The villain has been playing badly for ten years

"Your Highness, this is the Spiritual Encounter Book."

Miemie was standing next to him and gave a careful reminder.

"Spiritual Encounter Book?"

Ning Xiusu didn't quite understand. Seeing Chen Jiu narrow his one eye, he deliberately put on a stern face and said, "Girl, why did you tell him? Let him figure it out himself."

"But Uncle Bearded Man, when we were upstairs, we clearly heard the prince making a bet with the stone man. If the prince could untie the stone man, he could get out."

"Oh, that's right!" Chen Jiu slapped his head, as if he just realized it.

He stroked his beard again and said mysteriously, "Ning boy, if I tell you something, will you take me and Miemie with you when you go out?"

Ning Xiusu knew that the old man was worried about this and said:

"As long as you don't stand on the side of the cult, I will find a way to get you out, whether you tell me or not."

Chen Jiu stroked his beard, and his tone softened a bit. "This thing contains the power of heaven and earth, and it is also related to a large tomb. Ning boy, you should know about the story of the King of Qi'an who made his fortune by robbing tombs, right?"

Ning Xiusu said calmly, "I've heard a little, but not much."

"When the King of Qi'an emerged from that great tomb, he obtained a book on military strategy, which enabled him to conquer and conquer everything. If it weren't for the later invention of the Yanjia mechanism by Dayan, we wouldn't have been able to establish the art of checks and balances."

There was a bright light in Chen Jiu's eyes, full of longing. As he paced with his hands behind his back, his blue-gray robe swayed with his steps.

"Now that the Lingfeng Book has appeared in the world, it means that the tomb has not disappeared and is still hidden somewhere in Qi'an. However, what you have in your hand is the first volume, and the whereabouts of the second volume are unknown."

"Is there a sequel to this thing?"

"That's right," Chen Jiu raised his sparse eyebrows and said, "People say that there is a golden house in this book. If we can decipher the upper and lower volumes of the Lingfeng Book together, we can find the location of the tomb."

Ning Xiusu said, "But it's just a tomb, what's so magical about it?"

Miemie continued, "I know this. A hundred years ago, a master in Longyuan Pavilion predicted that anyone who entered would have their long-cherished wish fulfilled."

This Yanren ferry came to the sea ruins for the treasure vault's token...

But he brought out the Lingfeng Book to make a bet... Could there be some connection between them?

Ning Xiusu pondered in his heart and asked again:

"Could it be that this Lingfeng Book is also an old item from Longyuan Pavilion?"

"That's not it."

Chen Jiu then cast his one eye over and stared at him strangely:

"Hey, kid, have you ever lost your memory? Why do you keep asking me about this merman thing?"

"..."

Ning Xiusu was momentarily stunned. It wasn't that he had lost his memory, but he had lived in the borderland for so long that he really didn't understand the situation of the mermaids.

Miemie Lingxiu's eyes moved and she explained:

"Actually... Lingfeng Ce and Longyuan Pavilion do have a connection."

Seeing Ning Xiusu's genuine confusion, Chen Jiu said "Hi!" and continued:

"Those were all left behind by the former Haixu people. But I heard that after their master died, no one could understand the contents of the book anymore."

After a moment, Chen Jiu stroked his beard again, full of confusion.

"However, this Mo Chi Fei was willing to show you this thing, but why did he set up a broken formation and lock you up?"

Chen Jiu was still talking when he heard Miemie exclaim, "Ah!" and called out, "Uncle Bearded Man, look, there's something in this box."

He immediately went towards Miemie. The behavior of these two people was very similar to Hua Jianbai, both of them were noisy.

Ning Xiusu felt even more worried when he thought of Hua Jianbai. Now he was trapped on the boat...

Hanamibai is usually very eccentric and was involved in the Dragon Bone Seal incident. It is unknown whether he can protect himself if he meets a spiritual practitioner.

"Hey, why is the wooden box that fell from the roof here?"

Chen Jiu's old voice came again, interrupting his thoughts unconsciously.

"Uncle Bearded Man, just now we pried open the mechanism upstairs and the ground collapsed, but this thing clearly fell into the mechanism."

Ning Xiusu was attracted by the voices of the two people, and his eyes couldn't help but look at Miemie's hand. The small wooden box was pitch black in color and looked extremely ordinary.

However, half of a scroll was exposed next to the broken box on the ground, which attracted attention.

The pattern above...

He was slightly startled and immediately went to take a look. He saw a scroll painting with green and blue rocks intersecting with farming and grazing, and the brushstrokes were continuous. There was a seal on the lower right with the five words "Bi Fu Dan Yu Tu" written on it.

Strange, this is not something from the Forbidden Palace.

When Hu Xiaoxiao went to the Forbidden Palace to steal this painting, why did she abandon it?

Ning Xiusu discovered that there was a layer between the drawings, indicating that someone had taken them out before. This drawing seemed unusual...

What's even stranger is... what's in this box...

Ning Xiusu saw something in the box, a metal shell with a smooth surface and neatly arranged numeric keys. It was actually a calculator?

