Chapter 1340: Misty Starry Sky Journey
"The footprints of our Xuan Shang Immortal Boat are all over the starry sea. If we really want to find someone, even if he flees to the wild land on the edge of the starry sea, he can't escape." Jia Chu's calm tone revealed a hint of arrogance and confidence.
Even the elders of the Xuanxianzhou such as Lu Yuzhi ten thousand years later could not help but straighten their backs slightly with pride in their eyes when they heard this.
The sloppy man in the picture from ten thousand years ago was slightly shaken when he heard this, and waved his hands quickly: "No, no, no. It's better to explain all these troublesome things at once. I am a person who fears trouble!"
As he spoke, the sloppy man took out a cucumber from somewhere and started to eat it with relish while reminiscing.
"This thing was actually given to me by the injured person I saved in the past. He thanked me for saving his life. He said it can protect against disasters."
"I don't know what it means exactly, but I guess it might be able to protect the master from disaster in times of crisis, so I'm happy to accept it." Having said this, the sloppy man paused and wiped the juice from the corner of his mouth.
"That's what I thought originally. But some time ago, I was nearly beaten to death by a group of debt collectors, and this thing didn't do anything..." The man burped and said with a gloomy face.
Hearing this, Jia Chu chuckled and said, "It's useless, why are you selling it to us?"
"It's not that it's useless, it's just that it can't save your life." The sloppy man corrected Jia Chu's words.
"Although this doll is useless to me, you will always meet monks who need it when your immortal ship travels through the starry sea. When the time comes, the price will be increased tenfold, and you will definitely make a fortune by reselling it. Besides, with the connections of your immortal ship, even if you are unlucky and still can't find monks who need this thing, you will always meet a few suckers, right? You will never end up with this thing in your hands..." The sloppy man tried his best to persuade.
Judging from Jia Chu's expression, it seemed that he didn't care about the profit or loss of this business from beginning to end, and he had been planning to buy this servant doll.
Lu Yuzhi was somewhat emotional: "This Jia Chu's style of doing things is really a standard immortal boat merchant. For the Xuanshang immortal boat that shuttled through the sea of stars in ancient times, spirit stones were just a string of numbers. Even the temporary profit or loss was not too important..."
"What is really important is the abundance of the immortal boat's secret treasures. And the increase in bargaining chips against the true immortals." Zhong Daogong's voice suddenly came from outside the small building.
Before the voice was finished, the person had already appeared in the house.
"Elder Zhong." Everyone bowed and greeted.
Zhong Daogong nodded in return, but his eyes fell on the scene in the field.
Because of the arrival of the clock, the recording of the scene stopped temporarily.
"You actually have time to come here?" Li Fan asked with a smile.
As the chief of Duanxian Tower, Zhong Daogong is in charge of all matters of the Immortal Boat. Naturally, he will not have the free time like other elders to visit Li Fan's courtyard frequently.
"When Yuzhi was looking up information just now, I also found some interesting things. Let's continue reading..."
The recorded image continues to play.
At the end of the transaction, in addition to the 45,000 spirit stones agreed upon previously, Jia Chu also gave the sloppy man an extra 5,000 spirit stones.
"Brother Jia, what do you mean?" The man asked this, but without any hesitation, he quickly put away the five thousand spirit stones, fearing that the other party would go back on his word.
Jia Chu smiled peacefully, "But I just want to find out the information about the injured person you saved that year. If this servant can really be sold at a high price in the future, we might continue to buy it. Leave the channel information first so that we can act in the future."
The sloppy man who received the spirit stone was very easy to talk to: "That's all? No problem!"
"Let me think, what was that person's name? Oh, that's right, Sun Piaomiao! He is not a native cultivator of our Xiaoyao Realm, but a [Xuanhuang] cultivator who crossed the starry sky. When he was about to arrive, he encountered the starry sea phenomenon [Sky Whale Leap], and although he survived, he was seriously injured and fell from the sky."
"If I hadn't suddenly shown kindness and taken good care of him, he would definitely not have survived in his condition at that time." The sloppy man said with some pride.
"Xuanhuang Realm, Sun Piaomiao..."
The scene came to an abrupt end with Jia Chu's whisper.
The name Sun Piaomiao caused a commotion among the elders of the Immortal Boat.
"This name sounds familiar. Where have you heard it before?"
"Sun Piaomiao, Sun Piaomiao..."
In fact, when Li Fan heard this name, his heart was suddenly shocked.
Because Sun Piaomiao is the ancestor of the Yaowang Sect in the Xuanhuang Realm.
