After a pause, Lu Tianming said: "A few days ago, I reported to my superiors that the broken ancient tomb might be the tomb of the wood god Jumang, but my colleagues laughed at me. The leaders above did not take it seriously and said My guess is unreliable!"
Lu Cheng snorted: "If you don't believe me, I'll throw you away! When are you going to use the unmanned excavator?"
Lu Tianming said: "The specific date has not been determined yet. It may be postponed until next year."
"Why are you still dragging it out?"
"Further tests are currently being conducted, including satellite remote sensing, geomagnetic detection, etc. Preliminary findings indicate that there is a problem with the magnetic field of Wulian Tomb."
"What's the problem?"
"The geomagnetic field refers to the natural magnetic phenomenon that exists inside the earth. The earth can be regarded as a magnetic dipole. One of the poles is located near the geographical north pole, and the other pole is located near the geographical south pole. An imaginary straight line passing through these two magnetic poles (magnetic dipole) axis) is approximately 11.3 degrees tilted from the Earth's rotation axis. The Earth's magnetic field extends tens of thousands of kilometers into space to form the gravity of the Earth's magnetosphere.
Rocks and minerals in certain areas are magnetic, and the geomagnetic field will undergo drastic changes in areas where minerals are buried. This geomagnetic anomaly can be used to detect mineral deposits and search for underground resources such as iron, nickel, chromium, gold, and oil.
After preliminary exploration, it was found that the magnetic field of Wulian Tomb reached 5 Gauss, which is 10 times stronger than other places.
Relevant parties are currently conducting further analysis to find out what minerals are inside and whether it will cause disaster if the tomb is forcibly destroyed. "
Although Lu Cheng hopes that the spiritual energy will be revived, he does not want the drastic changes in the world to cause disaster. If thousands of people are plunged into dire straits, that is not what he expects.
In the afternoon, Lu Cheng went to see the jade carver Zhang Xinyu.
He took two packages of materials, one package of glass type, about 20 kilograms; the other package of high ice type, 50 kilograms, both of which were peeled jade materials.
"Master Zhang, please take a look at these two bags of jade and make them as you like."
Zhang Xinyu picked up one piece and exclaimed, then changed another piece and exclaimed again!
"Did you rob the Myanmar mine owner? Otherwise, how could there be so much good information?"
Lu Cheng smiled and said: "In order to collect these jade materials, I almost visited stone betting shops all over the country. I went to Panjiayuan, Kunming, Ruili, Tengchong, Pingzhou, Jieyang..."
The jade materials he brought were only a small part, totaling more than 150 stones, and there were still 120 pieces left uncut. These were mainly purchased from Panjiayuan.
Zhang Xinyu asked: "How much did you spend to buy these materials?"
Lu Cheng stretched out two fingers.
"20000000?"
"Where, 200 million! I sold all the bracelets and pendants you made last time to get 200 million."
"200 million is a big profit! Not to mention anything else, this piece of green material alone can produce 4 bracelets, each worth hundreds of millions. This 20 kilograms of glass can produce about 20 bracelets, and some materials You chopped it into pieces. The jade material is too small and can only be used to polish ring surfaces and pendants, or to make ornaments. In addition, there is the 50 kilogram high-ice variety, which can make at least 50 bracelets, each worth nearly ten million yuan..."
It stands to reason that one kilogram of jade material can make two bracelets. However, it depends on the size of the jade material and whether there are any cracks. It is not easy to come up with jade bracelets.
All in all, according to Zhang Xinyu, the two bags of materials Lu Cheng brought today, after being made into jade, will be worth more than 2 billion!
Why did it rise so much?
The key is that the emerald green of glass is very precious, and a bracelet full of green is rare. In recent years, there have been several full-green bracelets on the auction block. The most expensive one sold for a sky-high price of 380 million in 2026, and other years have also sold for more than 200 million.
For a stone weighing several hundred kilograms, there may only be a small piece of real glass, buried deep in the middle of the aniseed. If you accidentally cut it in the wrong position, you may lose the chance to make a bracelet. Because of this, the finished product looks great. Extremely precious.
Lu Cheng thought to himself: "The aniseed piece of emerald I bought in Kunming has not been cut yet! The big stone originally weighed 2.5 tons. I cut it into two pieces, one large and one small. The small one weighed 300 kilograms and sold them. 190 million. For the larger piece, I was offered 1 billion, but I was not willing to sell it. If it were made into jade, the price would be hard to measure!"
He kept these jade materials and asked Zhang Xinyu to help process them.
Naturally, the processing fee should be paid favorably, and only good materials should be paid with heavy work.
As a master of jade carving, Zhang Xinyu only selects irregular materials and carves various unique artistic conceptions to demonstrate his value. As for making bracelets and pendants, such simple tasks can be left to apprentices.
He is a craftsman at the Daicheng Jade Factory. The jade factory also needs to make money and cannot blindly pursue the realm.
An excellent piece of jade, should it be made into a bracelet or an ornament? It's hard to tell. The more defective the material is, the easier it is to show the value of the master.
For example, the Zhaoyi Star from a few years ago was valued at 600 million yuan. It is an all-purple glass jadeite, weighing 9,499 carats, and is surrounded by nine small flower eggs of the same type of colorless glass. It looks like a peony, a bit like a fantasy scene of stars and the sun chasing each other. It is the largest glass violet jade product to date.
