Chapter 356: Rooted Child Tree

"So many, so many..."

Lao Bai kept muttering to himself, as if he was in a demonic state, staring at the valley with rolling fog.

I guessed that there must be something unusual in this valley. The thief did not hesitate to release a cellar card substitute that he had trained with great effort to trick us here. The danger in the valley was predictable, but I never thought that Lao Bai's reaction would be so great. I immediately pushed him gently and asked in a low voice what was in the valley?

Lao Bai shook his head repeatedly.

Seeing this, I stopped asking him, picked two willow leaves from a willow tree next to me, held them on my fingertips, passed them in front of my eyes, and shouted "Open your eyes". The thick fog in the valley rolled up in an instant, as if my eyes had become real, like a sword that split the sky, and the thick fog was split open wherever I looked.

Such a thing can only be achieved in our position. Brother Yaozi said clearly that this is a gap in the formation. The ancestors of Zhenwu Temple defeated the Jin army here while chatting and laughing. If we were in other places, it would be useless to wipe our eyes with willow leaves. We would be blinded by the fog when we walked into the formation!

In a moment, the situation in the valley was all in my eyes.

Unfortunately, I didn't see any particularly creepy scene.

Without fog blocking my eyes, under the bright moon, everything in the valley was shrouded in a dark haze. It was just like Brother Yaozi said, a canyon full of pebbles. There were no plants at the bottom of the valley, and there were rocks everywhere. Instead, many plants grew on the earth walls on both sides of the valley, giving a lush feeling.

The valley was empty, with nothing, but some stones caught my attention.

These stones are buried in many messy pebbles. Ordinary people probably won't notice them at all, but I can see that these stones are the key to breaking this formation.

Brother Yaozi said that this is a Qimen Dunjia formation. I have some different opinions on this. To be precise, this is a derivative formation of Qimen Dunjia.

Qimen Dunjia sounds mysterious, but as a descendant of the ritual officer, I do know a little about it.

In fact, this thing should be regarded as a very advanced astrophysics, or a kind of prediction science, with a wide range of uses, but in terms of its fundamentals, the so-called three wonders and eight gates are themselves studying the mysteries of this world. Many ancient military masters have developed many magical formations based on this. In the final analysis, it is to use the power of the environment to restrain the enemy.

Therefore, on this basis, many people in the Xuanmen sect began to use the changes of the five elements to arrange some formations. The one in front of us belongs to such a formation. In a narrow sense, this formation transcends the scope of the three wonders and eight gates, and cannot be regarded as Qimen Dunjia. In a broad sense, this formation still uses the changes of heaven and earth, and coincides with the theory of Qimen Dunjia.

This formation is such a thing!

At the beginning, I saw a thick fog in the valley, and I knew that this was a water formation in the five elements, and it was also a kind of maze. At that time, the Jin army did not know the depth and thought it was fog. After walking in, they found that it was not the case. They were in the dark. The Song army shot on both sides, and they could not see. The result can be imagined. Now I have seen the overall layout, which has verified my idea, and I know more specifically. This should belong to the Black Emperor Water Array in the water array in the Five Elements Maze. This formation is extremely profound and very complicated to arrange.

Looking down from my position, the twelve stones in the valley that were nailed to the ground as the footholds of the formation were arranged like a six-pointed star. The Chinese did not pay attention to this thing. The so-called six-pointed star shape was actually a tortoise shape.

In Feng Shui, the tortoise shape is the northern black tortoise, which is the main water qi.

The twelve stones that served as the footholds of the formation were black and purple, also known as the northern black water stone. They were Kunshan stones, mainly produced in Ma'anshan, Jiangsu. Feng Shui masters collected these stones and buried them under the soil of extremely yin places. After several years, the originally clean white stones would become like this, absorbing a lot of yin and cold air, and were specially used as the footholds of the Black Emperor's water array.

This alone is not enough.

This is a dry mountain stream waterway. The water of heaven and earth has long dried up and sunk underground. To stimulate it, nine nine-liang sea gold ingots must be nailed under each formation. This sea gold has nothing to do with the sea gold in numerology. It is a kind of metal mineral in the sea. There are many of them on the seabed. They are as big as potatoes. Scientists call this metal mineral manganese nodules. The main function of these sea gold ingots is to nail out the water Qi underground. This is the principle of gold giving birth to water. Of course, other gold ingots can also be used, but the effect is not good and cannot maintain such a large maze.

