Chapter 034: The Pitfall

After an ordinary person cultivates the strength of a water buffalo, as long as they practice diligently without ceasing, they can increase their strength by one water buffalo every ten years or so.

In other words, only when you are around eleven hundred years old might you cultivate the strength of a green ox.

And after the strength of a green ox, as long as you don't slack off, you can increase by one green ox's strength every hundred years. After eleven thousand one hundred years, you can cultivate...

Forget it, ordinary people live no more than a hundred years, especially in this ancient era; at forty or fifty they call themselves old, and living past a hundred is considered a super centenarian.

To cultivate the strength of a green ox within one's lifetime is utterly impossible.

So this Dragon Strength Mountain Moving Sutra was never meant for humans to practice; without hundreds of millions of years, it's impossible to achieve great mastery.

Thus Wang Bo saw that the Dragon Strength Mountain Moving Sutra was nothing but a pitfall.

Hundreds of millions of years—Wang Bo just scoffed. Which being created such an unreliable martial art? Wang Bo figured that if he soaked in the sun for about a hundred years, he could kick the Earth around like a soccer ball.

Who would waste hundreds of millions of years cultivating such a pitfall of a technique?

Dragon Strength Mountain Moving Sutra... Hah.

Wang Bo then tossed the Dragon Strength Mountain Moving Sutra aside and continued browsing other transcendent knowledge.

Wang Bo spent several days finally recording all this knowledge in his mind. Although some of it was pitfalls, like the Dragon Strength Mountain Moving Sutra, there were also quite a few interesting spells and martial arts.

Wang Bo extracted the essence of these fantastical martial arts and integrated them into the Solar Divine Art.

The Solar Divine Art immediately underwent another transformation.

As the Solar True Qi circulated, it continuously absorbed the power of the sun overhead, merging it into the Solar True Qi and rapidly strengthening it.

After a few hours, Wang Bo finally gained full control over the transformed Solar True Qi.

What delighted Wang Bo even more was that after the transformation, the Solar True Qi had gained some subtlety, compatible with both true qi and magical power; it could be used as true qi or as mana.

The most obvious feature was that Wang Bo could now cast spells using Solar True Qi.

The power was no weaker than the original.

With the Solar Divine Art reaching this point, Wang Bo even felt as if he had entered the Dao through martial arts, except that he had not formed any martial golden core in his body.

His entire body was still filled with Solar True Qi that was both ethereal and substantial, as if tangible.

With this progress, Wang Bo grew even more excited. He found the key in the library, opened the mechanism of the large circular disk, and retrieved the strange book that Zi Yuan had taken.

This strange book, made of oracle bone material, was about a dozen centimeters thick. It contained not only most of the secrets of ancient times but also the art of immortality and other transcendent mysteries.

Wang Bo found that the vast majority of it consisted of spells, incantations, the location of the Fountain of Eternal Life, qi cultivation methods, sacrificial and divination witchcraft, and the whereabouts of various rare treasures.

Wang Bo was stunned; he hadn't expected this world to be far more exciting than he had imagined. But on second thought, with gods and deities in this world, a bit of liveliness wasn't surprising.

However, what Wang Bo valued most were those spells and incantations, each more exquisite than the last.

Especially the spell that could awaken the dead, which opened his eyes wide.

It could awaken souls that had been dead for thousands of years—endlessly useful. Even if those souls had already reincarnated, it could summon their previous lives' spirits.

Even Wang Bo found this technique terrifying.

Moreover, this oracle bone strange book also recorded the art of soul recall, which could summon back the dead soul; as long as the body did not decay, it could bring the person back to life.

It was similar in effect to the resurrection spell in the Book of the Dead.

Wang Bo was dumbfounded.

In addition, there were curse techniques that could not only turn people into terracotta warriors but also turn them into walking corpses, harvest human souls, and even use souls to strengthen one's own magical power.

Very sinister.

He quickly recorded all the spells, good or sinister, without missing a single one, storing them all in his mind.

These were all knowledge that could be used in the future. Perhaps after more exposure, he could innovate based on this knowledge and create even more powerful, earth-shattering spells.

Wasn't his Solar Divine Art derived this way?

Wang Bo found several qi cultivation methods in the oracle bone strange book, profound and extensive. Practicing them wouldn't grant immortality, but it could strengthen the body, prolong life, and allow one to live for several hundred years without issue.

Wang Bo still recorded these methods, extracted their essence, and integrated them into the Solar Divine Art.

Undoubtedly, this was the path of combining magic and martial arts, merging the strengths of both, with immense power and a bright future.

After memorizing the contents of the oracle bone strange book, Wang Bo did not put it back. The knowledge within was priceless, and the book itself contained magical power.

It was a good magical artifact.

Even an ordinary person without magical power could cast spells with this book as long as they recognized the characters.

This was somewhat similar to Western grimoires.

So Wang Bo took out the Replication Mirror, copied the oracle bone strange book, placed the copy back in its original position, and left the Turpan temple with the original.

The monks of the temple did not notice that Wang Bo had secretly swapped the oracle bone strange book and let him leave.

After leaving the temple, Wang Bo did not return to the Central Plains but went to the Western Hemisphere, took out the Moonlight Box, recited the incantation again, and traveled through time.

Next stop: 3071 BC.

He would go to the era of the Scorpion King to find the Scorpio Saint, Milo, who had traveled to that time.

...

After passing through the time tunnel, Wang Bo appeared the next second in an endless desert.

Ancient Egypt, finally arrived.

Wang Bo picked a direction, set off, and advanced swiftly.

Before coming, he had already asked the Scorpion King. When the Scorpion King first met Milo, it was at a nomadic tribe, and this tribe had also appeared in the Scorpion King's storyline.

At this time, the main antagonist of the Scorpion King story, Memnon, whose swordsmanship was divine and martial arts unmatched, had already risen. He ruled the city of Gomorrah, burning, killing, and plundering, conquering countless tribes.

Most of the nomadic tribes were either destroyed by him or submitted to his rule.

At this point, Memnon could be said to be the strongest force on this ancient continent.

The other tribes were oppressed by this great antagonist, unable to breathe. Unwilling to submit to Memnon yet unwilling to be annihilated, they united to resist him.