The vast wilderness is vast and endless. At a glance, you can only see the earth and the sky forming a line.
This is the wasteland, the largest plain in Dongling, and the wasteland city is also located here.
Just when Wang Dong was almost in despair, Qin Bearded finally announced that they had arrived, not in the deserted city, but in the teleportation array. The wasteland stretched across 300,000 miles. Even if Wu Zun tried his best to travel, it would still take ten days, not to mention that they had brought them with them. With so many things, ordinary people would not be able to reach Huangcheng without the teleportation array.
However, although there are many teleportation arrays in the wasteland, none of them can directly enter the deserted city. They are all thousands of miles away. It is said that they are designed to defend against enemies.
The teleportation array is heavily guarded and meticulous. Communication is only allowed after everyone has checked and paid a certain amount of spirit stones. A group of seven of them stepped onto the teleportation array and waited. A hundred people were gathered to open it.
The brilliance flashed, and the next moment they were standing on another piece of land. The deserted city and the sky were in front of them, and they felt extremely oppressive.
All kinds of strange beasts were flying in the sky, and it was extremely prosperous.
"Bah!"
A white phoenix flew across the sky, and a man stood on top of it. He was as rich as jade, and his clothes were as white as snow. A white feather stuck on his shoulder made people look at him.
"Hmph..."
On the other side, a person walked out of the teleportation array. He was extremely cool, riding a one-eyed pig. He didn't look sideways and allowed the dirty one-eyed pig to walk along without paying any attention to the gazes of the people around him.
"Eh... they really all have their own merits!"
Wang Dong was ashamed. This group of people was completely inconspicuous among the public. They were too ordinary.
"Let's go, there's still a thousand miles left!" Qin Bearded ordered, and the group set sail again.
"Youngest, stop looking, you won't even be able to see me when we get to the city!" the fourth rat shouted.
"Oh, come on!" Wang Dong responded loudly.
Although he had just joined, everyone did not treat him as an outsider at all. And because he was the seventh and last child, everyone called him the youngest and took great care of him as the younger brother.
"I said, since the youngest is joining us, we haven't prepared any kind of greeting gift; this cart of gambling stones will be sold soon, how about you pick a piece, the youngest, and maybe with good luck, we can get some of your fairy spirit!" "Qin Bearded said suddenly.
The group of people all nodded: "The youngest has never played stone gambling before, maybe you can really get lucky!"
"Agree, agree, I'll take a piece too!" Old Man Qing got up in high spirits as soon as he heard this. He didn't even want his pipe anymore. He took out his pocket and started taking out the gambling stones.
"This old guy, you have no business!" A group of people shouted and quickly pulled him away. "Let me tell you clearly, old man, you must have been short of virtue for eight lifetimes in your last life. No, you have been short of virtue for eight lifetimes in this life. Let's take a break from brewing." Come on, let’s spare the brothers, right?”
A group of people talked sincerely, saying that other gambling stones could not cut out spiritual stones, elixirs, etc., but they were the only ones who opened gambling stones. Their luck smelled worse than a latrine. 100% of them were either empty or solid. They might as well be on the roadside. Picking it up and cutting it.
Seeing the hundreds of unconvinced old men being scolded by everyone, Wang Dong shook his head helplessly.
He really wanted to give it a try, but the key was curiosity. Old Man Qing cut a few stones that were no different from ordinary stones. He didn't see the strangeness of the stone at all, and wanted to try it himself.
Qin Big Beard set up a barrier, and then poured out all the gambling stones. There were twenty or thirty stones of different sizes.
"Youngest, take your time, we have plenty of time!"
Wang Dong nodded, picked up a gambling stone and knocked it. The sound was like a bell. After comparing it again, there was no other difference except that the sizes were different, the lines were different, and the sapphires were full.
"What has been discovered from this gambling stone?" Wang Dong jumped on the gambling stone and asked. Although they had said it before, it was just a rumor after all, and only the things that could really be discovered were actual.
"There are a lot of things, but not many of them are truly valuable!" Qin Bearded said calmly.
Everyone else nodded and said, "But no one knows the value of the gambling stone before it is opened. Even if someone does open something that defies heaven, it will not be revealed."
"That's right, unless it's in Gambling Stone Square and it's broken in front of everyone, there have been a few times when the rays of light shone and Tibet couldn't hide it." Lao Liu clicked his tongue.
"There is another reason. It's not that you can't dig things out of stones. The key is that many things have decayed with the passage of time, and even their shadows have dissipated. After all, they are ancient things. Although the tide of returning to the sea can remain immortal, But there is a certain limit." Old Man Qing said.
Wang Dong nodded, and then carefully selected, but he didn't hold out much hope, after all, the probability was really low.
"Huh..." His heart skipped a beat when his hand passed one of the gambling stones, and he felt a strange feeling.
He picked up the gambling stone, which was no bigger than a fist. It was as green as jade and had three twisting white lines. It looked ordinary.
"Young man, I think this piece is fine. It's usually just rubbish if it's so small. We took it out because it was a pity to throw it away. I don't have any problem with it being opened by the old man!"
