160, gourd

They did not walk all the three suspected places on the mountain. They found traces not far away. They saw a stone gourd more than two feet long horizontally across the steep slope. The stone would not naturally become such a regular gourd shape, and must have been carved by artificial carvings. This object should have rolled down from a high place, blocked by the roots of trees surrounded by dead vines on the hillside, covered with moss, revealing only a small piece of dry stone surface.

If you don't pay attention, it looks like two stones or earthen buns covered with moss, but Ding Qi felt the shape was special, so he deliberately swept it with his spiritual sense to find that it was a stone sculpture. He asked Xian Hao to climb up close, hold the vine in his hand, and wipe off the moss on the surface of the stone with his feet, gradually revealing a gourd.

Xian Hao frowned and said, "This should be the gourd top of the pagoda."

Ding Qi nodded and said, "Yes, I have seen many ancient pagodas with gourd tops like this, many of which are made of bronze, and some are even gilded."

The two looked at each other and said in unison: "That tower is on the side!"

Xian Hao: "Then let's go quickly."

Ding Qi: "Wait a minute, I always feel that this stone gourd is a bit weird. Do you think it is hollow and contains things like a gourd?"

Xian Hao: "This is not a gourd made of bronze, a gourd made of big stones, or it is hollow. What kind of crafts are there? But... I also think this gourd is a bit special. Can your spiritual sense penetrate into it?"

Ding Qi shook his head and said, "The stone is too thick, I can't sense it inside, but I always feel that something is blocking my spiritual sense. Let's turn it over and take a look."

Xian Hao: "I will support you, be careful."

The two of them were on the steep slope of the mountain, and there was no place to stand firmly. Xian Hao grabbed the vine next to him and grabbed Ding Qi's belt from behind with his other hand. Ding Qi stepped on the root of the tree and reached out to hold the gourd's mouth, lifting it up with force. The stone gourd more than two feet high was very heavy and ordinary people couldn't move it at all, so Ding Qi just straightened it.

The vines that were holding the stone gourd made a crisp sound. Ding Qi was very careful in his movements. Don’t miss the action. The gourd will continue to roll to the bottom of the mountain. It is not easy to find it. After straightening the gourd, he saw the other side that was pressed. The stomach of the stone gourd may have been damaged by a large piece during the rolling process, and a little golden light appeared inside!

Xian Hao: "There is indeed something in the gourd's belly. Can you see if you can take it out?" As he said that, he took out a geological hammer from Ding Qi's backpack and handed it over. It was a tool used by geological inspectors to sample rocks.

Ding Qi carefully tapped the crack in the defect of the stone gourd with the tip of the hammer, and then peeled out a golden gourd from it. This gourd is two inches tall, like an object held in the palm of your hand, but it was very heavy when you weigh it, and it weighed about two pounds. What's more special is that its outline fits closely with the stone gourd, and I don't know how it was put in it at the beginning.

Xian Hao took the gourd and weighed it, "This is pure gold, solid, only gold has such a large density... I just can't figure out how the gourd is put into the stone?"

Ding Qi: "It may be that a thin slit was opened and then poured into it with gold juice."

Xian Hao: "Are you stupid? If you use this method, how can you take out a gourd-shaped space from a big stone?"

Ding Qi: "That can only be to cut a piece of the stone and then put it back, otherwise I can't think of any other craftsmanship."

Xian Hao: "Did you find the cast hole? There are still traces of meshing after cutting it?"

Ding Qi: "I didn't find it, but this stone gourd was missing one piece, and the traces might be on the missing one."

Xian Hao: "You said it is possible that this golden gourd was placed directly into the stone, but we don't know the means."

Ding Qi: "Of course it's possible. We have all entered Xiaojing Lake, Da Chi Mountain, and Qin Gaotai. What else is impossible in this world?"

Xian Hao: "Can this gourd be a magic weapon?"

Ding Qi: "It is a magic weapon. If you don't believe it, try the hardness, it's the same as the golden Ruyi in Xiaojing Lake."