"Hey, what is this?"

Miemie was indeed curious. She glanced at the calculator in the box, took it in her hand, and poked it randomly.

"Return to zero."

Miemie was so frightened that her face turned pale and she threw the calculator away.

Chen Jiu stroked his beard and said in surprise, "Oh, this heartless stone man, what kind of mess did he hide on this boat?"

Ning Xiusu simply said, "Senior Chen, could you please let me see the box in your hand?"

Chen Jiu's attention was attracted by the sundries in the box, and he didn't bother to care about the small wooden box. He raised his hand and threw it at him. Then he and Miemie went to rummage through the box again and took out a plush doll.

Ning Xiusu saw that the small wooden box was intricately carved and the wood was a little worn, but it was fastened with a small lock.

With this specification...why does it look like a box in Wonderland?

He looked around and found a piece of wire on the wooden box, inserted it into the lock hole of the ebony box, and as he moved gently, a slight "click" sound was heard, which was the sound of the lock tongue teeth biting.

After a while, the lock slowly opened, and a faint sandalwood scent wafted into the air, as if it had been deposited for a long time.

Inside the wooden box is a triangular transparent crystal.

It looks like a prism...

"Hey, Your Majesty, you can pick locks. How come you're so skilled at this lowly, mercenary trade?"

Miemie asked softly, still holding the fluffy doll in her hands, but her clean and white little face could not hide her interest.

"Hey Ning, boy, have you ever been a thief?"

Chen Jiu put his hands behind his back and said something with a look of surprise.

"..."

Ning Xiusu was speechless for a moment: "No, I just know some odd jobs."

As he spoke, he picked up the transparent crystal with his fingertips. The candlelight shone on it, and there seemed to be some words on it...

Suddenly, an idea came to Ning Xiusu, who picked up the Lingfeng Book on the table and aimed the crystal at the ancient seal characters on the paper.

Suddenly I discovered that the small characters engraved on the transparent crystal could just cover half of it.

This happened to remind me of something...

Ning Xiusu looked at the handwriting on the note and suddenly realized something.

Could it be that it is not one word, but a combination of two words? If we take the font apart, what would it be?

There were some pens, ink, paper and inkstone on the bookshelf in the room. Ning Xiusu took a piece of rice paper and wrote on it stroke by stroke.

"What is he writing, sir?"

Miemie sat next to the wooden box, resting her chin on the doll, her eyes curiously staring at the pen in Ning Xiusu's hand.

Chen Jiu was still studying his calculator until he heard Miemie's question. Then he threw away the thing in his hand and walked towards Ning Xiusu with his hands behind his back.

"Hmm?" He looked at the words Ning Xiusu had written on the rice paper, frowning slightly. "Strange! What kind of words are these? I've never seen them before."

The characters on the rice paper did not belong to any of the places in the Eastern Wilderness of the Central Plains, Kunqiu in the Western Border, or Qi'an in the Northern Desert.

But, these... why do they look a bit like... Ning Xiusu thought of something, looked at the crooked strokes of the characters, picked up the entire piece of rice paper, and turned it over.

The rice paper is very thin, and the ink on the back can show through a little, but the handwriting can still be seen clearly.

When the handwriting turned back, Ning Xiusu couldn't help but laugh out loud...

"understood."

Chen Jiu's face was covered with wrinkles like ravines, and his one eye shone with a sharp light.

"What do you understand?"

He just noticed that Ning Xiusu frowned at one moment and smiled at another, and was muttering in a mysterious way. He couldn't help but touch his gray beard in confusion.

I thought to myself: Could it be that this kid can really understand the Lingfeng Book?

How could Chen Jiu know that the characters written by Ning Xiusu were exactly the simplified characters of the modern world, and... it was the simplified characters after the mirror image.

The ancient seal script written on the few thin pages of the Lingfeng Book is a combination of two mirror-image simplified Chinese characters, which are then overlapped up and down with strange strokes, so it looks like a talisman.

But all this... is thanks to the reminder from the transparent crystal just now.

Ning Xiusu didn't answer Chen Jiu's words, but turned to look at him and asked, "Senior Chen, where did you find the wooden box?"

Chen Jiu shook his head and said, "I forgot to tell you, this wooden box and this big broken box are both upstairs."

As he spoke, Ning Xiusu had already sorted out all the words on the thin page.

There were a lot of words on the rice paper, densely packed together to form a sentence: "Those who see it, all will be prosperous and righteous, this is the will of heaven... Therefore, the way of nature is the elixir. The way of heaven and earth is yin and yang..."

This seems to be some kind of alchemy... The records above are fragmentary and unsystematic, and it seems to have some connection with the Shangqing Sect.

Ning Xiusu still had some impressions deep in his memory, but the last few sentences were the key points.

I saw it read:

"The way of heaven is that the gods and ghosts hide. It is Cangming City, twenty miles east of the sixteen mountains, the head of the Boshan Mountain."

This booklet should have been unlocked. Could it be pointing to that large tomb...

Isn’t Cangming City... in Qi’an?

He was just thinking about it when the boat suddenly shook slightly.