Martial Arts: Start by Obtaining the Wild World

Chapter 282 0281: Temple Statue

"My Lord, it's done."

Half an hour passed in a flash as Cheng Zongyang and Luo Dingran chatted about various things.

Cheng Zongyang was interrupted by Taoist Luo, so he turned his head and saw Taoist Luo holding a book in his hand, drawing something with excitement in his eyes.

Before he could speak, Taoist Luo said, "Sir, I will not stay any longer. I will go back and write this down so that I can understand it better."

Cheng Zongyang smiled and said, "Okay, you go back first."

So, Luo Dao went to the shed and teleported back to the market hut.

Next, Cheng Zongyang asked the soul slaves to leave, and then said to Luo Dingran: "After I break the formation, if anything happens to me, send me back to the market hut as soon as possible."

Ever since what happened to Huangfu Ren, he has become alert to such things.

He didn't believe that this temple, which could make the villagers worship it like this and was protected by a third-grade formation, could be just an ordinary temple.

Therefore, he had to make arrangements. As long as he returned to the cabin, he would have absolute initiative.

"Okay!" Luo Ding then took a few steps back and prepared himself.

Cheng Zongyang looked at the golden talisman in his hand, exhaled slowly, and then suddenly stuck it on the light curtain of the formation.

The moment the talisman was attached to the formation, Cheng Zongyang immediately stepped back to ensure his own safety.

On the other hand, the next moment after the third-grade array-breaking talisman was affixed to the formation, a strange colorful light flowed through the talisman, and finally turned into an ochre-colored light that began to spread rapidly toward the entire formation, covering it.

As the light grew brighter, although Cheng Zongyang did not understand the principle behind it, he was greatly shocked.

Gradually, even though he was not a cultivator, he could feel the energy in the formation becoming more and more surging.

"The principle of breaking the formation is to allow the energy of the formation to continue to accumulate until it is full and explodes?" Cheng Zongyang seemed to understand some principles.

This is how the situation felt to him.

And the result was just as he had guessed. The array-breaking talisman seemed to be speeding up the array's absorption of the earth's power. Slowly, the array absorbed more and more earth's power, breaking the balance that had kept the array running for hundreds of years.

Finally, under the gazes of Cheng Zongyang and others, the formation exploded, and a terrifying shock wave swept away.

"what!!"

"What the hell!"

"what!"

"..."

The weak soul slaves were instantly swept away by the powerful shockwaves of the formation. Even the surrounding trees were shaking violently, with branches and leaves breaking and falling like raindrops.

The thick tree trunks were deformed by the powerful force, and the bark cracked, making a frightening "crackling" sound. The birds and beasts in the mountains fled in panic, and their screams echoed in the valley, adding a bit of panic to the atmosphere.

At the same time, the dust on the ground instantly rose up, forming a yellow fog that covered the sky and the sun, making the entire area seem to be plunged into chaos.

Cheng Zongyang and Luo Dingran quickly used their true Qi to stabilize themselves.

"Hmm? This breath... Such a rich spiritual energy!"

Dust filled the sky, and the surrounding visible environment was less than two meters. But Cheng Zongyang felt the spiritual energy! He immediately circulated the true energy in his body, and after a moment, it condensed in the palm of his hand and slapped it towards the center of the void.

Suddenly, with a "pop" sound, true energy burst out of his body, dispersing most of the dust around him.

After more than ten palm strikes, the dust surrounding the temple also dissipated by 80% to 90%. However, the surrounding area of ​​the mountain forest was still covered with dust and yellow fog.

But this is enough for Cheng Zongyang.

He just felt a strong spiritual energy, as if he was smelling the scent emanating from a bottle of spiritual liquid.

The spiritual energy is also much richer than that of the wilderness world.

"It seems that the protection of this formation has also confined the spiritual energy inside. But there is no grass growing inside. Is it because it is buried deep underground?" Cheng Zongyang's mind was full of thoughts.

"I'll go in and take a look."

Cheng Zongyang and Luo Dingran looked at each other, and the latter nodded slightly. But the next moment, he took out a talisman and gave it to Cheng Zongyang, saying, "This is a return to the city talisman. When I went back to find Taoist Luo just now, I brought one with me just in case."

"That's thoughtful." Cheng Zongyang laughed, put the talisman into his arms, turned around and walked forward. At the same time, the protective energy came out to protect himself.

I had used the Return to City Talisman once before, and there were two left. As long as I stood still for three seconds, I could return to the hut. This Return to City Talisman saved me a lot of trouble.

Luo Dingran followed behind. If there was any accident, he could block some of it and give Cheng Zongyang time to wait for the return to the city talisman.

Luo Dingran did not let the other soul slaves get close, and the two of them gradually came to the location of the temple.

"Three Lords Temple?"

Cheng Zongyang looked at the font and recognized it. During his time in the Ice and Fire Immortal Cultivation World, he also learned one thing. Although the language is not much different, the fonts are two different.

