The interior is filled with silvery light and is filled with small silver objects, all of which look like beetles.
Longhorn beetles are common insects that can be seen everywhere in the Southern Dynasties and Northern Wei Dynasty, but in Dangxiang and the Western Regions they can only be seen in a few warm basins.
Gurbu carefully picked one up with a piece of bamboo. The silver beetle was not light in weight and seemed to be solid. It gave him the feeling that it was carved out of silver by an extremely skilled craftsman, and it was lifelike.
What he couldn't understand was that every silver beetle in the box seemed to be different. Not only were they slightly different in size, but they also had different postures.
What kind of skilled craftsman would be so fond of this kind of insect that he would make a box full of these silver beetles?
"These things have different shapes and are so lifelike. It's as if someone put a layer of silver on the body of this beetle." Xia Baying also felt strange.
"This silver seems to be a bit special. I know that some dynasties in the Western Regions like to regard beetles as mascots, but I have not seen any records about this kind of beetle in many classics. I don't know what the unique significance of this is."
Dharma King Zance looked at Lin Yi, Bai Yuelu and others with confusion, so he asked Song Ren to pass the box of things out first.
Even the horns on the heads of these beetles are in different shapes. These horns look very slender and easy to break, and there are no visible seams between the horns and the body of the beetles. If they were really made by craftsmen, they would be really ingenious.
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At this time, there were also several of his disciples controlling the items outside, so he was not worried about them being accidentally damaged after being sent out.
Although even his teacher could not understand the origin of this box of small things, the more so, the more excited the two monks Gulb and Songren became. For them, what they know and have seen cannot make them happy.
They are more delighted, but the more unknown things there are, the more unknown worlds they will be exposed to.
With a soft click, Gulb pulled out a latch and opened the second bronze box.
This bronze box seems to be older, and it is not well preserved. The patterns on the bronze box are covered with mottled patina, and it is impossible to see what kind of patterns are underneath the patina.
In this box, there is a piece of clay-like object, but the color is very strange, red, green, blue and purple intertwined, like a rainbow.
"Is this the Yaohuang soil?"
Lin Yi was startled, and then blurted out. He had read a record in a miscellaneous book. On some offshore islands in the East China Sea, there was a kind of elixir called Yaohuanghua. In addition to containing a large amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth, this elixir had great medicinal power.
It helps to magnify the Qi Sea, and it is also the best among elixirs. This kind of Yaohuang flower only grows on Yaohuang soil. This Yaohuang soil is said to be naturally formed from seabed mud and seafloor | volcanic eruptions, and it only grows in those few days.
There are only a few on the islands.
"I didn't expect General Lin to be so knowledgeable."
King Zance looked at Lin Yi with some surprise and said: "This is indeed Yaohuang soil. In the Western Region, it is also called five-color soil. Since General Lin knows that this is Yaohuang soil, you must also be very clear.
This Yaohuang soil is only produced in a few special islands in the East China Sea of the Southern Dynasties. Originally, those islands were blocked by your Southern Dynasty. The Yaohuang flower was also a royal product, but in the troubled times two dynasties ago, some people dug it illegally.
Not only that, but later someone discovered that as long as the Yao Huang soil is dug out, even elsewhere, as long as the aura, temperature and water vapor are suitable, and the seeds of the Yao Huang flower are available, the Yao Huang flower can be artificially planted. In this way, the Yao Huang flower can be grown artificially.
The imperial soil was also stolen and dug out. According to accurate records, the total amount of imperial soil from several islands is only a few dozen kilograms, and most of it happened to be purchased by a Western Region businessman, so a lot of it flowed into the Western Region."
After a pause, he looked at the piece of rainbow-colored soil with some regret, and said: "This piece of Yaohuang soil weighs at least six or seven kilograms, which is amazing, but the Yaohuang flower has long been extinct.
I have never heard that other kinds of elixirs can be cultivated in Tu. Even if they have such amazing weight, they are useless."
Lin Yi nodded. He naturally felt that it was a pity. It was just natural disasters and man-made disasters. Over the past dynasties, countless amazing things have disappeared in the world. Even in this spiritual wasteland, there are countless elixirs that need to be completely eliminated.
Extinct.
