"good."
Li Yao smiled slightly and said, "I'd like to see this legendary Wooden Dummy Alley for myself."
Then, he stepped into the stone chamber.
In fact, he obtained the 'Heavenly Extreme Maha' not only from Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun.
He even upgraded this skill by consuming luck points, tracing back to its origins and learning the entire 'Yuanji Maha'.
That's why he was able to give guidance to Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun before.
Besides Bai Suzhen, Nie Feng, Bu Jingyun, and others also entered the stone chamber.
To their surprise, the floor of the stone chamber was covered with 'words'.
Chapter 252 The Tears of Bodhidharma, the truth is finally about to be revealed.
Li Yao discovered that the floor of the stone chamber was covered with identical blood-red square bricks.
Each brick has a large character engraved on it.
These words cannot be arranged into sentences, and the text is not fluent.
In other words, these are a jumbled mess of words.
At the end of the stone chamber stood a massive crystal gate.
I believe that is the sacred gate that Bai Suzhen spoke of.
From Li Yao's location to the giant crystal gate, there was a distance of about sixty zhang.
Within this distance, there must be unseen dangers lurking.
However, given Li Yao's skill in lightness techniques, it should be possible for him to leap over the crystal gate in one go.
However, Li Yao wanted to see the Wooden Dummy Alley, which contained the 'Yuanji Maha'.
Therefore, he did not leap over it.
Inside the crystal ball at the entrance of the stone chamber is a sign that reads, "Only by following the guidance of scriptures can one attain enlightenment."
In other words, you need to step on the square bricks with the corresponding characters according to a certain Buddhist scripture to activate the wooden figure mechanism.
There are a total of 264 bricks on the ground, four of which are not engraved.
Therefore, this Buddhist scripture should have 260 characters.
In fact, Li Yao knew which Buddhist scripture it was without even counting the numbers.
That is the most classic Buddhist text, the Heart Sutra.
As long as Li Yao steps on the bricks corresponding to the characters in the Heart Sutra in the correct order, he can activate the wooden man's mechanism.
Li Yao had once traveled the world of martial arts, visited the Shaolin Temple's Sutra Repository, and had a deep understanding of Buddhist kung fu.
Therefore, he was naturally familiar with the Heart Sutra.
So he stepped on the bricks one by one, following the order of the text of the Heart Sutra.
This left Nie Feng and the others looking at each other in bewilderment!
Before even figuring out the situation, Li Yao had already taken action.
What if something goes wrong and triggers a fatal mechanism? Wouldn't that be extremely bad?
While they were worrying, Li Yao had already stepped on every single brick with inscriptions.
Immediately afterwards, a whooshing sound of wind breaking came from the top of the cave.
At the same time, twenty-two dark, shadowy openings appeared on the cave ceiling.
Moreover, twenty-two dark figures fell from the twenty-two openings, landing on the ground covered with inscriptions, thus completely surrounding Li Yao.
These twenty-two dark figures were actually twenty-two burly wooden figures, each about the height of an adult.
Wooden Dummy Formation!
Sure enough, there was a wooden dummy formation here.
These wooden figures, like folk puppet shows, have many small iron chains attached to their hands and feet, all the way to the top of the cave.
These iron chains are probably used to control the movements of these wooden figures, just like marionettes.
These wooden figures appear to be wood carvings.
With just a light palm strike, Li Yao could obliterate these wooden bodies into dust.
However, even the gods could not get past this wooden dummy formation.
Clearly, these wooden figures are not as simple as they appear.
On the chest of each wooden figure, one character was engraved.
These words together form a sentence: All martial arts under heaven originate from Shaolin. Shaolin's number one supreme martial art, Yuanji Maha, is here!
Li Yao scoffed at this.
Shaolin Kung Fu is indeed powerful and profound.
However, to say that "all martial arts under heaven originated from Shaolin" is simply to glorify oneself.
Chinese martial arts are basically derived from battlefield combat.
Most of those internal energy cultivation techniques also originated from Taoism.
Let alone other worlds, just in this world of flourishing martial arts, there are many schools of martial arts that are no weaker than Shaolin's.
For example, Guan Yu's "Love That Could Topple a City", Li Jing's "Three-Part Return to Origin Qi", and the Sword Saint's "Holy Spirit Sword Technique"...
Moreover, many of the Shaolin Seventy-Two Arts were collected by the Shaolin Prajna Hall from other sects.
Therefore, the claim that "all martial arts under heaven originated from Shaolin" is utter nonsense.
However, the 'Yuanji Maha' created by Bodhidharma is extremely powerful.
It can be said that 'Yuanji Maha' is one of the few invincible martial arts in the world of Fengyun that has never lost its value from beginning to end.
Its power is on par with the 'Love That Shakes the City' that Guan Yu comprehended.
Just as the twenty-two wooden figures fell, they began to dance.
At the same time, Li Yao felt a huge, invisible force around him, as if it were pulling him.
Even Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun, who were outside the wooden dummy formation, felt an invisible force resonating with the power within their bodies.
As the wooden figure danced faster and faster, Li Yao followed suit, unleashing the moves of 'Yuanji Maha'.
Li Yao frowned.
He has always stuck to his own path and would never let others lead him by the nose.
Now, however, he is influenced by these twenty-two wooden figures.
This 'Yuanji Moke' is indeed powerful!
However, he didn't want to be controlled by the 'wooden man' like that.
His gaze sharpened, and he struggled to break free from the immense pulling force exerted by the wooden figure.
Immediately, he pushed his palms out to the left and right.
He used the essence of 'Yuanji Maha' to activate the true energy of the Great Dao within his body.
Suddenly, two incredibly dazzling beams of holy golden light burst forth from his palms.
An overwhelming force erupted from his palm.
Immediately, a loud bang was heard, and the twenty-two wooden figures instantly turned into dust.
Even the iron chains that held the hands and feet of the twenty-two wooden figures broke apart inch by inch.
At the same time, Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun, who were dancing along with the wooden figure, immediately stopped.
"What an amazing Yuanji Maha!"
Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
"Lord Li's Yuanji Maha is actually more powerful than the Yuanji Maha of the Wooden Dummy Formation."
"I admire you! I admire you!"
Upon seeing that Li Yao had broken the wooden dummy formation, Bai Suzhen immediately slipped into the stone chamber.
At that moment, the giant crystal gate slowly rose up with a 'creak'.
Bai Suzhen exclaimed in surprise, "The Holy Gate has finally opened!"
The terrifying weapon she had been waiting for was finally about to reveal its true form.
Then, she said to Kuroko, "Kuroko, quickly wake up Kong Ci..."
As soon as she finished speaking, she rushed into the Holy Gate.
Li Yao followed him inside.
Nie Feng, Bu Jingyun, and the others stayed outside, waiting for Kong Ci to wake up.
Bai Suzhen and Li Yao entered the Holy Gate and soon saw a skeleton lying on the ground.
A faint light flickered from the hand bones of the skeleton.
Upon closer inspection, it was a teardrop-shaped crystal, about the size of a finger!
"We've finally found it!"
Bai Suzhen was overjoyed.
She immediately took the crystal into her hand.
Suddenly, her face darkened, she glared hatefully at the skeleton, and with a flick of her wrist, slammed her palm into the skeleton.
Instantly, the skeleton was smashed to pieces.
"Is this skeleton the ruthless killer Bu Jie?"