There were also a lot of crystallized land near the top of the Weapons Mountain, which contained more pearls of secret items than those at the hillside. Mountain Lifting Hermit, Zhang Anguo and Old Monster Qi were searching for pearls of secret items which might contain nanobeads and space-teleportation equipment near the top of the mountain.
As a very important feature of silver secret items, they could break the physical and spatial limits of conventional equipment such as size, virtual and real. Commoners could barely understand their existence principles.
Silver secret items could directly extract elements from the elements realm and form a real entity. In the eyes of commoners, this was already a myth.
By contrast, nanobeads and space-teleportation equipment could open up a huge capacity and space in a specific size.
Knights who could sense the existence of elements realm could also understand the principle that silver secret items could turn virtual into reality; however, the principle of nanobead and space-teleportation equipment could not be understood by people in this age.
'Is it a small wormhole? Is it a folded space? Is it a means to compress and restore the quantum existence of matter in a specific way? '
Nobody knew!
Everything was just a guess.
Scientists might be interested in this, but for the knights in this era, the most practical thing was to have something in their hands. Everything else was just bullsh * t.
Although space-teleportation equipment such as nanobeads were silver secret items, they were much more advanced than common silver secret items. Additionally, being different than common silver secret items, nanobeads in pearls of secret items didn't expose any true images of secret items.
Even earth knights could only rely on their luck to gain nanobeads at this age.
As for the remaining 20%, knights could only rely on their judgment about the appearance and features of pearls of secret items which might contain nanobeads.
Like how experienced fishermen and pearl fishermen could judge whether there were pearls in the seashells that they had fished out, after 800-900 years of inheritance and practice after the Catastrophe and numerous studies and summaries, knights had also developed a set of knowledge to judge whether pearls of secret items were valuable or not.
This set of knowledge was called "Study of Secret Items".
"Study of Secret Items" was a secret knowledge among secret knowledge and a prominent knowledge among prominent knowledge. This set of knowledge originated from Taixia Country and led the trend of human knights across the country.
In Taixia Country, if a knight wanted to be pretentious and show off his uniqueness and style, as long as he could show off his cultivation base on the study of secret items, he would arouse a lot of admiring looks from other knights at once.
Knights, especially male knights, were not all handsome. In Taixia Country, if an earth knight was ugly, he might not be angry about it; however, if you said that he didn't know "Study of Secret Items", it was equal to scolding him as illiterate and uncultured. It was equal to scolding rich people as nouveau riche. 9 out of 10 knights would be angry about it; additionally, the consequence would be very severe.
Zhang Tie didn't know that there was "Study of Secret Items" among knights in Taixia Country. Previously, Waii Subcontinent was a barren land in Taixia Country. None of the elders and knights of Huaiyuan Palace could show off on "Study of Secret Items". However, after coming to Taixia Country for a few days, Zhang Tie had become a wanted criminal. As Zhang Tie didn't communicate too much with knights in Taixia Country, especially knights above earth level, Zhang Tie didn't know that there was such a popular study of "Study of Secret Items" among knights, especially high-level knights in Taixia Country.
Being different than Zhang Tie, Mountain Lifting Hermit, the grand elder of Tianlu Palace even Old Monster Qi knew about "Study of Secret Items" and had made a lot of efforts to study it.
As for "Study of Secret Items", the three people all felt that they had gained something; therefore, they were a bit reserved.
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Pearls of secret items originated from the condensation of four elements in the Elements Realm. They had a special property, namely, the greater the attack and strength on them, the greater their resistance and hardness would be. It was similar to some materials which could change their physical properties according to the stress that humans invented before the Catastrophe.
Therefore, even an earth knight could only open a pearl of a secret item 20% faster than a black iron knight. If it took a black iron knight 50 hours to open a pearl of a secret item, it would take an earth knight about 40 hours to open a pearl of a secret item.
The time in the hieron ruins was also precious for the three earth knights.
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It was said that according to the investigation, each commoner who traded stocks would feel that he or she was a bit better than the average level of the public. Knights' mentality about "Study of Secret Items" was almost similar to that of commoners who traded stocks.
In this world, the number of secret methods and battle methods that commoners had in stock trading, the number of pearls that knights had in the "Study of Secret Items" was also the same.
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Mountain Lifting Hermit circled around 4-5 pearls of secret items in a crystallized land not far from the top of the mountain for quite a while. After studying and comparing the size, color, texture and grains of those pearls of secret items, he finally selected a pearl of secret items and started to move it.
