Chapter 26: Mysterious Token.
Chapter 26
The water in the pond is icy to the touch, like putting your hand into ice water in June, with an indescribable comfort in the coolness.
Bu Xingjin extinguished the torch, took a deep breath, and jumped into the pool.
It was a dark night, and the lake was also pitch black. Only a grain of light as small as a rice grain could be seen from the bottom, guiding Bu Xingjin in the direction.
The water became colder the deeper he went, and Bu Xingjin felt like he had swum from summer to winter. The original comfort was replaced by cold, and his hands and feet gradually began to feel stiff and numb.
The closer the distance got, the more the rice-grain-sized light began to change, and slowly the light became brighter and brighter. When Bu Xingjin swam closer, he found that this was a cave entrance that could accommodate one person, and the light was coming from the other side of the cave entrance.
Bu Xingjin didn't think much and swam out through the cave.
The scene before my eyes suddenly went from pitch black to bright.
Unlike the increasingly cold water here, the water over there is adaptable and maintains a basically consistent temperature from top to bottom.
Bu Xingjin emerged from the water, looked around, and found the shore first, then moved from the water to the land.
The moment Bu Xingjin left the water, all the water droplets on his clothes rolled off, and his whole body became dry again.
This is a small valley, and you can see the end of the surrounding area at a glance. The valley is shaded by green trees and blooming flowers, and it is as beautiful as a painting.
It was daytime in the valley, completely different from the night outside.
Bu Xingjin was very sure that it was still night because his sign-in task had not been refreshed yet. It was not that he took a long time to swim in until dawn the next day, but that the inside and outside were indeed different.
Bu Xingjin didn't know what caused this situation, and he didn't have time to study this problem for the time being. He was very anxious now. At a rough glance, he didn't seem to see the good things that the little turtle mentioned.
Just as Bu Xingjin was about to ask the little turtle, the little turtle, who had been staying on his shoulder the entire time, not even moving when he was in the water, as if it were an ornament on his clothes, spoke first: "Don't worry, although this valley is very secretive, the thing I'm talking about is in an even more secret place."
The little turtle mysteriously jumped up from Bu Xingjin's shoulder, floating in front as if swimming in the air, leading the way.
Seeing the little turtle's performance, Bu Xingjin couldn't help but feel a little hope. Could it be that this time he could finally find the treasure of heaven and earth?
With disbelief in his heart, Bu Xingjin followed the little turtle.
The little turtle identified as he walked, and finally after Bu Xingjin dug a few holes on the ground, he finally dug up something.
Bu Xingjin felt something was wrong when the little turtle instructed him to start digging a hole in the ground. When the things were really dug out, he looked at the wooden box with mixed feelings. He was a little happy, but not ecstatic.
I was happy because I finally found the first good thing after entering the secret realm. The thing I picked up in the lake where I met the little turtle doesn’t count for the time being, because I haven’t figured out what it does and can’t tell whether it’s a good thing or not.
The reason why he was not so happy was that this thing did not look like the kind of natural treasure that the little tree needed.
He still didn't achieve the purpose of this trip.
The little turtle didn't see Bu Xingjin's complicated facial expression. It urged Bu Xingjin to quickly open the wooden box and take out the things inside.
The wooden box was made of a special material; a gentle shake immediately caused any dirt to fall off, leaving it as pristine as new. Its color was purple with a hint of black, and despite being buried deep in the earth for who knows how many years, it still showed no sign of decay.
The wooden box was unlocked, tightly closed as if it were a whole. Bu Xingjin followed the intricate patterns on the box's surface and gently opened it.
A golden light flashed, and after it dimmed, Bu Xingjin could see clearly what was inside the wooden box.
It was a long and narrow golden leaf, with veins clearly visible on the leaf like a specimen, and it was as thin as a cicada's wing.
"What's this?"
Bu Xingjin took out the leaf and held it in his hand to look at it. The leaf was very light and felt like a ball of mist, as if he could crush it with a little force.
"This isn't a leaf."
The little turtle swam closer and landed back on Bu Xingjin's shoulder.
"This is a keepsake."
Token?
Bu Xingjin asked the little turtle again but it refused to say anything more, so he had no choice but to put it back into the wooden box and put it into his backpack.
After getting the item, Bu Xingjin looked at this strange valley and pondered the reason for its formation. It was night outside and day inside. How could this be possible?
unless……
One of the two is fake.
It definitely wasn't the case outside, because he had experienced the process from white to black, so the problem could only be in this valley.
Thinking of this, Bu Xingjin suddenly looked up at the sky.
He had checked the ground and found nothing wrong, so the problem could only be up there.
Bu Xingjin stared at the unchanging sky, and only then realized that there was something wrong with the sky.
After coming in, he focused all his attention on searching for treasures on the ground and did not even look up at the sky, otherwise he would have realized that something was wrong with the sky.
There are no clouds in the sky, and staring at it gives you a somewhat oppressive feeling. It doesn't feel as high and vast as the real sky, but rather like being in a narrow room.
Bu Xingjin tried to climb up.
He came to the edge of the valley, and while the little turtle was wondering, he tried to climb up the cliff.
