The author of the book "The Book of the Dead"

Chapter 213 Surviving Tribulation in the Mortal World, Achieving Immortality

The Central Plains Museum, underground laboratory.

People inspect the cultural relics.

Here, Zhao Hong saw many things.

Strange blood and bones, prehistoric giant footprints, unknown metals, and remnants of golden elixir.

These are products that do not conform to history.

Everyone has his or her own mission.

There was only one person whose work he couldn't understand: Smith, a descendant of the Lyon royal family in England. This guy was always calculating something, and he consumed 80% of the laboratory's electricity.

Zhu Hongtao examined a five-colored jade pendant.

Stained glass? Is that an antique too?

Zhu Hongtao put down the jade pendant, shook his head and smiled, and said, "This is glass from the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties. I discovered this item by chance when I bought the ancestral home of the Zhu family in Shangyu."

"What is its origin?"

"The token that Liang Shanbo gave to Zhu Yingtai."

"I see."

The story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai is well-known, and most of it is based on mythology. Zhao Hong has watched many related TV series since he was a child.

"Modern people like to watch tragedies, but in fact, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai lived to a ripe old age without any major upheavals."

Zhu Hongtao recounted the past events he knew.

The Penglai royal family has a dedicated copyright agency responsible for reviewing IP related to their ancestors; adaptations are allowed, but arbitrary changes are not permitted, especially melodramatic plots involving third-party interference, portraying characters as heartless and abandoning their lovers, or depicting them as feminized.

Those who practice martial arts all know about Chunyang Gong, and Chunyang Gong is inseparable from Liang Yue. Some legends in remote areas claim that Lingbao Daoist's surname was Liang, and that the Jade Emperor's surname was also Liang.

Official scholars believe that the Jade Emperor belief originated from the eastern region of Penglai in Shandong Province. Because the royal family of Penglai was surnamed Liang, they mistakenly attributed the Jade Emperor's surname to Liang.

"It's solved!! The Einstein formula has been solved!"

At this moment, Smith jumped up excitedly.

"Einstein's formula is a formula that Einstein secretly wrote down. I think this formula contains ancient secrets, so I asked Smith to decipher it."

"I see." Zhao Hong certainly knew Einstein, who was hailed as the greatest physicist after Galileo in the Ming Dynasty and Newton in the Xianming Dynasty.

The crowd gathered around, and the riddle turned out to be latitude and longitude.

"This should be the outskirts of Jiankang."

The group traveled to Jiankang overnight.

They finally discovered an underground bunker in the suburban forest.

The bunker contained only stainless steel safes.

Li Jingtian, wielding the Xuan Tie sword, precisely sliced open the treasure chest.

What comes into view are two old-fashioned video negatives and a manuscript with yellowed pages.

"We shouldn't stay here any longer. Let's go back and talk about it later."

Zhu Hongtao said.

The group dug out old equipment and began to restore the video recordings.

boom!
The silent image shows a giant mushroom cloud.

"Hey, this is footage of China bombing Russia with an atomic bomb."

In 1945, the 4642nd year of the Yellow Emperor's reign, the first atomic bomb of the world was used against the Russian Kingdom in the north.

This battle completely crushed the power of the Rakshasa Kingdom in China, especially in the area north of Liao.

The unique perspective of the footage suggests it is not an official portrait, and the camera was likely filmed inside a forest.

"what?"

Smith pressed the pause button. After multiple comparisons, they discovered a figure flashed by on the right side of the forest at an extremely fast speed, probably less than a frame, which was difficult for the human eye to detect.

Puzzled, the crowd watched the second videotape.

The second videotape, in black and white, shows a middle-aged man in a Taoist robe with a strange appearance, his eyebrows joined together, and holding a wooden sword.

At this moment, a group of about ten muscular men, some white and some Asian, surrounded and attacked the man.

The Taoist remained calm and drew talismans in mid-air.

Wow!
Flames flew and exploded everywhere.

