Chapter 13 Chapter Three Royal Ancient Books

The next day, when Nalan Ruoshui saw Chen Nan again, she was shocked. She found that the man standing in front of her seemed to be a different person.Chen Nan's appearance is still so ordinary, but that faint smile, deep eyes... seems to have an unspeakable temperament. "Have you recovered your strength yet?" "No, why do you ask that?" Nalan Ruoshui said: "I feel that something has happened to you. You seem to have a different temperament. Could it be that your skills have recovered?" Chen Nan was startled, quickly restrained his skills, and said with a smile: "How is that possible."

Nalan Ruoshui regained his composure, and said, "Maybe it's my illusion, well, I'll continue acupuncture for you." This time the acupuncture lasted for an hour, after Nalan Ruoshui left, Chen Nan hurriedly stimulated the whole body's true energy to circulate in the hundred channels, but the effect was far worse than the first time. He opened his eyes, heaved a sigh of relief, and said: "It seems that martial arts really have no shortcuts!" From then on, Nalan Ruoshui came here almost every day, but not every time for acupuncture, sometimes he hit the acupuncture points all over Chen Nan's body, hoping to activate the true energy in his body.Slowly, the two gradually became acquainted, and Nalan Ruoshui was no longer as indifferent as before, and occasionally chatted with him.

Chen Nan learned from the conversation that although Nalan Ruoshui is a member of Qishi's Mansion, he rarely lives here and usually lives at home.Her father is an official in the court, and his position is not too low. She and Chu Yue have been friends since they were young, so she can often go to the royal classics room, and most of her medical skills are learned from there. here. When Nalan Ruoshui mentioned the royal classics, Chen Nan's eyes lit up. He knew that there must be many precious ancient books there, maybe there were records from ten thousand years ago. Thinking of this, he was very excited.

"Miss Nalan, you are truly a genius. It is really admirable that most of your superb medical skills are self-taught." Nalan Ruoshui said calmly: "Actually, it's nothing. Anyone can do it as long as they work hard." Chen Nan sighed: "I can't do it, I'm a mountain person, I don't even know the words, how can I learn those things in the book." Nalan Ruoshui said in surprise, "You...you can't read?" "Yes, I don't know a single word, and I can't even write my own name." Speaking of this, Chen Nan looked a little lonely. Although it was a lie, there were some true feelings.

"I was an orphan who was abandoned in the mountains. A kind old hunter picked me up and adopted me. Due to the poverty of life, I did not go to school to read and write. When I was sixteen years old, my adoptive father passed away. I left, and since then my sky has been gray..." "My foster father not only raised me, gave me the warmth of the family, but also taught me some martial arts. But how strong a sixteen-year-old boy can be, when I was hunting in the deep mountains, I was shocked by the claws of wild beasts again and again. Fleeing... in winter, it snowed down to my knees, but I had no shoes, so I could only wear thin clothes and shiver in the shabby hut where the cold wind was raging..."

"There is no warmth, no food... I can only beg God to let the wind and snow stop as soon as possible... In the long winter, sometimes I can eat food only once in six or seven days, and that is saved by the kind neighbors from their own rations , give alms to me..." "Under the conditions of hunger and cold, I fell ill. Once the neighbors didn't see me go out for a long time, they broke into the shabby hut left by my adoptive father. I had been in a coma for many days at that time. The neighbors said that I kept talking Shouting: "Mom...Mom..." But I know that I will not have a mother in this life, only once had a adoptive father..."

Chen Nan wiped the tears off his face, and said: "I'm sorry Miss Nalan, I made you laugh, I was so excited, I couldn't extricate myself for a while..." A mist appeared in Nalan Ruoshui's eyes, and he said softly, "I should be the one who said I'm sorry, because I reminded you of the sad past. I'm sorry, I didn't know you had such a rough past." "It's nothing. The past suffering made me cherish the happiness I have now." Women are kind by nature, and Chen Nan's "tragic past" filled Nalan Ruoshui's heart with sourness. She said softly, "Mr. Chen, do you want to learn how to read? I can teach you."

