To be honest, apart from this Buddha statue and the large bronze tripod in front of the stone platform, this place is really simple. It is said that some villagers saw planetary fragments falling here, but there are no traces of planetary fragments or meteorites falling, no pits, and no signs of fire.
Xiao Bai observed here for a long time but didn't find anything strange. This was just an ordinary ancient temple.
Xiao Bai felt inexplicably lost, but he didn't know what he was lost about. Maybe it was his sixth sense that there must be something special or very heavy here.
Since he was already here, Xiao Bai followed the usual procedure and paid his respects. It is said that young people nowadays would rather burn incense than go to work. Sometimes the world is not good, and people need some faith and external power to help themselves overcome difficulties and use faith to give themselves hope for the future.
After burning incense, Xiao Bai looked at the dusty stone Buddha statue and the simple temple, and spontaneously cleaned up the things in the dilapidated temple, doing a good deed that day.
She first cleaned the ground in front of her, swept the thick fallen leaves together with a branch, and then wiped the stone platform with the wet tissues she carried with her. She did not wipe the Buddha statue. After all, she didn't know how many years it was. If it was an antique, it would be bad if it was damaged.
As Xiao Bai wiped the stone platform, he muttered, "Why is this temple unattended and uncleaned?" The dust had piled up several layers deep. Xiao Bai finished wiping the front of the stone platform, then the surface. Just as he was about to reach out to wipe the back, he felt something sharp scratch his hand. He quickly reached out and saw it was bleeding.
"What is so sharp?" She looked behind the stone platform and saw a crack. In the crack was a transparent diamond-shaped stone like crystal. The sharp corner of the crystal stone was stained with her blood.
Xiao Bai reached out and picked out the crystal stone. He looked at it carefully and saw that the diamond-shaped crystal stone was colorless, transparent and had no impurities. It was glowing faintly in the sunlight.
"Is this natural crystal or artificial? Natural crystals aren't carved into such a standard diamond shape, and natural crystals usually have some cracks inside. This crystal looks so perfect, it must be artificial, right? Could it be glass instead of crystal?"
Xiao Bai looked at it for a long time but couldn't see anything strange, so he could only put the crystal back on the stone platform. It's better not to pick up things of unknown origin, so just put it back.
What she didn't know at the time was that it was this crystal that allowed her to enter the awakening period after the revival of spiritual energy before others, becoming one of the first cultivators to awaken naturally, and thus also leading to tremendous changes in the people and animals around her.
At this time, Xiao Bai knew nothing about this. She took out new wet wipes and simply treated the wound, muttering to herself: Fortunately, the cut is not deep, I can just go back and treat it with disinfectant.
Xiao Bai simply wrapped the wound with a tissue, and then continued to wipe the rest of the stone platform clean. After wiping, he looked at the bronze tripod again.
The tripod was really big, and there was a thick layer of ash inside. The outer shell of the tripod was also covered with thick ash. She wiped the outside of the tripod with a wet wipe, but it didn't come clean. Forget it, she gave up. She wanted to clean the thick ash inside the tripod. After just a few times of using a branch to dig it out, she found something in the ash, which seemed to be a stone.
Xiao Bai took out the stone and looked at it. The stone was as big as two fists, very dense and very heavy. The whole stone was black and had potholes on it.
Xiao Bai looked at it carefully. It looked like a meteorite. Could it be that what the villagers saw was real? Could this really be debris that fell from a planet?
"This thing won't have any radiation, right? Forget it, put it back. Don't pick up messy things."
“Squeak, squeak, squeak!”
Suddenly, a squeaking sound came from beside her feet, which scared Xiao Bai. She quickly threw the stone in her hand into the tripod. When she looked down, she found that it was the squirrel that brought pine nuts.
"So it's you, little thing! You scared me to death!"
"Squeak! Squeak!" The little squirrel jumped and hopped on the spot, pointing its little claws at the stone in the tripod: "You bad girl, you are so stupid, pick up the stone quickly, it's my precious baby!"
Xiao Bai looked at the lively squirrel, then at the stone in the tripod, and shook his head.
"Don't take anything you don't know about home. I'm going back now. Goodbye, little squirrel!"
After Xiao Bai finished speaking, he walked down the mountain without looking back, leaving the little squirrel squeaking and jumping on the ground.
The little squirrel looked at the receding figure, lifted up its furry cheeks with its paws and rubbed them helplessly, then sighed in a very human way, then crawled into the bronze tripod, used its claws to dig out the meteorite that Xiao Bai had just buried back in the ashes, picked up the meteorite and stuffed it into its mouth, only to see that the meteorite, which was originally three times bigger than the little squirrel's heads, suddenly disappeared. The little squirrel humanely made a few "Puh" sounds, spat out a few mouthfuls of incense ash, wagged its tail happily, crawled out of the bronze tripod, and disappeared in a flash.
After a long moment, a tall, slender figure in a black, vintage-style robe suddenly appeared before the ancient temple's bronze cauldron. His waist-length black hair fluttered in the wind. A red spider lily fluttered around him, and a small, white, transparent elf-like figure within the flower's stamen played with a strand of the boy's hair. The boy reached into the bronze cauldron, sensing the energy lingering in the ash. Then, with a gentle wave of his sleeve, the fluttering spider lily suddenly transformed into countless blossoms. With countless petals rising, the boy suddenly vanished.
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