Chapter 1959: Chapter 1801: Maze Formation (2)
Now that we’ve discovered the pattern, everything becomes simpler.
He moved forward along the forest path, occasionally turning left and right, seemingly aimless, but actually following a certain sequence.
Sometimes, he would even pass through the thickets, directly reaching the path beside him.
Dongfang Yun, half skeptical, followed closely behind him.
The two walked for more than three hours without stopping.
Dongfang Yun glanced around and found that the surrounding scenery hadn’t changed, and couldn’t help but ask, "Isn’t this place too huge? How much longer do we have to walk?"
"Not long now, we’re about to walk out of the array."
Song Yun turned back to smile at Dongfang Yun and continued to walk forward.
He looked ahead; there was a corner up ahead, which was the life gate of this Nine Palace Illusion Array.
After traversing the previous paths, finally reaching the life gate would break the array, and all illusions would vanish.
Song Yun stepped onto the life gate and stood still, and the scene before his eyes changed instantly.
The beautiful peach blossom forest disappeared, leaving only waist-high shrubs around, unevenly arranged, mostly withered, hardly as beautiful as the peach blossom forest.
In the thickets stood sixteen three-meter-high stones, each different in appearance, seemingly without any pattern.
However, the stones were very neatly arranged in four rows and four columns, with a ten-meter gap between every two adjacent stones.
If these stones were connected, they would form a large square, and the four adjacent stones would form smaller square areas, totaling nine small squares.
Each stone was engraved with different patterns, seemingly eroded by wind and sand, naturally formed, but intentionally so.
The Nine Palace Illusion Array originated from this.
At this moment, Dongfang Yun hadn’t walked out of the illusion array; she saw Song Yun standing at the corner of the small path in the peach blossom forest without moving, but she wasn’t aware that the scene before Song Yun’s eyes was completely different from what she was seeing.
She asked, "Why aren’t you moving?"
Song Yun withdrew his gaze looking around, looked at Dongfang Yun, and beckoned, "I am standing at the life gate of the Nine Palace Illusion Array; as long as you come over, the array will be broken."
"Really?"
Dongfang Yun’s eyes lit up, and she walked forward.
When she reached Song Yun’s side, the scene before her eyes changed, and she gaped in amazement at the wonder of the Nine Palace Illusion Array.
After a moment of silence, Dongfang Yun lamented, "This Nine Palace Illusion Array is too magical, this place is just over a thousand square meters at most, but it creates the illusion of an endless peach blossom forest. We walked inside for several hours, and yet we’ve been trapped inside all along."
Song Yun said, "This array only has bewildering effects, it isn’t offensive. If certain changes are made, the Nine Palace Illusion Array would become a Nine Palace Kill Formation. If it was a Nine Palace Kill Formation, breaking it wouldn’t be this easy."
The Nine Palace Kill Formation, what is that?
Dongfang Yun was filled with curiosity, realizing that Song Yun knew so much.
She glanced at the Nine Palace Illusion Array and saw several human skeletons and a few other animal skeletons inside, likely having mistakenly entered the illusion array and ultimately trapped inside to death.
This place was very hard to find; only Song Yun and his companion reached here by following the map’s guidance.
Over the years, only so few people or animals have accidentally stumbled in and died here, which is quite unlucky.
Among those who stumbled in, only the fisherman "Wuling People" left safely, but to find his way back here again, he would not know where to look.
So without a map, don’t even think about entering the valley.
Even if you enter the valley, you still need to break the Nine Palace Illusion Array.
The Nine Palace Illusion Array is at the entrance of the valley, and as soon as you reach this place, you fall into the illusion array.
If you don’t know how to solve it, most likely you’ll end up trapped inside.
Dongfang Yun took out the map for a glance and said to Song Yun, "The map doesn’t mark the Nine Palace Illusion Array, it seems the person who left the map didn’t want too many people entering the Taoyuan."
"Perhaps."
Song Yun replied ambiguously.
In his heart, he thought, this beginner level array like the Nine Palace Illusion Array, Master Hao Lan didn’t even consider it significant, so it wasn’t marked on the map.
