Chapter 791: Secret Runes
In the huge square, the ancient huge stone pillar stands there like a towering tree. It makes people feel awe from the bottom of their hearts when they look at it from afar, not only because it is the center of the formation, but also because of the ancient atmosphere it carries.
From Zuo Feng's perspective, this huge stone pillar is like a door, a wonderful door leading to a mysterious world. However, this door is not easy for anyone to open. If you want to open this door, you must have a special method. This method may have been lost in the current Kunxuan Continent.
In the previous competition, Zuo Feng, Yao Zhen and a group of people were fortunate to enter the ruins, but Zuo Feng knew that it was not the right way to enter. It was the descendants who used infinite intelligence and rare materials to open a gap in the door in another way in a sneaky way.
There is a risk in their entry itself, which is the conclusion drawn by Zuo Feng after he went there once. The formation opened in this opportunistic way has many disadvantages and unstable factors. At the same time, such consumption is not the original requirement of the formation. Otherwise, every opening requires such a high price, and I am afraid that no one can afford it.
This array should have a correct opening method. If the correct method is used, it should be possible to send a lot of people into it at a very low cost. Of course, this is just Zuo Feng's own speculation, and even he himself is not clear about this correct opening method.
You and Su stood far away at the edge of the array, carefully observing Zuo Feng who walked into the array. The two of them did not follow him because they did not want to disturb Zuo Feng by their approach. But their eyes were focused, not daring to miss even a trace.
This research array is different from the previous black crystal. Although the two of them also know some of the mysteries of the pseudo-beast crystal, they are not very clear about how much value it has. Maybe it was only after Amber's body changed that they knew a little about its value.
However, they all thought that even Zuo Feng might not know how to fully play the role of the black crystal, otherwise why only Amber got great benefits, but Zuo Feng himself did not have such an opportunity.
In fact, Zuo Feng also took advantage of their psychology and made them walk into a blind spot designed by themselves without knowing it. If they only pay attention to the changes of Amber, they will get the direction of thinking wrong, and as long as they don't think that they have gained great benefits in the black crystal, they will not doubt that they have completely mastered the black crystal.
The person who sighed the most about this formation was Amber, who was standing at the farthest position. He was not familiar with the formation and runes. If he had to say it, he had only seen them before, but he had never seen such an exaggerated formation.
Unlike the last time he entered the formation, this time Zuo Feng followed his understanding of the formation and first came to the center of the formation, which was in front of the formation column.
The first time he came here, the city lord had activated the formation, so there was no trace on the surface of the column. At this time, the formation was completely static, and dense runes could be seen on the surface of the column. Some of these runes existed independently on the surface of the column, some seemed to be inside the column, and some even overlapped with the runes on the surface.
"Please give me the spirit crystal!"
After a moment of silence, Zuo Feng suddenly spoke. You City Lord, who had been paying attention to him, naturally heard his words immediately, but he didn't make a sound. Su Lan, who was standing aside, stared at Zuo Feng's back in confusion, as if thinking about something.
After a short silence, it was Zuo Feng who spoke again to break the deadlock. He didn't turn back, but his eyes were always fixed on the runes on the surface of the stone pillar.
"I'm talking about ordinary spirit crystals, not the spirit jade crystals you used last time."
As soon as these words came out, You City Lord was relieved, but Su Lan beside him smiled slightly, as if he had guessed this result a long time ago.
This spirit crystal is divided into many qualities. When the formation was activated before, You City Lord had used the spirit jade crystal, which was a very rare existence at that time. Although it can't be said that one crystal is worth a fortune, it is common for two forces to fight for a spirit jade crystal. If it is a higher quality spirit gold crystal, it would not be surprising for a strong man like Su Lan to take action.
In addition, above the Soul Gathering Gold Crystal, it is said that there is also a Soul Gathering Purple Crystal, but most people think that this existence is just a legend, or that some people made it up to elevate their status.
In addition to these, there is also a Soul Gathering Crystal Stone that is a little lower than the Soul Gathering Jade Crystal. Soul Gathering Crystal Stone is actually in some special environments, where the spiritual energy naturally gathers into the stone, causing the stone to slowly transform into the Soul Gathering Jade Crystal. Such Soul Gathering Crystal Stone can actually be seen occasionally.
