Ye Tian heard the sound of the sheepskin drum before, but he didn't see anything. Now he took the drum in his hand and looked at it, and he was stunned.
"A magic weapon, this is actually a magic weapon?!"
The fluctuations of spiritual energy contained in the drum made Ye Tian immediately conclude that the sheepskin drum was a magic weapon. However, the fluctuations of spiritual energy were a bit strange, completely different from what Ye Tian knew.
The vitality mentioned by Taoists refers to the two qi of yin and yang between heaven and earth, but the spiritual energy in this drum has absolutely nothing to do with the qi of yin and yang, but it gives people a wild and primitive feeling.
Generally, the body of a sheepskin drum is made of wood, but this one is made of bronze and is very heavy in the hand.
There are also some figures engraved on the drum, including a group of naked primitive people, who seem to be worshiping something, and there are also some patterns of flowers, birds, plants and trees.
With the light of the fire not far away, Hu Hongde also saw the object in Ye Tian's hand and said, "Ye Tian, what's wrong? This drum belongs to Blind Meng. Maybe it was thrown here just now?"
Hu Hongde had seen this bronze drum decades ago and knew that it was used by Meng Xiazi, a great dance master. He and Meng Xiazi had always been inseparable, so it was not strange to see it here.
"This thing is a bit weird, like a magic weapon from the Qi Sect, but a little different." Hu Hongde was half a member of the Qi Sect, and Ye Tian didn't want to keep this drum as his own without telling him.
"A magical weapon? A magical weapon of shamanism?"
Hu Hongde heard the name of the magic weapon, took the drum in his hand and looked it over, shook his head and threw it to Ye Tian, saying: "I won't use this thing, Ye Tian, if you find it useful, just keep it!"
"Okay, this thing can be studied 1"
Ye Tian stretched out his index finger and flicked the drum head lightly, and then a dull voice sounded, "This leather is not sheepskin. Old Hu, do you know what kind of leather this is?"
"I don't know. The skin must be old. I can't tell what it is."
What surprised Ye Tian was that Hu Hongde, who was very familiar with this mountain, shook his head and knew nothing about the origin of this drum skin.
"It should be something passed down from shamanism."
Ye Tian took the drum and struck it with some strength. Suddenly, a thick and dull sound sounded in the forest.
At the same time, the ancient atmosphere in the drum seemed to overflow outwards, and the aura of heaven and earth tens of meters around Ye Tian suddenly became somewhat similar to the bronze drum.
But it didn't take long, just a few seconds, for the spiritual energy to gradually dissipate. When Ye Tian came back to his senses, the world returned to normal.
"It should be the blessing of a spell to condense those auras. This so-called invitation to the great god is actually the spiritual energy in this drum, but where does this spiritual energy come from?"
Holding this bronze drum, Ye Tian fell into deep thought. Thinking of Meng Xiazi's previous singing, Ye Tian's heart suddenly brightened. Perhaps those spells were ways to attract strange spiritual energy.
It's just that once Blind Meng died, the spell was lost. As for whether the "Da Shen Tune" sung by those swindlers in the three eastern provinces had this effect, Ye Tian didn't know.
"Hey, Ye Tian, there's a bell here. I saw Blind Meng wearing it before!"
When Zheng Yetian was exploring the mysteries of the bronze drum, Hu Hongde's voice rang out. In his hand, there was a bell the size of a baby's fist. He shook it casually and made a crisp sound of "ding bell".
"This...this is actually a magic weapon?"
Seeing this bell, Ye Tian's brain was a little short-circuited. It was a rare magic weapon in Qimen, but he actually encountered two of them one after another today.
"Then I'm useless, just keep it!" Hu Hongde threw the bell to Ye Tian.
Taking the bell and looking at it briefly, Ye Tian showed a trace of hesitation on his face, but he still said: "Old Hu, this thing has the effect of attracting souls, but it can also calm the mind and block some evil spirits. Hang it up.
Being in Hu Xiaoxian's room will be of great benefit to her."
This bell is made of purple gold, but its age is much different than that of the bronze drum, and it contains the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Although it is also extremely precious, in Ye Tian's eyes, the value of this bell is far less than that of the bronze drum.
Ye Tian was very satisfied with the bronze drum he received during this trip. The bell had little effect on him. Hu Xiaoxian had lost a lot of energy recently. Hanging the bell in the room could attract good luck and avoid bad luck and nourish her body.
"Oh, there is such an effect? Then I will accept it!" Hu Xiaoxian was Hu Hongde's heart, so after hearing Ye Tian's words, he did not refuse and took the bell.
"Old Hu, what do you think Blind Meng was doing standing here just now?"
After packing up the bells and drums, Ye Tian stood where Meng Xiazi was standing just now. However, except for a convex rock in front of him, there was snow, which was no different from other places.
