After calming down, Lu Changsheng began to study the animal skin map. This animal skin map recorded several places in the Taklimakan Desert.
The tenth largest desert in the world is thousands of kilometers long and 400 kilometers wide. The most eye-catching ones are Loulan Ancient City, Hotan Jade Tomb, Flame Mountain, and the mysterious Time Lake.
Forget the ancient city of Loulan and the Flame Mountain, but the Hotan Jade Tomb and Guangyin Lake are the two places Lu Changsheng wants to visit the most, because the Hotan Jade Tomb is related to Feng Canyang, and the blood jade unearthed in the ancient tomb came from there.
Otherwise, Lu Changsheng would not be able to extract the blood from the blood jade, and used the Taoist book to absorb Feng Canyang's memory to deduce the magic sword.
Lu Changsheng even suspected that it was Feng Canyang's cemetery. Otherwise, the National Security Section 9 would not be so cautious. Guangyin Lake was also the place Lu Changsheng wanted to go most, because this place actually has the power to make people age.
It's incredible.
Moreover, he also promised Wang Ruofeng to save his life, so he had to go to Guangyin Lake to explore. Besides, there were soul-returning incense and soul-nourishing grass that he also needed to find, otherwise Yang Hun's injury would not be known when he would recover.
If one day is not good, his strength will be limited for one day.
However, what surprised him was that of the four places, two of the locations marked were different from what Lu Changsheng had imagined. One was the Flame Mountain and the other was the Ancient City of Loulan.
The location marked on the animal skin map has obviously passed an unknown number of years, but compared with the current map, it seems that the ruins of Loulan Ancient City are not in the place where modern archaeologists found them, and the real Flame Mountain is also not where people found it.
The Flame Mountain that I saw.
But what is surprising is that the four places on this map are all in the Taklimakan Desert, and their positions echo each other, as if they form a strange formation.
"Yeah!" Lu Changsheng watched carefully and deduced, and something that surprised him happened. This was indeed a Taoist four-image formation arrangement.
If this is a coincidence, it is too much of a coincidence. But if it is not a coincidence, then why did the original owner of this animal skin map mark four places that echo each other?
"The Flame Mountain represents fire, Guangyin Lake represents water, Loulan Ancient City represents land, and Hotan Jade Ancient Tomb represents wind?" Lu Changsheng became confused.
According to the ancients' view of the four phenomena, the earliest four phenomena should be earth, fire, water, and wind.
Then Taoism appeared and further evolved into four kinds of mythical beasts, including the green dragon, the white tiger, the red bird, and the basalt. The surrounding mythical beasts also represented an element respectively. However, the evolved ones already had the blue dragon representing wood, the white tiger representing gold, and the red bird representing.
Fire and Xuanwu represent water.
But whether it was after the Four Symbols first appeared or the Four Symbols evolved from Taoism, they were all methods of forming formations, and the Four Symbols Formation was a formation that guarded the center.
"If Loulan Ancient City, Guangyin Lake, Flame Mountain, and even Hetian Jade Ancient Tomb each really represent one of the four images, then what is guarding the center?" Lu Changsheng suddenly discovered a major problem.
It's like you were excited to go to a place, but suddenly found that that place was not very important. What was important was that the place was just built for another, more important place.
Lu Changsheng looked at the center and found that there was nothing marked there, but that place was in the core of the Taklimakan Desert.
What is there in the center of the desert? If you ask a local, he will definitely tell you that of course there is sand.
What if it's not sand, but something else? Lu Changsheng seemed to have suddenly discovered a treasure. If this was really the Four Elephants Guard, then he would definitely discover a shocking secret that might cost him his life.
But it might also give him a chance.
In order to find out what this place was, Lu Changsheng immediately began to research the Taoist books. He put all the eight million books in the Beijing University Library into his mind, thus generating the Taoist books, which covered everything from astronomy to geography.
, they are all available, and Taoist books also have an automatic feedback function.
When Lu Changsheng thought about the records of that place, he quickly listed them, and the number was quite large, a total of 200,000 records.
When these records were fed back to Lu Changsheng's mind, Lu Changsheng immediately discovered that most of them were useless, but one thing was really eye-catching. Most of the people who entered this area were missing. In ancient times, no one kept statistics.
, but in modern times at least tens of thousands of people have entered this area and disappeared without a trace.
Some people may say that it doesn't matter if the core area of the desert disappears and some people disappear, it is a desert after all.
But all the feedback information told Lu Changsheng one thing. No one has ever come out after entering that area, which means that it is a complete death place with nowhere to enter.
This is unlike any other desert in the world. Nowadays, technology is so advanced that there are few places that humans cannot touch, not to mention that once you enter this place, you cannot come out.
No matter what kind of dangerous place it is, there will always be people who come out. Even in places like Ginseng Valley, there are people who come out, but they just go crazy.
But among all the records reported back, almost none of them said that anyone had come out.
"Is there really a huge secret hidden?" Lu Changsheng suddenly became curious. People are often full of fear when it comes to unknown things, and fear is accompanied by curiosity.
