Qian Chao opened the ruins, but he couldn't go in. He said to his four companions: "The opening there is supported by the formation I arranged. These spiritual stones cannot be exhausted, otherwise it will definitely close again." , so I won’t go in. I will stay and take care of this formation. You go in and get things. The time is limited. No matter what it is, just take it with you. Then we will look at it carefully and put everything inside in the bag. Insurance."
"Okay! Take them all!" Lu Pingchuan shouted happily.
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To guard against any danger inside, Li Jian was still the first to walk in. He held his sword, and the darkness inside was dispelled by the light of his sword.
After the four people walked in, they discovered that it was a stone room that was not very big. It was square and square like a study room. In fact, it was actually decorated like a study room. There was an antique bookcase with an upturned head in the middle, and there was a book on it. There are no books on the desk. There is a felt under the desk, a screen behind it, and shelves on both sides. The shelves are filled with various letters and other sundries. What can be seen at a glance is these things.
There was a sheathed sword hanging on the screen. Li Jian was most interested in these, so he reached out and took it down.
After Tang Ping and Yan Xuan came in, they were a little dazed when they saw the shelves inside. It was the first time for everyone to enter the so-called ruins. They really had no impression of what was inside, but they never expected that this place was similar to a study room.
After Lu Pingchuan came in, he saw Li Jian looking at the sword in his hand, while Tang Ping and Yan Xuan were in a daze, so he said:
"Brother Qian said, take everything, take everything."
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and stuffed the lamp on the desk into his storage bag, and then reached out to pick up the desk and stuff it in too.
Tang Ping looked at Lu Pingchuan and asked in confusion: "Brother Lu, what are you doing with this wooden case? Is this also a good thing?"
"Whatever, Brother Qian said, take them all away, look back and throw away the useless ones."
As Lu Pingchuan spoke, he picked up a piece of wood that had fallen from the wooden table and stuffed it into the storage bag.
Seeing Lu Pingchuan stuffing things, Li Jian couldn't help but laugh.
Tang Ping shook her head, pointed to the shelf beside her, and said:
"What about these? Is it possible to take away this shelf too?"
"Of course. Who knows if it will be a good thing. Anyway, take it first and talk about it later."
Tang Ping shook her head again and ignored him, letting Lu Pingchuan keep stuffing things. However, there was something on the shelf that attracted her. She turned around and took a closer look, only to find that the shelf was full of letters and books. There was a small storage bag, so I reached out and took it.
After opening the small bag, Tang Ping took a look inside, her face flushed with excitement, and she clenched the small bag tightly.
"What's wrong?" Yanxuan noticed something strange about Tang Ping.
"It's worth it!" Tang Ping said in a slightly trembling voice, "It's worth it, Sister Yan, it's not in vain, and with this little bag, it's definitely not in vain."
After Lu Pingchuan put the screen away and put it into a storage bag, he saw a box that was originally hidden behind the screen. He ignored it and stuffed it directly. Then seeing several people looking at him, he said in confusion: "I usually see you all being quick and agile, but why are you so slow now?"
After saying that, he went to a shelf and stuffed everything on it, and then he really didn't miss the shelf.
From this point of view, he alone was enough. Li Jian only held the sword, Tang Ping held the small bag, and Yan Xuan only took a few silk scrolls from the shelf. The rest were all taken by Lu. Hirakawa pulled it into the storage bag.
When the four people walked out of it, Qian Chao saw him and asked:
"So fast! You didn't leave anything behind."
Lu Pingchuan suddenly slapped his forehead, said "Wait a minute" and then ran back. Then, in the astonished eyes of several people, he grabbed the felt originally laid under the wooden case and ran away again. He came out and said, "Okay, there's nothing inside now."
Tang Ping said amusingly: "There is indeed nothing left, just like locusts passing through the border, it's clean. If you don't believe me, go and see for yourself."
Because several of his companions had come out, Qian Chao left the formation with confidence and walked to the stone door. However, he did not go in. He only looked at the door, nodded, and sighed:
"So clean!"
Then Qian Chao collected the formations he had set up with talismans. When he collected the formations, everyone discovered that in such a short period of time, the few spiritual stones that Qian Chao used to set up the formations were consumed. It was at least 40%. No wonder Qian Chao asked them to move things in first and then empty them. Over time, these spiritual stones were consumed and empty, and the place must have closed and disappeared.
