ninety thousand miles

Chapter 618 Deep
Li Chuan paints the structure of dim light.

As he was drawing, he recalled, and he drew down many details that he had not noticed when "watching". He drew the six sides of the structure separately, then put down the stone, squatted there and thought slowly, thinking about the meaning of each point and each horizontal line.

He also took out the "Wen Jing" and flipped through it slowly, constantly verifying something.

The sun climbed to the middle of the sky, and the light shone on him, making his face full of sweat.

"Brother Li, you are still here." Lao Xiaokai's voice came from not far away.

Li Chuan raised his head and saw Lao Xiaokai and Gong Erpangsan walking towards the gate of the house.

He clapped his hands, stood up, and looked at the sky.

After approaching, Lao Xiaokai glanced at the picture on the ground and said, "We just finished talking. It was mainly the spiritual master and Li Zheng who were talking. Li Zheng is the younger brother of the leader of the 蚹 tribe. They said that the banquet would start in half an hour, so I came to find you with the two of them." He pointed at Gong Er and Pang San and said, "I feel..."

"Wait a minute." Li Chuan interrupted Lao Xiaokai and said, "Let's talk about it later."

"Oh, OK." Lao Xiaokai responded. He looked into the crack and asked, "Where's Daoist Master Jiang? Hasn't he come out yet?"

"Not yet." Li Chuan wiped the sweat off his face, feeling a little anxious, and said, "He's been down there for quite a long time." He stretched out his foot and wiped off the picture he had drawn on the ground, "I wonder what happened to him down there."

"Master Jiang has always been cautious. Since he dares to go down, he must be sure of it." Lao Xiaokai said.

Li Chuan recalled Jiang Mei's usual behavior and said, "She's not that cautious."

"Brother, you go back and have a rest first, I'll wait here?" Pang San said.

"No, go eat." Li Chuan refused and said, "If there is anything, I may have some ideas."

As soon as Li Chuan finished speaking, he felt the ground seemed to shake a few times. He immediately looked in the direction of the crack. The jagged edge of the crack was constantly wriggling, and the entire crack seemed to be shrinking.

He immediately took out the Tianyin Pot and the Butterfly Spirit.

After the ground shook a few more times, the entire crack trembled, and then several fire snakes jumped out from the crack. Jiang Mei appeared in the center of the fire snakes. He looked behind him and strode out.

Li Chuan finally breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Master Jiang, you finally came out."

Jiang Mei nodded, "Let's go back and talk about it. I'll rearrange the barrier here to prevent others from coming over."

"Ok."

After Jiang Mei finished setting up the barrier, they returned to Li Chuan's house.

After sitting down, Jiang Mei asked Lao Xiaokai: "Did the people of the Xi tribe say anything?"

"He said a lot, but most of it was nonsense," Lao Xiaokai said after taking a sip of tea. "He explained the reason why he didn't come to participate in the sacrifice. It was basically because the people in the tribe had not all woken up from hibernation, the white night had a great impact on them, and he was worried that it was a conspiracy of the Xun tribe, etc."

"Is Patriarch Xun here? He said this in front of Patriarch Xun?" Li Chuan asked curiously.

"Yes, we said it face to face, and then we started arguing and almost got into a fight. That scene, hey, was really lively." Lao Xiaokai said with a gloating expression, "Maybe there will be more quarrels when we eat later."

"Besides quarreling?" Li Chuan asked. "Besides quarreling... I think the Zhe tribe doesn't seem to be that happy about the coming of night." Lao Xiaokai listed some details, "Li Zheng said he didn't realize that the white night would be so long this time, so he didn't come. He even complained that the night came suddenly and they didn't have time to prepare."

"Don't they need to dispel the shadows?" Li Chuan was puzzled. "And there are more shadows underground, right?"

"How would I know? I just told you what I heard," Lao Xiaokai evaded the question. He stood up, took two steps, looked at Li Chuan and said, "I suspect Li Zheng is here to see you."

"Me?" Li Chuan pointed at himself.

"I'm here to find someone to dispel the darkness." Lao said with a smile.

"Then he must know something." Li Chuan said.

"He also asked a lot of questions about the rift. He had a fight with the Xun clan members. After being pulled apart, he sneered and said to the leader of the Xun clan that occupying Song capital was nothing and that it was only to defend Song capital that was considered capable, and so on." Lao Xiaokai added.

"That's good." Jiang Mei spoke up. He said, "The more he knows, the better it is for us. At worst, we can go to the Xi tribe and see how deep they are."

Li Chuan could hear some anger in Jiang Mei's tone, so he quickly said, "Master Jiang, don't be impulsive."

"Just now I saw something deep in the rift," Jiang Mei told what he had seen, "After sending you out, I kept going down, all the way through the crimson mist."

He paused and continued, "More than ten feet down, the fog disappeared. The cave entrance was very narrow and extremely quiet. All the sounds, including mine, seemed to be sucked away by something."

"I continued walking down and finally reached the end of the crevice, where there was a stone." Jiang Mei stretched out her hand and placed the stone in front of Li Chuan.

"This, black stone? The black stone of the demon clan?" Li Chuan recognized the stone.

"That's right." Jiang Mei continued, "After I took the stone away, cracks began to appear below the crack, so I walked a little further in the direction of the crack and finally figured out what was going on with the crack."

"What's going on?" Li Chuan asked.

"The crack leads to some secret passages underground. Through the secret passages, you will reach the core of Songdu." Jiang Mei said.

"The core of Songdu? What is that?" Li Chuan asked.

"It's the skeleton of an ancient beast." Jiang Mei replied.

"What about the black stone of the demon clan?" Li Chuan felt his mind confused again.

"In order to amplify the power of the formation, Songdu was built on an extremely complex formation. The function of this formation may be to isolate the curse. The core of the formation is the corpse of the ancient beast." After speaking, Jiang Mei added: "This formation is very different from the formation in the concept of Xuanmen, but from the perspective of its function, it can be called this."

"I understand." Li Chuan knew that Jiang Mei said this to make it easier for him to understand.

He asked, "What about the red fog? What's going on?"

Jiang Mei said: "When you were dispelling Bai Ye, the power of the blood pool also took the opportunity to break through the formation here, thus causing the crack here." He looked at the black stone on the table again and said: "The demon black stone, the demon spirit, the shadow... I suspect that the shadows are not only here to destroy the sacrifice, they also lead the way for the blood pool and find an opportunity to break through the formation here. Fortunately, Elder Li caught them in time, otherwise the consequences would be unpredictable."

(End of this chapter)