Immortal Creation.

Chapter 696 The Luo Shu?!
Sun Lingtong said excitedly, "The mountain shook, stirring up ripples in the lake, revealing a glimpse of the true nature of the corridor's magic array."

"Haha, we're lucky! Niu Cheng indirectly did us a huge favor!"

Ning Zhuo maintained constant contact with Sun Lingtong through the life-or-death connection, as if he were personally present at the scene.

He also noticed something amiss and excitedly said, "I've discovered it too. The magic array inside the corridor is actually closely related to the outside world."

“My mother didn’t make this place so open and airy just for the sake of beautiful scenery.”

"The magic array here needs to use the sunlight from the outside world to change in real time. No wonder we found it obscure and difficult to understand when we studied it before. It didn't fit any array pattern and was very strange."

Some magic arrays have fixed variations, while others have more complex variations.

Previously, during their discussions, Shen Xi consistently emphasized the Nine Palaces Formation's status among the ten major formations. One major reason for this was that the Nine Palaces Formation's core possesses immense computational and deductive capabilities.

This makes the Nine Palaces Formation far more versatile than the other nine formations.

The magic array in the corridor of Shuyuzhai does not have the calculation ability of the Nine Palaces Array. Instead, it cleverly borrows from the outside world and uses the variables of the outside world as its own variables. This is a clever trick.

Ning Zhuo sighed, "If it weren't for the commotion caused by Niu Cheng, which created huge waves in this Jade Lake, we wouldn't have noticed this strange phenomenon."

Jade Lake is usually as smooth as a mirror, with no ripples on its surface.

Sun Lingtong looked up at the sky and stared for a long time: "No, it's not the light of the sky, but a change in the cloud formations."

Ning Zhuo was slightly taken aback. He observed carefully but still couldn't find this floor. It wasn't until Sun Lingtong had passed halfway through the corridor that he realized Sun Lingtong was right.

The difference between the two in terms of array formations was revealed at this moment.

After figuring out the details of the formation, Sun Lingtong passed through here quite easily.

He pushed open the door in front of him and entered a courtyard.

Inside the courtyard paved with green jade, there is an artificial hill.

A rockery embraces a flowing spring. In the spring water, red-scaled goldfish swirl and dance like rainbows.

There is a pavilion on the artificial hill.

The pavilion is furnished with tables and desks, and the furnishings are simple and elegant.

There is a plaque on the pavilion with three characters: Fish Dance Pavilion.

Sun Lingtong tentatively walked up the artificial hill.

As he stepped into the pavilion, the wind chimes on the pavilion suddenly started to chime on their own, even though there was no wind.

Then, twelve paper figures floated down from the ceiling inside the pavilion.

The paper figures shone brightly in mid-air, and after landing on the ground, they transformed into eight dancers and four tea masters, all of whom looked just like living people.

The tea master brews tea with a stove, while eight dancers dance with fluttering sleeves.

In an instant, the spring water gurgled, the wind chimes tinkled, and gentle singing drifted through the pavilion, making people feel relaxed and happy.

Sun Lingtong strolled around the pavilion, and after confirming it was safe, she sat down casually, took a sip of tea, and chuckled.

He telepathically told Ning Zhuo, "It seems this is where your aunt receives guests."

As Sun Lingtong left the pavilion, another series of clear bell sounds rang out.

The paper figures were restored one by one, and carried by the steam of the tea, they floated up to the top of the pavilion and blended into the murals.

Sun Lingtong arrived at the artificial hill and glanced at the living spring: "These red-skirted goldfish are quite nice. They are all Foundation Establishment level demon beasts. They look really beautiful."

Ning Zhuo glanced at them a few times and said, "They're just ornamental items, boss. It's not worth lingering here."

Sun Lingtong hummed in agreement and returned the way she came.

This time, he easily returned to the core of the array by passing through the corridor.

Taking steps in this central region is much more difficult and arduous.

But overall, it didn't stump Sun Lingtong, allowing him to open another door.

There was still a corridor outside the door, but Sun Ning and his companion could tell at a glance that it was a new corridor, different from the previous one.

After passing through the corridor, Sun Lingtong entered a workshop.

The room was filled with the strong smell of bamboo pulp.

The room was simply furnished, with a long table and chairs in the center. The lower part of the four walls had rows of low cabinets with many drawers, all of which were closed.

Above the low cabinet, twelve shadow puppets appeared on the previously blank wall surface. Upon closer inspection, Sun Lingtong recognized them as the twelve zodiac animals.

He stood at the doorway, not rushing in, but instead constantly activating his spiritual eyes to carefully probe.

Beneath the discerning gaze, the shadow puppet shifted from solid to ethereal, revealing its true form. The dog's ear tips, worn and tattered, revealed golden veins; the tiger's claws were broken; and the dragon's form, with its base of flowing silkworm silk and bamboo frame supporting its soaring momentum…

This is the guard here.

