Finally, the force of falling into the water was gone, and I stopped sinking every second, and my body began to float up.

After regaining control of my body, I pushed upward almost instinctively and without thinking. With a 'crash', I finally surfaced.

The temporary deafness and silence I felt when I fell into the water disappeared as I emerged from the water. Xiao Chengqian's anxious voice rang in my ears again: "Chengyi, are you okay? Are you stupid?"

Why did you fall? What happened? I look worried."

I shook my head speechlessly. Young Master Xiao, before we got acquainted with him, was very cool and attractive. Why did he feel like a talkative person that lingered as we got more and more familiar with him? It's like

In the northeast, she sits on a big bed, just like an old lady waiting for someone to chat with her.

The sense of crisis lingered in my heart, and I didn't want to explain too much to Xiao Chengqian, so I said in a low voice: "This pool is very deep. I estimate that part of the mountain is empty, and it leads directly to X through this pool.

pool, if that's the case" behind

Actually, I want to say, if this is the case, the monster you said may really exist in this pool, but I didn't say it. At this moment, my heart is filled with an inexplicable sense of crisis. I'm afraid I won't be able to bear it if I mention it again.

Hold on to the inner pressure and go ashore as if you are running away.

Therefore, I simply said to Xiao Chengqian, who was still digesting my words and was a little dazed: "You are right here, remember to turn on the flashlight."

After finishing speaking, I swam towards the water.

The whole cave was quiet, except for the sound of my arms paddling across the water. The stone pillar was in the middle of the innermost part of the pool. According to the strange shape of the pool, no matter where I entered the water, the distance I had to swim was

Pretty much.

Originally, this distance was nothing to me, but I don't know why. I always felt like I was being "peeped" in the water. That feeling made me breathless. During the swimming process

In the middle, I felt that the soles of my feet were tightening, and my swimming became slower and slower.

Xiao Chengqian's flashlight has been shining on me, and he is silent at this moment. I think he has seen the so-called monster water monster, so he is as nervous as me, right?

This atmosphere was too depressing. Every time I paddled, I felt relieved because the distance was closer, but at the same time, my heart tightened again because I was afraid that a sound would suddenly sound from the water surface.

There was a huge sound of water breaking out, or I was dragged down by something under the water.

In this life, I have walked or swam countless 30-meter distances, but never once did I feel so nervous and frightened. The feeling was not much different from walking through a mountain of fire and a sea of ​​​​fire with fear.

Time passed long and arduously, minute by minute, and finally, the stone pillar was right in front of me. Xiao Chengqian's cheering voice came from behind me: "Chengyi, hurry up, we are about to succeed."

He screamed so suddenly that I was startled, and I almost sank because my hands and feet were uncoordinated. But can I blame Xiao Chengqian? Obviously not, he was also happy for me, and he was finally here.

I calmed down, took a deep breath, and then started sprinting the last distance. Finally, my hand touched the stone pillar, and the sense of security returned to me.

It's similar to climbing a tree when I was a kid. The difficulty is that it's in the water instead of on land, and I have a good place to hold on. So the first time I climbed up the stone pillar, it was very strenuous, but I still succeeded in climbing up the stone pillar.

Holding the stone pillar and stepping on a pit in the stone pillar, I realized that the distance of several dozen meters made me very tired. After catching my breath for a while, I started to climb up. Xiao Chengqian looked after me very responsibly.

every step of.

It’s just that the more scared I feel, the more something is wrong, because I always feel a little tired during the climb, but this feeling is so familiar.

This kind of tiredness, I don’t think I want to sleep. According to the understanding of practitioners, if this kind of inexplicable tiredness occurs, there are generally only three situations. The first is that ghosts want people to fall into hallucinations. The second is

The phantom array begins to work. The third possibility can almost be ruled out now, that is, the monster wants to confuse people.

No matter which one of these three situations occurs, it is worthy of vigilance. I have climbed less than five meters, so naturally I am also vigilant.

But what was that familiar feeling about? I suddenly thought of a possibility and shouted to Xiao Chengqian: "Old Xiao, use a flashlight to shine around me, especially those pits, be careful."

