Slowly walking out of the 'stone path' surrounded by gray-white mist, Gao Yuan subconsciously looked around himself and quickly looked around.
I saw that the gray-white mist that had densely gathered around him before expanded to both sides and did not dissipate on its own. Instead, it gradually gathered together again further away.
Finally, as if being guided, these gray-white mist surrounded a giant cylindrical space with a radius of more than a hundred feet and a height of more than twenty feet.
The center of this square cylindrical space is the huge stone monument opposite which is in an irregular square shape.
After looking around for a week, Gao Yuan's gaze subconsciously focused in the direction of this stone tablet.
I saw that this stone tablet showed a uniform blue-gray texture from top to bottom.
It is very large in size, with the height of the stele body alone exceeding ten feet.
So much so that its square top position almost touches the illusory dome above, with countless gray-white mist intertwining on its own.
Under the monument, there is a square base about ten feet high.
Viewed from a high angle, one can clearly see that the surface of this stone tablet is very flat, with no trace of writing on it.
There are only mottled traces eroded by time, scattered all over the stone tablet.
Vaguely, bursts of soft and delicate white light could be seen, spreading silently towards the surroundings from the surface of the stone tablet.
Under the illumination of the latter, it not only brings light to the surrounding space, but also adds a hazy beauty to the stone tablet whose surface is covered with time marks.
Gao Yuan stood at the boundary area of this cylindrical space, looking intently at the huge 'wordless stone tablet' opposite.
In his perception, he only felt that the latter's clumsy and abnormal shape contained an indescribable and peculiar charm.
Under the influence of this peculiar perception, his own attention will unconsciously focus in the direction of this stone tablet.
Somehow, he had a mysterious feeling that he wanted to immerse himself in.
"Is this the 'wordless stone tablet' that has been passed down for countless years and has been passed down to this day since ancient times?"
"It does look a bit unusual!"
Standing firmly on the spot, Gao Yuan suppressed the urge to step towards the stone monument that was not rising in his heart, and muttered a few words to himself with some emotion.
His eyes immediately moved down and landed on the bottom of this space, on the blue-white ground as smooth as jade.
I saw that the latter had three thin ring-shaped lines of different colors centered on the stone tablet opposite, which were clearly and unusually clear.
The thin line in the outermost circle, less than two feet away from the surrounding gray-white fog barrier, had a faint blue light shining on its surface.
And pushing about twenty feet inward from there, there is a thin line with a yellow halo.
Starting from this circle of yellow thin lines as the entry point, and pushing about twenty feet further inward, there is a circle of red thin lines with bright blood flowing on the surface.
Looking at these three thin lines with distinct colors, part of the information he had just read from the jade slip suddenly flashed through Gao Yuan's heart -
First of all, as long as you cross the outermost thin blue line, you will passively enter a 'listening state'.
During this period, anyone who enters the range of the thin blue line will have a certain chance of hearing the mysterious and abnormal sound of the avenue.
Moreover, as the distance between the listener and the 'wordless stone tablet' gets closer and closer, the probability of hearing the sound of the avenue will increase, and the content heard will become clearer.
As for the subsequent thin yellow lines and red thin lines, they have minimum requirements for the listener's ability.
Among them, if the listener wants to cross the yellow thin line, he must have at least the soul strength of the Hunyuan realm.
And if you want to cross the innermost red line, you must at least have the strength of the Soul Realm.
Secondly, no matter what status you have in the outside world or what kind of cultivation you have, the time you spend in the 'listening state' around the 'Wordless Stone Tablet' every day cannot exceed the time of one stick of incense at most.
Once this limit is exceeded, not only will it be impossible to listen to the sound of the great avenue to improve one's cultivation level, but there will also be a danger of going crazy.
After quickly going through the various precautions regarding the 'Wordless Stone Tablet' in my mind.
Gao Yuan no longer hesitated and stepped forward, crossing the thin blue line on the ground.
"..."
After paying attention for a moment, Gao Yuan finally confirmed that he didn't feel anything strange at all.
He immediately set off again, slowly moving towards the opposite stone monument with a pause every step of the way.
