this is just a book im reading and need the audio function! so dont waste time here im already in chapte 55 or something

After five years, they all changed.

Adam is now 15. He looks young boy with short brown hair, a high forehead, thin eyebrows, and brownish-orange eyes. He is 5'3" and weighs 106 pounds (161.544 cm and weighs 48 kg). He was quite short for his age. He has on layered robes that reach his ankles. The under-robes were designed with a yellow collar, while the flowing over-robes were brown. The armlets were loose and opened wide at the wrist, which he found in the library. His tooth, which was crooked before, has straightened up.

Aaron is now 17 years old, and he is a built man standing 6'5" weighing 300 pounds, most of it from his muscles (198.12cm and weighing 136 kg). His neck is extremely thick. His dark brown spikey hair, growing from the middle of his head, grew forward and covered his left eye. He has thin black eyebrows and red eyes. He has an overly muscular and extremely thick muscle with eight packs and an athletic frame. He has a brown kimono-like tunics with no sleeve showing off his muscular arm. He is more of a dark caramel skin tone for being in the desert for a long time, and he also has an intimidating gaze.


Aerin is also now 17 years standing 5'7" and weighing 230 pounds (173.736 cm and weighing 104 kg). Unlike his brother, he has a lean muscular bulky athletic build. He can be considered handsome, unlike his brother who will be thought to be a monster. He has a piercing gaze and with his spike hair growing backward, only from the middle from his head, reaching his neck. and rather large eyebrows. He has on a light green kimono-like tunics.

Adan has also changed. He is now 48 years. Adan is a very tall, muscular man with brownish skin, who possesses a set of well-developed abdominal muscles with a small vertical scar running over his left eye. Spiky scarlet red hair, and has dark-colored eyes with thin black eyebrows. He stands 7'2" and weighs 155 pounds (219.456 cm and weighing 70 kg). Despite his age, he still looks like he is in his mid-twenties. After eating the fire seed, his hair began to turn scarlet red. He now wears a red and black ornate robe.

Agate, now 16 years, has a very feminine face and as such, can be mistaken for a girl. Agate has yellow eyes and light brown smooth hair that reaches past his neck. He also now wears a pair of glasses with light frames, which he found on a bookcase. He is 5'9" and weighs 131 pounds (179.832 cm and weighing 59kg). He wears a blue kimono-like tunics that extend to his knee, with split in the middle for leg movement. Under blue kimono-like tunics, he wears black pants.

During these five years, everyone's personality changed. Adan became arrogant because he got the most destructive element and he also became more of a leader type. Aaron became too obsessed with his muscles and fighting, showing off his muscles any time he can. Aerin became proud of his beauty, saying any girl will throw themselves at him. Agate, as the smart one, became obsessed with knowledge in the library and become extremely vicious when some called him a girl. Adam became fierce, independent, more sarcastic, and pugnacious.

"We are really lucky. This Library has a cloth for us like it is welcoming us." Adan said checking out his robe.

"Yeah. Agate, you are looking more like a girl the more you grow up. Interesting. See this body? This is the body of a true man." Aaron said flexing in different positions.

"Maybe as he grows older he turns into a girl," Adam said while walking around, getting used to his new robe.

"Shut up Adam! That is why you have the smallest d*ck here." Agate said agitatedly. "Even if I look like a girl, at last, I have a big d*ck"

"What? You were looking at my d*ck? You wanna fight? I will beat you, cut off your d*ck and shove it up your ass. Come to me." Adam said fiercely while jumping up and down. "I'm ready my lady. Come to me."

"Woah, calm down. We were dressing in the same room so... Everyone noticed it. I mean compare to that monster over there that may kill any female with only his d*ck, yours is small. Yours is at most 7 inches when fully erect while he is 12 inches when fully erect." Adan said pointing at Aaron. "At least you are the strongest one here."

Adam started walking out of the room.

"Where are you going? We should all explore the library together." Aerin said holding Adam's right wrist.

"I want to try my luck and find something beauty boy, and if any of you ever say that... I will make your d*ck smaller than mine." Adam said snatching his wrist away from Aerin's hand and walking out the room.

"Damn Agate, why did you have to say that?" Aaron said, "He is going to be grumpy for a week now."

"You think I care. He called me a girl." Agate said walking out the room

"We should just go together," Aaron said to Adan and Aerin.

"Yeah," Adan said as they walked out of the room.

Adam was walking through a dark aisle of bookshelves looking for something. The book on the bookshelves was dusty and most of them are falling apart. This part of the library was where the old book was. The whole library had the smell of books, but this part had a hint of a rotten smell. He looked down the aisle. If he goes further down, he won't be able to see because no light reaches down there, so he just picked a random book out of a shelve and blow the dust off the cover of the book.

*Cough**Cough*"Shit, I almost died of cough."

The title of the book was: Water-bending Southern style.

"Oh, a water bending style. So this is where the bending books are kept. I was looking for it for about 3 hours now." He said pulling out the book next to the book he just picked.

*Cough**Cough*"This dust is going to kill someone. We need to clean it"

The title of the book was: Water-bending Northern style.

"Huh? Southern and Northern style? What is the difference? " He said taking two books out of the shelve. This time he didn't blow the dust but hit them against each other.

One title was: Water-bending Foggy Swamp style.

The other was: Fire-bending

"Three types of water bending. I need to know the difference, but that is for later. Now I should get all the bending books and martial arts books I can find back to the room to show the guys." He said while taking all the books that are related to bending and martial art. Then he remembered something "Oh, I forgot my reward for completing the mission. Z can you give me my reward."

[I thought you won't remember and I was sure as hell wasn't going to remind you. Next time, if you don't collect your reward within 24 hours, I won't reward you. Your reward are:

50 points into physical.

5,000 points.

And a body trait called selective memories.]

[Let me explain what selective memories is. Selective memories give you the ability to form a library like structure in your brain and thing you never want to forget will be stored in the library, in the form of a book. You won't be able to update a book that already formed in the library. You have to make a new book to put the new things inside. You can also merge books but the ages and the pages will also merge. So if you merge books and it exceeds the years or pages, it will destroy. A book is limited to a million pages long.]

[The book can only last for 250 years. You can't renew a book, but you can make a book with the content of an old book. Your brain library can store a limited amount of memories, but you can increase the number. This can happen when going into deep meditation to free your mind. Basically going into a half-dead state. This is extremely risky because you can die if you are distracted or lose concentration when you are not supposed to.]

[The library can also collapse on itself when your mind is unstable. During this process, you can stop it, but you have to go into a half-dead state for a long time to restore the library to its old size. The length of the time spent meditating, depends on how much space is lost. But all the memories lost can never be retrieved. The loss of memories goes from the oldest to youngest, so if the library collapse on itself, you will lose your memories from the oldest memories in the library to the youngest.]

[Now, do you want to collect the reward? I advise not to collect it now because your mind needs to be calm for me to install this trait, and that can only happen when you are sleeping. So before you sleep, you can collect it.]

"The body trait is good but it has a lot of limitations. At least I have a way to remember things that I want to. I will collect it later. can you show my statue."

{
Name: Adam

PL: 390  [ Physical: 100(Reward not added) |   Galdura: 290{Earth-bending: 70(Trainee)}, {Air-bending: 80(Trainee)}, {Water-bending: 57(Trainee)}, {Fire-bending: 73(Trainee)}]

Abilities: Researching(MAX), Medicine(MAX), Stealing(87/100) Pain tolerance(80/100), Hallucination resistance(MAX){Effect is reduced greatly}

Age: 1,917,863 Years(15 Years)

AMT: 495 years

Soul Statue: N/A

Body Statue: Exhausted{sleep}

Point: N/A (Reward not added)
}

"I gained hallucination resistance from those damn cactus juice. And all my bending is in trainee now? That is good, we also spent five years in the desert? Wow, it didn't feel that long. Can you tell me the levels?"

[The levels are, Normal(no bending) -0-0, Novice 1-30, Student 31-50, Trainee 51-???, Pro(Teacher), Master, Grandmaster, Greatmaster, King, and Saint. The rest you have to find yourself.]

"If you keep telling me my Physical and Galdura power in numerical value, how am I supposed to know how strong I am? Can you explain it in a way I can understand?" 

[Physical is simple. Just multiply your Physical power by 2 and put pounds in the end so that means you can lift 200 pounds. Almost twice as your body weight. As for your punching force, just multiple your physical by 1.5, which is 150 pounds.]

[As for Galdura, Normal is no bending. Novice is like a child learning how to crawl, this means you are just getting connected to your element. The student rank is like a baby already crawling and learning how to walk, this means you are now connected to your element and learning how to control it but only to the bare minimum like shoot little fire from your hand. Trainee, you get more into control and learn how to move fire, make a ball out of air and make water solid, turning it into ice. Pro is like a child already walking and learning how to jump and run, this means you are now able to do more things with your element. It will also require fewer body movements to control the element.]

