Now that he had a plan in mind, Mo Tianliao again fell into the madness of crafting tools. He rushed into the crafting room holding Qingtong who was still hitting him.
“In order for the Spiritual Wisdom to go back to the past, it must be able to form images, but the thoughts of the Spiritual Wisdom are not continuous.” Mo Tianliao said to himself holding a piece of Taichu stone.
“Wow, Master, how do you know that it is discontinuous?” Taishi turned into a chain and twisted itself, indicating that he was continuous.
Mo Tianliao ignored it, Qingtong raised his hand to grab the chain and scratched it. Talking all day in an incoherent and disorderly manner, one would definitely not be able to think continuously.
In fact, people couldn’t and didn’t think continuously. When they are thinking about one thing, it’s likely for the mind to wander off to another topic. Then in order for Xuan Jian to continuously present a past event, there must be something that could remember all the thoughts that flashed by the Spiritual Wisdom, and which could even help the Spiritual Wisdom to go back in time.
Mo Tianliao found a “Mirage Stone” from his collection of materials. The so-called Mirage Stone, as the name suggested, was a stone that could trigger mirage-like illusions. This stone was usually used to make high-level phantom arrays, and was rarely used to craft weapons.
“The Mirage Stone can remember what the divine soul had engraved into it, and after painting the array, it could even interpret it spontaneously.” Mo Tianliao seldom saw Qingtong being curious, so he handed him the crystal clear round stone in his hand.
Qingtong stared at the stone carefully. The stone was basically transparent, showing a colorful pattern under the light, just like the pattern inside a shell. He poked a wisp of soul into it to check, but he didn’t see anything.
“Here, let me see.” Mo Tianliao took the stone back, placed it in a basin of clear water, and drew a simple array on the surface of the water with his fingers. Slowly, a figure emerged in the black basin: a handsome and domineering face, with smiling brows, which was exactly the usual Mo Tianliao.
Qingtong was stunned, and he raised his hand and knocked over the basin with a “clatter”, splashing Mo Tianliao with water.
Mo Tianliao touched his face, picked up the Mirage Stone and smothered a smile: “Baby, you were just thinking about me.”
“Who thought about you!” Qingtong moved his feet to go, but Mo Tianliao grabbed him and pulled him into his arms. His wet clothes immediately make Qingtong’s clothes wet as well.
“Don’t leave yet, I’ll draw a phantom array for you.” Mo Tianliao melted a spiritual stone in the palm of his hand, and quickly drew a few small arrays on the ground, then placed the Mirage Stone in the center, and melted a spiritual stone on the Mirage Stone, painting it on top of the stone. In the end, a ray of divine consciousness has penetrated, the phantom array quickly lit up, and illusions began to appear.
Because it was a temporary array, it was relatively simple, and the illusion was not as clear as the phantom array Mo Tianliao usually drew, but the scene inside could be discerned. On a large bed, there were two people, their bodies entangled ambiguously and were doing things that made people blush. Looking carefully, the person underneath had a pair of snow-white furry ears on top of its head.
“Look, I was just thinking about what happened last night. I just thought about it for a moment, and then the mirage came out spontaneously. Is it like what happened last night? Was there any difference?” Mo Tianliao said with a smile, pointing to the little phantom.
Qingtong narrowed his eyes slightly, raised his head, and bit Mo Tianliao’s chin.
“Ow! Ow! Ow!” Mo Tianliao tried to rescue his chin, and then kissed the moist thin lips, “Your clothes are wet, let me take it off for you.”
“Ohh……”
After repeating the scenario in the illusion again, Mo Tianliao contentedly picked up Qingtong who had fallen asleep, put him on the cushion, covered him with a blanket, sat back and began to deal with the materials.
Mingyan found most of the materials he mentioned earlier, such as Taichu stone, Huitian crystal and Tongming stone, which could make a smooth mirror. Although there were plans, the problems were still complex.
Mo Tianliao cut out all the materials into a small piece, controlled it with his soul, and removed the impurities in the burning furnace, using the Taichu stone as the base to draw the array, Huitian crystal as the main body, and using a small piece of Mirage Stone to fuse the Tongming stone and engraved on the Huitian crystal.
When Qingtong woke up, Mo Tianliao was playing with a small mirror as big as a palm.
“It’s done?” Qingtong looked over.
“How could it be?” Mo Tianliao smiled bitterly. It’s a trial. The idea has merit, but it’s very difficult to craft. He didn’t expect that a magic mirror would need a space array.
