After the eight-foot peck to death, all that's left is to find the treasure hidden in the ruins.
After directing Lu Pingchuan to smash several boulders blocking the road with his fists, the five of them finally discovered an entrance hidden on the mountain wall, and the formation to open the ruins was hidden in a cave.
This was the first time Qian Chao and the five of them had seen such an arrangement. When Qian Chao was thinking about how to crack the formation, Lu Pingchuan said jokingly:
"Wouldn't it be full of dead people when we open it this time?"
This caused Tang Ping to glare at him strangely.
It took a long time to open this formation. Qian Chao even took out his book case, took a pen and paper to write and draw on the case, and made some deductions. He also tried several times, but failed. Successful, until the last time, the whole cave shook slightly, and then a hole appeared on the cave wall not far away.
"Hey!" Lu Pingchuan shouted excitedly and rushed in.
Qian Chao raised his eyes and looked outside the cave. He had been on the road and dealing with the eight-foot peck that day. Now that it was getting late, he might as well spend the night here and leave at dawn.
"Brother Qian, come and take a look, there are so many things!" Lu Pingchuan's voice came from the secret room.
It was indeed a large stone room, with many shelves on both sides filled with various storage bags.
"It's getting late, I think we might as well spend the night here, how about that?" Qian Chao asked.
"good."
When Qian Chao arranged the formation in the cave and returned, he saw the other four people gathering together. All the storage bags were also piled together. Tang Ping was opening them one by one and looking at them.
"Boy Qian, the aristocratic family that was here before was probably a family that was good at refining weapons. Hey, these bags are filled with materials for refining weapons."
After hearing what Tang Ping said, Yanxuan pushed several stacked storage bags in front of Qian Chao.
Qian Chao opened it and took a look, and sure enough he found that it was full of various smelted ingots, most of which were high-level ones. There were also some that he didn't recognize. He couldn't help but frowned, and after looking at them for a while, he said:
"That should be the case. Many of the materials here are no longer used for refining spiritual weapons. Most of them are used for refining magic weapons or even magic weapons. These things are very precious."
"Hehe," Lu Pingchuan patted the few bags he selected after hearing this, "They are all full of spirit stones!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Tang Ping handed Qian Chao another bag.
"There are some refined things inside, you can take them."
Sure enough, as she said, the bag was full of refined items, but Qian Chao took a breath after looking at it. Most of the items in it were magic weapons, and there were also a few magic weapons that could only be used by Dan-Jie seniors. Look at this. Based on the quantity, the aristocratic families here must have inherited the art of refining weapons.
These things are not of use to Qian Chao now, but you can take a look at them when you have nothing to do. They may be able to use them after building the foundation in the future.
Then Tang Ping threw a few more bags over.
"There are some books inside, you can take them and read them."
"Brother Lu, there are spiritual stones in here."
"hey-hey."
"Sister Yan, there are some elixirs in here, I don't know what they have."
"Oh?" Yanxuan took it after hearing this.
After roughly dividing it, Qian Chao got most of the bags. Then the five people gathered the spirit stones together and divided them equally. Everyone got a small bag. If they poured it out, they would The number of spiritual stones is also a huge pile. It is more than ordinary disciples in the sect can earn even after decades of serving in Jingshiyuan. It can be considered as compensation for the fright the five people suffered today when they dealt with the eight-foot peck. .
Lu Pingchuan behaved most like a money-grubber. He grabbed a handful of spiritual stones from the bag and played with them shiny in his hands.
Li Jian looked at the spiritual stones in the bag and sighed:
"No wonder, when the disciples of the sect discover the ruins, they must try their best to open them. It is indeed beneficial."
"Of course," Lu Pingchuan said, "Hey, since we can deal with the mid-level big bird today, does that mean we can open such ruins again in the future?"
"Brother Lu, isn't it scary enough today? You have to do your best in the future."
"oh."
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The mountain forest outside was already shrouded in night. In the stone room where Qian Chao and the five of them were hiding, the excitement of getting the good things gradually faded away. After they had finished talking, they closed their eyes and began to meditate.
