"Hidden Pearl in the Seal?"

Ye Qingzhou touched the crystal stone in his hand, akin to glass in texture, not knowing what to say. He had fiddled with it for two days, yet the Dou Character Seal showed no reaction.

Then, Huang Liwen casually touched it, and the Dou Character Seal unlocked by itself. How does that make sense?

Carefully scrutinizing the crystal stone in his hand, Ye Qingzhou quickly revealed a look of astonishment: "Crystal clear, celestial blue in color, serene without clouds... why does it increasingly resemble the Celestial Crystal described in the Celestial Casting Scripture?"

Celestial Crystal!

A treasure at the Celestial Material Level, its preciousness surpasses Earth Treasures!

According to the description in the Celestial Casting Scripture, Celestial Crystal was formed at the inception of heaven and earth, condensed from the innate Qi gathered from a wisp of pure air rising, truly a rare treasure.

Holding the crystal stone polished into a round bead, Ye Qingzhou could sense its extraordinarily unique material, indestructible yet capable of infinitely accommodating the Power of Thought Ability, storing information.

"It's really Celestial Crystal!"

After testing, Ye Qingzhou finally confirmed that the crystal stone in his hand was indeed the extremely rare Celestial Crystal of legend.

Ye Qingzhou suddenly felt that something was not right: "The value of Celestial Material surpasses Earth Treasures; such precious exotic treasures, even a Grandmaster would likely find it irresistible to snatch, and yet Tao Zhiliang was willing to give it to Wu Baojun?"

"No, no..."

Subsequently, Ye Qingzhou's mind analyzed the true nature of the situation: "The person Tao Zhiliang really intended to give it to should have been Zhao Baoming, but no one had ever mentioned that the object wrapped by the Nine-Character Seal was Celestial Crystal. It's likely someone deliberately concealed this crucial information."

Using Celestial Crystal as a carrier, what kind of valuable secret technique does it contain?

A person with even a bit of sense would never give something like this away unless the giver is completely ignorant of the treasure's value, leading to such an absurd misjudgment.

The market only circulated news about the Nine-Character Seal's rarity, yet it never mentioned wherein lies its preciousness.

Clearly, someone deliberately spread this information.

Picking up the scattered shell fragments from the ground, Ye Qingzhou noticed that the seal wrapping the Celestial Crystal was equally extraordinary in material—Profound Iron of upper-middle grade rare treasure level.

Its texture was not only extremely hard but also possessed a characteristic of isolating the Power of Thought Ability.

"It seems this seal's design purposely blocks the telepathy of martial artists, precisely to prevent someone from contacting the secrets within the Celestial Crystal. Such design style appears to be a refining technique of the Profound Sect..."

With just a quick deduction in his mind, Ye Qingzhou had analyzed the matter's cause and effect to a significant extent: "It seems someone within the Profound Sect is secretly collecting the Nine-Character Seal; they undoubtedly know the secrets hidden within the Celestial Crystal."

Ye Qingzhou's thoughts stirred, and he immediately stood up.

Huang Liwen asked, "Where are you going? Class is starting soon!"

"I'm going to the library, please help me excuse myself from the homeroom."

"You dare skip the homeroom teacher's class? You're badass!"

Huang Liwen gave Ye Qingzhou a thumbs-up, his face full of envy; Ye Qingzhou's current standing was incomparable to his own as a bottom-tier student.

"Brother Wen, I'm not like you; I'm skipping class for better learning."

Ye Qingzhou patted Huang Liwen's shoulder, hoping he would take himself as an example to become a diligent and hardworking person.

Huang Liwen rolled his eyes indifferently: "I've been working really hard lately, okay? I've been dedicating an hour a day to practice, even quit gaming; what more do you want from me?"

"..."

......

In the library, Ye Qingzhou sat in front of the computer searching for documents, quickly finding ancient records related to the Nine-Character Mantra.

The True Words Nine-Character Seal is from the Daoist Mysterious Sect's inheriting masterwork, Six Jia Secret Prayer.

But the true origin of this cultivation technique is actually the military family masterwork created by the Yellow Emperor, Qimen Dunjia. Besides documenting methods for crafting weapons, strategies for arranging troops, and the secret of deploying forces, the book also records a divine skill able to break magic; its name is Six Jia Secret Prayer.

In the mythology, during ancient times, the Yellow Emperor and Chiyou waged a decisive battle at Zulu. Chiyou often deployed magic formidable enough to defy human strength on the battlefield, all eventually broken by the Nine-Character Mantra of Six Jia Secret Prayer.

Lin, Bing, Dou, Zhe, Jie, Zhen, Lie, Qian, Xing!

Each word a seal, with extraordinary power!

"Some archaeologists even speculate that this Nine-Character Mantra was gifted by the Nine Heavens Profound Lady to the Yellow Emperor from the Celestial Realm, a martial art perfected by the military family in collective practice, with boundless power."

The more Ye Qingzhou read, the less simple he found the Nine Words of the Mantra. Unfortunately, many mythological records are ambiguous; the currently transmitted Nine-Character Mantra is far less powerful than described in the books, so many dismiss it as mere hearsay.

After all, ancient people were human too; when writing, they inevitably included some subjective information, perhaps even boasting.

Taking another look at the Celestial Crystal in his hand, Ye Qingzhou felt a sense of enlightenment: "This object is related to the Yellow Emperor; no wonder Brother Wen could unlock it effortlessly."

Daoist Mysterious Sect was initially known as the Yellow-Lao School, with both the Yellow Emperor and Laozi as founding pillars, especially the Yellow Emperor, one of the Five Ancient Emperors. His theory of Primordial Qi Yin Yang was recorded in the Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor, forming a fundamental magic technique of the Daoist Mysterious Sect.

Later, people of the Profound Sect used Profound Iron to forge the Secret Lock sealing the Celestial Crystal, presumably to prevent the knowledge recorded within from falling into the hands of ambitious individuals, thereby sowing chaos in the world.

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