Fatty's eyes still couldn't look straight at the divine artifact. After fiddling with it for a while, his eyes were filled with tears. He quickly put away the Demon Purification Pot and thanked Wu Yue repeatedly.
I had regained the Demon Purification Pot. Seeing that Lu Zhenyang was about to die, I heaved a sigh of relief. I finally felt that this trip to Zhuolu was worth it.
However, the matter of the second volume of the Death Scripture was the focus of my trip. It was also something I had to obtain.
I looked up ahead. There was still quite a distance ahead of us in the tunnel we were in.
After this period of communication, I understood that this was Chiyou's skull tomb. It was also the west where Wu Yue's Dao companion, the Daoist of Mount Dragon Tiger, had disappeared a hundred years ago.
If I wanted to obtain the second volume of the Death Scripture, I naturally had to continue forward and enter Chiyou's tomb. However, I was somewhat unsure of Wu Yue's attitude.
From the very beginning, she had been telling me to leave this place. She had promised to bring me something today to dispel the idea of entering Chiyou's Tomb. But just now, when she told me about Lu Zhenyang, she said that Lu Zhenyang had lied to her, saying that he could open Chiyou's Tomb, and that was why she had brought him here.
From this sentence, Wu Yue seemed to want to open Chiyou's tomb again.
The completely different attitude made me somewhat uncertain. After hesitating for a moment, I probed Wu Yue, "Senior, the door you mentioned just now shouldn't be far ahead, right?"
Wu Yue had been smiling the entire time, but when she heard my words, she immediately retracted her smile and nodded silently.
I still couldn't understand her attitude as I cautiously continued, "Although I don't know why Lu Zhenyang said that he would wait for the two of us to arrive before opening the door together, there's no harm in giving it a try since he said so. Senior, please lead the way."
Wu Yue stood there without moving. Her expression seemed to be struggling as she remained silent.
After a full five minutes, just as I was beginning to think about what to do after Wu Yue rejected me, she suddenly moved. Without saying a word, she turned around and continued walking into the tunnel.
I was immediately overjoyed and didn't dare to say anything else. I called Fatty and hurriedly followed her.
Just like that, we followed Wu Yue for another two to three minutes. Suddenly, the view in front of us brightened. The narrow and dark tunnel turned into a huge cave when we took the last step.
This cave was very big, but it was completely different from the previous caves that were full of murals. This one was more like a room, with a round top and a square bottom. There were no murals on the walls, and instead, there were huge statues standing on the ground at regular intervals.
These statues were made of bronze, and they all looked like humans. However, some had eight arms, and some had nine. They looked very strange.
But without exception, every statue was exquisitely crafted. At first glance, they all seemed to be alive.
After passing through the bronze statues, we came to the middle of the cave. Under Wu Yue's lead, we climbed a huge platform.
Wu Yue stopped and turned around. The complicated expression on his face had disappeared, replaced by a faint smile. He said to me and the fatty, "I heard from my Taoist priest that these statues are related to the method of breaking the door. I wonder if the two of you have found anything along the way?"
These bronze statues?
Wu Yue's words sounded like he was testing us. I frowned slightly. Along the way, I had been paying attention to the surroundings. Of course, I had looked at the bronze statues carefully, but I didn't find anything strange.
I didn't rush to answer. Instead, I turned to look around with the fatty. The round platform was surrounded by bronze statues. They were like guards that surrounded the high platform under our feet.
I did a rough count and found that there were exactly eighty-one bronze statues, no more, no less.
While I was thinking about the number, the fatty spoke with certainty, "These bronze statues should be a formation."
Wu Yue's gaze turned to the fatty and he said with a smile, "Mister Lin is right. This is indeed a formation.
But I wonder if Mister can tell what kind of formation this is? "
"What's so difficult about it?"
The fatty was a person who liked to take advantage of the situation. Hearing Wu Yue's praise, his face became smug. He pointed at the surrounding statues and started explaining.
He first pointed at the bronze statue in the southwest corner and explained, "There are a total of eighty-one bronze statues here. Besides the high platform under our feet, they can be divided into nine Nine Palaces Formations. If I'm not wrong, this formation is called the Ten Ultimate Formation. It's an ancient formation passed down from ancient times. It's very powerful!"
