Following the underground river downstream, several hours passed without realizing it.
As the temperature continued to rise, the two of them added magical protections to themselves. Even at their speed, they couldn't see the source of the pollution. Jiang Wen was only amazed that there was such a deep place in the world. The lights shone on the sides of the underground river, revealing grotesque rocks and stalactites of various shapes, reflecting the light in various colors.
This underground scenery was also extremely beautiful. Jiang Wen had only seen it in videos before. Now that he had come here in person, he realized the magic of nature. He took pictures with his camera to preserve it well.
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Jiang Wen felt that if he didn't become a Taoist priest, he could become a travel streamer and become popular all over the world. After all, there was no place he couldn't go, whether it was up to the sky or down to the earth.
There was no signal on his phone, after all, this kind of thousands of meters deep underground insulated any communication.
Traveling along the narrow passage, Jiang Wen would use his flying sword to split open a passage if he encountered a place that was too small.
From time to time, golden shiny things could be seen shining under the lights. Picking up a fist-sized piece and examining it in his hand, it turned out to be dog-head gold, which was more expensive than gold. This thing was worth a lot of money when sold outside, more expensive than ordinary gold.
Jiang Wen was a little excited at first, but after picking up a few, he lost interest. With his current strength, making money was easy. Traveling back and forth between the two worlds to resell goods was now just for novelty.
"So much gold."
Mo Xiang exclaimed, looking at the surroundings.
"There should be a gold mine underground, just don't know how much there is. But with such a large piece of dog-head gold, the richness of the gold mine underground is probably unimaginable."
Jiang Wen said with a smile.
The two kept walking down, not knowing how many meters deep they had gone into the ground. There was also an underground river here, making it difficult for people to survey the gold mine. But once the existence of a gold mine here was known, the entire Phoenix Village would probably undergo earth-shattering changes.
Jiang Wen didn't know whether this change was good or bad for the elderly in the village, and he didn't plan to tell anyone about it.
The underground river, which had already turned into countless streams and merged into the rock formations, ended there. In the golden cave, a huge fossil standing alone in the center appeared abruptly.
It was hard to imagine that there was such a strange place tens of thousands of meters underground, and what was even more surprising was the extremely huge fossil.
The black water flowing upstream all originated from this huge fossil. Countless glittering light spots could be seen falling off the fossil, slowly surging towards the water source along the water flow.
"What exactly is this? It can actually pollute the water."
Mo Xiang was shocked as she looked at the huge fossil, and she was also quite interested in the things inside the fossil.
Jiang Wen looked at the creatures in the fossil, and after a slight surprise, he only felt puzzled.
He leaped to the front of the fossil and carefully examined it. This fossil, which was dozens of meters high and hundreds of meters long, actually trapped a huge dragon.
Different from the real dragon he had seen, this dragon had three claws and no beard, and its body was extremely small.
It was formed in the fossil, seemingly trying to escape. It just didn't know why it was buried and buried in the ground tens of thousands of meters deep, turning into a fossil.
The black ink-like things were all emitted from the fossil, as if they had intelligence, surging along the water flow.
"It's actually a dragon."
Jiang Wen stroked the fossil with his hand, and saw the black mist slowly wrapping around his hand.
He slightly applied magic power to disperse the black mist.
According to the villagers, the well water mutated in the past few days. Then the black things emitted from the fossil were also during this period.
The formation of fossils is calculated in tens of thousands of years, and the time required for such a large fossil is probably calculated in hundreds of millions of years.
That is to say, this dragon existed in the world hundreds of millions of years ago, and I don't know if it was from the same era as those dinosaurs. I also don't know why it turned into a fossil and existed here.
It hasn't changed for hundreds of millions of years, and it has been safe for hundreds of years.
Now that there is an abnormality, I am afraid that it is inseparable from the gradual recovery of spiritual energy.
Since he could travel through the great world, the spiritual energy of the present world has also slowly become active. Although this process is extremely slow, it may even take hundreds or even thousands of years to see results. But the world is, after all, a big concept, and a slight change is enough to change the world.
The ghosts that have appeared repeatedly now are enough to prove this.
"Could it be that you are also going to wake up?"
Jiang Wen muttered thoughtfully as he stroked the fossil. He suddenly thought of the various mythical beasts and monsters that suddenly appeared in those spiritual energy recovery novels. Could it be that they were all trapped underground because they turned into fossils, waiting for the spiritual energy to recover?
He only felt that this idea was a little funny. After all, humans have also excavated many caves. There are piles of dinosaur fossils, but no fossils of demon beasts have been seen. If strange fossils are really discovered, I am afraid that there will be news all over the world.
"Brother Jiang, will this dragon wake up?"
Mo Xiang asked Jiang Wen curiously. "If it wakes up, will it cause trouble?"
"I have just explored it once. According to the current situation, it will probably take two hundred years for it to wake up. Although it has turned into a fossil, it is indeed still alive."
Jiang Wen felt the weak aura in the dragon's body, which was proof that it was still alive.
It is hard to imagine how this kind of creature can live for hundreds of millions of years without eating or drinking. Even cultivators would feel despair at this span of time.
"Brother Jiang, look! There's someone!"
Hearing Mo Xiang's words, Jiang Wen walked over to check. It was a corpse whose flesh had already rotted. It was wrapped in a purple and yellow robe, and there was also a rusty peach wood sword beside it.
Jiang Wen reached out and touched the bones, and the robe on his body turned into powder. In the bones' arms, there was a book and a copper plate. Under the copper plate was a Bagua mirror. Obviously, this person's identity was related to Taoism.
Picking up the copper plate, several words on it came into view.
"Zhang Daoling?"
Jiang Wen read the words on it, and the identity of the person in front of him was revealed.
"It's actually Zhang Daoling of Longhu Mountain?!"
Jiang Wen couldn't help but be surprised. He didn't expect that in such a deep place, where the temperature was also unbearable for ordinary people, the ancestor of Longhu Mountain, Zhang Daoling, would appear next to the dragon fossil.
How did he get down here, and how did he live to come here? Jiang Wen was very puzzled, so he picked up the book lying in Zhang Daoling's arms and looked at it.
He can now clearly recognize the words from thousands of years ago. The cover of this book clearly says "Dragon and Tiger Magic Secrets".
"Could it be a cultivation technique?"
Jiang Wen read this "Dragon and Tiger Magic Secrets", and only after reading it did he understand.
This "Dragon and Tiger Magic Secrets" is indeed a cultivation technique, but it relies on this dragon fossil.
It turned out that this Zhang Daoling found fragments of the dragon fossil from somewhere, and was greatly amazed when he saw that they were crystal clear. He called it the Stone of Gold and Jade. Ancient Taoists liked to refine pills, and they could throw anything into the pill furnace. Zhang Daoling was no exception. He mixed it with tiger blood and put it in a pill cauldron to refine pills, and finally obtained the Dragon and Tiger Divine Pill.
He used this pill to cultivate extraordinary abilities. Later, Zhang Daoling traveled around the world, looking for dragon fossils everywhere. Finally, he accidentally fell here, was trapped in this cave and died.
He used his blood to record his experience after contacting this dragon fossil, and also wrote down his mood.
It can be seen that he was very open-minded. When he was about to starve to death, he smiled and said that he had no regrets about dying after contacting the things of heaven. The only regret was that his true scriptures would be lost and there would be no successors.
Jiang Wen looked at the book for a long time and bowed slightly to Zhang Daoling. It was a respect for this Taoist Celestial Master.
