In the previous small secret realm, You Fushi had appeared before, and this time he suddenly ran into the stone forest hidden by the magic circle. No matter how you look at it, there is some connection between the junior brother and the stone forest.
—And cold crystal mud.
Last time, there seemed to be traces of cold crystal mud in the cracks of the stone tablet forest in the small secret realm, but Ye Su was attracted by the patterns on the stone tablets at that time and completely ignored other things.
Since You Fushi was also there, then was the pile of cold crystal mud on his fingers this time scraped from the previous secret realm monument?
Ye Su thought about his junior brother's style of doing things and subconsciously tried to rule out this possibility. He was too lazy.
The identity of the junior brother was a mystery, and he would occasionally throw out extremely rare materials, so no one knew his identity. Ye Su did not ask much, and it was impossible to get the answer, and most likely he pretended not to hear.
After reviewing the patterns on the stone tablet in his memory, Ye Su withdrew from the memory fragments in his sea of consciousness, but only saw Xu Chengyu and a few others. Tu Shi, Lian Lian and Cheng Huaian were not there.
"You're awake." Xu Chengyu came over. "Senior Tu went to study the magic circle, while Cheng Huaian and the others are copying runes."
"Magic circle?"
"Senior Tu said that the entire forest of stone tablets is a magic array. There were too many broken tablets before, so the formation was lost and he didn't notice it." Zhou Yun explained while standing nearby.
There was only one person when Tu Shi came in. His golden elixir was broken and he was on the verge of life and death. During the two hundred years, he tried to survive and practice again. He fought against all kinds of monsters in this wasteland and lived a life of eating raw meat and drinking blood.
Until recent years, when the spiritual energy in the world became increasingly scarce and the monsters gradually disappeared, he turned his attention to the stone tablets again and set up a magic circle here to protect the tablets. However, he never knew that the stone tablet forest itself was a large magic circle.
You Fushi knelt down and leaned against the base of the tallest stone tablet in the middle of the stele forest, and it seemed that he had fallen asleep again.
"I'll go over and take a look." Ye Su walked towards the center of the forest of stele.
"You stepped on my clothes." As soon as Ye Su approached, You Fushi opened his eyes, looked up at the mortal next to him, and said unhappily.
Upon hearing this, Ye Su immediately raised her foot and looked down. Only the front of her shoe almost touched the corner of his clothes, but she still looked into You Fushi's eyes: "Sorry."
Junior brother’s eyes are indeed beautiful, with extremely black pupils that sometimes even appear to be dark purple, like sparkling gems, revealing an extravagant and noble quality.
At this time, You Fushi, who was sitting in front of the base of the stone tablet, suddenly stretched out a hand to Ye Su.
Ye Su was thinking that his junior brother's eyes were in a daze and he didn't have time to react.
This mortal was not sensible at all. You Fushi frowned and waved his hand in front of Ye Su again.
Ye Su shifted his gaze to his hand and hesitated for a moment before holding his junior brother's hand and pulling him up.
You Fushi stood up and decided to forgive her reluctantly.
"Why are you sitting here?" Ye Su asked. The junior brother never liked dirty places. Usually when he sat on a stool outside, he had to use her long cushion as a cushion.
"It's cool here." You Fushi said lazily.
Ye Su raised her eyebrows. Wasn't this an illusion?
When she was repairing the broken stele before, she felt a faint chill emanating from the vicinity of the tallest stone stele in the center of the stele forest.
Ye Su pulled the person aside before letting go of his hand.
She looked up at the stone tablet. The stone tablet was not broken, but the lines on the tablet were worn and weathered so badly that it was almost impossible to see what was written on it.
Ye Su walked closer to the stone tablet and raised her hand to touch a spot on the tablet, which seemed to be the remaining traces of words.
There was a stone tablet on the small secret realm with a row of characters, but they should be ancient characters that she did not recognize.
