160, gourd

They did not go all over the three suspected locations in the mountain, and found traces not far ahead, only to see a stone gourd more than two feet long on the steep slope. The stone does not naturally become such a regular gourd shape, it must be artificially carved. It was supposed to have rolled down from a great height, and was stopped by the roots of the dead vines on the hillside, covered in moss, exposing only a small piece of dry stone surface.

If you don't pay attention, it looks like two pieces of stone or dirt covered with moss, one large and one small, but Ding Qi felt that the shape was special, and he deliberately swept it with his divine sense to find that it was a stone carving. He beckoned Xian Hao to climb closer, stood firm with the vine in his hand, and wiped off the moss on the surface of the stone with the soles of his feet, gradually revealing a gourd.

Xian Hao frowned and said, "This should be the gourd top of the pagoda." ”

Ding Qi nodded and said, "Yes, I have seen many ancient pagodas with this kind of gourd top, many of which are made of bronze, and some are gilded. ”

The two looked at each other, and then said in unison: "That tower is in front of you!"

Xian Hao: "Then let's hurry up." ”

Ding Qi: "Wait a minute, I always think this stone gourd is a bit weird, do you think she will be hollow, like a gourd to carry things?"

Xian Hao: "This is not cast in bronze, a gourd carved from a large stone, and I think it is hollow, what kind of craftsmanship does it have to be......?" I also think this gourd is a bit special, can your divine sense penetrate it?"

Ding Qi shook his head and said, "The stone is too thick, I can't sense it inside, but I always feel that something is blocking the divine sense, so let's turn it over and take a look first." ”

Xian Hao: "I'll hold you, be careful." ”

The two of them were on the steep slope of the mountain, and there was no place to settle down. Xian Hao grabbed the tree vine next to him, and grabbed Ding Qi's belt from behind with his other hand. Ding Qi stepped on the root of the tree and reached out to hold the mouth of the gourd, and lifted it up with force. The stone gourd more than two feet high was so heavy that ordinary people couldn't move it at all, and Ding Qi just straightened it.

The vines holding the stone gourd made a crisp cracking sound, Ding Qi's movements were very careful, don't miss this gourd will continue to roll down the mountain, and it is not easy to find it again. After straightening the gourd, I saw the other side that was suppressed. The stomach of the stone gourd may have been damaged in the process of rolling down, and a little golden light was actually exposed inside!

Xian Hao: "There is really something in the stomach of the gourd, see if you can take it out?" As he spoke, he took out a geological hammer from Ding Qi's backpack and handed it over, which was a tool used by geological surveyors to do rock sampling.

Ding Qi carefully tapped the crack in the defect of the stone gourd with the tip of the hammer, and peeled out a golden gourd from it. This gourd is two inches high, like an object to hold in the palm of your hand, but it is very heavy to handle, and it weighs about two catties. What's more special is that its outline and the stone gourd are tightly fitted, and I don't know how it was put in the first place.

Xian Hao took the gourd and said, "This is pure gold and solid, only gold has such a large density...... I just can't figure out how the gourd got into the stone?"

Ding Qi: "It's possible that a thin crack was opened and then poured into it with gold juice." ”

Xian Hao: "Are you stupid? Even if you use this method, how can you dig out a gourd-shaped space in a big stone?"

Dingzi: "That can only be cut into a piece of the stone and then set it back, otherwise I can't think of any other process." ”

Xian Hao: "Have you found the hole that was cast, and there are traces of chimeration after cutting?"

Ding Qi: "I didn't find it, but this stone gourd is missing, and the traces may be on the missing surface." ”

Xian Hao: "You said that it is possible, this golden gourd was put directly into the stone, but we don't know the means." ”

Ding Qi: "Of course it's possible, we have entered Xiaojing Lake, Da Chi Mountain, and Qin Gaotai, what else is impossible in this world?"

Xian Hao: "Could this gourd be a magic weapon?"

