Tomb Raider: The comprehension is against the sky, and the achievement is indestructible

Chapter 66: Soul Ladder, Ghost Tomb, Secret Technique of Mechanical Array
Big Gold Tooth couldn't help but feel weak:
"Master Su, Lao Hu...something is wrong here, why don't we go back?"

The four of them then returned to the Hades Palace where the stone coffin was placed, but when Big Gold Tooth shone the Wolf Eye flashlight in front of the stone coffin, he couldn't help but exclaimed:
"What the hell! Why is there an extra stone staircase ahead?"

Fatty Wang shone the flashlight forward, only to see that a stone staircase had appeared in front of him without him noticing. Each level of the staircase was made of large stone slabs. He could no longer shine the flashlight forward, and the light seemed to be swallowed up by the darkness!
When Huba saw the stone steps, he couldn't help but lose his composure:
"It's really weird! The tomb tunnel was turned into a tomb passage. There is a stone coffin from the Western Zhou Dynasty inside the Tang Dynasty's underworld palace. There are also these weird stone steps next to the stone coffin! I suddenly feel that what I learned before is not enough. I can't explain it at all!"

Su Mo thought for a moment and said:
"Now this underworld palace is completely in the style of the Western Zhou Dynasty. The stairs in front of the stone coffin should lead to the upper level of the ancient tomb. Let's walk along here first!"

Huba immediately agreed, and Fatty Wang and Da Jin Ya followed the two of them up the stone steps.

The four of them walked upwards for a few minutes, and Su Mo suddenly stopped.

"wrong!"

When he just climbed the stone steps, he saw a crescent-shaped gap on the edge of the second step, and there was a similar gap every twenty-three steps.

Everyone had been walking along the stone steps for about five minutes, but they had not yet walked out of the maze of stone steps!

Su Mo couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

Sure enough, this is the Hanging Soul Ladder maze mentioned in the original book!
Huba was bold and careful, and he had already noticed that there was something wrong with the crescent-shaped gap in the stone steps, so he said:

"Master, these stone steps look like a maze. Why do we seem to be going in circles?"

Fatty Wang took a breath of cold air:
"Damn it, are we stuck in a maze? If we can't get out, aren't we going to die here?"

When Da Jin Ya heard this, his face suddenly fell:

"Oh my god, what shall I do? If I die here, I will never see my 80-year-old mother and my 18-year-old lover again..."

Speaking of this, the grandson actually shed a few tears.

Fatty Wang couldn't help but said:
"Why would a real man piss like a cat? Is that manly?"

Huba thought about it carefully and said:
"Master, I have an idea, I don't know if it's right!"

Su Mo nodded and said:
"you say!"

Huba Yida:
"It seems we have come to a ghost tomb!"

When Fatty and Big Gold Teeth heard this, their faces turned pale:

"Ghost Tomb? Isn't that a haunted tomb?"

"No wonder there's a ghost wall, this is the end!"

"Just listen to me!"

Huba was so angry that he shouted:

"Ghost Tomb is not haunted! Stop making trouble with your nonsense!"

"What I mean is that this ancient tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty is like a ghost, a ghost attached to this unfinished Tang tomb, just like a ghost ship or a ghost car!"

"There are coffins in this tomb, so it was coveted by people from the Tang Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty. However, when the people of the Tang Dynasty were halfway through building the tomb, they discovered this ancient tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty. They might even have been frightened by something in the ancient tomb, so they stopped building it immediately!"

When he finished speaking, Fatty Wang and Da Jin Ya still looked confused:
"Old Hu, no matter it is a ghost tomb or it is haunted, do you have any way to get out?" Hubayi couldn't help but shook his head.

Although he had read the Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Art and studied the escape character scroll, and guessed that this stone staircase was most likely the Hanging Soul Ladder mentioned in the book, he had no idea how to crack it.

At this time, Su Mo concentrated and thought for a while, then said:

"You guys stay where you are, I'll take a look first!"

After saying this, he asked Huba and the other two to stay where they were, while he walked down from the upper section of stairs where the crescent-shaped mark appeared. Then, after passing the twenty-three steps beside Huba and the others, he reached the crescent-shaped mark below.

There he concentrated and used the Taiyin visualization method to take a look, only to find that the energy and aura near the mark were almost identical.

In other words, not every twenty-three steps constitute a space. The spaces here are all interconnected, but there must be some ancient secret recipe smeared between some of the stone steps, which is something that absorbs energy and light. Therefore, people cannot distinguish the direction here and end up going around in circles!
Su Mo then stood on the step where the crescent pattern appeared and looked up. His gaze moved to the farthest point, looking at the stone step above where a crescent pattern also appeared.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration came to my mind:

"You discovered the special secret of the Hanging Soul Ladder, and thus comprehended the secret art of the ancient trap array!"

As the prompt sounded, a series of special images suddenly appeared in front of Su Mo's eyes like a kaleidoscope.

Various ancient valve formations and trap mechanisms evolved from the Qimen Bagua formation and various ancient books such as the I Ching, Hetu and Luoshu, all appeared in front of Su Mo and were quickly imprinted in his mind.

In less than a minute, his comprehension of various ancient Chinese mechanisms, traps, and formations reached a new level.

"I understand!"

Feeling the profoundness of the ancient secret techniques of mechanisms, traps and formations, Su Mo couldn't help but smile.

Seeing the smile on his face, Hubayi and Fatty Wang felt relieved:
"Okay, Master smiled. He must have a way!"

Su Mo then waved to the three people:

"Everyone follow me, don't look at your feet!"

Huba and the other two quickly came behind Su Mo and followed him along the stone steps.

However, this time Su Mo no longer walked along the side of the stone steps where the crescent pattern appeared, but from a very dim place on the other side, and did not follow the refraction of light at all.

"Taiji gave birth to two opposites, two opposites gave birth to four images, four images gave birth to eight trigrams..."

Every eight steps, Su Mo would turn around and jump forward two steps from the other side.

Hubayi, Fatty Wang and the other two also followed him and jumped forward two steps, then turned and walked forward a distance on the other side of the stairs, and then walked forward eight steps from the other side.

After walking for a while, I found a fork in the road that I had never noticed before in the darkness on the side of the stone steps!
This fork in the road was completely hidden in the darkness. Just now, Su Mo was only looking at the crescent mark on the world and using the Taiyin visualization method to pay attention to the flow of the aura and magnetic field, but he did not notice this hidden fork in the road.

It really is worthy of being called the Hanging Soul Ladder, it is really like a maze!
Su Mo saw the fork in the road, and immediately took Huba and the other two to turn in that direction, and they indeed arrived at a dark palace.

Above this underworld palace is a dome-like tomb roof, which is exactly the same as the shape of a Tang Dynasty tomb. However, in some places, the boundaries are blurred, as if there is a bug in an online game. Tomb walls appear on the edge of the top wall, as if several ghost phantoms appear on the same body at the same time.

The spectacle of this ghost tomb made Huba and others gasp!
(End of this chapter)