Crystal explained again, "As per your instructions, everything stored here consists of common knowledge about the universe—weapon treasures, auxiliary lifeforms, starfield divisions, various factions, and a small portion of the universe's hidden secrets, such as starry sky behemoths, cosmic secret realms, extraterritorial battlefields, and so on. It covers everything."
Guan Ning was quite interested in these. After all, novels were just novels, mainly told from Luo Feng's perspective, and did not explain much about the universe. If he wanted to understand this dazzling, colorful yet icy and dark universe, such knowledge was indispensable.
However, there was no rush. He could read them slowly later. What mattered now was the third floor—the very essence of the Falling Ink Star lineage.
"Tap, tap, tap..." Footsteps rang continuously over the wooden stairs as Guan Ning stepped onto the third floor.
The third floor was even more spacious, containing only ten bookshelves, labeled metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, light, lightning, space, time, and soul, representing the ten great laws and secret techniques related to the soul.
The numbers of books on each shelf differed. The shelves for the eight lower laws contained the most secret techniques, with roughly six or seven of each type. Time and space were much scarcer; there were still three books for space, but not a single one for time. Hu Yanbo had been a soul master, but most of his core inheritances were never passed on, leaving only two soul secret techniques on the shelf.
A hint of fervor appeared in Crystal's eyes as well. Though it could not cultivate or evolve now, it believed that day would eventually come. "Master, these are ordinary-grade secret techniques. There are sixty-three in total."
Seeing this, fervor flashed through Guan Ning's eyes as well. He went straight to the bookshelf for