Before everyone could react, Ma Lao recognized at a glance that the person in front of him was what he called Wu Daochang, and shouted, "Uncle Wu, when did you arrive?"

"How many times have I told you, just call me Wu Laodao. I'm an outsider, and I don't talk to you about those generations. Look at what you just said to your students. It doesn't matter if you're old-fashioned, you still have to teach your students to be old-fashioned, which is really unreasonable. The old man didn't answer Ma Lao, but a group of people from the Cultural Relics Bureau could hear from these words that this old man was the Wu Dao Chang that Ma Lao was waiting for.

Ma Lao said that Wu Daochang was at least 110 years old, but he only looked like he was in his 50s, which sounded indifferent, and he did not have an intuitive understanding, but he could see the real person, and some people muttered in their hearts: Is this a person who is more than 100 years old? Seeing that this old man's hair is only gray, his speech is clear, his hands and feet are sharp, and he is not next to the centenarian who follows the trend and candles, is it because Ma Lao is too old, his mind is beginning to be confused, and he can't recognize people?

Just now, Brother Liu was squeezed by the old way and stood unsteadily, and was about to push the old man away. As soon as he heard that this was Daochang Wu, who Ma Lao was waiting for, he was so frightened that he quickly retracted his hand. Thinking of what Ma Lao said just now, he finally didn't hold back and asked, "Daochang Wu, I heard Ma Lao say that you are more than a hundred years old, why don't I look like you?"

"Did you ask that?" Director Li reprimanded Brother Liu, but the expression on his face was slightly expectant, and he seemed to want to know the answer.

Wu Laodao smiled and said, "Little friend, seeing that you are so curious, I will give you a hint." In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded the northern capital, and my father failed to participate in the Boxer Rebellion and was injured, and took me to Wangwu Mountain, when I was six years old. How old do you count now?"

"Ahh Brother Liu was speechless, and the people next to him were also full of disbelief.

Ma Lao had known Wu Lao Dao before, so he was not as surprised as others. Looking at the sky, it was almost half past eleven, and the temperature outside was at least thirty-eight degrees or more, and these people only cared about emotion, forgetting that they were still standing on the side of the road, and couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook their heads, and said to everyone: "I say, you don't think it's hot?

Everyone woke up like a dream, and surrounded Wu Laodao and Ma Lao into the courtyard of the Cultural Relics Bureau. Director Li first sent the employees away, and then led Wu Laodao and Ma Lao to his small reception room, and said while serving tea to Wu Laodao and Ma Laodao himself: "Wu Daochang, teacher, I have sent a secretary to pick up the things, but I don't understand a little, isn't it just a copper pot from the Song Dynasty?

Wu Laodao waved his hand: "Don't care if it's worth it or not, let's talk about how that thing was obtained first." ”

"Oh, the copper pot was handed over by a county under the jurisdiction of Guanchuan City a month ago. According to them, one night some time ago, the local villagers found that a tomb of a prince of the Song Dynasty outside the village was dug up by a group of tomb robbers, so they mobilized the whole village to drive away the tomb robbers, and in the process of chasing, such a copper pot was dropped. The entrance to the tomb has been resealed by the local cultural relics bureau, and the copper pot does not know what to do with it, and finally sent it to our bureau. After our identification, this copper pot is round, about 12 centimeters high, about 9 centimeters in diameter, the upper and lower parts are slightly smaller, like a small jar, look at the material should be in the Northern Song Dynasty, there is a lid on the top, it can't be opened with ordinary methods, and it can't be seen what is inside by the perspective method, and the lid is engraved with ornamentation, but we have checked the information of the Song Dynasty and before the Song Dynasty, and have not found the same shape and ornamentation. This copper pot is not an important cultural relic, we did not study too much, has been in the warehouse, and then remembered that the teacher is more interested in the cultural relics of the Song Dynasty, so I asked people to take some photos and send them to you, to see if there is any research value. ”

Ma Lao nodded and said, "I see." I've seen all the photos you sent, and I don't know what's in the copper pot yet, so let's not talk about it yet. As for the copper pot itself, it doesn't have much cultural value, mainly because the decoration on the lid of the copper pot is a little strange. I only analyzed the patterns that seemed to be Taoist, and I didn't know what they meant, so I sent those patterns to Daoist Wu and asked him to help with the details. As a result, after reading it, Wu Daochang thought that the pattern was very important, and he had to pull me to see the real thing, so I rushed over from the northern capital. ”

"Yes, yes, the main purpose of the two of us coming here today is to look at the copper pot, study the pattern on the copper pot, and most importantly, find out what is in the copper pot. Speaking of the copper can, Wu Laodao suddenly became excited, stretched his neck to look at the sidelines, and muttered in a low voice: "What's the matter with your secretary's room? ”

"Don't worry, Daoist Wu, the place where the copper pot is put is a little far away. Director Li advised, "Let's wait a little longer." Daochang Wu, you can first tell me what the pattern on this copper pot is, and you still need to come in person. ”

"This ......" Wu Daochang hesitated a little, the meaning of the pattern is very important. But looking at Ma Lao and Director Li, who looked expectant, Daochang Wu was embarrassed to hide it. If he didn't even want to let them know the truth of the matter, what qualifications would he have to be the elder of others? What kind of face do he have to sit here and drink tea that people respect? But these things are too mysterious for ordinary people to know, and besides, even if he says it, the other party may not necessarily believe it.

