In the early spring, the Mobei Wasteland of the Northern Wei Dynasty was still a lifeless and desolate scene.

Even at noon, the chill blowing from the mountains and icebergs can still cause frost to appear on the surface of the soil in this wasteland, making the soil hard.

The flowers that bloomed last summer have withered, but they are covered with frost and standing in the cold wind. Under the sway of the sun, looking from a distance, they look like flowers that have bloomed newly in the spring of recent years.

A young man with short hair was walking in the desert with a backpack on his back and a slightly bent waist.

The area he was walking in was even devoid of vegetation, and some large areas of scorched earth were traces of being burned by skyfire.

He is dressed like an ordinary herdsman, but his feet are only tied with thin animal skins. These animal skins have been specially tanned and are very soft and tough. Ordinary sharp objects will not pierce these animal skins.

, but when the foot steps on something hard and thin, the pain will penetrate from the flesh and blood to the person's mind without any hindrance.

This young man with short hair is holding a wooden stick in both hands. The top of the wooden stick looks like two donkeys' black hooves from a distance, but in fact, they are two black magnets.

This young man is what people in the Northern Wei Dynasty call an iron picker in the desert of Mobei. Over the past countless years, a large number of able-bodied people in Mobei have relied on walking in the deserted desert for long periods of time.

Making a living by picking up fallen meteorites.

A very small number of them discovered valuable meteorite iron and meteorite crystals, and escaped from a life of extreme poverty. Some of them were the luckiest, and even allowed themselves and their families to leave Mobei, and allowed them to live in the Northern Wei Dynasty.

They live and work in peace and contentment in more prosperous places, but most of these iron pickers will stay in the deserted desert forever while walking like this.

There are too many unpredictable factors that make people die in this desert, but for thousands of years, most of the special weapon refining materials that have appeared in the world of practitioners in the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Western Regions have often come from the hands of these iron pickers.

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Most of these iron pickers are not practitioners, but their footprints have even reached areas that many tantric ascetics have not visited.

Especially after thousands of years of continuous searching, when the sky iron is becoming increasingly scarce in most places, the number of such iron pickers is also becoming smaller and smaller. These poor people in Mobei can no longer completely rely on this ancient occupation.

To change their own destiny, those iron pickers who still want to change their own destiny and that of their families will, like this short-haired young man, head further and further into the desert that few people have reached before.

With fewer people arriving, the deserts farther away contain more unknown dangers.

This short-haired young man walked very cautiously. The thick leather wrapped under his feet could not only feel the hard objects buried in the soil through stepping on it, but also feel the subtle vibrations of the ground.

Even in this season, it is still possible for poisonous insects to emerge from this dead desert soil, because under many seemingly cold soils, there are often activities due to geothermal heat or some special meteorite.

of poisonous insects.

He had been walking very carefully, and the range of his movements was very small, because this could ensure his physical exertion, but suddenly, he suddenly raised his head and looked at the sky above his head.

A red light appeared in the sky.

His pupils expanded and contracted violently, his body began to tremble, and he almost roared subconsciously.

In his mind, this red light meant that he happened to encounter a meteorite falling.

However, the next moment, the sky above his eyes turned red.

He saw many red lines falling down like a meteor shower.

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Achai Chen is looking at Luoyang from a distance.

He and several of his followers looked at the majestic city in the distance with unspeakable emotion in their eyes.

"Only a city like this can really be called a city."

A follower behind him couldn't help but said.

For these generals from Tuyuhun, the big cities of the Northern Wei and Southern Dynasties always had an inexplicable and huge attraction.

"We'll be back."

Achai Chen smiled faintly and said, "Maybe the waiting time doesn't have to be long."

"Let's go!"

Achai Chen and his followers stopped looking, drove their horses away from the official road, and headed west along the country path.

As night fell, they stopped in an abandoned farmhouse.

Several followers quickly set up the marching tent and lit a bonfire.

The strong aroma of meat and butter tea soon filled the campfire.

After eating and drinking enough, Achai Chen took out a piece of something from his sleeve and looked at it carefully by the light of the fire.

This thing is only half the size of a palm. At first glance, it looks like a broken piece of red pottery. However, upon closer inspection, we find that its rough pottery-like surface is only caused by violent friction with the air. It is a very strange piece.

of meteorite.

Under the rough surface, there are many natural dark red crystals. They seem to have grown from the inside of the meteorite, forming clusters of beautiful natural crystal patterns.

