White Bone Monkey King

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

Now the Ten Palaces are in ruins, with only the ruins left after the collapse.

Jin An hoped to find some useful magic weapons in this Ten Palaces Taoist temple, such as magic weapons like the stone whisk, which could allow him to escape from the tiankeng and return to the ground to meet up with Uncle Lin and the others as soon as possible.

But this place was destroyed too thoroughly.

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

In the ruins, there are only rubble and yellow sand leaking from the top of the head.

Jin An thought of the several mummies he buried in the eye cave of the statue, and his eyes sank. Is there really no way to leave here, and he can only be trapped here forever like his predecessors?

He was unwilling to give up, and came to the edge of the Ten Palaces Taoist temple, looking at the deeper abyss under his feet. The huge palm of the statue, which was sealed in front of his abdomen, was like a dividing line. The cliff below the palm was dark and cold, and the sun could not shine.

Because there is no sunlight in the eternal world, 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 him became sultry and the temperature was rising. The scorching sun evaporated every drop of moisture in the air, and his skin was dry and uncomfortable. Jin An noticed that the sun beam shining on the palm of the statue became larger, and the entire palm of the god was covered by the sun light, including the sand dunes piled up like a hill on the palm.

Hmm?

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

"Calculate 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, the wonder of two suns shining together will appear in the blessed land of the cave.

Because the two suns are in the same sky, the temperature rises suddenly, and hot wind occasionally blows in from outside the tiankeng, suppressing the cool and turbid wind blowing up from the bottom of the abyss, and evil cannot suppress good.

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

During this period, Zaoxu Zhenren had not woken 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 Xin Guoshi in front of all the high-level officials of Yujing Jinque. Many people had seen this, and there was also a warning from Mi Li Taoist. 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 Xin Guoshi, but also offend him, Yujing Jinque, and Mi Li Taoist.

If that time really came, Zaoxu Zhenren would 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 hot wind blew from the top of his head, and a layer of yellow sand covering the cliff stone under his feet was blown away. There was actually an inscription here-

Xi!

Finally, there was a new clue. Jin An frowned and hurriedly looked for other inscriptions.

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

"Why cherish?"

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

"Is it the regret of the blue sky and yellow leaves for the collapse of the cave paradise?"

"Is it a farewell?"

"Is it a sigh of regret?"

Unfortunately, there is only one word inscribed here. Jin An racked his brains but could not guess the true meaning of this word.

However, one thing is certain, this inscription should be left by one of the mummies in the God's Eye Cave.

Jin An did not return to the God's Eye Cave immediately 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 the environment, and check all possible hidden 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 coldness, and even the air became turbid.

This feeling is like jumping from a cliff into the lake, the cold lake water soaking into every pore of the body, stimulating every pore, 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 suspended palm above his head.

Two eyes appeared on the back of his hand, staring at him, cold and without human emotions!

Jin An's pupils suddenly contracted!

Thirty-six thousand pores all over his body exploded!

His body fell rapidly, and he hurriedly found a cliff stone Taoist temple to settle down. When he felt the ground under his feet, his mind was stabilized a little.

Just the two eyes made him shocked, what on earth were those eyes!

This kind of horror that he couldn't look at directly, he had never encountered since he entered the martial arts immortal!

The most recent time that could be compared to this was when he was in the second realm and had not yet entered the third realm. He was in the Yinhua Corpse Cave and met the underworld demon who almost slapped the origami boat they were riding from the sky!

Jin An used the Heart Calming Tribulation several times to suppress his mind that was making trouble in the Heavenly Palace. Only then did he have time to look at the two cold eyes.

He looked up and saw that the eyes were still staring at him coldly.

However, this time he had already calmed down, and his three souls and seven spirits were re-condensed and stable, allowing him to concentrate more, so he could observe more details.

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

The reason why he recognized that the eyes were the ones that the stone statue of the god had, rather than those painted by someone 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 pigments was similar to that of other pigments, so he was sure that the eyes were the ones that the stone statue of the god had.

The back of the hand was facing downward all year round, without wind and sun, so the pigment faded slower than other parts, which was not difficult to understand.

He quickly found out the reason why the eyes had been staring at him coldly.

The stone statue of the god was too huge, so the eyes painted on the back of the hand were also as big as a mountain, and people could clearly see the eyes no matter where they stood.

Add to that the illusion of shadows in a dark environment.

And people are easily suspicious when they are frightened.

So when several conditions are superimposed, visual illusions will occur.

To put it bluntly, when people's spirits are weak, they are easily confused and scare themselves.

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

I didn't expect that as a martial arts immortal, I was full of righteousness. I fought into the Holy Land of No Life and the Bulao Mountain. I faced so many thousand-year-old demons and life-and-death crises, but my mind was never disturbed. Now I was frightened by the two eye paintings...

Jin An not only did not feel ashamed of this, but his expression became more solemn. Just the eye painting 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.

What a pity...

Jin An has somewhat realized the artistic conception of the engraved words.

Next, he followed the eyes on the back of his hand and looked at the deeper abyss below. It is impossible that the back of the hand of the stone statue of the god has two eyes painted on it for no reason. The eyes of the god imply the inspection and scrutiny of the heavenly way...