In addition, Soul Gathering Gold Crystal is said to be some special metal ore, which is slowly formed by condensing spiritual energy in some special environments.
These are all items that exist in legends, and Zuo Feng has actually only seen Soul Gathering Crystal Stone. It's just that when he saw this item at the auction at that time, he didn't take it too seriously, because the Soul Gathering Crystal Stone is very complicated, and it is generally only used when studying formations. Even if it is used to arrange, at most it is to arrange some small formations of poor quality.
At that time, Zuo Feng did not intend to study the runes of the formation, so he did not focus on the soul-gathering crystals.
After a brief pause, the city lord took out about twenty soul-gathering crystals. The colors of these crystals were not the same, but they had subtle differences in color. But overall, they looked like six special stones, crystal clear with thick impurities.
Walking slowly into the formation, the city lord slowly came to his side. Zuo Feng did not look back, but stretched out his hand and spread it in front of the city lord.
The city lord was slightly stunned, then smiled bitterly and handed over the soul-gathering crystal in his hand. Zuo Feng smiled secretly, not showing anything special on the surface.
Holding a handful of soul-gathering crystals in his hand, his eyes were fixed on the stone pillar in front of him. After a while, Zuo Feng's eyes suddenly showed determination, and then quickly pressed a soul-gathering crystal on a special position of the stone pillar.
The moment the spirit crystal was pressed against the stone pillar, the runes on the stone pillar suddenly twisted, and the spirit crystal was directly embedded into the stone pillar during the change.
This change made Su Lan and City Lord You happy, which meant that Zuo Feng should have found something. But just a moment after the spirit crystal was embedded into the stone pillar, the entire stone pillar seemed to emit a faint halo, but it disappeared in a flash.
The spirit crystal that had just been embedded, after the light was emitted, immediately turned into a pile of ashes and was ejected from the stone pillar.
Zuo Feng, who was originally happy, was caught off guard and sprayed with ashes all over his face. After coughing a few times, Zuo Feng wiped his face casually, and then immediately focused on the runes on the stone pillar again.
City Lord You and Su Lan, who were originally happy, fell down after the spirit crystal was shattered.
Because for them, the reaction of the stone pillar just now obviously made the stone pillar have new changes, and this change even made them think for a moment that the formation would be cracked. But they soon calmed down, because if so many ancestors had not solved the problem, such a young man could solve it so quickly, it would be a big joke.
However, they also had a glimmer of hope, because the spirit crystal had the ability to stimulate runes, but the premise was to find the right way. Zuo Feng was able to embed the spirit crystal into the stone pillar before, which meant that at least part of it was done right.
Zuo Feng, who was not discouraged at all, took out another spirit crystal and swiped his fingers across the surface of the stone pillar. It seemed that this was just an inconspicuous little action.
But with such an action, Zuo Feng was copying the runes on the surface of the stone pillar. He did not simply copy and draw, but memorized it in his mind and kept calculating in his mind.
But after all, Zuo Feng had not been in contact with runes and formations for a long time, and he could only understand a small part in a short time, and the clues that this small part could give him were also very limited.
The failure of the previous attempt showed that he had only found some superficial things and had not touched the essence of this huge formation.
Time passed slowly. Unlike the previous time at the pseudo-beast crystal, he did not actually gain much except for memorizing a lot of runes. Even if he memorized these runes now, they would not be of much use because he had no understanding or comprehension at all.
After a while, Zuo Feng took out another soul-gathering crystal and placed it slightly above the stone pillar in the same way. Zuo Feng even had to jump up to place the soul-gathering crystal on it.
The action of placing the soul-gathering crystal was very skillful, and it did not look like a person who was studying and exploring at all. After the soul-gathering crystal was placed on it, the stone pillar also emitted a faint halo, but then the light was hidden and the crystal turned into debris and flew away.
In this way, after Zuo Feng studied for a while, he would raise his hand and place a soul-gathering crystal. Sometimes the stone pillar would react, and sometimes it would not even react at all. Later on, the city lord even began to hope that the stone pillar would not react, because then at least the soul-gathering crystal stone he used would not be instantly shattered.
Although the soul-gathering crystal stone was of low quality and the price was the lowest among all soul-gathering crystals, it was still rare after all, and he would feel pain if he continued to consume it.