Chapter 1188 - 1185: Strange Trees and Exotic Flowers (Part 1)
This little creature Xiao Ling, having met Feng Lingfeng once, wouldn't easily listen to her. It hissed twice and twisted around to return to Lin Chuan's shoulder.
"Xiao Ling, still not listening to Sister Lingfeng?" Lin Chuan looked at Xiao Ling and said.
Xiao Ling wiggled its snake head, looked at Lin Chuan with small eyes, reluctantly darted up, and slammed into the ice pillar.
Dong...
Xiao Ling's body darted to the ice pillar and then drilled into it, directly breaking a hole through it and flew out from the other side.
After the ice pillar was broken, the surrounding world of ice and snow rapidly began to melt. In the blink of an eye, the icy world vanished.
In the four directions - southeast, southwest, and west - three had been solved, leaving only the north. According to the Five Elements order, the northern position belongs to fire, so the northern area should be a sea of fire.
The layout of this Demon Suppression Array is truly astonishing. From the outside, it just looks like five giant stones, but inside, it transforms endlessly.
If a person were trapped within, without solving it, they surely wouldn't be able to escape.
To solve the Demon Suppression Array, one must resolve it sequentially according to the Five Elements. If mistaken in sequence, the array cannot be solved.
Arriving at the northern position, it truly was a world of fire hills. This sea of fire was a place Lin Chuan and Feng Lingfeng had been to before and had intimately acquainted themselves here.
Solving the northern position is precisely the opposite of solving the western position. The western position is deciphered according to the principles of mutual generation in the Five Elements, while the northern position uses mutual destruction principles.
With previous experiences, it only took Feng Lingfeng a few minutes to solve the northern position.
The four corners of southeast, southwest, east, and north have now been completely resolved. The entire array suddenly began to change, the surrounding environment no longer as eerie, returning to its usual state.
The array's central area is where the core lies. Once one breaks the core, the Demon Suppression Array would completely collapse.
In the central area, the giant stone pushed by Feng Lingfeng stood quietly there. In the Five Elements, earth is the root of all things, corresponding to the central position.
East, southwest, west, and north are all based on the center. To find the core of the central position, one must first determine a point in the central area.
In feng shui, a point's position can be located using a Compass.
However, Lin Chuan and Feng Lingfeng currently don't have a Compass, so how to locate this point?
Lin Chuan, as a member of the Dark Soldier, naturally learned how to discern directions in dark environments but locating a point in this space was something he didn't know how to do.
Feng Lingfeng clearly understood the importance of locating this point. The precision of this location must be exact without the slightest deviation. If there is any error or imprecision in locating, one cannot find the core position.
Unable to find the central core position means failing to exit this Demon Suppression Array.
Feng Lingfeng bit her silver teeth, the only option left was to use a talisman to locate it. Talisman positioning was something she had never tried before; this method was mentioned to her by her father, the previous Tai Chi Sect Leader.
Whether using a talisman to locate is accurate, even Feng Lingfeng herself didn't know, but in this situation, trying was the only option.
Lin Chuan stood by, two little creatures perched on his shoulders left and right, watching Feng Lingfeng's hand flash with a yellow talisman as she murmured words.
Soon after, the talisman was thrown by Feng Lingfeng, drifting to the ground. The talisman fell to the ground like a ruler; initially, the whole talisman stood up, then laid flat on the ground, stood up again, and then laid flat on the ground once more.
Feng Lingfeng wasn't just choosing a random point to locate. Her standing position happened to be on the central line between east and west positions. By calculating the distance between east and west positions, she could use concentric principles to find this so-called point.
Quickly, Feng Lingfeng found the location according to her method, positioned at that point, she raised her right hand slowly, its entire form presenting an imprint formula.
Feng Lingfeng stood there charmingly, posing coolly enough for Lin Chuan to gaze at her dazedly, his mind involuntarily recalling scenes of intimacy with Feng Lingfeng earlier.
Feng Lingfeng's hand imprint continuously changed. Suddenly, beams of light shot out from between her fingers.
The beams emerged, beginning to orbit around Feng Lingfeng's body. Eventually, these beams converged together, shooting towards a spot two meters ahead of Feng Lingfeng, disappearing on the ground.
"Lin Chuan, the core has been found." Feng Lingfeng retracted her hand imprint, her pretty face showing joy, looking at Lin Chuan and saying. Seeing Lin Chuan gazing at her foolishly, her face turned red, and she lowered her head.
Lin Chuan came back to his senses, smiled a bit embarrassedly, and said: "Is the core right at the spot where the beams entered earlier?"
Feng Lingfeng nodded slightly with a blushing face.
Lin Chuan walked to where the beams entered the ground, bent down, swept aside the loose soil, and saw a very strange pattern.
