Knife splashing

Chapter 189: Treasures that confuse people

The scale and variety of this batch of treasures far exceeded Li Yan's expectations.

The rear hall is huge, with bright candlelight and stacked incense tables. The statue of Emperor Xiyue stands tall, his solemn face dim in the firelight.

This place has been renovated, and the magical instruments and spiritual materials for sale are classified into different categories. Each area is guarded by a Taoist priest.

Of course, they are not guarding here to prevent theft.

Everyone present here represents the orthodox Xuanmen sect. They are either elders of the sect or hold important positions. How could they commit such petty thefts?

Once caught, he would probably become the laughing stock of the entire Xuanmen.

Their task is to register.

If you want to buy something, just tell your name and the quantity you need. After paying the money, a Taoist from Chunyang Palace will deliver it to your residence.

The prices of the numerous magical instruments and spiritual materials are clearly marked, so you just need to buy them according to the list price.

This is the preferential treatment given to the orthodox Xuanmen religion.

Only after they have made their selection will it be their turn to take the Dharma lineage and the side doors.

As time goes by, the number of items becomes fewer and fewer, and when everyone is competing for them, the prices will inevitably be raised.

But for some rare and unique pieces, even people from the orthodox Xuanmen sect had to bid for them.

Of course, Li Yan was only slightly shocked, and he immediately calmed down, looked around, and searched for what he needed.

Soon, he discovered a pattern.

The treasures in the hall seem to be dazzling, but in fact they are neatly arranged.

The statue of Xiyue Emperor is used as the dividing line, with magical instruments placed on the left and spiritual materials on the right, which are arranged in a regular pattern of gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, lead and mercury.

He heard from Shopkeeper Wan about the reason for this arrangement.

This is a simple classification of metals by the Ministry of Industry of the Great Xuan Dynasty, which originated from the "Di Shu Chapter" of Guanzi and is called the Six Arts of Guanzi.

Without any hesitation, he immediately walked towards the Copper Department.

Below, I saw several rows of refined copper ingots neatly arranged in sequence. Each of them was engraved with inscriptions marking the time of forging and storing in the cellar. There were also cloud patterns and eight trigrams around them, which looked quite mysterious.

Further up, there are some naturally formed pure copper, with irregular colors and shapes, each with its own unique characteristics.

The metal copper usually needs to be extracted from ore.

If it can be formed naturally, it must be an extraordinary thing.

Li Yan looked up and soon found the Shoushan Bronze Essence.

This object is shaped like a meteorite, irregular oval, slightly yellowish and black, with honeycomb-like holes on it, and its origin is clearly marked.

Li Yan checked the card next to him and saw the following words written on it:

This bronze was unearthed from Shouyang Mountain in Yanshi, Luoyang. It is said to be the place where the Taoist ancestors hid themselves. It is said that "the first light of the rising sun must be reached by it"...

The mountain is magnificent and winding. A rock on the top was struck by thunder and cracked, and copper essence appeared in the world. After a hundred years of thunder, it turned into a treasure from heaven and earth...

Once the treasure is completed, there will be strange phenomena. The villagers said that they often see thunder tigers all over the forest at night. During the Daxing Dynasty, there was a treasure hunter who went there and spent several months to retrieve the treasure. During the Daxuan Dynasty, it was hidden in the spiritual cavity of Huashan Mountain for warming.

Wow, he’s so powerful!
This thing can be examined by hand, and Li Yan couldn't help but touch it. Before he even touched it, he heard a crackling sound of static electricity, which made his hair stand on end.

Of course, the blessings and luck of this kind of heavenly treasure that has been picked have already settled, just like a fruit. Only when it is just ripe can the Daluo Dharmakaya absorb the blessings and luck in it.

Li Yan looked at it for a while, then reluctantly put it down.

A treasure like this must be very expensive. Looking inside the wooden box in front, there are several bamboo chips placed there.

The Taoist priest next to him saw this and smiled, "Don't worry, Taoist friend. The price of this item will be called later. Just put in the bamboo chips."

This item contains meteorites, so there will definitely be many people competing for it. And who knows how high the price will soar to. Li Yan was nervous, but he put the bamboo chips he received into it without hesitation.

Then he looked down again and soon found the white copper that Quan Wanzhong needed, which had been refined into copper ingots. Its texture looked quite similar to silver.

