Mysterious Tang Dynasty

Chapter 173 Probing
After Li Lijun landed on the ground, he quickly cast the breath restraining talisman and the muffler talisman around, surrounding the large courtyard, forming a space that is relatively isolated from the outside world, and any sound, light, or movement will not cause disturbance from the outside world. Notice.

After all these preparations were done, she felt relieved and began to look around, and then quickly searched the entire yard.

This courtyard is said to be a cross-courtyard, but it is actually quite a large yard, with two front and back entrances. The front yard has a central hall and east and west wing rooms, and the back yard is an inner hall and bedroom, with an overall area of ​​more than one mu.However, Li Lijun found traces of people living in the front yard. There are obviously more houses in the back yard, but they seem to be vacant. Even the trees planted in the yard have been cut down and uprooted, freeing up about [-] square meters. The open space the size of a meter is paved with large flat stone bricks.

What is this for?
Li Lijun searched the front and back yards with doubts. Although there were a lot of furniture and decorations left in the house, the valuable ones were probably taken away. The rest can be seen to be made of good materials and carefully arranged. Even the tea and futons prepared are of the highest quality. It seems that the former magistrate of Jingyang County really attaches great importance to Yao Dao.

There was nothing left in the house that could prove his identity as a demon.Although he ran to look for gophers without telling the former county magistrate, and he didn't bring any luggage with him, but all the things he left were burned and burned by the former county magistrate to vent his anger.Valuable things may fall into the hands of some petty officials and servants, and worthless or indiscernible valuable things must have not escaped the fire, and it is impossible for Li Lijun to find out.The reason why the tea leaves and futons survived is probably because they were not brought by the demons, but because they were prepared by the former county magistrate, and they were not very eye-catching.

Li Lijun didn't have any valuable gains, so he went to the backyard again.She felt that there must be something wrong with the specially paved ground.What did Yaodao originally plan to use here?
She stared at the ground for a while, then suddenly had an idea, and cast a spell to "lift" up all the stone bricks, exposing the mud underneath.

The dirt floor was empty, nothing.No, maybe it can't be said that there is nothing, because there are obvious red marks on the mud floor, and some water marks that have not yet dried out.

Li Lijun picked up a bit of soil with red traces and inspected it carefully, and found that the red was cinnabar, but there were other things seeping into it, and it smelled a bit bloody.

This is... what pattern was originally painted on the stone brick floor with cinnabar mixed with other substances, and was it washed away with water?
Judging from the position of the mud where the cinnabar is distributed, the pattern seems to be circular and rather complicated.Li Lijun suspected that this might be a formation.It's a pity that all traces have been washed away now.If it wasn't for the fact that the cleaning time might not be too long, and the floor was paved with stone bricks, the water flowing into the cracks of the bricks could not evaporate in time. She rushed to check it tonight, and she probably won't be able to find it by tomorrow. Water marks.

Li Lijun suspected that Yao Dao had drawn this formation a long time ago, but he never returned. When the former Jingyang county magistrate got angry, he ordered people to clean the ground here.There is a well in the back of the county yamen, not far from this courtyard, if the former county magistrate ordered his servants to do these things, other people in the county yamen might not be able to notice.

This county government office is quite large, with hundreds of rooms and dozens of courtyards.

Li Lijun "lowered" the stone bricks down again. After thinking about it, he felt that if things like cinnabar were left on the surface for a long time, even if they were washed clean, there might not be traces left behind.She looked up at the sky, a little regretful that tonight is the last quarter moon, and the moonlight is not bright enough.But there are many stars in the sky, last night she also encountered shooting stars, the real ones, she practiced again and gained a lot.Tonight, she might be able to borrow the power of the star sword to reproduce the formation that was drawn on the stone floor.

The shallow silver starlight slowly sprinkled on the surface of the gray and white stone bricks, penetrated into the bricks, and after a while, a layer of light red marks slowly ooze out on the surface.Although it is not obvious, Li Lijun can inject spiritual power into her eyes to enhance her eyesight, which is enough for her to clearly recognize the shape and content of the array.

This is a somewhat indescribable formation. The more official name is "Jingling Formation". It sounds similar to the Spirit Gathering Formation, but its nature is somewhat different.

The spirit-gathering array gathers the free spiritual energy particles in the nearby air through the formation method, so that they can gather in a range to form a relatively spiritual-rich space to help people in the formation practice.After the Spirit Gathering Formation is removed, there will still be scattered particles of spiritual energy in the nearby space, and after a while, it will return to the previous concentration.This is a sustainable formation, often used by orthodox monks.

The spirit-absorbing array is to absorb the spiritual power of the nearby ground veins and the air through the array, so that it can be gathered at a point in the center of the array, which can quickly replenish the spiritual power of monks or magic weapons.If the people who use the spirit-absorbing array only absorb the spiritual power for a period of time, and immediately stop the operation of the array, then at most the surrounding area will experience a period of no spiritual energy. After ten or eight years, it will still slowly return to its original state .But if the people who use the spirit-absorbing formation let the formation continue to run until the nearby spiritual power is completely exhausted, then the land in this area will never be able to return to its original state.The originally fertile land will gradually dry up, the water source will be cut off, plants will not grow, animals will gradually die, and even people will become weaker and weaker, and eventually sicken and die.

This is a somewhat "evil" formation, and because once the spirit-drawing formation is in operation, it takes a lot of effort to stop it halfway, which is usually only done by people with relatively high cultivation bases, so it usually runs directly to the end. Until the spiritual energy of the earth veins is exhausted, there is no way out for people, and righteous monks are very repulsed to use it.

Li Lijun doesn't know where the demon way learned the spirit drawing array, but judging from what she observed when fighting him, he is almost at the third level of Qi refining, and he probably has no ability to let the running The spirit-drawing formation stopped, so he probably planned to keep the formation running until all the power of Jingyang's veins was exhausted.

Is this the "big event" he said?What is he going to do with the power of Jingyang?Recharge yourself?Isn't he afraid that his small body will be blown up by the abundant land in Guanzhong? !

Li Lijun felt a little sorry for being late.If she could arrive before the former Jingyang county magistrate cleaned up the map and burned the Yaodao's luggage, she might be able to find more clues.However, although the true purpose of the demon way can't be found out now, everyone else is dead, and they can't do any bad things they want to do.

Li Lijun quickly restored all the places he had rummaged through, and only collected some cinnabar mixed with soil and strange substances in a small porcelain bottle. He planned to go back and examine it carefully, so he turned around and prepared to leave.

But when she was about to take back the surrounding talisman formations, she suddenly felt something, turned her head to look to the southeast, and felt that there seemed to be two people approaching her over there.

It was two monks, one was slightly higher than her, about the fifth level of Qi Refining, and the other was only about the second level of Qi Refining.The breath of the two is upright, it should not be some evil cultivator.

Her heart moved slightly, and she stopped.I originally planned to leave, but I didn't plan to leave at this time.

She felt that she might be able to have a little contact with the local practice circle.

　Khan, this chapter is live, the update time is a little later, sorry.

　　
　
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