This box of medicinal imperial soil was also handed over. Regardless of whether it was useful at this time, these things that I had only seen in some strange journals appeared in front of me, which was a real eye-opener.
While talking, Gurbu opened two more boxes. None of the contents in these two boxes, including Lin Yi, Zangce Dharma King and others, recognized them, so they all were sent out.
One of these two boxes is made of pure silver and the other is made of pure gold.
This sterling silver box is also lined with a white jade mat. Five small melon-seed-like objects are tied with cowhide strings on the white jade mat. These melon-seed-like objects look neither gold nor iron nor stone, but they are heavy.
But it is almost the same as gold and iron, which is very strange.
The pure gold box was covered with flying fish patterns, but it was filled with snow-white translucent scale-like things, exuding a strange and faint frankincense.
For Gulb, who was opening the box, he had seen all kinds of strange things today. As soon as the fifth box was opened, he was stunned again. A gentle red light emitted from inside, and they were all round beads.
The surface of this bead does not look hard, it is like a layer of rubber, and it seems to be filled with liquid, giving people the impression of a fruit or a large fish roe.
This is obviously something that cannot be seen from the past, but at this moment, waves of exclamations can be heard outside.
"What's going on outside?" Xia Baying suddenly became curious. She knew that it was most likely that someone outside had recognized the origins of the previous items, and there should be something extraordinary among them. Otherwise, if it was Yaohuangtu,
The medicinal soil, which has become useless, seems to be unable to attract such commotion.
Song Ren immediately sent the fifth box out, but at the same time he brought back a younger monk.
The monk bowed to Rinpoche Zangce, Lin Yi, Xia Baying and others. He could not hide his excitement and said: "In addition to the five small melon-like seeds in the sterling silver box, the silver beetle
Someone has determined the origins of the items in the shape and the items in the solid gold box."
"What are they? Tell me quickly." His Holiness Zangce was also overjoyed.
"The silver beetle-like thing is called insect silver. It is the transformation of a different species of beetle. That beetle is actually produced by our party. It is located in the Kuobajing hot spring area. When it is an adult, this beetle looks like an ordinary beetle.
The beetles are no different, but they like to eat a plant called silver whiskers in hot springs. The juice of that plant is rich in unique heavy silver. The lifespan of this beetle is much longer than that of ordinary beetles. After four consecutive feedings,
After five years, its body will slowly become ossified, and everything will turn into this heavy silver texture. After it dies, this heavy silver will slowly penetrate, and its whole body will be like this kind of silver."
The monk said happily: "The person who recognized this strange thing was a priest of the Yeli clan. He said that this thing is extremely rare, but in fact, the famous Demon Sect of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the anti-scale magic weapon refined by his subordinates
, the main material is this kind of insect silver. The reverse scales made of this kind of insect silver have the unique characteristic of flowing against the true essence. If it is penetrated into the body of the practitioner, the true essence in the practitioner's body will spontaneously repel and impact,
Instead, it accelerates this magical weapon to flow upstream, and instantly rushes back into the heart at an astonishing speed."
"The Demon Sect's reverse scale is actually made of this kind of thing?" Lin Yi and Bai Yuelu were immediately shocked.
"Why, you are very familiar with this magical weapon?" Xia Baying looked at the two of them so surprised and was a little confused. She had never heard of such a thing as reverse scale.
"Speaking of familiarity, I'm afraid even those with reverse scales are not as familiar as him." Bai Yuelu couldn't help but shook her head and said.
Lin Yi nodded.
This is indeed not a boast. Those subordinates of the Demon Sect who have reverse scales probably have not suffered from reverse scales like him. They don't know what it feels like to have this kind of magical weapon walking in flesh and blood.
"So, it seems that you have been hit by this kind of magic weapon?" Xia Baying guessed it by looking at his expression. When she heard that this kind of magic weapon could travel against the true essence, she could imagine how terrifying it was, but
She knew that Lin Yi was not an ordinary practitioner, but she was not too surprised at this time.
"This kind of magical weapon is extremely powerful. Even a cultivator at the peak of the Divine Mind Realm will definitely die if he doesn't use special means." Bai Yuelu said: "It's just that this kind of magical weapon is not refined in many ways, and it is in the hands of the demon sect's subordinates.
