"Da! Da!"

At night, on First Avenue, the sound of horses' hooves is very rhythmic, and the traffic is very smooth.

"Joyce, just walk back so close, I don't think there's any need to take a carriage. Elena in the carriage spoke up despite some hesitation.

"I've just recovered from my injury, and now it's cold, so you need to wear more. Joyce was a little indecent at first, but then she began to slow down, showing her concern for the blonde girl.

"The shop is closed in the evening, will we buy you a pocket watch tomorrow? and by the way, I will buy you a walking stick, so that you will look more like a gentleman." Elena looked out the window and discussed with Joyce.

"Elena, you're finally in trouble!"

Joyce smiled silently in her heart, feeling that with money, she should be extravagant once in a while.

"I've thought about what you want to open a store, so don't do it, I'll help you save the rest of the Jinluo, and you can have an emergency if you need it in the future." It didn't take long for Joyce to be complacent, and Elena's decision made him feel like he was choking.

"Elena, how can you say that something good can change!" Joyce could only muttered in her heart.

The carriage arrived at the bungalow at 46 Abbey Cross Street, First Avenue, and naturally Elena paid for it.

"Theresa is on duty tonight, and she can't come back. ”

Elena gave Joyce two keys and told him to try the new lock.

Opening the two locks to enter the bungalow, Joyce first lit the candles and boiled the bath water.

Back in the second-floor bedroom, Joyce took off her tuxedo and shirt and put on an earth-colored overalls.

"Joyce, what are you going to do?"

The door to the room was not closed, and Elena was surprised to see him change his clothes.

"Because of the incident on Steel Flower Street, I was rewarded with a secret artifact, and I'm going to the basement tonight to study it. Joyce played with the rounded lock coffin.

"Don't be careless when you touch a mysterious object, put it down. Elena apparently saw what Joyce was holding and said to him anxiously.

"Elena, take it easy, it doesn't matter, the captain told me a lot of details, and I'm just studying it. Joyce spread out the lock on her hand and let Elena touch it.

"This is the ancient Owen. ”

Elena soon saw that the twelve fruits engraved on the surface of the coffin had small ancient Owen numbers.

"Even you know Gu Owen, which makes me feel like I have wasted three years in the archaeology department at Taya University. Joyce pretended to sigh.

"In the Church of the Goddess of Life, you can also learn relevant knowledge, but not much. Elena's eyes darkened slightly, and she quickly adjusted her mood again.

"Go to the shower early to go to bed, and remember to bring a gun. ”

Joyce smiled and watched Elena try to touch the lock coffin, nothing out of the ordinary.

"Be careful. ”

Elena was worried, but she didn't try to stop Joyce.

Even though Joyce hadn't noticed Carl's sare with flies or anything like that in the past two days, he still grabbed some toilet paper and two towels as he had done last time.

Entering the basement, Joyce not only plugged the gap with toilet paper, blocked the towel from the vent, but also put two locks on the inside of the door.

The small, round coffin was placed in the corner of the basement by Joyce, and he moved a stone slab to the center of the basement.

Sitting cross-legged on a specially prepared stone slab, Joyce felt a lot more comfortable.

"With the mysterious characteristics of the cursed centipede given by the captain, it is justified to become a secret cultivator in the future, and in the name of studying secret objects, you can enter the basement to try the special qi sense running path map. Joyce thought to herself.

Joyce let go of his perception, and while concentrating and calming, he kept thinking back to the path of the qi sense contained in the figure of the virtual and real life.

"Could this be the so-called secret path?" Joyce was just suspicious, but it was hard to determine.

In Joyce's understanding, the so-called path should be related to cultivation, and whether the path is equivalent to the practice remains to be examined.

"Wow!"

As Joyce crossed his hands, his heart on his lips and his thumb on his body, he tried to use his consciousness to guide the path map of the Qi Sense, and a trace of blood-colored Qi soon swirled out of his body.

In the process of running the path map, the secret qi still felt heavy and sluggish, but the pressure was not as heavy as the first time.

Time passed slowly, and Joyce's body sat cross-legged, and his skin continued to evaporate.

"The captain said, after absorbing the mysterious characteristics, the production of the secret qi is not considered to have a mysterious ability, the secret qi has three stages, namely generation, concentration, and control, corresponding to the early, middle and late stages, the stage of producing the secret qi, the secret qi is mostly divergent in the body, this stage I should have passed, now the secret qi flows in a special qi sense running path, conservative estimates, has reached the stage of concentrating the secret qi, in this stage, I may be able to faintly feel the mysterious ability it contains. Joyce closed her eyes, wanting to feel the secret qi running inside her.

However, the blood-colored secret qi flowing in the path map gave Joyce an extremely deep and hazy feeling, making it difficult for him to have a clear understanding.

