Ye Yixin felt a little anxious because Kaede Poisonisland was obviously interested in the Kunlun wood that Professor Chen mentioned. With his personality, he probably wouldn't let go of the Kunlun wood that might be the coffin of the queen. It was a cultural relic.
As expected, Kaede Poisonous Island looked at Professor Chen with bright eyes and asked,"Professor Chen, is the Kunlun wood really as magical as you said?"”
" Uh…" Professor Chen realized that he had done something stupid. He knew that Kaede Poisonous Island had a strong desire for the so-called Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, but he still told him about the miraculous features of the Kunlun Wood. Wasn't he putting the good stuff in the hands of a thief?!
"Hehe, I'm not sure about that either. After all, it's just a legend!”Professor Chen laughed awkwardly.
"I'll go to the tomb with you. I want to see the Kunlun wood with my own eyes. If it's really something good, then it's mine!”Kaede declared his ownership of the Kunlun wood.
"Hey, hey, hey, Comrade Xiao Ye, Comrade Xiao Ye, that's a cultural relic. It's a cultural relic that's very valuable to the research of Jingjue Ancient City. It has to be handed over to the country.”Professor Chen was anxious.
"There's no room for discussion on this matter. If that Kunlun wood is really as magical as you say, then it's mine. Consider it my reward for saving you all time and time again.”Poison Island Maple did not relent at all. If the Kunlun wood was really worthy of the divine tree's name, then it could only belong to him.
Professor Chen was speechless. He had saved his life more than once. This was a very heavy favor.
Although cultural relics were important, they were valuable because of the historical information they contained, so there was still room for negotiation.
After weighing the pros and cons in his heart, Professor Chen said helplessly," I can give it to you, but if there are exquisite words and patterns carved on it, you have to let me carve a copy. You can't take it all, right? You have to leave a small piece for us!”
"That's not a problem. What I care about is whether the Kunlun wood is as tenacious as you say. If that's the case, I can plant it alive and obtain a living divine wood. And if it doesn't work, I'm not interested in it. I don't want it at all.”
Kaede Poisonous Island thought for a moment. He did not care about keeping the corpse from rotting. The only thing he was curious about was whether the Kunlun wood had such tenacious vitality. Such vitality was far beyond the limits of ordinary trees. It was definitely a rare divine wood, provided that the legend was true and the Kunlun wood in the mausoleum could still be planted.
Kaede Poisonous Island's words made Professor Chen feel slightly relieved. At least some of the Kunlun wood could still be preserved in the end and it would not affect the study of the exquisite culture. Moreover, whether the legend of the Kunlun wood was true or not, and whether it was the treasure that Kaede Poisonous Island was looking for, these were all very questionable.
Professor Chen heaved a sigh of relief when Kaede Poisonisland agreed. No matter what, he was most interested in the traces left behind by the elite people on the Kunlun wood. Of course, if the Kunlun wood was not so magical, the entire coffin would have been left behind.
However, if the legend was true, he would not lose out. After all, if the Kunlun wood really had such an ability, then its value was greater than the entire culture, at least to non-historical fanatics.
While Professor Chen and Kaede were haggling, the other three teams that were searching for the temple in the Ancient City of Jingjue were doing their best.
Due to the erosion of the sandstorm, it was impossible to tell which temple was the real temple from the appearance of these unrecognizable ruins. The only thing that could be confirmed was that the temple was inside these ruins.
Jingjue Country was a country that worshipped gods. The size and height of the temple was definitely one of the most eye-catching existences in the entire city. These remnants of buildings must have belonged to the temple.
However, they had to carefully examine which ruins belonged to the temple one by one, or even dig up the sand to examine them. Therefore, the seemingly small number of ruins actually had a shocking amount of work.
Hu Yi and Yang Li were digging at the bottom of a ruin. They were digging up the walls of the ruin that had become fragile due to the erosion of the wind and sand. The walls were full of sand, which made them temporarily give up the plan to dig further. Otherwise, they would spend all their effort to clean up the sand in the ruins and find that this was not the temple they were looking for. How satisfying would that feel?
"Old Hu, we can't keep searching like this!”
Yang Li wiped her sweat. This was already the third building ruins they had dug up. The three buildings were full of sand. It might be the same for all the building ruins. By then, they would have to clean up the sand in all the building ruins one by one or even all before they could find the temple.
However, they could not afford to waste time, not to mention the amount of work. It was the desert season now, and sandstorms could blow at any time. After a sandstorm, the ruins that they had cleared with great difficulty would be filled with sand again and they would have to start all over again.
Most importantly, the Ancient City of Jingjue could only appear during the windy season in the desert. Once the windy season passed, the yellow sand would swallow the ruins and the magnetic mountain that looked like a black dragon outside the ruins.
