Chapter 115: Treasure (New Year, New Weather!) )
A day and a night later, Guo Yang and Anu came out of the cave leading to the teleportation array.
Guo Yang used a piece of animal skin to copy the structure of the teleportation array and all the runes, which destroyed the teleportation array.
They couldn't figure out if the teleportation array was bidirectional, or if it could only teleport out and not return. But for the sake of safety, they had to destroy it, in case the jackal in the Harinau Sea quietly returned through the teleportation array, causing unnecessary trouble.
Originally, they should have studied the mysterious teleportation array again, but there were too many messes outside, and they needed to deal with them.
The Tengger people's big celebrations were held as scheduled, and the old patriarch Gilda sat in a large ox cart and met the leaders of the small tribes.
A hundred jars of wine, hundreds of sheep, thirty cows, fifty sacks of salt, a symbolic knife, and the corpses of more than eight or two thousand Bagan people outside the ox cart completely conquered the hearts of those people, making them vassals of the Tengger people.
These steppe people hastily buried the Bagan people, and then held a series of celebrations.
Horse racing, bonfires, singing and dancing, sacrifices to Tengger heaven.
They threw themselves to the ground, so that their bodies and foreheads were close to the wet grass, and prayed to the heavens for good weather and rain, so that too many disasters would not rain on the grassland people, and they prayed to the earth for the reproduction of all things, so that the number of horses, cattle and sheep of the grassland people would be doubled, the men would be brave and famous, and the women would be strong and have children.
The celebration lasted for ten days and ten nights, and the tribal leaders went back contented, taking with them some bronze objects, including knights, skews, dings, and bronze daggers.
Of course, the old patriarch Jida is still very good at buying people's hearts, and while scaring and winning over those people, he also maintains a certain degree of reserve and high profile. He took out more than two dozen knives and gave them to the tribal leaders as the only token of the tribal alliance.
And the old patriarch Jida, who is the leader of the tribal alliance, solemnly showed everyone a real knife, the one given to him by his master Atu.
The Tengger people have completely replaced the Bagan people in this area, and they seem to have done a better job and won more popularity.
The Bagan people have always put themselves above the heads of others, especially the Hazhnaohai patriarch, who is flying and domineering. The whip in his hand is like a poisonous snake that, depending on his mood, may fall on the heads of those small vassal tribes at any time, making people afraid of themselves.
The old patriarch Jida is even more scheming, he used to be the overlord of the steppe and has a lot of experience in buying people's hearts. Especially after these years of bitter ups and downs, he has thought more deeply about human nature, so he combines rigidity and softness, sticks and honey, and governs those unruly steppe people into obedience.
After the celebration was over, and the leaders of the small tribes were sent away, the old patriarch Jida visited Guo Yang on the Bagan Divine Peak and reported the entire celebration to him in detail.
Guo Yang was quite indifferent to this.
However, out of courtesy, he invited the old patriarch Gilda to accompany him for a drink.
"Old Patriarch Jida, you have done a good job, I hope you will seize this opportunity to run the Tengger tribe well and regain the status of the overlord of the grassland." Guo Yang gently encouraged the old patriarch.
"Guo Yang, you are the real victors in this battle, so ......" The old patriarch Jida hesitated, not knowing how to speak.
"Forget it, I'm not looking for a country, that thing is a piece of shit to us." Guo Yang said lightly.
"That'...... In the future...... "The old patriarch Jida was actually very worried that Guo Yang would directly kill him and replace him as the master of this grassland."
"Take care of your tribe, we are permanent allies, you just need to swear an oath." Guo Yang stared at the old patriarch Jida with a smile and said.
"Well, I make the most formal vow on the prairie that we will always be good friends, allies in life and death. I have embraced you as the High Priestess of the Tengger people, your status will always be higher than that of the tribal leader, and you are the only one who can legitimately speak to the Tengger people. The old patriarch Jida looked solemn, half-knelt, and made an oath.
Guo Yang nodded noncommittally, picked up a handful of wine, and handed it to the white-haired old patriarch.
"Old patriarch Jida, take care of the tribe's production, we are still too weak, we must be on guard against the jackals from afar at any time." Guo Yang said.
"Okay, I'll arrange it." The old patriarch Gilda took the wine and drank it all.
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Watching the old patriarch Jida walk down the Bagen Divine Peak steadily, Guo Yang and Anu also quietly descended the mountain. They made a circle, avoiding the Tengger people, and came to the shore of the Arishan Haizi.
This sea is so large that it is simply a small ocean. However, unlike the ocean, the water here is sweet and clean, and from time to time large fish two or three feet long jump up on the deep blue water, splashing small snowflake waves.
Guo Yang stood at the water's edge, muttered for a moment, and put his left and right hands together to form a strange and mysterious magic seal, which was a water-avoiding spell recorded in the demon exercises.
There was a soft "pop", and a cyan circle of light appeared around his body, and in the aperture, a dark red halo loomed, which looked very weird.
"Let's go." Guo Yang said and walked slowly into the water.
When Anu heard this, he hurriedly stepped into the aperture and followed Guo Yang into Ah Rishan Haizi.
The aperture squeezes through the clear water of the lake, like a transparent glass ball.
Guo Yang and Anu slowly walked to the bottom of the water, and along the way, the fish were frightened and fled into the distance.
Ah Rishan Haizi is very deep, and the further down he goes, the greater the pressure on the aperture, and Guo Yang's face gradually turns pale. He turned over his hand and took out a few spirit stones, absorbing the spiritual energy while walking towards the bottom of the water.
