(Two chapters combined into one)
The third stage was much more difficult than the second stage.
Ninety-nine percent of Talisman Masters who wanted to pass this stage failed at this stage.
If Yang Tian could pass this stage, he could at least be considered a Senior Talisman Master.
Standing in front of the nine teleportation platforms, Yang Tian closed his eyes again.
This was the first time Ku Man had seen such a method of cracking a Talisman Array.
Standing in front of the Talisman Array, closing his eyes for a while, and opening his eyes, he could easily crack the Talisman Array … …
Other Talisman Masters would not be like this. In order to crack a Talisman Array, they would have a set of special tools.
The first step was to use rune tools to examine the composition of the Talisman Array's energy, its position, its strength, and so on.
The second step was to deduce the way to crack the Talisman Array based on the information detected.
The third step was to crack it.
During this process, he might fail. If he failed, he would have to repeat the cracking process until the Talisman Array was cracked.
When Yang Tian cracked the first two Talisman Arrays, he did not take out any tools to crack Talisman Arrays. He only used his two hands to crack the two Talisman Arrays.
Bystanders who did not understand Talisman Arrays might not think much of it.
But to Ku Man, this was simply a great surprise.
Looking at Yang Tian's closed eyes, Ku Man could not help but laugh. If Yang Tian could crack the Talisman Array in front of her, she planned to bring Yang Tian to the Limitless Temple no matter what.
At this time, in Yang Tian's mind, the rune energy diagram of the nine teleportation platforms appeared.
Each platform was divided into nine rune energy lines, which were connected to the other eight platforms and a point on the opposite side of the path.
The line that connected to the path was faintly discernible. When the rune energy line of one platform connected to this point, the rune energy line of the other eight platforms would disappear.
The color of each rune energy line was constantly changing. In other words, the location of the nine teleportation platforms was constantly changing.
For example, if you stepped on the nearest teleportation platform, you would be teleported to the platform next to it. But if you stepped on it earlier or later, you would be teleported to another platform.
If one did not find the pattern and rashly stepped onto the teleportation platform, they would be continuously teleported back and forth by the nine platforms, unable to leave.
In fact, this was also a type of trapping formation.
This sort of trapping formation that was created using teleportation platforms was actually very simple to break. All one needed to do was to destroy them.
However, there was a rule on the stone tablet that forbade the destruction of any of the Teleportation Platforms.
With this rule, the difficulty of deciphering it had undoubtedly increased by countless times.
Although Yang Tian could 'see' the rune energy lines extending from the teleportation platform, he could not find a pattern.
Because there were simply too many changes.
One of the teleportation platforms had at least nine variations. The variations of the nine teleportation platforms were nine times nine, and then nine times nine …
With the computational ability of the human brain, it was impossible to find and remember the pattern.
Yang Tian observed for more than ten minutes, trying to remember the pattern of the changes. However, the more he tried to remember, the more his head hurt. He had no choice but to give up.
Yang Tian could not do it, but the strange program could.
This time, Yang Tian closed his eyes for a longer period of time, more than an hour.
The spectators had long since become impatient, but with Ku Man standing to the side, they did not dare to speak.
Many people could not help but think that Yang Tian would probably stop here.
Even so, many people were extremely impressed with Yang Tian. At such a young age, he was able to break through two stages in a row. If he cultivated rune arts for a few more decades, or even centuries, his achievements would be limitless.
There was a big difference between rune arts and cultivation. On the path of cultivation, if one did not have outstanding talent, they could make up for it with hard work and time.
However, rune arts were different. It was not something that could be achieved with hard work.
Often, a person's talent in rune arts could be seen from a young age.
Yang Tian's performance could be said to be extremely talented in rune arts.
Finally, Yang Tian opened his eyes. The corners of his mouth curled up, and a confident smile appeared on his face.
Seeing the expression on Yang Tian's face, Ku Man could not help but open his eyes wide.
At this time, Yang Tian finally moved.
The crowd waited for more than an hour before they finally saw Yang Tian move.
Yang Tian slowly walked toward the leftmost teleportation platform. His steps were very rhythmic, as if he was counting the time. The time taken for the first and second steps was almost the same.
In this hour, the strange program had already found the pattern of the nine teleportation platforms' changes.
As he walked, Yang Tian was calculating the time.
One step, two steps, three steps …
Some of the spectators began to count Yang Tian's steps.
Finally, Yang Tian stepped onto the teleportation platform.
The nine teleportation platforms were all in an active state. After Yang Tian stepped onto the platform, his figure suddenly disappeared.
When Yang Tian reappeared, he was already on the opposite side of the path.
