Wang Qi quickly found the books Xiboche had recommended, but he soon frowned.
These books required Immortal Alliance merit points to be borrowed.
Immortal Alliance merit points—Wang Qi vaguely remembered that this was one of the Immortal Alliance's systems. After a cultivator completed Immortal Alliance affairs, the Alliance would grant them a certain number of merit points. It was said that Immortal Alliance merit points could be exchanged for everything the Immortal Alliance possessed—as long as one had enough points.
Wang Qi carefully read through the book tower's rules again. These rules differed from Earth's libraries. What Immortal Alliance merit points purchased was not "borrowing time," but "borrowing rights." So long as one used merit points at any book tower or archive chamber to obtain the borrowing rights for a book, one could borrow that book from any book tower under the Immortal Alliance.
In addition, cultivators borrowing books had to swear a great heart-demon oath not to give their copied books to others, though discussing the books' contents with others was not prohibited.
"Is this meant to encourage cultivators to exchange ideas more often?" Wang Qi nodded thoughtfully, then sank into even greater distress.
There were dozens of books Xiboche had recommended. Some required ten or twenty merit points, others over a hundred. Added together in a jumble, they came to nearly a thousand. When the hell would he ever scrape that together!
Wang Qi clearly remembered that Mao Zimiao had once worked as a cleaner at the Immortal Academy for a month just to earn one merit point. If not for that, he might not even have had the chance to meet her.
But thinking about it, that was only natural. The level of mathematics Xiboche had seen in him was limited to solving those problems in the