Chapter 28 The Greatest Variable

  When the moonlight in the air was exhausted, Yang Yun finally got up with satisfaction, and the previous cultivation saved him several months of hard work.

  Yang Yun was practicing, the red-clothed girl and Meng Chao had already swept through the cave mansion, as a result, they found several stone rooms, but inside were empty, nothing useful was found.

  "It seems like an abandoned cave, otherwise there wouldn't be any demonic beasts lurking around." The red-clothed girl said.

  Yang Yun didn't give up and turned around in the hall several times, indeed it was empty and very clean.

  Suddenly remembered those night pearls on the stone wall, rushed over with joy, took out a dagger and pried them open.

  The girl in red couldn't bear to watch and turned her head away, but the shrill, piercing sounds were unavoidable.

  "How detestable! You actually used Petrification!"

  Yang Yun's disappointed cry echoed in the hall, he returned with a huff, saw the red-clothed girl, and his eyes lit up instantly.

  "Hey, you're Jian Xiu, don't you have some powerful divine weapons that can cut through gold and iron? Lend me one to use for a bit?"

  "No! I won't lend it! You can forget about it!"

  The two of them stared at each other for a long time. Yang Yun gave up, "Forget it, you're using a soft sword, aren't you? It's probably not enough to deal with these stones."

  The red-clothed girl let out a breath of relief, but another burst of anger suddenly surged up. "What kind of person is this! For some trivial jewels, they actually want to use my carefully cultivated treasure sword to dig stones! If it's damaged in the slightest, not even a thousand pearls would be enough to compensate for it. What kind of cultivator is this? They're even more greedy than a swindler! Earlier when he borrowed the sword, I should have slapped him with a loud slap."

  For some reason, the red-clothed girl would get so angry with Yang Yun that she was almost suffocated, yet she couldn't vent her anger. She felt that all the grievances she had suffered in her life were not as much as what she had endured in this one day and night.

  Meng Chao picked up the disc and said, "This is a good thing, isn't it?"

  "It's fine here, but it's useless once you leave this place." Yang Yun replied.

  Meng Chao tapped his hand on the array disc, producing a sound that was neither metallic nor wooden. "It should be worth some money even as material, right?"

  "This thing, ordinary people don't understand it. Cultivators who see it will definitely ask about its origin and may even force us to take them to find out where it came from. Do you think they'll believe that this empty cave is something we've been searching for?"

  Meng Chao was shocked and hastily threw away the array disk, "It's better not to provoke this trouble."

  Three people looked for a path and crawled out from a hidden cave at the foot of the mountain. Yang Yun's hearing increased greatly, and he heard the shout of his second brother, Yang Yue, through the forest.

  After meeting with Yang Yue, they found that the fog on the sea had dissipated, and the moonlight shone on the calm sea surface. The Changfu ship had already raised its sails, as if it was about to sail away from them.

  Several sailors jumped and shouted, lit torches, and rowed desperately back to the Changfu.

  Yang Yue and the sailors did not find any treasure, but instead lost their water bucket.

  The moment he stepped onto the deck, Yang Yun finally figured it out.

  Chang Fu was not supposed to come here, and there was no treasure on the island, only a giant snake that took lives. The road out of the cave was lined with white bones pointing the way, this white python had taken over the island, devouring countless souls. If they hadn't killed the python, once it absorbed the moonlight, Chang Fu would have been doomed to sink to the bottom of the sea, and everyone on board would have become food in the python's mouth.

  You are the biggest variable, in what should have been a historical event, you were not on this ship, Yang Yue and Chen Hu were not there either. That out-of-control sail should have been untied by others, the difference caused by time made the Longfeng number deviate from its course, coming to this place that makes sailors tremble with fear.

  "Farewell, my treasure!" Yang Yun gazed out at the empty sea, wanting to cry but unable to shed tears.

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  The island has a notorious reputation, and neither the captain nor the sailors dare to stay here, so they set sail with the remaining sails.

  Actually, Bai E had already been eliminated, and Fog Island had become a safe place. However, Yang Yun and the others did not try to explain anything, and just followed the sailors.

  The matter of the white snake was only mentioned to Yang Yue and Chen Hu, while the other sailors thought they were just lost in the fog, and it wasn't until the fog cleared that they reunited with the others.

  However, this time's encounter with danger also allowed the sailors to determine their position, which matched up with the sea chart. With the current favorable wind direction, the captain decided to head directly back to the mainland.

  Encountering the white python, Yang Yun once again depleted his spiritual energy reserves and returned to the cabin, immediately devouring the remaining shark fin.

