I had run more than ten meters before the hoe landed where I had just been standing.
The Hexagram Character Formula's "Fan Yin" and "Fu Yin" both came from the Six Lines.
To put it simply, Fan Yin meant rebounding, while Fu Yin was a kind of illusion: one second passed for me while three seconds passed for the other person. In reality, time had not changed; what changed was the other person's perception. He needed three seconds to complete one second's worth of movement.
By the time he reacted, I was already far away.
Along the way, I shouted "Fu Yin" almost ten times.
By the time I made it out of the village, my legs felt as though I had severe kidney deficiency. Every few steps, I fell to the ground.
Fortunately, I had left those people far behind.
Scrambling and crawling, I headed back into the mountains and soon found a set of numbers on the ground.
The numbers had been drawn in the snow-821.
This was a code Seventh Master had left for me.
In early heaven bagua numerology, 8 represented the kun trigram, and Kun indicated the southwest.
2 indicated distance: the next code would be twenty meters away, or, if it was not there, two hundred meters away.
The final 1 meant Seventh Master would wait at the next location. If the number was 2, it meant there was great danger ahead and I needed to be on guard.
I immediately continued southwest.
Naturally, there was nothing twenty meters ahead. When I reached the two-hundred-meter mark, several people jumped out at once. A blade nearly came down on my head, scaring me so badly that my legs gave way and I dropped to my knees.
"Stop, stop, stop! Hold that blade!"
I stared at