Chapter Seventy-Five: The Search for Relics

After landing on the ground, Tianjihong ignored his bleeding arm, and hurriedly raised his head to look at the wooden sign above. To his delight, the dagger he had just thrown had indeed succeeded in hitting the edge of the wooden plaque and the stone pillar before the shield could be restored, and was now diagonally plunged into the stone wall. And what excites him the most is that Tian Jihong saw that the token was obviously pried after the violent collision at this moment, and it was now on the verge of crumbling. As long as you find a way to shake it even a little harder, you should be able to completely make the wooden card fall off the stone pillar.

Of course, if you only attack from the bottom of the stone pillar, it will definitely not work, this method has not only been tried by Tian Jihong at the beginning, but these corpses under his feet must have also thought of it before his death. However, due to the blessing of the shield above, the attack on the stone pillar from the outside has not produced a trace of effect like a mud cow entering the sea, and if you want to shake the wooden sign now, you still have to block the effect of the shield in advance.

But now the situation has changed, and the wooden sign on the head has been loosened after a collision with a dagger. According to Tian Jihong's observation, at this time, as long as a little more force can cause it to fall naturally, he no longer needs to risk his life to try to contact the wooden sign with his body like just now. So after simply treating the wound on his arm with ointment, Tian Jihong immediately began to search the ground for the fragments that had fallen from mid-air before.

What made him feel a little distressed was that the fragment fell downward after dissolving the spiritual power of the shield, and on the way, it still could not avoid the scattered spiritual power ripples, and was cut into two petals by a silk thread on the way to the ground. Tian Jihong also felt a little regretful when he looked at the fragment in his hand that was only as thick as his little finger, obviously it was difficult for a fragment of this size to be used as a weapon against the enemy in the future.

In fact, this also shows once again that the ripples of the magic circle in the sky have a powerful destructive power, and even the snake turtle that was a spirit beast couldn't shake the fragment embedded in its body with all its strength, but today it turned into two the moment it touched the ripples, and it was a very wise decision that he didn't directly touch it with his physical body just now.

Thankfully, the remaining two truncated pieces still work. This time, Tian Jihong did not choose to take the risk of staying his arm in the coverage of the ripples, and with the previous successful experience, he first approached closely, and easily glued the fragment that was only the width of his little finger with his fingertips, and stabbed it towards the core of the shield. But then, he was already wary of the rebound force of the shield, and this time he had already withdrawn his arm in advance when he hit the node.

For the sake of safety, Tian Jihong did not choose to throw foreign objects at the center of the wooden card as before. Just now, in order to seize the gap of that moment, he almost left an arm behind by the intertwined ripples on the way back. Now under the premise that the wooden card is about to be separated, Tian Ji Hong has a better solution, and at the moment when the shield in front of him becomes illusory, Tian Ji Hong directly flew up and kicked hard towards the stone pillar below.

At the same time as the shield above collapsed, the stone pillar in front of him temporarily lost the blessing of spiritual power, and the stone chips immediately flew under the powerful foot of Tianjihong, and began to shake slightly in midair. With Tianjihong's current strength, he couldn't completely break the thick stone pillar that was one foot high in an instant, but the result he was expecting had been achieved. Under the continuous swaying of the stone pillar below, the wooden card, which was already loose, was unexpectedly shaken off the top by the impact. Immediately, the magic circle that had been maintained above the head began to dim after the blessing of the wooden card, as if it had dissolved into the air in an instant.

With the fall of the token, the ripples of spiritual power that maintained the magic circle and the outside world gradually dimmed, and after Tianjihong landed safely for the second time, he looked up again and found that the deadly silk threads in mid-air had become transparent. After losing the effect of the magic circle, the entire area spread outward from the center of his position like a funnel, and the surrounding environment began to slowly become clear. The fog that had been shrouding him slowly receded as the rising clouds and smoke, and the bright sunlight was once again visible above his head.

And with the dissolution of the phantom array, Tian Jihong saw the true appearance of the area he was in. In the area he had set foot, in addition to the white bones scattered everywhere, the waterhole he passed along the road also stood quietly behind him, and the position he stood on was a narrow island at the end of the waterhole. Due to the influence of the surrounding waters, it is rare that I am not surrounded by towering trees, but instead a green meadow full of life around the pond.

Because there was no tree branches around him, Tian Jihong found that when he looked up in the direction of the sun, he found that it was already past early morning, and at this time the morning sun had risen some distance from the ridge in the east.