The Taoist priest then affixed another talisman to his body, which increased his speed several times over, sometimes accelerating and sometimes becoming invisible.

Boom!

Of course, being a mortal being, the bullet that struck the Taoist priest, though not through his steel armor, still forced him to stagger back several steps, revealing an opening.

Just as the assassin was about to finish off the Taoist priest.

A dazzling sword light streaked across the sky, and then the scene vanished.

"Is...is this a movie?"

"No, there are no signs of forgery on the negative."

The crowd looked at each other in disbelief, their worldviews seemingly shattered. It turned out that there really were mystical arts in the world.

The legends of the ancients are not false.

The secrets of antiquity unfolded before their eyes.

Zhu Hongtao flipped through Einstein's manuscripts.

"The Eight Thieves' Secret Techniques: Divine Firmament Thunder Technique, Heavenly Guardian Soldiers, Heavenly Register, Eight Birds Escape Armor, Golden Wood Immortal Body, Hundred Refined True Fire, Mahayana Vajra, Wonderful Heavenly Eye..."

The manuscript contains Einstein's records of various magical arts.

"It turns out we are not the first to seek the truth of the ancient times! The sages of the past also explored similar mysteries."

“No, look at the date in the bottom right corner—1969. Mr. Einstein died in 1955. How come the manuscript is fourteen years later?” Smith exclaimed in surprise.

"And this picture..."

A black and white photograph was tucked behind the manuscript.

The date above is 4666 (1969), the year of the manned moon landing, when astronaut Zhu Daorong left his footprints on the moon.

However, the footprints in the picture are different from those left by astronauts. There is a series of human footprints, and the plum blossom-shaped footprints next to them look like some kind of small animal.

"Could it be that people once lived on the moon?"

Zhu Hongtao paced back and forth, muttering a few keywords to himself.

"Videotapes, the Eight Thieves, the Moon Landing..."

The Eight Thieves' Secret Techniques... Could the Eight Thieves refer to the rebellion of the Eight Thieves of Sichuan and Chongqing that wreaked havoc a hundred years ago (1924, the year the Vacuum Calamity began)?

Did these warlords possess magic?
If the manuscript and videotape are genuine, then it proves one thing... that there really are mystical arts in the world, that there are indeed ancient immortals, and that scientists in the last era also studied this area.

But...where did they go?

Why did no results emerge, and why did it mysteriously disappear?

Humans landed on the moon not long ago; are they still around?

The deeper the search went, the further away the truth seemed to be from the evidence.

It was as if a pair of giant hands were deliberately concealing the truth.

Zhu Hongtao closed the manuscript, on the back of which was written a line: "Within the cone of light, all is destiny."

... 4642 (1945), the far north.

boom! !

An atomic bomb exploded, sending a mushroom cloud into the sky.

The city of the Rakshasa Kingdom, where 300,000 troops were stationed, was reduced to ashes, and fighter jets in the air kept crashing.

The atomic bomb explosion signifies the collapse of the evil alliance formed by the Rakshasa Kingdom and the Americas of the Yin Kingdom, and a great victory for the Divine European Alliance.

"Won!!!"

"We won! We'll always be winning, marching towards endless victory!!"

"Hahaha, that white-skinned Rakshasa will die without a burial place!"

The soldiers removed their hats in celebration.

These guys took advantage of China's decline to cause trouble, and now they've been thoroughly dealt with.

In a corner of the woods, Liang Yue witnessed this historic moment.

"Tsk tsk, quite powerful, comparable to my full-power attack."

Nuclear weapons are powerful enough to threaten themselves even at their peak.

Of course, threatening yourself and defeating yourself are not the same thing.

Immortals possess a multitude of methods and employ various secret techniques. Not to mention his past self, even someone at the Foundation Establishment stage would have ways to escape the destructive range of nuclear weapons.

For example, one could burrow 300 feet underground to avoid the threat of nuclear weapons.

"We're in a double vacuum now, so it's best to be careful."

