Chapter 550: Chapter 235: Law Item, Time-Suppressing Fragment

Completely absorbing it offered a high probability of directly comprehending a trace of the Flame Law.

This kind of item was already a strategic-level resource—a truly unique piece. Each one used was one gone forever.

Even he needed to go through an approval process to requisition it.

But Lin Ye merely toyed with it in his hand for a moment, his brow furrowing slightly. Seemingly still unsatisfied, he put it back.

The shock in Zhu Mingyi’s heart was beyond words.

’This kid... still isn’t satisfied?’

’He’s still not picking anything?’

’Don’t tell me he’s actually trying to walk off with the crown jewel of my treasury?’

Lin Ye’s current mindset was no different from someone casually strolling through a bustling market.

He wasn’t looking for the best, just the most expensive.

He even felt that if the item with the highest system valuation had no practical use for him, it would actually be a good thing.

After all, if he really came across a treasure that was a perfect match for him, he might not have the heart to exchange it for evolution points.

As for whether it was better to pick a suitable item for a greater boost or more cost-effective to directly exchange it for evolution points...

Lin Ye was in no hurry. He planned to first find the few items with the highest valuations among the hundred thousand in the collection, and then he would make his decision.

「Time passed, second by second.」

As Zhu Mingyi followed behind Lin Ye, the expression on his face shifted from initial keen interest to something rather strange, until finally, only pure numbness remained.

’What in the world is this kid looking for?’

He watched Lin Ye walk past an entire row of Sacred Artifacts emitting terrifying fluctuations of power without so much as batting an eye.

He was like the pickiest of treasure hunters, scorning a room full of gold and silver, searching only for that single lost pearl in a vast ocean.

「Finally, after nearly half an hour.」

Lin Ye came to a stop in front of an unremarkable shelf in a corner.

Zhu Mingyi followed his gaze and saw Lin Ye take an old, somewhat damaged notebook with a yellowed cover from the bottom shelf.

[67.4]

A wave of emotion surged through Lin Ye.

This was the highest value he had seen in all his time browsing!

He was very curious. Why would such a tattered, worn-out notebook possess such an astonishing value in the system’s evaluation?

Zhu Mingyi was also stunned.

’What is this thing?’

He wracked his brain but found he had no memory of this notebook.

In his memory, the most valuable and rarest cornerstone treasures in the Special-Level Resource Library were definitely not this thing.

"Wei, come over here for a moment."

Zhu Mingyi said softly into his communicator.

Soon, a white-haired elderly man in a researcher’s uniform and gold-rimmed glasses hurried over from the depths of the repository.

His name was Wei Song. He was the chief administrator of this Special-Level Resource Library, had worked here his entire life, and knew the origin of every item in the collection like the back of his hand.

"Director."

Wei Song first bowed respectfully. Only then did he notice the notebook in Lin Ye’s hand, and a surprised expression immediately appeared on his face. "This young man... has he chosen this notebook?"

Lin Ye was noncommittal, merely flipping through the notebook in his hands.

"What is this? Does it have some special origin?" Zhu Mingyi asked.

Wei Song pushed up his glasses and recalled, "The origin of this notebook goes back quite a few years, at least one hundred and thirty. A Martial God of a past generation brought it back while exploring an unknown Celestial Abyss Rift. It was later handed over to the central administration."

"That senior only said that the item was very important, but we’ve had countless experts and scholars study it for over a hundred years and have never managed to decipher its secrets."

Hearing this, Lin Ye opened the notebook.

Just as he had expected, most of it consisted of blank pages, the paper yellowed and brittle with age.

Only in the middle of the notebook, a single, tattered page was tucked away.

On the page, drawn in strokes as thick as ink, was a strange pattern that resembled a rune or some kind of symbol.

The strokes of the pattern were vigorous and powerful, seeming to contain some indescribable rhythm. The ink was so deep and dark that, despite being a flat image, it gave the illusion of bottomless depth.

"Is this some kind of symbol? Or an unknown alien script?"

Zhu Mingyi leaned in for a look, intrigued.

Wei Song shook his head and said with a wry smile, "We don’t know, either. For the past hundred years, all the top linguistics experts and paleosymbolists have examined it, but no one has been able to recognize it."

While the two were talking, Lin Ye’s entire body froze instantly, as if struck by lightning.

His mind went completely blank.

’Zhu Mingyi and Wei Song... don’t recognize this character?’

’How is that possible!’

In his mind, this wasn’t some mysterious symbol at all, but an unmistakably clear Chinese character written in small seal script—

"Suppress"!

At that moment, Lin Ye suddenly realized a fact so chilling it made his scalp tingle.

He had transmigrated from Earth to this world, and subconsciously, he had always felt that this world’s Great Xia and Earth’s China were not fundamentally different, aside from its flourishing martial arts and more advanced technology.

But now he discovered that the cultures of the two worlds seemed to be separated by a bottomless chasm!

’This world’s human history... what was it like before the Martial Era?’

Countless thoughts flashed through Lin Ye’s mind.

He thought of the brilliant history of Huaxia from his memory, of those magnificent and turbulent dynasties...

From the Hundred Schools of Thought in the pre-Qin era to the might of the Great Han, the splendor of the High Tang, the humiliation of the Late Qing Dynasty, and the struggles of the Republic...

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