Lan Bai She supported Ying Fei's idea, but only from the perspective of finding the best and not finding it was fine.
An anomaly that hadn't appeared for several thousand years and hadn't caused any harm to society, so it wouldn't cause any harm if it continued to be buried.
If there were any negative effects, digging it up would be asking for trouble.
Because of that, the higher-ups' attitude was to let nature take its course.
However, Ying Fei himself didn't want to give up and continued to search for the wooden armor for several years.
In terms of time, Ying Fei was a veteran outer circle member, but in terms of his position, he was still a normal outer circle member.
That was because all his time was spent on researching this ancient mystery.
After Ying Fei's long speech, he managed to convince Mo Qiong, who truly believed that such an anomaly existed.
However, his final request for money made Mo Qiong realize: this was a bottomless pit.
Finding a tomb was already troublesome, he had to ask around in the underground mining business to buy clues, but he still had to spend money.
Furthermore, any excavated relics would be bought by Lan Bai She and returned to the country. The reason why he had to buy them from Lan Bai She was to protect his identity as a tomb raider.
So this kind of excavation didn't have much of a return. The only reward was that as soon as an anomaly was found, Mo Qiong would be the first to know and take over the job.
But who knows how long that would take, even if they searched another 10,000 tombs, they might not find any clues, but the next one … might.
"How much do you want?" Mo Qiong asked.
Ying Fei smiled: "Give as much as you want, I can't guarantee anything, but I'll take as much as you want"
Mo Qiong didn't have much money, last time, to buy food for Gun Gun, he sold a Dan Wood in advance, so he only had 3 million left.
However, he usually didn't need money, so he had already given his family enough. This time, he returned home mainly to take a look, so he didn't need to keep any money.
"Do you know what you're looking for?" Mo Qiong asked.
"Wooden golem! Just like what my ancestor saw, there must be a Soul Subduing Wooden Armor left in the tomb "Ying Fei said firmly, while taking a card from the book in his hand.
Printed on the cardboard card was a wooden figure made of pencil.
The style of the drawing was very realistic, it was a lifelike wooden golem, it had a mouth but no eyes, it was covered in armor, with sharp blades on its feet, elbows, knees, and sides.
However, it was still a simple drawing, even though it was realistic, it was also very simple, almost like a draft, a lot of details weren't shown, even the color was unknown.
Mo Qiong tried to fill in the gaps with his imagination, but he realized that he couldn't do it. The piece of paper that he threw out from his hand disappeared into thin air.
"This was drawn by my great grandfather. Back then, he personally saw this item guarding an ancient tomb of the Han Dynasty. Unfortunately, the battle at that time was too intense. After that, my great grandfather drew it based on his memory and could only draw it like this." Ying Fei said.
"What is this pattern?" Mo Qiong pointed at the pattern on the wooden figurine's face.
Wood golem's mouth, above its mouth, Yang, it's, to Yang, of Yang's.
The pattern was round on the outside and square on the inside, the edges were like stars, and inside, there were two Azure Dragon patterns intertwined, forming an '8' shape around the nose of the wooden golem.
And at the position of the eyes, the two Azure Dragon patterns intertwined and extended to the left and right, one forked into a '>' shape, the other forked into a '??' shape.
Together with the artistic filling of the Azure Dragon patterns, it looked like the right eye was smiling and the left eye was crying.
Finally, at the top of the forehead, there was a round object with nine tadpole-like patterns around it, like a radiating sun, but inside, there were eye like patterns. Therefore, it could be said that there was an eye shining like the sun at the top.
Ying Fei said, "I've studied this pattern for a long time, and found that it's very similar to the Fuxi and Nuwa paintings that were unearthed in a few tombs, but it's more abstract. Although there's no pattern to the outer circle of the stars, that's because my grandfather couldn't remember it clearly, it should have a pattern. If I'm not wrong, it should be the scale of the Three Enclosures Constellations, which symbolizes the universe. The two Azure Dragon patterns below have no legs, and they intertwine with each other. It can also be seen as two snake tails entangling, representing the combination of Yin and Yang. "
"Finally, there are the two forks, the right eye … which is the '>' on the left that we see, is a rule, and the '??' on the right. It's a moment. Without a doubt, the rule symbolizes the order of the universe. "
Mo Qiong muttered, "The stars of the universe, the birth of Yin and Yang, the rule and order …"
"That's right, when combined together, it's the will of the heavens. This pattern is the Mo Family's Heaven's Will Map!" Ying Fei said.
"You haven't explained this sun." Mo Qiong asked.
