Ye Zongqing noticed that Ding Qi's expression was a little wrong, as if he was quite embarrassed, and he also realized something, his face became a little redder, he lowered his head and took off the thing he was wearing on his chest and handed it over, "Does Teacher Ding know what this is?"

Ding Qi took this object and looked at it for a moment, frowned slightly, and said, "I saw Lord Ye Gu wearing this thing last time, and I thought it was a brooch, but it turned out to be a magic weapon. I feel like it's a bit like a treasure of control, but it's not exactly a treasure of control. ”

This is a chest ornament in the shape of a five-leaf twig, which is very delicate and beautiful, and seems to be metallic, but it feels much thinner than it looks. This thing is obviously divided into two parts, the five leaves are intertwined with the branches as a one-piece film and television magic weapon, and the pin at the back should be matched separately.

Ye Zongqing leaned forward and said, "How did Teacher Ding see it, what else did you see?"

Ding Qi closed his eyes slightly and said: "I can sense the breath of another world, but it is not complete, it contains only a wisp of spiritual guidance, which may be interconnected with a certain world under certain circumstances, and that world is too far away, and there is no response from the spiritual guidance in the instrument at this moment......"

Ye Zongqing sighed and said, "Teacher Ding is really a master, you can know the mystery when you touch it! I don't know which secret method you are cultivating, it should be the inheritance secret technique of Jinshan Academy, and your current cultivation should have broken through the legendary Dacheng realm, right?"

Ding Qi: "It's just a fluke, and it's not a master! What kind of magic weapon is this?"

Ye Zongqing: "It is a secondary weapon that belongs to the treasure of the control realm, and there are a total of ninety-nine pieces in the Five Heart Valley. ”

If you want to explain what the auxiliary weapon is and why there is such a secondary instrument, you have to start from the history and current situation of the Five Heart Valley. Is it really hard to say that the outer world is a paradise or a blessed land of immortals? It's really hard to say, each world is independent, and the situation is different, and it also varies from person to person.

The people of the Nine Liberation Islands regard their world as a fairyland, and they feel very comfortable living in it. Qin Gaotai is another situation, it is an isolated place, but also a whole world, after 10,000 years of turmoil and strife, now a peaceful and peaceful country has been established.

No matter what kind of world is outside, if it is closed in it, will it definitely be better than living outside? There are two people who have already given the answer, that is, Wei Fanting and Shi Buquan. Especially Shi Buquan was accidentally trapped in the secret realm of Xiaochishan for more than eight months, he can be regarded as capable and ingenious, but he is almost like a primitive savage, and he cried when he was rescued.

It feels great to have a world of your own in the modern world, but from another perspective, if you can only stay in that world, it doesn't feel so good.

The area of Wuxin Valley is very vast, and it is only bigger than the Qin Gaotai, but it does not mean much to some people. For example, in the real Africa, in addition to the desert in the north, there are also large areas of primeval jungles and grasslands with a good climate in the central and southern regions, and the scenery is beautiful, but the people there still want to go to the United States, and they will stay in Guangzhou, China.

There are 30,000 residents in Wuxin Valley, which is a historical problem, and this was the case when Ye Zongqing took over as the valley master. More than 30,000 people seem to be a lot, but in fact there are very few, in a closed world, it is impossible to exhibit a modern civilization system based on the premise of socialized large-scale production, not to mention the level of organization and management, the human and material resources that can be concentrated are far from sufficient.

It would be good for such a closed ethnic group to maintain a stable and self-sufficient agrarian civilization. Ding Qi once went to the Qin Gaotai Heavenly Kingdom, where the ideal state of agricultural civilization was displayed to the extreme. But that ideal state is also difficult to achieve, the civilized society in the world of Qin Gaotai has been destroyed several times, and even the human race has almost been extinct, thanks to a saint brother Tao Xin.

The situation in the Valley of the Five Hearts is better, because it is not completely isolated from the world, and the lineage has continued since ancient times. Its location is on the outskirts of Dali City, Yunnan Province, on the gentle slope of the eastern section of the southern foot of Cangshan Mountain. There is a Canggu Village here that overlooks the Erhai Lake, and the gateway to the secret realm of heaven and earth is in the mountain wall behind Canggu Village.

In ancient times, the village was dominated by clan autonomy, and the local people kept a secret for generations, and many people6 moved into the Five Heart Valley. Because of the limited fertile land outside, not only can they pioneer in the secret realm of heaven and earth, but they can also avoid war and do not have to pay taxes, so these people are reluctant to come out after moving in.

To be honest, they couldn't get out, because without the cultivation of the Three Realms, they couldn't keep their memories, let alone open the portal of the secret realm of heaven and earth. This is nothing in the long era of agricultural civilization, and Wuxin Valley is more like a paradise, with more than 30,000 inhabitants so far.

