Chapter 11: The Man in Purple
After a long time, Han Shi suppressed those hesitations, slowly walked into the crack, and at the same time took out a small box from his bosom, which contained the fire folds that the hunting team always prepared.
With a stabbing sound, the flames lit the way.
As Han Shidi deepened, the crack gradually widened, and after Mo was about a hundred feet, the road ahead was no longer dark, and slowly there was a glimmer of light, and what appeared in front of Han Shi's eyes was a huge mountain belly.
This place is not completely dark, but there is a beam of sunlight shining down, which makes the whole mountain belly have a splendour, although it is not a slight, but it is not difficult to see things roughly.
Seeing everything in front of him clearly, Han Shi couldn't help but gasp, on the ground in the middle of the mountain, there are five lotus flowers, its shape, huge, each flower is about ten zhang square, lifelike, and even the fragrance of lotus comes to the face, these five lotus flowers are closely connected, forming a ring of three zhang size in the middle.
The ring faced the hole at the top of the mountain, and the sun was pouring down, and in the middle of the ring, a man in purple sat cross-legged, his eyes closed, and his hands pinched on his knees.
At this moment, the man in purple was facing Han Shi, with a white mist all over his body, and between his breaths, there was even more white mist being sucked in and exhaled by the man in purple like a white dragon.
Under the sunlight, the ethereal appearance of the man in purple was like that of an immortal, but the color of pain flashed on his face from time to time, indicating that there were some injuries in this person's body that had not yet healed.
Slowly opening his eyes, the purple-clothed man looked at Han Shi calmly, nodded lightly after half a sound, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then closed his eyes and continued to swallow the white mist, ignoring Han Shi.
Han Shi stood beside the lotus pattern, did not act rashly, saw the purple-clothed man close his eyes and no longer pay attention to himself, his heart was slightly wider, his steps were light, and he walked slowly along the periphery.
The first lotus flower faintly emitted a golden light, and it was dazzling in the sun, Han Shi hesitated in his heart, but did not show it.
Slowly walked to the second lotus, carefully examined, this flower is a green lotus, and the fragrance of plants and trees is faintly exuded around, just like the real one.
Han Shi couldn't help but stretch out his hand and touch it gently, the pattern of the blue lotus carved on the ground was as soft as lotus petals, and if he closed his eyes, he couldn't tell whether it was true or false.
Just as Han Shi stretched out his hand to touch the Qinglian pattern, an extremely bright color erupted in the eyes of the purple-clothed man, but he closed it tightly after a moment, as if nothing had happened.
Han Shi suddenly felt something, looked up at the man in purple, but saw nothing, a little strange in his heart, thoughtful.
"If my guess is right, this lotus should be a wood lotus, so it has the fragrance of grass and trees, and the previous one revealed the golden light, it should be a golden lotus, then if it is a water lotus, a fire lotus, and an earth lotus, so full of five elements, and these patterns are so huge, and the depiction is so delicate and ingenious, it should be a formation, Master has mentioned it to me before, but I don't know if this formation is set by the purple-clothed man himself, or if someone else ......"
"I have a method, I can try it, and it is enough to distinguish the truth from the false. ”
After thinking about it, Han Shi got up and continued to walk forward, as the water lotus, fire lotus, and earth lotus appeared one by one, he did not have the slightest surprise in his heart.
After walking in a circle, Han Shi stood opposite the man in purple again, stood still for a long time, and looked at the man in purple who closed his eyes and swallowed the white dragon, with yearning in his eyes.
After waiting for a long time, he didn't see any movement from the purple-clothed man, and Han Shi's face gradually showed a look of disappointment, watching the sunlight sprinkled on the top of the mountain gradually dim, and the disappointment became even stronger.
After about a stick of incense, Han Shiyi gritted his teeth, no longer waited, his eyes were very disappointed, he lit the fire fold again, turned around and walked towards the crack, but he didn't stop a step.
One hundred zhang, fifty zhang, ten zhang, three zhang, one zhang, just when Han Shi was less than two feet away from the crack exit, he paused slightly, but he still didn't look back, and slowly walked out of the crack.
Han Shi didn't look back, walked out of the three hundred zhang away, found a clean bluestone, sat down cross-legged, and showed a thoughtful look in his eyes.
