All nine empresses betrayed me, why am I crying after being reborn as a saint?

The fat monk and the thin Taoist priest also took out torches from their storage bracelets again, lit the torches, looked around, and for a moment, they didn't know where to start.

Chen Yuan held a torch in his hand and walked around the deep and mysterious cave. He also touched the soil on the wall and instantly felt a familiar spiritual power in the soil. He analyzed the situation slowly and spoke.

"I see that the rocks and soil polished around this hole in front of me are very new. It should have been dug recently. It should be a formation set up by someone."

"What? A man-made formation?"

The thin Taoist priest looked confused.

"Chen Yuan, how could you tell that this hole in the ground was actually a man-made formation? Neither I nor the thin Taoist priest could tell."

The fat monk was a little surprised when he heard what Chen Yuan said. After all, this cave looked so real and it didn't feel like a man-made formation at all.

"Because, through opening the doors before the ancient mausoleum, we found that the ones with traps are generally on top of the door or inside the door, not in front of the door."

Chen Yuan analyzed calmly and said.

"And it is actually the eighth gate below this ancient mausoleum. I guess it is to hide the treasure inside the eighth gate. It must be a man-made formation."

"Who should have arranged it?"

After listening to Chen Yuan's words, the thin Taoist priest thought belatedly.

Chen Yuan seemed to suddenly remember that he had taught Murong'er some secrets about formations in his previous life, and Murong'er had also made some achievements in the secret art of formations, so he spoke hurriedly.

"And you should not have forgotten that the woman Murong'er we met at the beginning had lived in this ancient mausoleum for a while. When we first came in, she said we were intruders."

The fat monk stood aside and touched the dirt on the wall, then nodded to Chen Yuan.

"From this point of view, I think it is possible that this is a trap set by Murong Er. After all, I have also seen it, and the soil is relatively new."

Chen Yuan held a torch in his hand and searched carefully.

"We got lost in it and were delayed for a while. Now let me carefully look for the center of the formation. I should be able to crack this cave."

The three of them searched silently, their shadows lengthened by the dim torches, making it seem that the cave was filled with a hint of human presence.

After searching for a while, Chen Yuan hurriedly said.

"Don't look for it anymore."

"What do you mean? Chen Yuan, don't you want to go out?"

The fat monk was horrified. Could it be that they would be trapped here forever?

"Yeah, I don't want to be stuck here forever. Chen Yuan, why are you the first one to give up among the three of us?"

The thin Taoist priest also looked puzzled.

Chen Yuan quickly explained.

"I feel like Murong'er must have set up a phantom maze. The more steps we take, the deeper we'll get stuck. Why don't you guys take a break first? I'll sit here and meditate to feel the center of the formation."

"it is good."

After hearing Chen Yuan's explanation, the thin Taoist priest felt relieved.

"You really scared us to death."

The fat monk touched the sweat that had just appeared on his forehead and gently exhaled a breath of foul air from his mouth.

Oh my, they were really scared. They thought Chen Yuan was going to give up looking for an exit.

After Chen Yuan handed the torch in his hand to the fat monk, he meditated on the spot, slowly closed his eyes, and took a deep breath.

He seemed to be able to smell the ancient aura and faint fluctuations of spiritual power in the air.

Then, Chen Yuan gently raised his hands, and his fingertips moved slightly, as if outlining some invisible pattern in the void.

Chen Yuan began to chant an ancient spell.

"rise!"

The air around him began to tremble slightly, and invisible forces gathered around him, forming circles of ripples that were difficult to capture with the naked eye.

Suddenly, Chen Yuan opened his eyes abruptly, and his eyes flashed with a light that could see through everything.

"Rumble--"

I saw a group of stone formations appearing in the originally empty cave.

He stretched out his body and shuttled through the intricate stone formation in front of the cave like a dragon.

Every step Chen Yuan took was perfectly placed on the nodes of the formation without triggering any mechanism.

His movements were smooth and precise, as if he was having a silent conversation with this ancient formation.

"Chen Yuan, what is this guy doing? How come all these stone formations suddenly appeared out of nowhere?"

The fat monk touched his bald head and said with a slightly confused look.

"Who knows? Maybe this stone is the original formation, but we just didn't see it before. Chen Yuan is trying to break the formation. Let's not disturb him now. Otherwise, it will be terrible if we can't get out."

The thin Taoist priest at the side consoled him.

Although he was also very worried that the three of them were trapped in the cave and couldn't get out, their only hope now was Chen Yuan, so they didn't dare to go up and disturb Chen Yuan.

"Hey, if I had known that we would be trapped in this cave when we were about to go to the eighth gate, I would have been more cautious and questioned Murong'er more strictly."

The fat monk's tone sounded a little annoyed. He felt sorry for himself and could only hold two torches in his hands, standing in the distance, watching Chen Yuan try to see if he could break the formation.

"Yes, Murong'er is still tied up tightly in the ancient mausoleum hall with the soul-binding rope. If we can go back to the ancient mausoleum hall later, we must ask that woman what other traps she has set."

The thin Taoist priest also made up his mind and said.

The seemingly disorganized pile of stones gradually revealed a certain pattern, as if responding to Chen Yuan's call.

Finally, with a slight roar, these messy piles of stones formed a hidden stone door.

"open!"

Chen Yuan opened his eyes slightly and sat up.

He saw the stone door slowly opening, revealing a passage leading to unknown depths.

"Oh my god, Chen Yuan, you are really amazing. You broke this formation immediately."

The fat monk standing by was amazed.

Chen Yuan took the torch from the fat monk and explained to the two of them with a smile.

"I was just looking for a cave and I found it. This is a phantom maze array. I thought that the center of the array should be in the center of the cave. I was meditating in the center of the cave just now, so I sat there."

"But what about those stones just now?" the fat monk asked with some confusion.

Chen Yuan analyzed carefully.

"I didn't expect that this phantom maze formation is a double-layer complex formation. I summoned it with a stone formation mixed in."

"Then we just cracked the stone formation. Now, this stone door should be our way out."

The fat monk was very happy to hear Chen Yuan say this. "Great, we can go out now."