"No way!"

After about ten minutes, Joyce could only relax a little without carefully perceiving the harvest, and kept the existing secret qi running.

"Huh?"

After his mood relaxed, Joyce suddenly noticed something unusual.

In Joyce's letting go of the perception, the small locked coffin in the corner of the basement was different, and the fine cracks in the coffin seemed to be alive, and the cracks and shadows were wriggling.

This discovery made Joyce's heart secretly shocked, and his scalp couldn't help but tingle.

"Could it be that there is any danger hidden in the secret object of the lock coffin?" Joyce's first reaction was whether the lock coffin had changed while he was running his qi.

Joyce slowly opened her eyes and looked at the locked coffin in the corner.

If anyone sees Joyce in the basement at this time, they will find that his left eye is like a compass layered on top of each other, and on one side of the pupil of his right eye is a circle of swirling brilliance.

"See through!"

Joyce saw that the black liquid in the lock coffin was stable, which was the mysterious property that the captain said the cursed centipede secreted after its death, but he couldn't tell for a moment that his eyes could see through the lock coffin.

There was no subsequent change in the coffin, and the mysterious properties of the black liquid in it were also very calm, Joyce once again focused on the surface of the coffin, the only thing unusual was the dense cracks of the coffin, with dark shadows wriggling, like maggots trying to break away from the coffin.

"It doesn't seem that the lock coffin has changed, but that I perceive something that I couldn't feel before. Joyce watched for a while, and then had a slight guess in his mind.

"Could it be that this is my secret qi's special ability?"

Joyce had not discovered anything about the secret qi that he had sensed before, but he didn't expect to be able to detect something unusual with the help of his perception of the locked coffin.

"Is it the shadows? It looks like the wriggling shadows of the cracks in the coffin are a little unusual, like they contain some kind of power, no, it feels more like a destructive force. Joyce felt like she had seen another world, and her irrepressible excitement caused her perception and vision to fluctuate and blur.

"Whew!"

Joyce tried to breathe in, exhaling a cloudy breath from his mouth, sensing the locked coffin in the corner of the basement, and then stabilized.

"I don't know if this perception is visual perception or spiritual perception, or both, my eyes are different, my left eye is a compass layer by layer, as if it has become an artifact, and the right eye has an extra swirl of brilliance, which looks different on the surface, does it also mean that the ability of the eyes is also different?" Joyce's mood calmed down, and he could even feel the gradual exhaustion of his spirit.

Especially when she found Elena in the bathroom secretly crying, Joyce couldn't help but sigh secretly.

"The secret qi stage that the captain said before, there seem to be three key words, one is perception, one is control, and the other is digestion, I don't know if I perceive something that I couldn't perceive before, whether it is considered a perception, and what is digestion, how can it be considered digestion if I make the mysterious characteristics I absorbed into my own?" Joyce thought that the captain's answer in the previous volume library was very important.

"Digestion?"

Joyce naturally shifted his attention to himself and felt the path map of the secret qi again, but he did not deliberately perceive the mysterious ability contained in the secret qi.

"Something is different!"

After he was no longer in the picture, Joyce faintly made some discoveries, that is, the secret qi flowing in the running path map, the blood-colored aura seemed to be a little lighter, but there was a subtle essence light.

"In the process of the flow of the secret qi in the strange path diagram, my body will evaporate the qi rhyme, expel the impurities in the body, and have the feeling of washing away the lead, I don't know if this is digestion, or it may be refining. Joyce's expression changed slightly.

It wasn't until Joyce's flesh began to swell and the meridians felt a dull ache that he dissipated the knots on his hands and no longer continued to guide the flow of secret qi in the strange meridian path.

"This seemingly ordinary mudra is actually very useful, it is estimated that it is like a mantra recited when the secret cultivator is performing, it has the effect of harmonizing the body, mind, and spirit, and achieving a certain effect of fitting and resonating, which can be used as a guide in the case of unskill. Joyce got up from the slate, feeling her muscles bulging and tight.

Joyce's previous mudra was obtained from the perceptual memory of the imaginary and real figure, and although he did not yet understand the other functions that the mudra might have, it was used to cooperate with his mind to urge the secret qi to flow in the running path map, and the effect was surprisingly good.

"It seems to be a lot lighter. ”

Joyce picked up the slate and flipped it over, and not only did he lift it up easily, but he also noticed the tiny cracks in the slate and the shadow wriggling.

"It seems that it is not only the reason for the locking of the coffin, but what are these cracks and wriggling shadows? If it is the ability of the secret qi, it is too strange to see any effect. "Joyce would have preferred to have a fireball or something.

Turning the slate over and placing it back on the ground, Joyce stared intently at the wriggling shadow of a crack in the slate, trying to control the cracked shadow.