Sleeping to Immortality: Getting Stronger One Nap at a Time!-Chapter 45 – Doing business in the Forbidden Zone, Chen Changsheng studies the Dao patterns

"Senior, this price is really not expensive."
"This is a top-quality Golden Phoebe coffin. Within a hundred miles, everyone knows I'm famous for good quality at a fair price."
"I'm not making much profit selling it to you at this price."
In the black mountains of the Ancient Forbidden Zone, the faint sound of haggling could be heard.
Upon closer inspection, one would find a young man talking to a skeleton as if conversing with himself.
"This is my bottom line. If you don't object, I'll take it as your agreement."
After saying this, the young man waited a few breaths. Seeing no objection, he swiftly began the task of collecting the corpse.
Indeed, this person was none other than Chen Changsheng, who had been trapped in the Ancient Forbidden Zone for fifty years.
After placing the skeleton in the coffin, Chen Changsheng examined the relics beside it.
Next to the skeleton lay three items: a pill furnace, a jade slip, and a small porcelain bottle.
Crack!
As soon as Chen Changsheng touched the small pill furnace, a hole appeared on its surface.
Seeing this, Chen Changsheng checked the other two relics one by one, but apart from the jade slip, the porcelain bottle also met the fate of shattering.
"Tsk tsk!"
"Time is indeed the most powerful weapon!"
"Such a good pill furnace has turned into waste, what a pity."
Muttering slightly, Chen Changsheng examined the jade slip in his hand.
This jade slip was made of millennium cold jade, and even ten thousand Spirit Stones couldn't buy a piece the size of a fingernail.
Yet the jade slip in Chen Changsheng's hand was as large as a palm.
"Heaven-Mending Ointment?"
Looking at the pill recipe recorded on the jade slip, Chen Changsheng tilted his head in thought but couldn't find any corresponding record in his mind.
According to the jade slip, this Heaven-Mending Ointment had the power to reverse life and death.
No matter how severe your injuries, or if your lifespan was nearing its end, possessing this Heaven-Mending Ointment could extend your life by seven days.
As the name suggests, even if the Milky Way were damaged, it could be mended with this medicine.
After understanding the contents of the jade slip, Chen Changsheng casually tossed it into the System Space.
Such a miraculous pill naturally piqued Chen Changsheng's interest in attempting to refine it.
However, his knowledge was insufficient, and he had no way to decipher the recipe for the Heaven-Mending Ointment.
The skeleton had been here for an unknown number of years, and the information from that time was no longer circulated.
Chen Changsheng could only recognize a rough idea of the characters on the jade slip, and he didn't know the names of the herbs mentioned.
As time passed, the herbs from centuries ago might still exist.
But their names might have changed countless times, and without a corresponding guide, Chen Changsheng couldn't refine the Heaven-Mending Ointment.
After successfully "selling" another coffin, Chen Changsheng turned to look at the bronze ancient hall five hundred steps away.
Behind him was another bronze ancient hall, but the distance between them was three hundred steps.
Looking at the "distant" five hundred steps, Chen Changsheng smacked his lips and then lay on the ground to study the golden formation patterns.
Five hundred steps away was another bronze ancient hall Chen Changsheng sought, and the remains of the Left Emperor were also there.
Initially, after arriving at the Ancient Forbidden Zone, Chen Changsheng planned to spend twenty or thirty years leisurely before slowly studying the golden formation patterns.
However, he finished reading the books in Xuanwu Pavilion in less than ten years, so he had no choice but to study the golden formation patterns.
At first, Chen Changsheng's progress was extremely slow.
In a year, he could barely advance an inch, and even then, he hadn't fully comprehended that inch of golden formation patterns, only finding a barely safe way to proceed.
Thus, Chen Changsheng spent a full twenty years just to move five steps beyond the safe range of the bronze ancient hall.
At this time, Chen Changsheng encountered his first "customer" here.
Seeing the corpse exposed in the wilderness, Chen Changsheng's professional instinct kicked in, and he took out a coffin to collect the "customer's" body.
Interestingly, many things on the skeleton had decayed, but a mysterious beast-skin book remained.
Chen Changsheng naturally accepted the "customer's" offered price.
After studying it, Chen Changsheng discovered that the owner of the beast-skin book was a formation master.
Moreover, the beast-skin book contained his life's learning.
Through studying the beast-skin book, Chen Changsheng's understanding of formations advanced by leaps and bounds, and he also learned the name of the golden formation patterns.
Ordinary formations typically harness the power of mountains and rivers or operate according to specific trajectories to unleash various powerful effects.
However, the formation patterns in the Ancient Forbidden Zone were not like this; they evolved from the Grand Dao of heaven and earth.
To be precise, these golden formation patterns were a manifestation of the Grand Dao, also known as "Dao Patterns."
The original text on the beast-skin book described it as follows:
"Dao Patterns have the power to reverse mountains and rivers and overturn the sun and moon, controllable only by the supreme."
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"This progress is still too slow!"
After successfully taking a step forward, Chen Changsheng looked at the remaining four hundred ninety-nine steps, his mouth twitching involuntarily.
Even though his speed increased several times after acquiring the beast-skin book, the three hundred steps still took Chen Changsheng forty years, plus the ten years spent reading in the Ancient Forbidden Zone.
Chen Changsheng had already spent fifty years in the Ancient Forbidden Zone.
It had been a hundred and thirty years since his last slumber, and he had less than thirty years until his next one.
Thinking of this, Chen Changsheng immediately took out the beast-skin book and began to flip through it.
But after several readings, Chen Changsheng still couldn't recognize all the characters.
"This is ridiculous, why can't there be a universally recognized script?"
"If I could recognize all the characters, my speed would probably increase several times."
After a brief complaint, Chen Changsheng began to retrace his steps.
After fifty years of summarizing, he had a rough understanding of the Ancient Forbidden Zone's situation.
During the day, the Ancient Forbidden Zone was likely safe, but at night, it was uncertain.
In the first ten years, Chen Changsheng saw shadows moving outside the bronze ancient hall more than once at night.
This world never had a concept of ghosts, but whatever could move in the Ancient Forbidden Zone was likely not human.
So for safety, Chen Changsheng only moved during the day.
At night, Chen Changsheng would retreat to the bronze ancient hall and then hide inside the Stone Coffin of the Immortal Lord of a Hundred Defeats.
After a while, as the sun set, Chen Changsheng successfully retreated to the bronze ancient hall.
Seven or eight coffins quietly lay outside the bronze ancient hall, and under the cover of night, a strange atmosphere pervaded the surroundings.