After descending for nearly an hour, and I don't know how many feet they had penetrated into the water, they finally came to the bottom of the sea, and saw a strange scene from afar.
A rather quaint-looking, tall palace was connected to a large base of cyan stone, with huge and terrible cracks on it, which were slanted into the chaos of stones at the bottom of the water, as if falling from the sky, slamming heavily on the surface of the water of Arishan Haizi, and then sinking to the bottom.
Or maybe it was this behemoth that fell from the sky and smashed the grassland into a big hole, and after thousands of years of sedimentation, it became a rippling sea.
Guo Yang and Anu glanced at each other, looked at the palace in surprise, and slowly approached.
The palace is badly damaged, the ancient arcane ornaments on the stone walls are crawling with green moss, and there are a large number of vine-like aquatic plants growing in the huge cracks, and some pure white small fish burrowing in and out of those aquatic plants, which also looks luxuriant.
The stone door of the main hall cracked a thin slit, and there was a faint soft light inside, which was a pure pale cyan. Through those cracks, Guo Yang and Anu couldn't see anything, but they guessed with certainty that the entire stone hall was broken like this, but there should be no water inside!
"This is ......" Guo Yang groaned, a little surprised.
This tall stone hall is full of strangeness, and it seems that it is protected by some mysterious power, and after a long time, that power still protects the stone hall.
"A spell ban similar to a water avoidance charm?" Anu's swarthy face was full of shock, and he muttered.
Guo Yang nodded slightly, came to a larger crack, and looked inside the main hall, but was isolated by a strange pale cyan light shield, and could not see anything.
In desperation, Guo Yang and Anu came to the door of the main hall again and began to find a way to open the badly damaged stone door.
On the stone door, there were no patterns or mechanisms, which made Guo Yang a little helpless.
He tried to stretch out his palm, inject the power of the spirit and demons, and slowly press towards the stone door.
There was a muffled "bang", and the stone gate was directly broken into two, one of which fell down and slammed heavily on the ground.
Guo Yang and Anu were startled, and they took seven or eight steps back in a flash, looking at the stone hall nervously.
The stone door snapped, revealing a pale cyan light shield with hundreds of strange runes looming on it, emitting bursts of palpitating soft golden light, mixed in the pale cyan light mask, extremely mysterious.
Guo Yang half-squinted his eyes and looked closely, and found that those runes were somewhat similar to those that appeared on the teleportation array, and even more complicated.
Guo Yang pondered for a long time, turned over his hand and took out the animal skin with the runes of the teleportation array, and the two checked and probed, and nodded slightly.
He put away the animal skin, slowly walked to the light mask, stretched out his palms, and staggered his left and right hands into two different spiritual and demonic powers.
The light mask "popped" softly, and those mysterious runes spun rapidly, giving birth to a strange devouring force.
With a "bang", Guo Yang and Anu disappeared in place and entered a completely new space.
The two staggered forward several steps before they stabilized their bodies and looked around, both of them froze.
A stone palace that looks dilapidated on the outside, but inside it is extremely luxurious, with tall stone tables, stone benches, stone frames, and stone beds. On the stone table, a shelf was placed, I don't know what material it was, it looked crystal clear, and there were light red filaments inside, like jade but not jade.
On the shelf, there are a few pens, a white mutton fat jade vial, a dark green inkstone, and a stack of specially treated animal skins, all of which are items that Guo Yang has never seen.
Especially the stack of animal skins, not the skin of tigers, leopards, jackals, mink bears and other fierce beasts, the residual hair on it is full of aura, and it is much higher than the quality of the spirit stone in Guo Yang's hand.
The animal skin on the top was densely painted with strange runes, which should be in the same vein as the runes that appeared on the cyan light mask and the teleportation array. It's just that these runes are connected from end to end, and they seem to be drawn by a single stroke, and the strokes are solid and stable, without the slightest sluggishness and stiffness, which looks extremely comfortable.
Guo Yang carefully opened the white mutton fat jade vial and found that there was still a little pale golden juice left in it, which was also full of aura.
Putting down the vial, Guo Yang picked up the dark green inkstone, and was shocked to find that this inkstone was actually carved from a whole piece of spirit stone, and its aura was far more abundant than those tattered things in his storage bag!
Looking at the tall stone shelf, there were some tortoise shells and animal skins, which contained the same kind of mystical runes, Guo Yang and Anu could only stare dryly when they saw it, and they didn't even know a word.
The two quickly made a round of the main hall, and behind a tall screen, they found a pile of extremely complex bottles and cans. There was also a box with a lot of knick-knacks thrown in it, knives made of silver, glittering needles, small scissors made of unknown metal, seven or eight bottles of colorful ore powder.
"It's ...... Alchemy tools? Guo Yang curiously opened the bottles and cans and found that there were indeed a lot of drug residues inside. In addition, in a small emerald green bottle, three golden pills were poured out.
"Alchemy! Master, we're rich! Anu said with a look of surprise on her face.
"Alchemy?" Guo Yang asked.
"According to legend, the way for ancient cultivators to improve their cultivation is not only the blessed land full of spiritual energy, but also various high-grade spirit stones, and the most powerful is their alchemy. According to the word of mouth of the demon clan, one pill can be worth a bunch of spirit stones! Anu said with excitement on his face.
"I've also heard the legend of alchemy, so I asked that subfish to help us figure out some recipes. However, those recipes were useless, and they could only concoct some healing pills. I thought people were exaggerating. In this way, alchemy may really exist, and besides, those cultivators in the ancient era have already mastered this secret art. ”
Guo Yang pinched the three golden pills and said in a deep voice.