Chapter 92: Infinitely Devious
Playfully and bantering, after a few jokes, the youngsters didn’t take it seriously and each began exploring their rooms.
Ming Zhaoshuang looked at the extremely sealed room and said:
“First, let’s find the design blueprints.”
This room was a mess. Various spirit tool components were scattered everywhere. Occasionally, a few design blueprints floated among them, but more often, there was only dirty dust.
As Ming Zhaoshuang searched, she pondered that in the original story, Qin Feilong had broken through this formation.
At that time, Wei Xun and Qin Feilong had been in a huge conflict over He Wanxia, to the point of fighting fiercely. To save his life, Qin Feilong had used his strongest trump card, almost blowing up this entire mechanism building. Finally, in a daze, he had broken through this Third Trial.
But he hadn’t found any formation core at all!
This time, Wei Xun and He Wanxia hadn’t appeared, so Qin Feilong naturally didn’t have the chance to reveal his strongest trump card.
Therefore, Ming Zhaoshuang could only follow what the original story said and carve out a path.
Although everyone didn’t understand what Ming Zhaoshuang meant, they all followed her instructions and found all the design blueprints that were pressed down by the spirit tool model fragments.
Ming Zhaoshuang counted them; there were nine in total.
Nine, this number symbolized too many meanings, and based on the number of these papers, no clue could be found.
Qin Feilong said, “The parts on these blueprints can all be found over there. Why don’t we assemble them first.”
He was the only artificer among them and saw the mystery at a glance.
Ming Zhaoshuang nodded, “Senior Brother Qin’s words make sense. Then let’s assemble these blueprints first.”
After all, in this vast attic, with only blueprints and spirit tool model fragments remaining, no other clues could be found.
Qin Feilong had done the same in the original story, so Ming Zhaoshuang didn’t refute him.
However, Fei Changxiu had quite an opinion: “I’m not an artificer. I can’t even understand these blueprints, how can I assemble them?”
Ming Chenxing: “……”
Calling you stupid and you’re still unhappy; you can’t even piece it together by looking at the blueprints.
Ming Zhaoshuang put her hand to her forehead and said, “In that case, then Senior Brother Xiu’er and Qingqing, you can help us sort the spirit tool model fragments, and leave the assembly to us.”
Assembling wasn’t difficult, but it was quite mentally taxing. He Qingqing was still recovering from serious injuries, so Ming Zhaoshuang included her as well.
Qin Feilong slightly lifted his chin, like a brightly colored rooster, and said, “I can assemble all of them by myself. You just have to wait half a day.”
As an artificer, this was his strong suit.
Unexpectedly, Ming Zhaoshuang shook her head and pointed at the wall, saying, “Senior Brother Qin, we probably don’t have time to wait for you to finish assembling.”
Everyone concentrated and looked, but couldn’t see anything. The wall was ordinary and unremarkable.
Shen Liqian, however, slightly parted her lips at this moment:
“This wall is moving.”
Not just this wall, but also the walls next to them were all moving very slowly.
The ceiling was lowering, the floor was rising, and the walls in front, behind, left, and right were all squeezing inward, silently pressing towards them.
This meant that they had a time limit to assemble these parts.
Although these walls moved very slowly, it was clear that they were moving, approaching them, intending to squeeze them into a pulp.
Ming Chenxing touched this wall and said, “The material of this wall is excellent. Those below the Deity Transformation stage shouldn’t even think about breaking through it.”
The youngsters already knew that this wall couldn’t be forced through, so hearing Ming Chenxing say this, they weren’t surprised.
Fei Changxiu sighed, “Ou Ziye said he wasn’t cunning, but this is beyond cunning.”
The youngsters all chuckled.
Ming Chenxing nudged Fei Changxiu’s arm and said,
“Stop talking and get to work.”
Qin Feilong said, “In that case, let’s assemble quickly. If you have any questions, you can ask me. I am an artificer.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw that the spirit tool model parts in Ming Zhaoshuang’s hands were already half-assembled.
She had her head down, her hands moving so fast they seemed to be smoking.
Fortunately, Ming Zhaoshuang had a foundation in painting. Although the blueprints were complex, she could see at a glance where to assemble and where to splice.
Shen Liqian was also sitting aside. Although her speed wasn’t as fast as Ming Zhaoshuang’s assembly, she had already started working and had no time to pay attention to them.
Qin Feilong said no more and sat down to splice.
After about two to three hours, everyone finally finished assembling all the parts.
Seeing the walls that had moved considerably closer, Ming Zhaoshuang and the others all breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that although the walls moved slowly, if they hadn’t pieced together these blueprints, they would all have been buried here in just a day.
There were a total of nine blueprints, but only eight were used to form the spirit tool model.
As Ming Zhaoshuang was looking at the last blueprint, wondering what mystery it held, she suddenly heard the sound of a mechanism turning.
The youngsters all looked up at the same time, gazing at the scene before them.
Two large doors slowly opened towards them, blindingly bright.
Ming Zhaoshuang instinctively covered her eyes, but the scorching and bright light still caused her eyes to ache.
After a while, everything that was blurry in front of her eyes gradually recovered, and the rest of the group were the same as her.
She reached out and said to Ming Chenxing, “Chenxing, give me a strip of your clothes.”
Ming Chenxing was wearing black clothing, which was perfect for Ming Zhaoshuang to shield herself from the strong light.
It had to be said that the original owner’s aesthetic was truly monotonous. Almost all her clothes were snow white or moon white, making it obvious at a glance what her personality was like.
Ming Zhaoshuang silently made a note: after she left the Talisman Saint’s Secret Realm, she had to buy lots and lots of flashy clothes.
Seeing Ming Zhaoshuang’s actions, everyone else also reacted. They all found dark-colored fabric from their own clothes, cut it off, and used it as eye protection.
Thus, they were finally able to see clearly everything inside the doors.
……
There was nothing, only intense light.
Shen Liqian said, “Let’s go in and take a look.”
Fei Changxiu turned and said to everyone, “I’ll go first, you guys stay behind.”
With that, he stepped through the door.
With just one step, arrow feathers shot towards him. Fei Changxiu waved his sword, turned, and said to those behind him, “Fortunately, apart from not being able to see clearly, there’s no danger.”
Even with arrow feathers, for cultivators like them, this was nothing.
Hearing this, everyone relaxed. Ming Zhaoshuang took out a stack of defense talismans from her storage bag and distributed them to everyone.
She said, “We don’t know what we’ll encounter ahead, use this just in case.”
Fei Changxiu immediately retreated from the front and said to Ming Zhaoshuang, “Junior Sister, you’re being unfair. You had such good items, why didn’t you share them earlier.”
Ming Zhaoshuang put her hand to her forehead, “Senior Brother Xiu’er, could I have stopped you?”
He hadn’t even finished speaking before he stepped out. Fortunately, there were no strange things in this passage, only some simple arrow feathers. Otherwise, Fei Changxiu would have had a hard time.
Qin Feilong frowned slightly at the talismans Ming Zhaoshuang handed him.
Why did he feel that the runes on Ming Zhaoshuang’s talismans were so familiar?
They were very similar to the third rune he had seen in the Fu Sheng Rune from the Qingyun Tower envoy. However, he could only draw a few strokes of that rune, but Ming Zhaoshuang could draw it completely.
Could it be that her attainment in the Talisman Arts path was even higher than his?
