the enlightener says

"That can't be done! I, Lao Gao, can do anything. I can't do anything except give birth to a child. There is nothing I can't do! Just be a thief. Just study now. Maybe tomorrow I will be a rising star on the road." A new star." Gao Yishui boasted triumphantly, "If it weren't for my sudden look back, you would have been able to get in?"

Cai Yan rolled her eyes vigorously. If the eye sockets did not prevent his eyes from going further upwards, her eyes would probably roll to the back of her head.

It's just... Now that things have come to this point, how should we proceed?

Suddenly, Qin Ke took a step forward, reached out from the side of his boots and took out the dagger that he had always carried with him, gritted his teeth and said, "Or, let me go in and try? This stone formation is not as big as the one in the tomb of King Ye, and its power should be It's also limited, with my current state, maybe I can find out."

It was about the Five Elements Sinan, and he didn't want to give up so easily: "I'll give it a try, and if it doesn't work, I'll quit."

Gao Yishui took a deep look at the stone formation, as if he was weighing whether it was worth it, but in the end he nodded lightly: "Yes, you can go in and have a try, but don't be brave."

Qin Ke nodded, slowly unsheathed the dagger in his hand, and said, "Then I'll go."

"Wait." At this moment, Qin Ke felt a soft little hand pull his wrist, and Cai Yan's voice was accompanied by a warm breath gushing in his ears, "After entering the battle, try it, Fifteen steps forward, five steps to the right."

Originally, Qin Ke's face was slightly reddened by this sudden action, but when he heard Cai Yan's serious tone, he was slightly taken aback, not understanding what she meant, but before he could turn his head, Cai Yan was standing on his back. Push up gently.

"Go."

Qin Ke involuntarily took two steps forward, but he didn't turn his head to look at the smile on Cai Yan's face. He just felt that his mind was in a mess, why did he take fifteen steps forward and five steps to the right? What kid's game of hopscotch?

"Now that you've said that, let's try it out and don't make any trouble." Qin Ke sighed, then his eyes fixed, and he slowly walked towards the stone formation.

The tallest stone in this stone array is about one foot high, although compared with the stones in the tomb of King Ye, it is nothing compared to the big one.With Qin Ke's current strength, he can even use his strength to jump between two rocks and climb to the top.

But he still didn't take it lightly, who knows what kind of mess will be in this stone formation?

"Forward...fifteen steps..." Qin Ke murmured in a low voice, taking every step extremely seriously, for fear of taking an extra inch.

The distance of fifteen steps is very short, but Qin Ke spent more than a dozen breaths. During these two breaths, he kept looking around, and the spirit and blood of his whole body had already reached the peak. .

He is ready for the unexpected that may come at any time.

Yet no surprises, nothing even happened.

Qin Ke looked back, Abu, Gao Yishui, and Cai Yan were also watching him all the time, but Abu's eyes were filled with pure worry, while Gao Yishui and Cai Yan seemed to be deep in thought, and even started talking softly .

Qin Ke couldn't understand what they said about "Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, Yuan Henryzhen", and he was too lazy to understand, but he was also a little surprised to find that Cai Yan could talk back and forth with Gao Yishui, even judging from Gao Yishui's expression, He obviously agrees with Cai Yan's words.

Seeing the harmony between the two, he felt a strange feeling in his heart for no reason.

"Then, five steps to the right?" Qin Ke withdrew his gaze forcefully, and took another slow step, one step after another to the right. After the five steps were completed, nothing unusual happened, and his body just stopped for a while. In front of the boulder.

Compared with the boulders in Ye Wang's tomb, the stones in this stone formation are round and smooth, as if they have been carefully polished by people, and they lack the natural sense of nature, but because of this, Qin Ke noticed these Where the stones are different.

"Like...carving?" The dim firelight of the underground palace illuminated the smooth lines that were clearly made with knives and axes.

Following these lines, Qin Ke looked down all the way, but was slightly startled, and subconsciously called out: "Huh?"

Although his voice was not loud, the three people outside the stone formation had been observing his every move, and when they heard his voice, they immediately reacted.

"Ake! Ake!" Abu subconsciously wanted to step forward, but Gao Yishui stepped forward to stop him.He could only stop his footsteps, and stood there anxiously, "How are you? What happened?"

"It's okay." Qin Ke, whose body was half covered by the boulder, made a vague voice, "I saw something..."

Chapter 400 Engraving

He squatted down slowly, seeing the carving hidden in the darkness.

It was the head of a leopard, but compared with the real leopard, this head was a bit too big. Its eyes were inlaid with two black gemstones, which still shone brightly in the dark, like ghosts. It looked terrible.

