Liaozhai: A scholar should draw a sword

Chapter 136 Destroy the main altar first...

After a while, the old man in black robe stood up and muttered something.

As soon as the words fell, there was a wave of shouts in the valley, and all the people moved in unison, kowtowing to the high platform with their hands in strange gestures.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

At this time, the ground trembled, and the valley suddenly became quiet.

Zhou Yu and the others could see clearly from the top of the mountain. It turned out that someone led several "zombies" to the high platform.

One of them is exaggerated, at least one foot tall, and comparing it with an ordinary person is like comparing an adult to a baby.

At this time, Yan Chixia couldn't help frowning: "I never thought they would refine a corpse demon."

"Corpse?"

"Yes, it seems that there are hundreds of years of Taoism, and it is also an important means they use to fool the people."

"Then shall we rush down and catch them off guard?"

"No, there are too many people at the scene, otherwise, while they are engaged in the ceremony, let's split up and find out their background."

"Alright."

So, a group of people divided into several groups and started to act.

Going around in the mountains, Zhou Yu suddenly sensed a wave of formation energy, so he stopped.

"Husband, what did you find?"

Bai Min'er had a tacit understanding, seeing her husband's actions, she guessed that she must have discovered something.

"There must be an agency near here, follow me and be careful."

In terms of fighting strength, Zhou Yu may not be as good as Bai Min'er now, but in terms of organ formations, he is far superior to Bai Miner.

Sure enough, after searching for a while according to his feeling, Zhou Yu finally found the mechanism.

"Is the entrance here?"

Bai Min'er looked surprised, subconsciously raised her eyes and glanced down... This place was clearly a cliff, bottomless, and thick clouds and mist filled the bottom.

Zhou Yu nodded: "That's right. Judging from the technique, it's obviously an ancient formation from the Central Plains. Perhaps, they have masters who are proficient in the formation of the Central Plains.

The ingenuity of this formation is that it is not an illusion, but uses the natural terrain.

This is not only the entrance of the formation, but also a real cliff.

If you don't know the way of the formation, if you step on it, it will be an abyss..."

His own wife, Zhou Yu, of course took the trouble to explain it in detail, and she used the existing mechanism to let Bai Min'er master more knowledge about formations.

When the explanation was almost finished, Bai Min'er looked eager to try: "Husband, why don't you let me try."

"Yeah!" Zhou Yu nodded with a smile.

So, Bai Min'er learned and sold, first measured with steps for a while, then walked left, right, right, up and down in a small circle according to a specific rhythm, finally stood on the edge of the cliff, raised her hand and made a gesture, drinking lightly. One sound: "Open!"

"open!"

No movement.

"open!"

After drinking three times in a row, Bai Min'er couldn't help but blushed, turned her head to Zhou Yu and said angrily, "Don't laugh!"

Zhou Yu looked innocent: "I... I didn't smile."

"You're not smiling on the surface, but you're snickering in your heart!" Bai Min'er replied with a savage expression.

"puff……"

This time, Zhou Yu really laughed.

"Look, are you still talking?"

Bai Min'er rushed forward and beat her husband several times with her fist.

Taking advantage of the situation, Zhou Yu grabbed her little hand and pulled her into his arms, coaxing her softly, "I didn't laugh at first, but when you said that, I really wanted to laugh."

"Hmph, excuse!"

This is also a small pleasure between husband and wife.

"Actually, you did a good job just now, but there will inevitably be some small errors in the first attempt.

Don't worry, try it again, you must restrain your mind, don't think about other things, just pretend that I am not by your side. "

"Okay, let me try again, you are not allowed to laugh."

"Promise not to laugh... unless you can't help it."

"you……"

"Okay, let's go!"

Zhou Yu raised his hand and clapped...

Bai Min'er stepped forward and tried again.

This time, it finally happened.

"open!"

Following her shout, the scene in front of her eyes changed, and a mountain wall and a cave appeared out of nowhere on the edge of the cliff.

Seeing this, Zhou Yu couldn't help saying: "Min'er, what we see now is the real landform.

The cliff is real, but they used ingenious techniques to hide the cave, and used formations to cause misalignment. "

Bai Min'er couldn't help sighing: "The way of the formation is really endless."

"That's right, but you have to remember that everything is the same, as long as you grasp the foundation of the formation and understand the principle of its arrangement, then no matter what formation, even if you can't break it for a short time, you can always find some clues... ..."