"Is it inspecting something in the abyss?"

"Or is it suppressing something?"

Jin An whispered.

With this question, he accelerated his descent, wanting to explore as much of this tiankeng as possible before dark.

Here are also many stone Taoist temples, each of which is in ruins.

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 of his body, held his breath, and changed his external breathing to internal breathing. The five elements of the Taoist Qi in the five internal organs circulated, giving birth to endless vitality.

He fell another hundred feet or so. Because the temperature was too low, clouds and fog began to form around him, and his vision was limited.

Jin An changed his naked eyes to his primordial spirit consciousness to scan the surroundings. This place was far enough from the eye cave of the statue. If he used his primordial spirit here, the animal creator would not be able to find him.

The clear air rises, the turbid air sinks, the hotter the wind, the more the fire burns, the more the turbid air accumulates in the invisible dark places, the yin and turbid air in the blessed land are suppressed to the bottom by the extreme yang force, as they move away from the ground, the temperature in the air drops faster, the clouds and fog become thicker, even the soul consciousness is affected, unable to see far away.

Jin An frowned.

He knew that it was not a good idea to go down like this. Now his naked eyes and soul could not see the surrounding environment clearly. At this time, let alone looking for clues, if there was danger approaching, he would not be able to detect it in the first time.

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

After going down to this depth, Jin An looked up and saw only thick clouds and darkness. At this depth, the entrance of the tiankeng could no longer be seen.

Even the weak light source could not be seen.

The road was empty and dead silent, the air was as cold as the tide, and the body had a cold and restrained feeling of falling into the deep black sea. The surroundings were so quiet that only his footsteps and the occasional sound of the cold wind could be heard.

Any slight sound seemed particularly empty in this dead and ruined world, and the sound could be heard far away.

When Jinan returned to the Ten Palaces Taoist Temple, he had a few more magic weapon fragments in his hand, and then he took these magic weapon fragments and went to the entrance of the tiankeng cave again.

But without exception, he failed.

After a day of tossing and turning, it was dark again in the Yang world at this time, the double sun in the cave paradise disappeared, and the stuffy and scorching feeling in the air decreased significantly.

Jinan went to the God's Eye Cave to check on the situation of the animal creator, who was still refining the fairy jade fragments and showed no signs of waking up.

Then he carefully searched the place where the mummies died several times, and he was only three feet deep in the ground, but still found nothing.

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

Because there was no sun, the sunlight shining on the palm of the statue was smaller, unlike before when it could cover the entire palm.

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 from here.

The Thousand Heart Tribulations made Jin An multitasking, and his thinking speed was far better than that of his peers. In this state, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and observed a detail.

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

While Jin An was trying to figure out the state of mind of the person who carved the words at that time, he adjusted his standing posture. When he stood at the same angle as the carving, he was surprised to find that the carving was facing the pile of sand dunes on the palm of the statue.

The sand dunes piled up by yellow sand were golden and dazzling under the sun beams.

"Could it be that these are not ordinary yellow sands, but have a bigger origin!"

Under the Thousand Heart Tribulation, Jin An's thoughts were very active. Just at this moment, a handful of yellow sand flowed out from the eye hole of the statue above his head, and the falling position happened to fall on the sand dune in the palm of the statue.

Because Jin An and the True Man of Animal Creation came and walked back and forth in the eye hole of the statue, breaking the stability of the yellow sand, so it is understandable that the yellow sand occasionally slides down.

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

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

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

"It seems that the word 'cherish' is not a sigh of life withering, nor is it a pity, but a pity that you can't move away when you encounter a treasure mountain!" Jin An said to himself excitedly.

These golden sands are exposed to the sun all year round, and their heat is as strong as branding iron. Shinto masters can't move them at all.

This huge gap in mentality of entering a treasure mountain but coming up empty-handed is undoubtedly the most tormenting. People can't help but carve a word of cherishment to vent their inner resentment and depression.

Jin'an is a martial arts immortal, and he has a higher tolerance for the heat contained in the golden sand.

"Fortunately, the "Black Mountain Divine Art" I practiced has the magical power of swallowing gold fossils. There are so many golden sands that I really have to distinguish which ones are useful and which ones are useless one by one. It will take me ten or eight years to distinguish them all. It's different now that I have the means to swallow gold fossils. Real gold is not afraid of fire, and the more it is refined, the truer it is."

Jin'an, who found the treasure mountain, was overjoyed. He raised his hand and sucked it from the air, sucking a small ball of golden gravel from the outermost part of the sand dune.

These outermost golden sands are not exposed to sunlight when it's dark in the world of the living, and the temperature drops greatly, which is just right for him to do experiments.

Let's use this small ball of golden sand for experiments first.

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

When he was in Kunlun Snow Mountain, he could refine fossils, gold and stones, and eat gold and stones to fill his stomach.

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

Now, his strength is more than a hundred times higher than that time. After a few small cycles of Black Mountain internal energy, he refined these gold sands into the purest heaven and earth essence, and then absorbed them by himself.

"What a pure essence! There is a faint smell of fairy jade fragments in this essence. Although it is weak, it is indeed fairy jade fragments! My guess is right, this pile of gold sand is the treasure house of the immortals!"

Jin An was overjoyed.