(The morning update has been moved to the evening, so the gap between updates won't be too long...)
Shopkeeper Old Wu laughed. "Even shops in the mortal world that have stood for a hundred years put honesty first. How could my little shop have lasted this long if I cheated my customers?"
"How about this? I'll charge you a hundred taels for each of these scattered writings. They're only rubbings, mind you. But don't underestimate them. Even Scattered Characters contain power, and ordinary methods can't make rubbings of them..."
Tang Changsheng asked, "How many characters do you have? I'll take them all!"
When deciphering a script, the more samples he had, the better.
Old Wu said meaningfully, "I have sixty-four characters in all. But I should warn you: these Scattered Characters don't come from the same world, or even the same system!"
"What do you mean?" Tang Changsheng asked, slightly taken aback.
"Scattered Characters, by their very nature, don't belong to a unified system. Most of my sixty-four characters were gathered from the world of the Tribal Stockade Barbarians. Did you know that?"
"None came from our Eastern Glory World?" Tang Changsheng asked.
"None. In this world, the Heavenly Court governs, the Immortal Sects hold sway, and the Great Dao is whole. How could Scattered Characters appear here? They appear only in worlds where the Great Dao Secrets have been shattered."
After a pause, Old Shopkeeper Wu added in a chilling voice, "What's more, if you ever find a Scattered Character from this world, you'd best hand it over to the Immortal Sects at once. Otherwise, if you're caught with it, you'll be branded a spy and a traitor..."
Tang Changsheng suddenly understood. Everything Old Wu had said before that was empty talk, no different from praising an emperor as