Chapter 087
Cheng Hui didn't know if it was because he had been tortured by those old men in the illusion for too long, but he actually started to like this...
"Interesting, really interesting!"
Cheng Hui didn't know whether it was because he had been tortured by those old men in the illusion for too long, but he actually began to like the feeling of studying.
I originally studied those formations in order to survive better, but now I have really developed some interest in them.
He compared the two patterns and was surprised to find that there was some connection between them. He tried many methods and finally found that by overlapping the patterns on the window and the patterns on the floor, he could form a complete rune.
"Formation... This is a formation!"
If you ask what Cheng Hui is most sensitive to at this moment, it is undoubtedly the various formations.
During that year and a half, he was exposed to various formations from morning to night.
According to his understanding, the basis of the formation is runes. Runes are equivalent to letters, and formation rules are words. By combining runes, formations with various effects can be created.
Each rune represents a basic element. For example, the rune he just saw, which is composed of the pattern on the window and the floor, represents water.
When he put the remaining patterns together, he discovered that the meanings of these runes were gold, wood, water, fire and earth.
The most basic power of the five elements.
Cheng Hui looked at the window, then at the ground, and an idea suddenly came to his mind.
So that’s how it is!
He squatted on the ground and moved slowly, adjusting his angle by looking at the window from time to time.
When he walked onto one of the blocks, he suddenly smiled and murmured, "Found it." Then he began to clean the floor under his feet.
"What did you find?" Lin Qingyang was a little confused at first, but when he saw him cleaning the floor, he suddenly understood something.
The road in the passage is very long, and over the years, the dust accumulated on the ground has almost covered the patterns on the blocks.
Cheng Hui was cleaning the dust in the grooves at this time. As he moved, the dust in the depressions disappeared little by little, and the grooves on the floor tiles became cleaner.
When the last bit of dust was cleared away, Cheng Hui moved his body slightly, allowing light to shine through the window onto the floor tile.
The patterns on the windows formed some vague shadows on the ground, and those shadows happened to connect with the patterns on the floor tiles to form a complete pattern.
Cheng Hui touched a spot on the floor tile with his fingertips and input a little spiritual power.
The lines on the floor tiles suddenly lit up, and his action seemed to have touched some kind of switch, and the surrounding floor tiles also began to glow.
"This is..." Lin Qingyang looked at the flashing lines on the ground in surprise, and reflexively grabbed Cheng Hui's hand.
Cheng Hui was stunned for a moment, and then the two figures suddenly disappeared, and the light on the ground gradually dimmed, as if no one had ever appeared.
Plop! Plop!
The two fell into the water.
"Damn it!"
Cheng Hui complained and wiped his face vigorously. "Are you okay?"
"It's okay." Lin Qingyang responded and put his hair back, revealing his smooth forehead.
Cheng Hui took one look and couldn't help but take another look.
Lin Qingyang noticed this and smiled, "Ah Hui, do you think I look good like this?"
Cheng Hui gave an awkward but polite smile: "... looks good..."
Lin Qingyang: ...???
No, your tone seems a little wrong?
Cheng Hui silently looked away. Could he tell Lin Qingyang that he looked exactly like Aqiu when he had his hair combed?
Whenever Cheng Hui thought about the possible father-son relationship between the two, he felt that something was wrong with him.
"Let's go to the shore over there." Cheng Hui gestured and swam towards the shore first.
Lin Qingyang suppressed the doubts in his heart and swam quickly to the shore.
The two climbed ashore. Lin Qingyang cast a spell to dry his clothes. He looked around and found a dilapidated Buddhist shrine not far from them.
"Ahui, is this some kind of test?" Lin Qingyang was a little excited.
Cheng Hui also realized it after being reminded by him.
According to the village chief, there are many treasures in this black tower, but before obtaining the treasures, one must pass some kind of test left by the predecessors.
The locations and standards of these tests varied greatly. According to village records, any test that someone passed was never taken a second time, so there was no possibility of profiting by knowing the answers in advance.
The appearance of assessments is also random. Sometimes you just turn into a fork in the road and you may encounter an opportunity left by a predecessor.
Of course, encountering an opportunity does not mean that you will definitely get a treasure. If the answers given by the people participating in the assessment do not meet the requirements of a senior, going to a treasure mountain and returning empty-handed is definitely not an empty talk.
Based on this, Cheng Hui and Lin Qingyang judged that they might have encountered some kind of adventure, but whether they could obtain the treasure depended on their subsequent performance.
There was a stone statue in the shrine, and the broken shrine door was blocking the front of the stone statue, so neither of them could see the appearance of the Buddha statue clearly.
Cheng Hui walked closer and was surprised to find that the stone statue was wearing the most ordinary clothes, but the head of the stone statue was the head of an evil ghost.
