Devouring Evil Martial Arts, Eliminating Demons from All Heavens

Chapter 294 The Mystery of the Stone Tablet

"So, this statue is a person who transformed?"

As Chu Tianshu spoke, he grabbed Lin Chucheng by the back of his collar, preventing him from moving forward.

Lin Chucheng turned around in confusion: "What's wrong?"

"Hehe, ancient people turned into statues, this kind of thing is too familiar."

Chu Tianshu recalled the Dragon Flower Cult Leader he had met in the Australian region.

That guy could even turn his internal organs into jade, which had been circulating outside for hundreds of years. He could even preside over rituals to worship ghosts and gods with just an empty jade statue with incomplete internal organs.

Almost no one in ancient times lived a truly immortal life.

However, there are probably many more who have abandoned their cultivation path and the limits of their talents, transformed into evil spirits, and slumbered through various means.

Could this King of Wusun be in a similar situation?
Although I didn't sense it, there was an eerie atmosphere here, like that of ghosts or spirits.

However, the secret realm is located between the real world and the spirit world, and the spirit world aura here is quite abundant.

Chu Tianshu pointed his fingers into the air.

The sword intent that startled him transformed into a red ray of light, extending straight out from his fingertips and illuminating the forehead of the jade statue.

Upon probing with sword intent, no abnormality was detected in the statue.

Lin Chucheng looked at the beam of light and scratched his face.

“When I was fighting here that day, there seemed to be a beam of light like that, but it came from inside the statue and was a different color.”

Chu Tianshu asked, "Where did that light go?"

"It hit my head, and then there was something cold, trying to drill into my brain."

Lin Chucheng seemed lost in memories.

"I tried to stop that cold feeling as I ran away from here."

"That cold thing seemed to want to control the energy that had just surged into my body, to take control of my body, but it couldn't overpower me..."

Chu Tianshu's heart moved slightly.

Highly skilled sorcerers no longer rely entirely on their physical bodies and brains for their thinking abilities; rather, their thinking abilities are semi-independent.

Logically speaking, such a person, even if their physical body is rejuvenated, can retain their complete memories in their soul.

After Lin left the city and became young again, he experienced amnesia.

Chu Tianshu originally thought that the elixir of immortality might have special properties that affected the soul.

It now appears that there was no real elixir of immortality; it was merely a stone tablet connected to the Kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West.

The stone tablet was first ground into powder and consumed by the King of Wusun. After many years, some of its power was absorbed by Lin Chucheng. It's unknown how many times it changed hands.

Moreover, Lin Chucheng's cultivation of the "Gong Cao Tai Chong Gan Ying Pian" has already reached the point of forcibly breaking through the forbidden boundary.

Gongcao Yuanchen and Taichong Yuanchen, namely Yin Tiger and Mao Rabbit, are both of the Wood element in the Twelve Earthly Branches.

The moment he crossed the boundary, he experienced the feeling of controlling a vast amount of life force far exceeding his own.

Although that attempt ended in failure, it provided him with valuable experience.

If it had only been the medicinal power of the Queen Mother of the West's stele entering his body back then, he probably would have used it as an opportunity to regulate it...

Chu Tianshu sighed, "It seems that your amnesia is mostly due to the evil spirit of the King of Wusun."

"Ok!"

Lin Chucheng clenched his fist. "I remember now. When I returned to the base entrance, I desperately destroyed that cold thing, and then I couldn't hold on any longer."

"That bastard is the one who made me lose my main account password, all those years of experience wiped out in an instant!"

"How awful! I really want to drag him out and beat him up again."

Chu Tianshu smiled and patted his head.

"I don't think your amnesia is difficult to treat. As long as you encounter key things, you can recall them quite quickly."

Mo Xiaoyu's eyes brightened slightly, and she suddenly said, "Perhaps before the minister lost his memory, he planted some anchors in his mind."

"This method was called the Mind and Spirit Beacon in ancient times. It was used to select certain impressions from memory when one's mind and spirit were strongly impacted, and to deepen them as much as possible to form an instinctive feeling."

"When I encounter those things, they trigger related memories."

She laughed and said, "When I first practiced the Xuan Guan Li Huo Chong Xue Da Fa (a technique for activating acupoints and purging fire), I was also worried about my mind becoming scattered. That's why I used that technique to anchor my mind first."

Chu Tianshu nodded, feeling quite admiring.

Whether it's He Lai or Lin Chucheng, they both embody the spirit of learning until old age.

They know a lot of miscellaneous things, although it seems like a lot of them are things they don't actually use in their daily lives.

