The two of them discussed the sword plate along the way as they approached the deserted island.
This was a very small, desolate island with a radius of a thousand feet. It was basically covered by volcanic rocks. The entire island was in the shape of a volcano. In terms of size, there were thousands of such small islands in the Thousand Islands Region. There wasn't even a space to build a Sea God Temple. It was obvious how remote this place was.
White smoke could be faintly seen coming out of the volcano. This meant that this was an active volcano that was still in the eruption period. As for when it would erupt, only the heavens knew.
"You're quite brave. You dared to dive into such a volcano?" Lou Xiaoyi joked.
Li Peinan told the truth, "It's not that I'm brave, but there was no other way. There was no road to heaven and no door to the earth. Only by diving into such a dangerous volcano could there be a way to survive. If I changed to a safer place, I would definitely be found …
However, after this disciple went in, I found that this volcano was not as active as I thought. The temperature inside was not high either. Cultivators can completely endure it. There should be magma flowing below, creating the illusion of an eruption. "
Lou Xiaoyi nodded. He circled around the island and felt the balance of the five elements on the deserted island. As Li Peinan said, the five elements were very stable and balanced. It was not the chaotic state before the crack appeared.
This judgment could be made as long as one had a little understanding of the five elements. From this, he knew that the people who chased after this Li family's son were also insignificant cultivators. Otherwise, he would not have been able to escape.
People with luck were always luckier.
"Lead the way, let's go in!"
Li Peinan was in front, and he was behind. One after the other, they entered the volcano. Lou Xiaoyi had overcome his fear of caves through his own efforts. With his current Earth Escape ability, this kind of terrain could not trap him, so he was not afraid of any possible traps.
Li Peinan was very careful in front. He stopped from time to time to judge and apologize.
"I haven't been here for more than a hundred years. There may be some small changes. We have to be careful. There is no True Cultivation Array here, nor is there any fluctuation of Spiritual Vigor. It is purely set up by the methods of the mortal world, so if a cultivator uses their Divine Sense to investigate, they won't find anything. The reason why I was able to escape back then was because of the special structure here … "
Lou Xiaoyi nodded. "It's a careful arrangement! However, there's also a problem. If one day, the earth really cracks, this arrangement won't have any protective power, and the inheritance will disappear. Or, is there someone who can predict the geological changes of tens of thousands of years? "
Li Peinan agreed. "The person who set it up probably didn't intend to preserve it for so long. It's just that the stratum of this sea has been stable for tens of thousands of years. It's just a coincidence."
The two of them went all the way down, sometimes squeezing through the crevices of the rocks. After a while, they came to the side of a big rock. Based on their senses, they were already a thousand feet below the sea level. However, the surrounding environment was not very humid, and the airtight environment was very good.
"There's a hidden mechanism here. I've already dismantled the trap. I don't know if anyone else has come here in the past hundred years."
Li Peinan was standing at the side. He did it very slowly so that the Swordsman behind him could see more clearly. When it came to secret exploration, there were countless rules. If you don't want to trick others, you must show your actions clearly to your companions. Don't hold onto the idea that only you can know your secrets. Otherwise, people will think the wrong way.
The Xuanyuan Swordsman had been carefree ever since he came down. However, the more he behaved like this, the more careful Li Peinan was, because this meant that this person had his own unique skills. Exploration was a skill that almost every cultivator, whether they were individual cultivators or cultivators from sects, involved in all aspects. Of course, he didn't know that Lou Xiaoyi was really a layman when it came to these things. He had never had such an experience before.
When the big rock fell, Li Peinan specifically warned, "Don't use brute force on this rock. I think that if you use brute force to break it open, it will cause seawater to pour in …"
Behind the big rock was a small stone room. Looking deeper, there were two more stone rooms scattered around. The ceiling was inlaid with luminous pearls. Of course, for cultivators, this was meaningless.
"There are three stone rooms in total. There are no living things, no remains. It should be a place to store the inheritance. There are many places like this in the Thousand Islands Region. I've been there several times. This place is simple and crude. But what's surprising is that the things here are not simple and crude."
Lou Xiaoyi carefully observed the outermost stone room. There was a niche, a cage, and a table. There were only four bare walls, and they were clean. He couldn't help but laugh.
"You've emptied it?"
Li Peinan was a little embarrassed. "At that time, I was poor. Everything was good for me. However, most of them were materials and spirit stones. Many of them were rotten."
Lou Xiaoyi activated his eyesight and saw a stone tablet in the niche. On it was engraved: Cloud Top Sword Inherited Bai Shuang. It seemed that it was the work of a Cloud Top sword cultivator called Bai Shuang. To be able to dig out such a space in the volcanic rock, it was a little difficult for a Jindan cultivator to do so. It was most likely a Yuanying cultivator. As for the reason, only God knew.
Seeing Lou Xiaoyi's puzzled look, Li Peinan hurriedly said:
"There are three stone rooms. There's nothing in this outer room. There are two inner rooms. One of them contains cultivation techniques and elixirs. I've taken the cultivation techniques, but the elixirs are useless. All of them have expired and rotted. The other inner room contains the sword plate, which is the one that I used. The strange place that I told you about is here!"
The two of them walked into one of the inner rooms. It was also very simple, but there was a jade table in the middle. There was a sword rack on the jade table, but it was bare now. Lou Xiaoyi only felt that the power of the Five Elements here was somewhat special. Before he had time to think about it, Li Peinan had already Dafa took out his sword plate. There was nothing to hide. His skills were inferior, and his life was in the hands of others. He couldn't be too stingy!
When he placed the sword plate on the rack, the sword plate immediately moved. It floated in the air, and the flying sword began to slowly straighten, showing the state of attack. When it was completely straightened, it started from the other side … The whole process was like a small greenish-grey snake, coiling clockwise, then straightening, then coiling anticlockwise, then straightening again. This cycle repeated, as if it was alive!
When the flying sword was completely straightened, it had the shape of a standard external flying sword. When it was completely coiled, it suddenly shrunk to the size of a mustard seed …
Li Peinan explained, "When I first saw this sword plate, it was in such a state. There was no formation, no spiritual vigor, and it could bend and stretch on its own. Perhaps it was because it had been moving in such a pattern that it could maintain the spiritual vigor of the sword plate for thousands of years without losing its spirituality!
The question is, where did the energy for it to move like this come from? Was it the Five Elements? Or was it Yin and Yang? Or was it mysterious?
At that time, I was only at the last stage of Foundation Establishment. I couldn't understand it, and I was also afraid of ruining the arrangement. Therefore, I only took the sword plate and didn't touch anything else. I thought that in the future, when my cultivation level was higher, I would come back to observe it again.
Later, after I formed my Azoth Core, I came again, but I still didn't discover anything. Only then did I feel that it should be the power of the Tao state. In the Jin Dan Realm, the cultivators' understanding of the Tao state was very limited, especially a rogue cultivator like me. I put all my focus on my cultivation level and the sword plate, and temporarily didn't care about anything else. That's why I let it go until today!
Fellow Daoist's strength, insight, and knowledge are far above mine. Perhaps you can gain something from it? "
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