My friend took the book "The Art of Immortality" and read it over and over again, and found that there was nothing on the last page.
Cheng Siqing glanced at it and said with some disapproval: "This page is the back cover. It should be normal for there to be no words."
"If it was the back cover, there would be no need for this page!"
The friend turned a page forward and said: "Look, the previous page only has words on the first side, and the second side is blank. There is no need to add another page with two blank sides as the back cover. In this way, there are three blank sides.
, completely inconsistent with book binding conventions.”
As he spoke, his friend opened the piece of silk, picked it up, and looked at it carefully with the brightest luminous pearl.
After a while, he took the silk page with the pattern printed on the front and looked at it carefully under the luminous pearl.
"Brother Siqing, look at the color of the last blank page and the previous silk page. It's also very different!" After looking at it carefully for a while, the friend suddenly said.
"I don't see anything different!" Cheng Siqing also took a closer look and said with some confusion.
"Brother Siqing probably doesn't know. Brother, I have been in the silk cloth business in the past two years, so my sense of color is much keener than the average person. Believe me, there must be something weird on this page!" The friend said to Cheng Siqing confidently.
As he spoke, his friend carefully took off the blank silk page and once again leaned under the night pearl to take a closer look.
Cheng Siqing still didn't see anything wrong.
The friend's brows also frowned slightly, with a look of confusion on his face, and he groped the silk page inch by inch with his fingers.
After groping for a while, my friend's eyes scanned around the secret room, and his eyes fell on the silver basin placed on the carved wooden stand in the corner of the secret room.
The water basin is bright white in color and shines with the unique luster of pure silver. The peonies carved on it are graceful and luxurious. The basin is half filled with clean water. It should be used by Cheng Siqing to wash his hands or for other purposes.
The friend walked over and gently placed the blank silk page on the water and spread it out.
Cheng Siqing saw this and walked over, looking at his friend's movements curiously.
I don’t know what material the silk page is made of, but it doesn’t get wet or sink when floating on the water. Apart from the color being slightly darker than before, there are no other changes.
"This is the finest white shark's silk. It looks like white silk, but in fact it is not afraid of water and fire. Even if it is buried underground, it will not rot for a hundred years." The friend said as he took the silk page made of shark's silk out of the basin.
stand up.
Drops of water dripped from the silk page into the basin, and the silk page still looked dry.
My friend frowned more and more every day. After thinking about it, he asked Cheng Siqing: "Do you have any candlelight in this room?"
"No matter how good the candlelight is, there is still smoke. This room has been illuminated with night pearls, and there is no candlelight. How about we go back to the study and find a solution!" Cheng Siqing said.
"That's fine. It's just a blank silk page, so it won't attract anyone's attention." The friend nodded in agreement.
Cheng Siqing hid the "Secret of Immortality" back in the secret cabinet and led his friend out of the secret room back to the study.
Fortunately, there are ready-made candles in the study, so there is no need to call anyone.
Cheng Siqing could probably guess what his friend wanted the candle for, so he didn't ask further. He just took out the candle and lit it directly on the desk.
The friend placed the blank silk page on the candle flame and slowly began to bake it under the candle flame.
Something strange happened.
After the blank silk page was roasted by the candle flame, densely packed blood-red hairpin flowers slowly appeared in small regular script.
The color of those words was as red as blood, as if they had just been written with blood. Even today, I can still smell the strong smell of blood emanating from those words.
Because it was so long ago, Cheng Siqing could not remember clearly the content of the words on the silk page, but he still remembered the general meaning.
The silk page says that the cave is called the Eternal Life Cave. Only those who are destined to enter the Eternal Life Cave can obtain the secret of eternal life and possess the wealth in the Eternal Life Cave.
In order to maintain the balance of the Three Realms, only those who have escaped from the Three Realms can possess those wealth. Therefore, only those who have practiced the art of immortality have the right to use those wealth.
He used the technique in "The Art of Immortality" to jump out of the three realms.
Immortal, immortal, immortal.
There is a curse on that batch of wealth. Those who use the wealth in the Cave of Immortality without using the Immortality Technique to live forever will suffer a bad death due to the curse.
Only those who bring wealth out of the cave and practice the art of immortality can be cured.
After reading the gist of the text on the silk page, Cheng Siqing and his friends broke out in a cold sweat.
Fortunately, they were both destined to see these words before the curse came, otherwise they would have met a terrible death.
As soon as the two of them finished reading the words recorded on the silk page, the silk page spontaneously ignited without fire. The burning fire was green and faint, and it looked particularly scary and strange.
After burning, there was not even ashes left on the silk page, it turned into a faint blue smoke and dissipated without a trace.
When Cheng Siqing and his friend were panicking because of the words written on the silk page and the sudden spontaneous combustion of the silk page, the door of the study room was suddenly pushed open.
"Dad, the governor of Jiangzhou came to wish you a happy birthday. Mom asked me to call you out!"
The person who broke in was Cheng Siqing's youngest son, who looked almost exactly like him.
The moment he saw Cheng Siqing's youngest son, Cheng Siqing's friend's eyes lit up.
"Brother Siqing, go ahead and do your work. I'll wait for you here."
As the friend said this, he turned to Cheng Siqing's youngest son and said, "This boy is handsome and looks so much like brother Siqing. Can you stay and sit with me?"
Cheng Siqing hurriedly left the study and went to the front hall to receive the prefect of Jiangzhou Prefecture.
A friend is a guest from afar. Of course, Cheng Siqing's son would not violate his friend's honor by staying in the study to drink tea with him.
When Cheng Siqing sent the magistrate away and returned to the study, he found that only his friend was left in the room, but his youngest son was missing.
"That treacherous son is so rude and leaves you here alone, brother. It's simply unreasonable!"
Cheng Siqing felt terrible when he thought about the longevity technique, so he opened his mouth to curse.
"Brother Siqing, don't be upset. Brother, I have made an excellent choice for you. Come with me!"
The friend blinked at Cheng Siqing mysteriously, raised his hand to activate the secret door of the study, and led Cheng Siqing back to the secret room behind the study.
Cheng Siqing's youngest son was lying on the floor of the secret room with a sharp knife stuck in his chest. The blood had solidified and he had been dead for a long time without breathing.
"Ah!" Cheng Siqing screamed, grabbed his friend's collar with his backhand and said, "You murderer, you killed my son!"
"Brother Siqing, I am helping you!"
The friend looked at Cheng Siqing and shook his head: "Why don't you understand my painstaking efforts? According to the method written on the silk book, using the life of one of your sons to extend your life and practice the longevity technique can save the lives of your whole family.