casket of old days

Chapter 163 Exploration of Origin
A cold feeling came over his face, and with Chu Qiguang's physique, he couldn't help but shudder slightly, feeling as if goose bumps were about to appear on his body.

But this coldness is not actually a drop in temperature, but a psychological feeling.

Chu Qiguang once again observed the large library shrouded in darkness...

The bluestone slab under the feet leads all the way to the gate of the library. On both sides of the road, there are three-meter-high and exquisitely shaped stone statues of squatting tigers, sheep, unicorns, horses, lions and so on.

Going further inside, there is a statue of stone figures holding swords in both hands, which looks lifelike, like a living person.

And the entire large library is built of a huge black stone.

When Chu Qiguang walked to the door, he could still see the exquisite and complicated reliefs on the stones under the light of the white lanterns on both sides.

'This big library... really looks like a cemetery. '

Looking at the five-meter-high black stone gate, Chu Qiguang tried to knock, and shouted, "Is anyone there?"

After Chu Qiguang knocked on the door for the third time...

boom!
Accompanied by the sound of the stone door rubbing against the ground, the door opened slowly, and a bald old man with thin cheeks stretched out his head. His skin was pale white like he hadn't seen the sun all year round. His two sunken eyes looked at Chu Qiguang.

"Hey, you are Chu Qiguang, right? Coach Yi told me about you..."

Saying that, the thin old man stepped aside: "Come in."

Chu Qiguang walked in, and at the moment he entered the big library, the ring of ignorance on his chest seemed to appear uncontrollably, exuding bursts of enthusiasm.

Chu Qiguang touched his chest, feeling very strange in his heart: "What's going on?What happened to the Ring of Fool? '

At this moment... a light bang was heard, and the emaciated gatekeeper had already closed the stone door again.

'This gatekeeper is very strong. While Chu Qiguang was thinking this way, his eyes were already plunged into darkness because of the sudden closing of the stone gate, and there was no light in the entire big library.

Crack... With a soft sound, the gatekeeper behind him lit a candle with flint and velvet and handed it to Chu Qiguang.

The janitor smiled nervously: "Hey, I'm not used to lighting candles when I'm alone."

Chu Qiguang took the candle and asked, "Then can you see it?"

The janitor shook his head: "I've stayed here for too long, I can find a place with my eyes closed."

The small candle can only illuminate a distance of two or three meters before and after Chu Qiguang, and the space further away is completely invisible.

He followed behind the gatekeeper with a candle, and the two walked along the stone path.

Under the faint light, Chu Qiguang couldn't see too far away. He could only see stone figures one after another on both sides, all holding swords in both hands.

Chu Qiguang secretly estimated that the two had walked about five or sixty meters, and they had already come to a bookshelf.

The gatekeeper said: "You can read the books on the first floor as you like, but don't go upstairs."

Chu Qiguang asked curiously, "Why?"

The corner of the gatekeeper's mouth was slightly crooked, and he looked more gloomy under the faint light of the fire: "On the first floor, people read books, and on the second floor...there are books that are going to eat people."

After finishing speaking, he ignored Chu Qiguang and walked into the darkness that the candle could not dispel.

Just when Chu Qiguang thought that the other party had already left, a burst of light came on not far away.

It turned out that the janitor lit an oil lamp and put it on the desk beside him: "Call me if you need anything."

After speaking, he had already left again, and this time he really went far away.

Chu Qiguang picked up the oil lamp and looked at the darkness that was gradually becoming invisible a few meters away.

This feeling is as if there is an endless thick black fog that swallows everything around.

But what Chu Qiguang is more concerned about now is the abnormality of the ring of ignorance in his chest.

Ever since he came near the bookshelf, his chest felt hotter and hotter.

He tried to walk around the rows of bookshelves in front of him, and found that the closer he was to one of the rows of bookshelves, the hotter the ring of fools felt.

'Is this reminding me to find one of the books? '

Chu Qiguang thought for a while, walked to the row of bookshelves that gave him the most burning sensation and looked at them, and found that they were all about the history of some sects.

Then he stretched out his palm to touch a few books at the bottom, and found that the heat in his chest hadn't changed.

But when he touched it all the way from bottom to top until he reached a book in the third row of the bookshelf, the heat of the Ring of Fool increased again, as if someone put a piece of burning carbon on his chest .

Chu Qiguang took out the thread-bound book and took a look. The cover of the book was already mottled and old, with the words "Inquiry into the Origin of Immortal Dao" written on it.

Open it and take a casual look, and you can see that the pages of the book have turned slightly yellow, and some handwriting also shows signs of staining.

"There seems to be nothing special about it." Chu Qiguang felt the heat in his chest, and thought to himself: "Do you want me to read this book?"

Originally, Chu Qiguang himself was a little curious about the origin of the immortal way, so he simply sat down at the desk, and read the book in his hand under the dim light of the oil lamp, surrounded by darkness.

Chu Qiguang turned to the first page. Although the book was vertical and without punctuation, he was used to it after being in Dahan for so long, and he quickly read it.

The author of this book should be a former researcher of Zhenmensi, who is responsible for exploring the origin and purpose of the Immortal Dao.

"Most of what you see below comes from the dictation of those lunatics in the Immortal Dao."

"In some obviously contradictory and slightly absurd places, I combined the historical materials of the company and made moderate guesses."

"But it needs to be explained that the true origin of the Dao of the Immortals can be traced back to the pre-Han period at the earliest. Because the time is too long, we may never be able to find the real answer."

"Because some knowledge is kept secret... for a reason."

Seeing this, Chu Qiguang thought in his heart: "The former Han Dynasty is said to be the first great unified dynasty of mankind in this world. It is the same as the current country name. It is Han. It has been more than 4000 years since now?"Is there such a long history of immortality? '

Chu Qiguang continued to turn to the second page.

"The lower-level religious members of the Immortal Dao don't know anything about the origin of the Immortal Dao. They often just have a very high fanaticism for immortality."

"But during an operation in the south, we captured the (crossed out) of Shenxiandao."

"From her mouth, we learned a different fairy tale."

"That was the era of the first generation of god emperors in the former Han Dynasty. In order to pursue immortality, the god emperors at that time summoned a large number of monks to study the art of immortality."

"But after ten years, the technique of immortality has never been created."

"Until they found the real undead, a man named (crossed out)."

"By extracting his (crossed out) to refine the elixir, they got the first elixir."

"It's a pity that the tester who took the elixir did not lead to eternal life, but caused an unprecedented disaster, and the entire former Han collapsed here..."

In the quiet darkness, only the sound of Chu Qiguang turning the pages of the book was left.

He seemed to follow the contents of the book, and went back to the ancient times of 4000 years, and experienced a twisted, crazy and bloody disaster.

Under the rapid spread of the undead medicine, the undead destroyed the imperial court at that time, and the Immortal Dao at the beginning... was the school of studying the undead, finding ways to end the undead, and destroy the undead medicine.

But in the long-term research, their consciousness was gradually distorted by the elixir, their spirit and body were gradually alienated, and finally they turned to worship this immortal power...

After reading this book, Chu Qiguang felt the burning sensation of the ring of foolishness gradually disappear, and even a tinge of joy conveyed to his heart.

Immediately afterwards, he found that he had forgotten the contents of "Inquiry into the Origin of Immortal Dao".

Then something called gift poured out from the ring of foolishness and gathered in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)