Chapter 166 Twelve Earthly Branches Great Array
Three days later.
At this moment, the twelve god-transforming monks gathered. After three days of recuperation, the injuries of the monk named Bai had completely recovered.
With the unanimous agreement of everyone, Feng Xingzi became the leader of this trip. Everyone obeyed the order and did not dare to act rashly alone.
After all, everything depends on Feng Xingzi. Others know nothing about the Shang Ling Cave. In addition to being the initiator of this cooperation, Feng Xingzi has also been exploring the Shang Ling Cave for thirty years.
In this regard, Feng Xingzi will naturally not postpone it.
Under Feng Xingzi's leadership, the twelve god-transforming monks were well prepared and walked together in the void, whistling towards the north of Qingyuan City.
After several hours, a group of twelve people slowly landed in a rolling mountain range and stopped among the forests.
This majestic and magnificent mountain range is far away from the monk city and is rarely visited, making it an excellent place to hide the spiritual cave.
Although there are often groups of spirit beasts here, they are all low-level spirit beasts that can only deal with monks below the elixir. They do not pose any threat to the god-transforming monks.
Standing in front, Feng Xingzi looked at the mountains in the distance. He turned around, faced the others and spoke:
"Everyone, from here, we go deeper to the northeast for more than 60 miles, and the place where the upper spirit cave is located. It is difficult to grasp the exact direction at a high altitude. There is a mark left by my Qingyuan Sect in the forest. We need to fly close to the ground."
Everyone nodded, and naturally they would not have any objection to what Feng Xingzi said.
Then, the twelve people circulated their spiritual power, flew closely against the ground, and quickly shuttled through the forest, sometimes avoiding the tall trees and sometimes staying away from the spirit beast tribe. Although they were not afraid of those low-level spirit beasts, they did not want to create extramarital branches and wasted time here.
Soon after, everyone came to a flat ground.
Feng Xingzi, who was in front, suddenly stopped and landed on the ground. Then the other eleven people also finished their flight immediately and followed closely behind.
At this time, before Feng Xingzi could speak, someone asked a question: "Fellow Daoist Feng, is this the place where Shangling Cave is located?"
"Not bad!" Feng Xingzi nodded and said nothing.
Everyone was a little surprised because it was neither a mountain cave nor a lake nor a stream, and it was logical that there was no spiritual cave at all.
But at this moment, Feng Xingzi walked forward a few steps, walked to an ancient tree with a breast diameter of about seven or eight feet in the forest, aimed at a bare tree root, and blasted out a palm.
"Bang!"
With a loud bang, everyone realized that there was actually a formation here, and the root of the tree was the eye of the formation. With Feng Xingzi's palm blasting out, a huge tree hole appeared in the middle of the ancient tree, which was enough for people to pass through easily.
Feng Xingzi turned around, clasped her fists in front of everyone, and said, "Fellow Taoists, the upper spirit cave will be under the roots of this tree. Entering from this tree cave is the place where the upper spirit cave is. In front of the cave gate, there is the earthly branch formation. Please enter from now on!"
After saying that, Feng Xingzi ignored the reactions of others and went directly into the tree hole and became the leader.
Seeing this, the others no longer hesitated and entered the tree hole one after another. Just as the last person entered, under Feng Xingzi's operation, the tree hole closed instantly and returned to its original state. Even if someone passed by here, there was no clue.
This formation is really hidden. No wonder this spiritual cave has not been known for thousands of years. In addition to being located in this wilderness forest, there is also a hidden formation.
Entering the tree hole, there was no light source, and it was pitch black here. Everyone used their spiritual power to their eyes, and their eyes were like torches, so they could see the scenery here clearly.
From the outside, this place is just an ancient tree, but when they really entered this cave, they discovered that there was a unique cave.
At this moment, in front of everyone, there were two huge stone doors. If you look closely, you can find that although this door is thick, it has traces of being opened frequently. Obviously, this is the work of Qingyuan Sect.
Above the stone gate, three large vermilion red characters are particularly eye-catching, which is "Shang Ling Cave"!
There is still some Taoist rhyme above these three words, which is the unique aura of Mahayana monks. Under everyone's feelings, they believe that they will not make any mistakes.
At this time, everyone decided that this place was the ruins of the cave of the people on the spiritual formation, and there would be almost no mistakes.
The fonts left by Mahayana monks themselves, even though they have passed the erosion of time, even after the erosion of time, even after the corrosion of time, can still leave traces today, thousands of years later, and have not completely disappeared.
Such methods are far from being imagined by a god-transforming monk!
Everyone sighed that although the transformation of God is a demigod, it is even more different than refining the void, let alone compare it with the Mahayana monk who has survived the nine heavenly tribulations.
Putting aside the distracting thoughts, he walked forward again. After Feng Xingzi pushed open the two huge stone doors, everyone else's eyes lit up.
At this time, what was presented to everyone was a vast flat ground, which was a circular array disk with twelve text symbols on the edge of the array disk.
That is, the twelve earthly branches!
