Chapter 3 - Scripture Hall

After enjoying the hug for a while, Leyvi let go of Anda albeit a bit reluctant. There were things more important to do right now. He then said to her, "Anda, take all of these spirit herbs that I got yesterday and refine them into qi refining pills for me."

Anda who was enjoying the hug was immediately brought back to reality, "Leyvi, are you sure? I can only refine low-grade qi refining pills, you know. You probably should let other more experienced Alchemy Student refine them, maybe you can get some middle-grade qi refining pills in the mix." Anda voiced her opinion.

"Don't worry, I'm fine with whatever you refined for me. From now on, all of my alchemy products will be refined by my wife." Leyvi confidently declared his statement to her. Since I know that her talent has increased, why should I go to another Alchemist now? I just need to let her gain more experience and level up my talent bead at the same time.

Anda got so shy after she heard Leyvi call her 'his wife' that her ears became bright red. She also felt very proud that Leyvi would entrust all the alchemy works to her. "Alright, I'll refine them for you. Give me all the spirit herbs."

Leyvi then hands over the bag full of spirit herbs to Anda. All of these spirit herbs were actually just common grasses and plants without any special properties to be made into other kinds of alchemy products. They just happened to be able to absorb spiritual energy from the atmosphere and become spirit herbs once the amount of spiritual energy they absorbed reached a certain threshold.

Common people won't be able to identify these spirit herbs mixed with common plants, but cultivators who were familiar with spiritual energy had no problem identifying them at all. The alchemist then will refine all of these spirit herbs into qi refining pill by getting rid of all the impurities, multiplying the effect by several times compared to just eating the spirit herbs raw. 

Taking the bag from Leyvi, Anda walked to the door, turned to Leyvi, and asked with a sweet smile, "I'm going to the Alchemy Hall now to refine the pills, do you want to accompany me?"

"Not now, your husband has something to do. I'll visit you when I'm finished." Leyvi rejected her offer. He wanted to learn a fire-based martial skill now, so he decided to visit the Scripture Hall right away. 

"Fine!" Anda lightly stomped her feet and quickly went out of the house.

"She sure gets mad fast." Leyvi lightly chuckled while staring at Anda walking out.

"Time to get serious," said Leyvi to himself. Leyvi wondered whether he could bring out the menu if he was not in the illuminated space. He immediately tried, "Menu!" Nothing happened.

Don't tell me I need to say those words. He wondered again and became a bit embarrassed. "I want my toy," Leyvi said an embarrassing quote with a low voice. With no surprise, Leyvi saw the menu pop out in front of him.

[Talent Bead |Level 1| EXP 0/100]

[Talent list] Steal, Stealth, Sturdy

[Recipient: Anda | Alchemy | 90/100]

[Host benefit: Fire Affinity]

"Looks like I don't need to be in that illuminated space to access this menu. I still have 3 unused talents. Does that mean I can give talents to three more people? Can I give it to non-humans?" Leyvi pondered. He doesn't really have high hopes for the remaining talents.

"Huh?" Leyvi noticed that Anda's feeling points had increased by 5. He was overjoyed by this outcome. Leyvi suddenly felt like he had a lot of charm.

"Maybe I can easily make other girls fall in love with me, Hahaha." Leyvi laughed by himself, looking a bit ridiculous at this moment.

After a while, he stopped laughing and began to think again. The reason it was easy this time was because it was panda girl. She was his friend for as long as he remembered, and he always treated her well. Change it to other ladies, there was no way they would glance at him. So how should he make other ladies fall in love with him? 

Leyvi suddenly felt depressed. "Let's forget about this for now. Ladies will come flocking when I'm much stronger, probably." Leyvi convinced himself.

"How do I get rid of this menu again?" Leyvi asked himself while his chin rested in between his thumb and index fingers. "Close!" No reaction. "Go away!" Nothing happened. He recalled that when he went out of that illuminated space, the menu went away by itself. "Log out!" Still nothing. "Do I have to go in and out again?" If this was the case, it would be too annoying. Leyvi hoped that's not the case.

