Kanagawa Taoist College Students

Putting the knife and coins back in their place, Li Xuehao picked up the bamboo slips piled on the side of the case. For the time being, he only knew that the owner of Dragon Palace was a female monk, but he knew nothing about her identity and origin.

Bamboo slips are used to record text, and it is undoubtedly the most likely to find information about the identity of the owner from the text.

On the bamboo slips spread out, the words on them were all written in large seals. The color of the fonts was red. He didn't know what kind of paint it was. Li Xuehao faintly noticed that there was a trace of chaotic spiritual energy in it.

Perhaps this is a kind of "ink" prepared by the Dragon Palace owner himself, but the "ink" just used for writing actually contains spiritual energy. Even if it is messy, it is luxury enough.

Of course, what is luxurious for Li Xuehao is not necessarily the case for the owner of the Dragon Palace.

After more than two thousand years, her bones still have abundant spiritual energy, and the intensity is no less than his strength at this time. This shows that the master of the Dragon Palace was much stronger than him during his lifetime. .

You must know that the reason why the entire crystal palace's magic circle is still operating freely today is because of her spiritual bones. And once the spiritual energy in the spiritual bones is exhausted, it is not surprising that the Crystal Palace will be filled with sea water in an instant, and it may even collapse.

After more than two thousand years, the remaining spiritual energy alone has reached the same level as his current state. If so many years had not passed, how terrible would it have been?

Li Xuehao even suspected that the original realm of the Dragon Palace master might have been in the late stage of the Golden Elixir, and he might even have given birth to a baby.

However, he is not sure about the latter possibility, because if a baby is really born, he can travel among the stars without having to stay in this "small place" like the earth, and he probably won't die here.

And the most important point is, for such a powerful monk, where did her soul go?

Generally speaking, as long as the spiritual energy in the body is still there, then at least the physical body can survive. But now there is still spiritual energy on the bones, but the physical body has melted, and even the soul has disappeared together.

The soul is equivalent to the soul. When an ordinary person dies, the soul will definitely not survive forever and will soon dissipate between heaven and earth. However, as long as the soul of a monk in the golden elixir stage does not resist disasters such as thunder, there is basically no possibility of dying. Even if the soul weakens with the passage of time, there are still enough ways to make up for it. The real Dao Fie that I met at the beginning was not as high as the master of the Dragon Palace, but he didn't live for hundreds of more years relying on external forces?

So, did the Yuanshen, who was as powerful as the master of the Dragon Palace, die due to an accident or went somewhere independently...

Li Xuehao meditated while looking at the contents of the bamboo slips.

Although it is a thick volume, there are not many words that can be written. Unfortunately, what is recorded in the bamboo slips is not the owner's autobiography or diary. It is just an external chapter of "Zhuangzi", not something profound. thing.

Li Xuehao put down the bamboo slips and looked through other bamboo slips, but found nothing, because these bamboo slips were all chapters of "Zhuangzi", including inner chapters, outer chapters and miscellaneous chapters. It's just that there are more than a dozen chapters that have survived to modern times. They can be collected as unique or rare copies, but they are of little use to monks.

After putting down the bamboo slips one by one, Li Xuehao searched everywhere in the "boudoir", hoping to find something that could prove the identity of the owner of the Dragon Palace. Unfortunately, he didn't know whether the owner of the Dragon Palace was worried about her identity being discovered or she didn't have it. Her habit of keeping books is still a mystery.

Aragaki Yuma and Mizuno Nening were standing in front of the desk, admiring the girl in the painting. They had actually looked at the bamboo slip with him just now, but they didn't recognize the characters on it at all, and they didn't have the complicated thoughts to guess this. Who did the "Dragon Palace" originally belong to? They only looked at things they could understand, such as paintings.

Li Xuehao left the two of them in the room and looked at the remaining rooms, including the piano room, the ear room, and some rooms that were used for unknown purposes, but found nothing.

Returning to the main hall again, Li Xuehao stood in front of the crystal seat on the high steps. Since there was nothing about the identity of the owner of the Dragon Palace anywhere else, he could only study her "person".

The spiritual bones, which are almost crystal-like in texture, are no different from ordinary human bones. The only difference is that the bones are crystal clear and the surface is shining with luster. If they were separated instead of forming one human bone, no one would be able to recognize it as human bones. Maybe I thought it was a work of art made of crystal.

Li Xuehao observed for a while and even touched it a few times with his hands. The abundant spiritual energy in the spirit bone showed strong "hostility" to the intruder. Every time he touched it, he felt its "counterattack", although he was not injured. , but his fingers were numb from the shock.

Fortunately, it was him. If he had been an ordinary person, he would have been shocked by the spiritual energy and his bones would have shattered and died.

Aragaki Yuma and Mizuno Ningning did not return to the main hall. They looked around in the Crystal Palace and seemed to be addicted to the various dreamlike buildings in the Crystal Palace.

Li Xuehao could concentrate on studying the spirit bones on the crystal chair. Under his eyes, the crystal spirit bones looked even more crystal clear. Something similar to liquid was flowing inside, running through the entire skeleton in a cycle, just like a living thing.