If Sun Lingtong were to enter rashly, she might activate the twelve zodiac shadow puppets and be besieged.

"The key to solving this problem lies on the long table." Sun Lingtong finally fixed her gaze on an inkstone on the table.

He used his thieving skills and tried several times before finally succeeding in stealing the seal.

He activated the seal platform to eliminate the hidden traps and murderous intent, which allowed him to move freely here.

Sun Lingtong opened each drawer on the low cabinet and found that they were all categorized and contained precious materials for making paper puppets.

Sun Lingtong arrived at the table and chairs in the center and, after inspecting them, discovered that they were all tools for making paper puppets. There were cold jade paper cutters, yin-yang dotting pens, etc., which were not of high grade but were all magical artifacts.

“This must be the place where my mother made paper puppets before she died,” Ning Zhuoxin thought.

A scene flashed before his eyes: Meng Yaoyin sat in a chair, bent over her desk, disassembling paper and making paper puppets. When she needed a certain precious material, she would flick her finger, remotely opening a drawer, causing the material to fly out automatically and land on the table.

Sun Lingtong glanced at the twelve zodiac animal shadow puppets and left the paper puppet workshop.

He returned to the central point of the array and then pushed open another door.

Once again, we passed through the corridor and arrived at another room.

Sun Ning and his companion were instantly invigorated!
Clearly, the treasures here are neatly arranged, making it a storage room.

On the shelf on the north wall, Cloud Tear Crystals were displayed in jade bowls, with rising mist within, resembling a miniature sea of ​​clouds. Next to them, a stack of Mirage Shells stood, their opening and closing revealing a dazzling array of seven colors…

Many jade hooks on the west wall hang with waterthorn wood, its grain appearing and disappearing in the light. A crystal urn also hangs there, with mysterious grains of sand flowing freely within…

On the stone platform to the east, a vessel containing glue glows with rosy light within a jade box. A bowl brimming with golden essence shimmers with a golden radiance…

In the southwest corner stood a jade pillar about one and a half people tall. Inside the pillar was sealed a section of jade marrow from a sunken lake, three feet long.

Most of these precious materials are at the Foundation Establishment level, with only a few reaching the Golden Core level; there are no materials at the Nascent Soul level.

After examining the items, Sun Ning and his companion's joy faded.

Both of them had seen the world, and compared to Tian Shuang's entire fortune and the treasures in the Wangchuan Immortal Mansion, what Shuyu Zhai had was nothing.

A moment later, Sun Lingtong entered the fourth room.

The light here is dreamlike and magical.

A thousand-year-old mirage pearl is embedded in the dome, filtering the light into a soft veil.

The bed was a huge, open seashell. Inside the shell, besides the bedding, were three hundred and sixty dream beads scattered along the edges.

The combination of the Mirage Pearl and the Dream Pearl, along with the magic array here, allows people to design dreams and have the dreams they want.

Ning Zhuo sighed, "My mother worked very hard in the Myriad Manifestations Sect. With this arrangement, she didn't even let her sleep time go to waste, continuing her arduous cultivation in her dreams." Sun Lingtong said, "This kind of method has a drawback, which is that it can lead to exhaustion of the soul. However, we are all human souls, and apart from being a bit feminine, this place is actually very suitable for our cultivation."

Sun Lingtong searched around and found a jade box under the pillow.

Upon opening the jade box, only two items were found.

One document is a divine contract, proving the ownership of Meng Yaoyin's former property, a talisman-making workshop.

The other item was a talisman made of jade, engraved with dragon patterns, as white as snow, its purpose unknown.

Sun Lingtong left the living room, returned to the array hub, and then entered the fifth door.

Soon, he pushed open the door and came to a courtyard.

The dome is high and wide, like a light shield, outside which is the turquoise lake.

The lake water was so clear that it shattered the sunlight into millions of shimmering silver foils, which fell silently.

Fine spots of light danced in the courtyard, the water shimmered, and countless droplets fell.

In the center of the courtyard is a pond, or more accurately, a puddle.

The pit was full of pits and hollows, filled with various jade rough stones. These rough stones varied in shape and color—there was grayish-green jade, muddy yellow Xiuyan jade, white marble, and blood-red jade…

Water droplets fall onto the jade, creating strange and wonderful changes.

The rough, gravelly surface of the jade material becomes smooth and delicate at a speed visible to the naked eye as water droplets slide down its path.

The dull, earthy yellow Xiuyan jade seemed to have shed its dusty exterior. Soaked in water droplets, its color changed from turbid to clear, from dark to bright.

Some jade stones even have cracks on their surface. When water droplets fill in the cracks, the edges of the cracks become blurred and shrink, gradually forming a soft and smooth natural texture like a leaf vein.

Each cave has its own unique features.

Shuyuzhai's specialty is rinsing jade.

Sun Lingtong looked around and realized, "This is Shuyuting."

Here, the water of Jade Lake is refined and purified, turning into water droplets to cleanse the jade.

