Enjoy the world

The two people in the secret realm rested for the night after eating hot pot. In this environment, Hua Zhenxing did not practice the static skills of nourishing the essence. In the early morning, he got up and did three complete sets of dynamic exercises seriously. Ding Qi watched him practice with interest, and then asked him what he was practicing. Hua Zhenxing did not hide anything, and introduced him to the art of nourishing the essence in detail, and even told him the content of the dream.

In the morning, the two continued to move forward, passing through the tomb area and soon reached the end of the world. The world itself seems to have no end, and the distance is obscured by the hazy mist. No matter how far you walk, it seems to be still in the same place. When you look back, you are really still in the same place! This secret realm has an invisible boundary, and once you get here, you can't get out. .

Ding Qi deliberately didn't remind him, and just stood there and watched. Hua Zhen walked for a long time and felt something was wrong before turning back. Then he discovered this unexplainable phenomenon and asked in surprise: "What's going on?"

Ding Qi smiled and said: "You are very adaptable, you didn't faint from fright?"

Hua Zhenxing: "If I fainted now, I would have fainted countless times!" Growing up in Port Feso, he is indeed very adaptable, and after recently having a "system", he has become more familiar with all kinds of magic. The "threshold" of things has improved a lot. In his mind, everything seemed possible in this world, so he had to experience it first.

Ding Qi said slowly: "You have a good mentality. You are curious but not ignorant. Even if you don't understand something, you don't think it is impossible. From the perspective of gravity, magnetic field, atmospheric composition and pressure, this place should It’s still the environment of this planet. But I can’t explain what kind of place this is, especially to you, so I can only bring you to witness it..."

On this day, they also discovered a gold mining and smelting site near the northernmost end of the secret realm, which had been abandoned for at least a hundred years. Local people once mined ores on site and refined gold using the oldest methods. This area is a rich gold mine. Ding Qi used a stick to break open a few rocks and found natural gold nuggets the size of pigeon eggs, which were of high purity.

From what we can see in the secret realm, the most valued artifacts by the residents here should be horn and bone artifacts, followed by exquisite painted pottery, then ordinary pottery and gold utensils, and the most common ones are wooden utensils and stone utensils. The processing of goldware is actually much more difficult than that of pottery, and it has actually been reduced to the same status as ordinary pottery.

Probably because of the lack of efficient fuel and backward craftsmanship, pottery is very precious and easily damaged, while gold wares are immortal and can be preserved for a long time, so there are a lot of them in history. In this world, gold wares later became It’s almost the same as ordinary pottery.

In the afternoon, the two returned to the portal where they first entered. Ding Qi pointed to the rock wall behind the altar and said: "Now we can interpret these murals. They record the history of a tribe, and this tribe has no writing... …”

There are five huge murals here, all made of gold inlaid into the rock to form patterns. The one in the middle is the scene of the Divine Hidden Gate in the outside world, and there are two on the left and right. The first picture on the left shows many people kneeling in front of the Shenyin Gate, as if they are performing some kind of sacrificial activity. In the second picture on the left, someone is holding something like a short staff high, leading a team into the Gate of the Gods.

The first picture on the right is the outline of the city seen yesterday. There is a striking high platform in the center of the city. The second picture on the right shows the altar. Someone is standing on the altar holding something high, and the rest of the people are kneeling below.

Based on what I have seen in the past two days and analyzed based on the pictures, the Shenyin Gate should be a natural totem worshiped by a tribe living in the outside world in ancient times, and the method to open the secret realm should only be mastered by the priests. About five hundred years ago, for unknown reasons, this tribe all moved into the secret realm.

About three hundred years ago, the city in the secret realm had already taken shape, and the high platform in the "palace" was also built. About two hundred years ago, they built an altar here and left these five murals. The stone buildings on the nearby hillside may have been the residence of a group of priests and their servants.

At this time, the tribe had reached its peak and gradually began to decline. About a hundred years ago, the population suddenly dropped sharply, until it was completely extinct fifty years ago.

After listening to Ding Qi's interpretation, Hua Zhenxing seemed to be talking to himself: "What exactly happened here?"

Ding Qi: "I'm not sure. There is a relatively independent environment here, as well as atmosphere and water circulation. There may be some form of material exchange with the outside world to maintain a relative balance. But these people are enclosed in this world. , although they are not disturbed by the outside world, they can also have problems internally.

