Chapter 10 Treasure Map?
“…Let’s go!”
Butler Wang glared at Yang Xiu with hatred, turned around and left with the man. Yang Xiu stood at the gate and confirmed that the other party's figure had disappeared from the corner of the alley. Then he quickly walked back to the room, moved the water tank in the corner away, revealing the bluestone about a foot square on the ground.
Yang Xiu pulled the stone away, carefully pulled out a bright yellow brocade package from below, moved the water tank back to its original position and walked into the inner room.
Jinbuli wrapped two yellowed pages, which was the deed that the Yang family had "dreamed about".
After coming to this world, Yang Xiu had not had time to study the land deed carefully. Today, the strange conditions raised by Butler Wang reminded Yang Xiu.
Judging from the performance of Butler Wang today, the patience of the Yang family has been almost gone, and they may take action secretly. The head of the Yang family values this title so much, and there must be a big secret in it. When he thinks of this, Yang Xiu's heart was filled with countless ants, and his curiosity arises.
The content on the land deed was simple and easy to understand. Yang Xiu looked carefully from beginning to end three times and confirmed that there would be no hidden secrets on it. He couldn't help but scratch his head: Strange, am I wrong?
The days of working in the library cultivated Yang Xiu's excellent patience, so Yang Xiu was not impatient and began to recall the memories of this world calmly.
Yang Xiu's parents died early, and the land deed was kept by Aunt Liu. According to Aunt Liu's recollection, this land deed was always wrapped in this exquisitely crafted brocade cloth. Moreover, before Yang Xiu's parents died, they made a strange instruction that they must wrap the land deed with cloth and hand it over to Yang Xiu for good preservation.
No problem with the title deed...
Is it the secret on this cloth?
Thinking of this, Yang Xiu was shocked and immediately shook the brocade cloth and observed carefully. The bright yellow fabric was soft and embroidered with a few simple lotus flowers, which were very delicate, but there was no written record, and the patterns did not seem to be secret.
Yang Xiu was not discouraged, so he spread the fabric completely on his hands and pinched it inch by inch.
"Um?"
When Yang Xiu pinched his fingers to the edge of the fabric, he suddenly felt a very slight protrusion at the extreme. He was surprised and rubbed it carefully and finally found an abnormality on the brocade cloth.
On the four corners of the brocade, several ancient immortal texts were embroidered with yellow silk thread!
The yellow stitches and brocade are mixed together, and they can't tell them if they are not careful. No wonder, for so many years, Yang Xiu, parents, and Aunt Liu have not noticed any abnormalities. Even if they touch these subtle bulges, ordinary people can't recognize this as an ancient immortal text.
It seems that what the Yang clan is looking for is not the land deed, but this piece of brocade cloth!
Restraining his excitement, Yang Xiu groped carefully and quickly confirmed the content of these hidden words.
"Four feet one in the east, one in the north"
It seems to be...a thing similar to coordinates?
Yang Xiu scratched his head, thinking of the acres of barren fields outside the city, and a sudden smile appeared on his face.
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That night, Yang Xiu practiced as usual. He did not meet with Hu Zi waiting at the intersection of the street until the early morning hours of Yin.
Walking on the plain outside the city, you will see a vast snow field. The intertwined ridges extend from under your feet to the distance, blending with the blue sky, making Yang Xiu, who has lived in a modern city for a long time, feel very happy.
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The Yang Xiu family's field is at the foot of the mountain, just in the shade. There are several old locust trees surrounded by green keys. The sunshine time is so short that it is outrageous. You can imagine how little grain harvests in a year are.
The Yang clan went through a lot of trouble in this remote field and almost used all the means, but they were worried after all and did not dare to take the land blatantly for themselves. Especially after Yang Xiuming took the Tianlist, he did not dare to take action easily.
Yang Xiu did not delay, and glanced at the surrounding terrain and quickly determined the location according to the method of measuring four feet one from east to west and one from north to south. Then he lit a pile of firewood to smoke the ground. After the frozen soil melted and became soft, the two of them picked up the iron shovel and dug it hard.
Yang Xiu's physical strength is different now. He used to be exhausted after running a few more steps. Now he runs all the way and digs deep pits, and his physical strength is still sufficient.
The two of them took turns digging for a long time, and the soil pit quickly reached more than one person. Just as Yang Xiu began to doubt whether he had dug the wrong place, the shovel in his hand slammed, as if he had poked something, making a dull "bang" sound.
Yang Xiu was delighted and quickly bent down to clean up the surface of the soil. He quickly caught a small iron box one foot square from the bottom of the pit.
The iron box was not locked, and I don’t know how long it was buried underground. The surface was rusty, but there was no dirt on it. It seemed that there was an invisible shield to prevent the box from erosion of mud and water.
Everyone has a treasure hunting heart, and Yang Xiu was no exception. Following the prompt on the brocade, Yang Xiu was quite excited. But when Hu Zi also poked his head to open the iron box, Yang Xiu carefully grabbed Hu Zi's hand.
"Don't worry, this thing is buried so deeply, there are no mechanism traps." Yang Xiu said with a deep heart and blinked.
"Yeah, Brother Yang, I'll listen to you." Hu Zi was stunned and kept nodding.
To be cautious, Yang Xiu aimed the opening of the iron box at several locust trees, and hid himself and Hu Zi in the opposite direction, and then carefully lifted the lid of the box.
"Swoosh!"
