The animal skin book is one foot square and has a silvery luster. There are hundreds of characters densely packed on it. They are not written with pen and ink, but carved with a knife.
Wang Xuan stroked it with his hand. The patterns were clear and the touch was palpable. The knife skills were extremely exquisite. Each character had a kind of artistic conception and was full of beauty.
However, he didn't recognize any of the characters!
What kind of a talisman is this? It has so many strokes and is so complex that he tried to associate it with bronze inscriptions, but found no similarities.
He looked left and right, but this was not oracle bone script. He didn't know what era this writing was from. He couldn't recognize a single word.
Wang Xuan used shorthand, staring at the hundreds of characters, treating them as photos, and tried hard to imprint them in his mind.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t recognize it now. You can go back and look it up, or ask someone to decipher it. You can always solve it. The most important thing is to remember it firmly in your heart.
In order to keep the operation confidential, no one was allowed to bring any cell phones that could communicate with the outside world, otherwise Wang Xuan could take photos directly.
Although he had a button-sized miniature scanner on him, it was given to him by the expedition organization and he would probably have to hand it over in the end.
Wang Xuan memorized it silently, but found it quite difficult. He did not recognize the hundreds of complex characters and could only recite them by rote as if they were a divine book.
Fortunately, he has trained himself over the years. When he practices the root method of the old art, he needs to imagine all kinds of complex scenes without any omission.
He now regarded the entire silver animal skin book as a complex painting, engraved it in his mind and constantly thought about it.
Wang Xuan was sure that there was no problem and he remembered everything in his mind.
But in the end he still turned on the micro scanner and scanned the texts from different angles. He was afraid that the different angles might reveal other hidden secrets.
"Even if I need to hand it in, I hope Aoki will allow me to make a backup."
Wang Xuan did not think of monopolizing it. First, he felt that this was the result of everyone's joint efforts.
Secondly, he believed that there would be no good end to eating alone, and since he had a scanner on him, it might have been automatically turned on and recorded the entire process of this operation.
There are many wonderful methods and too many good things in this world. The tycoons have dug all over the old land and even obtained rare things like golden bamboo slips, but no one has ever heard of anyone being able to practice anything.
The key still lies in the people, and in the end it depends on who can understand and truly practice what is recorded.
Wang Xuan seriously doubted that no one would be able to master this scripture in a short period of time, and no one would even be able to analyze its essence.
After all, even the man in feather robe, who was considered to be the most powerful among the alchemists, was reading this animal skin scroll until his death. He was so powerful, but he was still studying it, which is enough to explain the problem.
Then he took out the jade box.
The so-called jade box is a jade box. Most of it is white and smooth, a piece of beautiful jade. Only one side has spots of blood stains, so it is an antique.
In the middle were several pieces of gold foil, nailed together, like several pages of golden paper forming a thin golden book.
Wang Xuan took a look and found that there were only five pages. There were human-shaped patterns on the gold foil on each page. There were no text annotations. The pictures were very coherent and the descriptions were detailed enough.
He was sure that this was a physical skill that seemed very profound, involving complicated movements that stimulated the internal organs, and should not be simple.
He began to memorize again. Overall, these familiar human-shaped images were much easier to remember than the characters on the silver animal skin scroll.
Finally, he used a scanner to scan the entire golden book and recorded everything.
He knew that he might not be able to gain any insights from the animal skin scroll, at least not in the short term, as that was something that only top alchemists could study.
Perhaps, this golden book is more valuable to him than the animal skin scroll at the moment.
Wang Xuan found a secluded place, leaned against the stone wall, held the energy gun, and then carefully looked at the golden book and silver scroll again.
Time passed quietly, Qingmu, Heihu and others had not returned yet. It was obvious that the underground passage had a complex terrain and was dug like a spider web by their predecessors, so they had trouble chasing the enemy.
An unknown amount of time had passed when Wang Xuan suddenly felt a chill. Without even thinking, he raised his hand and swept the energy gun across. The dazzling beam of light shattered the rocks and splashed everywhere.
A figure was as agile and ferocious as a tiger or leopard. It moved very quickly and dodged a few times, avoiding the interweaving beams of energy guns. It then leaped like an eagle and disappeared behind a rock.
Wang Xuan was extremely serious. He was definitely a great master!
Just now, the man was less than five meters away from him, and he was sensed by him, and then he dodged his gunfire like lightning.
Ordinary people can't do it at all. This person is most likely not weaker than Aoki. He has mastered extremely powerful old techniques and his strength is terrifying.
"One of us!" A middle-aged man's voice came from behind the rock, and part of his body was exposed. He was wearing the same style of protective clothing as Wang Xuan.
Wang Xuan did not make a sound, hiding behind the rock, holding an energy gun ready to fire at any time.
That person was very dangerous, especially since he had just approached him silently, which made Wang Xuan's hair stand on end. It was obvious that the other party wanted to attack him.
There were shadowy figures. More than a dozen people came out of the underground palace, all holding energy guns and hiding behind rocks and in corners.
A woman spoke up, "We are old acquaintances of Qingmu. Don't misunderstand or misjudge. Hurry and deliver the things here. The discovery here is of great importance and cannot be lost. We are the ones responsible for the response. We will take you to open the underground palace quickly. If it's too late, the reinforcements from the Zhou and Ling families may arrive."
Wang Xuan asked: "Since you were the one responsible for the response, why did you attack me just now?"
He was sure that if he had not let go of the energy gun the entire time and had not reacted so quickly, he might have been successfully attacked by the great master just now.
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