Chapter 1: The Secret of Chaos
In a dilapidated apartment, Chen Zhi held a worn-out animal skin book in his hand, sat cross-legged on the ground, and turned page by page with spit, "All the treasures that pass through the heavens are not capable of penetrating the heavens and the earth, up to the nine heavens, down to the netherworld, not limited by the rules of the universe, but when the heavens and the earth first opened, they were naturally conceived from the chaos and turbidity. The treasure of Xuantian is the first great god of ancient times to open the heavens and the earth after the spiritual objects of heaven and earth absorb the Xuanhuang qi, and the two qi of Xuanhuang rush to each other, forming the trend of Taiji gossip, which is secretly in line with the laws of the universe, and it is to open the spiritual wisdom by itself, just because the treasure of Xuantian is not very powerful, and then erased the divine wisdom by the ancient gods, refining into the things of the gods, these treasures are flashing with spiritual light, and can not be recognized by the naked eye, but the cultivators can judge the size of their power through their spiritual pressure. And the treasure of the Dao Law, is the future generations of powerful people to imitate the ancient gods left in the world of refining methods, imitation refining, into a variety of shapes, these are the treasures of the day after tomorrow, the size of the power and the treasure of the heavens, Xuantian is not the same, but still need to be secretly in line with the universe, such treasures are powerful, can multiply and shrink the laws of heaven and earth, and form their own rules of the Dao, the power is small, can be transposed, exorcism and evil spirits......"
"Go, Xuanhu and Xuan, I thought it would help my business, but it turned out that the last one fell for the peddler!" Chen Zhiyi closed the book in his hand and said stupidly.
Chen Zhinai is a college student, a college student who graduated from Pheasant University, and he is studying an unpopular major-archaeology, which is a super unpopular major with only 20 students in the whole department, but fortunately, there are exactly 20 people, just in a class, and the school did not make a decision to let them choose a new major.
But things are okay so far, just studying archaeology, a graduation means unemployment, Chen Zhi has graduated for three years, but he can't find any job, on the one hand, it is the reason why this major is unpopular, on the other hand, his grades are really miserable, he entered Pheasant University, this kind of university graduates, after graduation, they can't find a job in the sea, but there are a lot of him Chen Zhi. After looking for a job dozens of times, but the employer politely rejected him for various reasons, Chen Zhi really had no choice, so he opened a small shop in his home and started his old business - selling antiques, but he was also professional.
There is an old saying in this antique shop, which is called not to open for three years, and to eat for three years. But this is talking about those veterans, like Chen Zhi, a novice who only has theoretical knowledge is not easy to open a store, doesn't it mean that less than one percent of college students can survive after a year when they open a store? Chen Zhi belongs to the latter, seeing that half a year has passed, not a single "antique" has been sold, and he owes a lot of debts because of the purchase problem, and now the creditors have been chasing after the butt to collect debts, and the chase is called a tight one!
This is also the reason why Chen Zhi bought this book a month ago, looking at the name "Chaos Treasure Appreciation", domineering! Maybe it is the method of identifying antiques, right? But what good goods can there be in this stall? Chen Zhi was suspicious in his heart, and bargained with the uncle who set up the stall, and talked for half an hour, looking at the more people around him who were watching the excitement, Chen Zhi was also suddenly confused, thinking that what if it was really a treasure? If the person who watched the excitement bought it, wouldn't it be a loss? In any case, he would buy it and talk about it.
So, Chen Zhi paid 200 yuan and went home with this "Chaos Treasure Appreciation" in his arms. In fact, it can't be said that Chen Zhi really bought it without reading the content, but the street lights where the stall was set up were dim, and Chen Zhi had been immersed in antiques for more than half a year, and the material of this book was indeed a genuine animal skin, so although the content was not very clear, he also reluctantly paid for it, but when he went home, he was so angry that he blew his lungs, and he didn't know any of the words on it!
