Star Trace Gate

Chapter 686: People are lurking, the house is robbed

Gutanzong blessed land.

Ren Ye and the other three were lurking near the teleportation array, not daring to walk around or act rashly. Although everyone here had gone out to participate in the daytime treasure hunt, no one was sure whether there were other supernatural powers or mysteries that could be notified to the people outside.

"Hey, little King Huai...can you borrow the eyes of the divine child to observe your surroundings?" Master Chu Dao asked softly.

"No."

Ren Ye hid under an ancient tree and shook his head slightly, saying, "It is a ghost creature, not a puppet. My spiritual consciousness cannot possess it and inspect it."

"Don't be anxious. This Gutan Sect's blessed land is too big. It's not easy to find the temple. Just be patient and wait." Although Lu Ji was in a dangerous place, his expression was as calm as if he was back home. He sat lazily under a tree with a piece of weed in his mouth, and was fiddling with a small windmill that a child was playing with.

At first glance, this guy looks very young, innocent, and pure as a blank sheet of paper. But if you get to know him a little, you will find that he is also a salesperson, and he will sell you a set of Feng Shui packages that have no scientific basis without anyone noticing.

……

Near the rear hall.

The divine child was wearing a red bellyband, with his butt naked, and was running barefoot among the temples, and from time to time he would observe the surrounding scenery.

Just as Lü Ji said, this Gutanzong blessed land was too big. There were 72 statues of Taoist gods alone, many of whose names had never been heard of. There were also numerous places for alchemy, practicing, storing books, and enlightenment. It was easy for people to get lost around the various temples.

However, the God Baby kept Ren Ye's instructions in mind, and only looked for places like the center of the middle hall and the center of the back hall. Because often the sect temples and other places are responsible for offering sacrifices and praying, and holding major ceremonies. They either exist as sect landmarks or are in remote places, and usually not many people go there.

Sure enough, after searching for about an hour, it saw a winding road leading to the back mountain outside the back hall.

On the mountain road, there is a nine-story tower. It is gray and white in color, engraved with various murals and complicated array patterns. The top of the tower is gold, and the eaves are carved with dragons. It looks majestic.

When the divine child saw this scene, he was immediately delighted. He trotted along the winding mountain road and soon arrived in front of the basil.

It raised its tender chin, looked up and saw four large characters hanging on the main entrance of the tower, and read them softly: "What a large character - Ancient Pond Goddess!"

If Ren was here, he would definitely slap him in the face and correct him, "That's a damn thing! You should ask your mother Xu to improve your cultural studies in the future..."

The divine child looked at the temple with clear eyes and rosy face, and walked over very cautiously with his thick little legs.

One step, ten steps...

It slowly approached and soon arrived at the center of the square in front of the temple.

"Ong!"

At this moment, a strange aura suddenly spread from the temple gate, so fast that no one had a chance to react.

"brush!"

Above the temple gate and under the eaves, a black light suddenly flashed and instantly enveloped the entire body of the divine child.

In that black light, it suddenly felt an extremely powerful breath, as if it was awakening and slowly imprisoning its soul.

The divine child was like a ghost seeing the blazing sun. Its body immediately trembled under the illumination of the black light, and the light of its ghost dimmed, as if its soul was about to fly away. However, it had already remembered the task that Ren Ye had given it. It only bit its lips, stared with its clear big eyes, and looked up in the endless black light...

His gaze extended to the gate of the temple. Finally, the God Child saw in the black light, there was an old man with a shaved head, wearing a black robe, and a skinny body. At this moment, he was sitting upside down under the eaves above the gate of the temple.

His shiny bald head was facing the ground and he was sitting cross-legged on the eaves like an upside-down bat, looking very strange.

That aura was too strong, like the power of heaven, and it was not something that a third-grade supernatural power person could contend with. The divine child trembled in the black light, and murmured in confusion: "He... why is he sitting upside down?!"

……

Front hall, next to the teleportation array.

Ren was lost in thought when he suddenly heard Tiandao's reminder.

[Congratulations, your ghost brother has successfully found the temple of Gutan Sect in the back mountain of Gutan. However, its arrival has awakened the "Hanging Old Man". Everything that happens in the temple area cannot escape the perception of the Hanging Old Man...]

[You seem to need to find a warrant to enter the temple, or think of a way, hehe... to defeat or kill the old man.]

[Warm Tips: After the Upside-Down Old Man fully awakens, his powerful aura will flow back into the entire Ancient Pond Sect Secret Realm.]

"Fuck...!"

Ren Ye's eyes suddenly widened, and he said worriedly: "The ghost boy found the temple, but there are gatekeepers there...it may be discovered."

"But... there is no one here, you don't have to worry." Shenwa was not Lu Ji's younger brother, so he did not hear Tiandao's reminder.

"No!"

Ren Ye waved his hand in response: "If the upside-down old man guarding the gate wakes up, his aura will shake the entire Gutan Sect secret realm. This is a very obvious hint, Cao Yufei will definitely notice it. You two should be prepared to fight to the death, and we will quickly go to pick up the divine baby..."

When Master Chu heard this, he immediately cursed: "After meeting you, why do you have to fight for your life every day?! Have you ever considered the feelings of life?"

"Stop talking nonsense, go to the back mountain, and don't run around!"

After Ren Ye urged, he quickly rushed to the back mountain in invisible state.

……

In front of the temple.

