Between mountains and seas

Chapter 114 Tianzhu

"What, what is this place?" Shao Jingxing got up from the ground, looked up at the straight black stone pillar in front of him, and was dumbfounded.

Huo Qing looked around.This is a desert, with grayish-yellow sand everywhere, half-dead grass crawling sparsely on the ground, and occasionally some low shrubs in the distance, which can be seen at a glance.

On such a desert, this black pillar standing up to the sky is extremely abrupt - no, no matter where it is, such a pillar cannot be ignored, because it is too thick and too high, it is almost like a straight and steep mountain, standing straight up. Hold it in front of your eyes so that the blind can't see it.

Beside them, there was a large puddle formed by the sea water brought into the crack, and there was even a small shark in it, thrashing half-dead in the water.But this place was far from the ocean it was familiar with. It slapped its tail on the ground and jumped up several times, but when it landed, it was still in the same sandy soil, and there was not enough water to moisten its gills.

After taking a look at the shark that would soon dry out, Huo Qing also turned his attention to the stone pillar.

"There seem to be engravings on it." Shao Jingxing narrowed his eyes and looked at it for a while, then pulled Huo Qing's hand, "Go and see!"

So the two held hands and walked towards the stone pillar.

"Tell me, why can we also split the cracks in space?" While walking, Shao Jingxing remembered this important question, "Neither you nor I have the ability of the space system."

The ability of the space system is extremely special, and it cannot be classified among the five elements. So far, only Pangu has the ability to clearly possess space, and even Nuwa is "suspected"; there is also the so-called "one flower, one world", all It is classified as a wood-type illusion ability; probably only "Nasumi Yu mustard" can be regarded as a space ability, but unfortunately, this sentence is only a sentence in the end, and no one has really witnessed and recorded it. As for the mustard Nasumi fact, no one has ever discovered a space artifact like the one written in fantasy novels, so I can only think that this is just a bullshit.

As for outside of China, there is a legend in Japan that the sun can distort space, but after Abe Seimei no one can manipulate his twelve shikigami, so there is no way to verify it.However, after seeing He Maochuan's use of Taiyin's fox fur, Shao Jingxing felt that Taiyin should really have spatial abilities.

In addition, it is probably the European legend about "vampires can travel through the space".However, it is difficult to say whether the legend is reliable, because no one has discovered a "vampire" that completely conforms to the legend.

Ah, this is going too far. In short, Shao Jingxing can be sure that neither he nor Huo Qing have special abilities of the space system, so how they opened the crack just now is completely unclear.

Huo Qing took his hand and walked forward, pondered for a while before saying: "Actually, I'm not very sure, but——you asked 'Why are there no strange beasts between the two mountains', remember?"

"I remember." Of course Shao Jingxing remembered the question he asked, and he had also thought about it, "But what does this have to do with space cracks? Could it be that all places are in separate spaces? But we can clearly walk to the two mountains The open space between the two mountains.” That is, because people can pass through “between two mountains”, he denied his guess about the independent space.

Huo Qing was silent for a while.In fact, he was not sure about his own thoughts.According to his habit, he would not say anything that he was not sure of, so as not to mislead Corey's colleagues and cause unnecessary casualties.But talking to Shao Jingxing, it seems that it doesn't matter, anyway, they will be together no matter what, even if there are any mistakes, they can share them together.

"I think it's not an independent space, but a special large-shaped combinatorial matrix."

"Fu array?" Shao Jingxing showed an ignorant and bewildered face again.

Huo Qing thought for a while: "It's like the kind of talisman Ji Yan used to trap Pihanxi."

When he said this, Shao Jingxing immediately understood: "You mean, the strange beasts everywhere are like the trapped Pihan rhinoceros, they can only circle around in place. Then we - by the way, humans and beasts are different! "Although he doesn't know how to identify the talisman array, the person who set up the talisman array seems to know.

"We crossed the road between the two mountains, maybe it was the process of stepping out of a small talisman array and entering another talisman array." Huo Qing said slowly, "This is why we feel that the distance between the two mountains There are different reasons in the book."

Shao Jingxing slapped his thigh abruptly: "That's right! Otherwise, I'd say, the theory of the sphere before, that the whole world of mountains and seas was compressed into a ball, so the distance was shortened, it doesn't matter if you think about it carefully. Accurate - the distance between the two mountains is compressed, why is the mountain not compressed? There are also strange beasts in the mountains, and they have not been compressed proportionally. Whoever proposed this explanation does not make sense at all! "

Huo Qing coughed lightly: "Actually, no one thought this question was unreasonable before, but because there was no other explanation, everyone gradually accepted this explanation." Anyway, it is a fact that there are no strange beasts between the two mountains , Find the reason or not, it doesn't affect the result.And this is actually not important, because everyone thinks that the most important thing to enter the world of mountains and seas is to fight against strange beasts, so no one is willing to spend energy thinking about unimportant things.

