Armor: I started with Watt at my peak

In Maoshan Town, the flow of people in the town gradually increased, and the sun gradually rose above the heads.

Li Chen and his group hurried on and finally arrived at this town built on the mountain. As soon as they entered the town gate, Li Chen detected many cultivators.

Of course, most of them are at the acquired realm with only one or a wisp of true Qi in their bodies, and very little at the innate realm.

"Brother Li, if we go a little further we will find the stalls set up by the monks. Wait for Lin Xue to exchange the spirit stones for resources, and then we will go to Maoshan." Chu Xi said.

Hearing this, Li Chen nodded and said, "Okay."

The three of them walked side by side and started to choose when they entered the market stalls. However, after choosing for a long time, they still didn't find any suitable resources to exchange. In the end, they had to leave the market and make plans.

"I'm really unlucky this time. My spirit stones were almost stolen, and now I can't find suitable resources. Sigh..." Jiang Linxue sighed.

Li Chen who was standing by suddenly stopped at this moment and said, "Miss Jiang, do you need Huangnan ginseng and Yumu ginseng? I have some here."

Li Chen's words instantly made Jiang Linxue's eyes light up: "I just need these two kinds of spiritual medicine to stabilize my cultivation. Brother Li, do you have any?"

Hearing this, Li Chen did not say anything, but took out two small boxes and opened them directly. Surprisingly, three Jade Wood Ginseng and two Huang Nan Ginseng were lying quietly inside.

"I don't know if these are enough to exchange for the spirit stone in your hand." Li Chen said with a smile.

These elixirs bought at the auction were originally intended to be used to prepare medicinal liquids for Xinnan and the others, but there happened to be some left over, and I didn't expect them to come in handy today.

He doesn't need spiritual medicine now, but after entering the first level of Qi Refining, a spiritual stone will be his best choice for cultivation.

"Enough, of course it's enough! Here you go." Jiang Linxue didn't waste any words and directly handed over a small jade box with the spirit stone inside.

The two people each took the exchange item and the transaction was successfully completed.

"In that case, the purpose of my trip has been achieved, and I will leave first." Jiang Linxue smiled softly, then waved goodbye to the two of them, and left the town.

Chu Xi glanced at Li Chen and moved his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say it.

After a while, he said to Li Chen: "Brother Li, aren't you going to Maoshan? Let's go."

"Then let's go." Li Chen followed Chu Xi and quickly walked towards the road up the mountain.

The two did not encounter anything special along the way, just some believers and pilgrims going up and down the mountain, until... they met an old man in linen clothes and leaning on a walking stick, and then something started to go wrong.

The old man had gray hair and looked vigorous. When he passed by Li Chen and Chu Xi, a strange wave flashed by. Although it was very obscure, Li Chen sensed it clearly.

From then on, the two of them walked up the mountain for two hours. With their strength, they should have reached the mountain gate long ago, but now they found that they were actually standing still.

"Brother Chu, don't you notice that we are standing still?" Li Chen suddenly said.

After hearing Li Chen's words, Chu Xi suddenly woke up and finally realized that something was wrong: "What on earth is this..."

Ignoring the surprised Chu Xi, Li Chen slowly closed his eyes, his magic power began to surge, and his spiritual awareness spread out and swept the surroundings.

Seeing Li Chen like this, although Chu Xi didn't know what he was doing, he also understood that he couldn't disturb Li Chen at this time.

After a few minutes, Li Chen opened his eyes. But when he turned around, Chu Xi beside him was gone, and the surrounding environment was no longer a mountain road, but a mountain tunnel.

"Why are all these torches extinguished?" Li Chen simply detected the surrounding environment, but was surprised to find that his spiritual detection was only effective within a radius of 20 meters, which was less than half.

There was nothing in the tunnel except extinguished torches on the walls on both sides. However, what lay before him was a wall.

But the environment here is extremely dark, and there is endless darkness outside the range of spiritual detection, and there is no end in sight.

He took out the prepared lighter and a small bucket of oil from the system space, but no matter how Li Chen tried, he couldn't light the torch. Neither the lighter nor the flint could produce any sparks.

"Could it be..." Li Chen seemed to have thought of something. A faint golden light surged out of his hand. It was obvious that he had mobilized his magic power. Then he reached out to touch the torch.

All of a sudden, a strong flame appeared on the torch, which confirmed Li Chen's idea. Then the magic power in Li Chen's hand surged out, and it was divided into more than ten parts to ignite all the torches.

At this time, the traces hidden in the darkness were revealed. There were some strange symbols under each torch, and they all emitted a light golden glow.

"Are these... runes or inscriptions or something like that? What do they mean?" Li Chen supported his chin with one hand and began to think.

When things got to this point, Li Chen already had some guesses in his mind, but he didn't expect that his appeal was so great.

