Chapter 9 Waiting for the rabbit
"The Secret of Heaven"

The content of the first chapter finally revealed its true colors.

It turned out to be a breathing method.

However, Li Zhi had no intention of trying to practice rashly.

There are prerequisites for practicing any technique. If you force yourself to practice without meeting the prerequisites, you will only hurt others and yourself.

It’s not that Li Zhi is timid, but that he truly takes responsibility for his own life.

Only those who live their life again will know how precious life is.

Therefore, after Li Zhi compiled the translation manuscripts sent by Ye Fan into a book, he did not practice it immediately, but planned to ask a Taoist master for advice.

Thanks to the developed Internet age, the traces of Taoist masters are no longer as vague as they were hundreds of years ago.

Li Zhi even posted on the Internet to look for places where immortals were suspected to appear.

He actually found some information. People in Longhu Mountain, Zaoge Mountain, and Zhongnan Mountain claimed to have seen "immortals" in those places.

Looking at those place names, Li Zhi tried hard to recall the heritage that existed on Earth as described in the original book.

It actually reminded him of some things, including the Shangqing Sect, Lingbao Sect, Taiyi Sect, Shenxiao Sect, Quanzhen Sect, and other Taoist sects.

There are also Shushan sword cultivators and Kunlun Qigong practitioners.

There are also demon god families such as Daxia Longque, Tianlin, and Zhuhuang, as well as alien forces such as the Western Church in the Ten Thousand Demon Valley.

If he counted carefully, there were quite a few forces that could help him verify the authenticity of the breathing method.

It’s a pity that as an ordinary person, Li Zhi has no relevant connections.

After seeing those messages, he realized that if he stayed in the store all the time, he might never be able to uncover the true identity of the "Heavenly Secret Stealer".

Only by taking the initiative can you have a chance of finding the opportunity.

After figuring this out, Li Zhi immediately changed his lifestyle.

I run for half an hour every morning, and then practice martial arts equipment for half an hour, mainly the use of long swords, short swords, long spears and short sticks.

In the afternoon, I go to the rock climbing gym and practice rock climbing for an hour.

If a workman wants to be good, he must first sharpen his weapon.

Going out to look for opportunities is no exception.

Without a strong body, it is wishful thinking to want to find a true master among those famous mountains and rivers.

If you don't have an extraordinary physical fitness, you may not be able to climb the mountain, and will be exhausted and collapse halfway.

Where those high-ranking people live, there are no ready-made elevators or cableways, nor are there specially built road steps.

You can only rely on your own strength to cross mountains and rivers to reach your destination.

Zhou Mei was very happy to see Li Zhi change his lazy style.

She thought that Li Zhi made the changes because of her.

So, I gave Li Zhiton different kinds of supplements every day.

This kind of life lasted for six months, and Li Zhi developed a strong body of muscles.

The weather also changed from hot summer to winter with howling north winds.

That day, after eating the old hen wolfberry ginseng soup brought by Zhou Mei, Li Zhi, who was supposed to lie on the lazy chair for a rest, suddenly said to Zhou Mei: "Mei'er, I plan to go out for a while."

"How long will it take?" Zhou Mei asked while cleaning up the soup bowls.

"Maybe one month, maybe three to five months. We are not sure about this matter, so the time is uncertain." Li Zhi said.

"Then I'll go with you." Zhou Mei immediately raised her head and looked at Li Zhi and said.

"You stay at home and be a good girl. When I'm gone, someone will have to help look after the store for me." Li Zhi said with a smile.

"Okay, then I'll help you look after the store." Zhou Mei said.

Hugging Zhou Mei's waist from behind, Li Zhi whispered in her ear: "Don't worry, I'm not disappearing. It's just that the person I'm looking for this time is not easy to find."

"Hmph! Who's afraid that you'll disappear?" Zhou Mei said, twisting her waist.

