Xi Tong leaned half her body against Fang Er’s, pointing at the distant star cores.
“They come from two star cores, their magnetic fields are completely different!”
“They attract each other, yet repel each other!”
“Over time, a subtle equilibrium force field is formed!”
“Once an external force tries to intervene in this balance, it will be flung out by the force field between the two star cores!”
“It’s like an ant approaching two rapidly spinning gears that are biting into each other!”
“Either it gets flung away, or it’s ground into powder!”
After hearing her explanation, Fang Er couldn’t help but feel a chill of fear.
After two failed attempts, they no longer dared to approach the star cores carelessly. The two stopped where they were, quietly observing the operational patterns of the star cores.
The scene of the two star cores rotating around each other was not static!
After observing continuously for nearly a month, Fang Er vaguely saw different scenes!
As the two star cores rotated, they suddenly released large amounts of cloudy substances.
These substances, driven by the star cores, began to rotate together, gradually forming a Tai Chi diagram!
The star cores at this time became the two focal points within the Tai Chi diagram!
Not only that, but while maintaining their left-right rotation, the Tai Chi diagram also began to spin up and down, using the absolute center as the pivot.
As this bizarre scene unfolded, the cloudy substances gradually diffused outwards, forming various symbols!
☰, ☵, ☶, ☳
☴, ☲, ☷, ☱
Qian, Kan, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kun, Dui!
This was the Eight Trigrams!
A Tai Chi Eight Trigrams formed by two star cores!
“This is definitely not a coincidence!”
Xi Tong also saw this scene and couldn’t help but exclaim, but then her eyes lit up.
“Let’s try using the Qimen Dunjia technique!”
Fang Er was utterly bewildered. The so-called Qimen Dunjia technique is another application of the Eight Trigrams.
Legend has it that it was created by Emperor Xuanyuan Huangdi, with a total of four thousand three hundred and twenty formations, later improved by Feng Hou to one thousand and eighty formations.
In traditional Chinese culture, Qimen Dunjia is based on the I Ching and the Eight Trigrams, combined with astrology, calendar systems, astronomy, geography, the eight gates, nine stars, Yin and Yang, the five elements, and the three oddities and six auxiliaries. It is the epitome of Chinese divination and the highest level of divination in the I Ching, which is why Qimen Dunjia is also known as the art of emperors.
“Are you sure you understand that stuff?”
He looked at Xi Tong with a dumbfounded expression.
Although there was plenty of information about Qimen Dunjia online, and as an AI, Xi Tong could naturally access it, this wasn’t something that could be mastered through rote memorization!
Moreover, they were now facing an Eight Trigrams formation composed of two star cores!
“We’ll know if we try, worst case scenario, we get flung back again!”
“Even if we don’t find the Sheng Men, we won’t be so unlucky as to bump right into the Si Men!”
Xi Tong confidently took out paper and pen and began to calculate.
In reality, her mental calculation was more efficient, but the distant star core Eight Trigrams were changing constantly, so writing it down made it more intuitive.
The calculations took tens of hours, and even after the mysterious substances forming the Eight Trigrams disappeared, she couldn’t find any patterns.
The two could only wait where they were for the Eight Trigrams to reappear.
However, this time their wait did not require them to constantly stare at the star cores; they could do whatever they pleased.
But it was precisely because of this that they discovered something different.
The deep pits that had been created by the mechs near their location were slowly recovering!
Just like memory metal!
In just a few hours, they had recovered completely!
Smooth and flat, with no trace visible!
“So, this is the reason why a planet can heal itself?”
Fang Er, in utter shock, reached out to touch it, and after confirming it wasn’t his hallucination, he murmured.
Xi Tong was also very surprised. After a long period of thought, she widened her eyes and looked at Fang Er.
“Xirang!”
“The star cores are made of Xirang!”
“The legendary Xirang is real!”
“Only Xirang would be inexhaustible!”
“Otherwise, after decades, if these star cores kept releasing that misty substance, they would have been depleted long ago!”
This conjecture was indeed bold!
But Fang Er soon thought of a problem: “Then, why does Xirang generate continuously?”
Xi Tong suddenly smiled upon hearing this.
“When I need you to be picky, you’re not, but now you’ve suddenly become picky?”
Fang Er:………….
Damn it! Are these two ‘picky’ the same thing?
He actually knew that Xi Tong didn’t have an answer to this question either.
If they really wanted to figure it out, they would have to identify Earth’s star core and then smash open the star core belonging to Yanhuang Star.
Although, he wasn’t sure if this thing could actually be smashed open…
Things that couldn’t be answered had to be put aside for now.
After staying in this lightless place for several more months (Earth time), the Tai Chi diagram created by the star cores appeared twice more.
If calculated according to the calendar of Kunlun Star, it was exactly once a month, as punctual as a period.
After three consecutive observations, the draft paper piled up around Xi Tong like a mountain.
Just as the Eight Trigrams were about to disappear again, she suddenly put down her pen, smiled charmingly at Fang Er, and said:
“Big Bang Bang, wait here, sis is going to get the star core for you!”
With that, she turned around, got into the mech, and charged towards the star core again.
It was evident that after these three observations, she had found the pattern and, according to her Qimen Dunjia prediction, had located the Sheng Men!
Her movements were swift. By the time Fang Er reacted, she was already near the star core.
She stood motionless, her eyes fixed on the constantly rotating star core.
Three minutes later, Xi Tong moved.