There was no way for the two of them to react. As soon as the iron box opened a crack, a blue light shot out like lightning! The two of them felt a sudden flash of golden light in front of their eyes. At the same time, a muffled "bang!" sound, a small black shadow flashed through their vision and directly penetrated into the trunk.
"Wow! There is really something intellect, Brother Yang, look!" Hu Zi slapped the ground with both hands excitedly and shouted heartlessly. Yang Xiu next to him was shocked and sweated in a cold sweat.
"Damn it, fortunately, I'm smart..."
Subconsciously squirting, Yang Xiu wiped his forehead for a while and was scared. He turned his head to look at Hu Zi, who was completely unaware of the danger, and shook his head and smiled bitterly.
After waiting for a while, seeing that the iron box was not moving, Yang Xiu carefully turned the box over.
There are several layers of golden silk cloth in the box, and a ring is quietly lying in the middle. It has a simple ring-shaped shape, and red light flashes on the smooth surface from time to time, like a ray of rays and fire. It looks like a living creature at first glance, extremely beautiful!
Yang Xiu's eyes shone, licked his lips that were somewhat dry by the cold wind, stared at the ring and stared at him for more than ten seconds, closed the box with a "bang!" and greeted Hu Zi: "Hu Zi, go and fill in the pit, I'll go and see the thing just now! Hurry!"
While talking, Yang Xiu had already flew up and walked quickly to the locust tree, searching back and forth, and couldn't help but feel shocked.
This old locust tree, about one foot in diameter, was actually shot through, and the inside of the hole as thick as a finger was full of burning marks. A short blade, a finger-long pierced through the middle of the trunk, nailed to another tree one meter away.
Yang Xiu held the handle of the short blade and took great effort to pull it off. He had no time to look at the short blade, turned around and filled the pit with Huzi, covered it with some snow, and ran back to the city quickly.
After returning to the city, Yang Xiu repeatedly told Hu Zi to keep the secret and not tell anyone about what tonight. Then he went back to his house to light a candle and couldn't wait to take out the iron box and dagger.
Yang Xiu used to be keen on collecting ancient weapons. This short dagger pierced through the trunk without any wear. It was definitely not an ordinary weapon, so he picked it up with a clue. The dagger was dark all over, with a simple, short and concise shape, and was extremely heavy to buy, and it was probably about two pounds.
The most important thing is that in the middle of the dagger blade, there is a small ancient Chinese character "Li" engraved - only items used by immortal cultivators can carve Chinese characters in seals!
Similar to the principle of Taoist talisman, the most basic magic weapon can be created by engraving seals on weapons and using special creation methods.
Some ancient treasures that have been passed down since ancient times, or those who can collect enough materials, can make weapons with infinite power, called magic weapons. Magic weapons are extremely rare and powerful, and are treasures that every immortal cultivator dreams of.
Now it is impossible to distinguish the specific material of the dagger, and there is only one Chinese character engraved on it. In addition, there is no treasure light unique to magic weapons, so it should be just the most ordinary magic weapons.
Even so, this is a rare treasure for Yang Xiu. Yang Xiu excitedly held the dagger in his hand and played with it, then he collected it closely and picked up the iron box at his hand.
What Yang Xiu cares more about is this mysterious ring.
Take the ring out of the iron box and pinch it in your hand and feel warm and smooth. The surface of the ring is red and flows, which is very magical. Yang Xiu has also studied jade before and confirmed that it does not belong to any jade material he already knows.
There were countless thin marks on the inside of the ring, arranged vertically and horizontally, very neatly. Yang Xiu was curious and simply put a few more candle oil lamps on them and squinted his eyes under the light to observe carefully. However, these thin marks were too small. Even though Yang Xiu was now full of spiritual energy and keen sensitivity, his eyes were still sore and swelling, and he kept crying.
But after seeing the content of the seal carving clearly, Yang Xiu couldn't help but feel ecstatic: these dense thin marks were more than 200 small Chinese characters! It was connected to half a middle-grade upper-level practice technique called "The Mai Forging Technique"!
There is only the first half of the exercises, and the corresponding stage of cultivation is the first to ninth level of the body tempering period.
There are many complex and different magic tricks in the world, and each stage corresponds to different magic tricks. Good skills greatly increase the strength of immortal cultivators, making cultivation twice the result with half the effort.
According to the strength and weakness, the exercises are divided into top-grade, middle-grade, and lower-grade, and each one can be subdivided into the upper, middle-grade, and lower-grade three levels. Yang Xiu is now practicing the "Spiritual Introduction Chapter" from the Thousand Character Text, which is the most basic lower-grade exercises.
But why do you have such treasures buried in your own fields?
Yang Xiu frowned and thought, and soon had a speculation: when the Yang family expelled their parents from the family more than ten years ago, they must have known nothing about the secrets on the Jinbu, otherwise they would not have used such expensive Jinbu to wrap the land deed.
Now that the other party has found the clues for some reason, he tries every means to get the land deed back. He digs out treasures in the fields openly through the clues embroidered on the brocade.
And until now, a question that has been bothering Yang Xiu before has been solved.
The list of famous people is the dream of every mortal. However, after Yang Xiu passed the exam, the Yang clan not only did not want to win over, but instead forced Yang Xiu to hand over the land deed. With the Yang family's style of doing things that always puts interests first, it is unreasonable no matter how you look at it.
If the other party had known that there was a middle-grade and lower-level martial art hidden here, then all this would make sense. But the Yang family probably wouldn't have thought that the treasure they had worked hard to plan for a long time had been obtained by themselves!
Chapter completed!