Only when you dig the sand and gravel layer and ignore it, don't dig deeper, and then look for other places.

Zhou Wen took out the black cloth package from the soil pit, and after cleaning up the dust on it, he looked at the small package with a reluctant look, hesitated for a moment, and handed it to Li Mingyu.

Li Mingyu took a deep breath and took the package, he knew that this was his chance, after opening the package, he found that the contents were very simple, just a long jade box one foot square and a lead metal box slightly larger than a palm.

He opened the jade box first, and found that inside was a seven-leaf herb with a little green fluorescence on the leaves, mutated seven-leaf clover. The seven-leaf clover is just a very ordinary herb, the medicinal property is to nourish blood and nourish qi, but in thousands or thousands of horse chestnut clovers, there will occasionally mutate, and a kind of herb that can absorb the aura of heaven and earth appears.

Gathering Spirit Grass can not be compared with those cherished elixirs, in the Great Xia period, the lowest elixir of Gathering Spirit Grass is not said to be available everywhere, but it is definitely not rare, as one of the lowest elixirs, almost on most of the low-grade elixir pills, there are Gathering Spirit Grass as a medicine, or adjuvant.

Of course, it can't be compared with the Great Xia era thousands of years ago, in this era when the spiritual energy is weak and the inheritance is cut off, even a low-grade spiritual grass like the Gathering Spirit Grass is enough to attract a bloody storm of competition on the rivers and lakes.

With this Gathering Spirit Grass, Li Mingyu can cross the small realm of Qi and Blood Realm, and directly perceive the sense of qi to break through to the inner breath, and even after transforming the spiritual energy of the Gathering Spirit Grass into internal force, he can directly break through to the peak realm of the early stage of internal breath.

After calming down the excitement in his heart and confirming the existence of the Gathering Spirit Grass, Li Mingyu immediately closed the jade box and resealed it to reduce the flow of medicinal properties

Lose. Then he set his eyes on the lead metal box that was not much bigger than a palm, this was another treasure that was countless times more precious than the Gathering Spirit Grass in Zhou Wen's mouth.

"Is a lead box used to isolate anything?"

Li Mingyu secretly said in his heart, although this box is not big, it gives him a very important and dangerous feeling.

He looked up at Zhou Wen and Zhou Wu, who were looking at him with a straight eye, hesitated for a moment and decided to open the box, not to mention Zhou Wen, Zhou Wu and the two still need his help to deal with Xiao Zhuoyan, that is, the three of them signed a blood contract, at least until the oath was completed, they were all grasshoppers tied to the same rope, living and dying together, and it was impossible for the two of them to assassinate themselves.

The outside of the lead box is sealed with a yellow and colored seal, and the seal is painted with tadpole-like runes, which should also be a kind of evolution of the ancient Xia script.

"Father, I once checked the classics, and the text on the seal is a kind of writing in the Great Xia period, called Xia Seal Wen, which has been lost for four or five thousand years, so if nothing else, the contents of this box are at least antiquities from the middle and late Xia Dynasty.

As for what exactly is stored in the box, I don't know if I haven't opened it myself. However, the antiquities of the Xia Dynasty period can withstand the passage of time and have been preserved to this day, and nine times out of ten they are related to mysterious immortal cultivators. Zhou Wen's face was complicated, and he felt both regret and relief.

"Things from the Xia Dynasty?" Li Mingyu frowned, looking at the yellow and colored seals on the box in surprise.

"The survival time of paper is generally only a few hundred years, even those good rice paper, at most can be preserved for one or two thousand years, this rune paper looks like the fineness is average, four or five thousand years have long since weathered into carbon ash! Besides, according to historical data, paper should not have been invented in the Daxia period! At that time, it was not said that animal skins, silk silks, bamboo slips, and even the bones of wild beasts were used to record words!"

"That's what the truth says, but there should always be something special about the things handed down by immortal cultivators!" Zhou Wen's face turned red, obviously he also felt that some Great Xia antiquities were too.

Although Li Mingyu felt that the things in the box could not be from the Xia Dynasty, but those that could be regarded as treasures by the Zhou brothers would definitely not be ordinary things, so he hesitated and tore off the sealing talisman paper at once.

"Whew!" As soon as the rune paper was torn off, it actually burned automatically in Li Mingyu's hands, and he was shocked that he immediately threw it out until it completely turned into ashes in the air.