The so-called white copper, also known as "鋈", is a kind of alloy.

It was recorded in the "Huayang Guozhi" of the Eastern Jin Dynasty that the copper produced in Dianzhou was the most famous and was called Dian white copper.

This item is also quite valuable. The "Old Book of Tang" mentions that only the oxen pulling the carts of first-rank court officials can be made of white copper as ornaments.

Since the Qin Dynasty, overseas merchants have come from far and wide to buy it. It is called Shenzhou Silver and has been worshipped for hundreds of years and has become a spiritual material.

Price per pound: five hundred taels.

Good guy!
Although he had a premonition, Li Yan was still secretly shocked after seeing it.

Although white copper is precious, its price has increased many times. In total, fifty kilograms would cost twenty-five thousand taels.

Quan Wanzhong emptied his fortune to scrape together 30,000 taels. If he had waited until the third batch to buy, the price would probably have increased a lot. No wonder the master and his apprentice begged for mercy everywhere.

I don't know what this thing is used for...

Li Yan thought about it for a moment and was about to take out the bamboo chips.

The Taoist priest next to him hurriedly stopped him, smiled and shook his head, saying, "Daoyou, there is no need to bid for this item. Just tell me how much you want."

Li Yan nodded, decided on the quantity of fifty kilograms, then counted the banknotes and handed them to the Taoist priest.

After finishing this, he ran to the place where the money was placed.

Spending money was the key to opening the cellar this time, so quite a lot of people gathered there, and the types of wine were even more varied.

There are some transparent coins, hollow coins, or carved with peony flowers, or carved with double dragons playing with pearls, phoenixes singing in harmony, fish and dragons changing, etc.

Zodiac coins are engraved with not only the twelve zodiac signs, but also the zodiac signs of the natal star and the eight trigrams...

Some of the money used to protect objects were used to store them at the bottom of boxes, and some were used to bury them when building palaces, temples, etc.

In addition, there are also birthday blessing money, spell money, exorcism money, horse money, Fu Lu Da Zhen, Eight Immortals money, treasury money, furnace opening money, beam raising money, Taoist money and Buddhist money...

Li Yan had never even heard of most of them.

The people around were choosing their own items in silence. Li Yan did not ask any more questions and just lowered his head to look for what he needed.

The Twelve Yuanchen Coins he was looking for were the zodiac coins. After finding them, Li Yan's heart suddenly jumped.

Sure enough, these twelve Yuanchen coins are unique pieces, and there is not even a sample on display, just a name written on them.

Several bamboo chips have been placed in the bamboo tube in front.

Adding the Shoushan copper essence from before, if I were to bid, I wonder if I would have enough silver on me...

Although he was worried, as things had come to this point, Li Yan had no choice but to cast his bamboo chips and then help Wang Daoxuan choose.

Wang Daoxuan needed a lot of money, including money for killing ghosts and subduing spirits, money for exorcising evil spirits and bringing blessings, and money for the five-day noon.

The money for killing ghosts and exorcising spirits was the money for talismans, and Li Yan found it quickly.

On the front of the coin, there is a mountain ghost symbol engraved on one side and a thunder symbol on the other side, with a spell engraved in the middle: Thunder and thunder, kill ghosts and subdue spirits, slay monsters and ward off evil spirits, keep your mind clear forever, obey the order of Taixuan, and act quickly as ordered.

On the back is the Fuxi Bagua, with Qian in due north.

The price of one piece is one hundred taels of silver.

The coins for warding off evil and bringing blessings are unique. On the front is a picture of an immortal holding a magical instrument, and on the back are engraved the five poisonous creatures, but they are different from the ordinary five poisonous creatures. They are a tiger, a toad, a snake, a gecko and a spider.

There is also an inscription with the words "drive away evil and bring blessings".

The Fifth Day Noon Coin is also a coin used to ward off evil and bring good fortune. The four characters "Fifth Day Noon Coin" are written on the front.

The Dragon Boat Festival is at noon on the 5th, which is the time to drive away evil spirits and eliminate plague. This batch of coins were made at that time. There are still five poisonous animals on the back, but the spider has been removed and replaced with a scorpion.

This coin has strong Yang energy and is best at destroying Yin objects.

Relatively speaking, the amount of money spent is quite a lot.

