"Just as expected of the Sun God Ra's sacred treasure. Just its appearance alone puts the other sacred treasures to shame." Hao Shuai muttered to himself.
Then he took the hexagonal key out of his space, lined up its edges with the marks, and inserted it into the groove. He gave it a turn, and a click sounded, signaling that the scripture could now be opened.
But Hao Shuai didn't rush to open it. Instead, he scanned the Book of the Dead from top to bottom with his Divine Thought.
After a while, Hao Shuai withdrew his Divine Thought, looking puzzled as he studied the scripture in his hands.
It wasn't that Hao Shuai had discovered something in the scripture. Quite the opposite—he hadn't found anything at all. Sun God Ra had left nothing behind in the Sun Scripture.
After confirming it was safe, Hao Shuai began flipping through the Sun Scripture. It recorded the names and domains of the Egyptian gods, along with their achievements. As long as someone called their names, the gods could hear them, and each god had prayers of praise dedicated to them.
Besides that, it contained plenty of incantations, all of them meant to dispel darkness, break evil curses, and soothe the dead. This book was very unfriendly to necromancers.
No—
More accurately, this Sun Scripture was something Sun God Ra had left in the mortal world specifically to counter the Book of the Dead.
In other words, as long as Hao Shuai memorized all the incantations in it, necromancers would pose no threat to him in the future. Neither their summons of the dead nor their evil curses would have any effect on him.
However, this also meant that the Sun Scripture was only useful against necromancers. The rest of the time, well...