It was also because of this that Qin Ke was taken aback. If these carvings were facing the outside, they would have seen them early on, but these carvings were all facing the inside, so no one could see clearly before entering the battle.

Qin Ke stretched out his hand and gently stroked the leopard's head, feeling the chill oozing from it, then took a deep breath and stood up, describing its appearance and those gleaming eyes to the four people outside the formation. Eye.

"Leopard?" Gao Yishui frowned slightly, although it was just Qin Ke's simple description, he already had some outlines in his mind.

Speaking of which, there are Qimen Dunjia masters who are capable of forming formations in this world. Some of them use objects as formations, and there are quite a few who use mountains and rivers as formations. Sculptures and textures have always been common, and there is nothing unusual about them.

But since there are carvings, this formation method naturally has traces to follow. If it is said to break the formation, it must have a lot to do with these things.

He pondered for a moment, then raised his head and said, "Look again, are there carvings on other stones?"

Qin Ke nodded, looked around for a while, and soon got the result: "I saw one... no... two sculptures, one looks like a human face, and the other one can't be seen clearly. The others, I can't see clearly. You can only know if you go further inside. The directions of these carvings are all facing inward, and you can only see clearly when you go inside."

"In other words, the only two stones you can see now, do they have carvings inside?" Gao Yishui pondered for a moment, and finally smiled wryly, "I think we may have made a mistake... This is not a Yin-Yang Locking Dragon Formation at all. .”

Cai Yan blinked his eyes, as if he had understood his words, and said, "Man follows the earth, the earth follows the sky, the sky follows the Tao, and the Tao follows nature?"

Gao Yishui nodded with a smile: "I think now, if you have the spirit of cultivation, you might be more talented than me."

Cai Yan grinned: "Thanks to the praise, I will accept it bluntly."

"When have you ever been polite?" Gao Yishui waved his hand and continued, "I was studying under the Taoist senior, and his first lesson told me that everything in this world grows and takes shape in the heaven and earth .And the things made by people, no matter how exquisite they are, deviate from nature and have flaws.”

"So?" Qin Ke's voice came, "What does this have to do with this stone formation?"

Gao Yishui gave him a blank look: "Although this stone formation looks very similar to the Yin-Yang Locking Dragon Formation, the Yin-Yang Locking Dragon Formation is a strange formation in the world. It can communicate Yin and Yang, gather the luck of heaven and earth, and the difficulty of setting it up is far beyond your imagination. , even if it is wrong at all, I am afraid it will affect the final state of the formation. The boulder was born in nature, so it can become the carrier of the Yin-Yang Locking Dragon Formation. If some carvings and beautifications are done on it, it will destroy the original artistic conception and affect The original power."

"So, do you think it is impossible for these carvings to appear in the Yin-Yang Locking Dragon Formation?" Abu thought.

"That's right." Gao Yishui smiled lazily, "Did you hear that? Ke, Abu has more brains than you."

"It's not that I don't understand." Qin Ke was a little annoyed in the stone formation, "But what's the use of you talking such a lot of nonsense? It's not Yin Yang Locking Dragon Formation, so do you know what it is?"

Gao Yishui narrowed his eyes, "I don't know."

"you……"

"I'm not like Gongshu, and I didn't set up this formation. God knows what he was thinking when he was setting up the formation." Gao Yishui said with a grin.

The three people outside the formation were still arguing, but Qin Ke couldn't bear it anymore.

He is still in the stone formation, and he has completed the number of steps given by Cai Yan. Next, every step he takes does not know what will happen, which makes him feel in the mood to listen to their noise.

With some worry, Qin Ke bent down and set his eyes on the "leopard" again.

In fact, this leopard is carved a bit strangely. Although it is lifelike, its position is three inches from the ground, and judging from the surrounding lines, it does not outline its body, but appears to be disorganized. drawing something.

Look carefully, this leopard's head is even a little stuck in the boulder, as if...

"It's as if a leopard got stuck in a rock?" Qin Ke said to himself, really not understanding the significance of Gong Shuban making such a thing.

The leopard's black gemstone eyes still exuded a gleaming light, and in the shadows, they looked extraordinarily cold and terrifying. For a moment, Qin Ke even felt the leopard's head move slightly.

However, how could a fake leopard stuck in the crevice of a stone move like a living thing?

This can only show that the ancestor of the public loser is not only a master of mechanics, but also has reached the pinnacle of sculpture.

But the next moment, Qin Ke showed a terrified expression, he opened his mouth wide, and could hardly believe what happened before his eyes.

The leopard... really moved!