Although I wasn't proficient in formations, I had some understanding of it from the records in the Death Scripture.
The name Nine Palaces Formation sounded extraordinary, but it was one of the most basic formations. When I had just started to study formations, I already had some understanding of the Nine Palaces Formation.
The nine palaces in the Nine Palaces Formation were the Qian Palace, the Kan Palace, the Gen Palace, the Zhen Palace, the Central Palace, the Xun Palace, the Li Palace, the Kun Palace, and the Dui Palace. The formation represented the earth and was the foundation of formations.
Although these bronze statues were of different shapes and sizes, after listening to Fatty's explanation, I could see that there was a Nine Palaces Great Array within these bronze statues. However, it seemed different from the Nine Palaces Great Array that I knew of.
This was probably why the fatty called it the Ten Terminal Formation.
The fatty was the expert when it came to formations. If I wanted to break the formation, it was up to him.
I didn't speak, but the fatty was full of confidence. He explained the specific details of the Ten Ultimate Formation in detail.
Wu Yue seemed to be interested. After the fatty finished, he asked hurriedly, "Since Mister Lin knows this formation so well, it shouldn't be a problem for you to break it, right?"
The fatty was in high spirits. He nodded without hesitation and said loudly, "What's so difficult about it?
Although the Ten Ultimate Formation is an ancient formation that I have never come into contact with before, as the saying goes, understanding one method leads to understanding all methods. To put it bluntly, the Dao of formations is like a tall building rising from the ground. As long as you study it carefully, there will be a time when you can break it. Senior, don't be anxious. I'll break this formation right away! "
This guy probably still remembered Wu Yue's kindness just now. After saying that, he immediately jumped off the stage with great effort, walked to the bronze colossuses, and studied them carefully.
Since Wu Yue had mentioned the formation, it was obvious that it was related to opening the door to Chiyou's tomb. I sat down patiently and waited for the fatty to break the formation.
After studying it for a while, the fatty seemed to have discovered something. He ran back and didn't say anything. He sat cross-legged on the round table and closed his eyes.
He made a hand seal and circulated his True Essence. When he opened his eyes again, the strange phenomenon of the Sun and Moon Shining Together appeared in his right eye.
Using the Sun Moon Alien Pupils, the fatty started to observe the Ten Terminal Ancient Formation again. As he observed, he explained to us, "These nine Nine Palaces Grand Formations look like they're unrelated to each other, but they're actually connected. Pulling one of them will affect the whole formation. It's impossible to break the formation with brute force.
The reason why the Ten Ultimate Ancient Formation is called the Ten Ultimate Ancient Formations is that no matter which direction you break the formation from, you will die. Moreover, I just looked at it. This Ten Ultimate Ancient Formation is different from ordinary Ten Ultimate Ancient Formations. Each of these bronze statues is a ferocious god. If they were placed elsewhere, it wouldn't be a problem to solve them one by one. However, in this formation, if someone tries to break the formation by force, these 81 ferocious gods will take turns to attack. They will use the formation's power to attack and use the tactic of taking turns to kill the person who breaks the formation. "
As soon as the fatty finished speaking, Wuyue's eyes brightened. He nodded and said, "Mister Lin is right. In the past hundred years, I have tried to break the formation countless times, but I have failed every time. I was almost seriously injured a few times."
Wuyue agreed with him. I observed the Ten Ultimate Ancient Formation and found that these bronze statues were similar to the monsters I had seen in the painting in the cave.
Legend had it that Chiyou had 81 brothers. All of them had heads of bronze and foreheads of iron, eight arms, and nine toes. They were extraordinary, which should be referring to these monsters.
Thinking about this, I was even more certain that we were very close to Chiyou's tomb.
Perhaps, after breaking this Ten Ultimate Ancient Formation, it would be time for us to enter Chiyou's tomb.
While I was thinking, the fatty took action. He waved his right hand and threw three ancient coins into the air.
The three ancient coins were round on the outside and square on the inside, as if they were carved from jade. As soon as they appeared, they glowed with white light. They looked very extraordinary.
The three ancient coins fell from the air, but they didn't fall to the ground. Instead, they floated in front of the fatty and spun rapidly. As the fatty made a hand seal, the white light became stronger and weaker at times. As it flashed, it seemed to contain countless mysteries.