Episode 8: Planning Simen Mountain
Simen Mountain, close to the western border of Sichuan, is surrounded by peaks and dangerous walls, dead trees and rocks, a scene of poor mountains and bad waters. In addition, the mountain is steep, and it is dangerous, it is a place where mortals do not go, and it is not a place for sword immortals to cultivate the mountain gate.
In the early years, there was a murderer named Zhu Hong, who was originally a proud disciple of the Taiyi mixed ancestor of the Wutai faction in Shanxi. Usually relying on spells, doing all kinds of evil, and having a very bad reputation, if it weren't for the fact that most of the outsiders were afraid of the prestige of the patriarch, they would have been eradicated long ago in order to restore the clarity of the world.
The bad thing about this person is especially more than that, I don't know when he stole a book of heaven from the patriarch of the mixed yuan and the treasure of the talisman Taiyi Wuyanluo, and fled to a secret place to hide. The Mixed Yuan Ancestor also searched for his traces everywhere, but before he could find it, he was just in time for the Emei sword, because he stole the treasure of his body, so that he was besieged and died in defeat.
Yes, from now on, neither the righteous nor the demon can tolerate this Zhu Hong, the righteous path is because he is a demon evildoer, and he wants to kill them quickly, and the demon path is because he caused the evil ancestor to die, and since then the demon path has fallen. Therefore, although Zhu Hong has such a treasure as Taiyi Wuyanluo, he does not dare to go out of the Simen Cave Mansion.
Of course, others may not know where he is hiding, but Yang Xiao, who is a traverser, knows it clearly, he came here for the treasure of the Wutai faction, Taiyi Wuyanluo, which is a famous talisman treasure in the side door, and even if he doesn't take it now, he will be set to be a disciple of the Emei faction in the future.
It's just that although he knows the general location of Simen Mountain, Yang Xiao has never been there after all, and it took several days to find it after visiting all the way.
Walk to the vicinity of Simen Mountain, look at it from afar, only to see four peaks, like a portal, each standing on one side, forming a circle. Looking down from the sky, there is a basin in the middle. It can be faintly seen that there is a gathering of evil qi in the mountains, and the spiritual power is thin, which is indeed a rare dangerous mountain and evil water in the Great Wilderness Kyushu.
Quietly disappeared from the light, lowered his figure, and slowly stopped in the Simen Valley. Yang Xiao raised his head and looked around, although there were no traces of artificial excavation everywhere, but it also allowed him to see a little bit of the doorway.
On the mountains on all sides, strange rocks are craggy, and trees are towering layer by layer. The valley is barren, although there are some gravel and withered grass, but it makes Yang Xiao feel a little false and pretentious in his heart. You know, it's early autumn, and although there will be too many fallen leaves and dead branches, it will definitely not be just a few trees on the surrounding peaks. And looking at the deciduous and withered grass in the center of the valley, it is obvious that there are much less than the surrounding ones.
In addition, under the ground in this valley, there is a faint layer of black qi mixed in it, if you don't look closely, you will naturally ignore it, but if you look closely, you can find that this is definitely not a natural thing, but a sign of some kind of prohibition derivation.
With these two points, Yang Xiao was already sure that Zhu Hong and his wife must still be living in seclusion here, not to mention that he already knew the reason inside, otherwise he would not have found it here.
He searched for it, and immediately found the entrance to the cave at the foot of a mountain, avoided the defensive formation, and entered the cave, and it was clearly visible that the entire cave was made of rocks, and in the middle was a passage about two zhang wide and nearly two zhang high, and another pearl was embedded on the top every other zhang for lighting. On both sides of the road, there are several stone chambers. It seems that Zhu Hong and his wife have spent a lot of effort on this.
Walking back and forth, I found that although there were many stone chambers on both sides of the passage, only one of them was prohibited. And the reason why Yang Xiao came to steal the treasure with such great interest was precisely because in the original book, until the Emei faction came to kill it decades later, Zhu Hong did not refine this treasure.
After searching for a while, Yang Xiao was relieved to see the stone room full of prohibitions, and his spiritual sense diverged, through the stone wall, but he saw that the stone room was filled with layers of black smoke, and it was faintly visible that the red mangs were fluctuating and changing for no reason.
Yang Xiao knew that this was a side door formation, and it was very evil, but now that he had succeeded in cultivating the Pure Yang True Technique, he had a good understanding of this formation, even though he couldn't crack it, but he had a way to avoid the danger.
At that moment, Yang Xiao's next step out, he disappeared into the room, this layer of black gauze smoke, it seems to be light and thin, and it can be worn by only one hand, but in fact, once you enter it, you can perceive that the space in it seems to be infinitely vast.
Yang Xiao is now condensed Jindan, the true yuan is strong, according to his speed, he can fly for a while, even if it is a thousand miles away, it should be there, not to mention this stone room. However, outside the mountain, he didn't know the depth of the mountain, until he entered, Yang Xiaofang knew that there was already another world between this square circle.
He had never seen a formation before, although it was recorded on the Pure Yang Dan Sutra, but there was always a great surprise between the words and reality, so he really hadn't appreciated the wonder of this demon formation.
In the past, when he read the original book, there were very few words about Zhu Hong recorded in it, and the evaluation was low, he thought that the other party was just a small foot, and he was killed by a third-generation disciple sent by Emei just after he appeared, which was really useless. But now that I came in person, I realized that the methods of these side door demons were really not to be underestimated, and this formation was not as unbearable as recorded in the book.
At that moment, Yang Xiao put away his contempt, although this formation is a side thing, but after the arrangement is completed, there will inevitably be a collection of things, if you can find this collection of things, but it can also be called a treasure, maybe when it can be used is not necessarily.
Since he wanted to take the treasure, he naturally didn't dare to forcibly urge the Biluo Huangquan Twin Swords to break the formation, fortunately, he inherited the Danjing Taoist Book of Chunyang Zhenren, and he also had a good understanding of the formation, with his current cultivation, it was not too difficult to do this.
In fact, in the final analysis, this is also a helpless move, after all, although it is direct to rely on cultivation to forcibly break the formation, it will inevitably cause great movement, and when the time comes, it will be a little difficult to surprise Zhu Hong and his wife, and then want to take the treasure.
After all, although the Zhu Hong couple in the original book did not cultivate very well, they had refined a few powerful magic weapons, especially the six-six true yuan gourd, which was extremely evil, and even the original Taiyi Mixed Yuan Patriarch did not dare to refine it at will!
Anyway, the other party is also a personal disciple of a generation of evil ancestors, and there are some powerful means, which is definitely not an uncommon thing, if there is none, then it is called strange?
At the moment, his eyes were condensed, and faintly, he could see two faint pale golden rays of light shooting out, but they were inspired by the spirit stone fairy milk, and his eyes were opened, his eyes were like two dragons, in the black gauze mist, and he glanced around, although he had not broken through this kind of formation, but he also knew that as long as he found the object of the formation, this large array would naturally be self-defeating.
Not long after, Yang Xiao's gaze stopped somewhere in the void, and immediately, a streamer flashed, flickering and emerged, and with the next step of his feet, others had already appeared in another place, in front of him, a small pennant glowing with a faint yellow color was faintly hanging in the void three feet above the ground.
Yang Xiao quietly looked at the small pennant in front of him, and could clearly sense the mysterious power contained in it, it seemed that this demon path villain did have some ability.
In his eyes, he saw that above the yellow pennant, there were mysterious runes crisscrossing them, these runes were strange blood red, as if they were painted with blood, and in the air, there were black threads that scattered into the air, and the layers of black gauze mist were formed.
Is this the foundation of this Demon Dao Great Array?