Chapter 988: Chapter 357: Luoshu?!
He returned to the Array Core Room and then pushed open another door.
Once again, passing through the corridor, he arrived at another room.
Sun Ning and his companion felt a surge of excitement!
Clearly, the treasures here were arranged neatly; it was a storage room.
On the shelf against the north wall, Cloud Tear Crystals were placed inside jade bowls, mist swirling within like a miniature cloud sea. Next to them, Mirage Shells were stacked, their shells opening and closing, transforming into seven-colored radiance…
Hanging on the west wall, various jade hooks were suspending Water Thorn Wood, the wood grain appearing and disappearing in the light. Also hanging was a Crystal Jar, with mysterious grains of sand flowing autonomously within…
On the stone platform at the east, there was glue ebbing and flowing with rainbow light within a Cold Jade box. A whole bowl of Gold Essence, flashing with golden luster…
In the southwestern corner stood a jade pillar, about half a person’s height. Within the jade pillar was sealed a piece of Lake Jade Marrow, three feet long.
Most of these treasures were of the Foundation Establishment level, only a few reached Golden Core, and there were no Nascent Soul level materials.
After inspecting briefly, the joy in Sun Ning and his companion’s hearts faded.
Both of them had seen vast worlds. Compared to Tian Shuang’s entire fortune and the treasures within Wangchuan Immortal Mansion, these from Shuyu Pavilion were nothing impressive.
Moments later, Sun Lingtong entered the fourth room.
The light here was dreamlike and illusionary.
Embedded in the dome was a Thousand-year-old Mirage Pearl, filtering the light into soft silk.
The bed was a giant, opened shell. Besides the bedding, there were scattered Dream Travel Pearls along the edges, numbering three hundred and sixty.
Mirage Pearls matched with Dream Travel Pearls, along with the array here, allowed one to design dreams and dream what one desired.
Ning Zhuo sighed, “Mother worked hard in the Myriad Images Sect, relying on this arrangement, not even wasting sleep time, continuing her cultivation in dreams.”
Sun Lingtong said, “Such methods have a drawback, causing soul fatigue. But we possess the Human Soul of a million, aside from a slight feminine touch, this place is quite suitable for our cultivation.”
Sun Lingtong searched around and found a jade box under the pillow.
Opening the jade box, he found only two items.
One was a divine contract, proving Meng Yaoyin’s assets before her death, belonging to a talisman workshop.
The other was a talisman made from a jade tablet, engraved with dragon patterns, pure white as snow, with unknown purposes.
Sun Lingtong exited this living room, returned to the Array Core Room, and entered the fifth door.
Before long, he pushed open the door, arriving at a courtyard.
The dome was high and vast, similar to a light shield, outside was the water of Jade Lake.
The lake water was extremely clear, breaking the sky light into billions of moving silver foils, silently scattered.
Tiny light spots leaped in the courtyard, water gleamed, condensing into countless falling droplets.
The center of the courtyard was a pond, or more aptly called a jade pit.
Inside the pit were various rough jade stones. These raw stones were of different shapes and colors—some were dusty green jade, some muddy yellow Xiuyan jade, some white jade, some blood tinted jade…
Water droplets falling on the jade stones caused strange changes.
The surface of the sandy green jade became smooth and delicate at a speed visible to the naked eye along the path of the water droplets.
The muddy yellow Xiuyan jade seemed to shed its dusty outer layer. Soaked by the water droplets, its color turned from turbid to clear, from dull to bright.
Some jade stones even had cracks, and under the nourishment of the water droplets, the edges blurred and contracted, gradually forming a natural texture resembling leaf veins, soft and flowing.
Every Cave Mansion has its unique specialties.
Shuyu Pavilion’s specialty is jade washing.
Sun Lingtong surveyed the surroundings and understood, “This is indeed the Shuyu Court.”
Here, the water of Jade Lake is refined and purified, transformed into droplets to cleanse the jade stones.
The flaws of the jade stones are washed away, defects corrected, and the nature of the jade awakened and nourished by the droplets, becoming luminous and transparent. One by one, the gray-white stagnant jade stones ultimately glow with the lustrous flow of treasure jade.
Due to a lack of people for so long, the jade pit contained a large number of jade stones that had already been washed.
Sun Lingtong bent down, directly picking up the finished pieces.