There are not many of them either.”
"Since we have the main material, I wonder if we can imitate it." Xia Baying glanced at her and asked, "Do you have a sample of this reverse scale?"
"Yes, and even among the ordnance of our Tiece Army this time, there are Lianggong Scales imitated by the Chengtian." Bai Yuelu said: "When the Tiece Army arrives at the territory of Xifeng Hongqi, I will try to get someone to contact them.
Chengtian, when the time comes, let their craftsmen who imitate Lianggong Scale come over, they must have already done some research on this reverse scale."
"That's very good." Xia Baying's eyes turned to the monk again. The monk was also alert and immediately continued: "The things in that solid gold box look like fish scales, but they are not fish scales, but a kind of underground river.
The bones of flying fish in it. That kind of fish is called nephrite flying fish. In the rivers of some large caves, this kind of fish can take off to eat flying insects. The pattern carved on the box is the way they fly. This kind of fish
It’s very strange. Apart from some fine spines on its wings, the only bone in its head is like this.”
"The bone fragments of this kind of flying fish themselves do not have a large amount of condensation of heaven and earth spiritual energy that can improve cultivation, but they contain a large amount of a unique spiritual energy that can change the characteristics of the practitioner's true energy. As long as a sufficient number of these flying fish are refined,
Bone fragments, the practitioner's true energy will receive a significant bonus when using some cold energy methods." The monk seemed a little unbelievable himself, and after a pause, he said: "This is the Western Region Alliance Army.
One of the royal family said that he knew because a princess in their kingdom once happened to get some, but the quantity was not enough, so after refining, it did not become the ice muscle fairy bone in the records, but it was like this back then.
But they have determined what they are planting."
"Ice Muscle Immortal Bone?"
Bai Yuelu frowned slightly. She had seen these four words recorded in some ancient books in the Northern Wei Dynasty palace. "Is this thing also called fairy jade?"
"Why, have you seen relevant records?" Lin Yi asked curiously: "Does this object have another name for fairy jade?"
Bai Yuelu said: "I have only seen records that say that a kind of fairy jade is not cold by itself, but when combined with the practitioner's true essence, it can not only preserve the appearance, but also condense the aura in the true essence, allowing it to be used.
Chu Zhihan’s true energy method.”
"Is there another name for Fairy Ling Jade? Are the two the same thing? I'll go out and ask later." The monk said respectfully: "The royal family of the Western Regions said that these flying fish bone fragments can be refined by swallowing them like ordinary elixirs.
It can be transformed, but he is not sure how many of these flying fish bone fragments need to be refined to form the Ice Muscle Immortal Bone."
"The specific details will be known once you try it."
Xia Baying sighed, looked at Lin Yi and said: "This thing can only be cheaper for you. If one of you refines it into ice muscle fairy bone and has extra, you can give it to me again."
Lin Yi was stunned for a moment and said, "You should give up on this too."
Xia Baying smiled and said: "Of course I am not happy, but what I have practiced is the true energy method of controlling fire. Is it possible that after so many years of hard training, I have to change the method and practice again for these things?"
"Then thank you for this great gift." Lin Yi didn't hesitate. The Tuoba clan's treasure trove was far beyond their imagination. Just the few boxes in front of the mouth had already yielded a lot, not to mention all the treasures.
After the items are inventoried, some amazing treasures will appear.
At this moment, an urgent voice came from outside, "Xifeng clan Tian Qisheng requested to see General Lin. The remnants of the Tuoba clan were found in the tunnels under the city. It is suspected that Tuoba Xiongxin has been fighting."
"Um?"
Xia Baying's eyes flashed fiercely, and she turned around and walked out first, followed closely by Lin Yi, Bai Yuelu and others. Tian Qisheng and several generals from the Xifeng clan were waiting outside with anxious looks on their faces.
Tian Qisheng and Lin Yi were already very familiar with each other. When he saw Lin Yi come out, he was not polite and said repeatedly: "There are not many people, it seems that there are less than a hundred people, but among them there are many powerful practitioners and subordinates with distinguished names."
They were intercepted in the tunnel and suffered many casualties, but for the time being there was nothing we could do to capture them."
