Along the way, Zhang Jun could often see monks from all walks of life who came to attend the Genius Conference wandering around the Yaochi in small groups, and occasionally he could hear the low-pitched conversations of these people.
"The Yaochi is vast and boundless. It had a supreme status in ancient times. Although it has declined, anything left behind is enough to make the world's cultivators fight for their scalps. For countless years, countless people have dug up treasures here, so the Yaochi is also known as
'Treasure land'. During the Han Dynasty, Zhang Daoling discovered a scroll of heavenly books in Yaochi, thus creating Longhu Mountain."
"Yaochi was known as 'Ten steps to dig out a treasure', but after so many years, almost all the things that can be dug out have been dug up. We are here just to try our luck, so don't have too much hope."
Among them, some young disciples asked the elders around them: "Uncle Master, since Little Kunlun has occupied Yaochi, why do you allow other forces to come and dig for treasures?"
His uncle smiled slightly and said: "The Yaochi is like a treasure. Which force doesn't want to come here to hunt for treasures? Although Little Kunlun is very powerful, they are not willing to compete with the world's cultivators, so they only account for one-tenth of it.
Other places are open areas, and monks from other families can come and go at will, but the people from Little Kunlun will not interfere and have no right to interfere."
Walking in the Yaochi, everyone's feet are covered with dry sand, just like walking in the desert. Occasionally, the wind blows, and it is also a hot and humid wind, which makes people feel uncomfortable. Occasionally, there will be big or small holes in the place where you walk.
Small puddles, some as big as a small lake, can be flattened by one foot.
After walking like this for more than an hour, Zhang Jun secretly looked into the ground with Buddha's eyes. He did find some things, but they were not worthy of his attention. Moreover, this place was too close to Little Kunlun, so it was not exposed. After walking for so long, Zong Yuan
Feeling impatient, he said, "Dad, what's so interesting about this shabby place? You'd better go back."
Heibalang gave him a slap: "What do you know, little kid? There are treasures everywhere in the Yaochi. Just dig around and you will get something."
Zong Yuan rolled his eyes at Hei Ba Lang and said, "Uncle Hei Ba Lang, have you ever found treasure here before?"
Heibachi stiffened, and then said viciously: "You little bastard, how many times have I told you not to call me Uncle Heibachi! Do I look like 'Heibachi'?"
Zongyuan nodded immediately: "Okay, Uncle Hei."
Heihachiro immediately gave Zongyuan another blow, but the latter just grinned strangely.
After walking for another ten minutes, there were no other people out to search for treasures in all directions. Within a hundred miles, there was only Zhang Jun and his group. Zhang Jun had also opened his Buddha eyes and searched the ground to the best of his ability.
Hope to find something left over from ancient times.
While searching, Heibalang explained to Qinglian and Zongyuan the situation in the ancient era where Yaochi was located.
The Archaic Era is the general name for a period before the Mythical Age. If this period is accurately divided, it can be divided into three major periods: Hades, Proterozoics, and Archaic. Because the first two periods were too long ago, even those who were not yet wise at that time
The birth of human beings has no history to test, so it is rarely mentioned. Generally, the era before the mythical age is generally referred to as the ancient times.
The specific age of the Archaic Era is at least tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years ago. The early days of the Archaic Era are even more distant, possibly millions of years ago. According to some historical experts who are proficient in historical research,
Cultivation masters infer that the ancient times should be a very long period. For most of that time, the ancient ancestors lived a life of eating raw materials and drinking blood, fighting with the sky, the earth, and wild beasts. Their lives were extremely difficult. Human beings lived a very hard life.
Their life span was also very short, far less than that of people today.
But at the end of the ancient times, a large number of masters suddenly emerged among the ancestors, and they created an extremely glorious civilization of cultivation. Among the increasingly powerful humans, a number of great powers were born that shocked the past and the present, and arrogantly surpassed the world.
From today's perspective, this kind of people are at least as strong as Da Luo. These people have led mankind into the age of mythology proudly.
In the Age of Mythology, human beings had a long lifespan. According to ancient records, people at that time were born strong and could fight with tigers and wolves with bare hands. Their lifespans generally exceeded a hundred years. It was a very glorious era that even surpassed today's era. The Age of Mythology lasted for
Over a long period of time, countless powerful monks were born. Some people speculate that the ancient ancient Taiyu today should be left over from the mythical era. The basis is that there are a large number of ruins from the mythical era in the wilderness.
The Age of Mythology ended very suddenly, and no one knows what caused the end of this glorious era. After the Age of Mythology, the Age of Dynasties came. Because this era was close to the Age of Mythology, it received enough inheritance, so it still appeared at that time.
Many great figures, such as Sakyamuni, Lao Tzu, the Abraham family, Confucius and other sages and great figures appeared in that era.
In the late Dynasty Era, a large number of the major inheritances of human society died out, and only a few were handed down. After the end of the Dynasty Era, mankind entered the Age of Ending Dharma. In the Age of Ending Dharma, human science and technology have achieved rapid development, and ordinary people can go to the sky and the sea.
We even left the earth, landed on the moon, and explored Mars.
"Aren't we so unlucky that we were born in the Age of Ending Dharma?" After hearing Heibalang's words, Zongyuan sighed with emotion, "It's so pitiful."
"That's not necessarily true. The Age of Ending Dharma should be over soon." Heihachiro said, "Otherwise, how could a monster like you appear, and a pure body like Qinglian not appear. Some people predict that a cultivation civilization should appear next.
The golden age of explosive development may be comparable to the mythical age.”