The evil ghost has a green face, fangs, two horns on his forehead, and a ferocious expression, but his eyes are calm and full of compassion.
"What does this mean?" Cheng Hui was confused.
Why is this stone statue shaped like this?
Evil ghost monk?
Is it an evil ghost or a monk?
Is he ferocious or compassionate?
Cheng Hui looked carefully again and found that the evil monk had his hands behind his back, as if he was hiding something.
He was very curious and could not help turning the stone statue and looking at its back. Only then did he see that the statue's hands were holding different things, a bowl of rice in the left hand and a sharp knife in the right hand.
Cheng Hui felt even more confused. He looked at Lin Qingyun, who shook his head slightly, obviously not understanding the meaning of the stone statue.
So he could only keep this matter in mind for the time being and start looking for clues elsewhere.
Soon, he found a passage behind the stone statue.
There is a sentence written on the wall on one side of the passage: Your choice determines your destiny.
"Multiple choice questions? This is good. Even if you don't know the answer, you can still guess." Cheng Hui said with a smile.
Lin Qingyang looked at him helplessly. He didn't think the assessment here would be so simple.
The two entered the passage together. It was very dark inside, and Lin Qingyang took the initiative to hold Cheng Hui's hand.
The two walked side by side and soon came to the first fork in the road.
The sign at the fork in the road reads: You are a tired traveler. As dusk falls, you see a small village on the mountain ahead. Do you want to go to that small village to rest?
The fork in the road on the left says: It's a rare opportunity to come across a small village, and I don't want to rest in the wild anymore.
The fork in the road on the right read: "There are so many ferocious beasts in this mountain, and there is no good farmland around. How could a small village suddenly appear? This must be strange. You must not go there."
Cheng Hui blinked and looked at Lin Qingyang: "Do you think this small village is dangerous?"
Lin Qingyang thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "There are too few known conditions to make a judgment."
"So are we going or not?"
"Go, why not?" Lin Qingyang smiled. "It's just a small village in the mountains. Even if there's danger, so what? We are cultivators. Should we be afraid of ordinary people?"
Cheng Hui has reservations about this.
Not to mention that according to the above setting, they are just "tired travelers". Even if they are monks, they may still fail when facing ordinary people.
Although he had doubts about the village, Cheng Hui felt that the village was less threatening than the forest where there might be a large number of ferocious beasts.
So the two of them took the fork in the road to the left.
After walking a short distance, we came to another fork in the road.
This time, they entered the village and met many enthusiastic villagers.
According to the villagers, they moved to this mountain a long time ago. Their life was very hard at first, but later a god came here and granted all their wishes, so they lived a very happy life.
Left fork: Are there really gods in this world? Perhaps you should go and worship them. Maybe they will grant your wish?
Right fork: Gods? Granting every wish? Oh, how could such a good thing happen in the world? It must be a demon.
"right."
This time, Lin Qingyang gave the answer without Cheng Hui asking.
Cheng Hui thought about it and felt that without seeing the specific situation, he had no way of guessing whether this god was good or bad.
Deep down, he hoped that this immortal was a good person, but his experience over the past twenty years told him that the latter was more likely.
This time, the two walked into the passage on the right. After walking for a while, they encountered the same fork in the road again.
This time, Cheng Hui and his friends chose to explore the backyard of the village chief's house in the middle of the night to look for clues about the gods.
Next, there were a series of choices. Through these choices, Cheng Hui and Lin Qingyang also understood the general background of the whole story.
A traveler accidentally encountered a strange village in the deep mountains and forests.
The villagers in this village are very hospitable. Every household has a full granary of grain, and fresh meat can be picked up in the yard every morning.
They had no worries about food and clothing, and believed in a mysterious god. According to them, the food and meat in their homes were all given by the god, so they revered the god very much.
The traveler was very curious about the gods and was also very interested in this wealthy village. After some investigation, he was shocked to find that in this seemingly ordinary village, all the villagers would turn into evil spirits after midnight.
The being they called a god was actually a ghost king. Every night, he would drive the villagers out hunting. Their prey included wild beasts and humans. By constantly devouring the souls of their prey, the villagers could maintain their normal form during the day.
In fact, these villagers had died long ago.
Just as they said, they were forced to move into this mountain due to war.
But at that time they did not meet the so-called gods, but met a terrible ghost king.
The Ghost King sealed off the entire village and used it as his own playground. The villagers were tortured by him until they collapsed and went crazy. Until the Ghost King had enough fun, he picked out his favorite soul and devoured it.
Perhaps these villagers had accumulated too much resentment, or perhaps the soul that he had his eyes on had once had another adventure. After being swallowed by the Ghost King, the soul actually exploded and in turn swallowed the Ghost King, and finally succeeded.
The trusted ghost king may still have some memories of his human life, or his obsession is to make everyone in the village live happily, which is why he created that weird happy village.
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