Bamboo slips have been used in the pre-Qin period, with different lengths, from more than ten centimeters to more than half a meter, and words are engraved on them with a knife.
The piece in Wang Xuan's hand was golden, with a warm luster under the light.
It is eight centimeters long, three centimeters wide, and two centimeters thick, and its length is shorter.
It is heavy and very pressing, and it is expected to sink when it enters the water.
Instead of words, several patterns are engraved on the golden bamboo slips, with creatures with human heads and snake-bodies, presenting different postures.
He has long hair, and it is impossible to tell whether he is male or female, there is a posture of a snake body coiled, there is also a carving of him rolling on the ground, and there is also a picture of a snake's tail landing on the ground, standing upright like a sword towards the sky.
There was no text on the bamboo slip, only a few engravings, and I couldn't see anything to do with the old technique, at least Wang Xuan didn't find its value.
"I can't see through it, I can't understand it, I have been playing with jade for many years." A middle-aged man wearing a cyan mask spoke.
He had short hair, very thick, and sat there quietly.
"I got too little, a bunch of golden bamboo slips fell into the hands of the chaebols on the new star's side, and I only won two pieces back then." He said flatly.
Wang Xuan was sure that this was a master, and most of his achievements in the old technique were very amazing.
He dared to grab food from a tiger's mouth, compete with the people sent by the chaebol, and take away two pieces, which was not easy.
This kind of bamboo slip is even regarded as a strange thing on the side of the new star, and after the major organizations get it, they have been kept secret from now on, and they are all secretly researched, and it is difficult for outsiders to see it.
"Has anyone on the new star side analyzed anything?" Wang Xuan asked.
"I don't know." The short-haired middle-aged man spoke briefly and was reluctant to talk about this topic again.
For a while, the room fell silent.
Wang Xuan had met him two years ago, and it was also at that time that he first knew and saw that there was a dark area in this peaceful city.
On the ninth basement floor of a landmark building, there is an old art competition every Friday night, and the players are in the iron cage, which is extremely bloody, and the loser usually breaks his hands and feet.
And the stands outside the iron cage were full of people with unknown identities, all wearing masks, both men and women, watching the fierce confrontation, roaring, and screaming, excitement and chaos blended together.
Wang Xuan rejected the middle-aged man on the spot, clearly telling the other party that he would never walk in a gray area, he liked the study of old techniques, but he would not "show off his bloody skills" to others.
The short-haired middle-aged man laughed at the time and told him that he was just taking him to see another side of the city, the real world was far from what he usually saw.
And the bloody actual battle of the iron cage has little to do with them, they only occasionally select potential seedlings.
As for them, they are a group of explorers.
What they have to experience is far more thrilling, exciting, mysterious, and even terrifying than this iron cage competition, because they have entered the starry sky, not limited to the old land.
The middle-aged man told him that in terms of prospects and strength, explorers are very brilliant, far from comparable to those people and organizations that roam in the gray area.
They chatted several times during that time, but Wang Xuan still rejected him.
The short-haired middle-aged man left him a golden business card and told him that if he changed his mind after graduation, he could come here to find him.
And as early as then, two years ago, the short-haired middle-aged man predicted that the old magic experimental class would inevitably be disbanded and this investment project would be stranded.
"Why did you find me?" Wang Xuan once asked him seriously.
The short-haired middle-aged man told him that first the investment project of the old technique experimental class attracted his attention, and then, he observed everyone in the class, and finally only took a fancy to two people.
The rest of the class was not determined enough, and they were suspicious of the old technique, even if they followed the old path, their achievements would be limited.
In fact, after Wang Xuan embarked on the road of the old technique, he was indeed out of control, and he succeeded in collecting qi and nourishing himself in just a few years.
The short-haired middle-aged man believes that Wang Xuan has great potential and will most likely have extraordinary achievements on the road of old techniques.
This organization is relatively free and loose, but its strength is unquestionable, and at the same time, it is very mysterious, and its tentacles have long entered the starry sky, reaching the new star.
"For a formal introduction, you can call me Aoki." A middle-aged man with short hair wearing a cyan mask spoke, breaking the silence.
"Am I allowed to join like this?" Wang Xuan asked.
Aoki said: "Not yet, you are one of the potential seedlings I have selected in recent years, but you are not the only one."
"Is there any test to go through?"
"Yes, this is an existing rule, although I am optimistic about you, I can't change it."
Aoki, a middle-aged man with short hair, told him that there would be an expedition within two days, which could be used as an assessment for him, and asked him if he would participate.