Most of the immortal cultivators still use ancient characters from ancient times, which are the characters that Cheng Zongyang saw on the stone slab.

He also had guesses that the system used by mortals was the same as that used by the martial arts world. He estimated that the cultivation system used by the Ice and Fire Immortal Cultivation World all came from ancient times, so these had not been changed.

However, many exercises will be re-transcribed into popular language, which will greatly facilitate the practice of future generations.

Now the Sanjun Temple is written in ancient characters.

The furnishings inside are also quite simple, with three standing clay statues placed in the middle like the Three Pure Ones. There are only some scattered tables and benches on the left and right of the temple, which should be the tables and benches used to place offerings during the sacrificial period, and later collapsed due to the earthquake.

He focused his attention on three clay statues.

The clay statue is colorful, and both the face and clothes are still lifelike and lively, perhaps because of the protection of the formation.

At this time, he realized that the three clay statues all had three eyes, with an eye in the middle. But looking at the unique red crystal eye between the eyebrows, Cheng Zongyang narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Old Luo, look at the eyes between their eyebrows. Do they look familiar?" Cheng Zongyang gestured to Luo Dingran.

Upon hearing this, Luo Dingran looked towards the statue.

The more he looked at it, the more familiar it seemed to him, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

At this moment, the blade in the hand of a soul slave outside accidentally refracted a ray of sunlight into the temple, which happened to fall on the center of the eyebrows of the statue on the right, but the sunlight was also fleeting, reflected in by an unintentional swing.

But at this moment, Luo Dingran saw the flash of red light reflected from that eye, and something immediately came to his mind.

He said to Cheng Zongyang in a deep voice: "Sir, do you think it looks a bit like a soul crystal?"

Cheng Zongyang still stared at the third eye of the statue. After hearing Luo Dingran's guess, he felt that it was more and more similar.

He looked at the three statues, stroking his chin, and after thinking for a moment, he took a few steps back and said to Luo Dingran, "Have someone move it back to the market hut."

Luo Dingran was stunned for a moment, then he understood what he meant, and smiled knowingly, "Your Excellency is wise."

Cheng Zongyang laughed: "You know how to talk."

Next, Luo Dingran followed Cheng Zongyang's instructions and asked his men to try to move the three statues out of the temple. When the statues were moved out without any problems, Cheng Zongyang and Luo Dingran were relieved. There was no doubt that the formation was meant to protect these three statues.

Although the cause and effect are unclear, it is necessary to study it. After all, since the development of the wilderness world, this is a very valuable clue.

There were no other objects in the temple, but Cheng Zongyang did not leave. Instead, he asked Luo Dingran to send the statue back first and then take it back for the spirit-testing instrument.

The Spirit Detector is a first-level magical instrument that is quite common in the Ice and Fire Immortal Cultivation World. It is a magical instrument used to survey the concentration of spiritual energy around. It can be said that almost every cultivator in the Ice and Fire Immortal Cultivation World has one.

When they go out, they can use the spirit measuring instrument to test the concentration of spiritual energy in the surrounding environment and discover something special.

It is said that this spirit-detecting instrument has a mother copy, and the spirit-detecting instrument was manufactured by imitating the mother copy. And that mother copy is said to be able to detect the location of the spirit vein.

From some books and legends, Cheng Zongyang learned that the powerful people who came to this world of ice and fire cultivation in the past detected the escape of spiritual energy underground through the mother spirit measuring instrument, and thus developed a world here, or it could be said that this world already existed, but was discovered by those powerful people.

But whether it was discovered or actively developed, he no longer needed to think too much about it.

All he expects is the present and the future.

When Luo Dingran escorted the three statues to the market hut, he walked over with a magic weapon.

This is a compass-like object with a kind of symbol array carved inside. The user must first hold the spirit detector in his hand or place it near the area to be detected.

Then it will automatically sense the spiritual power in the surrounding environment and automatically absorb the surrounding spiritual power, distinguishing the concentration of the spiritual power through the progress displayed by the runes.

The clearer and denser the runes on the spirit measuring instrument, the stronger the spiritual energy around it.

Cheng Zongyang came to the edge of the original formation with the spirit-detecting instrument in his hand. When he walked around the original formation area with the spirit-detecting instrument in his hand, the brightness of the talisman array in the spirit-detecting instrument in his hand began to change.

The spirit measuring instrument was extremely sensitive to the spiritual energy. As he moved, the spiritual energy sensed from the periphery was relatively thin, only slightly higher than that in the wilderness world.

But as he circled the inner area and got closer to the temple, he saw the runes begin to flicker slightly, and the light gradually grew stronger.

As time went by and he got closer to the temple, the lines of the runes became clearer and the density of their interweaving increased.

"It seems that the spiritual power of this temple is more abundant than I thought." Cheng Zongyang was surprised.