The mysterious nature of the sealing rune paper made Li Mingyu, Zhou Wen, and Zhou Wu more attentive to the contents of the box.

But wait until the box is opened.

……

"You keep saying that there are countless times more precious treasures than elixirs, is this broken stone in front of you?" Li Mingyu frowned, looked at the strange stone in front of him, which was not much bigger than a goose egg, and said dissatisfied.

That's right, the so-called treasure in the lead box is a very strange-looking stone.

The stone was the size of an egg, and it looked like an egg, and the pebble was not covered with cracks of the same size, as if it could shatter at any moment. But what makes people frown even more is the appearance of the pebbles, which looks as if they are a dark cyan ghost, confined to the stone.

Looking at the stone in front of them, the two brothers Zhou Wen and Zhou Wu were also very surprised, they looked at each other, and they couldn't figure out how the treasure in their father's mouth could be a stone, although it looked like it was a strange stone, but the strange stone was not a stone? At least for them and Li Mingyu, this kind of strange stone used by rich people to watch and collect was completely garbage, and it was useless at all.

"Ahem!" Zhou Wen coughed twice, hiding the embarrassment in his heart, and reluctantly explained: "Brother Li, it looks like a stone on the surface, but since the monks of the Great Xia period have solemnly sealed him, it is obviously not an ordinary thing, and it should have an important role for them!

……

An hour later, Li Mingyu, Zhou Wen, and Zhou Wu all gave up helplessly, looking at the strange stones in front of them and showing disappointment.

In order to study this strange rock, the three of them used almost every method they could think of.

Flooding, burning, dripping blood, destroying .......

The three of them took turns to test it, and found that this strange stone was not their intention at all, and the magic weapons used by the monks in the Great Xia period, inheritance jade slips, spirit stones, etc., no matter how they studied, it was really an ordinary strange stone, and the only feature was that this strange stone was relatively hard and difficult to destroy. Don't look at the countless cracks on it, as if it was about to shatter into a slag of stone in the next moment, in fact, whether it was flooding, fire, or even hard smashing, it could not cause the slightest damage to this strange stone, and even let the cracks on it expand even a little.

"Xiao Wu, you still say that it is a jade slip, whose jade slip is made of stone!" After a lot of effort, Zhou Wen sat on the ground and said with a deflated breath.

"Brother, do you still say it's a spirit stone, I think it's just an ordinary stone!" Zhou Wu retorted.

……

The two brothers Zhou Wen and Zhou Wu fought a few more words, until they found that Li Mingyu's face was getting more and more ugly, and they consciously closed their mouths when they glanced at each other.

……

Next, Li Mingyu, Zhou Wen, Zhou Wu, and the three of them were silent, and the atmosphere in the barberry cave became more and more depressing.

"Hehe!" Seeing that the atmosphere was wrong, Zhou Wengan laughed and took the lead in breaking the oppressive atmosphere. He thought for a moment and said seriously: "Brother Li, although we don't know the purpose of this strange stone yet, I guarantee that it will definitely not be just a strange stone just for ornamentation, it must have some important role, but we haven't found it yet."

We have all signed a blood contract, according to the oath treaty, the price paid and paid is uneven, the oath cannot be established, and this strange stone is determined to be a treasure more precious than life. ”

……

"I also think that this strange stone can't be just an ordinary stone," Li Mingyu said lightly after being silent for a while.

Seeing that the two brothers Zhou Wen and Zhou Wu were all happy, but a bitter smile appeared on his face, and he changed his words and said: "But so what, even if it is a chance and a treasure, I don't know the use, let alone use it, it is just a stone." ”

Zhou Wen, Zhou Wu, and the two brothers couldn't help but be silent when they heard this, they knew that what Li Mingyu said was right, and they didn't know how precious the treasure was, if it couldn't be used, it wouldn't even be as good as a stone.

Li Mingyu saw that the two brothers Zhou Wen and Zhou Wu looked decadent, he knew what the other party was worried about, but he smiled faintly and said: "Don't worry, don't say that there is a blood curse, even if you don't, I won't regret what I promised you." You can rest assured that in the matter of intercepting and killing Xiao Zhuoyan, you will do your best, and you will definitely not do anything that does not work, or even obstructs and destroys it. ”

Originally, the treasure that the two brothers promised Li Mingyu had turned into a strange stone that they didn't know what to do, and they were afraid that he would be disappointed, discouraged and even resentful, and sabotage the next action.