Buzz...buzz...buzz!

Suddenly, the rune inscriptions on the wall that were emitting golden light began to flicker, accompanied by waves of mysterious fluctuations.

Li Chen stared at the flashing rune inscriptions, motionless, trying to find something inside.

It was unknown how long it had been, but Li Chen's body moved, and as he waved his hand, magic power surged. Countless magic powers flew out and accurately hit the rune inscriptions that happened to light up.

Finally, the flashing of the inscriptions stopped. However, nothing else in the tunnel changed. This made Li Chen confused.

"Isn't that right?"

However, not long after, these runes began to flicker and flicker again.

Seeing this situation, Li Chen had to try a few more times to see if he could find the pattern.

So, time and again, Li Chen released his magic power to strike these runes. But each time, the runes would light up briefly before fading away again.

"Wait... Although the number of runes that light up each time is around 12-8, there is never an odd number. Does it mean there will be a pair..."

Li Chen seemed to notice something, and then hit the rune with his magic power again.

For a moment, Li Chen's eyes were fixed on the lit runes. A gleam of light flashed in his eyes, and then he released his magic power to hit the ten unlit runes.

hum!

At this moment, all the runes were lit up. There were actually rays of fluorescence gushing out from these runes, all flying towards the stone wall in front.

Soon, a groove and a pattern appeared on the stone wall. The pattern seemed to be somewhat similar to a table, and the groove was exactly the size of a fist.

"Tsk, wouldn't it have been easy if I had come earlier? This should be pretty much what I expected." Li Chen instantly figured out what to do next.

His magical power was surging, and his clothes were moving without wind. The magical power was condensed in his hands. Li Chen clenched his fist and blasted out, steadily hitting the groove.

All of a sudden, the pattern was filled with golden light, and before Li Chen could react, he passed through the wall.

"This is the Eight Trigrams and Five Elements. What does it mean..."

Li Chen looked at the scene that came into view and fell into deep thought. This was a huge crack, or more accurately, a canyon.

Countless small floating stone platforms were suspended in the middle of the canyon. The fog was so thick that the situation on the other side could not be seen clearly.

"These fogs can block spiritual detection, and we can only see with the naked eyes." Li Chen frowned slightly. The fog filled the entire canyon, and the spiritual sense was sealed.

It is visible to the naked eye that the difficulty is beginning to increase.

However, these floating stone platforms exude the aura of the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, allowing Li Chen to sense it clearly.

But Li Chen had no choice now, because he found that... the stone wall behind him had solidified, which meant there was no way to retreat!

Shaking his head, Li Chen activated his magic power and leaped up to the first stone platform.

"Wood, Xun Gua." Li Chen felt the breath emanating from the stone platform under his feet, which was of the wood attribute.

Before he could stay there for long, a ball of fire suddenly appeared out of nowhere on the stone platform in front of him and attacked Li Chen. The heat wave was so strong that it was almost as fierce as Na Wa's flame attack.

"Nava of Flame!"

Li Chen had no choice but to summon his armor to block it. Fortunately, he reacted quickly, otherwise he would have been hit hard by the fireball.

After the armor is combined, the flame of this temperature is nothing. Of course, this is just a stopgap measure. Although he is not sure, Li Chen can probably think of the reason for the matter. He may not be able to achieve his goal by just relying on the armor to force his way through.

While casually blocking the flames from the stone platform in front, Li Chen finally saw some of the situations with the help of his spiritual sense amplified by the Nawa Armor.

"Over there, Kan Gua, water element." After Li Chen jumped to the stone platform representing water in the front right, the stone platform that emitted the fireball stopped reacting.

However, before he could stay for a moment, a stream of water came from not far away and hit the surface of the armor. Although it did not have any effect on Li Chen, the boiling hot water made him puzzled.

“Isn’t it the mutual promotion and restraint of the five elements that can solve this level?” Wearing armor, he can certainly ignore the boiling water, but if he wants to pass the level, he still needs to solve the puzzle.

Whoosh!

Li Chen paused and rushed straight towards the stone platform where the fireball had been emitted.

When the boiling water rushed towards the flame-spraying stone platform, a block of ice unexpectedly condensed in front of Li Chen, blocking the water flow. However, in his perception, this block of ice was made of flames.

"So that's how it is. I was just blinded by one thing." Li Chen slapped his head. He had once taught Bei Miao something, but now he almost forgot it.

Everything has at least two sides, such as calm cool water and boiling hot water. The five elements naturally have positive and negative sides, and this is one of the manifestations.

"If that's the case, then come on." As he said that, Li Chen inserted the hurricane energy key into the summoner, and Nawa transformed into Tunaduo.

Then, he stepped over many suspended stone platforms in a continuous and regular manner at lightning speed. When he came to the sixteenth and final stone platform, the fog dissipated.

"These chains are..."