However, until he got close to the thin yellow line on the ground, he didn't hear any unusual movement.
"Sure enough, just as described in the jade slip, the probability of being able to hear the sound of the avenue before entering the yellow thin line is extremely low."
"There are only five people in the entire history of Qingliang City who can hear the sound of the avenue beyond the thin yellow line!"
Gao Yuan muttered to himself indifferently, and stepped forward again, directly crossing the thin yellow line on the ground.
"..."
After a brief silence, Gao Yuan was sure that there was nothing unusual around him, so he had no choice but to take another step.
During the entire process, he was staring at the giant stone monument in the distance, while also distractedly paying attention to the thin red line in the distance that was approaching.
As he moved forward slowly, pausing step by step, he finally came to the thin red line.
However, until the latter erupted like a tide and turned into a blood-red barrier blocking him in front of him, Gao Yuan still did not feel any sign of the sound of the great avenue.
He wandered around the nearby area with some disbelief and wandered around for a while.
During this period, because he was too close to the thin red line on the ground, he triggered the same blood-red barrier more than ten times in succession.
However, no matter how hard he tried, the so-called sound of the great road still had no tendency to reach his ears.
"As expected, it still doesn't work?"
After trying for several more minutes, but still to no avail, Gao Yuan finally accepted this fact helplessly.
"But it's understandable. After all, according to what Hua Wuqi said, he had been trying for nearly forty years before he finally heard the sound of the great avenue from the 'wordless stone tablet'."
"If this is the first time I come in and hear it directly, that would be too disrespectful!"
Gao Yuan silently explained to himself in his heart, Gao Yuan briefly estimated the time when he entered the 'listening state'.
Guessing that the listening limit of one stick of incense per day was not far away, he stopped delaying and returned along the original path to the intersection of the stone road where he had come from in the first place.
Then, based on the information he had obtained from the jade slip, he walked all the way in the gray-white mist according to a fixed pattern.
Ten minutes later, he finally found an area that was much smaller than the space where the 'Wordless Monument' was located just now.
Walking out of the mist channel formed by the stone road, he casually looked around the area again.
I saw that this area was still a cylindrical space surrounded and separated by the gray-white mist.
Wherever you look, there is not a single figure except Gao Yuan himself.
There are only a series of simple and unusual houses scattered in this area.
The latter seems to be made of bamboo and wood mixed with earth and stone, and it exudes an ancient charm in its simplicity.
Gao Yuan glanced around randomly and selected one of the houses near the outer area.
He had no intention of entering the house, but chose a location that was pleasing to the eye outside the door of the house.
Then his consciousness moved slightly, and from the storage bag on his body, he took out more than ten pieces of furniture that he usually used, including sitting tables.
After simply arranging it according to his own habits, Gao Yuan swayed and sat cross-legged on the brocade seat.
Feeling the unusually rich 'spiritual energy' around him, a look of satisfaction appeared on Gao Yuan's face, and then he closed his eyes and went straight into a state of self-study.
…………
Time flies.
Twenty days passed in the blink of an eye.
During this period, Gao Yuan maintained a front-line status for two days in this 'Lingyun Cave'.
At a fixed time every day, he would get up from his meditation place and go near the 'Wordless Stone Tablet', trying to listen to the sound of the great avenue.
As he failed to listen again and again, he saw that the time limit for his retreat in the 'Lingyun Cave' this year was approaching day by day.
After the initial anxiety, Gao Yuan gradually accepted this fact:
"The Lord's Mansion of Qingliang City, after countless years, the listening probability has been summed up. After all, it is not a random guess."
After having this understanding, Gao Yuan's mentality gradually calmed down.
He suppressed the anxiety in his heart, and in the last few days of this retreat, he still went on time to try to listen to the sound of the avenue at a fixed time.
In the blink of an eye, the January period has quietly arrived.
Just after Gao Yuan entered the vicinity of the 'wordless stone tablet' with an invincible mentality.
Before he could step into the thin yellow line, an illusory sound that sounded like gibbering or Sanskrit singing suddenly appeared in his mind.