[For the rest, you will know the difference when you get to that level.]

"Wow, you sure are lazy. You can't even explain a simple thing to me. Haa∼ Now time to get back to those guys." Adam said using air to pick up the books.

When he entered the room, he noticed everyone sleeping. He decided to look at their stats as he wanted to know the difference between all of them.

{
Name: Aaron 

PL: 310  [ Physical: 310 |  Galdura: 0]

Abilities: Flexing(66/100), Stealing(77/100) silent movement(98/100), Pain tolerance(73/100), Hallucination resistance(MAX){Effect is reduced greatly}

Age: 17 Years

Soul Statue: N/A

Body Statue: Hungry{Eat food}
}

{
Name: Aerin 

PL: 285  [ Physical: 160     | Galdura: 120{Earth-bending: 120(Pro}]

Abilities: flirting(11/100), Stealing(83/100), Pain tolerance(65/100), Hallucination resistance(MAX){Effect is reduced greatly}

Age: 17 Years

Soul Statue: N/A

Body Statue: Exhausted{need sleep}
}

{
Name: Adan

PL: 293 [ Physical: 144     | Galdura: 149{{Fire-bending: 149(Pro{peak})}]

Abilities: Stealing(MAX), Pain tolerance(83/100), Manipulation(87/100), silent movement(MAX), Planning(42/100), Hallucination resistance(MAX){Effect is reduced greatly}

Age: 48 Years

Soul Statue: N/A

Body Statue: Exhausted{need sleep}, Hungry{Need food}
}

{
Name: Agate

PL: 219  [ Physical: 122     | Galdura: 97{Water-bending: 97(Trainee)}]

Abilities: Researching(43/100), Engineering(77/100), Stealing(43/100) Pain tolerance(31/100), Hallucination resistance(MAX){Effect is reduced greatly}, 

Age: 16 Years

Soul Statue: N/A

Body Statue: Exhausted{need sleep}
}

[Wow, that Aerin flirt with himself. What a sad life. The Adan guy has a talent for fire-bending. His almost at master.]

Adam just ignored Z comments, "At least, their PL is not higher than mine, I am still the strongest. From what I have seen, the levels are Normal(no bending) 0-0, Novice 1-30, Student 31-50, Trainee 51-99, Pro 100-150, Master 151- ???. See Z? Without you, I can fill it up myself."

Adam then lets all the book drop on the floor. 

*BAM*

"Holy Mary, what the fuck is that?" Adan said sitting up. 

"Are we getting attacked? Finally a good fight." Aaron said standing up and flexing.

"I can't fight, there is no water here," Agate said getting behind Adan.

"It's me, you idiot. These are the book that tells us about bending. Agate, there are three types of water bending so you have to find the difference in the three and maybe combine them. It will be hard on you, but you have to MAN up and do it. There are also some books for martial art. We should all practice martial art so we can fight without only relying on our bending." Adam said pointing to the books.

"You always had luck. We searched many parts of the library for books about bending, but we didn't find it so we decided to stop and continue searching for it tomorrow." Aaron said walking up to the pile of books "We also found some books about martial arts, so we have to find the one best for us."

"Ha, telling me to do something so easy? I have a very good memory. I can still remember when I was 2 years old with details. Maybe you don't want to do it so you want me to do it. Right, little d*ck nick?" Agate said smirking.

"You... You are DEAD." Adam said shooting multiple fireballs at Agate.

"Woah, calm down. We are in a library. Do you want to burn this place down?" Adan said waving his hand and extinguishing the fireballs.

"We should go hunt before we go to sleep, so we will have something to eat after we wake up tomorrow," Aaron said while holding Adam who is screaming at Agate and struggling, trying to get free.

"Yeah, we should go," Adan said standing up, putting on his cloak, and leaving the room. They followed him.

[Three hours later]

"Why can't we find any sand shark? When we want them, they don't come, but when we don't want them, they come in waves." Aerin said.

"Yeah. We can't even find a Cactus." Agate said sounding mad.

"What do you need a Cactus juice for? Oh, I forgot, You need it for you beauty makeup." Adam said while practicing his air-bending. Aaron is holding on to his shoulder so he won't attack Agate.

"Oh, ho ho. Little d*ck nick finally decided to talk. I need more Cactus juice for training" Agate said while smirking under his hood.

"Adam, Agate, stop arguing. You are disturbing my training." Adan said while playing with fire.

"That is good,  this way, we can work on our concentration," Aerin said while moving the sand around him.

[Hay Adam,]

"What?"

[You know, you could have bought food and water from the store all this time?]

"Wait... I could have?" Adam said shocked, losing control of the air he was controlling, thus pushing everyone back. Even Aaron that was holding on to him, flew back.

[Yeah. I told you everything I can make is in the store. I can create food, so it is in my store.]

"I suffered for my stupidity. I almost died," Adam whispered to himself angrily "For my stupidity, I almost died multiple times. HAHA... HAHAHAHA... AHHHHHHHHHH..." He roared, fire coming out from his mouth. The air around him roared violently and the sand made a mini sand storm around him. The air became sharp and mistakenly cut Aerin chick.

Aerin touched his chick and found blood on his hand "You cut my face?" Aerin asked Adam, who wasn't listening, hysterical "YOU CUT MY HANDSOME FACE? I WILL KILL YOU!!!" Aerin shouted running into the mini sand storm, controlling the sand and started fighting Adam.

Adan tried to stop the fight, but he later joined it. Aaron saw this as a good fight, so he also joined. Agate saw this as a way to practice his water-bending, with the little Cactus juice he had, so he joined the fight. Thus it became a free for all.

Death is...painful. We live to survive... Eat to survive... Drink to survive...

But I... collect... To survive.

Disclaimer*

Any anime, novel, movies, I use in this book belong to their rightful owner, not me.

The twenty-meter wall was what he can see. It supposed to surround the whole city. It's been a while that he came back here no matter what It was an amazing sight. This beautiful city, Xin Hai City was where he formerly stayed.

Zhen Lun entered the city through the gate without any problem. He finally arrived at Xin Hai City. 

Without dilly-dallying, Zhen Lun heads to the market district, finding himself a bookstore to buy some books.

'This shop...' Zhen Lun recalled some memories when he was a kid.

Coincidentally he found a familiar bookstore. He knew this particular store. It's because back when he was a child, he used to buy some books from this exact bookstore.

Zhen Lun opened the door and went into the store. Unexpectedly, The owner didn't greet him.

'Hm? If I'm not wrong the owner treated his customer preciously, He served his customer with top-notch services. That's how I remember this shop. It was too hard to forget.'

As for how he remembered, the owner went as far to serve some tea for his customer. To receive this kind of services in a bookstore, it is indeed quite exaggerating. 

'Did old age affected his personality?' Zhen Lun asked himself.

Looking at the owner he notices the foul expression of the owner. He was sitting on his chair while gazing through the window with wrinkled eyebrows.

Zhen Lun head over and greets the owner "Elder, I would like to buy something."

"Pick the book yourself." The owner said expressionlessly without even look at Zhen Lun.

"I would like to offer a trade for some cultivation technique books with this item, Is it possible?" Zhen Lun asked politely even though he was treated as passing wind. (1)

Hearing such request from Zhen Lun, The owner was furious.

"Get out if you want to cause trouble! I'm not in a good mood right now. Shoo!" The owner waves his hand, gesturing Zhen Lun to get out.

"Don't be too rash, Elder. Why don't you look at the item first?" Putting the jade bottle on the table, Zhen Lun said with a tempting tone.

Hearing the young man still wants to bother him, He angrily slammed the table. He finally glanced over to Zhen Lun with a furious glare.

Slam*

The jade bottle flew up due to the forces elder's palm. It then appeared in front of the owner's face. 

"I only-" The owner was about to say that he only accepts coins but he abruptly stopped his mouth from continuing speaking. He realized that The jade bottle wasn't something common.

While the jade bottle flew in mid-air the owner grabbed it swiftly with his hand. He then held it within his palm while his hand trembling profusely.

"What pill is this?" The owner asked anxiously.

"Qi Replenishing Pills." Zhen Lun answered casually.

Putting the pills carefully back on the table The owner excitedly stood up and grabbed Zhen Lun by his shoulder. He looked at Zhen Lun with his teary eyes as though he saw an angel.

Sniff*

"You're willing to trade this for books?"

"Y-yeah." Zhen Lun nodded.

"Grab any book you want, this bookstore may not have valuable martial technique book but it does have few that may interest you. This way, young man." This time the owner was smiling.

