Taming beasts starts with understanding bird language

There is a tunnel on the east side of the patio that is only one person tall.

Gu Chan followed Cat Boss through the tunnel and soon arrived at a secret room at the end.

This secret room is arched in shape and looks like a mausoleum, except that there is no coffin inside. In the middle of the room stands a square stone platform with ancient runes carved on it.

Gu Chan walked to the edge of the stone platform and looked at it carefully. She found that this rune was a bit like the Taoist Yin-Yang fish pattern in the modern world she lived in, but with a slight difference. This rune turned into two snakes, one black and one white, entwined, and the two black and white dots in the middle turned into two small black and white triangles.

After understanding the rune, Gu Chan couldn't help but reach out and grab the back of his head and said, "Boss Cat, what kind of formation is this? Why can't I understand it?"

[This is the Five Elements Formation unique to the Tiancang Kingdom’s royal family.] Boss Cat said.

"Never heard of it." Gu Chan shook her head.

Boss Cat jumped onto her right shoulder and sat down, explaining in her ear, "This formation was originally a formation of the Five Elements Sect, and was later appropriated by the royal family of the Tiancang Kingdom for their own use. The damn Xuanyuan Wu used it to imprison me for more than twenty years."

"Oh! It turns out that the person who set up this formation to imprison you was him!" Gu Chan said with relief.

If she hadn't come here tonight, she really wouldn't have known that Xuanyuan Wu could actually use the Five Elements Sect's formation.

In this way, it can be proved from the side that the Five Elements Sect that suddenly emerged in the Jiangnan area was probably the work of Xuanyuan Wu in secret.

"Oh my god! Is there something wrong with this?"

Thinking of this, Gu Chan suddenly shuddered and cried out in surprise.

She suddenly remembered that when she went to report to the prince about the sudden emergence of the Five Elements Sect in the Jiangnan area, the prince sent Master Tiancan to Jiangnan that night to deal with the sect.

After all the calculations, it has only been three or four days since Master Tiancan left. If we calculate from the time, he should be in Jiangnan now! But why was he still standing by the patio just now?

The old cat asked in confusion, "Why are you suddenly yelling?"

"You mentioned the old emperor just now, and I suddenly remembered things in the Jiangnan area. Then I remembered that the imperial teacher went to Jiangnan before. It turned out that he was standing by the patio just now and talking to me!" Gu Chan said with eyes wide open.

[Is it not okay for him to come back? ] Boss Cat said unhappily.

Gu Chan spread her hands and said, "Kyoto is thousands of miles away from Jiangnan. Even if you travel fast, it will take at least five or six days to go back and forth! It has only been three or four days since he walked there. How can he go there and come back so quickly?"

"Is it possible that he didn't go at all, but pretended to go there to confuse you?" asked the cat boss.

Gu Chan shook her head. "That's impossible. My people watched him leave the city with their own eyes."

"Don't say so much, just help me break the formation first, and then we'll know after we go out and investigate carefully." Boss Cat urged.

Gu Chan calmed down and forced herself to suppress the doubts in her heart.

It is undeniable that no matter how confused she is now, it is useless. She can only wait until the formation is broken and she gets out of here, and then slowly investigate to find out the reason.

Thinking of this, she stopped thinking about it and immediately got back to the point, "Okay, I'll listen to you. Tell me what I should do."

[Over the past twenty years, I have thoroughly studied the methods of setting up and solving the Five Elements Array. Next, I will teach you how to set up the array. You must first understand the method of setting up the array before you can learn how to solve it.] said Cat Boss.

Gu Chan said excitedly, "I never thought there would be such a good thing!"

[Stop talking nonsense, concentrate, and just follow my instructions from now on.] The cat boss said sternly.

Gu Chan took a deep breath and quickly became serious.

Next, under the guidance of the cat boss, she began to sit cross-legged in front of the stone platform, and followed it with her hands in seals to learn how to set up the five elements formation.

After some study, she realized that the Five Elements Formation of the Five Elements Sect was not that difficult to learn. There were a total of five seals to learn in this formation, which were distributed according to the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth.

Each row of seals is divided into two small hand seals, making a total of ten seals.

After all ten seals are formed, you need to let the spiritual energy in according to the principle of mutual generation of the five elements, and then combine the seal formation to set up the formation in one go. The opposite of this is true for releasing the formation. After all ten seals are formed, you need to let the spiritual energy in according to the principle of mutual restraint of the five elements, and then reverse the seals to release the formation in one go.

With Gu Chan's intelligence, under the guidance of Boss Cat, after practicing repeatedly several times, she learned how to set up and resolve the formation.

It was not until then that she realized that the first requirement for learning how to set up this formation was to have enough spiritual energy in the body, because setting up the formation consumed a lot of spiritual energy. A formation as powerful as the Five Elements Formation consumed a terrifying amount of spiritual energy.

Just after she learned how to set up and break the formation, she had just practiced it. The huge amount of spiritual energy in her body was almost consumed. In the end, she collapsed to the ground exhausted, her whole body sore and weak, and she couldn't get up at all.

Cat Boss sat on the stone platform, looking down at her and said, "With such a good physique and cultivation talent, you are only at the sixth level of physical strength now. You are really useless."

"I'm not like you! You stay here every day and someone brings you food and drink. But do you know that it was difficult for me to eat a piece of meat before, and I couldn't even afford white rice. If I wanted to have a snack, I could only catch caterpillars in the soil and fry them to eat." Gu Chan said unhappily.

[Rest and recover your strength first, and then continue practicing.] The old cat disdained to argue with her, and after saying this, he turned around and left, going to sleep in his cat bed in Tianjin.

Gu Chan sighed helplessly and could only lie down in front of the stone platform, closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

An hour later, on the edge of the skylight above.

Xuanyuan Long was getting impatient waiting and said to King Chen and Master Tiancan, "It's been an hour and there's been no movement down there. In my opinion, Gu Chan must have been eaten by that vicious beast. There's no need for us to wait any longer."

"Congratulations, Prince, for getting rid of a great threat." Prince Chen said hurriedly, clasping his fists.

"Thanks to Uncle Wang's help, otherwise it wouldn't be so easy to get rid of him." Xuanyuan Long said proudly.

Master Tiancan looked down at the dark sky below without saying a word.

He always felt that things were not as simple as Xuanyuan Long and the others imagined, and based on his understanding of Gu Chan, he did not believe that this kid could be killed so easily.

But right now there was indeed no movement below the patio, and even Gu Chan's spiritual energy could not be sensed. He couldn't help but wonder in his heart whether Gu Chan was really in danger.