The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 517: Bronze Tripod Were you once a turtle? The kind used to hold up the sky?

Fire produces earth, earth produces metal, metal produces water.

The five elements rotate and circulate diligently.

Shen Le released his mental power and sensed the changes on the barrier. The five elements of power were constantly flowing, but every time it reached the step of "water giving birth to wood", it would get stuck and could not move forward normally:

The nourishment of water power can generate a little bit of wood power, but there is no way to condense it on the barrier.

There are too few material things between heaven and earth, and the power of the wood element has nowhere to attach itself to...

I still have to draw the power of wood. Shen Le frowned in embarrassment and tried his best to sense. His mental power extended to the nearby reefs and the shallow sea near the shore, and he could sense the vibrant plants;

His mind moved slightly, and the seaweed, kelp, laver and other things withered instantly, turning into light green light and projected towards the barrier.

But it’s not enough, it’s still not enough!

Too little!
The mental power rotated rapidly. The talismans flew, and dots of white light flew out from the hull of the big black fish, filling the crater and the barrier between heaven and earth standing in the void.

The hard shell of the big black fish began to soften and deform. It was squeezed by the water pressure like a toy and collapsed into a pile of strange shapes, almost like desertification.

Shen Le lowered his eyes slightly, glanced at it, and immediately turned away:

Maybe there were people inside - no, there were definitely people, but it was unlikely that they were innocent. Regardless of whether there were or not, he could no longer sense the breath of life:
Anyway, when the war breaks out and you drop depth charges on me, I'll drag your big black fish directly to the bottom of the sea. That's the natural thing to do, isn't it?
If all the golden essence from the thousands-ton black fish were extracted, it would probably be enough to fill the golden talismans on the barrier.

However, even if all the wood essences of thousands of tons of kelp and seaweed were extracted, it would probably not be enough:
At least half of the seaweed is water, right?

What's more, how could there be so much seaweed around here?
Whether there is any or not, it has to be filled in. Shen Le held the mood of "it's not our territory anyway, we can build it as hard as we can", desperately drawing wood power, but carefully bypassing Yun Kun.

Extract a little, weave a little, extract a little more, weave a little more.

Since there were no special talismans, I used the ones that represented "healing" and "growth" to paste them on. Fortunately, the barrier seemed to be able to accept it and didn't seem to resist it.

On the barrier, the light green color became brighter and brighter, more and more eye-catching, and gradually filled...

About one tenth?
"No... I can't get it anymore..."

Shen Le closed his eyes and took a long breath. His mental power, within the range that he could accurately control, had probably already pulled in all the wood power that he could.

At this moment, the seabed was probably barren for thousands of miles, no, hundreds of miles, and all the algae that the fish and shrimps on the bottom used as food had been eaten up by him...

"So should we go to another place to extract the wood energy? Or should we go find a few islands and extract all the wood energy from the plants on the islands?"

Shen Le hesitated. If he went to the mainland island to draw, he would probably be able to draw more power, but——

All the plants on the entire island instantly turned yellow, shed their leaves, withered, and even turned pink. Even a fool would know that something was wrong!

Even if people don’t know, remote sensing satellites will report it instantly!
I don't know if it can be attributed to the spraying of Agent Orange at Xida University... Also, warships and research vessels are still patrolling nearby. If something happens here, they will pounce over instantly, right?
Just as he was hesitating, the power of the five elements flowing on the barrier became strong enough and suddenly a bright light shone.

The four colored light beams of yellow, white, red and black rotated rapidly, pushing the faint blue light beam, which rotated and vibrated continuously.

Round after round, with vibrations and roars. Forward, backward, forward again, backward again, it feels like it will break soon!

It's about to be completely shattered!
[Shen Le! This won’t work! ]

Yun Kun shouted urgently:

[The Wood Element's power is not enough! Please take some of my strength! Take some! As long as you don't take too much, I can hold on! ]

"You can't!" Shen Le frowned. At the same time, the little guys shouted in unison:
[You can't do it! If you fall apart, we'll all be finished! Hit me! I'm made of wood too!]

[How much can you beat with that little bit of wood! Beat me!]

[Mine! Mine!]

Lanzhuang, Luopan, even the painting scroll and the puppet, were all trying to recommend themselves. Even the small oil lamp was trying to think of a way:
[I can also provide a little bit! All the five elements of spiritual thunder, turn them into wooden thunder, and just strike them out! Shen Le! Throw me over there, and I'll do the work!]

"I don't need you!" Shen Le's head was buzzing with their noise, so he had to shout loudly to suppress them forcefully.

He fumbled around on his body and took out a jade bottle, then another jade bottle, and placed them directly on the deck:
"Throw it out! Throw it outside! Let the spiritual fluid disperse!"