Soon after, the couple walked into the cave.

It seems that Tianyi Sect seems to be very confident in this mechanism. Along the way, apart from some poisonous bugs that appear from time to time, there is no other mechanism or secret sentry.

The cave is winding and the slope keeps going down.After a cup of tea, I finally saw the exit.

"careful!"

After seeing the bright light at the entrance of the cave, Zhou Yu subconsciously whispered something to Bai Min'er.

"Ah."

Bai Min'er nodded.

After all, this place is unusual, so don't take it lightly.

The husband and wife observed secretly, and after confirming that no one was at the entrance of the cave, they went out.

"This……"

As soon as she went out, Bai Min'er couldn't help being shocked.

What caught my eye was a large piece of colorful mushrooms.

However, the growth of these mushrooms is a bit exaggerated, the smallest ones are the size of a sea bowl, and the larger ones are like a round table, and the colors are bright, making people's eyes dazzled.

The important thing is that there are countless poisonous insects inhabiting the mushroom bushes, including snakes, scorpions, centipedes, lizards... at least seven or eight kinds.

Seeing such a scene, Zhou Yu couldn't help but frowned, and whispered: "Min'er, maybe this is their lair, we have to be more careful."

"Uh-huh."

After passing through the mushroom forest, a valley appeared ahead.

From a distance, there is a puff of black and green smoke in the valley.

The couple slowly walked around halfway up the hill... Finally, the valley came into view.

I saw that there were at least hundreds of large vats densely packed in the valley, some were covered and some were open.

Zhou Yu took a closer look and couldn't help but gasp...

These big vats are not used to pickle vegetables, but to pickle people.

Bai Min'er saw it too, she couldn't help turning pale, she suppressed the churning in her stomach, and said in a low voice: "Husband, is this how they refine poisonous corpses?"

"It should be. We have found a few secret strongholds before, but the scale is not so large. The largest one is only [-] to [-] large tanks.

But there are at least a few hundred mouths here. Judging from the scale, it should be the main altar where they cultivate poisonous corpses. "

"I don't know how many disciples there are here."

"In this way, let's find out first, but don't disturb them."

"know."

After some secret investigations, Zhou Yu found that there were about a hundred disciples in the valley, but this should not be all of them. It was probably just a place where the other party used to cultivate poisonous corpses.

When it was almost time to check, the husband and wife quietly returned from the original road.

into the night.

The group reunited.

This time they split up, and everyone gained more or less.

Zhou Yu held a tree and wrote on the ground, summarizing the news and drawing it into a picture.

Among them, Yan Chixia gained the most, because he finally discovered the location of the opponent's main altar.

"It's also a coincidence..."

Yan Chixia told the story.

"At that time, brother Xia and I searched for a long time, but we found nothing. Until the sunset, we suddenly heard a movement.

Brother Xia and I immediately hid ourselves and observed, only to find two men dressed as mountain people walking along the mountain path.

However, although those two people were dressed as mountain people, I could tell at a glance that they could never be ordinary people.

So Brother Xia and I quietly followed those two guys.

The other party was also very vigilant, stopping to look around from time to time, and even made a detour on purpose.Finally, into a canyon.

Although Brother Xia and I did not enter the canyon, but through the dialogue between the two of them and their cautious demeanor, Brother Xia and I judged that the canyon should be the most important stronghold of the other party..."

Zhou Yu drew a picture based on what everyone said about the situation and location. After drawing, he got up and looked at it carefully for a while, and couldn't help showing a smile.

"Understood, it turned out to be like this..."

"Brother Zhou, what did you find?"

"Right now, I'm almost certain that at least one of the senior members of the Tianyi Sect is from the Central Plains and is proficient in formations.

Look at the terrain, here is Tengli Village, here is where they cultivate poisonous corpses, here is the place where poison is refined, and here..."

While speaking, Zhou Yu drew a circle with branches to connect all the strongholds.

"Did you find anything?"

Now, Yan Chixia finally saw the clue, and couldn't help exclaiming: "This looks a bit like the Big Dipper Formation of Tiangang."

"Yes, yes, brother Yan is right. Such a connection really looks a bit like the Big Dipper Formation."

Zhou Yu smiled: "That's right, but, according to my inference, the other party should have made improvements.

You see, all their strongholds are obviously carefully selected locations, using the natural terrain to form an array, and finally formed a miraculous effect of one positive and one strange, mutual generation and restraint, mutual horns, and echoing each other from a distance.

