Realistic Longevity

On the other side, inside the octagonal pavilion.

The pavilion is ventilated from all sides, and each of the eight upturned eaves is decorated with a bell, which makes a clear sound when the wind blows.

There are four pillars and two rows of benches in the pavilion, all made of beautiful jade.The patterns of similar styles are carved on the jade, or the clouds and clouds, or birds, beasts, insects and fish, and so on.

In addition, there are also four paintings engraved on the surface of the pillars. On the left is a "Picture of the Masters Lecture on the Sutras", on the right is a "Picture of a Blue Bird Holding the Wind", and the other two corresponding to it are two paintings of Tang Ran. The paintings I have seen are quite strange in content.

Tang Ran walked to the lower left column first, carefully observing the paintings on the column from top to bottom.

There are nine big bronze tripods painted on it, and each tripod has different reliefs on the outside, with mountains, rivers and shrines as the main ones, and gods, ghosts and monsters as supplements.There was chaos in the cauldron, but something came out of the chaos, such as huge claws, ferocious ghost heads, twisted monsters, etc., not in the style of any era, but more like a product of mythical civilization.

Tang Ran took out a pen and paper to trace the pictures on the pillars, and walked to the last pillar.

Compared with the "Nine Cauldrons Suppressing Evil" next to it, the painting on the surface of this pillar is much more pleasing to the eye - it is the osmanthus tree in the front garden, and there is a vague figure under the tree.

Tang Ran stretched out his hand to caress the osmanthus tree, but what his fingertips touched was not cold jade, but soft osmanthus, and the tip of his nose seemed to linger with a rich fragrance, which made him feel dazed.

Fortunately, in the next second, he smelled another scent, which was similar to the scent of flowers exuding from the pillar, but it was lighter. It was refreshing like cooling oil...or a refreshing cold scent.

This smell pulled his dazed mind back into his body, and at the same time, his fingertips resting on the pillar seemed to be pricked by something, he couldn't help shivering, and suddenly woke up.

After regaining consciousness, Tang Ran quickly backed away, not daring to approach the pillar again.When he stepped back, the cinnamon sticks in his pocket popped out, and the cold fragrance that awakened him rose with the wind and surrounded him.

Tang Ran froze for a moment, first looked at his still tingling fingers, then quickly bent down to pick up the sweet-scented osmanthus and put it into the hidden pocket inside his jacket.

For life-saving things, it is better to carry them close to your body.

After clarifying the function of the osmanthus branch, Tang Ran carefully walked a few steps towards the pillar, and looked at the osmanthus tree above it again.After looking at it for the second time, he suddenly found that the blurry figure under the tree had disappeared, and the place where the figure was originally was exactly where his finger touched it.

Could this figure be the thing that pricked his fingers and woke him up?

Thinking of this, Tang Ran took a few steps back while clutching his pocket in his chest, giving up the plan to take a closer look.

……

Inside the ancient building, Zhuang Shuai adopted a carpet search method and carefully searched the two floors of the ancient building.

This ancient building resembled the Book Collection Pavilion in the Dayue Palace, but it was much smaller, and nothing was placed there. The top and bottom were empty, and even the walls were blank, which made his search go very smoothly.

Successfully found nothing.

Standing in the middle of the second floor, Zhuang Shuai put his hands on his hips and said helplessly, "Master Bi An, did we pick the best place to check by accident? There is nothing here."

Bi An jumped off his shoulders, walked to the wall closest to him through the void, raised his claws and pressed it, and retracted after a while: "This is an empty shell."

"I know, the whole building is an empty shell, I saw it." Zhuang Shuai nodded.

"No, the wall is empty." Bi An said, raising his claw again, the sharp tip of the claw popped out of the flesh pad, and slammed it down with a strong wind.

Zhuang Shuai covered his ears reflexively.

There was only a light "click" sound, and four slits were cracked under Bi An's claws. They spread rapidly in all directions with the claws as the center, and soon weaved a fine and dense spider web on the four walls, and then there was a bang. It collapsed...one floor, exposing the more precious red jade wall underneath.

