Divine Script Gold Page

Divine Script Gold Page

Big Yellow ran over and kept rubbing against Zhou Leng's leg, his tail wagging furiously.

Zhou Leng studied Big Yellow carefully. His fur was thick and sleek, and his body was tall and sturdy. Although he was clearly a village dog, the bigger he grew, the more he looked like a golden retriever.

Zhou Leng said nothing and turned to run home.

The smile on Big Yellow's face abruptly vanished. He tossed his head and snorted loudly, then yelped as he darted forward, blocking Zhou Leng and looking up at him.

His brows knitted tightly.

"Fine, I'll go today too, all right?" Zhou Leng said.

Big Yellow stuck out his tongue and beamed.

Zhou Leng ran home, made and finished breakfast, then returned to the village and took Big Yellow into the mountains.

When the old men saw them, they sighed one after another.

"Half a year ago, he was still sickly. Look at him now—he can run better than a dog."

"Big Yellow seems stronger too."

"I told you long ago, Big Yellow absorbed the spiritual energy of Heaven and Earth and became a spirit dog. No ordinary dog is this intelligent."

Once again, they arrived beneath the Frost Giant Tree. Zhou Leng still politely greeted the Frost Giant Tree before sitting cross-legged to cultivate the Mysterious Tide Art.

Without the Meat Medicinal Cuisine and Qi Nourishing Pills, his speed was slightly slower.

Zhou Leng still had not gone to the Martial Arts Mall to exchange for Pill Vouchers. He had taken too many pills over the past few days, so he would wait a few days before deciding.

After completing eighty-one cycles of the Mysterious Tide Art, Zhou Leng's ears twitched.

When he opened his eyes, he saw Big Yellow digging a hole more than ten meters away. His two front paws moved rapidly, sending dirt flying to both sides.

Zhou Leng rose and walked over.

"Whimper..." Big Yellow lowered his head, picked something up in his teeth, then turned and looked towards Zhou Leng.

"Hm?" Zhou Leng reached out and took the thing from Big Yellow's mouth.

He only glanced at it once before a stormy sea surged through his heart.

It looked like a metal book page, radiating a dark golden sheen. Three-dimensional characters were carved across its surface.

The characters on it were not only moving but were also composed of six faces.

They were like six Chinese characters pieced together to form a perfect cube.

Divine Script.

Divine Script was merely the common term. According to the half-divine demon spirit masters of the Demon Spirit World, it was the universal language of a High Civilization.

To this day, no one had fully deciphered it. They could only understand a handful of individual characters, and even those interpretations were inaccurate.

Each character of the Divine Script was equivalent to a large passage or even an entire article in ordinary writing.

"Is there anything else underneath?" Zhou Leng asked.

Big Yellow shook his head.

"How did you discover this?"

Big Yellow looked utterly bewildered.

Zhou Leng watched the Divine Script slowly rotating on the page and fell into deep thought.

Zhou Leng held it with both hands, set it upright beneath the Frost Giant Tree, then sat cross-legged opposite it and carefully observed the dozens of Divine Script characters on its surface.

Zhou Leng recalled the various claims he had read online. Divine Script could not be read all at once. It had to be viewed one character at a time: only after understanding the first could one understand the second.

Zhou Leng stared at the first Divine Script character and tried to memorize it.

After looking at it once, he seemed to remember it.

He closed his eyes. Hm? He had forgotten everything.

He looked again. It seemed quite simple.

The moment he closed his eyes, he wondered, What was it I just saw?

Zhou Leng kept remembering and forgetting.

This feeling was just like memorizing a text while half-awake and half-asleep.

Half an hour later, Zhou Leng suddenly closed his eyes and raised a hand to cover his head.

He had remembered it, but his brain had nearly exploded.

That Divine Script character was like a mixer, spinning inside his brain and churning his brain matter.

Zhou Leng narrowed his eyes and laboriously took out his sleeping bag before crawling inside and falling into a deep sleep.

After a long while, Zhou Leng awoke and checked the time on his phone.

He had slept a full four hours, yet his brain remained muddled.

Previously, he had only needed two hours of sleep beneath the tree to feel fully refreshed.

Zhou Leng sat with his back against the tree, too tired to even lift a finger.

Big Yellow picked up the Divine Script Gold Page and placed it in front of Zhou Leng.

"You want me to study?"

Big Yellow nodded.

Zhou Leng fell silent. He had never expected that after living his entire life, he would suffer the humiliation of being urged to study by a yellow dog.

"I can't understand it."

Big Yellow looked bewildered and tilted his head slightly.

Zhou Leng said helplessly, "This is Divine Script. It's different from the writing I used before. I can't understand even one character. Even memorizing one nearly made my brain explode. Boom... do you understand?"