The texture of gold is very soft, and a stroke of hard objects can leave traces, but the golden Ruyi in Xiaojing Lake cannot be smashed even with a knife. Ding Qi was puzzled at the beginning, but later he realized that it should have been sacrificed by a master with his magic power. Like the stone in his hand, it has become a magic weapon of some kind.

Ding Qi has never seen what the magic weapon for legends or learning works looks like, but if he follows similar standards, his Jingshi should be considered a magic weapon, right?

Xian Hao took the geological hammer and knocked the golden gourd a few times and said, "It's really true! I'll keep this thing first, and I'll study it if I have time."

Ding Qi looked up and said, "How do we go?"

Further there is a steep slope, with slippery soil and rock surfaces covered with moss, and there is no place to stand and it is difficult to climb. Xian Hao rolled his eyes and said, "You have walked all over the world of Qin Gaotai. This hillside is still rare. Is it my skills in the school exam?"

As she said that, she took out a roll of rope from Ding Qi's backpack, with a pendant and a hook at the top. She shook it open and threw it out, and stretched it out and tightened. Ding Qi said happily: "This is the flying tiger claw of martial arts novels. Is it a rope to climb the city?"

Xian Hao: "Teacher Ding understands this way, it's okay. This thing is called "Piaosi Hang". I'll go first, you should pay attention below."

Xian Hao went there easily with the help of the rope, and soon shouted on the face: "Hang it tightly, come too."

The two climbed this steep slope and saw a lot of gravel and bricks not far away. Xian Hao picked up a complete blue brick and said, "This should be a tower brick. It's so big. One piece weighs about ten kilograms."

Where is the tower? The tower is no longer visible. If it weren't for the scattered stones and blue bricks, no one would have realized that there had been ruins of artificial buildings here. When we walked forward to the end, there was another steep cliff. The cliff was on the top of the mountain, but when we looked up at the cliff, we could not see the sun, because they stood under the canopy of an extremely lush tree.

The branches of the big tree are spreading in all directions, with the main trunk almost three meters thick, rooted in a pile of gravel, and the extended root system is exposed on the ground like giant pythons and dragons. Where is the remains of the ancient tower? Below the roots of this big tree.

Ding Qi stood quietly for a while after closing his eyes, as if he was observing something. After opening his eyes, he came to a general conclusion. Someone once flattened a place under the cliff and built a tower. Hundreds of years after the ancient tower was completed, the cliffs on the high ground collapsed, overwhelming the tower. The stone gourds on the top of the tower rolled down to the steep slope in the distance.

Look at the things coiled by the roots of the ancient tree, not only are large stones and tower bricks artificially chiseled, but also natural gravel and soil, as well as several tons of mountain rocks. This ancient tree grew up after the collapse of the pagoda and grew up in ruins, and the tree should have been hundreds of years old.

Ding Qi: "This tree grows so well. I think it's probably a sperm!"

Xian Hao asked back: "Can trees become spirits?"

Ding Qi sighed and said, "Last summer, your sister was still there. We once discussed a philosophical issue together: Is the world conscious, or is it possible for the world to have consciousness? The conclusion is that the world may be conscious, and it only depends on how we understand it, which may be different from the ordinary concept.

After Fangwai's secret technique broke through to the realm of Xingshen, I confirmed this conclusion. Every world has its own unique consciousness. You can communicate with it and be affected by it at all times. In some cases, you can even integrate your own consciousness into it.

So what about other things? For example, a stone that seems to be lifeless, like the stone that I have been sacrificing, it will not have a certain special consciousness? It may not be appropriate to say that consciousness is, but it may be more appropriate to describe it as spirituality. This so-called spirituality is actually given to it by me.

Then, if we extend it, this tree will not have spirituality? After all, it is not a stone. It is accepted as a kind of sacrifice or a coincidence in a natural environment, and a special consciousness has emerged on the basis of spirituality. So can we say that it has become a spirit?" Because Xian Jiao's sister Xian Hao was mentioned, his tone was very low.