In the belly of the mountain, the purple-clothed man gently opened his eyes, his face was filled with a cold color, and two cold lights shot out from his eyes, facing into the distance, as if his gaze could penetrate the mountain wall and see Han Shi.
"This son is cautious, not surprised, does not make presumptuous decisions, but also has a moment of temptation, and regardless of qualifications, such a mind will be extraordinary in the future, but it is a pity that you can enter the valley today, this is where your life is. ”
"Although I can't go out of the battle, for more than a thousand years, there are many people who have died in my hands, but these people have all been injured by the soul devouring mist, I can easily restrain and devour vitality, I can't imagine that this son is unscathed. ”
"There is also this son touching the wooden lotus, and the lotus array did not fight back, but it is a strange thing. ”
"Could it be that this son is a wood spirit, or is it ...... If this is the case, even if the old man is seriously injured, he will get this son, this is the only chance for the old man to get out of trouble. ”
"Bei Xuanzi, when the old man gets out of trouble, he will definitely crush your old thief to ashes one day. ”
Han Shi sat cross-legged on the rock, thinking quietly, from the beginning he was surrounded by white mist, and only in the front and back and left and right sides could he continue to walk until he entered the valley that suddenly appeared.
There wasn't even a flying insect in this valley, like a dead valley, and then he walked into this crack unconsciously, and then saw the man in purple in the belly of the mountain, and all this happened as if he was being led and guided by an invisible hand, as if he was asked to do something.
"The temptation just now didn't go as I expected, the man in purple doesn't seem to care about my departure, he is really not afraid that I will leave?"
"Or maybe I can't leave at all, he deliberately shows that he doesn't care, if he keeps me when I leave the crack, I must be vigilant in my heart, and the man in purple makes this way in order to soothe my heart and let down my guard. ”
"I want to think that everything is all right, and let my guard down, I am afraid that what awaits me is a greater trap, and if he wants to take it, he must first indulge it, I should have thought that the white mist outside the valley makes people can only move forward and cannot return, I am afraid that it is to force people into the valley and use it for him. ”
"Now that there should be no way out of the valley, the man in purple may have expected this, so he had no fear and let me go, because he knew that sooner or later I would have to return to the belly of the mountain. I'm afraid there will be a huge danger in it, maybe there will be a worry about my life, but I can't choose at the moment, the formation composed of five lotus flowers, if it is laid by the purple-clothed man himself, then I can only resign myself to fate. ”
"If the purple-clothed man did it, when it can be sealed, I can see the opportunity to act, maybe there is a glimmer of life, escape, the five elements in the belly of the mountain are delicate and delicate, it should not be ordinary, if there is a chance, maybe there will be some opportunities waiting for me. ”
Thinking of all this, Han Shi's eyes were crystal clear, but in the deepest part of his eyes, there was a sense of agitation that almost wanted to erupt.
"People are born with death in their lives, if they only promise to die in fear, it is better to give up their lives to live up to the head of a heroic young man. ”
In the sky, the bright and cold moonlight shone on the valley, and the cracks in the distance were like the mouths of a giant beast, waiting for Han Shi to arrive.
At this time in Hanjia Village, Han Blacksmith and his wife had no master, Han Shi's mother leaned against the door and burst into tears, surrounded by villagers who comforted her, Han Blacksmith kept smoking his cigarette pouch, silent, but the anxious look in his eyes could not be concealed.
The companions of the son's hunting team brought back the news that Han Seok had lured away the wild boar alone in order to protect them, and it had been a day since he disappeared.
After Han Yuanshan came back, he didn't stop, and took the two strongest hunting teams in the village to set off immediately, but when he reached the edge of the white mist, he was still blocked from entering.
A total of 21 people in the team were stationed at the side, and after waiting for two days, there was still no progress, and they had to return to Hanjia Village, and only Han Yuanshan stayed behind and continued to wait and see.
Han Shi had made up his mind, and there was no longer a sense of fear in his heart, but he was more cautious, did not act rashly, and waited until the sun rose the next day and the sky was bright, and then slowly walked into the crack, but he didn't know that it was this caution that saved him.
When he came to the belly of the mountain, Han Shi's heart moved, and he came to the place where he touched the wooden lotus last time, and carefully looked at the blue lotus pattern on the stone surface.