Cangyun wears the book strategy

Yan Gui walked very cautiously, but nothing happened until he finished walking the entire spiral staircase.

Different from the lower floor, where only the stone emits a faint light, the upper floor of this palace is neatly lined with many exquisite jade lanterns. As soon as Yan Gui just walked up, they lit up one after another.

In such a very quiet space, this sudden change made Yan Gui's already cautious mood fluctuate.But this time, nothing happened.

It was as if the lights were just turned on.

But soon, Yan Gui discovered something unusual—for some reason, when the faint but bright light fell on the ground, when viewed from a certain angle, there seemed to be something on the stairs he walked just now. Some vague traces flashed by.So Yan Gui moved his position a little bit, and finally he stood at the highest point of the entire ladder, looking down from the adjusted angle just now.

It seemed to be many continuous footprints, extending from the beginning of the ladder all the way up.But when I looked at the words carefully, I found that the footprints were actually more than one line, and many of them were overlapping and interlacing.Even, it looks like there is a dusty layer on top of the footprints, which is more or less dark, and it seems to be left at different times.

It's weird, like someone walks up the stairs every once in a while.

Yan Gui carefully counted the lines of those footprints, there are nine lines in total, some are new and some are old, the oldest line is not even very clear, and it is not known how long it has been there.

Withdrawing his gaze downward, Yan Gui looked forward along these footprints, and found that they were extending towards the fork in the entrance to the upper floor of the palace, extending towards different paths.

Yan Gui thought back to the map that he had seen in the Shuiyue Palace classics before. The structure of the upper layer seemed complicated, but it was actually quite neat.It should be in the shape of an octagon, and each branch road will have an intersection, and finally converge to the central area.

In other words, no matter which way you go, you can reach the destination Yan Gui wants to go.

But on the map, things like "doors" are drawn at the intersections. Yan Gui guessed by intuition that they should be the obstacles that must be passed to the center.In short, no matter how he walks, it doesn't really matter - anyway, it is impossible for him to avoid those "doors" completely.

After Yan Gui thought it over, he didn't pause anymore, and immediately chose a fork in the road and walked forward.

Under the light of the light, those deep or shallow footprints still did not disappear, but appeared and disappeared with the change of Yan Gui's perspective.But Yan Gui did not intend to follow the footprints. After all, those footprints do not all lead to one place. Even if they overlap for the time being, they will diverge when the next fork appears.

After walking for a while, Yan Gui's nose moved slightly, and he smelled a bad smell.

Immediately after, a large amount of blood splattered in all directions appeared in Yan Gui's sight. Those blood splatters had dried up and even turned black, leaving mottled spots on the ground and walls, almost covering the original color of the walls.

It seems that there has been a large-scale killing here.

Perhaps it was because of the special material of the palace itself or the aura problem, after Yan Gui saw a large amount of blood, he also saw many undecomposed limbs and arms of beasts one after another.It has not decayed into white bones, but it seems to have lost its moisture, and it can even look a little bit of its original appearance.

Not a common beast.

Yan Gui took a look at the size of the stumps, and guessed that this beast should be quite huge, and probably also quite difficult to deal with.According to the map, there is a "gate" near where Yan Gui is standing, so this beast is likely to be a guardian beast staying here to protect the treasures in the palace.But I don't know who has entered here and cut this strange beast into pieces.

This is a good thing and a bad thing.

The guardian beast in front of the "gate" was killed, and Yan Gui also saved trouble, but this also meant that someone who was already strong had passed.Thinking about the number of footsteps spreading out, Yan Gui can only pray that the purpose of those people going in is not to change the stars and change the pill.

Walking through the long-dried blood of the guardian beast, Yan Gui soon saw the "door" marked on the map.

When he got to the front, Yan Gui realized that this was not a real "door", although it had a square frame.

Yan Gui stood in front of the square frame, and there were many glass-like fragments falling at his feet in front of him, and some of the remaining fragments were still embedded in the frame, looking like a shattered mirror.On the border that is slightly higher than a person, there are many climbing vines and flowers, just like the flower bushes in the environment outside the palace.

But now, the vines and flowers that should have been lush have withered, hanging loosely on the frame.

No matter how you look at it, it looks like a mirror?

A mirror that has been shattered.

