Zhao Ge

Chapter 41: in the shadows

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The one with the largest crack was just enough for a person to pass sideways. Li Xin held the torch and approached the crack. Just when he stood in front of the crack, the wind blowing from inside made the fire shake violently.

Under the firelight, Li Xin noticed something unusual in the crack—something in the rock wall on the left.

He reversed the blade and tapped the rock formation several times with the force of the back of the blade.

Li Xin originally planned to smash the rocks to see what was hidden in the rocks, but he didn't expect that the rocks would shatter after only a few knocks.

"organ?"

Jun Wanbai reacted quickly, and with a vertical sword, the white streamer enveloped her and Li Xin in it.

Li Xin hadn't answered yet, the two of them could only hear the rattling sound of chains rubbing against each other, the rock wall on the left in the crack continued to break apart, and a black figure leaped out of the rock in the blurred light of the fire.

—It was a great chain nailed into the rock.

I don't know how long the chain is, and I don't know what nailed it into the rock formation. At this moment, it is pulled by another huge force, and it slides out of the rock wall with the ear-piercing sound of friction.

The chains buried in the rock were pulled, and the crack that originally only allowed one person to pass sideways was continuously enlarged, and the rubble continued to fall.

Jun Wanbai's face changed slightly.

The cold wind blowing from the crack was mixed with the low roar of an unknown beast—the movement this time obviously couldn't be the aftermath of the "Thunder and Azure Dragon Formation" just now!

Bailishu!

The falling rock was still rolling down, Li Xin and Jun Wanbai rushed directly into the crack where the iron locks were constantly rubbing.

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The sound of the noose turning, the friction of iron locks, the rolling of gravel... Many noisy sounds were mixed in the sound of the wind. Ye Qiusheng listened carefully to distinguish something.

He held the ancient blade behind his back and stood in front of Baili Shu on the left, showing a half-defense and half-warning posture. Baili Shu stood behind him, quickly deciphering the "Zhu Nine Accumulations" on the cliff.

Bailishu's judgment was not wrong, it was indeed another hidden chain that could lead to the isolated island on the black water. On the cliff, in the seventh passage of "Taiyilu", they found a mechanism made of bronze in a hidden place.

There was a thin layer of rock on the outside of the mechanism made of poured bronze. After Bailishu pointed out the location, Ye Qiusheng went up with a knife and knocked off a whole ten feet square rock.

After the black rocks on the outside fell off, the "nine-fold accumulation" of bronze inside was exposed.

"Folding Nine Accumulations" was originally an exquisite and top-level institutional method of the secular court, but its origin can be traced back to the era of Wanxian. Folding has the meaning of "broken, damaged, and bent", and also implies the metaphor of "early death". Nine, the largest number, has infinite evolution. The so-called "Nine Accumulations" originated from the "Nine Accumulations" technique of the Wanxianji. It has been reduced to a secular royal institution, so a "fold" is added before "Nine Accumulations", implying that "heavenly work is broken, and personnel are difficult to complete".

But right now, this kind of mechanism technique, which is only used in secular dynasties, is being used by the young elder of the Taishangzong to hide the "ladder to heaven".

Zhejiuji is prismatic as a whole and consists of nine parts, and each part has ninety-nine and eighty-one lock blocks with mortise and tenon joints, and Taiyi Xuanfu is engraved on it.

If you want to unravel the "folding nine accumulations", you must combine the theories of many metaphysics classics, combine arithmetic, and return the out-of-order lock blocks, but there is an order requirement for the accumulation locks. Once the order is wrong, even if the position is correct, it will still be broken Trigger the mechanism, and the "ladder" hidden behind the "nine accumulations" will be buried forever, so the cracker must continuously lock all the accumulations in one breath.

Ye Qiusheng claimed that he was not 100% sure of deciphering the "nine folds", so he was on guard and Bailishu was responsible for deciphering it.

Without turning around to look at Bailishu's movements, Ye Qiusheng quickly judged Bailishu's cracking progress from the direction of the voice in his heart - the more he listened carefully, the more frightened he became, since Bailishu was able to recover after the accident in Bingzhou Qingming Pagoda. He still made the Qingyu light boat land in Yanmen County as usual, so he knew that Bailishu definitely had a lot of attainments in this area.

But judging from the speed at which Bailishu cracked it, his original estimate was still low.

Click.

The last piece of bronze lock was closed on the seat, and Bailishu took a few steps back to the left and stood next to Ye Qiusheng.

The next moment, the underground cave, which was originally just the sound of the wind, became extremely noisy, and the chains of dark iron that traversed the air began to twist. At this moment, the iron chains are completely intertwined, forming a net in a two-dimensional sense.