Qian Chao sat in front of the case and checked the books he got here one by one.
The aristocratic family that lived here before must have been famous in the spiritual world for its weapon refining skills. More than half of the books Qian Chao obtained recorded the refining of spiritual weapons, magic weapons and magic weapons. Qian Chao has collected the books on the methods of making magic weapons and magic weapons. He has no need to read them now. Only the books that record the refining of spiritual weapons are what he is interested in now. After reading them, he In his own understanding of the art of refining weapons, he found that both the refining method and the use of spiritual weapons in the past were quite different from the present ones. To put it simply, Qian Chaofa did not know how long ago , the weapon refining skills mastered by the monks at that time seemed to be more advanced than now, although some basic rules cannot be changed. Take spiritual weapons as an example, the lowest-level green bronze spiritual weapons. Because of the limitations of green copper, the monks Only six runes can be engraved on it. This is the same no matter in the past or now. However, the runes mastered by the monks in the past were more abundant and used in many ways. Therefore, when refining, they used They can use two or even more green bronze spiritual weapons together through the runes left on the spiritual weapons. This is different from Qian Chao who can use more than a hundred spiritual swords at the same time. Although many spirit swords can be used at the same time, each one still has the power of an ordinary spirit sword. When Qian Chao used this method, he was simply relying on the numerical advantage to defeat his opponents. However, according to the past experience of these weapon refiners, The technique is to skillfully refine two or three green bronze spirit swords and then use them at the same time. It is almost equivalent to a spirit sword with more than a dozen runes imprinted on it at the same time. The power is naturally much greater than three ordinary spirit swords!
This is almost like forming a formation with swords!
This discovery suddenly broadened Qian Chao's horizons. Imagine that he was using a hundred spiritual swords at the same time. The total number of all the runes was only more than 600. But if he could use more than 600 runes at the same time, If the power of the two is superimposed together... it is almost the power of the magic weapon used by the foundation-building monks, and these spiritual swords can combine and separate energy, and are extremely flexible. This method...
Also, Qian Chao had two large shields destroyed today. Although he still had spare ones, it would be a headache to have them destroyed all the time. If he followed the methods of the monks in the past, the two large shields were stacked on top of each other. The protective effect can far exceed the protective effect of the simple two-layer shield now...
And...the armor, Brother Lu's armor has been damaged a lot in the past few days. If the armor is modified according to the records in this book, what kind of protection can it provide...
The process of opening the ruins this time had a far-reaching impact on the former dynasty. One was that he initially mastered the method of arranging formations to fight the enemy based on the spiritual veins of heaven and earth. In the future, this method continued to be perfected in his hands; Well, according to the records in the books in this ruins, Qian Chao initially understood the mystery of the sword formation. In the days that followed, he used this method to kill powerful enemies many times and reverse the situation!
Tang Ping noticed Qian Chao's face smiling and thinking for a while, and couldn't help but asked curiously:
"What did you see that made you so happy?"
"Of course it's a great harvest."
Later, the books Qian Chao read actually contained detailed descriptions of how to refine Horcruxes. This surprised Qian Chao. Could it be that Horcruxes were very popular in the spiritual world a long time ago?
It wasn't until Qian Chao saw the end that he was even more surprised.
The last thing he saw was not a book. There was basically no word on it, and it was not made of paper. Instead, it was a piece of brocade that was carefully placed in a box. When he took it out and looked at it, he discovered that the piece of brocade was The silk had no head or tail, and there were burn marks on both ends. It was probably the remnants of a scroll. Qian Chao carefully displayed it on the desk and found that there was no word on the brocade silk, and everything on it was paintings.
I don't know how many years this piece of brocade has gone through. It has already faded to light brown. The ink and brushwork on it are also sparse and the color has faded, but the content of the painting can always be seen.
