Chapter 102 The Lucky Koi Gets a Cheat Code!

Every message confirmed Chu Chongjin's guess.

These seemingly unrelated strange events all point to the same source—the earth's energy.

A well drying up means the earth's water veins have dried up.

Infant crying at night indicates an imbalance of the earth's energy, yin and yang, and restlessness of the mind.

Mold growth in the granary is caused by damp, malevolent energy rising from the ground.

"It's Sikong Ming." Chu Chongjin's voice was devoid of any warmth.

"Only he and the missing Imperial Advisor Linglan would resort to such insidious methods."

Mu Fang sat in the main seat, his face ashen, and remained silent.

He exuded a terrifying aura, a steely killing intent honed from years of leading troops in battle, amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

To dare to touch the capital, to threaten the very foundation of the Great Chu, is to threaten what the Mu family has protected for generations.

What's more, this strange thing has already affected his daughter's appetite!

Unforgivable!

“But the formation is hidden underground, and we have no idea where it is. So how can we break it?” Yan Ziche raised the most crucial problem.

We can't exactly dig up the entire capital city, can we?

"I know!"

Mu Yu, who had been sullen, suddenly raised her head.

While everyone was discussing, she secretly slipped into the yard and put her hand into the lotus pond.

The cool water made her feel a little better.

Just as she was pouring good fortune into the pond, hoping to make the little goldfish in the pond "happier".

A peculiar "map" appeared in her mind.

That's not an ordinary map.

Instead, it is a network woven from countless blue, shimmering lines.

These lines, some thick and some thin, covered the entire area she could perceive.

She knew that these were the "veins" of the water.

It refers to the direction of all the water flows beneath the capital city.

However, attached to this beautiful blue web is a huge, ugly black spider web!

Spider webs are made up of many black, barbed lines.

These black lines, like poisonous thorns, are deeply embedded in the blue water veins.

At each node of the spider web, there is a black vortex, like greedy mouths, constantly sucking away the shimmering, delicious energy that she loves most from the water veins.

All the energy that was absorbed flowed along the threads of the spider web to a single, largest, darkest, and most evil center.

There, lurked a... super, incomparably huge black spider!

"I saw it!"

Mu Yu ran back to the study, gesturing excitedly.

"I saw it in the water!"

"There's a huge spider web hidden right under our feet!"

She ran to the desk, grabbed Yan Ziche's calligraphy brush, dipped it in ink, and started drawing haphazardly on a blank sheet of rice paper.

She couldn't draw detailed maps; she could only draw a rough outline.

A messy black net with many small circles on it, and one large circle that she had painted completely black.

“This is the home of that giant spider!” She poked the largest black circle hard with her ink-stained finger.

"That's it! It's stealing our water and eating our good luck!"

The little girl's face puffed up with anger.

"It made my chicken wings unhappy!"

Xiao Beichen looked at the "scribbled symbols" but still couldn't quite understand them.

But Yan Ziche and Chu Chongjin understood instantly.

Yan Ziche's breathing became rapid.

"Water veins... That's right! How come I didn't think of that!"

"The flow of earth energy must rely on the mountains and rivers! For an array to absorb earth energy, it must be connected to the water veins!"

"Xiao Yu'er is a koi carp, naturally affinity-with water. She can directly 'see' the shape of the formation through the water veins!"

These mortals can only deduce things from various clues.

Mu Yu, on the other hand, directly activated a "X-ray vision cheat"!

A glint of light flashed in Chu Chongjin's eyes.

He looked at the largest ink blob drawn on Mu Yu's paper and said in a deep voice, "This is the main array eye of the Nine Nether Dragon Devouring Formation!"

"And these small circles are its array points."

"Sikong Ming... Ling Lan... I'd like to see just how hard your tortoise shells can be!"

Before, they were like people in a room who knew a mosquito was biting them, but couldn't find where the mosquito was.

Now, Mu Yu's "scribbled symbols" are like a spotlight being lit directly in a dark room.

That mosquito had nowhere to hide!

Looking at his daughter's smug little face, Mu Fang's murderous intent turned into a touch of doting affection that made him both laugh and cry.

A problem that stumped all the talented and extraordinary people in the capital.

In the end, it was his little foodie who solved the problem with a plate of "unhappy chicken wings".

"Great!" Mu Fang slammed his hand on the table and stood up. "With our Mu Yu here!"

"Now that we've found the nest of these insects, the rest is simple."

He looked at Xiao Beichen and gave his first order as the general.

"Bei Chen, go and fetch my Breaking Formation Overlord Spear!"

"I'd like to see whether his formation is stronger or my spearhead is stronger!"

Xiao Beichen excitedly replied, "Yes, General!"

However, Chu Chongjin shook his head.

"Duke, you must not act rashly."

“The main array eye must be heavily defended and connected to all the sub-array eyes. Attacking it rashly will only alert the enemy and may even trigger a backlash from the array, causing even greater disaster.”

"Then what do you suggest we do?" Mu Fang frowned; he wasn't one to sit idly by and wait to die.

Chu Chongjin's gaze fell on the sheet of Xuan paper.

"To catch a thief, you must first catch his king. But sometimes, cutting off his limbs can also turn the 'king' into a cripple."

"Our biggest advantage now is that the enemy is in the dark while we are in the light, but the enemy is in the light while we are in the dark."

"They don't know yet that we've already seen through their hand."

A cold smile curved Chu Chongjin's lips.

"Before we touch the main array core, we need to give them some fun first."

He looked at Yan Ziche and Xie Zhiwei, who had been listening silently without saying a word.

A new goal became clear in everyone's mind.

"Ziche, Zhiwei, I need you to find the weakest and most critical nodes in this 'spider web' immediately."

The study in Princess Anguo's residence was once again placed on high alert.

There are more than just one or two maps on Yan Ziche's desk now.

Instead, it covered a whole dozen or so sheets.

There are hydrological maps of the capital, urban planning maps, geomantic maps of the former capital of the previous dynasty, and even a top-secret star map marked with the direction of the dragon veins that he secretly "borrowed" from the Imperial Observatory.

Xie Zhiwei stood to the side, with no blueprints in front of her, only a small, brass-made model of the human meridian system.

The name is clearly engraved on each acupoint of the model.