ninety thousand miles

Chapter 453 Inner Corner
"That's right." Li Chuan took the book back, and then he remembered something else. He asked, "When will Xiao Xiang find out that the letter from Prince Su that she stole is fake?"

"It's hard to say what she said, but with Fellow Daoist Liu here, maybe she has already noticed something is wrong." Wen Guying answered, and he talked about the past of the pointed-faced female demon, "When I went up the mountain, Fellow Daoist Liu was already there. It is said that she stayed in Tianju Mountain for so long to avoid disaster. In addition to helping the Four Gods Palace with some things, she would come forward to resolve any conflicts between the disciples and the demon cultivators, or any conflicts between the demon cultivators, and make big things small and small things nothing."

"He seems to be quite loyal," said Li Chuan.

"Indeed." Wen Guying said.

"From this point of view, they should have nothing to do with Mo Ling." Li Chuan said, "Mo Ling, do you think she is also in Yashan County now?"

"It's hard to say." Wen Guying said, "She has been in the Heart Abyss for more than 30,000 years. She is obviously a very patient person. It would be strange if she revealed her tracks so easily."

Then he urged Li Chuan to go back to the room to rest, saying: "Go to bed quickly. You don't know what you will encounter when you enter the secret passage tomorrow."

"Well, good." Li Chuan felt that his stomach was not so bloated anymore, so he said, "You should go to bed early too."

"I need to think about it again." Wen Guying said.

After Li Chuan returned to his room, he went straight to bed. He still couldn't sleep. So he turned on the light, took out Mingheng's notes, opened the first page, and began to recite. He was not sure if he could figure out anything, but if he memorized it well, maybe when he encountered something, he would guess it right after a few times.

Anyway, he has a good memory now.

Before I finished memorizing a page, I started to feel sleepy.

Turn off the lights and go to sleep.

The next afternoon, they arrived at the nunnery. The temple was in ruins, with broken walls, withered weeds and bare ground, making it look even more desolate.

"Shall we go directly into the secret passage?" Yao Shuang asked Wen Guying.

"Just go ahead." Wen Guying said.

Yao Shuang led them to the direction of the Scripture Chanting Hall. As Li Chuan walked, he looked around and observed everything around him, and his pace slowed down unconsciously. With the help of the midday sun, he focused his mind for a moment, and then the scenery in his vision began to change constantly.

Wen Guying was walking at the end. Seeing this, he asked, "Did you find anything?"

Li Chuan shook his head, exited the state and said, "It's a bit weird."

"What kind of weirdness?" Wen Guying stopped and asked.

Yao Shuang looked back at them and stopped as well.

Li Chuan pointed to the road they came from and said, "After we passed that dead tree just now, I felt something strange, as if all the sounds had become lighter. The sound of the wind, the sound of the branches swaying, and the sound of my own footsteps, all seemed to be separated by something and became lighter."

"Because we have entered the seal." Yao Shuang said.

"Oh, so that's how it is." Li Chuan said.

"What else?" Wen Guying asked.

"And...and, I looked around. Although I didn't find anything unusual, I think this place is too regular and symmetrical," said Li Chuan.

This sentence caught Yao Shuang's attention. She looked at Li Chuan and asked, "Why is it symmetrical?"

"For example, that dead tree and that broken wall," Li Chuan pointed in the direction of the wall. "They look like two completely different things now, but after I enter the mysterious state, they sometimes look exactly the same to me."

"Is that so?" Yao Shuang walked up to Li Chuan, took out a jade slip and handed it to him, "Take a look and see if it is the same as the formation pattern inside." Li Chuan said bluntly, "I can't see it now."

Wen Guying said, "Sister Yao, just draw it directly."

"Okay." Yao Shuang took back the jade slip, and then a black shovel appeared in her hand. Then she used the shovel to draw on the ground. With each stroke, many strokes automatically extended out, and soon, an incomplete array pattern appeared on the ground.

Li Chuan looked at it for a while and said, "Wait a minute, I'll take another look."

He entered the mysterious state again, and maintained it, walking around the nunnery. After walking back again, he said, "It's very similar, but many details are different."

"You draw." Yao Shuang said, and handed the shovel to Li Chuan.

Li Chuan took it, thought about it, and then made some changes to the sharp corners of Yao Shuang's drawing. He said, "Places like this are reversed, with the corners facing inward. There are many other places that are also different, but I don't know how to draw them."

Wen Guying glanced at the sky and said, "It's almost noon, let's go into the secret passage first. We can continue exploring outside later."

Yao Shuang said, "Okay."

After entering the secret passage, Yao Shuang explained to Li Chuan and Wen Guying the origin of her formation diagram.

She said: "I copied this formation diagram from a stone slab. Only one-third of the stone slab is left, and the pattern on it is blurred and difficult to distinguish. Therefore, after copying it, I borrowed runes from other ruins to complete it. It is the formation diagram you just saw. Now that we know where the mistake is, there is hope to complete it. The mystery of the stone slab may be solved."

As she spoke, her tone seemed to become cheerful.

Li Chuan said: "Well, when I get back, I will draw everything I see."

Yao Shuang thanked him carefully: "Thank you very much."

After walking five or six feet into the secret passage, the light from outside could no longer come in.

"Brother Li, can you still walk?" Wen Guying asked, "If you can still walk, we won't light the lights and try not to disturb the beings inside."

Li Chuan tried hard to identify Yao Shuang in front of him and said, "Well, I'll just follow Senior Sister Yao."

"Then let's go a little further." Wen Guying said.

The path ahead gradually became narrower, and ancient runes flashed faintly on the ground, then disappeared into the shadows.

Li Chuan felt that the air had become humid.

"It's very dry here," said Yao Shuang.

Dry? Li Chuan was stunned.

Wen Guying said: "To dig out such a secret passage, it would require a lot of manpower and resources, and it would definitely attract the attention of people around."

"Master Wen." Li Chuan spoke up. He said, "Don't you feel the dampness? I feel like I'm inside the body of some creature. It's breathing, and these runes are constantly appearing and disappearing with its breathing."

Wen Guying seemed not to have heard Li Chuan's voice. He continued, "The nearest village is only half an hour's walk from here."

(End of this chapter)