Chapter 173: Jade Jane asks for a monthly ticket)
Chen Luo gently dusted off the dust on the books. Seeing the words "Demon Subduing" written on the cover, he moved his heart and wanted to pick it up and read it, but as soon as he tried his best, the books that had already decayed were broken into residues.
Seeing this, he could only shake his head helplessly.
Chen Luo walked out of the stone chamber, continued to move forward along the corridor, and inspected the disciples' houses along the way one by one. It turned out that the situation inside was almost the same, and it seemed that they were just the most ordinary outer disciples in Fangcunshan gathered.
After leaving this disciple's house, he went to the bottom of this mountain wall and entered a lush woodland.
The winding paths in the forest are secluded, and a small path of stone paths flooded in weeds extends into it.
Shen Luo walked inward along the path, and only then did he see that there were independent courtyards distributed along the way, but most of them had collapsed and were charred on it, as if after a fire, they had become ruins.
After walking through more than a dozen small courtyards in forests, the stone path began to extend to the right and fell not far from a fork in the road. I saw a courtyard that was still intact.
It is said that it is complete, but compared with the ruins before, the gate of the courtyard has completely collapsed. Although the two-story attic is still standing tenaciously, a big hole was smashed on the roof.
When Shen Luo walked into the yard, he saw that the ground was filled with pits and bumps, and there were building residues flying from nowhere. There were both beams and pillars of the houses, as well as broken eaves, and a mess.
"Far from a distance, it looks like a paradise like a house. When you look closer, you will find that there are ruins everywhere. It is obvious that you have experienced a tragic war many years ago, but why didn't you see a corpse in the past half day? I don't know if you can find some things left by your ancestors." Chen Luo was confused and had a hint of expectation.
He stepped over a broken ridge, walked to the attic, and pushed open the door with his hand.
The door of the house that had not been opened for a long time made a slight "creak" sound, opening inward, causing a burst of dust.
Chen Luo raised his hand and covered his mouth and nose to walk into the house, but he saw that the furnishings were as usual, which was no different from ordinary families. In the middle was a narrow hall with a landscape scroll hanging on the wall, which had been decayed and broken.
There is a living room on each side of the main hall, with beds, tables and chairs inside, but they are all decayed and ragged. There are also clusters of weeds growing in the gaps between the blue bricks on the ground, which looks very desolate and dilapidated.
Chen Luo originally wanted to look for it, but there were things in the house about this place, but he couldn't find anything.
He walked around the back of the main hall and followed a dilapidated wooden ladder to the second floor of the attic.
There is only one single house on the second floor of the attic. As soon as I entered, I saw a bronze bell with a mouth height of one person embedded on the floor inside the house. It looked like the culprit that smashed the roof into a big hole.
He walked closer, but saw that the clock was engraved with a piece of text, decorated with balls of flowers and brocade patterns around him, looking very exquisite, so he silently recited according to these words:
"The universe is covered with the world, but benevolence is the people, the sun and the moon are back and forth, and the great merits are not given to the world. The Tao is reborn and separated, and the temple is built, the gods are blessed and silently supported, and the rituals are practiced, praying for the heaven and earth to avoid disasters..."
After reading the whole article, Chen Luo understood that the words engraved on the bell were a Taoist prayer for blessings. Although the number of words was not large, the intention was very large. The sentence "Pray for the heaven and earth to cure disasters" shows that his spirit is broad.
When he went around to the other side and looked, he saw a rather wide palm print above the clock body. The lines on the belly of the fingers and palms were clearly visible, and you could tell that it was the palm of the human race at a glance.
"Huh, what is this?"
At this moment, Chen Luo screamed slightly strangely, leaned over his head and looked at the palm print carefully, and found that there was a piece of white foreign object in its fingers and index fingers, which was very different from the bronze color of the clock body.
But this thing seems to penetrate the body of the clock and be embedded in it. If you don’t pay attention, it will be difficult to find it.
Chen Luo raised his hand and touched it, and found that the thing was a bit cold, as if it was some kind of jade.
He clamped the micro-tail end of the white foreign object with two fingers and pulled it out with force, but found that the part of the thing was exposed was too little and there was no force at all.
Chen Luo thought for a moment, took a deep breath, and the yang energy in his body was circulating. A Qingyang hand slapped the bronze bell handprint with a "bang", trying to shock it with palm power.
However, under this blow, the clock body made a dull sound. The white foreign object not only did not shake out, but instead shrank inward a little, almost level with the palm print.
Chen Luo frowned slightly, picked up his palm again, used all his strength, and slapped it down suddenly.
"Bang..."
A muffled sound with a slight echo sound came out, and the white foreign object that had just retracted inward was suddenly reversed by this force and shot out like a short arrow.
Shen Luo's eyes were quick and his hands were quick, and he grabbed it in his hand.
However, at this time, the copper bell that had been embedded in the floor suddenly sank, directly smashing a big hole in the floor, and then sinking into the main hall on the first floor.
The smoke and dust suddenly rose in the room, sinking all over the body, and got up from the ground in a little embarrassed manner, and staggered outside the room.
As soon as he left the house, the two attics collapsed.
Shen Luo patted the dust on his body and walked to the yard. He turned around and looked at the collapsed attic. He sat on a broken roof with his butt, spread his palms and looked at the palm.
I saw a narrow jade slip lying in the middle of his palm, about three inches long and one inch wide, as white as mutton fat. It was as smooth as silk and had no modifications. It looked nothing strange.
But Chen Luo felt that this object was deliberately embedded in the bronze bell and knocked down here. It was obviously a treasure that he cherished, and it was absolutely impossible to be just an ordinary object.
"Is it a magic weapon?" He said in his heart, and the magic power in the dantian in his body had already been adjusted and flowed into the jade slip along the meridians in his hand.
The moment the white jade slip was filled with magic power, the fluorescent flashed inside and became more and more transparent.
But after waiting for a while, the Jade Shop was still like this, without any other changes, neither the slightest magic fluctuation came out of it, nor the reaction when any magic weapon was driven.
Seeing this situation, Chen Luo still did not give up. He immediately sat cross-legged, put the jade slip in his palm, and silently recited the Nine-Nine Treasure Refining Art in his heart.
However, after a lot of trouble, the jade slip still did not change at all, and there was no reaction to the treasure refining technique.
"Is it really just an ordinary thing?" Chen Luo said with a disappointed look on his face and depressed.
After thinking for a while, he suddenly remembered something, slapped his forehead, and then a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Chapter completed!