abnabooks Chapter 1541 The calculated key point of the formation
Chapter 1541 The calculated key point of the formation
Chapter 1541 The calculated key point of the formation
Then he poured the melted candle wax onto the plate, and while it was still a thick liquid, he quickly shook it until the entire bottom of the plate was evenly covered with candle wax.
After a few dozen breaths, the candle oil solidified into light golden white wax.
Everyone could see a small light spot on the edge of the plate. Bai Ziqi pointed at it and said, "This is the location of the giant fern tree near the mountain gate. The rest, just wait."
The next step was to leave it to time. The servant spread the fur coat on the bluestone for Bai Ziqi and asked him to sit down. The rest of the people sat down nearby and began a long wait.
A quarter of an hour passed.
Two quarters of an hour...
Three quarters of an hour...
Nothing happened.
Bai Ziqi closed his eyes and rested: "It seems that the range of this formation is very large."
The lamp spirits flew at extremely fast speeds and there were so many of them that after such a long time they still couldn't find the next formation pillar.
Bai Ziqi was not surprised. The Xushan formation in Lingxu City covered the nine main peaks, not including the other small hills.
How could the area of a formation that can gather spiritual energy for Master Qianhuan be too small?
About half an hour later, the servant boy suddenly said, "There's movement!"
When everyone looked, they saw a spot of light suddenly appear on the white background of the wax plate.
This was the next giant fern tree that the lamp spirit's clone encountered. It was impossible for it to run back halfway to report to its master, so it used its magical powers to mark its location in the wax tray.
An hour later, another spot of light appeared on the plate.
At this speed... everyone looked at each other and sighed secretly. It would probably take at least a dozen hours for the lamp spirit to find all the positions!
Sure enough, the first night passed quickly.
The waiting time was the most difficult, but Bai Ziqi took out a pile of files and began to read them.
The servant boy came over several times and found that his master had circled the information with a red pen. He counted silently and found that among the circled words, "eliminating violence and upholding justice", "doing justice for the heavens" and "extremely heinous crimes" appeared most frequently.
"My Lord, what are you doing?"
"I was wondering why Emperor Jiuyou gave these verdicts at every trial?"
Bai Qi replied: "Maybe he was looking for an excuse to lynch him, and the villagers would feel relieved when they saw it."
"His verdicts were basically correct." Bai Ziqi held up his chin. "What exactly does this guy want to do by stirring up trouble in the Golden Plains?"
Unable to figure out the murderer's motives and purpose, he was put on the defensive when tracking the suspect and it was difficult for him to predict the other party's next move.
As expected, it was never his turn to do easy tasks.
The servant boy comforted him: "My Lord, don't be too hard on yourself. No one in the Golden Plains can answer this question."
Bai Qi also said: "Don't say that Yao Kingdom can't catch the Nine Nether Emperor. I guess Qingyang Regent has probably also sent people to investigate, but they just don't have any clues."
"Others are others." Bai Ziqi is Bai Ziqi.
"When Emperor Jiuyou does these things, his purpose must not be too dark." A little conspiracy alone cannot support the current booming and lively trend in the Shining Gold Plain.
This person must be using an open strategy and must know how to go with the flow.
"We only look at his killing cases. He led us by the nose the whole time, hitting us here and there. It's impossible to figure out his true intentions." Bai Ziqi stretched lazily, "Besides, the Nine Nether Emperor has been covering up himself all the time, and he has also set up a lot of confusion for us."
When dealing with an opponent of the level of Emperor Jiuyou, “what to do” is not a rush, but finding out what the other party “is thinking” is the most important thing!
As long as he understands the psychology of Emperor Jiuyou, Bai Ziqi will have a chance to predict his opponent's prediction.
At this moment, the subordinate pointed at the purple gold tray and whispered, "It's lit again, the eighteenth light spot!"
On the plate, each spot of light represents the location of a giant fern tree.
After a whole day and night of hard work, there were finally eighteen spots of light on the purple gold disk.
Bai Ziqi pointed at the plate and asked his followers: "What do you think? What kind of formation is this?"
A few points of light a day ago could not tell the whole story, but now they have revealed a rough outline. Bai Ziqi brought out various talents, including those who specialize in formations and barriers. They have long been trying to figure out the formation diagram on the purple gold disk. At this time, he said, "There are still many giant ferns that have not been found, but observing the general formation, I guess there is a 60% chance that it is the Great Tiangang Formation!"
"Well, there are still eighteen giant ferns." Tiangang Thirty-Six Numbers, "Mark them out first."
The divine servant took a branch and tapped the wax on the purple gold plate eighteen times. According to his calculations, the remaining eighteen giant ferns should be lit at these locations.
After another five hours, three golden lights lit up on the purple gold plate one after another, and they were indeed the same positions that the divine servant had pointed out.
Because of their accurate predictions, the search for the lamp spirits was accelerated a lot.
It was getting dark again, and there were still fifteen giant ferns to be found.
At this moment, a golden light flew back and turned into a small lamp spirit, whispering in Bai Ziqi's ear.
"Someone has entered the mountain." Bai Ziqi pointed to a nearby tree and said, "Hide, everyone."
These are the lamp spirit sentinels he placed near the mountain gate. They are not used to repel the enemy, but only to keep watch and pass on messages.