In fact, this can't all be blamed on him, after all, although there are a lot of words that a college student doesn't know, but the commonly used Chinese characters are still known about the Tao, but the book is not a Chinese character, look at the font pen walking dragon snake, vigorous and powerful, like the dragon tour is too empty, steaming dreams, the font is only as big as a tadpole, but there is a trace of atmosphere, and I don't know which dynasty the text of the road is. In order to check the meaning of these words, Chen Zhi searched through all the dictionaries, but did not find the slightest clue. Later, I thought that this Internet is so popular now, why not look up the ins and outs of these words on the Internet, and maybe you can get some clues. It's a pity that the so-called all-encompassing network doesn't have any records and materials of this type of text, which makes Chen Zhitou very surprised.
The search engine does not work, and can only rely on the most primitive method - those paper media, Chen Zhi thinks that he has a lot of books at home, and some of them are ancient books left by previous generations, but unfortunately, after looking through those ancient books, there is still no clue.
Just yesterday, Ma Qing, a classmate in college, came to Chen Zhi to take some antiques back to sell, you must know that this Ma Qing and Chen Zhi are different, they are top students in college, and they have connections and vision, every time Chen Zhi can't sell something, almost all of them have become fragrant and sweet in his hands, and the price has doubled and risen. Ma Qing came yesterday and took a fancy to a snuff bottle in Chen Zhi's antique pile, saying that it was 900 to buy, Chen Zhi suffered a lot of losses and became refined, saying that he would not sell anything, and he was stunned to sell it for 3000, Ma Qing was not stupid, and he moved out of the friendship of his classmates for four years to talk about things, and the two of them grinded their mouths for a long time, and they didn't talk about a piece, and after the most Ma Qing took out a piece of copper from his pocket, and saw that some stains on the copper sheet seemed to have been carefully scrubbed and could not be wiped off, obviously some years.
However, the real reason for Chen Zhi's decision to exchange the snuffbox for this broken copper sheet is that some tadpole-like characters carved on this broken copper plate are the words on the animal skin book, and behind each tadpole text on this copper plate corresponds to an ancient character, although these ancient characters are ancient, but as a student of archaeology, Chen Zhi can easily see that those words are hieroglyphs.
A copper plate engraved with hieroglyphs, although it is very likely to be a fake, but looking at it like this, it is at least something from thousands of years ago, this Ma Qingke has always been a master who refuses to suffer, how could he exchange this thing with himself? Chen Zhi suddenly became vigilant, and looked Ma Qing up and down with suspicious eyes, but Ma Qing obviously came prepared, and almost dispelled Chen Zhi's suspicions in three or two clicks.
It turned out that Ma Qing and his girlfriend were approaching their wedding, and the two fell in love with a house in the city and wanted to buy it as a new house, but how easy is it to buy a house this year? Even if it is a down payment, you have to pay two or three hundred thousand, Ma Qing doesn't have so much money, although he has made some money in the antique business in recent years, but the consumption is not small, so up to now, this down payment is still less than one or two thousand, looking for a bank is suffering from no mortgage, so I came to find a college classmate to take something to sell, and although this copper piece has been some years, but people know how to say that this thing is a complete set, and it is worthless to sell alone, if it is sold as a set, it must be tens of millions, but if there is only one piece, it can only be given one or two thousand, so it is simply exchanged for this snuff bottle。
Chen Zhi said okay, but my snuff bottle has to be sold for three thousand, your thing is worth one thousand and five at most, and you have to give me one thousand and five, the two of them grinded their mouths again, and finally sold for two thousand yuan, but Chen Zhi looked at Ma Qing's sinister expression when he took away the snuff bottle, and always felt that he still lost money, and the loss was not small.
However, the antiques that were sold were like water spilled out, and they couldn't be recovered, Chen Zhi tried to calm down, closed the doors and windows, and then took out the copper sheet and the book of "Chaos Treasure Appreciation", compared them one by one, and it took half a day to translate the first paragraph of this "Chaos Treasure Appreciation", of course, the original text is not like this, the above translations are written by Chen Zhi according to the text of the original text and his own understanding and then according to the description method of modern text.