Zhuang Shuai watched the complete four-faced jade biscuit shattered into jade slag all over the floor in front of his eyes. He didn't know whether he should feel sorry for them who were innocent and robbed or himself who didn't find the interlayer after a carpet search.

"Don't be dazed, look at the wall carefully."

Bi An's mind sound transmission woke him up in due course.

"Good good!"

Zhuang Shuai came back to his senses, and quickly looked around the wall that had been removed from the shell. After a closer look, he saw the relief on the wall.

The reliefs on the four walls are a complete painting depicting a frozen battle scene.

On the vast and boundless battlefield, blood and corpses are scattered across the field, broken weapons are pierced into the dark red ground, and broken flags are flying in the air.

The three-headed and six-armed giant held a weapon, and was in a fierce battle with a group of prototype monsters that covered the sky and the sun, punching to the flesh, and bloody strokes, which was extremely fierce.

Farther away, a blurry figure melted into the half-round setting sun that sank into the horizon, and nine bronze tripods floated around him, as if they were suppressing something.Next to this figure was a giant dragon with golden scales covered in bruises, life and death could not be seen, and there were countless corpses and golden bloodstains scattered beside him.

The dragon fights in the wild, and its blood is dark yellow.

"Remember." Seeing that Zhuang Shuai was stunned, Bi An reminded.

"oh oh."

Zhuang Shuai woke up like a dream, quickly took out his mobile phone, and took pictures of the paintings on the four walls.

He takes great pictures.First take a picture as a whole, then subdivide it into several parts and take a few pictures each, trying to record all the details.

In the process of taking pictures, Zhuang Shuai inevitably got close to the wall, and the finer the picture, the closer he got.But when he was taking pictures of the golden dragon and the people surrounded by Jiuding, his heart suddenly shook heavily, as if he had been hit hard by a heavy object, and a faint fishy sweetness filled his throat.

Seeing this, Bi An narrowed his eyes, and was about to pull him away, when he saw a faint golden glow in his pocket, dispelling the invisible force in the air.

Zhuang Shuai's heart relaxed, and he staggered back while holding the phone.

"Some parts of this painting are alive." Qu An draped his shoulders to stabilize him, then walked to the place where he was standing just now, and patted the golden pool of dragon blood under the dragon with his paw, "For example, this A pool of blood."

Before he finished speaking, dots of golden light splashed out from under its claws, and it was lightly held down by it, and then scattered with a claw.

Zhuang Shuai was startled: "What is this?"

"Dragon blood." Bi An said indifferently, "The painting is of a half-blooded dragon, with a little dragon essence and blood essence in its body. This should be the remaining power in the blood to defend against outsiders."

"Then I..." The corner of Zhuang Shuai's mouth twitched, and he almost broke out in a cold sweat covering his heart.

Bi An shook his head and said, "It's okay, the osmanthus branch blocked part of the impact for you, and you are not injured. I will break up the power of the dragon's blood now, and I can let Cheng Chuhua and Tang Ran join in the observation later."

"Osmanthus branch?" Zhuang Shuai was startled, and hurriedly took out the sweet-scented osmanthus branch that he stuffed in his pocket and hugged him tightly, "It's good to follow the immortal. He has rich experience and knows a little bit about everything. This sweet-scented osmanthus branch is a life-saving thing. Gotta put it away."

As he spoke, he put the flower branch in the hidden pocket of his left chest clothes.

"Is the filming over?" Bi An withdrew his claws, "Let's go out after the filming is over."

Hearing this, Zhuang Shuai opened the photo album of his mobile phone, looked at the photos he just took against the wall, and nodded: "It's been taken, let's go."

One person and one cat left the ancient building and looked forward, and found that Cheng Chuhua and Tang Ran were already waiting in the open space where the corridors meet.

"Brother Tang, Cheng Chuhua!" Zhuang Shuai called their names and trotted over, "Did you find anything?"

Cheng Chuhua sat side by side with Tang Ran, and when he saw him coming, he also asked him to sit down, and repeated what he had just started.

