Chapter 1,240: Climbing the Ladder to Heaven
After noticing something was wrong, He Zifeng and the other two carefully observed Lin Ruoming and Wen Dao for a moment. Based on their sight, they finally found the key to the problem and cast their eyes on the square jade object at the edge of the stairs under their feet.
After a while, the two of them also went up the second step of the stairs like Wen Dao and Lin Ruoming.
When Yu Fei saw this scene, she didn't seem to be afraid of the opportunity being taken away by others, but smiled at Duan Qing.
"Fellow Daoist Duan, who do you think will be the first to reach the top floor of Zizhu?"
Duan Qing shook his head and couldn't be sure of this question.
From the current situation, Lin Ruoming and the other four have obviously found the key to moving forward on the stairs. As for who will succeed the fastest in the end, no one can tell.
After all, he hasn't gone up the stairs yet, and he doesn't know what the specific situation is inside the stairs.
"Haha, things don't seem to be so boring."
Yu Fei glanced at Duan Qing, then muttered softly while walking towards the empty stairs, as if she was also preparing to enter the stairs.
Just like Lin Ruoming and the other four, the moment Yu Fei stepped onto the stairs, the stairs under her feet suddenly split into two, and another empty staircase was formed.
Duan Qing saw this, hesitated for a moment, and walked towards the empty staircase.
Even Yu Fei had already climbed the stairs, so what was there for him to worry about?
As soon as Duan Qing stepped onto the stairs, he felt a trance in front of his eyes, and then he returned to normal.
He looked around and found that there was another spiral staircase in the first floor of Zizhu, including the stairs under his feet, a total of six stairs.
Counting from Duan Qing to the left, in order, they were Yu Fei, He Zifeng and Tian Jing, Wen Dao, and Lin Ruoming who climbed the stairs first.
To Duan Qing's right, there was an empty staircase.
These six spiral staircases were arranged in a ring, forming a small circle in the center of the first floor of Zizhu.
Retracting his gaze from the stairs of others, Duan Qing scanned the ground and soon found a square jade block next to the wooden pillar of the guardrail.
When he was observing Lin Ruoming and others outside just now, he had already noticed this thing.
Duan Qing stared at the square jade block for a moment, and suddenly a picture appeared in his mind, just like looking at a jade slip.
It turned out that this thing was a jade slip!
In the picture was a simple formation, with a line of large characters.
The wisdom eye could break through all the laws, and soared straight to the ninth heaven.
Below this line of large characters, there were small notes.
After reading the small characters, Duan Qing suddenly understood.
It turned out that this formation was the key to moving forward on the stairs.
According to the above explanation, this purple bamboo is called Zixiao Jiuchong Bamboo, with nine sections, and there is a ladder inside it, leading directly to the top of Zixiao.
Among them, the ladder has a total of 9,999 steps, with a total of 1,111 steps per section.
On each step of the ladder, there is a formation, and you only need to find a way to break it to climb to the next step.
Almost 10,000 formations!
Duan Qing was shocked, but also a little relieved.
Fortunately, these formations are not real formations, but are recorded in this purple jade slip, and you only need to find the formation eye. Otherwise, it will take a long time to crack nearly ten thousand formations.
Duan Qing calmed down, immersed his mind in the formation, and prepared to observe the structure of the formation.
During the more than one year trapped in the wasteland of Yunzhou, Duan Qing also studied the formation carefully. Although his attainments in the formation are not as good as those in the prohibition, they are definitely not weak. It can be said that he has quite a lot of experience.
Moreover, formations and prohibitions have similarities in some aspects, such as structure.
To find the location of the formation eye of a formation, it is undoubtedly the most effective method to understand the formation structure and then deduce it.
Compared with the prohibition with many spiritual power nodes, the number of formation eyes of the formation is generally not too many, and it is easy to find.
The formation on the first step is very simple. Duan Qing only took a glance and understood the structure of the formation. Then, he deduced the location of the formation eye without spending almost any time.
After finding the eye of the formation, Duan Qing's mind moved, and he focused his attention on the found eye of the formation, marking the position of the eye of the formation.
The next moment, the eye of the formation suddenly lit up, and then the entire formation began to collapse.
As the formation collapsed, the picture in his mind quickly faded and soon disappeared silently.
Duan Qing came back to his senses, walked steadily up the second step, looked at the purple jade slip on the second step, and a picture appeared in his mind again.
The same accompanying text, the same annotations, but the main formation has changed and become slightly more complicated.
But this level is also not difficult for Duan Qing. In one or two breaths, Duan Qing found the eye of the formation, successfully cracked the formation, and walked up to the third step.
Then, Duan Qing used almost the same time to crack the formation of the third step and walked to the fourth step.
Noticing the situation on Duan Qing's side, Lin Ruoming and others couldn't help but be surprised.
From the time Duan Qing walked up the spiral staircase to the time he arrived at the fourth step, the time was definitely no more than ten breaths!
In less than ten breaths, breaking three formations in a row, this is too fast, it's simply abnormal!
Who is this kid? He has such a profound attainment in formation!
You know, Wen Dao, who first discovered the method of moving forward, has only moved forward to the fourth level.
Lin Ruoming, He Zifeng and Tian Jing are still wandering on the third level.
As for Yu Fei, she sat on the steps in a daze after going up the stairs, and now she is still on the first level without moving!
Duan Qing's speed of breaking the formation gave Lin Ruoming and others an unprecedented sense of crisis!
Based on Duan Qing's speed, there is no doubt that he will be the first to reach the top of Zixiao. What will happen to others by then!
Thinking of this, Lin Ruoming and his companions hurriedly worked harder to break the formations on their respective stairs.
Unfortunately, no matter how hard they tried, they obviously could not catch up with Duan Qing. They could only watch Duan Qing riding away on the road to breaking the formation.
About an hour later, Duan Qing had already moved forward more than 100 steps, almost completing 10% of the first level of the Zixiao Nine-layer Bamboo Staircase.
Among Lin Ruoming and his companions, the fastest two, He Zifeng and Tian Jing, were still on the 85th step, the fat man Wen Dao was behind them, on the 67th step, and Lin Ruoming was at the end, on the 59th step!
The unfathomable blue-skirted woman Yu Fei had not yet exceeded 30 steps, far behind everyone else.
This situation made everyone feel more and more in danger.
Especially Lin Ruoming, he never dreamed that, except for Yu Fei who didn't know what she was doing, he would fall behind.
What puzzled him the most was that Duan Niu was obviously an unusual person. It was not enough that he had an abnormal speed in breaking the formation. Even He Zifeng and Tian Jing were much faster than him, and even faster than Wen Dao, who was quite accomplished in the art of formation.
In his intelligence, there was no information about the two being proficient in the art of formation!