Angor was interested in the Art of Darkness, but he was only interested in the "historical facts" of the School of Death recorded in the book.
He was only interested in the information, but he didn't need to know it.
Not to mention the actual knowledge recorded in the Book of Stars.
This was why Angor decided to give Lathis a heads-up.
Laplace nodded and changed the topic. "You're not interested in the Art of Darkness because of the art recorded in it, right?"
Laplace had only seen a few of Angor's creations, but even so, he could tell that Angor's craftsmanship was extraordinary.
Compared to the alchemy items sold in Tooth Immortal's Ruin, Angor's alchemy items were much more artistic.
It was obvious that Angor had his own unique taste and style when it came to alchemy.
Would someone like Angor really buy a book about "Art of Darkness" just for the sake of another type of "art"? Laplace didn't think so.
As expected, Angor nodded without hesitation. "Art isn't what I'm interested in.
I'm more interested in the school of alchemy behind the book. "
Laplace raised an eyebrow. "School of alchemy?"
She glanced at the crystal screen. The introduction of the "Art of Darkness" on the screen was limited to the "Ancient Alchemy School", but it did not explain in detail what school it was.
"You know about this school of alchemy?" Laplace asked.
Angor nodded. "The author of this book, Odorus, was quite famous in the ancient world of alchemy. His school is called … the School of Death."
"Death Faction?" Laplace repeated as he felt that this name was a bit ominous. Especially when "death" and "alchemy" were combined together, the ominous feeling almost jumped out of his mind.
Why this name?
After pondering for a while, Laplace could not help but ask, "How is death related to alchemy? Or is it just a name that has nothing to do with alchemy? "
"It has something to do with it."
"The School of Death believes in death and rebirth. The so-called 'death' is to cause all matter to die, or to put it in a state of withering. "
"When matter is completely dead, it will transform into a new form. This form is called the Four Original Elements by the Death Faction alchemists. "
"Then, through the Four Original Bodies, one can reshape matter. This matter will have a new form and even a new property. This is the so-called 'rebirth.'
He briefly explained the alchemy theories of the Death Faction.
Laplace didn't understand until Angor gave her an example.
Let's say there was a cold material that was slowly 'killed' by the Death Faction alchemists until it finally died and turned into the 'Four Original Substances'. The alchemists of the Death Faction used a special method to ignite the hope of rebirth. In the end, it was reborn as a thermal material.
After death, the cold element material would become the Four Original Elements. After the Four Original Elements were reborn, they would become the heat element material.
There wouldn't be any other substances mixed in the process, but it would completely change the properties of a substance.
It changed from cold to hot.
The nature and property of a substance changed. This was something impossible to happen in the eyes of any supernatural.
And yet, the Death Faction alchemists did it.
This was the alchemy theory of the Death Faction.
Laplace, who had lived for ten thousand years and seen all kinds of storms, still found it hard to believe when she heard about the 'Four Original Elements'.
Was this really an idea that existed in this world? Was this really alchemy, not creation?
"I haven't seen the Four Original Elements yet, but according to what I know, the Death Faction alchemists do exist. Also … "
Angor suddenly paused. He looked hesitant as if he wanted to say something but didn't know whether to say it or not.
In the end, he decided to speak up. "Also, with my limited knowledge, I think the Death Faction's alchemy is reasonable from my point of view."
Laplace frowned. "Reasonable?" Are you sure this is reasonable?
Angor didn't notice Laplace's expression. He lowered his head and continued, "As far as I know, all wizards follow one unspoken rule. It's called the Principle of Equivalent Exchange."
"This principle can also be applied to the Death Faction's alchemy. Cold substances of the same quality and quantity become hot substances of the same quality. Isn't this a special Principle of Equivalent Exchange?
"However, under normal circumstances, there is no way to achieve the principle of equivalent exchange. The Death Faction used a trick and used a common Four Primordial Origins as a medium to achieve an equivalent exchange under the effect of the medium. "
"This is the essence of the Death Faction's alchemy as I understand it."
However, he knew that his understanding was superficial. There must be more to the Death Faction's alchemy. Otherwise, they wouldn't have used "death and rebirth" as their theme. They could have just used "equivalent exchange" as the theme.
Therefore, Angor was sure that his understanding was not correct. He only told Laplace what he knew was wrong because he wanted to use a more superficial understanding to explain the reason behind Laplace's alchemy.
Although Angor felt that his explanation might be even more wrong.
With that in mind, he quickly explained his thoughts to Laplace so that Laplace wouldn't take his words too seriously.
Laplace considered for a moment and said, "I don't know if your explanation is correct or not, but looking at it from the perspective of Equivalent Exchange is a novel idea. Moreover, this angle does seem to make some sense. "
Laplace shrugged. "Forget it. I don't know alchemy anyway. Forcing myself to think about it will only get me stuck. I just need to know the general idea of the Death Faction. "
"It doesn't matter to me whether it makes sense or not."
Angor sighed in relief when he saw that Laplace had given up on asking about his ideas.
Laplace now understood that Angor was interested in Art of Darkness because it was the work of the Death Faction.
As an alchemist, it was only natural that Angor would be interested in the ridiculous core idea of the Death Faction.
Laplace pointed at the last line of the introduction of Art of Darkness. "Do you think there's a secret in Art of Darkness?"
Angor followed Laplace's finger and looked at the crystal screen.
