Da Si Nong: I really don’t want to farm

Chapter 482 The Twenty-Four Solar Terms
The Twenty-Four Solar Terms Decree is absolutely a top-tier magical artifact.

Even just one of them gave Xu Yue the same feeling as the stone mill downstairs.

Xu Yue wasn't entirely sure how powerful the stone mill was.

When he was at the third realm, he used it to nearly kill a fourth realm cultivator.

At that time, the millstone's power was not fully utilized.

Now, Xu Yue has the ability to unleash the power of that stone mill, but unfortunately, he has no chance to do so.

Where else could Xu Yue get to use the stone mill?

"Are you planning to use this piece as a starting point to find the other twenty-three pieces?"

Upon hearing Xu Yue's words, Zhang Ruoxi immediately understood his intentions.

“These twenty-four solar terms are the magic tools of the farming family. If there is a chance to find them, how could we let them go?” Xu Yue said. “If a golden age of cultivation comes one day, our family will have more resources.”

"The sooner the better. If we delay, it will only become more difficult."

Zhang Ruoxi nodded. If they didn't look for it now, it would be much more difficult to get it back once they found it.

"How do you plan to get them back?" Zhang Ruoxi continued, "Some of the tokens are probably already owned by someone."

“Domestically, buy what you can, exchange what you can, and if all else fails, get the Special Administration Bureau to step in,” Xu Yue said. “As for overseas… well…”

Upon hearing this, Zhang Ruoxi naturally understood Xu Yue's meaning.

If you can steal it, why can't I?

That stuff originally belonged to us.

I didn't steal it; I was just taking back what was mine.

"When are we leaving?" Zhang Ruoxi asked. "Should we prepare anything?"

"We'll set off tomorrow!" Xu Yue said. "No need to prepare anything, I have everything I need."

The next day, Xu Yue prepared to set off, but naturally he wasn't aimless; he first needed to see if he could detect the aura of other tokens.

"what happened?"

Seeing Xu Yue's strange expression, Zhang Ruoxi couldn't help but ask.

However, her gaze fell on the bronze token floating in Xu Yue's palm.

This token is smaller than Xu Yue's inheritance token.

This wasn't the first time she had seen this solar term order.

Xu Yue had already shown it to her before, and she had even tried it out.

It just wasn't this mysterious last time.

“There is a token in the mountains.”

Xu Yue smiled and shook his head, while Zhang Ruoxi was somewhat taken aback.

"It's too far for me to go with you, but the mountains are fine," Zhang Ruoxi said with a smile. "I'll tell Mom, and we'll go take a look together."

"it is good!"

Xu Yue nodded, and after Zhang Ruoxi told Li Xiurong, Xu Yue put his arm around her waist and disappeared from the spot in an instant, arriving in a mountain forest in the blink of an eye.

"Isn't this place not far from the scenic area?"

Zhang Ruoxi glanced around and immediately knew where she was.

"Ok!"

Xu Yue nodded.

"Is there an ancient tomb here?" Zhang Ruoxi looked at Xu Yue and said, "Should we call Professor Wang?"

“We’ll go in and get the token, so we won’t bother this senior any further,” Xu Yue said, shaking his head. “If there are any other books or anything else, we can borrow them; I don’t think he’ll mind.”

After hearing this, Zhang Ruoxi's lips twitched, and she didn't know what to say.

In the blink of an eye, everything went black, and then a light appeared, showing that the two of them had arrived in the tomb, and they must have gone directly into the main burial chamber.

“There are quite a few ancient tombs in these mountains.” Zhang Ruoxi looked around and couldn’t help but say, “No wonder a dragon vein was formed nearby so quickly.”

Xu Yue didn't say anything, but simply reached out and a bronze token flew into his hand.

"Which solar term?" Zhang Ruoxi asked. "This tomb is quite large; the tomb owner must have been someone of high status."

“I don’t understand seal script, so I’ll only know after it’s been refined,” Xu Yue said. “There are two jade slips, but unfortunately the bamboo slips have been destroyed.”

"I don't know what it says," Zhang Ruoxi said. "I'll have to send it to Professor Wang later and have him translate it. I need to study ancient scripts later. Should we take a picture of the characters carved on the tomb walls?"

"Never mind," Xu Yue said. "Let's see what's written on this jade slip first."

The jade slips may contain works from the pre-Qin period, while the inscriptions on the tomb walls are likely information about the tomb's occupant.

Xu Yue wasn't very interested in that.

However, this ancient tomb is estimated to be from the Han Dynasty or earlier, at least before paper books became widespread.

Xu Yue didn't know much about archaeology, but he thought it was probably a Han Dynasty tomb.

"Let's go!"