Another example is the "Green Boy Guanyin Ornament". As early as December 15, 2012, at the Guangdong Poly Winter Auction, it was sold for 447.6 million yuan, setting a new record in the world's jade auction history. The total weight of the entire jadeite piece is 7750 grams, and the size is 30cm × 19cm × 11cm. It has full water quality and exquisite workmanship. The quality level is treasure level three.
Although such ornaments are valuable, they are not easy to circulate. Unless they are people who like to collect, most tycoons will not buy them.
For this reason, a small part of the jadeite materials provided by Lu Cheng will be made into ornaments, and most of them will be made into jewelry.
At night, Lu Cheng continued to practice, absorbing the moonlight again, and finally penetrated the pericardial meridian of Hand Jueyin.
At this point, all twelve serious lines have been opened! The fifth level of pulse refining, the tenth level of martial arts, is considered to be 70% completed. There are still eight extra meridians that have not been connected.
Lu Cheng studied acupuncture and knew that except for the Ren and Du meridian, the other six meridians did not have their own acupoints. In other words, what he really wanted to open was the Ren and Du meridian, and the acupoints of the other six meridians had already been cultivated. Yes, just walk around a few times with your mind.
At midnight, he came to another world with the help of the jade ring.
It was still winter in the other world, and the weather was still cold. In Lu Cheng's eyes, the snow outside seemed to have decreased.
He came to the Witch Temple and followed Wu Guang to sort out the spiritual herbs, familiarize himself with the medicinal properties, and prepare the elixirs.
He asked the great witch Wuhuan for advice on runes.
"Master, I saw some runes and I don't know what they mean. Can you help me find out?"
He used tree branches to draw them on the sand table, a total of 30 characters.
Some of these characters come from the golden dagger, some come from the stone tomb catalogue, and two characters come from the jade ring.
The witch looked at them, barely recognized a dozen of them, and asked, "Where did you see the runes?"
Lu Cheng said: "It comes from a dagger. I bought it from Wu Ding Tang."
"Bring it to me and see."
Lu Cheng took out the golden dagger.
After he carefully cleaned it, the dust on the surface of the dark gold dagger was washed away, revealing the true color of gold, and the runes on it became clearly visible.
The witch husband held it in his hand and pondered it carefully for a while, then opened the thick "Great Witch Chant", searched for a long time, and said: "This small dagger actually has hundreds of runes. I can only recognize it." About twenty. They seem to be four incantations. Come and see if they are very close to this sentence in the 'Great Witch Chant'?"
Lu Cheng looked at it and said, "Master, I know even less of these words. What do they mean?"
"The road is like a stone, with a thorn-piercing dagger. Qiqi sighs, mourning and worrying about others. Xiaogu's blade cuts up the cliff. There are many other characters that I don't recognize."
Lu Cheng was overjoyed: "That's quite a lot, thank you so much, master."
The witch said: "Such a dagger seems to have its origin. Don't use it lightly. When you need to use it occasionally, don't let outsiders see it."
"Master, shall I dedicate the dagger to you?"
"I don't dare to ask for it."
"Why?"
"Because I am the great shaman of the Pei Yi tribe. If I am seen possessing this dagger, it will bring disaster to the 60,000 tribe members."
"Master, I am also from the Lai Yi tribe."
"You are just a little witch who has just started. If it doesn't work, I can push you out and help the tribe solve their problems!"
"ah……"
Lu Cheng worked in the Witch Temple for a day and did not go to the Witch Temple again the next day.
He walked out of the cave alone, walking through the foot-thick snow towards the deserted wilderness. Leaving Baiyu Mountain where the tribe lived, they came to a barren mountain ten miles away.
The mountains are covered with tall trees.
The tallest of those trees is more than 200 meters tall, and the shorter ones are as high as 50 meters. The trunks are so straight that two or three people cannot hug them.
Because it is winter, the leaves are withered and there are no flowers. The bark is blue-grey.
Lu Cheng is not a botanist, so he doesn't know what kind of tree it is. Just when I got close to the trees, I smelled a strong fragrance.
Seeing that there was no one around, he took out the dagger, recited the incantation, which was the few words the witch told him, and at the same time threw the dagger towards the big tree! The result shocked him beyond measure! The dagger flew through the air, causing a tree trunk with a diameter of three meters to break!
With a "boom", the 70-meter-high tree fell down!
Then the dagger flew back and landed in his hand!
Lu Cheng was surprised and delighted: "Incredible! This is a divine weapon!"
He aimed at a big tree again, chanted a spell, and threw the dagger.
Then there was another "boom", and a big tree with a diameter of four meters fell! This tree is a hundred meters tall!
Lu Cheng thought to himself: "If such a tall tree is left here, someone will definitely trace it." So, he kept chanting incantations and used a dagger to cut the big tree into sections, each section being three meters long.
He found that the unfolded cross-section showed a golden color, as well as lines of gentian patterns, dragon scale patterns, rose patterns, gold and jade full hall patterns, grape patterns, and even textures of birds and animals.
"Is it Fragrant Phoebe, Daye Phoebe, Huang Xinnan, Osmanthus fragrans? Or Huanghuali, Golden Camphor?"
Lu Cheng looked around and found a large area of trees of the same type covering the entire hill. He thought to himself: "It doesn't seem to be a precious tree species. If it is Fragrant Phoebe, Daye Phoebe, or Huang Xinnan, even though it also has the word 'nan' , but the wood is not too expensive.”
He put these thick tree trunks into the jade ring, and also put the big branches into it, forgetting the small branches.
His jade ring has a lot of space, more than enough to fit these two big trees.