"Ye Tian, please step aside. I'll take a look." Hu Hongde noticed something was wrong. After Ye Tian stepped aside, he reached out and knocked on the rock wall in front of him.
"Dong...dong dong..."
When Hu Hongde pushed aside the snow on the protruding rock, cleared away some dead branches clinging to it, and knocked it on the buried rock wall, there was a "dong-dong" sound when it was knocked on the wooden board.
"Is the back empty?!" Ye Tian and Hu Hongde were stunned and said in unison: "Is there a cave inside?"
"Just look at it and you'll find out."
Hu Hongde started groping on the rock. After a while, he grabbed both ends of the rock with both hands and pulled outwards. He forcefully removed a wooden board about one meter long and wide, and a hole appeared.
In front of the two of them.
"There is air circulation in this place, it's not a cave." After the cave entrance was exposed, a warm breeze blew out from inside. There was no rotten smell like air that had not been seen for a long time.
"Let's go in and take a look!"
This place was so cleverly arranged, and coupled with Meng Xiazi's previous behavior, Ye Tian could conclude that it should be a hiding place for Meng Xiazi.
Ye Tian's guess was correct. Meng Xiazi's trip to the mountain was not to go to the mountain stronghold. His purpose was to enter the cave, which was his most secret lair in Changbai Mountain.
After asking the god to take over, Meng Xiazi quickly shook off Ye Tian, but he also knew that his magical power would not last long. If he could not enter the cave, he might freeze to death without Hu Hongde chasing him in this weather alone.
So after walking around the old forest, Blind Meng ventured back to the entrance of the valley, but he didn't expect that Ye Tian would find his traces through the breath sensor. It can be said that the mechanism was too clever and made a mistake in the end.
His last name is Ming!
"Ye Tian, wait, get ready before going in!"
Although the arrangement of the cave entrance was definitely man-made, Hu Hongde knew that Blind Meng was a cunning man, so he might have set some kind of trap inside.
When he returned to the campfire, Hu Hongde placed several frozen and hard bodies beside the campfire, intending to dig a hole and bury them when he came out.
Hu Hongde tore off a piece of clothing from a corpse, made two simple torches, and hit the two unconscious people on the head to ensure that they would not wake up within two hours.
Cai and Ye Tian came to the cave entrance again.
"Lao Hu, let me go ahead..."
Ye Tian's ability to sense crises is far greater than that of Hu Hongde. He had released Qi before and did not feel the presence of danger in this cave.
After lighting the torch, Ye Tian ducked in through the one-meter-square hole. After walking a few meters inside, Ye Tian discovered that instead of saying this was a cave, it would be more appropriate to say it was a crevice in the mountain.
Because this cave is extremely narrow, but is about three to four meters high, Ye Tianjin can straighten his body in it, but when passing through some places, he has to inhale and draw his abdomen sideways to pass.
In some places along the way, we even saw traces of knives and axes carved on the rocks, which must have been left by Meng Xiazi in the past. Therefore, although it was not easy to walk, Ye Tian and his two men were still able to pass by.
This cave, which I don’t know how it was formed, is very deep. After walking for seven or eight minutes, Ye Tian and I should have reached a distance of forty or fifty meters, but there is still no bottom ahead.
"Huh? Lao Hu, do you feel it? Why does the temperature seem so much hotter?"
After walking inside for another four or five minutes, Ye Tian suddenly felt a wave of hot air blowing against his face. Although he had reached a state where he was immune to cold and heat, he was always able to sense cold and heat.
Compared with the ice and snow outside, the temperature of this hot air was at least 18 or 19 degrees Celsius, giving Ye Tian, who had just come out of the severe cold, a feeling of being in the ninth heaven of ice and fire.
"Yes, it's strange. Could it be that the back of this cave leads to the belly of the mountain?" Hu Hongde's feeling was even more obvious. He was wearing a thick leather jacket and sweat was already breaking out on his forehead.
"But that's not right. Even if it's at the heart of the mountain, the temperature won't be so high unless...unless there's a hot spring inside!"
After all, he grew up in the Changbai Mountains. Hu Hongde had a better understanding of the geographical environment of the Changbai Mountains than those geologists. He thought of this possible surname in a flash.
Changbai Mountain was originally a vast ocean. Due to the rise of the earth's crust, the sea water retreated and the surface resurfaced. It also experienced more than ten volcanic eruptions, leaving many hot springs for tourists to bathe.
However, most of these hot springs are located more than a thousand meters above the ground, and Hu Hongde is not sure that there must be hot springs in this cave.
As soon as Hu Hongde finished speaking, Ye Tian, who was walking in front, suddenly became a little stiff. He twisted his neck with difficulty and said in a harsh voice: "Old Hu, you guessed it right!"
A cave entrance was revealed three meters in front of Ye Tian, and a ray of starlight fell from the cave entrance. It was indeed a different kind of cave.