"Really?" Chen Nan was overjoyed, this was what he expected, but he was somewhat ashamed in his heart, he won sympathy with lies. "Of course it's true. From now on, I'll help you with acupuncture in the morning and teach you how to read in the afternoon." At this moment, Nalan Ruoshui's face was no longer the usual plain and indifferent, but replaced by a flowery smile. Chen Nan didn't expect that this beautiful woman with an indifferent appearance and faint air of dust could be so charming when she smiled. Women are inherently kind and compassionate. Nalan Ruoshui was moved by Chen Nan's "unfortunate childhood". In the following days, he changed his previous indifference, carefully healed his body, and tried every means to restore his skills. At the same time, he carefully taught him to read and write.

Chen Nan felt ashamed and had a little more respect for this beauty. More than half a month later, Chen Nan's "illness" has not improved, which surprised Nalan Ruoshui. She searched all the medical classics, but she was still at a loss. During this period, Chu Yue came here several times, and every time she comforted Chen Nan not to worry. The little princess also came here several times secretly, of course she would not let go of making things difficult for Chen Nan every time, but she might feel ashamed in her heart, she did not do too much, even so, the little devil also made Chen Nan a headache endlessly.However, seeing her sneaky appearance every time, Chen Nan was very surprised.Later, after listening to Nalan Ruoshui's narration, I realized that the little devil was avoiding the old witch who studied magic.

The old witch once wanted to take the little princess as her apprentice, but the little princess was not happy, so she insisted on taking the martial arts master Zhuge Chengfeng as her teacher.Because of this, the old witch was so angry that she almost challenged Zhuge Chengfeng to a duel.However, she did not give up the idea of ​​accepting the little princess as her apprentice. Every time she saw her, she always "knew it with emotion and moved it with reason".The little princess was so frightened that she would sneak around every time she came to Qishi Mansion. After listening to Nalan Ruoshui's words, Chen Nan couldn't help laughing wildly. He didn't expect that this wicked little witch would also be afraid and deflated. It was an anecdote.