"Xiao Jiu once mentioned..." Huo Qing added, "But she can't enter the world of mountains and seas to perform tasks, so she can't observe it herself." Therefore, she can only raise questions and hypotheses, and has not been let go on heart.

However, Shao Jingxing was in high spirits: "I just said that Xiao Jiu is smart, what does she think?"

"It's basically a similar idea." Huo Qing simply explained, "At that time, she was thinking about the Eight Diagrams Formation, and the road between the two mountains was the 'Gate of Life', but because the explanation didn't quite fit, it was not considered."

"Bagua formation?" Shao Jingxing thought for a while, but all he could think of was a bunch of nouns such as rest, death, life, and opening that he had read in novels, and he still couldn't remember them all. what?"

This question really confused Huo Qing.Because he is not a talisman school, he has never learned these things at all, let alone such a profound thing as the Eight Diagrams Formation.

"You don't know either..." Shao Jingxing scratched his head, "Then I'll go back and ask Xiao Jiu. That corn-cough, since her starling knows how to use it, then Xiao Jiu must know something. But, A piece of yellow paper can be effective by drawing a few patterns with cinnabar and black dog blood. I really can’t understand it. For example, the kind of thunder talisman used by Qiu Yizhu, where does the thunder come from? Even a flashlight needs batteries , Could it be that Lei came out of cinnabar black dog blood? Impossible!"

If that's the case, then the cinnabar mines all over the country will be able to discharge, not to mention the black dog, it is simply running lightning, and the world will not be in chaos?Or, not all black dogs have this ability, it has to be a mutant black dog?

Huo Qing nodded to him: "This is the most critical question."

"What, what's the question?" Shao Jingxing was confused.Why did he ask the most critical question again, so proud...

"Energy." Huo Qing said affirmatively, "That's what you said, where does the power of the spell come from. Of course it comes from the person who draws and casts the spell."

Without water without a source, the spell looks like a few strokes on yellow paper, but of course it is completely useless if an ordinary person is asked to draw it. Only people with supernatural powers can draw spells.In other words, it was this kind of supernatural being who used his supernatural powers in the form of spells, just like Huo Qing could conjure a metal long knife out of thin air, and Shao Jingxing could start a fire with his fingertips.

Therefore, Ji Yan's gossip talisman can trap Pihanxi, that is his ability.Moreover, after the power contained in the talisman paper is exhausted, the talisman paper will lose its effect and become a piece of waste paper again.

In other words, if you want a talisman to keep running, you need to provide energy continuously, no matter whether this energy is contained in the talisman or added later.Once the energy of a talisman is exhausted, it will lose its effect immediately.

It is for this reason that Ji Xiaojiu's talisman theory was not adopted, because if a talisman wants to run for so many years, where does the energy it needs come from?It would be more reasonable than space.

"Why is the theory of space more reasonable?" Shao Jingxing thought for a while, "Is it because the space is fixed once it is isolated?"

"That's about it." Huo Qing nodded, "Of course it's very difficult to do, that's why Pangu sacrificed his life." eventually die.

However, this fixed space was broken by Gong Gong in one place, which caused the imbalance of the space, and also caused a large amount of supernatural water in the world of mountains and seas to flow out, forming the catastrophe in Yaoshi.

Afterwards, Nuwa refined the five-color stones and repaired the gap in the space, so that the world of mountains and seas was separated from the world again.

"Xiao Jiu feels that once a stable space is broken, it is difficult to repair it. Nuwa is not a space-type supernatural being, so she may adopt a completely different method from Pangu, for example - the talisman array seal."

Shao Jingxing thought for a while: "I think what Xiao Jiu said makes sense."

Huo Qing was silent for a moment, then nodded: "Especially——if the living stone..."

They didn't know that there were such things as living stones before, but according to Ka Maochuan, the living stones his grandfather saw in that cold river were red, white, blue, yellow, and black.Then, if the five-color stone is a living stone with energy contained in it, then the energy of the talisman array will be there.

"This can also explain why the enchantment is unstable now, because the energy of many living stones is used up, and the talisman array will gradually fail." Shao Jingxing thought, "But the living stone——no, how did the five-color stones be refined? Woolen cloth?"

At this moment, he didn't think of what he said to He Maochuan at all.At that time, he made it up just to deceive He Maochuan. As soon as he escaped from He Maochuan, he almost forgot the lie he had told.

The two walked while talking, and finally approached the black stone pillar.

"This doesn't seem to be a stone..." The closer he got, the more Shao Jingxing felt that the texture of the pillar didn't look like a stone.

But immediately another thing caught his attention: "Hey, it, it's a whole piece!" Mom, where did such a big pillar come from, and how did it stand up? ah!

The diameter of this pillar is at least more than 20 meters, and the height... It seems that it can't see the top at all, it seems to have sunk into the gray sky above.

"Maybe what we saw is actually not so high..." Huo Qing murmured.

