Chapter 168 This hexagram doesn't make sense
Xuan Yi looked at the prince's cold and hard profile and couldn't help asking, "Prince, do you trust them so much? Those people in the observatory have always been mysterious and mysterious, and they only say half of what they say and hide the other half..."
"I don't trust them." Xiao Yu said calmly, "I trust Xuan Yi and Ajiu."
"The little girl risked her life to pry open a crack for me. If I don't clean out the contents through this crack, wouldn't her efforts be in vain?"
An hour passed in a flash.
A geomantic node near the west gate of the capital city.
This was originally a century-old well, but now it is surrounded by soldiers from the city defense camp, and people are not allowed to enter within a radius of 100 meters.
Mo Li was squatting beside the ancient well, his brows twisted into a knot.
Several of his fellow junior brothers also looked solemn and confused.
"Brother, this... this is too strange." A young disciple couldn't help but speak up. "The evil-suppressing runes on the well wall weren't forcibly erased by external forces. Look at these marks..."
He pointed to a mottled area on the wall of the well.
The bluestone bricks there looked as if they had been licked by some unknown substance. The edges of the rune carvings showed a strange, dissolved arc, and were covered with a thin layer of foul-smelling black oil.
Mo Li used a special silver needle to carefully scrape off a bit of the black substance.
“Sizzle——”
With a slight sound, the tip of the silver needle turned black at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a wisp of black smoke with a foul smell emerged.
"What a domineering corrosive force!" Mo Li's face changed, and he immediately used his spiritual power to break the contaminated needle tip.
"Brother, this feels... familiar?" Another older disciple suddenly spoke up, a hint of uncertainty on his face. "I feel like I've sensed a similar aura somewhere before."
"Where?" Mo Li asked immediately.
"Prince Yu's Mansion!" The disciple suddenly remembered and said with certainty, "Those are the strange runes we copied from the stone door of his secret room when we confiscated Prince Yu's Mansion last time! When we went to assist in the investigation, we smelled this fishy and stinky smell. Although it was very faint, it was unmistakable! It was this unholy power that could devour spiritual energy!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of all the disciples present at the Observatory changed.
The case of Prince Yu's Mansion has long been concluded.
But now, this strange power that should only appear in the secret room of Prince Yu's Mansion has appeared on a large scale at the nodes of the national defense formation in the capital!
This means that there is something deeper and more terrifying hidden behind Prince Yu! And that thing has now extended its claws to the foundation of the entire Dayan!
"Something's wrong, it's totally wrong!" Mo Li stood up suddenly, his face more serious than ever.
He looked around and carefully inspected several other damaged nodes, and found that the destruction methods in all places were exactly the same.
This is not destruction.
This is... chewing!
It’s like there is an invisible monster gnawing at the city’s veins!
"Hurry!" Mo Li acted decisively, shouting to his fellow apprentice, "Collect all the survey records immediately and follow me to see the prince! There's no time to lose!"
Next to the command post, an independent white tent was temporarily set up.
Inside the tent, the air was filled with the scent of sandalwood, and on the ground was an intricate diagram of the Nine Palaces and Eight Diagrams painted with cinnabar.
Yun Shen sat cross-legged in the center of the diagram, his eyes closed and his face as gloomy as water.
In front of him lay an ancient tortoise shell and three copper coins stained with the marks of time.
These are the magical instruments that have been passed down in the observatory for nearly a thousand years, namely the "Black Turtle Shell" and the "Asking for the Way Money".
"Brother, do you really want to use the 'Black Turtle Armor'?" A little Taoist boy stood aside with a worried look on his face.
"Master said that this object is too powerful. If you try to force it to predict a major event of national destiny, the backlash will be enormous."
"That's all right." Yun Shen opened his eyes, his gaze calm. "Your Highness wants precise results, not ambiguous deductions. The capital is in imminent danger now. This is no time to hide anything."
He glanced at the little Taoist boy and softened his tone a little: "Go guard outside. No matter what noise you hear, don't come in."
"Yes, senior brother." The little Taoist boy retreated, looking back every few steps.
Inside the tent, silence returned again.
Yun took a deep breath and slowly injected all his spiritual power into the "Black Turtle Shell" and "Asking for the Way Money" in front of him.
Buzz——
The ancient magic weapon seemed to awaken from its slumber. The naturally formed patterns on the tortoise shell began to emit a faint golden glow. The three copper coins also floated up on their own and slowly rotated in front of him.
"Heaven is above. Disciple Yunshen has borrowed the black tortoise to ask for advice. He wishes to predict the dangers facing the capital of Great Yan. Where will the evil arise and where will the rebels hide..."
As he chanted, the suspended copper coin spun faster and faster, and finally turned into three afterimages, making a soft "wuwu" sound.
Yun Shen's complexion turned pale at a speed visible to the naked eye.
For him, calculating this level of cause and effect is no less than asking a mortal to look directly at the scorching sun.
Fine beads of cold sweat oozed from his forehead and slid down his cheeks, and every bone in his body groaned under the heavy burden.
Sudden!
“Crack—”
A crisp cracking sound.
A tiny crack suddenly appeared on the "Black Turtle Shell" that was harder than steel without any warning!
"puff!"
Yun Shen felt as if he had been struck hard, and suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, which splashed onto the hexagram diagram in front of him, making the cinnabar red even more eerie.
He staggered and almost fell to the ground.
But his eyes were fixed on the three copper coins that finally stopped spinning and fell on the hexagram diagram with a clinking sound.
Very bad!
The hexagram indicated an unprecedented omen of great misfortune!
However, the hexagram itself was blurry and chaotic, shrouded in a thick black aura, and it was impossible to see any specific direction!
"How could...how could this happen?" Yun Shen's face was full of disbelief.
His divination skills are unmatched among the younger generation in the observatory. Even if he cannot calculate the specific results, he can at least get a glimpse of the direction or two.
But now, Tianji was like a mirror splashed with ink. He could not see anything, but could only feel a heart-pounding malice filled with greed and hunger.
"No...no!" Yun Shen bit his tongue, forcing himself to stay awake with the severe pain.
The prince is still waiting for his result! The safety of the capital depends on this move!
He quickly formed seals with his hands and desperately forced the remaining spiritual power in his body into his eyes again.
"Open my spiritual eyes and see through the illusion! Command!"
His eyes went dark, and when they came back to light, Yun Shen seemed to have fallen into a bizarre fantasy world.
He could not "see" the enemy, the army, or any conspiracy.
He only "saw" a mouth.
A gigantic mouth made of pure darkness and chaos.
This mouth is... swallowing something.
It devours light, devours spiritual energy, devours the earth veins, and even people's fear and despair become its food.
And in the depths of that huge mouth, he vaguely saw a blurry human figure, who seemed to be facing him with a strange, mocking smile.
"ah!"
Yun Shen screamed miserably and suddenly broke free from the illusion. Tears of blood and blood flowed from his eyes. He collapsed completely to the ground, gasping for breath.
Failed.
Not only did he fail to anticipate anything, he also suffered an unprecedented backlash.
The secret of heaven has been obscured by someone using a higher-level and more evil power!
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