Chapter 5: Xuanji Heavenly Book

  It was night, in the cabin of the boat, the oil lamp shone with a faint light.

  Su Mo calculated the days and now it's mid-March. If a ship is to be sold, all parties need at least five or six days of negotiation to finalize the deal, so she didn't rush for the time being.

  Su Mo sat cross-legged on the bed, ran his internal force for several cycles, and felt warm all over.

  She stopped practicing martial arts after getting married in her past life, and then suffered extremely hard during the escape. So this life she will not give up on martial arts, it's one of her means of self-preservation.

  After practicing for a while, Su Mo suddenly thought of something else and slowly took out the Xuanji Tian Shu from her bosom.

  Su Mo sat leisurely on the soft bed, her slender fingers gently lifting the soft bangs in front of her forehead, slowly gazing at the lamp fire with an unobstructed gaze, and a kind of indescribable charm in her eyes.

  She narrowed her eyes slightly, and her pupils shone like ice crystals, with a flash of light in them.

  She wanted to see what secrets were hidden inside that couldn't be told.

  When she turned the pages of the heavenly book, there was a pile of meaningless words inside, with no explanation or meaning. So, her divine consciousness followed the text on the scroll and tried to explore some secrets from another level, still without any discovery.

  But in Su Mo's view, this book should have hidden something, otherwise the white-clothed man would not have gone to Evil Island to find it.

  The world is so big, there's nothing strange about it, and she also deeply believes in it without a doubt.

  So she decided to take the book for herself.

  He looked up and aligned with the candle flame, Su Mo was carefully looking at it.

  Her index finger tapped lightly on the table, she furrowed her eyebrows, feeling at a loss.

  Suddenly a flame shot up, and inadvertently ignited a corner, inside which something shiny and golden was burning.

  Due to shock, Su Mo immediately stood up, but she made the following decision, and burned the entire book. Finally, a strange scroll with a slightly dark golden color appeared inside, with the words "Tian Shu" printed on it. This object was not damaged by fire, and it felt cool to the touch, as if it were refined from the essence of heaven, earth, sun, and moon, shining brightly.

  Su Mo's dark eyes became even more profound and mysterious, as if they were hiding a huge secret.

  Just as she was studying what the golden scroll of Sanskrit meant, her fingers lightly stroked the edges, back and forth.

  Just as she didn't notice anything was wrong, suddenly, it cut through the skin on her fingertips in an instant.

  Very sharp, also very painful!

  Su Mo couldn't help but let out a low, mournful cry.

  A drop of bright red blood dripped into the golden scroll, completely absorbed, and in an instant, a flash of golden light flashed before my eyes, the radiance in front of me was like the starry sky, dazzling and breathtaking, shaking heaven and earth!

  Su Mo's heart skipped a beat as he took a step back, his eyes shining with a hint of curiosity, silently wondering what was so unusual about this object.

  At this moment, a strange phenomenon appeared, and a vague figure emerged in front of him, like a dream or an illusion.

  Su Mo was also shocked by this scene, despite his calm temperament.

  She suddenly saw clearly the mysterious figure in front of her, and it was a handsome and unparalleled beautiful young man.

  She gazed at him, and after a while, her wildly beating heart finally calmed down. She narrowed her eyes slightly and slowly sized him up. The beautiful young man looked to be around seventeen years old, with black hair hanging down his back, standing tall with an arrogant expression. His phoenix-like eyes were narrow and long, his gaze icy cold, his skin as white as snow, his neck snowy white, and on the right side of his neck was a small patch of fiery red flames that formed a striking contrast with his pale complexion, making him look seductive, sexy, and cool.

  Like a lotus in the fire, elegant and noble, coldly arrogant and intimidating.

  Su Mo couldn't help but think: What a proud and beautiful young man, perfect to the point of being unrealistic, really very handsome.

  On the other hand, the young man was looking at Su Mo with a cold expression, his eyes slightly raised, and his icy face was full of disdain and arrogance.

  After a while, the young man's thin lips formed a straight line, not hiding his disgust towards her at all. He spoke out in an arrogant tone: "I didn't expect, I didn't expect that after so many years, it would be you, such an insignificant woman, who awakened me. It's really, really disappointing."

  Upon hearing this, Su Mo's eyes revealed a thoughtful expression, but she didn't mind his attitude.

  Her keen sixth sense was vaguely telling her that this young man was not simple at all.

  She wasn't surprised by the boy's sudden appearance, as if it were a very casual and ordinary thing, as if it were a common sight in heaven.

  Next, the young man's voice was husky and sexy, drifting in the empty room, "However, woman, from this moment on, I have made a contract with you."