Zhou Leng spread both hands apart.

Big Yellow looked doubtfully at the Divine Script Gold Page, then at Zhou Leng. He went back and forth several times, his canine eyes growing even more puzzled.

Zhou Leng said, "You find it strange that I can't understand it?"

Big Yellow nodded.

"Do you think it's normal for a dog not to understand it, but embarrassing for a human not to?"

Big Yellow nodded, then suddenly froze and shook his head repeatedly.

Man and dog stared at each other.

Zhou Leng suddenly flinched and pretended to stand. Big Yellow spun around, kicked off the ground, and shot far away. He looked back, narrowed his eyes, then lowered his head and walked back with a grin, his tail tucked between his legs.

"Big Yellow, you're getting more and more impressive. You can even discover this thing." Zhou Leng pinched the Divine Script Gold Page.

Big Yellow grinned, secretly glanced at the canopy of the Frost Giant Tree, then hurriedly lowered his head.

Zhou Leng caught the sight, and his gaze flickered.

Zhou Leng faintly guessed at a few possibilities. Although they seemed somewhat far-fetched, they were not absolutely impossible.

Zhou Leng picked up the Divine Script Gold Page, looked towards the second character, and tried hard to memorize it.

Before long, two cubic Divine Script characters spun inside his brain, working together to churn his brain matter...

Zhou Leng crawled weakly into his sleeping bag.

After waking again, Zhou Leng sat there in a daze for a long time.

His body was still there, but his soul was gone.

Zhou Leng blinked.

The second Divine Script character had vanished from his mind. He had no impression of it at all and had forgotten it completely.

His memory of the first Divine Script character had also grown blurry.

Zhou Leng hurriedly looked towards the Divine Script Gold Page and spent quite some time before finally remembering the first character completely.

As for the second, Zhou Leng only glanced at it and decided to Never Mind for now. He would firmly remember the first one before anything else.

Zhou Leng checked his phone. It was already deep into the night.

Zhou Leng slowly rose and jogged to warm up.

Afterward, he cultivated his inner power and practiced his External Techniques and fistwork step by step.

After waking from another sleep, he went down the mountain, returned home to eat and cook, packed food, went to the Martial Arts Mall to exchange for seven Qi Nourishing Pills, and then climbed the mountain again.

The first Divine Script character had grown blurry once more. He memorized it again, slept, and then cultivated.

With a treasure mountain in his hands, he could not do nothing. Even learning one character would be worthwhile.

After cultivating, he went home and contacted Li Linhan.

"I've decided to join their Martial Arts Research team. My classmate Feng Wenhao wants to go too. He said he can accept a little less payment."

Before long, Li Linhan replied.

"Good. Once your results are released, I'll take both of you to meet him."

Zhou Leng stopped by the hospital on the way. After the examination, he removed the green wristband.

Then Zhou Leng plunged headfirst into the Mysterious Forest and cultivated beneath the Frost Giant Tree.

Time passed.

At dawn, Zhou Leng sat beneath the Frost Giant Tree and slowly opened his eyes.

His True Qi had broken through, advancing to grand completion.

At Qi Nourishing Grand Completion, he could breathe for ten seconds, allowing his qi to reach his skin.

Zhou Leng took out his phone, started the timer, circulated his True Qi to its fullest, and ran with all his strength.

Big Yellow chased after him from behind.

Before long, Zhou Leng stopped and looked at his phone.

Four minutes and fifty-six seconds.

He had improved by a full thirty-three seconds compared with the day of the Martial Arts Examination.

Zhou Leng continued practicing Martial Path Perception, but his External Techniques had not improved.

Inner cultivation could rely on Qi Nourishing Pills and a High Civilization spiritual land. External Techniques, however, could only be practiced steadily and methodically.

His rapid improvement over the past few days was because his body had grown stronger. Essentially, he was making up for deficiencies from the past.

Even someone as powerful as Zhang Xinglie had only reached grand completion at the Fifth Heaven in his strongest fist technique.

Zhou Leng sat on the ground and circulated his qi. The True Qi within him surged rapidly like a tide.

The Mysterious Tide Art rose layer upon layer, its later force fierce and powerful.

Once the Mysterious Tide Art reached grand completion, if his True Qi was completely exhausted, it would surge back at astonishing speed.

The great tide returned.

In only a few dozen seconds, the True Qi in his dantian had recovered by half. After that, its recovery speed returned to normal.

Once his True Qi filled his dantian, Zhou Leng observed himself internally and found that his body was completely different from before.

Previously, the dark blue True Qi had flowed only beneath his skin.