Qingtong put his divine sense into the small mirror, thinking about the cold spring fish that he had eaten a few days ago, the fragrant grilled fish really appeared in the mirror, still steaming. Didn’t it seem to be working already? Qingtong wanted to see what it was like when he was a child, just like what Tianlang was like five hundred years ago. When he explored his divine sense, it was completely dark and there was nothing he could see.
“Huh?” Qingtong frowned slightly, increasing the input of his soul, but vaguely felt that there was a barrier that prevented him going back to the past, which made him very anxious. As he kept trying to break through, he suddenly felt a sting. “Ahhh……!”
The mirror in his hand fell suddenly, and Qingtong fell back, clutching his head.
“Qingtong!” Mo Tianliao was startled and caught him. Seeing Qingtong’s face turned pale, he was scared out of his wits. “Where does it hurt? Is your soul hurt?”
Qingtong closed his eyes, shook his head, and slowly opened them. His eyes were a bit glazed.
Mo Tianliao held Qintong’s forehead with his hands, looked carefully, and found that he was not hurt, so he was relieved: “You saw the barrier of time and space.”
“Time and space barrier?” Qingtong looks up at him, “What is time and space barrier?”
“Sixty years is one Jiazi, and one Jiazi is one reincarnation,” Mo Tianliao said, picking up the cracked little mirror. “Imaging within the Mirage Stone can only show things within sixty years. If they are more than sixty years old, there will be barriers to time and space, which are hard to overcome.”
To be a mirror that could look back to the past was definitely not something that only looked at the past sixty years. And to break through the barrier of time and space, it probably needed a treasure that could cut through the void. But Mo Tianliao had never heard of anything that could break through the illusion of time.
The process of refining Xuan Jian fell into a dead end again. When he inquired with Taishi, Taishi said slowly after a long time: “I have never heard of anything that cuts through time. I only know that in ancient times, there were gods who could shuttle back and forth between the past and the future, but after several times, they would be exhausted and dissipated in heaven and earth.”
“Perhaps Shizun knows.” Qingtong said suddenly, looking at the twisted Taishi.
The dragon, who had lived for nearly 10,000 years, and was a descendant of the ancient beasts, perhaps knew no less than the Wisdom of Heaven and Earth. Moreover, Mingyan must have been studying it for many years, and he might have some unique insights on Xuan Jian.
Mo Tianliao pulled Qingtong out and they left the crafting room. He met Hou Jing who had come to report.
“Your Honor, the men who entered Taixuan Mountain are all dead.” Hou Jing was holding a few jade slips in his hand, which had lost their spiritual energy and had cracks in them. These were the jade slips that connected him with his subordinates. If the other party died, the jade slips on his hand would crack.
Mo Tianliao was stunned. He sent so many people there. It had been only a few days. How did they die so soon?
“That ancient cave was very strange. When people went in, there was no news. The day before yesterday, the jade slips suddenly cracked, and only then I knew that those people were dead,” Hou Jing frowned. “Now Taixuan Mountain has become a river of blood.”
“Well, did someone come out?” Mo Tianliao’s hand hidden in his sleeve gradually clenched.
“No one has left the cave yet.” Hou Jing frowned, and it could be said that there were no survivors yet. At first, he was tempted to go and have a look. If it weren’t for Mo Tianliao’s orders asking him to stay back and pay attention to the Duantian Mo Palace, he would have gone long ago and maybe he would no longer be alive. As he thought of this, he broke out into a cold sweat. “Taixuan Hidden Treasure Cave was not like a treasure hunt at all, but rather like a blood cave.”
“Blood cave?” Mo Tianliao’s heart trembled. The so-called blood caves were really horrendous places. There were usually ancient evil arrays hidden in there, which required a lot of blood sacrifices to open.
Thinking of the Woyun Sect being surrounded a few days ago, Mingyan had said to him: “Don’t worry too much, there is a way to solve it.”
Mo Tianliao suddenly got up, took Qingtong and left the Mo Palace.
The boat traveled thousands of miles within a day, and soon arrived near Taixuan Mountain. Before they could get near, they collided with the evil bloody spirit. Qingtong had a jade pendant given by Mo Tianliao, and yet he still felt uncomfortable.
Mo Tianliao drew an array around them to dispel the evil blood energy and sweep away the lingering smoke. Then he saw a man standing in the void. His green wide sleeve suit was fluttering in the wind. His dark green eyes were quietly looking at the eternal snow on the top of the mountain, as if he was looking at someone through the void.
“Shizun…”
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Carpenter: Master is the hidden boss!
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