It might be an internal war, or it might be a plague. In short, it led to a sharp decline in the population, the loss of a lot of knowledge and skills, and the environment might have deteriorated, moving from the original balance to another, making them no longer adaptable.

As the population declines sharply and civilization declines, the ability to survive becomes even weaker, genetic diversity is lost, and eventually it becomes extinct. Therefore, a tribe, a country, and a civilization may not necessarily progress in history, but may also die. "

Hua Zhenxing: "Then they can't leave here, or the descendants have already left?"

Ding Qi shook his head and sighed: "They didn't leave because they couldn't leave anymore."

Hua Zhenxing: "Since you can come in, why can't you get out?"

Ding Qi: "According to my guess, when this altar was built two hundred years ago, no one knew how to get out. The residents here have never seen the outside world and only regard it as a legend."

As he spoke, he pointed to the skeleton kneeling on the altar and said, "He should be the last person here. The key to the door is held in his hand, but unfortunately he can no longer use it. He wants to go out, so he can only kneel down. Lie down here and pray to the gods..."

Hua Zhenxing: "You obviously have the key, but why can't you use it?"

Ding Qi bent down and pulled out the short horny staff from the skeleton's hand. He blew gently to remove all the dust and stains. He handed it to Hua Zhenxing and said, "Take it and see if you can open the door!"

Hua Zhenxing took the short stick and gestured with it for a long time, but couldn't figure it out. He tried to use his spiritual sense to detect it but felt that the object was unfathomable and seemed to contain undecipherable information. Finally, he shook his head helplessly and said, "I don't know how to use this either." The thing... Hey, that's not right, you didn't get it when you came in."

Ding Qi smiled faintly: "This is my unique skill, which is equivalent to having a master key. Of course, if you have the exclusive world control treasure of this secret realm, it will be more convenient to enter and exit, and you can also control the world. Do you want to learn it? "

Hua Zhenxing was familiar with this expression. Every time Old Man Yang wanted to tease him to learn something, he would often smile like this. Hua Zhenxing nodded and said, "I want to learn! Can you teach me?"

Ding Qi: "It's not easy to learn this skill! But one day, when you succeed in practice and hold this treasure of world control, you can even become the master of this world."

Hua Zhenxing also smiled: "What is there to dominate in this world? I am just interested in your ability. What are the requirements and how long does it take to practice?"

Ding Qi's tone was enigmatic: "It's impossible to say for sure. It depends on your qualifications and whether you are focused on anything. You may not be able to get into the profession in your lifetime, or you may be successful in less than ten years... In short, you have to Live in this secret realm all year round and use the treasure of world control to understand this world. Well, this secret realm is given to you, and the treasure of world control is also yours!"

Hua Zhenxing hurriedly handed back the horned stick, waved his hands and said, "I'm just following here to increase my knowledge, how can I take this place as my own?"

Ding Qi smiled again and said: "I'm just here to inspect, and I can't take this place with me. Since we are so happy today, consider it a gift from me, and you can regard it as a reward."

It turns out that the system's so-called reward was ultimately given to him in this way. Hua Zhenxing admitted that he was a little entangled in his heart, but he still shook his head and said, "I don't want it."

Ding Qi looked at him with some surprise and asked, "You can't have it, or you don't want it, or you don't dare to have it?"

Hua Zhenxing: "Teacher Ding, we are neither relatives nor friends. This is the first time we have met. You gave me such a secret realm. I really can't accept it!"

Ding Qi said in a persuasive manner: "There is no owner here. Maybe you can become the Lord of the Kingdom of God."

Hua Zhenxing: "What kind of kingdom of God? This is just a tomb!"

Ding Qi: "Isn't it a waste to just throw such a secret place here for nothing?"

Hua Zhenxing: "Don't you see outside? For tens of thousands of meters of gold, you can buy a piece of unowned wilderness, which can be well developed and utilized... Speaking of waste, so much gold is indeed a waste. If you take it out, you can still do it. many things……"

Ding Qi interrupted him and said: "Since you don't like it here, let's go out first and then talk."

Hua Zhenxing pointed to the skeleton on the altar and said, "Can you take him out too? This man wanted to leave before he died. It would be better to take him outside and bury him than to expose his body here. We took what he had in his hand , you have to do something for him, and for the deceased, there is nothing better than fulfilling his lifetime wish."

Ding Qi looked at the horn stick in his hand and said, "Good boy, your idea is good, but it doesn't work."

