Volume 1: Spring in Wulong Town Chapter 194: Your Ancestors Are All Fake
On the way back to Luo Fei's place, Tang Zheng made a "hush" gesture to Tang Xiaotang.
Tang Xiaotang immediately shut up, looked around nervously, and stopped talking about the Gu-eating Blood-drawing Formation. Instead, she said, "The tribesmen we buried near Yinlan Villa came back and said that Yinlan Villa was in chaos."
"Of course it's a mess." Tang Zheng smiled without any surprise, "Xu Qingyan directly took the blood sacrifice formation diagram your father brought back to carve it, and then sold it to Yinlan Villa."
"..." Tang Xiaotang's eyes widened, "It's... it's still possible?"
Sell the blood sacrifice map of Yinlan Villa to the children of Yinlan Villa?
How can you do business like this!
"Then all the disciples of Hidden Blue Villa now know that their ancestors want to borrow their power?"
"Oh, about that borrowing... it's a bit vague." Tang Zheng smiled, "I don't mind if they imagine it as... borrowing and not returning."
Propaganda offensives behind enemy lines only treat the symptoms and not the root cause.
However, it can at least delay the time it takes for the old man from the Lan family to come out of seclusion for a day or two.
Tang Zheng walked into Luo Fei's room carrying a food basket: "Time is life!"
In Luo Fei's house, all the walls were covered with a layer of white paper. He held four colors of ink in his hands at the same time and drew complicated patterns on the walls.
When Tang Xiaotang walked into his house, it was like entering a magical world, as if she could feel the energy contained in every line drawn by Luo Fei.
"Well, it looks a bit like the circuit diagram on the motherboard of a game console." Tang Zheng certainly couldn't understand what Luo Fei had drawn, but looking at the densely packed circuits he knew that this design had consumed a great deal of Luo Fei's mind and energy.
The various star power circuits are so exquisite that even someone who can't understand them would find them extremely ingenious.
Luo Fei himself was of course the one who felt the most accomplished: "Tang Zheng, look, look! This is the first large-scale formation I designed independently. I guarantee that as long as Hua Yingxiu's blood ant insects are lit up one by one in Yinlan Villa, my simulated comet orbits will also be lit up one by one..."
Luo Fei's fingers drew across several colorful lines and he explained as best he could.
"Then what's missing now?" Tang Zheng didn't understand at all and asked directly about the result.
"There are still three things missing: first, Hua Yingxiu's 'Butterfly Zombie Gu' is successfully configured; second, the blood ant Gu drills into the star veins of the disciples of Yinlan Mountain Villa; third is... although I can draw this formation, it requires at least a four-star warrior and two three-star warriors to activate it..."
Although Tang Xiaotang didn't quite understand the purpose of the formation designed by Luo Fei, she knew that this was probably what Tang Zheng called "the fundamental solution", so she immediately replied: "My father has advanced to four stars, and my two uncles are also three stars."
Luo Fei shook his head and said, "No. The time I designed this formation was too tight, so I didn't design an upper circuit. In other words, the star power used to activate the formation has no circuit available, and can only be restored slowly on its own..."
Tang Xiaotang's face changed when she heard that.
A warrior needs to use martial arts to fight because martial arts have a complete star power circuit. Star power is sent out and taken back. The better the martial arts circuit is, the less star power is lost, the faster and more star power is returned, and the longer the battle time will naturally be.
But if the star power only comes out and does not return, that is a flaw!
Take a four-star warrior for example. If all the star power in the star veins is exhausted, even with the use of medicine, only a small part of it can be restored. If you want to fully restore it, it will take at least three or four days.
" It's easy to deal with a three-star warrior used to activate the formation, but a four-star warrior..." Tang Zheng frowned, "I'll think of a way."
"Should I let my dad and the others take action?" Tang Xiaotang asked.
"No." Tang Zheng shook his head. "Uncle and his men are the most reliable force in Tangjiabao at present. We cannot consider using them unless it is absolutely necessary!"
…
Tang Boyuan succeeded in attracting the star very smoothly and broke through to become a four-star warrior. This was truly a happy event for everyone in Tangjiabao.
However, his practice has not stopped yet.
His seven thousand strands of three-star star power broke through to four stars, but his star power was not particularly stable yet. Moreover, he also needed some time to start practicing four-star martial arts.
In addition, two of the seven two-star peak stewards of Tangjiabao also successfully advanced to three stars.
Three stars is the most difficult star-drawing experience in a warrior’s life.
The fact that two of the seven managers of Tangjiabao were able to successfully break through is an unreasonably high success rate.
"Although I'm already a four-star, the distance to a five-star is still an insurmountable chasm." Tang Boyuan saw Tang Zheng in the hall and sighed, "To be honest, you've done enough for Tangjiabao."
"It depends on my mood..." Tang Zheng smiled and looked at the four stars gradually flashing on the rising star, with a look of envy on his face.
"It would be too fake if I let you go now." Tang Boyuan sighed again, "You are different from Xiaotang and the others. You grew up outside the border. You have more experience and ideas than them. Tangjiabao is now in a life-and-death situation. If there is a need for us to help, even if it is just a glimmer of hope, just speak up!"