  Make a deal?

  Upon hearing this, Su Mo's eyebrows furrowed slightly, his expression astonished.

  In her past life, she had no memory of this young man and did not expect that the Xuanji Heavenly Book would have such a mysterious mechanism.

  It seems that from the moment she was reborn, her fate has indeed begun to change.

  In the candlelight, there was a hint of faintness, and the young man's face seemed like a bright and clean new moon. His long hair fell behind his shoulders, and its dark, almost black color appeared eerie in the candlelight, making him look even more noble and cold. He looked at Su Mo and stroked the pages of the Tian Shu with his fingertips, but it was as if he had passed through the pages of the book. His body seemed to have no flesh or blood, and his skin was also snow-white, unlike ordinary people. He said in a flat tone, "Woman, if I'm not mistaken, this Tianji Tian Shu shouldn't belong to you, should it?"

  "It's indeed not." Su Mo didn't have any intention of hiding. With the opponent's strength, even if she lied, it wouldn't be hidden from them.

  The young man continued to sit in her chair, his phoenix eyes slanted and gazing at her as if looking at a stone, "How boring."

  After a moment of silence, Su Mo stared at him and asked, "May I ask who you are?"

  The young man seemed to have some impatience, his eyes gleaming with the chill of the first snow. He raised his chin slightly and said, "You don't even know what kind of person I am, it's really hopeless. Listen well, I am a superior being from the heavenly book, but since you've mistakenly dripped blood into the heavenly book, I was naturally awakened by you. And so, I'll reluctantly form a contract with you." The young man's tone remained cold and disdainful as he continued, "From now on, you will exist in this world for a period of time, and you will be one of my subordinates."

  Is it a contract for being an underling? Or is it one of them.

  Su Mo's eyes flashed, and her heart was filled with calmness and composure.

  She admitted that the appearance of this young man made her heart move greatly, only because the secret of Xuanji Tian Shu was inseparable from him.

  However, Su Mo's temperament was extremely proud and noble. She originally came from the Heavenly Realm and had a precedent from her past life, so she couldn't bear to become a despicable person, therefore she wouldn't stoop to such depths.

  The next moment, the young man seemed to be the master of this place, patrolling around the cabin, and couldn't help but frown: "Is this really your room? How can people live in such a place? It's all wood, no decent furniture, too narrow, too crowded, too simple, too vulgar. Truly, there is no taste to speak of. I didn't expect that I, a noble, would have to stoop to living here?"

  Before Su Mo could speak, the young man's tone paused slightly and looked at Su Mo again.

  "Tsk tsk, I didn't expect you to be so ugly?"

  "And... unexpectedly has extremely poor roots..."

  "His cultivation was unexpectedly at the fourth stage of acquired realm, his strength was insufficient."

  The young man's temperament was like a holy and untouchable angel, his deep black eyes gazed at her again, and then a stream of venomous words flowed from his enchanting lips. A series of sharp comments could be said to be a ruthless blow to women, making Su Mo feel somewhat unwell in her heart. With her acquired fourth-level strength, she should have been among the top in the Jianghu, and although she was ordinary after disguising herself, she was by no means ugly.

  Moreover, she has always liked to enjoy herself, and the Su family's elegant and comfortable cabin is also one of the best in the industry. It's actually being exceptionally disliked by him, it seems that this person is indeed an arrogant young master through and through.

  The young man's gaze swept across her skirt, his eyes narrowing gradually, a hint of coldness flashing in his pupils, and this time he really changed color suddenly.

  "Abominable, you woman... and yet still a pure yin body."

  His words fell, and he stared deeply at Su Mo, as if Su Mo was the rarest person in his eyes for thousands of years.

  His face was grave and his eyebrows were raised as if he was re-examining her, his eyes becoming increasingly icy in the night.

  "How could I have made a contract with a lowly woman like you, who is merely a plaything for men?"

  Listening to the young man's blunt words, Su Mo's eyes flashed with a hint of anger, his gaze fixed intently on the other person.

  After getting angry, I didn't expect that my deeply hidden pure yin body would be seen through by the other person at a glance.

  As Su Mo knew, the beautiful jade on her navel was left by that man and could completely conceal her pure yin physique, but only a true transcendent could see through it. Such powerful people, whether in the Jianghu or the Xiu Zhen world, were one in a billion, and it was said that they had all hidden themselves behind closed doors, rarely appearing in this world. Even in her past life, she had hardly ever encountered them.

  At this moment, the other party's words revealed the truth, and only one conclusion could be drawn - the strength of this young man was unfathomable.

  Her heart was pounding "thump thump thump", and her emotions were instantly stirred up.