Looking up at the sky, Qian Chao said:
"It's getting late. Let's stop here today. Find a safer place and take inventory of the things inside first."
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Night falls.
Outside the cave where they spent the night, Qian Chao cautiously set up a hidden spirit array outside because they found a lot of good things today to prevent the movements inside from being discovered by passers-by.
The cave was cleaned up by several people, and the first thing Lu Pingchuan took out was the wooden case from the ruins.
Tang Ping laughed at Lu Pingchuan at first for taking everything out, but Qian Chao liked the wooden case very much when he saw it. The two ends of the wooden case were tilted up, antique and dignified. Moreover, Qian Chao also found that the entire wooden case was actually It is made of unknown spiritual wood. Although I don’t know the benefits of using spiritual wood bookcases, among the five people, he is the only one who loves books the most, and he also loves reading books the most, so this wooden desk is natural. Return to Qian Tide.
Li Jian showed Qian Chao the sheathed sword he brought out.
Qian Chao grabbed the hilt of the sword and gently pulled it outward. A moon-white and cold sword edge was revealed, attracting the attention of several people.
"This is not a spiritual weapon," Qian Chao sighed after looking at it for a while. "This is a magic weapon, which can only be used by monks who have established foundations. However, it seems that there is a big difference between the monks who made weapons in the past and the monks who make weapons now." , at least in terms of materials, they are very good. They will not use the Ruyi Talisman, which is the rune that controls the size of the spiritual sword. With that rune, a suitable spiritual sword or magic weapon can be refined with a little material. It's the same thing, well, I need to study this sword carefully in the future, and when I build the foundation in the future, I will be able to refine such a good sword."
Li Jian owns the Green Bamboo Spirit Sword, so no matter how good other swords are, they are useless to him. He only took out this sword because he was interested in swords. Now it turns out that the sword is a foundation-building monk. The magic weapon that can only be used by others, but secondly, I can't use it, so it is naturally taken away by Qian Chao.
"Wait a minute," Tang Ping said, "I'll show you what I brought out first. No matter what good things are inside, what I took out is definitely the best."
With that said, Tang Ping placed the small storage bag that she had been holding tightly in her hand on the desk.
"Open your eyes!"
Then Tang Ping poured out a small pile of shiny things from the small bag.
"Is this...a spiritual stone?" Yanxuan had seen Tang Ping's expression when he got the small storage bag, but now he was a little confused when he saw the contents inside. It looked like a spiritual stone, but if it was a spiritual stone, Tang Ping wouldn't have been so excited at that time. After all, this small pile was only a few dozen yuan, not much.
After reaching out and spreading the small pile of spiritual stone-like things on the desk, Tang Ping asked proudly:
"guess, what is this?"
"Hey, Sister Tang, isn't this a spiritual stone? What's there to guess?" Lu Pingchuan also thought that thing was a spiritual stone.
Tang Ping's hands were still picking at the desk, took out a few pieces, divided the items into two groups, and then said:
"It's almost, but not quite right. Let's take a closer look."
It was the first time for several people to see such a thing, so they all picked one up and took a closer look.
Qian Chao pinched this one and could feel that it was similar to a spiritual stone, but slightly larger. However, even when he held it in his hand, he could feel the spiritual energy contained in it.
Li Jian took out a spiritual stone he usually used from his body and compared each other with each other.
When Yanxuan saw it, she also took out an ordinary spirit stone, holding it in her hands and looking at it. However, after looking for a while, she didn't know what she brought out from the ruins, so she said:
"Stop being so pretentious, tell me quickly, what is this?"
Tang Ping smiled, picked up one and said:
"This is naturally a spiritual stone, but it is not an ordinary spiritual stone. This one is much better than the spiritual stones we usually use. This is a middle-grade spiritual stone."
As soon as these words were spoken, several people looked at their hands one after another.
Qian Chao asked: "Why are these spiritual stones divided into different grades?"
Tang Ping held an ordinary spirit stone in her hand and replied: "Of course, there are naturally different grades. Hey, the spirit stones we usually use are actually the lowest grade spirit stones. Well, the lower grade is the lower grade. Although the grade It is the lowest, but it is used by the most people. We Qi Refining disciples use it, the foundation-building brothers use it, and even the seniors of Linking Dan usually use it. Well, in addition to absorbing the spiritual energy inside when practicing, This kind of low-grade spiritual stone can also be used as currency for our monks to buy and sell things from other monks."
