Chapter 696 Luo Shu?!
Sun Lingtong said excitedly: "The mountain shook, stirring up waves in the lake, revealing the true appearance of the corridor formation."
"Hahaha, we're lucky, Niu Cheng indirectly helped us a lot!"
Ning Zhuo kept in touch with Sun Lingtong at all times through the thread of life, as if he were there in person.
He also saw the clue and said excitedly, "I've discovered it too. The magic circle in the corridor is actually closely related to the outside world."
"My mother didn't make this place transparent just for the beautiful view."
"The formation here relies on external sunlight to produce real-time changes. No wonder when we were studying it before, we found it obscure and difficult to understand. It didn't fit any formation and was extremely strange."
Some arrays have fixed changes, while others are more complex.
Previously, when Chen Xi was communicating, he had always elevated the status of the Nine Palace Formation among the ten major formations. One of the major reasons for this was that the core of the Nine Palace Formation had enormous calculation and reasoning capabilities.
This makes the changes in the Nine Palace Formation far exceed those of the other nine formations.
The magic circle in the corridor of Shuyuzhai does not have the calculation ability of the Nine Palaces Formation, but it cleverly draws on the outside world and uses the external variables to make its own variables. This is a trick.
Ning Zhuo sighed, "If it weren't for Niu Cheng causing a commotion that created huge waves in Jade Lake, we wouldn't have noticed anything strange."
Jade Lake is usually as smooth as a mirror, without any ripples on the surface.
Sun Lingtong looked up at the sky and stared for a long time: "No, it's not the light of the sky, but the changes in the clouds."
Ning Zhuo was slightly stunned. After careful observation, he still didn't find this layer. It wasn't until Sun Lingtong was halfway through the corridor that he suddenly realized that Sun Lingtong was right.
The gap between the two in formation skills was clearly revealed at this moment.
After figuring out the details of the formation, Sun Lingtong found it quite easy to pass through it.
He pushed open the door in front of him and entered a courtyard.
There is a rockery in the courtyard paved with green jade.
The rockery embraces a spring, in which red-scaled goldfish dance like colorful clothes.
There is a pavilion on the rockery.
There is a table in the pavilion with simple and elegant furnishings.
There is a plaque on the pavilion with three words on it - Fish Dance Pavilion.
Sun Lingtong walked up the rockery while testing the waters.
When he stepped into the pavilion, the wind chimes on the pavilion suddenly started to ring without any wind.
Then, twelve paper figures fell from the ceiling of the pavilion.
The paper figures glowed in the air, and when they landed on the ground, they transformed into eight dancers and four tea masters, all of whom looked like living people.
The tea master holds the stove to boil tea, while eight dancers dance with their sleeves fluttering.
For a moment, the sound of springs gurgling, wind chimes ringing, and soft singing floated in the pavilion, making people feel relaxed and happy.
Sun Lingtong walked around the pavilion, and after confirming that it was safe, he sat down casually, took a sip of tea, and laughed.
He telepathically said to Ning Zhuo, "It seems this is where my aunt meets guests."
When Sun Lingtong left the pavilion, a series of crisp bell sounds were heard again.
The paper figures were restored one after another, and with the aroma of tea, they floated up to the top of the pavilion and merged into the murals.
Sun Lingtong came to the rockery and took a few glances at the living spring: "These red-skirted goldfish are quite good, they are all foundation-building level monsters, they look really beautiful."
Ning Zhuo took a few glances and said, "They are just some ornamental things, Boss. It's not worth staying here."
Sun Lingtong nodded and returned the same way.
This time, he passed through the corridor and easily returned to the core of the formation.
It is much more difficult and arduous to take a step forward in this central area.
But overall it didn't pose a problem for Sun Lingtong, allowing him to open another door.
There was still a corridor outside the door, but Sun Ning and the others could tell at a glance that this was a new corridor, different from the previous one.
After passing the corridor, Sun Lingtong entered a workshop.
The strong smell of bamboo pulp filled the room.
The room was simply furnished, with a long table and chairs in the middle. Along the lower edges of the four walls were rows of low cabinets with numerous drawers, all closed.
Above the low cabinet, twelve shadow puppets appeared on the previously blank wall. Sun Lingtong took a closer look and realized that they were the twelve zodiac animals.
He stood at the door and did not rush in. Instead, he kept moving his spiritual eyes and carefully detected.
Under the eyes of the spirit, the shadow puppets shifted from solid to virtual, revealing their true form. The broken tip of the dog's ear revealed golden veins, the tiger's claws were broken, and the dragon's figure, with its base made of live water silkworm silk and bamboo ribs, seemed to soar...
This is the guard here.
If Sun Lingtong entered rashly, she might activate the twelve zodiac shadow puppets and be besieged.