Seeing the owner's gratefulness Zhen Lun knew he hit on a jackpot. The pill seems to be precious to him. With this, he wasn't going to go easy on the owner. He reached out to the shelf and grabbed all cultivation technique book that was displayed and some martial technique books that were useful for him to learn later on.

"All this book for the pill. Is it okay?" Zhen Lun asked.

'...This young man is heartless! he didn't go easy on this elder at all.' Looking at the stacks of books, the owner felt that his heart was stabbed.

"S-sure. You can take them all." The owner forcing himself to spits the words out.

'Well, trading books for life. I would be called brain-dead if I didn't agree.' The owner helplessly sighed.

Eight years have passed and the value of pill has drastically soared. In fact, right now it is hard for a commoner to find someone selling pill. Of course, this news was oblivious to Zhen Lun.

Hearing that the owner agreed, Zhen Lun was pleased. The trade truly benefitted him, trading two pills for these amounts of books. 

'I wonder if I can ask for more.' the amount of cultivation technique books was not enough.

"Kindhearted Elder, Do you have more cultivation technique book?" Zhen Lun pointed to the stacks of books that he picks and shamelessly said "These are not enough."

'The young man actually wants more?' hearing the question, Owner felt that another arrow has stabbed in his heart.

"Y-yes, there's more in the storage. I'll go grab them for you."

'This young man is shameless!'

Calming down himself the owner suppressed his anger by thinking positively. 'It's only some cultivation technique books. Just for this once I'll be generous.' The owner helplessly sighed in his heart again.

After a while, the owner finally came out holding a stack of books.

Pah*

The owner put it on the table along with the other books that Zhen Lun wanted.

"This is all that I have." The owner said with gloomy tone.

"By the way, Why did elder need it desperately? What is the pill for? It doesn't seem that you needed the pill." Zhen Lun asked curiously as he glanced at the elder. The elder seems quite healthy, he doesn't seem to need the pill.

Hearing the question The owner got gloomier.

"It's not for me, it's my wife that needed the pill." The owner answered.

"I see, I hope she will get well soon." Hearing the matter was like this Zhen Lun simply nodded and didn't say too much as it will cause more problems.

"Nevermind me, how do you move these stacks of books away." The owner changed the topic to alleviate the atmosphere.

As the elder said, those huge amount of books are too much for me to handle right now.

He can't carry them back to his place with his fragile body.

"Uh, Can Elder borrow me a room for a minute?" Zhen Lun politely asked.

"Sure, make it quick. I'll be closing the store early." The owner answered.

"Thanks." Zhen Lun thanked the owner. Afterward, he moved the books as fast as possible into the room.

'Good thing I knew this shop if it were other people I will probably be chased away by now.'

Zhen Lun then quickly consume the books that he received.

[Book of Mastery, Cultivation Technique, Quality: 1]

[Do you wish to consume the book?]

[Yes/No]

Zhen Lun clicked 'Yes' without hesitation.

As he did that the book dissipated into small blue particles. The particles disappeared into Zhen Lun's body.

[Mastery Book consumed]

[Mastery Book consumed]

[Mastery Book consumed]

.....

[Mastery Book consumed]

[Progress reached 100℅]

[Cultivation Technique Skill Leveled Up]

'Leveled up? Like being upgraded?' Seeing the screen, Zhen Lun can't wait to try it out to see the differences between incomplete and completed one.

Just by the knowledge he received, he was flabbergasted already. The technique that he thought as perfect turn out to have so many flaws.

Each time he consumes a single book, a single flaw was fixed.

"Young Master, Are you done?" The owner knocked on the door.

"Give me another minute."

Just as he was excited to try it out and cultivate right now. He has to quickly consume the other books first. It will be bad if the owner sees such a weird phenomenon. Such as books dissipated into particles and entered his body. 

[Mastery Book consumed]

[Progress 5%]

'Hmm?'

Expecting more flaws to be fixed but there's none at all. 

'Maybe, it needs to be 10%.' The amount of progress from each consume was lesser than before. This time it only increased by 5% for each book.

[Mastery Book consumed]

[Mastery Book consumed]

'Still no flaws.'

There's no sign of flaws being fixed at all since the Cultivation technique reached become Level 1.

Well, It doesn't matter anyway...

[Mastery Book consumed]

[Mastery Book consumed]

...

[Mastery Book consumed]

[Mastery Book consumed]

Below-Average Mortal (Level 1)

HP: 100/100    MP: 100/100 
STR: 5              VIT: 5
AGI: 5              LUK: 5
INT: 5              MAG: 5

Skill:
Martial Artists: Cultivation Technique Lvl 2 (15%)

He has finished consuming all the Cultivation Technique books leaving only Martial Technique books he chose from the shelf. With the three books left he should be able to bring it back.

The Martial Technique books are lighter anyway since they are not as thick as the cultivation technique book.

Zhen Lun got out from the room. "I'm done, I have to thank Elder for your hospitality."

"No need to thank me. In fact, I have to thank you for trading pills for books."

"I'll be leaving." Zhen Lun thanked the elder and left the bookstore.

'Interesting lad, I only sense a tiny fraction of spiritual energy on him. Why begin to cultivate at such age though.'

The elder peered into Zhen Lun's cultivation only to find out that he only has a tiny fraction of energy which means this kid started to cultivate recently.

'Why at such age?'

Anyway, it is not his business to mind with but he found it peculiar.

'Possessing a dimensional space ring and a valuable pill even though he is weaker than normal civilians.' He easily concluded that Zhen Lun has Dimensional Space Ring because he only saw him bringing out few books out of two stacks of books. Other than having Dimensional Space Ring there are no other explanations at all.

'Somehow this black-haired boy seems familiar. Where did I see him before?'

Meanwhile, behind the store, there was a person that has been eavesdropping their conversation for a while.

'Interesting brat!' The mysterious man smiled.

----

Walking out from the store, Zhen Lun was in a good mood. He managed to hit a jackpot, turning two pills into tons of books.

'I'll have to head back quickly." He can't wait to try activating the completed cultivation technique. Even though He wanted to activate it here he was scared that he might cause a commotion. 

Looking at the lively road, Zhen Lun can't help but shook his head. There's no way he can do it here. Unless he wants to rent an inn.

Helplessly he decided to walk back to his only shelter, which is back to the forest. As he about to leave the city he sensed something wrong.

'That guy is still heading my way.' At first, he thought that it was his imaginations. But after leaving the city gate. He was sure now. That person is targeting him.

'Did he saw me consumed the books? If so, he must be targeting me for the 'treasure' that he thinks I have.' 

(Zhen Lun is mature but sadly he stayed in the forest for eight years, He lack the common sense that people usually have.)

Recalling the room that he borrowed from owner, He clearly shut the windows and the door tightly. Not letting a single speck of light in from outside.

'Maybe I was wrong... Well, I'll find out his intention later on.' Zhen Lun continues to walk and pretended to not notice the man that was following him.

...

Both of them finally left the city's wall. Zhen Lun heads to the forest without being suspicious at all.

'Into the forest? Where is the brat trying to go?' The mysterious man was confused. The forest is full of surprises, there are many beasts that can threaten normal people. 'This kid doesn't even cultivate, he dares to enter the forest?'

As the man was getting suspicious, Zhen Lun suddenly speaks with himself while proceeding into the forest.

"Now I'll go back to that place, Maybe I can find more treasure!" Zhen Lun deliberately said it loudly so that the man can hear it.

The man that stalked him was ecstatic to hear those words coming out from Zhen Lun. 'So that's how a weakling like him possess such valuable treasure. It turns out this brat found some hidden treasure troves.' The mysterious man decided to be patient and calmly follow the brat.

'Normal beasts pose no danger to me, Unless the ruler of the forest appears, I will be safe.' The man said to himself confidently.

In front of him, he could see how grand the city was. The whole city was surrounded by a wall that was twenty-meters tall.

No matter what It was an amazing sight. This beautiful city, Xin Hai City was where he formerly stayed.

He then entered the city through the gate without any problem. He finally arrived inside the city. 

Without dilly-dallying, he heads to the market district to find a bookstore. 

The first shop he found was 'Jing Bookstore'.

'This shop...' He recalled the memories when he was a kid.

He knew this particular store. back when he was a child, he used to buy some books from this exact bookstore.

Zhen Lun opened the door and went into the store. Unexpectedly, The owner didn't greet him.

'Hm? If I'm not wrong the owner treated his customer preciously, He served his customer with top-notch services. That's how I remember this shop. It was quite hard for him to forget.'

As for how he remembered, the owner went as far to serve some tea for his customer. To receive this kind of services in a bookstore, it is indeed quite exaggerating. 

'Did old age affected his personality?' Zhen Lun asked himself.

