Chapter 137: Three Treasures

“You rat, don’t let me catch you, or I’ll make sure you wish you were dead.” Ren Tianba kept roaring with arrogance.

From the radio, Zhou Yu even heard a huge rumbling sound, as if Ren Tianba had blown apart a mountain.

After that, a few more roars came from the radio before it went silent, replaced by the familiar static sound again.

Zhou Yu shook his head and smiled softly. Now you know how painful it feels to have something snatched away.

Though Song Qingxiu was cunning and sly, he might still have some bottom line. But this Ren Tianba truly acted like a tyrant, ready to kill at the slightest disagreement. From the sounds on the radio, he could tell that Ren Tianba really wanted to kill that Su Shi.

If he had no ability, he could only watch helplessly. But now, he looked forward to the radio, constantly tuning in to Ren Tianba’s frequency, to let this guy experience what it meant to be haunted relentlessly.

Zhou Yu picked up the radio and tried turning the knob. There was only static; he couldn’t connect to any other frequencies.

At that moment, his gaze fixed tightly on the three clusters of light on the radio. Previously, the radio had only transmitted two clusters at most each time, but this time, there was one more.

According to the information he had heard earlier on the radio, Ren Tianba should have taken four things: the Wenyuan Brush, Wenhua Ink, Ink Grass, and also a cultivation method for Haoran Righteousness.

When Ren Tianba left Wenyuan Pavilion and took out these items, Zhou Yu had hoped to get them all in his mind. However, the radio randomly transmitted three of those items to him.

Looking at the items inside the three clusters of light on the radio, Zhou Yu’s face showed great joy. He understood exactly why Ren Tianba was so furious: the three items transmitted were the most important ones.

Inside one cluster was a writing brush, appearing small and very cute within the light. The second cluster contained a grass as dark as ink, with stems and leaves all pitch black, giving off a very mysterious feeling.

As for the third cluster, Zhou Yu felt rising excitement because inside was a small book, likely the cultivation method for Haoran Righteousness.

Although he had succeeded in Foundation Building now, he hadn’t obtained any actual cultivation method. He was very interested in this Haoran Righteousness and naturally didn’t mind trying to cultivate it.

In the Immortal World, cultivating Haoran Righteousness would face many difficulties and he might often be overwhelmed by stronger opponents. But on Earth, with his current physical fitness already surpassing many people, cultivating Haoran Righteousness naturally wouldn’t be a problem.

Moreover, his original wish was to master Sword Flight and roam the world freely, not to rely on his cultivation for fighting and killing like Ren Tianba. So, he felt that this Haoran Righteousness would suit him very well.

Out of the four items, he got the three most important ones, while Ren Tianba only got the Wenhua Ink. If it were him, he’d probably go crazy too.

He really owed thanks to Ren Tianba. Otherwise, given the radio’s current progress, who knew when he would have been able to tune into Wenyuan Pavilion’s frequency.

Looking at these three clusters of light, Zhou Yu first touched the light containing the Wenyuan Brush with his finger. He saw the light gradually fade, and the small brush grew bigger and bigger before landing in his hand.

Bringing the brush before his eyes, he examined it carefully. Touching it refreshed his spirit, and the brush had a flowing glow, looking very spirited.

The body of the brush had no carved patterns, yet it made him feel a vast scholarly aura contained within.

The brush tip was made of two colors of fine hairs, evenly blended, giving it very pleasing appearance.

Zhou Yu could also sense something extraordinary about these two-colored fine hairs. He touched them with his hand; they were neither too soft nor too hard, seeming to balance firmness and flexibility.

By nature, he was someone who loved Huaxia’s traditions deeply. So, during university, he joined a calligraphy club and occasionally practiced some, but he was very much an amateur.

Zhou Yu gently placed the Wenyuan Brush on the side of the table. Just as he was about to touch the all-black Ink Grass, he suddenly thought of something and stopped.

On the radio, he had heard the Pavilion Master of Wenyuan Pavilion say that this Ink Grass grew and thrived by feeding on Haoran Righteousness, and that Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy had no effect on it.

If that was the case, then without Haoran Righteousness, if he planted it in soil, it would slowly wither and die.

But from his judgment, planting it might only maintain its current state; it wouldn’t grow or flourish. It would need to absorb Haoran Righteousness.

After thinking, Zhou Yu decided to keep this cluster of light for now and check the situation tomorrow morning. Among the three clusters, he felt the most important one was undoubtedly the small-looking Haoran Righteousness cultivation method.