Nalan Ruoshui also showed a slight smile at the corner of his mouth. To make such an indifferent woman smile, one can imagine that the little devil must be "notorious" in the imperial capital. One day, Zhuge Chengfeng, the little princess' master, suddenly returned home from a serious injury, causing an uproar in the imperial capital's cultivation world.Chen Nan was also very surprised. He had seen the peerless cultivation of this master-level martial arts master, and the shocking battle between Zhuge Chengfeng and the giant snake was still fresh in his memory. Zhuge Chengfeng did see the legendary unicorn in the Luofeng Mountains. Countless practitioners flocked towards the unicorn, and everyone wanted to tame the beast.Even those who knew they were hopeless stepped forward one after another, wanting to contribute to the flames and kill the divine beast, so that they could get a piece of their claws and go back to refining medicine. Zhuge Chengfeng watched with cold eyes. He knew very well that the power of divine beasts was beyond the reach of ordinary people. A holy snake that failed to transform a dragon had already made him stretched, not to mention the legendary divine beast.Sure enough, as he expected, the unicorn beast did not panic in the face of the siege of hundreds of people. It opened its mouth and spit out a large flame. The temperature of the flame was frighteningly high. The first group of people were burned to ashes as soon as they rushed up. Zhuge Chengfeng wanted to leave at this point, but the unicorn was after him, and the beast could sense the strong people in the crowd.For these intruders who broke into the ancient cave and awakened it, it has deep hostility. It stepped on the fire and rushed to Zhuge Chengfeng immediately. The battle between Zhuge Chengfeng and the beast was extremely tragic. Countless people who came for the unicorn suffered misfortune, were pierced by the soaring sword energy, or were burned to ashes by the raging flames. Countless people died unexpectedly.In the end, Zhuge Chengfeng lost to the enemy, was seriously injured and fled, and escaped from the Luofeng Mountain Range in extreme danger. Only one out of ten people successfully escaped from the dangerous place. This incident caused an uproar in the mainland, and more advanced practitioners broke into the Luofeng Mountains, trying to tame the unicorn as a mount.Especially those dragon knights in the western continent, after hearing about this incident, they were far more interested in unicorns than giant dragons. Dozens of powerful dragon knights set off from various countries to Luofeng Mountain. Zhuge Chengfeng only briefly talked about this matter, but the danger involved can be imagined, the battle must be much more intense than the one with the giant snake. The little princess was extremely dissatisfied with this matter, puffed her mouth, and muttered: "I didn't see such a good show. It's a pity. The old man is so ugly that I didn't see his stinky appearance with my own eyes. Sigh!" After Zhuge Chengfeng came back and explained some things, he left in a hurry and hid in the ground to heal his wounds. If he heard the complaints from his precious apprentice, he would definitely spit out another mouthful of blood in anger. Since then, the Qilin incident has been boiling on the mainland for more than a month, and countless practitioners returned home without a feather. It was not until the Qilin disappeared from the Luofeng Mountains that this incident came to an end. Since Chen Nan's family's Xuan Gong entered the third heaven, he can leave at any time, but he is not in a hurry now. Apart from receiving "treatment" every day, he devotes himself to learning the characters commonly used in the mainland. Time flies, two months have passed in the blink of an eye, and his skills still have not shown any signs of "recovery".But for the characters commonly used in the mainland today, he has already mastered them very well, which surprised Nalan Ruoshui, who did not expect him to have such a talent in characters. Chen Nan frantically read all kinds of history books, official history, unofficial history...he read them all over. Whenever he thinks of the Gods and Demons Cemetery, his heart throbs. He was resurrected from that ancient cemetery. He is very concerned about its past and eager to know all its secrets.Chen Nan has an extremely strong feeling that the shocking secret that was unknown thousands of years ago has not been annihilated in history, and it will be revealed sooner or later. He tried in vain to find clues to the historical facts of ten thousand years ago in the history books, but he was disappointed. All kinds of historical materials were limited to major events within five thousand years, and could not be traced back ten thousand years ago. Nalan Ruoshui was amazed that he was so interested in history, and couldn't help asking: "Mr. Chen, why do you have a special liking for history? There are so many poems and fus in Qishi Mansion, why have you never seen them?" Chen Nan smiled awkwardly, and said: "This... Although the poetry and Fu have a long artistic conception and cultivate people's sentiments, I still feel that history is more engaging and makes people feel the tremor of the soul. I was illiterate before, and I didn't What books have I read, and I never knew that the