"Lead the way, let's go to the place where you found the bone array stakes first," Chen Yi said to Manli.
She nodded repeatedly and quickly walked out of the wooden house.
It was not yet midnight, and there were few people outside the village. Everyone was staying in their wooden houses, conserving their energy.
She led Chen Yi and the others to a place two or three miles outside the village. This area used to be farmland, but it has been abandoned for many years.
"This is it."
She followed her own markings and found the spot where the bone piles had been dug out.
She didn't dare take the stakes with her, because she was afraid of alerting the enemy.
They dug it up again, and sure enough, it was still there.
Wu Lingyao stepped forward and carefully examined the white bones.
"It has indeed been refined by someone." She nodded slightly.
After all, she studied weapon crafting and formations, so she has a lot of authority to speak on this.
Manli was deeply comforted by Wu Lingyao's words, which meant that her judgment was correct.
Wu Lingyao looked at Chen Yi: "What do you think?"
"After these bones were refined, they became less likely to be crushed and acquired certain special functions," Chen Yi said, offering his insights.
The first sentence didn't surprise Wu Lingyao, because she could see it too, but the second sentence shocked her immensely.
"If I'm not mistaken, there must be a great many of these skeletons. The different shapes, arrangements, and positions of the bones form the array patterns."
"Judging from the location of these ribs buried in the ground, it's not simple. I don't know the function of the array pattern they form, but it definitely has some kind of sinister power. Ordinary array patterns couldn't be made with so many bones..."
Chen Yi's words made Wu Lingyao realize that his understanding of array patterns had even surpassed hers.
If it weren't for Chen Yi's reminder, she probably wouldn't have connected these bones with the array patterns, and even if she had, she wouldn't have been able to see the secrets behind the array patterns.
However, Chen Yi deduced from this that it was some kind of rather sinister array pattern...
“Although we know they are array patterns, we can’t figure out the entire array’s structure with just these few bone artifacts. We need to find more array patterns,” Wu Lingyao said.
But she also knew how difficult it would be, since she didn't yet know the pattern of every burial site of the bones, and it would probably take a lot of time to find the second one.
Chen Yi took a deep breath. "That's unnecessary."
If it were someone else, they might have to search for more bone array patterns, but he only needed to make sure that he was within the range of this great array.
[One glance at the target], activated!
This was the first time he had used the ability of this term.
The next moment, he felt his vision become transparent.
The messy dead wood, rubble, and soil all became almost transparent, while the white bones hidden deep underground appeared pure white.
He looked up and saw countless illusory lines in the sky. Some of these lines were intertwined, some were moving, and some remained still.
"This is... a grand formation?" he murmured.
Yes, the shape formed by these lines is clearly a large formation.
It was like a large bowl, upside down, over the entire Yinshan Village, yet no one noticed it.
This made him feel somewhat terrified.
With a thought, the entire line seemed like a 3D model, swirling in his mind.
He finally spotted some points flashing red light among the many lines.
He instantly realized: "These are the weaknesses, the very heart of this great formation..."
When he looked at where he and the others were, he understood something.
The white bone array stakes they just dug out are not the array's core, but rather nodes.
The larger the formation, the more emphasis the formation master will place on error tolerance.
Even if some of the bone array pillars are destroyed, as long as the array core is not damaged, the entire array can still operate smoothly.
Of course, the overall effect may decrease by 1%-2%.
But it's still a long way from collapsing the great formation.
"Buzz!"
A wave of intense fatigue washed over Chen Yi, and he felt his mind becoming somewhat muddled.
He knew that this was because his spiritual strength was only enough to maintain a single glance at the formation for such a long time.
The next second, that feeling of perfect clarity and all-knowing understanding vanished.
Fortunately, he had already memorized the locations of several key points in the formation, especially the main key point that could directly break the formation...
He seemed somewhat dazed, with a slight throbbing pain in his temples.
"What's wrong?" Wu Lingyao asked.
Chen Yi said weakly, "It's nothing, I'm probably just not fully recovered yet."
"Why don't you go back and rest first?" Wu Lingyao blinked and said.
"Alright!" Chen Yi nodded, then added, "You don't need to look anymore, I think I've already found one of the array's focal points..."
"What?"
The three women widened their eyes simultaneously.
In such a short time, you've figured out where the key point of the formation is?
Wasn't Chen Yi supposed to be just a genius at talismans? How come his skill in formations is also so high?
Chen Yi smiled slightly, "Help me back first."
The three women exchanged a glance and quickly stepped forward.
Three distinct fragrances wafted towards him, making him feel even more dizzy.
After all, cultivators undergo marrow cleansing and body tempering, and their bodies naturally possess a pleasant fragrance, which is even more pronounced in teenage girls...
Taking advantage of her agility and cultivation, Manli was the first to catch Chen Yi.
Although the latter's consciousness was hazy, she still caught the rich scent of jasmine—yes, it was Manli...
"Thank you," Manli said sincerely.
However, at this point, Chen Yi no longer had the energy to reply.
Because of the severe depletion of his mental energy, he was like someone who hadn't slept for ten days and ten nights; everything he heard sounded like a hallucination, blurry and indistinct...
Fortunately, the effects of the pills Yu Qian had given him were still present, and the stinging pain in his head began to subside after reaching a certain level.
Ten minutes later, he was able to open his eyes again.
When I opened my eyes, I found three pairs of eyes focused on me.
"You said you found the core of the formation, is that true or false?" Wu Lingyao asked impatiently.
"Hmm, there are several key points of the formation, all located beneath the wooden house," Chen Yi pondered. "I suspect the person who set up the formation is using the house as a cover."
Upon hearing his words, Wu Lingyao's eyes lit up.
“If it is a wooden house that people live in, other people will naturally not think about what is buried underground for no reason, let alone touch it.”
For example, if they want to destroy the array's core, they have to go to someone else's wooden house and dig through the floor.
Such behavior would naturally be met with disapproval from others.
The question Zhou Lianfeng had raised about the increasing number of wooden houses was now answered: someone was building the wooden houses to conceal the existence of the array's core...
Of course, there was one more thing Chen Yi didn't tell them.
That was the most important point of the formation, which was also located in a wooden house.
If he wasn't mistaken, the person living in the wooden house was most likely the one who set up the formation.
After all, such an important place would not be safe for anyone else to stay if it were him.
The people inside must be incredibly powerful to take over that wooden house.
He planned to observe the people in the wooden house closely after the phosphorescence appeared.
The reason he didn't tell the three women was that he was afraid too many people would pay attention to the wooden house and attract the owner's attention.
Chen Yi thought to himself, "To be able to use such a large number of human bones to refine a semi-finished magical artifact, and then insert it into the ground to form array pillars and patterns, the other party must be proficient in array formations and artifact crafting..."
"To set up such a sinister array, what the other party is after must be something extraordinary. Such cunning and methods are not those of an ordinary person."
At that moment, an eerie purple light shone down on the tranquil village.
Everyone couldn't help but look out the window.
A hazy purple object seemed to be floating high above.
That eerie purple light was emitted by it.
The mountain mist seemed to be dyed purple, creating a dreamlike scene.
Yu Qian's mouth opened slightly as she murmured, "Purple phosphorescent fire?"
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