In the turbid lake water, I had to close my eyes tightly.
Suddenly, my fingertips touched a dent in the stone.
Run your fingertips along the dents to brush away the silt stuck to the stone.
There seem to be words carved on the stone, but due to the passage of time, the words have been diluted and blurred.
Luo Zheyu loosened one hand and touched the side of the stone with the marks on it.
The cross section is relatively flat, and combined with its slightly square shape and a palm-width side, it looks like a stone tablet.
The words carved on it must have gone through many years. The stone is hard and even a sickle cannot cut it, but it cannot escape the erosion of time.
Of course, those who can carve words on it are even more amazing.
Touch each notch carefully.
Most of it is no longer recognizable, but some of it can still be identified.
"...year, during my travels...there was a severe drought in the north for three months...victims were everywhere, eating grass roots...Guanyin soil..."
When I touched this point, all the words behind it were blurry and unclear. It was not until my fingers almost touched the bottom of the stone that the carvings became clearer.
"...more than a thousand disaster victims were buried here, and when they passed by this place... they felt sorry for it, so they built a monument out of a strange stone and guarded it for a hundred years... hoping it would appease the souls..."
A little further down, there is the signature of the person who placed the stone tablet.
He stroked the inscribed mark with his fingers. After replicating the font in his mind, his fingertips trembled and became a little unsteady.
Luo Zheyu's heart was filled with huge waves, and he didn't know what to feel for a moment.
So far, traveling through time and space to become Malice in the Mirror was the first time he encountered a plane that was the same as the real world, or even went back in time.
I still don't understand what happened.
But he didn't expect that maybe it wasn't just that time that he traveled to the past and left footprints in the past of the present world.
Thinking about it this way, he didn't know how many times he had traveled through time in his dreams and gone to the past of this world.
Because there are two characters engraved at the signature, one is "Ming" and the other is only half of the character "Yan", which occupies half of the entire character.
Luo Zheyu couldn't help but think more, perhaps the word that was blurred by time for his other half was "heart".
The stone tablet says "travel" and "comfort the soul".
This coincides with Mingxin's identity as a Taoist priest traveling down the mountain.
Or maybe it was just his guess or a coincidence.
But my thoughts were in a mess and I couldn't help but recall the characteristics expressed in those clear engravings that were the same as Ming Xin's identity.
It's him.
A voice in my heart said this.
"My Lord, what's the matter?"
Seeing Luo Zheyu in a daze, Wanmianjing was afraid that there was something strange on the natural spirit gathering stone, so he couldn't help but ask.
After a moment of silence, Luo Zheyu did not answer him, but instead asked in his mind: "Can the powerful among the monks go back in time and go to the past?"
"...Uh...My Lord, you may have some misunderstanding about the monks."
The Wanmianjing was speechless, and carefully considered the words to explain: "The top cultivators before transcending the tribulation and ascending to heaven have a lifespan of ten thousand years, and can remain young and prosperous forever. They can go up to the sky and into the earth, and overturn mountains and seas. To mortals, their might is almost as powerful as that of a god, omnipotent. It may take three days to describe the magic, but..."
"I have never heard of any monk who can go back in time and trace the past. Even those who have studied this in the past can only make a certain place or a certain inanimate object present the state that it might have in the past or future without any external interference."
"You're talking about before ascension, what about after ascension?"
"After ascension... I don't know." The voice of the Manifold Mirror sounded a little sad.
"I was created by cultivators in the mortal world. Although I have seen immortals ascend to the upper world, I have not had much contact with them. I have never experienced ascension, so I don't know what the immortal world is like."
The Mirror disappeared after saying this.
It hurts his self-esteem too much. He existed for tens of millions of years, and then fell asleep for tens of millions of years. When he woke up, the spiritual energy in the world he was in was all gone, and he could only pick up masters everywhere. His old acquaintances might have ascended to the upper realm tens of millions of years ago, but he was still lying in the mortal world, even in tatters, looking for energy and things to repair his body.
Your mirror is offline.
Luo Zheyu didn't know that he had accidentally stabbed the Thousand-faced Mirror, and he just held on to the stone tablet and thought of a countermeasure.
The stone tablet is the natural spirit-gathering stone mentioned in the Ten Thousand Faces Mirror. It naturally forms a formation with the surrounding environment and turns itself into a node, which cannot be moved by brute force.
It is here, and it is more than just a formation node.
Gather spirit stones and gather spiritual energy.
The extremely abundant spiritual energy in the town is gathered by the spirit stones.
According to the words carved on the Soul Gathering Stone, there are more than a thousand corpses of people who died of famine buried deep in the soil below. The original purpose of the Soul Gathering Stone was to suppress them and appease the souls of the dead.
But for some unknown reason, after thousands of years, the strong obsessions of these souls when they were starved to death have not been eliminated, and they have combined with the remaining souls to become wandering souls.
wrong.
If it were a wandering soul, it would have come out to cause trouble long ago.
There is also this spirit-gathering stone. In the past, when the spiritual energy in the world was exhausted, it was unlikely that anything could be gathered here. It was only until the spiritual energy revived in recent months that it was activated again and began to play its role.
Is there any connection between the natural spirit-gathering stones and the wandering souls and monsters that frequently appear in the town?
His mind was in a mess. He had only started to change a few months ago when the spiritual energy revived. He knew too little about the mysterious side of this world.
All kinds of thoughts are mixed up, and finally come together.
He couldn't break the formation, as he knew nothing about the cultivators' formations. He couldn't go back and study it now and come back later when he had some understanding.
But there are always rules for the formation of formations, they cannot be formed randomly.
"Million-faced mirror, do the nodes of the formation need to maintain a balance with each other?"
Luo Zheyu took the initiative to knock out the Thousand-faced Mirror.
"My Lord, generally speaking, a balance point needs to be found between the nodes of a formation before it can become a formation."
"You just said that natural spirit-gathering stones are also one of the nodes of the formation."
"Yes."
"Arrays always require energy to operate, right? So... is there spiritual energy inside the natural spirit-gathering stone?"
"Yes, my Lord. The natural spirit stone is a special spirit stone. It is called the natural spirit stone because it can absorb the surrounding spiritual energy to enrich its own spiritual energy. The concentration of its spiritual energy is generally three times that of the outside world."
"Then is its current spiritual energy considered a balance? If the spiritual energy decreases or increases, will it destroy the formation?"
"If there is less spiritual energy, it will not be able to supply the needs of the formation, thus destroying the formation, but if there is more spiritual energy, it will not happen."
The Mirror answered obediently.
Luo Zheyu had to give up the idea he had just come up with.
He originally planned to use the red beads given by the world consciousness of the ghost story world to feed the natural spirit gathering stone to increase the spiritual energy of the natural spirit gathering stone.
After hearing the answer from the Thousand Faced Mirror, I realized that this would only help the enemy.
"Oh, right, you once said that spirit stones are consumables for cultivators to replenish their energy..."
Luo Zheyu had a bold idea.
"No, my Lord! You have never practiced, and if you rashly absorb a large amount of spiritual energy, you will burst! Moreover, it is now a formation node, and forcefully absorbing it will backfire."
Neither this nor that works. Luo Zheyu is a little confused.
This natural spirit-gathering stone is likely the source of the town's anomalies and the target of their mission this time.
It has come to this, Luo Zheyu will not give up unless he digs it out from the bottom of the lake.
He grasped the stone tablet with both hands and pulled it out again.
The stone tablet was loose and swayed slightly with his movements, as if it would be torn apart in the next second, but the bottom was as solid as a rock and could not be pulled out.
Just blow it up.
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