Chapter 54: The Strange Box
It is not easy to form the Yuan Stone that can be absorbed by the ancient martial artists who cultivate the Yuan Qi, but it requires a certain amount of chance and a long time of condensation to form, and it is definitely not something that can be created by human beings.
Moreover, as the most widely circulated hard currency among ancient warriors, its ability to purchase is still good.
Therefore, any Yuanshi mine that can be called a vein, even if it is the smallest one, is something that belongs to the families of the various sects.
Because the Yuanshi vein not only represents a large amount of wealth, but the amount of vitality contained in the vein is comparable to that of some caves and blessed land.
Before the Yuanshi was completely mined, it was also a good place to speed up cultivation, and it was often used as a place to train the next generation of personnel by various sect families, so every time the Yuanshi vein appeared, it often represented a bloody storm.
Although Muyang doesn't have much contact with the outside world, he has a lot more life experience than his peers in the two lives.
Not only had he read a lot of books, but he had been in an era of information explosion, so he knew too well what the veins in front of him meant.
However, Mu Yang's words suddenly made Zhao Yuanbai and Mo Xiaoqi confused, and they couldn't understand what he meant for a while.
Such a large amount of wealth is not something we can control at all, although Cheng Hu and they have been eliminated by us, but don't forget that there is a crazy knife gate behind them that we don't know the details at all, just one Cheng Hu almost wiped out our army, let alone the crazy knife gate. ”
Mu Yang's words were suddenly like a basin of cold water poured down from his head in the cold winter, which instantly made Zhao Yuanbai and Mo Xiaoqi, who came back to their senses, feel excited.
Indeed, since the Crazy Knife Sect took such pains to secretly send Cheng Hu and them here, there must be a connection between them.
Now that the Wandering Mountain Bandit has been exterminated, its communication will naturally be cut off, and after a while, maybe even within a few days, the Crazy Knife Gate will definitely be aware of it.
At that time, they will not sit idly by and watch such a fortune go away, and they will surely send someone to check on the situation, and then everyone involved with it will be destroyed, and no one will be spared.
"What should we do?"
Zhao Yuanbai and Mo Xiaoqi, who were accustomed to obeying Muyang's arrangement, looked at him together, their eyes full of panic.
Mu Yang lowered his head and thought, constantly playing with the blade in his hand, and after a while, he raised his head and did not answer Zhao Yuanbai and the others, but turned to Sun Ming, who was also sad and asked behind.
"Uncle Sun Ming, there shouldn't be many people who know that they are digging Yuan Stone here. ”
"Hmm, how do you know?" Sun Ming was a little surprised when he heard this.
"From Brother Erniu's words just now, and Uncle Sun Ming's reluctance to talk about this matter in front of everyone, I guessed something. By the way, I don't know if Uncle Sun Ming do you know how big the Yuanshi vein here is?"
"What a smart boy!"
Looking at Mu Yang in front of him, who was dark but had handsome facial features, Sun Ming couldn't help but praise in his heart, and then he explained the whole situation to Mu Yang and the three of them.
Indeed, the nearby villages are still relatively remote places, and there are not too many people who have really seen the outside world, so the only people who can know Yuan Shi are Sun Ming's group of people who have become ancient warriors and a few other people.
At that time, when the people who transported things to Shitieshan were forcibly left on the mountain to dig Yuanshi, the ancient warriors led by Sun Ming realized that they were afraid that they would die in the end.
On the day of being forcibly stayed, some people were used by Cheng Hu as a typical example of killing chickens and monkeys because of their resistance, and they were tortured to death in front of everyone, which immediately made everyone silent and did not dare to act again, so they could only be forced to submit to each other and began to take turns to dig endlessly.
However, the ants are still stealing life, they always have a trace of desire to survive in their hearts, in order not to cause panic in everyone, so they these ancient warriors privately agreed not to tell others about the Yuanshi, and quietly waited for that ethereal hope.
As time passed, except for new people who were forced to stay, everyone couldn't see a trace of hope, and their hearts became colder and colder.
In the process of excavation, Sun Ming and other ancient warriors took advantage of the caretaker's inattention to secretly probe various passages and methods in the veins that had sought to escape, but they did not find the methods, but they had a rough idea of the scale of the entire Yuanshi vein.
The scale of this vein is not large, it should be the most barren kind of low-grade yuanshi vein, most of the yuanshi contained in this vein are only low-grade yuanshi, and only a few are medium-grade yuanshi.
Based on the number of excavated in these days and the scale of the remainder, Sun Ming roughly estimated that the number of low-grade yuan stones in this vein was about 110,000 to 130,000, but there were only a few forty or fifty middle-grade yuan stones.
All the Yuan stones that have been excavated have been packed in a special box, and they have been placed by Cheng Hu in his usual retreat place, which is also the deepest part of the ore vein, that is, the place where the vitality is the strongest, and the rest will be dug up in about four or five days according to the current progress.
Mu Yang, who knew all the situation, thought for a while and said, "This matter is very important, let's rescue everyone first, and then go back to Sunjiazhuang to discuss." ”
Everyone had no objection to Muyang's proposal, and then all the shackles of everyone's hands and feet were opened, and while everyone was still repairing, Muyang and the three of them came to the stone chamber in the deepest part of the vein.
Pushing open the simple stone door and stepping into the stone room, you immediately feel that this place is indeed extraordinary.
The vitality here is so rich that it almost gives people a viscous feeling, and when you are in it, you feel that the pores of the whole body are dilated, and you are constantly absorbing the rich vitality of the whole body, as long as you run the exercises, the meridians will quickly condense your own vitality.