Throughout the ages, countless curiosity hunters have died in certain dangerous places, but more people have followed them, because fear cannot defeat curiosity.
Lu Changsheng was naturally curious, but when he thought of the records of people disappearing after entering this place, Lu Changsheng immediately gave up the idea of going to this place.
Lu Changsheng is such a person who can overcome his curiosity. This does not mean that he has strong determination. On the contrary, he does it because he cherishes his life. To put it bluntly, he is afraid of death.
He clearly understands the truth that only living is the most important thing. Under this premise, he automatically excludes anything related to desperate work, and he does not think that fear of death is a shortcoming. Life in this world, isn't it?
To live? To live a better and more enjoyable life.
If it weren't for the soul-returning incense and soul-nourishing grass, Lu Changsheng wouldn't want to go to Xinjiang Province at all.
Putting down the map, Lu Changsheng entered the gourd space with his thoughts. He was going to practice his magic sword skills. If he could break through to the fifth level and surpass the others, it would be a qualitative increase in his strength.
Moreover, his Qi Refining Realm will soon break through to the middle stage of Grand Master. There is only one barrier left to overcome. If he wants to trouble Murong Ku, the stronger he is, the better.
But as soon as he entered the gourd space, he discovered something. The fire python blood crystal the size of a football was missing, which really shocked him.
After scanning with his mind for a long time, except for the corpse-controlling worm, the only thing left was the white stone cut out of the gambling goods. Lu Changsheng immediately summoned the corpse-controlling worm with a thought.
The corpse-controlling insect that turned into a human figure seemed to sense Lu Changsheng's anger and bowed as if to please. Lu Changsheng immediately asked: "Did you steal my Fire Python Blood Crystal?"
?To be honest, I don’t blame you.”
The corpse control insect shook his head, then pointed at the white stone and made a "swirling" sound, as if to say, it wasn't me who ate it secretly, it was that stone that ate it secretly.
Lu Changsheng glanced at the stone, then immediately looked away and said coldly: "Do you think I'm an idiot?"
The "Susususu" corpse-controlling insect immediately turned into a ball, and then ran away in all directions, as if it was afraid that Lu Changsheng would give it a knife.
"Humph, I want to leave!" Lu Changsheng snorted coldly, and with a thought, the corpse-controlling insects running around were immediately controlled by his thoughts, turned into a ball, and fell into his hands, "If you don't agree, I will
You are crushed into scum!"
Although the "Sususu" corpse-controlling insect cannot speak, it is very understanding of human nature. After sensing the danger, it immediately transformed into a human figure and pointed at the white stone.
"Gudong, Gudong..." A sound like a heartbeat came. Lu Changsheng couldn't help but look over, but he was shocked because the sound actually came from the white stone.
It was as if he had seen a ghost. Lu Changsheng made a move and the white stone fell into his hands. However, he found that the white stone was much heavier than before. By accident, he
The arms of the condensed small Yang Soul were torn apart by gravity.
"How is that possible!" Lu Changsheng recovered his arm and looked at the white stone suspended in the space with a strange expression. He swept away his thoughts and suddenly remembered another thing. He found the drop of blood refined from the Blood Jade Buddha.
, also disappeared.
Lu Changsheng's expression changed greatly. This drop of blood was used by him to prepare for the innate breakthrough. At that time, Xiao Hei and the corpse-controlling insect wanted it, but he refused to give it. Now that Nima has disappeared, of course he will not think of this drop of blood.
It will dry, but that is Feng Canyang's perverted blood. It has existed for thousands of years, and it would have dried long ago.
With a "bang" kick, Lu Changsheng kicked it up, wanting to crush the white stone with one kick.
It's a pity that when he stepped up, he didn't crush the stone. The foot that he condensed with his thoughts was penetrated, but the white stone was intact.
"You idiot, I can't cure you anymore!" Lu Changsheng was furious in his heart, so he was about to take out the white stone and draw his sword to chop it.
But at this moment, something strange happened. The white stone seemed to be psychic, and it rolled grayly into the distance, far away from Lu Changsheng.
"Gudong, Gudong..." A heartbeat-like sound came from the stone, like a protest.
"Yeah!" Lu Changsheng calmed down, "Isn't this an egg?"
As soon as he said this, he thought of the record in a famous book that a certain monkey jumped out of the stone. If the stone can jump out something, then the monkey must be the ancestor.
Lu Changsheng was no longer angry in his heart. He calmly came to the white stone, listened carefully, and found that there was a heartbeat inside.
"If you are really an egg, give me a bounce. If you don't, I will boil you and eat you!" Lu Changsheng suddenly threatened.
When he heard that it was going to be cooked and eaten, the white stone immediately jumped up and down, then rolled around in front of Lu Changsheng, as if it was coquettish.
Seeing this scene, Lu Changsheng's heart softened immediately: "You are an egg and an unlucky one!"
ps: Okay, there will be six chapters today. I was working shift yesterday and it’s the Chinese New Year, so I won’t stay up late.