mainland had such a magnificent past, the rise and fall of a powerful empire, the prosperity and decline of an outstanding nation... Five thousand years of ups and downs, five thousand years of splendor... ...It is emotional and shocking!" A strange look flashed in Nalan Ruoshui's eyes, and he smiled and said, "Young Master Chen has a lot of emotions, it seems that he has gained a lot!" Chen Nan was ashamed for a while, but he didn't expect him to talk nonsense for a while, and he actually expressed a feeling that he seemed to have gained something. "You have been able to read the history of the mainland after only two months of literacy, which is really admirable!" Nalan Ruoshui praised with a smile on his face. Seeing that Nalan Ruosui was in a good mood at this time, Chen Nan said what he had already planned in his heart: "Miss Nalan, I have read all the history books in Qishi's mansion, can you let me go to the palace with you?" Take a look at the classics room?" Nalan Ruoshui glanced at him in surprise, and said, "Are you really that interested in history? The classics room in the palace is strictly guarded. I was able to enter because I was good friends with Princess Yue. If I bring another It may be difficult for people. However, you can give it a try, if you can be accompanied by Princess Yu, things may be easier." When mentioning the little devil, Chen Nan got a headache, he quickly shook his head and said: "No need, I'll read poetry and Fu at Qishi Mansion." "It's okay, I'll go find Princess Yu tomorrow." "No, no... I am determined not to read it. After reading so much history, I have a headache." "Hehe..." Although Nalan Ruo was not as cold as ice when he was level, he seldom smiled. At this moment, his flowery smile was particularly moving, like rippling spring water, making people feel rippling. Chen Nan lost his mind for a while, Nalan Ruoshui's next words interrupted his reverie. "Don't worry, I will never go to Princess Yu, if I want to go, I will go to Her Royal Highness Princess Yue, Princess Yu is notoriously difficult, I don't want to make trouble for myself." Chen Nan laughed dryly, and said: "I didn't expect Her Royal Highness the little princess to be famous, I thought I was the only one who gave her a headache." At night, Chen Nan was lying on the bed recalling the experience of the past two months, everything was like a drama, and he actually became a hermit in the state of Chu.His biggest achievement in the past two months is that he has learned the common characters in the mainland here, and he has completely integrated into this society. The next day, with a smile on Nalan Ruoshui's face, he said to Chen Nan: "Princess Yue has already greeted the management staff of the classics room. After I do acupuncture for you later, you can go with me." Chen Nan was overjoyed, and after finishing the acupuncture, he followed Nalan Ruoshui out of Qishi Mansion.A dozen warriors guarded a luxurious carriage, Nalan Ruoshui greeted him to get on the carriage, Chen Nan thanked him, smelling the intoxicating fragrance along the way, and soon arrived at the imperial city. In the forbidden area of ​​the palace, civil servants dismount from their sedan chairs, and military officials dismount from their horses. Except for the royal family, no one can enjoy special treatment.In the imperial palace, the halls and towers are scattered high and low, magnificent and majestic.Chen Nan followed Nalan Ruoshui to turn left and right in the palace, and came outside a magnificent hall. The person in charge here is a 40-year-old Hanlin scholar. Since Chu Yue had informed him in advance, he didn't say much. The ancient books in the hall are like mountains, but they are well arranged, row by row, row by row, neatly stacked. Chen Nan skipped poetry, astrology, and medicine in the ocean-like library...and went straight to the door of the library marked with history.Looking at the nearly 10,000 volumes of books inside, he felt dizzy for a while. How many years and months will he be able to finish reading so many books, which is too many. He patiently searched in the sea of ​​books. He only read the first page of each book. If the content was nearly five thousand years old, he would be sent back home. In the following days, Chen Nan and Nalan Ruoshui went back and forth between the Qishi mansion and the royal classics room every day, and he read the history books boringly every day. One day, Chen Nan casually took out a book from the bookshelf, opened it and saw that it was in a modern font, he put it in the original place without thinking about it.But the words "Cultivation Level" on the cover caught his attention, and he took his hand back halfway. He opened the book, wanting to browse briefly, but after a while, he was deeply attracted.This is a book about the division of cultivators' strengths. Although cultivators, magicians, eastern warriors, and western warriors have their own division standards, in order to compare their strengths, they are all divided into levels from low to high. Five grades.But the lowest rank mentioned above is also a master among the masters, and those who can reach the ranks are all powerful people, and the general masters are not within the scope of this book at all. Through the introduction in the book, he has a certain understanding of the strength of the advanced