Wang Xiaohai flew down, circled in the canyon, found nothing, and then flew back to Shanshan's nose.
"Where is the treasure hidden in the private treasury?" Wang Xiaohai asked Shanwei Beast Shanshan.
"It's right under your feet! It's covered by a formation." Shanshan replied.
"I don't see where the formation is?" Wang Xiaohai heard that using violence would destroy the private treasure house, so he didn't touch it.
"Wait a minute..." Shanshan muttered a long and strange language, and then a white beam of light rose from its horn and sank into the ground of the canyon. "After a few minutes, the ground will open, and then a corridor will appear..." Shanshan suddenly stopped talking halfway - because the ground did not react at all, which made him extremely embarrassed in an instant, but his horse face grew under the hair, so even if he blushed, others could not see it.
"The ground didn't respond!" Wang Xiaohai said something that almost made Shanshan fall into a hole in the ground.
"Ahem - wait, let me try again. It might be because I didn't pronounce the syllables correctly just now." The Yamabi Beast swung its tail, knocking over dozens of tall cypress trees behind it.
But Shanshan continued to chant for half an hour, and the ground seemed to be welded, with no sign of cracking at all.
"I...I'll try again." Sweat could be seen on Shanshan's forehead.
"No need to try, I'll go down and see, there's no formation here at all!" Wang Xiaohai said, "Maybe you remembered the wrong location?" He said as he floated down with his sword.
Wang Xiaohai stepped on the ground in the canyon, but the rock layer did not react. He looked back and forth and finally found some clues - there seemed to be a grass pit on the ground in the distance?
He walked gently towards the pit, reached the edge, and looked down.
"What is this?" Wang Xiaohai extended the Sword of True Awareness and turned over several strangely shaped objects in the pit.
These objects are triangular, oval, and a few are rectangular. They are covered with a layer of moss and feel heavy when turned over, so they are probably not made of stone.
"Ding—" Wang Xiaohai tapped the strange objects with his sword. A crisp sound rang out, sparks flew, and he confirmed they were metal. A centipede, hiding beneath the moss-covered metal, scurried away as Wang Xiaohai tossed it, burrowing into a small hole in the ground.
Wang Xiaohai's mind flashed with the appearance of several small holes in the pit after the mud and weeds were removed, and he suddenly realized that if this metal object was put in, it would fit perfectly with these small holes!
"This is a formation used to break the formation!" The light of wisdom returned to Wang Xiaohai. He used his sword to pick up the metal objects under the pit to remove the moss on the surface, and then placed them into the holes under the pit according to size and shape. After all the metal objects were placed, he transmitted a martial energy from the tip of the sword.
"Buzz--" A trembling sound like the buzzing of a fly came from the pit, and light shot out from the middle of several metal objects below. A light diagram of the reverse array that could break the array slowly rose into the air.
Wang Xiaohai released his martial energy, and the light of the reverse formation diagram quickly dimmed. He flew back to the tip of the mountain tail beast's nose and stood there.
"If my guess is correct, this treasure house has been emptied!" said Wang Xiaohai.
"Impossible, I am the only one who knows the method and spell to open the master's private vault!" Shanshan roared.
Wang Xiaohai was too lazy to argue. The Sword of True Awareness surged against the wind and stabbed towards the canyon floor. With a "bang!", mud and rocks exploded. He overturned the entire ground, revealing the secret room beneath the surface.
A staircase more than ten meters long extended downwards, and below was a square treasure house carved from unknown materials. The treasure layer had been emptied, and not even a stone had fallen!
The Yamabimon opened its eyes wide and cried out, "This is impossible! I saw it before I fell asleep for tens of thousands of years. The treasure house is still there, and the formation is still there!"
"There's only one possibility. While you were asleep, your former master's private vault was opened and all the treasures inside were stolen!" Wang Xiaohai said, "You ate my meal for free, and you still kept me from getting the treasure. You must work for me for a thousand years to repay your debt!"
Shanwei Beast was still in shock, and his voice trembled like thunder: "No, no one can break the formation of this private vault!"
"This treasure house is so intricately carved, it certainly couldn't have been carved by your previous owner. You never mentioned he was a master carver," Wang Xiaohai said. "Even if he was a master carver, he wouldn't be a master of formations. This formation was designed by a formation master from the continent at the time, combining the frequency of your voice, right?"
Shanshan: "Yes, you guessed it right. This treasure house was designed by many sculptors and the most powerful array master on the continent at that time. Combined with my voice code, even if you know the spell to break the array, the voice of the person you are talking to will not be able to decipher it, just like me."
"That's it!" Wang Xiaohai said, "The master who designed this formation left a backdoor, which is to break the formation!"
"That's impossible! All the people who designed and built it can't leave the canyon," Shanshan retorted to Wang Xiaohai. "Besides, the previous owner killed them all when the private vault was completed. Even if he has the diagram to break the formation in his head, he can't tell anyone!"
"You're overthinking it. A formation master wouldn't put all his eggs in one basket, nor could he design a perfect and impeccable formation out of thin air," Wang Xiaohai said. "He must have sketches and models of his designs at home, like an outline of his work, even recording the types of formations that can be set up in various locations. After his death, his descendants would have access to the sketches, just like knowing the source code of a computer. Designing a reverse formation would be a piece of cake. Hiding the treasure house in this location was the formation master's suggestion to your master, right?"
Shanshan opened his mouth wide. "You're such a freak! It's true that the formation master recommended suitable locations across the continent to my master. He mentioned three locations, and my former master chose this one. He said all three locations have natural formation energy, which can continuously provide energy to the formation and keep it running for tens of millions of years. Ordinary locations are difficult to achieve this."
"The master of formations has a successor who can actually design this reverse formation, using those metal objects below to jointly set up, unlocking the treasure house and sweeping away all the treasures inside!" Wang Xiaohai sighed, "So we can't underestimate humans. Although humans can't defeat sub-gods, their wisdom is not inferior to sub-gods!"
"What should I do now? I have nothing to give you. If you want the hair on my tail, just take it!" The mountain tail beast said helplessly. After eating a meal with Wang Xiaohai, it didn't want to owe him a favor in vain.
"What am I going to do with your tail hair? I'll make it into a broom and beat you with it!" Wang Xiaohai said, "No, you have to work for me for a thousand years to pay off my debt! I'm curious about what's in the treasure house so I can see how much I've lost."
"I don't know anything else, but I know there's something inside that can help me ascend to the demigod level." Shanshan, the Yamabi Beast, replied, "The master didn't tell me what it was. He just said it was useless to him or me."
"Condensate of divine fire?" Wang Xiaohai asked in surprise.
"You mean there is a little flame wrapped in a transparent bead? Yes," Shanshan replied.
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