Shen Luo gently dusted off the dust on the book. When he saw the four words "Demon-Subduing Manual" written on the cover, his heart moved and he wanted to pick it up and read it. However, as soon as he exerted force on his hand, the already rotten book fell into pieces.
Seeing this situation, he could only helplessly shake his head.
Shen Luo walked out of this stone room and continued along the corridor, checking the disciples' houses along the way one by one. It turned out that the conditions inside were almost the same. They all seemed to be Fangcun Mountain's most ordinary Outer Disciple residences.
After he left the disciples' residence, he went to the bottom of the mountain wall and entered a woodland with lush trees.
There are winding paths in the forest, and a stone path submerged in the grass extends into it.
Shen Luo walked along the path inward, and along the way I saw independent courtyards distributed among them. However, most of them had collapsed and collapsed, and they were scorched black. It seemed that they had been turned into ruins after Fire Tribulation.
After walking through a dozen small courtyards in the forest, the stone path began to extend to the right. Not far from a fork in the road, Shen Luo saw a courtyard with relatively complete storage.
To say that it is complete is only compared to the ruins before. The gate of the small courtyard has also completely collapsed. Although the two-story attic inside is still standing tenaciously, there is a big hole in the roof for unknown reasons.
Shen Luo walked into the courtyard and saw only pits and scratches everywhere on the ground. It was filled with construction debris that had flown from nowhere. There were beams and pillars of the house and broken eaves and ridges. It was a mess.
"From a distance, the house looks like a paradise. When you get closer, you can see that there are ruins everywhere. It is obvious that there was a tragic war many years ago, but why haven't there been any bones in the past half day? I don't know if I can find some things left by my ancestors." Shen Luo was filled with doubts and a hint of hope.
He stepped over a broken roof ridge, walked to the attic, raised his hand and pushed open the door.
The door of the house, which had not been opened for a long time, made a soft "squeak" sound and opened inward, bringing with it a burst of flying dust.
Shen Luo raised his hands and covered his mouth and nose and walked into the house. However, he saw that the furnishings were the same as before, no different from ordinary people's houses. In the middle was a narrow hall, with a landscape scroll hanging on the wall, which had been decayed and broken.
There is a guest room on each side of the main room, which is equipped with beds, tables and chairs, but they are all decayed and tattered. There are also clumps of grass growing in the gaps between the green bricks on the floor, which looks very desolate and dilapidated.
Shen Luo I wanted to search to see if there might be anything described here in the house, but I couldn't find anything.
He walked around the back of the main room and followed an old wooden ladder to the second floor of the attic.
There was only a single room on the second floor of the attic. As soon as Shen Luo entered, he saw a copper bell as tall as a person embedded in the floor. It looked like it was the culprit who smashed the big hole in the roof.
When he came closer, he saw that the bell was densely engraved with words, and it was decorated with flowers and brocade patterns all around. It looked very beautiful, so he followed these words and began to recite silently:
"The world is covered by heaven and earth, but benevolence and virtue are used to benefit the people. The sun and the moon come back and forth, and no great merit is bestowed on the world. The Tao is renewed, the palace is constructed, the gods bless and silently support, the alliance is carried out, praying for the blessings of heaven and earth and preventing disasters..."
After reading the whole article, Shen Luo understood that the text engraved on the body of this bell was a Daoist prayer for blessing. Although the number of words was small, the intention was huge. The sentence "Pray for blessings for heaven and earth to prevent disasters" is enough to show its broad spirit.
When he walked around to the other side to look again, he saw a rather wide palm print sunken above the clock body. The lines on the fingertips and palm were clearly visible. At a glance, he knew it was the palm of Human Race.
"Hey, what is this?"
At this moment, Shen Luo let out a strange cry. He leaned over and looked at the palm print carefully, and found a white foreign object between the middle finger and index finger, which was very different from the bronze color of the clock body.
It's just that this thing seems to have penetrated the clock body and is embedded inside. If you don't pay attention, it will be difficult to find.
Shen Luo raised his hand and touched it, and found that the thing was a little cold to the touch, and seemed to be some kind of jade.
He pinched the tiny tail end of the white foreign object with two fingers and pulled it out with force, only to find that the exposed part of the object was too small and he couldn't use any force at all.
Shen Luo thought about it for a while, took a deep breath, and Yang Gang energy started running in his body. Azure Yang Hand struck the bronze bell handprint with a "bang" sound, and tried to shake it out with the force of his palm.
However, with this blow, the bell made a dull sound, and instead of shaking outward, the white foreign object shrank inward a little, almost flush with the palm print.
Shen Luo frowned slightly, raised his palm again, gathered enough strength, and slapped it down suddenly.
"Bang..."
There was a muffled sound with a slight echo, and the white foreign object that had been retracting inward was suddenly shocked by the force and shot out like a short arrow.
Shen Luo has quick eyes and quick hands, so he grabbed it in his hand.
However, at this time, the bronze bell that had been embedded in the floor suddenly sank, directly smashing a big hole in the floor, and Shen Luo fell into the main room on the first floor.
Smoke and dust suddenly rose in the room. Shen Luo was covered in dirt. He got up from the ground in a somewhat embarrassed manner and staggered out of the house.
As soon as he stepped out of the house, the two-story attic collapsed suddenly.
Shen Luo dusted himself off, walked to the yard, turned around and glanced at the collapsed attic, sat down on a broken roof ridge, spread out his palms, and looked into them.
In the middle of his palm, there lay a long and narrow jade slip, about three inches long and one inch wide, as white as mutton fat. It was as smooth as silk and without any modification. It looked like there was nothing strange about it.
But Shen Luo feels that this object was probably deliberately embedded in the bronze bell and knocked down here. It is obviously something he cherishes, and it definitely cannot be just an ordinary object.
"Could it be a Magical Artifact?" He thought to himself, and the Magic Power in the Dantian in his body had already turned around and flowed into the jade slip along the meridians on his hand.
The moment Magic Power merged into the white jade slip, the fluorescence inside flashed, becoming more and more transparent.
But after waiting for a long time, the jade slip was still like this, without any other changes. There was no Magic Power fluctuation coming from it, nor any reaction when Magical Artifact was driven.
Shen Luo Seeing this situation, he still didn't give up. He immediately sat down cross-legged, put the jade slip in his hands, and silently recited Nine-Nine Treasure Refining Formula in his heart.
However, after a lot of trouble, the jade slip still showed no change at all, and there was no reaction at all to Treasure Refining Formula.
"Is it really just an ordinary thing?" Shen Luo looked disappointed and said depressedly.
After thinking for a moment, he suddenly remembered something, slapped his forehead, and then a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
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