Ruins of the past

Chu Qiguang looked at himself in the bronze mirror with incredible surprise in his eyes.

He slowly stroked his chest, but the place he touched felt normal skin, and he couldn't feel anything abnormal at all.

But in his sight, a palm-sized black hole appeared on his chest.

It looked as if someone had dug a big hole in his chest with a knife.

And at the edge of the black hole, there is a circle of purple light flowing, which looks like a purple flame surrounding the hole.

When Chu Qiguang looked carefully, he seemed to be able to vaguely see weird characters burning in the purple flames, but if he wanted to look more carefully, he couldn't see clearly.

On the side, Qiao Zhi meowed around Chu Qiguang, marveling as he looked at it: "Such a big hole, doesn't it hurt you? Why is there no blood coming out?"

Chu Qiguang murmured: "This is not a hole, and the blood flowing out of it is naturally not blood."

Qiao Zhi asked curiously: "What is this? Why don't I know there is such a thing?"

Chu Qiguang said lightly: "The Ring of Foolishness...the mark on the cursed seeker. It can resist the power of the devil, but it will leak out the knowledge in the mind."

Qiao Zhi said in surprise: "How did you know?"

"I don't know, but I just know." Chu Qiguang shook his head, touched the Ring of Foolishness on his chest, and said softly:

"People with this ring of stupidity will return to normal even if they are possessed by demons, but their pursuit of knowledge will make them embark on the path of demons again, and sooner or later they will become ignorant and ignorant."

"The tragedy is that the knowledge they leaked will cause new demon stains. This may be the reason why they were exiled."

Qiao Zhi looked at Chu Qiguang, who was looking calm at the moment, and asked worriedly: "Are you okay?"

Chu Qiguang shook his head: "It should be something... that put this Ring of Foolishness on me and taught me the information just now."

His expression was a little confused at the moment: "It is said to be a curse, but in fact it can prevent people from being possessed by demons. It can even cause demon contamination after the knowledge leaks out... It can also be used as an unpreventable means of attack."

Chu Qiguang touched his chin and thought: "It feels like the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. Why is it called a curse?"

Under Chu Qiguang's explanation, Qiao Zhi understood what the so-called knowledge outflow was about.

This is an ability that Chu Qiguang can activate on his own initiative. After activating it, he can choose to 'flow out' certain knowledge in his mind. The knowledge that flows out will be completely forgotten by him.

The demon stain caused will cause people within a few dozen meters around him to accelerate towards the direction of the demon, as if being possessed by a large amount of knowledge was poured into him in one breath.

Different levels of knowledge flow out, causing different degrees of demon contamination.

Qiao Zhi said: "However, the influence of this kind of demon dyeing should have different effects on different people, right? For example, someone with the talent to banish an immortal like you, even if the demon dyeing caused by the outflow of a large amount of knowledge, may not become a demon."

"And ordinary people with no qualifications may become possessed by demons caused by the leakage of just a little bit of knowledge."

Chu Qiguang nodded: "Of course, everyone's resistance to being possessed by demons is different." He felt it in his heart and found that the knowledge he could now cause the most serious demonic contamination was the knowledge in "Elixir of Death" Incomplete spells and prescriptions.

The next moment, under Chu Qiguang's deliberate control, the Ring of Foolishness began to disappear little by little, and finally disappeared completely, leaving his chest at this moment exactly the same as before.

Although the appearance of the Ring of Foolishness was very strange and strange, Chu Qiguang could not find any results at the moment, so he could only put it down temporarily and accept the existence of this thing.

What he needs to do next is to improve his strength as soon as possible, and then go to the Demon Suppressing Division... Maybe he can use the power of the Demon Suppressing Division to find out the origin of this Ring of Foolishness.

…

It was just the fifth day after the textile machine press conference.

In the hall of the Hao family, Hao Yongtai was eating refreshments and looking in the direction of the door from time to time, feeling restless.

After waiting for a long time, he finally saw the butler running over in a hurry. He quickly asked: "How's it going? What's the price? Have you received the shares?"

The housekeeper said: "Master, now it's 20 taels per share! We went to collect 18 taels per share, but we couldn't receive the shares at all. Those small households are not willing to sell them casually."

As soon as he heard twenty taels, Hao Yongtai felt a burst of heartache.

On the day of the press conference, after completing the share subscription, many wealthy households present were actually not familiar with this new method.

Some families who saw the business opportunity bought a lot of shares at a price of 11 taels per share the next day.

The next day it went up to 12 taels...

It rose to 14 taels on the third day...

…

And when the price of the shares rose all the way, those who had sold their shares became sad.

Hao Yongtai... is obviously this type of person.

In the share subscription after the press conference, he spent 15,000 taels of silver on behalf of the Hao family and directly subscribed for 1,500 shares. This is mainly due to his trust in the Wu family, Taoist temple, and Chu Qiguang, and the numbers at the meeting really made his blood boil.

But later, when the shares increased to 15 taels per share, he couldn't help but sell 500 shares and made 2,500 taels in one breath. He was so happy that he couldn't sleep well all night.

But as a result, the stock price rose again the next day.

Today it has risen to 20 taels. Not only does Hao Yongtai not feel that he has made a profit, he even feels that he has lost 2,500 taels.

"It's only 20 taels per share. This has already doubled, and the price has almost reached its end."

Hao Yongtai thought for a while and said: "Why don't you just give away the batch in your hand? Wait until it falls and then buy it again?"

The butler on the side said quickly: "No, young master, the stock price will definitely continue to rise. You must not take action at this time."

While Hao Yongtai was discussing with the housekeepers, in Liyang County, Boyang County, Qingshui County, Linhe County, Shanyin County and other major counties in Beiyue Prefecture, there was even more news about hydraulic textile machines. The message is astonishing.

This was all due to Chu Qiguang's suggestion, and the Wu family sent a large number of people to add fuel to the flames and speed up the flow of information about hydraulic textile machines.

As more and more people became aware of the existence of water-powered looms, cotton merchants from other counties began to rush to Qingyang County and began to inquire about the water-powered looms.

Then Chu Qiguang held another road show on the tenth day of the press conference, directly demonstrating the existence of the hydraulic textile machine in front of thousands of people at the north dock.

On this day, Chu Qiguang reached 80% of the road to the fifth realm of spiritual cultivation. He was still 20% away from reaching the fifth realm of spiritual cultivation. However, he also felt that growing bottlenecks appeared on his path of cultivation.

According to Qiao Zhi, the barrier leading to the fifth realm is enough to trap ordinary ascetics for ten or even twenty years.