Chapter 642: The Dilemma of the Eight Gates

"The first floor in the sky..."

Under the big tree, Jiang Yu looked at the plaque shining with eye-catching golden light in the dark night, and nodded, "You can't go wrong, it must be here."

During the day, the two sides clashed over the phrase "the first floor in the sky".

The information about the "Pilgrimage Building" I got was the only one in the entire Dongtian King City.

The target is here, and it can't be missed.

only……

"Is this what it looks like near the first floor of the sky?"

Jiang Yu raised his head as he spoke, looking at the lush ancient trees above his head with some confusion.

As a historical site of Dongtenwang Castle, although it is close, it is not close.

But basically, the spiritual masters who enter the city will go in the direction of the pilgrimage building and take a look from a distance.

Jiang's group had never come here specifically to pay their respects.

But I happened to take a look when I entered Zhongcheng District. At that time, the Pilgrimage Building was still just a pilgrimage building, and there was no such ostentatious golden plaque.

Outside the building, there don't seem to be so many ancient trees.

But now, look at the height and crowding of these ancient trees...

Without a hundred years of foundation, it would be impossible to grow like this!

"It should be the decoration they asked the merchant to put on, it's not important." Jiang Tai responded.

His attention was not on these trees. Instead, he was staring at the door of the attic, with thoughts in his eyes.

"What we need to think about now is how to break through the barrier protection on the first floor of the sky and abduct people without alerting the snake." Jiang Tai said in a message.

Before taking action, the two actually conducted an investigation.

The location of the first floor in the sky is great. It is located at the center of the city barrier and is protected by the formation.

Relying only on two ordinary thrones, it is basically impossible to break through without making a sound.

Therefore, the key to this operation lies entirely with Jiang Yu.

"Grand Master of the Spiritual Array, it's up to you!"

Jiang Tai patted Jiang Yu's shoulder and held his breath.

Among the Jiang family, there is only one person who is qualified to protect the "Pearl of Heaven's Knowledge".

Although the city defense formation is strong, Jiang Tai believes that as long as enough time is given and there is no need to actually break the formation, just dig a small opening that can accommodate two people, it should be very simple.

"rest assured."

Jiang Yu nodded, and as he spoke, he took out a dark spiritual formation bead, injected his spiritual thoughts into it, and began to sense it.

The evening breeze was gentle, rustling the leaves.

Jiang Tai concentrated his attention and stared at any disturbance in all directions.

He knew that in the next few hours, all he had to do was wait and hide the whereabouts of the two of them.

But Jiang Yu Ling Nian on one side had just injected the spirit formation beads, and the next second he frowned.

"It seems... there's no need to break the formation." He said hesitantly, turning his head stiffly and pointing to the door not far away.

"What's the meaning?"

Jiang Tai was startled and looked in the direction of his finger.

But apart from the golden plaque, nothing could be seen.

"Look below, don't look at the plaque." Jiang Yu's eyes were full of fear and worry.

under?

When Jiang Tai heard the sound, his eyes moved down, and then his whole face froze.

Under the shining golden plaque of "The First Floor in the Sky", there is a pair of door couplets whose light has been suppressed.

Basically, as long as the plaque is there, no one will pay attention to the lackluster door couplet.

But if you really want to take a look, the content of the door couplet is so eye-catching.

"Nothing is allowed, and all guests are welcome?"

Jiang Tai murmured, and suddenly his feet felt like lead, extremely heavy. He swallowed hard, "Has he guessed that we are coming?"

Jiang Yu couldn't reply.

The dark wind at night swept.

The two of them stared at the couplet and then at the "First Floor in the Sky", and the pores on their bodies began to bloom unconsciously.

"So arrogant!"

Jiang Tai spat, "Looking at the style of the Xu family, there will definitely be a lot of people offended... I think they guessed that someone was coming, but they didn't know when they would come, so they posted this couplet. Intimidation effect.”

"Empty city plan?" Jiang Yu raised his eyebrows.

"possible."

"But what if it's not?"

"If not..."

Jiang Tai was silent.

If not, the other party is really going crazy!

Knowing that someone is coming, you still deliberately hang up such a door couplet. Is this a mockery?

Still disdainful?

Don't you care at all?

"retreat?"

The scene became quiet, and Jiang Yu hesitated to speak.

"We can't retreat." Jiang Tai waved his hand, "Not to mention the consequences of not completing the task, do you think this couplet alone can scare the two thrones? Even if it doesn't work, we have to find out first. If things don't go well, , and then adapt to circumstances.”

"But if you can't cope with it?"

"..."

Jiang Tai was stunned by the question. He paused for a moment, then suddenly got angry and gave Jiang Yu a big slap.

"The mission is so that you can retreat if you say you want to?"

"Well."

After the two exchanged words, they were silent again.

