bestfiction #474 - The Heart of Magnetics
#474 - The Heart of Magnetics
Chapter 471: The Heart of Yuan Magnetism
What Zhang Chen admired most about Xie Lingyun was her cleverness; Xie Lingyun's intelligence wasn't just about assessing situations, but also about knowing herself.
Xie Lingyun wouldn't recognize these ancient characters unless she invited people from the major aristocratic families to decipher them, or submitted them to the imperial palace. But how much of the translated content would actually end up in her hands? Just some scraps and leftovers.
It would be better to leave the books to Zhang Chen. Given their relationship, if Zhang Chen could translate something useful to her, he would definitely give it to her.
Zhang Chen didn't object to Xie Lingyun's suggestion. Instead, his eyes swept across the bookshelf in front of him. Because this place contained the earth's Yuan Magnetic power, the books on the shelf hadn't suffered the ravages of time, and their quality was still as it had been in the past.
However, taking so many books away would be a problem.
Zhang Chen didn't focus on the books but went to the pool. He saw that the Earth Marrow in the pool had dried up. Zhang Chen thought, and the pool's barrier churned, then an object the size of a pigeon egg, emitting white light, slowly floated up.
"What kind of treasure is this?" Xie Lingyun's attention was drawn over.
"This is the Heart of Earth Yuan Magnetism I mentioned. It's useful and useless. It can absorb all the metal in the world, so it can be considered a strange treasure." Zhang Chen turned to look at Xie Lingyun: "I'll take the books, and this Heart of Earth Yuan Magnetism will be a gift for you, Sister."
Xie Lingyun stared at the Heart of Earth Yuan Magnetism for a moment, then shook her head: "This thing is useless to me. You should keep it yourself. I'm currently trying to break through to the Yang God realm and shouldn't be distracted. I'm already content with obtaining that fragment of the sun; I shouldn't be too greedy."
Xie Lingyun's voice was full of emotion, and she sighed. Zhang Chen's willingness to give her the sun fragment was already a great kindness.
Zhang Chen had discovered this place. Even if Zhang Chen kept it, she couldn't say anything. Zhang Chen's offer was to save her face, and if she really took it, she would be insensible.
Most importantly, this thing couldn't be preserved. It absorbed metal from the world everywhere. How could she preserve it? She would probably be stabbed to death by flying metal on the road.
Zhang Chen smiled when he heard this and didn't stand on ceremony: "This thing is indeed useless to you, Sister. It's more useful in my hands. Moreover, only Innate Qi can seal the Heart of Earth Yuan Magnetism. Even if I gave it to you, you wouldn't be able to take it out."
Zhang Chen mobilized the Innate Yin-Yang energy, and the Innate Yin-Yang millstone turned, absorbing the Heart of Earth Yuan Magnetism. Only the power of Innate Yin-Yang could suppress the power of the Heart of Earth Yuan Magnetism. Even the Innate Five Elements Qi couldn't suppress the Earth Yuan Magnetism's ability.
"Are there any other treasures in this secret chamber?" Xie Lingyun's eyes sparkled, like a treasure-hunting rat.
"No! How could ordinary treasures be seen by the Longevity Ancestor?" Zhang Chen shook his head.
"How to transport these books out? That's also a troublesome matter." Xie Lingyun looked at the books on the bookshelf and shook her head with some distress.
Zhang Chen said, "I have a way."
Zhang Chen began to instruct Xie Lingyun to move all the books down and stack them together, forming a three-meter-high pile. Then, Zhang Chen thought and controlled the Earth Yuan Magnetic Iron, and the magnet, like flowing water, wrapped the entire pile of books, sealing it tightly like a natural magnet without any gaps.
"How will you move such a large object away?" Xie Lingyun asked.
Zhang Chen smiled and said, "Not difficult! Not difficult! When the time comes, I can naturally take it away."
The magnet was waterproof, and the weight of the books was less than ten thousand pounds. With Zhang Chen's Mountain Moving Technique, it wouldn't be difficult to move this thing away. The difficulty was that Zhang Chen needed to prepare a small boat and not be discovered.
Seeing Zhang Chen's confidence, Xie Lingyun didn't ask any more questions. Zhang Chen said, "Sister, follow me. There's another good place here; perhaps there will be unexpected gains."
Zhang Chen was thinking about Xu Erniu's alchemy room, wondering if Xu Erniu had left any remaining pills.
Zhang Chen took the lead out of the underground secret chamber and came to the ground buildings. Following the location in his memory, Zhang Chen came to Xu Erniu's pill room. Looking at the ruins of the pill room, he thought and activated the Water Control Technique. The ground's mud and sand were cleared away, and a huge pill furnace appeared in front of the two.
Looking at the broken bottles and jars on the ground, Xie Lingyun's eyes lit up: "This seems to be the alchemy room of a legendary immortal!"
"Sister has good eyes." Zhang Chen said with a smile: "It's just that time has changed, and I don't know how much good fortune can be left in this pill room."
Zhang Chen slowly stepped forward, looking at the broken bottles and jars on the ground. Countless black 'coal balls' rolled on the ground, all of which were the pills Xu Erniu had refined in the past, which had become rotten under the erosion of time.
"So many pills, but it's a pity they're all ruined." Xie Lingyun looked at the abandoned pills on the ground, a look of regret in her eyes.
