Chapter 182 Treasure

Chapter 182 Treasure

Chapter 182 Treasure
"The solution is in the eyeball of your left eye. The Tianxin Sect's magic weapon is called Pointing to the Moon, but Pointing to the Moon actually refers to two things. One is this eyeball, and the other is the moon halo in the sky. This story started three thousand years ago."

"When Guiyin Zhenjun refined this magic weapon, it was during the battle between the True Immortal and the Golden Immortal. In her hands, this magic weapon could turn the world upside down, and it was extremely powerful. So she used this treasure to steal the moon from Taiyin Zhenjun and hid it in this eyeball."

"Steal the moon?!" Li Wuxiang was stunned and frowned, "How can you steal the moon?"

"If I knew, wouldn't I have become Guiyin Zhenjun? Anyway, after this thing stole the moon, the stolen moon became the moon halo seen on Yulun Mountain. So, when ordinary people mention the pointing moon light, they think they are referring to the moon halo, but in fact, this moon halo is both on the top of the mountain and in the eyeball, and it actually refers to these two things."

"This eyeball can even hold the moon, so it's no problem to hold other things. So the treasures of the Tianxin Sect were all placed in this eyeball."

"After the war, sects like the Tianxin Sect had neither the protection of spiritual gods nor profound skills. It would be very difficult for them to fight others in the future, so they came up with a solution - raising ghosts."

"Just like what Zhou Ruixin did to you before, put this eyeball in the sacred mountain. Then this eyeball is actually between the sacred mountain and the world of the living, and it becomes an ancient cave. Then select some ghosts, slowly worship and refine them, and they will become the things that fought with you before."

"But of course ghosts can't be kept together with the sect's treasures. It's a taboo. So the first Tianxin Sect Master thought of a way to get some of the contents out of the eyeball - that's what you see now."

"The space of heaven and earth in this magic weapon is quite mysterious. If you want to get it out, it can't be contained by ordinary things. So after thinking again and again, what is the most suitable? A mirror."

"With five mirrors like this reflecting each other, it looks like there is an endless space in the mirror, and naturally it can also contain the heaven and earth in the magic weapon. So the method you need to take this Tianxin illusion is also very simple, just put it back into the eyeball."

"When the Tianxin Sect built this stone chamber, they must have used a lot of methods from the Five Mountains True Form Dao. I am no longer at that level, but it is not difficult to use some tricks. Now what we have to do is actually very simple. Smash the mirror. The space inside can no longer hold the Qiankun Heaven and Earth of Zhiyue Xuanguang, so it will naturally return to your eyes."

"I will send you in now. You can pick out some things that you think are unimportant and smash them up. When the world inside is shattered enough, the Ranshan Illusion will return."

After he said this, he raised his hands and placed them across his chest, and said to Li Wuxiang, "Put your hands here."

Li Wuxiang raised his hand and asked them to put their palms together, looking like they were about to dance. But just as this thought came to his mind and he was about to ask "what next", he suddenly felt his palm slightly empty - as if Lou He's palm that was touching his had disappeared.

Then he saw Lou He take a step back, smile at him, raise his hands and pat in front of him, as if patting the invisible air and making it snap.

Li Wuxiang was stunned for a moment, and immediately pushed forward - there was an invisible and solid space in front of him. Only then did he realize that he had entered the stone mirror!

Lou He pointed behind the stone gate, as if signaling him to hurry up, so Li Wuxiang turned around and looked to the sides and back.

What he saw was a deep, dark void of space, where countless stone mirrors, each one man tall and two men wide, were densely arranged and extended to the end of the darkness, like a row of tall and solemn tombstones.

He immediately walked to the stone mirror closest to him, tried to reach out and touch it, and his fingers immediately went in. Without hesitation, he stepped into the mirror.

The space in the mirror is exactly the same as the stone chamber outside, the only difference is that the three stone walls are rough and have wooden shelves on them, and the shelves are full of things - all shiny gold and silver ingots!

