Chapter 73 The maze
As soon as he finished speaking, a person suddenly appeared in the hole where the wall collapsed. The hole was originally pitch black and could not see anything inside. This person just "brushed" and suddenly stood at the hole, without even a sound of footsteps, just like that.
Although Liang Houzai had reminded me before, I was still shocked.
It was not until I came to my senses that I could see clearly that the girl standing outside the cave was a girl older than me. She looked very beautiful, had very long hair, and her body exuded a very light fragrance from time to time.
Her name is Lu Renshuang, 17 years old, and she is the nephew of the Tun Meng lineage. Because of her seniority, she should respectfully call me "Uncle Master" when she sees me, and I can just call her "Renshuang".
In fact, Renshuang has changed a lot in the past two years. It is hard for me to remember what she looked like when I first met her. I only remember that she seemed to be the same as now, a pretty girl. The length of her hair has not changed, and her body fragrance is born. In addition, what impressed me the most was the string of silver bells on her ankles.
That is a string of anklets strung with very small silver bells. When Renshuang walked towards us with a step, the silver bell would make a very weak but very crisp "ding bell" sound. The sound reached people's ears and would make people relax in an instant. That feeling was as if at that moment, every hair on the top of their head suddenly became soft.
She came to Senior Brother Zhuang and Senior Brother Feng and saluted respectfully: "Master, Uncle Master."
By the way, I just said something that Lu Renshuang is a disciple of Senior Brother Zhuang.
Afterwards, Lu Renshuang looked at Liang Houzai and me again and asked me Senior Brother Zhuang: "Why have you never seen these two junior brothers before?"
Senior Brother Zhuang looked at me and smiled helplessly. He first patted Lu Renshuang on the shoulder and said to me, "Lu Renshuang, my apprentice." Then he said to Renshuang: "This is your Zuo Master Uncle! Haven't you seen him when he became a disciple? The other one is Liang Houzai, who is your Zuo Master Uncle and the successor of the corpse-driver lineage."
Lu Renshuang looked at me in surprise for a while before hugging me and clasping her fists: "Uncle Zuo."
I was suddenly called Uncle Master. I was really not used to it. I didn’t know what to say at that time, so I laughed at Lu Renshuang twice.
When I was smiling, Lu Renshuang kept staring at me, as if she was curious about me, but in front of Senior Brother Zhuang, she probably didn't dare to lose her manners, so she quickly took her eyes back and said to me Senior Brother Zhuang: "Master, Uncle Master and the others have arrived at the town hall."
Senior Brother Zhuang nodded and asked Lu Renshuang to lead the way. He and Senior Brother Feng walked into the entrance of the cave one by one. Before entering the cave, Senior Brother Feng waved to Liang Houzai and me, signaling us to follow.
It was pitch black deep in the cave entrance. On the way, I could clearly hear everyone's footsteps.
This made me even more confused. How did Lu Renshuang suddenly appear at the entrance of the cave just now?
Not long after walking, I saw some bright green light spots appearing on the ground. There were nine light spots in total, and they were arranged in a row in the middle of the road. Senior Brother Feng said to me: "These luminescent stones are mixed with our special Yin and Yang soil. They are placed here for array eyes. These array eyes cannot be broken. If you want to get out of this place, you can only step on them in a specific order."
Senior Brother Feng rarely speaks like he is now. When he speaks every word, he exudes a hint of pride. I feel that the luminous stones on the ground may have been arranged by Senior Brother Feng.
Afterwards, Senior Brother Feng walked to the luminous stones, stepped on the first stone with his left sole of his foot, and stomped on the second stone eleven times. Each stone was stepped on different times.
While stepping on, Senior Brother Feng slowly moved towards the end of the luminous stone. The light emitted from the stone felt very hazy. Senior Brother Feng's figure was contrasted by this light and seemed to become hazy. Until his feet stepped on the last luminous stone seven times, Senior Brother Feng was shrouded in that light.
Such a scene is really hard to tell whether it is true or false. The light emitted from the stone is obviously very weak, and Senior Brother Feng was covered in it again, but after a moment, I couldn't see Senior Brother Feng.
He actually disappeared inexplicably!
Senior Brother Zhuang came up and patted me, and I woke up from my shock.
Senior Brother Zhuang smiled at me and asked me: "Do you remember how many times do you have to step on each stone?"
I thought about it carefully and nodded at Senior Brother Zhuang again.
After that, Senior Brother Zhuang asked me to step on the stones first, saying that it would let me feel the unique skills of the Yuxian lineage.