"The key to cracking the code is on the long table." Sun Lingtong finally fixed his gaze on the ink pad on the table.
He used his stealing skills and tried several times before finally stealing the seal pad.
He activated the ink pad to eliminate the hidden traps and murderous intentions, so that he could move freely here.
Sun Lingtong opened the drawers of the low cabinet one by one and found that they were classified into different categories, all of which were precious materials for refining paper puppets.
Sun Lingtong came to the table and chairs in the center and after examining them, she discovered that they were all tools for making paper puppets. There were cold jade paper cutters, yin-yang eye-dotting pens, and other items. They were not of high quality, but were all magical instruments.
"This should be the place where my mother made paper puppets when she was alive." Ning Zhuoxin thought.
A scene emerged before his eyes: Meng Yaoyin sat in a chair, bent over her desk, tearing apart paper and making paper puppets. When she needed a certain precious material, she would flick her finger, remotely open the drawer, and the precious material would automatically fly out and land on the table.
Sun Lingtong took a look at the twelve zodiac shadow puppets and left the paper puppet workshop.
He returned to the core of the formation and pushed open another door.
Go through the corridor again and come to another room.
Sun Ning and the other two were cheered up!
It is obvious that the treasures here are neatly arranged and it is a storage room.
On the north wall shelf, cloud tear crystals were stored in jade bowls, with mist rising from the bowls, resembling a miniature sea of clouds. Next to them, mirage shells were stacked in a pile, their opening and closing creating a dazzling display of multicolored light...
On the west wall, jade hooks hang from waterthorn wood, their grain appearing and disappearing in the light. Also hanging is a crystal urn, with mysterious sand flowing freely within it...
On the stone platform to the east, a glue scale was bubbling in a cold jade box, emitting rays of light. A bowl full of golden essence shimmered with golden brilliance...
In the southwest corner stood a jade pillar half a man's height, sealed within it was a three-foot-long piece of sunken lake chalcedony.
Most of these precious materials are at the foundation-building level, only a few have reached the golden elixir level, and there are no materials at the Nascent Soul level.
After Sun Ning and the other man took a look, the joy in their hearts faded.
Both of them have seen the world. Compared with Tianshuang's entire fortune and the treasures in Wangchuan Immortal Mansion, these things in Shuyuzhai are nothing.
A moment later, Sun Lingtong entered the fourth room.
The light here is dreamy.
The dome is embedded with a thousand-year-old mirage pearl, filtering the light into soft gauze.
The bed was a large, open shell. Besides the bedding, there were 360 sleep beads scattered around the edges.
The Mirage Pearl, combined with the Sleepwalking Pearl and the magic circle here, can allow people to design dreams and have the dreams they want.
Ning Zhuo sighed, "My mother worked very hard in the Wanxiang Sect. Relying on this arrangement, she even did not let go of her sleep time and continued to practice hard in her dreams."
Sun Lingtong said: "This method has a disadvantage, which is that it will cause soul fatigue. However, we all have millions of human souls. Apart from being a bit feminine, this place is actually very suitable for us to practice."
Sun Lingtong searched around and found a jade box under the pillow.
When he opened the jade box, he found only two items.
One is a deed from the gods, proving the ownership of Meng Yaoyin's property during his lifetime, a talisman-making workshop.
The other one is a talisman made of a jade plate, engraved with dragon patterns, as white as snow. Its purpose is unknown.
Sun Lingtong left the living room, returned to the formation center, and entered the fifth door.
Soon, he pushed open the door and came to a courtyard.
The dome is tall and wide, like a light shield, and outside the shield is jade lake water.
The lake water was so clear that it shattered the light from the sky into billions of swaying silver foils that fell silently.
Fine spots of light danced in the courtyard, and the water light swayed, condensing into countless drops that fell down.
In the center of the courtyard is a pond, or it would be more appropriate to call it a puddle.
The inside of the puddle was full of potholes and pits, filled with various jade roughs. These roughs varied in shape and color—there was grayish green jade, muddy yellow Xiuyan jade, white marble, blood-thread jade...
Water drops falling on the jade create strange changes.
The surface of the green jade material, which is as rough as gravel, becomes smooth and delicate at a speed visible to the naked eye as the water droplets slide down.
The dark yellow Xiuyan jade seemed to have shed its dusty coat. Under the infiltration of water droplets, its color changed from turbid to clear, from dark to bright.
There are even some jade stones with cracks on the surface. As water droplets fill them, the edges of the cracks blur and shrink, gradually forming a natural texture as soft and smooth as leaf veins.
Each cave has its own special features.
The specialty of Shuyuzhai is rinsing jade.
Sun Lingtong looked around and understood: "This is Shuyu Courtyard."
Here, the water of Jade Lake is refined and purified, turning into water droplets to wash the jade stones.
