Over the next few days, Gu Ding went to the Library Tower every day, displaying an astonishing talent for learning.
Whatever it was, Gu Ding learned it after Female Scholar taught it just once.
In only three days, Gu Ding had completely mastered the language of this world.
In truth, Female Scholar taught him for less than an hour each time during those three days. Aside from lunchtime, the Library Tower had to remain absolutely quiet, and no one was allowed to make noise.
To Female Scholar, Gu Ding was simply a genius. He had learned five thousand commonly used words in just three days and could use them correctly. An ordinary person would need at least three years to learn five thousand common words, and that was only if they spent over eight hours studying every day.
But what she did not know was that Gu Ding had learned far more than five thousand common words. He had learned every word recorded in the dictionary's one hundred and fifty thousand entries.
Once he knew their pronunciations and spellings, and had the foundation of five thousand common words, Gu Ding spent less than an hour mastering the pronunciations and uses of all the remaining words.
After learning to read, Gu Ding began reading other books.
As for books about magic, he did not find anything like cultivation manuals. He found only a copy of History of Magical Academic Research. The book had been tucked away in a corner. Though it had not accumulated dust because the place was cleaned regularly, Gu Ding knew from the moment he opened its first page that it had barely ever been read.
This copy of History of Magical Academic Research was even thicker than the dictionary Gu Ding had read before, with more than