Upon arriving, Lin Chen burned all the weeds with a single flame.
After this clearing, the dilapidated dance posture finally revealed its full appearance.
It was an open temple hall, very small, with three steps, a terrace, and then the main hall.
Everyone walked straight up, their eyes fixed on a dusty item displayed in the hall…
"Whoosh…"
Mo Fan blew a breath and found that the item was a wooden fish. What was strange was that a wooden fish should originally be smooth, used to strike sounds, but the arc-shaped cover of this wooden fish was covered with engraved patterns. The patterns were regularly intertwined, forming small grids that contained strange characters, not like Little Japan language, but more like ancient magic symbols.
Mo Fan felt very guilty about the incident with Zhao Manyan. Along the way, Mo Fan finally told everyone about the girl he had encountered earlier.
Lin Chen didn't expect the inertia of the plot to be so great. The girl Lin Chen encountered, Mo Fan also encountered. Looking at the current situation, Lin Chen also gave up on Baxia, as it was nineteen out of twenty that Baxia would be obtained by Zhao Manyan.
"Why is there a wooden fish here?" Mo Fan tried to reach out and grab it, but was zapped back by the wooden fish's restriction.
"It's a restriction! Let me take a look!"
Nan Jue was very knowledgeable about magic tools. In many ancient ruins found by the military, Nan Jue had deciphered a lot of useful information and handed it over to the military.
"This is an extremely high-level magic tool. Every Spirit-level and above magic tool has a certain spirituality, and powerful magic tools can possess a soul. According to the clues provided by Mo Fan, that girl should be a demon Spirit born from this vessel, and she hooked Zhao Manyan into this vessel!" Nan Jue explained.
"It seems that to save Zhao Manyan, you need to enter this wooden fish and rescue Zhao Manyan's soul, without damaging the wooden fish itself. Otherwise, Zhao Manyan's soul will be damaged along with the wooden fish!" Lin Chen said.
"Wait, do you mean you guys aren't going?" Mo Fan asked, puzzled.
Lin Chen explained, "This wooden fish won't let us in, so we can't enter!"
Lin Chen was a bit helpless. He naturally didn't want to miss the monarch-level Baxia. He had originally thought of fishing in troubled waters and trying his luck, but he found that as soon as he tried to approach the wooden fish, it began to resist him. Even Mu Ningxue and Jiang Shaoxu had the same feeling. The difference between Lin Chen's trio and the others was that they had awakened their Spirits.
Subconsciously, Lin Chen looked at Ai Jiangtu, whose expression was normal. This left Lin Chen bewildered, completely at a loss.
"Spirit-level magic tools have self-preservation instincts and won't allow anything they perceive as dangerous to approach. It seems there's something on you that makes it fearful!!!" Nan Jue said, looking at Lin Chen's trio with curiosity, her eyes full of wonder, as if she wanted to see through Lin Chen's secret.
"The problem now is how do we enter the wooden fish to save Zhao Manyan?" Mo Fan asked.
Nan Jue said, "Let Jiang Shaoxu hypnotize you, and then I can send your souls into the wooden fish. But remember, if your souls perish in the wooden fish, it will be true death, so be extremely careful once you enter!"
"Okay, Mo Fan, I'll go with you!" Ai Jiangtu said. As the captain, his sense of responsibility was self-evident. With a team member in mortal danger, Ai Jiangtu naturally wouldn't consider his own safety.
"Alright!"
A moment later, Jiang Shaoxu and Nan Jue sent Ai Jiangtu and Mo Fan's souls into the wooden fish, while Lin Chen and the other three guarded their physical bodies outside.
"The magic tools on your bodies even make the wooden fish fearful. Could you let me study them?" Nan Jue asked Lin Chen's trio again.
Lin Chen shrugged, he also wanted to know what was going on.
"You're overthinking it. I still haven't figured out what's going on. Could it be that the wooden fish found me too handsome?" Lin Chen said with a helpless expression.
"Oh, come on, stop bragging. If you don't want to say it, just don't say it. Why make such an absurd excuse!" Nan Jue said directly!
While Lin Chen was puzzled, Mu Ningxue and Jiang Shaoxu also looked bewildered.
The three quietly walked to the side, and the two women asked their questions.
"Ai Jiangtu also awakened his Spirit, why could he go in?" Jiang Shaoxu asked.
Lin Chen shook his head and said, "I don't know either. Because of the existence of Spirit, I don't even pay attention to magic tools. Besides magic tools for cultivation, I don't have any other decent magic tools on me!"
"Could it be because of the Spirit Realm?" Mu Ningxue pondered for a moment and asked.
Lin Chen nodded gently and said, "Perhaps… I'm not sure! Now that you mention it, I feel like the possibility is very high!"
Unable to figure it out, they stopped thinking about it. For the three of them, this was not an insurmountable obstacle.
The three guarded Mo Fan and Ai Jiangtu's physical bodies while chatting desultorily.
When Nan Jue saw Lin Chen's trio whispering behind her back, she suddenly felt that her previous request was a bit presumptuous. Everyone has their own secrets, how could she make such a low-level mistake.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have probed your secrets!" Nan Jue walked to the side of the three, saying with a face full of apology.
Lin Chen smiled slightly and said, "We don't blame you, you were just a bit too curious!"
Seeing the three of them with indifferent expressions, Nan Jue finally breathed a sigh of relief, and her good impression of this small team increased by another point.
After an unknown amount of time, Mo Fan and Ai Jiangtu suddenly woke up, but their condition wasn't very good.
"How are things?" Nan Jue asked hurriedly!
Jiang Shaoxu also asked curiously, "Did you encounter any danger inside?"
"Inside, we saw a desolate love story…"
After the two of them sorted out their thoughts, they briefly recounted what happened inside.
"If what you said is true, then Zhao Manyan should be fine! Let's go back!" Nan Jue said.
"Can we take this wooden fish? This is a treasure!" Mo Fan said, his eyes gleaming with desire.
Nan Jue shook her head and said, "I can't undo the protective restriction on it, so I can't take it. Otherwise, those monks would have taken it long ago, so why would it be left here?"
At this point, the matter was considered concluded. Everyone returned to the temple to rest, and the next morning, everyone wanted to leave this ominous temple quickly. No one knew what dangers might arise if they stayed longer!
"Mo Fan, let me tell you, yesterday I had a very long dream related to the back mountain of the temple. The things in the dream were too complex, so I won't tell you one by one. In short, it seems like there's a predetermined fate…" Zhao Manyan secretly walked up to Mo Fan and said.
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