Qu Jianlei was studying the Wooden Umbrella when Nutrient Solution spoke up.
"Look, another Divine Script tome! Such a thick one, and it's even on paper!"
Qu Jianlei put away the Wooden Umbrella, then looked toward the display platform. After sensing it carefully, his expression turned a little strange.
It was a book called the Tong Sheng. It was not particularly rare in China, and Xiao Hu's system had a copy stored away.
The problem was, it was not a cultivation manual at all. It was more like a miscellaneous reference book. It mainly covered lunar calendar solar terms, the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, divination and fortune-telling, traditional Chinese medicine and health preservation, astronomy and celestial phenomena, and other such knowledge.
Depending on the edition, some even included the Hetu Luoshu, Tui Bei Tu, and Shao Bing Ge...
It would not be entirely accurate to say it had absolutely nothing to do with cultivation. It even contained some Taoist Sect concepts.
But it really was just a hodgepodge. (Feng Xiao finally had a day when he could copy book reviews too! ε(┬┬＿┬┬)3)
Expecting to uncover cultivation secrets from this book was impossible—not just for the Empire's people, but even Qu Jianlei himself could not do it! Still, since it contained things like the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, it was perfectly normal for the auction house to classify it as a cultivation tome.
Because it was only a single volume, although it looked very much like a cultivation manual, it was ultimately placed among the "ordinary auction items."
Still, the starting price was not low... five billion!
While Qu Jianlei was still dazed, the Tong Sheng's price had already surged past ten billion and was racing toward twenty billion.
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