Chapter 286 The road is boundless
Chapter 286 The road is boundless
"Could it be that Qin Shihuang had foresight and moved all these pre-Qin classics here for collection?"
"What Xiang Yu burned were just some useless books?"
Xu Feng guessed.
Unfortunately, he had no clues or historical materials to confirm his guess.
But soon, Xu Feng felt relieved.
"Why think so much? Since these pre-Qin classics can be preserved, it is a great thing."
"They are all cultural treasures of Dragon Country!"
At this time, Xu Feng had completely changed his mindset and was happy that he could find these pre-Qin classics.
Don't underestimate these books, they can be called national treasures.
To those who don't know much about this, this statement might seem exaggerated.
But this is actually not an exaggeration.
An example is the Yongle Encyclopedia.
The Yongle Encyclopedia was compiled during the reign of Emperor Chengzu Zhu Di of the Ming Dynasty.
At that time, Zhu Di was determined to compile a great work to demonstrate the country's prestige and benefit future generations.
The purpose is to include classics, history, astronomy, geography, yin and yang, medicine, divination, Buddhism, Tibetan Taoism, drama, crafts, agronomy, etc.
To put it in modern terms, it means compiling an encyclopedia!
Editing a book is not an easy task. Even in modern times, compiling a large encyclopedia requires a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources, let alone in ancient times.
With Zhu Di's full support, the Ming Dynasty completed the most complete, largest and most perfect book in history.
The Yongle Encyclopedia has a total of 22 volumes, 877 books, and about 11095 million words. It collects seven or eight thousand kinds of books from ancient and modern times, covering the knowledge wealth of the dragon clan for thousands of years.
The breadth of content and the huge quantity are rare in the world!
To this day, it remains the largest comprehensive book in the world and is known as "the largest encyclopedia in the world's history."
This is Zhu Di's greatest achievement.
It is also the glory of the entire Ming Dynasty and even the entire dragon clan.
Unfortunately, in 1449, a fire broke out in the Wenyuan Pavilion in Nanjing, and the original manuscript of the Yongle Encyclopedia was burned.
Only one copied Yongle version remains.
During the Jiajing period, out of concern that the ceremony might be damaged, a new copy was recorded, which was called the "Jiajing copy."
As a result, the two great books were hidden deep in the imperial palace, never printed, and rarely circulated. They were stolen, looted, and burned during the changes of dynasties, internal and external troubles. The "original" disappeared, and only more than 400 "copies" were left.
If the complete volume of the Yongle Encyclopedia were to appear in the world, the cultural history of the dragon clan would undergo earth-shaking changes.
Let's say that.
Among the national treasures, the Yongle Encyclopedia is as famous as the Imperial Seal, the Dunhuang Manuscripts, and the Sangluan Tie.
If these classics from various schools of thought were to appear in the world, their value would be no less than that of the Yongle Encyclopedia.
So Xu Feng was very happy at this time.
The secret manuals of magical skills are certainly important, but if they can fill the historical gaps in national culture, it would also be a great joy.
With anticipation, Xu Feng climbed to the sixth floor.
As soon as he went upstairs, he was stunned.
There are only four bookshelves on the sixth floor.
Compared with the five densely packed rows of bookshelves below, this situation is a bit abrupt.
Xu Feng walked to one of the bookshelves.
He found that not only were there few bookshelves, but there were also few bamboo slips on the bookshelves. However, the information displayed on the bamboo slips surprised him. [Item Name]: Visualization Secret Slip
[Item Level]: Low-grade magical instrument
[Item Ability]: "Xiyi Sword"
[Item Description]: Place the secret tablet on your forehead and concentrate your mind to learn secret techniques.
"The Secret Tablet of Visualization? The Xiyi Sword?!"
Xu Feng once heard a saying that life always disappoints you, and then gives you hope again when you are most frustrated!
From a certain perspective, we can also say that there is always a way out.
Just when Xu Feng almost gave up, fate played a big joke on him again.
He looked at the other bamboo slips excitedly.
[Item name]: Secret Tablet of Visualization.
