”I sensed that something was wrong, and hurriedly informed your mother to the shop, so the two of us accompanied your father, he kept writing, and your mother and I followed to organise and bind the pages that he had written, and it took two days and two nights to sort out all of the Preface to the Nine Mysteries Scripture.”
Ye Chen hurriedly asked, “Uncle Zhou you have also read the Preface to the Nine Xuan Scriptures? What exactly is recorded in there?”
Zhou Liang Yun said, “In the Preface of the Nine Xuan Scriptures, the contents of the records are all-encompassing, however, its real core, in fact, is a map that needs to be deciphered from the text a little bit, at that time, your parents were very interested in researching and deciphering the Preface of the Nine Xuan Scriptures, I rely on the blessing of your father, I also superficially studied a little bit, but I grew up in the United States, the bottom of the Chinese language is not very good, and found that the contents are really obscure and difficult to understand. I found the content really obscure and difficult to understand, and soon lost interest in the study;”
“Later on, your parents left the United States and returned to China, and it was said that they had gone through a great deal of effort to search for the place mentioned in the Preface of the Nine Mysteries Scripture, and ultimately went through a great deal of trouble before they got what they wanted, and the Nine Mysteries Heavenly Scripture was what your father brought out from that place.”
Ye Chen busily asked, “That place, is it called the Secret of Eternal Life?”
“I don’t know ……,” Zhou Liang Yun said, “Your father didn’t tell me in detail, he just told me that it’s best that I don’t know too much about these things, and I believe that his unwillingness to say more must also be for my consideration, so I also didn’t ask in detail.”
Ye Chen asked him, “Uncle Zhou, do you still have the contents of the Preface to the Nine Xuan Scriptures?”
Zhou Liang Yun hesitated for a moment and said seriously, “Young Master, your father once gave me a set of photocopies of his hand-copied version of the Preface to the Nine Xuan Scriptures, and although I didn’t study it in detail, that set of photocopies has always been kept.”
Ye Chen said excitedly, “Great! I wanted to study the Preface to the Nine Xuan Scriptures before, but I never knew where I could find the contents of this book, since you have the photocopies there, then I might be able to find some clues from it.”
Zhou Liang Yun said with a difficult look on his face, “It’s just that young master, when your father handed me the Jade Pot Spring Vase containing the Nine Xuan Heavenly Scriptures, he once told me that getting the Preface to the Nine Xuan Scriptures was a calamity for him and your mother, and that it was a blessing and a curse for you, and that he regretted very much for researching this book, and said that if he was given the chance to choose again, he would prefer that he had never been given this book, had never studied what is written in it ……”
“So, are you sure you really want to read this book?”
Ye Chen smiled to himself and said seriously, “Uncle Zhou, the reason why my father regrets it is because he was originally an outsider, and could have lived his life peacefully, but because of this book, he was caught up in it and became a person in the situation;”
“But, he still had a choice back then, but I didn’t!”
“When I was born, or when I was eight years old, when my father stripped my destiny to me, I was already a person in the bureau.”
“I am not qualified to choose whether or not to enter this bureau, even whether or not to obtain the Nine Xuan Heavenly Scriptures, I am not qualified to choose, because my father has already made the decision for me, and my father must have been forced to do so, he knows that I was born into this bureau, and the only thing I can do is to survive in this bureau as long as possible.”
“So, do you think that, with things having come to this point today, I still need to hesitate whether or not to read the Preface to the Nine Mysteries Scripture?”