The Wonderful Way

Chapter 55 The Underground Village
After the three of them stepped into the door, they were so shocked by the scene in front of them that they couldn't speak. There was a village built deep inside the mountain!
The entire village is surrounded by houses on flat stone roads, and even like villages in the secular world, land is opened up outside the houses!

Above the village, the semi-circular cave roof is inlaid with nine illuminating stones the size of a round basin, illuminating the otherwise dark village as bright as day.

There are more than a dozen caves on the surrounding mountain walls, which can be climbed up along a ramp-like platform.

Chu Miao reached out her consciousness and found that there was a formation in front of each cave, and the higher the level of the formation was, the higher the formation was.

There is even a square built among the houses, which seems to be able to accommodate hundreds of people.

On the square stands a nine-story ancient pagoda, which has a peculiar shape but is exquisite. The style is completely different from the current and recorded pagodas!
Chu Miao was the first to recover from the shock, looked at the strange village in front of her, and said to the two who were still stunned:

"I don't think there is any other aura here except us, and even the formation mechanism has not been discovered. Why don't we go in and take a look first, and be careful."

Shen Xingzhou also came back to his senses and nodded, and walked forward with Chu Miao.

Gu Nianning followed behind the two of them in a daze, kept looking around, and said, "Where is this place? Why isn't there anything weird?"

"I don't know, maybe it's too old, so there is no record. Let's go to the square first and see if we can find any clues from the tower."

That pagoda did not match the style of the square and the whole village, as if it had been translated from somewhere else, so Chu Miao suggested to explore it first.

Both Shen Xingzhou and Gu Nianning agreed, and followed Chu Miao to the square. In this unknown place, the three of them did not plan to check separately.

The ground of the square is a little higher, and it is made of an unrecognizable stone, with some strange patterns engraved on it, I don't know if it is some kind of formation.

As soon as they stepped on it, the whole square suddenly became bigger in the eyes of the three of them!It seems that it can accommodate thousands of people!
"Space formation!" Chu Miao exclaimed in surprise, "It's actually a lost space formation. What exactly is this place?"

Gu Nianning and Shen Xingzhou were also shocked. Everyone had only seen descriptions of space formations in ancient books.

Even the ancient books more than 3 years ago say that the space formation has been lost, so it means that this place existed at least 4 years ago.

After the square became larger, Chu Miao found that the tower in the middle was still as tall as when viewed from below, standing firmly in it, as if it was not affected by the formation at all.

It was only when I stepped forward that I realized that the tall tower with soft aura was not an ordinary building, but a tower-shaped spiritual treasure!
Chu Miao had only seen spirit weapons before, and the spiritual pressure of this ancient pagoda was much higher than that of spirit weapons, and standing there still made people feel a little oppressed.

"This pagoda is a spiritual weapon? No... it's a spiritual treasure!" Shen Xingzhou and Gu Nianning also noticed the abnormality, and the three of them stood a few hundred meters away from the pagoda, not daring to move forward.

"This place is really too weird. There are underground villages, ancient Lingbao pagodas, and space formations, but the passages coming in are not protected by formations at all."

The more Chu Miao thought about it, the more she felt strange, "Moreover, this place existed tens of thousands of years ago, but there is no trace of anyone entering in the passage and stone gate."

"That's right, I remember that the oldest history books of the sect only recorded 6000 years ago, and the longer information is just fragments and fragments." Shen Xingzhou said, "The shape of this ancient pagoda is completely different from any records. They are all different, at least it is also a spirit treasure from 4 years ago, why has it not been taken away yet?"

"Let's take a look around first, we can't think of anything here." Gu Nianning suggested: "Let's explore the houses and caves here before going in."

Chu Miao and Shen Xingzhou nodded, left the ancient pagoda, and walked towards the outside of the square.

In the huge square, the three of Chu Miao looked very small, and they walked for a long time before reaching the edge.

After stepping out of the square, Chu Miao looked back and found that the square had returned to a size that could only accommodate a few hundred people. Looking at the complicated patterns engraved on the ground, she sighed.

"This is probably the pattern of the space formation. Unfortunately, my cultivation base is too low, so I can't even remember it if I don't understand it." Chu Miao said regretfully.

Gu Nianning knew Chu Miao's persistence in the formation, and comforted him: "This place won't run away, and you will remember it when your cultivation base is high!"

The three of them searched around the village, completely forgetting their fatigue, and had to go in and take a look at every house.

