"Hey! It's really good! Has the phantom mirror disappeared?"
Qingyan looked around and said to Chou Chou with a surprised look on her face.
Chou Chou used his spiritual consciousness to communicate with the remnant soul of Black Bird, and then replied to Qingyan: "Black Bird said that the phantom formation here is made of its essence and blood, so it can be cracked.
Also, this place was indeed taught by Yin Jin’s uncle, Taoist Kongxian. His Taoism is much more profound than Yin Jin’s. If we hadn’t accidentally brought the Black Bird Inner Pill with us, it would have been almost impossible to unravel this illusion. possible.
Taoist Kongxian was very accomplished in the formation of battles, and he also knew some mechanism techniques, and Yin Jin learned all these from him.
Oh, by the way, Yin Jin worshiped his master since he was a child, but his master died young, when he was seventeen years old. Later, it was his uncle who taught him.
Kong Xian is the younger brother of Master Yin Jin, so he is both a master and an uncle. After all, the ancients believed that one day is a master and one is always a father. "
Qingyan nodded with an astonished look on her face, "So that's the case, that's no wonder. I don't know if Taoist Kongxian is still there. His Taoism is deeper than Yin Jin's. Maybe he's still alive after his cultivation is high enough."
It would be great if we could meet him, even one of his descendants, maybe we could learn from him as a disciple.
There are also hidden formations and phantom formations around the Qinian Village. It seems that they may have been set up by Taoist Kongxian. The Yin Gathering Formation and Yin Jin's tomb should have been created by him himself.
Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to see the tomb and the Yin Gathering Formation at a glance, but you didn't see the formation here. I guess this is a problem with the level of the formation. "
Chou Chou nodded in agreement. Indeed, it could see the cemetery and the formation there even before it recovered. It should be because Yin Jin's methods were not in place.
While the two were talking, they did not delay the movement of their feet. They kept walking forward, and they felt as if they were going downwards as they walked, because the ground was now slanted, and it could be seen that it was gradually going downwards.
Qingyan had some suspicions that the reason why those things were buried here before was probably because Taoist Kongxian discovered this passage that could directly enter the mountain, so he buried the things here.
In this way, if the descendants of Yin Jin have capable people and strangers who can restore the country, it will be easier to get things out, but they cannot just excavate the mountain tops when the time comes.
And when I buried it before, I probably didn't just dig a hole and bury it directly. It was very possible that some method was used to get things directly into it.
Both of them tried to use their spiritual consciousness to look forward. Chou Chou was fine, but she couldn't, because there was no light inside, so they could only feel where it was hollow and where it was solid, and there was something completely invisible.
Fortunately, she was holding a spiritual stone "lantern" that could illuminate the scene within ten meters, so she walked pretty fast.
She also looked up and saw that the crack in the stone was very high. It should have cracked from the top to the bottom. It felt wider at the top.
And it should have cracked directly to the ground above, after all, they fell from above.
Even now that they have gone quite far down, they can still feel the faint wind blowing down from above, so there is no need to worry about lack of oxygen.
However, after walking down for about twenty minutes, the polite and flowing feeling disappeared. She must have really reached the bottom. There was no vent above, and Qingyan felt a little suffocated.
It happened that we had reached the end at this time. There was no road ahead, only a stone wall blocking it.
Qingyan looked at Chou Chou, "Have we reached a dead end? Are we going in the opposite direction?"
That's not right. If something is buried in the ground, it must have gone down. If you go back, but go up, you might have walked out.
Chou Chou shook his head, "You're right, it's in this direction. I used my spiritual sense to explore it. There should be a mechanism here, but I can't detect it with my spiritual sense. It must be blocked by something. Let's look for it." ."
Qingyan nodded and looked around while holding the "lantern".
Qingyan felt that the light of the small spirit stone was a little too small, and the edges and corners were a bit unclear, so she simply took out the large piece of spirit stone.
If the small spirit stone was a sixty-watt light bulb, now this can be said to be a two-hundred-watt light bulb. This small space instantly lit up like daylight!
Except for the blocked shadow parts, almost every detail is visible.
Just looking at the three stone walls, they look like natural formations, and there is no mechanism at all.