Then she turned around, looked into Li Zhi's eyes and said, "Li Lang, I have good news for you. I am single again now."

Li Zhi said: "Did he agree to divorce you?"

Zhou Mei nodded and said, "I didn't ask for a house, so he agreed very readily."

Li Zhi let go of Zhou Mei, then took out a bunch of keys from his bag, handed them to Zhou Mei and said, "Then you stay at my place first. When I come back, I'll arrange a new place for you to live."

After Zhou Mei took the key, she immediately smiled happily and said, "I really did not choose the wrong man."

Li Zhi also said: "I didn't choose the wrong woman either."

The atmosphere was set up here, and then naturally a beautiful picture of love and passion would unfold.

Soon, Zhou Mei, with her charming eyes, hugged Li Zhi's neck and said, "I want to give birth to a child for you."

Li Zhi said: "Now is not the time."

"Ok!"

Li Zhi left.

He left with the determination to seek immortality.

His first stop was the Qinling Mountains, known as the ancestral mountain range of China.

I visited many hermits in Mount Zhongnan.

But there were only a few real monks, but fake monks appeared one after another.

Not to mention the breathing techniques involved in spiritual practice, they don't even know the proper techniques to strengthen the body.

Each of them held a Taoist classic and started pretending to be a hermit.

This made Li Zhi extremely disappointed.

His second stop was Jiangxi.

He knew there were masters there, but he didn't meet any.

After visiting Longhu Mountain, Zaoge Mountain and other Taoist ancestral temples, they had to return disappointed.

The third stop was Mount Tai.

There is no large sect settled on top of Mount Tai.

But Mount Tai in the world of Shrouding the Sky is extraordinary. You might meet monks who come to pay you a visit there.

In order to attract the attention of the monks.

Li Zhi set up a small stall at the foot of the mountain and created a literacy game.

He mixed up the translated oracle bones and the untranslated oracle bones in the Heaven Stealing Secret, and offered a reward of 100 yuan per character to attract tourists to play. Ten yuan per time, and ten oracle bones were randomly drawn each time.

If you recognize three or more, you can trigger a reward of 100 yuan per word.

That is, you can get a reward of 100 yuan for every additional oracle bone character you recognize.

Perhaps because the rewards were generous enough, his game stall quickly became popular.

Displayed from early spring to midsummer, none of the unfamiliar oracle bone inscriptions on the Stealing Heaven Secret were recognizable to any of the tourists.

As for the other oracle bones, they cost him more than 100,000 yuan in bonuses.

Until one day, two young people, a man and a woman, came down the mountain.

When passing by Li Zhi's stall, the girl suddenly stopped and shouted to the man: "Brother, wait a minute, there is a fun game here."

There was no immortal aura about the two of them. Although they looked decent, they looked ordinary.

Ordinary people's eyes would not linger on them for a moment.

But Li Zhi discovered the extraordinaryness of the two.

What was different from ordinary people was that they walked from the foot of the mountain to the stall without blushing or getting out of breath, and they didn’t even carry any equipment.

He didn't seem to have a cell phone in his pocket.

"Girl, would you like to play a few games? If you are knowledgeable and talented, perhaps you can earn enough money from me to pay for this trip." Li Zhi began to promote his game like a profiteer.

The girl chuckled and said, "If I win, you won't default on my debt, right?"

Li Zhi said, "Girl, you are so arrogant. If you dare to win, I will give it to you. I am just afraid that you can't read and get angry after losing, and call the police and say I am a fraud."

Previously, someone spent hundreds of dollars to see hundreds of oracle bones but didn't recognize a single word, so he called the police directly.

It was only after other tourists who had made money from Li Zhi explained to the police that the police let Li Zhi go.

After all, Li Zhi's business can be considered a cultural game, which is more upscale than the simple ring-tossing game, and the scenic spot staff are also happy to see it.

The boy looked at the stall and the rules of the game and asked, "Boss, there won't be a limit on the number of times you can play this game, right?"

