When Qi Tongchen and Hai Qingshan heard that Zhu Changyang had no magic power but only kinetic energy to directly break the protective magic circle of Qili City with a drill, they were a little dazed for a moment.
After a while, Qi Tongchen came back to his senses, still puzzled: "But what does this have to do with Wang Quanyi?"
Jun Shu lowered his eyes and glanced at the twisted Wang Quanyi: "This person is the magic array's talisman."
Once the center of the formation is broken, the objects that can suppress it will decline.
"What?" Qi Tongchen was shocked. "He is a talisman?"
Many powerful magic arrays have talismans, but talismans are usually dead objects, so how could it be a living person
Moreover, these seven wells have been used for who knows how many years. How old is Wang Quanyi
Seeing that Wang Quanyi's breath was getting weaker and weaker, Hai Qingshan quickly reminded him: "Brother, we can't let him die, we still have something to ask him!"
Qi Tongchen remembered the purpose of their trip, and quickly stepped forward, pinched his fingers on Wang Quanyi's forehead, and transferred his aura into his spiritual center.
Wang Quanyi's weakness eased a little. He grabbed the corner of Qi Tongchen's robe tightly, as if grabbing a life-saving straw, opened his eyes wide and cried bitterly: "Master, save, save me—"
"Let me ask you," Qi Tongchen said while taking a breath, "where did you get the blood jade coral that you pawned to the pawnshop?"
Wang Quanyi was already shrouded in the fear of death. Only Qi Tongchen could slightly ease his pain. He did not dare to keep it a secret and replied with a breath-taking voice: "Yes, I found it in the well..."
"In the well?" Qi Tongchen frowned. This answer was a little unexpected. After thinking for a while, he asked again, "How did you become a talisman?"
Wang Quanyi looked confused: "What kind of talisman? I don't know what you are talking about..."
"You dare to play tricks?" Hai Qingshan was about to curse, but was stopped by Zhu Changyang.
Zhu Changyang looked at Wang Quanyi and felt that he didn't seem to be lying. He suddenly asked, "Why can you control those seven wells?"
A strange look flashed in Wang Quanyi's eyes, and he immediately kept silent, wanting to pretend to be dead. At this moment, a sword energy flew over and instantly cut off his ear.
Jun Shu looked at him coldly: "Speak."
Wang Quanyi saw this person raising his hand and cutting off one of his hands and one of his ears. He knew that this person would really kill him, and he was so scared that he trembled all over. He dared not hide anything anymore. He held his breath and said intermittently: "Yes, it was two immortal masters who passed by. They gave me the immortal medicine..."
It is said that several months ago, two monks passed through Qili City and looked for someone to act as their guide in the city, looking for a place with excellent feng shui to hide a corpse.
Wang Quanyi usually had nothing to do, but he was smart. He knew that these monks were more generous than ordinary mortals, so he actively took on this job.
But Wang Quanyi was a dishonest man. When he was acting as a guide, he always tried to eavesdrop on the monks' conversations in order to get some benefits. As a result, he really heard something. It turned out that the two monks brought the best elixir with them, saying that taking it could gain the power of immortals and drive away ghosts and gods.
Wang Quanyi immediately had evil thoughts after hearing this. He was usually hated by people and everyone in Qili City looked down on him. If he could obtain the power of an immortal, he didn't believe that anyone would dare to look down on him. The more he thought about it, the more itchy he became. He was so bold that he sneaked into the room of the two monks while they were resting and stole the elixir. Naturally, he was discovered by the monks.
The two monks were furious at first and wanted to kill Wang Quanyi on the spot. Just when Wang Quanyi thought he was doomed, one of the monks suddenly thought of something and whispered a few words to the other monk. Then the two monks let Wang Quanyi go and only asked Wang Quanyi jokingly if he wanted to take the elixir.
In that situation, how could Wang Quanyi dare to eat? But the two monks did not give him a chance to choose. They stuffed a black pill into his mouth and forced him to swallow it.
