8mi Chapter 1362 - 684: Giant Spider (Part 2)
Chapter 1362 - 684: Giant Spider (Part 2)
Under the Eight Trigrams Diagram, he discovered five movable round stone balls. As he gently touched them, he found that these stone balls were also engraved with the Eight Trigrams Diagram, mirroring the pattern above.This discovery filled Lin Beichen with excitement, as if he had glimpsed the dawn of hope. He began to rotate the stone balls below in accordance with the diagram above, carefully aligning each one.
However, when he aligned all five stone balls to perfectly match the diagram above, the stone door showed no sign of opening at all. Lin Beichen’s heart sank. Could it be that he guessed wrong?
"Is this not the mechanism to open the stone door?" he muttered to himself, filled with doubt.
He felt it made no sense; since these mechanisms were installed on the stone door, could they merely be decorative?
Unwilling to give up, Lin Beichen carefully explored the entire stone door once more with his hands, hoping to find some change.
This time, however, he noticed that the patterns on the stone door seemed different from before.
His heart stirred, and he pressed his ear against the stone door, trying to listen for any movement inside. But it was silent, with no sound coming from within.
Previously, although he couldn’t hear anything inside, he could occasionally hear knocking on the stone door, letting him know that someone was inside. But now, it was completely silent.
"Could the code be wrong?" Lin Beichen pondered, thinking he might have made a mistake when deciphering the mechanism. He crouched down, preparing to try again.
However, at that moment, he overlooked the spiders crawling up along the pit’s walls. As he lowered his head, he felt a sharp pain in his back. He quickly turned around to find a swarm of spiders already surrounding him.
Seeing the approaching swarm of spiders, Lin Beichen knew that he no longer had time to unlock the stone door’s secret. He had to deal with the spiders first to buy himself some time.
Ignoring the wound on his back, he quickly shook off the spiders clinging to him and pulled out a Thunder-Attracting Talisman from his pocket.
Facing such a large number of spiders, ordinary talismans were clearly ineffective. He could only hope that the Thunder-Attracting Talisman would quickly clear out the nearby spiders.
He clasped the talisman between two fingers, closed his eyes, and silently chanted the incantation.
In an instant, the roar of thunder came from above, and a white light appeared out of nowhere in the pit.
In a five-meter radius around Lin Beichen, spiders were instantly scorched by Celestial Thunder into a charred mess.
However, Lin Beichen did not expect the situation to be so troublesome. The number of spiders was simply overwhelming, and he didn’t have enough talismans. He found himself in a dilemma.
The first choice was to immediately use the black giant spider’s silk to leave the pit and return the way he came.
Although the black giant spider was dead, its silk was still on the pit wall, allowing him to escape easily.
But if he did that, the person behind the stone door might be left to die.
The second choice was to stay and rescue the person. But he had to open the stone door quickly, and he simply couldn’t figure out the Eight Trigrams lock.
Watching the unending swarm of spiders, Lin Beichen was more inclined to leave this place of trouble quickly.
After all, although he hadn’t opened the stone door, he couldn’t be sure there was someone behind it.
In this situation, leaving might be the best solution for him.
However, he felt torn. To abandon someone in need went against his responsibilities as an inheritor of the Daoist Family. He even hoped that now, there would be any sound from inside the stone door, even the knocking sound from before. Then, he could decide firmly to stay and rescue the person.
But with his back pressed against the stone door, no sound came from inside. This left him somewhat disheartened, making him want to leave quickly.
Just as Lin Beichen was preparing to disperse the spiders in front of him and retreat from the pit, he suddenly felt a sensation of being watched. He quickly turned his head and saw a gap had appeared next to the stone door at some unknown time.
This gap allowed him to see inside the stone door. He leaned in closer and saw a pair of terrified eyes staring intently at him. Those eyes were filled with fear and despair, as if pleading for his help.
Seeing those eyes, Lin Beichen was stunned. Then a feeling of self-reproach welled up in his heart. How could he have thoughts of retreating in the face of danger?
If he left now, it would mean this person would die inside the stone door. As a propagator of the Daoist principles, how could he just stand by?
The eyes inside the stone door continued to stare at him intensely, as if afraid Lin Beichen would disappear in a blink.
Lin Beichen was about to speak when he was interrupted by a voice from inside the stone door.
"You’ve come to save me, haven’t you? Please, don’t go, save me, I’m so scared!" The voice was tinged with sobs, sounding like both a woman’s voice and a child’s voice. But regardless, Lin Beichen understood that a living person was pleading for his help.
"Don’t worry, I’ll definitely get you out!" Lin Beichen said firmly. Since he decided to save the person, he didn’t delay any further. He began thinking about how to both ward off the spiders and open the stone door.
Soon, he thought of the only solution. That was to use the might of Celestial Thunder to completely drive off the nearby spiders, then forcefully break open the stone door.
Thinking of this, Lin Beichen drew the peach wood sword from his back.
Unless it was an emergency, he usually wouldn’t use the peach wood sword, but now he had no choice.
He lightly leapt into the air. The peach wood sword in his hand created a dance of sword flowers, and he formed hand seals with his left hand, eyes closed, as if silently reciting a spell.
As with invoking the Thunder-Attracting Talisman earlier, thunder roared above Lin Beichen. In the confined space, the sound was even more deafening.
Soon after, a blinding white light struck down. This time, within a ten-meter radius around Lin Beichen, all spiders were shattered by Celestial Thunder.
Nevertheless, it was of little use. From the bottom of the pit, spiders kept climbing upward. Within a few breaths, the spiders had almost surrounded Lin Beichen again.
Yet unleashing the might of Celestial Thunder did buy Lin Beichen some time. He knew he didn’t have much time left and couldn’t care about the endless swarm of spiders behind him. He immediately returned to face the stone door, forming hand seals and biting his middle finger. He began writing on the stone door with his blood.
His movements were swift and precise. In the blink of an eye, a talisman drawn in blood appeared on the stone door. The talisman emitted an eerie glow, seeming to contain immense power.
After confirming the talisman was correct, Lin Beichen closed his eyes, whispering Daoist incantations in a low, powerful voice, as if communicating with some mysterious force.
Initially, Lin Beichen only used his blood as cinnabar to draw the talisman. But now, the blood he spread on the stone door began to burn! The red flame tinged slightly with cyan looked particularly conspicuous in the dark pit. It leapt and flickered, emitting a chilling aura.
However, Lin Beichen paid no mind to this. His entire focus was on opening the stone door. He knew that whether he could successfully rescue the person depended on this moment.
The talisman drawn with blood as the guide held great power. Combined with his whispered Daoist incantations, it could forcefully open the stone door by using his burning blood.
Since it was his blood, using and burning it would take a significant toll on Lin Beichen. But in these circumstances, he didn’t have time to think it over carefully. He had to solve the problem first.
As the blood burned, a foul smell began to spread.
That unpleasant stench didn’t come from Lin Beichen’s blood,