Chapter 1040
Harvest Time: Ancient Treasures
Li Xiao immediately deactivated the Destruction spell and turned to look behind him.
"This feeling... is it another restriction??"
After he finished speaking, a piece of information inexplicably appeared in Li Xiao's mind.
This is indeed a restriction, but its purpose is to test the skin color of those who enter.
Li Xiao was now only thankful that Evelyn Jonathan and the others had chosen the outer rooms; otherwise, they would have been in trouble.
Quickly calming himself down, Li Xiao began to examine the space.
He understood that there must be a reason why Xiao Honglu would specifically point out the location.
It's highly likely that this is the key area that Zheng Zha originally found.
Despite being prepared, Li Xiao took one look around for a moment.
They still couldn't help but stand there, stunned.
When Li Xiao asked Zhang Jie and the others for help, he told himself not to linger no matter what he saw after entering these rooms.
Time is of the essence.
But what Li Xiao saw before him was still beyond his imagination.
No matter what, the cultivation civilization is always prepared.
These are nothing more than magical artifacts, spells, jade slips, elixirs, formations, and so on.
Li Xiao was mentally prepared for these challenges.
However, the cultivation civilization before him, which resembled futuristic technology, truly caught him off guard and left him momentarily speechless.
Compared to the classical oriental style of the attic.
What Li Xiao was looking at should have been in a spaceship, not some kind of cultivation ruin.
At first glance, this attic has three floors, and each floor has four areas: east, west, south, and north.
Aside from the first floor, the two upper floors are not clearly visible, but when you look at them, there is a strange feeling that tells you there are two more floors above.
This first level of space alone is larger than all the areas Li Xiao had visited before combined.
The four areas on the first floor represent the directions of the Four Divine Beasts.
Yes, it is the thing that the middle-aged man just "summoned".
The problem is that these four sacred beasts all appear in the form of a three-dimensional light screen.
Their bodies, like the jade ground they had just paved, were filled with countless symbols and images.
Li Xiao was absolutely certain that these four were not some kind of remnant soul of a sacred beast, but simply entities similar to 3D projections.
In the center of the ground in front of Li Xiao was a huge Bagua pattern.
When I looked at it, the Bagua diagram was still rotating, causing the eight symbols within it to emit bursts of special light.
Li Xiao approached and discovered that the entire Bagua diagram was not a real Bagua diagram at all.
What appeared to be light were actually pieces of white crystals about the size of a finger. For some reason, Li Xiao felt that they looked like transistors on a circuit board.
It has a strangely high-tech feel to it.
Li Xiao had always believed that technology and cultivation were two completely different paths.
However, it seems that this is not so absolute now.
"Boom!"
Hearing a loud bang outside, Li Xiao finally snapped out of his shock.
Several chips were removed.
If Li Xiao wasn't mistaken, these were the countless cultivation manuals mentioned in the map.
But when he instinctively tried to put it into his spatial bag, he discovered that he couldn't fit it in.
Unwilling to give up, Li Xiao tried two or three more times, even taking out the Demon Refining Pot, but it still didn't work. Only then did he look helplessly at the chips scattered all over the ground.
He really wanted to say, "It's no wonder the white saints are scheming. Why don't you just use something easier to obtain? Why do you have to use this kind of chip?"
"This is fucking ridiculous..."
"Ugh!"
Li Xiao ultimately didn't utter the curse.
Then, as he turned, he plucked off pieces of crystal and stuffed them into his pocket.
Li Xiao didn't care anymore; he'd take whatever he could get.
He didn't just take from one place.
The entire Bagua diagram covers a very large area.
Li Xiao wasn't stupid either; the ancient texts within these chips were most likely related to their positions within this Bagua diagram.
But Li Xiao doesn't have time to remember these things in this situation.
After collecting a portion of the chips from each of the eight trigrams' various areas and four directions, they used Moonwalk to reach the second level.
As expected, it broke through another layer of restrictions that resembled flowing water.
The view suddenly changed.
This time, the entire space has once again turned into the same black and white color scheme as before.
Looking closely, one could see a huge black and white millstone suspended in mid-air on this so-called second level.
The millstone is none other than a Tai Chi symbol.
However, compared to the crystals in the first layer of the Bagua diagram and the Four Symbols region, it is different.
The second layer, which is the composition of these grinding discs, turned into a diamond as thick as a thumb.
Moreover, these diamonds were divided into black and white.
And at that very moment.
Li Xiao felt his true energy instantly become active and begin to flow towards the white area.