Therefore, they were in a hurry and could not afford to slowly compete with the sand.
"What can I do? I'll just continue looking!”
Hu Yi carried the shovel and walked to the next building site with a helpless expression. He could not think of what to do. After all, he did not know the layout of the Ancient City of Jingjue at all. He could not guess the approximate location of the temple.
If he had really deduced it, he would have told Yang Li long ago to gain her favor.
"Sigh, that's true. We can only look for it slowly!”Yang Li said dejectedly as she moved on to her next goal.
Yang Li was the one who knew Jingjue City the best in the team, but she had no idea. How could the others have any good ideas?
The sun was setting in the west, and the temperature of the air was slowly dropping. Hu Yi and the others returned one after another. Looking at their disappointed expressions, it was obvious that they had not found the temple.
"Brother Ye, do you think we have that kind of strange snake?”Wang Xuan looked around a little nervously. This was the ancient city of Jingjue surrounded by black magnetic mountains. There might be strange snakes wandering around here.
" Don't worry, Brother Wang." Ye Yixin laughed." Before you came back, Brother Ye took out a lot of realgar and asked us to scatter it around. Realgar is the nemesis of snakes. They don't dare to approach the ground covered with realgar."”
Last night, in order to verify whether realgar was effective on the black snakes, Kaede Poisonous Island had taken some realgar from Professor Chen and the others and tested it on the half of the black snake that was about to die. The result was gratifying to find that these black snakes were also very resistant to realgar and even scared of it. Therefore, Kaede Poisonous Island had specially bought a lot of realgar and scattered it around the temporary camp. He even buried a lot of realgar powder in the sand to create a safe temporary camp.
"Is that so? That's good, that's good!”Wang Xuan patted his chest with a look of lingering fear. The black snake that could drill through the sand quickly and was not that weak in toxicity was one of the most terrifying enemies they had encountered in the desert.
"Look at you!" Hu Yi rebuked, and in return, everyone laughed and Wang Xuan rolled his eyes.
"How much progress have you made?" Kaede suddenly asked.
As soon as this question came out, the atmosphere immediately became gloomy. It seemed that not only did they not find it, but the search progress was also unsatisfactory!
"Even the Heavenly Star Feng Shui Technique doesn't work?"
"Uh, Brother Ye, why did you mention Feng Shui? Can that thing be useful? Besides, you can't see the stars in the day.”Wang Xuan didn't see Hu Yi's expression. Otherwise, he definitely wouldn't have said such words.
"I don't mean anything. I just want to further study the value of the secret technique. If we can use Feng Shui to find the temple this time, even if it's just to narrow down the area, then its value will be much higher than I thought.”Kaede explained.
"But will that work?" Wang Xuan was a little suspicious.
"No, Xuan Zi, this is very possible!”Hu Yi said," No matter where the temple is, our main goal is to find Queen Jingjue's mausoleum. With Queen Jingjue's supreme status, her mausoleum must be in the best location, or rather, the entrance is on the surface.”
Hu Yi remembered that since the temple had a very important position in Jingjue Country, it must be built in a place with good feng shui. It might even be the place with the best feng shui in Jingjue City, even better than the palace, because it was very likely that the tomb of the Queen of Jingjue was below it.
Feng Shui was his forte. He couldn't use the Heavenly Star Feng Shui Technique during the day when he couldn't see the stars. However, the secret technique didn't only include the Heavenly Star Feng Shui Technique. He still remembered a little about the ordinary Feng Shui Technique of observing the terrain.
It was already late, and the stars were hanging high in the sky. It was the time for the Heavenly Star Feng Shui Technique to show its might.
" There's just a problem." Hu Yi looked troubled.
"What question? Old Hu, tell me quickly!”Wang Xuan urged. He hated it when people spoke half-heartedly.
" It's a compass," Hu Yi said." I'm not very good at Feng Shui, so I need a compass to accurately locate the location. But because of the magnetic mountain, the compass has failed!”
As he spoke, Hu Yi took out the compass for everyone to see, causing everyone to be dumbfounded.
Hu Yi, are you kidding me? You said that the compass was broken, but why is it still fine now?
"Well, I don't know either. It was broken when we found the magnetic mountain. I thought it wouldn't work now. After all, we're not far from the magnetic mountain.”Hu Yi said with a smile under everyone's gaze.
"Alright, let's not bother about this. Old Hu, quickly take a look at where the fengshui is the best. The entrance to Queen Jingjue's tomb might be there!”Wang Xuan urged.
Hu Yi didn't waste any more time. He observed the stars in the sky and checked the compass to find the best location.
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