"Go on, do you think I can play all kinds of gambling stones? It's hard to be discerned unless you're a top grader!" Old Man Qing retorted, turning his head to the side to express disdain.
"Hei, you said you were fat and you got asthma!"
There was another quarrel, which was so lively that it caused passers-by to look sideways. Wang Dong shook his head helplessly and blushed for them.
He looked at the gambling stone in his hand again, and the ripples in his heart reappeared. This time it was particularly clear, it was the restlessness coming from the martial soul of creation.
"Is there really something?" Wang Dong was confused. This was the first time this feeling had appeared. "This is it. Let's take it as a souvenir!"
"Hey, maknae, I don't even know what to say about you. You are defeated by this virgin stone!" Everyone lamented, all with regretful expressions. Even Old Man Qing asked him to choose another piece. , this piece comes with the choice of one-get-one-free family ties.
Wang Dong was full of my black line, asking for everything, but he declined politely. He did not contribute anything to this car and stone betting, and everyone regarded him as a brother. He did not want to be like this.
Seeing Wang Dong's persistence, everyone stopped trying. Although there was little hope, everyone still looked eagerly hoping for a miracle to happen.
"Open now?" Wang Dong said.
"Nonsense, it's a lot of fun to watch people gamble on stones. Haven't you seen the crowds of people in Stone Gambling Square every day, and you think they are all stone gamblers? Most of them are just watching the excitement."
"But many people, unconsciously, feel itchy just looking at it, and then nothing happens again, and their underwear is almost lost inside!" At the back of the carriage, a drunkard smelling of alcohol spoke, and after speaking, he drank. He took a sip of wine, and then glanced sideways at the old man Qing beside him.
This man is Lao Wu, known as Zui Wu, and rarely talks.
The old man Qing's face turned red, and he jumped up and down as if someone was stepping on his tail: "I said you are a wicked old man, you are always dealing with sesame seeds and rotten millet, and sometimes you do it without even opening your mouth!"
"It's not over!" Lao Wu's eyebrows stood up, and he pointed at Old Man Qing's nose and said, "You fucking ran away. I was detained there for three days digging for stones. If the bearded man hadn't come over, I would have It’s still in there now!”
"..." Old man Qing is mute!
Wang Dong glanced at him, "Old man Qing is really not that good. He can even do such a thing. It seems that he must be more careful in the future, don't help count the money after being sold."
He sighed, put his mind back, and then imitated the old man and chopped it down like a knife.
"Ah... it hurts, it hurts so much!" Wang Dong said, his face turned red. It felt like he had been hit by a dragon turtle, and two of his fingers were almost broken.
The others were stunned for a moment, then laughed loudly and said, "Brother, don't look at me clearly, old man, that's not how stone gambling works!"
Wang Dong was depressed for a while. He never thought that the gambling stone would be so hard. You should know that even though you can't move mountains and seas at the level of a martial artist, you can easily cut rough steel with your hands and crush stubborn rocks with your fists. As a result, not only did he not react when he hit the gambling stone, he was seriously injured. own.
"The gambling stone is hard to cut, and the higher the quality, the stronger the hardness. It is easy to hurt yourself when you force it. What's worse, it is easy to damage the objects inside, so there are ways to open the gambling stone. There are even some in the gambling stone shop. Stone appraisers, they specialize in identifying stones and will never damage anything inside." Big Beard explained.
Zuiwuye rarely spoke up and said: "When opening a gambling stone, you need to look at it, smell it, and cut it three times. There is a lot of knowledge in it!"
"Is there such a thing?" Wang Dong was dumbfounded. It seemed that he really looked down upon this industry. It was far more complicated than he thought.
Afterwards, everyone showed him a demonstration. The so-called "look" is to look at the texture. The texture of each gambling stone is different. In this way, when the knife is cut, it will follow the texture and will never damage the objects inside. .
The second smell is the most difficult one. Only a few stone appraisers can do it. It is said that they can even detect whether the stone is cheap or expensive.
Three cuts is a technique. This technique cannot be learned. It all depends on the attributes of the martial spirit. Steel with softness is the most ideal. If the martial spirit is too hard, it will be like the old man, cutting with a knife, what will happen? Most of the things will not be protected, and a martial spirit that is too weak will not be able to cut through it.
"It's like this!" Wang Dong understood. It turned out that he needed to use the power of martial arts, and it was impossible to break the gambling stone with brute force.
There was a slight movement in his heart, with a softness in the steel. His martial soul was the martial soul of creation. This condition seemed to be completely solved with only a slight change in the martial soul.
This time he took a deep breath, meditated for a moment and then suddenly opened his eyes. He saw two streams of air wrapped around his fingers, and then they were moving rapidly. The small gambling stone in his hand shrank in an instant. One circle, and then continue to decrease at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"This... is so fast, and it happens to be a strong and soft martial spirit. Isn't it a coincidence?"
The others were dumbfounded. Among the six of them, apart from old man Qing, the only one with a big beard who could cut the gambling stone was not able to cut the gambling stone so perfectly. However, as soon as Wang Dong made a move, he already had the demeanor of a stone appraiser in the gambling stone workshop. .
(End of chapter)