan Xuan was a little puzzled and asked, "Why is he so well-informed?" ”

"This person can be regarded as a ruthless person, it is said that he is very heavy when he fights with people, well, but his reputation is not bad, I saw it just now, he probably also helped others to break the siege, there are some people around him who follow him, plus he has a good reputation, some disciples in the sect are willing to ask him for help when they have something, and the more people who look for him, the more things they know, if you know him, you can know some things that others don't know."

……

In the afternoon of the same day, after a while, Qian Chao began to be cautious.

He always held a leather map in his hand, and as he flew, he checked the flight path of several of his people against the map, sometimes stopping to look at it carefully, and then went to a high place to take a closer look.

Tang Ping and the others knew that they were going to approach the ruins, so Qian Chao was so careful, for fear that he would miss it.

And Li Jian is also cautious, after all, it is a ruin, if it is opened, there may be good things inside, think about Luo Ying and Wen Yuan that time, the four of them went out to open the treasure of the ruins, but they were followed by more than a hundred people, so it seems that the attraction of the things in the ruins to the monks is still big enough, big enough to make them lose their lives, therefore, when the tide of money began to be cautious, Li Jian was also the same, always paying attention to whether there were any traces of other people around, if there were, several people had to deal with it carefully.

Finally, Qian Chao determined the location of the ruin, and flew along the ridge of a mountain range with a few companions.

The so-called ruins, several people have a understanding in their hearts, that is, when they find it, it should be full of dilapidated and abandoned courtyards, pavilions that have been lost in the years, and barren grass grows between the ruins and broken walls.

Speaking of which, this is not the first ruin that the five of them have found, they haven't found any treasure hiding place in the first ruin, but there are some good spirit grasses, and Qian Chao also found two magic circles there.

But it always looked like a ruin, which was in line with the five people's perception of the ruins.

Therefore, when Qian Chao led his companions there, several people were a little unclear why, because Qian Chao stopped, so they all stopped, thinking that this was just the way to the ruins, but seeing Qian Chao's expression, they knew that this was the ruins!

This is just a stone platform on the mountainside, and under the stone platform is the abyss, and you can faintly hear the sound of water coming from under the abyss, and you can still hear the sound of water at such a high place, so there must be a big river flowing below. The stone platform is not big, because there are no overgrown weeds, under a closer look you can see that the stone platform is flat and abnormal, not natural, one side of the stone platform is a cliff, the other side is a mountain wall, although this stone wall is not glorious but flat and vertical, it is not natural, from above there are a lot of pothos vines hanging down to cover half of the stone wall, up in addition to the vines there are a lot of miscellaneous branches struggling to drill out of the stone cracks growing indiscriminately, and then up is the top of the mountain.

No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a relic here, Tang Ping couldn't help but ask:

"This is the ruins?"

Qian Chao said: "Yes, this is it." ”

"But...... It doesn't look like a ruin here! ”

Qian Chao smiled: "Then what do you think the ruins should look like?" Is there a few broken houses, a ring of crumbling walls, and that kind of place is the ruins? ”

"Yes...... This is such a small place, even if it is a ruin, where can the place where the treasure be hidden? ”

"This is certainly not what this place was originally like, I mean this mountain was certainly not so high before, our location was almost at the foot of the mountain at the beginning, I don't know when, and what is the reason and change, changed the original landform here, the sound at that time must be unusually amazing, like the sky collapsed into the ground, the flat place collapsed into a deep stream, the mountain suddenly uplifted, the earth shook, the earth fire gushed out and swallowed everything, and then it was drowned by the diverted river, and in the midst of the water and fire, the manor built here was destroyed, And here ......"

Qian Chao said and pointed to the stone platform under his feet and the mountain wall next to him.

"The manor built by the mountain must be the deepest part of the manor here, because it is closest to the mountain, and it follows the raised peak to the halfway up the mountain, and because this is the deepest part of the manor, it is also the place where the sect or family that lived here collected things back then, which is what we now call the treasure hiding place."

A few people listened to it, and they couldn't imagine that such an earth-shattering change could happen here.

Tang Ping pursed her lips and said:

"Say it like you've seen it! Only when it is opened can it be said that it is a real relic. ”

Qian Chao smiled, looked around again, and said:

"Don't worry, I'm sure this is the ruins, but let's be careful, Brother Li, let's go around here first, if this place is opened in a while, if someone else sees it here, there may be trouble, let's take a look around the neighborhood first."

