Mortal Mirror

This was an old Daoist priest with disheveled hair and a dirty face. One couldn't describe how travel-worn he looked, as if he had been traveling for a long time to get here.

Li Ergou stopped him and immediately asked, "Daoist friend, may I ask, what brings you to this Bai Xuan place?"

The old Daoist looked at Li Ergou with a strange expression and said, "What brings me here? Are you stupid? People come here, of course, to see the Heavenly Book. Do you think they come to this godforsaken place for fun? Are you out of your mind?"

With that, he snorted coldly, pushed Li Ergou aside, and strode forward.

Li Ergou was dumbfounded, still unable to understand, but he did realize one thing: Black Old Woman hadn't lied. This Heavenly Book seemed to be quite famous. But was there really no danger on this Bai Xuan Mountain?

Based on his many years of listening to operas, places where such treasures appear are usually guarded by demon beasts, and one must go through many difficulties and hardships to see their true form.

Looking at the bustling crowd on the road, he had a feeling that he might have come to the wrong place.

Of course, if there were really so many people going up the mountain, it probably wouldn't be too dangerous, right?

Li Ergou, still not giving up, asked a few more people. This time he was sure that everyone was here to see the stone tablet Heavenly Book, and most of them had come for the name. The Heavenly Book was very famous.

Li Ergou asked them if they weren't afraid of danger, but they all looked at him as if he were an idiot, leaving him confused and not knowing what was going on.

However, their mounts attracted a lot of attention, especially Li Ergou's Chicken King. It really caught the eye, and several people even inquired about buying it, but Li Ergou naturally wouldn't sell it.

Thus, they arrived at the foot of Bai Xuan Mountain smoothly, and to Li Ergou's surprise, the foot of the mountain was bustling with activity.

A huge square had been specially cleared, and the entire square was paved with fine stone slabs.

In the square were teahouses, restaurants, inns, gambling dens, and even a small building called Ten Thousand Flower House. The girls upstairs were flaunting their charms and constantly flirting with passersby below to attract customers. People would occasionally walk upstairs with happy expressions.

In a corner of the square, many people were selling all sorts of strange things.

Hundred-year-old ginseng, deer antler, various spiritual medicines, special magical artifacts, all kinds of things, messy and disorganized.

In the middle of the square, there was also a storyteller, eloquently telling the origin of the Heavenly Book stone tablet, constantly drawing cheers from the crowd.

Li Ergou couldn't help but join the fun, and he heard the storyteller say, "You don't know, that night, thunder and lightning roared in the sky, like silver snakes dancing wildly.

I saw countless meteors streaking across the sky, a beautiful meteor shower, extraordinary.

Then, a meteorite deviated from the path of the meteor shower and headed straight for this Bai Xuan Mountain. Then, after a loud noise, the entire Bai Xuan Mountain trembled.

At that moment, golden light shone brightly on the entire Bai Xuan Mountain, like a dazzling sun, illuminating the area within a hundred miles as if it were daytime. Then, countless powerful cultivators came to investigate.

They saw the stone tablet on the mountain and even saw the Heavenly Book characters recorded on the stone tablet. From then on, people constantly came to worship this tablet.

After reading the Heavenly Book, some entered the Dao in a day, achieving immeasurable Heavenly Venerate, some became Buddhas in a day, achieving the body of a Bodhisattva. From then on, people constantly comprehended the Heavenly Book and achieved extraordinary things, comprehending the Great Dao..."

Listening to the storyteller's words, Li Ergou could only feel that this guy was quite capable of tricking. If it were really like that, wouldn't this stone tablet have been carried back to the sect by the great power long ago?

Tch, others might believe it, but he didn't.

It was also at this time that he learned that this mountain had been bought by a large family in Qingshui County and developed into a tourist attraction, attracting cultivators from all over to visit the heavenly stone tablet.

Li Ergou had to admire the patriarch of this family, who was really good at doing business, even doing business on cultivators.

The most speechless thing was that to go up the mountain, you had to pay a toll of ten taels of silver per person. In this way, Li Ergou was even more convinced that the storyteller was tricking everyone to go up the mountain to watch, so they could spend money.

Fortunately, spirit beasts didn't cost money, otherwise, Li Ergou would have gone berserk. This was simply robbery.

The only gratifying thing was that the mountain was covered with stone roads, and the way up was like a outing. Many maple trees were planted on both sides of the road. When this season came, the leaves of the maple trees were red and beautiful, pleasing to the eye.

Winding all the way up, Li Ergou found that there were really a lot of people coming here to watch the Heavenly Book.

The road was easy to walk, and soon they came to the top of the mountain. Li Ergou and others saw a huge stone about ten feet high, surrounded by circles of railings.

Some people in armor were guarding the stone, and people could only watch from a distance. To watch up close, you actually had to pay a fee.

Li Ergou was speechless, thinking that these people were too good at scheming. You actually had to charge money when you got to the top of the mountain.

But then again, this way of making money was not bad. If his Juzi Mountain was developed in the future, he could copy this model, and the money would come rolling in.

After inquiring, Li Ergou learned that the closer to the stone tablet, the higher the price. About ten feet away cost thirty taels of silver, five feet cost fifty taels, three feet cost one hundred taels, one foot cost two hundred taels, and one meter cost three hundred taels.

Li Ergou felt that these guys were just robbing money, but there were still many people who generously donated money and entered with happy faces.

Jing'er and Mei'er didn't want to watch any Heavenly Book, but since they had come so far, and they had arrived, Li Ergou had to take a look to be convinced.

In the end, Li Ergou gritted his teeth and spent a lot of money. The three of them directly sacrificed nine hundred taels. He wanted to see what this Heavenly Book looked like. If these guys were tricking him, hmph, then he would have to charge them with fraud.

It's good to have money. He took the two girls and stepped within a meter of the boulder, and he heard a crowd of people behind him sighing, their eyes shining with envy, jealousy, and hate.

Li Ergou naturally ignored these, thinking that he was spending a lot of money, what were you envious of?

It was wrong to call it a stone tablet. It was actually an irregular boulder. The entire boulder was about ten feet in size, and the other three sides were smooth, as if they had been plated with a layer of glazed tile, very beautiful.

Only this one side revealed the original appearance of the stone. On the stone, dozens of lines of characters were written. These characters were not characters that everyone recognized, but like tadpole writing, they could not be understood at all.

When Li Ergou saw this tadpole writing, he inexplicably felt a sense of familiarity, as if he had seen it somewhere, but he couldn't remember where.

The two girls looked at the characters on the stone, and they all felt like they had wasted their money. Jing'er said with some amazement, "This is worth three hundred taels? What a waste."

Mei'er quickly followed up and said, "Yes, yes, no, I have to take a few more glances, otherwise I'll lose out."

Two people had already been here to study it. After seeing the faces of the two girls, they all looked at Li Ergou with envy.

Li Ergou didn't speak, but let the two girls sit in front of the stone with him and comprehend it well.

At this moment, Li Ergou looked at the stone tablet in front of him, and the more he looked at it, the more familiar he felt with those characters. For a moment, he was fascinated. Who would have thought that at this moment, in Li Ergou's Dantian, the mysterious rune at the center of the Jitian suddenly trembled, and then golden light shone.