"Where are they underground now?" Lin Yi raised his eyebrows slightly and asked immediately.
Tian Qi Sheng immediately said: "It's in the underground cave not far to the west of the city lord's palace."
"Then King Lao and everyone are here to continue counting the antiquities." Xia Baying said this to King Zangce and King Galdan behind her, then turned to look at Lin Yi: "Shall we go over and take a look?"
"Let's go over and take a look first." Lin Yi nodded, but his brows were already frowning unconsciously: "If it's really Tuoba Xiongxin, and he stays in this city and doesn't leave, then maybe something will happen.
Weird means."
"Are you leading the way, or is there someone else leading the way?" Xia Baying glanced at Tian Qisheng, asked this question first, and then said: "You can all go to the Flame Pagoda. This is the most convenient way."
"Don't you save some true energy?" Lin Yi originally wanted to say this, but when he said the words, he instantly realized that Xia Baying had gained a lot from the deal with General Achaizhen from Tuyuhun.
Tianxin Bodhi, Xia Baying used the flame pagoda to send him to the top of Xifeng Yingming's army. Originally, the real energy had been greatly consumed, but at this time, Xia Baying's body was still full of real energy. He must have taken this elixir.
However, Tian Qisheng did not think of this level. He subconsciously felt that true energy was precious. Even if he only brought one more person, Xia Baying's true energy loss would become even more severe, so he immediately echoed, "No one is needed to lead the way.
At several entrances to the tunnel over there, people with distinguished names have lit up flames, which can be easily seen from the air."
…
The flame pagoda, burning with green flames, soared into the sky again.
Amidst the cheers and shouts, the flame pagoda seemed to be dragged rapidly by an invisible giant, leaving a long flame trail in the air.
Xia Baying's eyebrows were filled with indescribable pride.
Every time she was on top of the flame pagoda, when the flame pagoda floated upward, she felt even prouder than when she was on the ground.
There is an old proverb in Dangxiang that only a real man can soar into the sky like an eagle.
The original meaning of this sentence in Dangxiang is that any man should strive to be an eagle, have the courage to fight against the wind and snow, have a broad mind, and should not be limited to the small world in front of him, and should not be a poor man crouching on the ground.
However, Dangxiang's words abandoned all Dangxiang's women from the very beginning.
In the party, women are inherently humble and do not have much status at all.
But Xia Baying was not convinced.
She was the one who trial-produced the Xiaba tribe’s flame pagoda. She wanted to tell all party members that women can fly in the sky like real eagles!
"Regardless of whether there is Tuoba Xiongxin among those people, he had earlier formed an alliance with Xifeng Yingming and asked Xifeng Yingming to arrange this matter under Darban City. There was always a problem." Bai Yuelu's voice rang out.
What Tian Qisheng said was true. Looking down from a high altitude, there were several bright bonfires burning on the west side of the city lord's palace. Many black-armored sergeants gathered in that area, which was very conspicuous.
"what is the problem?"
Lin Yi vaguely felt that something was wrong at this time, but he no longer thought about it, knowing that Bai Yuelu must have figured something out, so he asked directly.
"Under normal circumstances, why would Tuoba Xiongxin let Xifeng Yingming arrange it in the tunnel under the city? Unless he had already expected that a large army would attack Darban City, and Darban City might not be able to defend it at all, then he would need Xifeng Yingming
The army attacked from underground."
Bai Yuelu said: "But looking at the entire party, who does he think can lead the army to defeat Darban City? Even if he knew the news about Xiaba Ying's personal expedition, he knew for sure that the Xiaba coalition forces entered the Yeli clan's territory.
It is absolutely impossible for him to think that we and Xifeng Hongqi will form an alliance with her long in advance. To say the least, even if he is an expert in predicting events and knows about the Xiaba tribe and our alliance, would he think that Darban City cannot stop us at all?
Allied forces?"
Lin Yi and Xia Baying looked at each other and frowned, feeling that what Bai Yuelu said was indeed very reasonable.
"Tuoba Xiongxin doesn't know much about you."
Bai Yuelu looked at Lin Yi, shook his head, and said: "So he would never have thought that a practitioner like you could disintegrate his practitioners and army so quickly. When we first entered the city, he obviously didn't think much of Xia Xia.