Hearing Qian Chao say this, it seemed that he had found the place where the treasure was hidden, and a few people naturally didn't want someone else to make trouble when it was opened, so Li Jian led the way around here in a big circle, and after making sure that there was no one else nearby, he flew back to this stone platform.

"Okay, now there's no one else here, boy Qian, isn't it time to open the ruins and take the treasure inside?"

Tang Ping was a little anxious.

Not only her, but the rest of Li Jian, Yan Xuan, and Lu Pingchuan were all full of curiosity about the ruins that were about to be opened and the treasures inside.

"This ruin may not be easy to open, and it will be a little troublesome, but ......" Qian Chao looked at the stone platform and said, "It can definitely be opened." ”

Then a few people watched Qian Chao close his eyes, and when he opened them again, the blue light under his eyes looked like they were shining.

He looked down as he paced on the stone platform, and when he came to a corner near the stone wall, he pointed down with his hand, turned back to some of his companions, and said with a smile:

"This is where the formation is."

A few people followed, and according to the place where Qian Chao pointed out, although the stones there were as smooth as the others, they were indeed different from other places, and the stones there were arranged one by one into three sets of circles.

Qian Chao looked at the three circles, with the help of the blue eye technique, he could see the three layers of circles composed of runes under the three circles, this was the formation.

"Well, the formation is not difficult," said Qian Chao and looked back at the stone wall, "If the formation is opened, the door of the treasure place, I guess it should be on that stone wall, well, of course, maybe it will be on this stone platform." ”

There are a total of twenty-one runes in the formation divided into three circles, each circle has seven, and those runes Qian Chao can't all recognize them, but since it's a formation, there are rules to follow, in Qian Chao's view, the runes used in the formation are the kind of five elements of attributes, and each rune in each circle is in a relationship with each other or a relationship of mutual restraint between each rune and the adjacent runes, and then the runes facing each other up and down are the same, turning the formation composed of stones, that is, changing the position of the runes opposite each other inside and outside the three circles, It is possible to make up a column of three runes from the inside to the outside or from the outside to the inside is a relationship of mutual birth or mutual restraint, if the seven columns of runes in the three circles are all turned into a relationship of mutual birth or mutual restraint, then the formation will be solved.

"I'll give it a try, and if it does, you notice that an entrance is open there."

As he spoke, Qian Chao stretched out his hands to the formation.

The light on his hands was shining, and in the eyes of Tang Ping and the others, the three circles composed of stones began to make a muffled sound of "rolling", and the three circles began to rotate.

Although Qian Chao is now a fourth-level cultivator of Qi refining, he suffers from the fact that his spiritual root qualifications are not very good, and the Blue Eye Technique is a very spiritual energy-consuming spell, so after a cup of tea, with the rotation of the magic circle, his face has already flushed for a while, obviously because the spiritual energy has been consumed a little too much.

And Tang Ping couldn't help, so he could only watch from the side.

Finally, Qian Chao's face flushed and he exclaimed: "It's done!" ”

Then he turned his head to look at the stone platform and the stone wall.

Naturally, several companions followed suit.

It's a pity that the stone platform is quiet, and there is no movement on the stone wall, nothing abnormal happens, and no entrance to the treasure place mentioned by Qian Chao has been found.

This made Qian Chao a little embarrassed, he walked on the stone platform with his head down, stomped his feet, looked carefully at the stone wall for a while, and patted his hands for a while, but unfortunately, there was still no change.

Li Jian flew up and searched for the stone wall covered by vines, while Tang Ping hung his body outside the stone platform to see if there was any change there.

Several people searched for it, but the result was still the same, and nothing changed!

"Hey, didn't you get that formation right?" Tang Ping leaned over and asked in a low voice.

"No," Qian Chao shook his head and said, "I must have cracked the formation, but ...... Wait until I try again. ”

After speaking, Qian Chao took out a piece of earth spirit stone and held it in his hand, pinched it into a trick with one hand, and let the formation keep turning around, and after a while, it seemed to be done, he looked back and looked over, and several companions also looked for it, but still nothing happened.

In this way, he fiddled for a while, and several times as soon as the formation stopped, he turned back to look for it, and after a long time, even the spirit stone in his hand was much smaller under his continuous absorption, but there was still no abnormality.

Several companions looked at Qian Chao, whose faces were still flushed, and each thought that it would be difficult to open this ruin when they came out this time.

