Chapter 874 Copper Alchemy Furnace
As soon as the old man entered the hall, the stone sword suddenly emitted a terrifying sword light, which was about to kill the old man on the spot.
The old man looked at the sword light of the stone sword, and his body changed drastically in an instant. His flesh, skin, and clothes turned into jade in an instant, as if he had turned into a strange jade statue.
The sword light shot onto the old man's jade-like body, but was actually broken by the old man with one hand.
"Terrorization!" Zhou Wen was surprised. This old man was able to shatter the sword light of the stone sword. He was obviously a powerful person at the terror level.
The stone sword was unsheathed again without hesitation, and slashed towards the old man again with invisible sword light.
The old man who looked like a jade statue suddenly stretched out his hands to clamp the stone sword. For a moment, they were in a stalemate. The stone sword could not penetrate any further, but the old man could not repel the stone sword either. The man and the sword were in a stalemate.
"Who is this old guy? He can actually withstand the power of the stone sword!" Liuyun said in surprise.
Zhou Wen didn't say a word. He just flashed and rushed into the palace.
Liuyun also reacted, gritted his teeth, and rushed into the palace.
The stone sword and the jade statue-like old man were in a stalemate and had no energy left to stop Zhou Wen and Liu Yun. In the blink of an eye, the two of them rushed into the hall where the bamboo slips were placed.
Seeing that the old man was still in a stalemate with the stone sword, Zhou Wen did not rush in. He casually took a scroll of bamboo slips from the shelf, opened it and took a look.
I saw that what was written on it were actually legal provisions, and then I picked up a few bamboo slips from different shelves to look at them. They were all legal provisions, which made me feel a little strange.
"I heard that the Qin Emperor believed in the art of immortality preached by sorcerers. I originally thought that the books buried with him would be something related to alchemy and immortality, but I didn't expect that they would be books of laws." Zhou Wen flipped through the books casually as he walked and found that there was no record related to alchemy in these books, only some laws.
"Junior brother, why don't you leave quickly? What's so interesting about those bamboo slips?" Liuyun also flipped through a few volumes, but seeing that they were all legal provisions, he lost interest.
Zhou Wen put down the bamboo slips, quickened his pace, and walked with Liuyun to the back of the palace. They saw another big door there, but it had been opened. It was obviously the masterpiece of Jing Daoxian.
There was a jade screen blocking the door. The two men walked around the screen and were surprised by the scene they saw.
There were broken pieces of bronze and jade everywhere on the ground, as if it had been through a great battle, but there were no human figures, nor any portals leading to other places.
"There might be a secret door." Liuyun said as he groped on the wall, trying to find the secret door.
"Don't look for it anymore. Take a look at the water in that pool. Is there something wrong with it?" Zhou Wen said, pointing to a pool.
The water in the pool was black, like ink, but it didn't have any peculiar smell. I guess it wasn't black because of spoilage.
"You mean, there is a road under this pool?" Liuyun looked at the pool, but the water in the pool was too dark and he couldn't see anything clearly.
"I don't know if there is a road below, but there should be no secret door in this palace." Zhou Wen has scanned the entire palace with Di Ting. If there is a secret door, he would not be able to miss it.
"Do you want to go down?" Liuyun hesitated.
"I'm afraid we have no choice but to go down." Zhou Wen said as he glanced outside and saw that the old man had already rushed in.
What was different from the previous time when Jing Daoxian rushed in was that the stone sword also chased in. Wherever the sword light from the stone sword went, it almost destroyed everything.
Zhou Wen no longer hesitated and jumped into the pool holding Yaer.
The Azure Dragon Seven Stars Qi Qi technique on his body was activated, and it seemed as if a blue dragon was surrounding his body, repelling the black water out of his body.
Liuyun also gritted his teeth and jumped down with Zhou Wen.
Strangely enough, the black water in the pool seemed to have no buoyancy at all. As soon as they jumped in, they began to fall rapidly, and their falling speed was getting faster and faster, as if there was a force pulling them from below.
Bang!
When Zhou Wen and Liu Yun landed on the ground, the powerful impact almost broke their leg bones.
Before they could see the surroundings clearly, two shadows fell from above their heads. One was the jade-like old man, and the other was the stone sword.
As the stone sword fell, thousands of sword lights radiated from the sword, covering all nearby areas.
Zhou Wen and Liuyun both dodged quickly. Zhou Wen rolled over and hid behind a huge object. The object blocked the sword light of the stone sword. He watched as the sword light like a rainstorm bombarded the object, but it did not break it into pieces.
Zhou Wen then discovered that the thing he used for shelter was actually a huge alchemy furnace. The furnace was more than ten meters high and seemed to be made entirely of copper.
However, it was not the bronze that was commonly seen in that era, but a kind of red copper.
The sword light hit the purple copper alchemy furnace, making it clang loudly, but it failed to damage the furnace at all.
Zhou Wen looked into the alchemy furnace and found that it was filled with flames. The flames inside were already blazing white and the temperature was unimaginably high. However, the purple copper alchemy furnace felt only warm to the touch and did not feel burning.
"Strange, I've never heard of a furnace catching fire inside. It should be heated by the flame burning underneath, but this furnace caught fire from the inside. What's the reason?" Zhou Wen felt a little strange.
While Shi Jian was fighting with the old man, Zhou Wen took the opportunity to look around and was surprised to find that this was actually the top of a mountain.
In the dark and huge underground space, a mountain occupied a large area. They stood on the top of the mountain, only twenty or thirty meters away from the stone dome above their heads.
It was pitch black all around because the space was too large and there was no light. Only the flames coming out of the air holes of the copper furnace emitted light, which made the distance even darker.
The area that Di Ting could sense was all empty. However, there was a cold wind blowing from farther away, and the wind was so strong that Zhou Wen's clothes were stuck to his body, and the cold wind penetrated into the bones.
"Where did Jing Daoxian go?" Zhou Wen held Yaer in his arms, facing the cold wind, and searched for a long time, but could not find Jing Daoxian.
Liuyun also rushed behind the alchemy furnace and joined Zhou Wen. He said, "There's nothing on the top of this mountain except for the alchemy furnace. Do you think the emperor's elixir of immortality might be inside this furnace?"
"Probably not, otherwise why wouldn't Jing Daoxian be here?" When Zhou Wen was speaking, he suddenly heard a loud rumbling sound coming from a distance, like thunder.
(End of this chapter)
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