Thousands of chains rubbed against each other, making the unique piercing sound of metal twisting. The sound echoed through the closed space, overlapping and repeated faintly, as if countless people were chanting ancient scriptures that mortals did not understand with sharp voices.

The isolated island sunk in the black water was dragged by the chains, slowly leaving the water bit by bit.

It turned out that what was hidden was not a chain in the true sense!

The so-called "ladder to heaven" turned out to be such a thing-thousands of interlaced chains connected in the air, forming a huge net that people can walk through.

The shock lasted for a long time, and finally after the isolated island was lifted to a place that could not be higher, the black iron chains stopped moving and straightened one by one.

Ye Qiu let out a long sigh of relief, and took a step forward. The stone railing of the plank road in front of them was crushed by the sinking dark iron chains. The closest to them were two chains that first crossed and then separated.

Baili Shu picked up the long sword he had put away and said softly. He stood two steps behind Ye Qiusheng, and in the dim light, he turned his head to look at the untied "Folding Nine Products".

The organs of the secular world are used here, and the bronze is silent and heavy in the firelight.

Ye Qiusheng didn't know what he was thinking, he looked at the isolated island deeply, and after a while he laughed again, as frivolous as ever: "Why do I think this thing looks more like a net than a ladder to heaven?"

"Let's go."

Bailishu didn't express his opinion on what he said about the heaven and earth net. He raised the long sword in the scabbard, flitted it lightly, and landed on the chain on the left in front of him.

Ye Qiusheng joked, but his actions were not slow at all. Bailishu stepped on the iron lock with his front foot, and his back foot followed suit.

Both Ye Qiusheng, who was joking, and Bailishu, who remained calm, felt it. After the "zhejiuji" was untied, the airflow suddenly accelerated, and this unspeakable danger was vaguely bred in the air. breath.

—It can’t be that those things above the head are about to wake up, right? That's really not a good thing.

With such thoughts in mind, Ye Qiusheng stepped on the iron lock and advanced quickly. After the experiment at the end of the plank road, the two of them did not dare to use their true energy on the black iron lock to speed up.

However, when the two of them walked halfway, Ye Qiusheng suddenly felt chills in his heart.

"Be careful!"

He stopped abruptly, the teeth of the ancient blade shark in his hand glowed with a gloomy reddish light. After traveling around the land of the Twelve Dynasties for many years, searching for ancient secrets, Ye Qiusheng's senses have always been sensitive, especially for the sense of killing intent, and it was only for a moment that he really felt a trace of hidden killing intent.

Where…

Ye Qiusheng stood on the iron chain, motionless as a pine, he lifted the knife and looked around slowly.

As soon as he spoke, Baili Shu stopped, his white robe was blown by the wind, flying like a white crane passing by. He didn't ask Ye Qiusheng why, but stood still on the dark iron chain, with the long sword in his hand pointing slightly downward.

However, there was nothing around, the black iron chain under his feet was as stable as a rock, and the sound of wind that seemed to come from the ground could be heard in his ears, mixed with the sound of broken and turning water.

Ye Qiusheng turned his gaze to the top of his head, could it be those birds of prey that seem to be alive and dead? The movement of the iron net connection was too loud to wake up the sleeping bones

When Ye Qiusheng cast his eyes on the darkness on the top, a black shadow crouched like a gecko from under the chains a little in front of them. It was hidden in a blind spot under the thick iron chains. The sound it makes when it crawls.

The wind blew past, the black shadow paused for a while, and crawled again without a sound, but the target was Bailishu on the other side.

The darkness on the top was as deep as a solid, but there was no sign of the mist waking up. Ye Qiusheng frowned and looked at Bailishu, and asked his opinion with his eyes—should we continue to move forward, or take a closer look

He didn't feel it just now, but since he felt the trace of murderous aura, Ye Qiusheng began to feel that the surroundings have become very strange, as if... There are countless pairs of eyes hidden in the darkness, watching their every move silently, waiting for them to come out. cast a net.

Bailishu didn't speak, he took out the "Golden Crow" longbow from the ring again, and put the oiled long arrow on the string. Instead of shooting the arrow towards the darkness above his head again, he lowered the arrow and aimed it at the isolated island in front of him.

The long arrow pierced through the air and flew obliquely downward.

The fire ignited, illuminating the mottled shadows beneath the intertwined chains.

Ye Qiusheng's pupils suddenly dilated—

A two-foot-long black shadow sprang out from the darkness, volleying towards Bailishu who had already fired his long arrow!