destiny eternal calamity

Chapter 165 Mysterious Parts

Zhuolu County was located in Dugu Commandery, Youzhou, Wei State.

Legend has it that this place was originally the capital of the ancient emperor Xuanyuan, Zhuolu City, from which Zhuolu County got its name.

Of course, Li Wei knew this wasn't a legend, but a fact.

He rode the wind and traveled north, arriving at his destination in just two hours.

It is a very small county town.

He hovered in the air and carefully examined the location for a quarter of an hour before confirming the spot where the bronze box had been buried.

Because he deliberately chose a bad location for building, the area was not covered by houses built by later generations.

Moreover, the area of ​​this county town is not larger than that of Zhuolu City back then, so the city wall did not enclose it.

Overall, the situation was very favorable for his discovery.

However, given the continued flow of people, Li Wei decided to wait until dark before taking action.

He didn't want this to become a big news story.

After dark, Li Wei saw that the city gates were closed, so he took out the shovel he had prepared in advance from his spatial ring and started digging at the chosen location.

He was buried about fifteen meters deep, which is quite an astonishing depth, so it's unlikely that he was accidentally discovered.

With the shovel empowered by true qi, and combined with his Void Realm level physical strength, Li Wei's digging speed was incredibly fast.

Moreover, he concealed his form without leaving a trace and used the power of heaven and earth to muffle his voice.

From a distance, all that can be seen is a hole less than a meter in diameter, from which soil is constantly being expelled.

It wouldn't alert the guards who were slacking off on the city walls.

However, after digging about five meters, he realized something was wrong.

There's something very hard.

Actually, he felt that the soil was not right within the first five meters; it was much harder than the soil in ordinary places.

It is also completely different in hardness from when he dug it nine thousand years ago.

He used a shovel to scrape away the soil from the surface of the hard object, then bent down and used his inner energy to blow it clean.

By the moonlight, he could see what the hard object was.

It was actually a piece of metal.

What surprised him was not why this thing was five meters underground, but its shape.

It looks a lot like a gear.

That's right, it's a gear.

This gave him a sense of unreality.

His perception was now astonishing, so he measured the gear with his naked eye and found that it actually conformed to an involute curve.

Clearly, this thing wasn't just made randomly.

Countless conjectures immediately flooded Li Wei's mind.

Could it be that he traveled to the future Earth?

After the great destruction of the previous era, the surviving humans of Earth created this new civilization.

The thought only flashed through his mind before he dismissed it.

First of all, this world has extraordinary powers, a celestial realm, and martial arts.

Secondly, the gear appeared in a plot of land that he had excavated nine thousand years ago. He hadn't discovered it before, so it must have been buried there after that.

He then wondered if it was possible that Xie Youshan had spread scientific knowledge about Earth.

But he quickly dismissed the idea, as Shan Shan had promised him she wouldn't reveal his secret.

Given Shanshan's love for him, she would certainly not break her promise; in fact, it's more likely that he himself would reveal that knowledge.

Li Wei focused his mind, stored the mysterious gear in his spatial ring, and continued digging.

Less than half a meter away, they encountered another hard object.

He did the same thing and cleaned out the hard object.

They were still metal objects.

However, unlike the gear, Li Wei could clearly see that this piece of metal was severely deformed, as if it had been impacted by something.

Upon closer inspection, it appears to be a long, narrow part that was originally straight but is now twisted.

He put it into the ring and continued digging.

In this way, he dug out a total of six parts, and it wasn't until he reached a height of about nine meters that he was completely free of obstacles.

At a depth of about ten meters, the soil became less firm.

He continued digging for another ten meters, until he reached a depth of twenty meters, where he finally unearthed the bronze box he had buried.

After putting it into his spatial ring, Li Wei stood there and pondered for a while.

He was originally buried at a depth of 15 meters, but 9,000 years later, he has been buried 5 meters deeper.

That's not surprising, after all, the world changes, and new soil will cover it up, which is not unusual.

But what he discovered was too strange; the value of these parts might not be much less than that of his treasure.

He used the power of heaven and earth to manipulate the soil backfilling, and stopped when it reached a point nine meters above the ground.

Then he started digging to the side with a shovel.

He dug for almost three hours and unearthed more than a hundred parts.

If he hadn't used the power of heaven and earth to support the soil, this piece of land would have collapsed from his digging.

Then he used the power of heaven and earth to backfill all the soil.

Without these parts, the soil naturally couldn't fill the original holes, but he loosened the soil a bit so that no abnormalities could be seen on the surface.

It should take several months for the ground to subside, by which time no one will be able to see the problem.

These more than one hundred parts almost filled the ten-cubic-meter ring space, making Li Wei feel that he had gained a lot.

After cleaning up the scene, he planned to leave.

Just then, a group of people walked out of a small, unclosed gate next to the main gate of Zhuolu County.

It is the White Lotus Sect.

Li Wei, now invisible and undetectable, stood still, observing the White Lotus Sect followers.

There weren't any sedan chairs among this group; instead, a few believers in the middle who appeared to be of slightly higher status were responsible for scattering paper money.

It seems that the sedan chairs we saw earlier were carrying high-ranking members of the White Lotus Sect, and not every branch of the White Lotus Sect had one.

Seeing that the group of White Lotus sect members were heading west, Li Wei quietly followed them.

The highest cultivation level among these people was only at the Qi Sea Realm, and they were completely undetected even when Li Wei scanned them with his divine sense.

They wandered through a maze of trees, then gathered the remaining paper money together and set it on fire.

"The home of emptiness, the mother of non-birth. Emptiness is my home, non-birth is my mother!"

The group of people were gathered around the campfire, chanting slogans with fervor, creating an indescribably eerie scene.

Li Wei felt a chilling aura about them and knew that these people must have been brainwashed by some means.

What is their purpose? Luck?

With the Queen Mother of the West as his adoptive mother and a celestial wife, Li Wei had a very high level of vision. Of course, he knew that this so-called "Eternal Mother" was probably a celestial venerable or even a celestial king.

The fact that the other party is spreading this cult in the mortal realm must mean they have something in mind, most likely luck or fortune.

Half an hour later, the group dispersed, and Li Wei walked to the campfire, lost in thought.

If he didn't know the realm beyond Eternity, he certainly wouldn't have guessed what kind of being stood behind this cult, and would have only regarded it as an ordinary sect.

That's how the world is; only by standing high enough can you see its complete picture.

Otherwise, when the truth comes right before our eyes, most people will just think it's commonplace.

So far, this cult hasn't clashed with him yet, but Li Wei feels that as long as he continues to ascend the path of cultivation, he will inevitably run into the "Eternal Mother".

From this perspective, the White Lotus Sect's conflict with him is even more irreconcilable than that with the Longevity Sect.