Before, after Ye Su came out of that small secret realm, he had thought about checking that list of ancient characters. However, there were not many books about ancient characters in the cultivation world nowadays, and Qianji Sect was no longer a big sect. All its relationship networks were broken, and there was no way to check it at all.
The matter was put on hold.
"Did you see anything?" Xu Chengyu walked over and asked.
Ye Su told them about the ancient characters, then took out a pen and paper and tried to write out the characters for them to see.
“…” She remembered those words, but she couldn’t write them down, as if there was a force suppressing her.
"What's wrong?" Zhou Yun, who followed her, asked when he saw that she was taking a long time to write.
This situation is like those ancient characters have a huge repressive power. If the writer's realm is too low, he will not be able to break through the confinement.
"It's too complicated, I forgot." Ye Su made an excuse.
"Ancient characters are indeed difficult to remember." Xu Chengyu said, "I once saw an ancient book, and I still can't remember the title."
This matter was put aside for the time being. Ye Su looked up and continued to observe the stone tablet. She could only understand the direction of the runes.
"Let me try to fill in the rune first." Ye Su took out a pen from the Qiankun bag. He saw the pen paused out of the corner of his eye. Finally, he changed it to the jade pen inlaid with gold given by Lian Lian.
The magic formation in this forest of stone tablets is huge, and the talismans are complicated and profound. An ordinary pen may not be able to bear it.
"Prepare the spirit stones first." Xu Chengyu grabbed a handful of high-quality spirit stones from Ma Congqiu, "in case your spirit power runs out."
At this critical moment when everyone needs to work together, spiritual stones cannot be saved.
"Thank you." Ye Su took the spirit stone and flew the sword closer to the stone tablet. She held the green jade pen inlaid with gold in one hand, stopped at the highest point of the stone tablet, scanned the entire forest of steles, and then closed her eyes slightly.
With the stone tablet in the center as the center of the circle, the other stone tablets and even the repaired broken stone tablets stood up in Ye Su's sea of consciousness. Every texture and crack on all the stone tablets she had seen and touched were clearly visible.
The remaining patterns on countless stone tablets gathered in Ye Su's eyes. Her mind moved, and the remaining patterns on the stone tablets in her sea of consciousness began to be filled in and modified until they finally took shape.
No normal talisman practitioner would do this. Not to mention whether they can remember all of them, just filling in the inferred talisman patterns is an extremely complicated task.
But Ye Su's mind was working too fast, and he was filling in the blanks and making inferences at the same time. Adding on the similar stone tablets he had encountered in the small secret realm, he had restored all the patterns on the stone tablets in just three hours.
During this period, her sea of consciousness kept churning and boiling, almost causing huge waves, and her soul palace was on the verge of collapsing. Fortunately, there were high-quality spirit stones to provide her with spiritual power, which barely allowed her to hold on.
At the moment when the stone tablet in the center was finally deduced, her last thought was: As expected, all things are connected, and symbols and patterns are inseparable.
The spirit stones were used up, and the spiritual power was exhausted, and Ye Su fell down with his sword.
The highest stone tablet in the center was three meters high. The moment she fell, You Fushi, who was dozing on the base, suddenly opened his eyes, with a faint purple light in his pupils. He suddenly appeared beside Ye Su, hugged her waist, and even thought about whether to take her sword.
In the end, You Fushi didn't catch it and let the broken sword fall to the ground.
But in the blink of an eye, he brought people to the ground.
Ye Su consumed a lot of his spiritual consciousness and his spiritual power was exhausted, so he fainted.
You Fushi hesitated for a while, then pinched her collar and let Ye Su stand against the stone tablet.
When Xu Chengyu and the others came back, they saw from afar the scene of two people standing under the base of the stone tablet.
"Is she asleep?" Lian Lian asked, hugging her arms and looking at her.
You Fushi ignored her and looked at Ma Congqiu behind him, and stretched out his hand: "Spirit Stone."
