This was the first time Jia Xiu had ever seen a rejection.
That didn't make sense.
Staring at the Sect Master's response, Jia Xiu was baffled.
So many papers full of nonsense had passed before. By comparison, his Third-party Vampire Rune Library was clearly an achievement that combined innovation, practicality, and academic merit. There was no reason to reject it.
Besides, he had always thought the Sect Master was pretty easy to get along with, despite being a little sharp-tongued. Though, most likely, the Sect Master wasn't even a person. Anyway, whatever it was, it was still pretty approachable.
It was like an advisor overseeing undergraduate theses. They might tear into you without mercy during your defense, but in the end, they'd still pass you.
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That kind of treatment—scolding you but passing you anyway—was something you only got as an undergraduate.
Yet today, this easygoing advisor had suddenly become strict, without the slightest warning.
Could it be that now he'd advanced to graduate-student status under the Sect Master, the standards had gone up? Or maybe there was some kind of "random audit," and he'd just happened to get picked.
Even in the world of magical research, there were people who didn't know about CNKI!
After pondering for two minutes, the Sect Master finally gave a concrete explanation.
[This experimental method cannot be replicated by other spellcasters. It relies heavily on the functions of the Magic Grimoire and has no general applicability.]
Put that way, it did seem to make some sense.
Jia Xiu thought it over.
It was true that his method of calling on his own library to reproduce Vampire Rune effects relied on the Magic Grimoire's invocation function.
Not only did other professions lack the Book Pact, but even other Warlocks who had Magic Grimoires