Chapter 16 Endless Labyrinth
After watching for a long time, everyone still stayed in this cave. The reason was that there was eight stone walls and there was no exit. The only exit was the stone door when they came in, but it was completely closed at this moment. It was not easy to open it again.
But the purpose of our trip has not yet been achieved, so it is too early to withdraw.
Master and Gu Tan were watching the stone wall engraved with Lu Ban's books. Suddenly, Master knocked on his fingers and made an empty sound of "dong dong". Gu Tan on the side also knocked on it, but the same reaction was made.
"This stone wall is empty."
After Gutan confirmed, he was surprised.
The master frowned slightly: "It should be so, but... if you open the exit here, you will definitely destroy the stone-carved scriptures here. Perhaps this is also a wonderful chess set up by Xuanchan Zhenren. If you are greedy for Lu Ban's books, this place is the end. If you want to open up a path, you will definitely abandon Lu Ban's books and show your wisdom between choices and trade-offs."
Gu Tan looked at the handwriting on the wall in pain, shook his head and sighed: "What a pity..."
I asked in confusion: "Why can't we write down these words first and then break this stone wall?"
The master did not reply, but Shangguan Jin, who was standing beside him, caught the conversation and sneered: "Junior brother, have you not heard what Master Yang said just now "Missing One Door"? Once these words are touched, they are the beginning of fate. It is impossible not to practice. Do you think Xuanchan Zhenren is so stupid, so that you can do everything."
"Well……"
I gave Shangguan Jin a angrily glance and stopped talking, but what he said was indeed somewhat reasonable. Since Zhenren Xuanchan set up this situation, how could he not have thought of such a superficial truth? After all, I underestimated Lu Banshu and the wisdom of ancient sages.
The master and Gu Tan looked at each other, and both of them nodded, slashing out the evil sword and the mud-water sword at the same time.
"Kak...bang,."
First, there were a few tiny cracks, and then they became thicker and thicker. Only a muffled sound came, and the whole piece of writing suddenly turned into a pile of fragments. At the same time, a narrow path appeared in front of you.
The master handed me back the evil sword, walked to the brazier, picked up one of the wooden sticks, and didn't know what kind of wood these were. After so many years, it was not weathered, but it looked like a branch that had just been cut down. He lit one end, and the master held the torch and walked into the door first.
In front of us, there was a cave that was more than ten times larger than when we first came in. However, this octagonal cave actually had eight doors, which opened on eight stone walls. We first walked out of a door to the left, and it immediately made everyone stare at it. It was still an eight-sided cave with eight doors, and each door seemed to be connected to the same cave. However, these caves were empty, with no stone carvings, and no debris.
The master frowned and said, "This place is too strange, like a maze, and like a maze. In short, we have to go back and take a look. Maybe we have overlooked some important clues."
Gu Tan did not object again this time. He seemed to feel something was wrong and immediately nodded in agreement.
In this way, we immediately turned around and walked back, but when we returned to the original cave, the fire light that we should have seen disappeared, and this cave was obviously not the one we first met, we were lost...
Gu Tan said in surprise: "Is it a method of moving and transposing shapes? But it is impossible to cast such spells in such a space."
The master thought for a while and said, "Maybe... it's not the method of shifting and transposition, but because our induction ability has subsided. I remember when we were outside, we once tried that our thoughts were greatly restricted here. In other words, we just seemed to be walking back, but in fact we were walking towards another cave. It's not that the space here deceived us, but that we lost ourselves..."
Shangguan Jin said anxiously: "Master, how many such caves are there? It is better for us to look for them separately and we will definitely be able to return to our original place."
Gu Tan's face turned cold and said, "No, even my thoughts with you, Master Yang, have been restricted, not to mention you guys, there may be only one cave here, but in such an environment, there may be eight or even sixteen, and so on, endless. If the aura here is originally chaotic, it would be easy to deal with, but if not, then this place would definitely not be so simple."
The master nodded slightly to agree and said, "Yes, although my mind is limited, I can still sense a little. There seems to be a special aura here, which is secretly manipulating our discernment ability. Everything we see, think of, and even sensed now may be the effect of being pulled by that aura."
Gu Tan continued: "I thought of a solution, which may be of some help to the current situation."
As soon as this said, we all looked at Gutan together. Gutan immediately kept it in hiding. He smiled proudly, then stroked his beard and slowly spoke: "When we left again, we went against our thoughts. We really wanted to leave but we didn't. We would definitely see different things in the opposite direction."
The master thought for a while and said, "This method is feasible, but the breath here is too weird. To prevent accidents from happening, we must be careful."
Gu Tan glanced at his master and immediately said, "You go ahead and I'll cushion the back."
After saying that, Gu Tan actually walked behind us with a mud-shui sword and prepared for precautions. However, Master was not too surprised. He walked in front with a torch, and the three of us were each guarding one side. In this way, Master first walked to the opposite cave door, paused, and walked in. Sure enough, everything here was nothing like the previous cave, and there were still eight stone walls and eight doors.
This time, the master first walked to the opposite cave gate, immediately turned around, walked around the cave, and walked back towards the cave gate when we came. However, this time, it was obviously not the previous cave, but there was still no clue. Even if it was a slight strange trace, I never saw it...
Walking back is indeed contrary to what we all think. No matter what, we always feel that we are moving forward, but we still look back and find nothing. This also shows that Gutan’s method still has no effect.
Unexpectedly, when I just walked into the first floor of the Xiantuo Pagoda, I encountered such a difficult situation. What kind of place should be the second and third floor below...? If I continue like this, not only can I not reach the lower floor, but even this floor alone, I am afraid I can't get out. Alas.
Next, we tried drawing marks, walking straight lines, etc., but none of them were where we were. Just when we had no choice, the master stopped suddenly, looked down at the torch in his hand and said, "Look."
I looked closely and was shocked. The torch in the master's hand did not change at all when he was walking, but as soon as he stopped, the flames immediately rushed up, and the wooden sticks burst out "crackling", which was very strange. I was shocked to see that Shangguan Jin couldn't speak. Such a strange phenomenon could not be explained by our practice.
Gu Tan and his master looked at each other slowly, then looked around quickly, and whispered: "Hide quickly."
Chapter completed!