Luo Dingran walked forward and observed the changes in the spirit measuring instrument. He said, "Such a strong spiritual power. Perhaps this is why they built the temple here?"

Cheng Zongyang nodded slightly, agreeing with this statement. He also held the same view.

He continued to walk slowly along the wall of the temple, and the brightness and density of the runes on the spirit measuring instrument also changed slightly.

When they reached the center of the temple, where the three statues were originally located, the light of the runes suddenly became extremely dazzling, and the dense lines of the rune array almost connected into one!
"Right here?" Cheng Zongyang frowned and observed the place, trying to find some clues.

"Bring the mole here." Cheng Zongyang said to Luo Dingran.

Everything can't be without reason, there must be a source. Since this place is the most concentrated, it means there is some secret underground.

He used a spirit-detecting instrument to move all irrelevant items away.

Finally, it was determined that the source of spiritual power was underground.

Soon, Luo Dingran found the mole beast. At Cheng Zongyang's instruction, he divided a rough range according to the location sensed by the spirit measuring instrument.

At the same time, he asked Luo Dingran to find the soul slave, pointed to the edge of the area under his feet, and said: "Meimie, dig from here. Then go around."

"Chirp!" The beautiful mole nodded, then raised his hands, revealing claws as sharp as knives.

Next, Cheng Zongyang asked the soul slave to clean up all the dirt cleared out by the mole beast.

As everyone took action, Cheng Zongyang and Luo Dingran watched from the side, but Cheng Zongyang continued to detect changes in spiritual energy with the spirit measuring instrument from time to time.

He was worried that the digging would change something, causing his spiritual power to change as well.

But fortunately, everything is stable.

Time passed minute by minute, and the soul slaves kept picking out the soil with tools. At the same time, Luo Dingran also instructed the soul slaves to check whether there was anything different from the soil in the soil.

In this regard, Cheng Zongyang will continue to test the soil he has picked out in baskets.

Every half an hour, Cheng Zongyang would go underground to check. But he also found that the concentration of spiritual power would continue to increase after going deeper underground.

Two hours passed in a flash.

"stop!!"

When Cheng Zongyang entered the underground for the fourth time to check and found that the concentration of spiritual energy was decreasing instead of increasing, he knew where he was.

"Lao Luo, how deep is it?" Cheng Zongyang shouted upwards.

"Four hundred and eighty-five meters!" Luo Dingran responded.

Cheng Zongyang nodded slightly when he heard this. This depth was already quite deep. He immediately went up and started to let the mole beast clean down from the position where the center was dug into a soil pillar.

The area of ​​this earth pillar is about 30 square meters, which is not much. The excavated soil is used to fill the surrounding area.

As the area was cleared meter by meter, Cheng Zongyang and Luo Dingran, who were standing in the middle and moving behind the mole, gradually became nervous.

Half an hour had passed and the progress was already halfway, but Cheng Zongyang knew that this was not the point with the highest level of spiritual power.

Another cup of tea passed, and at this time, without Cheng Zongyang's reminder, the mole seemed to sense something and dug frantically towards a certain position with great excitement.

After a dozen or so breaths, the mole suddenly dug out a thumb-sized, crystal-clear, round, earth-yellow bead. It looked at the bead with a gleam in its eyes, as if it wanted to swallow it.

"Give it to me!" Cheng Zongyang immediately shouted to Mei Mole. He could sense Mei Mole's urgent desire for the bead.

Upon hearing this, Mei Mole immediately began to struggle.

But Cheng Zongyang was its master, and ultimately the command engraved in its soul suppressed its desire, and it reluctantly handed the beads in its hand to Cheng Zongyang.

Cheng Zongyang handed it a bottle of ten red blood pills and said with a smile: "This is useful to me, you can't eat it. This is a reward for you."

As he said this, he took the beads and handed over the pill bottle.

The moment he held it, Cheng Zongyang immediately felt the heaviness of holding a kilogram of gold and a cool feeling penetrating into his heart.

Like beads taken out of a refrigerator.

He couldn't wait to throw an appraisal over.

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【Earth Spirit Pearl】

Introduction: The Earth Spirit Pearl is an earth-based spiritual pearl made by using the power of the heaven and earth environment through a sophisticated formation. It is not a treasure that is born naturally. It contains extremely abundant earth-based spiritual power. It takes a hundred years to reach the first grade and a thousand years to form. Once the Earth Spirit Pearl is completely condensed, it can continuously release earth-based spiritual power and can also automatically absorb spiritual power to restore itself. It can not only be used by immortal cultivators or monsters for cultivation, but also can be used in the refining and forging of formations and magic weapons. In addition, it can be used in conjunction with the other four spiritual pearls to construct an artificial spiritual vein through the five-element transformation formation.

Grade: Fifth Grade (unformed)
Restrictions: Limited to the refining and forging of formation magic weapons below the fifth grade.

Points: 15 million

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