Chapter 1356: Chapter 28: Life Completion Manual (Part 1)_3

"There’s no need to worry."

"What? Why?"

"Because she doesn’t want me to read these things, and the direction I’m headed contradicts her suggestions. I’m going to read this knowledge tonight, and the process will be dangerous, as you know. I need you to keep an eye on me and stop anyone from disturbing me. Can I count on you, Emhardt?"

Emhardt opened his mouth, hesitated for a moment, then took flight, saying to Fisher,

"Alright... alright, I don’t know why, but as long as you and Paimon are against each other, I feel at ease. Who calls me the great Emhardt? I’ll watch the vicinity for you. You... you have to be careful yourself."

"Okay."

Emhardt flew up and stood on the windowsill in the room, which exposed the night view of the Dragon Court outside. He stood vigilantly, like a guard, looking at Fisher, then outside, fearful of anyone disturbing Fisher.

Fisher took a deep breath and retrieved the two completion manuals from his arms—Needless to say, in Emhardt’s eyes, Fisher’s action of taking out the completion manuals was completely like fetching air.

Fisher first glanced at the Soul Completion Manual, which he was familiar with, then focused on another ancient booklet.

This manual, acquired from Erwin, he had never read before and never thought to read it until now, but now he had no choice but to open it up and delve into its mysteries.

By the light of the adjacent oil lamp, he slowly opened the cover of the Life Completion Manual.

What met his eyes was a line of florid script, a font Fisher had never seen before, but through the completion manual, he understood its meaning,

"To my wife, in my final words"

"Lance Albert"

Just upon opening this "Life Completion Manual," Fisher noticed its different format compared to the Soul Completion Manual.

He remembered previously reading the Soul Completion Manual, narrated from Caleb Wuzi’s perspective, describing various events he encountered after arriving in this world, much like a diary collection. It had no specific format, the penmanship and content seemed unusually casual. Besides the soul content, it also wrote about many insignificant matters of the ancient Fermat Baha Dragon Court era, drawing Fisher closer to that middle-aged man named "Caleb Wuzi."

But this "Life Completion Manual" was completely different.

After turning past the florid script-written title page, there was a table of contents, but incredibly, this Life Completion Manual, which appeared to be of the same thickness as the Soul Completion Manual, actually only had four Chapters. Moreover, to Fisher’s surprise, the Life Completion Manual’s genre was "poetry collection."

In other words, this "Lance Albert," the original Life Minister, encapsulated all the forbidden knowledge into four long poems.

Additionally, there’s a postscript, but Fisher didn’t foolishly skip directly to the end.

This "poetry collection" before him certainly isn’t a casual extracurricular reading borrowed from the Nali Royal Library, but rather a "harmful" knowledge collection.

Starting with the table of contents, you can directly see the titles of four poems: The first poem is called "The Climber," the second poem is "Left Hand," the third poem is "Daughter," and the fourth poem is "Treasure."

Fisher did not know the specific content of these poems but flipped the pages slowly forward, soon entering the content of the first long poem.

To Fisher’s surprise, the content of this poem wasn’t as long as Fisher imagined, only about seven to eight hundred words, and like many poems, it contained repeated content. What truly occupied the content were densely packed yet extraordinarily neat, exquisite handwriting by the side of each word and sentence.

Fisher recognized these characters; he didn’t need the completion manual to translate them. It was in Schwali text, seemingly left by a former owner of the Life Completion Manual as analysis and interpretation of the poem.

The poem covered only three or four pages, but these analyses spanned over a hundred pages, no wonder from the outside this Life Completion Manual looked as thick as Caleb Wuzi’s travelogue.

The content of the first poem was too long, so Fisher roughly read through it and discovered it documented a very interesting story.

It described an experienced mountain climber attempting to climb all the mountains of the world. Day after day, he climbed, and finally, one day, he completed this feat. However, on the day of this achievement, he was not satisfied; instead, it seemed he had chosen the wrong goal and felt regret.

Deeply puzzled, he traveled far and wide to find a renowned sage to seek advice on this issue.

The sage listened to his question, scanned him up and down, then shook his head and said,

"The reason you are not satisfied is because there’s still one mountain in this world you haven’t climbed to the top."

"There’s still such a mountain? It’s utterly unprecedented. I’ve walked every inch of land in this world, even the mountains hidden in the ocean depths haven’t escaped my sight. Now you tell me there’s a mountain I’ve never climbed? Please tell me its location."

"But climbing this mountain is extremely dangerous."

"I must do so."

"Alright, please go back. After a sleep, you will know the location of that mountain." 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

Thus, the mountaineer, half-believing, returned home, lay on his bed, and awaited the arrival of night.