The first one is a bit incomplete. What can be seen is that there are many people worshiping a strange spiritual beast under the leadership of what seems to be a leader. The strange spiritual beast is on top and seems to be worshiping those below. Still very affectionate.
Qian Chao had never seen such a style of painting and brushwork. The figures on the brocade were not realistic, but rather exaggerated. The figures in the painting were of different sizes. Looking at the whole story, the figure who looked like a leader was painted The oldest one, the rest were much younger regardless of age, so Qian Chao guessed that the oldest one was a person of high status, and the others were waiting. There were only a few strokes, but the eyes of the figure were highlighted, although the brushwork was slightly different. It's crude, but it fully expresses the expressions of each character through the eyes, which can be regarded as quite expressive.
The Qian Chao shown in the previous pictures is nothing more than the weird spiritual beast living in harmony with these people. Those people support the spiritual beast, and then the spiritual beast can use its power to drive away disasters and dangers for them. Every time After helping those people, they could see that the characters painted on the brocade seemed to be dancing around the spirit beast, happily.
The next few paintings depict a difficult battle. It can be seen that the characters originally painted conflicted and fought with some other characters, and then there was a weirder and more powerful spiritual beast sitting behind the other characters.
Later, the people in the painting seemed to have lost the battle and were chased by their opponents and the even weirder and more powerful spiritual beast. The fear conveyed in the eyes of the characters in the painting shows how embarrassed they were. And Despair, especially the spirit beast they worshiped before seemed to be injured and escaped with them.
Undoubtedly, this must be a defeat.
Next, there are burn marks on the brocade silk, and nothing can be seen at all, but there are a few pictures that can be clearly seen further back.
The leader-like figure at the beginning of the painting seems to be leading his own people to fight back again, holding a deliberately exaggerated sword in his hand.
In the next battle scene, the leader was fighting, and there was a phantom behind him. That phantom was the spiritual beast that they worshiped before. But it can be seen at a glance from the brushwork that it should not be It is the true nature of the spiritual beast. It seems that what the painter wanted to express is that the spiritual beast is helping the leader in other ways.
In the end, the leader held the sword and defeated his opponent. Those who defeated them before and the even weirder spiritual beast seemed to have been killed and fell to the ground. The leader held the sword high. Accepting everyone's worship, and behind the leader, the phantom of the spiritual beast was also drawn.
Seeing this, Qian Chao vaguely guessed the meaning of the painting on the brocade, and said to Tang Ping:
"Come, look at this."
Tang Ping came over, took a closer look with squinted eyes, and asked:
"This is……"
"This thing records probably the origin of Horcruxes."
After Qian Chao said this, several other people also became interested and came over to look at the paintings on the brocade.
"I don't know how old this thing is. Looking at it, the first few paintings seem to be about these people or this family worshiping this strange spiritual beast. Well, this method is a bit weird. Can you recognize it? What kind of spiritual beast is it?”
Qian Chao turned his face and asked Tang Ping, but she couldn't recognize the spiritual beast in the painting, so she frowned and shook her head.
"Well, let's look at the next few paintings. It seems that this family has a conflict with other people or families, and those people opposite also have a spiritual beast, which seems to be more powerful than theirs, so they Failed, eh, the meaning of this painting is obvious, that is, they were driven away."
"It's a pity that the painting that followed was unrecognizable. This thing was burned by fire. It's a pity, but the meaning behind it is obvious. Hey, these people came back to kill again, but the spiritual beast they worshiped before was It was painted like this, look, the sword held by this leader-like figure, if my guess is correct, this sword should be the original Horcrux."
The so-called Horcrux has been seen by all five of them. When Yun Xi was chasing Shang Jie to vent his anger on Bai Lin, the spiritual sword Shang Jie used to deal with Yun Xi was a Horcrux. After using it, a fierce tiger would be summoned. , and this tiger cannot be killed unless the sword in Shang Jie's hand can be destroyed. Of course, the Horcrux in Shang Jie's hand was finally destroyed by Yun Xi, and he was also injured, but it was Yun Xi The method is far superior to that of Shang Jie. If Shang Jie uses this sword to deal with ordinary monks, it must be unfavorable.