Just like the tomb, the stone walls of the stone chamber there don't look like they were excavated manually, but they don't look as smooth as they were naturally formed. I don't know where such a large stone was found.
Qingyan said to Chou Chou while searching, "Do you think this stone wall was cut by Taoist Kongxian using Taoist techniques? If it were the power of nature, I can't imagine how the mechanism was installed in it."
If you use Taoism, it's normal if you can't see any traces.
Chou Chou nodded, "It's almost like using your great strength to smash a stone open with one fist. If you only look at the cross section, you will only think that the stone cracked naturally.
This may be the same situation. Whether it is opened with Taoism or with great force, as long as the force is controlled to a certain level.
After practicing that method to a certain level, it would definitely be trivial to crack mountains and crack soil. "
"So I said that I would like to learn from the Taoist Master Kongxian, or it would be great if I could find that kind of Taoist secret book. Maybe I have very good qualifications and can really become an immortal."
Qingyan said with a yearning look on her face.
Chou Chou rolled his eyes at her, "You're overthinking it. With this thin spiritual energy, you still want to become an immortal. It would be good if you can just start cultivating."
Qingyan looked dissatisfied, "As you said, I am now so strong that I can easily lift hundreds of kilograms, and that's just because I drank the spiritual spring water from Xiangxiang Space. You said that if I had that cultivation technique? , you can make rapid progress no matter what.
If it really doesn’t work, why don’t I just go to the Xiangxiang Space to practice? There should be a lot of spiritual energy in the Xiangxiang Space, right? Otherwise, there would be no spiritual spring water, and all the animals in the space would be like spirits, full of ghosts and ghosts. "
Chou Chou nodded and shook his head, "It does have spiritual energy in it, but its spiritual energy is purely reliant on the power of merit and is fed back to it by heaven and earth. It is still far from the concentration of spiritual energy from heaven and earth thousands of years ago.
That is its natal space, and it is not a secret realm for cultivating immortals. Even if there is no spiritual vein, there is still a lot of spiritual energy. If you absorb a little, the spiritual energy inside will be less. It is not inexhaustible. "
Qingyan said doubtfully: "You said there are no spiritual veins in its space, so where did those high-grade spiritual stones come from?"
"Then I don't know. Anyway, I have almost penetrated its space, and I didn't find that there is a spiritual vein in its space. It should have been obtained from somewhere before."
Qingyan rolled her eyes and said, "Do you think that if those spiritual stones are buried in the mountain in Xiangxiang Space, will the spiritual energy on them infect other stones and turn the stones next to them into spiritual stones?"
Chou Chou said with a funny face: "How do you think spiritual veins are formed? First of all, there must be spiritual marrow. The other place is a geomantic treasure that can absorb and store spiritual energy. The most important thing is that the spiritual energy in the place where it is located must be rich. OK, this goes hand in hand.
As for whether spiritual energy or spiritual veins come first, it's like which comes first, the chicken or the egg. I can't tell. When you go back, you can ask Xiangxiang to see if she knows.
But one thing I know is that cultivation is definitely not a day's work. If you absorb all the spiritual energy in its dimension, it is estimated that its dimension will change. "
Qingyan sighed, "That's right. Where did all the spiritual energy in this world go? Was it absorbed by the practitioners? Or did the spiritual energy dry up on its own?"
Chou Chou: "Then I don't know. The spiritual energy gradually becomes thinner. As for where it goes, I can't tell. There may be cracks somewhere and it may be lost. Of course, there are also It may have been absorbed by other worlds, this is all possible.
Let's not talk about this for now. Let's quickly find the agency here. It's getting late now. If we don't come back after a long time, Yin Keqin and the others have gone back to the village. It won't be good if they come up the mountain to look for us later. "
Another thing is that although the things here are said to be passed down from the Yin family, the villagers don't know about them. If they come to find out, they may expose these things.
For people of this era, except for those gold and silver ornaments, other things are really of little use, and they may be destroyed by those people.
This thing will be a cultural relic treasure, an antique, etc. in future generations. Although it can be regarded as an antique now, it is not easy to have enough food now, and it is a time of war. It is not a good thing if it really leaks out.