Ma Congqiu was stunned. He didn't even have time to think and subconsciously took out the bag of spirit stones.
You Fushi grabbed a handful of spirit stones from it and stuffed them into Ye Su's hand. He half-held her hand and helped to dissolve the spirit stones so that she could absorb them.
This mortal was so incompetent that he fainted and left him here alone.
"The spiritual power is exhausted." Tu Shi came over from a distance, glanced at Ye Su and found the problem, "Kids nowadays are really daring."
The harm caused by the depletion of spiritual power is too great, and it will make the cultivator lose all resistance. No one will do this unless they have no other choice.
After using up seven high-quality spirit stones, Ye Su gradually regained consciousness. When she opened her eyes, she saw that everyone around her was looking at her.
"… "
"Are you feeling better?" Zhou Yun asked first.
"I'm fine." Ye Su tilted her head to glance at You Fushi, then turned to the stone tablet and said, "I have deduced all the patterns, so I can try to fill them in."
Cheng Huaian was stunned: "All?"
Ye Su nodded: "All."
"This forest of stone tablets contains a magic circle. I walked through it. If you want to repair the runes, start from the north, then the east, south, and west, and finally fill in the center of the array." Tu Shi pointed to the stone tablet in the middle and said, "Only in this way can the magic circle be activated."
…
The next day, Ye Su started filling and repairing the runes on the stone tablet from the north side.
"The jade pen inlaid with gold can be moved as you wish." Lian Lian looked up at Ye Su and said, "If you want to draw a big talisman, you should use a heavier hand."
Ye Su leaned sideways to test the strength of the stroke, and sure enough, the talisman pen could be drawn as thick as the stone tablet.
She faced the stone tablet, her sword moving as her heart moved, while at the same time she swung her brush along the blurred edge of the stone tablet and began to draw the runes she had previously deduced.
It was not as simple as she had imagined. The runes on the stone tablet were drawn by a great master. She was only a Jindan cultivator, so it was not easy to copy them. For each stroke, she had to use several high-quality spirit stones.
"Her realm..." Cheng Huaian below looked at Ye Su thoughtfully. He always felt that his realm was hard to see when she was drawing talismans.
…
"It's done!" Zhou Yun saw a flash of light on the stone tablet, and the originally blurred runes on the tablet surface turned light gold.
Ye Su landed on the ground, put away the sword, and held on to the base to avoid falling.
She looked up at the stone tablet. The rune was originally two feet deep, but now it was only a thin layer of rune paint.
This is the difference between a powerful person and an ordinary cultivator.
Lian Lian and Cheng Huaian looked at the stone tablet and fell into it at the same time. They were attracted by the runes on the tablet and could not move for a long time.
There were too many stone tablets, and Ye Su could not finish them all by himself within a few days. He could only stop and rest to replenish his spiritual power.
More than half of Ma Congqiu's ten thousand high-quality spirit stones were gone.
Ye Su completed the north and east sides alone. During this time, Lian Lian and Cheng Huaian watched the runes on the stone tablet and unexpectedly had sudden realizations several times.
If the spiritual energy here wasn't so scarce, they would probably have advanced directly, especially Lian Lian.
Later, Ye Su drew all the runes and gave them to Cheng Huaian and Lian Lian. The three of them completed the southern stele together.
As for the west side, that is where the most broken monuments are, and almost all of them have collapsed.
Ye Su looked at the nine stone tablets to the west and continued to follow the previous steps, trying to restore the runes, but he did not expect that Cheng Huaian and Lian Lian on both sides seemed to be severely injured as soon as they picked up the pen and spit out large mouthfuls of blood.
Xu Chengyu and Zhou Yun, who were flying with them, subconsciously grabbed the two of them, only to see that Cheng Huaian and Lian Lian were pale, as if they had been backfired.
Tu Shi, who had been studying the magic circle for a long time, suddenly appeared and sealed the two people's spiritual meridians. He looked up and said to Ye Su: "You come down first."