Chen Zhi tried to translate a few more paragraphs, but found that the words on the copper plate were only a few words over and over, and he couldn't translate many of the following words completely, most of them only appeared a few words, and there were many coherent words missing in the middle, and he looked at it in a fog for a while.
Finally, in the last few paragraphs of the book, Chen Zhi translated a paragraph completely, and when the translation came out, Chen Zhi was almost ecstatic, because this is exactly the method of identifying antiques, but after carefully reading the whole paragraph, Chen Zhi was still a little dumbfounded, because this passage is like this:
"The more old the thing, after the baptism of time, the more pure the breath is left, the impurities inside have been washed over time, or assimilated, or contaminated with the ancient atmosphere, as long as the spiritual sense is wide open, sense the breath on the object, you can know what kind of age it is, the more old the thing, the more the wild breath attached. ”
Chen Zhi looked at the above information, somewhat enlightened, but this sense of breath is simple, but the actual operation is definitely not so simple, not to mention anything else, just now if the real and fake of the "Mona Lisa" are placed in front of him, it is estimated that he will not be able to identify them, because this kind of modern thing does not care about the wild breath at all. However, this is mainly because modern counterfeiting methods are so clever that it is easy to be deceived just by feeling with the five senses.
The fifth sense? Chen Zhi's spiritual light flashed, could it be that this spiritual sense refers to the sixth sense other than the five senses? But if you think about it carefully, you still feel unreliable, the sixth sense refers to the foreknowledge of human beings about things that have not yet happened in the future, and it seems that it is not compatible with this spiritual sense, that is, the seventh sense? The seventh sense refers to people's sense of the speed of time, and there is also a saying that the seventh sense is the touch of space other than the three-dimensional space, that is, the four-dimensional space that is now scientifically said. But either way, it doesn't seem to match the information above.
Chen Zhi thought about things in his mind, and felt that this should not seem to be the end of the whole book, and there should be some information missing, but after reading this book over and over again, this passage is indeed the last paragraph of the book, and the previous words are not translated due to the limited information at hand now.
Wrong!
There should still be content!
After Chen Zhi read all the translated parts of the book, a trace of such a thought suddenly flashed in his mind, because the previous part talked about the method of identifying treasures, but none of the contents talked about spiritual awareness, and looking at the meaning of this text, this spiritual sense seems to be the basis for identifying antique treasures?
Chen Zhi flipped through the book in his hand several times, but still didn't find anything, so he had no choice but to turn to the last page and ponder slowly.
"Huh, what is this?" Chen Zhi held the last page of animal skin in his hand and rubbed it, feeling that it was a little hard to start, it seemed to be slightly different from the previous pages of animal skin, it seemed to be a little thicker, but the thickness was really not obvious, if it wasn't for this animal skin book in Chen Zhi's hand turned over and over several times, he really didn't feel any difference.
Chen Zhi found a knife, carefully cut the edge of the last page of the animal skin from the middle, and after two fingers reached into the middle area for a while, he took out a piece of translucent cardboard about the size of a palm made of something as thin as a cicada's wing, and I don't know what it was, and some words were densely written on the paper, but the text was only the size of an ant, and Chen Zhi couldn't see it clearly under the dim light.
After finding a magnifying glass, Chen Zhi put the cardboard under the lamp and slowly studied it.
After a long time, Chen Zhicai slowly raised his head, and a strange expression appeared on his face.
Because the text on this cardboard is not the tadpole-like text, but the word that Chen Zhi knows - Sanskrit, the two fonts must be different in age, so it is certain that this cardboard made of what material is used to make the Tao must be put into this animal skin by later generations, and what is recorded in this cardboard is what Chen Zhi thinks is missing in this book, the cultivation method of spiritual consciousness.