The jade's flaws are washed away, its imperfections patched, its essence awakened and nourished by the water droplets, becoming lustrous and translucent. Pieces of jade, once gray and dead, are finally bathed in the gentle, flowing radiance of precious jade.
Because no one had been around for too long, there were already a large number of washed jade stones in the jade pit.
Sun Lingtong bent down and picked it up directly.
There was a white jade, smooth and flawless, like cream and fat, imbued with spiritual light and warm to the touch. A pure spiritual energy flowed slowly through it. This was a rare object, the core of a talisman or array.
There were also cold marrow icy spirits, their entire bodies as clear as ten-thousand-year-old black ice, their chilling aura inward, and upon approaching, a sense of spiritual clarity. They were top-tier precious materials for refining ice-type magical weapons and spiritual instruments. At their core, a hint of deep blue marrow light shone, and when Sun Lingtong saw it, it felt as if he were gazing upon the azure evening sky.
There's also the Golden Scale Fire Jade, a jade with a warm, golden texture, yet within it flow fine, golden-scale-like fire patterns, imbued with pure fire properties. This is the perfect material for deploying fire formations and refining supreme yang magic weapons, possessing the strength of metal and stone, and the heat of molten flames.
The harvest this time is huge.
The last three types of jade are all Yuanying-level treasures with excellent quality and will definitely sell for a high price in the market.
"Xiao Zhuo, next time you come, be sure to bring a lot of low-quality jade materials to fill this pit!"
Sun Lingtong reluctantly left Shuyu Courtyard and after tossing around, she entered the last room.
Seeing the three words on the door, Sun Ning and the others became excited.
"Astrology room?"
"Is this where my mother does divination? So, there might be divination instruments there?"
Ning Zhuo's eyes lit up.
Sun Lingtong had more fantasies: "Perhaps there are some divination books, who knows."
As a result, when Sun Lingtong opened the door, he saw a ruin.
The mica stone walls on all four sides had long since turned to dust, leaving only the light shield formed by the formation to isolate the jade lake water.
Most of it still remains above the head and under the feet.
And in the middle, there is a vortex of deep blue water suspended.
The water vortex is very large, occupying almost half of the room, and its rotation speed is sometimes fast and sometimes slow.
"What the hell is going on here?"
"Were they attacked?"
"Unlikely. If there was an enemy invasion, why wasn't the rest of the cave damaged?"
"Perhaps, the enemy triggered the defenses here and perished here."
"That's indeed possible. If that's the case, the enemy must be a lone fighter."
Sun Lingtong walked around and found the place in ruins, as if it had suffered some kind of disaster. Only the mysterious vortex remained, and the rest of the place was worthless.
Sun Lingtong came to the vortex and suddenly his expression changed slightly: "Wait, there seems to be something in the vortex?"
He immediately activated his spiritual eyes and discovered within the swirling water the twisted and broken bronze star tracks of a celestial sphere, the broken abacus rods polished from black tortoise shells, and the shattered red sandalwood frame of an abacus...
Sun Lingtong's eyes sparkled with intelligence, pushing her talent to the extreme.
His gaze reached deep into the core of the vortex, where an ancient and mysterious light shone.
In the brilliance, something appears and disappears.
"It looks like a page of paper." Sun Lingtong looked surprised.
But the next moment, he saw more clearly and his whole body couldn't help but tremble.
"Oh My God!"
"This, this is a page from the Luoshu!!!"
Magical instruments, magical treasures, spiritual treasures, Taoist treasures... Luoshu is a Taoist treasure famous in history.
According to historical records, the Luoshu is neither gold nor jade, neither silk nor stone, but is interwoven with the origin of mathematics in the universe.
When Sun Lingtong used his spiritual eyes to peek at this Taoist treasure, he triggered it.
On the pages of Luoshu, black and white dots appeared one after another, constantly moving on the paper, suddenly fixing, and then suddenly dispersing, becoming a mixed mass.
During this process, Sun Lingtong's thoughts were rapidly consumed, his spirit plummeted, and his soul became weak.
But he actually had a very deep understanding of the vortex in front of him.
"Boss!" Ning Zhuo saw that the situation was not good, and quickly activated his magic to provide remote support through the hanging life.
Sun Lingtong was awakened and quickly closed his eyes, actively interrupting the connection between him and the pages of Luoshu.
The nosebleed flowed silently.
Sun Lingtong ignored all this and looked very excited: "This is really a page of Luoshu, it's a Taoist treasure!"
"I've relied on the Luoshu to help me deduce, and I've figured out that this water vortex is actually a magic array, Xiaozhu."
Ning Zhuo suddenly realized, "I understand. Daobao can affect its surroundings. My mother has been away from here for too long. The Daobao's spontaneous power destroyed this room and used the surrounding environment to form a natural magic circle!"
(End of this chapter)
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