Morning Star

After a pause, he said, "Put me down. I can walk by myself."

Mo Xinglan raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at her with a half-smile: "Are you sure?"

Chujiu was confused. What did he mean? Why did he feel that she couldn't leave by herself?

"..." She didn't believe it, so she nodded.

Mo Xinglan put her down and helped her stand.

Chujiu stopped and looked at him, as if saying, look, everything is fine now.

"Take two steps." Mo Xinglan said with a smile.

Chujiu took a step forward in disbelief, but as soon as he took a step, he felt a sudden pain in his ankle and a tightness in his chest. His legs went weak and he fell forward.

"Be careful!" Chu Furong, who was walking behind the two of them, was startled and reached out subconsciously. However, Mo Xinglan got ahead of her and grabbed Chu Jiu's waist from behind.

"!" Chujiu was also startled. He heaved a sigh of relief and gave Chu Furong a look that reassured her.

“……”Chu Furong finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Mo Xinglan glanced at Chujiu and continued to follow Gao Yashan.

"..." Chujiu leaned against Mo Xinglan's chest, listening to his heart beating regularly.

A few people walked into the path and had a smooth journey until halfway through, when the trees on both sides disappeared and were replaced by emerald green bamboo forests.

Several people stopped where they were and looked at such obvious changes, and immediately became alert.

Gao Yashan picked up a stone from the side and threw it over, but the stone had not yet hit the ground.

"Shhhhh!"

Several sharp arrows pierced the stones accurately.

"There really is a mechanism." Chu Jiu nestled in Mo Xinglan's arms and watched everything.

Chu Furong's face was solemn: "I don't know if there are other things painted on these arrows, and if there are other hidden weapons in this bamboo forest."

After hearing this, Chujiu looked up and carefully surveyed the bamboo forest surrounding the path, but did not find any hidden weapons hanging on them.

That's true, they are all hidden weapons, how could they be seen by others?

Then carefully observe the position of each bamboo. They are so neat, they must have been planted by humans.

But who on earth is so bored to plant so many bamboos here? And hang hidden weapons on them. But where did these hidden weapons come from? It's obviously bright all around, and I can see them clearly.

"Brother Yashan, throw a bigger stone in and see what happens." Chujiu said to Gao Yashan.

Mo Xinglan looked down at Chujiu for a while, then focused his attention on the entire bamboo forest in front of him.

Gao Yashan nodded, picked up a larger stone and threw it in.

"Shhhhh!"

Just like last time, the stone was pierced and shattered, but this time there were more arrows than the first time.

"What did you find?" Chu Furong looked at Chu Jiu and asked.

Chujiu said a little puzzledly: "Those arrows seem to be shot from the bamboo, but if you look closely, you can find that they appear out of thin air."

"Appeared out of thin air?" Chu Furong murmured, "Could it be that there is another formation here?"

Gao Yashan, who was beside her, didn't understand it at first, but he understood it immediately after hearing what she said.

At this time, Mo Xinglan spoke calmly, confirming her words: "It's a formation."

The three of them looked at Mo Xinglan at the same time, expressing their confusion.

Chu Furong asked doubtfully, "But planting so many bamboos in the formation won't interfere with the formation's core?"

"Maybe they deliberately make you feel that this place is not suitable for setting up an array, so that you think it's just a trap?" Chujiu said.

Chu Furong looked at her for a long while without saying anything. She seemed to understand something, but couldn't figure it out.

Mo Xinglan ignored the conversation between the two and carefully observed the arrangement of the bamboos. Finally, he said, "Mr. Gao, please strike with all your strength towards the southeast corner."

Gao Yashan nodded and did as he was told. He gathered his spiritual energy in his palm and struck with all his strength towards the southeast.

"Oh!"

"Wow!"

Two sounds were heard at the same time. The first sound was the sound of force hitting an object, and the second sound was the sound of the bamboo being knocked down.

At this moment, the scene before the four people changed.

There are indeed bamboos in front, but not that many. Instead, they grow together in piles, which seem to hide some mystery.

"So this is the prototype of the formation!" Chu Furong said in surprise.

Chujiu looked at Mo Xinglan and was shocked. This guy also knows formations?

Although there weren't many people who could walk here before them, there were some. So why didn't they notice this? Could it be that it was just like what she had said to Chu Furong before, just a trick to make people believe it?

No, that’s not all. There must be another reason, which is that they don’t understand the formation.

As luck would have it, Mo Xinglan was here today, and he knew the formation. These two or three moves revealed the true form of the formation.

Niubi!

"You're awesome." Chujiu gave Mo Xinglan a thumbs up.

"What?" Mo Xinglan frowned.

Chujiu explained: "It means to praise you for being awesome."

"..."Mo Xinglan chuckled and said nothing.

"..." What does he mean? Chujiu doesn't understand.

Mo Xinglan looked at the path in front of him with an expressionless face.

This path is in the middle of the formation. It is a reminder from the creator of the formation to the people who come here. No wonder there were one or two people who went in before them. Unfortunately, even if they got in, they either got in by accident or were seriously injured. As for how they got out, there must be other exits inside, otherwise no one would know the news here.

Mo Xinglan said calmly: "Follow my footsteps."

After saying that, he held Chujiu and walked forward.

Gao Yashan and Chu Furong nodded to each other and followed Mo Xinglan's footsteps.

Chujiu couldn't see how Mo Xinglan walked, but she could feel that Mo Xinglan walked in a very regular pattern.

A quarter of an hour later, the four of them safely walked the path and passed the formation.

The four of them looked forward and saw an open space as big as two football fields. The ground was paved with stones and surrounded by emerald green bamboo. As no one had cleaned it for many years, there was a thick layer of bamboo leaves floating on the ground, some new, some old, some fresh, some withered, and they made a rustling sound when they stepped on them.

In the middle is a sacrificial altar, on which there is a one-meter-high cylindrical platform engraved with mysterious totems, and a folded scroll is suspended on the cylindrical platform.

"That should be a painting of a beauty, right?" Chujiu looked at the scroll.

Gao Yashan carefully observed the surroundings and said, "Now that we are here, there shouldn't be any hidden weapons or anything like that, right?"

Chu Furong looked at him: "It's better to be careful."

Gao Yashan nodded.

Chu Furong looked at the scroll in front of her, and after a while she turned back to Mo Xinglan and Chu Jiu and said, "We'll go up and check it out first, you two should be careful down there."

Mo Xinglan nodded and said nothing more.

Chujiu warned: "Be careful."

The two responded and walked cautiously towards the altar.

Mo Xinglan looked at Chujiu in his arms, found a place that looked relatively clean, put her down and let her sit.

Chujiu was puzzled. Why did he put her down so suddenly? She preferred him holding her to the ground covered with bamboo leaves.