Xu Yue spoke, and then took Zhang Ruoxi directly home.

Zhang Ruoxi glanced at Xu Yue. Although they were husband and wife, she still envied his supernatural abilities.

Unfortunately, although she can now use the Earth Spirit Orb to perform Earth Escape Technique with good speed and distance, she can't do it as effortlessly as Xu Yue.

His cultivation level was ultimately lacking.

Are you driving, or...?

Zhang Ruoxi looked at Xu Yue and said, "I got it."

The 24 solar terms are certainly scattered all over the world, so it's hard to say whether driving is more convenient or directly using supernatural powers.

Xu Yue doesn't possess any supernatural abilities to become invisible, so if he were discovered, it would be quite troublesome.

The key is that you can't use supernatural powers continuously.

"Let me refine this solar term token first," Xu Yue said. "The more solar term tokens I have, the clearer I can sense the aura of other tokens."

“Then you should be careful, don’t let it snow in June like last time,” Zhang Ruoxi said. “Last time it was just a light snow, but if this token is a heavy snow, then things will get really interesting.”

"I will be careful."

Xu Yue smiled and nodded.

Having no experience whatsoever last time, the token's aura was released during the refining process, causing changes in the celestial phenomena.

Now that it's being refined, the aura is naturally locked in, preventing it from dissipating, thus avoiding any changes in the celestial phenomena.

Zhang Ruoxi looked up at the sky. It was still a bright sunny day, and the sun had already risen. The weather remained unchanged.

"Frost Descent!"

When Xu Yue saw Zhang Ruoxi looking at him, he immediately said two words.

Frost's Descent?

If the aura is released, will it cause frost?
Judging from the last time, it should be.

Although the Twenty-Four Solar Terms are not celestial instruments, they can still alter celestial phenomena.

"Can you sense the aura of the other tokens?"

Zhang Ruoxi then asked, and saw Xu Yue shake his head.

"Where are you planning to go?" Zhang Ruoxi asked. "The land of Jingchu?"

Why the land of Jingchu?
That's because the agricultural school originated in the state of Chu.

"Qin Prefecture," Xu Yue said, "the possibility there might be greater."

"You don't suspect there might be something in Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum, do you?" Zhang Ruoxi said. "There might be danger in there for you."

The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is certainly not simple. Even after so many years, the formations inside may not have become ineffective, not to mention the many traps and mechanisms.

Those traps and mechanisms may not be useless against cultivators.

During the reign of Qin Shi Huang, it was definitely a golden age for cultivation.

How could the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor be without any precautions against those who practice cultivation?
It is probably a forbidden area for both the scientific community and the metaphysical community.

“Kyoto has always had the most good things!” Xu Yue said. “As for the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, the Twenty-Four Solar Terms are of great use to agriculture, so I don’t think Qin Shi Huang would have brought them into the mausoleum.”

The historical evaluation of Qin Shi Huang is undoubtedly polarized; some consider him a great emperor of all time, while others consider him a tyrant of all time.

In recent years, Qin Shi Huang's reputation has shown signs of improvement. But regardless of whether one considers him a great emperor or a tyrant, his great talent and strategic vision are undeniable.

If the Twenty-Four Solar Terms are useful to the country, then it is unlikely that he would bring them into the mausoleum.

“Even if Qin Shi Huang brought it into his mausoleum, it would definitely be a complete set,” Xu Yue said. “He would not have bothered to bring anything missing.”

Zhang Ruoxi nodded, finding it to be very reasonable.

Xu Yue drove himself to Jincheng Airport.

Along the way, they did not sense the presence of any other tokens.

Has Shu Prefecture disappeared?

Xu Yue got off the plane in Chang'an and, out of curiosity, went straight to the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum.

As for the token, there's no rush.

Indeed, the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is no ordinary mausoleum.

His divine sense was blocked outside and couldn't get in at all; in fact, it even caused some backlash.

However, the backlash was very weak.

Perhaps it wasn't strong to begin with, or perhaps its power has diminished over time.

The backlash was weak, but it still gave Xu Yue a feeling of unease.

There is a great terror inside the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor!
"Mr. Xu?"

Li Daoyan walked over and looked at Xu Yue with some confusion.

He knew immediately when Xu Yue came to Qinzhou.

What no one expected was that after arriving in Qinzhou, Xu Yue went straight to the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor.

This made him confused.

Even in the cultivation world, the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is a taboo.

"I came to Qinzhou to look for something."

Xu Yue gave a simple explanation.

He flew to Qinzhou; how could the Special Administration Bureau not know?

Xu Yue's every move attracts a lot of attention.

And he did not deliberately hide it.

It's actually quite simple for him to deceive the Special Administration Bureau and other informants.

