Chapter 105: The Tattered Ancient Manual
Ning Chong and Ning Que walked onto the transmission array, in the blink of an eye, a faint humming noise sounded around them, and their figures began to blur. In another blink of an eye, the two had vanished into thin air without a trace.
Ning Chong only felt that the space around him began to blur and vibrate, and after a moment, he had already appeared in a huge library.
Ning Chong was slightly surprised in his heart, he had seen it in the book that this library should be a kind of "須弥 space" similar to the spatial ring principle, its preciousness and complexity far exceeded that of the spatial ring. The Ning family actually had such a space, which showed the extremely deep foundation of the Ning family, worthy of being the first family of Xuan Yuan City.
With a sigh in his heart, Ning Chong didn't have much time to waste, because the rectangular patterns on the outer wall clearly stated that each person who entered the Scripture Pavilion was limited to selecting books within one hour. After an hour, they would be automatically transmitted out of the pavilion and could not enter again for a long time.
Time was limited, and Ning Chong didn't want to waste any more time. After greeting Ning Que who was standing not far away from him, the two of them parted ways to search for the secret recipe separately, diving headfirst into the sea of books to look for their ideal one.
The number of bookshelves in the library is vast, like a sea of smoke, with each bookshelf being as tall as a person. The bookshelves are divided into many rectangular cells, each cell space is not small, but only one book is placed. Despite this, these books are still extremely dense, like stars, making people feel dizzy when they look at them.
But outside the grid of the book, there is another thin layer of red light that is like a soap bubble. When you touch it with your hand, you will feel a rebound force, and the stronger the force, the stronger the rebound force.
Ning Chong knew that this layer of red light was a special seal, the purpose of which was not only to protect the books but also to prevent the younger generation of the family from studying advanced secret techniques that were not yet qualified for cultivation.
To obtain the secret recipe in the grid, you must have the ability to break through the red light cocoon outside the grid. Otherwise, you can only look at the introduction and description of the secret recipe across the red light cocoon, but cannot touch it.
So many formulas and secret books, Ning Chong naturally wouldn't be foolish enough to search through them one by one. He immediately concentrated his mind and unfolded that strange feeling with great proficiency, using it to judge and select the secret books.
After searching for about half an hour, Ning Chong had already selected more than ten martial skills and techniques. Having almost made a round in the Scripture Pavilion, Ning Chong thought to himself whether he should stop here, lest he be greedy and not know when to stop.
At this moment, he suddenly saw a tattered book in the bottom compartment of the bookshelf in front.
Based on his experience of picking up "Rolling Stone Fist" last time, Ning Chong couldn't help but leave a mark and took several big steps forward.
Apart from the tattered secret book, there was still a thick layer of red light enveloping it. Ning Chong first used the same strength as when he had previously selected the secret book and punched three times in succession. What surprised him was that even though he had only used 40% of his strength for these three punches, the thick red light merely swayed slightly, without even a wisp of smoke emerging! If it were one of those other secret books from before, they would have been shattered by now, and even the bookshelf grid would be shaking.
"How interesting!"
Ning Chong's eyes lit up with excitement. With just one glance, Ning Chong had a great feeling about this tattered ancient book, and the stronger the red light seal's restriction was, the more powerful the contents of the book would be. From this, it could be said that this tattered ancient book might be an extremely excellent ancient book.
Without a moment's hesitation, he took a deep breath and exerted all his strength, striking out with a mighty fist.
What's wrong?
Among the sounds similar to shattering glass, a red light cocoon suddenly burst open, and Ning Chong's left hand swooped in, already holding the secret book from the grid.
This tattered ancient book is somewhat strange, and it doesn't have a cover. The paper quality is old and yellowed, similar to sheepskin paper. Although the characters on it are ancient and weathered, they are not regular, obviously handwritten. Moreover, the opening of this ancient book is very wide, almost three times that of ordinary ancient books. Looking at it, each page of the ancient book is like a scroll.
Almost the moment he got the secret recipe, Ning Chong suddenly felt an extremely good feeling surging up from his heart, which made his inner self involuntarily extremely excited. Just from this good feeling, Ning Chong could confirm - this secret recipe was definitely extraordinary!
Eagerly, Ning Chong immediately picked up the secret book and took a look. This glance made his heart suddenly tremble violently!
"This ancient manual's feeling... how can it be so familiar! It's strange, just like I've already read it before... what's going on here?"
Ning Chong furrowed his brow in confusion, feeling as if he had grasped something in his mind, but for the time being, he couldn't quite figure it out.
She was stunned for a moment, and then a flash of inspiration struck Ning Chong's mind. "Ah!" she exclaimed.
"Ah! It's the 'Drawing Sword Technique'! This secret manual gives me such a familiar feeling, it's from the 'Drawing Sword Technique' I've cultivated before!"
Having determined the cause, Ning Chong was extremely excited and once again lowered his head, carefully studying the tattered ancient manual in his hand.
This ancient book has no cover and its name is unknown, it's a completely tattered and anonymous ancient book. However, after Ning Chong carefully studied it, he found obvious signs of tearing in one corner of the book, and on a remaining page, four "seal characters" could still be clearly seen.
Seal script is recognizable, this font is a kind of ancient font that is no longer in use, with complex character shapes.
The four seal characters on the remaining pages are extremely large and conspicuous, and should be the name of this broken secret book. Unfortunately, the torn marks just split the four seal characters in two, given the complexity of the seal characters, after the character shape is damaged, even a seal script expert can hardly know what these four words mean, let alone Ning Chong.
However, Ning Chong's mind was suddenly filled with an uncontrollable joy, because his incredibly strong memory clearly remembered that the scroll which recorded the "Sword Drawing Technique" was also damaged, and on the edge of the damage were four unclear seal characters that could not be identified.
He hastily took out the "Sword Drawing Technique" and tried to piece together the scroll of the "Sword Drawing Technique" and the incomplete ancient book. As a result, he was surprised again, this scroll of the "Sword Drawing Technique" actually merged perfectly with this incomplete ancient book!
Up to this point, all the truth has been revealed, and Ning Chong finally understood why he had an indescribable feeling when he first practiced the "Sword Extraction Technique". Although he had completed the practice of the "Sword Extraction Technique", that feeling was like reading a book to the exciting part, only to find that the next page was missing, leaving him with a sense of discomfort.
It turns out that this "Baxian Technique" is actually just a part of this incomplete ancient book. The so-called "Baxian Technique" was only created by later generations after they obtained this part, studied it carefully, and made some minor changes to create a new martial art technique.