Leyvi was reminded of the Lord Supreme's weird personality, and he instinctively said, "I don't want my toy." Sure enough, the menu disappeared right away. Leyvi was getting more and more depressed by this situation. He now wondered if there was a previous host that died of depression. He was only in the Qi refining realm now. Just imagine the previous hosts with way higher cultivation realms, getting respect from many people, but behind the scenes, they were treated like kids by the talent bead. 

"Thank god I'm a bit thick-skinned." Leyvi felt he would not be affected much after a while.

Leyvi opened the door, went out of the house, and locked it using his sect ID card. The sect ID card was given to every disciple of the sect. It was made by formation and array specialists to identify the disciple of the sect and act as a key for each disciple's house. 

It was also used to store contribution points as the currency in the sect. The reason for using contribution points instead of just using the normal spirit stones was to minimize the loss every time a disciple, unfortunately, died outside the sect. The spirit stones might get snatched by others or just go completely missing somewhere. 

By doing this, not only it can reduce the amount of spirit stones lost to the outside, but the disciples would also be less likely to be targeted by robbers looking for spirit stones. That said, it didn't entirely prevent the disciple from usually bringing spirit stones out of the sect because there are still a lot of things they can't directly obtain from the sect. All in all, it depends on each disciple's intention when going out of the sect. 

While going to the Scripture Hall, Leyvi looked around to see whether he could find a wild animal to further test the talent bead. Along the way, he only saw some small birds, snails, and a few kinds of insects. He was not interested in experimenting with the talent bead on these things. He needed something a bit bigger and agile like a cat.

Half an hour later, he arrived at the Scripture Hall. A few disciples were going in and out of the Scripture Hall. Scripture Hall was actually the library of the Mountain Dew sect. It is the place where all the cultivation techniques, martial skills, and other kinds of things related to cultivation are stored. Disciples can also get a lot of contribution points if they give the sect any technique or skill that the sect did not own yet. The higher the grade, the bigger the contribution points.

Leyvi sometimes fantasizes about getting his hand on unknown cultivation techniques and trading them with a lot of contribution points while searching for spirit herbs, but fantasy is just fantasy. All he got was being chased by a demonic boar. Thinking of the demonic boar, Leyvi decided to test any martial skill he learned later on it. 

Looking at the sect elder stationed just after the entrance of the Scripture Hall, Leyvi immediately put on a respectful face. Although the elder's job was to handle the normal matter of Scripture Hall, he was still a Foundation Building cultivator. A middle-stage Foundation Building realm! Being disrespectful was just asking for unnecessary trouble. 

"Elder Ken." Leyvi saluted politely to the elder by placing his right fist into his left palm and bowed slightly.

This middle-aged Elder Ken sleepily looked at Leyvi and said, "What do you need?" Straight to the point. 

"Elder Ken, I want to buy a fire-attributed martial skill," Leyvi said politely.

"Martial skill scriptures are on the 2nd floor. Go to the fire attribute section and pick any that you like. Reminder again, the ones shown there only give you the basic description of what the skill can do, the requirements, as well as the price of the skill. Pick carefully according to your abilities. Don't overestimate yourself, or you will just waste your time and contribution points learning something you can't master." Said Elder Ken emotionlessly. He had said these sentences so many times that he managed to do it without any emotion now.

Leyvi already knew all of these, but Elder Ken still had to say it and he still had to listen to it as it is part of the procedures in the Scripture Hall. Leyvi slightly bowed to Elder Ken again and went up to the second floor where the martial skills were located.

There were many sections on the second floor. Here, Leyvi saw the Wood, Water, Metal, Earth, and Fire sections. These sections are the biggest sections on the second floor because it was the most common elements that exist. There was also Wind, Ice, Sound, Lightning, Illusion, Light, and more in other smaller sections.

"Sound and Illusions? I wonder what kind of spirit roots are needed to learn martial skills related to these two. Maybe anyone can learn them." Leyvi whispered to himself.

He then walked toward the Fire section excitedly, ready to begin a new chapter in his life.