There was a stone pillar to the side. This was the mechanism to close the Nine Formation Labyrinth Platform. Yang Tian raised his hand and pressed it down.
The moment the stone pillar moved, the nine teleportation platforms were extinguished at the same time.
Dong … Dong …
After the Nine Formation Labyrinth Platform was closed, two bell tolls sounded from the highest level of the Pulling Wood Hall.
Ku Man looked at Yang Tian at this time with a scorching gaze. He thought to himself, "This youth, I must bring him back!"
She was glad that there were no people from the other temples here at this time. Otherwise, she would have to fight with him again.
Ku Man didn't want to come on this trip, but he didn't expect to meet such a rune genius. To him, this trip was too worth it!
Ku Man wanted to bring Yang Tian back to the Everlasting Temple, but he didn't expect that this youth named Mu Yi was Yang Tian.
He wondered what her expression would be after she found out Yang Tian's true identity …
Two bell tolls sounded from the Pulling Wood Hall, finally attracting the attention of the Pulling Wood Patriarch.
Someone actually passed the third stage!
In the Pulling Wood Hall, a skinny old man sitting cross-legged suddenly opened his eyes.
At this time, a series of footsteps sounded, and twelve old men walked into the hall.
These people were the elders of the Pulling Wood Tribe, and their attainments in runes were extremely high.
The twelve of them were dressed in black robes with white hair. After entering, they bowed to the patriarch and then sat down cross-legged.
This was the way the Pulling Wood Tribe received guests. If someone could break three rune formations in half a day, the elders would appear and wait here.
This kind of thing had happened several times in the past few hundred years.
However, after two bell tolls, there were no more bell tolls, and the elders could only leave helplessly.
Yang Tian broke three rune formations in a row, and two bell tolls sounded from the Pulling Wood Hall. The bell tolls echoed throughout the entire Pulling Wood Mountain. Although it didn't sound very loud, it attracted the attention of many people.
Especially the cultivators who specialized in runes, almost all of them knew the meaning of the two bell tolls on Pulling Wood Mountain.
Therefore, these people, whether they had just returned from far away or were preparing to leave through the teleportation formation on Pulling Wood Mountain, all of them gathered at the top of the mountain.
This kind of situation had happened many times, and the Pulling Wood Tribe had a way to deal with it. The fourth stage was in a square.
This square could hold tens of thousands of people.
The fourth stage's rune formation didn't need such a large space. The reason why it was so spacious was to prepare for the people who were watching the show.
Otherwise, when so many cultivators were crowded together, they would be more angry, and it was inevitable that there would be fighting. When the space was spacious, the people would be spread out, and this problem wouldn't exist.
In less than five minutes, thousands of people had gathered in the square.
Being surrounded by so many people, Yang Tian's face still maintained a calm expression, and this made Ku Man even more satisfied with Yang Tian.
She felt that at least when she was Yang Tian's age, she wouldn't be able to remain calm when being stared at for doing such a thing.
Yang Tian ignored the others. Even if there were ten times more people, it had nothing to do with him.
Yang Tian had seen this kind of scene many times.
Maze Killing Formation!
The fourth rune formation was called the Maze Killing Formation, and it was built in the middle of the square. It was made up of hundreds of stone pillars that were as thick as a person's thigh and about a meter above the ground. The stone pillars were carved with runes of different colors.
If one looked at it from the sky, they would see that the hundreds of stone pillars formed a spiral pattern.
Compared to the third stage's Nine Formation Maze Platform, the Maze Killing Formation was more difficult to break.
The rune formations of the first three stages were defensive rune formations, and wouldn't attack the person who broke the formation.
However, the Maze Killing Formation was different. Just from its name, one could tell that it was both a maze formation and a killing formation. The stone tablet beside it reminded the person who broke the formation that if they were trapped in the formation and felt that they couldn't handle it, they could raise their hands, and the Maze Killing Formation would be dispelled.
Of course, this was tantamount to admitting defeat.
Just like the previous three times, Yang Tian stood outside the formation, closed his eyes, and felt the rune energy of this rune formation.
In his mind, the rune energy of this rune formation appeared again.
There were hundreds of stone pillars, and each of them had countless tiny lines of rune energy extending from them. They were tangled together without any pattern, and looked like a colorful mess.
At the same time, these energy lines were also changing. Not only the color, but even the lines were moving.
So many!
The strange program told Yang Tian that these energy lines were actually a type of concealment energy lines, to prevent the person who broke the formation from seeing the real rune energy lines that made up the formation.
Since he couldn't see it from the outside, he could only enter the formation.
Yang Tian closed his eyes and opened them again in less than five minutes.
