Ling Shuyao recalled the two puppets to her sides, and the four arms of the puppets were retracted and folded behind their backs at the same time, making a neat sound of gears clenching. She gently wiped the sweat on her forehead with her cuffs, and saluted the two of them.
Although he had just experienced a very consuming battle and his breath was slightly unstable, his etiquette was still thorough.
"Thank you Master Mingjue and Fellow Daoist Liu for your help. If you two hadn't arrived in time, I would have been in trouble today."
Qin Tiexin returned the salute with one hand and a raised palm.
"Donor Ling is very polite. Previously at Imperial Dao Arts Workshop, Donor Ling put a lot of thought into helping the poor monk choose martial arts. Today I happened to meet him, so I should take action."
Liu Suifeng stuffed the last formation flag back into his waist, turned to Ling Shuyao and asked, "Fellow Daoist Liu, aren't you a deacon in Imperial Dao Arts Workshop, why are you here to participate in Star Selection? And why are you alone with no teammates?"
Ling Shuyao put one Qi Recovery Pill into his mouth and adjusted his breath slightly.
"It's a long story. I learned before that Star Selection Secret Realm Trial may contain the inheritance relics of the Spirit Pivot Sect. I also found several records of the Spirit Pivot Sect ruins in ancient books, so I took a photo of the Array-Breaking Mystic Key and thought of trying my luck."
She looked back at the well-preserved stone house behind her, "But she was not very lucky. I have been to several places before, and they were either evacuated or completely collapsed. I only found some broken puppet parts. This may be the only Spirit Pivot Sect ruins that seems to be well-preserved at present. Master Mingjue and Fellow Daoist Liu are also here for the Spirit Pivot Sect?"
"Master Ming and I also want to come over and try our luck."
Liu Suifeng chatted with Ling Shuyao about old times, but Qin Tiexin noticed Ling Shuyao's words. She knew before coming here "Star Selection" "Secret Realm Trial may contain the inheritance relics of the Spirit Pivot Sect", and special preparations have been made for this. You know, even Lin Chuan didn't know any information before coming in.
It seems that the identity of the female cultivator in front of me is not as simple as she said.
Qin Tiexin glanced at the stone house with a closed stone door behind Ling Shuyao, and then at the two puppets beside her with many new marks on their shells, and said, "What are the plans of Donor Ling next?"
Ling Shuyao put the two puppets back into the storage ring and slightly adjusted their aura.
"Now that we're here, there's no reason to be incommunicado. I came here specifically for the Spirit Pivot Sect inheritance, so I have to go in and have a look."
"What a coincidence, we came here for this." Liu Suifeng stuffed the last formation flag back into his waist, walked to the front of the stone door, looked up at the eight-pointed star pattern on the door lintel that was engaged by the gears, "Since the purpose is the same, why not go in together? It's better for three of us to have someone to look after us. If there is a trap inside, it's better than rushing in alone."
Ling Shuyao nodded without hesitation.
"That's exactly what I meant. I just saw the methods of the two of you. They have Master Mingjue to contain them from the front and Fellow Daoist Liu's formation to assist them. I'm supporting them with puppets from behind, which complements each other perfectly."
"Then it's settled." Liu Suifeng said and took something out of the formation flag bag, "You guys first study how to open this door, and I'll go and set up a warning formation outside. The five guys just now might still be nearby, and it will be troublesome if someone comes again."
He walked around the perimeter of the stone house, planted two warning formation flags in each of the four directions, southeast and northwest, and embedded a sensing array eye in the open space in front of the main entrance of the stone house.
The light blue array pattern spread out against the ground, integrating with the scattered gravel and remaining walls around it, making it extremely difficult to detect from the outside. After doing this, he took out a palm-sized warning array disk from his bag and hung it on his waist. As long as there is a spiritual energy fluctuation in the periphery, it will automatically sound a warning.
"Okay. I can tell if a rabbit runs past within a radius of ten feet." Liu Suifeng clapped his hands and returned to the stone door.
Ling Shuyao has been standing in front of the stone door and studying it for a while.
The stone gate is about one foot high, and is made of a single piece of blue-gray ashlar. The stone surface is engraved with dense patterns, which still glow with a dark copper luster after thousands of years. There is a palm-sized groove on the right side of the stone gate, and a circle of gear-like patterns are engraved on the edge of the groove, which is the unique mark of the Spirit Pivot Sect.
"This is... a permissive formation."
Liu Suifeng looked closely for a while, then drew a line along the direction of the array pattern with his finger, "It should be that only Spirit Pivot Sect disciples holding the corresponding token can enter normally."
After saying that, he took out the most commonly used array disk from Storage Bag, put the detection Spirit Rune on the surface of the stone door and scanned it. After a moment, he shook his head, "The underlying array pattern is too complete, and the core restriction is still running. If I were to forcefully crack it, it would take at least a day and a night without any mistakes. And it is not ruled out that there is a self-destruction array embedded in it. Once triggered, the entire stone house will be destroyed together with the things inside."
"I'll give it a try."
Ling Shuyao took out a palm-sized dark gold key from the storage ring. It was the High Antiquity Array-Breaking Mystic Key at the Star Treasure Pavilion auction. The key was engraved with dense High Antiquity forbidden forbidden patterns. The patterns were simple and simple, and each one had a very fine dark gold luster flowing through it.
Liu Suifeng's eyes lit up as soon as he saw Mysterious Key.
He came closer to take a closer look, stared at the formation patterns on Key's body for a long time, and started making gestures in the air with his fingers involuntarily. "The structure of this set of forbidden formation formations is completely different from the current system. How on earth did the High Antiquity formation master compress the runes into such a small carrier..." The more he looked at it, the more he frowned. He took out Jade Slip from Storage Bag, stamped Spirit Rune and scanned the key body, leaving only a few blurry afterimages on Jade Slip. He tried again, but it still didn't work.
"It's too complicated to make rubbings at all." Liu Suifeng stuffed Jade Slip back into Storage Bag, "High Antiquity Those array masters used a long-lost rune compression technique to compress thousands of The Tao runes are compressed and nested on a palm-sized metal piece, and the same carrier can exert multiple effects. There is no way to copy this thing in the current array inheritance. Fellow Daoist Ling, when you use it up, can you give me this Mysterious Key? The price is negotiable."
Ling Shuyao held Mysterious Key in the palm of his hand and smiled slightly. "Okay, after exploring several ruins, this Mysterious Key will belong to Fellow Daoist Liu. Then we can go to Imperial Dao Arts Workshop to negotiate a suitable price."
Liu Suifeng grinned, stepped back to Qin Tiexin's side, and made room for the front entrance.
Ling Shuyao walked to the groove on the right side of the stone door and pressed Mysterious Key into it.
The key body appears much smaller in the groove, but as Mysterious Key is activated, the High Antiquity forbidden pattern pattern on the key body slowly flows and is released, accurately engaging with the gear pattern on the edge of the groove, and making a very subtle click sound.