After the immortal disappeared

The palace guards knew everything: "Once the Emperor's slurry in this area falls from the sky, it will be sucked into the tornado and poured into the storage container below."

"It is said that the island master He has also tried many ways to collect the Emperor's slurry, and finally chose the Spirit Wind Array because it is convenient and efficient, and does not require manual collection."

Bai Ziqi nodded: "Why is this array in half operation?"

The state of a large array that is not fully activated but not disabled is called half operation.

This state is convenient for maintenance and repair, but the energy consumption is not small.

He Xiao has left, why is the array not closed?

"The main talisman of the array is embedded in the center of an old tree. It can't stop unless it is cut off."

"Take me to see the center of the array."

There is an old apricot tree in front of the platform. It is so thick that several people can hug it. It is very spectacular.

There are three copper talismans embedded in the tree two feet above the ground.

The guard pointed at the old apricot tree and said, "That's the center of the formation. The main talisman is in the center of the tree and can't be removed."

Bai Ziqi glanced at the servant boy, who understood and climbed up the tree quickly, quickly climbing to a height of five or six feet.

After a while, he poked his head out again:

"Sir, there is indeed a large talisman embedded in the tree core. I don't know how it was installed."

But it would be difficult to get it out.

"Come down."

Now everyone knows that He Xiao has long intended to leave. But before he was exposed, he actively and carefully built this formation to make it really work.

This patience and concentration, this kind of silent effort, is really terrible.

Now Bai Ziqi is more concerned about the word "container".

Yes, since this formation can automatically collect the Emperor's juice, it must arrange a container to store the spirit juice.

"Thirty-five whirlwinds should correspond to thirty-five containers. Well, why thirty-five?" This number is so awkward. Bai Ziqi pointed at the old apricot tree, "Since it is the center of the formation, it will collect the most spiritual liquid at that time, and the container for storing spiritual liquid should also be the largest. Where is it?"

The palace guard scratched his head: "In the cellar of Xinglin Terrace."

He walked to the edge of the terrace and stepped on the ground with his feet: "Some time ago, He Xiao dug out apricot wine left by the previous owner of the manor here. The pit was very big. He said that it would be troublesome to backfill it, so he simply dug a cellar to store the Emperor Liujiang. The location was also suitable."

In fact, this statement is a bit problematic. Yongquan Villa has no shortage of cellars, storage buildings, or open space. There are two rows of low houses opposite Xinglin Terrace, which are specially used to store things. Why do they have to dig another cellar?

But He Xiao is the owner of the manor. He can do whatever he wants on his own territory. No one will stop him from digging a wine pool.

At this time, Bai Shiqi came closer and whispered, "Sir, there is something nearby."

Bai Ziqi nodded: "Be alert."

He also felt a thorn in his back, as if something was lurking nearby, looking at them fiercely.

Xinglin Terrace was indeed not right.

The servant said, "There are scratches on the snow."

There were scratches on the snow, all over the place, and I don't know what monster left them, it looks very impatient.

It snowed two hours ago, so these traces are still fresh.

Bai Ziqi turned around and asked the palace guard, "Where is the entrance to the cellar?"

"The pull ring of the iron door is nearby." The palace guard searched on the ground and pulled it gently.

There was indeed an iron door hidden under the snow, which was not locked, and the palace guard pulled it open.

Bai Ziqi tilted his head, and two Tiangong guards jumped down.

After about a few dozen breaths, they came up to report again:

"Master Dushi, there is a large earthen cellar below, empty, but there are traces of heavy objects being moved on the ground."

Everyone was a little disappointed when they heard it.

The palace guard also added: "He Xiao said a few days ago that he was going to send a batch of large jars to the cellar to hold the emperor's juice."

What's so good about an empty earthen kiln?

"Why are there so many scratches on the ground?" Bai Ziqi grabbed a handful of firefly powder from his arms and waved his hand to sprinkle it out.

The light green firefly turned dark purple as soon as it touched the ground.

The servant boy was surprised: "Is it a trick?"

"No, this is an illusion array!" Bai Ziqi showed an expression of "as expected", "He Xiao used the nearby copper talisman to set up an array within an array, he must have hidden something here!"

They were misled.

Bai Ziqi asked the palace guards:

"Who dug the earth cellar? It couldn't be you, right?"

"No, it was Yangshan's people."

Bai Ziqi understood: "Do you know the location of the nearby copper talisman?"

He could also send guards to collect the location of the copper talisman, but it was too slow. It would be best if they could get ready-made information. Secondly, there was an unknown enemy hiding in the darkness, so it was better for our personnel not to disperse.

"Ah, I know. We also participated in the installation and arrangement at the beginning. He Xiao said that there must be no mistakes, and asked us to memorize the formation map." The palace guard squatted down and took a branch to start drawing on the snow, "This is the formation map."

He first drew a circle, which was the position of the formation eye where the old apricot tree was located, and then used it as the center coordinate to draw a series of dots and mark them with tree seeds.

He had only drawn a few dots when Bai Ziqi's face changed and his eyes became deeper.

Just after drawing half of it, the servant boy saw the clue and blurted out: "Is this the Tiangang formation?"

Bai Shiqi also thought so, but didn't say it out loud.

Bai Ziqi looked at the formation and almost couldn't control his expression:

What spiritual wind formation, what thirty-five small whirlwinds? Nonsense!

This formation diagram is clearly one that everyone in Tiangong is already very familiar with——

Tiangang Formation!

Not long after Bai Ziqi first arrived in Shining Gold Plains, he went to Xiaoyao Sect's territory to look for clues about Qianhuan Zhenren. As a result, he found a spirit gathering formation that had been hidden for countless years on Baimao Mountain. Bai Ziqi judged that this formation was conveying spiritual energy to Qianhuan Zhenren, and made many deductions, and even followed the clues to Beihai.

He never expected that when he saw the Tiangang Formation again, he would be at Yongquan Villa thousands of miles away!

"but……"

But it’s different from what we saw in Baimao Mountain! The waiter wanted to say more, but was interrupted by Bai Ziqi raising his hand.

Soon, the palace guard finished drawing, thirty-five places in total.

The waiter couldn't help but said: "Did you miss one part of the painting?"

The number of Tiangang is thirty-six, but this formation diagram is only thirty-five. But other than that, they are completely consistent with the Tiangang Formation.

The palace guard quickly checked it again, but he didn't have the confidence to face the distinguished guests from the Tiangong Palace: "It should be... I remember this."

Oops, could I have remembered it wrong?

Seeing the guilty look on his face, everyone was speechless. Bai Ziqi reminded him: "Did He Xiao originally tell you that this spiritual wind formation can summon thirty-five small whirlwinds?"

The palace guard's eyes lit up and he nodded: "Yes, yes, he said thirty-five, thirty-five!"

It turns out he didn't remember it wrong.