Half the Library Pavilion in My Head

It's widely known that the old man guarding the Library Pavilion in the cultivation world, the Sweeping Monk in the martial arts world, and the cleaning lady in modern youth dramas are all likely hidden powerhouses with secret identities.

This white-haired elder before me, with his kind and benevolent appearance, could see through Bai Lan's foundation at a single glance.

Clearly, he was a hidden powerhouse.

"Go on in, little girl." The elder waved his hand, signaling Bai Lan to enter.

Bai Lan nodded, bowed, saved her progress at the spot, and then walked into the Library Pavilion.

The Azure Origin Sect truly lived up to its reputation as one of the top sects in the cultivation world. Even the outer sect's Library Pavilion's grandeur far exceeded Bai Lan's imagination.

Tens of thousands of books, jade slips, and even stone tablet inscriptions were neatly arranged inside.

At a glance, it gave one the illusion that they could never finish reading all the books here in a lifetime.

The first floor contained handwritten notes and ancient texts, mostly miscellaneous writings and cultivators' personal journals from the cultivation world, hence they were recorded in books.

From the second floor upwards were jade slips, mostly containing Cultivation Methods and Mystical Techniques.

Further up were ancient stone tablet inscriptions and book pages, which were not accessible to Steward Disciples.

Bai Lan wasn't in a hurry to go to the second floor. Instead, she wandered around the first floor for a few laps, casually flipping through some books.

A Study of the Geography of the Cultivation World, Illustrated Guide to Low-Level Spirit Herbs, Notes on the Properties and Growing Environments of Low-Level Spirit Herbs, Illustrated Guide to Low-Level Demonic Beasts, Map of Demonic Beast Territories in the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

Dao Lord Jiuge's Journal, One Hundred Tips for Qi Induction, Beginner's Guide to Low-Level Mystical Techniques, Gossip on Interpersonal Relationships within the Azure Origin Sect's Peaks, Appreciation of True Person Qing Xuan's Beautiful Portraits...?

Seeing this, Bai Lan was momentarily speechless.

As far as she was concerned, True Person Qing Xuan's appearance was indeed good, but that was all.

There was no need to dedicate an entire book specifically for him and place it here.

Putting the book back as it was, Bai Lan shook her head and went up to the second floor.

This was her real purpose for coming to the Library Pavilion.

The Contribution Points for low-level Mystical Techniques were generally within one hundred. Common basic Mystical Techniques like Fireball Technique only required fifty Contribution Points, allowing Bai Lan to redeem two books at once.

The Library Pavilion's second floor had at least ten thousand Mystical Techniques. To learn them all would require at least a million Contribution Points.

However, Bai Lan could use her cheat to master all these Mystical Techniques. Even if her current Qi Refining level one cultivation couldn't fully master them, once she learned them, she would have plenty of time to practice later.

A net profit of a million, it was incredibly worth it.

With trembling hands and an excited heart, Bai Lan suppressed the surge of excitement within her and started with the most basic Fireball Technique.

Starting from the leftmost bookshelf, she redeemed a Mystical Technique jade slip, exited the Library Pavilion, and learned it.

Then, she reloaded her save and repeated the process.

Fireball Technique, Water Arrow Technique, Golden Bell Shield, Water Healing Technique, and other such Mystical Techniques were all stored in Bai Lan's memory through repeated saving and loading.

She gradually became immersed in the feeling of accepting new things. Every time she learned and memorized a new Mystical Technique, it was very interesting.

"One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven... Water Mist Technique." The system reported the count listlessly, while Bai Lan rested her forehead against the jade slip, closing her eyes to memorize.

Things in the cultivation world were truly magical, especially items like jade slips. They seemed to connect content with divine sense.

As long as she read it once, the content would be imprinted in her mind. The text and pictures would be very clear when recalling the second time.

But Bai Lan still insisted on reading it a few more times to deepen her memory.

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"Eight thousand three hundred and seventy-six... Earth Evasion Technique."

"...Nine thousand three hundred and seventy-two, Clear Wind Sword Art."

"...Eleven thousand two hundred and thirty-one, Fire Cloud Palm."

The system witnessed Bai Lan's entire process of repeatedly reloading saves and memorizing Mystical Techniques. Nearly ten thousand saves and loads, and she seemed tireless.

A host who mastered over ten thousand Mystical Techniques...

The system suddenly felt a moment of numbness for Long Aotian. It suddenly felt that the one at a disadvantage three months later might not be the host, but Long Aotian, who had even had his storage bag stolen.

Imagine, when you've only learned one Mystical Technique, Bai Lan in front of you has over a thousand Mystical Techniques in her mind to counter your next attack.

Especially Long Aotian's single Lightning Spiritual Root, which meant he could only learn lightning-element Mystical Techniques.

The system's eyes suddenly widened: "I finally know why you wanted to draw out the Five Spirit Roots!!!"

Bai Lan, who was studying the Fire Cloud Palm, looked up.

"The Five Spirit Roots are the real geniuses! When facing fire, you can use water to restrain the enemy; when facing water, you can use fire to restrain the enemy. Wouldn't that make you invincible in a fight!"

The Five Spirit Roots could flexibly switch attributes to fight enemies, while the limitations of a Single Spiritual Root were obvious. It was fine if they encountered an enemy with a restraining spiritual root, but what if they encountered one that suppressed them...

Bai Lan chuckled, "You're only realizing this now?"

"..." The system coughed lightly and turned away, "How, how could that be! I realized it long ago, I was just mentioning it casually to liven up the atmosphere, cough!"

He couldn't admit that he had truly believed the host's initial deception.

What a beautiful sight it would be to have colorful attacks during a fight – that was all nonsense used to fool the system.

The young girl before him had planned for this moment from the very beginning.

"This should be the last scroll of mystical techniques in the Library Pavilion. What do you plan to do next? You're not really planning to learn every cultivation method, are you?" the System asked suspiciously.

Bai Lan shook her head. "No, I'm learning these mystical techniques to use them in future battles. Being flexible with tactics is very useful, but there's no need for cultivation methods, especially since most of the cultivation methods in the outer sect's Library Pavilion are low-level techniques, not worth learning."

"That's good, that's good then." The System breathed a sigh of relief.

Seeing Bai Lan studying mystical techniques so diligently, it felt too embarrassed to admit it had been waiting around.

The host is working so hard! Even though the System couldn't help, it couldn't drag her down either.

Although the direction of her hard work wasn't exactly to complete the mission.

"I'm exhausted, my head feels like it's going to explode." Bai Lan took a deep breath, sat down against a tree, and let her mind go blank, spacing out.

Even though reloading would clear fatigue and restore her body and senses to their pre-reload state, that mental exhaustion couldn't be diminished.

"I thought you weren't tired!!!" the System exclaimed.

Bai Lan closed her eyes. "I got a bit carried away just now. The mystical techniques of the cultivation world are indeed wondrous, but unfortunately, with my current cultivation of Qi Refining level one, I can only memorize these techniques."

The mystical techniques of the cultivation world were divided into four tiers: Heaven, Earth, Black, and Yellow. Heaven-tier was the most precious, while Yellow-tier was the most common.

The outer sect's Library Pavilion mostly contained Yellow-tier mystical techniques, with a few hundred scrolls being Black-tier.

Furthermore, Black-tier mystical techniques required an alarmingly high number of exchange points, needing a full thousand Contribution Points to redeem a single scroll.

Also, Black-tier mystical techniques required cultivators in the late stage of Qi Refining to use them at least. The spiritual energy reserves of cultivators below the mid-stage of Qi Refining were not even sufficient to support such a massive spiritual energy consumption.

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