Of course, the moment an earth knight moved, it would cause a loud sound.
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The grand elder of Tianlu Palace took out a special tortoiseshell from his clothes and stood still on one side of each pearl of secret items. After that, he threw the tortoiseshell onto each pearl of secret items. There were three tortoiseshells. Mountain Lifting Hermit made a judgment based on the front and the back of the tortoiseshell.
Soon, the grand elder of Tianlu Palace selected a pearl of secret items too.
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Old Monster Qi's method was more eccentric. He took out a file and scraped it forcefully on each pearl of secret items. After that, he dipped some powder off the pearls of secret items with his finger and tasted it. Finally, he selected one pearl of secret items too.
The three earth knights occupied a crystallized land near the hieron on the top of the mountain respectively. After that, they started to be busy. Gradually, they surrounded the hieron.
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The grey mist where the demon baron was hiding stopped when it was less than 1 mile away from the top of the main peak.
The demon baron could sense the special battle qi of earth knights even though it was 1 mile away from the top of the main peak.
As it was forbidden to fly here, there were only a couple of roads leading to the top of the main peak. The demon baron hid itself at the foot of the main peak. After circling around the main peak, it found that there were earth human knights in three directions. Therefore, the demon baron frowned at once.
The demon baron was not afraid of any earth human knight here; however, it was afraid of 3 earth human knights.
However, as the three earth human knights were not far away from each other, it became tricky.
The perceptive ability of earth knights could never be matched by that of black iron knights. Therefore, as long as the three human knights were not blind or deaf, as long as they were within 100 m, the demon baron would probably be discovered by the earth knight. If they were within 50 m, the demon baron would probably be discovered by the earth knight.
No matter which side he took, the demon baron would definitely be discovered by one of the three human knights. If one human knight discovered it, it would be discovered by three human knights at the same time. If the demon baron was discovered by three human knights at the same time, it meant that the demon baron's plan would fail at the last step.
The core of this plan was to enter the main hall of the bloody sacrificial hieron on the top of the main peak and control the hub of the entire hieron. As long as he controlled the hub of the hieron, he would be able to catch all the human knights and gradually turn all the human knights into his sacrificial offerings.
It would take some time. At least when it entered the main palace, it had to be undisturbed.
The demon baron threw a ferocious look at the top of the main peak. Closely after that, it turned around and ran towards another direction...
The demon baron didn't know that since it entered this hieron ruins, its trace had been closely followed by someone.
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At this moment, Zhang Tie who was climbing towards the top of the main peak became still. At the same time, a colorful light flashed in the distance. At the same time, Zhang Tie heard the couple's exclamations. Closely after that, the two people chased after the colorful light at a faster speed.
After following Lu Zhongming and Lin Huanxi for a while, Zhang Tie found that there seemed to be something in the hands of the couple. That thing was giving out a faint red light, which covered the two people and enabled them to resist the coldness. Closely after that, they deepened to 6,000 m above the Weapons Mountain resolutely.
As very few black iron knights could come here, they indeed had more opportunities here than the underground space.
Zhang Tie didn't follow Lu Zhongming and his wife to chase after that virtual image of the secret item; instead, he frowned.
The last tracing feather stopped when it was about 1 mile away from Mountain Lifting Hermit and the others on the top of the mountain.
Given the trace of the tracing feather, Zhang Tie sensed that the destination of the tracing feather was the top of the mountain. However, the three positions of Mountain Lifting Hermit, Zhang Tie and Zhang Tie blocked its way.
He circled around below Mountain Lifting Hermit to see whether there was any other way to go up. The answer was no.
The Tracing Feather went down the mountain, but he didn't go down the mountain directly. Instead, he chose a winding path. Like a snake climbing down a tree, he went down from the main peak of the Weapons Mountain.
Anyone who had been a scout or a soldier in the army would know that within a certain area, this kind of snaking path was a very obvious tactical searching movement. This movement might not allow you to find the enemy in the shortest time, but it could guarantee that you would be able to find the enemy closest to the center of the circle that you were circling.
Apparently, he didn't want to meet Mountain Lifting Hermit, Zhang Tie and Zhang Tie on the main peak. After that, he slithered down the main peak like a snake without being afraid of encountering others. What does he want to do?
At this moment, Zhang Tie's mind became as clear as a crystal once again...
'Luring the tiger away from the mountain! '
Four words appeared in Zhang Tie's mind … (To be continued.)
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