Chapter 292 It turns out that this broken map actually has an address marked on it.
"I remember now," Chu Xuanyi suddenly raised his head and looked at Xiao Yu, "Xuantian Secrets."
"The copy of 'Xuantian Secrets' from the Imperial Master's Mansion, which is never allowed to be passed on to outsiders."
Xiao Yu's eyes narrowed, "That book, I remember it was a banned book."
"Yes." Chu Xuanyi nodded vigorously. "Because what's recorded in that book is not the orthodox way of cultivating immortality and asking for the truth of the Tao in our Xuan Sect. It records how the ancestors of our world observed the outer space and warned of disasters in ancient times."
There are many scattered descriptions of the stars in the sky.”
"Let's go to the Imperial Master's Mansion now. I'm sure we can find the answer in that book."
Without any delay, the three of them rushed to the Imperial Master's Mansion overnight.
The library of the Imperial Master's Mansion is located in the deepest part of the entire mansion and is also the most heavily guarded area.
Chu Xuanyi led the two of them around the numerous restrictions with ease and came to an unremarkable and remote study.
He pushed open the wooden door and snapped his fingers. Several balls of spiritual fire automatically flew up and hovered in the air, illuminating the entire study as bright as day.
He walked straight to the huge bookshelf at the back of the study.
In the corner of the top floor, there was a book with a black cover that looked even more worn.
"That's it."
Chu Xuanyi tapped the ground lightly with his toes, flew up and carefully took down the ancient book.
The pages are made of unknown animal skin and are dark yellow in color.
The text recorded above is also a kind of ancient seal script that looks like runes.
Chu Xuanyi flipped through the pages quickly, looking for the record that corresponded to the star map drawn by Ajiu.
One page, two pages, three pages...
I have read most of the book, but still found nothing.
A layer of fine beads of sweat began to appear on Chu Xuanyi's forehead.
Could it be...that he remembered it wrongly?
Just when he was about to give up, he suddenly felt something strange.
His heart skipped a beat, and he gently scratched the edge of the animal skin with his fingernails. Sure enough, the animal skin that seemed to be a whole was actually split in the middle.
Hidden in the interlayer was a map also made of animal skin. The map was already decayed beyond recognition, with the edges broken and only a small area left that was barely recognizable.
And on the only remaining area, there was a corner of the strange star map drawn.
Although it is only a small part, the unique arrangement of those core stars is exactly the same, without any difference.
Having really found it, Chu Xuanyi's gaze slowly moved down from the star map.
Below the star map, there were two large characters that were blurry but still recognizable.
"Tianshu..." Chu Xuanyi read it out subconsciously.
"Tianshu is not a star."
"It is an ancient and important instrument, suspended above the nine heavens, used to observe the changes in the sea of stars and to guard against calamities from beyond the heavens."
"After the catastrophe, the Shenzhou land sank and the Tianshu collapsed, and its site also disappeared into the cracks of space..."
Chu Xuanyi suddenly raised his head and looked at Xiao Yu and Ajiu, "I understand."
"I know what that ancient stone platform floating among the stars that Jiu saw is."
"That thing is called 'Tianshu'."
"It doesn't refer to a specific star, but rather a star that our ancestors used in ancient times to observe the outer space and warn of disasters..."
"Observatory."
"However, according to the records in this book, this observatory was abandoned thousands of years ago in a catastrophe unknown to us. It is now hidden in the cracks of space and has disappeared."
Chu Xuanyi sat down on the chair and said, "After all this fuss..."
"After all this trouble, it's all for nothing."
He reached out and pinched his swollen eyebrows, his voice full of self-mockery.
"The gap in space is missing."
"The laws of space are so complex and confusing in the vast void. Trying to find an observatory that has been abandoned for thousands of years is harder than finding a needle in a haystack."
Xiao Yu didn't say anything. He stood quietly in front of the table, his eyes focused and sharp.
Ajiu looked at this and that, feeling that the atmosphere seemed to be wrong.
Her little mouth pouted unconsciously, and she moved closer to the table, imitating Xiao Yu's behavior and looking down at the map carefully.
"this……"
She pointed her finger at the corner of the strange star map on the map.
"This star pattern is the clue that will lead us to the bad guy's lair, right?"
Chu Xuanyi raised his eyelids weakly, "Yeah, but what's the use of just having clues?"
"What we lack now is a door to get in."
"There's no door on this picture."
"But..." Jiu frowned slightly.
She tilted her head and slowly moved her finger along the star map to another corner of the animal skin map. That corner was so severely decayed that it almost merged with the background. There were only a few extremely vague lines on it that looked like the outline of a mountain range.
"What is painted here?" she asked curiously.
Chu Xuanyi glanced in the direction of her finger, then became even less interested, "I don't know."
"It's probably a topographic map of some unknown place in ancient times."
"It's so broken, like a bunch of ghostly scribbles, who can tell where it's from?"
"Besides, even if we know where it is, what does it matter?"
"What we are looking for now is an observatory in the sky, not some ravine on the ground."
"The two are completely unrelated."
After he said that, he was ready to lean back in his chair and start to mess things up completely.
Xiao Yu, who had been silent all this time, suddenly moved. He stretched out two fingers and pinched the animal skin map.
Chu Xuanyi was stunned when he saw his action.
"No way." He said in disbelief.
"You're really studying this pile of junk."
"I'm telling you this is absolutely impossible to be a useful clue."
"Think about what the Tianshu Observatory is. It's suspended above the nine heavens, allowing observation of things beyond the heavens."
"How could it be related to a place on the ground?"
"That doesn't make sense logically."
Xiao Yu still ignored him, his brows furrowed tighter and tighter.
"Ajiu." He looked at Ajiu beside him.
"Take a closer look at the center of that stone platform you see."
Jiu was stunned when he heard this, then closed his eyes and tried hard to recall the vast sea of stars.
"center……"
"Its center seems... seems to be a large stone as well."
"There are so many patterns carved on that stone."
"Those patterns are exactly like... the star patterns in this picture."
"And then?" Xiao Yu continued to ask, "What else is there around the stone engraved with the star map?"
"It seems... there seem to be several very tall pillars standing around."
"Those pillars are also made of bronze, and are engraved with many strange patterns of mountains and rivers that I can't understand."
Hearing this, Chu Xuanyi, who had been leaning back in his chair, suddenly sat up straight.
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