Chapter 58 (2/2)

Zhou Bai looked at the page he held on the table, and said casually, “If they could be found, they would have been found long ago. There wouldn’t be anything left for us to find.”

Qian Wangsun said, “That’s not necessarily true. Independent Taoist Qingjing left many notes of her learnings and comprehension of the Heavenly Tao over the course of her life. Maybe there are some that haven’t been found, for example, this…”

Looking at the page Qian Wangsun held up, Zhou Bai had many conflicting thoughts.

If this was just content from Tao Te Ching, why would people from this world know it? Did other people travel to this world before him?

If Tao Te Ching already existed here, then how did Zhou Bai get first place when he wrote Tao Te Ching during the exam?

All sorts of questions arose in his mind.

Zhou Bai looked at Qian Wangsun and asked, “What are you planning to do?”

Qian Wangsun said, “This page is clearly just the first page from a certain notebook. If we can find the entire notebook by independent Taoist Qingjing, then we would be rich. When we hand it in to the school, they’d give us at least a couple thousand points.”

Hearing about a couple of thousand points, Zhou Bai’s eyes instantly lit up. But the next moment, his cautious instinct took over again. He looked at Qian Wangsun and said, “Why did you show it to me? Why don’t you go look for it yourself?”

Qian Wangsun laughed. “I already asked the teacher. If I hand in this page of notes, they can reward me with ten points. After all, this thing is kind of strange, but you can’t tell what uses it has yet. So I plan on finding a couple more pages …”

Qian Wangsun sighed and said, “I’m not afraid to tell you. I found this in the abandoned dorm building on the north side. Now that I’ve mentioned it to the teacher, they’ll probably send in workers tomorrow to search it inch-by-inch. Then we won’t get a share.

“But that place is too big, and we only have one night, I can’t manage it on my own. That’s why I remembered my good classmate.”

Qian Wangsun thought to himself, Tch, if it weren’t for the fact that Du Bing, Shirley, and Jing Xiu all have no interest and only care about spending all their time on practicing, why would I seek you out? It’s just looking for things. Strength and level of practice don’t matter. Zhou Bai should be fine.

Qian Wangsun looked at Zhou Bai with a smile, “How about it? Do you want to come with me?”

“It’s just picking out trash. It shouldn’t be too dangerous. And this Tao Te Ching…” Zhou Bai had many doubts. This Tao Te Ching was quite important to him; it had to do with his definition and ideas of this world.

So after some consideration, Zhou Bai said, “All right, when are we going? I have to go back to my dorm first.”

Zhou Bai naturally planned on taking Christina along.

Although an abandoned dorm building should theoretically not be dangerous, if he brought Christina along, it’d definitely be much safer when man and cat worked together.

Thus, half an hour later, in the already somewhat dim campus, Christina rolled around in Zhou Bai’s cognitive sea unwillingly. She complained, “I don’t want to go out. I just want to practice. I feel like I’m about to finish practicing the fourth star point!”

Zhou Bai said, “As a cat, you can’t just stay home and practice every day. What’s most important is to walk around like I do every day. You have to alternate the tension, strike a proper balance between work and leisure; that’s how you can practice more quickly.”

Christina said with jealousy and disdain, “Cheater.”

“What are you saying? Who said I was cheating? I’m not cheating!” Zhou Bai said, unconvinced. “Is using the auxiliary practice system cheating?”

Two weeks passed, Zhou Bai was not the only one improving. Christina also finished practicing the second star point, Tai White, and the third star point, Luster. The speed, sharpness, and lethality of her sword aura had all improved immensely.

Now, she had already begun practicing the fourth star point of the Sword Map, Sword Nurture. It was a star point that improved the flexibility and recovery speed of her sword aura.

Qian Wangsun looked back at Zhou Bai. “Hey, come up. We’re here.”