Long Jiu smiled slightly and said: "According to the information I have, this divine cauldron is probably neither in Longmen nor Mengmen."
Long Jiu's words surprised Wen Qingshan and I. We didn't expect that our careful analysis would be rejected by Long Jiu so quickly.
Wen Qingshan hurriedly asked: "Why does Master Jiu think so?"
Long Jiu replied: "To be honest, I have been tracing the whereabouts of the Sifang Divine Cauldron, and I also found a secret map of the hidden cauldron. I learned that the Sifang Divine Cauldron is in the Shanxi-Shaanxi Gorge. Ten years ago, I led people to secretly
Exploration of the Shanxi-Shaanxi Canyon. At the beginning, I also thought that the most likely location of the hidden tripod was located in Mengmen Mountain, because
Because Mengmen Mountain is actually a huge rock located in the middle of the river, it is more consistent with the record that the Divine Cauldron is hidden in the river. So I focused on the survey of Mengmen Mountain, but found nothing. Later, I surveyed Longmen and
There was still nothing found in Shimen, so I went to Hukou to investigate."
When I heard about the Hukou, I couldn't help but be slightly startled and asked: "Could the Hukou be the Hukou of the Hukou Waterfall on the Yellow River?"
Long Jiu nodded: "Yes, this is the place!"
Although I have never been to Hukou Waterfall, I have already heard about this yellow waterfall, which is said to be the largest in the world, and I have not seen its majestic power once or twice on TV.
I immediately said: "It is impossible for King Yu's divine tripod to be hidden in the mouth of the pot!"
Long Jiu smiled and asked, "Why are you so sure?"
"You can imagine it. The water around the mouth of the pot is very fast. How could King Yu hide the divine tripod under there?"
Wen Qingshan also frowned and analyzed: "The rock structure in the Hukou area is feldspar greywacke and conglomerate interspersed with silty mudstone. The stratigraphic layer belongs to the Ermaying Formation, and the geological age is about 200 million years ago. This
This kind of rock structure has high matrix content, poor cementation, and is easy to be weathered and denuded.
.It is easy to form faults, which is why the Hukou Waterfall was formed. However, this kind of rock is not easy to form large caves. If King Yu really hid the divine tripod under this rock structure, he would have to brave the rocks.
There is a risk of layer rupture leading to cave collapse."
After listening to Wen Qingshan's analysis, Long Jiu smiled and said: "Brother Wen is really thoughtful. You are right. The feldspathic greywacke structure is indeed difficult to form large caves. However, the geology in the Hukou area is not all like this."
structure."
"Could it be that Master Jiu has discovered something?" Wen Qingshan asked hurriedly.
Long Jiu nodded and said: "After investigation, we found that the surface rocks in the Hukou area are indeed feldspathic greywacke, but in the river downstream of the Hukou Waterfall, there is a long limestone layer, and this
A long stretch of limestone lies almost flat beneath the river bed."
"There is such a thing!?" Wen Qingshan showed a surprised look on his face, but I was confused and confused.
He opened his mouth and asked, "Is there anything special about limestone?"
Wen Qingshan replied: "Not only is it nothing special, but limestone is the most common kind of rock! I just didn't expect that limestone is also distributed in the Hukou area, and limestone is the easiest to form caves." Having said this, Wen Qingshan suddenly thought of it again.
What? He raised his head and said to Long Jiu: "Wait a minute! Isn't the lower reaches of Hukou Waterfall the Shili Longcao!? Mr. Jiu, is the long limestone layer you mentioned under the Shili Longcao!?"
Long Jiu nodded: "Exactly! And that long stretch of limestone layer is most likely not a natural formation!"
After hearing what Long Jiu said, I quickly asked: "Master Jiu, what do you mean by this? Isn't it naturally formed? Is it artificially created?"
"Haha, it's not artificial."
"It is neither naturally formed nor artificially created, so how did it form?" I asked puzzledly.
"You may not be able to tell me, but I'll show you this!" Long Jiu said this and took out a document bag from under the mahogany coffee table. He pulled out an A3 paper from the document bag and handed it to us. The A3 paper
The picture above is a picture. Because I have seen a three-dimensional topographic map before, I can tell at a glance that it is a three-dimensional topographic map, but I can't understand it. I turned around and asked Wen Qingshan, who was staring at the map carefully.
: "Boss Wen, what's drawn on this?"
Wen Qingshan frowned and said: "What is drawn here is a three-dimensional topographic map of a river. If I guess correctly, it must be the three-dimensional topographic map of the Hukou Waterfall area, right?"
"That's right, it's a three-dimensional topographic map from Hukou Waterfall to Shili Longcao." Long Jiu said, reaching out and pointing at a slightly darker strip of area on the map: "This is Shili Longcao."
When I took a look, the strip-like area really looked like a river, and in that strip-like area, there seemed to be a darker image hidden. When I took a closer look, the deeper image looked like
It looks like a dragon!
