Chapter 482: Sun, Moon, Star (2)
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
When Xiao Shi’s vision cleared, he had already appeared in front of a rugged cliff residence. There was a three-meter-tall stone door embedded in the wall. There was an Eight Trigrams anaglyph carved on the stone door. The words “Qian, Kun, Zhen, Kan, Li” protruded.
Xiao Shi observed the stone door in front of him. He sensed that the stone door might need a specific key to open. However, Barbarian Ghost did not give him any keys. He first checked his surroundings warily. After confirming that there was no one else here, he took out the Dream Jade and entered the dream.
“I’ve already arrived at the place you mentioned through teleportation, but there’s a stone door here that can’t be opened.” Xiao Shi said to Barbarian Ghost.
Barbarian Ghost nodded. “The trick to opening this stone door lies in the Eight Trigrams diagram on it. This is the Eight Trigrams Locking Array passed down from ancient times. As long as you transmit soul power according to the correct route, you can unlock it. I’ll tell you the correct route now.”
Barbarian Ghost explained the entire opening route to Xiao Shi in extreme detail.
“Are you sure there’s an ancient ruin behind this stone door?” Xiao Shi asked.
“Positive.” Barbarian Ghost nodded. “There are actually two entrances to this ancient ruin. The one that leaked out is only one of them. Very few people know about this entrance now. However, it’s very difficult to open this entrance. It’s not like the other entrance that allows one to enter directly. Therefore, when we discovered this entrance back then, we could not enter immediately. Then, we were monitored by the Temple of Prayer, so we could not come over.”
Xiao Shi was enlightened. No wonder Barbarian Ghost needed to find someone who was not monitored and trusted to help him take out the items inside.
Xiao Shi followed the opening route instructed by the Barbarian Ghost and transferred soul power into the stone door. As his soul power followed the correct path, it formed a circulation on the stone door.
Xiao Shi raised his hand and pressed the pattern in the middle of the stone door. The stone door shook, and it slowly slid to the side.
Behind the stone door was not the dark mountainside, but a corridor that was flickering with candlelight. The entire corridor was about three meters wide and five meters high. It led to the depths, and there was no end to it. Oil bowls were placed on the niche, and bean-like flames burned quietly.
Xiao Shi stood in front of the door. He did not enter immediately. Instead, he spread his spiritual sense, wanting to use it to investigate the situation in the passageway.
This time, Xiao Shi came with his main body, not a clone. His avatar was placed in Luoyou City. The main body’s spiritual sense was far stronger than his clone. Be it the attack of his spiritual sense or the range of his spiritual sense, it was not something his clone could compare to.
After he cultivated the Nether Eye, his entire spiritual sense had increased further, and its concealment was extremely extraordinary. Before coming to Luoyou City, Xiao Shi had already specially looked for Xiang Zizhen to try.
When he used his spiritual sense to sweep through Xiang Zizhen, even with Xiang Zizhen’s strength and cultivation, he could not sense it. Unless he went in further, only then would Xiang Zizhen sensed it. Under normal circumstances, the other party could not sense it with his spiritual sense.
But as Xiao Shi infiltrated the tunnel with his spiritual sense, His entire spiritual sense was instantly suppressed. It could not spread too far. This situation was similar to the situation in the underground palace.
At that time, Xiao Shi had yet to develop his spiritual sense and did not feel much. He could not compare to the current situation. But he was sure of one thing.
The suppression of his spiritual sense was not because of the array formation. Instead, it was the strangeness of this ancient ruin.
“If it’s an array formation, there’s still a possibility of cracking it. If it’s not an array formation, there’s no solution.” Xiao Shi’s expression turned solemn. The suppression of his spiritual sense would weaken his strength to a certain extent. However, since he was already here, he would not back down because of this.
He entered the passageway and continued forward. The entire corridor was very long. After walking for more than ten minutes, Xiao Shi stopped. He discovered a human-shaped stone statue standing in front of him. The entire stone statue was a burly soldier leaning on a sword and facing Xiao Shi. He was wearing heavy armor and a helmet with his head lowered.
Xiao Shi did not approach it rashly. With a distance between them, his spiritual sense spread out. He used his spiritual sense to investigate.
Although his spiritual sense was greatly suppressed in this ancient ruin, Xiao Shi could still maintain his spiritual sense within a hundred meters.
When his spiritual sense touched this stone statue, the eyes of the entire stone statue suddenly turned scarlet. With a series of cracking sounds, the stone statue’s lowered head slowly raised and dust splattered down.
Xiao Shi’s heart tightened. He was on full alert, ready to fight at any time. The revived stone statue stared at Xiao Shi with its scarlet eyes and picked up the longsword on the ground. However, he did not attack Xiao Shi with the longsword in his hand. Instead, he stabbed the longsword in his hand into the ground and drew a circle. Then, he used the long sword in his hand to draw a crescent moon beside the circle. Finally, he drew a hexagram on the edge of the crescent moon.
After the stone statue finished doing all of this, he stabbed the long sword in his hand into the ground again and returned to his previous posture of standing with the sword. The redness in his eyes dissipated. He lowered his head again.
Xiao Shi frowned as he watched this scene. He originally thought that the revival of the stone statue would attack him, but he did not expect that the stone statue only drew three patterns on the ground.
“Could it be that these three patterns represent the sun, moon, and stars?” Xiao Shi had a guess. As the stone statue only drew these three patterns, it did not give any instructions. He could only guess based on his intuition. “From the current situation, it seems that I have to choose one of these three patterns. And my choice might very well affect the situation and encounters I will face in this ancient ruin in the future.”
Xiao Shi fell into deep thought. The meaning of these three patterns was different. There might only be one “correct answer.” If he could choose the right answer, his future path would be smooth. However, if he chose the wrong answer, what he asked for next was most likely a calamity.
If that was the case, then he had to be careful when choosing these three patterns.
“If I know the relevant information about this ancient ruin, 1 can analyze and speculate through the history of this ancient ruin. But I don’t know anything now. I can only rely on luck!” Xiao Shi sighed at this. He missed the Blood Luck Pill that could increase luck when he was in the Blood Martial Realm. If there was such an item that could increase luck at this time, then he would not have to worry. He could just close his eyes and choose whatever he wanted. “Maybe it doesn’t just depend on luck. The answer might be hidden nearby.”
Xiao Shi began to observe his surroundings carefully. He focused on the tall stone statue in front of him. Through the clothes of the stone statue, including the longsword in his hand, he searched for any elements related to the three patterns. He also observed the ground and walls of the passageway.
However, after careful observation, he did not find any relevant clues from the stone statue, the ground, and the walls. He only discovered that if he was not among the three patterns and chose one, he would not be able to continue forward and would stop here.
Xiao Shi took a deep breath. He could only sense the three patterns through his spiritual sense. He wanted to see if he could sense anything from these three patterns. He immediately felt it clearly. There was a strong heat hidden in the circular pattern. There was a coldness hidden in the crescent moon pattern. There was a sharpness hidden in the last six-pointed star pattern.
Xiao Shi narrowed his eyes. That was all he could sense now.. “Since I don’t know what it means, 1 can only choose according to my own feelings!”
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