After everyone finished drawing the landscape painting, they began discussing where the scenery depicted in the painting could be found on the Jiuzhou Continent.

However, after a long discussion, they ended up empty-handed.

There are too many places with mountains and rivers on the Jiuzhou Continent; finding a place that resembles the scenery in the painting is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

"Let's start dismantling the Green Stones in this landscape painting now; perhaps we'll have some new discoveries!"

Wu Zian said.

"Good! Be very careful when you dismantle it, I'll mark it!"

Duan Gujin said.

"Okay!"

So, Wu Zian and the others began to dismantle the Green Stones one by one.

Duan Gujin took one of the Green Stones they had dismantled and caressed the landscape scene on it.

This time, he was able to use Divine Sense Inspection to probe into the Green Stone of the landscape painting.

"There is Xuanwu Stone inside this Green Stone!"

His mind stirred, and he poured Primordial Power into the Green Stone.

A moment later, he shook his head; he found that the Xuanwu Stone was fused into the Green Stone, and unless he broke the Green Stone, there was no way for him to extract the Xuanwu Stone.

"Why is it like this?"

He silently noted this unusual detail.

Soon, Wu Zian and the others gave him the second Green Stone.

He probed into the second Green Stone with Divine Sense, but this time, he found nothing.

"It seems not every piece of Green Stone will encounter this situation!"

Then, he received the third piece, and the fourth piece of Green Stone.

He examined the inside of those Green Stones carefully with Divine Sense.

Wu Zian personally checked those Green Stones before handing them over to Duan Gujin.

"If I can't find the secrets hidden in this landscape painting, I can only blame myself!"

Wu Zian thought to himself.

Duan Gujin, in charge of marking, noticed that there were nine Green Stones with different kinds of ore embedded in them, each with different names and materials.

For a while, he couldn't understand how these ores were related to the landscape painting.

"What does it mean for these ores to be embedded in the painting?"

Duan Gujin felt a wave of confusion and began marking his map.

In the end, he handed all the marked Green Stones over to Wu Zian.

"It seems there really is no treasure here!"

Wu Zian sighed.

Duan Gujin's brows furrowed tightly; he knew there was something odd about the landscape painting, but he couldn't figure it out now.

Regarding Wu Zian's sigh, he could only frown, feeling unsure himself, failing to understand why so many ores were embedded in the painting.

The ores had varying grades of quality and were just embedded in the Green Stones, causing his suspicions to arise.

He had previously inspected the ores with Divine Sense, to no avail.

As a result, he felt the clues might not lie within those Green Stones or the ores.

"Could the clues be within the landscape painting and among these ores?"

After thinking carefully for a while, he felt that this was the only possibility left.

"I'm really dizzy!"

Wu Zian and the others became very dispirited; they had initially thought they could find the treasure here.

However, they did not expect to end up without any finds; it was beyond their comprehension.

"Why is it like this?"

Wu Zian lamented helplessly.

"We've been busy for nothing."

The others nodded, agreeing with Wu Zian's statement.

After a while, Wu Tianxia suggested, "Everyone, perhaps we could use explosives to blast a secret chamber here, or get some clues."

"That's a good idea! Since we haven't found anything now, let's completely blow up this place since there is no treasure; perhaps we'll find something."

Wu Zian responded.

He glanced at Duan Gujin and asked, "Jin Guduan, do you think there's a problem with using explosives to blow this place up?"

Duan Gujin nodded slightly and said, "We can; let's take all these things away, and then you destroy the underground chamber here to see what we can find."

"Okay!"

Wu Zian quickly nodded in agreement.

Wu Zian packed the Green Stones engraved with the landscape painting into his storage ring and then instructed Duan Gujin and the others to leave the underground chamber.

Once the others left, he used explosives to blast the underground chamber.

After the dust settled, he returned to the chamber.

However, he didn't find any clues among the ruins, only a pile of stones.

"It seems there really is no treasure here!"

Wu Zian sighed and exited the underground chamber.

He also blasted the corridor, but he found nothing there either.

His face slightly changed, and he discreetly made some special marks among the ruins.

As long as someone entered the ruins and moved the stones, he could tell by the movement of the marks whether anyone had been there.

Wu Zian understood that by doing this, he wanted to know if Duan Gujin would return to this place.

After the treasure hunt ended, Duan Gujin bid them farewell.

After Duan Gujin left, Wu Zian asked the others to settle down in an inn in a nearby town.

The next day, Wu Zian returned to the ruins.

He checked the marks he left yesterday and saw no signs of tampering.

"It seems Jin Guduan hasn't come back!"

He exhaled and his eyes sparkled.

Knowing Duan Gujin didn't return yesterday, he didn't leave immediately but continued to stay in that inn for ten days.

After confirming that Duan Gujin indeed hadn't returned, he left with the others.

He knew that the treasure might truly be hidden within the landscape painting, and only if he could find the location depicted in the painting, could he find the treasure.

"It seems we really have to give up!"

During those ten days, he and others repeatedly analyzed the Green Stones engraved with the landscape painting.

But after a long time, they still came up with no results.

"It seems we only have to give up!"

Thinking back to when they got the treasure map, the four of them spent a lot of effort hoping to find the treasure depicted on the map.

After finding the location on the treasure map, they became incredibly excited.

They had initially thought they would find the treasure, but instead, it turned out to be all for naught; they felt incredibly unwilling but had no recourse.

Among the four, Wu Zian was the most unwilling, but upon recalling the scene at that time, he saw no odd behavior from Duan Gujin and didn't think the other party had a chance to obtain the treasure first.

Wu Zian knew he definitely couldn't unravel the mystery of the landscape painting, so in the end, he smashed every Green Stone with the landscape painting, searching for clues bit by bit.

But in the end, he found they were just a bunch of Gravel, devoid of anything.

"It seems we've been tricked!"

Wu Zian had no choice but to tell the others.

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