"Come and see! There's a pill shelf here!" Gu Nianning called out to the two people outside in a room.

There were eight pill bottles of different colors scattered on the pill shelf. Chu Miao asked the two of them to hold their breath, and opened a bottle of emerald green pill.

After drawing out the elixir with the control technique, it was found that the elixir had turned into a black powder and was useless at all.

The three of them were not surprised, the higher-level pills could be stored for a longer period of time, and the five-tier super-grade pills could only be stored for less than ten thousand years.
Unless the elixir here is seventh or eighth rank or higher, it will definitely be useless.

Chu Miao continued to look at the other pill bottles on the medicine shelf, some were like white jade, and some were so black that they couldn't see the ingredients.

Gu Nianning did not let go of the black powder, but put the powder back into the pill bottle. Seeing this, Shen Xingzhou asked, "What's the use of putting this in? Isn't it already broken?"

While covering the stopper of the medicine bottle, Gu Nianning replied, "I'll take it back to my grandfather for research. Although it's broken, it's not certain that some materials can be analyzed from the powder."

"Then you can pack these up, they are useless to us." Chu Miao also read the other pill bottles on the shelf, and handed them to Gu Nianning.

When the monks set up a team to go out on an expedition, they would mention how to distribute the treasures inside. Generally, the more you work, the more you get, the meritorious ones will be selected first, and the rest will be distributed equally.

The three of Chu Miao are good friends, so they don't need to follow these rules, they just need to take what they want.

Gu Nianning saw that the ingredients of these pill bottles had never been seen before, so he said to the two: "This medicine bottle may have some special uses, we should share it equally, and I can use my own pill bottle for the powder."

While talking, he took out a few of his ordinary jade bottles, filled them with pill powder, and kept two unknown medicine bottles, and gave Chu Miao and Shen Xingzhou three each.

After collecting them, the three of them continued to search in each house, and found nothing other than some tables, chairs, bed cabinets that shattered into powder at the touch of a touch.

Although it is called a "village", there are actually only about a hundred households, and the three of them quickly walked around here.

Chu Miao looked at the cave on the mountain wall, and said to the two: "It seems that there won't be anything to gain from below, let's go up and explore the cave, the formation outside seems to be dissipating soon, so it shouldn't be difficult to get in."

Both Gu Nianning and Shen Xingzhou agreed. The ancient monk's cave of unknown age might be full of treasures. Thinking about it, I feel very excited.

The three of them went up from the ramp below to the platform on the second floor. There were nine caves on this floor, surrounding the mountain wall to enclose the village.

The three of them saw that the array was only a third-level sound-proof warning array that was about to dissipate, and there was no defensive array, so they chose three of them and checked them separately.

Chu Miao chose the far left side which was convenient for her. She looked at the layout of the ancient formation, and after noting it down, she took out her scimitar and slashed towards the formation's eye, and the formation that was about to dissipate was easily destroyed.

Seeing that there were no other defensive formations or mechanisms inside, Chu Miao guessed that the people living here must be extremely familiar and trusted people, otherwise, why would there be only such a simple formation outside the monk's cave.

After stepping into the cave, Chu Miao found that there was only a small room inside, except for a stone bed on the stone wall facing the entrance of the cave, there was only a small shelf on the left side.

On the shelf were several pill bottles and a lifeless magic weapon.

Chu Miao put away the pill bottle, and was about to pick up the short sword magic weapon to check, but saw that the short sword turned into a pile of powder and fell on the shelf as soon as the object control technique was cast.

Seeing that there was nothing else here, and she knocked on the mountain wall and found no dark room, Chu Miao came out of the cave and raised her saber to attack the formation in the second room.

The interior of the second room is exactly the same as the first room, except that there is an extra delicate table, a dressing table and a dressing chair inside.

There was nothing on the table or in the drawers, except for the vase and tea set on the small table, Chu Miao guessed that it was probably where the nuns lived.

Chu Miao entered the third room, there was still nothing in it, only a stone bed and a small table were left.

Gu Nianning and Shen Xingzhou also finished checking the cave they had chosen, and after they met in front of the small slope on the third floor, they shook their heads at the same time to express that they found nothing.

The three of them got nothing, so they couldn't help being a little disappointed. They thought that some jade slips or spiritual objects could be left in the monk's cave, but who knew that it was all empty.

But it’s all over, and it’s impossible to give up on the search. The three of them continued to walk up the ramp, towards the platform on the third floor.

(End of this chapter)