Ding Qi: "It's a magic weapon, I don't believe you try the hardness, it's the same as the golden ruyi in the small realm lake." ”

The texture of gold is very soft, and a scratch with a hard object can leave traces, but the golden ruyi in Xiaojing Lake can't get rid of the mark even with a frustration knife. Ding Qi was very puzzled at first, but later realized that it should have been sacrificed by a master with divine consciousness and mana, and like the Jingshi in his hand, it had become a magic weapon of some significance.

Ding Qi has never seen what the magic weapon of the legend or learning the work looks like, but according to similar standards, his Jingshi should barely be regarded as a magic weapon, right?

Xian Hao took the geological hammer, knocked on the golden gourd a few times, and said, "It's really yes! I'll keep this thing first, and I'll study it when I have time." ”

Ding Qi looked up and said, "How are we going?"

Further on, there is a steep slope, with slippery mud and rocks covered in moss, making it difficult to climb with nowhere to stand. Xian Hao glanced at him and said, "You have traveled all over the world of Qin Gaotai, and it is rare to live on this hillside, is it my skill in the school?"

As she spoke, she took out a roll of rope from Ding Qi's backpack, with a pendant and hook on the top, shook it off and threw it with force, reaching out and pulling it tightly. Ding Qi said: "Is this the flying tiger claw of martial arts, the city rope?"

Xian Hao: "It's okay for Mr. Ding to understand it this way, this thing is called floating silk hanging." I'll go first, you pay attention below. ”

Xian Hao went easily with the help of the rope, and after a while shouted in front of him: "Hang it tightly, you can come too." ”

The two climbed this steep slope and saw a lot of gravel and bricks after walking a short distance. Xian Hao picked up a complete blue brick and said: "This should be a tower brick, it's so big, one piece weighs almost ten catties." ”

The tower is no longer visible, and if it weren't for the scattered stones and bricks, no one would have realized that there were ever remnants of man-made structures here. At the end of the cliff was a steep cliff, the top of the cliff, but the sun was not seen from the bottom of the cliff, for they were standing under the canopy of a large tree that was unusually luxuriant.

The knots of the large branches spread out in all directions, the main trunk was almost three meters thick, rooted in a pile of rubble, and the extended root system exposed the ground like a giant python dragon. Where are the remnants of the ancient tower? Under the roots of this big tree.

Ding Qi closed his eyes and stood quietly for a while, as if he was observing something, and after opening his eyes, he came to a general conclusion. Someone once leveled a piece of land under a cliff and built a tower. Hundreds of years after the completion of the ancient tower, the cliff wall on the high part collapsed, crushing the tower, and the stone gourd at the top of the tower rolled down the steep slope in the distance.

Looking at the coiled things of the roots of the ancient tree, there are not only large stones and tower bricks that have been hewn out by hand, but also natural gravel and earth, and a few pieces of mountain rock weighing several tons. And this ancient tree grew out of the ruins after the collapse of the pagoda, and the age of the tree should be hundreds of years.

Ding Qi: "This tree grows so well, I think it's all fine!"

Xian Hao asked rhetorically, "Will the tree become a fine tree?"

Ding Qi sighed and said: "Last summer, when your sister was still there, we once discussed a philosophical question together, whether the world is conscious, or is it possible for the world to have consciousness? The conclusion is that the world may be conscious, just depending on how we understand it, and it may be different from ordinary concepts.

After the secret method of Fang Wai broke through the Xingshen Realm, I confirmed this conclusion, each world has its own unique consciousness, you can communicate with it, you can not be affected by it all the time, and in some cases, you can even integrate your own consciousness into it.

And by extension, what about other things? For example, a seemingly lifeless stone, like the Jingshi that I have been cultivating, will it also have some kind of special consciousness? It may not be appropriate to say that it is consciousness, but it may be more appropriate to describe it as spirituality, which is actually given to it by me.

After all, it is not a stone, and it undergoes some kind of sacrifice in a natural environment, or by chance, a special consciousness has appeared on the basis of spirituality, so can we say that it has become a spirit?" because Xian Jiao's sister Xian Hao was mentioned, so his tone was very low.