Looking at the owner he notices the foul expression of the owner. He was sitting on his chair while gazing through the window with wrinkled eyebrows.

Zhen Lun head over and greets the owner "Elder, I would like to buy something."

"Pick the book yourself." The owner said expressionlessly without even look at Zhen Lun.

"I would like to offer a trade for some cultivation technique books with this item, Is it possible?" Zhen Lun asked politely even though he was treated as passing wind. (1)

Hearing such request from Zhen Lun, The owner became furious.

"Get out if you want to cause trouble! I'm not in a good mood right now. Shoo!" The owner waves his hand, gesturing Zhen Lun to scram.

"Don't be too rash, Elder. Why don't you look at the item first?" Putting the jade bottle on the table, Zhen Lun said with a tempting tone.

Hearing the young man still wants to bother him, He angrily slammed the table. He finally glanced over to Zhen Lun with a death glare.

Slam*

The jade bottle flew up due to the forces elder's palm. It then appeared in front of the owner's face. 

"I only-" The owner was about to say that he only accepts coins but he abruptly stopped his mouth from continuing speaking. He realized that The jade bottle wasn't something common.

While the jade bottle flew in mid-air the owner grabbed it swiftly with his hand. He then held it within his palm while his hand trembling profusely.

"What pill is this?" The owner asked anxiously.

"Qi Replenishing Pills." Zhen Lun answered casually.

Putting the pills carefully back on the table The owner excitedly stood up and grabbed Zhen Lun by his shoulder. He looked at Zhen Lun with his teary eyes as though he saw an angel.

Sniff*

"You're willing to trade this for my worthless books?"

"Y-yeah." Zhen Lun nodded.

"Grab any book you want, this bookstore may not have valuable martial technique book but it does have few that may interest you. This way, young man." This time the owner was smiling with his teary eyes. His attitude toward him was changed completely.

Seeing the owner's gratefulness he knew he hit on a jackpot. The pill seems to be precious to him. With this, he wasn't going to go easy on the owner. 

He reached out to the shelves, grabbing all cultivation technique books that were displayed and some martial technique books that were useful for him to learn later on.

"All this book for the pill. Is it okay?" Zhen Lun asked.

'...This young man is heartless! he didn't go easy on this elder at all.' Looking at the stacks of books, the owner felt that his heart was stabbed.

"S-sure. You can take them all." The owner forces himself to spits the words out.

'Well, trading books for life. I would be called brain-dead if I didn't agree.' The owner helplessly sighed.

Eight years have passed and the value of pill has drastically soared. In fact, right now it is hard for a commoner to find someone selling pill like the one he offered. Of course, this news was oblivious to Zhen Lun.

Hearing that the owner agreed, Zhen Lun was pleased. He actually traded two pills for these amounts of books. The trade truly benefitted him, 

'I wonder if I can ask for more.' the amount of cultivation technique books was not enough.

"Kindhearted elder, Do you have more cultivation technique book?" Zhen Lun pointed to the stacks of books that he picks and shamelessly said "These are not enough."

'The young man actually wants more?' hearing the question, Owner felt that another arrow has stabbed in his heart.

"Y-yes, there's more in the storage. I'll go grab them for you."

'This young man is shameless!'

Calming down himself the owner suppressed his anger by thinking positively. 'It's only some cultivation technique books. Just for this once I'll be generous.' The owner helplessly sighed in his heart again.

After a while, the owner finally came out holding a stack of books.

Pah*

The owner put it on the table along with the books that Zhen Lun wanted.

"This is all that I have." The owner said in gloomy tone.

"By the way, Why did elder need it desperately? What is the pill for? It doesn't seem that you needed the pill." Zhen Lun asked curiously as he glanced at the elder. The elder seems quite healthy, he doesn't seem to need the pill.

Hearing the question The owner's heart was sunken and his complexion got darker.

"It's not for me, it's my wife that needed the pill." The owner answered.

"I see, I hope she will get well soon." Hearing the matter was like this Zhen Lun simply nodded and didn't say too much as it will cause more problems.

"Nevermind me, how do you move these stacks of books away." The owner changed the topic to alleviate the atmosphere.

As the elder said, those huge amount of books are too much for me to handle right now.

He can't carry them back to his place with his fragile body.

"Uh, can you borrow me a room for a minute?" Zhen Lun politely asked.

"Sure, make it quick. I'll be closing the store early." The owner answered.

"Thanks." Zhen Lun thanked the owner. Afterward, he moved the books as fast as possible into the room.

'Good thing I knew this shop if it were other people I will probably be chased away by now.'

Zhen Lun then quickly consume the books that he received.

[Book of Mastery, Cultivation Technique, Quality: 1]

[Do you wish to consume the book?]

[Yes/No]

Zhen Lun clicked 'Yes' without hesitation.

As he did that, the book dissipated into small blue particles. The particles disappeared into Zhen Lun's body.

[Mastery Book consumed]

[Mastery Book consumed]

[Mastery Book consumed]

.....

[Mastery Book consumed]

[Progress reached 100℅]

[Cultivation Technique Skill Leveled Up]

'Leveled up? Like being upgraded?' Seeing the screen, Zhen Lun can't wait to try it out to see the differences between incomplete and completed one.

Just by the knowledge he received, he was flabbergasted by it already. The technique that he thought as perfect turn out to have so many flaws.

Each time he consumes a single book, a single flaw was fixed.

"Young Master, Are you done?" The owner knocked on the door.

"Give me another minute."

Just as he was excited to try it out and cultivate right now. He has to quickly consume the other books first. It will be bad if the owner sees such a weird phenomenon. Such as books dissipated into particles and entered his body. 

[Mastery Book consumed]

[Progress 5%]

'Hmm?' He is expecting more flaws to be fixed but there's none at all. 

'Maybe, it needs to be 10%.' The amount of progress from each consume was lesser than before. This time it only increased by 5% for each book.

[Mastery Book consumed]

[Mastery Book consumed]

'Still no flaws.'

There's no sign of flaws being fixed at all since the Cultivation technique reached become Level 1.

Well, It doesn't matter anyway...

[Mastery Book consumed]

[Mastery Book consumed]

...

[Mastery Book consumed]

[Mastery Book consumed]

Below-Average Mortal (Level 1)

HP: 100/100    MP: 100/100 
STR: 5              VIT: 5
AGI: 5              LUK: 5
INT: 5              MAG: 5

Skill:
Martial Artists: Cultivation Technique Lvl 2 (15%)

He has finished consuming all the Cultivation Technique books leaving only Martial Technique books he chose from the shelf. With the three books left he should be able to bring it back.

The Martial Technique books are lighter anyway since they are not as thick as the cultivation technique book.

Zhen Lun got out from the room. "I'm done, I have to thank Elder for your hospitality."

"No need to thank me. In fact, I have to thank you for trading pills for books." The Elder shook his head.

"I'll be leaving." Zhen Lun thanked the elder and left the bookstore.

'Interesting lad, I only sense a tiny fraction of spiritual energy on him. Why begin to cultivate at such age though.'

The elder peered into Zhen Lun's cultivation only to find out that he only has a tiny fraction of energy which means this kid started to cultivate recently.

'Why at such age?'

Anyway, it is not his business to mind with but he found it peculiar.

"Possessing a dimensional space ring and a valuable pill." He easily concluded that Zhen Lun has Dimensional Ring because he only saw him bringing out a few books out of two stacks of books. Other than having Dimensional Ring there are no other explanations at all.

'Somehow this black-haired boy seems familiar. Where did I see him before?'

Meanwhile, behind the store, there was a person that has been eavesdropping their conversation for a while.

'Interesting brat!' The mysterious man smiled.

----

Walking out from the store, Zhen Lun was in a good mood. He managed to hit a jackpot, turning two pills into tons of books.

'I'll have to head back quickly." He can't wait to try activating the completed cultivation technique. Even though he wanted to activate it here he was scared that he might cause a commotion. 

Looking at the lively road, Zhen Lun can't help but shook his head. There's no way he can do it here. Unless that he rent an inn.

Helplessly he decided to walk back to his only shelter, which is back to the forest. As he about to leave the city he sensed something wrong.

'That guy is still heading my way.' At first, he thought that it was his imaginations. But after leaving the city gate. He was sure now. That person is targeting him.

'Did he saw me consumed the books?'

(Zhen Lun is mature but sadly he stayed in the forest for eight years, He lack the common sense that people usually have.)

Recalling the room that he borrowed from owner, He clearly shut the windows and the door tightly. Not letting a single speck of light in from outside.

'Maybe I was wrong... Well, I'll find out his intention later on.' Zhen Lun continues to walk and pretended to not notice the man that was following him.

...

Both of them finally left the city. He then continue his journey as he heads to the forest without being suspicious at all.