Including Zhao Yuanbai, who was already the Great Perfection of the Air-Inducing Mirror, he also felt that the shackles that had broken through to the Guiyuan Mirror had gradually loosened slightly.
Although it is not as exaggerated as a hundred times, it also has the effect of increasing by more than ten or twenty times. This place is worthy of being a treasure land for cultivation.
For a whole quarter of an hour, the three of them didn't say a word or even move, and they were immersed in this kind of rapid ascension that had never been seen before.
It was only a quarter of an hour later, for some reason, the vitality in the stone room gradually thinned, and finally it became the same concentration level as the outside of the stone room.
"Hmm, what's the matter, isn't this a cultivation treasure land, why has the vitality become thin in a short period of time?" Mo Xiaoqi, who was extremely comfortable, shouted dissatisfiedly.
"No, there is something strange in this, although the concentration of Yuan Qi in the Yuan Shi vein is high, it will not only have such a high concentration in such a small range, and it will disappear inexplicably, there must be something we don't know why. Mu Yang said with a frown while habitually playing with the blade.
"Don't worry about this, everyone is waiting for you outside, what should be in that pile of boxes is the excavated Yuan Stone, fat man, you put them in your golden jade bracer first, we have to rush back as soon as possible to tell everyone about this matter." ”
If you can't figure it out, you don't want to, this is Zhao Yuanbai's character. He pointed to the pile of boxes that had been neatly stacked in the corner of the stone room.
In a hurry, Mo Xiaoqi did not object at this time, and walked straight to the pile of boxes, and began to put them into his storage spirit weapons one by one.
"Huh, Brother Yang, Xiaobai, come and see this!" Mo Xiaoqi raised his hand, and held an inky black box the size of a palm, which looked like iron but not iron, jade and not jade.
"What is this?" Mu Yang and Zhao Yuanbai came up and looked at it carefully, but they didn't understand what it was.
"This is called a thousand machine box, which is a special treasure used to store valuables, and it is also a relatively precious and rare appliance. If my dad hadn't taught me, I'm afraid I wouldn't have known this thing. ”
"Fatty, just such an ordinary-looking little box can also be a treasure, don't talk nonsense, you kid!" Zhao Yuanbai said with a distrustful face.
"Go, go, go! You know a ball. ”
Mo Xiaoqi glanced at Zhao Yuanbai with disgust, raised the box and continued: "The reason why this thousand machine box is called a treasure is because the main material of its refining is the phantom iron crystal, which is not only small in number but also has a special effect, that is, it can isolate the breath of any item, as long as the item is wrapped in the phantom iron crystal, no matter how high your soul power is, you will not be able to find out what is hidden inside. ”
"On the other hand, it's because the internal structure of the thousand machine box is very delicate and complex, and the difficulty of refining is also very high, see the small dots around this box, these are the mechanisms that unlock the thousand machine boxes, you have to unlock the thousand machine boxes Unless you know the owner of this mechanism, you need to press these small points according to a certain law, if you press the wrong one halfway, these small points will also change, and it is extremely difficult to crack. If you forcibly destroy the Thousand Boxes, the contents will be destroyed with them. ”
"Shhh
Mu Yang couldn't help but exclaim when he heard this, and then asked again: "Xiaoqi, look at the number of these small dots, even if they don't change, if we have to press it again and again according to the rules, if we want to unlock this box, it will take at least a thousand times!"
That's where the name Thousand Boxes comes from. Even the lowest-quality 1000 boxes have at least 1,000 changes, and the high-quality 1,000 boxes have at least nearly a million or even tens of millions of changes. If it weren't for the single function of the Thousand Machines Box and the inability to produce a soul, I am afraid that the high-quality Thousand Boxes would be able to be listed in the category of spiritual weapons. Mo Xiaoqi said casually while playing with the thousand machine box.
"Hey, fat man, what's the use of saying so much, we can't unravel it just by looking at a box, we can't know what's inside!" Zhao Yuanbai pouted and said.
"Hey, hey, it's a coincidence, I just happened to learn the method of cracking a thousand boxes with my father, although with my master's current ability, the high-quality thousand boxes must not be able to crack, but this small thousand boxes in front of me are not yet handy. Saying this, Mo Xiaoqi couldn't help but show his signature smile.
"Okay, small device, sell less, hurry up and untie the mechanism of this thousand machine box. Seeing that Zhao Yuanbai couldn't help but clench his fists, Mu Yang hurriedly opened his mouth and urged.
"Brother Yang, give me half an hour. Let's see. ”
Mo Xiaoqi put away his smile, his expression became serious, he kept reversing the thousand machine box in his hand, staring at it without blinking, and then kept gently rubbing it on the box.
Sure enough, in less than half an hour, there was a soft "click", and the lid of the thousand machine box was slightly cocked.
"Haha, master, my technique is still so strong, it was opened so quickly!"
"Alright, fat man, don't be triumphant there, let's see what's inside?"
Under the curious gaze of the three of them, the lid of the Thousand Machine Box was opened, and what caught their eyes was a star-shaped jade with extremely exquisite carvings and a strange light.
The three heads were pressed together, and their eyes widened and they looked at each other. Just as they were about to reach out and touch this star jade, a rich vitality quickly emanated from the jade, and the three of them were instantly stunned when they felt this oncoming familiar vitality.
"This ...... Isn't this the rich vitality in the stone room just now!!"
The screams of surprise of the three of them rang out in the stone room.