When Tang Zheng heard this, he knew that it must be Tang Xiaotang who told Tang Boyuan about Luo Fei's formation diagram.
He shook his head and said, "I have an idea and I'm already implementing it."
"Tell me about it?" Tang Boyuan asked with great interest.
Tang Zheng did not tell Tang Xiaotang and the others clearly. Firstly, he couldn't explain it clearly, and secondly, he was afraid that the news would leak out.
But when facing Tang Boyuan, he didn't have so many concerns and could speak directly.
"We can't find where the Lan family's secret cave is. Even if we find it, the blood sacrifice formation is a closed-loop formation with no breaking point..." Tang Zhengdao said.
"Yes." Tang Boyuan listened very carefully.
"So I didn't look for a breakthrough point from the blood sacrifice people and the formation itself." Tang Zheng pointed his finger and said, "My breakthrough point is to remove the firewood from under the cauldron!"
"What do you mean?"
"Xingbei is not the main star and does not contain true star power. Therefore, the essence of blood sacrifice is to use the purest blood of children as the material, to attract and borrow the blood power of the same constellation to gather on Xingbei, right?" Tang Zheng asked.
"Yes." Tang Boyuan nodded again.
"What if we borrow it first?" A smile appeared on Tang Zheng's face.
"..." Tang Boyuan suddenly felt that his brain was not enough, "Borrow it first?"
What does "borrow first" mean?
Judging from Tang Zheng’s smile, he probably plans to borrow without returning it, right?
“The breakthrough point we found is that the last step of the blood sacrifice of the old man of the Lan family is to borrow the star power of the descendants of his own family! However, we have borrowed the blood power of the Yue Ru Gou constellation first. Who can the old man of the Lan family ask to borrow from?” Tang Zheng stood up, his eyes dark. “He can’t complete the last step, so he can only be suppressed at the peak of four stars. Even if he has reached the peak to the sky, his fifth life palace will never light up, even if he dies! He will... hey, sit on the ground and cry..."
Tang Boyuan took a deep breath when he heard this.
Although Tang Zheng made a joke nonchalantly, he couldn't laugh at all.
He was so shocked by Tang Zheng's thoughts that he was speechless for a long time.
Yes, they couldn’t find the Lan family’s secret cave, nor could they find the ancestor of Yinlan Villa.
But they can find the direct descendants of Yinlan Villa!
"Can... can do it?" Tang Boyuan was so shocked that he didn't want to ask how Tang Zheng's train of thought turned around. He only asked the key point, "The old man of the Lan family spent nearly two months and sacrificed the lives of so many children before he reached the last step..."
"If he wants to come out alive, of course it will take that long. But if he only needs to absorb power, absorb it desperately, and explode and die immediately after absorbing it, then there is no need to take it that slowly... And we, the chief priests, don't need to stay alive, so of course we don't need to take it as slowly as he did... Luo Fei designed such a quick version of the five-star explosion formation."
Tang Boyuan asked subconsciously: "But, Old Man Lan is the ancestor of Yinlan Villa, he can be the main priest. Even if we want to borrow power, who can be the main priest?"
Tang Zheng smiled: "Our officiant? Oh... a piece of wood."
After saying that, Tang Zheng shrugged his shoulders. The counterfeits he encountered in his previous life were too low-end. The counterfeits in Xingyao Continent were the real counterfeits - even your ancestors could make a counterfeit for you!
After listening to Tang Zheng, Tang Boyuan probably understood his thoughts.
However, there is still a difficult road to turn this idea into reality step by step!
Tang Boyuan certainly didn't think that he could eliminate this huge crisis by just relying on a formation and a piece of wood - Yinlan Villa and Tangjiabao had existed together for so many years, they were not that weak.
"After Master Luo has carved the formation and Miss Hua Yingxiu has prepared the poison, it's our turn, right?" Tang Boyuan is older after all, and he knows the friendship between Luo Fei, Hua Yingxiu and Tang Zheng. It's already very good that he can help with the preparatory work. But after everything is ready, the next specific steps should be completed by Tangjiabao.
"Yes." Tang Zheng felt that it was too easy to talk to Tang Boyuan. He had his tenderness, but also his reality. He would not imagine that his Tang Family Castle had some great power that could make others support them to the end.
"Now, shall I activate the Gu-eating Blood-drawing Formation?" Tang Boyuan asked.
"No." Tang Zheng shook his head. "Even if the old man from the Lan family hasn't finished the sacrifice and comes out of retreat, he is at the peak of four stars. The most reliable force of Yinlan Villa must be stationed there all the time... Moreover, Luo Fei's formation is coordinated with Hua Yingxiu, so the coordination points between the two sides also need us to connect..."
"How to connect?" Tang Boyuan asked.
"It's very simple..." Tang Zheng said with a smile.
"How simple?" Tang Boyuan looked at him and his smile seemed to be a little off.
"Cut the throat of the owner of the Moon Like a Hook constellation and stuff Hua Yingxiu's blood ant poison in it!"
"..." Even Tang Boyuan was stunned for a moment.
