Chapter 2606 (Two Thousand Six Hundred and Six) Five Sides
“What are the specific differences?” Tie Hongyan asked.

Tie Jinjue told Tie Hongyan.

“Why did my father think of letting Li Fangshi take you to walk the same path he walked before?” Tie Hongyan asked curiously.

“Li Fangshi’s condition today was very abnormal. When he looked at the paintings, he saw something different from what we saw. The clan leader thought it might be related to a certain place where he got lost when he came here, so he asked him to take us away.” Tie Jinjue said, “Originally, he was supposed to take us back along the way he came, but when he reached a fork in the road, he couldn’t remember which way he took. So the clan leader asked him to take us back along the way he came from and walk the same way he walked.”

Tie Hongyan said: “What he saw in the painting is different from what you and my father saw?”

“Yes.” Tie Jinjue said, “When I asked him to draw what he saw from the Guanji fan, the content of his drawing was very strange. In the room next to the meeting hall of Hongfeng Hall, when Li Fangshi was drawing, I also drew. I drew a picture of a cactus in the sun, but after Li Fangshi saw the painting, he said that what he saw was completely different from what I drew.”

Tie Hongyan found it very strange and asked, “Can’t he see the cactus when he looks at his uncle’s painting?”

Tie Jinjue said: “From what Li Fangshi said, it is not possible to see it. What is strange is that he can actually see another kind of thorny plant in the painting.”

“What plant?” Tie Hongyan asked.

Tie Jinjue said, “I don’t know either. That plant is very rare and has thorns on it. Li Fangshi said that he saw it for the first time today.”

“He saw that plant for the first time today, and then he saw that plant in the painting drawn by his uncle?” Tie Hongyan said.

“That’s right.” Tie Jinjue said, “Do you know that the first time he saw that kind of plant was exactly where the changes occurred underground!”

“It sounds like Li Fangshi was affected by the place where the underground changes happened after he passed by it.” Tie Hongyan said. “It’s very likely.” Tie Jinjue said, “Li Fangshi saw something different there than the first time. He never had this kind of situation in other places along the way.

“Did he figure out that changes had taken place underground based on his actions?” Tie Hongyan asked.

“Yes.” Tie Jinjue said, “But some other conditions are required, otherwise he won’t know. Wasn’t it thundering and raining outside today?”

“Yes, the thunder was really loud and the rain was very heavy too.” Tie Hongyan said.

“When the clan leader and I were in that area, there was thunder. For safety, we first returned to the Bakong Palace. Later, we went back to that place and found that a tall and thick tree there had been struck by lightning. There were multiple pentagonal holes on the tree. The edges of those holes were neat, as if they were man-made. Master Li said that the appearance of those pentagonal holes on the tree could prove that there was a place related to magic nearby.” Tie Jinjue said.

“Are those pentagonal holes still there now?” Tie Hongyan asked.

Tie Jinjue replied: “Still here.”

“Could it be that Master Li determined that changes had occurred underground in that area based on that pentagonal hole?” Tie Hongyan asked.

“You can say that.” Tie Jinjue said, “At that time, Master Li told us that the sharpest corner of each pentagon points directly downwards. If there are no other circumstances, the place related to the spell should be underground.”

(End of this chapter)