After Wang Quanyi ate it, he felt his internal organs churning and all his strength draining away like a dam bursting. Then he lost consciousness. In a daze, he felt that he had lost control and was wandering around like a puppet being pulled by strings, until he fell into a well in Qili City with a "plop".
As the freezing well water flooded over his limbs, mouth and nose, his consciousness returned slightly and he struggled to climb out of the water.
However, the walls of the well were made entirely of rock, straight up and down, and covered with slippery moss left over from years of accumulation, leaving no place to put force at all.
At that time, the moon was high in the sky, and the soft moonlight was swaying in the cold water, making him dizzy.
Gradually, his strength was exhausted, and he sank deeper and deeper. He didn't know how deep he was. Suddenly, a red light flashed before his eyes. He grasped at it in a daze and finally fainted.
Wang Quanyi thought he was going to die, but when the night faded and the bright moon set, he suddenly woke up again.
After waking up, he found that the excruciating pain in his body had subsided. Not only that, he seemed to have been reborn. He became refreshed and energetic, and had a hundred times more strength. He was even able to climb the wall of the well with his bare hands.
Wang Quanyi was overjoyed and was about to struggle out of the water. Before leaving the bottom of the well, he saw the red light again. He took it and saw that it was a cluster of blood jade coral of excellent quality.
This was truly an unexpected gain, and Wang Quanyi felt even more fortunate. He immediately took the cluster of coral, climbed the well wall, and left the bottom of the well before other people in the city woke up.
After coming out of the well, the first thing Wang Quanyi did was to pawn the cluster of coral for money.
Because Qili City had been built for who knows how many years, and he had never heard anyone mention that there was such a treasure at the bottom of the well, he guessed that the coral might have been lost by someone accidentally, so it would be safer to get rid of it as soon as possible.
After that, Wang Quanyi enjoyed a few days of leisure and quickly gambled away all his money. When he was worrying about how to make more money, he suddenly found that an unknown power had appeared in his body and he could control the seven wells.
Wang Quanyi was surprised and delighted. Thinking back on his experiences over the past few days, he guessed that this must be the effect of the elixir the two monks had given him. It not only cleansed his essence and marrow, making him light and healthy, but also gave him the legendary power of immortals to drive away ghosts and gods.
It’s a pity that after he fell into the well, the two monks left Qili City and they were unable to ask him in person.
Of course, for Wang Quanyi, it doesn’t matter how he obtained this power. The most important thing is how to use this power.
What happened next is well known.
After listening to Wang Quanyi's story, Qi Tongchen and Hai Qingshan looked at each other in surprise. This answer was undoubtedly far from what they had expected.
While thinking, Jun Shu suddenly spoke: "His power does not come from the elixir, but from the blood jade coral... That cluster of coral is the original talisman of this magic circle."
When Jun Shu first met Wang Quanyi, he felt that this man was unusual. Wang Quanyi had a turbid aura, looked frivolous and wretched, and had never practiced cultivation, but his spiritual power was clearly abundant.
So Jun Shu guessed at that time that this person must have encountered some opportunity and accidentally obtained power that did not belong to him.
When Zhu Changyang started to dig the well, Wang Quanyi suddenly exploded, and the power he released matched the magic circle.
Jun Shu immediately realized that he was the guardian of this magic circle. Not only that, this power was also very familiar.
Not long ago, Jun Shu had just come into contact with the same power on another object.
When Zhu Changyang broke the center of the formation and Wang Quanyi's palm was cut off, all the power stored in him burst out like a dam breaking. Jun Shu finally confirmed that this power came from the same source as the cluster of corals of the mermaid tribe.
"The pill he took that day should have been a poison pill. He should have died that night. It was the power of the coral that saved him." Jun Shu guessed.
