Chapter Twenty-Six, The Secret of the Lake
While getting close to the center of the lake, he continued to dive many times to check the situation at the bottom of the lake, and with the increase in the number of dives, Chen Zhiyuan gradually found some problems.
The aquatic plants near the shore are not unusual, but as the water deepens, the appearance of the aquatic plants is somewhat abnormal. Chen Zhiyuan saw that all the aquatic plants at the bottom of the lake were growing in one direction, and in this kind of lake, the surface of the lake was calm, but the aquatic plants at the bottom of the lake were growing like this, if there was no problem, Chen Zhiyuan would not believe it.
The lake of about two acres of land is not too big, and Chen Zhiyuan quickly touched the center of the lake, but the depth of this lake deepened rapidly, and the closer to the center, the deeper it became. Fortunately, Chen Zhiyuan was able to dive to the bottom of the lake with a sigh of relief.
After swimming in the lake for so long, Chen Zhiyuan had basically determined that there was not a single fish in the lake, otherwise he would have seen it underwater.
Floating on the water, Chen Zhiyuan slowly stepped on the water to prevent himself from sinking, while constantly adjusting his breathing. When he felt almost, he turned his head and plunged to the bottom.
There is only the sound of water flowing in his ears, which is a little quiet, and when the water is deep enough, the sunlight is not so bright, fortunately Chen Zhiyuan does not have deep-sea phobia, otherwise he would have a problem at this time.
Chen Zhiyuan held his breath and slowly groped under the water, hoping to find something different. It's not a difficult task, just follow the direction indicated by the aquatic weeds, after all, the closer to the center, the more obvious this abnormality of the aquatic weeds becomes.
Now it seems that this lake is not naturally formed, but a crater-like lake formed by something falling down at high speed, and the water also converges little by little, which is why it is not far from Nanfeng City, but no one has found it, because this lake has not been formed for a long time, and Chen Zhiyuan happens to be the first person to find it.
The surrounding aquatic plants grow towards the middle, and the aquatic plants in the middle grow vertically upward, and it is not difficult for Chen Zhiyuan to quickly find such an area.
Feeling a little stuffy in his chest, Chen Zhiyuan floated up, took a breath on the water, and rested for a while. Now that you find the location, you don't have to be in a hurry, anyway, there is no one to grab with yourself, you can take your time.
When he felt that he had recovered, Chen Zhiyuan dived again. The water and grass in the center grew a little densely and a little stout, and Chen Zhiyuan took a lot of effort to clean it up.
Pulling out the aquatic weeds, what came out of the roots was a bag with some holes, and as soon as the bag appeared, Chen Zhiyuan knew that this was the cause of the abnormality.
Rich spiritual power flowed out from the breach, and Chen Zhiyuan could clearly feel this spiritual power without even having to run the exercises. So Chen Zhiyuan hurriedly grabbed the bag and floated up.
On the shore, the surface of the bag was cleaned up, and Chen Zhiyuan could finally see the bag as it was.
It was a bag that was slightly larger than a pocket, light gray, but with some gold streaks on it, it was very inconspicuous and had to be seen on closer inspection. There was a hole the size of a fingernail near the mouth, and the spiritual power was overflowing from it, and without running the exercises, Chen Zhiyuan could feel that these escaping spiritual power was slowly drilling into his body, but he couldn't get in.
When the bag was opened, there was a thin book, a dozen small stones of different sizes, two pieces of rune paper, and a dozen gold leaves.
Among them, Chen Zhiyuan only knows gold leaves, but Chen Zhiyuan has some impressions of these small stones, which should be the spirit stones that Lao Sheng said.
Of the three slightly larger spirit stones, two of them no longer have any spiritual power fluctuations, and the spiritual power of the remaining one is also slowly draining. Of the eleven smaller spirit stones, only four of them were intact, and the others had already turned into ordinary stones, and they shattered with a hard pinch.
If Chen Zhiyuan guessed correctly, the smaller one is probably the lower grade spirit stone, and the slightly larger one is the middle grade spirit stone. A low-grade spirit stone can be exchanged for a hundred gold leaves, and a medium-grade spirit stone can be exchanged for twenty low-grade spirit stones, Chen Zhiyuan looked at this medium-grade spirit stone that was being lost and other spirit stones that had completely turned into stone, and only felt a sharp pain in his heart, it was so painful that it was difficult to breathe.
Time waits for no one, Chen Zhiyuan can't let such a medium-grade spirit stone slip away in front of him, he has to use it.
Chen Zhiyuan didn't know how to set up a formation, and he didn't use the spiritual power in the spirit stone much, but he thought of a trick, that is, swallow it, and then use the qi eating method to absorb the spiritual energy inside.
The spirit stone with the size of the little thumb and finger touched the water, and was swallowed by Chen Zhiyuan with a bang, and the other things were stuffed into the small cloth bag fished out of the water, and for the time being, regardless of whether there was anything else under the water, Chen Zhiyuan got dressed and hurriedly ran towards his resting point.
Meditate, run the mental method, sure enough, although the spiritual power in the spirit stone is still escaping, but as the spiritual power in the body begins to operate, a small part of the escaping spiritual power is slowly absorbed into the body, Chen Zhiyuan experienced this feeling of rapid improvement in cultivation for the first time, and he can clearly feel that his spiritual power is growing a little bit This feeling is really wonderful.
I don't know how long I've been cultivating, and I don't know how many laps my spiritual power has run, if it were usual, I would have already been interrupted by a strong sense of sleepiness, but now Chen Zhiyuan is not only not sleepy, but also feels that he is more energetic.