After thinking about it for a while, Daochang Wu decided to tell them, thought of the wording, and asked, "I wonder if you have heard of the word Xiuzhen?"

"Cultivating the truth?" Ma Lao frowned and said: "Cultivating the truth comes from Taoist theory, learning Taoism in Taoism, learning the true self, and removing the false and preserving the true for the cultivation of the truth." ”

"I heard my son say that there are many Xiuzhen novels on the Internet, and Xiuzhen seems to mean cultivating to become an immortal. Daochang Wu, why are you asking about this?" Director Li was a little puzzled.

"You're right. What I'm saying is that this cultivation is real. A long time ago, cultivation was still relatively common, and cultivators were not as mysterious as they are now, but later because of the increasingly thin aura on the earth, coupled with the lack of natural treasures, and the lack of cultivation exercises, cultivation gradually declined, withdrew from the field of vision of ordinary people, and is now almost extinct. I think that at the beginning, our Wangwu Cave Heaven used to be the first of the ten major cave heavens, thirty-six small cave heavens, and seventy-two blessed lands in Taoism, and now I am the only one left on the mountain, and I am just the first way to get a glimpse of the truth. It is said that if you can cultivate to the depths, you can fly to the sky and escape to the earth, move mountains and reclaim the sea, and you can do anything. Speaking of this, Wu Laodao couldn't help but sigh.

Flying away from the sky, moving mountains and reclaiming the sea? This is also outrageous, isn't it? Listening to what Ma Lao said outside the gate just now is like writing a martial arts novel, and now he has changed it to a fantasy novel when he enters the door? What is this? What is this? What a subversion of his perception of the world! But Wu Laodao, an old man of more than 100 years old, is sitting in front of him like this, and it doesn't make sense if he doesn't explain it like this. Alas, forget it, believe it or not, I will listen to what they say, Director Li will be skeptical.

Wu Laodao continued: "The pattern on the copper pot, I consulted countless Taoist classics, and after many tests, I finally confirmed that it should be a long-lost small spirit gathering array. The Spirit Gathering Array is generally used to assist in cultivation, which can speed up the speed at which cultivators gather spiritual energy, and in the current situation where the spiritual energy of the earth is thin, the Gathering Spirit Array is the treasure of each sect. As far as I know, at present, there are only a few larger sects in the cultivation realm that retain the incomplete spirit gathering formations, and they are all extremely complicated, the amount of jade consumed is huge, and the spirit gathering effect is not very good, none of them can exceed twice as much. After I enlarged the pattern engraved on the copper pot, I found that there were many small pits in addition to the lines, so I arranged this spirit gathering array on the ground according to the scale, and put jade in the position of the small pit shown in the pattern, and the result was a miracle, the surrounding spiritual energy continued to gather, and the effect of cultivating in this spirit gathering array was almost twice the speed of my previous cultivation. In other words, this newly discovered Spirit Gathering Array is not only easy to learn, but also surprisingly effective, more precious than all the currently known Spirit Gathering Arrays. ”

"If that's what you say, then this copper pot is priceless?" asked Director Li.

"It's not just a priceless treasure, this copper pot hasn't been opened yet, and I don't know what it's inside. But judging from the fact that the pattern engraved on the outside of the copper pot is so shocking, the contents are not bad. There are not many people who know about this matter now, and if this news is released, it will definitely cause a sensation in the cultivation realm, and at that time, you will definitely be restless here. Moreover, the people in the cultivation realm are all detached from the world, acting without scruples, and a bloody storm is inevitable in the future. The reason why I didn't want to tell you the truth just now was because I was afraid that it would affect you. ”

After hearing too many incredible things, Ma Lao and Director Li were already numb, and only habitually nodded their heads.

Wu Laodao continued: "I haven't been down the mountain for many years, but after knowing this secret, I can't help the impulse in my heart and want to come over and see the real thing in person. In addition, I also have a little selfishness, in case there is any elixir or heavenly treasure in this copper pot, if I get a little, I can break through my current cultivation bottleneck and enter a higher realm. After speaking, he shook his head again, "It seems that I still can't cultivate at home, my Dao heart is unstable, being able to learn this Spirit Gathering Formation is already a blessing for several generations of cultivation, but now I still want to go further and take possession of the contents of the copper jar." Alas, what about the world's masters, in the face of great interests, it's not that they can't stand the **? ”

After saying that, the three people in the room fell into a brief silence. Ma Lao and Director Li were digesting what Wu Lao Dao had just said, while Wu Lao Dao remembered his own cultivation level.