Is that bone marrow?

Li Xuehao shook his head. How could bone marrow flow between bone fragments? But even though he didn't know what it was, he wouldn't do anything to disgrace the scenery, such as taking apart the bones to see what was inside. Firstly, that would be disrespectful to the deceased. Secondly, even if he wanted to, he probably wouldn't do it. Something that can be done easily.

The spirit bone must be harder than anything he knew. Even if it was blown up with a bomb, it would not leave any scratches on it.

After studying for more than ten minutes, he still didn't know why. Li Xuehao was about to give up. Just when he was about to look away, he suddenly paused and looked at the waist and crotch of the spirit bone in disbelief. He didn't pay much attention there before. After all, it was a private place for both men and women. But now I see that there is actually a long bone connected to the back of the pelvic bone of the spirit bone. I didn't take a closer look just now, thinking that it was part of the crystal seat. But now I discovered that it belongs to the spirit bone itself. It's more than a foot long.

This is... a tail?

Li Xuehao couldn't help but be stunned. How could a normal human have a tail?

After looking carefully, he saw that it was not a fish's tail, nor did it look like a snake's. Instead, it looked familiar. He had found a dragon-like skeleton in a secret treasure trove under the main hall of the Tenjin Shrine in Tenjin Mountain. Its tail bone was similar to that of a dragon. The spiritual bones and coccyx in front of me are very similar.

Thinking of this, his body shook violently. Could it be that the spiritual bones in front of him were not human? But a one-stop service?

If it is a dragon, then it can explain why this Crystal Palace is named "Dragon Palace", because its owner is originally a dragon.

Li Xuehao was a little excited. The master of the Dragon Palace turned out to be a dragon, and he could also transform into a human form. However, the transformation was not complete, and there was still a tail that had not disappeared. This was consistent with his previous guess.

Even if it is a dragon, its realm is still in the late stage of the Golden Core, and it has definitely not broken through the Nascent Soul, because the Nascent Soul can reorganize its flesh and bones and transform into any shape, so there will be no dragon tail left behind.

After calming down, Li Xuehao was thinking about whether to put the dragon's spirit bones into a storage ring. After all, its aura is equal to your own. If you take it back, you can refine and absorb the aura inside it, and enhance your own realm. I dare not say that it will break through to the golden elixir stage, but it is definitely not far away from the golden elixir.

However, if this spiritual bone is taken, the entire Crystal Palace will collapse. If no one is spared, everything here will be completely buried under the sea, and the fairyland-like underwater world will naturally disappear. It would be a real pity if it was destroyed like this.

Moreover, although the spirit bone is just a dead object and cannot be considered a human being, it still looks like a human being. Taking it back to absorb and refine it will always give you a feeling of "cannibalism".

After thinking for a long time, Li Xuehao finally made the decision that he would not take away the spiritual bones. In addition to the above two concerns, he must also maintain the necessary respect for the remains. He can take away the valuable things here, but the spiritual bones, Better stay.

With the decision made, he looked up at the top of his head, the huge circular aperture that emitted bright white light and illuminated the entire underwater world as bright as day. It also faintly exuded aura, but it was slightly messy, unlike before. The red paint characters found in the bamboo slips have the same feeling, they are all messy spiritual energy, and they seem to be of the same origin.

If you look closely, you will see that the circular aperture is actually a white orb the size of a fist. It is unknown what kind of spiritual object it is, but it emits a strong light. This light is the culprit that created the sea monster.

That's right, those sea monsters were "cultivated" by this white orb.

Judging from the memory obtained from the sea monster, they were originally a group of small sea fish that were chased by whales and separated from the larger group. They were then chased by other fish, and in the end there were only about twenty of them left. In a panic, He actually entered this underwater world through an unexpected passage.

They have lived here for many years, feeding on water plants and seaweed. Over the years, they have been cultivated by the chaotic spiritual energy emitted by the white orb above their heads. Gradually, their bodies have changed and their spiritual wisdom has opened up.

However, even though their spiritual intelligence is open, they are still fish. They need to live in water and cannot enter the Dragon Palace. However, they found the exit, which is the cave where the three people entered before and needed to open the iron chain.

As soon as they left the water world, they started to wreak havoc in the sea. Because of their spiritual intelligence, coupled with their strong bodies and sharp serrations "catalyzed" by the chaotic spiritual energy, fish in the sea can only become their food, even if they are much larger than them. The mermaid tribe is just one of the tragedies they wreak havoc on.

That unlucky sea monster may have smelled the scent of strangers in the original mermaid settlement, so he went to check it out. As for the other sea monsters, they were hunting around, but at night, they would return to this underwater world. , there is nothing safer and more private than here, and it is perfect as a base camp and lair.

But Li Xuehao would not wait here. He had to go back to the hotel. Seeing that it was getting late, maybe Chiba Sayuri and the others might wake up.

He planned to come over to clean up the remaining sea monsters at night. It wouldn't take much trouble for him anyway, but Yu Aragaki really couldn't come with him because she had a concert tonight.