Judging from Wang Quanyi's description of what happened after taking the elixir, or the way he quickly withered after losing his power to suppress things, there was no doubt that the elixir that the two "immortal masters" fed him was a lethal poison elixir, and a very vicious one at that.
The two monks probably thought he was doomed, so they drove him into the well and then left.
Unexpectedly, Wang Quanyi was lucky enough to accidentally touch the blood jade coral that was placed at the bottom of the well as a talisman.
It is said that in ancient times, mermaids would rescue people drowning at sea. Perhaps it was because the will of the ancient mermaids was still retained on the coral, or perhaps it was because of the elixir or other reasons. In any case, by chance, Wang Quanyi opened the channel to the blood jade coral and obtained the power of the coral to suppress things.
This power saved Wang Quanyi from the brink of death. Coral lost her power to suppress things and was brought out of the well, pawned to a pawnshop, and returned to the hands of the mermaid.
Wang Quanyi replaced Coral and became the new guardian of the magic circle, so he had the power to control seven wells and had the so-called "cultivation" comparable to that of an ordinary cultivator.
Mermaids and humans are different in race and living environment, and their cultivation methods are very different. The corals they refine are naturally different from humans' magic weapons, so Jun Shu quickly discovered the problem.
And Wang Quanyi, who was only a low-class hooligan even among mortals, could not tell the difference. He mistakenly believed that his strength was given by the elixir, and he was very proud of it, and used it to bully people in the city.
It was not until Zhu Changyang drilled a hole in the magic circle that the formation was broken and the power to suppress the objects could no longer be maintained. Wang Quanyi was reduced to his original form.
Wang Quanyi's current condition was not caused by Jun Shu cutting off his palm, but was the effect of the poison pill he took.
His entire body was shriveling up at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in an instant he no longer looked like a human.
Many people around were frightened and screamed.
This situation was so tragic that Qi Tongchen subconsciously glanced at Jun Shu and said, "Brother Jun, can he still survive?"
Jun Shu glanced at him calmly and said indifferently: "He died a long time ago."
The talismans have always been dead objects, and Wang Quanyi is no exception.
Wang Quanyi was actually dead when he took the poison pill, but his strong desire to survive prevented him from taking his last breath. That breath of life became a bridge between him and the blood jade coral, allowing him to gain the power to suppress objects.
In other words, those who are alive these days are just walking corpses.
Qi Tongchen was speechless upon hearing this, and slowly removed the two fingers that were pointing at Wang Quanyi's forehead.
A person who has died a long time ago naturally cannot be brought back to life.
Zhu Changyang suddenly thought of something and stepped forward to hold Wang Quanyi's wrist: "Do you know the background of the two people who gave you the elixir? Do they have any characteristics?"
But it was too late. Wang Quanyi's last breath suddenly disappeared, leaving only a desiccated corpse.
Hai Qingshan got goosebumps all over his body and swallowed his saliva: "I wonder which sect's elixir is so poisonous."
In any case, with his death, everything surrounding Wang Quanyi has come to an end.
The attention of several people then shifted to the hole that the drilling rig had just drilled, from which water was still bubbling out.
Zhu Changyang was extremely curious: "By the way, what kind of magic array are these seven wells? What are they used for?"
Studio:
[It's so funny, I've already broken the formation, but I still don't know what formation it is! ]
[Others break the formation: Analyze the formation and crack it! Zhu Changyang breaks the formation: No matter what formation it is, just do it! ]
[This is too crude. What if this is a magic circle that has an important function? Aren’t they afraid of tricking people? ]
[No, Chang Yang didn't know this was the center of the formation at first. It was Jun Shu who suggested it.]
[Emm, do you feel that Jun Ge often doesn’t really care about other people’s lives or deaths…]
While several people were still confused, the ground suddenly shook a few times.
The people around were so scared that they screamed "Ah--".
"What's going on? Why is the ground moving?!"