practitioners in the mainland today. Ascetics are the most mysterious, because they seldom take action, the outside world is quite controversial about the division of their strength, and they simply divide their cultivation realm into: foundation building, Qi nourishing, sublimation, alchemy formation, and Nascent Soul.However, according to the notes in the book, there may be a higher realm above this. It is said that its highest realm directly leads to the realm of immortality, but no one has seen such a person make a move. Magicians can be divided according to their strength: quasi-magician, intermediate magician, high-level magician, great magician, and magister. The cultivation realms of Eastern warriors can be divided into: Refining and transforming Qi, Innate Realm, Sword Qi exiting the body, Refining Qi and transforming God, and concentrating and solidifying Qi.In addition, it is mentioned in the book that some people have surpassed these five realms, and their unrivaled skills are unimaginable, and they can be called supernatural. Western warriors can be divided according to their strength: swordsmith, sword master, sword leader, sword master, and sword god.In addition, there is a special kind of cultivator among Western warriors—the dragon knight. The combination of a tyrannical warrior and a powerful dragon has super terrifying destructive power. According to their strength, they can be divided into: Earth Dragon Knight, Flying Dragon Knight, Yalong Knight, Dragon Knight, Holy Dragon Knight. Different types of cultivators are divided into five levels, so that their strengths can be compared. Generally speaking, the strengths of the same level are similar.But ascetics and magicians obviously have an advantage over martial artists. When their opponents are weaker than them and lower than their level, they can use their specialties to directly control the vitality of the world and carry out large-scale strikes. adversaries to carry out indiscriminate attacks. According to the description in the book, if the ranks of strength are divided, most of the warriors will be blocked from the door of the rank masters.Although everyone can practice martial arts, most people cannot cultivate to a high level, and only a small number of people can rank as masters. Although ascetics and magicians have high physical requirements, resulting in a small number of these people, most of them are masters of rank. Obviously, a practitioner's physique has a great relationship with his future achievements.On the whole, the number of masters of the four cultivators is about the same. Chen Nan closed the book and heaved a sigh of relief, finally figured out the level of strength of practitioners in this world.However, he believes that the highest level of a cultivator is by no means limited to the fifth level. As far as he knows, his father Chen Zhan's cultivation level has far surpassed the fifth level of the Eastern Warrior's cultivation level. He objectively estimated his level of strength. His family's profound art has already stepped into the third heaven, and he has just been able to stimulate the sword energy outside his body. He can barely be regarded as a third-level cultivator. Said that he is already a real master. Chen Nan felt that he had benefited a lot from this book he discovered by accident. In the next few days, he met a strange old man in the library.The old man was extremely old, his eyes were cloudy and lifeless, his teeth had long since fallen out, his wrinkled skin was like crumpled paper balls, and there were dozens of sparse hairs on the top of his bald head. When Chen Nan saw the old man for the first time, he was taken aback. He thought that someone's soul would linger after death and that he had stolen the corpse out of the coffin.Out of politeness, he smiled and greeted the old man every time he saw him, but never spoke. On this day, Chen Nan was boringly flipping through history books when an old voice suddenly sounded behind him: "Young man, you love history so much." Chen Nan was so frightened that he almost jumped up. Like a ghost, that strange old man came silently less than a foot behind him. He secretly blamed himself for being too absorbed in reading. "Yeah, I like it better, but there don't seem to be any special ancient books here, and the earliest ones only date back to five thousand years ago." "Oh, you like to read ancient books? Can you understand the text on them?" "Well, I still have some attainments in ancient characters, and I can understand almost all ancient books." He raised the book in his hand and said, "Look, this is a character written four thousand years ago. It can still be distinguished." Chen Nan is not lying, he is indeed sensitive to characters, and the current common characters in the mainland are evolved from the ancient characters of the original Immortal Fantasy Land, and it is not difficult for him to distinguish between the two sides Overdue text. Chen Nan had an illusion, as if he saw a green light flashing away from the old man's cloudy eyes. The old man asked, "Why do you like reading ancient books?" Chen Nan said: "I'm more interested in ancient myths and legends, and I want to learn a thing or two from ancient books." The old man started laughing, and Chen Nan felt very eerie. "Young man, if you can really understand ancient books, I will lead