Pei Zhiyuan was puzzled. The formation of the mountain of swords and the sea of fire had obviously been broken. He only needed to break three more formations to escape. Why was he still hanging on this iron chain?
Because the candles in the room were extinguished, the surrounding environment became dark, and the surrounding environment could only be vaguely seen through the light coming through the bright door.
"Take me up this chain." Chen Xu didn't explain much and directly asked Pei Zhiyuan to take him up the chain.
Pei Zhiyuan had no choice but to hold her waist and climb along the iron chain towards the pitch-black ceiling. The two of them climbed slowly for a long time before they finally climbed onto a stairwell platform. They didn't care about the dust inside and just lay on the ground exhausted, gasping for breath.
Breaking a formation is really a physical job, especially one that doesn't follow the beaten path.
Pei Zhiyuan rested for a while, tore off one of his trouser legs with force, and tied the cloth strip tightly around Shen Xu's injured calf, which barely stopped the bleeding.
The eagle pecked off a piece of flesh on her calf, leaving a deep red bloody hole, which was much more painful than being stabbed by a knife or an arrow.
Shen Xu frowned and let out a long hiss, then turned his head away in silence, gritting his teeth and enduring.
Seeing that she was trying her best to hold back, Pei Zhiyuan couldn't help but ask the question in his heart, "Miss Shen, what exactly do you want to do in Beijing?"
Shen Xu's lips were already white from the pain, and she had no time to answer his question. She lay on the ground with her legs bent, her wet clothes covered with dust.
She lay on the ground for a long time before she weakly replied, "I've already told Master Pei the reason. My husband and I have no other wishes. We only hope that this world can have less sorrow and more joy."
"But does this make sense?"
Chen Xu didn't directly answer Pei Zhiyuan's question. Instead, he pointed to the tiny dots of light leaking out from the end of the stairwell and said, "There should be a secret door there, used by craftsmen to enter the stairwell to adjust the mechanism. Lord Pei can leave the Four Symbols Formation through that door and reach a room in the middle level of the Alchemy Hall, where he can successfully escape the formation."
"What will happen after we escape from the formation?"
"He will be caught by the Imperial Master's guards."
"Then how do we solve this dilemma?"
Shen Xu's eyes were deep, and he answered with certainty: "Take the Dzi Bead."
"Do you want to continue breaking through the formation?" Seeing that Chen Xu led him through the formation of mountains of swords and seas of fire, Pei Zhiyuan had the confidence to break through the next three killing formations.
"No need." Chen Xu instructed Pei Zhiyuan to jump onto the large gear in the stairwell and open the door of the mechanism room. Inside were all kinds of gears that were turning with a clacking sound, and iron chains were rising and falling in an orderly manner as the mechanism turned.
Shen Xu stood on tiptoe, busy modifying the gears in the mechanism room. She sometimes removed a small gear, sometimes instructed Pei Zhiyuan to modify the transmission direction of the iron chain, sometimes closed the trap valve, and sometimes turned the mechanism wrench.
The two of them worked in the mechanism room for a long time and messed up all the gears in the mechanism room.
"Miss Chen, do you want to close or destroy the other three formations?" Pei Zhiyuan tightened the missing gear with his foot, and the gear began to rotate along with the entire unit, and the iron chain that was originally descending began to move upwards.
"No, of course it's to repair the other three formations."
Shen Xu replied calmly: "It can not only make the four symbols counteract each other, but also make the four symbols generate each other, with infinite changes, becoming the true Qimen Four Symbols."
Pei Zhiyuan was extremely puzzled as to why he should help the national teacher to repair the formation. It was already very difficult to break through the formation, wouldn't it be even more difficult to break through after it was repaired?
Shen Xu pointed at the rising iron chain and said, "Let's go and get the Blood Essence Dzi Bead."
"Can you take it directly? Isn't it said that the Dzi Bead is at the end of the Four Symbols Formation?"
"Now that the formation has been repaired, the Four Symbols Formation has become a circular formation. It has no beginning or end. The beginning is the end, and the end is the beginning." Shen Xu replied, "And we are in the mechanism room within the formation."
"What does it mean, trapped?"
"This means we can modify and traverse any formation at will." Shen Xu asked Pei Zhiyuan to lead him up the ascending iron chain. "Let's go, let's go to the Golden Scale Dragon Formation and retrieve the Dzi Bead."
Pei Zhiyuan was not in a hurry to get on the iron chain, but asked curiously, "What is the Golden Scale Dragon Formation like?"
Shen Xu didn't hide anything and answered directly, "The core of the Golden Scale Dragon Transformation Formation is based on the Fish Prison Maze. Once someone inside the formation makes a mistake, the maze mechanism will be triggered. The walls of the maze will begin to change and water will fill up to drive them away. Unless they escape before the water fills up, they will be completely lost and drowned in the water prison."
"So how do we break this fish dragon formation?"
"Of course... Don't worry about that at all. Just close the floodgates and the movable wall."
Pei Zhiyuan: "If we are already trapped in the formation, how can we break it?"
"The Fish-Dragon Formation is a text formation. You can pass through it by solving the puzzles on the maze walls. However, the walls you pass through may not be the correct path, so you can move forward and backward."
"But if you solve the puzzle incorrectly, the trap will be activated, the wall will change, and the sluice traps inside the array will begin to fill with water. Only by solving the puzzles quickly and constantly searching for the exit can you break the array. If you're lucky, you can get out. It's far less dangerous than the mountains of swords and seas of fire, or the iron cavalry."
Pei Zhiyuan nodded in understanding, put his arm around Shen Xu's waist, climbed up the rising iron rope, and entered the Golden Scale Fish Dragon Formation at the top with Shen Xu.
Pei Zhiyuan was about to enter the Fish-Dragon Formation when he saw Shen Xu open the Vermillion Bird Gate on the side and enter the room of the Hongxiao Enchantment Formation.
Pei Zhiyuan quickly followed and asked, "What are you doing here?"
Chen Xu explained, "As the saying goes, a hero can brave mountains of swords and seas of fire, and defeat chariots and spears, yet still find it difficult to resist the temptation of a beautiful woman. This is the third formation of the Vermillion Bird's Red Silk Bewitching Formation."
Pei Zhiyuan frowned. He didn't want to waste time. He just wanted to get through the battle as quickly as possible and leave the Alchemy Palace. So he asked in confusion, "Are you asking me to break through this beauty barrier?"
Shen Xu pointed at Pei Zhiyuan's naked body, then at his own wet pants covered in mud, and replied, "I don't want my husband to see us like this when we go out."
Pei Zhiyuan spread his hands. It was indeed uncomfortable to wear wet pants.
"Listen to my instructions. Take a deep breath before entering the formation, and then hold it. Don't pay attention to anything in front of you. Don't talk or fight with anyone in the formation. Grab the clothes and run. Don't look back."
Shen Xu carefully instructed Pei Zhiyuan, "My leg is injured and I can't run fast. You go in alone to grab it. The air in the formation is poisonous. Don't breathe in the formation. Understand?"
Pei Zhiyuan nodded cautiously, took a deep breath outside the red gauze formation, and rushed in quickly.
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