Zhang Yan said goodbye from Duanmu Li, and Lu Guo led the way in front and led him to the foot of the Turtle and Snake Mountain, so the mountain has a large array of cages, and it is impossible to fly, so the two of them enter the mountain along a gravel path paved with pebbles.

Walking can not go a hundred steps away, you will see a clear blue pool, there are acres of big, sparkling, waterfowl swimming, leisurely, the strange stones on the edge of the pool, green shade shade, trees in the shade, vaguely see a cave hidden behind.

In front of the cave, the ground was inlaid with hexagonal jade bricks, and it was very clean, and there was a little boy standing by the two purple wooden doors, quite clever, and shouted from afar, "The third master is here." Full of joy, he pushed the door open and stood aside.

Before arriving at the door, Lu Guo first patted the child's head, then turned sideways and said politely: "Zhang Daoyou, please first." ”

Zhang Yan stepped inside, and suddenly the light dimmed in front of him, and he had already entered a cave.

The length and width of this cave are more than 50 zhang, the stalactite strange stone is hung on the top, such as thorns like bamboo shoots, the sound of dripping water is clear like the plucking of the zither strings, two Baoyu bright lamps stand on the left and right, the halo is soft, there is a stone step between them, which can be used by four people to walk together, but the steps are defective everywhere, the moss enters the cracks, it seems to be abandoned for many years.

After Lu Guo, he stepped into the cave, walked to the side, pointed to the path, and said: "Fellow Daoists, please see, this stone step leads directly to the top of the Turtle and Snake Peak, but on the way you need to pass through thirty-six formation gates, in the past, there was a master in my door who came here, lived for hundreds of years, broke the first eight formations, the younger brother was ashamed, and after more than three hundred years of intensive study, he still did not reach the ninth layer, which was really useless." ”

Speaking of this, he was also ashamed.

Of the three of them, he is the only one who knows a little bit about the formation, but he is also half-incomprehensible, and he can't decipher the etching, so he can only spend it here.

Over the years, the second senior brother Hong An has repeatedly proposed to invite colleagues from the outside world to come to help break the formation, but he was rejected by the senior brother Duanmuli, and he could only support it hard.

Fortunately, now that Zhang Yan has arrived, it has given him a glimmer of hope.

The two of them walked down the stone steps to Xiangshang. After walking one hundred and eight steps, the road under his feet went outside the cave, and there were about dozens of steps......

Zhang Yan's eyes lit up, he looked up and found himself standing on a stone platform the size of a hundred zhang. The location happens to be located at the end of the Turtle and Snake Mountain. At this time, the sky is still bright, Xuanlang shines thoroughly, and the eye is a piece of steep peaks and beautiful mountains, jagged cliffs. The crevices in the rock are full of clusters of green, stubborn branches and vines.

More than ten steps away from the left hand of the cave door, there is another row of stone steps, which leads to the second floor.

Zhang Yanfang was about to take a step and turned his gaze. But next to the door of the cave, I found a three-foot-high bronze plaque, deeply embedded in the stone wall, there are many words on it, it can be vaguely recognized that it is written in etching script, but it looks old, after the wind and rain abrasion, it has long been blurred.

Lu Guo followed, pointed at him and explained, "Zhang Daoyou, this is the entrance to the eighth-layer formation. There are all such bronze medals of etched texts, which is where the trick of breaking the formation lies, but after breaking the formation, the aura has gone, and it has long been corroded. In the early years of the younger brother, at this time, the text was quite clear, because I was afraid that there was still some way hidden in it, and it was probably inappropriate to lose it. Therefore, there is another rubbing. ”

Zhang Yan nodded and praised: "Lu Daoyou is rigorous in his mind and meticulous in his work. I wonder where those rubbings are now?"

Lu Guo received a compliment from Zhang Yan, felt excited in his heart, and said: "These little brothers of rubbing are put on their bodies every day, they are all here, please take a look." ”

He took out a jade disc from his sleeve and handed it over.

Zhang Yan stretched out his hand to take it, held it in his hand and looked at it for a while, his face was first surprised, and then he showed a thoughtful look.

Lu Guo looked at him, leaned forward, and said curiously, "Have you seen something from Daoyou?"

Zhang Yan flipped his wrist, put this jade disc into his sleeve, and said with a smile: "Daoist friends look down on the poor Dao, in a moment, where can you see what the door is from? ”

Lu Guo bowed his hand sincerely, gave a deep salute, and said, "Then please ask Daoyou." ”

After a few words, the two of them continued to move forward, and this time they did not stop, even after passing the eight stone steps, and only stopped before reaching the entrance of the ninth layer of the formation.

Zhang Yan saw that if he went up again, there would be spiritual clouds covering the mountain road, looking at the sky from afar, and from time to time there would be a burst of colorful streamers......

Lu Guo saw that he was standing closer, his expression changed, and he hurriedly grabbed his big sleeve, and exclaimed: "Zhang Daoyou, don't go inside, this formation is extremely powerful, the younger brother had let a few spirit birds in before, and in the blink of an eye, it was all flesh and blood." ”

Zhang Yan smiled slightly, gently broke free of his hand, pointed ahead, and said, "Lu Daoyou, don't worry, Poor Dao just wants to take a closer look at the etching on the card." ”

Lu Guo breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and said, "Fellow Daoist, please take your time." ”

In front of the gate was still a bronze medal with a similar shape to the one seen before, but it was different from the previous one, the card was full of light, and the handwriting was like the first moment, which was obviously under the protection of the formation.