He didn't know if this was good news for him, if outsiders learned that it only took one night for him to solve the illusion that had trapped countless spirit beasts and monks for hundreds of years, he would be shocked. Of course, it is also beneficial to him that the night in the jungle has always been a period when spirit animals are more active, and he has survived a dark night in the illusion by mistake, but it has made him inadvertently avoid many dangers in the darkness. It's still somewhat safer to go back to the daytime now.

It's just that Tian Jihong himself can't be happy, not to mention whether his younger brother at home and Master Li Ming will worry about his late return all night, and now he doesn't know how far the direction of the footprints he followed along the same road has deviated. Before, he had planned to catch up with the three people in front of him to see if he could leave the basin with their help, but now after a night's delay, Tian Jihong was not sure how far the distance between the two sides had been widened.

Now all Tian Jihong expected was that a few people in front of him chose to stop at night like him, so that he might still have the possibility of catching up with them. However, after looking around at the bones around him, Tian Jihong decided to stay a few more minutes and search this place in detail. These beings who have been trapped here are all tens or hundreds of times stronger than themselves, and there may not be anything left after the corpse of the spirit beast decomposes, but if it is a monk, it is not clear that there will be any rare treasures left on its body during his lifetime.

Of course, Tian Jihong first bent down to pick up the wooden plaque that had fallen under his feet, and he knew that even if he couldn't find anything else of value here, at least the token engraved with a powerful illusion circle in front of him would be enough to make up for his loss. After losing the power supply of the outer shield, the spiritual power fluctuations around this moldy token had long since disappeared, and now it looked as ordinary as a piece of rotten wood.

After repeatedly identifying its appearance, Tianjihong still couldn't see anything special about it. This shows that its previous owner must have had the means to turn decay into magic, carving a miniature of the magic circle that operated at the top of the previous stone pillar into the inner area of the token in a way that outsiders could not detect. If he hadn't seen its miraculous effects with his own eyes, Tian Jihong would probably have regarded it as a useless piece of firewood just like outsiders when he saw this wooden sign for the first time.

However, what Tianjihong is more interested in is actually the effect of this token on the blessing of the magic circle, which can extend the effect of the magic circle less than one zhang wide just above the head to cover the entire waterhole area, and maintain the operation of the magic circle for dozens or hundreds of years; In addition to the spiritual support of the shield, there must be some other magical place in the wooden card in this hand, but with his own knowledge, he can't see the mystery at all.

After that, he also tried to use his spiritual power to activate the wooden card, but the spiritual power released was like a stone sinking into the sea, and it did not have any effect. It seems that if you want to show the power of this wooden card, it is definitely not possible to rely on spiritual power alone, and obviously you also need to have a profound Taoist arrangement in the formation, and only when you find a master who is proficient in the formation can you solve the mystery of this wooden card after asking about it.

Next, Tian Jihong carefully put a small piece of fragment that fell to the ground again into the package, and his ability to be saved today depends on the efficacy of this fragment, and if it is used properly in the future, he may be able to save himself many times.

After doing all this, Tian Jihong did not explore the shield that had been restored to its original appearance between the stone pillars in front of him. At this time, there was no wooden card as a medium in the original position of the shield, so the spiritual power stored in it no longer needed to be supplied to the magic circle, and now it was all blessed in the stone pillar in front of it. Tian Jihong still can't imagine what kind of strength he must reach to be able to arrange a shield in this barren mountain and maintain it for hundreds of years without dissipating.

After turning his gaze to the corpses beside him, Tian Jihong finally buried his head in a field of bones and searched, he had a deep impression of several human bones when he explored the road before, but at that time, his life was in danger, and he didn't have time to worry about the treasure hunt. Now that the dust has settled, Tian Jihong can't wait to start searching around for useful things.

Although the pond, which was only two or three miles long, was filled with rows of white bones, none of the corpses were left recently, and there were no traces of flesh and blood on the bones, and the smell of decay could not be smelled in the air. Since this area has been covered by illusions for a long time before, no spirit beast will definitely notice the movement here in a short period of time, so that Tianjihong can rest assured and boldly search for various relics around.

After turning over the corpses of four or five monks in succession, Tian Jihong's harvest was not too small. Although most of the poor-quality blades were corroded into rusty iron, Tian Jihong still found a special material armor and two copper-green plum blossom darts in between. This armor made of bright silver is one of the better of the few relics, and in appearance it is made of silver wires that is finer than ordinary chain mail, and looks more like a vest that shines with silver light. At the same time, the bright silver material makes the armor itself not only resist the erosion of time, but also much lighter than ordinary chain mail.