As if noticing the disappointment of his companions, Qian Chao smiled and said, "Wait a minute, this relic will definitely be able to open." ”

After saying that, he no longer fiddled with the formation, but put a case in the middle of the stone platform, took out a pen and paper, drew the formation on the paper, and then began to think while sketching on the paper.

A few people were helpless, so they could only wait for him on the side.

Lu Pingchuan was bored, patted the stone wall and said:

"Since Brother Qian said that the door of the treasure hiding place is on this stone wall, then why don't you want me to punch it here and open it directly, why do you have to make any formations?"

Tang Ping persuaded: "Brother Lu, I have also heard that in the place where you hide with the formation, even if you smash it, you won't be able to find what is hidden inside, so let's wait for the money boy." ”

Lu Pingchuan had no choice but to continue waiting.

didn't wait long, and a few people saw Qian Chao suddenly put the pen in his hand on the paper and said:

"I must have cracked that formation, no, the problem is not in the formation!"

Saying that, Qian Chao raised his head, looked at a few companions, and said:

"Sister Yan, Brother Li, please go to the neighborhood to find out, see if there is any spirit grass or something nearby, you don't have to go far, just look for it nearby."

Yan Xuan and Li Jian didn't understand why Qian Chao asked the two of them to look for the spirit grass, could it be that if they found the spirit grass, they could open the ruins?

But in the end, they have always had confidence in Qian Chao's intelligence, so they nodded and flew away together.

"Hey, boy Qian, what are you doing here?"

"There must be nothing wrong with what I cracked that formation, the problem is elsewhere, ...... here"

As he spoke, Qian Chao stretched out an arm and slashed in the air, seemingly including the stone platform and stone wall.

Tang Ping still didn't understand, so she asked again:

"Could it be that Sister Yan and Brother Li can open this relic if they find the spirit grass?"

Hearing this, Qian Chao suddenly smiled and said:

"Don't worry, Sister Yan and Brother Li shouldn't be able to find the spirit grass."

This made Tang Ping curious again, but then Qian Chao began to get busy again, and she didn't ask again.

Qian Chao took out the dansha that had been ground a long time ago from the storage bag, took out a teacup, and took out a pot of spirit wine given to him by Tang Ping, and mixed the dansha with spirit wine in the tea cup. He took out a new pen and a wad of yellow rune paper.

After dipping the tip of the pen in the tea cup with dansha, Qian Chao glanced at Tang Ping and Lu Pingchuan, who were looking at him curiously, and said calmly:

"Trust me, this relic will definitely open."

The red lines on the brand-new rune paper were twisted and turned, Tang Ping didn't understand this, and naturally Lu Pingchuan didn't understand it, but they had nothing to do, they just watched Qian Chao keep drawing there.

After drawing the two pictures, Qian Chao's complexion began to flush slightly again.

At this time, Yan Xuan and Li Jian, who went out to look for the spirit grass, flew back.

After Yan Xuan fell, he said to Qian Chao:

"Brother Qian, we've looked for it, there's no spirit grass around here?"

Qian Chao nodded and said:

"Sure enough, it was the same as I thought. Wait a minute, wait for me to finish drawing, and then we can open this ruin. ”

After speaking, he lowered his head and carefully drew the talisman.

It was the first time Li Jian had seen Qian Chao making talismans, and he watched with interest.

"Brother Qian, what are you doing?" Yan Xuan asked Tang Ping in a low voice.

Tang Ping whispered:

"That's a talisman, but I don't know what it's for, Qian Boy just said that you and Brother Li shouldn't be able to find the spirit grass, it seems that it's a good thing that you can't find the spirit grass, and the rest is better to wait for him, I don't understand it."

Qian Chao made a total of six talismans, and after these six talismans were painted, his face was flushed and he looked very tired, but his eyes were very bright.

After sitting down for a while, Qian Chao got up and came to the formation, picked out one of the six talismans, put it in the center of the formation, and then took out a spirit stone and pressed it on it.

Seeing that several companions were following him and looking at him curiously, he said:

"Sister Yan and Brother Li went looking for it just now, but they didn't find the spirit grass."

Li Jian and Yan Xuan nodded when they heard this.

"That's right, in fact, I didn't realize this place until later" said, Qian Chao compared with his hand, pointing to the stone platform and the stone wall, "The aura here is very thin and thin, it's not a good place with a strong aura, right?" ”

After hearing this, several people felt their own feelings, and sure enough, they nodded again.

