Chapter 42: The Mysterious Bronze Statue
When Ji Yiming and his party got closer and closer to the center of the explosion.
Zheng Changlin, who was with Ji Daoyan, was one step ahead of the former, and walked all the way to less than three hundred meters away from the target along the "Hidden Dragon Yuan" mark left by Niu Qixiong.
Looking from the middle of the gap in the bluestone road, which was not very spacious, on the charred black soil where the entire building was in ashes, Zheng Changlin did not find Niu Chuxiong's figure, but he saw the tall general who was covered by matte metal armor from top to bottom for the first time.
An extremely strong top grandmaster's qi and blood came from the other party.
Ji Daoyan's eyes were slightly condensed, his eyes were firmly "nailed" to the general's body as if he had crossed a distance of hundreds of meters, the faint cyan light around his body appeared and disappeared, and the lotus-shaped aura on the soles of his feet gradually turned dark blue, and even lifted him up a few inches from the ground, and his whole body exuded the iconic aura that belonged to the Daomen Sect Master.
"The Heart Sutra of the Clear Void Cave".
This is almost as old as the Taoist inheritance of the Yellow Emperor's "Taiyi Longevity Formula" practiced by Ji Yiming, and in history, only the official leader of the "Yan Dao" organization can cultivate it. Even in modern society, where information is exploding and the importance of communication and discussion is better understood than the ancients, there are only a handful of members in the entire organization who practice this exercise.
The only people who really relied on this to cultivate to the realm of the grandmaster were him and Ou Haichao.
——The original Mountain Dragon Array of the "Qingxu Cave Heart Sutra" obtained in Shanglin Lake Ancient Kiln City earlier deepened his originally stagnant mental method into the realm, although there was still a lot of gap between him and the top in the real sense, but he did begin to move towards the path that countless cultivators had dreamed of for thousands of years.
Maybe dozens of ...... No, in a few more years.
In the world of Huaxia cultivators, there will be another powerhouse of the top grandmaster realm.
But at this moment, facing the top Grandmaster Realm generals hundreds of meters away, this leader of the "Yan Dao" organization, who is now the well-deserved first person in the Dao Sect, still feels a great pressure.
Unlike the abyss-like aura on Ying Xingtian's body, the top grandmaster aura on the general's body was more aggressive. Even if they were hundreds of meters away, Ji Daoyan and Zheng Changlin could feel the terrifying momentum like thousands of troops rushing to kill!
"Chief, shall we go over?"
Seeing that Niu Zhuxiong left a mark and stopped in front of him, and there was no figure of the old cow in the entire open space in all directions, Zheng Changlin forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart, turned his head and smiled at Ji Daoyan reluctantly: "That guy doesn't seem to have any malicious intent......
Do you call this malice?
Sensing the aggressive aura of the top Grandmaster Realm in the air, Ji Daoyan glared at him coldly, ignoring Zheng Changlin, who obviously wanted to coax himself to test the truth, but raised his hand to make a "swastika" in the air.
The red light quietly lit up, and this "swastika" shaped light and shadow flew forward at an unhurried speed.
Hundreds of meters away, Zhan Zhan looked at him levelly, as if he hadn't noticed the two of them, and he didn't react to the light and shadow in the air that flew straight towards him.
It's just that the aura of the top Grandmaster Realm with the murderous aura of the tragic battlefield has become more and more dense with the passage of time, almost condensed like a substance...... The air around them ripples from time to time.
Ji Daoyan's edict was that at first, he could still fly forward at an unhurried speed, but when he got close to about two hundred meters away from the general, Guanghua involuntarily dimmed, and his flight trajectory became crooked, up and down.
After barely flying for more than ten meters, the entire "swastika" glittered slightly, and then completely annihilated in the air.
No trace was left.
Ji Daoyan snorted lightly, and his face sank like water.
This "secret order" is not a traditional technique in the Daomen mental method, but a new technique that he has researched in combination with various classical books in the "Yandao" treasury since the last time he obtained the original "Mountain Dragon Array" at the bottom of the ancient kiln in Shanglinhu.
It doesn't have any attack power, but it only has a trace of its own consciousness imprint, and it can detect the enemy's situation on behalf of himself to the greatest extent - this self-created "secret order" can't even get close to the top Grandmaster Realm master's body within a hundred meters of his body, which really makes him feel secretly awe-inspiring in his heart.
Is the gap between a Grandmaster and a top-notch Grandmaster so big?
Originally, after obtaining the original version of the "Mountain Dragon Formation" of the "Qingxu Cave Heart Sutra", after cultivating for a period of time with the help of the new formation, he realized that the gap between him and Ying Xingtian was constantly narrowing, and in a few years, there might be a chance to catch up. But witnessing the situation in front of him, the leader of the "Yandao" organization realized the gap between himself and the true top realm.
How terrible is it......
(That guy, when he was fighting against the two grandmasters of the "Criminal Soldiers", he definitely didn't go all out)
Zheng Changlin witnessed everything beside him, and asked cautiously, "What's the situation?"
"There's really nothing hostile, let's go over and have a look. ”
The head of the Qianlong Yuan Battle Department, Ping Suri, was brave and unparalleled, and his own strength was also a top-grade martial artist who was only one line away from the Grandmaster Realm, and he only dared to take half a step back obediently at this time—he waited for Ji Daoyan to step forward before he cautiously followed, holding a silver array disk in his hand to continuously restore his qi and blood internal breath.
