Holy Bone

Chapter 1565: Deep Blessings, Immortal Treasure House

In the past, this stone Taoist temple was perhaps indeed perfect, and it was the closest to Shinto among these stone Taoist temples.

Today, the Ten Palaces are in ruins, with only collapsed ruins remaining.

Jin An hoped to find some useful magic weapons in this Taoist temple, such as a stone whisk, which could help him escape from the tiankeng and return to the ground to reunite with Uncle Lin and the others as soon as possible.

It's just that this place was destroyed too thoroughly.

Because this place is closest to Shinto, it was destroyed most thoroughly.

In the ruins, apart from rubble, there was only yellow sand leaking down from above.

  Jin'an thought of the several mummies he had buried in the eye holes of the statues, and his eyes darkened. Is there really no way to leave here? Can he be trapped here forever like his predecessors?

He was unwilling to give up, so he came to the edge of the Ten Palaces Taoist Temple and looked down into the deeper abyss below. The huge palm of the statue, which was sealed in front of its abdomen, was like a dividing line. The cliff below the palm was dark and cold, and no sunlight could reach it.

Because there is no sunlight forever, cool and turbid air blows out from the bottom of the abyss from time to time, and the atmosphere is gloomy.

Jin An frowned slightly.

At this time, the air around became stuffy and the temperature was rising. The scorching sun energy evaporated every drop of moisture in the air, making the skin dry and uncomfortable. Jinan noticed that the sunlight beam shining on the palm of the statue became several circles larger, and the entire palm of the god was covered by the sunlight, including the sand dunes piled up like a hill on the palm.

  Ok?

Jinan looked up at the entrance of the tiankeng above his head and found that the world outside the cave was brighter and more dazzling than before.

"According to the time, it should be dawn in the world of the living." Jin An murmured.

When the sun rises in the world of the living, a miraculous celestial phenomenon of two suns shining together will appear in this blessed land.

Because two suns fell on the same day, the temperature rose suddenly. Occasionally, hot wind blew in from outside the tiankeng, suppressing the cool and turbid wind blowing up from the bottom of the abyss. Evil cannot prevail over good.

Standing on the edge of the cliff, Jin An repeatedly looked at the cave entrance above his head and the abyss below his feet, with a thoughtful look in his eyes.

During this period, Zaoxu Zhenren never woke up to look for him.

He was not worried that Zaoxu Zhenren would play tricks on him. Zaoxu Zhenren had publicly opposed Pojun Hou and the new national preceptor in front of all the high-ranking officials of Yujing Jinque. Many people had seen it, and there was also the warning from Taoist Mili. If Zaoxu Zhenren did not see the situation clearly at this time and played tricks on him, then Zaoxu Zhenren would not only offend Pojun Hou and the new national preceptor, but also him, Yujing Jinque, and Taoist Mili.

When that time really comes, Zaoxu Zhenren will be the enemy of the whole world.

He believed that Zaoxu Zhenren was a smart man, and smart people would make smart choices.

At this time, another gust of hot wind blew from above my head, and the layer of yellow sand covering the cliff rocks under my feet was blown away. There was actually an inscription here -

  What a pity!

Finally there was a new clue. Jin An frowned with joy and quickly looked for other inscriptions.

He swept away the yellow sand within several hundred steps, but did not find any other inscriptions. His joy turned into a puzzled expression: "Xi?"

"Why Xi?"

“Is it the sadness of falling leaves and the reluctance of life before it withers?”

"Is it Biyuntian and Huangyetian who are regretting that the Dongtianfudi Daochang was destroyed?"

"Is it a farewell?"

"Is it a sigh?"

Unfortunately, there is only one word engraved here. Jin An racked his brains but couldn't guess the true meaning of this word.

But one thing is certain, this inscription should have been left by one of the several mummies in the God's Eye Cave.

Jin An did not immediately return to the God's Eye Cave to look for clues. He planned to take advantage of the daytime when the yang energy was the strongest to explore the bottom of the abyss, first understand his environment, and check for any possible dangers in advance.

When Jin An jumped off the cliff and surpassed the god's hands, the stuffiness in the air disappeared a little, replaced by chilliness, and even the air became turbid.

This feeling is like jumping into the lake from a cliff. The cold water seeps into every pore of the body, stimulating every pore and washing away the summer heat.

His previous conjecture about the dividing line seemed to be fulfilled at this moment.

Thinking of this, Jin An subconsciously looked up at the hand hanging above his head.

Two eyes appeared on the back of his hand, staring at him, cold and devoid of any human emotion!

Jinan's pupils suddenly contracted!

All 36,000 pores on my body popped up!

His body was falling rapidly, and he hurriedly found a stone Taoist temple on the cliff to rest. When he felt the solid ground under his feet, his mind finally calmed down a little.