'Into the forest? Where is the brat trying to go?' The mysterious man was confused. The forest is full of surprises, there are many beasts that can threaten normal people. 'This kid doesn't even cultivate, he dares to enter the forest?'

As the man was getting suspicious, Zhen Lun suddenly speaks with himself while proceeding into the forest.

"Now I'll go back to that place, Maybe I can find more treasure!" Zhen Lun deliberately said it loudly so that the man can hear it.

Hearing that, the man that is stalking him became ecstatic. 'So that's how a weakling like him possess a dimensional ring. It turns out this brat found some hidden treasure troves.' The mysterious man decided to be patient and calmly follow the brat.

'Normal beasts pose no danger to me, Unless the strong mythical beast appears, I will be safe.' The man said to himself confidently.

Hans was wrong; this auction would not sell according to the genres, but that each section had been additionally divided, into hundreds of smaller sections!

With this, the information that Li Du had memorized yesterday lost its use. He hurriedly rushed around the unit, hoping to remember the new sections for the valuable books they had recorded yesterday.

Entering the second storage unit, he briskly walked around, and then returned to one of the stacks of books, puzzled.

Hans asked, "What’s up?"

Li Du said, "This stack of books; it wasn’t here yesterday."

The stack that caught his attention was relatively small. It was cordoned off by plastic poles, so it stood out from the other sections. There were also other similar stacks around. These stacks were all relatively fewer in books, and protected by poles.


Hans glanced and said, "These are all old books. Perhaps the bookstore was being cautious of people damaging them if they took them out early, so they only took them out now."

The new books didn’t seem to have much value. Li Du looked at the stacks of old books and decided to let the bug out to try to see if he could score a hit.

When the bug came out, it made a round in the air and then flew toward the stacks.

Li Du controlled it to prevent it from absorbing the time energy. He paid attention to which stack it went to, and recorded its traveling path.

He thought the bug would be interested in these old books, but besides the initial burst of energy when flying toward the first stack, the bug didn’t search around anymore.

Apparently, besides this particular stack, the other books didn’t have much time energy. These old books had an even lower value than new books.

An hour later, the auction was about to begin. Someone shouted in a loudspeaker, "Everyone, please leave the storage room. Everyone, please leave the storage room. Remember the details of the location of books that you want to auction for, and please go outside so that we can begin the bidding!"

Hans, his eyebrows creased, said, "This auction will be different from the past ones."
Previously, the people stood beside storage units the auction proceeded.

Li Du could understand. With the sheer number of books being auctioned, as well as the number of attendees, the bookstore clearly wanted to sell off as many books as possible.

According to the sequence, the first section to be auctioned was the self-improvement genre.

A total of 20,000 to 30,000 books were separated into 20 different sections, with each section having about a thousand books or so. The auctioneer spoke quickly, so the auction proceeded quickly as well.

"Self-improvement, section A—the starting bid is 1,000, 1,000, 1,000 dollars. Whoever wants it, quickly raise your hand up so I can see you….

"Alright fella, 1,000 for you then. Next up will be 1,100, anyone for 1,100…

"That guy went straight to 1,500, 1,500, 1,500—anyone want to go higher? Alright, no one is going for it, so these books belong to you, kiddo!"

One thousand five hundred dollars for a thousand new books; it was quite a good deal. Li Du mentally calculated for a moment, and then asked, "Say, how about we take all the books and set up a bookstore ourselves?"

"Are you trying to burn your money away?" Hans asked. "If these bookstores could still stay in business, why would they declare bankrupt?"

Li Du shrugged. Hans was right; he seemed to have put too little thought in before proposing the idea.

They didn’t have much interest in the self-improvement section, and thus didn’t participate in the bidding. They just stood at the side to watch how things played out.

The book auction was proceeding much faster than regular storage auctions. Two auctioneers took turns on stage. The words came out of their mouth faster than a machine gun’s rate of fire. If one hesitated for a moment, a section of books would be sold off.

The auctioneers here didn’t bother to give anyone time to think. They called thrice for the current offer, and if no one responded in three to four seconds, it would be a deal.

About ten minutes later, the auction for the novel genre was about to start. Li Du gave a pat on Hans’s shoulder and said, "Let’s go, soldier!"

"Novels, section A, consisting of 1,000 books. The starting bid is 2,000 dollars—2,000, 2,000, anyone willing to take it?" the auctioneer asked speedily.

Hans immediately raised his hand. "Two thousand five hundred!"

The auctioneer pointed at him and said, "This fella is going for 2,500, anyone willing to go for 2,600?"

"Me!" a white lady nodded and said.

Hans retracted his hands and left. The limit they had set for this stack was 2,500 dollars.

"Novels, section B, consisting of 1,100 books; the starting bid is 2,000, anyone…

"...Novels, section C, consisting of 1,080 books; the starting bid is 2,000, anyone…

"…Novels, section E, consisting of 980 books; the starting bid is 2,000, anyone willing to take it?"

Hans once again offered, and said with a nod, "Let’s make it 3,000 dollars!"

As the auction continued, the bidding began to heat up. Many people were on the scene, making a mess of noise. There were many times where multiple offers of the same price were called.

To save time, Hans had always called his final price on his first call.

His final price this time was relatively high;, the other treasure hunters that were interested shook their heads and gave up.

The auctioneer pointed at Hans and said, "3,000 dollars, and I’ve hit the hammer. These books belong to you, buddy!"

In the novels section, in accordance with Li Du’s request, Hans bought a total of four stacks, spending exactly 10,000 dollars for 3,800 books.

The other genres, such as finance, education, technology and lifestyle, they didn’t bid on, and just watched the scene of hundreds of people competing.

The competition was the most heated for novels because the most valuable books were the ones that were signed. Normally, authors for novels were the most renowned, so their signed books were the most valuable.

In reality, there were other kinds of books that were more valuable, such as biographies. The biographies for sports stars or pop stars especially—if those had their personal signature, those books would increase in value a hundredfold.

However, bookstores were not stupid; when these valuable books were sold, they were placed in special events, and did not end up in places like this to be auctioned off at low prices.

After the lifestyle genre, it was now time for the old books to be auctioned. Most of the treasure hunters were disinterested in old books; everyone knew that there was no treasure amongst them.

The history of America wasn’t very long, so they didn’t have ancient scripts like those in China. When the country was established, it was around the time when civilization had entered the era of printing machines.

In this situation, really expensive, old books would be rare. Bookstores would not even usually have them, so it was unlikely any would appear in this auction.

The auctioneers started, and the first stack was treated coldly. The price dropped to about 100 dollars, but still, no one wanted it. 

When it came to the second stack of old books, many people remained disinterested. It was sold at its starting bid of 1,000 dollars.

Seeing such, Li Du and Hans stayed low. When it came to the fifth stack, they didn’t make any offers, but instead waited for it the price to drop.

As no one was interested in this stack, when the auctioneer was about to go to the next one, Hans raised his hand and said, "100 dollars. I’ll take it!"

Seeing this, some treasure hunters who knew about the capabilities of Hans and Li Du wanted to make a call, but the auctioneer didn’t give them a chance. Straight away, he nodded and said, "Alright, 100, these books belong to you, buddy!"

Some of the treasure hunters grumbled their disappointment. 

"I wanted to bid for it."

"What’s in that stack?"

"D*mmit, I have a premonition: these two b*stards are going to strike gold again!"

Hans secretly raised an eyebrow at Li Du, and revealed a proud smile.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



They love gold, and they love silver. Even more so, they love gems that dazzle, like stars across the skies. 
Firearms, jewelleries, and precious metals; A collector’s world will not be complete without antiques.  
Storage auctions, old goods trade, re-estate sales and gold-digging. But the truth is, if one wants to make money, then the supreme way is through searching for the legendary treasures. 
Holding the fort, there’s an ocelot, a wolf, and an Andes condor. At the side, there’s a loyal hound, an irascible ape, and an African honey badger. Who said that you can only rely on humans when treasure hunting?! 

Chapter 3: Encounter

"Oh yeah, I haven't distributed my stat points yet."  Ai almost forgot about his stats that were all in zero. From the knowledge that he had gained when the System was injected to him, in the beginning, the game itself gave the freedom to freely allocate their beginning stats and every player has the same number of points to show fairness for everyone somehow.

——————

Name: Ai Zhen
HP: 100 / 100
MP: 100 / 100
SP: 100 / 100
Level: 0
EXP: 0 / 900

CULTIVATION: 
Art: NONE
Realm: NA
Breakthrough: 0 / 0 EXP

Stat Points: 33
* Strength: 0+
(Boost your attack and defense power)
* Intelligence: 0+
(Boost your comprehension power)
* Dexterity: 0+
(Boost your attack, skill and movement speed)
* Vitality: 0+
(Boost your HP and MP)
* Stamina: 0+
(Boost your SP)

——————

"Oh by the way, Yun, what does SP stands for?" Ai Zhen noticed that there's another indicator for something. He had an idea about it but he's not that if what he was thinking was the same for this game.

