Chapter 289 I will take you out right now!
After the rain of needles was over, Xiao Nanyue suddenly exerted force from his waist and abdomen, touched the ground with one foot and spun around.
However, Xiao Nanyue wiped the sweat from his forehead and felt a little anxious.
If we continue like this, we won’t be able to find Xiyan by dusk.
If it is a mechanism, there must be a way to break it.
He looked around, but his eyes fell on the flying patterns on the wall.
The entire hall had not been repaired for ten years. The incense table and cushions were already worn out, and even the golden body of the Buddha had faded a little. However, the flying mural was intact and the colors were bright.
His eyes swept back and forth across these flying murals, and after a while, his eyes suddenly became sharp.
The mechanism of this hall is not simply the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, but is based on the Nine Palaces of the Luoshu, integrating the "Four-Directional Buddha Formation" of Western Tantric Buddhism.
He vaguely recalled that ten years ago, he had seen Xiao Beicheng repeatedly copying the flying mural in the study. At that time, he thought his father was obsessed with copying the Buddha statues in color painting. Now he realized that he was studying the formation.
It seems that Xiao Beicheng had set up the plan in Feiyun Temple ten years ago?
Feiyun Temple was strategically located, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. He must have taken advantage of this terrain and transformed it into a secret military stronghold, used for garrisoning troops, storing food and fodder, and hiding important military supplies. To prevent the leakage of secrets, he closed the temple and prohibited unauthorized persons from entering or leaving.
The mechanism in this hall might have been prepared for Helian Cong, but in the end, it was used against his adopted son.
At that moment, Xiao Nanyan's mind suddenly became clear.
He repeatedly observed and compared them, and found that the posture of the four flying figures on the wall contained a hidden secret:
The three eastern walls: A flying goddess holds a lotus, a pipa, and a vajra, her sleeves fluttering in the direction of the "Zhen" sign, corresponding to the "Thunder" sign in the Eight Diagrams. The lightning-shaped blue brick pattern beneath her feet is the mechanism that triggers the poison arrows.
On the southern three walls: Flying Apsaras form a "flame seal," with ribbons rising like flames, pointing to the "Li" position, corresponding to "fire." Copper holes spurting poison are hidden in the gaps between the floor tiles.
Western Three Walls: A flying figure holds a scripture scroll, with her clothes drooping like flowing water, pointing to the "Dui" position, corresponding to "Ze". When the ground turns over, a poisonous needle will be revealed;
The three walls in the north: The flying fairy is meditating with eyes closed, and the ribbons are wrapped into the shape of the "Kan" hexagram, pointing to the Kan position, corresponding to "water", and hiding a secret compartment for releasing confusing smoke.
Following the instructions of the Four Directions and Eight Diagrams, Xiao Nanyan avoided all the mechanisms on the blue brick steps in the hall until he arrived at the feet of the giant Buddha statue in the center of the hall according to the direction of the flying formation.
He looked up. At this moment, the midday sunlight shone through the window lattice onto the Buddha statue. The glass bead in the left eye cast a lotus-shaped light spot on the ground, and the moving trajectory of the light spot happened to form a closed loop with the direction of the flying ribbons on the four walls. It seemed that the eye of the Buddha statue was hiding the eye of the formation.
Xiao Nanyan immediately made a judgment:
The Buddha's left eye corresponds to the "Gate of Life" and the right eye corresponds to the "Gate of Death".
Then, he suddenly leaped up more than three feet, pointing his sword directly at the Buddha's eyes:
"open!"
The moment the sword blade pierced the glass, a rumbling sound of a mechanism came from the Buddha's belly, and the meshing sound of the gears under the Sumeru throne shook the ground slightly.
The three-meter-tall Buddha statue slowly moved to the left like a giant, revealing a dark cave entrance behind it, and there was a dark room inside.
Xiao Nanyue sheathed his sword and jumped into the dark room with a tap of his toes.
The walls of this dark room were made of granite, and candlesticks were embedded in the grooves of the stone walls. The burning flames made the spider webs flicker.
From a beam over three meters high, a rope hung, with a woman in white tied to the end. Her moon-white skirt hung down like a dying white flower.
A row of sharp knives were stuck upside down on the bluestone ground under her feet!
"Yan Yan!"
After seeing the pale face clearly, Xiao Nanyue's voice suddenly trembled, but he stopped abruptly when he took a step. He knew that there must be a mechanism here.
The moment Xiyan saw Xiao Nanyue, her originally dim eyes suddenly lit up, joy and complexity intertwined in her eyes. The eyes that were once filled with frost were now sparkling, and her lips trembled but she could not make a sound.
Xiao Nanyan knew at a glance that she had been mute.
With an idea, he quickly took off a pearl from his belt, flicked his finger, and accurately hit the acupoint in her throat.
After her vagina was untied, Xi Yan suddenly started to cough. After a moment, her hoarse voice broke through the shackles:
"Your Majesty, don't come over here, there's a trap here!"
Xiao Nanyue stared at the person he thought about day and night. His jawline was extremely tense. His eyes, which were always covered with icy edges, were now reflecting her shadow. In the fragmented light, there was a panic that he himself was not aware of.
He looked up at her. Her clothes and black hair were neat, but her face was a little pale. There were no deep red marks on her wrists, so she must have been hung up not long ago.
"Yanyan, has Xiao Beicheng treated you poorly in the past three days?"
Xiyan shook her head:
"He just fed me cartilage powder and locked me in this dark room... and gave me porridge and rice every day."
When Xiao Nanyue saw the dark circles under her eyes, he knew that she must have been in great pain these past few days. The wall in his heart, built with eight years of indifference, suddenly collapsed.
"Don't be afraid," he heard himself say, with an unprecedented tenderness in his voice:
"I will take you out right now!"
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