The light from the light strip was much more dazzling than the previous fluorescent matrix.

Seeing this scene, Fatty exclaimed, "This is exactly the same as the fluorescent matrix in the rainforest!"

I could tell from the eyes of Rou Yi, Jennifer, and Dodge that Fatty was telling the truth.

If that's the case, then the location where the blue fluorescent dots are converging must be the entrance to the Immortal Mountain.

So I quickly urged, "Follow me, we need to find the location where the fluorescent dots are flying to quickly! The entrance to the Immortal Mountain is there!"

...

We couldn't run faster than the blue fluorescent dots anyway, and coupled with the cumbersome protective suits, we could only stumble along the flight path of the fluorescent dots.

Fortunately, there were a large number of fluorescent dots, and the flight process was still ongoing, and the flight trajectory was still clear, so we didn't have to worry about losing the target.

We ran along this blue light strip for about ten minutes before finally finding the final destination of the fluorescent dots – a huge open space far away from the Immortal Mountain.

Under the illumination of the blue light, we could vaguely see that there was no vegetation or even any abrupt objects in this open space, except for an unclear object in the middle. The whole thing was a flat ground.

The texture of the ground was completely different from the soil in the forest. Stepping on it felt like a hard stone.

At first, the place where the blue fluorescent dots converged was too far away to see clearly. Only when we got closer did we realize that it was the opening of a dry well.

The dry well was surrounded by eight stone squares evenly spaced. Looking down from above, one could immediately recognize that this was actually a Bagua (Eight Trigrams) layout. The well opening of the dry well was the yin-yang Taiji in the center of the Bagua – this was a Yin-Yang Well.

Daoists say that if a destined person finds the Yin-Yang Well, the Yin-Yang Well separates two worlds. Entering the well, the dead can be resurrected, and the living can ascend to immortality.

The blue fluorescent dots continuously converged into the Yin-Yang Well, which was bottomless and continuously absorbed energy.

Fatty and I took the lead, with Dodge covering the rear, and the five of us slowly approached the Yin-Yang Well.

When we came to the edge of the Yin-Yang Well, Fatty's foot made a "click" sound, crisp and clear, as if he had stepped on a broken tile.

In this situation, any slight noise could bring danger. Fatty was very vigilant and quickly called for everyone to stop moving forward.

"Damn, I think I stepped on something. Everyone stand by!"

Indeed, as a former soldier, Fatty was particularly concerned about the dangers under his feet. If he really stepped on something like a landmine, everyone would be blown to pieces with the slightest carelessness.

Fatty didn't dare to move. He looked down at his feet with the help of the blue fluorescence. The next second, Fatty knew what he had stepped on.

"I stepped on a Bagua plate's trigram stone slab, but... it seems to be a mechanism."

Fatty was indeed the first of the five of us to step into the Bagua plate. If the Bagua plate had a mechanism, Fatty would also be the first to discover it.

Confirming that there was no immediate danger, we gathered around Fatty, paying attention to the stone slab under his feet.

The stone slab under Fatty's feet was engraved with the Bagua's trigram image, but Rou Yi and I looked at each other, without a clue. Jennifer and Dodge were even worse, they didn't even know what the Bagua was.

Fatty wiped his sweat and said, "I know a little bit about the Bagua. When I was in the army, an old slick taught me a little bit of the basics. The one I'm stepping on now is the 'Gen Trigram' in the Bagua."

I followed up on Fatty's words and asked, "What is the meaning of the 'Gen Trigram'?"

"The 'Gen Trigram' indicates the northeast direction, and in Qimen Dunjia (Mysterious Doors and Hidden Armor), it refers to the 'Life Gate'," Fatty explained.

I asked again, "If the 'Gen Trigram' is the 'Life Gate', then which trigram position is the 'Death Gate'?"

Fatty pointed to a stone slab directly opposite the Yin-Yang Well and directly opposite him, and said, "That is the 'Kun Trigram', which is composed of three 'Yin Yao' arranged from top to bottom."

Some of the words Fatty used were too "professional" and I didn't understand them at all, but solving the problem was imminent: "What is 'Yin Yao', speak in plain language."

Fatty quickly explained, "'Yin Yao' is two short horizontal lines, and the corresponding 'Yang Yao' is a long horizontal line."

I compared it according to Fatty's description, and it was indeed the case.

Then, according to Fatty's explanation, I found the eight trigram positions of 'Qian (☰), Kan (☵), Gen (☶), Zhen (☳), Xun (☴), Li (☲), Kun (☷), Dui (☱)' on the Bagua plate.

Remembering the poem "Chan cultivation often complements, candle dance illuminates the long constant" from the previous tracing, if Daoist cultivation wants to "complement", literally meaning mutual supplementation, then the "Life Gate" corresponds to the "Death Gate". If this is a mechanism, then if I stand on the "Kun Trigram" opposite Fatty, it should just unlock this mechanism.

So, I told Fatty my thoughts.

But Fatty gave another explanation...