newbobooks Chapter 412 It turns out to be an acquaintance!
Chapter 412 It turns out to be an acquaintance!
Could this be theirs...?
Although she had long suspected that her missing senior brothers and sisters might have met with misfortune, she still found it hard to accept the reality when it was actually before her eyes.
So many people, have they all perished?
Jiang Liqian pursed her lower lip, lowered her eyes, and slowly stood up.
Forget it, since she really can't figure it out, she might as well just destroy the altar. If there are any ghosts or evil spirits using the altar to cause trouble, they can come looking for her. She can use this as a chance to stretch her muscles. If this is just a pretext by Wang Mingzhi, she'll also want to see how he reacts when he finds out that she destroyed the altar.
She summoned the Spirit-Suppressing Pearl, and the pure qi on the pearl instantly suppressed the bloodthirsty qi in the area.
As the malevolent energy was suppressed, she felt for a moment a familiar yet strange fluctuation of spiritual energy.
Illusion?
Jiang Liqian released her divine sense to scan the surroundings, but did not see anything strange.
Regaining her composure, she channeled her lightning spiritual power into the Spirit Suppressing Pearl. The energy of suppressing evil drew upon the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, further reducing the malevolent aura of the area by three-tenths.
The leaves around us suddenly rustled.
This time, Jiang Liqian could clearly feel the fleeting spiritual energy fluctuations from before.
Could it be that the malevolent energy here has obscured the location of this spiritual energy?
Jiang Liqian suspended the Spirit Suppressing Pearl above her head. The Spirit Suppressing Pearl shone brightly, and its deep blue light instantly enveloped the entire bamboo forest.
The fluctuation of spiritual energy became clearer. Following the source of the spiritual energy, she walked step by step to the back of the altar. She raised her hand to sense the specific location of the spiritual energy again and finally confirmed the auspicious cloud relief on it.
With a thought, the Spirit-Suppressing Pearl arrived in the blink of an eye and, according to Jiang Liqian's wishes, slammed into the relief sculpture.
Cracks immediately appeared on the surface of the relief, and then it shattered under the powerful spiritual energy of the Spirit Suppressing Pearl.
A stone door suddenly appeared on the empty altar, and it slid open from left to right, revealing the passage inside.
Jiang Liqian retrieved the Spirit-Suppressing Pearl, set up a barrier on the altar, and immediately went inside.
The passage inside wasn't as long as the one by the pond; after walking only about twenty or thirty meters, she saw a faint light inside, and in that light, a face as pale as paper.
Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be an acquaintance!
"Xu Zisheng?" Jiang Liqian was surprised and quickly walked over.
"Don't come any closer! There's a spirit-stealing array here!" The pale-faced boy's pupils constricted, and he immediately shouted!
She stopped abruptly, a cold sweat breaking out on her back.
She thought this was some kind of prison, but she never expected that there would be such a sinister forbidden magic array here!
Xu Zisheng then recognized the person who had just arrived, his eyes filled with both surprise and joy: "Jiang Liqian, is that you? You are Jiang Liqian?"
Jiang Liqian did not answer his unnecessary question. Instead, she frowned and looked at the dozens of unconscious people behind him and the scattered bones on the ground.
Xu Zisheng didn't get an answer from her, but he wasn't discouraged. Instead, after seeing the shock and grief in her eyes, he immediately explained to her, "Their spiritual power and life force were drained, and they became those skeletons. Those who are still unconscious here are not in danger for now. I have tried my best to prevent their life force from being drained, but I... I can't hold on much longer either..."
After Xu Zisheng was imprisoned here, he created a barrier to protect those who still had a chance to live. It has been at least three months now. If it weren't for the fact that his spiritual root absorbed a lot of spiritual energy and his foundation was strong enough, he probably wouldn't have been able to withstand the spirit-seizing array for so long and would still be alive to see Jiang Liqian one day.
Fortunately, fate was kind to him; Jiang Liqian, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, actually came looking for him, so he didn't have to die.
However, while Xu Zisheng breathed a sigh of relief, Jiang Liqian was not so relaxed.
So many people have died here, and under the influence of the Soul-Seizing Array, the evil energy is almost solidified. With her current ability to break the array, it is almost impossible for her to break the array while ensuring that the people in the array are unharmed.
She could also break the formation from the outside with her strength, but the people inside, even Xu Zisheng who was barely holding on, were already very weak. The violent spiritual energy shock could very well kill them!
What to do now?
Every second is a life-threatening moment for them!
If only my junior brother were here, or at the very least, my senior brother would be fine too...
Jiang Liqian wanted to contact Xu Youan using the jade token, but she couldn't reach him, whether it was because the evil energy here was too strong or because the entire desolate courtyard was shrouded in an array.
With no other option, she could only take out a bottle of pills and toss it to Xu Zisheng so that he could give them to the survivors to restore their spiritual power. At the same time, she also took out a bottle of spiritual spring water and gave it to Xu Zisheng separately.
His spiritual root is special; only the abundant spiritual power of the spiritual spring water can quickly restore his nearly depleted dantian in the shortest amount of time.
Xu Zisheng didn't ask any questions and immediately did as he was told.
Jiang Liqian felt that simply waiting like this wasn't a solution. After thinking it over, she took out the "Essential Catalog" that her master had given her to see if there was a way to break the Spirit-Seizing Array.
However, after searching for a long time, it was clear that her master had no intention of teaching her such forbidden techniques, nor did he expect her to learn them on her own.
However, there were some unexpected gains as well.
She saw a method called "using one formation to suppress another" on it, which involves placing another formation on top of the existing one. Using the principle of mutual generation and restraint, the two formations suppress each other, which can temporarily stop both formations from operating at the same time, or greatly reduce their pressure.
Although Jiang Liqian couldn't break the formation, she could use this method to temporarily suppress the Spirit-Seizing Formation, giving her more time and reducing the pressure on Xu Zisheng to protect people.
She spread the scroll on the ground and first carefully examined the hand seals, the incantations for forming the seals, and the flow of spiritual energy when forming the seals. Then she studied the explanation of the method of "using an array to suppress another array".
She was so engrossed in her meditation that she didn't notice the strange look Xu Zisheng gave her after he finished meditating.
He hesitated for a moment before asking hesitantly, "Is this how your sect learns and breaks formations... by cramming at the last minute?"
What he really wanted to ask was, could she really learn it by just casually copying the scriptures on the spot?
Could it be that he's been drained of all his anger while she's still figuring out how to break the formation?
Upon hearing this, Jiang Liqian spread the "Essential Catalog" in front of him, her expression very sincere: "Otherwise, you learn it, you do it?"
Xu Zisheng choked.
Leaving aside the fact that she casually showed others her sect's array formation scriptures, which is heartless enough, how could she be so serious, so earnest, so sincere in letting him "cram at the last minute" to learn array formations and break arrays?