At this time, seeing Li Mingyu make a guarantee, even if he is not sure whether the other party is duplicitous, at least it proves that there is at least no mustard in his heart.

Zhou Wen and Zhou Wu breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts at the same time, and Zhou Wen arched his hand and said: "Brother Li is righteous, our brothers are grateful, as long as they can kill Xiao Zhuoyan this time, there will definitely be a big gift in return!"

Li Mingyu also bowed his hand politely, but he didn't think so, what kind of gift was reciprocated, it was just a blank check, and it was still unknown whether they could save their lives after the action.

However, regardless of Li Mingyu or Zhou Wen, what kind of calculations are the Zhou Wu brothers making in their hearts, at least the three of them are on the surface, and the estrangement has disappeared, as if they have returned to the previous happy situation.

……

At night.

Li Mingyu sat cross-legged on the bed, played with the strange strange stone, and showed a thoughtful look on his face, although during the day today, in front of Zhou Wen and Zhou Wu, he didn't look at this strange stone in his eyes, in fact, most of it was performed for the two of them.

On the other hand, Zhou Wen, Zhou Wu, and the two brothers are the same, he is not a fool, and it is natural to see that these two brothers are acting in front of him nine times out of ten, and their acting skills are not bad, pretending to be the same as the real thing. Zhou Wen, Zhou Wu must know the purpose of this strange stone, but the reason why he pretends not to know anything is to hide the true use of this strange stone, and find a reason that he doesn't want to reveal it.

He had this feeling faintly in his heart, and the strange stone was definitely not simple. Dealing with why the brothers of the Zhou family gave him the strange stone, but refused to disclose the origin and use of the strange stone, such a very contradictory approach, Li Mingyu also had a faint guess in his heart.

Obviously, the two brothers used him as a test subject.

"Knowing the effect of this strange stone, but they don't dare to try it themselves?" Li Mingyu secretly sneered in his heart.

Zhou Wen and Zhou Wu are calculating him, why don't they calculate them anymore, just see who can play better in the end.

With the shackles of the blood curse, now that the lives of the three of them are connected, Li Mingyu believes that even if this strange stone is dangerous to him, at least it will not threaten his life for a short time.

"But is it a blood curse? Who is this restraining more than the Dao!" Li Mingyu said secretly in his heart.

……

In the side courtyard of Funiu Village, in a remote room.

Two young men with sad faces were sitting at the wine table, and these two people were the two brothers Zhou Wen and Zhou Wu.

On the table is a plate of cut chicken, a plate of lotus root slices, a plate of cold vegetables and a pot of rice wine.

The two brothers drank and ate food over and over again, and talked in a low voice, looking very good.

"Brother, why did you take out the Nightmare Stone and hand it over to Lee Kuan Yew, oh, it's not Li Xiaoliu's kid, I didn't expect this kid to be called Li Xiaoliu, it seems that he was also born in a poor mud leg, and I don't know where I got the secret book of "Mixed Yuan True Scripture", it can't be stolen. ”

Zhou Wu poured a glass of wine for his second brother Zhou Wen and said disdainfully.

Obviously, Zhou Wu also knew the existence and origin of the strange stone for a long time, and in front of Li Mingyu during the day before, the two brothers were obviously playing double reeds.

Zhou Wen looked indifferent, picked up the wine glass and drank it all, and ate two bites of food.

"Don't underestimate that kid, although the other party is wearing a mask and pretending to be a big brother, it can be seen from the details that the other party's age will not exceed twenty-eight years old. Being able to cultivate to the Qi and Blood Realm at such a young age is obviously not a simple role, third brother, your guess is somewhat probable, the other party is from a great family, and it is not enough for him to be in such a young realm, the secret book must not be passed down from the door, and nine times out of ten it is a traitor who stole it. ”

"Second brother, should we ...... , snatch the cheats of the "Mixed Yuan True Scripture", the top-grade internal strength method is rare, this kind of practice that can be cultivated to the innate is generally the town school of those families and sects, and it is almost impossible to get it at ordinary times. Zhou Wu said it over and over again, and made a gesture of singing.

Zhou Wen shook his head and took a bite of food, "Don't worry, at least not yet, we have to spare this kid's life, otherwise when we deal with Xiao Zhuoyan, who will we find to be cannon fodder."