Liang Yue is currently in good condition. He possesses innate-level martial arts skills, capable of blocking ordinary handgun bullets, dodging sniper rifle locks using his own senses, and can use some minor spells.

The contrast between his peak and his current state fills him with insecurity.

"What's truly difficult to endure is a lifespan of three hundred years."

This life seems a bit difficult.

Fortunately, there are technological means. In this life, besides avoiding the world and overcoming tribulations, we still need to prioritize longevity.

"On the eve of the spiritual energy revival, all things are hidden, and there should be no immortals or gods causing trouble."

In short, it can be summed up in eight words: [To survive tribulations in this world and achieve immortality].

Keeping a low profile is the first principle; after all, I've performed miracles and appeared in public to save the world hundreds of years ago.

"Enjoy this life to the fullest."

After the tribulation of self-emptiness, there is the tribulation of deluded mind to temper one's state of mind, and finally the ultimate test—the tribulation of heavenly lightning.

At this stage, simply relying on corpse disintegration and guarding the corpse is not enough to avoid it; the only option is to tough it out.

Both the mind and the body must be tempered.

Only in this way can one "shed the yin essence and restore the yang spirit" to achieve the yang spirit path like a celestial being.

At this stage, even if spiritual energy revives, they will still have the ability to protect themselves.

"Perhaps we could build an atomic bomb to play with."

Nuclear deterrence is indispensable in modern times, but Liang Yue, from the Wei and Jin Dynasties to the present, has never possessed a toy like the atomic bomb.

at this time.

Liang Yue suddenly had a premonition.

Whoosh!
His figure disappeared into the forest, his gaze fixed on another spot.

There was an old-fashioned camera there, and behind the camera was a Western old man with a camouflage outfit and messy hair.

The old man watched the atomic bomb explode, his heart filled with worry.

"The Fourth World War will surely be a war of swords and spears," Einstein thought to himself.

Unless, as in the past, there is an unparalleled and great being watching over humanity.

"God, when will you return?"

Coo coo coo...

A strange bird call came from not far away. Einstein seemed to receive some kind of signal and was so frightened that he hid in the bushes.

What followed was a battle of gods in the videotape.

"Haha, the Eight Thieves—the Heavenly Scroll? You're Lin Jiuying?"

The newcomer's shouts were arrogant.

"So what if it's the Eight Thieves' Secret Technique? This is no longer your era."

The sounds of cold weapons mingled with those of firearms.

The middle-aged Taoist priest Lin Jiuying snorted coldly and said, "It's you mysterious people again? You steal the name of the gods and try to change the world order..."

"One day, I will definitely find you cowards and expose you."

"Hehe, Lin Jiuying, you won't live to see that day."

The leader was nine feet tall and seemed to have been given some kind of potion, making him completely red and impervious to swords, spears, water, and fire.

With a single move, he forced Lin Jiuying into a series of defeats.

Einstein hid in the bushes, silently worried, thinking, "Mr. Lin, you must hold on."

Einstein and Lin Jiuying came together, and the two collaborated with the same goal.

Lin Jiuying was in charge of security and reconnaissance, while Einstein was in charge of exploring the ancient world.

The two have collaborated for many years.

Liang Yue listened to their conversation from the shadows.

"No wonder the legends have all faded away, so that's why..."

Concealing the legends is actually a good thing, as it prevents government-level forces from exploring the path of immortality, thus providing a form of protection for oneself.

Judging from the Taoist priests' behavior, this mysterious force has changed its nature and has begun to interfere in the world from behind the scenes, attempting to establish a deep-seated government.

the other side.

*Slap slap...*

The bullet struck his chest but was stopped by the armor.

Lin Jiuying took several steps back, revealing an opening.

"die!!"

The leader leaped three zhang high and slashed down with his long sword.

"Within the cone of light, all is destiny."

Lin Jiuying recalled a quote from Einstein.

Was my fate to perish here?
Is this an inescapable cone of light?

Wow! !

At that moment, a dazzling sword light descended from the sky.

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