The Lord of Void and Real

Chapter 177: Chapter 175: The Odd Black and White Pieces

Adjacent to the Binding Talisman was an attack talisman named the “Fractured Talisman”. This talisman began with the characters “Crushing Army”, and its runes looked overall like a sharp long spear, giving off a kind of suppressing and murderous aura.

Further to the right, past the Flying Talisman, was a talisman that shimmered with golden lightning.

It looked similar to the Small Thunder Talisman, being a lightning attribute talisman as well. However, instead of starting with the unusual character for “thunder”, it began with the character for “Imperial Edict”, mixed with five lightning runes, and ended with the character for “seal”. This made it quite special.

The last talisman was even stranger, named the “Amnesia Talisman”. It could cause someone to lose a brief memory and cause a certain amount of damage to their Divine Sense.

However, this talisman had quite some restrictions, and it usually could only work on someone with a lower cultivation level than the user. Moreover, if the target’s Divine Sense was strong to begin with, the talisman might not work.

According to the jade slip, most of these five talismans were exclusive secret talismans from Mount Fangcun. Their drawing methods and required materials were all different and confidential, not to be casually revealed.

At the moment, Shen Luo couldn’t even find the most common Yellow Talisman Paper and cinnabar, let alone special materials. Naturally, he couldn’t try to draw them, so he quickly skimmed through them without paying much attention.

Inadvertently, he had already spent more than an hour checking. He rubbed his slightly sour brows and put away the jade slip.

“It seems Mount Fangcun is indeed as revered by the villagers at the foot of the mountain, a Cultivation Sect presided over by a true Immortal. My entrance here can be considered a stroke of luck.” Shen Luo was secretly delighted. After taking a short break, he set off again, continuing to search deeper into the forest.

However, after searching for nearly two more hours inland, all he saw were devastated ruins, and there was nothing to gain.

When he walked out of the dense forest, in front of him was a dead end by another mountain wall.

This mountain wall was not as towering as the one he had stayed before, it was just a hundred feet high. There was a small stream meandering down from it, the water wasn’t much, just soaking a large part of the mountain wall.

In the places where the stream had passed, there were four large characters engraved in ancient script, vigorous and compelling.

“God Show Opening…”

Shen Luo stood under the mountain wall, gazing upward at those characters, his eyebrows suddenly raised, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.

With a thought, he lifted his hand and immediately, the stream flowing down the mountain wall converged into a water rope.

Shen Luo grabbed the water rope and ascended towards the top of the mountain wall. Soon he came to the place where the characters were carved.

“There really is something hidden!” Shen Luo sighed silently.

Right in the center of the four characters “God Show Opening”, a piece of rock protruded slightly, like a rain curtain, diverting the stream flowing down from the mountain top to both sides. Below the rock, an unobtrusive cave entrance was revealed.

Shen Luo leaped down and fell through the narrow cave entrance.

After steadying his figure, he walked a few dozen feet inward and saw the space inside suddenly widen into a stone chamber spanning around ten feet.

Shen Luo lifted his hand, a blue light illuminated from his palm and shone around, only then he found that the stone chamber was very simply furnished.

Only on the inner wall nearest was engraved a very noticeable “Zen” character. Underneath it was a small table and a straw cushion woven from vine grass. Beyond these, there was nothing else.

Interestingly, the little table was placed against the wall, but the straw cushion was outside. If someone was meditating here, they wouldn’t be facing the wall, but should be facing the wall while sitting.

“Is there really only this much stuff here, could it be that the master here was a fan of Dry Zen?” Shen Luo wondered.

He crouched down and tapped on the table, finding it was just ordinary sandalwood. Although it had lasted for hundreds of years without decay, it really wasn’t a magical artifact.

Since Shen Luo had confirmed that this was the location of Mount Fangcun’s Immortal Sect, his expectations for this place had increased a lot. He thought he would definitely find treasures in a secret place, but seeing how plain this place was, couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed.

He casually flipped over the vine grass straw cushion, but found that it had already rotted. With just a gentle pull, it tore open.

“What’s this?” Shen Luo exclaimed softly, quickly casting his palm light downwards.

As the blue light approached, Shen Luo saw a white dot underneath the straw cushion, reflecting specks of light.

He completely moved the straw cushion aside only to find that it wasn’t a white dot, but a white Go piece, and there were two black Go pieces near it.

It seemed as if the master dropped them under the straw cushion by accident while putting away the chess pieces.

Shen Luo pinched the white Go piece between his fingers and lightly lifted it up.

“So light…”

He raised his eyebrows slightly and murmured.

Ordinary chess pieces were indeed not heavy, but this white piece was outrageously light. Holding it in hand, it was like holding a feather, it would have felt like there was nothing in his hand if he hadn’t observed it with his own eyes.

Shen Luo was puzzled, he reached out two fingers again to pinch a black Go piece.

However, as he lifted his wrist, the black piece remained motionless, as if it were rooted to the ground.

This time, Shen Luo was even more surprised. He exerted force in his hand, grabbed the black piece and yanked it upwards, eventually lifting it off the ground.

He weighed it a little and found that this black piece actually weighed a hundred pounds.

Shen Luo was puzzled. He then went to grab another black piece and found it to be just as heavy.

“What’s going on? Could this also be a magical instrument?” He looked at the Go pieces in his hand, growing more puzzled.

After a moment’s hesitation, he channeled his mana and began pouring it into the black and white chess pieces in his hand.

With each drip of mana flowing into them, all three Go pieces lit up to varying degrees. However, there was no other response.

Shen Luo gave a light shout, urged a multiplied amount of mana compared to before into the Go pieces, but the Go pieces didn’t react at all. They just laid quietly in his palm, with no reaction. @@novelbin@@

His eyebrows furrowed slightly, he abruptly tossed the Go pieces away, and they all shot out at once.

The white piece was too light and flew the fastest. It hit a wall, rebounded, and fell off.

The two black pieces were too heavy, so after they flew out a bit, they fell to the ground with a “boom”.

Neither had shown anything special.

Despite this, Shen Luo was still unwilling to give up. He picked up the three chess pieces again and channeled the Ninety-nine Treasure Refining Tactics, trying to refine the three Go pieces using the artifact refining method. However, after an attempt, he still found no use.

Just like before when he was testing the jade slip, he cast his Divine Sense into the Go pieces, but still came out empty-handed.

“Maybe it really isn’t a magical instrument but just has a special material.” Finally, Shen Luo sighed, saying helplessly.

Then, he tried to put the three Go pieces into his clothes. However, because the two black pieces were so heavy, they dragged down his clothes. Unwillingly, Shen Luo had to tear off two strips of cloth from his sleeve and tied the black pieces separately to his left and right wrists.