Of course, flying was much faster than walking on legs.
Previously, places like the cave dome and cliffs that were difficult to pass through could now be flown over to carefully observe and search for clues to the ancient people's secret cave abode.
With the Wings of Ice and Fire, Lin Dong's speed greatly increased.
Three hours later.
Lin Dong found a secret door on an unremarkable rock wall. Outside the secret door was a dark rock. The damp cave wall was covered with moss and a small number of mushrooms that liked water. If it wasn't for Lin Dong, who had a strong perception and rich experience in treasure hunting, and if it was Yun You You, she would not have been able to discover that the ancient people's secret cave abode was behind this rock.
"What a good place!" Lin Dong observed carefully.
He found that the seal's power was not strong.
However, the design was very ingenious and the concealment of the array was extremely strong. Moreover, the array would exist for a long time and would not lose its function due to the passage of time.
Lin Dong placed his hand on the surface of the rock wall. His mind and spirit energy combined and penetrated in, trying to reach the center of the array and crack it. The Wings of Ice and Fire on his waist flashed and floated up in an instant. It automatically unfolded and attached itself to Lin Dong's back in the form of sword wings. The Ice and Fire energy was continuously transmitted to its master.
With this powerful energy amplification.
Lin Dong's speed of cracking was more than ten times faster than expected.
In less than a minute, Lin Dong successfully cracked the array behind the rock wall. As the array was undone, several sharp arrow-like black shadows shot over, directly attacking Lin Dong's face and heart.
Without needing Lin Dong to do anything himself, the Ice and Fire Wings' Ice and Fire energy gushed out.
On the sword wings, several ice swords and fire swords met the black shadows of the arrows.
Automatically protecting the master.
The arrow-like protective energy was instantly shattered by the ice swords and fire swords, disappearing without a trace. The Wings of Ice and Fire was a high-grade flying sword. Although its spiritual sense was still small and it did not know how to transform and speak like Ling Xiao, its quality was there. The array that Lin Dong had broken was so powerful that even the low-grade flying sword Matchless Heavy Sword could not break through, so it was not a threat at all.
"Rumble …"
The stone wall opened, revealing a pitch-black cave.
When Lin Dong sensed the turbid air gushing out, he frowned. "Has it been abandoned for a long time? Otherwise, why wouldn't there be any Spiritual Qi at all? "
Pa!
Lin Dong took out the flashlight that he had prepared earlier from his storage ring and turned it on.
Casually sweeping his gaze inside, he discovered that the stone steps inside were winding, and he did not know where they led to. Lin Dong cautiously and slowly floated in, carefully searching this cave that seemed to have been abandoned for a long time and no one lived in it.
At the top of the stone steps, there were many mechanisms.
However, this type of mechanism was targeted at intruders who walked on foot. For people like Lin Dong who flew in midair, it was completely useless.
After walking down the winding stone steps, Lin Dong found a stone gate in front of him. It was thick and heavy, probably weighing several tons. This kind of childish mechanism was of course not a problem for an experienced treasure hunter like Lin Dong. Soon, he found a mechanism on the dome and pulled it hard. The stone gate rumbled and rose, splashing dust everywhere. After walking for a while, there were pits of traps in front of them, and sharp stone spears were all at the bottom.
After crossing it, he went up to a high platform. Below him was a deep cliff and a pool of stagnant water that didn't move at all.
Lin Dong directly flew over and crossed the pool.
He found another stone gate.
After opening the stone gate, he found the real cave of the secret cultivator.
Stone tables, stone beds, stone bowls, and other daily necessities were all there. Lin Dong dashed in and swept through the room. He was really not interested in stones. If he could find anything, Lin Dong hoped it would be books, jade slips, or similar ancient secret books. Of course, it would be even better if there were Dharma artifacts, or pills. Soon, Lin Dong found the bronze tripod that the ancient people used to refine pills in a stone room.
"It's useless! This thing is too crude! " Lin Dong knew that many Qi Practitioners did not actually use large bronze tripods to refine pills. They all had small jade tripods to refine pills in private.
These bronze tripods were usually used to store the blood, meat, or bones of certain beasts.
Very few cultivators.
They might even use the bronze tripods as the core of the sacrificial array.
There were no Dharma artifacts, no pills, and even the medicinal herbs that were originally piled here had been completely weathered by the merciless years. Lin Dong found many silver ores of varying quality in a stone room. Ores were useless to Lin Dong. In the cultivation world, a random stone was worth more than these ores. Not to mention ores, even if it was a refined silver ingot, Lin Dong could not be bothered to pick it up. Looking at the few empty stone rooms, Lin Dong was disappointed. Why were there no spirit stone embryos?
Lin Dong hoped to obtain more spirit stone embryos, but there was not a single one here!
"What a pity!" Not finding any treasures, Lin Dong was a little disappointed. He prepared to leave this cave and continue looking for a new one.
"Swoosh …"
The stagnant water surface suddenly rippled.
There was a still and motionless black shadow that Lin Dong thought was a stone. Suddenly, its flame of life lit up like a lighted lamp. As it came to life, this huge black shadow floated up quickly and came out of the water.
Guardian beast?
It seemed a little weak!
Lin Dong was curious why the owner of this cave would find such a weak guardian beast.
When this black shadow completely came out of the water, he understood at a glance. This was not a real guardian beast, but more like a pet. This was because this was a spirit turtle with golden patterns and trigram armor that cultivators liked to raise.
Golden-patterned Trigram Armored Spirit Turtle.