Hua Zhenxing: "Why not?"

Ding Qi explained: "This short staff is not only the key to open the door, but also the hub for controlling the world. I call it the treasure of controlling the world. Although the treasure is good, if it falls into the hands of ordinary people, it will be just an ordinary thing. Just handicrafts.

If you learn my unique secret technique and master the treasure of world control, after you have achieved a small degree of practice, you can open the door to enter and exit, and you can also bring in things from the outside. But if you want to bring out the original things inside, you must reach the state of Dacheng. "

Hua Zhenxing: "What is Xiaocheng and what is Dacheng?"

Ding Qi thought thoughtfully and said: "Just take the analogy of your cultivation of Yuan Shu. If you break through the third level, it is considered a small success; if you break through the sixth level, and according to you, you become a high-level Yang Yuan Shu master, it is a great achievement." ."

After you achieve great success, you can control this world with the World Control Treasure. If you don't want to, even I won't be able to come in. But even so, if you want to take the original things out of this place, you have to pay a price. "

Hua Zhenxing: "What price?"

Ding Qi: "Have you heard of the dimensional wall?"

Hua Zhenxing was slightly startled: "I've heard of it. I saw it in novels and comics."

Ding Qi: "Just think of this portal as a kind of dimensional wall. How can it be so simple to break the dimensional wall? This is a world with its own will, which is the rule of all things. No matter what you take away from here, It is equivalent to cutting off a part of this world, and you will also have to bear the injury of splitting your soul.

If this person is still alive, I can open the portal and let him walk out on his own. But he is already dead. Even if I have the ability to take him out, I will still have to bear the injury of splitting my soul. If I always do this, I will become an idiot sooner or later. I'm just here for inspection this time and have no intention of doing anything to the world. "

Only then did Hua Zhenxing understand that the things in the secret realm could not be taken out without great skill. Even if they could be taken out, they would have to pay a huge price. He sighed and said: "Those golds..."

Ding Qi's smile seemed a little malicious, as if he was tempting a child to make mistakes: "If you learn my unique secret method and can practice it to perfection, you can naturally move the gold here out. It's just a matter of suffering. If the injury to the soul is not serious, it can still be nursed back to health, wouldn’t that be the best of both worlds?”

Hua Zhenxing: "Do you spend such a high price and develop such great skills just to suffer this? If you have this kind of time, you might as well find a place to open a gold mine outside."

Ding Qi: "Then you might as well think about it the other way around, why bother taking things out? The whole world will be yours by then, and you can even control the wind and rain here. Wouldn't it be nice?"

Hua Zhenxing: "I don't want to be king and hegemon behind closed doors, let alone in a tomb."

Ding Qi: "It's boring to say that. Let's go out first." It's obvious that Hua Zhenxing doesn't like the atmosphere here, but for some reason, Ding Qi always wants to urge him to go out at this moment.

Hua Zhenxing waved his hand, pointed at the skeleton and said, "Since it's difficult to take him out, let's bury him here."

Ding Qi didn't stop him, and even took the initiative to help. The two moved the skeleton to the foot of the hillside, dug a hole to bury it, and built a tomb with a stone. Then they turned around and left the legendary god. country.

When the door was opened again, Hua Zhenxing had been watching Ding Qi's movements carefully. He saw him holding the horn stick and moving forward. The mountain wall in the middle of the altar suddenly disappeared. In front of him was a passage between two huge rocks. Looking around, Looking out is the world outside.

After walking out of the door and looking back, it is still the mountains and wilderness in reality, and the secret realm just now has disappeared. Ding Qi smiled again and asked, "Isn't it magical?"

Hua Zhenxing: "Amazing, so amazing!"

Ding Qi narrowed his eyes: "Looking at your reaction, it seems that you still remember what happened just now?"

Hua Zhenxing wondered: "Of course I remember, we just buried the remains together."

Ding Qi asked in surprise: "Do you still remember everything that happened from the time you finished eating hot pot last night to now?"

Hua Zhenxing: "Of course I remember it. We went around the secret realm again today."

Ding Qi: "Then you still remember clearly what I asked you in front of the door?"

Hua Zhenxing said in confusion: "Teacher Ding, what's wrong with you? Is this so strange?"

Ding Qi smiled bitterly and said: "There are some things I didn't tell you. I planned to wait until you came out, but I almost made a mistake."