"That seems to be what it means. The burned piece in the middle...was it originally how the Horcrux was made?" Tang Ping asked.
"It won't be that simple," Qian Chao said, "Looking at the burned area, it's not that big. Making Horcruxes is also very troublesome. It's impossible to understand it in just a few paintings. I really feel that this missing part, Most likely they want to find out how the spiritual beasts worshiped by these people died..."
"What's the meaning?"
"Look at the back. If the leader is holding a Horcrux, then it must mean that the spiritual beast they originally enshrined is dead, but I don't know how it died. What exactly is it..."
"I understand. What you mean is that the missing part is to explain how the spirit beast died. Was it that the spirit beast was seriously injured and then voluntarily had its soul taken away to make a Horcrux, or was it originally enshrined in it? In order to defeat the opponent, the person killed it and then made it into a Horcrux, right?"
"Yes, that's exactly what I meant."
"Well," Tang Ping nodded, took a closer look, and then said, "From my point of view, it seems that the spirit beast acted on its own initiative, rather than being betrayed. Look, in the last part of the painting, the spirit beast It is painted as a shadow, but there does not seem to be any resentment. If you look at this style of painting, people's thoughts can be seen through the exaggerated eyes of the painting. Look, especially the last painting, the shadow of the spiritual beast. There is obviously a feeling of getting what you want.”
A few people took a closer look, and it was indeed as Tang Ping said.
"Then it seems that this spiritual beast should have sacrificed his life for this family." Yanxuan said.
Tang Ping nodded and thought for a while before saying again:
"It should be like this, but I don't know how long ago the things on the paintings were. I think these paintings are much older than this ruins. The above thing of a family worshiping a spiritual beast has long since disappeared. I heard that these paintings are much older than this ruins. In ancient times, there were no sects or sects. Monks all existed in the form of families. There were few monks at that time, but spirit beasts were all over the world, including some at the level of true spirit beasts. The classics record that at that time Some families support some real spirit beasts to protect themselves. I think the two spirit beasts in the painting should be that level of spirit beasts. Horcruxes made from the souls of that level of spirit beasts are naturally extremely powerful. It was comparable, so in the end they defeated their opponents.”
Qian Chao said: "It's probably similar to what Girl Tang said, but it turned out to be the origin of Horcruxes. Hey, these books..."
Qian Chao patted a stack of books on the desk.
"These books record a lot of methods for making Horcruxes. They are very detailed and complete. The aristocratic family here must have been a big family that made weapons. This is the first time I have seen the various methods of making Horcruxes. In my opinion, Many of the methods mentioned above are a bit too cruel, but the more cruel ones are yet to come. Now it is impossible for anyone to use the soul of a real spirit beast to make a Horcrux. It is estimated that this was also difficult to do in the past. This method is So I worked around it and used the souls of some demonic beasts that could be found. Naturally, the power was much less powerful. As time went by, some people must be dissatisfied, so..."
"So some people started to use the souls of monks to refine weapons, right?" Tang Ping said.
"Yes, Horcruxes and evil weapons actually make sense. It should be that evil weapons were created later, and then the people who used them found that they were much more powerful than Horcruxes, but they did a lot of harm to themselves after using them. Then, some evil arts were developed. Unexpectedly, today's evil cultivators, hum, and that Dusha, can all be traced back to these paintings. Girl Tang, this painting is of no use to me. But if you don’t recognize the spiritual beasts painted on it, you can take it back and ask Senior Guhuo. I’m not interested in Horcruxes, but I have to keep these books. Even if I don’t use these methods, I still need to know them so that I can know That’s the weakness of those things.”
Tang Ping nodded, put the brocade silk back into the box and put it away.
"Where shall we go tomorrow?"
"It's not too far from Ruixuan Town. I'm thinking about the owner of the Yiming Pavilion here. Why don't we go to Ruixuan Town? I want to see if the owner is back."
"good."