I followed Brother Feng and stepped on the moonstone with my feet. When my feet touched the first stone, I felt a chill that followed my feet and rushed to my chest. Fortunately, this chilling would not make people feel uncomfortable. It disappeared without a trace after only a moment of appearance.
And at the moment it disappeared, I felt a faint feeling, and I felt that the light on the luminous stone suddenly became brighter. Every time I stepped on a stone, this feeling became stronger. But I also knew in my heart that this was just a illusion. The light on the luminous stone did not brighten, and the hole was still pitch black. For some reason, the figures of Senior Brother Zhuang, Liang Houzai and Lu Renshuang seemed to be becoming more and more blurred.
When I stepped on the ninth luminous stone for the last time, the surroundings suddenly became extremely bright.
I looked up and found myself in a wide and bright tunnel with tall stone walls made of stone slabs on both sides. There was a lit torch every meter above, and the flames reflected the dragon pattern relief on the wall.
I was surprised and felt that someone had been patted on my shoulder. When I looked back, I saw Senior Brother Feng laughing at me, but except Senior Brother Feng, the others disappeared.
I opened my mouth and looked around for a while, and then I was sure that this was not an illusion, so I asked me Senior Brother Feng: "Why... why am I here?"
Senior Brother Feng smiled and said, "Actually, you have been here since the beginning."
I didn't understand what Senior Brother Feng meant, so I asked, "No, what's going on? Why can't I understand?"
Senior Brother Feng waved his hand at me and said, "I can't explain this too much. The inheritance of our three meridians cannot be communicated."
Just as I was talking to Senior Brother Feng, Liang Houzai also came to me. I don’t know how he appeared here, nor when he appeared. But when I felt someone around me was breathing and turned around to look, Liang Houzai was already standing beside me.
After Liang Houzai, Lu Renshuang and Senior Brother Zhuang also appeared in the tunnel one by one. Everyone seemed to appear out of thin air, and the position where everyone appeared was in the blind spot of my vision.
Not only me, but at the moment they appeared, including Liang Houzai and my senior brother Zhuang, they did not see them.
Although I also knew that the inheritance of the three veins of the Soul Village Zhuang could not be interconnected, I was really curious and finally couldn't help but ask Senior Brother Feng: "What's going on in this place?"
Senior Brother Feng laughed and said, "This kind of thing is not something to say, it's not something to say. Haha, but there is something that can tell you that you have indeed made some special arrangements in this tunnel. When you walk here, you will feel a sense of time and space disorder. In fact, time and space will not be messed up, and the only thing that is messed up is your feeling of space."
After Brother Feng finished speaking, Brother Zhuang added next to me: "In fact, it is just a maze array. The Yuxian lineage is proficient in 36 large arrays and 72 small arrays. This maze array can only be regarded as the simplest one among the 72 small arrays."
Senior Brother Zhuang said, pulling a torch from the wall and walking towards the darkness at the end of the tunnel.
Senior Brother Feng followed closely behind Senior Brother Zhuang and asked Senior Brother Zhuang: "Which lineage of your Tunmeng also has 108 formations?"
Senior Brother Zhuang nodded: "Yes, to mention that the formation of your lineage is extended by Tun Meng, but over time, the difference between the two lineages becomes bigger and bigger. Most of your Yuxian formations involve Feng Shui, and the formations on Tun Meng are used for divination."
Listening to my two senior brothers discussing the formations with one word and one word, I felt sour.
There are so many formations in those two veins, but we are at the verge of the right to maintain our integrity. All formations are only six or seven. My master has told me many times that among all the formations in our vein, the most powerful one is the sealed gate formation. But even this formation is far from the formations of the Yuxian lineage.
Although Senior Brother Feng and Senior Brother Zhuang are all disciples of Jihunzhuang, they have different meridians after all. In my heart, I always hope that our inheritance of the righteous lineage can be a little better than the other two meridians in any aspect.
At the end of the tunnel, there was another dark hole. There seemed to be no light in the hole. The entire hole was like a huge dark curtain, tightly connected to the tunnel.
But when Senior Brother Zhuang held the torch and walked into the entrance of the cave, I realized that the hole was actually very shallow. It ended in just a few steps. However, the walls of the cave were all painted black, which gave people a bottomless feeling.
When I walked to the edge of the cave entrance, Senior Brother Zhuang suddenly smirked at me, and then I saw him extinguishing the torch with something.
As soon as the torch was extinguished, my heart suddenly rose to my throat.
Chapter completed!