Free Web Novel“You’d better be useful,” Mingxi threatened the first sentient being she encountered, gritting her teeth.
Ming Zhiyun and Chiyu, who had already confirmed the contents of her large red gift bag, looked at her with pity.
Poor Xiao Xi (Queen).
Mingxi, bathed in their sympathetic gazes, took a deep breath and lifted the lid of the box.
Ming Zhiyun and Chiyu couldn't resist their intense curiosity and pressed their faces together, three faces in total.
“Is this... a polished walnut?” Ming Zhiyun murmured, then looked blankly at his daughter, his eyes filled with even deeper pity.
Was his daughter an unlucky one after all?
She had opened blind boxes for ages, gotten so frustrated her composure was gone, only to get a polished walnut.
Though, it was very well-polished.
But Mingxi, who was being doubly pitied, had completely calmed down. Her gaze was fixed on the walnut in the box, which resembled a ‘polished walnut.’
The walnut, the size of a longan, lay on peacock blue satin, its surface gleaming from being polished.
It had neither the brilliance of a diamond nor the luxury of fine jade.
Intricate ink-colored cloud patterns floated on its reddish-brown surface, like one overlapping painting after another, or perhaps layers of old tree rings.
Her fingertips traced its warm, smooth surface, feeling the uneven indentations and protrusions, and the seemingly chaotic patterns, yet possessing an ineffable mysterious rhythm.
Mingxi held it up. When the sunlight from outside the window shone through the patterned windowpanes onto it, countless light and shadow images actually reversed within the walnut.
“Ye He,” Chiyu noticed the changes on the room’s walls and immediately warned.
At this moment, different shadows were reflected on the walls: flowers, plants, birds, fish, and various unfamiliar characters.
These shadows were not mere reflections; they were more like projections.
Because they were all colored.
Ming Zhiyun stood dumbfounded, his mouth almost unable to close.
“So it wasn’t a polished walnut after all?”
Naturally, it wasn't a polished walnut.
Mingxi ‘saw’ more.
If her understanding was correct, this should be the “Book of Rules” that Guangguang once mentioned.
That is, the cosmic law book that truly records the rule characters.
Theoretically, it was formed by the self-evolution of cosmic laws, not a divine artifact, but possessing a suppressive force comparable to one.
The reverse god pillar was an imitation of it, because she found many familiar rule characters inside it.
Don't ask why the “Book of Rules” would be a polished walnut.
Mingxi didn't know either.
“Ugh.” Mingxi groaned, her eyes forced shut.
“Xiao Xi!”
“Ye He?”
Ming Zhiyun and Chiyu noticed her abnormality immediately and rushed to her side, concerned.
Mingxi waved her hand, “I’m fine. My spiritual power suffered a slight backlash. I’ll be fine after a short rest.”
It just goes to show, it truly is the “Book of Rules.” With the strength and resilience of her spiritual power, she was actually backlashed after less than a minute of peeking.
You must know that she could stare at the reverse god pillar for half an hour without 'blinking' back then.
“I don’t know whether to say your luck is good or bad,” Guangguang sighed at this moment.
“The “Book of Rules” can even fall into your hands.”
Hearing its tone... Mingxi’s heart thumped repeatedly.
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“Could it be that the “Book of Rules,” like the Origin of Life and Destruction, also comes with a mandatory life-claiming quest?”
Although she had nothing left to lose now, with so many debts, she wasn't worried.
But she really hadn't planned on adding more debuffs to this rotten life.
“It’s not that serious,” Guangguang reassured.
But the reassurance didn't make Mingxi feel comfortable.
One could tell from that statement that there was more to come.
Then it continued, “But it does come with a small problem.”
“Tell me,” Mingxi said with a serene expression.
“Just like no one buys only one polished walnut, the “Book of Rules” actually has two volumes, upper and lower. If you want to fully control the rule characters, you must find the «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» other volume.”
Mingxi heard this and thought it was a problem, but not a major one. At most, the “Book of Rules” would be incomplete.
Guangguang seemed to remember something and added, “Because the two volumes of the “Book of Rules” need to verify and influence each other to be complete. So, if the two volumes of the “Book of Rules” cannot stay together for a long time, they will forcibly refresh, meaning they will actively disappear in order to reunite.”
“The reason you were backlashed just now after looking at a few rule characters is also because the two volumes of the “Book of Rules” haven’t been together for a very long time. Its qi is chaotic.”
Mingxi’s mouth twitched.
Guangguang’s explanation made her think of a couple who had been separated for a long time, leading to endocrine imbalance.
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“I understand.”
Mingxi didn’t have many thoughts about the “Book of Rules” being incomplete, or even potentially disappearing at any time.
The “Book of Rules” was certainly a good thing, allowing her to learn rule characters more comprehensively and refine her Drawing Spirit techniques.
But she also understood that not all good things had to belong to her, Mingxi.
The pursuit of a higher realm is the nature of every Beast Tamers.
But obsession and doing one’s best are two different concepts.
The former is stubbornness, the latter is conviction.
Mingxi preferred the one that made her thoughts flow freely.
So, for some things, if I gain them, I am fortunate; if I lose them, it is my fate.
Mingxi didn’t overthink it and placed the “Book of Rules,” not knowing if it was the upper or lower volume, into her spatial tool.
The essence of the “Book of Rules” was indeed impressive, but it was not a divine artifact and did not reject any tools.
So, it was easily settled by Mingxi.
“Chiyu, what’s in your red bag?” Mingxi didn’t forget to ask about the Santa Claus bag.
“Ye He.” Chiyu lifted the red cloth bag and began to pull out items one by one.
“Cold Jade Gold!”
“This is... Soul-Stabilizing Fruit!”
“Heavens! Dragon Blood Earth Treasury Flower!”
“And Meteorite Profound Iron!”
“666! Fiery Blood Copper!”
“Holy crap! Such a large piece of Thunder-Patterned Secret Silver!”
“This is outrageous, this looks like Returning Void Heavy Water?”
“...Wait, is this Desolate Flowing Gold and Universal Star Sand?!”
“...”
As Chiyu endlessly pulled out items, the expressions of the father and daughter, plus an intelligent AI, went from excitement to shock, then to numbness.
A perfect Sichuan opera face-changing performance was completed in less than a minute.
“...This cloth bag, is it really Santa Claus’s tool?”
Leaving aside the value of the items, this cloth bag was simply too capacious.
If it weren't for the fact that the cloth bag's appearance had nothing to do with etherealness, Mingxi would have thought it was a Qiankun Bag.
“Ye He.” Good heavens.
Chiyu finally finished pulling things out.
Mingxi’s gaze swept across the room. Almost everything Chiyu had pulled out of that cloth bag was material.
And they were all rare and uncommon materials.
At this moment, these materials almost filled every one of the boxes she had previously unpacked.
Mingxi’s mouth twitched slightly.
She had reason to suspect that her unpacking of ‘Russian nesting dolls’ was deliberately arranged by the trial space.
It was a bit of a mean-spirited joke.
She looked at these precious materials, especially the Desolate Flowing Gold and Universal Star Sand, and thought of a problem that had been bothering her.
