"I knew I couldn't go in vain. How could such a treasured cave with such rich aura not grow elixirs?"
"Get rich, get rich!"
Zhang Xiaozu stood beside a three-foot-wide and five-foot-long medicine garden in the courtyard of the main hall, his eyes shining.
Ye Mingyue also looked excited.
The medicine garden was dazzling with light, and dozens of top-quality elixirs were circulating, all of which were mature, and their alluring fragrance penetrated directly into people's nostrils.
The white tiger drooled and snarled as he pounced on a red fruit.
boom!
But it was blocked by a light curtain and bounced back.
"Ha ha…"
Zhang Xiaozu was amused by the embarrassed look of the white tiger on all fours.
He had long discovered that the medicine garden was protected by a formation.
"Don't worry, just look at me."
Zhang Xiaozu smiled and squatted down next to the medicine garden, stretched out his hand and gently touched the forbidden light curtain, and pulled out the red rune.
"Haha, this formation can be broken."
After a cup of tea, Zhang Xiaozhu suddenly brightened up and laughed happily.
Immediately, the red runes were seen entering the forbidden light curtain. With a crackling sound, the forbidden light curtain was quickly torn apart by the red runes.
"ah!"
Zhang Xiaozhu and Ye Mingyue exclaimed at the same time.
I saw that as the forbidden light curtain was opened, the elixirs that were shining brightly in the medicine garden withered in the blink of an eye.
The medicinal garden, which had just been fragrant and full of vitality, suddenly turned into a dead place, exuding a pungent smell of decay and mold.
Zhang Xiaozu and Ye Mingyue were stunned on the spot.
Puff puff!
The white tiger reluctantly swallowed the red fruit that shriveled instantly into his mouth. As a result, his mouth was filled with a musty smell, which made him spit.
"Why…"
After a long time, Zhang Xiaozu let out a long sigh, extremely disappointed.
Ye Mingyue noticed that there was still a little fluctuation of the power of time in the air, and suddenly understood, and said: "This medicinal garden should have been exhausted long ago, but the power of time has preserved its appearance before it was exhausted."
"Well, that should be the case."
Zhang Xiaozu nodded and walked into the medicine garden, hoping to find a good one among the withered plants on the ground, but unfortunately he couldn't find one after looking around.
He suddenly squatted down in the center of the medicine garden, stretched out his hand and pulled the soil on the ground a few times, and found a hole as big as a thumb. After observing it for a while, he said: "This should be a spring connected to the underground dragon veins, but it has dried up for some reason.
There is insufficient spiritual energy in the medicine garden, causing all the elixirs to wither."
"What a pity, what a pity!"
Zhang Xiaozu shook his head regretfully, stood up, wiped the dirt off his hands, and walked towards the main hall.
Fanghua Hall.
The plaque on the door of the main hall has also decayed, but you can still barely make out the three big characters on the plaque.
The two of them searched all the side halls of the main hall and found nothing good. Everything was corrupt.
The two came in surprise and came back disappointed.
Return to the main trail and continue climbing.
After walking forward for more than 3,000 steps, we encountered another fork in the road.
Like the branch road just now, this branch road also leads to a main hall.
There is also a medicine garden in the courtyard of the main hall.
Zhang Xiaozu broke through the restrictions protecting the medicinal garden, and the result was the same as that of the medicinal garden just now.
"pity!"
"This restriction is supposed to protect the spiritual energy from the spring from leaking out and supply all the elixirs to grow. However, after the spring dried up, the restriction blocked the entry of outside spiritual energy, causing the elixirs to wither."
"Otherwise, a few of the elixirs all over the ground would be able to survive."
Zhang Xiaozhu said with a heartbroken expression.
Before learning how to make alchemy, medicinal materials and elixirs were the same to him. They were both stuffed into his mouth and eaten to replenish his strength.
But after learning alchemy, the value of medicinal materials in his heart skyrocketed, and their status far surpassed that of elixirs.
So it was very distressing to see so many top-quality medicinal materials withering before our eyes.
Everything in the hall has also decayed.
Zhang Xiaozu stood outside and searched with his subtle mind, but did not go in again.
