"Longhu, you have to be careful." Facing the excited little fox, Long Long said seriously, "Don't forget what I said before, a treasure room like this may have some trap mechanism for guarding and defense."
"But," Dragon Fox asked in confusion, "since the secret room can only be opened by the Golden Crow True Fire Fan, what's the point of setting up a defense mechanism inside?"
"Long Long, you just said that the Golden Crow True Fire Fan is likely to be something that has been passed down from generation to generation by the clan leader. If a powerful enemy can seize this item from the clan leader, then what kind of defense mechanism has the clan leader set up here, and how can it trap such a powerful enemy?"
"Ah, this..." Long Long was slightly stumped for a moment, and then quickly used his flexible thinking cultivated from dealing with Kunlun Mirror for many years to say very cleverly, "It's great that you can think of this."
"But, in addition to the clan leader, the demon clan may also have higher-level cultivators such as the Supreme Elder and the Ancestor. The clan leader is responsible for controlling the power of the entire clan, while the Ancestor represents the highest strength of the entire clan."
“If there is a powerful enemy who takes the Golden Crow True Fire Fan from the clan leader, then it is quite reasonable for the more powerful ancestor to set up a ban here.”
"Indeed." Dragon Fox nodded thoughtfully, "But if such a powerful demon ancestor set up a ban here, we basically can't find it, right? Even if we find it, it's impossible to deal with it, right?"
"That's enough, Dragon Fox." Long Long was almost speechless and could only say arrogantly, "I'm just saying that you can't ignore this possibility. It doesn't mean it will definitely happen or not. You just need to listen to the elders' experience with an open mind."
Longhu wanted to say something, but Longlong pulled her over, put his hand under her skirt, pulled out her big fluffy tail, and smoothed its fur a few times. Then she collapsed in Longlong's arms angrily, unable to speak.
The two of them spent a few moments being affectionate with each other. Long Long learned his lesson this time and said to Ah Jing:
"Ajing, scan it."
"There are no traps or restrictions." Kunlun Mirror replied.
"Well, I've confirmed it." Long Long said with a smile, "There is no trap mechanism here."
"I told you so long ago." Longhu muttered softly, and rushed in impatiently.
This hidden room is not very big. Looking around, there are only three items inside:
There is a wooden tube on the left, an oil lamp on the right, and a scroll of bamboo slips directly in front.
Apart from this, there is nothing else, not even any text to explain it.
Longhu first went to the right and took the oil lamp. He saw that the outer shell of the oil lamp was made of sandalwood and inlaid with a translucent lens made of glass. There was a candle flame inside, which neither jumped nor swayed in the oil lamp, but just burned steadily.
"That is!" Long Long suddenly frowned and asked in his heart, "A Jing, Qing Ping, could that be the Buddhist..."
"The Eastern Light Pure Glazed Lamp." Kunlun Mirror said in surprise, "This treasure is the Buddha treasure of Medicine Master Glazed Light Tathagata of the Eastern Buddhist Realm. It is said that there is a little glazed fire in it, which can emit endless light. It can revive the dead, turn bones into flesh, eliminate evil and suffering, and also eliminate evil and evil spirits, and remove karma... But how could it be in the secret room of this Fusang sacred tree?"
Longhu picked up the lamp pole in his hand and shook it gently. The oil lamp swayed like a pendulum, but the flame inside continued to burn steadily, refracting colorful light through the gorgeous colored glass.
It's obvious that he can't let it go.
Long Long thought about it for a moment and breathed a sigh of relief.
If this thing appeared in the main world and was exposed, it would definitely cause a strong shock in Buddhism.
For example, if a Taoist treasure like the Taiyi Fenguang Sword were to be possessed by a Buddhist temple, it would certainly bring endless troubles.
But this is the demon world... uh, it should be okay, right?
Long Long turned his head and looked at the wooden barrel on the left.
The wooden barrel was not big, about the length of an adult's palm. The wood seemed to be willow, but it was obvious that it was definitely not an ordinary willow.