When the sea gold ingots nail out the water Qi in the dry valley, and then release it through the Black Emperor Water Array arranged by the Northern Xuanshui Stone, the maze is considered to be completed.

It is actually very simple to break this formation. First, I need to find the position where I am now, which is the gap in the formation. I can overlook the whole picture of the formation, so that I can "stay out of it" and see more clearly. In this way, I can accurately find the twelve formations. Finally, I can command from the outside, and someone else can join the game and pull out the twelve formations. Not only do you need to pull out the black water stone on the top, but you also need to dig out the nine sea gold ingots below. And the order of pulling out the formations cannot be messed up. People need to stand in the middle of the hexagram, and then pull out from the middle to the surroundings!

Someone described this method of breaking the formation very aptly in a joke, saying that breaking the Black Emperor's water formation is similar to catching a turtle. I have never seen people pinching the head or pulling the tail. Instead, you should pinch the front and back lids. Only in this way will you not be scratched or bitten. The same is true for breaking the formation. If you make a mistake, you will be hurt by Feng Shui. Although this is a maze, once it starts, the cold will invade the body. The person who breaks the formation should be prepared to live with a stove in his arms for the rest of his life...

Perhaps it is the nature of a ceremonial officer flowing in my blood. I am most interested in this kind of mysterious formation. I couldn't take my eyes off it after just one look. I observed every detail of the formation with all my heart. Breaking the formation is not a joke. If you are not careful, you will lose everything. The danger is not known to outsiders. I dare not be negligent, so I completely ignored the people around me and the crisis lurking in the valley, and I didn't know that the people around me had already opened their eyes with willow leaves.

It was not until Brother Yaozi shook me repeatedly that I suddenly woke up. I turned around and saw Brother Yaozi with a gloomy face. He whispered to me: "Jingzhe, what should we do now? We can't go down this valley. This yajue is too ruthless and doesn't leave us any room!"

Everyone's face was not very good, with fear and resentment...

They should have seen the danger in the valley.

Only I was attracted by the exquisite formation arranged by the ancestors of Zhenwu Temple. I forgot why I came here. I was a little embarrassed for a while. I scratched my head and stammered that I didn't see where the yajue had done anything.

"I thought you were scared like me!"

Lao Bai recovered and cursed: "So you are still in a state of mind at this critical moment!"

I said angrily that I didn't see the clues at first glance, and I was thinking about how to break the formation and go up the mountain.

When Lao Bai heard that I had figured out a way to break the formation, he finally stopped criticizing me and lamented, "Even if we knew, what would happen? We'll be finished if we go down now."

At this point, he pointed to the earth wall opposite the valley and asked me to look carefully there.

I did as he said. It was just some plants in the dark, nothing special. I was puzzled and said, "It's just some ordinary vines. Are there any problems with these vines?"

"It's not vines, it's hidden under the vines!!"

Lao Bai said, "Look more carefully."

With a clear hint, I stared at it carefully for a long time and finally figured out some clues. I wasn't as scared as Lao Bai, but my heart was beating faster.

God has mercy on me. I've seen a lot of corpses, ghosts, and monsters, but I've never seen such a creepy scene.

Under those vines, a pale flesh color occasionally flashed, like a tumor. These things obviously moved. If they turned, you could see noses and eyes on the tumors. They were clearly the heads of children! !

Many, many, countless...

"I have seen one."

Xiao Zhi lowered his voice and said, "It was a child killed by that woman."

"So, these children were killed by that tooth-cutter?"

After the panic, I felt a chill in my heart and a surge of anger. I knew that the tooth-cutter was cruel and vicious, and must have killed many people, but the young resentful souls in the canyon still greatly shocked my cognition.

"It's not that bad, otherwise she would be dead no matter how well she hides..."

