Main text Chapter 258: Ketu Rahu Sword (Part 3)
The spiritual energy lines were drawn one by one, and from the appearance, it looked no different from an ordinary hand, but it was covered with mysterious runes, and the pattern of this hand was an anatomical diagram!
Inside the open texture, there were complex runes that made him dizzy at the first sight, and parts that were extremely delicate. There were also genius treasures that he couldn't even name. These things were all written with lines of description below by another spiritual energy, a red spiritual energy.
Xu Yangyi couldn't help but look over. He had already guessed some of it, and his heart stopped beating for a moment. His hand involuntarily touched the wound on his left hand.
"Dragon Beard Steel, Star Shadow Iron, Sunlight Incense Burner, Gilded Red Jade... Here..." Xu Yangyi squinted his eyes and took a look, and couldn't help but gasp.
These things... Any one of them is sold by gram!
"Boy, this is just part of it." As if he really appreciated Xu Yangyi's surprised expression, Gao Muya smiled while stroking his beard: "If I hadn't seen you bring the little girl Quan back so well, you wouldn't be able to enter this room despite the mess here."
"Indeed... it's very precious." Xu Yangyi took a deep breath and said.
"Wouldn't it be more appropriate if we removed the word precious?" Gao Muya laughed and said: "This is the real art of refining... blending countless materials together to form a perfect creation. The spirit is the blood, the materials are the veins, and the drawings are the shape. This thing is the supreme masterpiece of refining."
Xu Yangyi suppressed his fluctuating mind and continued to look at it carefully.
It doesn't look exaggerated or powerful, but it has a sense of artifact that makes people unable to ignore it. It's like a star in the night, extremely bright.
The shoulder, elbow, and palm of the arm were dotted with three huge spots of light by the pen. Around them, Xu Yangyi saw the image of a sword, a sword that was extremely delicate, fierce and weird!
It was hidden in the forearm. Apart from this, this arm had no other weapons. And when its upper arm was unfolded, it turned out to be a pair of black mechanical wings!
These were marked on the side little by little. The whole arm had dozens or even hundreds of points marked! People who don't know how to refine weapons will feel dizzy at a glance. People who know how to refine weapons can't help themselves after taking a look.
"I dare to say..." After a long time, Gao Muya's voice slowly sounded. Unlike before, his voice was full of enthusiasm and excitement at this moment, as if he was completely intoxicated by it: "This is the greatest masterpiece in the history of refining weapons!"
"Come... Come and see... This is the most powerful human magic weapon - Jidu Luohou Sword!"
"For decades... After decades of getting it, I have never found anyone who can match it... Its exquisite design and terrifying power... It is simply... like a creation by immortals! It has been out of the possibility of modern creation! Only ancient cultivators, or, or aliens! Alien cultivators can create such a perfect work!"
Xu Yangyi retracted his gaze. Sure enough, this is the Jidu Luohou Sword. Quan Ningyue told him the drawings countless times. However, he never expected that this drawing would be presented in this way.
Gao Muya also retracted his gaze and looked at Xu Yangyi. However, the way he looked at Xu Yangyi was not looking at a person, but as if he was looking at a carrier.
Xu Yangyi was not angry at all, nor was he shy, but let him watch openly.
After an unknown amount of time, Gao Muya retracted his gaze and nodded. He said nothing, but just snapped his fingers.
In an instant, a flash of light appeared in the room, illuminating the place with great brightness.
"Look up." Gao Muya seemed to have regained his consciousness at this moment. He lifted up a chair without any hesitation, blew it, and sat down.
Xu Yangyi looked up, and his eyes immediately became serious.
Above, twenty figures in black clothes seemed to be standing sparsely, but in fact, they would make people feel dizzy at the second glance. It was obviously an extremely profound formation diagram.
This is not important. What is important is that each of them has a white spiritual light in their hands, all of which are gathered on an ancient brush with a bright white light. And the tip of the brush emits a purer white light, which is the spiritual light of drawing the Jidu Luohou Sword!
On the other side, there are also twenty monks, each with a red light in their hands, which converges on a small seal, and guides the red light with full concentration.
At this moment, the light seemed to dispel the invisible barriers in the room. Xu Yangyi immediately felt two things.
First, the breath of these cultivators was steady with obvious fatigue. Obviously, this work was quite difficult for them.
Second... these cultivators are all foundation-building cultivators!
The drawings drawn by forty foundation-building predecessors!
"Boy, do you think that the price I charge is high?" Gao Muya raised his chin upwards: "The job of rubbing the drawings alone cannot be done by a foundation-building cultivator. That is, you. Except for you, other Qi training cultivators want this drawing of mine. Even if I am willing, these disciples under me are not willing!"
Xu Yangyi realized the third thing.
The Jidu Luohou Sword... is very expensive, very expensive, so expensive that he may not be able to afford it.