Because the mirror surface has been shattered, even if there are still some fragments left on the frame, nothing can be seen anymore.So Yan Gui walked out of the frame directly and entered the next intersection.

— still nothing happened.

Yan Gui looked back, and vaguely saw a line of footprints extending under the mirror frame, thinking that the obstacles that needed to be solved should have been completely removed.

However, there were originally two or three footprints, but now only one has come here, and the rest have turned to other directions at the intersection.

Yan Gui is now full of doubts.

I thought it was a place full of dangers, but now I find that the dangers seem to have been cleared away by someone, and the Yangui left is just a big cloud of fog that I can't figure out.

What the hell is going on here?

Holding such doubts, Yan Gui continued to move forward.

But before taking a few steps, Yan Gui stopped again - he had to stop, because suddenly there was no road in front of him, and an impenetrable wall blocked the road.

Is this different from the location shown on the map?Yan Gui frowned, several years flashed through his mind, thinking that this might have something to do with the broken mirror.

He turned around and went back to the previous intersection, heading in the other direction.

However, at the next fork, he saw another broken mirror.The area around the mirror was still splattered with blood, and the death of the Guardian Beast was slightly different from the previous one, but it had been dealt with anyway.

Undoubtedly, the road that should have been behind the mirror disappeared again.

I still can't believe it!

Yangui changed another road. Bloodstains and dried up limbs still appeared on the road from time to time. Yangui deliberately turned several corners, but still encountered some broken frames and roads that suddenly disappeared. .

The corner of Yan Gui's mouth twitched.

Is it possible that these roads are all one-off?Once the unknown mirror is smashed, will it disappear immediately?

Although it was just a guess, under the current situation, Yan Gui's intuition told him that the guess was probably true.

Because of such a special change, the originally well-connected roads became not so easy to walk.

No wonder... no wonder those footprints always turn at forks in the road, always go in different directions.Because the upper floor of this palace is designed in this way, it will not allow anyone to easily reach the destination by following the path walked by the predecessors for no reason.

So once a certain "door" is cracked, the road behind can only be walked once.

In this way, the later people must find a complete "door" and pass through it with their own strength in order to continue the journey.

Yan Gui squinted his eyes and tilted his head. After finding the right angle, those footprints appeared again under the light.This time when Yan Gui set off again, he specifically started walking towards places where there were no footprints.

At that time, Yan Gui counted nine rows of footprints on the stairs.

So after going around for quite a while, he finally turned onto a clean road with no footprints at all.It can't be said to be completely clean, because the blood splatter can still be seen on the intersection, and it feels like the guardian beast that existed originally was attracted to the intersection and then killed off.

When this idea popped up in Yan Gui's mind, he suddenly realized a problem.

Too quiet.

The entire upper floor of the palace is too quiet. If there are guardian beasts, there will always be a little noise coming out anyway, right?But up to now, Yan Gui has neither seen nor heard the sound of any living things.

Could it be that... the guardian beasts here have been "smoothly" killed?

The person who came here last time was probably strong to an unimaginable level.Yan Gui was thinking, while continuing to walk towards the road without footprints.

Finally, at the end of the road, Yan Gui saw a complete mirror.

The emerald green vines are luxuriantly wrapped around the mirror frame, and dense layers of moon-white petals are blooming, so that the entire mirror surface is surrounded by petals, which looks very delicate and beautiful.

Equally delicate is the mirror, which is not a mirror in the normal sense.

Layers of ripples rippling from the mirror surface, like a pool of spring water that has been wrinkled.Under the reflection of the light lights on the two floors of the road, the changing colors of the shimmer reflected by the ripples of the mirror are like a beautiful dream.

The light in Yan Gui's hand flashed, and Mo Dao appeared in his right hand.He cut towards the mirror, but the sharp blade just passed through the mirror silently, as if it just sliced ​​through a phantom.

The blade could not touch the mirror at all, and even the vines and petals on the frame were not affected.

Standing in front of such a mirror, four words popped out of Yan Gui's head.

Mirror flower water moon.

So how can it be broken?

Yan Gui stretched out his other hand suspiciously, and the moment he touched the mirror, he felt something cold wrap his skin.

What followed was an irresistible gravitational force that pulled him into the water mirror.