Nanfeng said this for a reason. The wooden box contained exquisite tools, including a small copper hammer, several files and chisels, in addition to a piece of wood and a piece of jade.
Those tools were not interesting. What Nanfeng was interested in was the piece of wood and a piece of jade. The wood was a stick long and an inch wide. There were two columns of text on it. There was also a mark in the lower left corner. The text was written in cinnabar. The mark was It is stamped with cinnabar. A special method may have been used when writing and stamping, and it has not faded to this day.
"Do you recognize the Dingwen?" Nanfeng looked at Yuan Anning.
Yuan Anning shook his head, "I don't recognize him."
"Then how can you recognize the inscriptions on the stone plate from up there?" Nanfeng asked.
"I once learned Xiaozhuan in my early years. Xiaozhuan is somewhat similar to Dingwen." Yuan Anning said.
"Come on, come on, it doesn't matter if you don't recognize grandpa or dad. Come and see what's written on it?" Nanfeng handed over the wooden board with the mark.
Yuan Anning had no choice but to take it, looked at it for a moment, shook his head and said, "I'm not sure if it's right."
"It's okay, just say it." Nanfeng encouraged.
"This should be an imperial word. I'm not sure about the second one. I really don't dare to say it randomly, in case I mislead you..."
"Just pick the one you recognize." Nanfeng interrupted Yuan Anning.
"Edict, go to heaven..."
"What kind of mess is it going down to the earth?" Nanfeng said with a smile. Just after he finished speaking, he suddenly realized, "I understand, it's up to heaven to listen."
"Yes, the latter one should be a word for listening." Yuan Anning nodded.
"Continue." Nanfeng urged.
"Tai Chi Jiutian, Fengyun, these two should be the main ones." Yuan Anning read stumblingly.
"Head of the Taiji Jiutian Shenxiao Fengyun Academy?" Nanfeng guessed.
"Yes, it should be those words you said." Yuan Anning nodded again.
Nan Feng vaguely guessed something, "Is the last mark the Jade Qing Dharma Seal?"
Yuan Anning shook his head, "It should be Yuqing. The last two are not seals, they seem to be heavy treasures."
Nanfeng casually took the jade stone. It was in an irregular square shape with only one flat surface. There were many writings engraved on the flat surface. He couldn't understand the original text, and even less the reverse ones. Fortunately, he took it with him. It contained cinnabar, so I dipped it in cinnabar and stamped it on the palm of my hand. I took the wooden tablet and compared it with each other. I instantly understood, "This is the urn booklet of the Yuqing Sect for worshiping heaven and spreading the Dharma."
Yuan Anning didn't understand and looked confused.
Nanfeng took the jade seal and showed it to Yuan Anning, "See, there is a blank space on the seal, which can be engraved with a Taoist number." After saying that, he took the piece of wood with the jade seal and said, "This is stamped with a seal. It has the Jade Purity Dharma Seal, and if it is stamped with the Taoist priest’s own Dharma Seal, it can be burned and the conferment can be completed.”
"After being conferred, you will be Taoist Yuqing?" Yuan Anning still didn't quite understand.
"Yes." Nanfeng nodded, "The head of Fengyun Academy is a first-grade Taixuan of Yuqing Sect. Normally, only the headmaster or the headmaster's disciples can be taught."
"Why did this person leave the award book?" Yuan Anning asked softly.
"I'm also wondering. Conferring urns is no joke, let alone a first-grade Taixuan. I suspect that Taoist Yuqing who lived here at that time might have something unfinished and wanted the person who bestowed the urns to help him finish it. Do it." Nanfeng took the bundle of bamboo slips that were originally covered with many debris, "There should be clues on it, but it's a pity that I can't understand it."
Yuan Anning probably understood and nodded.
"Do you want to be a Taoist priest?" Nanfeng asked with a smile.
Yuan Anning waved her hands repeatedly, "No, no, no, I don't want it."
"You really don't want it? This is a first-grade Taixuan talisman. If you study the Heavenly Book in the future, you will have to ask the gods to do it. Sooner or later, you will need it." Nanfeng said.
"I feel extremely guilty that you gave me a book from heaven, and I will never do anything else." Yuan Anning shook his head sternly, "You are also a Taoist, so this thing is most suitable for you."