Under the illumination of the fire, the surfaces of these crystals did not emit any strange light. The reflections of the fire in them were like some meteors walking, and they seemed to be sealed in miniature forever.

Several followers beside him also looked at this thing curiously.

Achaizhen did not deliberately avoid these followers.

These followers are not powerful practitioners, but they are extremely loyal to him and will not covet his skills and magic weapons.

This magical artifact was one of the contents of the transaction between He Buyue and him. This magical artifact is called Wentian Yue. The history of this magical artifact can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty before the You Dynasty. Its greatest function is to harmonize the world.

Those foreign objects in the sky produce strange sensations. In fact, it was because of this object that many meteorite irons and meteorite crystals were first discovered in the Mobei Wasteland of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

This thing is an artifact for finding meteorite and meteorite crystals. Before this magical artifact disappeared from the world due to the war, many legendary special meteorite irons and meteorite crystals were found using this object.

As long as you have this magic weapon, no matter how rare the meteorite iron and meteorite crystals are in the Mobei wilderness of the Northern Wei Dynasty, as long as you are willing to spend a certain amount of time, you will definitely be able to find many good meteorite iron and meteorite crystals with this object.

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Materials with unique properties also have unlimited possibilities for practitioners.

In Achaizhen's eyes, this magical artifact is of course a real treasure. Even at noon today, he discovered that there was a wonderful Qi induction on this magical artifact. According to the aura fluctuations on this magical artifact,

, he determined that some new meteorites fell in Mobei of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Of course, he was not in a hurry to rush to Mobei immediately.

He chose to rush to the border of Dangxiang first, and then circle from the border of Dangxiang to the no-man's land in the Mobei wilderness.

In this way, it should be able to avoid the eyes and ears of the northern survivors and the ascetic monks in Mobei.

Everything seems to be perfect, even the shortcomings when looking at the majestic city of Luoyang from a distance seem to be only a matter of time.

However, in the middle of the night, a figure suddenly appeared outside the farmhouse, breaking the silence of the night and instantly and completely making Achai Chen's breath seem to be filled with the chill of the glacier.

"Lord Demon Sect?"

He was infinitely more powerful than those followers, so he was the first to sense the arrival of this person. When he made such a sound in disbelief, the followers in the tent next to him even

I didn't even notice that there was an extra person outside.

"I didn't expect it to be you."

A calm but familiar voice sounded in Achai Zhen's ears.

Infinite fear suddenly welled up in Achai Chen's heart. He got out of the tent as quickly as possible and left the farmhouse. However, when he saw the figure of the Demon Sect in the darkness, he did not dare to speak for a moment.

What to say, he just bowed quickly and subconsciously.

"I heard that you captured the heir of the Northern Family, but I didn't expect that it was you who was here, so you have used her to complete the deal with the He family?" Demon Sect looked at him quietly,

asked.

The way Mo Zong talked to him seemed to be no different from before, but for some reason, when Mo Zong stood quietly in front of him this time, Achai Chen only felt as if he was integrated with the darkness and the heaven and earth behind him, just like

Behind his figure stood an extremely huge monster that could swallow up the entire world and all darkness.

Achaizhen was already powerful enough for most practitioners in the world at this time, but in front of the Demon Sect at this time, he didn't even have the intention to compete. The unspeakable fear made him

Cold sweat broke out on his vest and forehead.

"You are a very practical person."

Before he could respond, the Demon Sect's voice sounded again, "What conditions did they give you?"

Even the tone of Mo Zong's voice did not change, but Achaizhen heard more cold meanings in it. He no longer dared to hesitate and stretched out his right hand that had been holding the magic weapon tightly.

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Mo Zong stretched out his hand.

The magical weapon with Achai Chen's body temperature fell into the hands of the Demon Sect.

The Demon Sect looked at the magic weapon in his hand, frowning slightly, but a strange smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Wentian Yue?"

Achaizhen nodded.

The weird smile at the corner of Mo Zong's mouth widened instantly, "Do you think this is Wentian Yue?"

Achai Chen's breathing suddenly stopped. He didn't understand what Mo Zong meant at this time.

The weird smile on Mo Zong's face turned cold instantly, his fingers contracted slightly, and the magic weapon in his hand instantly made an unusually unpleasant and harsh sound.

Crystal dust flowed out between his palms. When his fingers were loosened again, the remaining mass in his hand was like a piece of iron that had been kneaded into a ball.

"I have never seen a real Wentian Yue, but I can tell you that this thing is just a fake."

Mo Zong let go of the object in his hand and let it fall to the ground in front of him.
To be continued...