These bottles of spiritual liquid were collected by him in the Yuhuan Secret Realm. They were provided by the secret realm of that towering tree. The wood spiritual energy inside must be very strong!
Should be able to make up for it a little, right?
After throwing out a few jade bottles, the situation did improve a little, but it was just a drop in the bucket.

Just when Shen Le wanted to take the risk of floating near the island to plunder the wood spirit there, he faintly felt that something was resonating with this light wheel -

No, it’s not “faint”, the feeling is getting stronger and stronger!

Shen Le turned back suddenly. On a nearby island, between heaven and earth, or perhaps on the other side of the barrier, a towering tree rose from the ground!

It's that big tree...

It’s the big tree with the sun disc spinning up and down on it!
The blue spots of light were like moths to a flame, first they were dots, then they became large patches, and then they were like comets, rushing towards the barrier between heaven and earth.

Fill it with the blue light column and the five-color light wheel, making it rotate more stably. The talisman shines brightly, and the five light columns become brighter at the same time. Soon, they begin to become unstable again:
"So this talisman is not quite right, right? It needs to be adjusted, right?"

Shen Le was sweating on his forehead. He forced himself to calm down, recalling the rotation of the five elements, recalling the feeling of the five elements' divine thunders' mutual generation and mutual restraint, and began to "thread the needle", drawing the lines between the five talismans:
Add a connecting line here!

Add an arc here!
You have to go through here from underneath!
here……

He smeared and revised it. It seemed as if there was a force guiding him, or as if the original talisman on the barrier was too powerful, and the mark imprinted between heaven and earth had not completely faded.

In short, after Shen Le's modification, the five different talismans gradually stabilized and began to merge into one...

"Where is Shen Le?"

He meditated at the bottom of the sea, concentrating his mind and working hard, not noticing how much time had passed. In the Magic City, the director of the Special Affairs Bureau was busy and confused:
"He didn't come down? He didn't come down? - Where did he go?"

"The phone can't be dialed? All the calls can't be dialed? No signal? The phone positioning failed?"

"Where is there any news about him? Have you asked at the mansion? He hasn't come back? The research institute? The one in the southwest? Have you seen him in the secret realms?"

"Can you send someone over to look for it? Even a fishing boat would be fine! Or a research vessel!

——Alas, our research progress is still too slow. There is no way to detect spiritual energy remotely, nor can we put it on a satellite..."

"Director, calm down!" Two of his subordinates were sweating.
"You know Shen Le's teleportation ability. He can reach hundreds of kilometers in a flash. The range is too large! We have no way of finding him!"

"There are limits to technological progress! You can't have everything you want!... If you're really worried, let's go to Mount Shu and ask one of the elders to fly over and take a look?"

"This……"

It's not that it's impossible, the problem is that Shen Le had dragged away a big black fish over there before, and now they are probably in a level one alert state.

If the flying sword flies over at this time, the missile may not be able to shoot it down, and the close-in defense gun is not a pushover either!

The director was struggling, struggling, struggling back and forth. Not long after, another message came quickly:
"A large number of warships have gathered in a certain area of the sea over there, as if they are searching for something!"

Finished!

Shen Le really made a big noise!

The director's eyes went dark. Alas, I hope Shen Le can be safe and sound, and can escape and run back smoothly!

He couldn't even make a phone call to remind someone... Shen Le dived underwater. With current technology, there was no way to achieve stable wireless calls across hundreds of meters of water!
If Shen Le knew that the director was worried about him, he would probably just smile and continue doing what he was doing.

After the talisman was formed, the glorious tree gradually faded and disappeared;
The mighty wind blowing from the other side of the barrier had stopped at some point;

Only the creatures fighting fiercely in the water had not stopped. Large numbers of fish and shrimp rushed to the wild spiritual energy-rich sea area, devouring, fighting, and killing:

For even a glimmer of opportunity to move forward, for even a glimmer of opportunity to become stronger, it is worth it to make efforts, to sacrifice blood and flesh, and even to sacrifice one's life!
“It’s so uncomfortable…”

Shen Le shrugged uncomfortably and scratched the back of his neck. The spiritual energy in this area always gave him a very strange feeling. He didn't even dare to absorb it.
If you absorb too much, your body will grow long, coarse hair and scales, and even your entire body will become strange-looking, right?

"It should have been completed... Yun Kun, let's go!"

【Walk! 】

Yun Kun shouted happily, turned the boat around and rushed towards the underwater volcano.

The big black fish that sank had already turned to sand for more than half, as if the hull had been dismantled and exposed to the sun. After hundreds of years of wind and rain, the entire hull had oxidized and rusted.