"Let me first talk about what I found in the wing room." Cheng Chuhua spread out the half-rolled paper, "The main discovery is a roll of bamboo slips, half a piece of paper, and a scroll. Let's take a look at them one by one."

Back to the two of them, Zhuang Shuai relaxed visibly: "Why is it half a piece of paper? What about the other half?"

"The other half was snatched by a water spirit that suddenly appeared." Cheng Chuhua simply explained, "The other half has been lost, so let's take a look at this half first. Does anyone know what is painted on it?" ?"

Half of Tai Chi is drawn on the paper that has been cut flat in the middle, with four dots dotted inside each half of the Yin and Yang fish, which together form a half of the word "Bu", and four directions are written in Dai Viet characters on the side: Gan , Kan, Li, Dui.

"It's the blueprint of the formation." Tang Ran and Bi An said in unison, and after they finished speaking, they looked at each other with a look of understanding.

Cheng Chuhua asked: "What formation?"

"Observe orders, the original version." Qu An's indifferent voice sank a bit, "It can be used for fortune-telling, fortune-telling, fortune-telling, and defense, but only half of it."

"So that's how the Obedience Prayer Formation of the Chuhuai City Branch came about." Zhuang Shuai nodded while propping his chin, "Since there is an original version, why does the branch use a modified version?"

"No one said that the branch must be a modified version. I was just guessing at the time. After all, what I knew was that the original version had long been lost, so I didn't dare to really think about the original version." Cheng Chuhua said in a deep voice, "Now that I think about it, the branch It’s all set up with human luck, how can we use a weakened formation, isn’t it too wasteful.”

"Speaking of which, I also found the formation materials for the formation of obedience to prayer on the pillars of the Octagonal Pavilion. They are the pictures of the disciples preaching scriptures and the picture of the blue bird holding the wind. These two pictures belong to the legendary artifacts and should be used It’s in the first Obedience Prayer Formation, and this one is also a reprint.” Tang Ran added.

"Well, now we know where the Obedience Prayer Formation came from. The Chuhuai City Branch... No, the Yun family is really capable." Cheng Chuhua shook his head with a smile, and unfolded the scroll, "Look at the scroll."

Cheng Chuhua has seen this scroll before. It contains a map. Overall, it is very similar to the layout of Chuhuai City. It also has a central axis that divides the two areas into east and west areas. The spaces of the two areas correspond to each other. There is a river surrounding it. Then, circle the whole area into a perfect circle.

However, the markings on the map have nothing to do with Chuhuai City, but more like a map of a different space or ruins.

After reading the map, Zhuang Shuai asked solemnly: "Do you think Chuhuai City was built according to the place on the map, or this place was built according to Chuhuai City? Or is it a coincidence?"

"The exact same layout, how could it be a coincidence." Tang Ran moved the scroll over to take a closer look, "The layout of Chuhuai City is very strange, it is different from other cities, and it is definitely related to the place on the map. But this place should not be there In this water mansion, if this is a certain space in the water mansion, there is no need to draw such a detailed map."

"Maybe it has something to do with the five places we're going to." Cheng Chuhua speculates reasonably, "We seem to have fallen into a nine-chain chain, and every step we take is carefully designed by others, one link after another, unless There is outside interference, or something is wrong with us, otherwise nothing goes wrong."

"Indeed." Bi An agreed, "From the moment we stepped into Fenglin Park, we have already entered the game."

Cheng Chuhua shook his head: "Earlier, after my psychiatrist was replaced, I was in the game."

Tang Ran glanced at him and said nothing: "Let's write down this picture, maybe we will use it later."

"Oh, good." Zhuang Shuai responded, taking out his phone to take a picture.

"What he said is in his mind." Cheng Chuhua helplessly nodded Zhuang Shuai's forehead, and spoke his mind for Tang Ran.

Zhuang Shuai scratched his head in embarrassment, took a photo anyway, and began to recite the words in his mouth.

Tang Ran hooked the corner of his mouth, and turned to look at Cheng Chuhua: "You just said that you also found a scroll of bamboo slips, what was written on it."