you into another library. There are real ancient documents, which are far older than the books here." Chen Nan was overjoyed, and at the same time began to guess the identity of the old man. He had already seen that the old man was definitely not an ordinary person, otherwise he would never be able to lead him into another library at will. Passing through the front hall, the two walked towards the back hall. The back hall was exceptionally quiet. When the heavy door was pushed open, rows of bookshelves appeared in front of Chen Nan's eyes. The bookshelves were full of ancient books. Since the first step into the ancient library, Chen Nan has felt a subtle and strange fluctuation, the fluctuation is like a trickle, like a faint breeze, if there is nothing, it is elusive. "I'm dizzy! Could it be that the ancient books here are all refined, how can there be such fluctuations?" Now Chen Nan's internal restraints have completely disappeared, his spiritual sense has fully recovered, and his sensitivity to the outside world is far more sensitive than ordinary people. The old man didn't seem to notice it, and said: "Look, here are all ancient books, most of which are priceless and rare copies. If you can understand them, this place is undoubtedly a treasure." "Treasure?" Chen Nan was a little puzzled. The old man said: "Among these books, there are many works about martial arts, magic, medicine, poisonous arts, etc., many of which are lost knowledge. The royal family sent special personnel to sort out and compile these ancient books, but only a small part of them can be translated. I don't know how deep your knowledge of ancient characters is, if you are better than those bachelors from the Hanlin Academy..." Before he could finish speaking, Chen Nan plunged into the pile of books. For several days, he wandered in the ancient history, which surprised Nalan Ruoshui. When she accidentally learned that Chen Nan could understand ancient books, she opened her mouth in surprise.When Chen Nan gave her a set of medical classics compiled from ancient books, Nalan Ruoshui screamed excitedly: "Oh my God, "Medical Sage Handbook", I am not dreaming." She was happy The son hugged Chen Nan. Feeling the soft body, Chen Nan was intoxicated for a while, he hugged Nalan Ruoshui with his backhand, but the delicate body left him quickly, and there was a chuckle in the distance.From then on, whenever Chen Nan saw Nalan Ruoshui's smile, he couldn't help but his heart beat faster. "Should I find another medical book and sort it out and give it to her today?" "Boy, what kind of nymphomaniac are you? Look at your useless appearance, it really makes me ashamed to be a man with you." The old poisonous monster put his arms on the courtyard wall, exposed his head, and struck at the right time. "Old man, you are peeping at me again. It's so perverted and disgusting. Be careful, I'll buy a bunch of firecrackers, light them and throw them into your yard." As they became more and more familiar with each other, Chen Nan and the old poisonous monster gradually opened up. The jokes come, and when they meet later, they sarcasm each other.But all this time, he didn't dare to play with the old witch. The old witch switched back and forth between his east courtyard and the backyard, which made him terrified. "How dare you! If you light firecrackers, I will break your heart in seven steps, your soul in ten steps, your body will be destroyed in thirteen steps, and your bones will be transformed into invisible in fifteen steps." "Damn, you perverted old man." Chen Nan shivered for a while, and quickly walked outside Qishi's mansion.Nalan Ruoshui did not give him acupuncture today, but said that he would treat him after carefully studying the Handbook of the Sage of Medicine. After Chen Nan came to the ancient library, the old man had already arrived. "Young man is not bad. It seems that you really have some attainments in ancient characters, and you can really understand those ancient books. Today, my old man wants to trouble you." "Oh, old man, please tell me, if you can help, I will definitely help." The old man took out an ancient book with a yellowish color from his pocket, put it on the table, took the paper and began to copy it with a brush. After a while, the whole paper was completely copied. "Here, can you translate the contents of this paper for me?" Chen Nan took it over and saw that the words and sentences were not clear at all, and said: "Old man, these sentences do not make sense, you copied it correctly, right?" The old man said: "You can just translate it, don't care if it makes sense, you can translate three articles for me every day, right?" "Yes, no problem." Chen Nan thought to himself: "This old guy is really suspicious. He actually broke up the sentence and asked me to translate it. He actually wants to keep it secret like this. What kind of book is this?" His previous fondness for the old man was gone, and he knew that this weird old man had been planning on him from the very beginning, and his fundamental purpose was to ask him to translate this book. According to Chen Nan's estimate, the words on the paper should be written six or seven thousand years ago.There were only a few crosses, but it contained words such as "god" and "corpse" that made Chen Nan sensitive, which made him even more curious about the book.