Gold and silver are very useful to a cultivator. But after Li Wuxiang came to this world, although he had suffered many hardships, from the perspective of cultivation, he was also smooth sailing, so he didn't care about these things. He immediately released the flying sword and tried to penetrate the three stone walls - with a bang, the stone room collapsed, he drilled out from it, and saw gold and silver scattered all over the ground.

He immediately went to look at the other stone mirrors, picking out one from every ten rows to check.

The Tianxin Sect was really rich - there were hundreds of stone chambers filled with gold, silver and other valuables. Li Wuxiang stood still in the air, and his flying sword turned into a series of golden lights, crisscrossing and smashing all the stone mirrors in one breath. Suddenly, there was yellow and white gold and silver all under his feet, almost piled up into a small mountain, as if he had become a dragon guarding a treasure.

He continued to search, and what he saw were all kinds of natural treasures that were included or not included in the world's collection. He kept all the hidden things he didn't recognize, and crushed all the things he knew. He destroyed hundreds of stone mirrors in one breath, and finally found that this dark void space had some changes - the surrounding darkness seemed to flicker, as if something that was originally stretched out was now slowly shrinking back.

Lou He's method really works.

Li Wuxiang immediately continued to check——

The next thing he found was the elixir. There were only twelve stone mirrors that contained the elixir, but the value of the things in these twelve stone mirrors was hard to measure with anything else. He didn't know if these were enough to help him achieve the Nascent Soul stage, but at least it should be no problem to pile them up to the peak of the Golden Elixir stage, right?

Then, he finally found what he wanted - the next hundred or so stone mirrors were all filled with classics and scriptures, most of which looked like geographical information, legends, and folk stories about the area surrounding the Tianxin Sect, and looked very much like local chronicles. The rest seemed to be account books, recording the offerings paid by the surrounding villages and towns, disciples who traveled outside, and temples scattered around.

Others are biographies, which should record all the disciples of the Tianxin School throughout the generations.

It was not just a simple record of a name, but the name, appearance, origin, practice, and various things done in life of the disciples were all written in detail. Li Wu was not interested in others, and the ones he was most curious about were Tianxin Patriarch and Jin Zijiu.

The list of disciples was arranged according to seniority, and the first person to be seen should be Guiyin Zhenjun. But as Li Wuxiang expected, there was no record of her. It was probably because she had already become a true immortal, a real immortal, so the disciples were afraid of breaking some taboo.

Then he found the information about Jin Zijiu. Jin Zijiu was the living Grand Master, so some of the records about her life were full of praise. Li Wuxiang could tell at a glance that some of them should not be taken seriously.

It says that Jin Zijiu was born in an ordinary family and had a strange appearance since birth. For example, she laughed instead of crying when she was born, could read without being taught, and knew how to cultivate herself when she was four or five years old. It also says that she left home when she was young, experienced life in the world, and made many friends, but because of her cold and arrogant temperament, she had few friends and many enemies. She was wounded and on the verge of death several times and had to hide in the mountains to avoid her enemies.

Li Wuxiang quickly skipped over these details, wanting to see how he was possessed by Guiyin Zhenjun's true spirit. However, there were surprisingly few records about this matter, and the description was extremely brief, only saying that after she had been hiding in an uninhabited forest for several years, one day she suddenly heard someone talking to her in her consciousness at night - this was Guiyin Zhenjun's true spirit descending on her.

Li Wuxiang frowned as he watched - what's the difference between this and not saying anything? Is this also because it involves some taboos?

The true spirit of Guiyin Zhenjun of Tianxin Sect was suppressed in Jin Zijiu's body. Lou He said that when she suppressed it, her body and Yang Shen were refined together. Who could the person who claimed to be Jin Zijiu in the medicine garden be? That person seemed to know Jin Zijiu's appearance and habits very well, as if he was very familiar with her, so he was so vigilant and careful at the time and didn't think there was anything unusual.

This is where the outrageous part comes in - things like appearance are easy to imitate, but the kind of bearing and composure that even a Jindan swordsman like me, who is extremely experienced in the ways of the world, can't see any flaws in, is definitely not something that anyone can fake.

