This is an open-air open courtyard, with a complicated Guixu formation drawn on the ground, like a rotating Wanhua mirror, constantly changing with dazzling lines and structures.
And above the head, there is a deep ravine with no end in sight, and the endless sea water forms a dark and lightless "night sky", which makes people feel a sense of daunting fear.
The only light source, apart from the light projected from the surrounding side hall windows, is probably the light of the Guixu Formation itself - the incantations and silver threads that make up the formation also glow.
Luo Yan did not step into the courtyard rashly, because there were many monks behind the surrounding windows observing the formation. Even if he just stepped on it and blocked the sight of a few of them, it might cause a violent reaction from the stunned people.
You know, crazy people are unreasonable!
Therefore, he just walked carefully along the open area around the formation and came to the pile of wood piled in the corner.
Judging from the texture of these woods, they seemed to have been cut down from the abandoned garden in the backyard, and were just piled haphazardly in the corner.
Luo Yan used his spiritual consciousness to penetrate into the cracks in the wood and probed carefully, but did not find anything strange.
It seems to be just ordinary wood...but why can it resist the sinking of the ravine?
"We need to do an experiment." Luo Yan said, taking a piece of wood here.
"What?" Miss Shi was caught off guard and didn't hear clearly.
She was a little distracted along the way just now, and her mind was filled with all kinds of random thoughts:
For example, if the two of them are really trapped here for hundreds of thousands of years, and in order to resist the passage of time, I and my junior brother decide to become Taoist couples together, will we have children in the future?
In the world of cultivating immortals, monks who become Taoist couples can choose to have children or not, it all depends on their personal preferences.
For Shi Liuli, on the one hand, it is the subtle influence of the family environment (Elder Shi Ding is obviously not a non-marriage or childbirth person), on the other hand, he is also worried about whether his junior brother will change his mind in the future, and if he can have a child, will he
Will it tie him down better?
Of course, Luo Yan did not expect that this young lady with out-of-the-box thinking would even start to consider "whether to have children" after being trapped here, so he patiently repeated his thoughts again:
"Currently, it seems that apart from the Guixu Palace itself, the only thing that can resist the sinking trend in the ravine is the wood used to make the Sanyu Treasure Ship."
"If there is no result in directly studying the Guixu Formation, you can also try to study these woods. To put it simply, you need to go to the backyard to get the same wood, and compare it with the wood piled near the formation to find out the difference between the two.
Differences and commonalities.”
Shi Liuli understood this time and said obediently, thinking that she should be a good wife and mother, right?
No problem! Liuli, you can definitely do it!
Luo Yan felt a little strange when he saw this. When did Miss Shi show such a well-behaved and docile attitude in the past?
Even if you agree to your request, it is because "I find it very interesting", not "because it is my junior brother's request".
So he guessed that Miss Shi was probably really scared this time and was scared out of her wits, so he held her hand and comforted her:
"Don't worry, senior sister, we will definitely be able to get out of here."
At least I can go out...
Miss Shi had a shy impulse to break away when he held her hands, but then she thought about what else she could do if she was trapped here except being with her junior brother. She could only turn her head away and smile.
Wu Zha nodded.
Luo Yan became more and more weird as he looked at it. Miss Shi's sanity durability is too low. How long have we been here? We can't stand it anymore?
Forget it, she is a psychological minor after all, so it is not easy to criticize her too much.
Luo Yan took her to the backyard garden, walked around the edge for a while, and noticed that there were indeed traces of logging in some areas.
Except for Mr. Zhun Mang, I don’t think anyone will chop down trees here... huh?
"Who!" Luo Yan suddenly shouted loudly, and the hands in his sleeves were already clasping Taoist spells, which scared Shi Liuli and hid behind him.
However, what ran out of the woods was not a vicious man with malicious intentions, but a crazy old Taoist priest.
"It's useless! It's useless!" He laughed hahahaly, "There are people who come after to study wood. Don't they know that it is built like a boat? If there are no people, it will float and if there are people, it will drown? This way is blocked, this way is blocked!"
The old Taoist priest ran away crying and laughing, leaving behind only Shi Liuli, who looked confused, and Luo Yan, whose face was gloomy and uncertain.
Luo Yan could clearly hear the other party's crazy words:
He said that pioneers had already tried this method of studying treasure ship timber.
Perhaps because of the large ravine at this location, the sealing force is too strong. If the wood soaked in the power of the formation is carved into a boat, it will only float when no one is riding it.
Once someone sits on it, it will not be able to bear the weight on it and will continue to sink.
Looking back at the Guixu Palace, no matter how many monks came in, it could still float steadily in this position, which is enough to show that the two's ability to resist the sinking of the ravine is not of the same level at all.
Luo Yan cut a few pieces of wood from the backyard garden and brought them back to his residence, and began to compare them with the wood near the Guixu Formation in the courtyard.
From the outside, there is really no difference between the two.
But if you use your spiritual consciousness to scan the interior, you will see subtle differences:
There are obvious patterns in the distribution density of wood and wooden fibers in backyard gardens. This is because when woody plants grow, they will produce corresponding "phototaxis changes" according to the direction of the surrounding fixed light sources.
The distribution density of wood fibers near the Guixu Formation in the central courtyard is chaotic, and there is no similar change.
There are two experiments to be done next: one is to carve the wood in the backyard courtyard into a treasure ship, and apply the "shape art" in the formation to make it quickly grow larger after it breaks away from the water film——
As a control group, see if you can float successfully.
If not, it proves that the floating is not the nature of the wood itself, but caused by the Guixu Formation in the courtyard.
The second step is to re-refresh the wood in the central courtyard and change the arrangement of the wooden fibers inside it with the wood-type divine light from the Five Elements Great Extinction Divine Light the day after tomorrow, and then see if it can float up.
If not, it proves that the treasure ship's buoyancy ability is related to the distribution of wood fibers inside it!
Luo Yan was concentrating on designing experiments when he was suddenly hit by a hair on his face.
He turned his head in confusion and saw Miss Shi Liulishi, who had playfully tied up a double ponytail and was playing with her ponytails in a bored manner.
"...senior sister."
"What's wrong, junior brother?"
"Don't interfere with my thoughts, thank you."
Shi Liuli was stunned for a long time and immediately became furious:
Senior sister, I haven't married you yet, and now you start to dislike senior sister? My father is not here, and you don't even bother to show off, right?
Her face was as heavy as water, a cold light flashed in her eyes, and she quietly walked around behind Luo Yan, who was unaware of it. Suddenly she stretched out her right arm to hug him into her arms, and suddenly strangled his neck and lifted him up.