Chapter 030 The Stone Tablet Appears
"...Look here and here. Although they seem to be similar to the data from the previous few days and are all fluctuating within a certain range, a careful analysis will reveal that this set of data has no connection with the previous data and there is no pattern between them. Moreover, the values of this set of displayed attributes are not right either. Compared with the other data, it appears to be much more 'crazy'."
Fang Xiuwen pointed at the red data on the virtual screen and explained to Duan Shi seriously, "Combined with Senior Qiao Ji and Xiao Liu's induction, we are 100% sure that there is something there." He pointed to the steep rock wall a little further away.
"That's great!" Duan Shi couldn't help but shout out loud.
His voice attracted the others who were watching. They gathered in twos and threes and stared at the core researchers with eyes that concealed excitement.
Duan Shi took a deep breath, and under everyone's expectant gaze, he couldn't help but excitedly announced: "We found the place!"
The hope was confirmed and everyone cheered happily. Liang Hang, in particular, howled the loudest, scaring away a flock of nearby birds.
Chu Yi, wearing Qiao Ji's vest, also showed an excited smile. She was happy for everyone's efforts. When she placed the stone tablet here, the mechanism she set up was still very hidden. Being able to discover the abnormality within just a few days showed that they had put in a lot of effort.
After being happy for a while, Fang Xiuwen became distressed again. He scratched his head and looked at Liu Jimeng, "Xiao Liu, do you have any way to crack these..." He stretched out his hand and gestured at the stone wall, "Are there any ways to crack these things?"
Faced with everyone's expectant eyes, Liu Jimeng couldn't help but feel a little pressured.
When she just came down, Qiao Ji said that the dragon veins gathered in this area, which had a natural suppression on her. Her strength in the Nascent Soul stage was mostly suppressed, and it was a bit difficult for her to get close to the dragon veins, let alone other things.
According to her, if ghost cultivators like them wanted to attack the dragon veins, at best they would be haunted by karma, and at worst their souls would be destroyed. Although the dragon veins also suppress demon cultivators, Liu Jimeng is a half-demon, not a complete demon, so the dragon veins will not have much impact on her.
So these days Qiao Ji has been conducting reconnaissance in a place far away from the dragon vein, and the experts and Liu Jimeng are mainly responsible here.
Now that the location has been determined, it is indeed on the dragon vein, so it is impossible for Qiao Ji to take action.
Although he was very unconfident, Liu Jimeng still racked his brains to search the inheritance in his memory, trying to find a way to break the impasse.
“Got it!”
Suddenly, she shouted excitedly, her eyes shining brightly.
Fang Xiuwen and Duan Shi asked in unison: "How do we solve this problem?!"
"Let me sort out the language."
Liu Jimeng half closed his eyes, called up the relevant information in his mind, and sorted out the logic.
After organizing her thoughts, she walked to the stone wall, placed her hands on it, and concentrated on sensing something.
Seeing her cautious look, everyone held their breath and did not dare to disturb her at this time.
After a while, she said, "Combining the inherited memories, this place is just covered by an ordinary barrier, not very profound. I should be able to break it with a little time."
Duan Shi frowned, feeling that something was not right. I thought this place had a direct connection with the Dragon King, but it seems that this is not the case.
Fang Xiuwen had the same doubt. In his opinion, this place shouldn't be as easy to crack as Liu Jimeng said.
"Xiao Liu, is this barrier really easy to break? For what level of cultivators it is easy to break?" Being able to break it during the fusion stage and being able to break it during the combination stage are completely different.
Liu Jimeng also knew that this was not right, but her inherited memory did tell her so, "It is indeed very easy. It may be a little difficult during the fusion period, but it can be done by spending a little more time."
"...That's not right..."
Fang Xiuwen frowned. It was so easy. Could this place be related to the Dragon King?
But no matter how we explored in the past few days, we didn't find anything extra anywhere else except here.
Seeing that things had come to a stalemate, Duan Shi had no choice but to turn around and look at Qiao Ji who was floating far in the air, placing his hopes on this experienced senior.
"Senior, have you ever understood this situation? Why is it like this?"
Hearing his question, Qiao Ji thought for a moment and said in an uncertain tone: "I'm not really sure either."
When the others saw that there might be a clue here, they all turned their attention to her.
Qiao Ji recalled and said, "I once accidentally learned that in order to find a suitable successor, the powerful people of the human race would open up a trial secret realm and set up many levels for those who are destined to challenge. If you are able to break through the levels, you can obtain the inheritance of the powerful. The entrance to the secret realm is usually covered by this not very deep barrier, which serves as the first level to test all the cultivators who want to challenge it."
The more people listened, the more familiar it became, and finally they realized that this was the most commonly used routine in novels.
But when he thought of the novel, Liang Hang had a bold guess, and he suddenly shouted, "Boss!"
Duan Shi was originally deep in thought, and was startled by his sudden shout. He glanced at the smiling Liang Hang unhappily and replied unhappily, "What?"
Liang Hang didn't mind not getting Duan Shi's favorable response.
He walked past the people in front of him and came to their side. He scanned the stone wall up and down and expressed his guess: "Boss and Teacher Fang, do you think this could be an entrance or a token or something?"
Combined with what Qiao Ji just said, everyone obviously thought his guess was interesting.
Seeing that they listened carefully, Liang Hang was very happy. "Because Sister Liu said that this place is very easy to crack, even if it takes some time for the fusion stage, it can be done. Obviously, the Dragon King can't be here. But Senior Qiao Ji also said that this Dragon King is known as the guardian of the human race, so is there such a possibility..."
Liu Jimeng continued thoughtfully, "This is a test left by the Dragon Lord. Open the barrier and there will be a secret realm behind. Or is it the key to find him?"
