Chapter 162: Origin Exploration (Thanks to the 'Nine Nights of the Moon' Alliance Leader for the reward)
The cold feeling came to his face, and with Chu Qiguang's physique, he couldn't help but tremble slightly, feeling that he seemed to have goosebumps on his body.
But this cold is not actually a decrease in temperature, but a psychological feeling.
Chu Qiguang once again observed the large library shrouded in darkness in front of him......
The bluestone slab under the foot leads all the way to the library gate, and on both sides of the road, there are stone statues such as stone squatting tiger, stone sheep, stone unicorn, stone horse, stone lion and so on.
Further inside, there is a statue of a stone man with a sword in both hands, which looks lifelike, like a living person.
And the whole large library is made of a huge black stone.
When Chu Qiguang walked to the door, he could still see the exquisite and intricate reliefs on the stones under the light of the white lanterns on both sides.
'This is a big library...... It's like a cemetery. ’
Looking at the black stone door that was more than five meters high, Chu Qiguang tried to knock and shouted, "Is anyone there?"
After Chu Qiguang knocked the door for the third time......
Rumble!
With the sound of the stone door rubbing against the ground, the door slowly opened, and a bald old man with thin cheeks stretched out his head, his skin seemed to be a miserable white that had not seen sunlight for many years, and his two sunken eyes looked at Chu Qiguang.
"Hey, hey, you're Chu Qiguang......, right?
As he spoke, the emaciated old man stepped out of the way: "Come in." ”
Chu Qiguang walked in, and at the moment when he entered the big library, the ring of foolishness in his chest seemed to appear uncontrollably, exuding bursts of heat.
Chu Qiguang touched his chest, and his heart was extremely strange: "What's the matter, what's going on with the Circle of Foolishness?"
That's when ...... A soft thud was heard, and the emaciated janitor had closed the stone door again.
This janitor has a lot of strength. While Chu Qiguang was thinking this, his eyes were already in darkness because of the sudden closure of the stone door, and there was not the slightest light in the entire large library.
Cha...... With a soft sound, the janitor behind him had already lit a candle with flint velvet and handed it to Chu Qiguang.
The janitor smiled nervously: "Hehe, when I'm alone, I'm not used to lighting candles. ”
Chu Qiguang took the candle and asked, "Then you can see it?"
The janitor shook his head: "I've been here for too long, I can find a place with my eyes closed." ”
The small candle could only illuminate the distance of two or three meters before and after Chu Qiguang, and the space farther away was completely invisible.
He followed the janitor with a candle, and the two walked through the stone path.
Under the faint light, Chu Qiguang couldn't see too far away, and could only see what seemed to be stone figures one after another on both sides, all of them holding swords in both hands.
Chu Qiguang secretly estimated that the two of them had walked about fifty or sixty meters before they had come to a bookshelf.
The janitor said, "You can read the books on the first floor, but don't go upstairs." ”
Chu Qiguang was curious: "Why?"
The corners of the janitor's mouth were slightly crooked, and he looked more and more gloomy under the faint light of the fire: "On the first floor, people are reading, and on the second floor...... That's when books eat people. ”
After speaking, he no longer paid attention to Chu Qiguang, and walked into the darkness that the candle could not dispel.
Just when Chu Qiguang thought that the other party had left, a burst of light lit up not far away.
It turned out that the janitor lit an oil lamp and put it on the desk next to it: "Call me if there is anything." ”
After saying that, he had already left again, and this time he was really far away.
Chu Qiguang picked up the oil lamp and looked at the darkness that was gradually becoming indistinct from a few meters away.
It felt as if there was an endless black fog around that swallowed everything.
However, Chu Qiguang is more concerned about the strangeness of the foolish ring in his chest now.
Ever since he reached the bookshelf, he felt a hot and burning sensation in his chest.
He tried to walk around the rows of bookshelves in front of him, and found that the closer he got to one of them, the hotter the Ring of Fools became.
'Is this a reminder for me to look for one of these books?'
Chu Qiguang thought about it, walked to the row of bookshelves that gave him the strongest burning sensation and looked at it, and found that they were all about some sect history.
Then he reached out and touched the bottom of a few books, and found that the heat in his chest had not changed.
But as he did this all the way down the bottom-up to a book in the third row of the shelves, the Circle of Fools grew hot again, as if someone had put a piece of burning carbon on his chest.
Chu Qiguang took out this thread-bound book and looked at it, the cover of the book was already a little mottled and old, and the words "Exploration of the Origin of the Immortal Dao" were written on it.
If you open it and look at it casually, you can see that the pages are slightly yellowed, and some of the handwriting is also defaced.
"It doesn't seem like anything special. Chu Qiguang felt the heat in his chest, and said secretly in his heart: "Do you want me to read this book?"
Originally, Chu Qiguang himself was also a little curious about the origin of the Immortal Dao, so he simply found the desk and sat down, and read the book in his hand by the faint light of the oil lamp, wrapped in the darkness around him.
Chu Qiguang turned to the first page, although the book was vertical and had no punctuation, but he was used to it after coming to Dahan for so long, and he read it quickly.
The author of this book is supposed to be a researcher in the past of the Demon Suppression Division, who specializes in exploring the origin and purpose of the Immortal Dao.
"Most of what you see below comes from the dictionaries of those Immortal Dao madmen. ”
"In some obviously contradictory and slightly absurd places, I combined the historical data of the division and made a modest guess. ”
"But it should be noted that the true origin of the Immortal Dao can be traced back to the pre-Han Dynasty at the earliest, and we may never be able to find the real answer because of the long time involved. ”
"Because some knowledge is secret...... There's a reason for it. ”
Seeing this, Chu Qiguang thought in his heart: 'In the former Han Dynasty, it is said to be the first great unified dynasty of mankind in this world, and it is the same as the current country name is Han, which has been more than 4,000 years since now, right?
Chu Qiguang continued to turn to the second page.
"The lower-level sect members of the Immortal Dao don't know anything about the origin of the Immortal Dao, and they often just have an extremely high fanaticism for immortality. ”
"But during an operation in the south, we caught the immortal Dao (crossed out). ”
"In her mouth, we learned about a different immortal Dao. ”
"It was the era of the first generation of the Divine Emperor of the Former Han Dynasty, and in order to pursue immortality, the Divine Emperor at that time gathered a large number of monks to study the art of immortality. ”
"But after ten years, the art of immortality has never been created. ”
"Until they found the real immortal, a man named (crossed out). ”
"By extracting his (crossed out) to refine the elixir, they obtained the first elixir of immortality. ”
"It's a pity that the person who took the elixir of immortality did not induce eternal life, but caused an unprecedented disaster, and the entire former Han also collapsed here......"
In the quiet darkness, only the sound of Chu Qiguang's flipping book remained.
He seems to follow the contents of the books, and suddenly go back to 4,000 years of antiquity, experiencing a twisted, crazy, and bloody catastrophe.
Under the rapid spread of the immortal medicine, the immortal ruined the imperial court at that time, and the immortal dao was in the beginning...... It is the genre of studying the undead and finding a way to end the immortal and destroy the elixir of the undead.
However, in the course of long-term research, their consciousness was gradually distorted by the elixir of immortality, and their spirit and body were gradually alienated, and finally they turned to worship this immortal power......
After reading this book, Chu Qiguang felt the burning sensation of the Circle of Fools gradually disappear, and even a trace of pleasure reached his heart.
Immediately afterwards, he found that he had forgotten the content of "Exploration of the Origin of the Immortal Dao".
Then something called the Gift poured out of the Circle of Foolishness and gathered into his eyes.