This is not a picture he imagined, but a real thing that is happening in front of his eyes!

The leopard, which was originally just a dead thing, slowly raised its head under Qin Ke's astonished gaze, staring at him with a pair of slightly bright "eyes", and then slowly opened its mouth, revealing his The sharp fangs in the mouth.

"Ahhh!" Just as Qin Ke opened his mouth to yell, the whole stone formation seemed to respond to his yell, rumbling loudly, and the huge stones in the whole stone formation trembled violently.

In front of Qin Ke, the leopard "hidden" in the boulder shook its head made of steel. The boulder that covered its body was no longer a burden to suppress it, but turned into its body. Under the operation of the machine, it stretched out its limbs in a way that Qin Ke couldn't understand at all, and raised its hard tail high, like an unstoppable benchmark in the wind.

Qin Ke only had time to jump down suddenly, and from the afterimage passing by the corner of his eyes, the leopard made of steel was as vigorous as a living thing, flashing past his eyes, and suddenly pounced on the position where he was standing just now.

From the corner of his eyes, Qin Ke could see the boulder collapsing under the shaking, and the stone leopard struggling to get up beside the boulder. Before he had time to think about it, Qin Ke jumped up while the energy and blood poured into his whole body.

The entire stone formation came alive at this moment, not just the ferocious iron leopard, but the moment Qin Ke just got up, a body like a mountain surrounded him condescendingly, swept down from the top, It was a heavy hammer more than two feet wide, and it was as powerful as a thunderstorm.

Qin Ke didn't have to think about it, he knew what he would look like under such a heavy blow from a hammer, and he knew better that he had no intention of turning into an ugly ball of dumpling stuffing.

He took a deep breath, stomped his right leg, and jumped backwards. His back hit a boulder. He resisted the dull pain from behind. General Qin Ke dodged the giant hammer. s attack.

With a "boom", the sledgehammer fell to the ground, splashing countless sparks, and the hard floor tiles burst into a deep crack.

"Ake!"

"I'm fine! Don't come in!" In the smoke and dust, Qin Ke coughed and raised his head to look at the giant.

This giant is more than one foot tall, and his body is made of boulders and gold and iron. It is still made of boulders. Looking up from the bottom up, you can see many metal mechanisms rotating rapidly in the exposed parts of his body. Provides a steady stream of power.

He doesn't have eyes like that leopard, but that doesn't mean he is blind.

A hammer missed Qin Ke, but he didn't seem to be discouraged, but like an honest and sincere farmer, he easily swung his iron arm almost as wide as a person's waist. The sledgehammer raised his arm again.

Qin Ke looked at the extremely small dagger in his hand, cursed secretly, and didn't intend to fight at all, but let go of his steps and fled towards Gao Yishui and others who were already in a daze.

But before he could take a few steps, a long knife came across and blocked his way again.

This is a thinner "giant", but it is nine feet long, and the long knife in his hand can make people feel intimidated at a glance - I don't know how Gong Shuban made such a thing, even though he is covered in gold and stone Blending, but the movements are not very rigid.

Just as Qin Ke avoided the horizontal knife, the giant took a step forward. In a flash of light, the long knife slashed towards him obliquely, with a sharp wind sound, as if Qin Ke would not be cut. Never give up in two.

Qin Ke retreated again and again, until he retreated in front of the hammer-wielding giant, and finally had to stomp his legs, and suddenly stopped the retreat. With a flick of the dagger in his hand, it has changed from a positive grip to a reverse grip , with a loud shout, he just slashed at the long knife.

With a clanging sound, the dagger and long knife collided, and bright sparks burst out from the dim firelight.

The knife-wielding giant was temporarily overwhelmed by Qin Ke's strength, and took a step back clumsily.

But on the other hand, Qin Ke also let out a muffled snort, relying on his blood and energy to force himself not to retreat.

At least the strength of the second realm...

Qin Ke smiled wryly. Although he had never underestimated mechanism skills, he never thought that these big guys could display such powerful strength just by combining mechanisms and gears.

If Gong Shuban used such things to form an army, wouldn't it be a rare enemy in this world?

When he turned his head slightly, he unexpectedly found that the giant with the hammer was not chasing him. Since he ran out of the furthest distance the hammer could reach, the giant had been standing there like a fool, motionless.

Chapter 4 and Chapter [-]: Autumn Hunting

Is this big guy actually an idiot?

Qin Ke changed his mind, but he didn't dare to use his body to get close to test whether the guy really didn't move. Then he turned around again, clenched the dagger in his hand, and rushed towards the little giant's sword light. middle.