But, there should be something in there that is not broken?
At least, find something to prove its identity!
These foreign big black fish don’t have hull numbers painted on their hulls anymore, so it’s impossible to tell which ship is which. They’re so bad!
It flew straight to the bottom of the sea and passed by. Shen Le saw a huge pile of things piled up on the deck.
One iron plate, one iron plate, and another iron plate...

A metal thing that rotates, suspected to be one of the engine parts...

One metal pipe, another metal pipe...

A few pieces of porcelain, a bunch of things that might be electronic components, and some paper documents that hadn't been soaked yet...

Okay, picking up trash, right?

The things picked up from these big black fish may be useful, but most of them are probably garbage.

As for whether he could get useful information from it, Shen Le didn't care. When the time came, he would return to his own military port and give it all to - no matter who he gave it to!

Shen Le took a step back, then another step, and then a third step. A large group of paper figures rushed out of the ship, busy putting the harvest into the cabin and stuffing it into the rooms on the deck.

Shen Le didn't know how these paper people could carry the steel. He only knew that before long, the deck, except for the cabin where he was sitting, was piled with things, and even the masts were hung with things!

"Yun Kun, take it easy!"

Shen Le had to speak out to stop him:
"Let's pick out the good and important ones and drag some back. Don't drag all of them back! You only have 400 materials. This big black fish weighs thousands of tons. You can't drag it away!"

[Slightly, slightly, slightly...]

Yun Kun quickly splashed the water and spit it at him. Shen Le shook his head and could only sit down and slowly regulate his breathing:

There is no other way. If it really doesn't work, he will take everyone to teleport through the underground veins. No matter whether Yun Kun can drag them or not, they can go home!
As he adjusted his breathing, a surge of heat flowed out from the copper sheet, entered his heart, circulated through his limbs, and rushed directly into his dantian:

feedback!

feedback!

Copper sheet feedback!
Emma is finally here!

It's not enough to just repair the pen holder, you have to patch up the hole in the barrier between heaven and earth before you can give me the summary?

Shen Le was about to cry. Please don't play with me!

Don't play with me here!

I'm in a state of meditation. If Yun Kun can't hold on any longer and falls to the bottom of the sea, making a hole or something, will you cover him?

Can't we just go home and do it, it shouldn't take that little time!!!

Obviously, the copper piece did not agree with his idea, but just kept giving him strength. Shen Le had no choice but to work hard and use his destiny:
The golden ball in Dantian quickly started to spin, trying to absorb energy!

All the magic symbols on the golden ball, please help, absorb as much energy as you can, and try to absorb all the power given by the copper piece!

what?
not enough?
The copper piece just gave me a gold talisman! What are you waiting for? Hurry up and carve it!

Inducing the heat flow, the heat flow and mental power combined, condensing on the golden bead stroke by stroke...

I am grateful for the bronze piece, and for the long period of on-site teaching when the barrier between heaven and earth was being repaired just now. I watched for so long and mobilized the power for so long that I can learn it all!

The golden ball kept spinning. Miraculously, its own rotation did not seem to conflict with Shen Le's engraving of the talisman, and the engraving seemed to be carried out on the same plane.

Or, do it on a stationary spherical surface.

Shen Le didn't know how long it took him, but he managed to carve what he wanted. Then...

"It's still not enough!"

The heat flow from the copper sheet was still pouring in, almost bursting him!
"I mean, can't we pay in installments? Huh? I didn't ask you to give me all at once!"

The copper piece ignored him and continued to transform itself into a ruthless spiritual energy supply pipe, pouring spiritual energy into his body - the kind that did not allow him to refuse.

Shen Le had no choice but to try once, twice, and three times, desperately absorbing the spiritual energy, desperately compressing it, and desperately trying to find a way:
Is there any other solution?
Is there any better way to accommodate more spiritual energy?
Shen Le looked up blankly at the barrier between heaven and earth that had disappeared and no longer glowed. The laws of the world are so ingenious that if they are not damaged and do not need to be repaired, they will not be revealed at all;

Only when it is damaged can Shen Le get a glimpse of its secrets and help it a little...

and many more!

This talisman!

This huge talisman!
The five elements were united into one, connected by him, and adjusted into a talisman!

Like a flash of lightning exploding into his mind, Shen Le suddenly became excited. He quickly entered into meditation again, regulating his breathing, and focusing his attention on the golden bead in his dantian:

Pull!

Adjustment!

The fireball talisman, the water-repelling talisman, the talisman that calls upon the earth to respond, the healing and growth talismans, and the gold talisman that had just been engraved!

Some have been deeply engraved, and some have been connected with other talismans to form a circle on the golden beads.

Shen Le didn't care about anything else and quickly dragged them out one by one and arranged them according to the five elements.