Even if he was just getting close, in order to resist the aura and coercion of the top Grandmaster Realm emanating from the air, he would have to consume a lot of internal breath, which was almost tantamount to a fierce battle of equal strength.
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Of course, Niu Chuxiong didn't know that Ying Xingtian, Ji Yiming and his party, and Ji Daoyan and Zheng Changlin had all arrived near the center of the explosion here. At this moment, he was already standing in front of this low bungalow with a strange atmosphere, and after hesitating for a few seconds, he finally pushed his heart sideways through the door.
The first thing that catches your eye is a square table of eight immortals, which is placed next to the wall. On both sides of a carved Taishi chair, this set of tables and chairs is only a very ordinary Nanmu, but the carved patterns on it are extremely cumbersome and exquisite, cranes and five bats, landscapes and flowers, flat boats and fishing wood, and so on.
——If it is taken out and sold on the market today, this carving alone can make the whole set of Nanmu tables and chairs fetch a high price of more than hundreds of thousands.
On the tabletop, unlike other houses that Fang Cai Niu had inspected, there were still daily utensils such as plates, dishes, chopsticks and other utensils from the previous owner's house, but a strange bronze statue with a hideous face and a black body was placed in the center.
Three heads and four arms, holding four different weapons of swords, guns, swords and halberds in their hands, and the three faces are "happy", "angry", and "sad" three vivid expressions.
Niu Chuxiong only felt that no matter which face he looked at, he would be infected by the emotions contained in it.
In just a few seconds, he experienced an emotional transformation from ecstasy and rage to incomparable sorrow, and his whole person seemed to have a serious illness, and his spirit quickly withered.
What kind of strange god statue has such a terrifying contagion?!
Although most of his own strength is spent on various logistics affairs of the "Qianlong Yuan", Niu Chuxiong is also a real middle-grade martial arts realm master after all, and his spirit and willpower are far beyond ordinary people.
So...... If it were an ordinary person here, just take a look at this black bronze statue...... You may be infected to the point of mental madness and loss of mind, and become a madman who only knows giggles, anger, or pain.
Niu Chu's ambition was dark, and he turned his head and didn't dare to look at the strange bronze statue again.
Aside from the tables and chairs of the Eight Immortals, which are used as shrines, there is not much furniture in the house. In the north corner is a simple wooden bed, and next to it is a dressing table with a bronze mirror—nothing else.
On the contrary, the bed is covered with pillows, and it seems that there is not much damage except for the whitish color of the fabric, which is completely different from the tattered cloth strips and cotton wool that have been weathered by the years in the houses I saw before.
Here, as expected, it is different from other places.
Niu Chuxiong looked back at the window, and saw that the Qing soldier was still standing in place and did not move, so he continued to check what was special about his wooden bed and dresser.
The wood, like the Eight Immortals Table Taishi Chair, is a sturdy and durable nanmu. The mortise and tenon joints at the foot of the bed and the dresser are also partially decorated. It's just that at a glance, it is the handwriting of ordinary craftsmen, which is far from the craftsmanship of the former that is so exquisite that people can't take their eyes off it.
The set of Eight Immortals Table Taishi Chairs, even if they appeared in the main hall of the princes and nobles' houses, were dazzling and exquisite, but in this simple dwelling, a strange statue of a god was placed as a shrine, and the whole combination was arranged with an indescribable sense of disharmony.
Don't think about it, the black bronze statue must have been the handwriting of the predecessors in the cultivation world hundreds or even thousands of years ago, and it can affect oneself with the strength of the middle-grade martial artist realm, and the maker must also be the grandmaster realm or even the top grandmaster. I just don't know about this strange god statue that can't be seen...... What does it have to do with the Qing soldiers outside?
The entire building was unscathed in the horrific explosion just now, was it because of the power that the statue carried?
By the way, there is also Huining Mansion......
Is this the former Qing Dynasty or Liaojin?
Niu Chu's ambition is full of many mysteries, but he has never found the slightest "thread" that can solve the mystery - it seems that there are more and more clues, but it feels farther and farther away from the truth.
There was a small drawer under the dresser, and he reached out and pulled it, only to find that it was locked by a small copper lock at the bottom of the side. The copper lock was about the size of a normal person's thumb, and a snap on each side was attached to the dresser template. The strange thing is that after hundreds of years, both the lock body and the live buckles on both sides are as smooth as new, without rust marks, and not even a single stain can be seen.
The keyhole is so small that it seems to fill it with just a toothpick. Niu Chuxiong looked around again, but did not find anything similar to a key in the room, and reached out to pinch the lock body, and his brows furrowed slightly: the strength of this small copper lock is far from being as simple as it seems.
Originally, with his mid-grade martial artist realm, whether it was bronze brass or other copper alloys, even if the solid metal was not broken, there would at least be a certain degree of deformation under the full pinch. However, the inconspicuous little copper lock in his hand did not move at all, and was still born on the nanmu board of the dresser.
With ancient metal smelting technology, it would never be possible to do so much.
Therefore, this thing should also be made by ancient cultivators!
However, no matter how strong the copper lock is, it is only to prevent the gentleman and not the villain. With curiosity about the contents of the drawer, Niu Chuxiong didn't hesitate to reach out and grab the planks on both sides of the copper lock, and directly dug out two big holes in the inch-thick nanmu.
With a "click", the copper lock fell directly to the ground.
The closed dresser drawer opened.