In the dark, shadows, one big and one small, are entangled with each other, sometimes they form a ball, and sometimes they separate. The sound of the collision made Cai Yan, who had no cultivation base, couldn't help but cover his ears.

After ten breaths, with Qin Ke's shout, while the dagger parried the long knife, he jumped directly into the giant's hands like a child thrown into his mother's arms.

With a bang, Qin Ke hit the little giant's waist with a punch. As his fingers penetrated into the gap between the upper body and the waist where the iron and stone are connected, between pulling and pulling, a continuously rotating gear It was bent by him, and even a small chain was pulled out of the body.

This is a position that Qin Ke has already noticed. In his opinion, no matter whether it is a human or a mechanism person, there must be something to support their movements, and the mechanism person has no muscles and bones, and what they have are these constantly rotating gears. , is naturally the most conspicuous target.

However, because he was worried that just removing this gear would not be enough to destroy the little giant, Qin Ke still used a punch full of vitality to hit the little giant's seemingly weakest iron-stone connection. place.

I don't know if the gear he tore off is too important, or his hard punch just now finally shattered the arrangement of the little giant's internal mechanism. When Qin Ke took two steps back and remained vigilant, the little giant His body began to twitch and tremble.

Accompanied by the sound of "咔咚咚", bright sparks continuously burst out from the waist and abdomen of the little giant, and then it seemed that something hard in the shell broke, and a cloud of clear liquid flowed out from the thick waist of the little giant. Fired again by sparks.

"Oil?" Qin Ke watched the little giant slowly stop convulsing, and fell face down on the ground, and finally let out a long breath.

At this time, his fingers went numb, and the pain rushed to his brain. He threw away the gear all at once, and stamped his feet on the spot while holding his hand: "It hurts, hurts..."

After all, it is a body made of iron and stone. Even if Qin Ke is now in the third level, he can't compare with iron and stone.

While blowing the back of his hand vigorously, he looked at the bright and mighty giant covered in flames from the corner of his eyes, thinking: Although this guy's power is about at the second level, but With its body fused with iron and stone, it is afraid that it can easily suppress the practitioners of the second level.

The background of the public loser is beyond the imagination of a person like him.

"Ah Ke! Well done!" Seeing that Qin Ke succeeded in one blow, Abu, who was outside the formation, was also in high spirits.

"What should I do now!" Qin Ke turned around and glanced at the stone leopard who was staring at him. From the very beginning, the stone leopard had been "staring" at him with those eyes that were glowing, but he didn't know For some reason, it didn't dare to move forward, and was restricted within a certain range, unable to move.

Looking around, the entire stone array seemed to have lost its disguise, showing all kinds of strange shapes in front of everyone. At least half of the huge stones showed their real bodies. They were all humans or beasts made of iron and stone. Each has its own unique shape.

Stone beasts include not only leopards, but also lions, tigers, long snakes, and a lizard that looks like Xiao Hei hiding in the shadows that the fire can't reach, like a magnified Xiao Hei. gloomy.

On the human side, apart from a few ten-foot-tall giants, there are also iron and stone men of various shapes forming several different formations. They hold different weapons in their hands, such as guns, spears, and bows. , halberd...they are numerous, coupled with the fine carvings and depictions of the solemn faces, the whole formation seems to have an indescribable majesty.

It was as if... a group of warriors from ancient times.

Gao Yishui was also observing the stone formation. Even Cai Yan secretly sweated when the situation was urgent, but he was the calmest one.

From those statues, he seemed to understand something, and suddenly said in a deep voice: "This seems to be... Autumn Hunting Picture?"

"What picture? The picture of autumn hunting?" Qin Ke couldn't understand what he meant at all. In his opinion, apart from the people and beasts made up of various mechanism gears, where is there any picture?

However, Cai Yan quickly realized: "Could it be that you are talking about... the ancient sage king's autumn hunting picture?"

Gao Yishui nodded, his eyes slightly squinted with a bit of wisdom: "I didn't notice it at first, but after looking carefully, I figured out some meaning. Every organ in the entire stone formation Both the mechanism beast and the mechanism beast have their own limited range. This is why once Ah Ke fights with the sword-wielding giant, the hammer-wielding giant stays in place."

"What does that have to do with the holy king's hunting?" Qin Ke asked in the stone formation.

"What are you in a hurry for, can't you just let me finish?" Gao Yishui said helplessly.

Qin Ke looked up at the giant as tall as an iron tower, with anger in his voice: "Nonsense, I am inside the stone formation, you are outside the stone formation, of course you are not in a hurry, God knows if this guy will suddenly move to me A hammer."