[Item Level]: Low-grade magical instrument
[Item Ability]: "Falling Flower Sword Technique" [Item Description]: Place the secret tablet on your forehead and concentrate to learn the secret technique.
[Item Name]: Visualization Secret Notes
[Item Level]: Low-grade magical instrument
[Item Ability]: "Purple Cover Sword Technique"
[Item Description]: Place the secret tablet on your forehead and concentrate your mind to learn secret techniques.
[Item Name]: Visualization Secret Notes
[Item Level]: Low-grade magical instrument
[Item Ability]: "Mozi Sword Technique"
[Item Description]: Place the secret tablet on your forehead and concentrate your mind to learn secret techniques.
There are a total of twenty-three bamboo slips on the bookshelf, all of which are sword techniques.
What made Xu Feng ecstatic, but also a little surprised was the copy of "Mozi Sword Technique".
He once found a copy of "Mozi's Sword Technique" in Sun En's tomb. At that time, he felt that the name of the sword technique sounded familiar, but he did not think too much about it.
Later, Mozi's swordsmanship became his main martial art. He studied diligently and practiced hard, and now he has mastered this swordsmanship by heart.
When I first started learning it, I thought this sword technique was really cool and powerful.
But after practicing it to a high level, he found that this sword technique was actually very ordinary and not considered a top-notch martial art.
It is roughly equivalent to popular martial arts such as Luohan Fist or Baguazhang.
Now when he saw "Mozi Sword Skills" again, he finally remembered why the name "Mozi Knife Skills" sounded familiar. Damn it, it was all because of "A Step into the Qin"!
Although he has not started practicing yet, Xu Feng estimates that this "Mozi Sword Technique" is probably a martial art of similar level as "Mozi Knife Technique".
"Why are there only sword techniques? Aren't there any other martial arts?"
Xu Feng muttered to himself and walked to another bookshelf.
As a result, there were twelve bamboo slips on the bookshelf, all of which were engraved with knife techniques.
Xu Feng was suddenly speechless.
He walked to the third bookshelf. There were only seven bamboo slips on the huge bookshelf, all of which were about spear techniques.
The fourth bookshelf also has only eleven bamboo slips, all of which are about boxing.
"Swords, knifes, spears, fists, long and short weapons."
"But isn't the number of martial arts too small? Could it be that the huge Qin Empire only has this little collection of martial arts?"
"From a proportional point of view, the number of sword techniques is the largest. Could it be because there were more swordsmen at that time?!"
While Xu Feng was thinking about all sorts of things, he put these visualization secret scrolls into Guixu.
He was not in a hurry to practice those martial arts.
Firstly, practicing new martial arts would not produce any results in a short period of time. Currently, he had the "Mozi Sword Skills", which he had cultivated to the third level, which was sufficient for him.
Secondly, there are three more floors above, and he wants to see what is on those three floors before making a decision.
After making sure there is nothing missing on the sixth floor.
He stepped onto the seventh floor.
There are three bookshelves on the seventh floor.
After the experience on the sixth level, he was no longer surprised.
However, he was greatly surprised by the contents of the bamboo slips on the bookshelf.
[Item Name]: Visualization Secret Notes
[Item Level]: Low-grade magical instrument
[Item Ability]: "Mohist Heart Sutra"
[Item Description]: Place the secret tablet on your forehead and concentrate your mind to learn secret techniques.
[Item Name]: Visualization Secret Notes
[Item Level]: Low-grade magical instrument
[Item Ability]:
"Flower Rain"
[Item Description]: Place the secret tablet on your forehead and concentrate your mind to learn secret techniques.
[Item Name]: Visualization Secret Notes
[Item Level]: Low-grade magical instrument
[Item Ability]: "Treading Snow Without Traces"
[Item Description]: Place the secret tablet on your forehead and concentrate your mind to learn secret techniques.
There are not many bamboo slips on the three bookshelves, only a dozen or so.
But it's a bit off-the-beaten-path.
In addition to the three mental methods, the rest are auxiliary skills such as light skills, hidden weapons, body protection and horizontal training, and even a bow method.
Xu Feng put everything away and went up to the eighth floor.
(End of this chapter)