But his voice was very soft, so Shao Jingxing didn't hear it, because he discovered something new: "There are pictures on the pillars!" There are quite a few!

"Oh no, this, this is a bit like—Oracle bone inscriptions!"

This black pillar is not very regular when viewed up close, and the surface is also rough and undulating, which makes the patterns very inconspicuous. If you don’t look carefully, it can be regarded as the natural lines on the surface of the pillar. You have to get closer to see that it is some carvings. In the pattern on the top, there are still dots of dark red in some lines. It seems that a layer of paint was originally applied, and then it was peeled off.

But as long as you see a little color, you can be sure that these patterns are carved artificially, not naturally generated.

"Do you know oracle bone inscriptions?" Huo Qing also looked up at the patterns, "Can you recognize what is written?" He also thought this looked like oracle bone inscriptions, but he didn't know it.

Shao Jingxing made a bitter face: "No, I don't know you very well..." He just had a little contact with Hu Yuan when he was in the antique circle, but he himself is not interested in this kind of documentary cultural relics, let alone spend energy on it. Therefore, although it can be concluded that these are oracle bone inscriptions, it is difficult to recognize a few.

"This...may be the word 'wind'." Shao Jingxing worked hard to identify a word for a while, and finally found a word that he seemed to know. He was overjoyed and quickly clicked it out to present a treasure to Huo Qing.

Huo Qing looked at the palm-sized ones, covering the lower half of the pillars, with at least 300 patterns, and then looked at the suspected "wind" character, and remained silent-so many characters, recognized one Is it useful?

Shao Jingxing whined twice, and finally recognized one of them!He circled around the pillar, hoping to find a few more words he knew, but he couldn't succeed with his neck hurting, and he couldn't help but regret why he didn't learn more.

"Forget it, let's write it down first." Huo Qing couldn't bear to embarrass him, "I don't know it either. There are very few people who understand oracle bone texts." Who has nothing to learn this stuff.

"Write it down?" Shao Jingxing was shocked, "Why do you want to write it down?"

"The words engraved in this kind of place must have important meanings. Of course, they should be written down and taken back for Xiao Jiu to read." Ji Xiaojiu knew Oracle Bone Inscriptions.

"No, I mean—" Shao Jingxing's face became even more bitter, "How do I remember this?" If you have a mobile phone, just click and take a few pictures, but now the mobile phone is broken, and there is no pen and paper. Remember?That is an impossible task!

Huo Qing pondered for a while, then turned the backpack over, revealing the canvas lining inside, and then stretched out his hand, a metal pen appeared in his hand: "burn the tip of the pen, and brand the words on the cloth."

Although the canvas is very thick—of course, this kind of canvas is also specially made, and it is made very thick in order to be more resistant to the erosion of mountains and seas—but it is also a technical task to burn the surface without burning the cloth. Son.Shao Jingxing tried several times before he mastered a suitable temperature. Letting Huo Qing's pen tip fall on the cloth would only carbonize the surface and turn it black, but it would not ignite the cloth.

While the two were tracing characters around the pillar, Shao Jingxing looked at the pillar—anyway, Huo Qing was mainly doing the tracing work, and he just burned the nib of the pen after a while.

After going around in a circle, Shao Jingxing felt that this pillar was not made of stone. Looking at the wrinkles on the surface, why did he think it was a bit like leather, the kind of crocodile skin or elephant skin...

With that in mind, he reached out and touched it.

"Hey!" Huo Qing had just finished tracing a word, when he looked up and saw Shao Jingxing touching the pillar, he couldn't help being startled!I don't know what this pillar is for, what if there are some mechanisms or curses inside?Shao Jingxing is really too bold!

Shao Jingxing was also taken aback, and quickly withdrew his hand and hid it behind his back: "I, I just touched it." He was so curious that he forgot Huo Qing's warning.

"You—" Huo Qing was very angry with him, and stared at him for a long time, not knowing what to say.

Shao Jingxing approached fawningly: "I just want to see what it is made of. It really looks like some kind of animal skin. I'm fine. Look, I'm fine..."

"It's too late!" Huo Qing said angrily.

"Then what—" Shao Jingxing continued to smile flatteringly, "Actually, I think it looks like a monument or something, and it shouldn't be dangerous..." The following words were automatically silenced under Huo Qing's serious gaze: "... ...I, I will definitely remember next time..."

I touched everything, luckily nothing happened, what else could Huo Qing say?Could it be that he really beat him to make his memory long?

Seeing that Huo Qing stopped staring at him, Shao Jingxing hurriedly moved closer: "I touched it just now, and it was really like skin. Although it is very hard, it is not as cold as stone, and it seems to be a little elastic..."

Huo Qing wanted to slap him again—he just touched it without pressing hard, can you feel the elasticity?

Shao Jingxing didn't realize that he had slipped his tongue: "And look at the base of this pillar, this—does it look like some animal's feet?"