Various crow and flame patterns are carved on the surface of the wooden cylinder.
"Ah, this is the Flying Fire Crow Tube." Qing Ping Jian suddenly said, "It is said that the remains of a great man from the Golden Crow clan are kept inside, with a total of 360 bone joints."
"As long as you use your true energy to activate it, you can release three hundred and sixty fire crows from the tube. Their wings are connected to black clouds, and their voices are like poisonous thunder. It is a magical weapon with great lethality."
"I see." Long Long put the Fire Crow Tube into the storage bag, and went to get Longhu's glass lamp. "Be good, Longhu, you can't take care of this magic weapon, so I'll keep it for you."
The little fox was so anxious that he grimaced and jumped up and down, but no matter whether he tried to grab his arms or hit his face with his tail, it had no effect.
Long Long just took the glass lamp away with a smile, like a parent confiscating New Year's money, and put it solemnly into the storage bag.
So Longhu could only turn around in frustration and check the last thing left in the secret room.
She picked up the bamboo slips from the stand, unfolded them and glanced at them for a moment, then threw them back on the stand and said boredly:
“It’s history.”
Long Long picked it up and took a look, and sure enough, it was just the family history of the Jinwu clan.
For the demon race built on blood ties, documents describing the development history of their family can undoubtedly help shape family cohesion and are extremely important objects. Therefore, it is not surprising that they are placed in this hidden secret room.
But for Long Long and Long Hu, it is of no use.
After a quick look, Long Long knew that when the Jinwu clan fled into the Donghuang Realm, they only took a hibiscus tree sapling with them.
They established a secret place deep in the East China Sea and planted hibiscus trees in this secret place, which led to the isolated island with giant trees growing on it today.
After that, the Jinwu clan multiplied, grew and prospered on the Fusang tree. There were no major events worth noting.
At the end of the bamboo slips, it was mentioned that the power map of the Eastern Emperor Realm had basically taken shape, with the Eastern Province and the Eastern Sea being occupied by the Scale Clan, while the Feather Clan had basically moved to the Southern Province.
The Jinwu clan held a meeting to discuss whether to move the clan to Nanzhou as well. Otherwise, once the Scale clan discovered this secret realm and attacked it, the Feather clan in Nanzhou would not have time to rescue them.
The narration came to an abrupt end here. Combining the current situation in the Eastern Emperor Realm, Long Long knew that the Jinwu clan did move to Nanzhou later, or at least one branch of it took root in the Three-foot Mountain Range on the border between Nanzhou and Zhongzhou.
As to whether it was an active and orderly migration, or a passive escape due to the invasion of foreign enemies in the secret realm...the treasure room outside was looted, but the hidden secret room inside was left untouched. Long Long was more inclined to the latter.
Just thinking about it this way, there is another strange thing:
Nowadays, the distribution of power in the Eastern Emperor Realm is quite clear: the Feather Clan is in the south, the Kun Clan is in the north, the Fur Clan is in the west, the Scale Clan is in the east, and the Horn Clan is in the center.
Moreover, although there is no deep hatred between different clans, the relations between them are certainly not very harmonious.
Just from the xenophobic atmosphere of the Feather Clan and the historical records of the Golden Crow Clan, it can be seen that racial conflict is almost the main theme of the Eastern Emperor Realm.
So here comes the question: the Beiming Fanyang where the little fox and I are going is the ancestral home of the Jiaolong clan.
Since the Jinwu clan was forced by the Lin clan to abandon the sacred Fusang tree, can the Jiaolong clan really survive intact in the North Sea controlled by the Kun clan until now?
Thinking of the two parents who had entrusted him with things, whether it was Yinglong in the Demon Locking Tower or the female fox Zhinian deep underground in Nanzhou, both of whom were figures from at least 100,000 years ago, Long Long felt an inexplicable, intense anxiety and worry.
The secret realm of Beiming Fanyang of the Jiaolong clan...could it have ceased to exist long ago?