In other words, if there is a problem in any one stronghold, other strongholds will inevitably respond.

Even, these strongholds are very likely to be interconnected and can be teleported to each other.

If this is the case, it is almost impossible to wipe them out, unless a large army is launched to attack several strongholds at the same time.

However, by the time the army gets here, I am afraid that everyone has already run away. "

Upon hearing this, Xia Houshan couldn't help but sighed: "No wonder they can't be eradicated, these people are really too cunning."

"Then what should we do?" Zhiqiu couldn't help asking.

At this time, Liao Zhen glanced at Zhou Yu and said, "By the way, don't you know how to arrange Qimen Dunjia? How about we arrange a large formation outside to trap them?"

"It's unrealistic..." Zhou Yu shook his head: "First, to deploy such a large formation, first, it requires a lot of manpower, and second, it takes a long time.

In addition, the opponent also has masters who are proficient in formations, so it is impossible not to notice it. "

"Then...there is no other way?"

"Yes, but everyone needs to cooperate tacitly. My idea is to first determine an attack target and destroy the opponent's formation layout before attacking, so that they cannot use the formation to escape."

"Well, this is a good idea..." Yan Chixia nodded: "So, which target do you think is better to attack first?"

This time, everyone's opinions are completely consistent, that is, to capture the thief first, capture the king, and destroy the main altar first.

"Okay, then it's decided!"

After deciding on the attack target, the group arrived near the canyon that Yanchixia mentioned.

Zhou Yu carefully observed the environment here from the periphery, and at the same time he had to figure out the opponent's arrangement, so that he could prescribe the right medicine.

This is a technical job.

It is necessary to cut off the connection between the opponent's formations, and at the same time not make the opponent alert in advance, so as to have the effect of a surprise attack.

At dawn the next day, everything was ready.

"action!"

With a soft drink, a group of people sneaked into the canyon under the leadership of Zhou Yu.

This is the opponent's main altar, and the entrance is naturally heavily organised.However, with Zhou Yu leading the way, there is no need to worry.

Although the opponent is a master of formations, compared with Zhou Yu, he is almost nothing.

They sneaked in silently all the way, and wiped out several batches of secret sentries along the way... In the past, Zhou Yu and others avoided the secret sentries to prevent the other party from finding out that someone was invading.

But now that a general attack is about to be launched, naturally we can no longer keep secret whistles and kill one when we see one.

After entering the valley where the main altar is located, Zhou Yu quickly rearranged it... He used the other party's ready-made mechanism to make slight changes.

In this way, it turned this place into a huge cage instead, and it would take a certain amount of time for the other party to crack it.

"Okay, let me explain again, if you encounter danger, everyone can run here to avoid..."

Zhou Yu gave a rough talk, and then the group dispersed and acted separately.

After a while, thick smoke suddenly rose from the valley, and the flames blazed...

"No, it's on fire!"

"Quickly put out the fire!"

The valley suddenly became chaotic.

Of course, this fire was set by Zhou Yu and his party, in order to make the opponent mess up first, and at the same time to observe the strength of the opponent.

"Don't panic everyone!"

At this time, a man who looked like a leader rushed out, roaring loudly.

"This fire is not normal, search it immediately to see if someone has sneaked in."

"Yes!"

On the hillside, Zhou Yu and others observed for a while, but found that although there were many disciples in Guzhong, about three to four hundred, they did not find a few masters.

Seeing this, Liao Zhen couldn't help but frowned, and asked with a puzzled look: "Could it be that our judgment is wrong, this is not their main altar?"

Zhou Yu shook his head: "No, I can be sure that this is the main altar. From the layout point of view, this is a typical place where the stars and the moon are located.

We haven't seen a master now, which means that the other party is still hiding in the dark, and may even be secretly searching for the intruder.

Alright, everyone disperses according to the plan and plays by ear. "

Zhou Yu's guess was right. Although the fire caused the other party's commotion, it also aroused the other party's suspicion.

This place is full of organs, and naturally there are some secret passages and the like.

At this time, several masters of the opponent had already split up and searched for all suspicious clues.

"No, someone invaded!"

"Someone invaded!"

Suddenly, some disciples finally found the arsonist, and the other party was still setting fire.

With the sound, the valley became chaotic again, and all the disciples chased after the sound, trying to surround the intruder...

(End of this chapter)