"That's right! That's exactly what I meant." Liang Hang snapped his fingers and agreed.
Fang Xiuwen had never read any novels, but he thought about this idea carefully and found that it was indeed possible and the logic was very smooth.
Meng Zhengqi and Yu Gaoyuan couldn't help but rush over, and each of them gave Liang Hang a very strong slap in the face, "You are really good, you have a very flexible mind."
Liang Hang was so proud of receiving praise from his comrades that his chin almost lifted to the sky.
"That's right. I haven't read all those fantasy novels in vain." Now let's see who dares to say that he is uneducated for reading novels.
"Okay, in that case, then Xiao Liu." Fang Xiuwen asked Liu Jimeng, "You must break the barrier here as soon as possible and see what is hidden behind it."
Liu Jimeng nodded without further ado, sat down cross-legged on the spot and began to meditate. He followed the method in his memory and began to explore the barrier, looking for a way to break it.
Everyone tacitly agreed to slow down their movements and minimize any noise that might disturb her.
Chu Yi was floating in the air, seemingly protecting the Dharma seriously, but in fact he had been distracted for a long time.
She thought of the use of the blood of the red spider lily demon to open Liu Jimeng's bloodline inheritance. That was actually a gamble, a bet on whether the inherited memory would be opened when the half-demon awakened again after the inheritance was cut off.
Because if the non-human race awakens without inherited memories, it will have a great impact on her plans.
But it was impossible for her to make one up herself. Not to mention the problem of workload, if there was any mistake in the logic, she would have to find ways to make up for it.
So one of the reasons why she chose Liu Jimeng was that she was only a half-demon, and it didn't matter if she didn't have any inherited memories after awakening. If not, she still has time to find a way to fill this gap.
Fortunately, the Lord God is worthy of being a divine creature created by the saints together. The golden finger given to her has already perfected all the loopholes and will not cause trouble for her in this regard.
On Liu Jimeng's side, she explored the barrier step by step according to the methods in her memory, feeling every change in the barrier's energy. Finally, after the power of the barrier had circulated for who knows how many times, she found a way to break it.
She was instantly energized, opened her eyes abruptly, and quickly formed spells with her hands, gathering all the spiritual power in her body and attacking the barrier.
After the spell was cast, everyone saw a circle of faint golden ripples appear on the originally ordinary stone wall.
The ripples grew larger and more noticeable. At first, everyone had to concentrate to see them, but after a few seconds, even the soldier standing farthest away could see the changes.
Everyone held their breath unconsciously, fearing that this change would be affected.
As the ripples spread, a circular translucent barrier glowing with golden light appeared before everyone's eyes.
Due to the interference of the golden light and ripples, no one can see clearly what is inside the barrier. We can only judge from the size of this barrier that this may be an entrance.
Because the size of the barrier is just slightly larger than a person, although it may be a bit tight, it should be no problem for a thin person to pass through.
Fang Xiuwen and Duan Shi both believed that this was the entrance to a space.
However, after seeing it with his own eyes, Liang Hang had a different opinion.
He felt that this size was not only the entrance to the space, but also looked like something else. Seeing the things in the barrier becoming clearer and clearer, he looked at the black silhouette that went from blurry to clear, and couldn't help muttering to himself, "This looks a bit like a stone tablet..."
Since one could hear a pin drop at the scene, he thought his guess, which was whispered quietly, was actually heard by everyone.
Everyone couldn't help but compare the silhouette and found that Liang Hang's guess this time was very likely correct.
"......"
Then everyone stopped looking at the barrier and focused on studying Liang Hang. Is this kid's mouth blessed? I got it right every time.
"I'm really just guessing! He doesn't have any special abilities! And he doesn't have any mutations!" Seeing Fang Xiuwen's eyes that seemed to want to dissect him, and Duan Shi's gaze that seemed to have discovered a new world, Liang Hang felt something was wrong.
Seeing him trying desperately to explain, Fang Xiuwen sighed with a hint of regret, not knowing what he was regretting.
Frightened by them like this, Liang Hang didn't dare to speak casually. He used his hand as if it were a zipper, slid it across his mouth, and automatically stopped talking.
Seeing him do this, Duan Shi rolled his eyes. This kid deserves to be taught a lesson.
After a slight relaxation, everyone's attention turned back to the barrier.
At this time, the things inside the barrier could be seen clearly. Although the words on it were still invisible, the shape was indeed a stone tablet.
After waiting for another ten seconds, the barrier disappeared completely after a flash, leaving only a huge ancient stone tablet quietly floating in the air.
After waiting for a while and seeing that there were no subsequent changes, several experts squeezed aside the stone, came close to the stone tablet, and carefully studied this magical tablet.
Fang Xiuwen looked at it for a while and then frowned and walked away, and several experts did the same.
"What's wrong, Teacher Fang?" Duan Shi was confused. Did he figure it out?
"......" Fang Xiuwen pushed his glasses awkwardly, "The characters are too ancient, we can't understand them."
"......"
The scene was a bit awkward for a moment and no one spoke.
After all, no one could have imagined that they would find a stone tablet, and it was an extremely ancient stone tablet that no one could understand.
Duan Shi didn't expect this to happen. He coughed, looked around, found Qiao Ji, walked over and asked, "Excuse me, senior, can you understand these words?"
Qiao Ji stared at the words on the stone tablet for a long time, and finally shook her head at him regretfully, "This text is not from my time, it should be even older, and I have not studied it."
Duan Shi had no choice but to raise his wrist, call out the virtual screen, and start dialing.
A second later, the call was answered from the other end, and the virtual screen turned into the other party's projection. It was Ye Caiying.
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