"It's nothing, it's just a story." Cheng Chuhua put away the scroll, "If you want to hear it, I can retell it for you..."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly saw a ripple behind Tang Ran, and a white shadow loomed in it.

"careful!"

Cheng Chuhua and Bi An spoke their warnings almost at the same time, and before the end of the sound came to an end, countless ripples rose from all directions, and hidden among the overlapping ripples were unknown geometric white shadows, all of which were the water spirits that Cheng Chuhua had encountered before.

Tang Ran drew out the dagger in his boots, and Zhuang Shuai popped out the dagger from his sleeve. With a flash of cold light, he cut open Shui Ling who was close to him.

At the same time, golden flames shot up from Qu An's body, and the water flow within a radius of ten meters was almost completely evaporated. The water spirit with water as its body was no exception, leaving a near-vacuum area for a short time.

Cheng Chuhua didn't use the dagger that Tang Ran gave him. Shui Ling is water, and sharp weapons are useless to them.

He stretched his arms and clenched his fist, and with one punch, he knocked the Shui Ling rushing forward five or six meters away, then turned around and kicked horizontally, sweeping away the sneak attacking ones from behind, and took advantage of the momentum to give a three-stage kick, knocking the remaining three away. Shui Ling kicked away, directly breaking their siege.

"Are you so strong in physical skills?" Zhuang Shuai next to him was stunned, watching Cheng Chuhua's leg sweeping past his ear, kicking a water spirit ten meters away, the remaining strength pierced his ears It was red, and the water spirit that had endured all the strength even slapped apart and couldn't get together for a long time, "...the strength is so great!"

Although Tang Ran was also surprised, he acted much calmer than him. With a sword, he slapped away a Shui Ling who had almost succeeded in a sneak attack: "You still have the time to lament this? Hurry up!"

"Oh." Zhuang Shuai didn't dare to be careless, and concentrated on fighting off Shui Ling.

The golden flames around Bi An continued to expand, surrounding the three of them, forcing back the swarming water spirits.However, there are too many water spirits, and they have the function of regeneration. They are almost immortal in the water mansion. If they want to completely eliminate them, they must evaporate the ocean.

It's not impossible to do this, but in that case, the water mansion and the different space will also collapse, and there is no way to continue exploring.

"Do you want to leave first?" Zhuang Shuai, Cheng Chuhua and Tang Ran back to back, beat out Shui Ling who was lucky enough to sneak into the encirclement of the golden flame, "There are too many things, and it is not an option to waste them like this!"

"No, the different dimension is full of water, we can't escape." Tang Ran vetoed his proposal.

Cheng Chuhua didn't participate in their discussion, his brain was running fast to mobilize memories, trying to find out the source of his familiarity with this water mansion.

It's a pity that this ray of familiarity is too subtle and thin. After a long time, he couldn't think of anything, but inexplicably remembered the osmanthus branch in his arms.For some reason, he suddenly felt that the sweet-scented osmanthus branch was the key to deal with this kind of situation, and before he had time to think about it, he quickly pulled out the flower branch and threw it towards the place where the water spirits were most concentrated.

The osmanthus twigs fluttered down, and where they passed, the waves were still and the ripples subsided.

It turned out to be really useful!

Cheng Chuhua was taken aback for a moment, Tang Ran and Zhuang Shuai were stunned, and even Bi An was taken aback.

Guizhi floated in the air, with it as the center, all the ripples disappeared in an instant, and the water spirit also quietly receded, leaving no one behind.

Seeing this, Zhuang Shuai couldn't help touching the position of the secret bag, and said with emotion: "It really is a life-saving thing..."

Tang Ran calmly stuffed the osmanthus branch into the deep pocket, and asked half-jokingly: "Cheng Chuhua, you used to be the owner of this water mansion, right?"

Cheng Chuhua smiled cooperatively: "You think too much."

That's what he said, but a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in his mind, and it seemed that something key surfaced.It's a pity that before he had time to catch it, this aura disappeared.