Chapter Fifty-Six: Who Are You, Old Man?
Liu Mingde was furious, his face was extremely angry, and he was holding the alchemy Tang knife tightly, it seemed that he even wanted to cut it off. The muscles on his face twitched, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I originally thought that you would exchange my Liu family's money for something useful, but what happened?" Sect Master Jiang, tell me, can this broken knife give birth to spirit stones? ”
He slammed the knife on the ground with a thud, and the blade was extremely sharp, piercing directly into the concrete floor.
Jiang Chengyun put away his smiling face, and told him that when controlling his subordinates, he couldn't just exert coercion and not pay attention to kindness, so he didn't get angry, but comforted: "Xiao Liu is impatient again, isn't it, you see, I also exchanged useful things." ”
He took out the yellowed ancient book from the wooden box, with modern words written on it "Tomb Miscellaneous", this was obviously not the original ancient book, but the Tianji Hunting City was translated and printed in batches, and the old was just to make people look more feeling. Liu Mingde took the book, his face showed a trace of surprise, he looked through the book, the first half is the original text of the ancient book, and the second half is a translation made by modern people.
"All the great tombs in the world, whether they are immortal cultivators or mortal emperors and princes, all look up to the wind and water and astrological signs, and there must be arrays within the Qiankun and the Five Elements." Liu Mingde slowly read out a paragraph, frowned, and asked with the book: "I know this broken book, it was written by an old god stick three hundred years ago, you shouldn't expect this book to dig holes, right?" The Great Elder has already said that it is not a tomb! ”
Jiang Chengyun took back the book, nodded and said: "Is the ancient Shu mine cave a tomb or not, does the Great Elder really dare to make an absolute conclusion?" ”
"It is said that the mine is surrounded by mountains on all sides, and it is a place where there is no wind and no water, and there is no water, but if this tomb was buried tens of thousands of years ago, will the mountains and rivers change over the years? Could it not have been the Four Absolute Lands before? ”
Jiang Chengcheng carefully put the book back into the wooden box, and continued to say patiently: "Even if the bottom of the mine cave is not a tomb, it is also a rare snake vein terrain, which often breeds a lot of spirit stones, if there is no assistance from this book, how can we mine it?" ”
He patted Liu Mingde on the shoulder, and persuaded him earnestly: "Xiao Liu, you look at the territory of ancient Shu, there are tens of thousands of mountains, since ancient times, it has been known as the place of Futian Cave and outstanding people, and there may be many good leylines waiting to be mined. ”
Liu Mingde listened to the reason, nodded unconsciously, and then reacted, looking at the half-grown boy patting his shoulder, he instantly felt a little ashamed, he took two steps back, and straightened his face again, and said: "I don't listen to these nonsense, I have to look at things, now ten days have passed, I haven't seen a spirit stone, and there are still twenty days, if you can't fulfill your promise, don't blame me for turning my face!" ”
"Oh, it won't take twenty days, and you can come to receive the spirit stone in ten days." Jiang Chengyun laughed and sent him away.
After closing the door again, he casually threw the book of "Tomb Miscellaneous" on the sofa, he didn't have much interest in learning these things, at the moment he was just using it as a tool for money laundering (washing spirit stones), so that others would believe that he would find out the terrain and see the direction of the mountains and rivers.
In this way, how many spirit stones he copied, others thought that he had dug them up through the knowledge he had learned from books.
At night, when all the workers got off work, Jiang Chengyun called Zhang Nan to the room and said mysteriously: "Do you have any wishes?" ”
"Why do you say this all of a sudden?" Zhang Nan smiled, went to the kitchen to get an apple, took a big bite, thought about it, and said: "If you want to talk about wishes, I hope that I can completely awaken the Dao Spirit of Power as soon as possible, or get the legendary Book of Suffering." ”
"What, are you going to help me make my wish come true?" He asked wistfully.
"You two wishes..... I can't achieve it, you go to the gods. Jiang Chengyun smiled and said, "But what I can do is to give you a little surprise." ”
He took out the knife box from behind the sofa, it was wooden, covered with ink lacquer, painted with red glazed lines, drawing birds and auspicious clouds, framed extraordinarily.