But you never know when it might show its crucial effects.

"A person who is learned in both ancient and modern times, and whose knowledge spans the seven seas, is always prepared for any eventuality."

Chu Tianshu chuckled softly, "I also want to have that kind of image, one that's reliable and makes it easy to show off." Lin Chucheng tilted his head: "What do you mean by 'show off'..."

"cough!"

Chu Tianshu cleared his throat, took two quick steps, and touched the mural next to him with his finger.

"The patterns in this mural are really beautiful, Xiaoyu. Is there any significance to them?"

Lin Chucheng is regaining more and more memories, but sometimes he really acts like an innocent child.

There's a strange sense of embarrassment in talking nonsense in front of him.

Mo Xiaoyu smiled understandingly and walked to Chu Tianshu's side, asking, "Which patterns?"

She got too close and suddenly realized that Chu Tianshu was still wearing the same tattered clothes, with part of his abdominal muscles showing.

Mo Xiaoyu quickly looked away.

Both of them had initially tried to distract themselves from looking at the pattern.

But after looking at them for a while, I realized that these patterns actually had a hidden meaning.

When they first looked at the murals, they glanced at them and thought that the patterns might be the texture of the stone itself, or they might be used to decorate the background of the murals.

Upon closer inspection, these patterns appear to be out of harmony with the layout of the inscriptions on the murals.

Murals are murals, and patterns are patterns; the two are completely unrelated.

Patterned marks were also found on the ground, and even...

Chu Tianshu looked up at the dome.

The dome corresponding to this deep pit also has similar patterns, which are clearly different from the rest of the dome.

He walked along the patterns on the ground until he reached the jade statue.

The statue also has many fine textures, but they are mixed in with the patterns on the royal robes and clothing, making them even more difficult to distinguish.

"Could it be..."

Chu Tianshu observed carefully for a moment, closed his eyes, and mentally visualized the three-dimensional patterns in the entire space, then shrank these patterns.

It shrinks into a human shape, but no, it's still indistinguishable.

Shrinking into a spherical shape is also incorrect.

Shrinking into the shape of a stone tablet?
By comparing the height of the stone tablet with the height of the Wusun king in the mural, we can roughly determine the original proportions of the stone tablet.

Chu Tianshu mentally constructed the stone tablet and raised his hand to point at the air.

Where the finger traced, a faint red mark remained, imprinted in the air, lingering for a long time.

Mo Xiaoyu also had a plan in mind, and seeing that he had already reached a conclusion, she came closer to verify it.

Lin Chucheng, who had been playing with the eight hands around him, also came over with great interest.

Chu Tianshu wrote faster and faster, writing more and more. After finishing one side, he turned around and wrote on the side and back of the stone tablet.

The characters on this stone tablet are peculiar; some are similar to small seal script, while others are mixed with floral patterns.

Each flower pattern is about the size of a character, but its internal structure is extremely complex, looking like a small flower bud with hundreds of petals clustered together.

"The Great Seal Script of the Warring States period? No, it's a variant, the script used exclusively by hermits during the Warring States period?"

Mo Xiaoyu murmured, "And there are totem patterns originating from the Kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West."

It seems that although the stone tablet originated from the Kingdom of the Queen Mother of the West, the inscription on it was written by a person from the Warring States period.

Mo Xiaoyu couldn't figure it out for a while. As she looked at it, she suddenly felt a heat at the tip of her nose. She reached up and touched it, and realized that she had started bleeding from her nose.

"This……"

She covered her nose, looked away slightly, and temporarily cleared her mind. "Pondering the contents of this stone tablet is really so mentally taxing?"

When Chu Tianshu first started writing, he wrote faster and faster, but towards the end, it seemed that he had exhausted a lot of mental energy and his speed slowed down.

Fortunately, he didn't understand the meaning of these words at all. Rather than "writing" these words, he was simply copying them, so the effort wasn't too great.

After a moment, he wrote down the entire contents of the stone tablet.

Lin Chucheng watched the entire process, stroking his chin with a serious expression.

"Although I can't understand it, I feel that it contains a set of cultivation techniques."

Chu Tianshu took a breath, stepped back a few paces, and observed the entire stone tablet with a peculiar expression.

"It must have been that after the King of Wusun finished eating the stone tablet, he went into seclusion to cultivate, and the profound mystery of the stone tablet was revealed to the outside world through his body."

He looked at the token interface in his field of vision.

A new notification has popped up in the "Technique Materials" section above.

The font used in the prompts seems to be thicker than before.

There really is a set of martial arts techniques recorded on this stone tablet!
(End of this chapter)