After awakening her X-ray vision, the beautiful CEO couldn't sit still any longer.

"There really is something buried under this dead tree!"

Originally, the mottled marks were blurry and appeared to be natural stone patterns.

As Ye Tian's X-ray vision penetrated deeper, it began to slowly, little by little, emit a faint blue light!

The lines gradually became clearer, no longer appearing as chaotic cracks.

Instead, the runes were connected and formed into a half-incomplete, extremely ancient and strangely styled rune pattern!

Along the edge of the rune, there seemed to be several ancient seal characters, smaller than a fingernail and resembling tadpoles, engraved.

Ye Tian's heart skipped a beat.

Blood rushes to the head, then cools instantly.

"How come the runes on that stone tablet are so similar to those on his Star Gazing Pavilion token?"

Surprised, Ye Tian quickly walked over, picked up a shovel, and began to squat down and dig.

"Ye Tian, ​​have you discovered something?"

The stunningly beautiful leader of the Viper organization trembled slightly with excitement.

When she was very young, her family elders told her that protecting this place was the mission of their ancestors.

The Viper organization was created by the descendants of these guardians in order to protect themselves.

Originally, her father was the leader of the Viper organization, and the responsibility of protecting this place should have been taken by her father.

However, her father could not bear the impoverished life on the mountain and secretly fled down the mountain, and was never heard from again.

Her younger brother has a free-spirited personality, loves art, and is even less suited to life in the mountains.

She had no choice but to accept the mission in a time of crisis and continue the unfinished task her father had left unfinished.

This matter is a secret within the entire Viper organization; outsiders have no idea about it.

So even someone like Meng Yao, with her extensive network of connections, could only find out that the person at the art academy across the ocean was the son of the Viper organization's leader.

They also failed to find out that the current leader of the Viper organization is actually the boy's sister.

"There's a broken stone tablet down here. I don't know if it's what you're looking for. I'll dig it out and you can take a look."

A dozen minutes later, Ye Tian finally dug out the dark blue, broken stone tablet.

He brushed away the dust and grass clippings from the surface of the stone tablet.

The moment my fingertips touched those glowing runes, an ancient sensation, carrying an indescribable weight, washed over me.

It actually resonated slightly with the true energy of the Xuan Tian Yin Yang True Scripture within his body!

What made his pupils shrink even more was that he could not mistake the brushstrokes of the incomplete runes and the style of those twisted ancient seal characters.

The runes on the Star Gazing Pavilion Master's token in his possession were exactly the same!

"Could this stone tablet be related to the Star Gazing Pavilion?"

Ye Tian made a bold guess in his mind.

Unexpectedly, just after entering the Ten Thousand Mountains, some clues about the Star Gazing Pavilion appeared before him in such a way!

The pale blue runes on the stone tablet shimmered with a faint light, as if silently telling secrets buried by time.

"Ye Tian, ​​I think I recognize some of the ancient seal characters on the stone tablet."

The stunningly beautiful Viper leader bent down, her fingertips tracing the cold, ancient seal script on the stone tablet.

Her gaze was fixed on that half of the stone tablet, her chest rising and falling slightly.

The pale blue runes on the stone tablet became clearer after being wiped clean.

Those ancient seal characters, twisted like tadpoles, seem to be about to detach from the stone surface and come to life.

She stared intently at the screen, her mind plunging into the depths of her mind, searching for fragments of memories she had read in her childhood about ancient seal script and rune records from a thousand years ago.

The vast ocean of ancient knowledge comes alive at this moment, stimulated by the concrete objects before my eyes.

"Shaped like a broken jade tablet, with patterns resembling a coiled dragon, bluish-black in color, warm to the touch, and subtly imbued with the flow of earth's energy..."

The stunningly beautiful leader of the Viper organization lightly brushed her fingers along the edge of the ancient seal script, reciting each word aloud.

Although the language was difficult to understand, both of them could hear it.

The fragmentary scroll of the Tai Xuan·Qi Wu Pu (Treatise on Artifacts) records:

The Nine Dragons pattern is a medium connecting heaven and earth; possessing it allows one to glimpse the workings of creation and nurture one's destiny…

Their gazes suddenly focused on those ancient seal characters.

Despite the fact that the stunningly beautiful Viper leader has a deep understanding of ancient seal script, it is already quite remarkable that she can recognize it.

She couldn't explain what it meant either.

"Nine dragons pattern?"

These words were like a lightning bolt that cleaved through the fog in Ye Tian's mind.

He suddenly raised his head, his eyes flashing with disbelief.

This is no ordinary stone tablet!

This is the nine-dragon pattern engraved on the "Nine Dragon Cauldron," an ancestral treasure passed down through countless generations of the Star Gazing Pavilion, which may be related to the fortune of future generations of the Star Gazing Pavilion and some earth-shattering secret!

The stone tablet is engraved with the Nine Dragons Pattern, which is part of the complete runic restriction of the "Nine Dragons Cauldron"!

Ye Tian had previously seen a lot of information about the Star Gazing Pavilion in the Murong family's study.

Others have mentioned the legend of the "Nine Dragon Cauldron".

Ye Tian couldn't help but wonder if the World Alliance's repeated tests of him were also in search of the legendary "Nine Dragon Cauldron"?

If that's the case, a clue has emerged!

But why is this fragment of the Nine Dragons Rune Manual here?

Ye Tian's gaze swept across the mountain range. Could this place have once been the territory of the Star Gazing Pavilion?

This fragment of the Nine Dragons Pattern Manual was secretly carved on a stone tablet and then buried here before the great changes occurred at the Star Gazing Pavilion.

Who buried it? How could he have known in advance that a major change would occur at the Star Gazing Pavilion?

Countless questions flooded my mind instantly, but one conclusion became crystal clear:

The truth about Li Chunfeng's efforts to extend the life of the Tang Dynasty a thousand years ago is far more complicated than he imagined!

And this incomplete Nine Dragons Pattern Manual is one of the key keys to unlocking the truth!

You must collect all nine dragon patterns to find the legendary "Nine Dragon Cauldron"!

Is there any clue about the Nine Dragons pattern underground in the abandoned mine he's going to?

You'll only know once you go!

"Chief, this stone tablet is very important; it must be something your ancestors guarded."

Ye Tian took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

He carefully straightened the stone tablet and covered it with the old cloth he had brought.

Then, he had the viper head bring him a piece of silk.

Using specially made ink and precisely controlled internal energy, he began to meticulously rub the nine dragon patterns and ancient seal script on the stone tablet.

This is only a part of the Nine Dragon Pattern. Only by collecting all the Nine Dragon Patterns can you find the Nine Dragon Cauldron.

Therefore, he must make a copy.

"The Nine Dragon Pattern... It turns out that what our ancestors have been guarding for generations is actually the secret of the Nine Dragon Pattern on the stone tablet."

Ye Tian, ​​thank you for letting me know what our ancestors have been striving to live for.

Our clan precepts say that the Nine Dragons pattern contains a secret that could plunge the world into chaos.

So, Ye Tian, ​​now that you know about the Nine Dragon Pattern, I cannot let you leave the mountain.

"You either stay on the mountain, or you die. The choice is yours."

A hint of struggle flickered in the eyes of the stunningly beautiful Viper organization leader.

But his gaze quickly hardened.

For the sake of countless lives of her people, and for the sake of the world, she had no choice but to apologize to Ye Tian.

"Miss, do you even have any sense of reason?"

You asked me to help you find something, saying it was crucial for your people.

"I found it for you, and you repay kindness with enmity, wanting to imprison me on the mountain?"