I tried, but didn't take a single step.
It was as if there was some invisible rule that made this cliff impossible to climb.
"Did you find the problem?"
Only then did the little turtle realize what Bu Xingjin wanted to do.
"You can't go up. Someone has placed a restriction here. Unless your cultivation is higher than the other party and you can break the restriction, you won't be able to touch the sky."
"Do you know what's going on?"
After hearing the little turtle's words, Bu Xingjin stopped trying to climb and asked.
"Come back when you have a higher level of cultivation. There is a good thing up there, but you can't get it now."
The little turtle said so.
High level of cultivation?
Bu Xingjin was a little confused. Only those with a cultivation level not exceeding the Foundation Establishment Stage could enter here.
Thinking of this, Bu Xingjin asked unconsciously.
"But I heard that anyone with a cultivation level above the Foundation Establishment Stage cannot enter here."
"That's because you entered through the wrong portal. There are other ways to enter here that don't restrict your cultivation level."
The little turtle answered casually.
Bu Xingjin only realized at this moment how powerful the little turtle was. The things he said casually were secret knowledge that no one knew if they were spread out.
He didn't ask any more questions, just remembering to come back and investigate again when his cultivation level was higher.
Bu Xingjin jumped into the water and returned to the outside.
After coming out of the icy pool, it was still pitch dark outside. Bu Xingjin took out the flame stone and injected spiritual power into it.
The light brought by the flames finally allowed Bu Xingjin to see things. He walked to the side and found the wooden stick that had been extinguished and lit it.
After all this trouble, it was already past midnight, and the fifth-day sign-in task in Bu Xingjin's system had been refreshed.
He opened it and took a look.
The check-in task on the fifth day was to walk ten kilometers.
It's quite simple.
It just so happened that he also had to travel around looking for rare treasures.
Bu Xingjin closed the system panel and prepared to open it from time to time after walking for a while to see if the task had been completed without him noticing.
After finding something, the little turtle confidently continued to direct him to the next location.
Then he failed three times in a row.
The three places pointed out by the little turtle are all similar to the thousand-year-old green Ganoderma lucidum at the beginning. The place where they grow is neither hidden nor not hidden. As long as you are nearby, you can easily detect it.
Bu Xingjin guessed that because of this reason, they had probably been picked by someone.
It was already dawn, and Bu Xingjin, who had been running around all night, decided to sit down and rest.
The system's sign-in task had been completed long ago, but he still obtained 1 broken ancient rune fragment. The 5 broken ancient rune fragments were automatically pieced together, and it was obvious that only two pieces were needed to complete the whole thing.
Bu Xingjin sat on the ground and chatted with the little turtle.
"Little grass spirit, why are you carrying a tree?"
The little turtle looked curiously at the small tree in the bamboo basket beside Bu Xingjin's waist. It had always wanted to ask, but had never found the opportunity. Now it finally asked.
Moreover, no matter how it looked left and right, it felt that this small tree was not an ordinary tree. It must have suffered a terrible thunder tribulation and its realm had fallen to this level.
"This is my good friend." Bu Xingjin defined the relationship between the two. No matter what Xiaoshu thought, he considered them friends. "He was injured while trying to save me. The main reason I came here to search for natural treasures was to treat his injuries."
After a day of spending time together, Bu Xingjin felt that the little turtle had no ill will towards him and was genuinely interested in taking him to find natural treasures. So he revealed the reasons he hadn't mentioned before.
"Oh." The little turtle suddenly understood. No wonder he didn't look so happy when he was in the valley before.
"Don't worry, leave it to me. I will definitely lead you to find it."
The little turtle patted his chest and made a promise. He looked extremely cute while doing the action.
"Then I'll leave it to you." Bu Xingjin laughed and casually asked about it, "How did you get here, senior?"
"I?"
"I was just looking for a place to sleep. This place looked nice, so I came in."
Bu Xingjin felt that this was definitely not the reason, or at least it was not just this reason, it was just that the little turtle didn't say it.
Bu Xingjin smiled and said tentatively, "So that's how it is. I thought you were on some mission, Senior?"
"Mission?" The little turtle looked confused. "I'm just a turtle. How can I
What's the mission?"
Bu Xingjin didn't say anything, and the little turtle didn't know whether he believed it or not.
The man and the turtle stopped talking. After a while of silence, a fragrant smell wafted in from somewhere.
"broken."
The little turtle flew up from Bu Xingjin's shoulder and disappeared without a trace in an instant.
Bu Xingjin discovered that the direction it disappeared was exactly where the fragrance came from.
What's that smell? Why is the little turtle rushing over?
Bu Xingjin was confused. He quickly stood up and ran towards the place where the fragrance came from.
Along the way, he found that many monsters and animals were moving like crazy towards the place where the fragrance came from.
He also met many people. Almost half of the people who entered this secret realm smelled the fragrance. Unlike Bu Xingjin, they knew nothing. It was precisely because they knew what the fragrance meant that they were even more crazy.
After smelling the fragrance, almost everyone immediately put down what they were doing and rushed over there, fearing that they would be too late and get nothing.
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