Xian Hao seemed not aware of this and took over the conversation and said, "What you said contains the ideas of primitive shamanism. In the primitive era, people believed in shamanism, advocated that all things have spirits."

Ding Qi said thoughtfully: "The so-called shaman not only refers to ancient religions in the north, but also refers to various primitive worship and divine witchcraft from a broad perspective. It was the earliest attempt for people to understand and communicate the world. I have created the secret method of the outside world. If it were in ancient times, I might have been regarded as a great shaman or a great witch."

Xian Hao: "How dirty is Teacher Ding?"

This joke is not funny, and the situation seems out of place. Ding Qi simply ignored her and was still observing the pile of ruins and the strange big trees in front of him. Xian Hao probably felt a little bored, so he picked up his arm and said, "This place is so gloomy. Do you think this tree will suddenly turn into a monster? It feels very chatting with Chinese women!"

Ding Qi: "Ghostly? Are you still afraid of this? This is not the most gloomy environment we have ever encountered?"

Xian Hao seemed to be moved and said: "When it comes to the most gloomy environment, what I have experienced personally should be the dark night on Qin Gaotai."

Ding Qi: "Although the dark night on Qin Gaotai is a threat to people, from another perspective, it may be a kind of protection to that world."

Xian Hao: "Let's stop talking about philosophy against tree spirits in this deep mountain forest. The ruins of the ancient tower have been found, but it seems that nothing else can be found, and it is impossible to open the underground palace under the tower."

The mountain collapsed, rocks and soil overwhelmed the pagoda, and the ruins had a big tree. If you want to dig out the underground palace, you must first remove the tree and then clear the falling mountain rocks. This is a task that they cannot accomplish.

Ding Qi: "We were not here to look for the ancient pagoda underground palace, but we just searched for the ruins. I am better now. There is no temple here. In ancient times, someone built a lonely pagoda. What is it for? I just stood here and I had an inexplicable feeling."

Xian Hao: "I also have a feeling."

Ding Qi: "You talk first!"

Xian Hao: "When you were at the foot of the mountain, you said that this might be a Feng Shui tower or a legendary demon-suppressing tower. I was wondering whether it would be a demon-suppressing tower like Shushan, suppressing a monster under the tower? Now that the tower has fallen, will the monster run out and turn into a big tree?"

Ding Qi smiled: "Although the tower collapsed, the foundation is still there. If there is really an underground palace under the tower, it should be intact, but it is covered up tighter. Do you know what I feel? The tower is still there, or the spirituality of the tower is still there, it is this tree."

Xian Hao blinked and said, "I suddenly had another idea. There may not be a monster under the tower. What else could it be?"

Ding Qi: "A portal to the outside world? Someone discovered a outside world here, so he specially built a tower as a mark?"

Xian Hao: "Yes, that's what I think. Are there any possibility?"

Ding Qi: "It's possible, but it can't be confirmed now. The location of the tower foundation has been buried deep in the ground... You use the golden gourd first. If your judgment is correct, it may also be the treasure of the control world."

Ding Qi carried a backpack on his backpack, but the bag was made by Xian Hao, and the things inside were all prepared by Xian Hao. Xian Hao took out the golden gourd from behind him and handed it over and said, "I tried it just now, but my spiritual sense can't be penetrated at all. It turns out that it's not an ordinary thing."

Magic weapons must be sacrificed and refined by the mind to master their wonderful uses. In the Qin Gaotai World, Tao Xin once introduced to Ding Qi that the treasures in the control world are all divine weapons, and they must at least have the sixth level to master their wonderful uses. If it is a divine weapon with a special inheritance, if it is not inherited, then at least the nineth level of cultivation can be fully mastered.

But this does not mean that if you do not have enough cultivation, it is useless to get the magic weapon. If you are willing to work hard to sacrifice and refine it, you may also master and exert some of its wonderful uses. As for what the situation of this golden gourd is, it is still unknown. There is an outside world under this ancient tower, and this golden gourd is likely to be a treasure of the control world, which is just a guess.

