Chapter 551: Chapter 235: Law Item, Time-Suppressing Fragment

It was as if this history had never existed in this world!

A drop of cold sweat trickled down Lin Ye’s temple.

If the historical course of this world was completely different from Earth’s...

...then where did the small seal script character for ’Suppress’ on this century-old notebook come from?

Because the Qin Dynasty, which created and used this script, simply never existed in this world!

At this thought, Lin Ye even began to doubt whether the simplified characters used by the people of Great Xia were truly the same as the simplified characters he knew.

Or had this just been a misconception he’d taken for granted for over twenty years since transmigrating?

In reality, they were two completely different writing systems!

The moment this thought arose, Lin Ye felt a shackle deep in his memory shatter with a deafening CRACK!

After a bout of intense ringing in his ears,

Lin Ye looked again at the labels on the surrounding shelves used to mark item information.

Those characters... he recognized them.

And he clearly understood the meaning of every one of them.

But...

They were definitely not the simplified characters he was familiar with!

It was an entirely new writing system!

The same writing he had been seeing and using every day for the past twenty-plus years!

Lin Ye felt a chill shoot from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head, and the hairs all over his body stood on end.

He was overcome by the absurd feeling that he had lived in this world for over twenty years, yet only today was he seeing its true face for the first time.

"Suppress..."

Lin Ye’s Adam’s apple bobbed. Subconsciously, using a pronunciation so ancient and obscure that neither Zhu Mingyi nor Wei Song could comprehend it, he uttered the word.

At that moment, he also finally realized.

The Great Xia language he had spoken for over twenty years and the Chinese from his memories of Earth were two completely different things!

What he had just spoken was pure... Chinese!

The instant that syllable left his lips,

it was as if the entire world had hit a pause button.

Time and space froze completely in that moment.

Wei Song’s bitter smile, the curious light in Zhu Mingyi’s eyes, the fine dust motes floating in the air... everything was frozen in that instant.

The entire Special-Level Resource Library fell into a state of absolute stillness.

Only Lin Ye could still move.

This strange state lasted for less than a second.

The next moment, Lin Ye felt a wave of disorientation.

The bizarre, hair-raising feeling in his heart receded like a tide.

Everything seemed to have returned to normal.

"...So, this thing is just an unsolvable mystery. Keeping it here is purely for sentimental reasons."

The two men’s discussion still echoed in his ears.

Wei Song nodded as well. He didn’t want to admit it, but that was indeed the situation.

Lin Ye’s heart jumped.

It was as if that world-shaking scene had never happened.

Everything had returned to its original "normalcy" and "naturalness."

Lin Ye’s heart pounded wildly in his chest.

He understood.

Besides being able to devour Source Crystals and possessing cultural memories from Earth,

he now had another monumental secret he could never tell anyone.

"I’ll take this one."

Lin Ye suppressed the storm raging in his heart, closed the notebook in his hand, and spoke in a calm voice.

The surprise on Zhu Mingyi’s face deepened.

"You want this? This thing... it should be completely useless to you right now, shouldn’t it?"

Even greater waves crashed in Lin Ye’s heart.

’Zhu Mingyi is acting as if nothing happened.’

’It means that even as a Celestial Human Realm expert, he didn’t notice that momentary freeze in time and space at all!’

Lin Ye opened the notebook again.

He looked at the character for ’Suppress’ on the fragmented page and noticed that the ink seemed a few shades duller than before.

’So that’s how it is...’

’That wasn’t a hallucination!’

’I can stop time... just by speaking the true pronunciation of this character!’

’The only price is that the writing on this fragmented page will gradually fade.’

Lin Ye estimated that he could use it two or three more times at most before it became completely ineffective.

The system’s valuation also confirmed this.

He saw that the notebook’s value had dropped from [67.4] to [44.1].

Lin Ye now completely understood the notebook’s value.

’No wonder it’s so precious!’

’This is time stop!’

’Even if it’s just for one second, in a duel between top-tier experts, that’s enough to instantly decide life and death!’

’I just wonder, if I were to write the character for ’Suppress’ in this small seal script myself using this world’s ink, would it have the same effect?’

’Or does it have to be written with some kind of special ink?’

These were questions he would have to test slowly in the future.

Lin Ye nodded at Zhu Mingyi again, his attitude resolute.

"I’ll take this one."

Seeing his insistence, Zhu Mingyi couldn’t argue and could only nod helplessly.

"Alright, then. This one it is."

Wei Song, who was standing to the side, couldn’t help but speak up. "Actually, when that Martial God senior submitted this notebook back then, he left behind a message."

"He said that although this notebook isn’t a world-class artifact, not even a Sacred Artifact, the law it contains terrified even him."

"I hope... you’ll truly be the one to unlock its secret someday."

Zhu Mingyi pondered for a moment, then suddenly asked, "Have the special characters in this notebook been copied?"

Wei Song immediately replied, "They were scanned and recorded with the highest-precision equipment long ago. Over the past century, the research materials on it have piled up into mountains."

Hearing this, Zhu Mingyi looked at Lin Ye and continued, "In that case, I’ll just give you the original notebook. It won’t count as your pick for a treasure this time."

"You can pick something else you want in a bit."

Joy bloomed in Lin Ye’s heart.

’There’s a deal this good?’

Only he knew that the copied symbols and the notebook itself were two completely different things.

The truly important thing was the paper that bore the character for ’Suppress’!

Zhu Mingyi glanced at the time on his watch.

"Alright, my time is limited, so I won’t tease you anymore."

"In fact, before you arrived, I had my team screen for a few items most suitable for you based on your profile."

"Among them are one Cultivation Technique and two Observation Skills that I’d particularly like you to try."

"Especially that Cultivation Technique. It’s safe to say that besides you, there probably isn’t a second person in all of Great Xia who can cultivate it."

"Come with me."

"After you’ve chosen your Cultivation Technique and Observation Skill, you can browse this place freely. Just tell me your final choice then."

Zhu Mingyi led Lin Ye through several more strict identity checks, finally arriving at a library pavilion made entirely of a special alloy.

There were no physical books here, only neatly arranged alcoves. In each alcove, a jade slip hovered silently, emitting a soft glow.

Zhu Mingyi walked straight to the deepest part of the library, retrieving a peculiar, jet-black jade slip from an alcove protected by an independent force field. It looked as if it could absorb all light.

He pushed the jade slip in front of Lin Ye.

"All the Cultivation Techniques and Observation Skills here can at least help you cultivate to the Martial Saint Realm."

"Their internal information and principles are stored within the jade slips. As long as you extend your Spiritual Power into one, you can read its contents. It’s completely confidential and also ensures the legacy can be passed down for generations without being lost."

Zhu Mingyi’s face held a strange look of anticipation.

"And this particular Cultivation Technique has extremely strict cultivation requirements."

"But its potential is enough to allow you to cultivate to the highest realm!"

"Its name is—"

"The *Chaos Qi Formulas*!"

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