Xian Hao didn't seem to realize this, and took over the conversation and said, "What you said contains the idea of primitive shamanism. In primitive times, people believed in shamanism, which worshiped animism. ”

Ding Qi said thoughtfully: "The so-called shaman not only refers to the ancient religions in the northern region, but also refers to various primitive worship and Shinto witchcraft in a broad sense, and it is the earliest attempt of people to understand and communicate with the world. Now that I have created the Outer Secret Method, if I had been in ancient times, I might have been regarded as a great shaman or a great witch. ”

Xian Hao: "How dirty is Teacher Ding?"

This joke was not funny, and the situation seemed out of place, Ding Qi simply ignored her, still observing the pile of ruins and strange trees in front of him. Xian Hao probably felt a little bored, hugged his arms and said, "This place is so gloomy, do you think this tree will suddenly become a monster?"

Ding Qi: "Gloomy? Are you still afraid of this, it's not the most eerie environment we've ever encountered, is it?"

Xian Hao seemed to feel and said: "When it comes to the most gloomy environment, what I have personally experienced should be the dark night of the piano platform. ”

Ding Qi: "Although the dark night of the Qin Gaotai is a threat to people, from another angle, it is not a kind of protection for the world. ”

Xian Hao: "Let's not talk about philosophy to the tree spirits in this deep mountain and old forest. The ruins of the ancient tower have been found, but it seems that nothing else can be found, and it is impossible to open the underground palace under the tower. ”

The mountain collapsed, the rocks and dirt overwhelmed the pagoda, and the ruins grew such a large tree. In order to excavate the underground palace, they must first remove the tree, and then clear all the rocks of the collapsed mountain, which is an impossible task for them.

Ding Qi: "We didn't come to look for the Ancient Tower Underground Palace, but just to look for the ruins by the way. I'm better now, there can't be a temple here, someone built a lonely tower in ancient times, what is it for? I just stood here, and I had a feeling somehow. ”

Xian Hao: "I also have a feeling. ”

Ding Qi: "You speak first!"

Xian Hao: "When you were down the mountain, you said that this could be a feng shui tower or the legendary demon suppression tower. I'm wondering, could it be a demon tower like Shushan, and a monster was suppressed under the tower? Now that the tower has fallen, will the monster run out and become a big tree?"

Ding Qi smiled: "Although the tower has collapsed, the foundation is still there, if there is really a dungeon under the tower, it should still be intact, but it has been covered more tightly." You know how I feel? The tower is still there, or the spirit of the tower is still there, it's this tree. ”

Xian Hao blinked and said, "I suddenly have another idea, the tower may not have suppressed a monster, guess what else it might be?"

Ding Qi: "A gateway to the outer world? Someone has discovered an outer world here, so they specially built a tower to mark it?"

Xian Hao: "Yes, I think so, do you think it is possible?"

Ding Qi: "Even if it's possible, there is no way to confirm it now, the location of the tower base has been buried deep underground...... You give me that golden gourd to use first, and if your judgment is correct, it may also be a treasure of control. ”

Ding Qi was carrying a backpack, but this bag belonged to Xian Hao, and the contents were also prepared by Xian Hao. Xian Hao took out the golden gourd behind him and handed it over: "I tried it just now, but my divine sense can't penetrate it at all, and it's really not an ordinary thing." ”

The magic weapon must be practiced in the heart to master its wonderful use. In the world of Qin Gaotai, Tao Xin once introduced to Ding Qi that the treasures of the control realm are all artifacts, and at least six realms of cultivation are required to master their wonderful use; if it is an artifact with a special inheritance, if it is not inherited, then it is possible to fully grasp its magic with at least nine realms of cultivation.

But this does not mean that if the cultivation is not enough, it is completely useless to get the magic weapon, if you are willing to work hard to practice, you may also master and exert some of its wonderful uses, as for the situation of this golden gourd, it is not known at the moment. There is an outer world under this ancient tower, and this golden gourd is likely to be the treasure of the control world, which is just a guess.

There is another possibility, it is that something was really suppressed under the ancient tower, so it would be a big trouble to use this golden gourd to open the portal and then release that thing. The tower had collapsed, but a large tree had grown in the ruins, and Ding Qi felt that this tree should have spirituality, replacing the original ancient tower.

