The position of librarian was an incredibly coveted prize at Lumen Academy, because knowledge from the Main Worldline was itself a valuable commodity, and only the wealthy could afford to read. Now that the enormous Third Library of Lumen Academy was entirely under his management, though he could not freely read the books on the shelves, whenever students returned borrowed books, he could always hold onto them for a few days before shelving them.
One book after another, none of them cheap, saved him quite a bit of money. At the same time, skipping the borrowing procedures saved him plenty of trouble. Thus, Shi Tiexin immediately began swimming through the sea of knowledge.
Though studying now would not immediately increase his strength, it was an invisible accumulation. Knowledge was power; once the drums of the earth sounded and Jade Gate Pass was breached, he could immediately convert his realm into cultivation, rapidly growing into combat-ready strength.
Hoarding a massive pile of experience before a breakthrough, then seeing one's strength soar immediately afterward—this had long been a common trick among cultivators of mind arts.
While he quietly read in the Main Worldline, his counterparts in the other Worldlines were not idle either.
In the Fengming First High School Worldline, Scholar Stone had gained much from his intensive study of What Are You Looking At! One day, he summoned Shi Tiexin over with the cheat and spent a hundred Heavenly Gifted Golden Lights to push the first level of What Are You Looking At! to perfection.
What Are You Looking At! First Level cultivation progress increased to: Perfect Obtained attribute: What Are You Looking At (Part One) Obtained attribute: Keep Looking and I'll Kill You +1
Seeing those two attributes, Shi Tiexin was instantly speechless.
Was this putting on a