Zhang Chen smiled when he heard this: "With your current cultivation, Sister, even if those pills were still there, they would be useless waste pills to you."
Speaking of this, Zhang Chen paused and suddenly said: "That's not right…"
Later, Xu Erniu achieved great cultivation and returned to the Daoist temple, and it was very possible that she refined pills in the Daoist temple. At that time, what was Xu Erniu's cultivation? Even the twelfth-order senior brother was ground to death by Xu Erniu. If that girl refined pills, I'm afraid it would be amazing.
Thinking of this, Zhang Chen came to the pill furnace and saw that the entire pill furnace was still sealed, with no breath leaking out. If according to later generations, it would be that the objects in the pill furnace had not been exposed to the outside air and had not yet oxidized. If he could refine the pills in the pill furnace before they oxidized…
Zhang Chen's heart beat faster, and he carefully looked at the pill furnace. This pill furnace was in a sealed state, and there must be unfinished pills inside, or pills that had already been refined but had not been taken out.
"This is a pill furnace. This pill furnace is sealed, and there may be pills inside." Xie Lingyun circled around the pill furnace and said to Xie Lingyun.
"Sister, can your Yin God leave your body and pass through the pill furnace's barrier to enter it?" Zhang Chen asked.
Xie Lingyun stroked the pill furnace with her fingers and shook her head after a moment: "No! The pill furnace contains mysterious power, and my Yin God cannot pass through."
"Can we only open the pill furnace from the outside? But if we're not careful, it will cause the pills in the furnace to rot, and then the good fortune will be wasted." Zhang Chen was a little tangled.
He didn't have the skill to vacuum.
So Zhang Chen turned to look at Xie Lingyun, a hint of probing in his eyes: "Sister, do you have a way?"
Xie Lingyun shook her head when she heard this: "I can't do anything either; you think too highly of me."
Since things had come to this, what else could Zhang Chen say?
The pill furnace was so big that the two couldn't move it away. This pill furnace weighed tens of thousands of pounds, and Zhang Chen's Mountain Moving Technique was helpless. Instead of leaving it here to be discovered by others, it would be better for the two to break open the pill furnace first.
"We can only forcibly open the pill furnace." Zhang Chen said.
"We still have to be careful. If there's a curse in the pill furnace, I'm afraid something big will happen." Xie Lingyun said with lingering fear, thinking of the unpleasant events in the Tomb of the Emperor's Daughter.
Zhang Chen's face was slightly hesitant when he heard this: "Probably not, right?"
Based on his understanding of Xu Erniu, Xu Erniu shouldn't be that kind of person. But it was also possible that Xu Erniu left a backup plan when she left in a hurry. If the cultivators of the Five Villages Temple hadn't all died, and they used the pill furnace to set up a plan, this was still unknown.
Heaven knew how much psychological shadow the changes of that year had left on Xu Erniu?
What if it distorted Xu Erniu's weak heart, and then caused her heart to become perverted in eight hundred years? He would be very unlucky if he opened the pill furnace.
"Let's clean up the ruins first and see if there are any clues. Maybe we can find a pill formula." Xie Lingyun saw the entanglement and hesitation in Zhang Chen's eyes and suggested to Zhang Chen.
Zhang Chen nodded when he heard this: "That's the truth."
Then the two began to clean up the objects in the ruins. Before long, Xie Lingyun held a broken calligraphy and said to Zhang Chen: "Zhang Chen, come and see, there's a major discovery."
Zhang Chen looked at the calligraphy when he heard this. The calligraphy was two meters long and half a meter wide. The entire calligraphy was broken, and dense small characters were written on it. The murderous aura between each stroke of the small characters soared to the sky, as if they were sharp swords, wanting to cut through the sky.
"Ah…" Xie Lingyun cried out in surprise, the calligraphy in her hand fell, her Yin God was pale, and it became a little illusory:
"This calligraphy has such a great murderous nature! I only looked at it once, and I felt as if sharp swords had crossed time and space and almost split my soul apart."
The Yin God was originally a spiritual body and was particularly sensitive to various Qi mechanisms. At this time, it was actually injured by the calligraphy.
Zhang Chen looked at the calligraphy on the ground with a solemn expression, a hint of caution in his eyes. It should be known that Xie Lingyun's cultivation was infinitely close to the Yang God, but she couldn't even look at the calligraphy once. What kind of domineering will was this?
Zhang Chen picked up the calligraphy on the ground and looked at it in his hand, and couldn't help but be stunned on the spot.
He was very familiar with the handwriting on the calligraphy; it was Xu Erniu's handwriting, but between each stroke, there seemed to be endless resentment, which seemed to be able to cut open the heaven and earth and level the universe.
The calligraphy had thousands of words, and the words written on it were repeated. The content was only three words: Why!
"Why?" Zhang Chen looked at the calligraphy, a look of astonishment in his eyes, especially between the lines, there was not only earth-shattering resentment and killing intent, but also demonic intent contained within.
Looking at the calligraphy in his hand, a worry rose in Zhang Chen's heart: "Xu Erniu is about to become a demon! And it's not an ordinary serious one; a Heavenly Demon is about to be conceived in her heart."
"But why did she write so many whys?" Zhang Chen was puzzled: "Why would she become a demon?"