"Er … this sun is like an eye that spies and illuminates everything, it should be the idealistic variable in the Mo Family's materialistic world view, the will that illuminates everything, the will that monitors all living things, an idealistic existence, and the will of the people. Mo Zi called it … Heavenly Ghost. "Ying Fei said.
When Mo Qiong heard this, he was filled with emotions, but at the same time, he was terrified.
Thinking about it carefully, if Mo Zi wanted to express a will that monitors all living things, why didn't he just call it the will of the heavens, or even call it the God of Heaven, Emperor of Heaven.
Yet … he called it Heavenly Ghost.
If other people heard it, it would sound so strange … Why did he use the word ghost to describe a supreme will?
Heaven represents all living things in the universe, and ghosts are formed after a person dies, evil spirits with a human's heart, how could the two be compared? Humans are already so insignificant, much less ghosts, don't you find it embarrassing?
Look at the Taoist's words, it's called the Heavenly Dao. Look at the Yin-Yang School's words, it's called Taiyi. Why is it called Heavenly Ghost in the Mo Family's words?
In reality, this was his deep meaning, the amount of information was shockingly large. How could Mo Zi not know about the Heavenly Dao, he was referring to something else.
He was referring to the will of the heavens that should be emotionless and heartless, but in fact, there is a human's heart! It could be said to be extremely mysterious, extremely evil! The door of profundity, no … the evil door of profundity!
The Heavenly Dao is natural, but the Heavenly Ghost is unnatural. Using ghost to describe it was really the Mo Zi from two thousand years ago, there was no better word to describe it, it could only be said that the mysterious existence was like a ghost formed after a person dies, drifting away from the natural rules of the heavens and earth. When the universe meets an anomaly, it's like a person meeting a ghost.
There was no more appropriate name for it, something that had a human's heart, yet was above the rules, it could only be called Heavenly Ghost.
Mo Qiong really didn't know how much Mo Zi had thought in the past, or how far he had thought.
However, he could feel the emotions of an ancient scientist when he was studying an anomaly from these words written by the wise men of the past: What the fuck!
Heavenly Dao, you've run into a ghost!
Mo Qiong shook his head in thought. Although this was only Ying Fei's guess, Mo Qiong felt that it might be the truth.
Mo Zi was most likely the person who understood anomalies the most from two thousand years ago.
Heavenly Ghost, it should be the source of all anomalies, the thing that seemed to have gone against the laws of nature.
"3 million, I only have 3 million to sponsor you" Mo Qiong said.
"What? How much? "Ying Fei was shocked to hear that.
"I've been a bit tight lately, 3 million is all I have" Mo Qiong said.
"You have so much money!" Ying Fei excitedly exclaimed.
"Hm? Is it a lot? "Mo Qiong was a bit surprised, he didn't think Ying Fei would think it was too much.
Ying Fei nodded: "It's enough, it's enough! I'm doing it myself this time, it won't cost me much "
He originally thought that Mo Qiong wouldn't give him any money. Even if he did, he would at most give him a bit over 10,000 for the sake of his colleague.
Who would've thought that Mo Qiong would give him 3 million right away, that's enough for him to find a dozen or so tombs.
"Aren't you a farmer? You have so much money … "Ying Fei asked.
"I earned it from farming" Mo Qiong smiled and answered.
Ying Fei was speechless. If he's that rich from farming, he's probably running a big farm.
Although he was a tomb raider, he was actually poorer than anyone else. Because all the artifacts he excavated were handed over to the higher-ups, he could be said to be living purely off of the Blue and White Society's salary.
As soon as he had money, he would wander around the country in search of the lost art of wooden armor.
The best part was when the Blue and White Society reimbursed him for all his expenses and contacted the country's archeological team to support him, even excavating a few Han Dynasty nobles' tombs.
But the archeological team wouldn't keep excavating like that, they would have to slowly excavate and clean up the site, the follow-up work would take several years.
Because of that, as more and more tombs appeared, he wasn't allowed to continue looking for tombs, as he wouldn't be able to manage them all and would cause damage to the artifacts.
Even now, although he could still move around on his own, he couldn't excavate the nobles' tombs, he could only excavate some nameless tombs.
Now that he was a pauper, he was naturally overjoyed with Mo Qiong's sponsorship.
Of course, Mo Qiong didn't give it to him for free. After he memorized the 'Heavenly Will Illustration', he removed the unrealistic parts and only imagined the Azure Dragon pattern on a wooden background. Immediately, he realized that the piece of paper that he threw out was floating slowly.
At this point, he was sure that … there really was such a pattern on the wood.
And the direction was … Mount Tai.
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