"With this map... you can find the... road to the Heavenly Palace..." Ma Xiaoyao read out the words on the jade piece while comparing it with the ancient books.
"Gone?"
"That's just so many words."
"Isn't this someone playing a prank?"
"It doesn't look like it." Ma Xiaoyao shook his head: "First of all, this piece of jade is written in ancient characters. Secondly, this piece of jade is hidden in that mysterious stone. Facts have proved that the luminous stone is not an ordinary one."
object, so this piece of jade should not be ordinary... Not to mention the text and map on it, the material alone is very precious, and it can fetch tens of thousands of taels of silver at least if it is put up for auction."
"So, do you think it's true?" Ouyang Zilan asked.
"It should be true." Ma Xiaoyao just intuitively believed that what was recorded on the jade tablet was true.
"Since you think it's true, let's go look for it and see what this so-called Heavenly Palace is." Ouyang Zilan suggested.
"I would like to look for it, but the map on the jade tablet is incomplete... I can't find it." Ma Xiaoyao said regretfully: "This heavenly palace is probably a place to hide treasures, but the map is incomplete... Sigh...
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Ouyang Zilan frowned and thought hard for a moment: "We can find other jade pieces? As long as the map is complete, can't we go to Tiangong?"
"It's easier said than done." Ma Xiaoyao smiled bitterly: "Do you know where the other jade pieces are?"
"This... we can ask about it slowly. As long as we are willing to search carefully, we should be able to gain something." Ouyang Zilan said.
Ma Xiaoyao nodded noncommittally: "Okay, you can look for it if you want. I hope we are lucky and can find other jade pieces."
"I'll go back and ask my grandfather. He lives a long time and has seen a lot of things. Maybe he knows where this heavenly palace is." Ouyang Zilan said.
"Okay, you can go back and ask." Ma Xiaoyao nodded.
"I'll take the jade pieces and ancient books first, and I'll come back to you when I have news." Ouyang Zilan picked up the jade pieces and ancient books and left in a hurry.
Ma Xiaoyao sat alone on a chair, drinking tea while secretly thinking: "The map of Heavenly Palace... Heavenly Palace... ancient texts... According to legend, it was created by immortals... Heavenly Palace? Immortals? Are there really gods in this world?" Ma
Xiaoyao thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure out the reason.
Forget it, I don’t want to think about it anymore, I can’t figure it out anyway, let’s go have a meal, and then I’ll slowly ponder this Tiangong map when I have time.
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Early the next morning, Ma Xiaoyao was pulled out of bed by Ouyang Zilan.
"What are you doing? I haven't woken up yet." Ma Xiaoyao reached out and rubbed his swollen eyes. He had a problem. As long as he didn't wake up, his eyes would feel sore and swollen, making him very uncomfortable.
"There is a major discovery!" Ouyang Zilan's expression was solemn.
"What major discovery?" Ma Xiaoyao asked casually.
"That's the map of Heavenly Palace."
"Um? Map of Tiangong? What did you find?"
"Didn't I go home yesterday and ask my grandpa? I just wanted to try my luck, but I didn't expect that my grandpa actually knew a little bit..."
"What? Your grandfather knows about Tiangong? Tell me what's going on!" Ma Xiaoyao suddenly became energetic.
Ouyang Zilan took a deep breath, and then narrated what happened. Yesterday, when she came home, she went directly to her grandfather Ouyang Wuwei, and then handed the jade tablet and ancient books to Ouyang Wuwei for viewing. After Ouyang Wuwei read the contents recorded on the jade tablet,
, he immediately frowned and said nothing for a long time. Ouyang Zilan asked what was wrong, and Ouyang Wuwei told Ouyang Zilan that he seemed to have heard of Tiangong before... It was just that the interval was too long, and suddenly
Can't remember where I've heard it again.
As soon as he heard that there was a way, Ouyang Zilan immediately became energetic and kept urging Ouyang Wuwei to think quickly and must figure it out.
After pondering for a long time, Ouyang Wuwei finally remembered that decades ago, he heard a friend mention the Heavenly Palace. At that time, his friend said that the Heavenly Palace was a very mysterious place with immortals living in it. At that time, Ouyang Wuwei regarded this as a myth.
Hearing the story, he didn't take it to heart at all. Who would have thought that decades later, Ouyang Zilan mentioned the matter of Tiangong again... and even brought a map of Tiangong, which surprised Ouyang Wuwei. Could Tiangong really exist?
"What? Are there immortals living in the Heavenly Palace?" Ma Xiaoyao's eyes suddenly widened.
Ouyang Zilan nodded solemnly: "That's what my grandfather said, but he only heard what his friends said. As for whether it is true, he doesn't know."
"Who is his friend?" Ma Xiaoyao asked hurriedly.
"Don't worry, my grandfather has already gone to find his friend, and there should be news soon."
"There are immortals living in the heavenly palace... This is so... shocking... How can there be immortals in this world."
"I don't believe there are immortals in the world, but how can we explain the map of the Heavenly Palace?"