When the spiritual power in the spirit stone completely escaped, the spiritual power in Chen Zhiyuan's body had grown to three times its original size. The first thing that escaped spiritual power nourished was Chen Zhiyuan's body, and then it left his body, Chen Zhiyuan only felt comfortable and comfortable all over his body now.
Feeling the surging spiritual power in his body and clenching his fists, Chen Zhiyuan had never felt that he was so strong. However, the cultivation has improved too quickly, and Chen Zhiyuan is also a little worried that the cultivation that has suddenly increased is unstable, and after a while, Chen Zhiyuan came back to meditate honestly to consolidate his cultivation.
He continued to cultivate until sleepiness hit, and then Chen Zhiyuan stopped cultivating and took out a small cloth to study the contents of it.
Chen Zhiyuan didn't know the two talismans, but according to the words that could be understood, one was the golden light talisman and the other was the cloud and rain talisman, the cloud and rain talisman had been broken, probably the water in this lake was caused by the cloud and rain talisman, which also made Chen Zhiyuan very interested in the remaining golden light talisman.
After studying for a long time, he didn't come up with a reason, and Chen Zhiyuan didn't dare to rashly inject aura into the talisman. Not to mention whether the effect of this talisman can be successfully stimulated by injecting aura, even if the activation is successful, what if the effect of this talisman is an explosion? A two-acre lake was blown up on the spot, and Chen Zhiyuan felt that he was also wiped out. Moreover, when the rune paper is activated, the spiritual power cannot be stopped, and the rune paper is not successfully stimulated, and it will be scrapped if it is not activated, in case this rune is very valuable, isn't it a loss?
Putting down the talisman paper, Chen Zhiyuan picked up the book in the cloth bag again and looked at it carefully.
I don't know what material the book is made of, Chen Zhiyuan assured that this is definitely not paper, but it is not leather, it may be cloth, it feels a little cool and slippery, but the cloth does not have this hardness. Turning the first page, there are four big characters written on it, Chen Zhiyuan knows three, what is the initial solution of the symbol, forget it, just treat it as the initial solution of the symbolic paper.
There are a total of nine pages in this book, and there are many small characters densely written on it, and I probably took a look at it, and at the level of Chen Zhiyuan's two-year school, I really can't understand many words.
There are words on the nine pages, the first two pages are the introduction, although I can't understand it, but I read the main meaning of it, that is, the world is mainly divided into nine categories, the five elements of yin and yang plus thunder symbols, and the last category is the outer way, that is, the non-first eight categories are counted.
Various types of rune paper are not necessarily single-attribute, and often have multi-attribute rune papers, such as gold and water runes, yang and thunder runes, yin fire runes, and so on. The next seven pages introduce seven kinds of symbols, namely the small five-element symbol and the yin-yang thunder symbol, each of the five elements of the symbol has one attribute, and the yin-yang thunder symbol is the yin, thunder, and yang thunder.
The book also said that the drawing of talismans should use special talisman pen and ink rune paper and ink, which Chen Zhiyuan did not have, but after thinking about it, there should be a pen under the lake, after all, the things in this bag are all related to talismans, and there is no reason to lack things to draw talismans.
Chen Zhiyuan saw that his head was big, after all, he couldn't understand almost half of the words, so he looked very uncomfortable. If you don't understand it, don't read it first, go back and buy a dictionary and learn it slowly.
While it was still early, Chen Zhiyuan took off his clothes and jumped into the water to see if he could still touch something.
Not to mention, near the bag, Chen Zhiyuan found a broken brush and a few scattered pieces of paper and talismans, the material of the paper and talismans were the same as the two talismans in the cloth bag, but the two talismans found underwater had cracked, and the word "water" could still be vaguely seen on them.
Touching down further, Chen Zhiyuan touched a piece of clothing, dragged it out hard, and really dragged someone out of him.
went up to change his breath, put the broken pen and paper on the shore, Chen Zhiyuan dived down again, and dragged the person who was under the water out.
It would be false to say that he was not nervous, but it was not the first time that Chen Zhiyuan had seen this kind of dead cultivator, so he was not so afraid.
Half of this person's body was deformed, Chen Zhiyuan didn't know how high he said he had fallen from a place and at what speed, he could fall into such a big pit on the ground, and even his clothes were broken.
The only thing that was still intact on the corpse was the pants and shoes, Chen Zhiyuan took off these two pants and shoes with good materials, temporarily threw them aside, and continued to touch the corpse.
The wound was on the chest of the corpse, and a black iron rod was nailed to it, which failed to penetrate, it should be iron, and Chen Zhiyuan did not know. pulled it out hard, but he didn't expect that this iron rod was as long as Chen Zhiyuan's arm, and when he pulled it out, he found that it was not an iron rod, but a long iron needle, which was as long as Chen Zhiyuan's arm.
Chen Zhiyuan used this long needle to poke hard on the ground, and found that the long needle could be slowly shortened, until it was poked all the way to the handle and then pulled out, and the small hole in the ground was only a finger deep. However, after Chen Zhiyuan tried to inject spiritual power into the long needle, the long needle became extremely sharp, and it no longer had the property of shrinking. Well, since you're so special, let's call you "Black Needle".
Unable to find anything on the deceased's body, Chen Zhiyuan thought about it and found a place to bury the body. In any case, people have left so many things to themselves, and they have already touched the corpse, so they must bury them well.