Li Zhi said: "There will be no limit on the number of times you can do it, but the difficulty will increase step by step. If you can pass it, it is possible to win a prize of 100,000 yuan."

While speaking, Li Zhi patted the iron box under his butt.

It seemed that 100,000 yuan in cash had already been prepared.

Seeing this, the boy said to the girl, "Junior sister, if you want to play, then have fun. Let this ignorant boss know what it means that there are always people better than you."

Then, the game begins.

The girl seemed to know every word.

Li Zhi, who was originally full of confidence, already had sweat on his forehead when the game reached the third round.

The boy asked with a smile: "Boss, how about it, do you dare to continue?"

The girl seemed to enjoy seeing Li Zhi's increasingly terrified expression, and said, "Brother, I haven't had enough fun yet."

Li Zhi gritted his teeth and said, "Go on, I don't believe it. You are really better than the professor in the field of ancient characters."

Then he quietly replaced the oracle bone script in the Sky Stealing Secret.

It's just that the order is shuffled, and the cards are small, one word at a time, which doesn't make people think that those words are separated from the entire article.

Sure enough, after the difficulty increased, the girl no longer blurted out the words.

She needed to think and even ask her senior brother for help before she could recognize those words.

Li Zhi looked at them triumphantly, as if he was happy with his own cleverness.

The boy seemed to be irritated by Li Zhi's expression and actually went on stage to play the game himself.

In just half an hour, they had recognized all the oracle bone inscriptions in Li Zhi's character library.

Seeing that they had completed the game, Li Zhi felt as if the sky had fallen. His legs went weak and he collapsed to the ground.

The girl had no mercy in her eyes, and said condescendingly: "Boss, we have passed the customs, hurry up and take the money, you are not going to play rogue, are you?"

The boy also looked at Li Zhi and said sarcastically, "Who said 'If you dare to win, I will give it to you' just now?"

Li Zhi seemed very angry, and then he stood up with the box, glared at the brother and sister, and said with his back teeth gritted: "I'm afraid you can't carry it."

Then he opened the box, took out a backpack filled with twenty hundred-dollar bills, and threw it to them.

As if in a fit of anger, he said, "It's only two hundred thousand, I can still afford it."

The girl took the backpack and saw the neatly packed hundred-dollar bills inside. She immediately said to her senior brother, "Senior brother, this trip was not in vain. I actually earned two months' pocket money."

Then they planned to leave.

But Li Zhi shouted, "Wait a minute."

The boy stared at him and said, "Why, do you want to go back on your word?"

Li Zhi said, "You can take the money, but you have to leave my bag. That's a brand-name backpack that I spent 600 yuan on."

"Haha, this boss is so interesting."

As soon as these words were spoken, the crowd watching the scene burst into laughter.

The girl also looked at Li Zhi in disbelief, as if she couldn't quite believe that he would care about such a cheap bag.

The boy did not make any move. He just held the bag in his hand and shook it gently. Then he threw the backpack to Li Zhi and said, "Here, I'll give you the bag."

After Li Zhi took the backpack, he immediately discovered that the money inside was gone, which made him more certain that the two men were monks.

Then he threw the empty bag into the box and said to the tourists watching: "Dear fellow villagers, Li has failed today and is seriously injured. He needs to rest for a while."

After saying this, he began to pack up his stall amid the mocking eyes of the crowd.

Then, he left in embarrassment amid the cheers of tourists.

But no one noticed that his eyes were unusually bright.

Do you really think he cares about the money?

No, he was giving everyone a live performance.

Li Zhi dared to say that his performance just now had reached the level of perfection, enough to surpass all the students in the drama academy.

The harvest this time is really great.

He didn't expose himself and solved his problem at the same time.

It only cost a little money and there was no cause or effect left.

What a bargain.

He couldn't wait to go back and translate the entire book "Stealing the Secrets of Heaven".

(End of this chapter)