Wang Qi was absolutely certain he had not sensed it wrong.
The moment he gripped the book's spine, it began to tremble. Only when the altered identity token at his waist resonated with it did the book finally settle down.
The other low-level cultivators had not sensed the terrifying force that had flashed through the book for that instant. But in terms of spiritual sense alone, Wang Qi had already surpassed Nascent Soul cultivators and was comparable to cultivators at Dividing the Spirit. In that brief instant just now, he had clearly sensed the powerful force gathering within the book.
That force was enough to pulverize an ordinary Core Formation Cultivator!
Only after the identity token resonated did that force within the book vanish at once.
Through the perception Wang Qi shared, Zhen Chanzi sensed the entire process as well. He asked curiously, "This book is part of a formation?"
Zhen Chanzi immediately thought of that explanation. Indeed, the books here were all for Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment Realm disciples to read. Some powerful Foundation Establishment Realm disciples might not even think much of them. Yet such low-level spells contained such power? That was clearly impossible. Even if the spells recorded in those books were practiced to the peak, they would not possess such power, much less these unattended books.
Unless that force had come from outside just now.
Wang Qi blinked. "Old man, do you think this is possible—perhaps this is a Divine Artifact whose usage nobody knows, and just now I stumbled into revealing the tip of the iceberg of its true form..."
For the first time in more than ten thousand years, Zhen Chanzi wanted to roll his eyes. But he had no eyes at all right now, much less whites and pupils, so he could