Back at the yamen, Ding Youtian locked himself in his daily office in the front yard, hunched over his desk, sketching the Five Poison Formation from memory. That night, he and Qin Yifan and Huo Jincheng discussed the design over the canvas until late at night.

For several days thereafter, Jian Ning climbed to the top of Jinguan Mountain with them every day. Ding Youtian often held the telescope and looked for more than two hours until his legs were swollen. He then put down the telescope, lay down on the grass, closed his eyes, and slowly reviewed the formation in his mind.

Whenever this happened, Jian Ning would massage his head and legs, and Huo Jincheng would always walk aside with Qin Yifan. The two of them would speak in very low voices, for fear of disturbing Ding Youtian's thoughts.

After looking at it during the day, Ding Youtian would go back home at night and perfect the formation on the canvas. He had an amazing memory. When Jian Ning occasionally came to take a look, it seemed to be exactly the same as what he saw during the day.

In just seven days, Ding Youtian deduced all ninety-two formations and accurately calculated that there were seven gates in the formation, namely: the golden gate, the wooden gate, the water gate, the fire gate, the earth gate, the sky gate and the earth gate; each gate had three gates of life and four gates of death, and the rest were illusory, and every step would change the layout of the formation.

Ding Youtian asked Tong Bajin and others to cut a lot of small wooden sticks and repeatedly disassemble the inverted Qimen, but they only found the Shengmen of the four gates of heaven, earth, water and wood. He calculated the remaining gold gate, earth gate and fire gate over and over again, but still could not find the location of the Shengmen.

Who would have thought that after trying so hard to find the solution, he was finally solved by Baimei.

Baimei is the smallest among several spiritual pets, the worst-tempered and domineering, and the one who likes to cause trouble the most. It had been hanging out with Guoguo for a long time, but it couldn't tolerate Guoguo and Brother Qiu being intimate. It bullied Brother Qiu and was beaten up by Guoguo. His head was smashed, and he had to fly back to Jianning to give him medicine.

Jian Ning taught it a lesson, letting it remember what "far away smells good, close up smells bad". Guoguo had always been good friends with Brother Qiu, and now that they were far away from each other, they were naturally very affectionate when they occasionally met.

She felt that Baimei deserved a beating!

Considering that Qiu Ge, Mao Qiu and Zhao Cai were all there, Jian Ning let Bai Mei go home to recuperate for a few days. Bai Mei followed her wherever she went. Jian Ning stayed by Ding Youtian's side almost the whole day, watching him calculate the way out on the canvas. Bai Mei also lay beside him with his head tilted, watching intently.

On this day, Ding Youtian was calculating the life gate in the fire gate. He kept moving and fiddling with the small wooden stick. Baimei watched quietly beside him like he did in the previous two days. When Ding Youtian fiddled with the wooden stick again and found that it was still wrong, Baimei suddenly called him an idiot, and then walked forward and moved a wooden stick with his mouth.

"Stop making trouble!" Jian Ning stretched out his hand to grab it, but Ding Youtian stopped him urgently, because in a flash he saw fluctuations in the formation, and the tip of the iceberg of the way out was revealed.

Of course, Jian Ning and the others couldn't see it. Only Ding Youtian, who knew the Five Elements, Eight Trigrams and Qi Men Dun Jia, saw it.

"Good job, little flat-haired boy. It's not in vain that I raised you." Ding Youtian was very happy. After Baimei's guidance, he quickly found the three life gates in the fire gate.

"My dear brother." Qin Yifan stared at Baimei thoughtfully, then looked at Ding Youtian and asked, "What does fire correspond to in the Five Poison Formation?"

Ding Youtian was startled, and after a moment's hesitation, he laughed heartily, patted his forehead, and nodded at Qin Yifan, "Thanks to Brother Yifan's reminder, I now know how to find the escape routes of the other two gates. Fire corresponds to the scorpion in the Five Poisons Formation. I guess this... Ah, Baimei'er."

He smiled and rubbed Baimei's back, "I think Baimei can restrain scorpions. Toad corresponds to Jinmen, which Qiu Ge should be able to restrain, and Tumen corresponds to centipedes."

"Roosters are the natural enemies of centipedes!" Jane Ning seemed to understand a little, and she blurted out.

"Yes, that's right." Ding Youtian smiled, "But Madam, don't forget, foxes eat chickens. I think a fierce fox can also restrain centipedes."

Huo Jincheng was also inspired when he heard this. "Then why are we hesitating? Let's go up the mountain and let Brother Qiu and Maoqiu take a look at the Five Poison Formation. Maybe they can help us find a way out."

Ding Youtian had been staying at the government office these past few days, deducing the truth about life, and hadn't been up the mountain for a few days. Only Huo Jincheng and Tong Bajin and the others had gone up the mountain to observe. He waved his hand, "Let's go and take a look. I'm out of ideas anyway."

The group went to Jiguana Mountain. This time they did not take a shortcut. They planned to go to the cave where the weapons were hidden first. They were afraid that there might be old spies from the Moon Kingdom in the city who might come and destroy the weapons. Therefore, in addition to several spiritual pets guarding the cave, Ding Youtian also arranged Ding Yang and several yamen runners to guard the foot of the mountain day and night.

Tong Bajin saw Ding Yang and remembered to tell him, "Brother, the year we first met, I promised your father that I would give him a foal when Jifeng bred. The first one was kept as a warhorse, and this morning two foals were born. It's a rare thing, but one of them is not very good, and I don't have the energy to take care of it right now. I've asked the adults for permission to send the horse back to your father before the war breaks out. Is that okay?"

Every time Ding Yang went back, Master Ding San would chant Lie Yan in front of him. Besides, his father was extremely patient and better at raising horses than others, and if he raised them well, they could be used as war horses in the future. How could he not be happy to make this trip?

He immediately patted his chest and expressed his willingness.

After hearing this, Ding Youtian turned around and said, "When we get back, let the village head and the clan leader know and ask them to store more food for emergencies."

"Okay, I'll pack up and take the foal with me after the change of defense."

"No need to wait for the change of guard." Tong Bajin said with a smile: "Wait for me to come down the mountain and then you can go. I will guard here."

Tong Bajin patted him on the shoulder and followed Ding Youtian and the others up the mountain.

Guoguo felt a little guilty when she saw Jian Ning coming. She probably knew that she had beaten Baimei too hard this time. She stretched her body and crawled on the ground, crying out twice to show her weakness.

The white-browed cat, always fond of holding grudges, didn't bother with it this time. It flew from Jian Ning's shoulder to Guo Guo's head, rubbing against it, as if rubbing its ears. I don't know what it whispered to Guo Guo, but after the white-browed cat flew back to Jian Ning's shoulder, Guo Guo also jumped into Ding Youtian's arms and refused to get down.

"Why don't we take Guoguo with us? Cats are not afraid of centipedes." Mrs. Huo had raised a cat, and Huo Jincheng vaguely remembered that cats were not afraid of centipedes, so he suggested taking it along.

When they reached the top of the mountain, Jane Ning distributed telescopes to everyone. They first brought Brother Qiu and several silver foxes under the camera. Maoqiu was worthy of being the boss of the four silver foxes. His IQ was obviously higher than the other three silver foxes, and he was also the one who watched the most attentively.

At first, Jane Ning put the telescope in front of its eyes. It seemed startled and took a step back. Then it took the initiative to move closer to the camera and look carefully. After a while, it raised its head in a haughty manner, stepped aside, and wagged its tail at Jane Ning.

"You understand it, do you know how to crack it? If you understand, just nod your head, don't wag your tail."

After Jian Ning finished speaking, Maoqiu really nodded a few times.