Chapter 237

"Don't think about using spells. I've tried it. The Dharma array here seems to contain legendary forbidden Dharma restrictions. Unless your realm and mana are higher than the array master who set it up, you cannot cast spells. Even spells attached to artifacts won't work." On the other side, Ximen Mei's cold voice came, and then he saw the woman take out a short-blade artifact from her bosom and go directly to cut the vines on the stone wall.

"So that's how it is."

Wang Yu suddenly realized. After thinking for a while, he didn't take any artifacts, but moved his arms directly, his two hands like two iron hooks, tearing the vines on the wall down directly.

Before long, he had cleared all the vines on the two nearby walls, revealing all the relief patterns covered inside, a total of four.

Wang Yu stepped back a few steps, looked at them one by one, and an expression of contemplation appeared.

The first relief depicted a huge spider at the bottom of a dry well, swallowing wisps of mist toward a full moon at the mouth of the well.

The second relief still depicted that huge spider, but at this time, it had already come to the ground, baring its fangs and brandishing its claws, spitting out a silk web, facing a middle-aged monk stepping on a Zen staff in the high sky above.

This monk's face was elegant, his features lifelike, and his momentum was extraordinary, just like a living person.

The third relief, however, turned into a middle-aged Confucian scholar, flying lightly in the air, with a small spider crawling on his shoulder, but looking at the Confucian scholar's face and features, it was clearly the previous monk.

The fourth relief depicted the previous middle-aged Confucian scholar and the huge spider, one urging the Zen staff and the other spitting out a silk web in the high sky, simultaneously attacking a beast that looked like a tiger and a cow below.

After his thoughts turned a few times, he generally understood the meaning of these four reliefs, which seemed to tell the story of a spider demonic beast being subdued and then joining forces to deal with other enemies.

Could that middle-aged monk and Confucian scholar be the legendary Jialan Venerable? Are these reliefs left by Jialan Venerable?

But why did the first relief have to draw a spider demonic beast first?

Wang Yu felt a bit strange, feeling that something was not quite right somewhere. He turned his head to look at the other side and saw that Ximen Mei on that side had also used the short blade in her hand to clear the other two walls, also revealing four reliefs.

The woman was concentrating on looking at these reliefs.

Wang Yu walked over without thinking, came to Ximen Mei's side, and began to examine the reliefs on the stone wall here.

Ximen Mei sensed Wang Yu's approach, stood still on the spot, and had no intention of dodging.

After Wang Yu's gaze swept over, he saw the relief patterns here clearly in order.

Sure enough, it was about the same as he expected. The four relief patterns here clearly followed the content of the reliefs on the two walls on the other side.

The fifth relief depicted an old man whose figure had begun to wither, sitting cross-legged in front of a pool, while the huge spider stood on the other side of the pool.

The old man sat cross-legged, and a cloud of mist appeared above his head, inside which there was vaguely a white, chubby baby, but no matter the old man or the baby's face, one could vaguely see traces of the previous middle-aged monk and Confucian scholar.

The huge spider spat out a huge round bead several times larger than the one carved in the first picture, seemingly refining something.

In the sixth relief, it still depicted the old man and the huge spider. The old man's face was clearly much older than before, but the huge spider was even more ferocious, covered with sharp spikes all over its body.

But the content of the picture was that the old man turned into a giant covered with Sanskrit characters, pressing the huge spider's head with one hand and waving his fist with the other, seemingly beating this demonic beast violently.

The seventh relief depicted the old man sitting cross-legged in front of a temple hall, with a huge spirit pattern pattern vaguely on the ground, and a baby was flying lightly toward the high sky, where a phantom of a huge eyeball was vaguely visible.

That huge spider was lying at the entrance of the temple hall, looking very obedient.

The eighth relief was surprisingly still in front of the temple hall, but the picture had changed again to that huge spider pouncing toward the baby in the air, and spitting out a silk web to cover the baby. The old man who was originally sitting cross-legged below turned into a giant covered with Sanskrit characters again, and grabbed one of the huge spider's hind legs, seemingly pulling it downward.

The reliefs on the surrounding stone walls stopped abruptly here, with no follow-up.

After Wang Yu finished reading, his heart rolled like a stormy sea.

Ximen Mei had also walked to the wall on the other side and finished reading the four reliefs that started there one by one, her eyebrows furrowed tightly.

"Ximen Shijie, have you understood the meaning of these reliefs?" After Wang Yu coughed lightly, he asked the woman first.

"I've generally understood it. It seems to be depicting the matter of Jialan Venerable subduing a spider demonic beast." Ximen Mei replied slowly, her tone clearly very solemn.

"Senior Sister, are you sure that the person on the relief is Jialan Venerable?" Wang Yu asked back.

"Ten to nine, it won't be wrong. The Ancestor once said that Jialan Venerable was born in the Buddhist sect in his early years, and there are not many cultivators in the entire Wu Nation's cultivation world who can cultivate to the Nascent Soul in the last few thousand years." Ximen Mei said without thinking.

"That baby is indeed the legendary Nascent Soul!

If this is really the case, the information left by these reliefs is a bit strange. Shijie, who do you think left these reliefs?" Wang Yu asked with his gaze flickering a few times.

"Shouldn't it be left by Jialan Venerable?" Ximen Mei felt a bit strange.

"Senior Sister, don't you feel that the protagonist of these reliefs doesn't seem to be Jialan Venerable?" Wang Yu asked back.

"Junior Brother means, these reliefs were left by that spider demonic beast? The last picture of the relief is also a picture of this demonic beast counter-attacking Jialan Venerable's Nascent Soul." Ximen Mei was shocked and blurted out.

"I don't know about this either, but it feels more like..." Wang Yu's various thoughts turned rapidly in his heart, and he hesitated a bit.

"At this point, is there anything else Shidi can't say?" Seeing this, Ximen Mei said dissatisfiedly.

"Hmm, since Senior Sister has said so, then I will speak directly. Based on my feeling, these reliefs were not left by Jialan Venerable, nor do they look like they were left by that spider demonic beast; they look more like they were left by a third person." Wang Yu said slowly.

"A third person? This is impossible!

The content depicted on these reliefs clearly only happened between Jialan Venerable and that spider demonic beast. Where else could there be a third person present?" Hearing this, Ximen Mei shook her head repeatedly.

"That's why I also feel a bit strange." Wang Yu looked at the last four reliefs again, his eyes narrowed slightly.

"I actually feel that now is not the time to study this matter. Shidi, don't you feel that our current situation is very dangerous?

According to the content on the last relief, that spider demonic beast is not necessarily dead, and the lifespan of demonic beasts far exceeds that of our human race. It is very likely that it is still alive in this secret realm. Perhaps this place is one of its nests." Ximen Mei analyzed while looking around, her expression clearly becoming nervous.