"The Twenty-Four Solar Terms?" Li Daoyan said. "Could it be in Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum?"

Xu Yue was not surprised at all that Li Daoyan knew about the Twenty-Four Solar Terms.

If Yan Tian knows, then the Special Administration Bureau must know.

It is estimated that the Special Administration Bureau is now helping Xu Yue search for him.

"I don't know if there's anything inside the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, and I've never thought about going in," Xu Yue said. "It's difficult to enter the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum with divine sense, and I have a vague feeling that there's something terrifying inside."

Upon hearing this, Li Daoyan's pupils dilated, and he looked at Xu Yue with some shock.

Xu Yue single-handedly destroyed the Little Red Dot cultivation world and also took down many foreign experts at the fourth realm.

Moreover, his cultivation level has improved compared to then.

If people like this find it terrifying, how terrifying must it be for them?
I don't even want to think about it.

"When it comes to the Twenty-Four Solar Terms, I'm afraid we'll have to trouble Director Li," Xu Yue said. "I sensed the aura of a token; it should be in the museum. I guess we'll have to go through the official channels."

"In a museum?" Li Daoyan frowned and said, "It seems that none of the major museums in Qinzhou have artifacts in the form of tokens."

He had already investigated and found that there was no such bronze token.

Otherwise, there would have been no need for Xu Yue to come at all.

“Then let’s go take a look,” Xu Yue said. “My intuition is probably right.”

Li Daoyan nodded.

If it's really in a museum, then their appearance would naturally be fine.

That thing is more valuable in Xu Yue's hands than in a museum.

The two soon arrived at one of the museums.

"The twenty-four solar terms each have a different shape?"

Li Daoyan looked at the stone tablet in front of him and couldn't help but ask Xu Yue.

If that's the case, then it will be quite difficult to find.

“The tokens look similar, only the seal script is different,” Xu Yue said. “The token is inside that stone tablet.”

"Inside the stone tablet?" Li Daoyan said, "The stone tablet is a single piece, it doesn't seem to have any hidden compartments."

“Open the glass cover and I’ll take it out,” Xu Yue said. “It shouldn’t damage the artifact.”

Li Daoyan wondered how Xu Yue obtained the token inside, but he copied it exactly.

The glass cover was opened, and Xu Yue stepped forward and pressed himself against the back of the stone tablet. In just a moment, Li Daoyan saw a bronze token emerge from the stone tablet.

Xu Yue held the token in his hand, while Li Daoyan looked at the stone tablet.

The stone tablet appeared to be intact.

Is it intact?
Actually not.

There is a hole the size of a token inside the stone tablet.

"Thanks!"

Xu Yue smiled and said something to Li Daoyan.

In fact, obtaining the token quietly was not difficult for Xu Yue at all.

It's just not necessary.

Li Daoyan was still marveling at Xu Yue's methods when he heard Xu Yue's words. Coming back to his senses, he quickly waved his hand.

After the two left the museum, Xu Yue was pondering where to go next when Yan Tian called.

Then, he went to Yanjing.

The Special Administration has already collected several tokens.

It must be said that national power is truly extraordinary.

Xu Yue can use the token to sense the aura of other tokens. Although there is a distance limitation, it will definitely be easier to find them.

He has only found two so far, while the Special Administration Bureau has already found several.

They were searching like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Xu Yue received a "Spring Equinox" at the museum.

After refining it, Xu Yue went directly to Yanjing.

"See if this is what you want."

Yan Tian saw that Xu Yue didn't waste any words and directly handed him nine bronze tokens.

"Nine pieces?" Xu Yue asked in surprise. "Didn't you say there would be seven pieces?"

"On your way here, we brought two more pieces," Yan Tian said. "We can't tell whether they are the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Tokens. However, the style seems to be the same. As for whether they are counterfeit, we can't guarantee that."

"Who can make a copy of this?" Xu Yue asked. "Nine yuan wouldn't be a problem, thanks."

“Some of these pieces are in museums, and some are in private collections, so they are all traceable and can be found relatively quickly,” Yan Tian said. “The rest will probably be harder to find.”

“It’s alright,” Xu Yue said. “With these nine pieces, we’ve collected half. As long as the twelve pieces I have aren’t damaged, I can find them.”

"This thing can be damaged?"

Yan Tian asked, "They haven't done any tests, so they don't know how hard it is."

However, the twelve tokens could potentially condense time-related magical powers, making them undoubtedly top-tier magical artifacts.

How could such ritual implements possibly be damaged? And who would be willing to damage them?

"Is there anything in this world that won't be destroyed?" Xu Yue shook his head and said, "After all, so much time has passed, who can say for sure?"

(End of this chapter)