The flaws in the jade were washed away, the defects were repaired, and the jade's natural qualities were awakened and nourished by the water droplets, making it lustrous and translucent. Pieces of grayish-white, lifeless jade eventually shone with a warm, lustrous sheen.

Because no one has been around for a long time, there are already a large number of jade stones in the jade pit that have been washed.

Sun Lingtong bent down and picked it up directly.

It contained a piece of white jade, smooth and flawless, like cream or grease, with an inner radiance that warmed to the touch. A pure spiritual energy flowed slowly within it. This was the core of a rare and precious talisman or array plate.

There is also the Frost Marrow Ice Soul, its entire body as clear as ten-thousand-year-old black ice, its cold aura contained within. Approaching it brings a sense of clarity to the mind, making it a top-grade material for refining ice-type magic treasures and mind-purifying artifacts. At its core is a point of deep blue marrow light, which, when Sun Lingtong sees, is as if she is seeing a clear blue evening sky.

There is also the Golden Scale Fire Jade, which has a warm, golden-yellow texture, but inside there are fine, flowing fire patterns like golden scales, containing pure fire properties. It is an excellent material for setting up a fire-elemental array and refining supreme yang magic treasures, possessing both the hardness of metal and stone and the heat of molten flames.

This time the harvest was huge.

The latter three types of jade are all precious materials at the Nascent Soul level, and their quality is excellent, so they will definitely fetch a high price on the market.

"Xiao Zhuo, next time you come, be sure to bring a lot of inferior jade to fill this pit!"

Sun Lingtong reluctantly left Shuyuting and, after some twists and turns, entered the last room.

Upon seeing the three words on the door, Sun Ning and his companion became excited.

"A fortune-telling room?"

"Is this where my mother used to perform divination? If that's the case, then it's very likely that she had divination tools there?"

Ning Zhuo's eyes lit up.

Sun Lingtong had even more to say: "Perhaps there are some divination texts, who knows?"

When Sun Lingtong opened the door, she found only ruins.

The mica stone walls on all four sides had long since turned to dust, leaving only the light shield formed by the array to isolate the Jade Lake water.

Most of the remains are still above and below the head.

In the middle, a deep blue vortex floats.

The whirlpool was huge, taking up almost half the space of the room, and its rotation speed varied.

"What's going on here?"

"Has it been attacked?"

"That's unlikely. If an enemy had invaded, why wasn't the rest of the cave damaged?"

"Perhaps the enemy triggered the defenses here and perished here."

"That is indeed possible. If so, the enemy must be a lone wolf."

Sun Lingtong wandered around and found the place in ruins, as if it had suffered some kind of calamity. Only the mysterious whirlpool remained; the rest of the place was worthless.

Sun Lingtong approached the whirlpool, her expression suddenly changing slightly: "Wait, there seems to be something in the whirlpool?"

He immediately activated his spiritual eyes and discovered that in the whirlpool were the bronze star orbits of a twisted and broken armillary sphere, the broken counting rods made from the shell of a black tortoise, and the shattered frame of a sandalwood abacus...

Sun Lingtong's eyes shone with a spiritual light, pushing her talent to its limit.

His gaze traveled deep into the heart of the whirlpool, where an ancient and mysterious light shone.

In the radiance, something appeared and disappeared.

"It looks like a single page," Sun Lingtong said with a surprised expression.

But the next moment, he saw it more clearly, and his whole body trembled involuntarily.

"Oh my God!"

"This...this is a page of the Luo Shu!!!"

Magical implements, magical treasures, spiritual treasures, Taoist treasures... The Luoshu is a historically renowned Taoist treasure.

According to historical records, the Luoshu is neither gold nor jade, neither silk nor stone, but is formed by the interweaving of the fundamental mathematical principles of the universe.

When Sun Lingtong used his spiritual eye to perceive this Dao treasure, he triggered it.

On the pages of the Luoshu book, black and white dots appear one after another, constantly moving across the paper, sometimes fixed, sometimes scattered, all mixed together.

During this process, Sun Lingtong's thoughts were rapidly depleted, her spirit plummeted, and her soul weakened.

But he gained a very deep understanding of the whirlpool in front of him.

"Boss!" Ning Zhuo, sensing the danger, quickly activated his magic to provide remote support through the life-or-death situation.

Startled awake, Sun Lingtong quickly closed his eyes, deliberately severing his connection with the Luo Shu pages.

Blood started flowing silently from the nose.

Ignoring all this, Sun Lingtong exclaimed excitedly, "This really is a page from the Luo Shu! This is a Dao treasure!"

“I’ve used the Luo Shu to calculate it and I understand that this whirlpool is actually a magic array, Xiao Zhuo.”

Ning Zhuo suddenly realized: "I understand. Dao treasures can affect the surroundings. My mother has been away from here for too long. The spontaneous power of the Dao treasure destroyed this room and used the surrounding environment to form a natural magic array!"

(End of this chapter)