"Rubbing?" Xu Yangyi frowned. This word has a deep meaning.
"As far as the younger generation knows, rubbing, also called 'stone rubbing', is to print the words or pictures on a stone tablet or utensil on paper. In ancient times, tough tissue paper was soaked in advance and then applied on the stone tablet. After drying, dip the brush into ink to spread the ink evenly on the paper, and then peel off the paper. "Senior, if this word is used correctly, then... the body of Jidu Rahu Sword..." …”
"Stone?" His eyes lit up and he looked at Gao Muya who was already extremely surprised. Then, Fu Zhi said in his heart: "No! It can't be a stone. The left hand... the left hand... yes, that's right!"
He took a deep breath and looked directly at Gao Muya: "It's not a stone... but... a bone!"
"The original that Master Tianzai gave you was engraved on the bones! You are now trying to restore it! Right!"
"Brush!" Gao Muya stood up suddenly and looked at Xu Yangyi in shock. For a long time, he seemed to want to smoke a hookah, but he couldn't find the pipe on his waist for a long time. Ze opened his mouth and looked deeply at Xu Yangyi: "Quan Niu'er said that you draw inferences from one example and think very quickly... It really... surprised me..."
"Clever, from just one word, I guessed the truth about Jidu Luohujian. Although... just a little bit worse."
Xu Yangyi smiled sincerely and said, "Senior, please make it clear."
Gao Muya looked at Xu Yangyi, and after a moment, he said: "Originally, I didn't plan to show it to you... But now, I have a new idea..."
He waved his hand suddenly, and in an instant, something hidden in the darkness finally emitted a faint light above the heads of the forty foundation-building monks.
That... is still a hand.
However, it is only the bones of the hand!
A complete, black, extremely weird-shaped bone.
Unable to see clearly, Xu Yangyi closed his eyes and all his spiritual consciousness dispersed. But when his spiritual consciousness dispersed, he didn't see that Gao Muya's eyes lit up and he nodded deeply.
"What a powerful spiritual consciousness... Although it is mediocre for me... but for the Qi training period, it is enough to be called powerful. At least, it is one-fifth higher than the monks of the same level. No, No...this is...a quarter? No, a third? It's almost perfect?"
Just when Xu Yangyi's spiritual consciousness enveloped the bone, the corresponding image appeared in his mind.
That is a hand bone with the same length and thickness as an ordinary person.
But...the shape of that hand bone is definitely different!
Ordinary people have big arms and small arms, with two bones in each place. This hand bone...it's still two bones. However, these two bones are not straight and unified, but... present a twist shape! Tangled together! Like a dead tree with roots!
Every inch of these "tree roots" was engraved with talismans that Xu Yangyi could not understand. Strangely, there are five obvious holes at the intersection of the "tree roots". It seems as if something can be put there, or something has been put there before.
"This is not a human hand bone. It is more like a demon clan hand bone. And it is a demon cultivator who has cultivated human form." Xu Yangyi opened his eyes with certainty: "Moreover, it is not a demon beast transformed into a demon, or a plant, tree, or stone. Or something else."
Gao Muya squinted at him and said after a long time: "It's vegetation."
"As for a monster beast, bones like it can't move at all. It will crush its original nerves and muscles. Stones, or other non-biological forms, such as water, clouds, etc., their bones will be lighter. This hand bone, It only serves to strengthen the body's coagulation, so I conclude that this demon cultivator has no flesh and blood in its body."
"How many holes are there?" Xu Yangyi asked.
"Perhaps... it's the fruit of a plant demon cultivator?" Gao Muya shook his head: "I haven't fully understood this. However, I have two things to tell you about this arm."
"First." He raised a finger: "Its exact age is between 2,200 and 2,400 years ago."
"Two thousand two hundred years..." Hearing this word, Xu Yangyi frowned slightly, and some memories of the elixir spirit that had a photographic memory immediately emerged.
Those memories come from Danxia Palace, from the oldest demon cultivator that may still exist in the world.
"Two thousand two hundred years...Two thousand two hundred years..." Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he whispered: "The end of Han Dynasty!"
"The end of Han Dynasty?" Gao Muya nodded: "Yes, it's the end of Han Dynasty. What? Do you have any clues, kid?"
Xu Yangyi shook his head. At the end of Han Dynasty... Xiaoqing once said... One day at the end of Han Dynasty, all the ancient cultivators disappeared!
"Second." Gao Muya looked into Xu Yangyi's eyes: "This arm... was cut off by someone."
Xu Yangyi's eyes flashed. The demon cultivators of that era were so powerful that their left arm was chopped off!
In the Han Dynasty, the Taoist Zhang Daoling appeared. In the Han Dynasty, Buddhism was introduced to China. In the Han Dynasty, hundreds of schools of thought were deposed and Confucianism was respected. When the three super sects gained a firm foothold, all the monks disappeared... What is hidden in the middle?