The Excellent Secret Skill of Frugal Household Management (Fifth Update, Alliance Leader Bonus Update 17/18)

Seriously speaking, Liszt had considered where a battle qi secret skill might be hidden within books—the covers and the pages.

Though parchment was very thick, it was still difficult to conceal another sheet of paper recording a battle qi secret skill within it. Moreover, pages concealing another sheet would obviously differ from the rest and be easily discovered, making such concealment meaningless. Therefore, he searched only within the covers.

He slit open the books one by one. Even after opening half of them, he had still found no battle qi secret skill.

But he did not lose heart. The castle's collection of magic books accounted for only two-thirds of the total; of the remaining third, some were at the Seaview Villa, while the rest were at Chris's home.

As the saying went, opportunity favored those who came prepared.

When he slit open the cover of a magic book stuffed into the corner of a bookshelf, the edge of a silver inner page emerged through the cut. Quickly, he pulled out the entire sheet. The silver paper was densely covered in Snake Script, and on its reverse was a diagram of battle qi circulating through the human body.

"Do all families that possess battle qi secret skills like preserving their family's secret skills this way?" Liszt rubbed the silver sheet, judging it to be paper made of silver. "But clearly, compared to Stephenlan Vulture's gold paper, it is a whole grade lower."

Having obtained the battle qi secret skill, he did not inspect it immediately. Instead, he flipped through the magic book.

Its title was Seeking the Magic Beast King Among Claw Beetles. He vaguely remembered reading a little of it before. Its contents had not been particularly engaging—or rather, they were rather specialized. It recorded the morphological characteristics of several