Words suddenly appeared on the originally flat stone brick.
Old Jiao squatted down and carefully observed the words on the stone brick. "The stone bricks have obvious signs of being carved. The words carved on them are the ten Heavenly Stems and the five elements of Yin and Yang. This... It should be a trap."
Jia Yan knew about the Ten Heavenly Stems of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements. There were detailed records in the book.
A is the wood of the beam, B is the wood of flowers and fruits, A and B are the wood of the east.
C is the fire of the sun, D is the fire of the candle, C is the fire of the south.
Wu is the soil of the city wall, Ji is the soil of the countryside, and Wu is the soil of the center.
Geng is the gold of axes and axes, Xin is the gold of jewelry, Geng Xin is the gold of the west.
Ren is the water of rivers, Gui is the water of rain and dew, and Ren is the water of the north.
Jia Yan said with some confusion. "Since it's a mechanism, why did you carve these things? With the ten heavenly stems and the five elements of Yin and Yang, it was equivalent to giving a certain hint to the people who entered this place. Wouldn't it be much easier to pass through this trap?”
Old Jiao also frowned. "It's indeed a little strange."
In the eyes of laymen, these things were definitely like heavenly books. However, in the eyes of professionals, this was equivalent to giving the examinees a book during the exam. The answers were all recorded on it. As long as one knew what the questions meant, no one would care if they copied them.
"Is it not as simple as it seems? Old Yan, you're proficient in array formations. Do you think this is a special array formation?”Old Jiao frowned and suggested another possibility.
Jia Yan also squatted down to take a closer look at the brick. Then, he shook his head. "This shouldn't be a formation. The layout of a formation requires something to enter the formation, and it requires a formation eye. These bricks were all neatly arranged. This arrangement was unable to form any kind of array.”
Old Jiao reached out and carefully touched the stone bricks. He found that there was a certain gap between the stone bricks.
Then, Old Jiao leaned his head against the brick carved with the five elements of Yin and Yang and listened carefully.
"It's a trap! The sound of gears turning could be heard underground, although it was very faint.”Old Jiao stood up and said affirmatively.
"I say, Old Jiao, are you sure you didn't hear wrongly? If it was a mechanism, the sound of gears turning should only be heard when it was triggered. None of us touched him. If he started spinning, wouldn't the mechanism be triggered?”The thin man asked curiously.
However, what the thin man said was indeed reasonable. If the mechanism was operating, didn't that mean that it had already been activated?
"I didn't expect the thin man's brain to be so fast.”Old Jiao smiled and took out the compass.
"We didn't trigger anything, and it's obvious that no one has walked through this tunnel. Therefore, the mechanism had been operating like this since the day the underground palace was built.”Old Jiao looked at the direction of the compass and turned to ask the thin man. "What time is it now?"
"What time?" The thin man was stunned by the question and looked down at his watch. "It's past eleven now."
It had been nearly four hours since the three of them entered the ear chamber of the underground palace, observed, and then broke the maze.
They must have forgotten the time when they were dealing with the black cloud fiend and resting.
"After eleven o'clock, that's Zi Shi. Zi Shi belongs to the five elements of water! The water in the north of Rengui should go through here.”Old Jiao pointed at a stone brick on the ground that was engraved with the Ten Heavenly Stems and the Five Elements of Yin and Yang.
"The underground mechanism should be moving according to the time. Every hour should represent a step forward.”Old Jiao paused and looked at the second row of bricks. "Every step after that should be based on the five elements.”
This was because in the second row behind the stone brick, only the stone brick of 'B is the wood of flowers and fruits' could correspond to this first step.
The third step, the brick, was the same. Only the third was the fire of the sun and the second was the wood of flowers and fruits.
However, these were all bricks that were born from each other. It was the same for the fourth piece.
However, the fifth piece of old coke was a little unclear. The light from the flashlight was limited, so he could not see it clearly.
"Old rules! It's still me, Skinny, who will take the lead!" As he spoke, the thin man was about to walk up the stone brick.
But he was pulled back by Jia Yan.
"Skinny man, you have injuries on your body. The injuries on your legs don't have to be elsewhere. If you trigger the mechanism, I'm afraid it will be dangerous.”Jia Yan pulled the thin man behind him.
Among the three of them, he was the only one who was not injured. At this time, he let the thin man take the lead.
If the mechanism was really activated, it would be a problem whether the thin man could dodge it.
"Old Yan, don't worry. I'm fine!" The thin man said as he stepped forward.
The thin man felt that one was because the four of them had become sworn brothers that day. The other was that the thin man felt that Old Jiao and Jia Yan were not as physically strong as him. If he let them walk in this place, he would not feel as safe as him.
"I also understand that the five elements, eight trigrams, heavenly stems, and earthly branches. If it's just the Dao of mutual growth, I won't be in danger if I take the lead.”Jia Yan said. At the same time, he pushed the thin man and Old Jiao back a few steps.
"You guys watch out. If you really trigger the mechanism and I can't dodge it, think of a way to save me.”As Jia Yan spoke, he held the shovel and walked up the stone bricks.
The thin man and Old Jiao both wanted to go up and pull Jia Yan back, but Jia Yan's feet had already stepped on the stone bricks.
Jia Yan could clearly feel that the stone bricks under his feet had sunk a little, but the sinking was very shallow.
Looking around, nothing special happened. It seemed that the mechanism had not been triggered.
Jia Yan gritted his teeth and took another step forward. After stepping on the second brick, Jia Yan also lifted his foot from the first brick.
The sound of the gears turning was now clearly heard by Jia Yan. However, there were no other changes in the surroundings.
"Old Jiao! You're right. This does seem to be the principle of the five elements complementing each other.”Following that, Jia Yan walked forward step by step. However, after taking the ninth step, Jia Yan stopped.
Behind them, Old Jiao and the thin man were preparing to walk into the mechanism tunnel.
"Old Jiao, skinny man! Don't come up, the road ahead has changed!”Now, among the stone bricks in front of Jia Yan, none of them had the same five elements as the stone brick under his feet.
"Old Yan, what's up ahead?" Old Jiao shouted from behind.
"None of the bricks in front of me are related to the five elements under my feet!”Jia Yan replied.
"What's that under your feet?" Old Jiao hurriedly asked.
"I'm standing on Wuji Central Earth, but the row in front of me has changed!”Jia Yan shouted again as he looked at the stone brick.
"On the stone bricks in front, each brick is engraved with two Heavenly Stems. "There are Bing Xin, Ding Ren, Yi Geng, Jia Ji, and Wu Gui." Jia Yan told Old Jiao the words carved on the stone bricks in front of him.
Just like this Bing Xin.
C was the fire of the sun, and Xin was the gold of the jewelry. These two Heavenly Stems were actually carved on a stone brick. It was really hard for Jia Yan to understand.
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