Zhang Yan looked at it, his expression was slightly condensed, and he said in a deep voice: "The erosion here is more than several times more difficult than it, and it will probably take time to slowly deduce." ”

Lu Guo sighed and said, "The junior brother can't help with this matter, so he can only bother Daoist friends to work hard." ”

Zhang Yan nodded slightly, sat cross-legged on the ground, and closed his eyes and pondered.

Lu Guo was stunned when he saw that he seemed to have been immersed in it, and after turning around in place a few times, Zuihou quietly retreated.

When the sound of his footsteps was far away, after a while, Zhang Yan's eyes opened, and a smoke came out, caged the stone platform, and then took out the Yingjie fish drum from his sleeve, held it horizontally in front of him, and whispered: "Uncle Shi is here?"

The blue light flashed, and the fish drum true spirit turned out, and he took a few steps forward, looking at the big array in front of him, and his mouth was slurking.

Zhang Yan didn't stand up, but just said, "Uncle Teacher, can you pick that Qingyang Gangying here?"

The fish drum really smiled and said, "You can give it a try." ”

He stretched out his hand and grabbed it, but he didn't know where to get a clear breath, slowly gathered in his hand, and zuihou condensed a grain of cyan jade sand the size of a grain of rice.

After a few more moments, there was one more, and as time went by, more and more were gathered in his hands, and after an hour, he had gathered hundreds of grains in his hands.

Zhang Yan stared at it, his eyes lit up, he stood up and said, "Is this that Qingyang Gangying?"

Walked to the side of the fish drum true spirit, stretched out his hand, grabbed a handful and pinched it in the palm of his hand, and saw that the shape of this thing was crystal clear, as clear as jade, bright and bright, but the weight seemed to be flying and light, and the breath was slightly heavier, like dust and debris fluttering, up a few inches high, but it did not disperse.

The true spirit of the fish drum was a little dissatisfied, and said: "This place is still far away from the extreme sky, the essence contained in this Gangying is too thin, although it is useful to you, but it has little effect, and you have practiced for a hundred years, you may not be able to enter the realm of the Yuan Infant, but if you have the ability to go to the top of this mountain, it is not a luxury to step through the door within half a jiazi." ”

Zhang Yan looked up, there was a look of perseverance in his expression, and he said with a negative hand: "Then go to the top." ”

At this time, there was a sudden sound of footsteps, Zhang Yan's eyes flashed, and he waved the sleeves of his robe, and after all the smoke here was closed, the true spirit of the fish drum was also gone.

After a while, I saw Lu Guo take a Taoist boy with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes to walk up to the stone platform, come up and beat the head, and said with a smile: "Daoist friends deduce the etching text, quite hard, thinking that there is no one around to serve, the senior brother ordered the younger brother to send a Taoist boy to come for drive, if it is not to your liking, the younger brother will go to another person." ”

Zhang Yan glanced at the child, saw that he was a jade with pink makeup, and looked at Lingxiu, but his eyes flickered, showing that his mind was not pure, and he couldn't help but feel a sigh in his heart.

Where could he not know Duanmu Li's plan, this boy is called a servant, but in fact, he is not worried about himself, he is just used to monitor, he smiled and said: "Duanmu Guan Lord has a heart, this boy will stay." ”

Lu Guo patted the boy on the back and said, "I haven't seen Daochang Zhang yet." ”

The boy hurriedly came up and saluted, and said, "Little boy Zhong Xin, I have seen the Taoist chief." ”

Zhang Yan replied lightly.

Lu Guo was afraid of disturbing Zhang Yan's thoughts, and after saying hello, he hurriedly retreated.

After he left, Zhang Yan called Zhong Xin to him and said, "When I deduce the Fa, you need to stand farther away, you must not be killed, and you are not allowed to be within three zhang, otherwise you will be inadvertently killed by mistake, and it is also your own death, have you ever heard?"

Zhong Xin's face turned pale, and he hurriedly said, "The little boy doesn't dare, the little boy doesn't dare." ”

Zhang Yan waved his sleeves and said, "You can step aside." ”

Zhong Xin hurriedly retreated dozens of steps, and only stopped when he was ten zhang away, and his little face couldn't help but show a hint of disappointment.

In fact, he is not a boy who serves people, but an apprentice who Duanmu Li accepted two years ago, in addition to checking Zhang Yan's movements, he also has the intention of looking for an opportunity to steal the method of eroding deduction, which shows that Zhang Yan is so cautious that he suddenly feels that there is little hope.

Zhang Yan didn't care about him, just calmed down and deduced the etching on the bronze medal.

But in a moment, he saw that if he wanted to fully understand the meaning of the Fa, he would have to use it for a year and a half, and if he got the Fa Method, it might not be the right path, and he still needed to use a spirit bird to break through the formation and verify it, which would delay the time even more.

It is conceivable that the twenty-seven formations in the back are also so difficult, but fortunately he has the help of residual jade, otherwise he would have been trapped here.

It's just that when he was about to borrow the remnant jade, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in his mind, as if he thought of something.

He flipped his hand and took out the jade plate that Lu Guo handed over to him, and then looked at it carefully, and his face couldn't help but show a bit of strangeness.

The way to crack this to eight formations is nothing separately, but when connected, it makes some sense.

Judging from the etching text alone, it seems to go from shallow to deep, and the more difficult it is to go to the back, if it were not for someone like him who is proficient in this way, it will never be visible.

If his guess was correct, he probably wouldn't have had to go through such trouble.

He thought about it for a while, and with a flick of his fingers, the Xingchen Sword Pill flew out and hung at his side, this thing was connected to his mind, if someone approached him during the deduction, there would be all the warnings.

Then he reached into his sleeve, held the remnant jade, his heart sank, and he patiently deduced.

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