Crafting an Immortal Race with Daily Hexagrams

Chapter 599 - 241: Geng and Xin Origin Gold

"Is this brat bringing in all sorts of junk?"

Looking at the vast array of books, bamboo slips, and random stone tablets before him, Shen Chongxuan murmured incredulously.

Shen Yuan simply smiled and stowed all those items back into the storage bag.

He left only one jade scroll out.

"This is something that boy prepared for me."

"It’s quite considerate."

The Shen Family members all knew he had a penchant for these ancient items, especially books and such.

This time, Shen Chongxu sent someone to gather these, making Shen Yuan very pleased.

"You two brothers should go attend to your affairs, let me have a look at these items."

Waving the two brothers away, Shen Yuan began slowly sorting through the items in the second storage bag.

...

Seven Sages Mountain Secret Realm.

At the edge of an ancient altar, Shen Xiuchan stood surrounded by a group of Shen Clan members.

"Try moving to the left a bit, then turn it more to the left."

"No, it should be to the right!"

"Still not working..."

Among them, on a square foot green-gray stone platform, stood a lifelike dragon-shaped stone sculpture.

Around the base of the dragon-shaped sculpture were eight strange runes.

After descending from above, Shen Xiuchan’s group carefully explored for a long time before discovering this place.

Around the altar were a total of eight identical green-gray stone platforms.

One of the accompanying Shen Family cultivators accidentally touched one of these stone platforms, unexpectedly activating some of the inscriptions on the central altar.

After more research, utilizing the green-gray platforms, they gradually illuminated half of the altar’s inscriptions.

But when they reached the fifth one, no matter how they tried, they couldn’t activate the remaining inscriptions.

"Young master, could this stone platform be broken?"

Someone curiously asked.

There were only eight strange runes around the dragon-shaped statue, and using the direction of the dragon’s head as a reference, they had tried several times but still hadn’t succeeded.

Shen Xiuchan glanced at the statue in front of him, his gaze deep.

"This place is quite peculiar..."

"Who knows what might be hidden beneath this altar."

"Go check the surroundings again to see if you can find anything related."

Upon hearing this, everyone cupped their hands and dispersed.

Shen Xiuchan continued to ponder the stone platform and statue, suddenly considering a possibility in his mind.

"Array..."

"Perhaps this has something to do with an array."

He examined the relationship between the runes on the stone platform and the altar and also looked at the hazy glowing inscriptions on the altar, feeling that it might be an array.

Unfortunately, he didn’t understand Array Dao, and for the time being, couldn’t discern anything significant.

"Young master!"

Just then, a younger member of the Shen Family suddenly shouted.

Shen Xiuchan hurriedly moved over to his side and saw a broken stone slab.

"Young master, this seems to be a map."

The young man pulled the largest stone slab from the weeds and, after wiping away the dirt, spoke in amazement.

Upon hearing this, Shen Xiuchan gathered several more stone slabs, piecing them together to reveal what seemed to be a map carved on the slabs.

"Young master, look at this mountain range and this river..."

Following the direction of the young man’s finger, Shen Xiuchan studied it closely, and his eyebrows instantly furrowed.

"Could this be Hidden Dragon Mountain and Laishui River?"

"So this is a map of Yangnao Land?"

The young man curiously said, "But this map is too large."

"Yangnao Land clearly isn’t this big."

Shen Xiuchan shook his head and said, "I’ve heard from Ah Die that Yangnao Land used to encompass the Southern Border, but it later got separated by the Great Prosperity True Monarch with the Void Combination Corridor Array."

"Creating the current Yangnao Land and Southern Border."

The young man was enlightened.

"I see."

"So this stone slab depicts the once complete Yangnao Land?"

"What do these black lines and these five differently colored circles represent?"

The pieced-together stone slab most prominently featured five differently colored circles, aside from many black lines connecting these circles.

Shen Xiuchan studied them for a while, then shook his head slightly and said, "I can’t understand it either."

"Forget it; let’s bring it back for great-grandfather; he likes these things."

With a wave of his hand, Shen Xiuchan collected the stone slab fragments into the storage bag, then glanced again at the altar and stone statue, feeling there must be some connection between them.

"You all should continue searching for other things around; I’ll transcribe the inscriptions from the altar."

Shen Xiuchan instructed, then took paper and pen from the storage bag, starting to meticulously copy down the runes along the edge of the altar.

Others were slowly searching for herbs and heavenly and earthly treasures in the valley.

...

Spending over a month, Shen Xiuchan finally transcribed all the runes from the altar, and the accompanying group had turned over the entire canyon, finding only scattered ancient magical artifact fragments and fine herbs.

"Young master, apart from that unopened abode, we’ve combed through everything here."

Meng Yuntang approached and spoke.

Shen Xiuchan nodded, "Time is running out; the secret realm’s repulsive force is getting stronger; we should leave."

Upon hearing this, everyone no longer resisted the secret realm’s repulsion, each being ejected from the secret realm immediately.

Secret realm entrance.

The group gathered before the Snow Wolf King.

"Young master, what did you gain from this journey?"

"Little demon heard this secret realm contains some notable inheritance."

Shen Xiuchan shook his head with a bitter smile, "Not much of a gain, let alone inheritance."

"Snow Wolf King, we should return."

This trip to the secret realm didn’t yield anything significant, leaving everyone naturally less enthusiastic.

The Snow Wolf King refrained from asking further, instantly stirring the demon essence around him, swept everyone up, and flew them towards Yunshui City.

...

Inside the Black Water Pavilion.

Shen Yuan was polishing the beast hide scroll beside him while comparing it to the jade scroll sent by Shen Chongxu.

"Geng and Xin Origin Gold... spiritual material..."

"Is this related to the Dao Source?"

"Great-grandfather, Xiuchan requests an audience." As Shen Yuan murmured, the first floor of the Black Water Pavilion echoed with Shen Xiuchan’s voice.

Suppressing his thoughts, Shen Yuan said in a deep voice, "Come up."

Shen Xiuchan hurriedly came to the second floor, respectfully cupping his hands, "Xiuchan pays respects to great-grandfather."

Shen Yuan nodded, "I hear you went to the Seven Sages Mountain Secret Realm?"

"What did you obtain?"

Shen Xiuchan cupped his hands replied, "No major gains, but Xiuchan found something strange that might interest you, great-grandfather."

As he spoke, he produced the transcribed runes and the fragmented stone slab.

"Please have a look, great-grandfather; Xiuchan discovered this in a canyon within the secret realm."

Shen Yuan leaned over, scrutinizing the pieced-together stone slab, his eyebrows suddenly furrowing.

"Geng and Xin Origin Gold... the location of Fushan Country and Celestial Sword City!"

"And this is... Western Wilderness Flame Lake City!"

Noticing the five differently colored circles on the slab, Shen Yuan immediately recognized two locations: one was the place Shen Chongxu mentioned, where "Geng and Xin Origin Gold" appeared, and the other was Western Wilderness Flame Lake City!

"Great-grandfather, this slab was found next to an ancient altar..."

Seeing his solemn expression, Shen Xiuchan immediately recounted the matter of the altar.