  Just looking at the two eyes made him shocked. What on earth did those eyes come from?

He has never encountered this kind of horror that he cannot even look at directly since he entered the realm of martial arts immortal!

The most recent time that could be compared to this was when he had not yet entered the third realm. In the second realm, he walked into the Yinhua Corpse Cave and encountered a terrifying scene from the underworld where the big demon almost slapped the origami boat they were riding on from the sky!

Jin An performed the Calming Mind Tribulation several times, and finally he suppressed the ape's mind that was causing trouble in Heaven. Only then did he have time to look at those two cold eyes.

He looked up to see the eyes still staring coldly at him.

However, this time his mind was already calm, and his three souls and seven spirits were condensed and stabilized again, allowing him to focus more, so he could observe more details.

He discovered that the two eyes that had been staring at him were not some evil god Yin Si spying on him, but a pair of eyes painted on the back of the hand of a stone statue of a god.

The reason why he recognized that the eyes were the ones that came with the stone statue of the god, and not painted on later, was because in addition to the eyes painted on the back of the hand, there were other pigments, and the degree of corrosion and fading of the eye pigment was similar to that of the other pigments, so he was sure that the eyes were the ones that came with the stone statue of the god.

The back of the hand faces downward all year round and is not exposed to wind and sun, so it is not difficult to understand why the pigment fades more slowly than other parts of the body.

He quickly discovered the reason why the eyes were staring at him coldly.

The stone statue of the god is so huge that the eyes painted on the back of its hand are also as big as mountains. People can see the eyes clearly no matter which angle they stand.

Plus the illusion of shadows in dark environments.

People are also frightened and panic-stricken, and easily become suspicious.

So when several conditions come together, it creates a visual illusion.

To put it bluntly, when a person's spirit is weak, he or she can easily become absent-minded and scare himself or herself.

Jin An took out the 12-times-sealed Five Thunders Slaying Evil Talisman that he had always kept close to him. If there were any evil thoughts watching, the Five Thunders Slaying Evil Talisman would react. The Five Thunders Slaying Evil Talisman had not reacted, which also indirectly verified that no one was staring at him.

I never thought that as a martial arts immortal, I was full of righteousness, and I had fought my way into the Holy Land of Immortality and the Bulao Mountain, and faced so many thousand-year-old demons and life-and-death crises, without being disturbed. But now, I was frightened by two painted eyes...

Jin An not only did not feel ashamed, but his expression became more solemn. Just the painted eyes could bring such a great shock to people's hearts. It was really hard to imagine how terrifying this stone statue of the god was in its heyday before it experienced the weathering of time. I'm afraid that no evil thoughts can enter within a radius of 100 miles.

pity……

Jinan began to understand the artistic conception of the engraving.

Next, he followed the eyes on the back of his hand and looked down at the deeper abyss below. There couldn't be two eyes painted on the back of the hand of the god statue for no reason. The eyes of the god meant that the way of heaven was inspecting and examining...

"Are you inspecting something in the abyss?"

"Or is it suppressing something?"

Jinan whispered.

With this question in mind, he accelerated his descent, wanting to explore as much of the sinkhole as possible before dark.

There are also many stone Taoist temples stacked up here, and each stone Taoist temple looks dilapidated.

The deeper he went, the more turbid the air became. After going three or four hundred feet deep, Jin An used his true Qi to close all the pores on his body, held his breath, and changed external breathing to internal breathing. The five elements of Taoist Qi circulated in the Five Internal Organs Immortal Temple, giving birth to endless vitality.

We fell another hundred feet or so. Because the temperature was too low, clouds and fog began to form around us, limiting our vision.

Jin'an replaced his physical eyes with his soul's consciousness and scanned the surroundings. This place was far enough away from the statue's eye cavity that if he used his soul here, the True Person of Creation of Animals would not be able to detect him.

Clear air rises and turbid air sinks. The hotter the wind, the more vigorously the fire burns. The turbid air of heaven and earth accumulates in invisible dark places. The yin, bad luck and turbid air in the blessed land are suppressed to the bottom by the extreme yang force. As it moves away from the ground, the temperature in the air drops faster and the clouds become thicker. Even the soul's consciousness is affected and cannot see far away.

Jin An frowned.

He knew that it was not a solution to continue exploring like this. Now he could not see the surrounding environment clearly with his naked eyes and soul. Let alone looking for clues at this time, if there was any danger approaching he would not be able to detect it in the first time.

So he stepped into the air, found the spiral stone path, walked back along the stone path, and looked for clues in the stone Taoist temples along the way.

After descending to this depth, Jinan looked up and saw only thick clouds and darkness. The entrance to the tiankeng was no longer visible at this depth.

Even faint light sources cannot be seen.