And then, the very next moment the anomaly occurred.
Among the countless white diamonds, one actually flew out and shot towards Li Xiao.
After instinctively reaching out to catch it, a shimmering golden figure appeared within the white diamond.
"This is... the Indestructible Vajra Divine Skill???"
Li Xiao took a deep breath, forcing himself to stop overthinking, and resumed harvesting.
The black and white were divided equally, and after a few seconds, Li Xiao only took one-thousandth of the black and white Tai Chi, or even less.
But there was no time left. Li Xiao suppressed his heartache and went up again.
He wasn't stupid. The cultivation manuals here were comparable to A-level side quests, so the things on the third level would only be better.
After Li Xiao broke through another layer of restrictions, he went up to the other side.
Upon seeing his surroundings, his face lit up with joy.
"Damn, it's finally back to normal!"
Because the third level isn't found in any cultivation manuals, but rather in magical treasures.
And it's not just any ordinary magic weapon.
This third level contains countless strangely shaped objects and weapons.
The first layer is the Four Symbols and Eight Trigrams, and the second layer is Tai Chi.
The third layer is chaos.
In Li Xiao's eyes, these magical treasures were suspended in a kind of chaos, seemingly alive, breathing and even communicating.
The most obvious thing was that with Li Xiao's sudden intrusion, he actually had the illusion that he was being watched by many people.
However, Li Xiao soon felt like crying.
Because he also couldn't store these magical treasures in his spatial equipment.
At that moment, Li Xiao's brain began its most intense thinking ever.
Looking at the various beings within the chaos.
A series of myths and legends flowed rapidly through Li Xiao's mind.
After Li Xiao took out a large burlap sack...
The first thing I noticed was a jade artifact with layers of lotus petals blooming on its overall emerald green surface, connected to a lamp post at the bottom.
Then there is a small, exquisite golden tower with only seven stories.
He then grabbed a lampshade with nine dragons coiled around it.
These three, combined with their relatively small size, became Li Xiao's top choice.
Then Li Xiao had a clear goal.
He grabbed a fist-sized bronze bell with his backhand. The bell was entirely dark yellow, engraved with star symbols and dragon patterns, and had bells hanging from the eaves.
The air beneath his feet solidified, and Li Xiao swept past a pile of debris and grabbed a piece of scale armor.
Then.
A colorful stone.
A pair of golden scissors.
A jade fan painted with a scene of a sudden storm.
A set of interlocking chainmail.
A pair of boots with cloud patterns. A golden crown with wings.
A small mirror with a buckle.
A rope woven from jute.
A jade bottle made of mutton fat.
To put it simply, in the original story, Zheng Zha took what he already took, and he also took a lot of what Zheng Zha didn't take.
As the sack slowly swelled up, even Li Xiao couldn't help but feel his mouth go dry.
My heart is beating faster and faster.
I couldn't help it, I was just too excited.
Although he didn't know if his guess was right or wrong, he knew that even if some of it was wrong, it was pretty close.
If even one or two items are genuine, they've hit the jackpot.
If all of these items match.
Even if the next match is against a combination of gods and demons.
Li Xiao can also guarantee that he will wipe them out.
Unfortunately, even though Li Xiao clearly recognized some of them, he couldn't take them away.
For example, Li Xiao recognized the words "Ruyi Jingu Bang" (the golden staff) on the golden staff that was over ten meters long and four or five meters wide.
The problem is that it's really too heavy and too big.
Not only that, there was also a fiery red spear, a nine-toothed rake, a shield the size of a wall, and a staff the size of a human head. The size and weight of these weapons were truly terrifying.
It doesn't look like something a normal person would use.
Just then, a furious roar rang out from outside:
"Li Xiao, five seconds left!"
Upon hearing this, Li Xiao threw the small green bottle behind him and felt a sudden heaviness all over his body.
He turned his head to look at the large bag he was carrying.
Without further hesitation, he turned back to the second and first floors, collected some more from each floor, and then rushed out without looking back amidst a loud bang.
And just as Li Xiao rushed out of that attic...
The ground completely shattered into countless fragments.
Behind them, the pavilion erupted with a strange, chaotic light.
Then everything that was exposed disappeared.
Li Xiao knew that those things that hadn't been taken must have been moved to another ruin.
This also shattered his plan to search for treasure in the Earth's core magma.
After all, some magical artifacts are fine even if they fall into the Earth's core magma.
"Damn, they're not giving us any chance at all!"