Zhang Nan was stunned, he didn't know what to say for a while, and subconsciously took the knife box, and there was a flickering Tang knife lying inside, the blade was as bright as snow, with domineering and solemnity, he stammered and asked: "This, I, this is for me?" ”
"What else is this asking, take it out and play it twice and I'll take a look." Jiang Chengyun laughed, took the knife box, Zhang Nan carefully took out this Tang knife, it was very heavy, the total weight was about six hundred catties, it was also a good hand for him, he didn't know any swordsmanship, but he learned what it looked like in the TV series, put on a posture, and slashed left and right with Zama Bu, and then stabbed with his hand to stroke the knife, this Tang knife waved in his hand constantly, and under the illumination of the light, it cut out a continuous phantom. Finally, he flicked his finger on the blade, making a sound as crisp as porcelain.
He couldn't help but exclaim, "Good knife, good knife!" ”
Then, he asked with some shame: "Brother Jiang, this thing is much more handsome than the katana I saw, how much money does it cost?" ”
Jiang Chengyun smiled mysteriously and gestured two fingers.
"Two hundred?"
Jiang Chengyun shook his head, a frightened look appeared on Zhang Nan's face, and he asked tentatively, "Want 20,000?" ”
"Damn, you can't guess the numbers in the middle?" Jiang Chengyun was completely speechless and said, "This thing is two thousand." ”
Zhang Nan was immediately frightened and held the knife in both hands, for fear of damage, he asked a little confused: "Why are you suddenly sending such an expensive thing, do you have something for me to do?" ”
Jiang Chengyun snapped his fingers and said, "That's right, you guessed right." ”
"Hmph, being the sect master is different, it's not profitable to send things early." Zhang Nan hurriedly put the knife away, and he was at ease with it. He asked, "Say, what do you want the little brother to do?" ”
"Look at what you say." Jiang Chengcheng smiled and asked, "Don't worry, how is the situation on the construction site recently?" ”
"It's peaceful, and these workers are very honest, but I found that one of these workers is not ordinary."
Zhang Nan recalled that on the day when the spirit stone was dug up two days ago, there was a little miner in his twenties, who had abnormal behavior, when the old miner blew up the stone pillar that was shipped, it stirred up a lot of smoke, but the light of the spirit stone pierced the fog, and many people rushed up with screams, and this young man also followed behind people.
Zhang Nan frowned and said: "If I am not mistaken, there was a boulder that was swaying and was about to fall into the smoke, and I wanted to rush over to protect the workers, but the boulder suddenly stabilized, and when the smoke cleared, the young man appeared around the boulder." ”
He guessed that this young man was a monk hiding here, so he inquired about his name, the old worker's name was Liu An, the cousin of the captain, who had come from the countryside to work here to make money. Zhang Nan didn't dare to make up his mind easily, and tried to test his strength several times, but was always interrupted by various accidents.
Jiang Chengyun touched his chin and said, "This person is most likely a monk, either from the Liu family to see the mine, or from other sects. ”
Zhang Nan nodded, agreeing with this statement. Jiang Chengyun patted him and said, "Go and call Ling Lu, I have something for you to do." ”
"Okay." He reluctantly put down the love knife, and after a while, he came back with zero dew.
Jiang Chengcheng asked the two to sit down, chatted with the two casually, during which he brewed a pot of green tea and poured it for the two of them, and then he said: "Do you two remember the rules I set when I first came to Shumen?" ”
Zhang Nan thought about the regulations against the two of them, and replied: "Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, don't say what you shouldn't say." ”
Jiang Chengyun looked at Ling Lu, and she also spoke: "Within a month, I will do whatever I am asked to do, and I will never ask more." ”
"Good." Jiang Chengyun snapped his fingers, went to the bedroom and walked out with a schoolbag, and before he could make any moves, Ling Lu sensed something and immediately frowned. He smiled squintedly, gently unzipped the bag, and in an instant a pink light reflected on his face, and he lifted the bag upside down.
"Whoa!"
A pile of dazzling spirit stones, like garbage dumped by him, fell to the ground in one go, a huge number, all over the ground, shining with dazzling brilliance, more dazzling and dazzling than any gold and jewelry.
"This is?!"
Zhang Nan and Ling Lu stood up at the same time, and the eyes of both of them were about to pop out, this pile of spirit stones cost seventy or eighty catties, which far exceeded the number of spirit stones accumulated by the three generations of the Liu family in Shumen, but at this moment, it was as if he didn't want money, and he fell to the ground casually. It's all kind of dreamy.
"Holy, where the did this come from?" Zhang Nan and Ling Lu asked almost at the same time, that's right, don't doubt it, Ling Lu also burst into foul language, she has grown so big, although she has seen many, many spirit stones, but she has never seen this battle in front of her.