Xiao Chengqian also didn't ask why, he just said "oh", the light of the flashlight shone around me, I observed carefully, and suddenly found a pit in it, inlaid with something similar to bone, the color was too similar to the stone pillar

They are very similar, so you may not be able to spot them at first glance, or even if you pass by them unintentionally.

It turns out that’s really the case. I said to Xiao Chengqian: “Okay, Lao Xiao, do you still remember the coiling snake and gradually confusing formation in the illusion formation?”

"What's Lao Xiao? I'm still young." Xiao Chengqian was originally dissatisfied with me calling him Lao Xiao. Suddenly, when he heard me mention this, his voice suddenly became angry and he shouted: "Why don't I remember that when I was a child?

I have suffered from it a lot, my grandfather

A formation was set up on a special pillar, and then I was asked to go up the stone ladder next to the pillar. I was not allowed to break the formation, so I just went up like this. It was said to exercise my mood. I X! I don’t know how many times I fell.

What I hate most in my life is this formation!"

I smiled bitterly. The experience of Young Master Xiao is really similar to mine. It's just that I'm not as high-end as him. There are no special pillars. My master just found a big tree in the mountains and put up these pillars.

The snake gradually became confused, and then asked me to climb a tree, and I didn't know how many times I fell.

Of course the reason is the same as Grandpa Xiao Chengqian’s reason, to train your mind!

Because the coiling snake and gradually confusing formation is a unique formation of our Lao Li lineage (now we should count Xiao Chengqian and his lineage). It is said that it can almost perfectly imitate a formation of ghosts and monsters to confuse people's minds. In order to train us not to

Moved by confusion, always keep a clear mind in your heart. This snake-like maze must be climbed almost once a week. It is a "compulsory course". It is said that after ten years of climbing, the firmness of the mind will naturally improve.

a lot of.

It was also very effective back then. Otherwise, I would not have been able to be so calm and judge the existence of the roadblocking ghost in the Tomb of the Hungry Ghost.

However, this formation is also quite strange to break. Thinking of this, I said to Xiao Chengqian: "Old Xiao, I know why only our two veins can get close to get this purple plant. There is a coiled snake on this pillar."

maze."

"What did you say?" Xiao Chengqian was stunned for a moment, his voice full of surprise, and then he said in a 'sad' tone: "Brother, then you should be cruel to yourself."

I was speechless, I could only be cruel to myself. Thinking like this, I hugged Shizhu tightly with my left hand, moved my right hand to my mouth, and then bit my middle finger hard!

The Coiled Snake Array is an illusory array. At first glance, it is just an array that exercises the mind and does not cause any actual harm. But you think it is a low-level array that a more powerful person can break through at will, and it is very powerful.

Small, that would be wrong.

To use an analogy, you can think of a snake coiling in a maze, imagining it as a venomous snake that cannot move its body but can only move its head. When you pass by its body, you will naturally just feel the coldness of the snake's body.

But it won't cause real harm, but when it reaches the snake head, it will be fatal.

How deadly it is. Master didn't tell me in detail. He just told me that this formation is the formation that my master used to press the bottom of the box. What is the most powerful thing to protect? At least in this world, there must be someone more powerful than my master.

Only then can we break the formation! Well, the master set up the formation on the big tree, and the formation eye guarded a bird's nest. I once thought to myself, if the master knew about it, would he come back and beat him up immediately?

The formation was 'ruined' like this!

This is the real snake spiraling into a maze. After crawling for so many years, I feel that it feels familiar!

Knowing that it is it makes it easier to break the formation. Maybe for others, this Coiled Snake Formation is difficult to break, but for our descendants, this Coiled Snake Formation only requires us to break the formation in three places.

Adding an eye to the position and smearing the blood on our middle finger is enough.

The reason? Master once told me that the reason is unknown!

However, it is always very painful to bite your middle finger, so Master Xiao told me in such a "painful" way, be cruel to yourself.

Climbing all the way, breaking formations all the way, for me, this snake is getting lost in the formation, which is almost the same as nothing. This makes me feel a lot more relaxed. I still have the foundation for climbing trees when I was a child, and such a high stone pillar cannot stop me.

I, soon, I reached the top of the pillar
Chapter completed!