There were sheep fat white disks, their warmth flawless, as creamy as fat, infused with inner spiritual light, warming to the touch. A pure spiritual energy gently flowed within them, an item hard to find even for talisman cores and array plates.
There were also Cold Marrow Ice Souls, completely transparent like millennial ice, their coldness inherently restrained, bringing clarity to the mind even from nearby, a top-pair treasure for crafting ice-attribute magic treasures and Clear Heart Magical Artifacts. In its core, a dark blue glow, upon seeing it, Sun Lingtong imagined the azure evening sky.
And there were Golden Scale Fire Jades, their texture warm golden yellow, yet with fine fire patterns flowing within like golden scales, containing pure fire attributes. They are exceptional materials for setting up Fire Formations and crafting exceedingly yang magic treasures, combining the firmness of metal with the heat of smelted flames.
This time’s haul was significant.
The latter three jade stones were all Nascent Soul level treasures, their quality being top-notch, certainly fetching high prices on the market.
“Little Zhuo, next time we come, we’ll definitely need to bring lots of inferior jade material to fill this pit!”
Sun Lingtong reluctantly left Shuyu Court and, after a journey, entered the last room.
Seeing the three words on the door, Sun Ning and his companion became excited.
“Divination Room?”
“Is this where my mother performed divinations? That means there might be divination tools?”
Ning Zhuo’s eyes sparkled.
Sun Lingtong had more thoughts in his mind, “Perhaps there might be some divination classics, who knows.”
But when Sun Lingtong opened the room door, he saw only ruins.
The four walls of mica stone had long since become dust, only the formation-formed light shield isolated the Jade Lake water.
The top and bottom still retained much of their original form.
And in the middle, a large dark blue water vortex was suspended.
The vortex was so large, it occupied nearly half the space of the room, spinning at varying speeds.
“What on earth happened here?”
“Was it attacked?”
“That’s unlikely. If an enemy invaded, why weren’t other parts of the Cave Mansion damaged?”
“Perhaps the enemy triggered some defensive measures here and perished as a result.”
“Indeed, there’s that possibility. If so, the enemy must have been a lone traveler.”
Sun Lingtong wandered around and found that the place was severely damaged, having suffered some calamity. Only the mysterious water vortex had any remaining value.
Sun Lingtong approached the water vortex, his expression changing suddenly, “Wait, is there something inside the vortex?”
He immediately activated his Spiritual Eyes and discovered distorted and broken bronze star tracks from a Heavenly Instrument, broken calculation tokens made from Mystic Turtle Shell slivers, and the shattered frame of a Purple Sandalwood abacus…
Sun Lingtong’s eyes shot out spiritual light, pushing his innate talent to the extreme.
His gaze penetrated deep into the vortex core, where ancient and profound light shimmered.
Within the radiance, something flickered in and out of view.
“It seems like a sheet of paper.” Sun Lingtong’s expression was astonished.
But the next moment, he saw more clearly, his entire body trembling uncontrollably.
“My heavens!”
“This, this is a page from Luoshu!!!”
Magic Artifact, Magic Treasure, Spiritual Treasure, Dao Treasure… Luoshu is a historically renowned Dao Treasure.
According to history, Luoshu is neither gold nor jade, neither silk nor stone, but woven from the cosmic source of mathematical principles.
When Sun Lingtong used his Spiritual Eyes to probe the Dao Treasure, he activated the treasure itself.
On the Luoshu Pages, black and white dots appeared continuously, moving across the paper, suddenly fixing and then scattering, blending into a confusion.
During this, Sun Lingtong’s Divine Sea, thoughts rapidly consumed, spirit sharply declined, soul weakened.
Yet he gained an extremely deep understanding of the water vortex before him.
“Boss!” Seeing the peril, Ning Zhuo quickly activated spells through Life Hanging Thread, offering remote support.
Sun Lingtong was awakened promptly and rushed to close his eyes, voluntarily severing his connection with the Luoshu Pages.
Blood quietly seeped from his nose.
Disregarding these, Sun Lingtong excitedly declared, “This truly is a Luoshu Page, a Dao Treasure!”
“Using Luoshu to assist me in calculations, I understood that this water vortex is actually an array, Little Zhuo.”
Ning Zhuo became enlightened, “I see. Dao Treasure can affect the surroundings. My mother left here for too long, the Dao Treasure’s autonomous power destroyed this room and formed a natural array using the local environment!”