"...No matter what, I don't believe in the existence of immortals."
"When my grandfather finds his friend, he will know the truth of the matter."
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Ma Xiaoyao nodded and said nothing.
Ouyang Zilan hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Xiaoyao, if there really are immortals in the world... what would you do?"
"Uh?" Ma Xiaoyao was stunned: "Why do you ask like that?"
"I'm just... a little curious. They say that immortals have boundless power. Not only can they fly to the sky and escape from the earth, but they can also live as long as heaven and earth. If one day I see a real immortal, I will definitely worship him as my teacher and let him teach me.
With my supreme magic, I can fly to the sky and escape from the earth in the future, and I can also live forever." Ouyang Zilan's eyes were shining.
Ma Xiaoyao smiled: "Stop daydreaming, there is no way there are immortals in this world."
"Actually, I've been thinking about another question."
"what is the problem?"
"Pangu, Nuwa, the Jade Emperor...are these characters really imaginary?"
"What do you want to say?"
"I doubt that Pangu and others really exist."
"Are you not crazy? They are just mythical characters, made up by people's imagination. How can they really exist?"
"What evidence do you have to prove that they are not here? Just because you have never seen them, you think they don't exist?"
"Then what evidence do you have to prove that they really exist?" Ma Xiaoyao asked.
Ouyang Zilan shook her head: "I can't provide evidence, but you can't provide evidence either. Since we can't provide evidence, we can't jump to conclusions."
"You..." Ma Xiaoyao really didn't know what to say. He found that since the Tiangong map appeared, Ouyang Zilan began to become nervous and seemed to be possessed. It seemed that the immortal was attracted to Ouyang Zilan.
It's super big.
"Xiaoyao, don't you want to live forever?" Ouyang Zilan asked.
"Of course I want to live forever, but it's impossible to achieve it." Ma Xiaoyao shook his head: "As long as you are a human being, you will die one day."
"An ordinary person can live to be one hundred years old, but an ordinary warrior can live to be one hundred and fifty years old, and high-level warriors can even live to be more than two hundred years old. According to book records, there is an emperor in the secret realm who lived to be three hundred years old.
Do you see? How big is the difference between an ordinary citizen and a warrior?" Ouyang Zilan said in a deep voice.
Ma Xiaoyao did not refute Ouyang Zilan's point of view this time. He nodded: "Practicing martial arts can indeed strengthen the body and increase life span."
"You are also a warrior, and you should also know that there is no end to martial arts training." Ouyang Zilan stared at Ma Xiaoyao with bright eyes: "They say that there are ten levels of warriors, and the tenth level warrior is the top. This is complete nonsense. The tenth level is the top.
Warriors are not the pinnacle, and you can continue to improve your strength." At this point, Ouyang Zilan paused: "A tenth-level warrior is already terrifying. If you continue to improve your strength, what state will you reach? Is it really possible to be like a warrior?
Do immortals fly into the sky and escape from the earth? How about living as long as the heaven and the earth? These questions are worthy of our deep thought."
"How do you know that a tenth-level warrior is not the pinnacle?" Ma Xiaoyao asked with a solemn expression. Since he came to the secret realm, he has learned that warriors are divided into ten levels. A tenth-level warrior is the pinnacle, the pinnacle that one can reach in life. But today
Ouyang Zilan said that the tenth level warrior was not the pinnacle, there were realms above, which surprised Ma Xiaoyao.
"My grandpa told me."
"Your grandpa? How does he know this? If I'm not mistaken, your grandpa is only a fifth-level warrior, right? He hasn't even reached the tenth-level warrior himself, so how can he know that there are realms above?"
"My grandfather also heard what others said."
"who?"
"My grandfather's grandfather."
"Your grandfather's grandfather? Why am I a little confused?"
"Let me tell you this, hundreds of years ago, our family produced a tenth-level warrior who was just shy of becoming the emperor."
"What?" Ma Xiaoyao was shocked: "Has your family produced a tenth-level warrior?"
Ouyang Zilan nodded firmly: "Yes, that's what my grandfather said. Later I asked other people and they all said the same thing."
"I really didn't expect that your family would actually produce a tenth-level warrior. It's not simple, it's not simple." Ma Xiaoyao sighed.
"This ancestor of mine was an unparalleled genius. He had already reached the tenth level of martial arts at a young age. At that time, he also thought that the tenth level of martial arts should be the pinnacle of life. However, when he actually became a tenth level warrior, he realized that there were still many problems.
There is room for improvement, but it is very difficult to continue to improve your strength. My ancestor had already discovered a little bit of knowledge. When he was about to retreat, he was plotted by his enemies and finally died of hatred. However, before his death, my ancestor left
The next diary records that being a tenth-level warrior is not the pinnacle of life."
"Is that diary still there?" Ma Xiaoyao asked.
Ouyang Zilan shook her head: "There was a fire in the manor decades ago, and the diary and many ancient books were burned. This was a big loss for our family, and it makes people regretful to mention it now."
