Shu Guan's figure appeared out of thin air in the topmost pavilion of Dingshi Bell Tower.
Tourists are not allowed here, so Shu Guan could only use an invisibility charm. As for Rui Jianqiao, Shu Guan made an excuse and said something was wrong, so Rui Jianqiao went back by himself.
Taking off the invisibility charm, Shu Guan first looked around. The attic on the top floor of the bell tower covers an area of about ten square meters. There are windows on all sides. The river breeze blows in, making people feel like they are in heaven.
In fact, for thousands of years, in the history of Dahua, countless poems describing this bell tower are all related to immortals. Those literati and poets climbed to the top of this world-defining bell tower. When poetry flourished, they seemed to be inspired. They are very similar, and the poems they write are all full of fairy spirit.
Shu Guan has also read a lot of these poems, and many of them are excellent works. They are written in a carefree and free spirit, making people want to leave the mortal world immediately and go to seek immortality and visit the Tao.
But as a true immortal in the eyes of mortals, Shu Guan naturally knows that immortals have no less troubles than mortals, and they have no less restraints than mortals.
There were also huge murals painted on the surrounding walls of the attic. They were all pictures of battles between the two armies. Shu Guan glanced at it and roughly guessed that the murals should be allusions to pacifying the rebellion of the Monkey Army.
It's just that the two armies fighting on the mural were painted. On one side were the troops of the Great China with bright armor, while on the other side the troops were in strange clothes, holding wooden sticks, knives and forks, and some were even just wrapped in animal skin skirts, with ugly faces. In the extreme, there are even some strange ones, and some of them don't even look like normal humans.
It doesn't look like an army, but more like a group of ragtag people running out of the deep mountains and old forests.
Of course, since these murals were painted on the Taiping Dingshi Bell Tower, which represented the Great China Dynasty's complete suppression of the Monkey Army's rebellion, it is easy to understand that they somewhat vilified the image of the Monkey Army.
And if the Divine Monkey Army was really such a miscellaneous army like a group of people from the mountains, how could it be possible that the Great China Dynasty, which was at its peak at that time, almost destroyed the country.
In fact, in the history books of Dahua, there are very few descriptions of the Monkey Army. It can even be said that there is almost no description. What kind of image is the rebel army that made the Eastern Continent tremble five thousand years ago? This is something that the Dahua historians are still debating and unable to conclude.
Shu Guan withdrew his gaze from the murals. These murals were exquisite and had extremely high artistic value, but they probably did not depict real history.
Then his eyes fell on the huge bronze bell in the middle of the pavilion.
It was a large bronze bell with a wavy beak. It was three meters high and about one and a half meters in diameter at its widest point. It was majestic, solemn, and colorful.
The body of the clock is engraved with five large seal characters of "Taiping Dingshi Zhong", and there is also a slightly smaller inscription, which naturally tells the story of the time when Emperor Gengshi took the generals under his command to carry their weapons and forged this Taiping Dingshi Bell to divide the world. The reasons for thirty-six continents.
Of course, Shu Guan now knew that the inscription on the bronze bell, like the murals on the wall, had some inaccuracies.
Because this huge bronze bell was not made from the weapon of Gengshi Emperor's general at all. Ever since Xiaoyi told him last time that there was a spirit in the Dingshi Bell, Shu Guan knew about this Dingshi Bell. In fact, it is a magic weapon, so naturally I no longer believe in the statement recorded in the inscription.
Later, Shu Guan asked his master Li Zhixia about this matter.
"Yes, the World-Defending Bell is actually a magic weapon, and it is also an Earth-immortal-level magic weapon. If all thirty-six World-Defending Bells in the world were gathered together, it would be equivalent to a heaven-level magic weapon."
"And these world-defining bells were actually given to the Great China Dynasty by the Heavenly Court which had not yet been destroyed at that time."
This is the answer Li Zhixia told Shu Guan.
"Then what is the use of this world-determining clock? Why did Heaven give this world-determining clock to Dahua Celestial Dynasty?"
Then Shu Guan raised another question.
At that time, Li Zhixia looked at him deeply and said something.
"That's a secret that only the viewer can know."
So Shu Guan didn't ask any more questions.
Everyone knows that the next master of Shan Ji Guan will definitely be Mu Yao. Even if Shu Guan now shows unparalleled cultivation talent and his strength has been surpassed by his second senior brother, this will not change.
Since it is a secret that only the viewer can know, it is naturally inappropriate for him to ask further questions.
But... I have Xiao Yi, so I can let Xiao Yi ask.
Shu Guan thought this while standing in front of the huge and ancient bronze bell.
He has been standing in this pavilion for five minutes, but Xiaoyi has been silent.
Shu Guan knew that Xiao Yi should be communicating with the weapon spirit in the bronze bell. To be honest, Shu Guan really envied Xiao Yi's ability. Today's magic weapons are becoming more and more difficult for practitioners to control. But Xiaoyi can easily get the help of those magic weapons.
Well, strictly speaking, Xiaoyi is also a time traveler, so this should be her welfare golden finger as a time traveler.
At this time, Xiaoyi's voice finally sounded in his mind.
"Brother, Grandpa Zhong wants us to help him find something. If we are willing to help, he can also give us a gift as a reward."
Shu Guan's eyes flashed and he asked Xiao Yi in his mind:
"What are you looking for?"
"An ornament on Grandpa Zhong's clock button was stolen three hundred years ago. He wants us to help him find it."
The ornament on the clock button?
Shu Guan couldn't help but look up and saw that the knob of the bronze bell hanging from the beam was bare and had some signs of breakage, as if there should be something there.
Indeed, looking at the bronze bells Shu Guan had seen before, the knobs on the top of bronze bells were usually decorated with sculptures of ferocious beasts, but there was nothing on this Dingshi bell.
It turned out that it had been stolen!
But who is so bold as to take something from the magic weapon given by heaven?
Moreover, Master and the others seem to know the origin of the World-Ding Bell. The World-Ding Bell seems to be vaguely related to the Seven Immortals Alliance. Since the thing was stolen, why didn't they directly seek help from the Seven Immortals Alliance at that time, but wait until hundreds of years later? Looking for help yourself?
Naturally, what Shu Guan was thinking could not be hidden from Xiao Yi.
"Brother, Grandpa Zhong told me that he couldn't explain such complicated things to those practitioners. It was only when he met me that he could communicate without hindrance, so he asked us for help."
"It's no problem for us to help it, but his ornaments have been stolen for three hundred years. Who knows where they have been taken. You must know that the things on this bronze bell, even if others don't know it is a magic weapon, are just They are very valuable as cultural relics, and they may even have been sold to the Western Continent. Do we still have to go to the Western Continent to look for them?"
"Grandpa Zhong said he had a feeling of connection with the ornament. That thing is still in Jingcheng, but it must have been partially obscured by magic, so he couldn't sense its specific location."
"And that ornament is very important to Grandpa Zhong. It is a very important part of the clock. Without it, Grandpa Zhong will not be able to use many of his powerful magical powers."
...Is that so? If we were in Jingcheng, we could help find the Dingshi Bell. Shu Guan raised his eyebrows and then asked:
"What exactly is that ornament?"
The next moment, something appeared directly in Shu Guan's mind.
It was a statue of a strange beast with the body of a deer and a head like a goat, with a body covered in scales and a single horn on its head.
Shu Guan had seen the name of this strange beast in the Ten Thousand Beasts Map of Daozang Pavilion.
That is the mythical beast that only existed in the first three Yuanhui, Qilin.