According to Wang Daoxuan's request, Li Yan purchased all of them.

All in all, it was more than ten thousand taels.

By now, he has a feeling that money is not money.

After buying the necessary prayer money for Shopkeeper Wan, he began to wander around.

The important things have been found, and the rest are dispensable. You can buy anything you see that is good.

After walking around a few times, Li Yan was also amazed.

Needless to say, most of the spiritual materials are various metals.

There are some requirements for magical instruments.

First of all, there are disposable ritual objects such as incense, candles, blessing paper, mugwort, and red ropes.

Even though his supernatural powers were suppressed at the moment, he knew that these things that had been enshrined in the blessed land for a hundred years were far from comparable to the junk in the City God Temple.

No wonder he has high standards, these things are very exquisite. Just talking about incense, there are agarwood, faith incense, lily incense, heavenly incense, soul-guiding incense, and tranquilizing incense, all of which are exquisitely made, some are even as thick as fingers, with runes painted on them with cinnabar...

Li Yan took a quick glance and saw that some incenses actually cost a hundred taels of silver.

Using this thing is simply a waste of money.

I don't know when it will be used...

In addition, there are the altar instruments.

One is the so-called ten treasures of the altar, which are a bowl, a lamp, a sword, a mirror, a token, a wooden fish, a tablet, a ruler, a seal, and a ruyi.

Of course, there are also some large altar instruments, such as flags, platforms, tortoise and crane incense burners, Boshan incense burners, and even a number of musical instruments used for percussion during rituals.

Unfortunately, when he saw the price, Li Yan gave up the idea.

If I buy them carelessly, I'm afraid I won't have enough money to buy the two items at the auction.

Of course, once you have entered this treasure land, you cannot return empty-handed.

Li Yan thought about it and decided to buy some talisman paper.

In the area of ​​pens, ink, paper and inkstones, I also bought a box of fine talisman pens and cinnabar for the entire team to use.

Just these amounted to more than five thousand taels of silver.

Looking at the people around me, they all had no change in expression. They were buying sets just like they were buying goods, and they didn't seem to care about the price at all.

At this moment, Li Yan completely understood the gap.

The orthodox Xuanmen religion has a long history and rich heritage.

Just looking at the fact that the Doumu Palace in Taibai Mountain was able to build an observatory and the terrifying magical telescope, even if all the saved silver was used up, you can tell how terrifying his wealth is.

In addition, the opening of the cellar has caused a huge increase in the income of Chunyang Palace, but the caves and paradises occupied by other orthodox religious lineages also have cellars.

You can recover all the money by opening the cellar once.

To put it bluntly, it is equivalent to money circulating among these people, while those who have no roots and no foundation will be sucked dry.

Isn’t this a fucking trap?

The more Li Yan thought about it, the more he realized he was losing, so he stopped being greedy and stopped making rash moves. He also secretly listened to the conversations of people around him.

He originally wanted to hear some information and analyze what materials were needed to make a new type of magical weapon, the musket.

However, I unexpectedly heard a lot of new things:
"During the Yellow River flood, a fish monster was causing trouble. It was as big as a sailboat, with a black head and horns. It almost dug up the embankment and caused disaster. The capital has invited many monster hunters to deal with it..."

"A ghost king appeared in the land of Bashu. It is very likely related to the 'Wuxi Barbarians' and the 'Qianzhong Barbarians'. Many people from the Exploration Sect ran there. I heard that they created zombies to massacre the village..."

"Near Dongting Lake in Ezhou, a long rainbow appeared in broad daylight. Many people had high fevers for days and were in a state of daze. After a Taoist priest summoned the souls, the people who woke up said they saw a dragon..."

Of course, there is also important news about overseas.

China is rich in natural resources, but the history of Xuanmen is too long. After so many years of excavation by Xuanmen monks, the treasures have become less and less, and more time is needed to recover.

Some monks have formed their own fleets and headed to overseas sacred mountains to search for them, and have even fought a few battles with foreign Xuanmen...

Li Yan was stunned by all the news.

It seems that this mysterious world is far more vast than I imagined.

Of course, he also heard useful information.

For example, the prices of several spiritual metals suddenly increased, some people complained, and some seemed to be thinking about it.

Li Yan understood instantly, and without saying a word, he bought some of them, even a piece of lightning-struck wood for forging gun handles.

