Chapter Seventy-Six: An Unexpected Discovery
After returning to his No. 29 courtyard, Xiao Longchen began to clean up the utility room, and when the equipment for striking iron arrived, it was undoubtedly the most suitable place to place it here.
In order not to stain the official uniform on his body, he also deliberately changed into his previous animal skin clothes, and then wrapped a towel around his head, and after using a stick to shake off those spider webs, he began to move things out.
There were dozens of pieces of wood for the fire alone, and there were many other miscellaneous items that had been piled up for an unknown amount of time, and when Xiao Longchen moved all these things out, the sky had already darkened.
He took out a star lamp from the goblin clan from the spatial ring, although the light of this lamp alone still couldn't see the situation inside the house, and it was not too much of a problem to clean the ground with a layer of dirt and dust.
When Xiao Longchen was halfway through cleaning, he suddenly found that there was a special place on the ground, as if it was ...... It is a wooden board embedded in the earth.
Xiao Longchen took the star lamp off the door frame, and then carried it to the front to look, and saw that under the thick layer of earth ash, there was a small square door with a diameter of one meter.
After Mu Chen pulled off the remaining layer of floating ash on it, he saw something like a doorknob, he held the handle and lifted it gently, and opened the wooden door on the ground, revealing a dark basement below, and at the edge of the wooden door, there was also a ladder leaning.
Xiao Longchen sent out his divine thoughts to investigate, and after feeling that there was no danger below, he went down the ladder to the basement.
There was not much space inside, about four or five square meters, with obvious signs of excavation on the dirt walls, a soft couch and a square table in the center, and nothing else.
However, when Xiao Longchen approached the soft couch with the star lamp, he found that there was a small wooden box in the corner, only a foot square.
Judging from the dust on it, which is half a finger thick, it is obvious that I don't know how many days it has been here!
Xiao Longchen opened the wooden box very carefully, and saw that there were a total of three items inside, namely a thread-bound book, a small jade bottle, and a waist card of unknown material.
The other two things couldn't see the use for the time being, so Xiao Longchen picked up the thread-bound book and looked through it.
Xiao Longchen held it in his hand and realized that the material of the book was not the ordinary paper he imagined, but the pages made of a light animal skin.
The cover was already a little yellowed, and there were four big characters written on it: "Demon Sect Holy Scripture".
Xiao Longchen opened the cover and saw that there were many words densely recorded inside.
He was already familiar with the words of this world, so he was naturally able to understand the content inside, which was similar to the cultivation method he had obtained from the "Nine Scrolls of Stars".
And in addition to the text, at the end of each article, there is also a pair of body veins running route marking.
Xiao Longchen originally thought that there was only one cultivation path in this world, such as an astral magician, but he didn't expect to see another cultivation method here.
Judging from the name of this exercise, it is obvious that it belongs to the cultivation classics such as crooked sects and evil ways, but the things that can be named with the word "holy scriptures" make Mu Chen unable to underestimate them.
After putting this exercise book into the space ring, he picked up the waist card and looked at it for a while, and found that the word "Demon Sect" was written on the front of the dragon flying and phoenix dancing, and on the back was a relief of a firebird.
The reason why it is said to be a firebird is because there are many flame totems carved around that vivid bird.
Xiao Longchen didn't know what this thing was for, so he had to temporarily include it in the space ring.
There was only one last thing left in the wooden box, which was a snow-white jade bottle with a thin neck, only more than three inches high, which looked very exquisite, and the bottle mouth was sealed with beeswax, presumably to isolate the air and prevent the contents from deteriorating.
Xiao Longchen didn't open it immediately, and the devil knew if it contained a volatile poison.
He searched the chamber for a while, and when he found nothing missing, he climbed up the ladder and went out.
He closed the door again, and then covered it with the surrounding ash, and went to the well in the courtyard.
The tools used to draw water are brand new, and very simple to say, just a rope with a metal buckle tied to the end that holds the barrel's lifting ring.
