Chapter 44 - Chapter 44: Chapter 39 Green Demon’s Backup Plan t (1/2)

Chapter 44: Chapter 39 Green Demon’s Backup Plan t

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This Green Demon Beekeeping Manual is five pages long, with a cover, making seven pages in total.

The cover has almost no graphics or text, just the words “Green Demon Beekeeping Manual.” Its purpose is to protect the content of the five pages inside.

Moreover, this Insect Control Technique was not bound.

But they were pasted onto the book cover, similar to a modern glue binding.

Qin Niu, being a meticulous person, noticed no significant difference in the thickness when he touched the fourth page. The animal skins were already so coarsely made—some thick, some thin, with an uneven surface.

When turning the fourth page, he could feel a slight difference in the texture, feeling it was slightly heavier than the other four pages.

Such a detail would normally go unnoticed by anyone.

Even if someone noticed, they wouldn’t think much of it.

Because Qin Niu had heard stories of the Green Demon, he suspected that the Green Demon might have hidden something more.

The three characters for “kill” on the first page, with their bone-chilling hatred and overwhelming killing intent, also supported the Green Demon’s intense resentment.

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It’s very frustrating for ordinary people to have no ability to fight back against the methods of immortals.

Carrying a deep-seated vendetta, he felt it was only just to kill those villagers who had bullied him and his sister, and the soldiers who had killed his sister.

With his great revenge unavenged, facing eradication by the immortals of the Falling Star Sect, no one would be content.

It was only natural for him to leave behind some sort of fallback.

The Green Demon Beekeeping Manual was his labor of love, with his lifetime of beekeeping experience all written within. However, after reading it through, Qin Niu, although greatly enlightened, found only some rather common knowledge and techniques on bee control.

When he purchased this volume of the Insect Control Technique, he had hoped to cultivate bees at the level of the Green Demon Bee through learning from it.

Yet, at the beginning, there was a sentence stating that the successful cultivation of the Green Demon Bee would not be repeated by a second person.

There was no detailed record in the book about the specific process of cultivating the Green Demon Bee.

Qin Niu had long heard that some real cultivation manuals contained secrets within hidden layers.

He vaguely felt that there might be more to the fourth page.

After studying it for a while, it seemed not to be a hidden layer.

Just a complete piece of animal skin.

Nevertheless, Qin Niu did not give up.

“Could there be an issue with the glue at this end?”

With that thought, he began his wasteful endeavor.

The Green Demon Beekeeping Manual, bought for ten taels of silver money, he directly dismantled page by page.

The adhesive, whose material was unknown, resembled raw lacquer but not quite. Since the Green Demon liked beekeeping, it might be possible that he made his own ‘glue’ by mixing honey with other substances.

Whatever it was, it adhered quite firmly, and it took Qin Niu considerable effort to pry them apart.

His main concern was not to tear it.

After all five pages were dismantled, Qin Niu became even more convinced there was a secret to the fourth page through comparison.

He tried to scrape it with his fingernail.

With relentless effort, he indeed pried it open from the middle.

Carefully tearing it apart, a piece of animal skin, thin as a cicada’s wing, fell out. This made Qin Niu excited. Just as he had suspected, there was a hidden secret within.

The thinning of this animal skin had not been easy, leaving only the top layer, which was only the size of a palm.

Thicker in the middle, the edges were ground extremely thin.

Such craftsmanship concealed it well from discovery.

No wonder it felt slightly heavier than the other four pages.

“Hundred Leaf Town, Black Stone Village!”

There were just a few small characters, followed by a map with mountains and roads outlined.