[I heard that there are secrets hidden in Art of Darkness. ]
"I can't tell you if there's a secret or not," Angor said after a moment of contemplation. But in my opinion, unless there is clear evidence to show that there is a secret … Like in 'Travels Under the Umbrella', there are witnesses and history. "
Otherwise, I don't think there's anything hidden in the book. "
This was because the "Art of Darkness" was just a book. Even if it had secrets that were hidden very deeply, as long as it was placed in front of them, there would always be a way to discover it.
For example, prophecy spells.
Art of Darkness was not a Mystery item. Prophecy spells could easily find out what was wrong with it.
As for whether Art of Darkness had anti-prophecy measures? It didn't matter, because if it really had anti-prophecy measures, wouldn't it indirectly prove that the "Art of Darkness" was a secret?
The introduction on the crystal screen did not mention anything about anti-prophecy measures, which meant there wasn't.
He told Laplace what he was thinking.
Laplace suddenly spoke up. "The Crystaleyes aren't stupid. Besides, the book first appeared in Tooth Immortals' Ancient Ruins. Those Tooth Immortals called themselves scholars, so they're not stupid either. If you can figure it out, they can figure it out as well.
"Since they have also thought of it, they still noted in the introduction that there is a suspected secret hidden in the Art of Darkness. Does that mean that, in their opinion, this book does have some illogical aspects? "
Angor was surprised. He didn't think about this before.
He pondered for a moment and said, "I can't tell."
Laplace said, "Since we can't tell, let's just ask."
At this point, Laplace paused the communication through the Spirit Bond and looked up at Jota, who was not far away.
Seeing this, Jota immediately understood and hurried over. "Are the two of you planning to exchange for the third treasure?"
Laplace said, "I do have that intention, but before that, I want to ask you a question."
Jota nodded politely. "Please, sir."
Laplace pointed at the last sentence of the introduction of the Art of Darkness and asked, "If there are secrets in a book, there are many ways to find them."
But I don't think you've found the secret of Art of Darkness? "
Jota nodded without thinking. "Yes."
Laplace said, "Since you haven't found the secret, why did you add that sentence? Since you added this sentence, does that mean that you've actually discovered that there's something wrong with this book? "
Jota thought for a moment. "Well … I don't know."
Laplace gave Jota a cold look. "You don't know? Or you don't want to tell me? "
Jota quickly waved his hands. "I really don't know. I've read the original Art of Darkness, but I didn't find anything. "
"Then why did you add that line?" "Yes." Angor
Jota said, "I didn't add it. The giant city spirit added it."
The giant city spirit? Laplace and Angor looked at each other.
"He's telling the truth." Angor's voice came from their Spirit Bond.
Through his Beyonder Perception, Angor could tell that Jota meant what he said. Maybe Jota really didn't find anything wrong with the book. It was the giant city spirit who did.
"Can you help us ask the city spirit why it added those words?" Jota nodded.
Jota hesitated and nodded. "Sure. Please wait a moment."
Jota walked to the side and drew a hexagram on the ground with his scepter. Next, he was surrounded by the light of the hexagram and slowly closed his eyes.
About three to five minutes later, Jota opened his eyes and walked out of the hexagram.
"I just asked the giant city spirit. It said that there is indeed something wrong with this book," Jota stepped forward and said quickly.
"There's a secret?!" Angor was surprised.
Jota chose to be more conservative this time. "The giant city spirit doesn't know if it's a secret or not."
Jota didn't hide anything from Angor since this wasn't related to the Art of Darkness itself, he told Angor everything he learned from the giant city spirit.
According to the spirit, it was someone from Tooth Immortal Ruins who discovered the secret of Art of Darkness.
They found that there were a lot of empty spaces in the book. It was as if there were hidden words in the book.
This made them feel very strange. Therefore, they used some divination methods to see if there was really a hidden language ….
The results were vague. It seemed that there were hidden words in the book.
However, the divination didn't tell them how to activate the hidden words.
Scholar Jinghai spent many years on his experiments, but he still couldn't find a way to reveal the hidden words. In the end, he had to give up.
Later, a Crystaleye Clan member bought the book and studied it for a while. Still, he couldn't find anything. After the Crystaleye Clan member died, he gave the book to the giant city spirit.
After studying it, the giant city spirit placed the book in the Rare Treasures Museum.
After listening to Jota's explanation, Angor's eyes widened.
He said to Laplace through the Spirit Bond, "As expected, you were right."
There were many smart people out there. He wasn't the only one who thought of using divination methods.
Furthermore, the other party had already used divination and managed to divine something. However, even if they knew the hidden words, they couldn't activate it. They could only look at it.
"Speaking of which, I'm surprised someone from Tooth Immortal Ruins sold the book even though they knew there were hidden words in it."
"If the hidden words are valuable, they'll lose money if they sell it at a low price."
Laplace spoke in a plain tone, "Usually, hidden words in the empty spaces of a book are used to explain the things recorded in the book.
You can think of them as insights or notes after reading the book. "
For example, if a book was used to record a spell, the main body of the book would contain the theory and control method of the spell, while the empty spaces would contain the author's cultivation experience and techniques.
Most of the hidden words in the blank spaces were explanations of the existing knowledge in the book. Besides, they couldn't figure out how to activate the hidden words.
This was why Tooth Immortal Ruins was willing to sell the book.
They were selling both Art of Darkness and the unknown hidden words at a premium.
(End of Chapter)
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