Then she picked up a spiritual stone that she brought out from the ruins.
"And these are much better than what we usually use. They are lower-middle-grade spiritual stones. They are a little bigger, but the spiritual energy contained in them is more than twenty times that of ordinary spiritual stones."
After hearing this, Lu Pingchuan interrupted: "Oh, then I understand, it means that this piece of spiritual stone can be used as twenty yuan, right?"
Tang Ping laughed and said, "I've been waiting for your words, Brother Lu. If you use this kind of spiritual stone to buy something worth twenty spiritual stones, you will suffer a big loss. You will definitely lose a lot!"
"Why is that?" Lu Pingchuan asked puzzledly.
"Don't look at the spiritual energy contained in one piece of this kind of spiritual stone is equivalent to more than twenty ordinary spiritual stones, but if, it can only be if, if someone is willing to sell such a spiritual stone, the value of that piece is at least two hundred Above, if there are many people competing for it, it is possible to sell it for four to five hundred spirit stones per piece!"
"What!"
"how so!"
The other four people were all shocked. It was unbelievable that a middle-grade spiritual stone could be sold at such a price!
Qian Chao said: "You always say that I'm cheating, but now you've started to do it too, please tell me!"
"Okay," Tang Ping said with a proud smile, "We have all used ordinary spirit stones, and we all know the speed at which spiritual energy can be absorbed from them during practice. The advantage of this medium-grade spiritual stone is that it allows you to absorb the spiritual energy at a faster rate. More than twenty times faster! Do you know what that means?"
"That……"
"Oh My God……!"
Several people were monks, Tang Ping quickly understood after saying this.
Yanxuan looked at the middle-grade spirit stone in his hand in disbelief and said: "That is to say, this kind of spirit stone cannot be used normally, but if it is used when breaking through the bottleneck of cultivation, it will have many benefits. ,Is it right?"
Li Jian looked at the mid-level spirit stone in his hand and said, "That is to say, having this kind of spirit stone will make it easier for us to break through the bottleneck of cultivation, right?"
Tang Ping said: "That's why it's precious, and of course because the quantity of this kind of spirit stone is too small. I once saw such a spirit stone at my sixth grandfather's place, and I wanted to steal one for fun. In the end, the old man snatched it back and got scolded. At the time, I thought the old man was stingy, but later I heard him say how precious this thing was. However, the one I stole at that time was a mid-level spiritual stone, which was even more precious. What a rare good thing!”
After saying that, Tang Ping reached out and divided the small pile of middle-grade spiritual stones on the desk among several people.
"Be good!" Lu Pingchuan looked at the dozen or so middle-grade spiritual stones in front of him and was a little confused. "It's more than two thousand spiritual stones at once. Oh no, at least four to five thousand spiritual stones. Ha, I didn't expect this time. It’s really profitable to come out.”
"Brother Lu," Tang Ping's expression became serious again, "These middle-grade spiritual stones cannot be used normally. You have to remember that it would be a pity if they were used in daily practice. We are now on the fourth level of Qi Refining." Layer, what is in front of you is the Small Five Levels. You may be able to use one when you break through the Small Five Levels, but the biggest use will be in the future when we build the foundation. That’s when they will come in handy. You need tens of millions. Remember, don’t use them accidentally, remember?”
Tang Ping not only said this to Lu Pingchuan, but the other three people also heard it in their hearts. They knew that this was a key item for future practice and should be kept well and not used lightly.
"Hehe," Lu Pingchuan said with a smile, "Remember it, remember it, I can't bear to use it!"
"And these few," Tang Ping pointed to the ones she picked out on the desk, "are high-grade spiritual stones, lower-grade and high-grade."
She took the spirit stones in her hands and spread them out. These were slightly larger than the mid-level spirit stones just now, and they were more clear and transparent.
"The spiritual energy contained in each one is at least equivalent to fifty ordinary spiritual stones. The effect when used can be compared to the middle-grade spiritual stones."
Seeing several companions looking at the spiritual stones in their hands in silence, Tang Ping suddenly sighed and said:
"Boy Qian, I estimate that these spiritual stones were all the savings of that disappeared family or sect, and now they are all in our hands."
Qian Chao nodded.
Lu Pingchuan asked: "Sister Tang, what's the price of this..."
