Chapter 1942: Chapter 1793: Searching for Taoyuan
Song Yun wasn’t interested in the treasures of Taoyuan; could those cultivator techniques possibly surpass Yin Xi’s Manual?
Could the treasures within be more powerful than the Black Light Severing Sword?
They were heirlooms from Yin Xi’s descendants. The Black Light Severing Sword was a treasure even praised by truly important figures; they were no ordinary items.
Thus, Song Yun lacked nothing of value.
Nevertheless, he still wanted to visit Taoyuan.
Because he wanted to understand what kind of people those inheritors of Yin Xi’s Manual were.
The people in Taoyuan had interacted with the inheritors of the Manual; they might know some information about Yin Xi’s Manual.
"Research the token; this token should be related to the map."
Song Yun put it away and took out the "Shen" branded token from the drawer.
In the past two months, he had studied it several times, finding nothing special about this token.
But this time, he was determined to understand it clearly.
Having tried all kinds of methods before, this time Song Yun decided to split the token open to see if there was anything special inside.
Although he had long concluded that the token wasn’t hollow, it was his only option.
He drew the Throat Sealing Sword and cut the token with one stroke.
Although the token was made of refined iron, it couldn’t withstand the power of the Throat Sealing Sword and was sliced in half with one cut.
Song Yun picked up the two halves of the token and saw nothing at the fracture, just smooth cuts.
Seeing this, he was immediately frustrated.
"Try again."
Song Yun thought for a moment, raised the sword, and cut down again.
The token was chopped into four pieces.
Picking it up to examine, the result was the same.
"Maybe the token is a key and I need to find the door it unlocks?"
Song Yun pondered for a while and thought to himself, "Since it’s already destroyed, might as well cut it a few more times."
With this in mind, he slashed the token into dozens of small pieces with several strokes.
He picked them up one by one for inspection, but still found nothing special.
"Could it be that it’s not this token?"
Just as Song Yun was about to give up, he picked up one of the pieces.
Upon examining it, he found an alien object embedded in the edge of this piece; the earlier cut had nearly damaged this object.
"What is this thing?"
Song Yun examined it closely; since only a little of it was exposed, it was hard to determine what it was.
Carefully, he used the Throat Sealing Sword to extract the object from the refined iron.
Upon seeing the whole object, his eyes lit up: "A long wave transmitter."
The object before him was actually a small long wave transmitter, employing advanced technology, powered by Earth’s magnetic field. He could even see the logo of a cutting-edge technology group on it.
"The Shen family must be looking for this item."
Holding the long wave transmitter, Song Yun murmured to himself, "It seems the map is stored inside this transmitter; by receiving the frequency it emits, the map can be decoded."
With this thought, Song Yun immediately drove to Yanjing University.
After notifying the principal, he instructed the staff to decode the item.
Half an hour later, the lab personnel came out of the laboratory holding the long wave transmitter in one hand and a sheet of paper in the other.
On that sheet was a map.
In the lab, after receiving the frequency from the long wave transmitter, they discovered it was an encrypted code.
However, the encryption key wasn’t advanced and was easily unlocked.
After decoding, the lab personnel translated the code, thereby obtaining the map.
"The heir of that year couldn’t have used a long wave transmitter to make this map. It looks like the Shen family, for confidentiality, put the map inside the long wave transmitter."
"To prevent others from knowing, the Shen family destroyed the original map, which is why they were desperately searching for the token, to retrieve the long wave transmitter."
"Now that a large-scale receiver has been developed, if the Shen family uses it, they will soon find this long wave transmitter, receive the frequency, and obtain the map."
"But they won’t know that I’ve already altered the frequency of this transmitter. What they’ll get is an incorrect map. Haha, this will be fun."
Song Yun toyed with the long wave transmitter in his hand, a playful smile curling at the corner of his lips.
He didn’t hurry back to the courtyard but instead drove to a mountain in the Yanjing suburb.
He dug a hole, placed the long wave transmitter inside, then carved a few characters on a wooden plaque and tossed it into the hole as well.
After covering it with soil, Song Yun left whistling.
He couldn’t help but think that when the Shen family finally saw the words "You were tricked," they would surely go crazy.
Back at the courtyard, Song Yun began studying the map in his hand.
The map described clearly the location of Qi Country during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period, which is now Ludong Province.
To be more precise, the map pointed to a location east of the Taihang Mountain Range.
This means the map’s location shouldn’t be too far from Mount Tai.
However, the map in Song Yun’s hand was obviously only half, the left side, with the routes on the right side completely cut off, especially at several critical forks.
Without the right half of the map, Song Yun could hardly find the entrance to Taoyuan with just the map he had.
"Where is the other half of the map?"
Song Yun put the map away, thinking that he had nothing to do recently, so why not take a trip to Ludong Province.
Regardless of whether he could find Taoyuan, it would be best to follow the available routes until he reached forks he couldn’t identify.
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