Chapter 28

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"Junior Brother, I will exchange this Qiankun Ring for your Qiankun Ring, and I will also give you a secret manual that I obtained from an ancient tomb."

As the woman blocking the way spoke, she placed the items in front of Bu Zheng, and her tone left no room for refusal or negotiation.

"Alright!"

Bu Zheng did not refuse because he felt that anyone who could easily take out a Qiankun Ring was not someone he could provoke. Besides, he would not lose out on this deal; in fact, he would gain a lot.

Bu Zheng did not know what the secret manual was, as he could not read. However, he had seen the Qiankun Ring, and it seemed to be slightly better than the one given to him by his second senior brother. It had more arrays and a larger space.

This alone was enough to satisfy him, let alone the addition of a secret manual, even though he did not know what it was or what it could do.

"Don't say you've seen me." After leaving these words, the woman disappeared. Of course, she did not really vanish but used an extremely fast technique to leave. Such speed could only be described by Bu Zheng as breathtaking!

As for who this woman was and why she wanted to exchange the Qiankun Ring, Bu Zheng did not care. What did it have to do with him?

Bu Zheng was now thinking that if only someone else could exchange something with him, and give him even more things in return, hehe, how nice that would be, almost like a daydream.

In fact, it was indeed a daydream. After the woman, no one else came to exchange anything with Bu Zheng. Even as he walked back to the Alchemy Peak, looking back with reluctance, no one appeared to exchange anything with him.

However, Bu Zheng was not disappointed. He quickly began to take care of his medicinal garden and enjoy the convenience of the Qiankun Ring.

"Haha, no need to carry water back and forth anymore..."

"Haha, I can get rid of all the weeds at once..."

"Haha..."

Bu Zheng played with the Qiankun Ring for a few days before stopping his country bumpkin behavior. The most speechless thing was that he actually used the Qiankun Ring to store fertilizer. If the woman knew that Bu Zheng was treating her item so poorly, she would surely kill him.

Others would also have the urge to kill him. Bu Zheng's actions were like boiling a crane and burning a zither, but to him, the tool was meant to be used. When necessary, he would even boil a crane and burn a zither, let alone something that left no trace.

Using the Qiankun item to store things would not pollute the space of the Qiankun item or the other stored items. Although the space of the Qiankun item had limits, each stored item was in its own small space, which was one of the unique features of the Qiankun item.

Although Bu Zheng's novelty wore off after a few days, he could still feel the usefulness of the Qiankun Ring. It greatly improved efficiency in many aspects, and it seemed that his decision to exchange for a Qiankun Bag was correct.

Yes, especially with what happened afterward, it was even more right.

In the end, he got a Qiankun Ring for 2,000 contribution points, which was a great deal, and it even came with a secret manual... Wait, the secret manual, he had not even looked at it yet.

However, whether he had looked at it or not made no difference, as the country bumpkin did not know how to read and did not know what the secret manual was.

Leaving it would be a waste, so he might as well give it to Xiu Ying to see what it was!

Although I don't know how to read, I can still recognize pictures. If it's a sword technique or something, there should be some pictures...

"Huh, what does this secret manual mean? There's not a single word inside, just pictures..."

When Bu Zheng glanced at the secret manual, he found it interesting. The entire manual had no words, only dense pictures, and there was no title, just a drawing of a turtle, no, a divine turtle.

The divine turtle was very famous, and even Bu Zheng had heard of it, though he had never seen one...

"These seem to be arrays. It's an array manual. Since there are no words, I'll leave it and take a look." Bu Zheng quickly figured out what kind of manual it was. The pictures inside were mostly arrays, and although he had not seen most of them, he knew what the outlines represented.

Indeed, it was an array manual, and it had no words. The divine turtle was the origin of the array, and the patterns on its back were said to be the beginning of the array.

This was the legendary Taiji diagram!

Then came the Taiji giving rise to the Two Instruments, the Two Instruments giving rise to the Four Symbols, the Four Symbols giving rise to the Eight Trigrams, and the Eight Trigrams evolving into all things...

However, the original Taiji diagram could not be found, and the Two Instruments array and other array diagrams were also questioned by some, who believed that the Taiji diagram on the divine turtle was just a legend, not real.

No one could say for sure, as the era was too distant. The records were as they were, but if someone questioned them, no one could say they were true. This was already unclear, unless one could personally experience that time.

Regardless, the divine turtle's Taiji diagram had always been the symbol of arrays, and it was normal for it to appear in array manuals. Because of the legend of the Taiji diagram, there was a time when many array masters recorded their arrays using only pictures, without any words.

Because the beginning of arrays had no words, the Taiji diagram could inspire countless variations of arrays, so arrays did not need words to express them.

Another point was that arrays were indeed difficult to express in words. Array diagrams were more important than words. As an old saying goes, they could only be understood intuitively, not taught verbally.

Therefore, many array masters, including top-tier masters, sometimes recorded all their insights in a manual without any words. Whether future generations could understand them was up to their own destiny.

However, few people could understand such manuals. At least, the names of the arrays needed to be clearly stated to know what they were. Pure array diagrams were too difficult to understand, and almost no one could comprehend them.

Because of this, completely wordless array manuals were concentrated in that period. Later, they occasionally appeared, but even without other explanations, at least the names and functions of the arrays were marked.

At the same time, during that wordless period, those array manuals were the most comprehensive, a glorious time in the history of arrays. Several array masters who could be considered unparalleled appeared. If they had not appeared at the same time but at different times, each would have been an unparalleled existence.

The manual in Bu Zheng's hands should be from that period, but he did not know whose work it was. Such array manuals were not unique, and there were many of them. Since most people could not understand them, they were not valued. After so many years, even if they were truly from a master, they had little value. It was not surprising that such an unknown manual was given away.