Chapter 66: Suspended Soul Ladder, Ghost Tomb, Ji Guan Arrays And Secret Techniques
Da Jin Ya couldn’t help but feel a wave of weakness:
“Master Su, Old Hu……something’s very wrong here, how about we go back?”
The four immediately returned to the Nether Hall where the stone sarcophagus was placed, but when Da Jin Ya shone the Wolf Eye Flashlight in front of the stone sarcophagus, he couldn’t help but let out a cry of alarm:
“This is really seeing a live ghost! How did an extra stone steps appear in front?”
Wang Pang Zi shone his flashlight forward, only to see that an extra stone steps had appeared ahead at some unknown time, with each layer of the stairs built from large stone slabs, and the flashlight couldn’t reach any further ahead, as if the light had been swallowed by a patch of darkness!
Upon seeing these stone steps, Hu Ba Yi couldn’t stay calm either:
“This is really seeing a live ghost! The tomb raiding hole turned into a tomb passage, and inside the Tang Dynasty Nether Hall there’s unexpectedly a Western Zhou stone sarcophagus, and beside the stone sarcophagus there’s this eerie stone steps! I suddenly feel like everything I learned before isn’t enough, I can’t explain it at all!”
Su Mo thought for a moment and said:
“This Nether Hall is now completely in Western Zhou style, the stairs in front of the stone sarcophagus should lead to the upper level of the ancient tomb, let’s walk along here first!”
Hu Ba Yi immediately agreed, and Wang Pang Zi and Da Jin Ya followed the two onto the stone steps.
The four walked upward for a few minutes when Su Mo suddenly stopped.
“Not right!”
When he had just gone up the stone steps, he had seen a crescent-shaped opening at the edge of the second section of stone steps, and then every twenty-three steps there would be a similar opening.
And everyone had already walked along these stone steps for about five minutes, but they surprisingly still hadn’t exited the stone steps illusion array!
Su Mo felt a chill in his heart.
Sure enough, this was the Suspended Soul Ladder illusion array mentioned in the original work!
Hu Ba Yi was bold and meticulous, and had also noticed something off about the crescent-shaped openings on the stone steps, so he said:
“Master, these stone steps look like a labyrinth, how come it feels like we’re going in circles!”
Wang Pang Zi sucked in a cold breath:
“Damn it, we didn’t run into ghost hitting wall, did we? If we can’t get out, won’t we die here?”
Upon hearing this, Da Jin Ya’s face immediately fell:
“Oh my mother, what do we do! If I die here, my eighty-year-old mother and my eighteen-year-old lover will both be out of reach…”
At this point, this guy actually squeezed out a few tears.
Wang Pang Zi couldn’t help but say:
“A real man sheds what damn cat piss, does that look like a man!”
Hu Ba Yi thought carefully and said:
“Master, I have an idea, not sure if it’s right!”
Su Mo nodded and said:
“Speak!”
Hu Ba Yi said:
“We seem to have come to a Ghost Tomb!”
Upon hearing this, Fatty and Da Jin Ya’s faces immediately turned pale:
“Ghost Tomb? Isn’t that a haunted tomb!”
“No wonder there’s ghost hitting wall, we’re done for!”
“Let me finish!”
Hu Ba Yi shouted loudly, annoyed by them:
“Ghost Tomb doesn’t mean haunted! Stop your damn nonsense and causing trouble!”
“What I mean is, this Western Zhou ancient tomb is like a ghost, attached to this unfinished Tang Tomb like a ghost, just like some ghost ship or ghost car!”
“This tomb has coffin surge, so it was eyed by both Tang Dynasty and Western Zhou people, but the Tang Dynasty people built the tomb halfway, discovered this Western Zhou ancient tomb, and possibly got scared by something in this ancient tomb, so they directly stopped construction!”
After he finished speaking, Wang Pang Zi and Da Jin Ya still had bewildered expressions:
“Old Hu, whether it’s Ghost Tomb or haunted, do you have a way out?”
But Hu Ba Yi couldn’t help but shake his head.
Although he had read the Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique and studied some of the Escaping Characters volume, and guessed that this stone steps was likely the Suspended Soul Ladder recorded in the book, he had no idea how to crack it.
At this time, after Su Mo pondered intently for a moment, he said:
“You all stay in place, I’ll take a look first!”
After saying that, he had Hu Ba Yi and the other two stay in place, while he himself walked down from the section of stairs above with the crescent-shaped mark, then passed the twenty-three steps beside Hu Ba Yi and the others, arriving at the lower crescent-shaped mark.
There, he focused and used the Great Yin Meditation Technique to look, but found that the energy and aura near the mark appearances were almost completely identical.
In other words, it wasn’t that every twenty-three steps was a separate space, the spaces here were all connected, but some sections of stone steps definitely had some ancient secret formula smeared between them, a kind of substance that absorbs energy and light, which is why people can’t discern direction here and end up going in circles!
Su Mo then stood on the step with the crescent pattern and looked upward, his gaze fixed on the farthest point, towards the stone step above with the crescent pattern.
Suddenly, a flash of insight appeared in his mind:
“You discovered the special mystery of the Suspended Soul Ladder, therefore you achieved enlightenment in ancient Ji Guan trap formation secret technique!”
As the prompt sound fell, various special images suddenly appeared before Su Mo’s eyes like a revolving lantern.
Various ancient qi gate formations and trap mechanisms evolved from Qimen Eight Trigrams formations and Yijing Hetu Luoshu and other ancient texts all appeared before Su Mo’s eyes and quickly imprinted in his mind.
In less than a minute, his enlightenment in Huaxia ancient various Ji Guan traps and formation secret techniques reached a brand new height.
“I understand!”
Feeling the profundity of the ancient Ji Guan trap formation secret technique, a smile appeared on Su Mo’s face.
Seeing the smile on his face, Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi immediately felt relieved:
“Good, Master is smiling, he definitely has a way!”
Su Mo then beckoned to the three:
“Everyone follow me, don’t look down!”
Hu Ba Yi and the other two quickly came behind Su Mo, following him along the stone steps forward.
However, this time Su Mo no longer walked along the side of the stone steps with the crescent pattern, but from the other very dim side, and not following the refraction of light at all.
“Taiji begets two forms, two forms beget four images, four images beget eight trigrams…”
Every eight steps, Su Mo would turn his foot and jump forward two steps from the other side.
Hu Ba Yi, Wang Pang Zi, and the others also followed him jumping forward two steps, then turned to walk on the other side of the steps forward a segment, then from the other side forward eight steps.
After walking like this for a segment, sure enough, a fork road appeared in the dim area on one side of the stone steps that they hadn’t noticed before!
This fork road was completely hidden in the darkness, earlier Su Mo had only focused on looking at the crescent marks in the world, and used the Great Yin Meditation Technique to pay attention to the flow of qi field and magnetic field, yet he surprisingly hadn’t noticed this hidden fork entrance.
Sure enough, worthy of the Suspended Soul Ladder, truly like a labyrinth!
Seeing the fork road, Su Mo immediately led Hu Ba Yi and the other two turning that way, and sure enough they arrived in a Nether Hall.
This Nether Hall had a dome-like tomb roof above, exactly like the Tang Tomb style, but some places seemed like BUGs in a network game with blurred boundaries, tomb walls appeared at the top wall edges, just like several ghosts’ phantoms appearing on one person at the same time.
This wondrous sight of the Ghost Tomb made Hu Ba Yi and the others unable to help but suck in a cold breath!