Tang Ping said: "There is no price, well, I don't know the price. If anyone has this thing, if it comes to someone else, except if we can get it by opening the ruins like this today, then the person who has this thing will be killed, and then After being snatched away, there is no other possibility. Although it is not as good as the middle-level spiritual stone, the lower-level and high-grade spiritual stone is already the best for us. Not many of the foundation-building brothers can have it. A mid-grade spiritual stone, let alone a top-grade one, if this is taken out and seen by others, believe it or not, those foundation-building brothers will be interested in killing us and seizing the treasure!"
The cave fell silent.
Li Jian thought for a while and then said:
"In my opinion, we should not divide these low-grade and high-grade spiritual stones yet. Miss Tang, you have the deepest background in the sect. Why not let you keep these high-grade spiritual stones first?" , if you can use it in the future, just take it out."
Qian Chao and Yan Xuan also had this intention, but Lu Pingchuan didn't care. Anyway, no matter who owned the thing, it belonged to everyone, so he nodded in agreement.
Tang Ping said: "Okay, that's what I mean. I will keep this thing for now. If it is useful in the future, everyone can use it again."
Yanxuan murmured: "It's really worth it, thousands or even tens of thousands of spirit stones all at once, my God, I never dare to think like this. Today, thanks to Brother Qian!"
"That's right," Li Jian said, "I thought the ruins couldn't be opened at first, but I didn't expect Brother Qian's methods were so clever."
…
After the most important spiritual stones were properly processed, the inventory of other things in the ruins began.
The most numerous books were all kinds of books, and Qian Chao liked them the most. Lu Pingchuan took out all the books in his storage bag for Qian Chao to read.
"Why are there so many books?" Tang Ping frowned and saw.
"Isn't it bad to have too many books?" Qian Chao said with a smile, "Well, this small aristocratic family or sect seems to be quite particular. Look, not only this bookcase is made of spiritual wood, but also these few The shelves are also a bit luxurious!”
When he heard that the shelf was also made of spiritual wood, Lu Pingchuan laughed and said:
"Hey, Miss Tang didn't let me move the bookshelf at first. She thought it was useless."
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The books were opened one by one, and Qian Chao read them one by one. He looked briefly and classified them.
Some of these books were bound with paper, scrolls made of silk, slippers made of wood chips and leather ropes, and even leather scrolls.
Qian Chao browsed through the books one by one. These were the things he was most interested in. He kept most of them, but there were also a few that he gave to others.
"Sister Yan, this book seems to be filled with elixirs. Please take it and read it."
When Yanxuan heard that it was an elixir, he took it with great interest. Sure enough, all the prescriptions recorded in it were the prescriptions for refining the elixir. After looking at it, he said:
"Unfortunately, all the elixirs inside seem to be used only after the foundation is established. Well, there are a few that we can use. They are all ancient prescriptions. I will take a closer look when I get back."
"Miss Tang, this is for you."
Tang Ping curiously took over a silk scroll. When she unfolded it, she found that the drawings inside were all pictures of spiritual beasts and birds, and there were text below, so she read it carefully.
"Brother Li, see if you can use this book."
Li Jian took it. It was an antique book with no bibliography, but when he opened it, it showed a scene of a person dancing a sword, and some illustrations of sitting exercises. He was interested in these, so he He also leaned in front of the lamp and started reading.
"Well, this book... forget it, I'll read it and tell you about it later, Brother Lu."
"Hey, that's how it should be!"
"what is this?"
When he said this, Qian Chao was looking at a square piece of wood. This piece of wood was originally placed on the desk. When Lu Pingchuan collected the desk, it fell to the ground, and he picked it up again. got up.
On the wood chips, there are black spots one after another, some large and some small, densely covered with the entire wood chip.
And as far as this piece of wood is concerned, it seems to be made of the bark of some kind of spiritual tree. It is very flexible. The black spots seem to have been carefully added one by one, but I don't know what they are used for.
The wood chip was passed around among several people, and no one knew its use.
"Who knows what it is used for? Forget it, Qian boy. Anyway, you like to think about it, so just take it. Tell us later when you know the use or whether it is a treasure map or something like that."
After hearing what Tang Ping said, Qian Chao looked at the wood chip again and put it into his storage bag.
(Remember this wood chip, I will mark it here. This wood chip will be of great use in the future. As for its use, please continue to read patiently.)
Among the ruins, Lu Pingchuan also got a box. After opening it, it contained various rare materials, most of which were taken from monsters. Some of them were not even recognized by Qian Chao. They were used for refining weapons. He also accepted it.
