Chapter 200: Final Preparations
If Zhou Lao's words fell into the ears of others, he might not like it, but Lin Quan, who was familiar with this old man's temperament, still heard the slightest hint of kindness and final persuasion.
"It seems that Zhou Lao is very optimistic about his trip to the secret realm this time! But if I really wait another ten years to enter the secret realm as he suggested, although the safety must be guaranteed, the delay is too much. Lin Quan immediately heard what Zhou Lao said, but he could only shake his head with a wry smile speechlessly.
"Thank you Zhou Lao for your concern! The kid will definitely try to come out alive!"
After saying these two short sentences, he slowly came to Zhou Lao's case, took out two delicate small jade boxes from his arms with his right hand and put them down gently, and then turned his head and walked straight to the door. He has made up his mind, but he will not easily shake his heart towards the Tao. He couldn't afford to wait for ten years.
"Wait!Lin boy, the old man's words are not finished yet!" Looking at the two jade boxes in front of him that were exactly the same as last time, Zhou Lao did not open them immediately, but instead shouted at Lin Quan without thinking.
"Hmm, I don't know what else Elder Zhou has to say?" Lin Quan stopped in confusion and turned his head to look at Elder Zhou with a puzzled face.
Old Zhou glanced at Lin Quan with a complicated expression, and gently patted the storage bag on his waist with his right hand, only to see a burst of aura flashing, and then a small pile of various items appeared on the table out of thin air.
He pointed to the pile of items that suddenly appeared on the desk, and said to Lin Quan meaningfully: "The old man doesn't want to take advantage of your junior all the time, especially since your old man may never have a chance to return it this time, cough ...... There are just a few gadgets that the old man didn't use for a long time, all of them I used in my early years or collected by accident, and maybe they will be of some use to you, so you don't have to politely pick three random items as tea materials. ”
"This ...... Well, the elder gives, don't dare to resign! The boy is respectful and might as well obey his fate. ”
Hearing Zhou Lao's words, Lin Quan's heart couldn't help but move slightly, and then he turned around and returned to Zhou Lao's case again unceremoniously, carefully examining these gadgets in Zhou Lao's mouth.
Zhou Lao took out a lot of things this time, and half a table was filled with pawnshops. At first glance, it was all the things used by monks. For example, all kinds of jade slips, talismans, spirit grass seeds, demon beast materials, and many strange things that he had seen or had not seen before, if roughly estimated, there were about twenty or thirty pieces. But when Lin Quan carefully swept it with his spiritual sense, he was stunned. Because these items seem to be good immortal cultivation items, but there is not a single magic weapon or healing elixir that can enhance strength, and what makes Lin Quan speechless is that there are several things that do not contain a trace of spiritual power fluctuations.
"Zhou ...... Old Zhou, what are you ...... Is this ......?" Looking at this pile of chaotic immortal cultivation items that were almost all useless, Lin Quan's mouth opened wide. In his heart, he secretly despised Zhou Lao:
Can such a bunch of broken things be called treasures? I'm afraid that even those ordinary condensation period cultivators won't take these things seriously.
"If you are asked to pick, you will pick! Why do you ask so much? The old man has finally made such a big deal once, and he wants to carry your son with kindness. If it was someone else, even if there were more spirit stones, he would never have imagined that he would get the treasures that the old man had treasured for so many years. ”
Old Zhou was not happy, he suddenly stood up and glared at Lin Quan, and then intentionally or unintentionally stretched out his right index finger and repeatedly tapped an old jade slip and a somewhat damaged earthy yellow talisman in this pile of miscellaneous items, and rebuked loudly: "Or ...... You look down on my old man's collection of treasures, don't you want to give me this face?"
"Haha, Old Zhou misunderstood, you know that the kid never meant this. ”
Lin Quan's eyes rolled and he firmly remembered the appearance of these two things, and then he began to pretend to rummage through the pile of miscellaneous items, but no matter how his hands moved, his eyes were firmly locked on the jade slip and the talisman seal that Zhou Lao had repeatedly clicked just now.
"Hmph! I don't dare you, kid. Okay, without further ado, you pick it quickly. There are only three chances in total, and one more is not enough!" Zhou Lao stroked his long beard and shook his head in relief, and scolded with a smile on his eyes.
"Old Zhou, I've picked it out. ”
It took a long time for Lin Quan to finish the selection. At this time, he had a total of three items in his hand: two of them were the old jade slip and the slightly damaged earthy yellow talisman seal, and the last one was a worn-out jade piece that had no spiritual power fluctuations at all, and this jade piece was indiscriminately engraved with some stripes and dozens of patterns like words, and I don't know what it fell from.
"Hey, are you sure you've already chosen?" Zhou Lao was also a little surprised why Lin Quan would pick a completely useless ancient jade piece.
