Chapter 25 The Crisis Begins
Yan Jie's formation techniques were mostly explored by himself, combining a lot of information technology and cybernetics. These things were incompatible with the mainstream techniques in the cultivation world and could not be explained clearly in just a few words. Therefore, Yan Jie simply kept silent.
Compared to Zhang Shijie, Li Ting was full of confidence in Yan Jie's formation. Seeing that Yan Jie had completed his preparation, he asked: "Brother Yan, I wonder how to arrange this formation next?"
Yan Jie explained: "This formation is called the Five Elements Magic Formation. It can use the terrain to activate the Five Elements and is extremely powerful. However, this formation has very high requirements for terrain, and each formation flag must be placed in the corresponding position to play a role."
Li Ting said thoughtfully: "No wonder Brother Yan has just emphasized that the five elements are all in this manor. It turns out that he has long been thinking about setting up this "five elements magic array"!"
"Yes," Yan Jie nodded, then handed out three array flags and ordered: "The next thing is very important. You must remember clearly: Brother Li took these two array flags to Hantan, and threw the black-marked array flag into the pond as a source of water array; the yellow-marked order flag was buried in the rockery as a source of earth array; Brother Zhang placed the green-marked order flag deep in the bamboo forest as a source of wood array! There are two jade slips here, which record the method of placing array flags, and there are seven hand techniques in total, so the order must not be wrong!"
"There are only three elements of water, wood, earth, and gold and fire?" Zhang Shijie was a little confused. As he walked, he only saw rockery, cold pond and bamboo forest, and did not see any areas related to the two attributes of gold and fire. If these two are missing, can it still be called the Five Elements Magic Formation?
Yan Jie smiled and said, "Since the owner of this manor is a master, he will naturally not let the five elements be missing when building the manor. If what I expected is good, the two elements of gold and fire will be left, and they will definitely be deeper in the manor. After I explore and place the array flag, the task will be completed."
Seeing that Yan Jie was full of confidence, a glimmer of hope arose in his heart, he nodded and said, "Okay, we will go to find you after we have placed the array flag."
As he said that, he took the formation flag with Li Ting and walked out the door.
After Yan Jie came out of Tingyu Tower, he walked south along the north-south road in front of the door.
At this time, there was a surging bamboo sea on his left, and a winding wall on his right. The main body of the wall was white, with only the green tiles covering the top, which looked quite quiet.
Yan Jie walked along the path to the end of the wall, and a new arch appeared in front of him. Before he could get close, a strange fragrance came to his nose.
"The fragrance is elegant and fragrant, it is the fragrance of orchids! Strangely, how can orchids bloom in the cold winter?" Yan Jie walked towards the arch in confusion.
Behind the arch is a large garden.
The flowerbeds are all made of blue bricks, with seven seats, all ten feet square. Different flowerbeds are planted with different types of orchids. The seven orchids look like seven beautiful dance troupes from a distance, graceful and lively, and fragrant.
Yan Jie looked around the flowerbed carefully. Each flowerbed had several canals responsible for irrigation. The starting point of these canals was a pool at the corner of the garden.
I reached into the pool and felt the water flowing warmly, and I could still smell the scent of sulfur between my nose.
"This is a hot spring, it's great! Anyone with a hot spring must have geothermal heat, which corresponds to the fire!"
Yan Jie was happy and continued to explore the canal.
Just as Yan Jie was exploring the garden, Li Ting had already set up a second formation flag and was about to meet with Zhang Shijie, but suddenly he heard a strange noise coming from a distance.
Li Ting was meticulous and felt that his voice was a bit strange.
He jumped onto the rockery, looked at a commanding height and looked in the direction where the sound came, and was stunned.
"This is... a zombie!"
In the dusk, a sea of corpses emerged from the graves west of the village! A large number of zombies broke out from the graves. Some of them were obviously dead, with clear facial features, while others were already rotten, with even white bones exposed on their bodies.