However, when the modern industrial civilization society and even the information age have entered, we can see the difference between heaven and earth and the secret territory and the outside world. The Five Heart Valley is not completely isolated from the world, the people inside can still understand the various situations in the outside world, and they also need all kinds of materials from the outside world and the civilized products of modern society.

The Wuxin Valley is a vast area, and how many acres of land can everyone plant if they go to open up the wasteland? Moreover, the contents cannot be brought out, and all kinds of agricultural products, including handicraft products, do not need too much output to meet their own needs. Some resources are too much to be worthless, the outside of Dali city and the ancient city of Dali are now expensive, but the houses and fields in the Wuxin Valley are only the most common things.

So can we move all the residents of Wuxin Valley out? It's impossible, I'm afraid it won't take several generations to solve it, because there are too many of them. Almost all of them were born in the secret realm of heaven and earth, and it was easy to open the portal and come out, but how to gain a foothold in the outside world was the biggest problem, and they didn't even have an identity. And ordinary people want to go back after they come out, and they can't even keep their memories.

Fortunately, the Canggu Village outside has not been abandoned, and there are still hundreds of families and more than 2,000 residents. More than 2,000 people are still a big clan, including more than a dozen surnames, not everyone knows the details of the secret realm of heaven and earth, but the top of the clan knows it.

Ye Zongqing's main thing after succeeding as the valley master was to try to keep the residents in the Five Heart Valley from being out of touch with the outside times, she organized her clan to transport all kinds of materials into it, and built a school and library in the secret realm of heaven and earth.

Wuxin Valley has its secret method inheritance, and the inheritance also includes the Floating Gate Concealment Technique, whether it is in the secret realm of heaven and earth or in Canggu Village outside, Ye Zongqing organizes the clansmen to practice. But no matter which inheritance secret technique, it is not easy to get started with cultivation, especially the inheritance of the secret realm of heaven and earth and the treasure of the control realm, which must be cultivated in the secret realm to master.

Now the clansmen who can cultivate the secret method of the Five Heart Valley to more than the three realms, there are less than a hundred people inside and outside the secret realm, and these dozens of clansmen are very important and precious, and the exchanges between the Five Heart Valley and the outside world depend on them.

The people of the Five Heart Valley Clan enter and exit the portal of the secret realm of heaven and earth very frequently, almost every day, and sometimes the portal is opened many times a day, and even people enter and leave at any time day and night. This brings up a question, who is in charge of the treasure of the control realm? It is said that the treasure of the control world should be in the hands of the valley master, but the valley master is responsible for opening the portal every day with the treasure of the control of the world, not only can he not do anything else, I am afraid that he will have to die of exhaustion.

9. How did you solve this problem by releasing the empty island? First of all, they adopted a rotating method, with the patriarch, nine clan elders, and eighteen deputy clan elders taking turns to open the portal with the treasure of the realm control every day. Secondly, a regular system is adopted, except for a few special circumstances, the door is opened at two fixed times a day for the people to enter and exit.

However, the method of releasing the empty island is obviously not suitable for the Five Heart Valley. As long as there are normal high school students in the Nine Liberation Sky Island, they can enter and exit the secret realm without hindrance, and there are only so many dozens of people inside and outside the Five Heart Valley who can enter and exit freely, so the frequency of these dozens of people is particularly high, the number of times and the time is scattered.

There is another way to solve this problem in the Valley of Five Hearts.

The Treasure of the Controlling Realm is a unique artifact, its shape may not be static, theoretically it can be changed at will, but if you don't cultivate enough, you don't have that ability, and it's good to be able to barely refine and master its wonderful use. Ye Zongqing's inherited treasure of controlling the realm is the shape of a water lily, called the five grain lotus, legend has it that the ancestor plucked the ninety-nine petals of this water lily, and refined ninety-nine sub-vessels.

There is a big array in the Five Heart Valley, and if the treasure of the realm is placed in the array, the secret realm of heaven and earth will be self-generated, and there is no need for anyone to control the treasure of the realm, and the ninety-nine auxiliary weapons have the effect of opening the portal.

As long as one of the secondary weapons is worn, you can open the portal to enter and exit the Five Heart Valley like urging the treasure of the control realm, of course, this requires at least the Five Heart Valley secret method to be cultivated to the three realms. Moreover, the role of the secondary weapon is limited to this, and it does not have the other wonderful uses of the Treasure of Controlling the Realm, but this has solved the big problem.

Since ancient times, the people of the Five Heart Valley have relied on these auxiliary weapons to enter and exit the secret realm, and those who have the auxiliary weapons are also known as the palm flower envoys. Theoretically, there are at most ninety-nine masters, but in practice there are not so many. These pairs have different shapes, and the brooch worn by Ye Zongqing is one of them.

