Volume 1 Chapter 404 Ancient Times

I don’t know how long I’ve worn this worn-out short-sleeve shirt. It’s starting to fade and there are even small holes in some places.

This short-sleeved shirt can be used as a rag.

He was thin, slightly hunched, and his face was full of wrinkles that showed the vicissitudes of life.

The old man who came out was the old village secretary of Shiqiao Village!

Wang Haisheng and the other three were all stunned. They never expected that the old village secretary would follow them. You know, this is deep in the mountains and there are many wild beasts along the way, but the old village secretary managed to follow them safely. I'm afraid this old man is not as weak as he looks.

From what he said, the mission of Shiqiao Village is to guard this ancient tomb. So Nangong Huan'er and the others must have been stunned by the old village secretary.

"Old village secretary, we came here to excavate this ancient tomb for protective purposes. If we don't put it in a museum for protection, this tomb will most likely be robbed by tomb robbers," explained Wang Haisheng.

He did not mention heaven, but grave robbers, in order to make his meaning simple and easy to understand, otherwise he would have to explain the organization of heaven in more detail.

"Museum?"

The old village secretary raised his eyelids and snorted, "No need, my protection is enough. I don't even take a mere grave robber seriously."

As soon as he finished speaking, a powerful aura burst out from his body. Wang Haisheng and the other three felt that the old village secretary suddenly rose up like a mountain, pressing down on them to the point that they could not breathe.

Li Tian narrowed his eyes and asked, "Old man, the person I was chasing after a few nights ago was you?"

The old village secretary nodded, "That's right." He looked at Li Tian with a look of fear in his eyes, "You are quite skilled, young man. If I were a little slower, you would have caught up with me. That would have been very embarrassing."

I had clearly advised them not to go in Shiqiao Village because there were ferocious beasts in the mountains, but I followed them secretly anyway, and it was really embarrassing to be discovered.

Li Tian sneered: "Now that you've come out on your own, you're not embarrassed anymore?"

The old village secretary said, "I didn't want to come out at first, but who knew you would find the location of the ancient tomb."

"That's professionalism, old man. Since your Shiqiao Village is the one guarding this ancient tomb, you should know who the owner of this tomb is." Li Tian was eager to know the identity of the tomb owner. He looked exactly like his wife Gu Ruoxi, which made him feel particularly uneasy.

"She is the patron saint of our ancestral tribe." said the old village secretary.

Tribal guardian?

Everyone's heart sank, and when they considered the murals in the ancient tomb, it seemed that the identity of the masked woman was indeed very consistent with that of a patron saint.

The old village secretary took down the dry pipe, struck a match, lit it and started smoking. He threw the matchstick on the ground and stomped it out with his feet until he was sure that the matchstick would not ignite a forest fire.

"It is said that in the time of our ancestors, there were many man-eating beasts. When our ancestors of Shiqiao Village encountered beasts, they had no power to resist and could only be hunted and eaten. One day, she came and saved our ancestors from the beasts. From then on, she was worshipped as the guardian deity by our ancestor's tribe, and she seemed to have tacitly accepted this relationship and lived in the tribe. Whenever a beast attacked, she would always stand up and drive it away."

Listening to the old village secretary's narration, Li Tian was already very sure that there was indeed an ancient era in China. In that era, people were able to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and transform it into their own spiritual power, thereby enhancing their strength. The "Tai Shang Medical Classic" should also have come from that era.

Nowadays, science and technology industry is developing rapidly, and spiritual energy is thin. Only some old objects contain spiritual energy. Only when he finds such old objects can he absorb the spiritual energy and transform it into spiritual power, thereby rapidly improving his strength.

Whether it was his ancestral jade pendant, Bai Ling's Buddhist beads, or the small tower that Ding Futong found in the antique market, as expected, they were all products of that era.

In that era, people could probably fly into the sky and hide underground. In other words, heaven was not crazy at all. It was a period of cultivating immortals.

He had a deep understanding of the awesomeness of the "Tai Shang Yi Jing". During that period, there were probably countless powerful people, and those ferocious beasts were most likely the monsters recorded in the "Shan Hai Jing". Even the dragon in our Chinese zodiac existed. Otherwise, why did the other zodiacs exist in reality, but only the dragon did not? The ancients could not have used a non-existent species as the Chinese zodiac.

Just thinking about it, Li Tian could feel the horror of that period: the creation of the world, severing rivers with one finger, flying in the sky... It was simply a splendid and colorful civilization of cultivating immortals. Even immortality should not be a dream.

But why did that period suddenly disappear in the long river of history?

Even the written texts of that time have not been passed down.

What kind of changes have occurred that have led to the development of technology by humans, ushering in an industrialized world, and even the spiritual energy has become extremely thin, making it completely unsuitable for spiritual practice?

If immortality is not a dream, then do people from that era still exist in modern times?

A series of questions emerged in Li Tian's mind. This archaeological mission overturned all his cognition. Anna even said that Tian Tang was insane and had hysteria, but now he could really confirm that there was such a period of immortal cultivation in China.

During that period of cultivating immortals, there was a woman who looked exactly like his wife Gu Ruoxi, and was the patron saint of a tribe.

Could it be that the six realms of reincarnation are also real, and this masked woman is actually Gu Ruoxi's previous life?

Li Tian felt a tingling sensation on his scalp.

Wang Haisheng said: "Old village secretary, since she is the patron saint of your ancestors, you should protect this ancient tomb. Don't worry, we will..."

"I said I don't need your protection. I'm enough. You can leave now. I won't make things difficult for you." The old village secretary raised his hand to interrupt.

"Old man, don't be shameless. We are legal archaeologists. If you dare to hinder our work, we will call the police to arrest you." Liu Zhen calmed himself down and shouted loudly.

The old village secretary gave him a playful look and said, "You want to scare me?"

The next second, like a ghost, he appeared in front of Liu Zhen.

"ah!!!"

Liu Zhen was so frightened that he almost died. He screamed and sat down on the ground. Then he hurriedly raised his hunting rifle and shot the old village secretary.

"Bang~"

The muzzle of the gun was aimed at the old village secretary's head. If it had been someone else, the shot would have definitely hit him in the head.

But the old village secretary simply tilted his head to the right and avoided the bullet from the hunting rifle.

The bullet whizzed past his ear and hit the crown of a tree at an angle, knocking off dozens of leaves and several branches.

Wang Haisheng, Wu Yuanliang and Zhou Tienan were all stunned.

Dodge the bullet?

This is dodging the bullet!

The three of them only felt a chill on their backs, and the hair on their bodies stood up uncontrollably.