Above this pattern was drawn something that resembled the sun, below was an ancient man figure holding a bow, ready to shoot the sun.
Seeing this design, Lin Chuan instantly thought of the legendary story, Kua Fu shooting the sun.
The story of Kuafu shooting the sun is well-known in China, known by both the old and the young. Lin Chuan was really puzzled as to why such a pattern was drawn at the eye of the Demon Suppression Array.
Feng Lingfeng also walked over at this moment and saw the pattern. Her doubts coincided with Lin Chuan's. What exactly does this pattern represent by appearing here?
The two little creatures, who were originally perched on Lin Chuan's shoulders, flew up when they saw the pattern and shrieked incessantly around Lin Chuan.
"Xiao Ling, Xiao Hei, what's wrong with you?" Seeing the unusual reaction of the two little creatures, Lin Chuan couldn't help but curiously ask.
Xiao Ling and Xiao Hei seemed very frightened, writhing around Lin Chuan incessantly.
Lin Chuan couldn't really understand what the two little creatures meant by doing this.
"Lin Chuan, break this pattern, and the Demon Suppression Array will naturally be broken," Feng Lingfeng said to Lin Chuan.
Upon hearing Feng Lingfeng asking Lin Chuan to break the pattern, the two little creatures became even more anxious and restless, letting out continuous hissing sounds.
Lin Chuan glanced at the two little creatures hissing in mid-air, still unable to figure out what they meant. However, since Feng Lingfeng said so, he hesitated no more, raised his right palm, and struck the pattern.
Under the intense force of Lin Chuan's right palm, the pattern on the ground immediately shattered, and simultaneously, the ground was dented by Lin Chuan's strike.
The two little creatures darted far away as if very frightened the moment the pattern was broken.
After the pattern was shattered, there was no unusual reaction around, not even the slightest change.
Lin Chuan was somewhat stunned, looking at Feng Lingfeng, who was also looking around with a clueless expression on her pretty face.
"What's going on here? Has the Demon Suppression Array been broken or not?" Lin Chuan couldn't help but ask.
Feng Lingfeng paused for a moment before saying, "Lin Chuan, it looks like the spot you broke just now wasn't the eye of the Array. The Demon Suppression Array hasn't been broken."
Crunch!!!
Suddenly, a strange sound came from the pit created by Lin Chuan's palm strike.
Lin Chuan and Feng Lingfeng were both startled, quickly looking over.
The two little creatures, hiding far away, showed apparent fear in their little eyes.
Where Lin Chuan had broken the pattern, a green sapling emerged from the pit, and in the blink of an eye, it was already as tall as Lin Chuan.
Lin Chuan and Feng Lingfeng stared blankly, exchanging glances that reflected their surprise.
The sapling continued to grow taller; in just a few minutes, it had become a towering tree with a diameter of nearly one meter.
The shape of the tree was very strange, resembling a pine tree, but the leaves were broad, not much different from maple leaves. The branches on the trunk were thin, extending like tendrils of a vine plant.
More strangely, the tree stopped growing after reaching about seven or eight meters tall, and amidst its dense foliage, flowers started to bloom.
The flowers were large, pink in color; starting with just a dozen or so blooms, soon the tree was covered with them.
The flowers resembled peonies; Lin Chuan and Feng Lingfeng watched in amazement at such a large tree bearing so many flowers, which was indeed rare.
"Sister Lingfeng, what's going on here?" Lin Chuan couldn't help but ask Feng Lingfeng while looking at the flowers covering the tree.
Feng Lingfeng shook her head with some bewilderment and said, "I don't know either. Right, Lin Chuan, didn't those two little creatures of yours have a keen sense of the spiritual elements of the world? Call them over and ask."
Lin Chuan slapped his forehead—of course, back on Double Dragons Mountain, the old man had told him that Xiao Ling had a keen sense for rare and precious things in the world.
"Xiao Ling, Xiao Hei, come here." Lin Chuan beckoned to the two little creatures hiding far away.
The two little creatures hid far away, hissing twice, their serpent heads shaking continuously, eyes filled with fear, refusing to come over.
Lin Chuan had never seen such a reaction from the two little creatures, and a sudden ominous premonition settled in his heart.
Before Lin Chuan could react from his premonition, the flowers on the big tree began to wither one after another. After the flowers withered, countless small green fruits appeared.
The small fruits started as green, and as they grew, they changed color to a purplish-red.
The purplish-red fruits continued to grow larger and gradually took on a firm shape, transforming into gourds, and then the purplish-red faded, turning milky white.
Seeing these fruits on the tree, the astonished expression on Feng Lingfeng's pretty face disappeared, and she exclaimed in shock, "The legendary Immortal Fruit."