Although Ding Qi had seen a lot of the Outside Worlds and had become the chairman of the Outside Alliance, it was the first time he had heard that the Treasure of the Realm Control had such a thing as a secondary weapon. But it's not too surprising to think about it, in addition to the beast talisman in the inheritance of Jinshan Academy, there are also shadow weapons and body weapons, isn't it equivalent to another useful secondary weapon?

In Ding Qi's opinion, these ninety-nine sub-weapons were equivalent to a low-grade version of Jingwen Stone, because they were only useful for the Five Heart Valley. But no matter how low-level it is, it's still an artifact, or a part of an artifact, and it doesn't need to be created by the user himself.

Ye Zongqing also didn't know the exact origin of these auxiliary artifacts and how to create them, he only knew that they were handed down from his ancestors, and if he lost one, he would lose one less. It just so happened that the person who disappeared yesterday was a palm flower envoy of the Five Heart Valley, who carried a secondary weapon with him.

Ye Zongqing introduced this, Ding Qi's mobile phone vibrated a little, it turned out that the other party gave him a piece of information through WeChat, which was a detailed introduction to the missing person. This person's name is Lu Xiao, forty years old this year, and his public identity is the owner of an inn in the ancient city of Dali, in fact, this inn is the industry that Wuxin Valley has purchased outside in recent years.

There is also a photograph of the pair he was carrying, about the size of a penny coin, in the shape of an oval badge. Like these ancestral things, Wuxin Valley later processed a lot of accessories to match. With different accessories, this can be cufflinks, tie clips, collar buckles or other accessories, directly in the pocket.

After Ding Qi finished reading this information, Fang Cai's drunken intent had completely retreated, and he raised his head and said, "Do you want me to help keep an eye on this person and find this person and the auxiliary weapon he carried?"

Ye Zongqing sighed and said, "As far as I know about the tribal history, the auxiliary weapon has only been lost less than ten times in the past thousand years, all because the palm flower envoy died accidentally when he went out. But the ancestors tried their best to find the auxiliary weapon, and the most difficult one took more than ten years, but it was finally recovered, so it can't be lost in my hands. ”

Ding Qi: "Since this thing is so important to the Five Heart Valley, how can people wear it all over the world, what if they lose it?" As soon as the words came out, Ding Qi felt that it was a little inappropriate to say this, Ye Zongqing himself was also running around wearing a secondary weapon, because it was really inconvenient not to carry this thing with him.

Ye Zongqing lowered his head and said: "Lu Xiao's position in the Five Heart Valley is very important, and this kind of thing can't be easily handed over to others for safekeeping, he will carry it with him out of prudence, of course, for convenience." And in the past hundred years, Wuxin Valley has never lost the auxiliary weapon, maybe it was also my negligence. ”

Ding Qi asked again: "Why didn't you say it when you had a meeting today, but you wanted to find me alone in private?"

Ye Zongqing raised his eyes and asked, "What do you say? At the moment, I only trust Chairman Ding." ”

This incident was very strange, Lu Xiao disappeared on the way from Wuxin Valley to Jinghu City, and there was still no news after a day and a night. If it is a other accident, it is better to say, such as falling unconscious due to illness, encountering robbers, etc.

But if this is a man-made incident, and the other party is coming for the Five Heart Valley, then who is the most suspicious person? Needless to say, the first is to know the secrets of the Fang Wai World and the existence of the Five Heart Valley.

Even if it's just a pure accident, if the relevant news leaks out, others will know about the existence of the secondary weapon and the value of the secondary weapon, and someone will make up their minds to find the secondary weapon first, so as to blackmail the Five Heart Valley or achieve other purposes. So Ye Zongqing didn't say anything at all when he had a meeting, and only chose to tell Ding Qi separately in private.

Ding Qi muttered: "If it is a man-made event, the purpose is to come to the Five Heart Valley, first consider who knows Lu Xiao's identity and the secret of the auxiliary weapon. There are more than 30,000 people in the Five Heart Valley, and there are more than 2,000 in the village outside, and the palm flower makes the daily gate constant, in my opinion, it should be difficult to keep the secret strictly, right?"

Ye Zongqing smiled bitterly: "It's not just difficult, it's impossible. The secret that should have been leaked has long been leaked, and has even become a local myth that has been circulating since ancient times. In fact, it doesn't matter, outsiders have heard about it, and if they hear about it, there is no country strange talk, anyway, outsiders can't find it. ”

Tintzy: "What about the people inside you?"

Ye Zongqing: "There is indeed a possibility of internal leakage. The vast majority of the residents in the secret realm of heaven and earth are reluctant to come out, and life has its own inertia, and they don't know how to gain a foothold after they come out. If someone wants to leave the secret realm and has the ability to gain a foothold in the outside world, then they will serve the clan outside, and they must not divulge the secret, but it is inevitable that they will leak it out unintentionally.

