Chapter 54: The Sealed Artifact, the Abyss
Chapter 54: The Sealed Artifact, the Abyss
When he wakes up.
I found myself lying on the ground with a backpack as my pillow.
Shirley Yang was sitting next to him, looking at him with concern, which instantly warmed his heart.
"you're awake?!"
Shirley Yang shouted in surprise.
It immediately attracted other people who were resting nearby.
Especially Lao Hu and Fatty, they rushed directly to Xu Feng.
"Master Xu, are you awake?!"
"Xiaoye Xu, how are you?"
Aning also stood behind Shirley Yang. Although her face was cold, her eyes were full of concern.
Xu Feng smiled weakly: "Don't worry, I'm fine."
The fat man exclaimed, "Master Xu, you said you were fine, but Old Hu checked you just now. You were seriously injured. It seems that you even have several broken ribs."
Xu Feng smiled bitterly: "I ran too fast and bumped into someone."
The fat man opened his mouth to ask something, but when he saw so many people around, he swallowed his words back.
But he didn't ask, but others asked.
"Little Master Xu, what did you encounter in that nine-story demon tower? Why was it so thrilling?"
Zhang Qiling asked.
Xu Feng shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Don't talk about it. I got two useless things, but I provoked a monster that I shouldn't have provoked."
"correct!"
He seemed to remember something: "The monster's hand seemed to be cut off just now. Did it drop a weapon?"
Lao Hu nodded: "Yes, a knife fell out of the monster's hand."
As he said this, he handed the knife in his hand to Xu Feng.
Xu Feng took a look.
[Item Name]: Demon Hunting Knife "Seal"
[Item Level]: ? ?
[Item Ability]: ? ?
【Item Description】:? ?
A sealed artifact?
Xu Feng raised his eyebrows, did not take the knife, and said directly:
"Old Hu, let's see who gets to use this knife first, you or Fatty!"
Lao Hu thought for a moment and handed the knife to the fat man: "You can use it first. I have a small sword, which is enough."
The fat guy was not one to be pretentious and took it immediately.
Xu Feng asked again: "How long have I been unconscious?"
Shirley Yang said, "It's about a day, right? You can't see the time here."
Xu Feng reacted immediately.
This is still the ancient city of Jingjue. Due to the influence of Mount Cishan, all electronic equipment has been damaged and even watches are inaccurate, so you can't see the time at all.
"So, did anything happen while I was unconscious?"
If he remembered correctly, in the original novel, after Fatty Wang broke his jade eye, hundreds of black-eyed monster snakes fell from the ceiling, and Hu Bayi and his men were almost wiped out.
Shirley Yang shook her head: "No, we have been resting here and waiting for you to wake up."
Xu Feng thought to himself: "It seems that the plot has changed."
"Help me sit up."
Xu Feng said strugglingly.
After half an hour.
Xu Feng's true energy finally returned to its peak.
However, the injuries on my body will not recover so quickly. I have to wait until I leave here and go to the hospital for treatment.
Fortunately, it does not affect Xu Feng's activities.
He stood up and said, "It's time for us to go!"
Xu Feng first looked at the temple gate.
In the original novel, Hu Bayi and his companions found the gate of the temple, which was mostly buried by yellow sand, but they still slid down along the sand and reached the temple.
But what he saw was the closed door of the temple.
He stepped forward and pushed.
It can't be pushed at all.
He wanted to look outside through the crack in the door, but he could see nothing. He guessed that the outside was buried in yellow sand.
"It seems that we have to find another way out."
Xu Feng sighed.
The Jingjue Ancient City is too dangerous.
I haven't even seen the Queen of Jingjue yet, and I've already had several near-death experiences.
I don’t know what dangers I will have to go through next.
All he wants now is to go home.
"We checked when you were unconscious!"
"The outside of the gate should be buried in the yellow sand."
“There’s no way out anywhere else.”
"We are trapped in this temple."
Zhang Qiling walked over and said with a sad face.
Xu Feng was not worried.
He asked Lao Hu, "What do you think?"
Lao Hu was a little confused: "Me?"
Xu Feng was suddenly speechless.
"Old Hu, you are an expert in finding dragons, divination, and determining the location of tombs. Don't you see that there is something strange about this temple?"
Upon hearing this, Old Hu immediately understood what Xu Feng meant.
He began to carefully observe the furnishings in the hall.
The others looked at him expectantly, waiting for him to find a way out for everyone.
Before, Lao Hu had always been worried about Xu Feng's injury.