The road was empty and dead silent, the air was as cold as the tide, and his body felt as if it had fallen into a deep black ocean with its cold restraints. The surroundings were so quiet that the only sounds were his footsteps and the occasional sound of cold wind.

Any sound, in this dead and ruined world, seems particularly empty and can be heard from far away.

When Jin'an returned to the Ten Palaces Taoist Temple, he had a few more fragments of magic weapons in his hands. He took these fragments and tried to break into the tiankeng cave again.

But without exception they all failed.

After a day of hard work, it was dark again in the world of the living. The phenomenon of two suns in the same sky in the paradise disappeared, and the stuffy and scorching feeling in the air was significantly reduced.

Jin'an went to the God's Eye Cave again to check on the situation of the Creator of Animals. The latter was still refining the fairy jade fragments and showed no signs of awakening.

Then they searched the places where the mummies were killed several times carefully, almost digging three feet deep, but still found nothing.

He frowned and returned to the Ten Palaces Taoist Temple again. The word "Xie" was the only clue he found, and it was the most likely breakthrough point.

Because there was one less sun, the sunlight shining on the palm of the statue was smaller and could not cover the entire palm like before.

When Jin An returned here, he stood in front of the words carved on the ground, frowned and thought, trying to find a new breakthrough here.

The Thousand Heart Tribulations made Jin An multitask, and his thinking speed far surpassed that of his fellow Shinto masters. In this state, he suddenly had an inspiration and observed a detail.

The words carved on the ground were not written randomly, but seemed to correspond to a certain direction.

While trying to figure out the state of mind of the person who carved the inscription, Jinan adjusted his standing posture. When the angle of his standing was consistent with the inscription, he was surprised to find that the inscription was facing the pile of sand dune on the palm of the statue.

The dunes formed by the accumulation of yellow sand are golden and dazzling under the sunlight.

"Could it be that this is not just ordinary yellow sand, but has a much greater origin?"

Under the Thousand Heart Tribulations, Jin An's thoughts were extremely active. Just at this moment, a handful of yellow sand flowed out from the eye sockets of the statue above its head, and fell exactly on the sand dune in the palm of the statue's palm.

Because of the arrival of Jin'an and Zaoxu Zhenren, they walked back and forth in the eye cave of the statue, breaking the stability of the yellow sand, so it is understandable that the yellow sand occasionally slides down.

Jin An noticed this detail, flew out into the air, and began to look up and down at the huge statue of the god. His eyes lit up, and he suddenly had a bold guess.

  Could there be other weathered objects in the yellow sand pile in the palm of the statue? For example, weathered jade fragments in the eye cavity?

Jin An was excited, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was possible.

"It seems that the word 'cherish' doesn't mean a sigh for the withering of life, nor does it mean a regret or a pity, but rather a pity for encountering a treasure mountain but not being able to move it!" Jin An said to himself excitedly.

These golden sands are exposed to the sun all year round and are as hot as a branding iron, so Shinto masters cannot move them away at all.

This huge gap in mentality of entering a treasure mountain but coming back empty-handed is undoubtedly the most torturous. It makes people unable to help but carve a word "cherish" to vent their inner resentment and depression.

Jin'an is a martial arts immortal who can withstand a higher level of fire energy contained in the golden sand.

"Fortunately, the Black Mountain Divine Art I practiced has the ability to swallow gold fossils. There are so many gold sands that I really have to sort out which ones are useful and which ones are useless one by one. It will take me eight or ten years to sort them all out. Now that I have the ability to swallow gold fossils, things are different. Real gold is not afraid of fire, and the more it is refined, the truer it becomes."

Jin'an was overjoyed when he discovered the treasure mountain. He raised his hand and sucked a small ball of golden sand from the outermost part of the sand dune.

These outermost golden sands are not exposed to sunlight when it gets dark in the mortal world, and the temperature drops significantly, which is perfect for him to conduct experiments.

Let’s experiment with this small ball of gold sand first.

Jin'an was like a land immortal. He opened his mouth and sucked, swallowing the small ball of golden sand in his hand into his stomach. Then he urged the Black Mountain internal energy in his body, treating his human body as a blazing furnace to refine the golden sand in his stomach.

When he was in the Kunlun Snow Mountain, he was able to refine fossils, refine gold and stones, and fill his stomach by eating gold and stones.

At that time, he was not even in the third realm.

His current strength is more than a hundred times higher than it was back then. After a few small cycles of Black Mountain's internal energy, he refined the golden sands into the purest essence of heaven and earth, which was then absorbed by himself.

"Such pure energy! There is also a faint scent of fairy jade fragments in this energy. Although it is faint, it is indeed a fairy jade fragment! My guess is correct, this pile of gold sand is the treasure house of the immortals!"

Jinan was very happy.