"Forget it, I don't want to hang out with the Yuqing Sect." Nanfeng curled his lips and said. He was previously appointed as the head of the Shangqing Sect's Thunder Court, and this one is the head of the Yuqing Sect's Fengyun Court. They are both first-level Taixuan, and I don’t know if he can hold concurrent posts. You must know that he, the first-grade Taixuan of the Shangqing Sect, was not acquired openly and honestly. If he is awarded the first-grade Taixuan of the Yuqing Sect, if the higher-ups track him down, don’t let him pick it all off.
"What sound?" Yuan Anning frowned and listened.
Nan Feng heard the words and listened with bated breath. There seemed to be an extremely subtle rustling sound in the cave.
When he heard the rustling sound, the first thing he thought of was the sound of snakes moving, but after careful listening, he found that the sound did not come from the gap on the right side of the cave, but from the copper box on the incense table.
"Have you touched that box before?" Yuan Anning asked.
"No," Nanfeng shook his head, "But when I took the wooden box, the copper box made a sound."
Yuan Anning didn't ask any more questions and closed his eyes to listen carefully.
"Stop avoiding suspicion and go over and listen." Nanfeng urged.
Worried that something might happen, Yuan Anning didn't insist, got up and moved towards the incense table.
Nanfeng put a bunch of things back into the wooden box and followed him with the box in his arms.
Yuan Anning put the copper box against his ears, listened carefully and discerned, "There is a clepsydra inside."
"Ah?" Nanfeng was stunned. The clepsydra, also known as the hourglass, is a timing device. Although we don't know why the hourglass is triggered, once the timing starts, some consequences will inevitably occur after a certain time. The worst thing is what will happen. The consequences no one could predict.
Not only Nan Feng was anxious, Yuan An Ning was anxious too. The reason why Nan Feng invited her here was to deal with similar matters. Hourglass was usually accompanied by agencies, so she could only handle this matter.
Yuan Anning moved the copper box to the ground regardless of his injuries. With this move, he came to a preliminary judgment, "You moved the wooden box to make the Dexiang case unbalanced, thus triggering the mechanism. Fortunately, the mechanism was only in the copper box." internal."
"Could it be a thunderstorm?" This was the first thing Nanfeng thought of.
Yuan Anning looked around the copper box, "No, there were no firearms at that time."
This copper box was square, with the lid not on the top. After careful observation, Yuan Anning discovered the clues, moved one of the copper plates to the right, pulled out the copper plate, and opened the copper box.
Inside the box is a large crystal hourglass. Different from ordinary hourglasses, this hourglass has three sections: upper, middle and lower. The upper part is a kind of red fine gravel, the middle part is some light green**, and there is a piece of bowl at the bottom. A large tortoise shell, this tortoise shell is much larger than other tortoise shells, with at least nearly a hundred ancient characters on it.
"This piece of tortoise shell is the Book of Heaven." Nan Feng was extremely eager.
Yuan Anning raised her hand to signal Nanfeng to calm down, and then carefully took out the hourglass from the copper box.
At this time, the red gravel on the upper part of the hourglass was dripping to the middle. The red gravel seemed to be gravel, but it was not. After dripping into the green water, it immediately melted and disappeared, and the originally light green color became darker and darker.
"It's bone-transforming water." Yuan Anning said.
Nanfeng wanted to say that he was going to smash the hourglass, but he held back the words. He knew nothing about the hourglass mechanism. Yuan Anning was an expert. If she could smash it, she would have smashed it long ago.
"What should I do?" Nanfeng asked eagerly. At this time, there was not much red gravel left on it.
"The mechanism is here," Yuan Anning pointed to the flat surface at the top of the hourglass, "There is a row of writing here, which should be a spell."
Deyuan Anning reminded Nanfeng to look at the top of the hourglass. He couldn't understand the words, but judging from the writing arrangement of the words, it should be a talisman, but he didn't know what kind of talisman it was, and he didn't know what it was used for, because he didn't recognize it. Character.
"There is a depression here, which should be the place where the seal in the wooden box was stamped." Yuan Anning pointed again.
"Huh? There's no number on it, so we have to go now..."