"Yes!" ”
Lin Quan didn't explain much, in fact, he didn't have any special purpose for taking a fancy to this jade piece. It is purely to see that this jade piece has some vicissitudes of antiquity, and the other thing is that he happens to know that the dozens of things engraved on the jade piece like patterns are a kind of rare ancient characters. And these handwritings also mention "green dragon" and "red bird".
"Okay, since you're done picking, let's get out of here, and don't disturb the old man's sleep in the future. Zhou Lao didn't say much when he heard this, and as soon as he put away the rest of the belongings, he fell asleep directly on the desk.
He gave a deep salute to Zhou Lao, and Lin Quan turned around and left the Scripture Pavilion without looking back.
Qingfeng Valley, among the residences of Lin Quan.
While casually playing with a simple jade slip and a slightly broken talisman seal, he muttered to himself: "I really didn't expect that I just sincerely wanted to send some good spiritual tea to thank Zhou Lao for his guidance." How do you know that in a blink of an eye, you owe a big favor. Alas, owing favors is really nerve-wracking. ”
Yes, the two things that Lin Quan was holding in his hands at this time that looked like tatters were obtained from Old Zhou when he went to the Scripture Pavilion yesterday. After careful inspection, he knew the preciousness of these two things, and it could be said that with these two things, Lin Quan's chances of successfully obtaining the treasure and getting out of the secret realm alive increased by at least two percent out of thin air.
In addition, he also took the time to study the broken ancient jade tablet, and carefully read all the ancient characters. Coincidentally, the reason why he was able to recognize these obscure ancient characters was mainly thanks to his enlightenment mentor Song Fuzi in Jinjia Village, if he hadn't deliberately facilitated himself to serve as a little master for many months, he would not have had the opportunity to learn this kind of script.
It's a pity that there are not many words on this jade tablet, in addition to the green dragon and vermilion bird that he recognized before, he also saw Xuanwu, white tiger, thunder power, wind power, fire power and so on, he didn't understand what it meant after looking at it for a long time. However, from these words, it can be guessed that this jade piece should be related to the four phases, because whether it is the green dragon, the vermilion bird, or any thunder power, the power of fire should be related to the components of the four phases. Lin Quan didn't care about this, originally he didn't plan to get any benefit from this jade piece.
After thinking for a while, I saw Lin Quan's hands, and after a flash of spiritual light, this piece of broken jade disappeared. Then he sat cross-legged, took out a small wisp of spiritual power and gently touched the Tai Chi light ball in the Mud Pill Palace, and a consciousness body composed entirely of spiritual power descended into the Tai Chi space.
When he cultivated to the twelfth floor, the size of the entire space also reached the corresponding 120 zhang square circle, and the height was 60 zhang, except for the 'Yin Yang Tower' in the middle still unchanged.
In such a vast space, the various areas were also rearranged by him many times, and each area was carefully separated by a multicolored light curtain. He remembered very well the experience of the spiritual valley and spiritual grass planted in the past being eaten by the wild animals in the Tai Chi space. In order not to repeat the mistakes of the past and cause a catastrophe, he had to be careful. Because there are still a lot of new faces in the Tai Chi space now.
For example, every day is the eight armadillo lizards who are hungry and full of lust for flesh and blood. These big reptiles that can have second-order strength after maturity grow very quickly in the Tai Chi space with abundant spiritual energy, especially Lin Quan, who will give them plenty of blood food every few days, and now they have reached the strength of the first-order intermediate level, and the hard bone armor covering the whole body is difficult to break through even high-level magic weapons. If they are allowed to roam freely, they are afraid that all the game and the fish and shrimp in the pond will be swallowed by them.
The mole beast seems to be honest and obedient, and every day it will stay in a nest made of all the dolomites and eat and sleep. However, as his master, Lin Quan was deeply aware of the difficulty of this little thing. If there is no colorful prohibition to block, it will definitely be the first to run to the fish pond to catch fish to eat. When it comes to this stubble, Lin Quan is also quite crying and laughing, only blaming himself for being too kind, and inadvertently rewarded half of the uneaten grilled fish, and since then the little guy's recipe has added the big dish of grilled fish.
"Squeak, squeak......"
A quick and cheerful cry sounded, and the little one spotted his master for the first time.
Lin Quan smiled slightly and lifted the ban that blocked it, so the little guy jumped onto the master's shoulder with a "whoosh", and rubbed it with his fluffy little head affectionately, and his big tail kept wagging his head. However, its small eyes were staring at the fish pond not far away without blinking, and the slightest saliva flowed out unconsciously.
"Okay, okay, you little guy is really a greedy little kitten! Well, I'll call you a kitten in the future, I actually like my favorite jade fish." Lin Quan laughed and scolded angrily, and waved his hand very dotingly to beckon a fresh fat fish and handed it over.
"Squeak!" After the purpose was achieved, the little guy smiled and ran to his nest with a pair of front paws around the jade fish, as if it had no objection to the name kitten.