Now, a dense network of dark blue True Qi emerged within his skin, as if he had gained an additional layer of fascia.

At the same time, Zhou Leng's breathing changed. His inhalation lasted ten seconds, while his exhalation lasted around five.

Zhou Leng opened his eyes, feeling slightly surprised.

After the Mysterious Tide Art reached grand completion, these increases in strength were perfectly normal. But for some reason, his perception had also grown stronger.

It was somewhat like what Teacher Sun Xiong had said: his mental will had undergone another tempering.

Although this tempering was far inferior to the month he had spent in the hospital, the sensation was somewhat similar.

To verify it, Zhou Leng exhausted his True Qi, then crawled into his sleeping bag and recorded the time.

When he awoke, Zhou Leng opened his phone.

Previously, his average sleep beneath the Frost Giant Tree had been two hours and nine minutes.

This time, he had needed only two hours and three minutes.

It had accelerated by six minutes.

"I wonder whether it's related to the spiritual land or the Divine Script Gold Page."

Zhou Leng glanced at the Divine Script Gold Page.

These past few days, Zhou Leng had been Studying the Divine Script.

The Divine Script seemed to possess a strange property. No matter how clearly he remembered it on the first day, it would become blurry the next day.

Zhou Leng decided to keep studying it repeatedly and see exactly how many days it would take him to remember it completely.

Zhou Leng glanced at the date on his phone. The results would be announced today, and preferences would be submitted the day after tomorrow.

After leaving the Mysterious Forest and returning to Xiaoru Village, Zhou Leng found a red brick and placed it on a stone platform.

Zhou Leng took a deep breath, circulated his qi into his palm, and spread it across his skin.

He struck down with his right palm.

Smack!

Zhou Leng withdrew his palm and looked at the red brick.

A large red brick had shattered into countless small pieces, most of them about the size of broad beans, evenly and orderly arranged.

"I've probably reached the late Blood Circulation Stage or the Body Tempering Stage. At that point, I should be able to smash a brick into powder with One Palm Strike."

He looked at his palm and saw a faint red mark had appeared on it.

Zhou Leng returned home and waited quietly.

The moment it turned nine, he went online to check his results.

The website froze, so he refreshed it.

Only after a full five minutes did Zhou Leng manage to retrieve his results.

The three-exam total was based on a maximum of 1,000 points, consisting of the written exam, physical exam, and Martial Arts Examination, with their weighting increasing in that order.

Admission to Martial Arts Universities and their affiliated martial arts academies was based on the total score. Admission to ordinary universities, however, did not consider the physical or Martial Arts Examination scores and was calculated using the written-exam score out of 750.

Zhou Leng silently looked at his total score for the three examinations.

672 points.

Citywide ranking: 12,437th.

Without ranking in the top five thousand, he had no hope of entering a Martial Arts University. Without ranking in the top ten thousand, he had no hope of entering an affiliated martial arts academy.

Zhou Leng looked at his Martial Arts Examination results.

The Martial Arts Examination consisted of three subjects, each worth 100 points, for a total of 300 points.

Total True Qi score:

True Qi Intensity Score:

True Qi Control Score:

Martial Arts Examination Total: 276 points.

Zhou Leng breathed a sigh of relief.

If his Martial Arts Examination score was high enough, he could directly take the supplementary admission exam for a Martial Arts University. Once he passed the supplementary exam, he could enter a Martial Arts University.

The direct supplementary admission score for Cloud Splendor and Jinjing University was 290 points.

The direct supplementary admission score for the other eight of the Top Ten Martial Arts Universities was 270 points.

The supplementary admission scores for ordinary Martial Arts Universities varied, but none were lower than 250 points.

With 276 points on the Martial Arts Examination, he could directly enter Ru City Martial University through supplementary admission.

Given his martial arts level, his chances of passing Ru City Martial University's supplementary admission exam exceeded 90 percent.

West Sea Martial University was also in Ru City and was better than Ru City Martial University, but it ranked among the Top Ten Martial Arts Universities, making the competition fierce.

What was more, far too many children from powerful and wealthy families had taken all kinds of pills since childhood. Their Total True Qi and True Qi Intensity were astonishing, and they were even frequently taken by experts into Demon City for training. In many aspects, they held overwhelming advantages.

"My chances of passing West Sea Martial University's supplementary admission exam won't exceed 30 percent..."

People gradually began sending inquiries to his phone.

"Zhou Leng, what's your ranking? How many points did you get on the Martial Arts Examination?" Hu Yi was the first to ask.

Hu Yi followed up with another message: "My ranking rose by three thousand, to fifty-two thousand. I only got 199 points on the Martial Arts Examination. I'm lying flat!"