  It's a pity that the snake gall and snake meat of the white python are good things, but they are poisonous. Yang Yun is not lucky enough to enjoy them now, so he can only discard them on the island.

  Although this time did not get the treasure as expected, breaking through the third layer of the Moon Flower True Classic was an unexpected joy. What made Yang Yun even more surprised was the black stone bracelet. He thought about the black stone bracelet absorbing the White Python's inner dan and that instant feeling of losing his mind.

  That was absolutely not an illusion or accident, what's the mystery behind it? Yang Yun rubbed the black stones strung together on his wrist chain with one hand, feeling the slight coolness transmitted from the fingertips, and fell into contemplation.

  That's right! The whale skin with Heishi, will it also have an extraordinary place?

  Take out the whale skin and rub off the flower pattern on it.

  "This is... this is the Fog Island's Small Star Heavenly Rotation Formation diagram!" Yang Yun thought in surprise, "This black stone bracelet and whale skin, are they actually from Fog Island?"

  The Little Star Heaven Spin Battle Formation has many variations, and the number of nodes in the formation is also changing, as long as it is a multiple of nine, there is no formation plate to compare with, and it is absolutely impossible to discover that this is a manipulation chart.

  What is referred to as a "formation chart" is a diagram that records the method of manipulating the formation disc. To put it another way, if the entire formation is like a sword, then the formation disc is the hilt, and the formation chart is the secret manual for recording sword moves.

  Yang Yun suddenly appeared in the Zhenzhen Temple of the Sea of Consciousness.

  The moonlight shone onto the rows of bookshelves in the grand hall, with silver light flashing continuously. Soon, a screen of light appeared in mid-air, covered with dense texts and diagrams, all of which were the control methods of the Small Star Heavenly Rotation Battle Array searched from the Sea of Recognition.

  Yang Yun stretched out his hand and touched it, and the light screen instantly scattered into dazzling flying flowers. The information on the light screen was suddenly clear in his mind.

  "There are a total of 1,633 types of array techniques, but none of them match the pattern on the whale skin. It seems that we need to deduce it further."

  The Hall of Still Thoughts followed Yang Yun's intentions, conjuring up a small starry sky with swirling clouds and misty islands in the air. In the void, 810 nodes shone brightly.

  These nodes began to arrange themselves according to the pattern on the whale skin, and at the moment when the formation was completed, the Zhen Temple suddenly shook violently, and Yang Yun was thrown out in an instant.

  The still Hall of Supreme Harmony and the Imperial Library are swaying, as if they might collapse at any moment. A crescent moon in the empty sky is missing half its shape.

  "Lunar eclipse? How is that possible!" This was Yang Yun's Sea of Consciousness, the illusory moon in the sky was just a manifestation of the energy provided by the Moon Flower True Qi, a simulated form created by Yang Yun's divine sense. How could a lunar eclipse possibly occur?

  The lunar eclipse was still ongoing, the illusory moon in the sky was getting smaller and smaller, and would soon be completely engulfed by darkness. The True Temple and Jinglun Hall were shaking more and more violently, with scattered bricks and tiles falling down.

  Must stop the lunar eclipse! Otherwise, when the illusory moon disappears, not to mention the Zhen Temple and Jinglun Hall, even the entire Sea of Consciousness will collapse! If the Sea of Consciousness collapses, it may mean that Yang Yun has no hope of building his foundation in this life.

  At the critical moment, Yang Yun became even more calm and tried to enter the Zhen Temple, but found that it was already impossible to enter. Since he couldn't stop the formation from inside, he quickly shifted his mind back to his main body.

  Yang Yun pulled off the black stone bracelet and threw it far into a corner of the cabin, his mind once again immersed in the sea of knowledge.

  The lunar eclipse is still ongoing, with only a quarter of the moon remaining.

  Returning to his body, he sprinted over and picked up the black stone bracelet. With a swift slash of his dagger on his wrist, he then directly put the bracelet on the wound, and the deep red blood immediately seeped into the black stone.

  This time back to the sea of knowledge, surprised to find that it has taken effect. The darkness in the void began to dissipate, and the illusory moon gradually recovered. Zhen Temple and Jinglun Hall also stopped shaking and calmed down.

  Yang Yun finally let out a breath, wiped the virtual sweat from his forehead, and stepped slowly into the Zhen Temple. In fact, his current body was an illusion created by his mind, so there was no real sweat. It was just a habitual reaction after being startled.

  The hall looked as usual, with those precious bookshelves still standing in rows. Yang let out a sigh of relief, but at this moment he tripped over something and almost fell.