Ba Ying obviously disdains the power of the Xiaba tribe. He does not think that the Xiaba tribe’s coalition forces can attack Darban City and that they need to attack together with an army with a fine reputation."
Hearing this, Xia Baying's brows furrowed even deeper, and she said in a slightly cold voice: "So you think he and Xi Feng Yingming made such arrangements in advance, as if they were facing a powerful enemy. The enemy he was preparing to face before was not us.
But someone else?"
"I have always felt that something was wrong before, and I have just figured it out. The most problematic part of this matter is that he had made such arrangements months in advance, and a few months ago, even your Xiaba tribe
There hasn’t been any change at all, and I’m afraid even the army of General Achaizhen from Tuyuhun who is allied with you has not entered Dangxiang territory at all. Then why did he make an alliance with Xifeng Yingming first, and even made preparations to break the city?"
Bai Yuelu also said solemnly: "That's why he seconded almost all the powerful practitioners of the Tantric Sect early on. His move... requires the support of many powerful practitioners. The opponent he originally planned to face should not be us."
"So it's very possible that the enemy he was waiting for hasn't come yet, but instead he's waiting for us." Xia Baying thought about the army that had been famous for hiding in the snowfield, and then swarmed over like a tide.
When she saw the scene, her eyes narrowed into a straight line unconsciously, "But as you said, looking at the entire party, there seems to be no one who can make him need to deal with it like this."
"Could it be that person again?"
Lin Yi's mind instantly thought of a person's name, and he was suddenly filled with an ominous premonition.
"Lord Demon Sect?" Bai Yuelu's face suddenly turned cold, and she felt the same as Lin Yi at this moment.
"There are masters of the Demon Sect everywhere."
Lin Yi smiled bitterly and said something that she had always wanted to say.
"I feel like all the big conspiracies in the world seem to be related to this person. This person seems to be everywhere." He shook his head. At this time, he really felt that there was a lingering feeling. "And the Tuoba family and the
The good relationship between the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Wei army's previous borrowing should be the work of the Tuoba family. The Tuoba family and the Northern Wei royal family are blood relatives. Therefore, the Tuoba family should be close to the Northern Wei emperor. But before, the Demon Sect
He wanted to take the initiative to negotiate peace with the Emperor of the Southern Dynasty. Although no one could figure out what his plan was, if he defected to the Southern Dynasty, the Northern Wei Dynasty would naturally be in danger. He wanted to meet with the Emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty, but was blocked by my senior brother and failed. However,
As a result, his relationship with the Northern Wei Emperor was naturally not good."
"I don't think a person like him paid much attention to the Emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty in the first place. It is impossible for the Northern Wei royal family not to be wary of him. If he was not too important to the Northern Wei Dynasty and his own cultivation was too high, otherwise the Northern Wei royal family would have been
Just touch him."
Xia Baying sneered, "Based on these facts, it's very likely that it has something to do with him."
"If I could see Tuoba Xiongxin, I'm afraid I would be able to know the truth." Under the full force of Xia Baying's true energy, the flame pagoda was flying in the air very quickly. Just during this conversation, it was already close to Tuoba.
Xiong Xin’s City Lord’s Mansion.
The bonfires on the west side of the city lord's palace were burning extremely brightly, and the flames shot up to a height of at least two feet. Originally, the sergeants around these bonfires were very dense, but when they saw this flame pagoda with a special flame color coming from a distance,
These sergeants with fine reputations knew that it was Xia Ba Ying's flame pagoda, and they immediately made way for a large area of open space to allow the flame pagoda to land.
"Tuoba Xiongxin is so treacherous. His map conceals and deceives a lot from us. There is an underground palace below this." As soon as the Flame Pagoda landed, a general under the title of Xi Fengying ran over, with a look on his face.
Angrily, he bowed to Lin Yi and Xia Baying and cursed.
"Underground palace?"
Xia Baying sneered. She did not save the slightest dignity for this high-ranking general under the famous title of Xi Fengying. "If it can be described as an underground palace, it must not be a small place. What you mean is that Tuoba Xiongxin opened it before
The underground of this city is given to you, but you didn’t even realize that there is an underground palace hidden here?”