As he said this, his feet seemed to be stuck to the ground, unable to move even a little bit.

"rustle……"

The strong wind passed by and the ancient trees buckled.

The rustling sound and accompanying branches seemed to be inviting guests into the building.

But that building...

Jiang Yu raised his eyes again.

The "first floor in the sky" that he had ridiculed during the day actually had the inexplicable aura of "the first floor in the sky" at this moment.

Being condescending and smiling at the common people!

Under the night, this towering building, which was so high that one could not see the top, was no longer a building in the eyes, but a beast that would eat anyone it could.

And the direction that the ancient tree invited was the abyss of the beast!

After taking a long deep breath, Jiang Tai gritted his teeth and made up his mind.

"Go!"

"Adapt to the situation, if it doesn't work, then retreat!"

...

No matter what, he will come in.

He will welcome every guest.

Outside the door couplet, two silent black shadows fell, and then they turned into invisible.

"Boundary, open!"

"Boundary, open!"

The space rippled lightly.

Two thin but safe boundaries wrapped around the two people, and after taking a step together, the two jumped in from the door.

"Dong!"

As soon as they entered the door, the dull sound of the wooden bell seemed to strike on the heartstrings, and everyone who heard the sound was terrified.

"Discovered?"

Jiang Tai was the first to be startled, his expression was tense, he took a defensive posture, and looked up.

However, there was an old wooden clock hanging in the side hall of the door. The sound of the clock was clear, but it seemed that it was not caused by people entering the door.

"Dong!"

Another bell rang with a regular pattern.

Jiang Yu, who was hiding in the dark, also breathed a sigh of relief silently.

It was not that he was discovered!

But this clock has been ringing at a certain frequency, as if it was telling time, letting the wind accumulate power, and knocking at the right time.

"Damn, what kind of ghost habit is this!"

"With this gloomy clock, can people live here? Who can sleep?"

Jiang Yu complained in his heart, and secretly communicated with Jiang Tai, indicating that he should stay calm.

In front of him was the hall.

There were two rows of low and long wooden tables in the hall, and weak candles were flickering on them.

Under the ostentatious light, it certainly decorated the road in the hall, but the darkest place inside was dark because of the light, and no scenery could be seen.

On the wooden table, I don’t know if it’s because the barrier is not closed, but several candles have gone out.

The few remaining embers disappeared into nothingness along the wind direction, which is really creepy.

The Jiang family’s heart was in their throat when they saw this scene.

The layout of this pavilion is really too creepy.

Who would do this to their own home?

It doesn’t look like it’s for living, but more like a sacrifice... to sacrifice people!

—— It’s disgusting!

“Separate actions.”

The spiritual mind transmitted the sound.

The two knew that time was running out, and they had to find the two daughters of the Xu family as soon as possible and take them out before they were discovered.

But their minds were just determined.

As they stepped forward, the scene in front of them spun, and the scenery disappeared, as if they were in another dimension.

“Huh!”

The wind blew, and the sand surged.

The layout of the pavilion was no longer there, and as far as the eye could see, there was a barren desert in front of them.

Under the cover of night, there were dots of candlelight above the sky, like a pair of divine eyes, looking down at all the movements of people in the desert.

"Illusion!"

Jiang Tai's heart sank.

He knew it was bad.

This was not an empty city plan, they had really prepared it, just waiting to catch the turtle in the jar!

But they couldn't retreat.

Let alone there was no way out.

If they were really discovered, even if they broke in by force, they had to capture the two women of the Xu family.

Otherwise, the punishment for mission failure would be much more terrifying than this building break-in.

"Do it!"

Even though he couldn't see his companions, Jiang Tai still shouted at the direction where Jiang Yu was before.

The two had already rehearsed various scenarios.

If they were trapped in the spirit formation, the method of sound transmission under spatial positioning would be the only means for the throne to communicate.

However, it was different from what he had expected.

After the sound transmission, Jiang Tai did not get the expected response.

He sank.

Even if he was stupid, he knew at this time that although they were only one step forward in a small area, they were probably not in the same illusion.

"Isolated space?"

The boundary was like a garment, covering his whole body.

Jiang Tai was still very panicked, and did not dare to move a step, for fear of triggering some mechanism.

He was not a spiritual formation master, and the only way to break the formation was to attack.

But wouldn't a strong attack be a declaration to Xu: At this moment, someone is invading the first floor of the sky?

And at this time, Jiang Yu started to break the formation.

Wouldn't he be alerting the enemy?

"Cat meow!"

While thinking, a piercing whine like a slaughtered cat exploded beside him. Jiang Tai's eyelids jumped and he immediately looked sideways.

A white light flashed and disappeared.

The last picture captured was a white cat stretched to the extreme, jumping into a narrow space crack in the distance.

"The eye of the formation?"

Jiang Tai subconsciously stepped up and was about to follow.