Xiao Longchen threw the wooden barrel down the well, shook it from side to side twice, and the wooden barrel sank because of the water injection, feeling that the barrel had completely sunk, Xiao Longchen dragged the net hard, and a bucket of clear and cold well water was hit by him.
After washing his body first, he washed the towel pulp wrapped around his head before returning to the house naked.
Xiao Longchen put the star lamp on the table, turned over his hand and took out the jade bottle, and after carefully observing it for a while, he found that there was nothing special, and then he covered his mouth and nose with a wet towel, and his free right hand bent his fingers to flick open the wax seal on it.
Due to the thin walls of the bottle, Xiao Longchen could clearly see that the bottle contained some black pills the size of peanuts by the light of the star lamp.
The moment these pills came into contact with the air, even if it was blocked by a wet towel, he smelled a refreshing aroma.
As soon as this aroma entered his nose, Xiao Longchen was suddenly shocked, and hurriedly blocked the mouth of the bottle with a wax cork.
After a long time, he didn't feel any discomfort, and it made him feel extra refreshed.
Xiao Longchen opened the cork again, and the smell that smelled exceptionally comfortable resurfaced, Xiao Longchen took the wet towel away from between his mouth and nose, and then put his nose to the mouth of the bottle to sniff.
This time the feeling was more intuitive, Xiao Longchen felt that the pores all over his body opened instantly, and there was a faint sense of qi in his lower abdomen.
And under the perception of his divine thoughts, this sense of qi also contains a very pure energy, which makes Xiao Longchen always have a sense of déjà vu.
He lowered his head and pondered for a moment before he realized that this kind of energy was the same as the heaven and earth aura that could also make people feel refreshed and dispersed between heaven and earth.
This discovery is undoubtedly good news for Xiao Longchen. At the very least, it can be preliminarily determined that these pills are not poisonous pills, and there are very likely to be things that are beneficial to the human body.
This discovery, for Xiao Longchen, was as surprising as the discovery of a new continent.
It turns out that in this world, there is still energy that can be absorbed by people, just like star power.
Moreover, to absorb this energy, you don't need to rely on star stones at all, you can directly draw it from the air or those elixir spirit fruits.
Thinking of the "Demon Sect Holy Book" in the Space Acceptance Ring, Xiao Longchen couldn't help but have a very bold thought: Could it be that this exercise can be cultivated by everyone? If this is the case, why didn't this kind of exercise spread widely on the Star Continent, but instead made the Star Warlock the mainstream powerhouse of the human race in this world?
However, these things are not something that can be figured out of empty speculation, Xiao Longchen stuffed the wax seal to the mouth of the bottle again, and then a flame like candlelight danced on his fingertips, and after the mouth of the bottle was slightly seared close to the flame, the surface of the wax seal began to melt, and then the bottle was completely sealed again, and he could no longer smell the refreshing fragrance.
After Xiao Longchen closed the door and hung up the latch again, he went back to his bedroom and sat cross-legged on the bed.
However, this time he did not take out the star stone to practice astral arts, but took out the "Demon Sect Holy Book" that he had just obtained, and began to look through the introductory chapter recorded earlier.
After memorizing that obscure mantra, Xiao Longchen closed his eyes and began to recite it silently in his heart, and soon he sensed a thin aura pouring into his body.
Xiao Longchen did not rush to follow the route on the meridian illustrated book to run this trace of aura, but let it stay in his body.
More than half an hour passed, and Xiao Longchen didn't feel any discomfort, so he was relieved and bold to use this trace of aura in his body through the veins at the end of the first article.
It took about ten minutes for this wisp of aura to run in the meridians in his body for a week, and then Xiao Longchen felt that after that wisp of aura merged into the dantian, it actually began to entrench in his lower abdomen, and gradually formed a tiny whirlpool, and at the same time as it began to rotate on its own, a force of attraction was formed in the center, so that this thin spiritual power would not dissipate by itself.