At night, in the underground base, Zuo Zhicheng had just finished his training for the day. He was wearing gloves and holding a blade that was about 50 centimeters long. He was grinding it with a whetstone. On the wall behind him, the Red Dust Slayer and the Exterminating Vulgarity were hung there.
On the test bench, there was a large jar. Below the jar was a brazier, and an unknown liquid was burning in the jar.
After slightly grinding the blade in his hand, Zuo Zhicheng put away the whetstone. Then, he took a brand new silk cloth and began to wipe the blade, removing the oil and dirt on it. After wiping it, Zuo Zhicheng threw the entire blade into the jar on the table.
Inside the jar was sodium hydroxide, nitrite, and trisodium phosphate. What Zuo Zhicheng was doing now was to oxidize the blade of the dagger. Through the oxidizing agent composed of sodium hydroxide, nitrite, and trisodium phosphate, the surface of the dagger was covered in a layer of dense, smooth iron tetroxide. This was equivalent to turning the entire dagger black, eliminating the reflection of light, and also providing some anti-rust properties.
While the oxidizing agent was working, Zuo Zhicheng looked at the other side of the table. A rat was squeaking in its cage.
He stared fixedly at the rat with a cold look in his eyes. Unfortunately, the rat did not seem to feel it at all. It did not react at all. It continued to crawl around like before, squeaking from time to time.
"Is it still useless?" At the same time, Zuo Zhicheng frowned and a murderous aura surged out of him. The rat's body stiffened as if it had seen a cat. It did not dare to move and pretended to be dead.
Obviously, Zuo Zhicheng's Aura Nurturing Method of Human Form did not work on the rat. However, when he used the murderous aura that he was used to, the rat was scared stiff.
Zuo Zhicheng slowly recalled the feeling of using the murderous aura. He changed his mind again and used the Aura Nurturing Method on the rat.
It was still useless.
Up until now, Zuo Zhicheng still hadn't been able to break through to the Human Appearance Realm. On the contrary, the deterrence of his murderous aura had become even stronger after he had achieved great success in Qi Refinement. Moreover, in his opinion, the effect of killing intent was very similar to that of the Human Form. Therefore, he wanted to use the feeling of killing intent to cultivate the Human Form.
After all, Zuo Zhicheng was from the modern era. He did not have absolute respect for the ancient times, secret manuals, and sects. He would just use whatever was effective. When Xiao Chen felt that killing Qi was useful, he started to think of ways to infuse that cold will of killing Qi into the Righteous Qi Nurturing Art.
"One more time."
Creak creak creak! This time, Rat did not remain silent. He turned his head and looked in the direction of Zuo Zhicheng, as if he had sensed something.
This kind of progress seemed to be much faster than simply cultivating Qi Nurturing Haoran. Zuo Zhicheng guessed that it might be because the cold murderous intent was more suitable for him than pure tranquility or emptiness. It also allowed him to unleash the power of his mind.
However, he did not know what changes would occur when he cultivated Qi Nurturing Haoran mixed with killing intent.
After about half an hour, Zuo Zhicheng used a pair of large tweezers to pick up the blade from the jar. The blade had turned completely black. He carefully wiped off the liquid on it bit by bit.
Zuo Zhicheng looked at the blade in front of him and nodded slightly. It was much better than the previous ones.
Then, he soaked the blade in another jar filled with a white solution. This was the high-grade sodium fatty acid and glycerin that were boiled together with sodium hydroxide and hydrolyzed together. The high-grade sodium fatty acid was the raw material of soap. Therefore, this thing could be seen as soapy water.
Zuo Zhicheng soaked the blade in soapy water in order to form a layer of iron stearate film on the surface of the blade to increase its corrosion resistance.
Ten minutes later, he took out the blade and cooled it down. After wiping off the liquid, he installed a black wooden handle on the blade. A long, pitch-black dagger appeared in front of Zuo Zhicheng.
Zuo Zhicheng nodded in satisfaction as he weighed the dagger in his hand. The quality of the dagger was naturally not as good as the military daggers he used in his previous life. However, in his current environment, it was not bad to be able to use such a dagger.
After putting everything away, Zuo Zhicheng began his translation work for the day. Zuo Zhicheng counted in the first volume of the Taoist scripture. There were about two hundred and eight life clusters.
Zuo Zhicheng remembered very clearly that the old man had said in the ancient tomb that there were only about two hundred life clusters recorded in the Western Wei Dynasty. This meant that this Taoist scripture had recorded almost all of the life clusters recorded at that time.
But at the same time, it also meant that this Daoist scripture was most likely compiled during the Western Wei Dynasty. It was not a secret scripture passed down from ancient times. Otherwise, there would be more than two hundred life clusters recorded.
However, if the Southern Sacred Sect was a sect that had been passed down since the Mythical Era, why would there be only two hundred life clusters recorded in this secret scripture? Shouldn't there be a record of all 1024 life clusters?
Although it was strange, Zuo Zhicheng did not have enough clues to make a judgment. He could only translate these two scriptures first.
However, he had not found the life clusters he had. As for the Night Sea part, he could not find out if his life cluster was still there.
However, after an hour, Zuo Zhicheng raised his eyebrows. "This is … Night Sea?" After finally finding the location of his life cluster, Zuo Zhicheng was slightly excited.
Therefore, about four hours later, Zuo Zhicheng repeatedly pondered over it and finally managed to translate the entire Nighthawk section. However, since this was related to his left eye, Zuo Zhicheng decided to think about it for a few days. After confirming that the translation was correct, he would try out the cultivation content bit by bit.
Zuo Zhicheng calculated the time silently. It was almost two or three in the morning. He finished his translation work for the day. He put the Taoist scripture and the translated content he had recorded together, and then put it into a sandalwood box. He lifted up a stone slab under his feet, and according to the order he had set, carefully unraveled the silk thread at the entrance of the cave, and then put the sandalwood box in.
If a stranger came in and directly opened the stone slab without seeing the silk thread, the concentrated sulfuric acid hidden in the hole would directly spill out, completely destroying the two Daoist scriptures and the translation materials.
Of course, to be safe, Zuo Zhicheng still made a copy and buried it in the courtyard of Xiao Lan's house.
After all, these two secret scriptures were priceless to the people of this era. Zuo Zhicheng could not be too careful.
Therefore, after hiding the two secret scriptures, Zuo Zhicheng changed into a coat and put on a mask. He once again disguised himself as Gui Quan.
Next, he would go to Ri Huo's place and find a way to find out the reason for his increase in strength. He would also find out if there was any spiritual food and if there was, where it came from.
Ten minutes later, a black shadow darted out of the small courtyard. It was like a ghost in the night sky. It quickly streaked across the night sky and disappeared into the night.
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