I couldn't help but asked with some confusion: "Why is there still a dragon printed in this river? Is it because it seems that this is the ten-mile dragon trough?"
Long Jiu smiled and said: "Haha, this dragon can't be printed on. This is exactly the distribution of the long limestone layer I just mentioned."
"What!?" Long Jiu's words shocked both Wen Qingshan and I. I never expected that the topographic distribution of the limestone layer would actually be in the shape of a dragon!
I was stunned for a while before I recovered, raised my head and asked Long Jiu: "Master Jiu, how could this situation happen?"
Long Jiu did not answer me, but smiled and said to Wen Qingshan: "Brother Wen should be able to understand."
Without saying a word, Wen Qingshan immediately took the picture over and looked at it carefully. He looked at it for a while and finally seemed to understand something. He took a deep breath and said slowly: "I understand. This
The long limestone formations are actually the body of a real dragon!"
"What!?" I thought I heard it wrong, a dragon turned into a solid rock!? This is really incredible.
But Long Jiu nodded: "Yes! And this is a very huge dragon body. You see, the length of this ten-mile dragon trough is more than 4,500 meters, and this belt-shaped limestone layer occupies almost ten miles.
The dragon tank is one-eighth the length, which means that the length of this giant dragon is more than 600 meters, and the diameter of the body is between ten and twenty meters!"
When I heard this, I couldn't help but take a breath of air. When I transformed into a dragon, it was also a giant dragon. It was only a few dozen meters long. But even then, I felt that it was extremely huge. If a body was more than six hundred meters long,
A giant dragon with a body diameter of more than ten meters, what a terrifying concept it must be, it is simply a behemoth!
Moreover, Xu Yu once told me that the body of a dragon cannot grow infinitely. How big a dragon can become is closely related to its own cultivation level. The higher the cultivation level of the dragon, the greater it can change. And such a huge body can change
The giant dragon's cultivation has probably reached its peak. If this is the case, why is its body petrified?
I expressed my doubts, and Long Jiu explained: "That's because this dragon has died, because dragons are transformed by the aura of heaven and earth. Generally speaking, after the death of a dragon, its body will also transform into aura, but there is one situation.
exception."
"What's going on?" I asked hurriedly.
Long Jiu replied: "That is, the dragon has not really died, and its soul is still in its body. It is just that its soul may have been sealed by some force and cannot control the dragon body, resulting in the dragon body being unable to control the body."
When it moves, over time, it turns into a physical structure similar to hard rock. This process is called petrification. However, the bodies of different types of dragons will turn into different types of stone."
"How do you say this?"
Long Jiu explained: "For example, the body of a fire dragon will generally turn into a rock similar to igneous rock, while the body of a water dragon will turn into a rock similar to jade."
After listening to what Long Jiu said, Wen Qingshan asked from the side: "How dare I ask Master Jiu, what type of dragon can have its body turn into limestone?"
Long Jiu waved his hand and replied: "No, actually the dragon body does not turn directly into limestone, but into a special kind of rock. It's just because this kind of rock also contains relatively rich carbonates, so the instrument
Just identify it as limestone. In fact, this rock is much harder than limestone. As for the dragon body that formed this rock, it mainly comes from the wood dragon family."
"Wood Dragon Clan!?" I was slightly startled.
Long Jiu continued: "Among the Five Elements Dragon Clan, the largest one is the Earth Dragon, which can become as long as a mountain. The Wood Dragon is the smallest, and a Wood Dragon with such a huge size can be said to be extremely rare! So I think,
This rock dragon body is very likely to come from the Dragon Lord of Wood! I am afraid that only his body can be so huge."
When I heard this, I couldn't help but blurt out in shock: "What! That's the body of the Wood Dragon Lord!?" I never expected that the Wood Dragon Lord, one of the Five Elements Dragon Lords, had already died and turned to stone.
Wen Qingshan took a deep breath and said slowly: "According to legend, the Ten Miles Dragon Groove was carved out of the body of a dragon, so it got the name Ten Miles Dragon Groove. I didn't expect that this legend was true. In this dragon trough, people really lay there.
Holding a giant dragon!" When he said this, he suddenly thought of something again, turned to Long Jiu and asked: "Jiu Master,
You just said that the reason why the dragon body is petrified is because the dragon has not really died, and its dragon soul is sealed in the dragon body. According to this, could it be that the dragon soul of the Dragon Lord of Wood is sealed?
In the divine cauldron of King Yu, and the divine cauldron of King Yu is hidden in the petrified dragon body?"
Long Jiu nodded and replied: "I think that's the case! The five elements are mutually reinforcing and restraining each other, and gold can overcome wood. The Four Directions Divine Cauldron is made of copper from the first mountain in the God Realm. It is the ultimate weapon of gold and is used to seal wood.
The dragon soul of the Dragon Lord is just the most suitable thing."