For some reason, after these zombies appeared, they just dragged their strange steps and wandered aimlessly in the cemetery, without a fixed target.
"This is not good. Such a zombie tide cannot be formed naturally, and there must be a reason behind it! Besides, these zombies actually know how to bypass the Tiansilk trap, which is even more strange. To produce spirituality, zombies need to take at least a hundred years of cultivation. How can thousands of zombies produce spirituality? If no one controls this, I won't believe it if I kill you... But, the number of zombies is huge. If you fight hard, you will definitely die. You have to think of a way!"
Li Ting was anxious when he caught a glimpse of Zhang Shijie coming from the arch. He waved his hand and shouted: "Shijie, come here!"
Zhang Shijie came to the rockery and saw Li Ting staring at the distance for a moment. He thought he was watching the scenery. He couldn't help but smile and said, "When is it now? Do you still have the mood to enjoy the scenery here? Go down and meet Yan Jie quickly! This manor is a bit weird. His cultivation level is so low. If you encounter danger, you will be trouble!"
Li Ting shook his head and said with a serious expression: "There are arrows on Yan Jie's body. If there is danger, we will know soon. The trouble is bigger than you think now... Come up first, I'll show you the 'scenery' in the distance!"
Zhang Shijie jumped to the height of the rockery and looked in the direction Li Ting pointed, his face turned pale. He couldn't help swallowing and said, "Where did these zombies come out? When I checked before, there was no sign at all!"
Li Ting had seen some clues at this time and said, "Although these zombies are numerous, they can be roughly divided into two types. Look at the outer side, their facial features are clear, their clothes are intact, and their actions are no different from those of living people. Obviously, they were refined into zombies by secret techniques when they were alive; then look at the group surrounded by the middle, they were all just broken from the tomb, and some of them were already rotten... When we went to investigate at noon, they were all still in the coffin, so of course we couldn't find anything!"
Just as the two were talking, the zombies in the cemetery in the distance seemed to have suddenly received instructions, turning around and walking towards the village.
At this time, the Tiansan Silk placed by Li Ting played a role. The Tiansan Silk was extremely sharp. When the corpse group walked here, they were immediately cut into pieces and fell to the ground. In a short while, a mountain of corpses piled up at the west entrance of the village, which looked very scary.
Seeing this, Zhang Shijie breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's good that's good... Tiancan Si should be able to stop zombies from entering the village!"
"I'm afraid otherwise..." Li Ting frowned and said with a serious expression: "There will never be so many zombies here for no reason. There must be someone behind them. If this is true, then the silk will not be blocked for long this day..."
Sure enough, after sacrificing dozens of zombies, the corpse tide suddenly changed direction and pushed down the two rows of houses next to it, pouring straight into the village.
The direction they were traveling was clearly aimed at the manor.
Seeing the zombies getting closer, Zhang Shijie gradually became nervous. He said in vain: "Li, Li Ting, what should we do? Why don't you fire arrows and ask for help?"
"Please help? Who should I ask for help? Yan Jie's cultivation is only the first level of Qi refining. What's the use of calling him over?" Li Ting clenched his fists, and the blue veins on his forehead burst out. "At any time, the technique of corpse refining is a taboo! This person is even more crazy when he uses a living person to refine corpses! I must not stand by and watch!"
"What else can you do?" Zhang Shijie looked at the formation of the corpse group and felt cold in his heart, saying, "We can't even save our lives now, so why do we use to storm water?"
"Formation!" Li Ting looked in the direction of Tingyu Tower and said, "There is only one way to go now, that is, to buy time and let Yan Jie complete the formation! With the protection of the formation, we may be able to deal with the other party!"
Seeing that the manor was surrounded by thousands of zombies, Zhang Shijie was shocked and said, "Are you kidding?" Yan Jie's formation was like a child playing house. How could he block so many zombies?"
Chapter completed!