It won't be protected, and it may be smashed and destroyed because it's worthless, so it's better not to let them know.
Next, the two of them searched carefully. Chou Chou shrunk his body and climbed directly onto the stone wall like a gecko to see if there was any mechanism on it.
Qingyan was responsible for the places she could reach, as well as the corners and the ground below. Thinking of her experience of finding the iron ring in the tomb passage, maybe this mechanism was also in that place.
So I focused on looking for it at the seam below. Needless to say, I actually found it at the seam on the right hand side.
At first, I saw a half-protruding stone there. It looked like it was integrated with the stone wall, with just one corner protruding a little.
Qingyan just wanted to not miss it, so she stepped down, but it didn't move, and then kicked it again.
She controlled her strength, fearing that she would kick it to pieces if she was too strong, in case the mechanism would be destroyed by her, but she kicked it down anyway.
But after it fell, a groove appeared below, and a palm-sized metal ring was inside the groove!
The reason why it is said to be a metal ring is because there is no way to tell what material it is made of. The entire ring is completely black, but it is either the kind that is painted black or is the color of the material itself.
He stretched out his hand and touched it. It was cold to the touch. Although it felt like metal, it was polished and very smooth. It didn't have the rough feeling of metal, and there were no joints. I don't know how it was refined.
She called Chou Chou to tell it that it had found the trap, then stretched out her hands to hold the ring and slowly pulled it out.
The ring was pulled out without exerting any force. There were only two clicks, then it retracted. Qingyan pulled it out again, and then she heard the sound of clicking on the stone wall, which was not like the sound of gears turning. , rather like the sound of cracking stones!
Qingyan opened her eyes wide and looked at Chou Chou, "This...isn't this going to collapse?"
Chou Chou quickly jumped to her side, dragged her and hid in the space!
The scene suddenly changed, and Qingyan almost didn't react. She thought she had entered the illusion array again.
Fortunately, he still held the spirit stone in his hand, which illuminated the surroundings. Looking at the things they had packed before, they realized that they had entered Chou Chou's space.
Qingyan's first reaction was to wrap the large piece of spiritual stone in cloth, put it into her satchel, and continue to carry the "lantern".
Although it was just two pieces of cloth, it might not be able to cover anything, but she felt it was better than completely exposing it in an ugly space.
Looking at the small piece of spiritual stone in the glass bottle, the light did not dim. She breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that she and Chou Chou had thought wrong before. Space would not automatically absorb the spiritual energy of the spiritual stone.
Also, if it could be absorbed, it would have been absorbed in the off-road vehicle before.
By the way, Qingyan asked why she felt something was missing before. Where was the off-road vehicle?
"Chou Chou, where did you put the off-road vehicle? Why didn't you see it?"
Chou Chou: "I put it in another place. This was where the gold, food and drink were kept before. The car can be placed anywhere, so I didn't put it here."
With that said, he directly brought the car over and parked it in the open space beside him.
Qingyan looked at the car and said, "If we put the spirit stone back into the engine, will the car still be usable?"
Chou Chou nodded, "Of course, I just took out the spirit stone and did not damage the engine. This spirit stone is just like a gasoline battery, it is just the energy source of the car. Just put it back."
But now the spiritual stone is divided into two pieces. The groove was just the right size before, but now it's probably going to be missing a piece. Unless the two pieces are put back together, I don't know if it will work. "
Qingyan nodded, "That's good, otherwise we will definitely be beaten by dad when we go back."
After a few more minutes, Qingyan asked Chou Chou how the takeout was.
"It won't really collapse outside, right? Then when we go out later, will we end up in a ruins and be trapped underneath?"
Chou Chou shook his head, "No, there is a crack at the left connection. The crack is a bit slow, and it is still opening little by little. That should be an entrance."
Qingyan was surprised, "No, it's been more than ten minutes and you still haven't opened it? Isn't this mechanism too laborious?"
Chou Chou: "It must have been in disrepair. After all, more than two thousand years have passed. It is normal for the mechanism to get stuck in some places."
After another ten minutes, Chou Chou took Qing Yan out of the space and back to the tunnel. (End of chapter)