"That's right," Qian Chao continued while placing a talisman on the outside of that formation and pressing a spirit stone, "The aura here is not strong, so naturally it is not a place where spirit grass can grow. But no matter whether there was a family or a sect here, as long as it is a place where cultivators gather to live, they will definitely not choose this kind of place, they must choose those places with strong spiritual energy, and it is best to have spiritual veins to live and practice, right? ”

This is a simple truth, and a few people nodded again.

"And there are indeed quite a few monks living here, and now the aura here is so poor, there is only one reason."

Qian Chao said as he put on another talisman and pressed a spirit stone.

"Don't sell it!" Tang Ping said dissatisfiedly.

Qian Chao smiled, stopped what he was doing, stood up straight and said:

"This used to be a place where the aura was very good, otherwise there would be no monks living here, and this relic was left, but now the aura here is so bad, it means that the spiritual vein has been diverted, just like a river, sometimes the river is diverted, the flood will flood, and finally the direction of the river will be changed, and this spiritual vein is the same, when the abnormal change occurs here, it changes direction like a diversioned river, and there is no spiritual vein, so the aura here has become what it is now, very poor."

This path can be regarded as clear, but it can only be regarded as an explanation of why Yan Xuan and Li Jian couldn't find the spirit grass nearby, and what does it have to do with this formation?

"What does that have to do with this formation?" Tang Ping asked.

"Of course there is, all the formations are related to aura, think about it, the formations we found outside before, as well as my lock spirit array and hidden spirit array, are they all related to aura?"

This is also true, they once found a hidden spirit array on a small continent in a big river, the spirit grass in the array is of excellent color but has not been discovered by the demon beasts, and the formation that changes the direction of the spiritual veins has also been found on the stone walls on both sides of the river, and the lock spirit array is to absorb the aura of the people or demon beasts in the array, and Qian Chao's own hidden spirit array is to prevent the fluctuations of the spiritual energy of the people in the formation from going out of the formation, so sure enough, the formation is related to the aura.

Qian Chao continued: "Therefore, this formation here must also be related to aura. ”

He pointed to the formation where a few pieces of rune paper had been placed on the ground.

"And the reason why the formation was cracked by me, but the treasure place could not be opened, is because there is almost no aura here, there is no aura, even if this formation is cracked by me, the treasure place will not be opened, this is the reason."

That being said, a few companions knew very little about this formation technique, so they could only nod a little blankly, and then continued to look at Qian Chao.

Tang Ping asked, "Then what are you going to do with these talismans and spirit stones, so that you can open the treasure here?" ”

Qian Chao nodded and said, "Thanks to the heaven and earth cage we went to a few days ago, I learned one more hand, and the formation composed of these talismans is a simplified one from the many formations there." ”

Speaking of this, Qian Chao had a somewhat smug expression on his face.

"With the help of this magic circle, I can make the spiritual energy in these spirit stones quickly radiate, probably simulating the appearance of the spiritual energy here back then, and then this magic circle can almost be opened."

When Tang Ping heard the word 'almost' in his words, he knew that Qian Chao was probably not very sure, so he said:

"Will it work?"

"Uh...... It should work, if not, I still have a way, but it will be a lot more troublesome. ”

After saying this, Qian Chao lowered his head, and placed five talismans in a circle outside the formation, and each had a spirit stone pressed on it in turn.

"I'm going to start," Qian Chao said, his hands shining again, ready to activate the magic circle again, "This time it should be successful!" ”

Several of his companions watched him silently.

Qian Chao first activated the formation he had put out with the talisman, and since his hand began to change, the strange words written by Dansha on the talisman began to turn red and bright, and almost at the same time, the five of them felt a rich aura diffuse around their bodies.

Then Qian Chao started the original formation on the stone platform, and the three layers of circles composed of stones "rolled" and rotated, and when they all stopped, the circles of the three layers began to glow slightly.

In this process, the five people only watched the rotation of the formation, and when the rotation stopped, they all noticed that there seemed to be a slight shaking on the stone wall behind them.

Li Jian was the first to turn around and look.

Looking at a stone door slowly opening on the stone wall, Li Jian said with some excitement.

"Brother Qian, it's done!"

Lu Pingchuan was overjoyed: "Hey! Open the door, open the door! ”

Yan Xuan looked there and muttered, "Sure enough, it's open." ”

Tang Ping was excited: "There are yours!" Money boy! ”

Qian Chao looked at the entrance of the cave, and somehow, he said, "No wonder Senior Sister Luo can't open here...... No wonder! ”