Therefore, the person pretending to be Jin Zijiu could not be an unknown person, but must be a well-known figure in Tianxin Sect. However, he looked through all the written records of Tianxin Sect disciples related to Jin Zijiu, but still could not find out who it could be.

He took one last look at Jin Zijiu's information, and decided that if he still had no clue, he couldn't waste any more time here. But just as he was about to close the booklet, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a painting.

This painting is on the first page of a thin booklet recording Jin Zijiu's life. There is neither text nor seal on it, just a meticulous line drawing of Jin Zijiu wearing a Taoist robe, holding a mysterious mirror in his hand, and sitting on a desk.

In this painting, Jin Zijiu is surrounded by all kinds of rare treasures and fragrant fruits as offerings, with auspicious clouds curling behind him. It looks very much like the official formal photo tailored by Tianxin Sect for this supreme leader.

But when Li Wuxiang took a glance at it, he suddenly discovered that among the pile of offerings beside Jin Zijiu in the painting, there was a cat squatting.

He immediately realized that something was wrong with the cat.

This kind of white-line painting has been preserved by all the successive leaders of the Tianxin Sect, and it should be accepted as offerings by disciples in the future. If a statue is to be made, it should be made according to this portrait. Therefore, every detail in this kind of painting is very exquisite, and there will never be any idle strokes.

If a cat appears in this painting, then this cat is either extremely important to Jin Zijiu, or the cat itself is not an ordinary creature.

Li Wuxiang immediately thought of the black cat next to Jin Zijiu in the medicine garden. He had long known that the cat was extraordinary and must have some Taoist skills. Was that the black cat the one in the painting? Judging from the only signature at the bottom of this line drawing, the painting was painted about four hundred years ago.

Does that mean that the black cat has lived for four hundred years?

For a cultivator like Jin Zijiu to live for more than 400 years is already a very remarkable thing in this world. He remembered that Jiang Jie was only less than 400 years old. But this cat also lived for 400 years? According to the Shijie Collection, unless spirits and monsters transform into human bodies and practice like humans, they cannot live that long... So what is this thing?

Li Wuxiang recalled that there was a sentence in the biography of Jin Zijiu that mentioned that when she was hiding in the mountains to avoid disaster, she "had made friends with strange beasts."

Li Wuxiang immediately went to look in other stone mirrors, and based on his memory, he found the section about rare and exotic animals in the scriptures that recorded the geography of mountains and rivers.

There are far more rare and exotic animals in the world than the disciples of Tianxin Sect, so he took a quick look with a hopeful thought - no matter who or what the person he met in the medicine garden was, the arrival of the true spirit of Guiyin Zhenjun outside tonight must be related to it.

He really hoped to find clues from these scriptures and books immediately, so as to find a way to solve the current predicament on the mountain. But he really couldn't waste too much time here -

Then his gaze stopped on a name - "Water-avoiding Golden-eyed Beast".

Other rare and exotic animals were recorded in great detail, but this thing only had a name written on it, nothing else. He noticed this name because it was written on the first line of the first page of this booklet, as if this name was extremely respected in this booklet by the Tianxin Sect, so it was recorded at the first place.

Li Wuxiang was not sure what "water avoidance" was, but "golden eyes" immediately reminded him of the black cat's golden eyes.

So, is this the water-avoiding golden-eyed beast?
Li Wuxiang took a deep breath and suddenly had an idea that he himself thought was a bit outrageous.

When he was in the medicine garden, he always thought that the black cat was the spiritual pet that accompanied Jin Zijiu. It should be that the Supreme Sect Master was bored and picked a cute one from the little creatures that stole medicine and raised it carefully.

But from what I just saw, in the Tianxin Sect’s records about Jin Zijiu, she was a person with a cold temperament... Would a person with a cold temperament raise so many monsters in the medicine garden and let them steal food?

The black cat was the first to discover me in the thatched cottage, the first to appear under the medicinal tree, and the first to subdue the dragon that the fish transformed into...

What if... the master is not the humanoid Jin Zijiu, but the black cat? !

(End of this chapter)