The price was not low, and it cost more than ten thousand taels of silver.

But if we can make a new type of musket and get the gunpowder formula, it would be worth it.

Soon, it was time for the auction.

The first one is the mountain copper essence. This thing contains thunder and lightning, and is a top-quality material for making magical instruments. Many people are fighting for it, and they are all people from the Taixuan Orthodox Sect, but from other branches.

Of course, since they were all respectable people of the Orthodox Church, they would not argue with each other like the frivolous merchants, or even become enemies because of it.

They all bid silently and weigh the options secretly.

"Ten thousand taels."

"Fifteen thousand taels."

"Twenty thousand taels."

When Li Yan raised the price to 22,000 taels, he successfully acquired the Shoushan Copper Essence.

An old Taoist priest nearby couldn't help but laugh and said, "My friend, is the living ghost messenger so rich? The price of this item is too high, you paid too much."

Li Yan smiled helplessly: "This thing is of great use to me, it's a little expensive, but I can't miss it."

The same is true for the Twelve Yuanchen Coins.

After all, it was a unique piece, and the price was raised to more than 10,000 taels before it was bought.

Li Yan calculated with his fingers and found that in this short period of time, excluding the purchases for others, he himself had spent more than 60,000 taels, and the wealth of his team was reduced by more than half.

And this is still while I am trying my best to restrain myself and I dare not buy many things.

Although there is still a lot of money left, I dare not touch it.

He will need it when he builds the building, and then Wang Daoxuan and Lu San will build their buildings. He also has to keep some for protection.

After shopping, two hours had passed.

Seeing that everyone in the hall had finished speaking, Jingxuzi came in and bowed, saying, "Everyone, please follow me."

Having said that, he led everyone out through the side door.

This is also a form of protection. After all, there have been cases of people being killed and robbing treasures during the cellar opening ceremony.

The Xuanmen Zhengdao people are very wealthy and the items they buy are of astonishing value. After getting the things, they will naturally leave first.

Li Yan was not in a hurry. He returned to Chaoyang Peak, reunited with Wang Daoxuan and others, and then returned to Wangxian Temple.

At night, Manager Wan and Quan Wanzhong came in a hurry. After getting the things, they left with happy faces.

After they left, Li Yan took out the twelve Yuanchen coins and admired them carefully under the candlelight.

These are twelve small copper coins, round in shape with square holes.

The front is engraved with the twelve zodiac animals, including Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit and Dragon, and the back has various intricate patterns. The talismans are extremely small and are surrounded by the sun, moon and stars.

In the center are written four big characters: "Benming Yuanshen".

He activated his magical power and sniffed carefully, and immediately sensed something extraordinary.

Every copper coin has a flow of Qi, creating its own situation.

Situation and momentum are two completely different concepts.

The momentum is exhausted, but the situation is changing.

The innate qi gathers into a force, but it will eventually be consumed.

But if it is a game, it is completely two different concepts, and it can circulate on its own. As long as it is properly preserved, it is like a small Feng Shui game that will not be destroyed for a long time.

The reason why his Three Talents Demon-Suppressing Coins are precious is because they have their own unique situation, but they are full of evil spirit.

The preciousness of these Twelve Yuanchen coins lies in the fact that when the twelve Yuanchen coins are arranged in order, they can actually form a grand situation.

"This is my soul's money."

When Wang Daoxuan saw it, he was immediately shocked.

Li Yan was curious: "What is the natal soul money?"

Wang Daoxuan explained: "This life spirit coin is a rare item. Its greatest ability is that when you concentrate your mind every night, you hold the copper coin in your hand and you can inject the power of concentration into it."

"Oh...I see."

Li Yan suddenly realized that this thing was equivalent to a blue bottle. After all, if a warlock was not focused enough at a critical moment, it would be fatal to him, so it was so precious.

But to be honest, he was a little disappointed. With his Daluo Dharmakaya, if he really encountered such a crisis, he would be able to recover and save his life in an instant.

It’s not that this thing is bad, it just didn’t meet his expectations.

At this time, Wang Daoxuan on the side shook his head and said, "I've heard that this life has many uses, and I've only heard of this one."

"Since it is used as a tassel, maybe it has other uses..."

Li Yan thought it was right, which made him even more eager to see how the old man made the knife...

(End of this chapter)