After saying that, Li Xiao, carrying a large sack, darted out with his already unsteady Moonwalk.
A suspended continent.
Saito Hajime, holding Xiao Honglu's nascent soul in his arms, kept leaping across the shattered ground.
A loud cracking sound.
Li Xiao, having activated the explosion once more, flashed in front of Saito and grabbed his shoulder: "Let's go!"
After saying that, Saito felt his vision blur for a moment.
When I could see clearly again, I was already on the back of a huge creature.
Chen Zilong and Zhao Yingkong each grabbed two.
Ziyuan carried Evelyn and flew up.
They all left the collapsed pavilion and finally landed on the dark blue-green dragon's back.
Chu Xuan, who had somehow ended up standing on the dragon's tail, couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the scene before him.
Without Zhang Jie and the other two maintaining things, things were different.
The entire continent and the central building complex rapidly collapsed into ruins and then fell down.
Visible to the naked eye, some of the rooms contained countless jade slips radiating light, along with various magical treasures and elixirs.
However, these were all enveloped and disappeared by a chaotic light before they entered the magma.
As for the other buildings, they all disappeared into the dark red magma of the earth's core as the continent shattered.
And it was at this time that...
A figure was frantically waving its hands on a broken boulder.
"Me, me, and me too! Are you all blind? ...You've left someone out..."
Jonathan gagged from the intense heat emanating from beneath him, but he continued shouting desperately.
The person whose arms were already full and were even falling down was quite obvious.
After the elixir disappeared, this person decisively gave up on leaving and went to other rooms to ransack them.
It's obvious they'd rather risk their lives than keep their treasures.
And now this person has finally gotten what they wanted.
The boulder beneath their feet grew smaller and smaller in the lava.
Just as the black dragon began to take flight in sight.
A gust of sand rose up beside him.
Jonathan's greenish face instantly changed.
"Haha Imhotep, I love you to death! I knew you wouldn't forget me."
As soon as he finished speaking, a sandstorm suddenly rose, carrying Jonathan directly to a height of over a thousand meters before he caught up with the black dragon in the sky.
Finally, it was accompanied by a dragon's roar.
The battered and bruised dragon, along with everyone behind it, vanished into this mysterious underground space.
Thus, this section of the site came to a fairly perfect end.
Half a day later.
After bidding farewell to the Dragon Emperor, the Zhongzhou team, along with Evelyn and her family, returned to the seaside town.
Bruce shuddered as he looked at Jonathan, who was hanging from a tree wearing only his underwear.
It's already autumn, and since we're near the sea, it's still quite cold after sunset.
Just like Jonathan now, whose teeth are chattering so badly they're practically chattering.
"Sister, sister..."
"Put me down, put me down, put me down, please come down..."
Evelyn, holding a remote control in her hand, said with a smile:
"Don't worry, you won't freeze to death."
"Don't forget that you're several years younger now, a real young man."
"If you were standing next to Eric, you'd look like his brother!"
"By the way, Li Xiao installed this while you were sleeping yesterday."
After she finished speaking, Evelyn pressed a button.
A bolt of electricity shot out from the ground, traveled up the tree, and finally climbed up Jonathan's body.
After a series of crackling sounds...
Jonathan suddenly didn't feel cold anymore, but he felt like he was about to die.
Bruce couldn't bear to watch this scene and turned his head away immediately.
"Master, what exactly did Jonathan do?"
"Why are they all coming back and causing such widespread resentment?"
Li Xiao looked at Jonathan, who was wriggling like a maggot on the tree, and said with a forced smile, "It's okay, this guy is just born that way, he needs to be taught a lesson."
"I don't think I'll be able to change it in the future."
"By the way, Bruce, the things in the room are for you. We'll be leaving in a bit."
Bruce nodded in agreement.
After Li Xiao finished speaking, he looked at the bald, handsome man standing in the distance, who was also the High Priest Imhotep.
He walked over and took out a porcelain bottle.
He handed it to him amidst Imhotep's burning gaze.
"This is the elixir that Jonathan promised you."
"According to Chu Xuan, the elixir here cannot grant immortality, but remaining young for a thousand years is still possible."
After Li Xiao finished speaking, he handed the porcelain bottle to the other party.
Imhotep looked at Li Xiao and said slowly:
"Without Ansuona's weakness, aren't you worried about Evelyn and the others' safety?"
Li Xiao smiled faintly and said, "We also left something for O'Connor and the others, and don't forget about the Dragon Emperor."
"He promised we would take care of O'Connor and his family of four." (End of Chapter)