With suspicion and curiosity in his heart, Leo walked around the wall in front of him, which was about three meters high and two meters wide.
After walking for a while, another wall appeared in front of him, exactly the same as the previous one.
The black lotus flower was also painted on this wall. When he used his spiritual sense to probe it, the black lotus flower on the wall slowly began to rotate.
Leo couldn’t help but reach out and touch the slowly rotating black lotus pattern. A cold feeling spread throughout his body instantly followed by an electric shock.
Leo quickly withdrew his hand and trembled uncontrollably twice all over his body.
“What strong evil energy!”
Leo’s heart was filled with astonishment. At this moment, he was certain that this place was definitely suppressing something extraordinary. He began to feel a bit hesitant about whether to continue moving forward.
Just then, Mr. Hood, Hamish, and their companions-six people in total-appeared in front of the stone wall at the end of Ten Thousand Buddhas Road.
“Mr. Hood, are you saying there’s a passage behind this stone wall?” Hamish pointed at the wall and asked.
Mr. Hood nodded and said, “Bring out what I asked you to prepare.”
One of the bandits immediately took out a black bottle from his backpack. Mr. Hood extended his right hand, and a wolf-hair brush appeared in his hand.
He then took the black bottle from the bandit’s hand and dipped the wolf-hair brush into it. When he pulled it out again, the brush was already soaked in red liquid.
The black bottle contained the blood of a young boy and a young girl.
Mr. Hood tossed the brush in his hand towards the stone wall, and it hovered in mid-air, only three centimeters away from the wall.
With the movement of Mr. Hood’s right hand, the brush began to draw red lines on the stone wall.
This miraculous technique left the five bandits dumbfounded.
In no time, a peculiar pattern was drawn on the stone wall.
Upon closer inspection, one could see that the red pattern drawn with the brush dipped in blood neatly encased the half-open lotus flower on the wall.
The brush dissipated, and Mr. Hood handed the black bottle to the bandits. He then began forming hand seals with both hands while uttering a series of strange syllables.
As Mr. Hood pressed a black handprint onto the stone wall, the red pattern on the wall started to move.
An extremely evil aura emanated, causing the five bandits to break out in a cold sweat, struggling to catch their breath.
Soon, the red pattern completely merged into the white lotus flower, which gradually turned black and started rotating.
As the rotation speed increased, the black lotus flower disappeared, and a pitch-black hole appeared on the stone wall.
Mr. Hood gestured with his eyes, and Hamish instructed one of the bandits to enter the hole first. Once they confirmed that everything was normal inside, the others followed suit.
Meanwhile, Leo, on the other side, finally made up his mind to continue moving forward.
After a certain distance, he encountered a third wall, but he ignored it and continued on his way, bypassing it.
Beyond the third wall, no more walls appeared. After a distance of about fifty meters, a circular platform appeared before Leo.
As he approached the platform and saw what was on it, Leo was truly perplexed.
In the center of the platform was an oversized compass with movable handles along its outer edge.
“Why would there be Taoist things on Buddhist territory? And from the looks of it, this giant compass should be movable. Could it be a mechanism?” Leo wondered as he circled around the compass, trying to make sense of it.
The large compass on the elevated platform was not exactly the same as the ones used by geomancers. Its surface only displayed a simple arrangement of the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams, but the directions indicated by these Eight Trigrams…
Hmm?
It was a Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams formation!
Using a compass to set up a formation, this method was quite innovative. Leo decided to give it a try and began manipulating the handles on the outer edge of the compass. Following the method to break the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams, he rearranged the positions of the trigrams on the compass surface.
As Leo had anticipated, as soon as the rearrangement was completed, the Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams formation broke apart with a cracking sound. The center of the compass slowly opened, revealing a downward passage.
This place was filled with mysteries. Looking at it from another perspective, it meant that there were immense secrets hidden here.
Leo probed the opening of the passage with his spiritual sense and then jumped down.
His phone was running low on battery, so Leo turned off the flashlight and relied on his spiritual sense to explore his surroundings.
He discovered something peculiar: his spiritual sense could detect everything within a three-meter radius, but beyond that, an invisible force blocked it.
After entering the passage opened by the compass, Leo found himself in a corridor that wasn’t very long. He quickly reached its end.
Upon exiting the corridor, the surroundings opened up once again. Leo regretted not bringing a powerful flashlight but had no choice but to use his phone’s flashlight. He also checked the battery and signal on his phone.
He had only 20% battery left, and there was no signal at all.
With the dim light from his phone’s flashlight, Leo could vaguely see that he seemed to be in a grand hall.
The hall was vast and empty, and the flashlight couldn’t illuminate it completely.
The floor of the hall was paved with a peculiar stone that emitted a faint green glow under the flashlight, as if walking on green tiles.
Leo cautiously moved forward, his eyes scanning the surroundings, but he couldn’t find anything particularly remarkable.
How could such a grand hall be located underground in Jade Peaks’ Mabuhay Temple?
This hall didn’t seem like a tomb chamber from an ancient tomb. Leo couldn’t fathom who built it and for what purpose.
Inside the hall, there wasn’t even a single stone, only pillars supporting the hall at a certain distance from each other.
After walking for about ten minutes, Leo finally saw something unusual-a flight of stairs appeared before his eyes.
After circling around, Leo realized that this was a deliberately constructed elevated platform within the grand hall, resembling an altar.
The platform was built with large black stones, giving off a sense of oppression and heaviness.
There were small pillars on both sides of the stairs leading to the top of the platform. Leo counted them-nine pillars on each side.
The carvings on the tops of the pillars were different. The left side had a Ruyi symbol, symbolizing auspiciousness, while the right side had a Dharma wheel, symbolizing the cycle of life and death.
What could be on top of the platform?
When Leo used his spiritual sense to probe upwards, a powerful force immediately rushed towards his Sea of Consciousness.
Leo felt a splitting headache and quickly retracted his spiritual sense, only then the pain subsided.
The object blocking his spiritual sense should be above, and it unexpectedly launched a spiritual attack. Leo started to feel a bit frightened.
Merely using his spiritual sense for exploration had already caused such a strong reaction. If there was some terrifying existence up there…