Inside the sealed tomb chamber, I had already smashed two porcelain bottles and found the entrance to this formation.

But deciding where to go next has become a problem.

Song Laosan didn't understand formations, but he knew very well that if I made the wrong decision, everyone would face something extremely terrifying. So, he was always worried about my choice.

Seeing Song Laosan staring at me cautiously, I explained to him, "At first, I thought the formation here was based on the Bagua (Eight Trigrams) formation, and that if we could find the key, we could break the deadlock through the directions. But the step I'm facing now involves two correct directions, which defies common sense."

However, the bubble you just noticed reminded me that this isn't a single, unified formation, or rather, it's a large formation with countless smaller formations embedded within it. Every step we take involves encountering a different formation. Even the most basic arrangement involves sixteen interconnected formations; if any one link fails, all our previous efforts will be in vain.

Old Song was still puzzled: "Even if there really are sixteen formations here, what does that have to do with your choice to go first?"

I replied, “If you look closely at all the porcelain vases here, the craftsmanship and glaze are exactly the same, and the workmanship is excellent. Only the porcelain vase on the left is covered with bubbles and has obvious flaws. Given the scale of this tomb, the utensils used must have been carefully selected. The presence of a flawed item here is itself a big problem. Therefore, I believe that this flawed vase is the key point of this small formation.”

Song Laosan licked his lips: "How confident are you?"

"Ninety percent!"

I recalled a line from the Judge's Record: "A flaw in a hundred pieces indicates something sinister is at play! According to normal array theory, anything that seems out of place is either a mechanism or the array's core. In the array set up by Ashiyi, the mechanisms are all inside the porcelain bottle, and this flawed bottle is naturally the array's core. The reason I say I'm 90% certain is because I don't know if Ashiyi will follow the rules. That 10% variable is the gamble on whether he will go back on his word."

"I think it's unlikely. Since this person wrote his lineage and name here, it means he's a rather arrogant person. If he really wanted to cheat, he could have set up traps on all the porcelain bottles here."

Song Laosan paused for a moment: "Based on your experience, what do you think the mechanisms inside these bottles might be?"

I looked at the burning sun pearl in the dragon's mouth and thought for a moment: "Cannons already existed in the Song Dynasty, and white phosphorus was widely used. The tomb we are in has done a very good job of protecting and using white phosphorus. I suspect that this jar either contains some kind of poison, or it contains white phosphorus and gunpowder. If it explodes in such a confined space, the situation will be very dangerous."

After listening to my analysis, Song Laosan walked towards the porcelain vase in front of him, reached out and grabbed the neck of the vase to prevent it from breaking and damaging the other vases: "Since we are already 90% sure, let's take the gamble."

I knew that the longer this matter dragged on, the greater the psychological pressure would be. After Song Laosan steadied the porcelain bottle, he smashed it with the butt of his rifle.

"Bang!"

I smashed a large hole in the porcelain bottle, and the water inside began to flow out.

Seeing the liquid flow out, I breathed a heavy sigh of relief, feeling my muscles twitching from the relaxation after the tension.

After the water in the bottle had drained out, Song Laosan and I moved the empty bottle away. Sasha, quick as a flash, immediately picked up the golden tray underneath the bottle and put it on himself.

Ivan saw that Sasha had taken an extra gold plate compared to him, and initially didn't say anything. But when he saw the scene in front of him, he immediately pointed at the ground and roared.

Before Zhou Peng could translate, I already knew what Ivan was yelling.

The porcelain vases were on the third row, and the trays underneath had changed from gold to individual stone bases.

Seeing Ivan yelling at me to smash the other porcelain bottles for the gold, I shouted at him, "Only a few of these bottles contain water; the rest are all explosives. If you detonate them, we'll all die here! What use is the gold if we're all dead?!"

After listening to Zhou Peng's translation, Ivan rattled off a bunch of things. Without waiting for Zhou Peng to translate for me, I continued, "The place we've come to is a huge treasure trove. As long as you follow my instructions, I guarantee you'll get even more gold. And all you need to do now is shut up and listen to my commands!"

Seeing that Ivan nodded, I stopped arguing with him and started examining the bottle behind me again.

Just as I predicted, each step in the journey was a small formation, the knowledge of which was mostly the Bagua, and some of which was to draw landscapes on porcelain bottles, so that the one who broke the formation could find the direction of the dragon vein, the direction of the dragon vein, or the direction of the vein.

The formation set up in Ashiyi is very interesting. The outer circle starts with the Bagua (Eight Trigrams) and the later part relies more on the knowledge of Feng Shui masters. For most tomb raiders, it gets harder and harder as they go deeper, but for me, it was the opposite.

"Bang!"

As I smashed the last porcelain vase, we finally passed through a cluster of porcelain vases and stood in front of a door on the right.

This stone gate is a wood-carved structure, made by carving the stone to make it look like it was built of wood.

Song Laosan followed me out, looking at the stone door in front of him with a more relaxed expression: "If we just break through the mechanism of this door, will we be over this hurdle?"

"If nothing unexpected happens, there shouldn't be any mechanism in this door. Inside is a gift that Ashi-yi prepared for us."

We all went through the porcelain bottle and pushed the stone door. We could feel the stone door shaking, but it was still difficult to push it open by my own strength.

As Sasha and Ivan joined in, the stone door in front of them slowly opened, and the sound of iron chains being turned came from inside once again.

When the stone door was halfway open, slivers of light began to shine through.

I peered through the crack in the door and saw a two-meter-wide corridor inside. On a stone table directly in front of me, all sorts of gold and silver jewelry were piled up, gleaming enchantingly under the light of the wall lamps.

Ivan had previously taken a gold tray and felt unbalanced. Now, seeing so many treasures, he rushed in like a madman, screaming wildly.

Seeing that Ivan had lost his temper, the monkey immediately roared, "Don't move! Be careful not to trigger the trap!"

Before Zhou Peng could translate, Ivan had already pounced on the table and started frantically stuffing things into his clothes. Sasha was not to be outdone and followed suit.