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"All right, junior brother! Watch closely!" Delighted that he had agreed, Zhang Facai pulled Li Xiaoya over to the table.
Zhang Facai took an ancient-looking book made of beast hide from inside his robe, casually flipped through a few pages, then pointed to one of them. "Look, junior brother! This is called an Illusion Formation!"
"Huh?" Li Xiaoya followed his finger, only to find that he couldn't recognize a single character on the page. Curious, he asked, "Hey, senior brother, how come I've never seen the writing in this book before?"
"Oh! This is Ancient Clerical Script, the writing used by ancient cultivators millions of years ago. It's perfectly normal that you don't recognize it, junior brother. Only a handful of people in the entire Heavenly Dao Sect can read it!" Zhang Facai said proudly.
"Ancient Clerical Script? Only a handful of people in the whole Heavenly Dao Sect know it?" Puzzled, Li Xiaoya asked, "Does that mean even Master can't read it? Then how did you learn these characters, senior brother?"
"Me? I've known them since birth!" Zhang Facai gave an answer that left Li Xiaoya dumbfounded.
"Since birth?" Li Xiaoya looked him up and down skeptically.
"Hey, do you want to learn or not? What are you asking so many questions for?" Zhang Facai snapped impatiently.
Forget it. Never mind. Who knows what's wrong with Senior Brother Zhang? One moment he's sly, the next he's a complete fool. I can't make heads or tails of him! He's just too strange! Having made up his mind, Li Xiaoya replied, "All right! Go ahead, senior brother!"
What followed, however, left Li Xiaoya utterly astonished. When Senior Brother Zhang Facai