ninety thousand miles

Chapter 649 Supplementary Pictures
Li Chuan thought for a moment. The Fuguang Fruit was indeed very effective. He remembered everything he had seen in the mysterious state just now clearly, and his mind was also very clear. The purpose of their coming here, the things they were going to do, and the things they could do were connected one by one, in a clear and orderly manner.

It's quite sour and tasty.

He said, "There may be some clues hidden in the patterns of the cobblestones on the ground below and on the surrounding walls. I will try to see if I can decipher anything."

"Wait, those are not pebbles." Wen Guying seemed to have just seen those patterns. He took a step forward and carefully observed the patterns that Li Chuan mentioned.

"What is that?" Li Chuan asked.

"It should be the Cinder Heart Stone. It is said that it could be found everywhere in ancient times, but now... we can probably find a few pieces in Xuanyue Sect, and we have to try our luck in various natural secret realms to find the rest." Elder Li replied, "There are probably tens of thousands of pieces here, but many of them have already decayed. Even if nothing happens, in another 30,000 to 50,000 years, this place will probably decay completely."

"What's the use of the Heartstone?" Li Chuan was very pragmatic.

"It can attract and store souls." Wen Guying speculated, "The souls of half-demons are connected to the blood pool. Part of their souls have always been in these cinder heart stones. When they die, their souls will return here and wait for the next reincarnation. When I scanned the area below with my divine sense just now, I didn't see any cinder heart stones. After you said that, the barrier was broken. There must be many other mechanisms below. Be careful."

"Didn't you see it?" Li Chuan turned his head.

Zhu Qingyun said: "No, I can only vaguely see nine pools below."

Elder Li said, "I can't see it yet."

So Li Chuan looked at Yu Chen and Ling Shi and asked, "What about you? You are half-demons, what do you feel special about it?"

Yu Chen said: "I felt fear. Every time I looked down, I had to muster up my courage."

The spiritual master smiled bitterly and said, "This is not a place for a living half-demon to come."

"Now that I'm here, what else should I come and not come to?" Li Chuan looked towards the blood pool again. He adjusted his sitting posture, straightened his back, took a deep breath, and then struck the kettle.

After hearing the gentle and soft sound of the pot, Li Chuan felt calm.

The sacred tree stretches.

Concentrate.

He did not immediately look at the paintings on the ground and the wall, but first determined the dynamics of those special shadows. The shadows were still there, still changing their positions according to a certain pattern. Li Chuan tried his best to remember all these positions. Did he seem to find some pattern? He continued to observe, and gradually felt that there was an invisible force controlling these shadows.

In his eyes, there is no such thing as invisible, only dots and horizontal lines.

He focused his gaze on the nine pools of blood.

The ripples of the pot sound spread layer by layer until they reached the pool of blood.

The sound of the kettle gently touched the nine pools of water, rippling and spreading layer by layer into the depths of the pool. It was not until it touched a deep darkness that the sound of the kettle was pushed out, and at that moment the surface of the pool returned to calm.

dark.

It felt similar to the darkness he encountered before. Chi Lin's clone might be hiding in the darkness. It would be very difficult to break through the darkness relying solely on his pot sound.

Li Chuan stepped out and looked at the ground and the walls on all four sides.

At this time he discovered that all those special shadows had changed their positions.

"Something has woken up." Elder Li said, staring down.

"No hurry." Wen Guying said.

"There, is something flowing down?" Zhu Qingyun pointed to a cave opening on a higher ground opposite them and said, "Blood, blood is flowing down from the cave opening."

Then, blood-colored liquids began to flow out of other holes, some thick and some thin, spreading downward like a spirit snake. The blood flowed over the walls and ground paved with ember heart stone, flowed into the blood pool, turned into a puff of blood mist, and then completely melted into the blood pool.

Zhu Qingyun took a step to the side. She lowered her head and saw a blood-red stream flowing under her feet, winding towards the cave entrance.

“There are some here too,” said Zhu Qingyun.

"Yeah." Wen Guying stepped aside.

The stream flowed around where Li Chuan was sitting, flowed forward for a while and then fell down.

"Do you have any other plans?" asked Elder Li.

"No," Wen Guying glanced at Li Chuan and said, "I was thinking, if I were Chi Lin, at this moment, being forced into this situation, what else could I do."

"What did you think of?" asked Elder Li.

"Not yet." Wen Guying said. After a pause, he continued, "But I always feel that I have overlooked something. I must have overlooked something."

"Over at Luoxia Secret Realm?" asked Elder Li.

"I'm not too worried about that." Wen Guying said.

"Why?" asked Elder Li.

"Immortal Yun Yi is there." Wen Guying said.

"Do you think he will have good intentions towards Xuanmen?" Elder Li frowned.

"No, it's..." Wen Guying looked up, "At least the Luoxia Secret Realm can't trap him. For him, there is no choice. He will just kill everything that stands in his way."

"That's true." Elder Li agreed with Wen Gu's response.

"So if it's not Luoxia Secret Realm, then where else could it be?" Wen Guying lowered his head and thought for a while, then said, "I guess I can't think of it for the moment."

"Could it be Youxi Valley?" Zhu Qingyun asked.

"Probably not." Wen Guying shook his head.

“If the sacred tree has grown, there might be a new sacred bird there.” Elder Li said, “But the tree and bird are born from flesh and blood…”

"Master Chu should be here by then, so leave it to him." Wen Guying's tone sounded a little tired.

The sound of the pot has changed.

The eyes of Wen Guying and others were all focused on Li Chuan.

The blood flowed over the place where the ember heart stone was paved, leaving shallow bloodstains. In Li Chuan's vision, those bloodstains completed some structures, and after those structures were complete, the patterns on the ground and the wall stood out.

It is a pattern recorded in the "Wen Jing". It is incomplete and some parts don't match, but it is similar enough.

He had already completely learned the three main patterns in the "Pattern Classics" and could skillfully use them in conjunction with Hu Yin. He memorized most of the other patterns by rote. After studying Ming Heng's brushwork, he felt that he had a glimpse of the tricks and could sometimes use them, but...

Li Chuan's eyes were focused on the gaps in the patterns. If he completed the patterns, would he be able to find the information hidden in them?

He stretched out his hand slowly, and when the force touched the first picture, he withdrew his hand as if he had been electrocuted.

(End of this chapter)