The small iron box is not light, but because of its small size, it will not affect normal walking.

The weight still greatly slowed down Jiang Qingsong's speed, and when he returned to the vicinity of the village, it was already the morning of the second day.

I didn't eat anything all night, but fortunately, this body is still strong, and I have been able to survive until now.

Jiang Qingsong found a tree with characteristics, buried the small iron box under the tree, filled the soil and smoothed it, and put a stone the size of a football on it.

After doing all this, he sneaked back to the village hungry.

When I returned to the village, I couldn't avoid a period of interrogation from the village chief, after all, it was not a trivial matter to run out in the middle of the night and disappear all night.

Jiang Qingsong could only pull the village chief back into the house and basically told the matter.

Of course, about thieves, magic, fairy tale books, etc., he naturally concealed the past and did not say anything.

He only told the village chief that he had found a treasure in the mountains a few days ago, and that he had secretly gone there last night.

And in that treasure, only a few jewels and a small iron box were found. The small iron box was hidden outside the village by him, after all, even people in the same village, in the face of wealth, will inevitably breed bad intentions.

Therefore, at present, the only person who can believe it all is the old village chief.

The old village chief was a little skeptical, but in the end he chose to believe him with a slight bow.

Because in this world where you can cultivate and have supernatural powers, there are also cases where you have found treasures and stepped into the path of cultivation.

So for this unknown iron box, even with the heart of the old village chief, there is a faint expectation.

The village chief reminds Qing Song to keep this secret and not tell anyone, and tells him to retrieve the iron box tonight when no one is around, and not to let anyone find out.

After all, if this really had a method of cultivation, it would be a big event that would destroy the entire village.

Jiang Qingsong nodded solemnly, keeping all this in mind.

Throughout the day, Jiang Qingsong was a little distracted, thinking about the iron box all the time.

Finally staying up late into the night, he said hello to the village chief, and quietly rummaged out of the village, heading straight for the place where it had hidden its treasure.

Once there, everything was the same as when he left. Removing the stones, digging up the earth, taking out the small iron box, he hurried back to the village.

But he didn't know that all this he had done had already been discovered when he was in the village, and had followed him all the way here.

At this time, there was a person, hidden behind a tree a hundred meters away, silently watching his every move, and the greedy look on his face made people feel palpitations.

Jiang Qingsong didn't know anything about this, returned to his home with the small iron box, and handed it to the village.

The old village chief looked at the iron box with a solemn face, and after a long time, he shook his head helplessly.

"This kind of chest is enchanted, and the big lock on it is just a load of magic, and it is impossible to break it with brute force."

The old village chief said with some regret, although he had never cultivated, after all, he was well-informed and knew something about it.

"Keep this box for now, if you can't open it, it won't be of much use. But these jewels are extremely valuable and can be sold to build the village. ”

After saying goodnight to the village chief, Aomatsu returned to his room alone with the suitcase.

He closed the door and closed the curtains, making the whole house airtight.

Aomatsu is determined to try to use the fairy tale book to see if he can open this iron box. After all, it is also magic, and fairy tale books have even opened the door to the treasure house, so there is still a glimmer of hope.

When he took out the fairy tale book, it was as if there was a magical chemical reaction between the two, and they all emitted a soft faint light.

The only difference is that the fairy tale book emits a lilac glow, while the box emits a silver glow.

At this moment, suddenly, with a "click", the huge lock on the iron box popped open.

The voice was crisp, and at this moment, it seemed like heaven in Qing Song's heart.

Qing Song removed the lock, and when he opened the box, he saw that there was a stone with a fist emitting a dazzling blue light, which was very conspicuous in the dark night.

The shape of the stone is not regular, but it is extremely smooth.

In addition, Qingsong also noticed that the closer the stone was to the fairy tale book, the stronger the light.

If you put it close to the fairy tale book, the light is extremely dazzling, and his eyes are painful.

And if the distance is about half a meter, the stone will suddenly lose all its brilliance, becoming dull and unpretentious.

In the eyes of Qing Song, all this is so magical, he takes it back and forth, immerses himself in it, and enjoys it.

And when the stone touched the fairy tale book one time, suddenly a message rushed directly into Qing Song's mind.

The amount of information was so large that his brain ached for a while. As the message rushed in, he couldn't help but lower his voice and let out a roar of pain.

After finally enduring this for a while, he shook his head violently.

This information was stored very clearly in his brain, but he had to think hard to get the details.

It was as if he had a book stored in his head, and now he could only turn the first three pages.

And the content of these three pages had already surprised him, because he had guessed correctly, it was indeed related to cultivation, and it was the ancestor of this gang of thieves who wrote this book.

In this information, the origin of these thieves is clearly documented.

Why are they dressed in gold armor and so richly, like a group of noble knights?

That's because their ancestors used to be a group of knights from the neighboring country of Zongnan, and they were once called the Forty Knights of Zongnan.

More than 100 years ago, in wars with other countries, they made great achievements. But then he was involved in a war conspiracy and had to flee his homeland, leaving his homeland and coming to this remote Yanyunling.

The armor and cultivation methods of the original forty knights, as well as the wealth they carried with them, were inherited.

Among their descendants, they would carry on their tradition and form a forty-man order, but they were inferior to each other, and later they could only plunder the wealth of nearby villages.

Even so, the treasures in the treasury were dwindling, far from keeping up with the rate at which they were squandering.

And the cultivation methods recorded in this stone are becoming more and more unattainable for them.

In this generation, the forty knights of Zongnan have completely degenerated into a group of thieves.

They can only wear the armor of their ancestors and act as a prestige, but even then these ordinary villagers are not able to deal with it.

And this area of Yanyunling is still the edge of the Zongnan Empire and the Jiqian Empire, and it is still hidden in the deep mountains, so there is no official control here, and it has become a veritable criminal paradise.

But in other words, because of the existence of these forty thieves, there are many more fierce rogues, otherwise this area may not be chaotic.

For Jiang Qingsong, these are just floating clouds, and they have nothing to do with him.

Even if the thieves found out that the iron box was missing, they would not have been able to find him.

All he needed to do was hide the iron box in a place that no one knew about early tomorrow morning, and then silently learn the cultivation method recorded in the stone by himself.