Chapter 10 of 'The Prohibited Tome. Revised' - Request: The Secrets of the Prohibited Tome.

The fierce storm that Long Qian had anticipated did not occur. The major event that happened along the Qingrong River was strangely covered up. The adults in Qitan Town who knew some of the inner truths remained silent about the matter, and as for the children, besides Long Qian, only Shouzi knew. Since he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Long Qian only believed seventy percent of what Shouzi said, so he did not rush to look for the strange hidden stone. He continued to wander around Qitan Town as usual, switching between control mode and normal mode, using the mystical energy within his body to improve his constitution, quietly waiting to grow another year older, waiting for the day he would possess the forbidden canon.

Long Qian could not forget the bullying he suffered at the hands of Long Buren that day—clearly intended to harm An'an, yet he was so overbearing and violent! He also couldn't forget the terror he felt towards the man in the red clothes, terror that made him run across the fields like a clown! Long Qian was fully aware that all of this stemmed from his weakness; not every place in this world was as innocent as Qitan Town—it was a world that respected only strength.

The words Long Buren said the day he left were still vividly etched in Long Qian's mind. He knew that Long Yan had lost a lot of things. Although Long Yan didn't seem to care too much, Long Qian could actually tell that he did care very much. At the same time, Long Qian knew that Long Buren was cunning and malicious, trying to use threats and intimidation to prevent Long Yan from going to Qingtian City, trying to cut off any possibility of a comeback for both Long Yan and himself. But the more this was so, the more he wanted to visit Qingtian City, to see everything that belonged to Long Yan.

If possible, Long Qian would take it all back, whether or not there was psychological resistance. Long Yan was after all the father of his body and genuinely cared for him, making him a member of the family. During these years in Qitan Town, Long Qian had gained everything he hadn't in his previous life. He treasured everything greatly, and at the same time encountered incidents he hadn't faced before. It was these experiences that made him understand what he should do and how to protect what he cherished.