As the name suggested, it was a spirit turtle with a golden Eight Trigrams pattern on its back.
This kind of turtle had almost no combat power. It looked kind and had a docile personality. In the cultivation world, Lin Dong often saw it in the ponds of some small sects. The biggest feature of this kind of spirit turtle was its longevity. Once it was raised, even if it was left alone for hundreds of years, it could still live well. Big sects looked down on it, but small sects liked to raise it as a mascot to show that they were a sect with a long history, and the older it lived, the more it was favored.
Another feature of it was its laziness.
As long as there was water, this kind of spirit turtle could lie still for hundreds of years. It would not go anywhere even if its master didn't care.
Therefore, small sects liked to raise it. It was different from raising mountain dogs and other spirit beasts. If the master didn't care, the mountain dogs might slip away one day. Even if there was someone watching it every day, if it met a fox dog of the opposite sex, it could easily be seduced …
Gold Pattern Turtle also had another feature, which was divination.
It lay in the pool every day, motionless, but if a disaster befell the sect, this spirit turtle could sense it through divination. It would shout a warning and let the master prepare in advance. The older the Golden Patterned Trigram Armored Spirit Turtle was, the more accurate its divination would be. This was especially true for those ten-thousand-year-old turtles that could speak. Whether it was a sect's calamity or an individual's danger, it could warn them.
"You don't just want to say hello to me, do you?" Lin Dong guessed that this old turtle might have divined his arrival.
"…" This old turtle did not know how to speak.
Moreover, compared to the real old turtles in the cultivation world who could easily live for thousands of years, it was still very young. Lin Dong estimated that it was about two thousand years old. It was not a baby, but it was not a young man either. It could be considered a teenager among the spirit turtles!
Lin Dong floated down on its back, which was more than two meters in diameter.
He reached out with one hand.
He gently pressed on the head of the spirit turtle.
An indistinct thought was transmitted over.
Lin Dong had not yet cultivated the Thousand Language Comprehension of the Heavenly Ear Connection, so he could not convert this thought into language, but he could understand the spirit turtle's meaning. This spirit turtle had been trapped here for more than a thousand years because of its master's departure. It hoped to leave this enclosed space and live outside. Of course, if Lin Dong was willing to be its new master, it would be even better.
"Raise a turtle?" Lin Dong frowned. He was not short of materials to raise a spirit turtle. Besides, raising a spirit turtle almost did not need to care about its food and drink. As long as there was enough water, it could absorb the aura of heaven and earth to nourish itself.
"…" The old turtle's eyes showed a kind of desire. Compared to the old master who usually did not care about it, this young man's skill was more powerful.
The most important thing was that it could calculate that it was destined to meet this young man.
Therefore, it especially hoped to be with him.
If it were other creatures.
For example, the monster spiky ball that Chu Ling 'er liked, Lin Dong did not care about it. However, it did not matter to raise a spirit turtle. First, it was not ugly. Second, it was easy to raise. It could live well even if he did not care about it. Third, in case of an enemy sneaking in, it could also warn him.
"Well, it's quite pitiful to see you staying here alone!" Lin Dong felt that he did not necessarily have to establish his own sect immediately, but it would be good to get a mascot first.
Lin Dong drew a contract array in the void with the energy of ice and fire.
The spirit turtle was harmless, but the contract was still necessary.
Who would be at ease with a wild monster staying in their home every day? Lin Dong was definitely not that kind of generous person!
The gold-patterned, trigram armored spirit turtle lowered its head very meekly and accepted its new master without any resistance. Lin Dong's ice and fire contract array easily defeated the previous contract array and firmly imprinted in the spirit of the old turtle. A light flashed between the human and the turtle. Lin Dong sensed the spirit of the old turtle again. It was much clearer, but it still could not transform into language. It was probably because it had not been in contact with intelligent creatures for many years, so the spirit of this old turtle did not mainly develop in the aspect of language.
"I did not get a magic treasure, but an old turtle that only knows how to eat and drink!" Lin Dong was a little unhappy.
"Puff!" The spirit turtle suddenly spat out a bead.
It was the size of a ping-pong ball.
The color was bright, and the whole body was crystal clear.
Lin Dong took a look and found that this bead was a low-grade spirit bead of the fish and dragon type. He did not know where the old turtle got it.
"I know your intention, but the quality is too low. It is useless to me!" Lin Dong rarely returned the spirit bead to the old turtle. Seeing that its master did not want it, the gold-patterned, trigram armored spirit turtle quickly swallowed the spirit bead back into its belly. For Lin Dong, the quality of this bead was too low, so it was meaningless. But for the turtle, it was a super treasure.
The spirit turtle looked at Lin Dong and was secretly grateful.
It now felt that its new master was very good.
At least he did not covet its bead.
Lin Dong saw the appearance of the spirit turtle and could not help but laugh. "Look at your useless look, I know you have never seen good things! I will give you some spirit stones. Cultivate well. Look at the golden pattern on your back, the color is too poor and dull. If someone sees it in the future, I will not know where to hide my face! "
After that, Lin Dong threw a small spirit stone fragment to the spirit turtle.
The old turtle took a look.
It caught it as if it had received a treasure. The big head kept nodding, desperately trying to express its gratitude to its new master.
"Cultivate well, there will be better things in the future!" Lin Dong used the Manifestation Art to reduce the spirit turtle to the size of a palm, took it to the dark river outside, and unsealed it after closing the cave residence. The old turtle was very happy. It could not only get out of the closed cave residence, but also follow a new master with a promising future. Moreover, this new master was very generous, so it was very satisfied!
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