novelraw Chapter 735 Trembling with excitement all over
Chapter 735 Trembling with excitement all over
"Let’s start searching, see what exactly the Master has left behind?" Qu Shanling, recalling her Master’s words, knew Mu Hanyan’s guess was right and nodded. She then began to search around the cottage.Since it was something left by her Master, Mu Hanyan and the others did not intervene and just stood aside, surveying the surroundings.
The cottage’s furnishings were incredibly simple: a cot, a table, a chair, along with a bamboo stand and a few bamboo stools. There were a few rooms beside, stacked with miscellaneous items, but not too many. Very soon, Qu Shanling had searched every corner of the rooms, even under the stove, but found nothing.
As the sky grew dark, Qu Shanling sat on a bamboo stool, staring at the crescent moon in the sky, lost in thought.
Seeing this, Mu Hanyan and the others also started to help look around, but since Qu Shanling had even checked under the stove and found nothing, what could they possibly find?
"Why is there a water pool here?" Mu Hanyan went to the kitchen and looked at the large water pool in the corner, puzzled.
The pool was over six feet long, three feet wide, and two feet deep, much larger than the water pools used in common households. Moreover, upon closer inspection, it appeared to be made from a single piece of bluestone.
"This is a kitchen. To cook meals, of course, there needs to be a water pool," Qu Shanling looked at Mu Hanyan strangely.
Could it be? This Young Master really lived a life of luxury; had he never even entered a kitchen? Did he really not know that you cannot cook rice without water?
"Of course I know that cooking requires water, but is it necessary to have such a large pool?" Mu Hanyan rolled his eyes, really taking him for a pampered young master who wouldn’t even know that.
"Right, the pool!" Qu Shanling suddenly realized. The stream was not far from the door; ordinarily, a water jar would suffice for cooking, so why prepare such a large water pool?
There must be something peculiar here.
Qu Shanling rushed over in a few steps, leaned over the edge of the pool, and peered inside.
The pool had not been used in half a year, and the water had mostly dried up, leaving behind only a little muddy water, with a layer of green moss at the bottom.
Qu Shanling took a wooden spoon, scooped out the remaining water, then reached in and wiped off the moss. A look of great surprise suddenly appeared on her face.
"So that’s it, that’s it!" Qu Shanling was trembling with excitement.
Mu Hanyan looked up and saw that the bottom bluestone slab of the water pool was covered with intersecting lines, with carved intersections that were deepened. It was clearly a star chart, but unlike the normal star charts, it also had many annotations such as "Liu Star, seven parts, Shi Star, nine transfers," which were probably related to the Star Divination Skill. Chapters fırst released on ????????????????????⚫????????????????⚫????????????
"What is this?" Jiang Yuzhe, however, did not understand and asked curiously.
"This is the Heavenly Star Breaking Seal Technique!" Qu Shanling replied.
"What, the Heavenly Star Breaking Seal Technique!" Mu Hanyan had originally thought it was the Star Divination Skill, but after hearing Qu Shanling’s words, she realized she was wrong and was quite surprised.
"Indeed, this is the unique secret technique that my master used with Star Divination to break the seals—the Heavenly Star Breaking Seal Technique!" Qu Shanling declared proudly.
"Star Divination can also break seals?" Mu Hanyan was even more astonished.
Sealing techniques had long been passed down in the Holy Court Continent, in various academies and families, said to possess their closely guarded sealing techniques. However, like barrier techniques, these sealing techniques had largely been lost over the long passage of time, with most of them left incomplete.
Having lived two lifetimes, Mu Hanyan had never learned a complete sealing technique. If one day she reached the realm of the Sword Saint, she might barely be able to use her strength to execute one or two incomplete sealing techniques, but their effectiveness would be limited. As for now, she couldn’t even perform an incomplete sealing technique.
From ancient times until today, many Divine Weapons and Alchemy Artifacts left by predecessors had sealing restrictions placed on them, and some Cave Heaven Blessed Lands or Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures had self-formed natural seals.
To unlock these seals, one either needed to find the correct Seal Breaking Technique or forcefully break them with overwhelming power. Fortunately, as these seals aged, most of their sealing power weakened over time. Even without the correct method, as long as one had sufficient strength and put in some extra effort, they could be forcibly opened. Otherwise, no one knows how many legacies of powerful ancestors or Heaven and Earth Treasures would remain lost to the world, utterly wasted.
For example, the Qiongqi Temple in the Exotic Beast Valley was such a case. Although it originated from ancient powerful beings and its sealing technique had been lost, its sealing power weakened over time. Thanks to the efforts of Xia Youchen a few centuries ago, combined with the final strike from Qu Fengting and others, the seal was finally broken, allowing the Qiongqi Relics to see the light of day once more.
However, aside from these, there were some seals that were too exquisitely crafted, their intrinsic power too formidable, making them not so easily broken. Such as the legendary Divine Artifacts or relics from ancient battlefields, even a Sword Saint level expert, without the correct method, couldn’t open them by force alone.
Mu Hanyan had never heard that Star Divination had the miraculous ability to break seals.
"Of course, others’ Star Divination cannot achieve this, but who exactly is my master? Predicting this life with calculations, possessing divine skills that can penetrate heaven and earth, what’s so difficult about breaking a seal?" Qu Shanling spoke with frantic adoration.
Seeing the shining eyes of Qu Shanling, Mu Hanyan suddenly felt like laughing. Qu Shanling’s master, having faked his death and even escaped from the grave, certainly was a person with the ability to penetrate heaven and earth, wasn’t he?
Of course, this amusing thought was fleeting. Just seeing the Star Illusion Thousand Machine Technique passed down from Qu Shanling’s master, Mu Hanyan knew he truly had profound knowledge—truly a high-level expert, not comparable to those charlatans posing as mystics—and she would certainly not mock him with that.
Besides, Qu Shanling revered his master like a deity. If she dared to joke about it, the old god wouldn’t hesitate to fight back.
"What exactly is this seal?" asked Mu Hanyan.
To tell the truth, she initially just thought it was strange for such a large water reservoir to be set up next to the stream by the cottage; she didn’t notice anything else unusual until Qu Shanling mentioned the seal. She then focused her mental state to investigate and sensed a faint seal aura but couldn’t identify what kind of seal it was.
The only thing Mu Hanyan could be sure of was that this seal, being so hidden that even Qu Shanling’s master couldn’t open it, must not be sealing something ordinary.
"That, I’m not too sure myself," Qu Shanling scratched the back of his head and said.
Having known that his master was still alive in this world, a change had occurred in Qu Shanling’s heart, making him happy as if he had returned to the days he’d spent closely with his master, seeming to become younger once again.