But most of the cases don't matter, just brag nonsense, but they can't bring outsiders in. As for the palm flower envoys in the Five Heart Valley, they are all elites of the clan who have successfully cultivated secret methods. They all swear to keep secrets, and if it were you, of course, they would keep secrets consciously. ”

Ding Qi: "So do ordinary clansmen know about the existence of the Palm Flower Envoy?"

Ye Zongqing: "Of course they know, but they don't know the existence and magic of the auxiliary weapon, they only know that those people have practiced the ancestral secret method of the clan, which can open the door to the secret realm of heaven and earth." ”

According to what Ding Qi already knew, the Five Heart Valley was probably the worst secrecy work in the world, but it had been safe since ancient times. The reason is very simple, even if the secret is passed out, someone has to believe it, and even if someone believes it, it has to be verified. Without these two premises, even if the secrets of the Five Heart Valley were leaked, they would only become folk legends.

In the past, there were simply too many folk legends like this, and they were found almost everywhere. Even in modern civilized society, from time to time, there are still people who claim to be from aliens, from ancient times, from the future, and from other worlds. They can say whatever they want, and they can't verify it anyway, only those pan-media editors who try their best to attract people's attention will be interested.

But from another angle, for example, in Ding Qi's opinion, the existence of Wuxin Valley has been determined, and it is still easy to inquire about some confidential information based on clues. There are palm flower envoys among the people of the Five Heart Valley Clan, and these people can enter and exit the portal of the world outside the square. If anyone wants to know the secrets of the Palm Flower Envoy and the Five Heart Valley, the best thing to do is to find them.

Thinking of this, Ding Qi said again: "Outsiders may know about the existence of the palm flower envoy, but they may not know the secret of the auxiliary weapon. If someone gets the sub-weapon, they don't know what it is, and they don't get the secret inheritance of the Five Heart Valley, and they can't use the sub-weapon. ”

Ye Zongqing shook his head and said, "Teacher Ding doesn't have to comfort me, I also hope that this is purely an accident." But I also have to think of another possibility, don't forget that Lu Xiao also obtained the secret method inheritance of the Five Heart Valley. If someone robs him and tortures him, he may be able to obtain the secondary weapon and the secret method of the Five Heart Valley!"

Ding Qi narrowed his eyes and said, "There is indeed such a possibility, how do you want me to help?"

Ye Zongqing lowered his head and thought for a while, as if he was thinking about how to organize the language, and then raised his head and said: "Director Ding is often at the headquarters of the Fangwai Alliance, and he is very familiar with the situation of each family, and you have opened the Jinshan Academy, so you can see all kinds of people in the outside world, and you know almost everything in the beast country.

If there is really a problem with someone in the Outside Alliance, you are the easiest to show clues, and if there is a problem, please tell me in time. If Lu Xiao has been killed, Wuxin Valley must avenge him and do his best to recover the secondary weapon, and if he is still alive, we must also find the people and things we have brought back.

Another important point is that when I first visited Jinshan Temple, I guessed that you already have the legendary Dacheng realm, and this is true when I asked today. So I want to give you one more thing, which is also one of the secondary weapons inherited from ancient times in Wuxin Valley. These sub-instruments can be mutually sensitive, and if the sub-device falls into someone's hands and is close enough to you, you can show it. ”

Ye Zongqing handed over another thing, which seemed to be an ivory carved ornament, with a slender shape the size of a cigarette holder, and a perforated gold hoop on it, which could be worn with a rope or used as a hanging ornament. Ding Qi took it and said, "Wuxin Valley has already lost a sub-weapon, and handed me another sub-weapon, aren't you afraid of losing it again?"

Ye Zongqing said very seriously: "So please Teacher Ding must keep it, don't lose it again, of course I can trust your ability, today I just ask you for help, I don't know if you are willing to help with this? ”

Ding Qi sighed and said, "There are no conditions, I will try my best to help, but I dare not guarantee that I will be able to find clues." ”

Ye Zongqing: "Teacher Ding makes me very embarrassed to do this, using one sub-weapon to sense another sub-weapon, not only to have the Dacheng realm, but also to master the secret method of the Five Heart Valley. Therefore, I not only invite you to the Valley of the Five Hearts as a guest, but also teach you the secret methods of the Valley of the Five Hearts. You can go to the Valley of the Five Hearts to cultivate, please only keep the secrets of the Valley of the Five Hearts, and don't pass it on to others. ”

Ding Qi was a little stunned and said, "This, how can this be made!"

Ye Zongqing: "How can this not be done? Since ancient times, the Five Heart Valley has not been without foreign palm flower envoys, and there were five hundred years ago. What's more, if you go, you will know that there is nothing to plan for in that secret realm of heaven and earth now, and it is of little value to you. It's not easy to ask for help from you, a master, and I'm taking advantage of you!"