"What is that?"
Upon hearing Fox Fairy Nannan’s words, Zhang Chen quickly turned his head and saw Fox Fairy Nannan standing before the Crystal Bone, shouting excitedly at Zhang Chen.
"Come and see! You’ll understand after you look!" Fox Fairy Nannan said urgently, "This is the Supreme Celestial Book!"
Hearing this, Zhang Chen hurriedly approached to take a look, standing beside Fox Fairy Nannan, and followed her gaze to the bluestone in front of the Crystal Bone.
The Crystal Bone was sitting on the ground, with a book placed in front of it. However, because the color of the book was too similar to the bluestone, and due to the dim and unclear firelight in the stone chamber, the jade bone had attracted all of their attention, so they hadn’t noticed the book placed on the ground.
Moreover, the book was very thin, less than 0.3 centimeters, currently laying open quietly in front of the jade bone.
Zhang Chen’s gaze fell on the book and saw that the two open pages each depicted an extremely strange and complex symbol.
There were no words on the pages, only two very complex symbols.
"They look a bit like later Daoism’s runes." Zhang Chen raised a torch to carefully examine the symbols, noting their resemblance to later Daoist runes.
"What did you just say this was?" Zhang Chen asked while observing the symbols.
"Celestial Book!"
Fox Fairy Nannan replied.
After speaking, she feared that this country bumpkin Zhang Chen wouldn’t understand, so she explained, "This kind of book contains mysterious power, and it’s considered special and mysterious. Although it doesn’t have any mysterious abilities, what is recorded in it contains incredible creation. Now the mysterious power of this book has dissipated and it’s just an ordinary material book, but the content recorded on it remains unchanged and still holds great value."
"About a sexagenary cycle ago, a Seeing God master of the Human Race unearthed a Celestial Book from a grand tomb, causing a bloody storm in the Martial World, even prompting foreign races beyond the pass to ride south, with an army of a hundred thousand knocking at the Central Plains’ gates," Fox Fairy Nannan said. "The recorded content contains incredible secrets, and I’ve even heard that it includes methods for spiritual cultivation and various unimaginable techniques. Its value is immeasurable, prompting even alien races to go to war over a single book!"
"Research indicates that although these Celestial Books were excavated from grand tombs, they were not hand-written by Ancient Divine People. Even the Ancient Divine People don’t know where the Celestial Books originate; they are thought to be the Law of Heaven and Earth imprinted upon mundane objects, thereby forming creations. This thing is extremely important even to those Ancient Divine People." Fox Spirit’s voice was full of fervor.
Hearing this, Zhang Chen understood that no one knew where the Celestial Books came from, only that they contained incredible content.
Although the mysterious power of the Celestial Book had dissipated, the content remained effective.
"Do you recognize what’s on these pages?" Zhang Chen asked.
Upon hearing this, Fox Spirit choked on his words, the fervor in his heart stifled: "I don’t recognize them!"
Feeling embarrassed to admit his ignorance in front of Zhang Chen, he quickly added, "It doesn’t matter if I don’t recognize them; we can take the Celestial Book out, and later get those old Human Race folks to decrypt it, which is like recognizing it ourselves."
"Since you said this Celestial Book has lost its mysterious power support, surely its material must have long since decayed to ash; at the slightest touch, this book will immediately crumble to dust, leaving no chance to take it out," Zhang Chen, looking at the open book, had a gleam of hope in his eyes. He hoped the book might yield a skill, allowing him to acquire all its contents, but unfortunately, the mysterious power had dissipated, granting no such skill.
Upon hearing this, Fox Spirit’s face also showed surprise, then carefully looking at the two open pages said, "According to you, can we only view the content of these two pages?"
"Of course," Zhang Chen replied.
Though losing a Celestial Book was painful, at least he could still view two pages, right?
Hearing this, Fox Spirit clutched his chest, overwhelmed with sorrow and regret: "The treasure is right in front of me, yet I have no way to claim it. It’s a sin."
Zhang Chen ignored Fox Spirit’s lament, focusing his eyes intently on the two symbols before him. The symbols were too complex, and even though Zhang Chen had undergone a transformation, they were difficult to remember.
Fortunately, at a crucial moment, Zhang Chen’s Crystal Core vibrated again, and that familiar feeling returned. Zhang Chen felt his vision begin to change, as if in an instant he could see the microscopic world, the trajectories of dust in the air, and the molecular structures of various substances.
In this state, his spiritual power seemed to soar infinitely high, and those two complex symbols were memorized completely with just one glance.
Then, as the Crystal Core’s pulsation ceased, Zhang Chen exited that subtle state. Just as he was about to speak to Fox Spirit, he suddenly felt a warmth in his nose, then saw a stream of bright red blood flow out.
"What’s wrong with you? Just reading a book and you’ve got a nosebleed?" Fox Spirit detected the scent of blood, quickly turning to look at Zhang Chen, fearing Zhang Chen might abruptly pass out, forcing him to bury him alongside.