"Hide, quickly—"
"Why are you hiding? Several immortal masters are here—"
The ground was shaking more and more violently. Zhu Changyang had no choice but to hold Jun Shu's arm and asked, "Why is there an earthquake all of a sudden?"
Jun Shu held the back of his hand and brought him to his side. At the same time, he lowered his eyes to look at the broken water outlet. Suddenly, he noticed something and pinched his fingers to collect a piece of rock fragments that had just been drilled out. After carefully examining it for a while, he said, "The rock layer under Qili City is not ordinary stone, but is made of some ancient things."
"Isn't that a fossil?" Zhu Changyang was stunned for a moment, "What kind of fossil is so big?"
Jun Shu released his cultivation and probed underground. After the magic circle was broken, the weak power left underground could no longer resist his exploration. After a moment, he roughly outlined the shape of the rock layer, "It looks like a kind of armor... It should be the scales of a strange beast."
The ancient beasts were extremely large, and it was not surprising that their scales were as big as a city.
Thinking of this, he suddenly understood, "This magic circle is used to suppress the power of this armor plate."
So now that the magic circle has been broken, this force naturally cannot be suppressed.
"What's making such a loud noise with the armor pieces?" Zhu Changyang had just finished speaking when he suddenly realized something. He exclaimed "Ah" and turned to look at the two people from Jijin Sect.
Qi Tongchen and Hai Qingshan were both excited at the same time, "Turtle Scale Armor!"
Zhu Changyang was delighted at first, but then worried: "Wait, the scales won't all become fossils, right?"
Is this still useful
"No, the most important piece should not have any fossils yet." Jun Shu lowered his eyes, "If it had all turned into stone, the power would have disappeared long ago, and there wouldn't be such a big commotion."
Not only is the most important piece still there, it is also the center of the formation.
Zhu Changyang heaved a sigh of relief: "Fortunately."
As he spoke, Qi Tongchen was startled and couldn't wait to take out the Eight Directions Earthquake Plate from his mustard seed bag.
This time, there was no need to even make hand gestures. The beads in the earthquake plate began to roll by themselves. Qi Tongchen followed the direction of the beads. When the earthquake plate moved above the water hole that Zhu Changyang had just drilled, the beads finally stopped.
"It's right below here." Qi Tongchen said as he made hand gestures. As expected, he could faintly sense a force underground, but it was very far away and there seemed to be a rock layer in the middle, so he could not take it out.
Seeing this, Hai Qingshan took out the Thunder Fire Bead and said, "Brother, how about trying this?"
"Wow, no, no, no, this is a residential area, don't blow up the road." Zhu Changyang quickly stopped him and turned to ask Qi Tongchen, "Are you sure it's underneath? How deep is it? Can you be sure?"
"Yes." Qi Tongchen turned the Eight-Direction Earthquake Plate, and the beads rolled again, swinging to different amplitudes. He quickly made a judgment and said, "It should be about twenty feet deep."
"OK, watch me." Zhu Changyang said as he started the drilling machine again. "Twenty feet, right? That's not a problem. My machine can drill to... Wait, let me convert it. Oh, it can probably drill to a depth of thirty feet."
Qi Tongchen and Hai Qingshan were both stunned:
In the mortal realm, wells are usually dug to a shallow water layer of about three meters at most. Below three meters, the air is thin and accidents can easily happen, so it is considered a place that mortals cannot reach.
So when they located that the thing causing the vibration was still in the deeper water layer, their first reaction was to use magic weapons to break the ground.
As a result, Zhu Changyang's machine was dug down to less than thirty feet
Can this be dug to the underworld
Studio:
[Fuck, not only did the drilling machine break the magic circle, but it also has a treasure hunt function? ? ]
[Hahaha, the drilling rig has done a great job!!!]
[The most shocking thing is the scale fossils. It turns out that the strange beasts in the world of cultivation can also turn into stone? ! ! ]
[The earth's crust is moving in the world of cultivation, so isn't it normal for fossils to exist? ]
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