Because in Master Hao Lan’s eyes, this array was almost non-existent.
The two stared at the Nine Palace Illusion Array for a while, and Song Yun called Dongfang Yun, "Let’s go; ahead is the entrance to Taoyuan."
After speaking, he walked forward.
Dongfang Yun followed Song Yun, looking at his back, unable to calm her heart.
The Black Light Sever Sword that released powerful Sword Qi, the super-fast speed comparable to the Innate Realm, the knowledge about the arrays...
Song Yun seemed omnipotent, hiding endless secrets.
"Who is he really?"
In Dongfang Yun’s heart, she was full of interest in Song Yun.
Exiting the Nine Palace Illusion Array, at the time, the valley where they were wasn’t as vast as it appeared in the peach blossom forest earlier, but a narrow gorge, about twenty meters wide.
The valley walls slanted inwards, nearing half a meter at the top where the walls were about to merge, leaving only a line through which the sky could be seen.
Sunlight shone down through the valley crevice, forming a bright line at the valley floor, and as the sun moved, the line moved horizontally, looking very intriguing.
Song Yun and Dongfang Yun walked forward, as described in the map, at the end of the valley is the entrance to Taoyuan.
Rushing sound...
The sound of water flow arose, and the two looked ahead, only to see water rushing out from a hidden channel in the valley walls, forming a waterfall over a dozen meters wide.
The waterfall looked like a white silk, its drops glistening brilliantly.
Beneath the waterfall was a deep pond, with crystal clear waves rippling across.
The pond occupied the end of the valley, forming a crescent shape.
The waterfall’s rapid flow crashed into the pond, creating massive splashes.
The surface of the pond neither rose nor fell, with the waterfall only falling; it was unclear where this water flowed to.
The line of sunlight shining down the valley, casting upon the waterfall and the pond, two sides dark, a line of bright light in the middle, almost splitting the scenery in half.
Such a sight, leaving Dongfang Yun marveling in amazement.
"Truly marvelous, is this the entrance to Taoyuan?"
Dongfang Yun exclaimed and took out the map to see that her current location was indeed the entrance to Taoyuan.
She looked at Song Yun, "Is it possible that the waterfall is the gateway to Taoyuan, and there lies another sight behind it?"
At any question, she would inquire of Song Yun, as if he knew everything.
Song Yun, staring at the scene before him, spoke in a deep voice, "If my guess isn’t wrong, the entrance to Taoyuan should be beneath the pond, but this scene looks peculiar, likely another array, needing to go behind the waterfall to verify."
With these words, Song Yun jumped toward the waterfall, his figure submerged in the water, dashing into and disappearing behind it.
"Come in."
Song Yun’s voice came from within the waterfall.
Without hesitation, Dongfang Yun also jumped into the waterfall.
Behind the waterfall, it was a whole different world, a small cave of about twenty square meters.
The surroundings were pitch black, and Song Yun held a flashlight, looking at the front center of the cave.
There was a half-meter-diameter disc, no, strictly speaking, it was a bronze mirror.
The bronze mirror had been polished very finely, with no distortion in the reflection, presenting a complete, proportional image.
The bronze mirror hung two meters high, its direction slanted downwards.
Such a layout was indeed strange and must have some purpose.
Dongfang Yun, puzzled, was about to inquire when Song Yun spoke first, solemnly saying, "I never expected it to be a Reverse Locking Array."
"Reverse Locking Array?"
Dongfang Yun frowned slightly, filled with confusion.
Previously it was the Nine Palace Illusion Array, Nine Palace Kill Formation, and now this Reverse Locking Array was the third array named by Song Yun, and Dongfang Yun still hadn’t heard of it.
She really didn’t know what Song Yun had in his mind, knowing so much, even better than those master craftsmen of the Kunlun Sect.
Song Yun held up a flashlight, walking toward the bronze mirror, observing closely, and his face showed a serious expression, nodding, "Indeed, a Reverse Locking Array."
After speaking, he glanced at the surrounding stone walls, then turned to look at Dongfang Yun.
Unexpectedly, upon turning his head, he almost had a nosebleed.
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