Xu Yang hurriedly looked up. At the beginning of the cultivation art were the four characters "Primordial Devil Scripture." He carefully read through it and discovered that the art was profoundly abstruse; there was no way he could comprehend it in a short time. It contained not only cultivation methods but also numerous secret arts, blueprints for crafting magic treasures, and more. The sheer abundance of information left Xu Yang dazzled. He also realized the scripture was incomplete, presumably because a third of the tortoiseshell was missing.
Xu Yang promptly released his spiritual sense and carefully scanned the tortoiseshell, engraving the scripture's contents into his Consciousness Sea so he could study them more closely later. After a moment, the light on the shell faded, the vortex of spiritual energy gradually disappeared, and the tortoiseshell fell into Xu Yang's hands. He looked down and saw that it had split into four pieces and was completely ruined.
Xu Yang put the shell away, sat cross-legged on the stone bed, and closed his eyes to study the Primordial Devil Scripture in his Consciousness Sea. It took him a full day to gain a preliminary understanding of the scripture's origins. This was a genuine demonic cultivation art, profoundly abstruse and passed down by the Primordial Heavenly Demon, ruler of the Devil Realm. After the ancient upheaval, the Primordial Heavenly Demon was gravely wounded and fell into a deep slumber in the depths of the Devil Realm. Before going to sleep, he had cast the tortoiseshell into the lower realm to seek someone destined to find it.
Unfortunately, cultivators in the lower realm had shattered the tortoiseshell into three pieces, which had scattered to the ends of the earth. For Xu Yang to obtain two of them was truly heaven-defying good fortune. Now he was