This was the first cultivation method he had obtained from the Immortal World. He nearly got one from Ten Thousand Beasts Sect last time, but he didn’t feel any regret now because, in his view, this Haoran Righteousness was what he wanted most.

Zhou Yu extended a finger and gently tapped the third cluster of light. The light gradually faded, and the book inside also grew larger before falling into his hand.

Earlier, upon seeing the book inside this light, he felt very fortunate. This cultivation method wasn’t a Jade Slip like those often mentioned in xianxia novels. Otherwise, with his Spiritual Power being unreliable sometimes, he wouldn’t know how to receive the information inside. A physical book was naturally different.

However, when the book landed in his hand and Zhou Yu saw the characters on the cover, he was stunned. He couldn’t understand a single one of those characters.

On second thought, it made sense. When Uncle-Master Wu received the Floral Water, he couldn’t read the characters on it either. Now it was his turn. If he couldn’t understand the characters, how could he cultivate? It might have been better to wait until Ren Tianba returned and have that guy read it aloud to himself.

Although he couldn’t understand these large characters, they felt somewhat familiar, quite similar to Huaxia’s Seal Script.

Zhou Yu didn’t hesitate. He took out his Mobile Phone, logged into a search website, and searched for Seal Script. He couldn’t help but show a surprised and delighted expression. Indeed, it was very similar, though with some differences in details.

He never expected that the script used in the Immortal World would be Seal Script. It looked like Small Seal Script, the unified script after the Qin Emperor unified the writing.

Later, after Clerical Script developed, Seal Script gradually faded from everyday writing. After Regular and Cursive Scripts became popular, Seal Script remained only for calligraphy and seals.

In modern times, many people learn calligraphy, but most study Cursive, Regular, or Running Scripts. Comparatively, Seal Script is much rarer.

During university, in the club where he learned calligraphy, very few people practiced Seal Script. Zhou Yu felt this script gave a very mysterious feeling, full of a sense of antiquity, just like the unknowns of the Immortal World.

Perhaps this was also why he could understand the language of the Immortal World: because the script used was of the same lineage.

Knowing that the text in the Haoran Righteousness cultivation book was likely Seal Script, Zhou Yu felt relieved. If the script were completely unrelated to Earth’s writing, trying to decipher it would be as difficult as climbing to the sky.

Then, his gaze fell on the large characters on the cover. Although he couldn’t read these Seal Script characters, he could sense a righteous aura from them.

Books from the Immortal World naturally couldn’t be machine-printed. So, the characters in this book were all handwritten. These large characters seemed full of spirit.

Zhou Yu slowly opened the book. It had only a few pages, looking like it contained a few hundred characters. Seal Script strokes are complex. Normally, a book full of such text would make one dizzy, but now, looking at these characters, he felt energized.

To him, these characters didn’t seem like dead symbols but vivid living beings, each one different. The person who wrote this book must have possessed extraordinary calligraphy skills.

The paper in the book was also fine and smooth, very comfortable to the touch. Probably the Brush, Ink, Paper, Inkstone owned by this sect were the result of many years of study.

Flipping through the book, these mere few hundred characters contained the cultivation method of Haoran Righteousness from another Immortal World. Zhou Yu felt deeply moved and wished he could decipher these characters right away and start cultivating.

Thinking so, he didn’t hesitate. He directly opened his laptop, searched online for a Seal Script character comparison chart, wanting to find characters similar to those in the book.

“Haha, found it! This one looks a bit different in strokes, but it’s definitely the character for ‘Hao’.” In the comparison chart, Zhou Yu found one character, compared it with the book, and showed a flash of joy on his face.

One by one, the characters from the book were identified. Of course, some characters differed too much from those he found, so he set them aside for now. For each similar character found, he would specifically write it down on a blank sheet of paper and label it.

This concerned whether he could cultivate Haoran Righteousness, so he had to be extremely meticulous.

Finally, he kept comparing until past five in the morning. Zhou Yu felt his head had swollen a size bigger, but he managed to accurately match over half of the characters in the book. However, a smaller portion still remained unknown; some looked vaguely similar, some he couldn’t find in the comparison chart at all.

The entire book had over six hundred characters. He successfully found over four hundred, with about two hundred still unclear or completely unfound.

The variations in Seal Script writing are far more numerous than in Regular or Cursive Scripts. Even a slight change might make it impossible to identify.