No matter how he thought about it, Miao Yi couldn't figure out what the treasure hoarder was up to this time. It was too different from before, but the treasure hoarder must have a reason for doing so. At this point, there was no point in fooling around with the treasure hunters.
As he thought about this, Miao Yi lowered his eyes and opened the Heaven's Eye between his brows again. The brilliant light once again shot out, and he looked up the underground river.
As the Heaven's Eye scanned the surroundings of the river, it quickly extended into the distance. In the end, Miao Yi didn't even know how far he had looked. In any case, it was very far away. The further he went, the slower the water flow became. Gradually, a large number of branching rivers appeared. Miao Yi didn't know which one to look for, and he was dazzled by the sight. He braced himself and randomly chose a branching river to look for. In the end, he found that the end was a filtration zone beneath the ground.
He looked for a few more branching rivers to look for, and the ends were all similar. It was just that the water that seeped down from the countless filtration zones had accumulated into this underground river.
There were too many branching rivers upstream. If he wanted to investigate them one by one, Miao Yi estimated that he would have a hard time. Even if his cultivation was at the Colorful Lotus realm, he wouldn't be able to resist using the Heaven's Eye non-stop.
In the end, he had no choice but to give up on investigating upstream. He retracted the Heaven's Eye and turned to look downstream. If he couldn't find anything even downstream, then he would have to temporarily give up on this treasure hunt. Otherwise, it would take up a lot of time just to investigate upstream. After what happened on Planet Huilin, he couldn't hide here for too long. Even if it was to give Heavenly King Kou an explanation, the Blue Night Bodhisattva wouldn't be able to contact Miao Cun for too long. There was no time for him to waste here. He could only wait for the next opportunity when he had enough time to come again and slowly investigate.
The Heaven's Eye's gaze followed the downstream river for a few hundred miles. Miao Yi's brows suddenly twitched, and the brilliant light beam between his brows froze.
There was a cave above the river a few hundred miles away. The Heaven's Eye's gaze turned into it, and he quickly discovered a secret room. The portrait of the flying lady was displayed on the stone wall in the secret room.
"Found it! Strange. Why did he hide several hundred miles away? What the hell … "Miao Yi muttered. He closed the Heaven's Eye between his brows and jumped into the rapid river. With a heart full of doubts and confusion, he quickly flew along the river.
It was impossible not to be surprised. The situation in this treasure hunting ground seemed to be getting more and more strange.
Miao Yi flew alone in the darkness, accompanied by the sound of flowing water. When he was several hundred li away, he leapt up. He crawled into the cave above. After walking for a few thousand feet, the passage curved and leveled. After walking for another thousand feet, the secret chamber appeared before his eyes. The familiar portrait of the Fairy Ascension Goddess was right in front of him.
Miao Yi walked up to the portrait and furrowed his brows. He then turned around to look at the path he had come from, his face filled with suspicion.
This time, the flying woman's portrait was a little abnormal. In the past, it had been a relief sculpture, but this time, it was a painting. There was another anomaly. In the past, every treasure trove had a demonic cultivator bound to it. But not this time.
Turning back, Miao Yi focused his gaze on the box that the Flying Lady was carrying with her arms. Naturally, the box this time was carved out as well.
Huala! Miao Yi suddenly reached out with his arm and grabbed at the air, shattering the carved box. He grabbed a piece of stone, but the real box hidden behind it didn't appear as he had imagined.
The stone fell to the ground. Miao Yi stared blankly at the stone wall that he had scratched. The place he had scratched was not solid. There was actually a hole behind it. A faint, gentle light seeped out.
Miao Yi quickly invoked his arts and entered the hole to investigate. There wasn't just a small hole behind it, but a huge space. The stone wall with the flying woman carved on it was just a sealing wall. It wasn't very thick.
Raising his palm, he pushed out a wave of transcendence energy. Bang! Bang! The sealing wall collapsed, and a gentle light rushed towards him.
With a wave of his sleeve, he invoked his arts and swept away the dust in the air. Then, he slowly walked to the entrance of the cave. The situation within the gigantic underground cavern was clearly visible to his eyes. Miao Yi's expression was a little startled by what he saw. He swept his gaze across the cavern, then slowly walked down the stairs leading to the cavern's entrance, looking left and right.
It was an extremely luxurious underground space, an underground space that was purely made of red crystal metal.
There were two Buddha statues on the left and right corners of the space. One was sitting cross-legged on a lotus throne with a benevolent expression, while the other was standing barefooted, showing its back. The two Buddha statues were almost a hundred zhang tall. From this, it could be seen how big this underground space was. Since the giant Buddha statues were also made of red crystal, one could imagine how much red crystal metal was used to construct this space.
As he walked down the stairs, Miao Yi kept feeling that there was something wrong with the position of the two Buddha statues. He quickly turned around to look.