Zong Yuan's eyes flashed: "Golden Age? It's interesting, otherwise a genius like me would be too lonely."
As soon as these words came out, everyone rolled their eyes. But at this moment, Zhang Jun suddenly stopped and everyone stopped, knowing that they must have discovered something.
Zhang Jun did find something. Five hundred steps ahead and about three hundred meters above the ground, in the mud, were scattered dozens of jade slips. Jade slips are items used by cultivators to record written information or spiritual thoughts.
, they appeared here, they probably belong to the Yaochi era. He thought for a while, led everyone to the ground directly above the jade slips, and said to Heibalang: "Excavate."
Heihachiro stared: "Why me?"
Zhang Jun: "I have to observe the situation below at all times. If I can't work, why don't you let the children work?"
Heihachiro retorted speechlessly, groaning inwardly as he was unlucky, and began to dig into the ground. The upper layer of the ground was sand, the bottom was soil, and the bottom was mud. It was quite laborious to dig. Fortunately, Heihachiro was a person with half-step to the pinnacle of supernatural powers.
He can control his real power very finely, and can often dig a hole several meters deep with just one strike of his palm.
From this, we can see the terror of those with half-step supernatural powers. It only took Heihachiro half an hour to dig through the 300-meter-deep cave, and he quickly found all the jade slips.
A figure flashed at the entrance of the cave, and Heibalang jumped out with a smile, holding a bunch of jade slips, and said: "I contribute the most, and the jade slips will get half of it."
Zhang Jun ignored him, but took a jade slip, looked through it, and said with a smile: "This jade slip records ancient elixir recipes. You don't know how to make elixirs, so it's useless to take them, so you should leave them to me."
Bar."
Heihachiro yelled that it was a pity, thinking that it would be some kind of peerless skill.
Perhaps it was Zhang Jun's bad luck. In the next hour or so, no major discoveries were made. Of course, it was not that he didn't find anything, but those things were buried hundreds of kilometers deep and had limited value.
It was not worth his while. But at this time, he unexpectedly saw a market appearing not far ahead.
Heibalang also saw the market in the distance. He immediately smiled and said: "It's been a long time since I came here to hunt for treasures. The old guy brought me here last time. That time he found an ancient jade talisman and made a lot of money.
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Zhang Jun also saw clearly that most of the things sold in this market were dug up in Yaochi. He couldn't help but shake his head: "There are actually people who do this professionally!"
Heibalang said: "There are many people engaged in this business. This market has existed for hundreds of years. It is far less prosperous than it used to be because almost everything in Yaochi has been dug out."
As they spoke, the group entered the market. They saw some stalls placed randomly on the ground, with all kinds of strange things spread on the stalls. Some were a piece of broken tiles, some were a broken brick, or a jar.
, a hip flask. Nothing was found along the way, and Zhang Jun felt bored. He planned to stroll around the market to see if he could find anything missing.
Zongyuan took Qinglian and walked to the other side, while Heibalang went for a walk alone.
Zhang Jun walked alone along the path in the market, slowly walking forward, looking around. After walking for most of the market, he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. Not only did he not pick up anything, he didn't even find any decent treasures.
What made him even more speechless was that the prices of things here were extremely high, and they could only be exchanged for elixirs.
"It seems that there is nothing good in Yaochi." He shook his head and decided to return.
At this moment, Qinglian hurried over and whispered: "Master, brother Zongyuan got into a quarrel with someone!"
Zhang Jun was shocked. There were crouching tigers and hidden dragons here. Zong Yuan must not offend powerful people. He picked up Qing Lian and rushed to the scene as quickly as possible. As soon as they arrived, he saw Zong Yuan standing in front of a stall.
, and had a quarrel with the stall owner. The stall owner was a middle-aged man, wearing an old Chinese tunic suit, short in stature, and with very dark skin. He was holding a black jade pendant engraved with strange runes in his hand, with an angry look on his face.
Authentic: "You only give me ten yuan for such a good jade pendant. Why don't you go and grab it?"
Zhang Jun was speechless when he heard the words "ten yuan". He glared at Zong Yuan fiercely. Zong Yuan curled his lips and said: "Dad, look at this jade pendant, it is made of just one stone.
The most they sell outside is five yuan."
"What? Five yuan? If you gave me five high-grade elixirs, it would still be enough!" The stall owner got really angry and jumped up and shouted.
Zhang Jun looked through with Buddha's eyes and immediately felt the black energy rolling inside the jade pendant. A vast and dark world vaguely appeared, but disappeared in an instant. He was shocked, quickly suppressed his thoughts, and said calmly: "Friend
, the child is ignorant, please don't mind. But since he likes it, you can make it cheaper and we will buy it."
In the opinion of the stall owner, Zhang Jun probably didn't want to cause trouble, so he bought the jade pendant. He rolled his eyes and said, "I originally wanted five high-grade elixirs, but I see that my friend is so practical, so I just bought ten middle-grade elixirs."
Dan is fine."
Zhang Jun smiled: "It's a bit expensive. I think this is ten low-grade elixirs. If you are willing, we will trade them immediately."
The stall owner thought that this jade pendant had been studied countless times, and it was indeed nothing strange. It was just carved from a piece of black stone. That's all. There are ten low-grade elixirs, so just sell them to him! So he said with a heartbroken look on his face: "
Okay, if it’s low quality, then it’s low quality, you can take the things away.”
When the black jade pendant was held in his hand, Zhang Jun vaguely remembered the scene when he bought the stone bead. He spent a few dollars to buy the Buddha's eye relic. "This jade pendant is extraordinary, I feel as if there is a world inside it."