Then he woke up immediately. This was probably a magic trick in the illusion. The purpose was...

"Hiss!"

Looking down at his raised right foot, Jiang Tai suddenly realized that maybe he couldn't take a step at this moment?

Was the white cat trying to attract him to move his feet?

He took a breath and carefully retracted his footsteps and placed them on the original footprints.

"Swish."

But this step seemed to trigger a mechanism, and the scene in front of him turned again.

"Squeak--"

A pleasant bird song came to his ears, and the mouth and nose were filled with fragrance.

The desert was gone, the dense forest suddenly descended, the green was lush, and the birds were flying.

Jiang Tai closed his eyes heavily.

So landing was also considered a step?

"This damn..."

The desert was gone.

Instead, there was a dense primeval forest.

His heartbeat accelerated slightly, and Jiang Tai was about to lose his temper. He wanted to punch out and completely smash this predicament.

But just as his mind turned, the scene behind him sent by his spiritual thoughts made him suddenly startled.

"Door?"

There was nothing in front of him.

Except for trees, there were flowers and plants.

But behind him, there stood eight gates that were out of place.

The gate seemed to have been there since ancient times, exuding an ancient and majestic aura, and it was overwhelming.

On the top of each gate, there was a big character made of sand, arranged in order: Rest, Life, Injury, Du, Scenery, Death, Surprise, Open.

"Eight Gates?"

Even though he was not a spiritual formation master, Jiang Tai knew the meaning of these eight characters.

What shocked him most was not the standing of these eight gates, but the blood spilled in front of each gate, and the corresponding broken flesh and limbs.

Before the Xiu Gate, there was half a piece of black clothes, a broken arm, blood foam and broken flesh, which was extremely terrifying.

Before the Sheng Gate, there was half a broken shoe and a broken leg.

Before the Shang Gate, there was a buttocks...

Du Gate, arms and internal organs...

Jing Gate, tibia and spine...

Death Gate, nothing!

Jing Gate, a bloody left arrow...

Kai Gate... a head!

Jiang Tai scanned them one by one, and his pupils shrank sharply.

The head in front of the last Kai Gate was his companion on this mission, Jiang Yu!

"No, don't move..."

The bloody head was red all over, but the intermittent human voice still flowed out from the corner of the hideous cracked mouth.

"Eight trigrams... pilgrimage map..."

"Eight gates, spirit, spirit formation..."

"Choose one and think about it, then you can come out..."

"No, don't move!!!"

As if seeing Jiang Tai trying to lift his foot, the decapitated face struggled violently in an instant, and shouted loudly, but after a mouthful of blood, there was no more words.

"Dead?"

Jiang Tai was completely dumbfounded.

That nightgown, that look, that familiar tone...

There is no doubt that this person is Jiang Yu!

But Jiang Tai didn't believe it at all.

How could he not know the horror of the high-grade spirit formation?

Although it is difficult to simulate these, it is not impossible.

All of this is just to make the breaker believe in the illusion better.

And just now, his tentative move of raising his foot was exchanged for Jiang Yu's desperate roar...

"Don't move?"

Jiang Tai was silent.

His heart was pounding, and he didn't know how to do it.

Not being able to take a step was the conclusion drawn by himself, a half-baked breaker, in this spirit formation.

Outsiders, it is impossible to know!

Now, Jiang Yu's severed head died in front of him to warn him of this message.

What does it mean?

How did he know?

Is he real?

"Eight Trigrams Pilgrimage Map..."

Thinking back to the information Jiang Yu gave before his death, Jiang Tai hesitated.

Is this still an illusion?

Or is it the last picture that Jiang Yu used the power of the spirit array in another place and tried his best to transmit?

If it is the former, believe it, it may represent death!

If it is the latter, disbelief means that Jiang Yu's last struggle was wasted!

Jiang Tai's eyes were fixed on the bloody left arrow in front of the Jingmen.

Following the arrow, he could see the empty death door.

"Death..."

This door, it is estimated that no one would want to enter.

But the picture in front of him was the only way out that Jiang Yu gave after several attempts at the cost of his body.

One thought of heaven, one thought of hell?

Jiang Tai clenched his fists fiercely.

He didn't know whether this big array was originally from the Pilgrimage Building or brought by Xu Shao.

But he knew that if Jiang Yu couldn't break the array at this time, it was estimated that he might be in danger.

"Xu De choked!"

Jiang Tai clenched his back teeth and tasted a bit of fishy bitterness in his throat.

Should I choose to continue waiting...

Or should I believe the scene in front of me and enter the gate of death with one thought...

Or should I ignore the consequences and break the formation with reckless force, and directly destroy this spiritual formation...

——There is no time to choose!

With his eyes wide open, Jiang Yu hesitated for only half a second before raising his fist.

"Fuck you!"