<SP stands for Spiritual Points. It has the same importance with the HP and MP because this will be used in almost every actions that you will do. Special NPCs, Items and Quests requires a certain Spiritual Points in order to be engaged. This can also be used to enhance the effect of active skills depending on how much you input. Ways to restore SP can be done in any form of rest. One needs to cultivate in order to increase SP. Allocating points in Stamina can increase SP too.>

Half of Ai Zhen's thought about SP was right, and even though Yun's explanation about it was not that very specific, he was able to tell that this may be the most important stats in this game.

Moving on, based from the gaming experiences of the late Ai's, a player must always not neglect to allocate some points for the Strength and Agility even if the player is a mage class. The former Zhen's thinking also approved of this especially for the Agility stats. In the cultivation world, there's a saying that strength is not what makes a cultivator invincible but speed.

However, thinking back again, this game was almost completely different from the games that the late Ai have played, and also, there was a novel that he read where someone allocated all of his stat points in a single attribute which gave that character a special bonus.

"Here goes nothing." Ai Zhen smiled deviously as he was about to add all of his points to a certain stats.

——————

Name: Ai Zhen
HP: 100 / 100
MP: 100 / 100
SP: 330 / 330
Level: 0
EXP: 0 / 900

CULTIVATION: 
Art: NONE
Realm: NA
EXP: 0 / 0

Stat Points: 0
* Strength: 0+
(Boost your attack and defense power)
* Intelligence: 0+
(Boost your comprehension power)
* Dexterity: 0+
(Boost your attack, skill and movement speed)
* Vitality: 0+
(Boost your HP and MP)
* Stamina: 33+
(Boost your SP)

——————

Seconds and then minutes passed by, nothing happened. Ai Zhen was expecting for something grand to happen like being rewarded for being the first player to allocate all the starting stat point on a certain Attributes? I guess there is no reward for being a fool on believing too much on fantasy novels then.

Ai Zhen can only bitterly smile about it and moved on. And with that, he started to stroll around to find a NPC to have a conversation with.

++++++++++

The six sector of the Hidden Leaf Town was divided into three areas, the first two sector where the entry and exit point of the town is located was called the outer area, this is where the NPC shops and merchants are located.

The inner area is where the two middle sectors are located, this is where the town's residences resides. Some NPC nobles are also in here.

In the core area, where the remaining two sectors. There are only two places that are located in this area. One, is the town hall where the town lord resides. The other one is the, town's academy where the town's library is also located.

Ai Zhen thought that if he's going to do the quests, he will do it big. So in order to do it big, the only NPC that he can think of is the town's lord. With a goal set in his mind, he walked straight to the core area where the town hall is.

When he was about to enter the core area, his eyes were staring down on the bricked road minding his own business as he was contemplating on how to approach the town's lord. He passed by to an old man who was sitting down outside of a certain shop, having a tea. The old man called out to him, "Hey, young man!" A serene smile crept into his mouth as he was sipping his cup of tea.

Ai Zhen was still looking down on the road as he was still focused on how to approach the town lord. He was only able to stop when a voice sounded beside his ears, "It's rare to find someone who has great potential nowadays."

Ai Zhen looked at the old man surprised who was raising his cup of coffee, "Would you like to have a cup of tea?"

Ai Zhen thought that this old man is no ordinary that's why he accepted his offer. He opened the gate of the tea shop that was called Autumn Leaf Cafe and sat in front of the old man. The old man took an empty cup on his side and poured a tea for him.

"Would you like to be my disciple?" The old man got straight to the point.

The old man's straightforwardness surprised Ai Zhen as he doesn't know what to reply. 

"Why would you do that?" He looked at the old man with slightly raised eyebrow showing his skepticism. In his mind, no one can be his master in this lifetime. As the greatest cultivator in his past life, the arrogance and confidence in him surfaced. But even though he thought of this, he still patiently asked what the old man's motive.

"Well, just a simple fact that you are very talented. Who wouldn't want a disciple with such capabilities like you?" The old man simply stated with a playful smile.

"Heh..how would you know that I'm that talented?" Ai Zhen also playfully smiled back to the old man. "What if it turns out that I'm really just a trash?"

"Nonsense, young man! How on Earth would someone like you..a great figure..would be a trash?" The old man intentionally made his voice sounded like a whisper in Ai's ears just to display his capabilities, and was trying to make his bullshit mysterious. Ai also noticed this however, he didn't mind it and just played along.

"Well old man, if I'm that of a genius, then I'm now even more confident that I don't need a teacher or a master." Ai Zhen laughed wittily with a hint of arrogance on his antics.

The old man could only shake his head from this retort because he knows that the young man, Ai Zhen, was not buying it.

"Young man, if you are able to learn these books within this day. I'll admit that I'm not worthy to be your master." The old man took out six books that magically appeared in front of the table. Five of this six books have the same style of book cover with just different shades of color while the the other one has an orange red book cover and golden platings on its edges designed as blazing sun rays.

<Quest Prompt: Learn 5 skill books and a cultivation art that the old man Sun Fang have offered. Reward: (?)>

'I wonder what would that question mark means.' Ai Zhen was not fazed with what the old man did. He stared at him for a short while and inhaled. "Would you mind if I take a look at these first?" The Quest didn't offer any rewards because the reward itself was learning the books itself.

"Go ahead." The old man still playfully smiled even more as he gestured to the young man to not hold back.

Ai Zhen first looked at the one of the skill books that has a shade of grey on it.

<Skill Book: Basic Silver Claws. Skill Type: Attack. Skill Tier: Silver(I). Identification: A skill that can tear and rip common metals. When mastered, it can even destroy profound level weapons. Additional 3% pure damage towards night creatures.
Requirements: 30 SP>

Ai Zhen was astonished on how high tiered the skill that was shown to him. At this point of game, finding a skill like this is like gambling in a game that has one out of one hundred chances.

He also looked at the other four, anticipating if whether these are also in the same class and level or more.

<Skill Book: Flowing Leaf. Skill Type: Movement. Skill Tier: Gold(I). Identification: A skill that let you passively dodge three attacks like how a falling leaf can not be touched as it moves with the flow of the wind.
Requirements: 90 SP>

<Skill Book: Basic Plant Recognition. Skill Type: Miscellaneous. Skill Tier: Bronze(I). Identification: A skill that let you able to recognize plants that are up to Rare Level even without having a knowledge about it.
Note: Skill can be level up when used to identify 10 Rare Plants or obtained a higher level of the same skill book.
Requirements: 30 SP>

<Skill Book: Wave Current. Skill Type: Attack and Defense. Skill Tier: Gold(I). Identification: A skill that let you repel the opponent's attack up to three times the original power when mastered.
Requirements: 90 SP>

<Skill Book: Basic Fire Manipulation. Skill Type: Attribute. Skill Tier: Gold (I). Identification: A skill that will able to let you manipulate fire. It grants a Fire Body attribute which gives 15% fire resistance and 5% additional pure damage to any fire-based attacks.
Requirements: 90 SP>

These five books are really useful to Ai Zhen as of this moment. Having overpowered skills at this early point of the game makes his life really easy. He couldn't help but be fond on how generous this old man to him.

When the old man saw the face of the young man who was licking his lips in excitement, he thought that he have already caught him in his trap since these skills are very hard to learn from the get go and it takes weeks to learn the basics. With this mindset, he was pretty sure that the young man will be lured and there's nothing that he can't do from getting away with it, but what he doesn't know was the fact that the young man was licking his lips because he was already in the process of completely learning the five skills.

<You have learned the skill, Silver Claws. Intelligence: +1. -30 SP>

<You have learned the skill, Flowing Leaf. Intelligence: +2. -90 SP>

<You have learned the skill, Basic Plant Recognition. Intelligence: +1. -30 SP>

<You have learned the skill, Wave Current. Intelligence: +2. -90 SP>

<You have learned the skill, Basic Fire Manipulation. Intelligence: + 2. -90 SP>

<Congratulations! The Quest: Learning, has been accomplished. Total Rewards: +1300 EXP >

With the +100 EXP per rank, silver skill books is equivalent to 200 EXP while gold skill books is equivalent to 300 EXP. The old man would be crying if he was hearing what the monotone voice of a young boy was notifying.

Ai Zhen was feeling light-headed for a moment as his SP was depleted. However, as he leveled up multiple times, his SP was filled up again.

After learning the five skills, without further a do, he grabbed the last book and read it.