Although the divine child only had the intelligence of a four or five-year-old child, it was very cute and obedient. It knew that Ren Ye had asked it to come here to explore the way, just like playing hide-and-seek, and it couldn't cause too much noise, so even though it was very frightened and its ghost body was being imprisoned, it still endured the severe pain of its soul being torn apart and forcibly withdrew.

"call……!"

When it rushed out of the temple area, the black light and strange aura fluctuations instantly dissipated, as if nothing had happened.

The little god child's face was filled with fear. He looked back with lingering fear, but found that from here, the slope of the eaves just blocked his view, and he could no longer see the figure of the upside-down old man.

"Whoosh!"

It didn't dare to stay any longer, and just ran down the mountain quickly, and soon saw Ren Ye and others.

"Hey baby, are you okay?!"

Ren asked with a worried look on his face.

The God Child shook his head, his face pale as he said, "I...I saw an old man sitting upside down under the eaves of the temple gate. His aura was very powerful, comparable to that of the Heavenly Dao."

"Let's go first!"

Ren Ye immediately put the divine baby into his consciousness space, and turned away with Chu Daoye and Lu Ji.

……

A quarter of an hour later.

The divine child condensed the memory just now into a wisp of thought, and sent it into the minds of the three people respectively, so that Ren Ye and the others could watch it in person.

After a while, the three of them sat under the ancient tree and slowly opened their eyes with solemn expressions.

"Alas, after working on this for so long, we finally encountered the most difficult mechanism of this star gate...!" Lu Ji analyzed slowly: "The upside-down old man under the eaves was in a state of slowly waking up after meeting the God Child. This means that 'he' gave the supernatural power user time to react and evacuate. The God Child said that his aura is comparable to the way of heaven, which further proves that this person is invincible. This level must be passed with brains, and brute force will definitely not work. To put it bluntly, this is a rule-based killing. If you don't find the right way, you will never be able to enter the temple."

"However, the path chosen by Junior Brother Renhuang is correct, and we have also found a way for the attacking supernatural power to win."

"...!"

Master Chu blinked his eyes and nodded in agreement: "Yes, there are three rules of heaven that can be used for judgment. First, the teleportation array cannot identify the enemy and our own magical powers, which gives the attackers a chance to sneak in; second, the rules of the pass for the defending camp are different from those for the attackers, and can be temporarily lent to others, which means that the attackers can rob within a certain period of time; third, the old man hanging upside down above the temple gate has a slowly recovering aura... This will not expose the identity of the magical power who broke in for the first time. Three rules, three ways out... It should be correct. The way out for the attackers to break out is to find a way to sneak into the Gutan Sect blessed land. However, the specific method should still be related to the errand of Gutan Village, and we haven't found it yet. We just relied on the accident of the ancestral land to force our way in."

"But we are also like an old man who got lost late at night and met a widow in a corn field, and then accidentally got on the right path."

Ren was also confused for a moment: "Where the hell did you get those allegorical sayings from?"

"Twenty-two days in the ancestral land is twenty-two years outside. I am now afraid of my own eloquence."

"...!"

Ren ignored him and only frowned in thought, "The next correct path is to find a way to enter the temple. Heaven has given two hints... First, defeat or kill the hanging old man head-on, and second, find the warrant to enter the temple. Tell me, both of you, what are you going to choose?"

"I think both methods are difficult. The warrant to enter the temple is most likely held by an important master of supernatural powers on the attacking side, and it may even be a super-quality one. If you steal it rashly, the risk of being exposed is too great. What's more, you don't know what the warrant looks like or where it is hidden. Second, Shenwa has repeatedly emphasized that the upside-down old man is terribly strong, which means that he is definitely not a player participating in the battle for the secret realm here, but a unique residual soul guarding the gate of the defending camp, the kind that cannot be defeated." Lu Ji expressed his opinion.

Master Chu blinked his eyes and said, "It is impossible for the Heaven to set up an invincible existence for the attacker. The upside-down old man must have a weakness. I prefer to find a way to kill the upside-down old man and use it to enter the temple."

"Why do you choose this?" Ren Ye asked with a frown.

"What this little Dragon Vein Heavenly Master said is absolutely correct. The difficulty of the two methods is almost the same. And I hate... all the old men in the world, so I will naturally choose the second one." Master Chu replied very truthfully.

Ren Ye rubbed his chin and fell into deep thought. "Damn it, I had too many opportunities before, so I was so busy that I couldn't even put on my pants. My grasp of the details and clues of the secret realm became weaker, so that a lot of information is unclear. If I want to defeat the upside-down old man, I must first find out who he is... This is difficult. Maybe I have to secretly capture a player from the defending camp and ask him, but the chance of being exposed is really high. I can't kill him, and I can't let him have any memories...!"

After this, Lu Ji and Chu Daoye also started to think seriously about it.

Although this was the first time the three of them worked together, they had a great understanding of each other, and each of them was smart and had strong logic, making them the best teammates for cheating and doing shameless things.

The three of them sat cross-legged under the ancient tree, all thinking about how to break the impasse.

……

Time passed by minute by minute.

Soon, today's daytime treasure hunt ended. There was still no fierce conflict between the two sides. They just returned to the base camp with their gains.

In the bunker.

Zhang Linghuo was counting the people next to the teleportation array, while Wang Changfeng, Xu Qingzhao, Tang Feng and others walked into the stone chamber.

"I guess they should stay in the Gutan Sect's blessed land today to look for the location of the temple." Wang Changfeng held a whisk in his hand and whispered to comfort them as he walked, "Don't worry..."