Ding Qi held the golden gourd in his hand and bowed to the big tree and said, "Sorry, I'm sorry to disturb the old man!" Then he stepped on the roots of the tree and walked through the ruins like a hill.

He has not yet sacrificed the golden gourd of his hands, but with the secret method of running the heart disk realm with things as the guide, a tower has really appeared in the primordial god, the shadow of the tower and the shadow of the tree coincide, seven layers and eight sides, and the top of the tower is the stone gourd.

Xian Hao followed him to the ruins and whispered, "You were greeting this tree just now, and you still call him old man?"

Ding Qi: "The custom in my hometown mountain village, when you encounter something strange in the mountains, it's best not to be offended, just like being polite when you go out." ”

Xian Hao: "Interesting customs!"

The tree is large, with a trunk diameter of nearly three meters, and the root system is exposed to at least 100 square meters. While he was talking, a small animal swished out from under the root of the tree, and it disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Ding Qi hurriedly bowed in the direction where the little animal disappeared and said, "I'm sorry, we're just here to visit the ruins of the ancient tower, and we don't want to disturb the Great Immortal, just passing by, it's convenient!"

Xian Hao: "Daxian? Do you mean Wong Tai Sin? It was a weasel that ran over just now? This is also the custom of your hometown?"

Ding Qi smiled: "Yes, like chanting a mantra, my grandfather taught it." ”

Xian Hao: "It was hiding in the hole, and we didn't want to disturb it, but it seemed to be a little scared, and it felt that it couldn't afford to offend itself and ran away." ”

Ding Qi: "You are holding a knife, that knife is very murderous, how can it not be afraid?"

Xian Hao: "I can feel the murderous aura of the Dry Bone Knife, and it seems that I should also have a bit of spirituality." ”

Ding Qi: "Can you feel that Wong Tai Sin's emotions?"

Xian Hao: "It's a little feeling, after all, I've also cultivated to the Xingshen Realm." ”

Ding Qi took off the Two Realms Ring and handed it to her: "This is the treasure of the Great Red Mountain's realm control, if you take it to the Great Red Mountain to cultivate, it may be able to help you complete your cultivation of the Heart Disk Realm as soon as possible." I have sacrificed this thing, and you need to refine it again. ”

Xian Hao took the Two Realms Ring and seemed to be a little dissatisfied: "Give it back to me now!"

Ding Qi: "In the future, if the time is right, you can pass it directly to Wei Fanting, it is their family's thing." This golden gourd, I will keep it for research and research. ”

Xian Hao: "I don't want to rob you of the baby...... Do you see what's coming?"

Ding Qi: "Today's tree is the tower of the past, as for what is under the tower, it is buried too deeply, I can't figure it out, and it's not what we can move now...... It's getting dark and it's time for us to go back. ”

The two visited Huangtian Ancient Village today, and in the afternoon they visited the ruins of the ancient pagoda and picked up a magic weapon golden gourd, and they didn't go down the mountain until it was dark. The mountain was so dangerous that there was no way to go down, and it was much more difficult to descend the mountain, so the two of them walked very carefully, and it was not until ten o'clock in the evening that they came out of the dense forest and into the field at the foot of the mountain.

Walking on Tian Xiaolu, Ding Qi said: "It seems that you have gained a lot from going to the Qin Gao Stage." ”

Xian Hao: "Isn't Teacher Ding too?, especially the ability to climb mountains and drill forests with black lights!" Of course, there are no street lights in the mountains, and it is already very dangerous to drill during the day, let alone at night, and these two people actually didn't have flashlights, so they came out, of course, thanks to the cultivation in the high platform of the qin.

Ding Qi sighed and said, "I just walked out of the high platform of the qin, and I don't want to get involved in the rivers and lakes again." We didn't provoke anyone, we just wanted to visit the outside world in peace. ”

Xian Hao: "If you are always being watched, you can't visit the outside world with peace of mind, so let's solve the matter in front of you first." ”