This pile of spirit stones was naturally copied in advance by Jiang Chengcheng who had consumed all the energy of the jade pendant, and it was a full eighty catties. And in order to avoid people from discovering that these spirit stones all look the same, he also smashed them into irregular shapes, so this pile of spirit stones has different shapes, some are the size of a lychee, and some are just broken diamonds, but they all exude rich spiritual power and brilliant brilliance.
Jiang Chengyun glanced at the two of them, threw away the schoolbag casually, stared at the two people, and asked calmly: "I didn't hear clearly, did you ask something that shouldn't be asked?" ”
"This ....." Ling Lu and Zhang Nan glanced at each other, and instantly understood that the original rule was used here, and the two of them made a promise, and they didn't dare to ask anymore at the moment.
"Haha."
Jiang Chengyun suddenly changed his face and laughed loudly, he beckoned the two of them to sit down calmly, and said that these are just small scenes, just the tip of the hair, there will be more in the future, he promised, within three months, he would show them the spirit stones piled up into a small mountain, a good bragging, and they drank half a pot of tea in a row to ease up.
Seeing that the emotions of the two people had stabilized slightly, he began to get down to business, pointing to the pile of spirit stones, and said, "I have no mana, no divine power, and I can't refine spirit stones, can you refine these spirit stones into the ore?" ”
Ling Lu didn't understand what he was going to do, but he still nodded and said, "Yes, the spirit stone can be melted into a liquid with mana and embedded into the ore, which is also the most primitive appearance of the spirit stone when it is dug out." ”
Jiang Chengyun nodded, turned his face and asked, "If Ling Lu melts these spirit stones into the ore, do you have a chance to hide them in the mine?" ”
Zhang Nan nodded and pounded the garlic, and said: "There is a chance, but there is no need to be so troublesome, the security guard who keeps vigil at night here is not a monk, just an old man in his sixties, smoking and reading the newspaper every day, if you don't make a sound, it is still very good to sneak in." ”
Jiang Chengchan thought about it, just do it, and let Zhang Nan take Linglu to the mine to get the spirit stone, and then see if the Liu family secretly sent other masters to guard the mine at night. The two of them didn't talk nonsense, they went out after receiving the order, and after the three of them made an appointment to finish things, they met in the barren mountain near the mine, Jiang Chengcheng squatted on the top of the barren mountain, watching the two of them go to the direction of the mine by night.
He lit a cigarette and waited patiently, thinking that he would have to toss for half an hour, but the two of them came back in less than fifteen minutes, Zhang Nan scolded and said: "That old man security guard, there is a fucking big problem, which is an old man in his sixties, that is a living ancestor." ”
Jiang Chengyan was surprised and said, "What do you mean?" ”
Ling Lu explained: "That old man is not a mortal, but a monk of the eighth level of qi refining, and his mana is extremely powerful, only stronger than me, not weaker than me. Almost, we will be exposed. ”
"Eighth layer of Qi refining?" Jiang Chengyun remembered that there was indeed an old guy at the eighth level of Qi refining in Shumen, and he couldn't help laughing: "I see, the dignified Great Elder of Shumen, Liu Shouyi, has actually hidden to this point, and is actually doing a night vigil security guard."
He casually handed over the bag containing the spirit stones to Ling Lu, pointed to the main peak on the east side that had not been excavated, and ordered: "Do you see the western slope of that mountain, there is a similar eagle's beak there, use your mana to dig a small hole of more than fifteen meters, fuse these spirit stones with the ore and bury them in it, remember, to restore the original state, do not let people see it." ”
Ling Lu took the spirit stone from the pocket, and said with some hesitation: "Okay, yes, I'm worried that the Great Elder, across a mountain peak, can still sense that I use spells." ”
"Don't worry, it's time for me to get out of the horse, watch me disturb this old man!" Jiang Chengcheng laughed loudly, and walked towards the mine in the distance, at the foot of the mountain, there is a small house with color steel tiles, this is the security room of the night vigil, and the dim lights are lit in the dark night, which is the only light in the barren mountain.
Through the window, you can see an old man in a security uniform sitting in a rocking chair, wearing reading glasses, holding a smartphone, as if he was watching a movie, with a focused expression and an old fold on his face, no matter how he looks at it, he is an ordinary old man, and he can't think that this is the most powerful elder in Shumen.
He doesn't care what the big elder is or the big elder, he pushes the door and enters.
Who knew that the old man didn't reply, and asked indifferently: "It's the new Sect Master Jiang, why did you come here late at night?" ”
Jiang Chengyun was stunned, this old man was really not ordinary. But he smiled playfully and asked frivolously: "Who are you, old man, who are you close to Lao Tzu." ”