Chapter 1870 Ruins
After absorbing the Fallen Heavenly Lightning, Xiang Nan's perception had improved.
Even though the few of them had already constructed a barrier of divine aura, allowing their voices to be sealed within the barrier.
However, Xiang Nan was actually able to know every word they had said based on the slight vibration of the barrier.
Xiang Nan followed the middle-aged man to the conference hall and briefly scanned the situation here.
In the conference hall, in addition to the seven Heavenly Tribulation martial artists, there were quite a few people sitting inside, each of them carrying out their respective duties.
On the conference table, there was a three-dimensional topographic map of the sand table. This sand table was completely shaped according to the scale of the excavation site, and the inside information was clearly seen.
There were two old men who didn't even look at Xiang Nan. They concentrated on the three-dimensional sand table and studied the mining route.
At the end of the conference hall, there was a row of long tables. On both sides of the long tables, there were dozens of cultivators dressed in Taoist robes walking around.
On the table, there were five very complicated small formations. There was an ancient book floating above each formation. These books were filled with soil and had long since turned into fossils, but they were easily untouchable.
Any reckless touch would result in a defect that could directly destroy a book.
The way they used to decipher books was also very exquisite.
It was impossible to directly open the book. The book had already been glued together, forcefully broken open, and the book was also crippled.
Slowly permeating through the cracks in the pages of the books with Astral Qi was no good either. The books were wrapped in fossils, but the books inside the fossils were not petrified. These documents were previously sealed by Spiritual Qi and were unable to form fossils. However, once the Spiritual Qi disappeared, they would turn into ashes at the slightest touch.
Xiang Nan had experienced this before.
As for the Xuandao cultivators, they were very smart. They directly used their spiritual energy to penetrate the books. The spiritual energy would not cause any changes in the structure of the materials, and it would be better to preserve the integrity of the books.
However, this wasn't an easy task. The five cultivators were responsible for maintaining the formation and constantly deciphering the text in the books.
The others, while assisting, also took care of the responsibility of copying. Once the book was found out, they immediately copied it out. There were also special translators to translate the ancient language into modern languages.
The middle-aged man smiled warmly and said, "Friend, may I ask your name?"
"Xiao Jun." Xiang Nan casually used the name of a brother.
The middle-aged man said, "Brother Xiao Jun, what is the purpose of this trip?"
"Although the Silver Special Envoy's status is noble, as far as I know, the business she is in charge of does not seem to overlap with our excavation site, right?"
Xiang Nan said, "I am here on the orders of the Special Envoy to inspect."
"Check what?" The middle-aged man asked with a smile.
Xiang Nan raised his eyebrows and shouted, "Is this what you should ask?"
The middle-aged man quickly smiled apologetically and waved his hand, "I don't dare to do so. How can we dare to ask about the envoy? I'm just curious. Young Master Xiao Jun, don't take offense."
As he said this, an imperceptible cold light flashed through the middle-aged man's eyes.
Xiang Nan glanced around and said coldly, "Tell your people that I want to leave the ruins now."
"Now?" The middle-aged man was in a difficult situation and said, "But this …"
Xiang Nan scolded, "Immediately, immediately!"
The middle-aged man gritted his teeth and said, "Tell everyone who is mining the ruins to come out and rest immediately."
"Yes." A guard outside the door fiercely replied.
Xiang Nan looked at the sand table on the table and remembered the exact route before leaving.
Feng Xuan had once given Xiang Nan a simple suggestion on how to search for World Exterminating Divine Lightning in the ruins.
Logically speaking, the World Devastating Divine Lightning was formed after the lightning bull collapsed.
The ancient civilized world was destroyed by the lightning bull. In other words, only after the destruction of human civilization did the World Devastating Divine Lightning appear.
In that case, there would be no records of the World Exterminating Divine Lightning in the ruins.
However, the ruins still had a continuing value. This included two factors.
First, according to Feng Xuan's analysis, after the destruction of an ancient civilization, it might not be impossible for a human civilization to appear in the years to come. Then, it was possible for a human civilization that was born a second time to appear in the records related to the destruction of the first ancient civilization.
If the time gap between the two civilizations was long enough, there was a possibility that a record of World Devastating Divine Lightning would appear.
Second, even though there had not been a second human civilization since then, the martial artists of this first human civilization might have possessed World-Devastating Divine Lightning of their own.
Civilization 3, for example, had existed for billions of years, but Xiang Nan knew that tens of billions of years had passed before.
The ancient humans here might have discovered other remnants of civilizations while exploring the boundless universe and found World Exterminating Divine Lightning, just like Xiang Nan did now.
After all the staff had evacuated, Xiang Nan floated into the depths of the ruins alone.
However, the middle-aged man insisted on following Xiang Nan for the sake of protecting his safety.
Xiang Nan refused. He said that if Xiang Nan made any mistakes, he would not be able to explain to the Red Lotus Special Envoy. Therefore, even if he offended Xiang Nan, he would still have to follow him.
The two of them were like mirrors. Xiang Nan knew that the man said he was protecting them, but he was actually monitoring them.
But the middle-aged man was wrong.
Xiang Nan heard him talking quietly with the other Heavenly Tribulation martial artists. They thought that Xiang Nan was here to snatch the cultivation technique. He wanted to snatch the highest-level cultivation technique first and give it to Red Lotus.
Inside the ruins, it was pitch black. The sun stone's light was too intense. The mining team could only use moonstones that were relatively gentle and less irritating.
This kind of stone that emitted faint fluorescence wasn't ideal for illumination.
At this point, even Xiang Nan did not dare to easily release his perception. His perception was still based on Astral Qi, and it still had slight fluctuations.
Xiang Nan held his breath without triggering any wind. At the same time, he took out a moonstone to illuminate the road ahead.
Xiang Nan confirmed his previous speculation. This was an ancient sect, and it occupied an active area with countless buildings.
However, more than 80% of the buildings were embedded in rock strata, buried by mud, unable to even enter the door, and the buildings that weren't buried had long been mined.
Xiang Nan frowned. It would take too long to clean up all the sealed buildings.
The middle-aged man seemed to see through Xiang Nan's difficulties and smiled, "Brother Xiao Jun, we are also in a hurry to dig out these buildings, but as you can see, this kind of thing is not urgent."
"Why don't we go out and leave the mining work to the professionals?"
"Look, there are so many buildings. You don't even know where they are. It's very difficult to find a library."
Xiang Nan ignored it and walked slowly along the dug road. As he walked, he observed the surroundings and pondered for a moment.
"Big Snake, have you noticed that the arrangement of these buildings is not random?"
"It seems to be an ancient Spirit Gathering Formation, but it's still somewhat different from our modern Spirit Gathering Formation."
"If that's the case, then it makes sense. It's normal for the profound dao of the past to be slightly different from what it is now," said the serpent.
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