Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

The man and two beasts emerged from the tunnel, and a magnificent hall appeared before them, opening up their vision.

The hall was about a hundred zhang in radius, with exquisite buildings and golden palaces, jade steps and vermilion pillars, appearing solemn, majestic, and extraordinarily splendid.

Near the inner side was a platform about ten zhang high, covering an area of about twenty zhang in radius, formed from a single piece of rock, its surface faintly glowing with colorful light.

In the very center of the platform was a throne radiating yellow light, and in front of the throne was a large circle containing many stone pillars of varying sizes, about a foot long, arranged in a seemingly specific order.

Zhang Yuanjing carefully counted them and found that there were thirty-seven in total. However, some of the gaps between the stone pillars were very large, as if there had been stone pillars there originally, but they had been removed.

If those places also had stone pillars, then there should have been exactly sixty-four. In other words, twenty-seven stone pillars were missing.

At this moment, the Azure-Eyed Suanni Beast squeaked twice.

Ape Thirteen said, "The Suanni Beast says that there is the scent of cultivators here, and they haven't been gone for more than half a month."

Zhang Yuanjing asked, "How many people are there?"

The Azure-Eyed Suanni Beast cried five times.

Five people? Zhang Yuanjing calculated that since he had the defective Umbrella Jade and had clashed with Yin Tianfu, then Yu Tianwan would most likely have fought Zhou Jin Xiong in a great battle.

So he asked, "Is there the aura of Yu Tianwan, Uncle Yu?"

The Azure-Eyed Suanni Beast shook its head.

Zhang Yuanjing's heart sank, but he also felt somewhat surprised, unable to believe that Yu Tianwan was not Zhou Jin Xiong's opponent.

After thinking about it, it was also possible that Yu Tianwan had won, but had not yet arrived here. However, this possibility was too small, unless he, like himself, had been punished for destroying the stone tablet, thus delaying him.

He sighed softly, and could only secretly pray that Yu Tianwan would turn bad luck into good.

Zhang Yuanjing used his divine sense to examine the hall several times, confirming that there were no restrictions, formations, or other mechanisms set up here, then he jumped onto the stone platform and walked to the circle of stone pillars.

Looking inside, he saw that there were indeed many grooves left in the middle of the stone pillars, which should have been for fixing the stone pillars, but were now empty.

He carefully examined them with his divine sense and quickly found five newly emptied grooves, while the remaining grooves were covered with dust. The five new ones were very clean.

He speculated that this circle must contain array principles, and the arrangement of each stone pillar was likely to be significant. If they were taken at random, it was possible that he would encounter misfortune.

After taking a trip on that starry sky road, Zhang Yuanjing was really quite afraid of the restrictions here.

The stone pillars in the circle were arranged in four rings. The outermost ring should have had twenty-eight stone pillars, but now there were twelve missing.

The second ring had twenty stone pillars, with seven missing.

The third ring had twelve, with only six missing.

The innermost ring had four, with two missing.

He stood quietly and thought, running through all the formations he had heard of, but he couldn't grasp the key.

At this moment, the Azure-Eyed Suanni Beast standing beside him suddenly cried a few times.

Ape Thirteen translated for it: "Yuanjing, the Suanni Beast says this seems to be some kind of Bagua formation diagram."

Bagua formation diagram? Zhang Yuanjing was stunned, looking at the four circles, converting them into squares in his mind, and indeed they matched the Bagua formation diagram.

He couldn't help but smile dumbly. The Bagua formation diagram was the foundation of formation arts. Anyone who studied formation arts would understand it thoroughly.

However, when setting up formations, various formation arts were mixed together, supplemented by cultivators' methods of calling wind and rain, condensing ice and creating mist, etc., so they would naturally not simply use the Bagua formation diagram to set up a formation.

At the beginning, he didn't think about this at all, so naturally he couldn't see through the mysteries within.

Once the Azure-Eyed Suanni Beast reminded him, he immediately understood.

He nodded approvingly at the Azure-Eyed Suanni Beast, and suddenly remembered the stone mansion at the bottom of the lake north of Azurefall Valley, and became very interested in its origin. Of course, now was not the time to ask about this.

Taking the yellow throne as a reference point, he matched the stone pillars or grooves one by one with the sixty-four trigrams. The trigrams corresponding to the stone pillars taken by the five Xuan Tian Sect Core Formation cultivators who had arrived here earlier were: Yi, Shi He, Yi, Feng, and Heng. These five trigrams have one thing in common, which is that they are related to thunder.

Yi is Zhen below and Gen above, thunder under the mountain; Shi He is Zhen below and Li above, lightning strikes; Yi is Zhen below and Xun above, wind and thunder raging; Feng is Li below and Zhen above, lightning and thunder; Heng is Xun below and Zhen above, rigidity and softness are constant.

This undoubtedly confirmed that the five people who had arrived earlier were all Xuan Tian Sect cultivators, because the highest level of Xuan Tian Gong was thunder magic.

Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered a question. According to the Azure-Eyed Suanni Beast, there was no scent of Yu Tianwan here, and from the trigrams corresponding to the stone pillars, there was also no Zhou Jin Xiong among these five, because Zhou Jin Xiong was not a direct descendant of the Xuan Tian Sect and did not understand thunder magic, so he would basically not choose the stone pillars corresponding to the Zhen trigram system.

In that case, the one who hasn't arrived is probably one of Zhou Jin Xiong and Yu Tianwan.

Zhang Yuanjing couldn't help but feel happy, secretly praying that Yu Tianwan could overcome the enemy and meet him somewhere in the mausoleum.

After pondering for the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, he calmed his mind and looked up at the remaining stone pillars. He needed to choose a stone pillar with a trigram suitable for him.

He didn't know what these stone pillars were for, nor did he know how to judge whether the trigram was good or bad, so he could only choose a suitable stone pillar for himself according to the choices of the previous four people.

Since he practiced earth techniques, the suitable trigrams would be those related to mountains and earth. The best would be the Kun trigram, but it had already been taken. Among the remaining stone pillars, there were still many good trigrams.

His gaze wandered back and forth, and finally fell on a stone pillar on the outermost ring, far away from the throne. The trigram corresponding to this pillar was "Bi."

The Bi trigram is a superior trigram, Kan above and Kun below, water on the ground, meaning "assistance". Following and assisting virtuous elders can bring good fortune and avoid misfortune.

Zhang Yuanjing chose this trigram because he felt that his entry into this mausoleum was accidental, and he had no intention of obtaining any opportunities from it, but only wanted to leave safely. Moreover, having earth and water was also more in line with his techniques.

After thinking for a moment, he felt that among all the trigrams, only this one best suited his current state of mind. The other trigrams were either too aggressive or too conservative, or even committed dangers, so he decided to take this trigram and go.

He swept his gaze around the hall, examining every inch with his divine sense. Besides the tunnel he came from, he saw no other entrances or exits. Worried that once he took down the stone pillar, he would be moved to another place, he told Ape Thirteen and the Azure-Eyed Suanni Beast, and put the two beasts into the spirit beast pouch.

Once prepared, he walked to the stone pillar corresponding to the Bi trigram and reached out to grab it, feeling an icy coldness at first, which then warmed up, as if a stream of air was surging.

In just this instant, his whole body froze, unable to move, and unable to take his hand off the stone pillar.

He was not afraid, staring fixedly at the stone pillar, and saw that this object suddenly flashed, and then he felt a powerful force descending on him, and the surrounding space became illusory, as if folded up. The next moment, everything returned to normal, but the place where he was was no longer the hall, but a desert.