"This" Qian Chao finally pointed to a large piece of paper spread out on the desk, "it's a good thing!"
After hearing what he said, several people came over curiously to take a look.
Tang Ping asked: "What is this?"
"This is a map, but it is not the current map, but the map before that family was destroyed. It is probably what our Wuling Sect area looked like at that time."
Yanxuan asked: "What's the use of that?"
"Sister Yan, by comparing this map, we may be able to find out where the former aristocratic sects are, and then we can look for them."
Lu Pingchuan suddenly became happy after hearing this and said, "Ha, that means we can find more places like this, right?"
"That's pretty much what it means."
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"Hey, Mr. Qian, when you opened the ruins, you said, 'No wonder Senior Sister Luo can't open it.' What did you mean?"
Under the lamp, several people had finished dividing things, and the excitement was slowly fading away. Qian Chao was reading a book on the desk. Tang Ping remembered Qian Chao's inexplicable words and couldn't help but ask.
Qian Chao smiled and said: "In the book that Senior Sister Luo gave me, today's ruins are the closest to the sect. With her cultivation level, it only takes half a day at most to get here. It's so close." , I think Senior Sister Luo must have been here. If it could be opened, Senior Sister Luo would have opened it and taken out the things inside, but it has not been opened. Probably because Senior Sister Luo cannot restore the spiritual energy there to its original state. It seems that the formation is actually not difficult, but the difficulty lies in the aura, which she has no way to solve, so she probably gave up."
"Then why doesn't she have the same means as you? It doesn't look like it's very difficult for you to do it."
"What you said has touched my heart. All my methods are wild and we found them outside. I am interested in them, and then I write them down and go back to study them. Think about it, from refining the lock for Senior Sister Luo to I have been thinking about the spirit pile since I started. How long has it been now? Later, I found some leftover formations outside the sect several times, and I never let them go. I accumulated them bit by bit, looked for books to read, and bit by bit. Little by little, she tried to steal lessons from Senior Sister Luo, and then she made some progress. Senior Sister Luo couldn't learn these things from her seniors, not to mention she wouldn't just sit in the Heaven and Earth Cage like me. It’s not surprising that she didn’t have these methods for so long.”
Tang Ping nodded and said:
"You said before the ruins were opened at that time that even if the formation you set up doesn't work, you still have other methods, which are just a little more troublesome. What method is it?"
"Do you still remember the ruins with the spiritual grass we found?"
"Remember, didn't you get the Hidden Spirit Array there?"
"Yes, on both sides of the river there, I also obtained a formation that can change the direction of the spiritual veins. Well, it is different from the formation in the Heaven and Earth Cage. If the formation I arranged with the talismans does not work, then I I just want to find a spiritual vein, and then use that formation to temporarily redirect the spiritual vein through the ruins, so that the ruins can be opened, but of course that method is much more troublesome."
Tang Ping nodded again after hearing this, thinking of Luo Ying. Her impression of Senior Sister Luo was not very good, so she curled her lips and said:
"I don't think Luo Ying had any good intentions when she gave you that book. Those are relics and formations that she couldn't open by herself, so she gave them to you as a favor. She must know that she can't open every relic. The reason for opening it. If I ask you in the future whether you opened the ruins or which ruins you opened, if you tell her, she will probably know what methods you have. When you meet her later, if you really ask that question , you'd better tell her that you haven't opened it, lest your own methods be guessed, this is one; second, it's better for fewer people to know about your methods, Luo Ying and the others are I am often stared at. Last time there was such a big commotion and more than a dozen people died. I don’t want so many people to follow us when we come out in the future. Our cultivation is not even one or two points worse than theirs. Yeah, it’s troublesome just thinking about it!”
Tang Ping's statement is not groundless. I am happy to be able to open the ruins today, but thinking about it, it is best for only the five of me to know about this matter. If it is really known to others, it is really good to say There might be some trouble.
Li Jian, Yanxuan and Lu Pingchuan also felt that what Tang Ping said made sense.
"Well," Qian Chao said, "Senior Sister Luo may not have thought too much about the book she gave me, but I still have to accept her favor. But what you said makes sense. It's better not to tell anyone about it. , if she asks me, I will just do as you say."
"Well, yes, Brother Qian, what is this called... yes! It's enough for us to make a fortune in silence, hehe!"
