Chapter 63: Chapter 62: So That’s How It Is

Shen Luo quickly placed the book on the bed, quietly walked to the door, slightly opened it after unlocking the door, and looked out a few times. The narrow corridor was quiet, with no one in sight.

He scratched his head, locked the door again, went to the windowsill, and opened the window. The verdant banyan tree in the courtyard immediately appeared before him, and likewise, no one else was seen.

“What’s going on? I definitely heard someone talking just now…” Shen Luo mumbled to himself as he latched the window.

Just a moment ago, he had heard a resonant voice in his ear, seeming to recite something like “Wrong then Right”. It echoed in his mind like a bell tolling, making his consciousness feel momentarily blurred.

“Could it be that I’ve been too tired these days and I’m hallucinating?” Shen Luo rubbed his temples, returned to the bedside, and reached out to pick up the half-rolled book from the bed again.

Then all of sudden, he heard a voice again:

“Qu Zequan…”

The voice was still loud and clear, deafening.

Shen Luo only felt a buzz in his head, subconsciously covering his ears, and the book slipped from his hands and fell onto the floor.

He remained in this posture, standing still on the spot, his eyes fixed on the half-rolled book on the ground.

After a while, Shen Luo swallowed dryly, squatted down, cautiously extended the index finger of his right hand, and touched the cover of the book. The parchment of the book remained unchanged, and no other voice appeared in his ears.

“Strange… Could it not be from this book?” Shen Luo’s mouth twitched slightly.

During his consideration, he picked up the book by holding the edge of the parchment with two fingers, holding it up and carefully scrutinizing it.

Aside from the nearly unreadable silver ancient texts inside, this scroll showed no distinction from ordinary books.

“Could that suddenly appearing ghost thing be attached to this book?” Shen Luo seemed to remember something, his heart shivered, and he subconsciously touched his right arm with his left hand.

But, after he blacked out, the Small Transformation Yang Skill unknowingly reached Perfection, which seemed to be related to the Specter, and apart from feeling a bit hot when he woke up, he didn’t notice anything wrong with his body till now.

Thinking of this, Shen Luo calmed down a bit, held the book in his left hand with two fingers, and subconsciously thought to brush the dust off the pages with his right hand.

But the moment his fingers swept over the book, his mind was again filled with echoes of a series of voices, “Do not self-praise, hence have achievements… speak naturally…”

His pupils contracted abruptly, his right hand stilled as he stared at the place his three fingers had touched. There were clearly three silver ancient characters.

“Could it be…”

A thought flashed across Shen Luo’s mind, he took a deep breath, his three fingers left the book by an inch, and then fell again.

“Speak naturally.”

This time, the expression on Shen Luo’s face wasn’t restless, but delighted.

“So that’s how it is, that’s how it is! I understand now, no wonder, no wonder…” A faint smile of comprehension stretched on Shen Luo’s mouth.

So, this Nameless Heavenly Book actually allowed him to read by touch. It’s no wonder that even an ordinary boatman like Master Yu could understand it without a teacher. Because you don’t need to understand any ancient texts at all, all you need to do is touch.

Now that he got the hang of reading, Shen Luo couldn’t wait to start from the beginning, placing his finger on the first character.

This ancient character was one of the few characters he knew, a “husband” character. As soon as his finger touched it, the word “husband” flashed past his ear.

Shen Luo nodded slightly, quickly moved his finger and started reading the second character…

But he had barely moved past ten characters when a wave of dizziness came over him, and he felt his body sway.

He shook his head, thinking he was just tired. He wanted to move on to the next character, but as soon as he tried, he felt the world spin, and his vision blacked out.

Shen Luo quickly grabbed the edge of the bed, which prevented him from falling over.

This time, not only did he not hear any voice, but his head ached painfully.

Shen Luo didn’t dare to neglect it and quickly put the Heavenly Book beside his bed and sat cross-legged with his eyes closed.

He was proficient in medical skills and after a brief contemplation, he realized that his symptoms were a result of excessive mental exertion.

As Yu Yan said, the human body’s essence, Qi, and spirit are one and the same, complementing each other. Now that his mental power has been greatly exhausted, stimulating the Small Transformation Yang Skill should accelerate the recovery of his mental power.

Shen Luo quickly began to feel heated all over, as if immersed in hot water. The flow of his Qi and blood also sped up, and a red light appeared on his face.

Sure enough, when he started this operation, the pain in his mind eased significantly.

He breathed a sigh of relief and continued to operate the skill.

“It seems that although reading in this way is good, it is very exhausting mentally.” A quarter of an hour later, Shen Luo opened his eyes and thought so.

Having said that, he did not hesitate at all, picked up the book again, and deciphered about ten characters by sliding his fingers on the page, until he felt dizzy again, then he stopped to meditate and recover.

“The Heavenly Dao is formless and divides the yin and yang, and spawns all things. If people want to attain immortality, they need to transmute yin to yang, and transcend the mundane to become a saint, only then can they gradually enter the true Dao…”

This was the short section of the text Shen Luo understood after meditating three times.

Based on these texts, the parchment seems to contain a cultivation technique.

By now, Shen Luo was completely sure that this book was indeed the Nameless Heavenly Book mentioned by Yu Yan. There was absolutely no doubt about it!

Shen Luo took a deep breath and his eyes returned to calm while exhaling.

Now is not the time to get excited, the important thing is to fully decipher this half of the Nameless Heavenly Book, but that would be an extremely long process.

At this moment, his eyes caught a glimpse of the stone box beside him, and a hint of emerald green entered his vision.

It was that emerald green bamboo tube with the crack.

This stone box and parchment were both extraordinary items. The emerald green bamboo tube placed with them might as well be a treasure?

With this thought, Shen Luo reached out to take the bamboo tube out, carefully observed it for a while, and weighed it, finding it to be no different from an ordinary bamboo tube.

He got up, took the scissors from the bedside oil lamp, and gently scraped it on the bamboo tube.

With a “swish”, a mark was immediately scratched on the bamboo tube.

He stopped hastily and frowned.

Could this emerald green bamboo tube be so fragile, it was just a mere ordinary item?