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“There is a crescent moon symbol like this every twenty-four steps.”
"We just climbed a total of 768 steps. Since we went around twice, there are a total of 384 steps here."
Say it.
Li Xiaohu noticed that everyone was staring at him in shock.
Somewhat embarrassed, she asked, "Why are you all looking at me like that?"
Jin Suanpan chuckled first, then exclaimed in admiration, "Little Tiger!"
"You're a real monster, kid!"
"In this kind of environment, you still have the leisure to pay attention to these trivial things?"
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Chapter 110 - The Deadly Staircase of Suspended Souls, Never to End! (Please subscribe to all chapters!)
Partridge Whistle was so shocked that he was speechless.
He never expected it.
Even in this almost blind environment, Li Xiaohu maintained his composure, carefully observing every place and not missing a single detail!
If it was said earlier that Li Xiaohu's composure had already impressed him greatly.
Him now.
I even felt a sense of admiration for Li Xiaohu's calmness and meticulousness!
Li Xiaohu waved his hand dismissively and said "modestly":
"It's just a long-standing habit."
"In a dangerous place like an ancient tomb, if you're not calm and careful, you'd probably be dead a long time ago."
Yin Xinyue, who was standing nearby, was particularly convinced of this.
She followed Li Xiaohu all the way.
I have seen it with my own eyes several times.
Because of Li Xiaohu's calmness and meticulousness, he avoided or resolved countless crises.
Jin Suanpan patted Li Xiaohu on the shoulder with certainty and said with satisfaction, "If Master sees this, he will be very pleased."
Li Xiaohu chimed in, "Look at what you're saying."
"What do you mean by 'have a chance to see him'? If we want to see him, we can go back and see him anytime, right?"
"Hahahaha." Jin Suanpan laughed awkwardly, then said, "That's true."
"Let's go back and visit him together when we have the chance."
Back to the topic.
Partridge Whistle asked, puzzled:
"So how do we solve the puzzle here?"
Jin Suanpan waved his hand and said, "Brother Partridge Whistle, don't panic."
"Solving a puzzle is like fortune-telling; you have to do it step by step."
“First…” Jin Suanpan glanced at the 260 steps leading up and down and said, “We need to know what kind of trap this is.”
Partridge Whistle and the others looked at him with puzzled expressions.
I was eager to hear what he would say next.
Jin Suanpan continued, "Li Chunfeng is extremely skilled in feng shui and physiognomy."
"The layout of the ancient tomb is full of subtle references to the I Ching and the Eight Trigrams, so the mechanisms here must also be the same."
"Based on the clues provided by Xiaohu."
“There is a crescent moon symbol every twenty-four steps, for a total of sixteen. It is probably meant to represent the sixteen-character hexagram and the twenty-four formulas.”
"It coincides with a mechanism that my master once described as the 'Suspended Soul Staircase'."
"The Suspended Soul Ladder?" Partridge Whistle and the others were startled upon hearing this.
What kind of trap or mechanism was that?
"The Suspended Soul Ladder," Jin Suanpan continued to explain, "is a trap designed based on the complex numerology of the I Ching."
"It is said that once a person mistakenly enters this place, they will keep walking up this ladder and never reach the end!"
Yin Xinyue used a concept that everyone could understand: "It's like an upgraded version of being trapped in a maze."
Jin Suanpan smiled and nodded.
"You can think so."
"However, the Suspended Staircase is much more dangerous than the Ghost Wall."
"My master had deciphered the secrets of all the ghost mazes, but he had not been able to understand the mystery of the Suspended Soul Ladder."
"So I'm not entirely clear on the specific principles behind it."
"I only remember my master telling us..."
Li Xiaohu spoke up and joined him in saying:
"If you encounter the Suspended Staircase, avoid it if you can."
"If you unfortunately stumble into this situation, you can try to decipher it through the principles of the I Ching and the Eight Trigrams, and there might be a glimmer of hope!"
"Hiss!" Partridge Whistle couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
According to them...
Even those who understand the I Ching and the Eight Trigrams have only a sliver of hope after entering the Suspended Soul Ladder.
After someone who didn't understand the I Ching and the Eight Trigrams went in...
Isn't it certain death?
Then he let out a long sigh of relief.
Fortunately, among them were Li Xiaohu and Jin Suanpan, who were both experts in feng shui!
"so."
Li Xiaohu offered a solution.
"We only need to calculate the hexagrams corresponding to the special stone steps among these 364 steps."
"By finding the 'Gate of Life' inside using the I Ching, we should be able to solve the Suspended Soul Staircase."
Hear this.
Even Jin Suanpan couldn't help but feel a tightness in his chest.
They actually need to calculate 364 steps!
Just think about it.
He already felt a headache coming on.
"Sigh." Jin Suanpan sighed helplessly, "The most troublesome thing is not how many divinations to perform."
"But where should we begin?"
They've already walked around the Suspended Staircase twice, and now they can't even find the head. Where do they even begin to count?
Li Xiaohu smiled and said, "Senior brother, there's no need to worry."
“I’ve been counting from the very beginning.”
“The crescent-shaped step we are standing on is the position of the ‘Kun’ hexagram.”
Jin Suanpan glanced at Li Xiaohu with surprise and exclaimed, "You kid..."
He then took the small golden abacus and Bagua compass from his waist and began to calculate with his fingers.
He muttered to himself:
"If we take the Kun hexagram as the starting point, and then use the Twenty-Four Formulas to change the Zi-Wu (子午) position, the number of steps required for calculation should be..."
The group stood quietly to the side, not daring to make a sound and disturb the calculation process of the golden abacus.
Li Xiaohu took advantage of this moment.
I crouched down and reached out to comfort each of its cats.
They didn't really like being tied up with ropes and kept grumbling and complaining the whole way.
The others simply sat on the stone steps and waited for the answer.
"Drink some water."
Hong walked over to Li Xiaohu, handed him a bottle of water, and said...
"You've always kept quiet about your master, so I thought he was no longer alive."