He only brought five people into the mountains. In the mountains, the targets were smaller and easier to hide.
The five people were divided into three groups, each of them climbed up a big tree and squatted down, calming their minds and breathing. These big trees were lush and leafy, blocking out the sun, so it was easy to hide a few people.
Soon, more than a hundred people hurried over the mountain path, first checking the giant fern tree, and then dividing into groups:
"Our bird scouts said that there are firefly-sized light spots in the forest. They are wandering around and circling around the giant fern trees. This should be the magic power released by unknown people. You should spread out and look for the giant fern trees. It would be best if you could catch some of the light spots and bring them back."
"Also, tell all mountain monsters and wild monsters to capture any outsiders or strange monsters they encounter!"
After the group of people had gone far away, the servant boy asked Bai Ziqi in a low voice: "My Lord, let's..."
Bai Ziqi knew what he wanted to ask: "Don't worry, there are still fifteen giant fern trees to be found."
Everyone in the Heavenly Palace waited patiently on the tree for another seven hours.
During this period, people often walked along the mountain path and under the trees. The divine servant whispered, "There are quite a few people from the Xiaoyao Sect."
Bai Ziqi shook his head: "Not all of them are from Xiaoyao Sect."
Everyone thought about it and understood.
As one of the pillars of Lingshan, Master Qianhuan's spirit gathering formation was suddenly damaged, so Lingshan would of course send people to investigate and repair it.
Those running around in this mountain may be people from Lingshan.
That being said, we cannot afford to be careless.
As he was speaking, another flashing spot appeared on the purple gold plate. Bai Qi exclaimed, "It's different!"
The light spots on the plate did not coincide with the positions they had marked in advance!
"Interesting." Bai Ziqi suddenly became excited. This was the meaning of why he insisted on waiting until the end: this formation was not the common Great Tiangang Formation.
Yes, how could the spirit gathering formation set up by True Man Qianhuan be an ordinary formation?
After waiting for another hour or so, two more flashes appeared, but their locations were exactly as predicted.
But after waiting for another five hours, the ten flashing spots that appeared were even more deviated from their estimated positions.
One of them just flashed a few times and then disappeared.
Bai Ziqi's face darkened: "I was caught."
The clone of the lamp spirit guarding the giant fern tree was captured by the pursuers. Bai Ziqi was not surprised, because he had similar risks when he used this magical power.
"Hold your composure and wait!"
Wait for the last two spots of light to appear!
Fortunately, his lamp spirit clones were very capable and the two were found almost at the same time because they were arranged very close to each other.
"Okay, quickly figure out the position of the center of the formation."
They have already memorized the location of the disappearing light spot. Combined with the thirty-five light spots on the disk, everyone has to quickly calculate the location of the array's eye within a limited time.
During the calculation process, four or five light spots in the disk went out one after another.
Lingshan and Xiaoyao Sect reacted quickly and had already discovered that the lamp spirit was coming for the giant fern tree. They could capture the lamp spirit by going directly to the giant fern tree.
If this continues, the speed at which the purple gold disk's light disappears will only get faster and faster.
Playing like this really tests your memory.
Fortunately, when the seventh light spot disappeared, Bai Ziqi and his men finally figured out the location, broke off a branch and tapped it lightly on the plate:
"here!"
I figured it out, this should be the center of the formation!
Two mirror-like lights shot out from the treetops opposite, flashing several times in succession. This was the servant boy warning: "More people are coming! This time there are more people."
Apparently, the unusual situation at Baimao Mountain was also reported to the sect, and large groups of troops were sent here from the front mountain.
"Let's go!" Bai Ziqi took out a pale golden candle and broke it in half.
All the golden spots of light in the purple gold disk disappeared at once.
This means that the lamp spirit clones in the wild must also be extinguished, otherwise the person holding the light spot may use it to track Bai Ziqi back.
Everyone in the Heavenly Palace took the opportunity to go down to the ground and rushed to the center of the formation marked on the purple gold plate.
It looks like a small dot on the plate, but in fact the White Hair Mountains are so vast that it would take at least a whole day to get there.
Of course, no matter how many people enter a mountain like this, they will disappear in an instant. They dodged four or five groups of mountain patrollers and practitioners along the way, and finally arrived at the center of the formation marked on the purple gold plate before sunset.
There is an open pebble beach here, and you can see that there used to be a river, and the runoff is not small. There are several huge old trees on the ridge, like standing in the mountains, silent guards for a long time.
Other than that, this is what a normal forest should look like, except that the vegetation is more lush.
There is nothing special, no strange rocks, no weird trees, and no abrupt or spectacular scenes. Could it be that the center of the formation is below the ground?
Bai Ziqi asked his men: "Can't you be more precise?"
"No." A "dot" on the map may correspond to a large forest in reality!
"It's five miles in radius. There's no way to reduce it any further."
Bai Ziqi said in a deep voice: "Master Qianhuan chose to set up the Soul Gathering Array here because of the special nature of Longshou Mountain. Either there is an extraordinary artifact here, or Longshou Mountain itself is a whole strange object; and there are two possibilities for the sudden exposure of the Soul Gathering Array. Perhaps there is a malfunction in the operation of the array, or perhaps the center of the array is damaged or taken away by someone!"