Yang Tian gave a look to the Little Blue Dragon on his shoulder.
The Little Blue Dragon understood Yang Tian's meaning and immediately jumped down from Yang Tian's shoulder, squatting beside Huie Miaomiao.
Breaking this rune formation required a risk, and Yang Tian didn't want the Little Blue Dragon to be in danger.
Also, once he was trapped in the formation, if he and the Little Blue Dragon were separated by the rune formation, it would be even more troublesome.
"Ah! So fast!"
"Yes!
Is this rune formation simpler than the previous one? "
"Impossible!
Otherwise, this fourth stage would have been passed by many people. "
…
After passing the previous three stages, everyone thought that Yang Tian would know the way to break the formation as soon as he closed and opened his eyes. That was why there were such discussions.
In the crowd, an old man with a white beard stroked his long beard and chuckled. "Because this rune formation can only be broken by going inside. The outside of the rune formation is like a shell.
The person who designed this rune formation is really amazing! "
As soon as the old man finished speaking, someone beside him asked, "How do you know?"
The old man smiled. "Because I once broke through this rune formation and almost died inside.
Even now, I don't have complete confidence.
It's too amazing!
You can't break it from the outside, but once you enter the formation, you will be attacked by the rune formation. There is no time to break it. "
After the Little Blue Dragon left, Yang Tian stepped forward and walked into the stone pillar without hesitation.
In everyone's eyes, Yang Tian disappeared after entering the stone pillar.
With the naked eye, the situation inside the rune formation could not be seen. This was also the power of this rune formation.
If these stone pillars were set up very secretly, cultivators who did not understand the runes would not even know how they died when they broke in.
After Yang Tian stepped through the gap between two stone pillars, the scene in front of him changed.
The light disappeared, the air disappeared, he could not breathe, and he could not even see his fingers.
"Whoosh ~"
All of a sudden, the sound of wind was heard.
A sharp metal arrow was shot toward Yang Tian. Yang Tian had mental power and was not affected by light. He tilted his head and dodged the metal arrow.
The situation at the periphery appeared clearly in his mind.
What surprised Yang Tian was that by using his mental power, he could "see" the stone pillars around him.
These stone pillars were arranged in the same way as the ones he saw outside the formation.
To put it bluntly, this rune formation was actually an Illusion Formation. The Illusion Formation mainly confused people through their senses. Yang Tian's five senses were affected by the Illusion Formation.
Even so, his mental power was not affected by the rune's energy. Or rather, it had an extremely small effect on his mental power.
There were many metal arrows, and Yang Tian kept dodging them.
He had to avoid them.
Although it was an Illusion Formation, there was reality in the illusion. The metal arrows were fake and not real metal, but they were formed by rune's energy, and their destructive power was greater than that of real metal arrows.
Since he could "see" the stone pillars, if he destroyed one of them, the rune formation would naturally be broken.
Despite that, Yang Tian was not willing to do that.
He wanted to use runes to break the rune formation.
If not, what was the point of this?
As Yang Tian kept dodging, he realized that his mental power seemed to have undergone a certain change.
At the very least, before he possessed a new physical body, his mental power could not clearly see the carrier that formed the rune formation in the Illusion Formation.
The energy in a healthy person's body was maintained in a state of balance. When one of the energies changed, the other would change as well. If there was an imbalance, the person would fall ill and die.
The change in his mental power was definitely due to the Peculiar Program. Rune information was also a type of energy. When this energy entered Yang Tian's body, the other energies in Yang Tian's body would also be affected and change.
Of course, this was only Yang Tian's guess.
"I think we can use a new method of cooperation," the Peculiar Program suddenly said while Yang Tian was dodging rapidly.
"What method?" Yang Tian immediately asked.
The Peculiar Program said, "Previously, I completely controlled your body. Now, I'll change it to partial control!"
"Will that work?" Yang Tian asked.
The movements of every part of a person's body were controlled by the brain. To put it bluntly, the Peculiar Program's intention was to take over a part of Yang Tian's nervous system in his brain to achieve a state where they were in each other.
This was equivalent to a preliminary fusion between Yang Tian and the Peculiar Program.
After understanding this point, Yang Tian began to worry. He and the Peculiar Program were two different lifeforms. Their consciousnesses would definitely not be able to truly fuse together.
He did not have to worry that he would become another person after the fusion. Yang Tian was worried that if an accident happened, his consciousness would be damaged.
If his physical body was injured, it could be healed. If his consciousness was damaged, he would not know what to do.
The relationship between a person's consciousness and their physical body was equivalent to the relationship between a computer's operating system and the host computer. A computer without an operating system was no different from a piece of scrap metal.