Return to the main road and continue moving forward.
Climb up more than 3,000 steps and encounter the fork in the road and the palace again.
Zhang Xiaozu checked it first with a subtle state of mind and found that the situation was the same as the previous two palaces.
However, with the idea that there might be one or two elixirs surviving in the medicine garden, Zhang Xiaozu went over and broke the ban on the medicine garden, but was told not to have any illusions.
Climbing up more than 3,000 steps, we encountered a fork in the road and a palace.
This time Zhang Xiaozu just investigated with a subtle state of mind and found that the situation was the same as the first three palaces, so he continued to move forward.
Keep going, it's still the same, there is a palace more than 3,000 steps up.
And as the height increases, the size of the palace becomes larger and larger, and it becomes more and more luxurious.
It's a pity that all the former magnificence and nobility have been eroded away by the years, leaving only a decayed and broken desolate scenery.
Zhang Xiaopou never touched the medicine garden again, wanting to leave a touch of the brilliance of the past in the desolate and desolate scenery.
I don’t know how long they climbed and how many palaces they encountered. The two of them passed through layers of fog and clouds, and finally reached the top of the mountain.
They thought there would be a super grand palace on the top of the mountain, but there wasn't.
I don't know whether the temperature on the top of the mountain is too low or there is a problem with the land. There is not a single green plant on the top of the mountain.
In the middle of the bare mountaintop, there is a high platform more than twenty feet high.
There is an altar on the high platform.
There are three black stone tablets erected inside the altar.
The stone tablet in the middle is the tallest, four to five feet high and two to three feet wide.
The stone tablet on the left is second, more than three feet high and more than one foot wide.
The stone tablet on the right is the shortest, more than two feet high and almost one foot wide.
There are words engraved on the three stone tablets. The words are in red. I don’t know what kind of paint it is, but it still maintains the bright color.
But the strange thing is that the tallest stone tablet in the middle has the least words engraved on it, but the shortest and smallest stone tablet on the right has the most words engraved on it, so densely packed that it can hardly be engraved on it.
But what makes Zhang Xiaozhu and Ye Mingyue feel even weirder is that they can clearly see the words on the stone tablet and feel it very clearly. However, when they want to see what the words are, they suddenly find that the words on the stone tablet seem to be obscured.
There was a layer of window paper on it, making it blurry and unclear.
"There should be isolation restrictions on the stone tablet."
"Let's go and take a closer look."
Zhang Xiaozu guessed.
"This should be a place of worship. If outsiders break in rashly, they may disturb the mechanism or formation, so you need to be extra careful." Ye Mingyue said.
Zhang Xiaozu nodded and said: "You and Xiaobai stand here and don't move. If there is any danger, you can have someone to take care of you inside and outside."
"Well, be careful." Ye Mingyue nodded.
Tap tap tap…
Zhang Xiaozu walked forward.
Climb up the stone ladder, and in front of you is a road paved with black strips of stone more than three feet wide.
His footsteps were very light, but when he landed on the black stone road, he still made a clear sound.
Maybe it's because it's too quiet on the mountain.
Zhang Xiaozu used red runes to open the way, and red runes poured out from under his feet, crawling forward like a colony of ants, covering the entire front in just a few breaths.
Includes altars and stele.
Except for the mountain-protecting formation on the ground below and the no-fly formation, no other formations were found.
There's nothing on the stone tablet either.
This made Zhang Xiaozu frown and wonder, because it was clearly on the stone tablet, otherwise how could he not see the words clearly on the stone tablet.
"Maybe the formation here is so advanced that even the red runes can't sense it."
"I should be more careful."
Zhang Xiaozu was secretly alert.
Tap tap tap!
After crossing the eight to nine hundred paces of black stone path, he stepped up the black stone steps to climb the altar.
There are many totems of auspicious animals carved on the stone railings on both sides of the steps.
tread!
After stepping onto the last step, Zhang Xiaopou climbed onto the high altar.
Looking at the altar in front of him with the ancient magic circle totem engraved on it, he suddenly felt a trance in his mind and felt the urge to kneel down and worship.