Sun Piaomiao had traveled to various realms in the past, leaving behind a travelogue and recording information about twelve other immortal realms, including Xiaoyao and Xuanshang.
Li Fan looked at Zhong Daogong who suddenly showed up and asked, "The interesting thing you mentioned refers to this Sun Piaomiao?"
Zhong Daogong nodded and waved his hand lightly. The shadows of three items suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
"According to the records left by the Immortal Boat, ten years after the puppet transaction was concluded, Sun Piaomiao visited the Xuanshang Immortal Boat. He followed the Immortal Boat and chased after the starry sea phenomenon [Starfall Hail]."
"Meteoric hail was one of the rarest phenomena in the starry sky at that time. Countless huge ice crystal meteorites roared forward from the depths of darkness like a violent storm. They smashed all obstacles in front of them. The impact aroused dazzling sparks and icy mist, and swept a terrifying storm of cold and heat along the way. Even if you were affected by the edge of the storm, it would be a world-destroying disaster for the world of immortal cultivation." Zhong Daogong briefly explained the starry sky phenomenon of meteoric hail.
"Although meteorite hail is extremely dangerous, a strange substance called [Abyss Ice Dust] is often born at the core of countless meteorite groups. It is said that only a tiny particle of this substance is needed to freeze an entire ordinary-sized cultivation world. And when the ice explodes, the ice-breaking force that bursts out has the power to almost create the world."
"So was the pursuit successful?" Li Fan listened attentively and couldn't help asking.
"There is no record in the Xuanxianzhou. But according to my guess, some [Extreme Abyss Ice Dust] should have been successfully found. Sun Piaomiao took some away, and left three items as bargaining chips. As for the rest, they should have been taken away by Shangxianzhou later." Zhong Daogong's tone was full of regret.
Li Fan was not surprised to hear this. After all, as the actual winner, Shang Xianzhou took away almost all the near-immortal forces in the Xianzhou. According to Zhong Daogong's description, the power of this Jiyuan Ice Dust when it exploded was not much weaker than that of a true immortal, so it was normal for Shang Xianzhou to choose it.
The focus is on the three items left by Sun Piaomiao.
"I don't seem to have seen these things in the secret collection of Baiwen Xianlu before? Could it be that they have also gone to Shang Xianzhou?" Li Fan asked with a frown.
Zhong Daogong smiled and said, "That's not the case. These three items are still in my Xuanxianzhou collection. It's just that what you visited before was only the surface of the secret collection. These items should be on the second level of the secret collection."
Li Fan was not annoyed, but asked jokingly: "It sounds like there is a third and fourth floor."
"The deepest part is the third floor. You also know that it was stolen by outsiders back then, but it was just a necessary preventive measure." Zhong Daogong looked calm, without the slightest embarrassment.
Li Fan didn't dwell on this matter anymore and his eyes fell on Sun Piaomiao's three relics.
The style of the model is very similar to that of the puppet with dangling hands.
One of them is a gray bird with broken wings. Although its wings are broken, it still holds its head high and sings its hooves.
The second is the three-branched tree. At the end of the branches, there are not leaves but countless miniature trees.
As for the third item, it was something Li Fan was very familiar with. It was a small tripod, and its appearance was almost exactly the same as the Medicine King Tripod of the Medicine King Sect!
"This Sun Piaomiao doesn't look like a peerless powerful person. But the gift he gave actually contains the power to compete with the outside of the high wall..." Li Fan's tone was inexplicable.
Zhong Daogong said in a deep voice: "In the era when Sun Piaomiao lived, the path to immortality was not cut off. There were even records of true immortals descending to the mortal world. Although judging from the records of Sun Piaomiao's companions in the Immortal Boat, his strength is only at the peak of the Hedao level, but we cannot rule out the possibility that he is hiding his strength."
Li Fan nodded slightly.
But he did not express his guess.
Sun Piaomiao was able to cross the starry sky alone and return safely, so his strength is naturally unquestionable.
But it is certain that he failed to ascend to heaven.
During the long ancient times in the world of immortal cultivation, all the records of those who ascended to become immortals were inexplicably erased and no records can be found.
This is what is called a true immortal without a name.
Perhaps only someone like Mo Rubin, who witnessed the old and new eras, could remember the ascension and fall of the founder of Jiulian Temple, Master Miaofa, through word of mouth.
Firstly, the descendants of Yaowang Sect did not mention the fact that the founder Sun Piaomiao ascended to immortality. Even Sun Piaomiao's final fate was unclear. Did he die of old age, die suddenly, or disappear inexplicably? The records about Sun Piaomiao only lasted until he returned from his travels in the starry sky. After that, there was no more information.