There is another possibility, that something was really suppressed under the ancient tower, so I used this golden gourd to open the portal and then put the thing out, which was so troublesome. The tower had collapsed, but another big tree grew in the ruins. Ding Qi felt that this tree should have spirituality and replaced the original ancient tower.

Ding Qi held the golden gourd in his hand and bowed to the big tree and said, "I'm sorry, I'm disturbing the old man!" Then he walked along the tree roots and walked through the ruins like a hill.

He had not yet sacrificed the golden gourd that he had refined his hands, but he used objects as a guide to activate the secret technique of the Heart Pan Realm. The soul really appeared in the soul. The shadow of the tower and the shadow of the tree overlapped, and there were seven layers and eight sides. The stone gourd on the top of the tower was exactly the stone gourd.

Xian Hao followed him to the ruins and whispered: "You were greeting this tree just now, and you still called him Mr.?"

Ding Qi: "The custom of the mountain village in my hometown is that when you encounter some strange things in the mountains, it is best not to offend them, just like being polite when you go out."

Xian Hao: "Interesting custom!"

The tree is very big, with a diameter of the main trunk close to three meters, and the root system is exposed to the surface at least 100 square meters. While talking, a small animal was gathered out from the roots of the tree, and it ran away in the blink of an eye.

Ding Qi quickly bowed to the direction where the little animal disappeared and said, "Sorry, we are just here to visit the ruins of the ancient tower, and we don't want to disturb the great immortals. We just pass by, so it's convenient!"

Xian Hao: "Daxian? Are you talking about Huang Taixian? Is it that I ran over just now? Is this the custom of your hometown?"

Ding Qi smiled and said, "Yes, it's like chanting a mantra, my grandfather taught me."

Xian Hao: "We didn't want to disturb him, but it seemed a little scared and felt that it couldn't afford to offend itself and ran away."

Ding Qi: "You are holding a knife. The knife is very murderous. How can it not be afraid?"

Xian Hao: "It seems that you can feel the murderous aura of the dry bone knife, but it should also be a bit spiritual."

Ding Qi: "Can you feel the emotions of that Wong Tai Sin?"

Xian Hao: "I feel a little bit, after all, I have also practiced to the realm of Xingshen."

Ding Qi took off the two realms and handed them to her and said, "This is the treasure of Da Chi Mountain's realm control. If you take it to Da Chi Mountain to practice, it may help you complete the cultivation of the Heart Pan Realm as soon as possible. I have sacrificed this thing, and you need to sacrifice it again."

Xian Hao took the two realms and said a little dissatisfied: "I'm just returning it to me now!"

Ding Qi: "If the time is right in the future, you can pass it directly to Wei Fanting. It is their home. I will keep this golden gourd for research."

Xian Hao: "Little guy! I didn't want to compete with you for your baby... Have you seen anything?"

Ding Qi: "The trees today are the towers of that time. As for what is under the tower, they are buried too deeply, and I can't figure it out. It's not something we can move now... It's dark, and it's time for us to go back."

The two of them visited the Huangtian Ancient Village today. In the afternoon, they searched for the ruins of the ancient tower and picked up a magic treasure, golden gourd. They didn't go down the mountain until dark. The mountain was dangerous and had no way to go, so it was much more difficult to go down the mountain. The two of them walked very carefully and did not get out of the dense forest until ten o'clock in the evening to reach the fields at the foot of the mountain.

Walking on Tian Xiaolu, Ding Qi said, "It seems that you have gained a lot after going to Qin Gaotai."

Xian Hao: "Isn't Teacher Ding the same? Especially the ability to climb mountains and forests in the dark! " Of course, there are no street lights in the mountains and fields, and it is already very dangerous to walk during the day, let alone the night. Both of them did not have flashlights. They came out like this, of course, thanks to their practice at Qingaotai.

Ding Qi sighed and said, "I just walked out of Qin Gaotai and didn't want to get involved in the world again. We didn't provoke anyone, we just wanted to visit the outside world with peace of mind."
Chapter completed!