"Participate!" Wang Xuan nodded.
"After joining us, you used to know a general idea of what you were going to experience, but now I still want to emphasize that what it means to be expedited, there will naturally be dangers, and even life-threatening dangers, you have to think about it."
Wang Xuan said: "No problem, I have thought it through."
Aoki was very serious and said: "You can live here, we must make sure that no news is leaked before that, because this operation is very important!"
Wang Xuan expressed his understanding and said that there was no problem staying.
Holding a golden bamboo slip, he looked at Aoki behind the mahogany desk and said, "Can I ask you some questions?"
Aoki said: "It depends on what the problem is, if it involves some amazing secrets, etc., even if you succeed in joining us, you need to exchange it for equal value."
Wang Xuan asked: "I want to know, at the end of the old magic path, is it the top powerhouse among the alchemists, and there is really no way ahead?"
Aoki sighed and said: "I understand your feelings, because I also started by practicing old techniques, this road is too difficult, it takes countless efforts and sweat, it takes decades, and it is difficult to achieve results, and the highest peak in theory is the alchemist, and the end has been determined."
Sure enough, the answer is the same, the same conclusion reached by the life research on Nova's side.
"In fact, the most pessimistic thing is that even if you already know where the end of the road is, few people can reach that height.
The old technique is declining more and more, and the alchemist has long been a legend and difficult to spy.
"The location where the alchemist is standing is the end of the road, no one is trying to continue exploring?" Wang Xuan asked.
"It's easy to say, over the ages, even real alchemists have never appeared again, so how dare future generations think about this." Aoki shook his head bitterly and said: "In ancient times, there were some grand and strong people who wanted to continue to deduce the road, but unfortunately, no one succeeded."
"Why can those alchemists take the old technique to the extreme, and the latecomers can never surpass it?" Wang Xuan raised a question.
"Do you think it is the result of the hard work of several alchemists? No, it is the result of generations of powerful alchemists constantly improving their old techniques, and there is really no way out in the future, and the top powerhouse among alchemists may be the strongest individuals among ancient humans."
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That night, Aoki asked Wang Xuan to prepare various equipment needed for the expedition, including alloy knives, daggers, protective clothing, simulated human skin masks, etc
In addition, there are hot weapons!
They set off early the next morning, first coming to the outside of the city, boarding a small spaceship in a secret manor, and heading to Qingcheng Mountain.
Small spacecraft are so advanced that satellites in the old soil cannot be detected.
Wang Xuan was the first time he had sat in this kind of spaceship, and he felt very novel about everything, but he just observed calmly and did not ask random questions.
He felt that he had a lot to learn.
Aoki personally participated in the operation, which shows the importance he attaches to this operation.
In addition to Wang Xuan, there were four other companions, all wearing simulated human skin masks, and they didn't know what their true expressions were.
Aoki said: "The target is Qingcheng Mountain, this time there is a chaebol sent by the new star to secretly dig in the mountain, and our target is also there!"
"What was found in Qingcheng Mountain that attracted the chaebol of the new star?" Someone asked.
Before the operation, they had been in secrecy, and even they didn't know their destination earlier.
Aoki was very serious and said: "Someone seems to have found some amazing records from the bamboo slips left by a certain pre-Qin alchemist, and the target is directly aimed at Qingcheng Mountain."
"Are they still interested in the inheritance of other scholars?" Someone questioned that the new star had a super technique, and the old technique had been officially abandoned.
Aoki was very solemn and said: "On the deciphered bamboo slip, there are some secrets recorded, and Qingcheng Mountain seems to have something that makes the alchemists excited and excited, so this time the chaebol is secretly coming again."
Several people were in high spirits, even Wang Xuan's heart jumped, there was a new discovery in Qingcheng Mountain? Let the alchemists think about whether to ...... Is it related to the immortals?!
The top powerhouse among the alchemists is considered to be an immortal.
But some people do not approve of it, thinking that it is more mysterious and powerful than alchemists.
"The people of the Zhou family and the Ling family dug into the underground palace and indeed found the target!" Aoki whispered, he got the latest secret report just now.
Wang Xuan's heart jumped, it was actually those two? !
The time is not long, and they are approaching their destination.
Qingcheng Mountain is known as one of the four famous mountains of Taoism and one of the five immortal mountains.
It is also considered one of the birthplaces of Taoism, Zhang Daoling once preached in Qingcheng Mountain, and there is a saying that he finally flew into this mountain.