Shi Feiyang circled around to the southwestern Kun position. From a distance, this place looked like an ordinary temple complex, with Bai walls, red tiles, carved beams, and painted rafters. Only a few bronze lamps burned atop the walls and roofs.
The closer he drew, the more indistinct the buildings became. In the end, every building disappeared, leaving only the lamps, which burned ever brighter, like Demon Ghosts growing excited at the sight of food approaching.
Suddenly, the lamps began to move, swaying and drifting in the darkness like soul-guiding lamps in Hell, beckoning the dead to hurry forward.
Suffocating darkness closed in around him, sealing off every direction. Only the places illuminated by the lamps offered a way out.
Shi Feiyang had already entered the Demon Formation. He could tell that it possessed the subtle power to disarrange Yin-Yang and reverse the five elements. Not only did it twist and distort space, it also restricted divination through numerology. No matter how he calculated, all he obtained was a jumble of chaos.
He dared not be careless either. Taking out the Nine Heavens Primordial Yang Ruler, he swept it casually through the air, releasing a thousand-zhang expanse of purple qi.
Yin-Yang, the five elements, and the eight trigrams had all been used since the time of the Wa Huang Clan to calculate celestial phenomena, establish calendars, and distill the laws of the universe. Combining the eight trigrams produced sixty-four hexagrams, and the order of those sixty-four hexagrams had its own significance.
The Xia Dynasty lay within the Luoyang Basin. The surrounding mountains served as its coordinate system for calculating the rising, setting, and celestial orbits of the sun, moon, and five planets. Its Hexagram began with Gen, which represented mountains. Two mountain trigrams stacked together formed linked mountains, and the