Sure enough, there was another Buddha statue behind him. It was lying on its side, with one arm supporting its head. It looked like it was sleeping with its eyes closed, but at the same time, it looked like it was pretending to be asleep. There was a faint smile on its face, but Miao Yi couldn't tell what it was smiling about. It was like a smile from a dream, giving off a mysterious feeling.
And the entrance to this underground space was within the circle of the lotus dharmic wheel under the bed of the sleeping Buddha statue.
Miao Yi's gaze shifted from the entrance of the cave to the stairs he was walking down. The stairs were also made of red crystal, and didn't look like they were made later on. Moreover, the circle of the dharmic wheel at the entrance was still the same, and the moon-shaped door frame wasn't damaged at all. It didn't look like an entrance that had been pierced through. It was obvious that the entire underground space had been built as a whole when it was first constructed.
This caused Miao Yi, who had begun to look around in circles, to be bewildered. He began to doubt if his previous judgment had been wrong. He already had an idea who the person who hid the treasure was, but the situation before his eyes forced him to doubt his own judgment.
It would take a lot of time to create such a huge red crystal space, and the amount of wealth that had been invested was hard to estimate.
If time and wealth weren't a problem for the person who hid the treasure, then what was with the Buddhist style decorating the walls of this huge ring-shaped space?
Aside from the three huge Buddha statues, the walls around the statues were filled with all kinds of figures and scenes. There were monks, laymen, men, women, the elderly, and the young. All kinds of life forms were engraved within the carvings, as though they were the seven emotions and six desires of a human being. The monks interspersed within the various figures and scenes were always the main theme.
Strangely, the various figures and scenes didn't seem to have been carved by the same person. Judging from the style of the carvings, it was obvious that they were the work of different people. Even so, although not every scene was lifelike, each carving seemed to possess an indescribable charm. Every stroke of the carving seemed to be able to captivate one's mind.
It was a simple carving. On the left was a man and a woman, and the woman was kneeling with a child in her arms. In the middle, the woman was kneeling in front of a temple with her child in her arms. An old monk stood behind the half-opened temple gate. On the right, the temple was engulfed in a sea of fire.
At first, Miao Yi glanced at the carving, but he didn't understand what it meant. After staring at it for a while, a vivid scene appeared in his mind: A poor woman carried her child and left her home. She traveled a thousand miles to find her husband, only to find that her husband had already married a rich man's mistress. For the sake of his own wealth, the husband firmly denied any relationship with the woman and her child. The child was starving and sick, and the woman had no choice but to beg her husband for help. However, her husband's heart was made of stone, and he adamantly refused to admit it. In the end, the woman had no choice but to bring her child to a temple. Fortunately, the temple took them in. Who would have thought that her husband was afraid that his future would be ruined if he was found out, so he set fire to the temple, burning the mother, child, and all the monks in the temple to ashes.
Miao Yi almost broke out in a cold sweat when he regained his senses. The heartless man in his mind was none other than himself.
'How could this be?' Miao Yi was extremely shocked. It was such a simple painting that he couldn't even understand. How could he think of so many things after taking a closer look at it, and come up with a complete story?
He quickly looked at the other paintings. As he looked deeper, another story of the fickleness of the world emerged, and he was once again one of the characters in the story.
Once again, Miao Yi didn't dare to continue looking. He didn't know how long it would take to decipher the story behind so many paintings. Secondly, he was afraid that if he continued looking, he would go crazy.
His gaze shifted to the entrance of the cave he came from, and his thoughts connected to the past. 'How could the person who hid the treasure create such a space?' Putting aside the fact that the style of the paintings in the room didn't seem to be the work of a single person, the person who created such a space was most likely related to Buddhism. Furthermore, the clues he obtained from the treasure hunt last time pointed to the Unparalleled Demonic Art of the Heavenly Division being hidden here. If the person who hid the treasure was a Buddhist, why would he spend so much effort to create such a luxurious underground space to hide the Unparalleled Demonic Art?
No matter how he thought about it, it didn't seem possible. It was highly possible that this space had existed since a long time ago, and the person who hid the treasure just happened to know of this place, and conveniently used it to hide the treasure.
He turned to look at the luxurious space, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible. Every time he went on a treasure hunt, the person who hid the treasure would leave some cultivation resources for him. This time, he didn't see anything else here except for this huge amount of red crystal metal.
As he thought of this, Miao Yi suddenly felt that everything was as it should be. His heart began to heat up, and he realized that he had really struck it rich this time. This trip was not in vain, and this was such a huge amount of wealth!
Now, his biggest worry was how he was going to take this thing away. It was already troublesome to cut this piece of red crystal metal, and it was obvious that he couldn't take it away this time.
Since he couldn't take it away at the moment, he shouldn't think too much about it. He should first obtain the Unparalleled Demonic Art of the Heavenly Division.
But where was it hidden? Why didn't he see the statue of the flying lady?
His gaze shifted to the center of the grand hall, and in the middle stood a nine-tiered lotus platform. It had nine layers and nine rings, and was over a hundred feet tall.
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