Having died once, Long Qian valued his life immensely, which made him realize that nothing was more important than being alive. The only things he could do now were to make himself stronger and harder to kill.Apart from that pile of knowledge that doesn't belong to this era, Long Qian's only advantage now is that kind of controlled state. In that state, he can focus ten times more than an ordinary person and make his body perform various actions that ordinary people cannot endure. But all of this must be based on having a physical constitution that can withstand it. Over the past few years, Long Qian has tried his best to perform more movements after entering the controlled state and skillfully control the mystical energy within his meridians. If he can combine these two, he can make his body stronger more quickly. Life depends on movement. If you want your body to be tougher and stronger, you must constantly challenge the limits of your body. This challenge to the body's limits continuously applies pressure to the muscles, tempering their endurance and tolerance, constantly enhancing them, making the body's explosive power and stamina grow infinitely. However, the human heart has a limited load capacity, and the brain has a limited tolerance. Too difficult movements and exercises can make the brain and heart unable to bear the strain. The internal organs, which cannot be trained directly, are also easily injured, and the bones and joints are no exception. Over time, the body will inevitably develop problems. But this world is different from the previous life. Long Qian knows that he has mystical energy in his body. He can control this energy to heal injured areas, nourishing the most vulnerable parts of the body like the brain, heart, and internal organs. If he wants to make his body perform various strenuous exercises and continue the cycle without fainting halfway through, he must control the mystical energy to treat all the affected areas. It sounds easy to say, but it is extremely difficult to do. Raising just the arm requires a dozen or so commands, but performing those difficult movements requires hundreds or even thousands of commands. At the same time, as these movements involve various parts of the body, the mystical energy must be controlled to heal them. Altogether, this requires at least tens of thousands of commands. After more than two years of attempts, Long Qian eventually realized that it is currently impossible to memorize all these complicated commands, but he found another approach. That is to rapidly switch between the normal state and the controlled state, minimizing the time required for switching. Once this time is reduced to a certain extent, he can barely reach that level.\Enduring the pain in a normal state to perform movements,\ then instantly entering the control state,\ to treat the affected areas,\ and then switching back to the normal state to repeat the movements... This cycle repeated.\ In this way, the improvement is not limited to the body,\ but the mystical energy will also reach its maximum enhancement,\ because mystical energy only grows through continuous usage,\ and if it is not used, its growth is extremely slow.\ However, this method could barely achieve the effect of simultaneously training both the body and mystical energy,\ but the pain and torment that had to be endured\ were hundreds of times worse than in the pure control state!\ When Long Qian was five years old,\ he finally shortened the time to switch from the control state to the normal state to one-tenth of a second,\ successfully reaching the point where during extreme workouts in the normal state, just before fainting, he could enter the control state,\ and instantly control the mystical energy to stop it all.
This was a milestone, and also marked the beginning of Long Qian's hellish days.\ On the first night, after trying for an hour,\ he finally could not bear it; the pain all over his body\ was enough to be etched into his memory forever.\ Naturally, Long Yan and An An had no idea about any of this.\ In their eyes, their son was still as sensible as before,\ getting up on time and eating on time,\ only that his body never gained weight, remaining as thin as ever.\ An An took Long Qian to see several doctors,\ and every time the result was that Long Chen's body was very healthy,\ which made An An doubt whether those doctors actually had real skill.\ Long Yan continued as usual,\ appearing at the dining table only in the mornings and evenings,\ while spending the rest of the time in the basement.\ At the end of every month, he would still take the strange pages he created to sell in Qingtian City.\ But it was obvious that\ Long Yan's complexion was not good,\ and he had gotten noticeably thinner than before,\ with even a few white hairs appearing at his temples.\ A little over five-year-old Long Qian already fully understood the nature of Long Yan's work;\ Long Yan was a page artisan.\ Pages were consumable items that\ all mystics on the Haina continent had to use when absorbing a target's special ability.\In the Long family living room, five-year-old Long Qian obediently sat on a wooden stool,\ resting his chin in his hands, carefully listening to the somewhat weary Long Yan explaining the knowledge about the Forbidden Codex.\ Although he had already learned quite a bit from that worn-out booklet,\ there were still many things he didn't understand,\ because more than half of the pages in that booklet were too faded to read the text.\ “The Forbidden Codex was initially distributed by the Xuan Shen Hall to the major sect halls,\ and then the sect halls sent people to towns and villages,\ gathering children between six and seven years old every two years,\ to uniformly test the attribute and amount of their inner Xuan Qi.\ If they meet the standard,\ they can obtain a Forbidden Codex.”\ Long Yan raised his right hand, and instantly a Forbidden Codex appeared floating above his palm.\ A green stone on the spine of the codex glowed as he explained in great detail:\ “This is the Forbidden Codex. Its purpose is to allow those who possess Xuan Qi\ to use it to acquire a special ability,\ which can be from an animal, an insect,\ or a fish in water, a bird in the sky, or plants growing on land.”\ At this moment, Long Qian unexpectedly asked softly:\ “Is it all of them?\ If I get this Forbidden Codex,\ can I acquire the special ability of that black rabbit in the grass?\ I think it runs very fast.\ If I acquire it, will it let me run faster too?”\ Long Yan laughed heartily and pointed to the five transparent stones on the spine of the codex:\ “Not all of them, it depends on the attribute of your inner Xuan Qi.\ You see, there are six crystalline stones here,\ representing beast Xuan Qi, bird Xuan Qi, water Xuan Qi, plant Xuan Qi, insect Xuan Qi from top to bottom.\ If the amount of Xuan Qi reaches a certain standard,\ the corresponding stone will light up.\ Each color represents a type of Xuan Qi,\ from top to bottom: red, cyan, blue, green, yellow.\ Daddy has plant Xuan Qi, so the fourth stone on the codex glows with a light green color.”\ At this point, Long Yan reached out and patted Long Qian's head, smiling: “\These things are very complicated. Even if I explain them, you might not understand them yet.\ You are still young. You will slowly understand in the future.”\ Long Qian was not willing to stop here.\ He had always wanted to get a promise,\ and today was his best chance,\ so he asked:\ “Then how does the Forbidden Codex acquire special abilities?\ Can it only be used once?”\ -- Chapter Ten Ends.