So I didn't pay attention.
After looking around for a long time, he was suddenly surprised to find that this temple was indeed mysterious.
"The layout of this temple is the same as the arrangement of the sixteen earth-penetrating dragons in the Five Elements and Eight Diagrams, which secretly corresponds to the number of Ju Men."
This kind of mechanism arrangement is quite common in ancient tombs from the Han Dynasty.
"It seems that the designer of this temple is also a master who is well versed in metaphysics!" Old Hu sighed.
The fat man beside him was completely confused and couldn't help but interrupt: "Old Hu, what are you talking about? Can you say something we can understand?"
Lao Hu ignored him.
He walked to the center of the temple, looked at the large pillars around him, and suddenly understood.
The sixteen dragons that penetrate the earth are nothing but the changes of the five elements and the twenty-four directions.
After some calculations, he quickly got the result.
"Master Xu, I found the mechanism."
Lao Hu said in surprise.
Xu Feng already knew that he had this ability, so he smiled faintly and said, "I've already told you that you can do it."
Old Hu smiled and shouted to the fat man: "Fatty, come and help me."
He walked to the stone pillar that was broken by Xu Feng.
"Listen to my orders! Search for dragons over a thousand miles, seek in tombs, follow the yang for five steps, and the yin for one, and start turning."
The fat man looked at him in confusion.
Old Hu slapped his forehead immediately and said, "Forget about your ignorance, fat man. Okay, listen to me. When you get here, turn five squares clockwise, then turn one square in the opposite direction. During the rotation process, you can't turn more or less. Understand?"
The fat man immediately replied: "I understand!"
The two men turned the stone pillar with force.
really!
There is a mechanism at the bottom of the stone pillar that allows it to rotate.
Every time they turned, they counted.
Wait until they finish the last square.
I heard a series of clicking sounds from below.
Afterwards, the stone pillar moved to the side, and a deep passage leading downwards was revealed at its original position.
Zhang Qiling was watching from the side and was amazed: "Amazing, you are worthy of being a tomb raider, you can find such a hidden mechanism."
Others also praised Lao Hu.
Old Hu's face turned red. "Don't praise me. If it weren't for Master Xu, I wouldn't have noticed the mechanism here. So if we talk about being awesome, it's still Master Xu."
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Xu Feng quickly said, "Okay, let's hurry up and go."
As he said this, he took the lead and walked down the passage.
Others followed in one after another.
There were about thirty steps going down. After everyone came down, they found that there was a corridor below.
There are all kinds of strange paintings on the stone walls on both sides of the corridor.
If Professor Chen and his people were here, they would probably go crazy when they saw these murals.
These are all precious historical documents.
However, no one in the corridor was interested in historical documents at that time.
Everyone just casually looked at the murals on the stone wall.
The environment of this terracotta path is closed and the air is not circulating. The colors of the murals are as new as before, without any peeling, and are very complete.
However, the most common thing in the murals is eyes, all kinds of eyes.
After walking for a long time, we finally reached the end of the corridor.
"Be careful, there is a cliff ahead!"
Xu Feng reminded everyone.
Everyone walked to the edge of the exit and looked out, and sure enough, it was a bottomless abyss with no bottom in sight.
"Hmm? Do you think this is the abyss we just saw?"
Xu Feng suddenly asked.
He was talking about the abyss in the Cishan Cave where Shirley Yang was possessed and almost fell into.
"You know what, they really look alike."
Zhang Qiling said.
"Could it be that the Cishan Cave is right below?"
Old Hu stuck his head out and looked down.
Unfortunately it was too dark to see.
"I hope not!"
Xu Feng said that he had not forgotten the pair of eyes he saw at that time.
Those eyes definitely came from some terrifying creature.
He didn't want to meet the owner of those eyes.
Fatty: "How do we go now?"
Xu Feng pointed the high-intensity flashlight forward: "Go from there."
Everyone looked forward.
Suddenly everyone gasped.
In the abyss in front of them, there were dozens of stone slabs floating.
These stone slabs have no support underneath and are completely suspended in the air, just like the hoverboards in science fiction movies. Each stone slab is about one meter apart, just the right size for a person to stand on.
Dozens of stone slabs were laid all the way to the opposite side.
There is a cave over there too.
"This...how is this done?!"
The fat man asked stutteringly.
The others were so shocked that they couldn't say a word.
This is simply a miracle!
It has completely exceeded the normal scope of physics.
(End of this chapter)