Secondly, Sun Piaomiao did not only exist in the records of the Medicine King Sect. Many classics in the Xuanhuang Realm mentioned this peerless strong man who saved the world and founded the Medicine King lineage. His existence had not been erased.
"When Sun Piaomiao crossed the starry sky, he wanted to travel deeper, but he discovered some special features of the starry sky where the Xuanhuang Realm is located, and finally turned back..."
"Are you unwilling or unable?"
Just as Li Fan was thinking, Zhong Daogong spoke again: "These three items left by Sun Piaomiao are the same as the puppet with dangling hands that you chose before. Although Xianzhou has carefully examined them, nothing special was found. But since they all came from Sun Piaomiao, maybe they are hiding some secrets..."
Li Fan did not answer, and the other elders became restless.
"Why don't you go and have a look!"
Li Fan looked at Zhong Daogong indifferently.
Zhong Daogong smiled slightly: "Based on your contribution during this period, I don't think any elder will object to entering the second level of the Baiwen Xianlu secret collection."
Not long after, Li Fan followed the elders and entered the second level of Baiwen Xianlu.
Compared to the first-floor space, this place is obviously much smaller.
All the treasures were sealed in balls of light. The balls were colorful and floating in the air.
The means of protection are not formations, not prohibitions, nor the seal characters of the true immortals.
Li Fan squinted his eyes and looked at the treasure light balls all over the sky, and faintly felt a hint of life from them.
"These balls of light... are alive?"
Zhong Daogong nodded and praised: "Your intuition is really sharp!"
"Yes, the one guarding the second floor of the treasure house is none other than a magical creature: the Sky Starlight Lotus. This creature was extremely rare even when the star sea was flourishing. Its dreamy brilliance covers most of the star field, weaving into the shape of a dreamy lotus. When the flower blooms, the star field is enveloped in brilliant light; when the flower falls, the star field falls into dead silence and darkness."
"Whenever a world in the star field falls into destruction, lotus seeds will form in the light lotus. This has happened over billions of years, over and over again... This is how the light balls before our eyes were formed."
As Li Fan listened to Zhong Daogong's explanation, the grand scene that took place in the ancient starry sea seemed to appear before his eyes.
"Back then, Shang Xianzhou took away a lot of treasures. This Sky Starlight Lotus is one of the most valuable ones left behind."
"The treasure is sealed in the lotus seed and cannot be taken out easily. If you want to take it by brute force..."
Zhong Daogong snorted coldly: "Unless the entire Sky Star Light Lotus is destroyed! This spiritual creature is parasitic on the sea of stars. It has experienced countless disasters and is still alive. If you want to destroy it, you must have the power of an immortal!"
“Besides, we have tested it before. Even if we use the power of the True Immortal Seal, we cannot destroy it in a short time.” The elders of Xianzhou are obviously very confident in the protection of the Sky Starlight Lotus.
Li Fan's thoughts flashed through his mind: "In the last life, under the formation of the return of all things to emptiness, this Sky Star Light Lotus didn't seem to be able to struggle for long."
"Now I don't even need to use the Immortal Formation, the Dust Reduction Finger can destroy it. However, it is easy to destroy, but it is indeed difficult to take out the things stored in the lotus seed."
The elders of the Immortal Boat were naturally unaware of Li Fan's dangerous thoughts, and they worked together to open the ball of light that contained Sun Piaomiao's three relics.
All eyes were focused on the three treasures.
Li Fan's heart moved slightly. He felt a real movement from the three-pronged tree, just like the puppet with dangling hands.
However, he did not say anything and observed carefully with the elders of the Immortal Boat.
The broken-winged gray bird and the second Medicine King Cauldron did not seem to contain any special powers.
"Guarding against disasters and suffering...similar to the projection of Tao. Sun Piaomiao is indeed not simple."
"And this ability has not been passed on to the Medicine King Sect."
Li Fan's eyes flashed, and he suppressed his eager intention to absorb it.
"Everyone, have you found anything?" After observing for a long time, Zhong Daogong asked.
"I can't see anything strange about it. But it is true that these things give me a very strange feeling." Lu Yuzhi's speech was echoed by a group of elders.
If you don't know the abnormalities of these three items, you won't think there is anything wrong at first glance.
But if you observe it after knowing it, you will feel a sense of disharmony.
If only one or two people feel this way, then it can be explained as an illusion.
However, all the more than ten elders present felt the same way...
Then it's definitely not just an illusion.
(End of this chapter)
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