<Cultivation Book: Blazing Sun Art. Cultivation Rank: Epic (I). Identification: A cultivation art that can set ablaze one's HP or MP in order to gain additional pure damage (1:2 Conversion). Vitality points can also be set ablaze permanently to burn down the opponent's vitality points permanently as well (1:2 Conversion).
+6 Vitality & +3 Dexterity every minor breakthrough and +60 Vitality & +30 Dexterity every major breakthrough. Regeneration: +6 per second each minor breakthrough and +18 per second each major breakthrough.
Requirements: 110 Intelligence and 330 SP>

As Ai Zhen read through this cultivation, he couldn't help but faltered and his mouth twitching. 

The fact that this cultivation art is also overpowered makes him feel elated. Imagine burning an opponent's Vitality into zero, how many HP and MP will be left? But when setting ablaze the opponent's vitality you will be setting ablaze your vitality as well permanently. When he looked at the old man, he somehow felt a vague feeling that the aura of this cultivation art and the aura of the old man was exuding despite how hard he try to conceal are the same. He could not help but think if this old man, was really old.

<You have read an Epic Cultivation Art. +9 Intelligence. -150 SP>

'No wonder this cultivation art is just in an Epic Tier despite the overwhelming power that can be attained, because this art is Epic..Fail.' Ai Zhen couldn't help but shake his head in disappointment. And when the old man saw this, he could not also help but be intrigued of what's in the young man's mind. "What's wrong, young man?"

"Old man, do you have a pen and a stack of paper?" Ai Zhen asked. The old man have no idea why did the young man ask for these things but nonetheless, he still complied from the simple request.

When the old man took out the things that he asked, Ai Zhen began to write something on the papers. As he wrote on the stack of papers, sometimes, he would stop and looked at the old man as he tapped the pen on his chin from time to time. The look of the young man was giving to the old was like a doctor diagnosing at his patient, trying to probe and come up some prescription for him, this bewildered him.

Almost half an hour passed by, Ai Zhen was finally done with his writing. He almost used all of the stack of papers. "As thanks for the skill books, this is my gift to you. I apologize if I can't accept you as my master as I would really like it more to be your friend."

<Congratulations! You are the first player to create an Epic tier Cultivation Art without any Heavenly Immortal knowledge. Rewards: +7000 EXP, +12 Intelligence & Title: Grandmaster [Epic].> 

<Title Effects: Can create any Epic rank Cultivation Arts and below; 33% Success for Epic Arts, 66% success for Profound Arts and 99% success for Mortal Arts. EXP and SP will be deducted in each creation; -300 EXP and -300 SP for Epic Art, -200 EXP and -200 SP for Profound Art and -100 EXP and -100 SP for Mortal Art.
Note: Title rank can be level up: 99 created Epic rank Cultivation Art and 1 created Legendary Art.>

As Ai Zhen pushed the stack of written papers to the old man, he was very elated from the gains in encountering this old man that's why he had no regrets on gifting a powerful cultivation art that came from his previous world. Of course, he made some adjustments that was derived from the old man's cultivation art so that he won't have to completely re-cultivate from the start.

The old man only chuckled as Ai Zhen stood up and about to leave. He didn't mind the refusal as there really is a chance that certain individuals like him would not really accept his offer.

"Where are you off to now?" The old man tossed a golden round token to the young man as he asked this question with a fond smile on his face.

"I'm off to practice the skills you gave me." Ai Zhen replied with this simple sentence as he wave his arm good bye. However, this simple sentence greatly surprised the old man as he stared at the young man's back outside the cafe. But then again, as he thought about it, he simply chuckled and muttered to himself. "An Immortal Cultivator indeed." 

Players are known as Immortal Cultivators in this game.

<Congratulations! Tutorial Quest 1: Talking has accomplished. Reward: +55 EXP>

As the young man disappeared from the distance, the old man checked what did the young man wrote on the papers.

Curiosity got the best out of the modern Earth when a first ever online semi-reality online role playing game was mysteriously broadcast on a New Year's Eve countdown.

Through the game, people gained knowledge towards dao cultivation which gave massive benefits such as immortal or magical power, that slowly and ultimately change the modern Earth.

Blinded by the greed, people continued to play the so-called game even though as they later found out that they were playing with their lives the whole time for their souls are the ones that are crossing over to this so called game.

What was the purpose of the game?

Oddly yet cliched, a reincarnated legendary cultivator from an Immortal World will slowly unravel the secrets and the horrors of the game.

After spending his third night at the camp, Steve woke up.

Instead of practicing with the other agents, he took one of the horses and went towards Acrine, to look for some books.

Arriving there, there seemed to be some people cleaning the streets. Men were carrying out corpses, others were collecting loot.

As he approached the gates, a man stood in front of him.

"Halt! Who are you?!" the man stopped him from going any further.

"I'm Steve," he answered.

"I don't need your f**king name, what are you doing here?!" the man shouted, clearly irritated by Steve's response

"...Ah, no need to shout... I'm not deaf... I just needed some books" he said with a smile on his face.

"You're pissing me off, dimwit! Normally, I'd have killed you already! Considering what happened here though, I'm gonna let you off just this one time... Just you remember, this is the Obsidian Corps' territory right now. Don't let me see your face again! Now go!" he said

"Fine, fine... I'll go..." Steve muttered.

'It's probably better for me to leave right now, my arm isn't healed and they are outnumbering me hard. I'll just ask Butch to go get some books for me, hehe,' he thought.

He returned to the camp, once more thinking he needs to become stronger... if he was a bit stronger, he'd have no trouble getting the books himself.

When Steve met Butch later on, he informed him of his meeting with the Obsidian Corps.

"It's those guys again..." he said absentmindedly.

"What do you mean? Do you know them?" Steve asked.

"They are a troublesome, fierce bunch. They are always looking for opportunities to get some money and don't mind killing for it. It's quite weird they let you go so easily..." he said, "For now, we can't do much about them though. Don't underestimate them, they have way more men than we do and have been around for way longer. In a head-on fight, we'd lose."

"Mhmm, I think I'll just read the few books we already have in the camp then," Steve said.

---

A month later, Steve's arm was fully healed.

He had been practicing quite hard for the last few weeks. He had increased his training to 10 hours a day, he would read for another 6 hours and sleep for the remaining 8 hours.

In the past month, almost nobody had left the outpost. Everyone was focused on training madly to increase their strength. They all had the resolution to be able to protect everyone around them.

Steve had decided to skip crafting for now, as it hadn't given him any amazing results. He probably needed books that explained how to use alchemy or other magical professions for it to work.

"Profile," he said.

[Name: Steve Monroe
Age: 31
Race: Human
Status: Not even worth calling trash
Title: 'Rookie Monster Hunter'
Level : 3
Experience: 82/200
Abilities: 0
Attributes:
Strength - 8
Dexterity – 10
Stamina – 13
Intelligence – 5
Wisdom – 2
Charisma – 5
Shamelessness - 3
Skills:
Dagger Mastery [2/100]
Sword Mastery [34/100]
Novice Herbalism [78/100]
Note: Don't think you're strong now, because you did a month of training...]

He had surprisingly managed to get his strength and stamina up by quite a bit this month. Training hard really paid off. 

Steve was quite sad he had spent those 4 attribute points earlier though, right now... attributes were quite easy to earn by just practicing, however he noticed it became harder and harder to increase his attributes. In a sense, he had kind of wasted the 4 points, as they would'be been easy to get by training.

The clearest example of the slow progress was his sword mastery training. It really went up at a slow pace... At first, he needed half an hour for the first 2 points. After that, he needed an hour for a point. It keeps increasing whenever he gets a point.

Right now, it would take him about 4 hours just to get 1 more experience in his sword mastery, this was really going too slow!

Fortunately, he knew how to solve this problem. The solution was to read books. They had some books about herbs in the outpost and when he started reading them, it actually gave him some herbalism experience!

The main problem was they still hadn't been able to go to Acrine to try and get some more books. The Obsidian Corps was apparently such a scary enemy that they wanted to avoid all contact.

Steve had also killed some live animals every now and then, giving him some experience. Unfortunately, they didn't really give much experience to him. 

All agents were still in their daily training, as an unexpected event happened.

"Help!! HELP!!!" one of the female agents came running into the camp.

All agents looked around, to see what was happening.

"Isn't that Lily, the one in charge of lifestock? Is one of the chickens revolting?" one of the men asked jokingly.

A couple of men laughed.

"She's being chased!" another agent with sharp eyes said.

That's when everyone saw there were a couple of men chasing her...

After Paul and Steve attended a festival on earth, they start encountering the strangest things. 

Who are the men with the strange faces, and what did they do to my brother?!

Follow MC Steve as we go on a trip to a different world, where magic is power & monsters run rampant.