Then, he connected them one by one according to the method he used when he repaired the barrier between heaven and earth, and made subtle adjustments. He went back and forth, made some repairs, and finally, boom—

The sound was so subtle that it was almost inaudible, yet so strong that it seemed like the shock of the creation of the world.

The entire talisman rose into the air, emitting a strong light, and began to rotate rapidly.

One circle, two circles, three circles, the heat flow provided by the copper sheet was sucked into the interior like a whale sucking water.

And it didn't even burp, as if such a huge amount of energy was completely unable to fill up this gluttonous monster!

Fortunately, it is a part of me, and it will not drain my strength just because it cannot fill itself.

Shen Le was just in a trance, and saw the talisman flying up gently, as if it fell on the golden round bead, or as if it was wrapped around the golden round bead.

The whole bead looks bigger, and can hold more power:
Does this mean that I have become stronger?
Can I mobilize more power and leverage more spiritual energy?

If I go traveling in the future, will I be able to teleport farther and carry more things with me at a time?
Shen Le thought a little optimistically. The heat flow in the copper sheet changed from surging to a trickle, and then to a thread. He came out of his state of concentration, stood up, and stretched:
"Okay - finally done, we can go now! Yun Kun, are you okay?"

【It will be ready soon! 】

Yun Kun, who was addicted to picking up trash, no, addicted to Taobao, answered with great energy. Shen Le took a quick glance and saw that in addition to the paper figures on the boat, even the clay sculptures were busy running around:
They lifted up the messy things on the boat, put them into the dowry, and then jumped into the pen holder. Very good, this is to maximize the space capacity, right?
So how much do you want to take away?

"Alright, alright, let's go back first. Throw these things back first. If they're not enough, we can come back later! - These are things that have been drawn from a round of gold energy. They're not that precious!"

Shen Le tried his best to call out. Yun Kun floated up reluctantly, and suddenly seemed to have discovered something, and dived down again.

A golden star flew up from the bottom of the sea and shot straight towards Yun Kun. It penetrated the water wall, rushed onto the deck, and rushed towards Shen Le:
What's this!
"Yun Kun, what did you pick up——"

Before Shen Le could react, his chest suddenly felt hot. The copper piece hummed softly and flew out automatically, meeting the golden light.

As it flew forward, it expanded, grew larger, and turned into the shape of half a bronze tripod, and then...

"Zheng!"

There was a clear sound. Shen Le's whole body was shaken and he was completely stunned.

"Why do you have an extra piece of copper?"

[Look, I didn’t pick it up this time! You picked it up! Don’t blame me for everything…]

Yun Kun shouted confidently. Shen Le had no time to deal with him and carefully observed the bronze tripod:

The body of the tripod was about one and a half sides. It was a complete rectangle, with the ears extending halfway out from the side.

The complete piece is engraved with the map of China, and the extended half has cloud-thunder patterns, nipple patterns, Kuilong patterns, etc., large and small, densely arranged.

And now, it has one more piece:
"Why is there an extra leg..."

It seemed to be at the bottom of the sea, and it seemed to be outside the barrier between heaven and earth. In short, the golden light that just flew up was from near the damaged part of the barrier, and it was perfectly connected to the bottom of the bronze tripod!
"So, you were incomplete from the beginning?"

Shen Le stroked the tripod legs carefully and observed the intricate patterns on them. He felt so angry that he didn't know how to express it.

One tripod leg is at the outermost edge of the East China Sea. So, are there three more tripod legs, at the edges of the south, north, and west of the Chinese land?

When this bronze tripod was cast, were its four legs removed and thrown directly to four directions to determine the edges of the map?
Why cast a bronze tripod? Why not just cast a bronze box?

"Or were you once a tortoise, and your four legs were cut off to support the world?"

The copper piece, or the copper tripod, does not speak, does not vibrate, does not emit light or heat, and its main purpose is to ignore people.

Shen Le couldn't do anything about it, so he could only wait for it to absorb and exhale spiritual energy for a while, slowly retract its light, and slowly return to its original form.

He picked up the copper piece and shook it twice, then swung it twice, and found that it was no longer moving, so he put it back around his neck:

"Yun Kun, get ready! Let's go home!"

[Go home! Go home! Yoho~~~]

Yun Kun, who had absorbed enough spiritual energy, shook his spirit and moved the water veins. The water flowed loudly, wrapped around the boat and flew away for thousands of miles:
“Yun Kun! Don’t go home directly this time. There’s no room for so many things at home! Find a military port, unload the goods directly, and throw all the things you have fished out to them!”

[No problem! Change the spiritual wood for me! Change the equipment! Change something good!]

(End of this chapter)