Chapter 455: Loulan's Treasure (I)

"To Xu Changqing's words. Long Jinbao hurriedly gathered his mana into his eyes, attracting the fierce innate yin and yang eyes. At this time, the scene of the desert ancient city in front of him suddenly changed, the ancient city and desert all disappeared, replaced by a fantasy and real mountain, the high mountain soared into the sky, the mountain was surrounded by fairy energy, the sea of clouds rolled, the dragon and phoenix were flying, the strange beasts were walking around, all kinds of strange flowers and plants were all over the mountain, as if a fairyland, and on the top of the high mountain, you could faintly see a vermilion gate that was as high as a foot and emitted a strange light.

"Is this the entrance to the fairyland? It looks more like the Kunlun Wonderland has such a grand entrance alone, so what should the fairyland look like?" Seeing such a shocking scene, even Long Jinbao, who had been mentally prepared, couldn't help but gasp. Muttered to himself.

"Born from the heart!" Xu Changqing looked ahead, and said indifferently: "This mirage can point directly to people's hearts, what kind of scene you think in your heart, what kind of scene you see." ”

"This is what desert pedestrians often call a mirage?" Long Jinbao was surprised: "Then isn't this scene fake?"

"When it's true, it's false, when it's false, it's false! If you think it's true, it's true, if you think it's false, it's false. Xu Changqing closed his eyes slightly, as if he was feeling some power, and said after a while: "The mountain protection array of this fairy realm mountain gate is really extraordinary, not only is it in harmony with heaven and earth, but also contains such a thick mirage, if I don't know everything about mirage, I'm afraid I will inevitably get lost in this mirage illusion." ”

After speaking, he stretched out the top of Long Jinbao's head, and Long Jinbao immediately felt a hot current pouring down from the top of his head, rushing all the way to the spring point at the bottom of his feet, and then rushing back and up, injecting into his eyes. When his eyes felt a burst of heat, the scene in front of him changed again, and the immortal mountain and immortal land disappeared in an instant, replaced by a pale cyan light that enveloped the entire desert in front of him, and in the light, a very eye-catching white light loomed, which seemed to be not far away, but it seemed to be far away in the sky.

"Is this what the entrance to the fairyland looks like?" Long Jin'an looked at the blue light in front of him with some disappointment, and said with a slight frown: "It's really too big a gap from what I imagined!"

"Do you think that the entrance of the fairyland should be surrounded by immortal qi? If you can't see through this layer of illusory appearance, I'm afraid that even if you meet Jiang Sanbao, you will be unjust!" Xu Changqing glanced at Long Jinbao coldly, and after teaching him a sentence, he walked towards the ancient city of Loulan in front of him, and said: "Let's go! We still have to rest in the ancient city of Loulan for one night, and wait until noon tomorrow, when the yang energy is fully opened, and then enter this green light." ”

Long Jinbao didn't follow Lixuan, but stood in place, as if his heartstrings were touched by Xu Changqing's teaching, and his mind was a little confused, and it took a while to think clearly, and his eyes were bright. Then, he unexpectedly slapped himself hard, cursed and mocked himself as if blaming himself, and then let go of his feet and strode towards Xu Changqing.

During this time, Long Jinbao's cultivation improved too quickly, he barely spent any time and experience, his cultivation increased by several levels, and he cultivated to the incarnation of Jincai, and it was just a matter of course before he finally became an immortal. In addition, he was accepted as an official disciple by Xu Changqing, ending the wish he had dreamed of for many years, and all the benefits came so easily, so that he did not cultivate virtue, did not cultivate the Fa, and never improved his state of mind, so that he would be fascinated by that illusion. Now that Xu Changqing has awakened his defects, although he can't immediately improve his state of mind cultivation, at least he can wake up from his rapidly improving strength, which will help him a lot in his future cultivation.

Jefferson was a well-known American archaeologist who was fascinated by Oriental civilization and had participated in the excavation of ancient kingdoms such as ancient India and ancient Persia. After the Swedes published an article showing the discovery of Loulan, the most important kingdom of the Western Regions on the ancient Silk Road, his archaeological interest shifted again, and he began to focus on this kingdom of the Western Regions, which is only recorded in ancient Chinese texts. He had been to the ancient city of Loulan four times with other Kaoran expeditions, collecting a lot of antiquities buried under the sand, this was his fifth time here, and it was also the first time he had formed a team by himself, and his mood was naturally different from the other times.

Jefferson's luck was not only that he found some Roman coins from the ruins of a merchant's house somewhere in the ancient city, confirming that rumors that someone from the Roman Empire had ever been there, but he also found a map made of unknown animal skins. On the back of this map are some strange-looking oriental astrological patterns, and with his knowledge of oriental astrological culture, he can only see that there are the Big Dipper, as well as the Luoshu River map, which is respected by Eastern religious culture, and the front is a simple topographic map.

Although the topographic map was very rudimentary to today's eyes, with only a few simple routes and landmarks, it was enough for an archaeologist like Jefferson, who already knew exactly what those landmarks represented, and he felt that he would find what he was looking for this time.

Roger was a simple French mercenary who was often hired by archaeological expeditions to provide security for his clients. In the past few years, although he has not been rich and rich, he has accumulated some capital, has gained some reputation in the mercenary industry, and has gathered a team of five or six people under his hands, which can be regarded as a good mix. However, he was not satisfied with this, and he often went on treasure hunts with those archaeological expeditions, and met more archaeologists who became rich overnight. However, he has always abided by the rules of mercenaries, and after those archaeologists became rich, they would throw away two dollars casually and send them away like a beggar. This kind of thing is fine once or twice, but he often encounters archaeologists who are protected by him suddenly turn their faces after making a fortune, and over time his mentality becomes unbalanced and gives birth to other ideas.

Before joining Jefferson's Loulan expedition, Roger had already inquired about the purpose of Jefferson's trip. His purpose was not for any academic archaeology at all, he came to Loulan mainly for the treasures left behind by the ancient Loulan Kingdom. Legend has it that there was a huge plague before the ancient Loulan kingdom disappeared, a large number of Loulan people died in the plague, and the living did not dare to live in Loulan anymore, so they could only move elsewhere, and the Loulan royal family at that time also left the ancient city of Loulan with other people. It's just that the treasures accumulated by the Loulan royal family for hundreds of years have not been completely brought out, and most of them have been sealed in an unknown treasure trove, ready to come back to retrieve them when they settle down. Who would have thought that these migrated people encountered a strong wind and sand on the way, and all of them died in the desert, and the kingdom of Loulan disappeared, and those treasures of Loulan also disappeared.