When Steve arrives on Elea, he receives a system. Is he going to become OP like all those other MCs? He can only hope so, but the author has different plans for this MC.

This synopsis will evolve, just like MC.


"Our practice time is too short, so if we step into the legendary realm now, then we are basically going to end up being at the bottom in True Martial University." Qi Feifan said.
Ye Xiwen nodded, even having great talent was not enough to reach higher levels of the legendary realm so easily.
"Therefore, it is better to stay at half-step legendary realm and if we are able to give an outstanding performance during the entrance assessment test, perhaps they may consider giving us the status of inner disciples or even core disciples." Qi Feifan said.
 Ye Xiwen now finally understood the reason why these pro-disciples weren't keen on stepping into the legendary realm!
So, they had been planning for decades, just for this one opportunity.
"Brother Ye, deducing from your age and cultivation level, if you wait for 100 years and then appear in the entrance assessment test of True Martial University, in that case, none of the opponents of half-step legendary level will stand a chance against you." Qi Feifan tried to give a critical opinion because going by the cultivation speed shown by Ye Xiwen, he should be able to definitely surpass legendary realm in the coming 100 years. In fact, he should be able to easily reach higher levels of Sage realm if his cultivation continued to grow at this speed.
"That being said, now that Chu Jingcai has stepped into the legendary realm, will he give up on entering True Martial University this time?" Ye Xiwen asked but he obviously did not think that Chu Jingcai should give up, especially after waiting 100 years for this opportunity. However, postponing was also an option for him now, since a legendary expert's lifespan was 1000 years and waiting for yet another 100 years was not a big deal. And as for Chu Jingcai, his life as a legendary expert had just begun.
"Yes, I wanted to be a moderator between you two to erase all misunderstandings. There is no need for an unnecessary blood feud between you two. I am going to True Martial University along with second and third pro-disciples. So now, only you, Chu Jingcai and Hua Menghan will remain in Yi Yuan School as pro-disciples. I want all three of you to get along and protect Yi Yuan School." Qi Feifan said. "Do not misunderstand Chu Jingcai's intentions. That guy has made quite a lot of sacrifices for our sect."
"I don't hold anything against him, to be honest. But his followers always try to provoke me and I cannot just stand idle and let them do whatever they want." Ye Xiwen said.
"Well, that is understandable since no one is allowed to embarrass or insult a pro-disciple, and those who dare to break this rule deserve to be punished. You should continue to punish those who provoke you. I don't think Chu Jingcai would say anything." Qi Feifan said.
Qi Feifan was on Ye Xiwen's side because he knew that Ye Xiwen wasn't the type of guy who would indiscriminately attack people for no reason.
No one could play with the dignity of a pro-disciple, that was a strict law in Yi Yuan School, and not even the elders could break it.
"Good, my job is done here. I will not stay for long, time to say goodbye." Qi Feifan said goodbye with a smile and left.
After he left, Ye Mo appeared in front of Ye Xiwen.
"True Martial University, it seems like a place I will have to visit eventually." Ye Xiwen said.
He knew that Qi Feifan's proposal of waiting for 100 years was quite critical in a way. In fact, if he really waited for so long before appearing in True Martial University's entrance assessment, he would actually have no opponents at all. However, according to Qi Feifan, Ye Xiwen must stay at half-step legendary realm for coming 100 years.
The longer he would stay at half-step legendary realm, the greater would be the accumulation of energy and experience.
But he could not wait for so long because now he knew that there was a hope of returning to the Earth. Nothing could stop him now as he wanted to go back home as soon as possible. Of course, one hundred years was not a long period of time for him but that was not the case for the people on the Earth.
He could not wait that long because his family would be dead by then.
So, he must quickly enhance his cultivation as soon as possible, enough to make it possible for him to go back to his parents before they die.
However, Yi Yuan School could not help him in achieving his new goal because the strongest known experts in this school were at most at legendary realm and even they couldn't perform inter-dimensional travel! In other words, he must reach higher realms, much above legendary realm, to achieve his newfound goal.
And it seemed like True Martial University was a place that might help him in this regard.
After he made up his mind, he did not say anything to anyone and directly went to the main library of Yi Yuan School to find out more about True Martial University and also to gain some basic general knowledge for the betterment of his understanding of this world. He had no time to accumulate experience and hence had to use such a method to forcefully mug up all sorts of information and dump them into his mind.
At his current status, he could naturally access forbidden parts of the library with ease. The main library was located in a different world that was somewhat small but had enough space to contain piles of millions of books, arranged in various different categories.
The guard of this small world was an old man with unfathomable cultivation. He tried to sense his cultivation level but failed to do so. His guess was that this old man was possibly at a very profound stage of the legendary realm. An expert like him really deserved to be the guard of Yi Yuan School's main library.
After all, this one library was home to books on numerous martial techniques, secret skills etc. There were a lot of other secret stuff stored in this library and Yi Yuan School could not afford to lose them at any cost.
"Greetings to senior." Ye Xiwen cupped his hands and said in a respectful manner.
"Good, are you a new true disciple? I haven't seen you before." The old man looked at Ye Xiwen and said. He looked quite surprised as the young man standing in front of him was clearly at truth seventh stage but he had never seen him coming to the library before. This was quite strange because new true disciples would usually visit the main library, right after stepping into truth realm, to learn basics about truth realm and a variety of other information. However, it was extremely rare for an expert of truth seventh stage to visit the main library for the first time.
This was because Ye Xiwen had successive breakthroughs one after another once he stepped into the truth realm. Not to mention, he was never stuck at any point during his cultivation and never really found a need to visit the main library.
However, now he had to admit that knowledge was a necessary tool to obtain greater power.
He nodded. The old man looked somewhat strangely at him then said: "You can go inside but you may have trouble locating things inside, so I will send a book demon to show you the way."
The old man conveniently summoned a book demon. It was a glowing white spirit, about 30 centimetres tall and with a somewhat timid appearance.
"You will find all sorts of books in the stock. Go inside and take a look!" That old man indifferently said.
"Thank you senior for the help." Ye Xiwen said and entered the library with that book demon.
"Brother, what kind of books are you looking for?" The book demon said. These book demons used to daily absorb spiritual essence from the books in order to live.
Even a stone could turn into a demon, let alone books. And these books often possessed inherent advantages because they were written by great people who usually left behind a portion of their souls in the books they wrote. These souls and lingering sentiments would later emerge as book demons.
Of course, the type of book demon was dependent on the book's content.
And some formidable rebellious ones had taken refuge in Yi Yuan School, for example, the one who was showing the way to Ye Xiwen.
Ye Xiwen said: "I'm looking for information on True Martial University."
"I see, those data books have also been read by several seniors in the past." The book demon said and led Ye Xiwen in the right direction. These book demons were not weak beings and also did not have low status in the sect. Their status was comparable to core disciples and they were also able to cultivate. Once a book demon succeeded to cultivate to a considerably higher level, it could then become a disciple of Yi Yuan School.
Ye Xiwen suspected that most probably that old guard was also a book demon. Perhaps, he used to be a book demon earlier but later began to cultivate. Eventually, he reached such a high level that he was given a very important post of guarding the main library.
However, at this time, Ye Xiwen was not much interested in getting to the bottom of this matter.
"Bang!"
Suddenly, there came a loud noise along with distant human voices. Ye Xiwen turned his head in the direction of the source of the sound and saw a team of giant book demons as if going on an expedition.
The book demon noticed the curious expression on Ye Xiwen's face and said: "This is being caused by a book on military and war strategies. Those book demons are born out of that book."
Ye Xiwen couldn't help but feel amazed. This world was really full of wonders.
They continued to walk past several bookshelves. There were countless huge books stacked on these shelves and contained a variety of information.
It was not hard to tell that some of these books were thousands of years old.
"Hey, Ye Xiwen, I know a better way than using soul search to grasp knowledge faster and more efficiently." Ye Mo's voice suddenly resounded in Ye Xiwen's mind, and at the same time, he appeared beside him. Ye Mo was clad in a Confucian style scholar dress. The instant he appeared, the book demon got frightened and jumped back away in panic. Ye Mo glanced at that book demon's face with a rather unexcited look in his eyes.
"You just need to catch them all and swallow them up. This is the easiest way to naturally grasp knowledge!"
 
 



Ye Xiwen was previously only an ordinary university student on Earth, but unexpectedly crossed through into the world known as the Zhen Wu Jie world! In this world, formidable warriors are able of turning over mountains and collapsing the ocean, destroying the sky and extinguishing the earth! He originally had ordinary aptitude, because of that he received the mysterious special space! Any martial art can be deduced within the mysterious space, other people practice for decades, he only needs a year! So long as he has enough spirit stones, any talents he faces are all floating clouds!

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