Brother Yaozi shook his head and said, "I just saw a child with a thin braid behind his head, which is the rat-tail braid from the early Qing Dynasty, which means that the child died two or three hundred years ago. After all, the yajue is a human being, how could he live so long? Moreover, this kind of sorcerer has done too many evil things, most of which damage his life span, and nine out of ten will not live long. Occasionally, there are one or two masters who have been causing harm for thousands of years, and they have turned themselves into monsters that are neither human nor ghost. They will be struck by lightning when they go out. The one we met is not such a disaster. If it was such a character, how could we still be alive until now? The one who came to us not long ago was not a substitute for the cellar brand, but the real one!! Don't say that the yajue has no ability in a head-on duel, this is only relative. They dare not show up head-on because their Taoism is similar. If it is really the kind of character who has caused harm for thousands of years, the difference between them and us is too big, and it is not difficult for him to kill one of us with one hand!"

I thought that was the truth, so I said, "It seems that this gangster not only kills living people, but also captures other lonely ghosts. Now she has revealed all her assets just to get rid of Xiaozhi and me. It seems that she has a bigger plan now."

Brother Yaozi said faintly: "The child tree with roots and the boy fence on the tiles are pitiful homeless night wandering souls, but they are still the flesh and blood of their parents."

Lao Bai cursed Brother Yaozi for not doing his job and reciting some weird poems.

Brother Yaozi shook his head and said that these two sentences were not said by him, but a few folk proverbs from the Xuanmen in Huguang area that flowed to the mortal world. Whether it is the child tree with roots or the boy fence on the tiles, they are actually the most vicious ghosts in the world.

Tongzili is a ghost connected by blood. They are connected by heart, so they go hand in hand wherever they go. They look like a fence. Every night, they will climb on other people's roofs to swallow the moonlight. When the cock crows and leaves, they will kill the owner of the house, so it is called Tongzili on the tiles.

As for this rooted child tree, it is even more complicated.

The locust tree is not auspicious. One tree and one ghost. When you open the door, you will see a ghost. Generally, this kind of tree is not kept at home. There is a mass grave in this world, where so many dead people are buried that their surnames add up to a hundred surnames. This mass grave is called Wanjiazhong, a place of great resentment. A locust tree grows on Wanjiazhong, and when the moon is eclipsed by the heavenly dog, the locust tree will change, and the annual rings in the trunk will be as red as blood. This locust tree is called the Blood Eye Banner, probably because every time the moon is full, two huge blood-red eyes will appear on the huge tree crown, and the branches will move without wind, rustling like a banner swept in the wind, so it is named after it.

Some sorcerers picked the branches of the Blood Eye Banner and planted them beside the dead water covered with green algae. However, these branches of the Blood Eye Banner would not sprout immediately. They needed to be nurtured by the souls of children. Therefore, the sorcerers would bury countless children's bones around the branches. The branches of the Blood Eye Banner began to flourish, but they would not grow into trees. Instead, they would gradually grow into a large net made of vines. Hanging on the net were the heads of children. Those were the souls of many children buried. It looked like a fishing net.

This is the Rooted Child Tree.

This Rooted Child Tree is extremely fierce. When the sorcerers harm people, they throw out the Child Tree and cover the people below. The countless little ghosts on it will immediately bite the person's skin and flesh, and even knock the skull to suck the brain marrow. In an instant, a person can be eaten up completely.

Those hanging on both sides of the valley, hiding behind the vines, are these child trees. I don't know how many there are. If it weren't for Brother Yaozi who knew such a place, we would have spied it in advance. Once we rashly walked into the valley, the consequences can be imagined. The fog blocked our eyes and we couldn't see anything. Countless child trees suddenly fell from above and wrapped us in it. There was absolutely no way to survive!

This evil sorcerer was so vicious and insidious that we felt cold all over.

"What should we do? Even if you know how to break the formation, we dare not go in at all!"

Lao Bai said: "If you are really worried about Mr. Zhang, we can bite the bullet and go to Huzi Ai. Although we will be suppressed there, it is better than being eaten by these little ghosts!"

I shook my head. The toothman has already known everything here. It is impossible for him to play a trick on us in Huzi Ai. It must be more dangerous there. Once we enter the Yinhe Bureau, we will be suppressed and unable to use our strength. This is the most cowardly. At least we can fight him here!

When Brother Yaozi saw my expression, he guessed the general idea and said with a smile: "Jingzhe, you should have a solution, right?"

"These little ghosts are just a group of innocent children. It is better for them to die and be freed by being tortured and persecuted by this bastard!"

I stared at the layout of the Black Emperor's water array, and a vicious plan came to my mind. I gritted my teeth and said: "I don't know if it will work, but it doesn't stop me from taking a gamble first!!"