"Everyone, this is the Earthly Branch Formation. Only by breaking this formation can we continue to go deeper and explore this Mahayana ruins!"
At this time, Feng Xingzi didn't need to say much, but everyone knew the mystery of this formation with their own knowledge.
While they were surprised, they had to be careful and full of fear, because this place was not simple, and the reputation of the Earthly Branch Formation had already resounded throughout the four wildernesses!
The earthly branch formation, full name is the twelve earthly branch formation. It is a guardian formation formed by the twelve earthly branches such as Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai, and according to the rules of conflict, mutual breaking, and mutual harm, it begins to evolve with formation means.
The twelve earthly branches are originally just cooperating with the ten heavenly stems such as Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, and Gui in a fixed order to form the stem and branch discipline method, Yin is matched with Yin and Yang is matched with Yang, and sixty years is a Jiazi, representing the order of year, month, and day, and are used to record the text symbols of time.
According to the theory of Yin and Yang, the twelve earthly branches are divided into Yin and Yang branches, and the six yang branches are Zi, Yin, Chen, Wu, Shen, and Xu; the six yin branches are Chou, Mao, Si, Wei, You, and Hai.
In the formation path, it is usually based on the six yin and six yang of the twelve earthly branches, combined with the innate five elements attributes, with the correspondence between Hai and Zi belonging to water, Yin and Mao belonging to wood, Si and Wu belonging to fire, Shen and You belonging to metal, Chen, Xu, Chou and Wei belonging to earth, and it is usually evolved into the formation path method to form a large formation of the twelve earthly branches to block the enemy.
This formation came from the spiritual formation master in the late stage of Mahayana. It was a master of formations with the greatest successors of the Four Desolates. With his amazing means, he arranged this wonderful twelve earthly branches. Even monks who are in the Mahayana realm have a great headache. It is definitely not possible for several gods to crack it.
However, as time goes by and with the erosion of the power of time, now, thousands of years later, with the loss of spiritual power, the power of this formation has long been gone, and it has even reached the point of about to collapse.
This makes Zhong Tianhao and his twelve men have the absolute certainty of breaking the formation!
Under Feng Xingzi's arrangement, everyone immediately began to break the formation.
During the transformation of body shape, the twelve god-transforming monks all jumped onto this array plate, each occupying a position, stepping on those earthly branches under their feet.
With their eyesight, it can naturally be seen that this twelve earthly branches formation was arranged according to the list of the two-combination bureaus.
The two twelve earthly branches combine, Zi and Chou combine to transform into earth, Yin and Hai combine to transform into wood, Mao and Xu combine to fire, Chen and You combine to metal, Si and Shen combine to water, and Wu and Wei combine to earth.
Nowadays, everyone represents an earthly branch symbol, which activates spiritual power one after another in the order of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, and begins to break this formation.
After the two monks in the Chen and You positions took action together, Feng Xingzi and the monks in the Yin and Hai positions, who also took action.
Immediately afterwards, the four gods in the Si position, Shen position, Mao position, and Xu position also used spiritual power one after another. Finally, Zhong Tianhao, who were standing in the Zi, Chou, Wu, and Wei position, also issued a spiritual power together.
At this moment, the twelve spiritual powers in the late stage of the God Transformation collided with each other, forming a terrifying attack. Under the operation of everyone, the combined spiritual power directly hit the circular-like array disk on the ground below.
"retreat!"
With Feng Xingzi's loud shout, at the same time, the twelve people flew back together, and instantly stayed away from this place at a speed that was almost at an extreme speed, for fear of being affected.
Just as everyone stepped back, accompanied by a series of shocking loud noises, the formation plate here could no longer recognize the terrifying power under the joint attack of everyone, and it broke into pieces and broke into pieces.
Everyone cast spells and dissipated the dust and looked at it. Only then did they see that the formation plate of the earthly branch formation had completely lost its effect after the collapse of the formation.
The twelve earthly branches formations have been successfully cracked!
When the formation was broken, they saw a palace in front of everyone!
"Could it be that the person from the Spirit Formation has built the upper spirit cave into a palace?"
Everyone was silent in the exclamation of a monk. They looked at the palace and each thought about it in their hearts.
At this time, even Feng Xingzi was full of incredible ideas. Qingyuan Sect’s exploration of the spirit cave was limited to the twelve earthly branches formations, and they knew nothing about the situation after the formation.
Now, Feng Xingzi and the other eleven people are at the same level and have no earlier advantages.
This palace that appeared in front of everyone was not too luxurious, it seemed to be just an ordinary building, but judging from the simplicity of the above, it has indeed existed for thousands of years.
"Fellow Daoist Feng, should we enter directly or?"
Hearing the inquiry from another god-transforming monk, even Feng Xingzi hesitated at this moment. He was not sure about this situation and could only let everyone decide.
Because everyone understands that this trip may not be that simple, and even life-threatening may occur.
In this case, no one is willing to be the first to be a pioneer. Cultivators are often selfish, and no one is so great that they will risk their lives for others.
Chapter completed!