The Profundity of the Grand Mystery—I Want to Learn It!

After passing through pavilions, waterside terraces, gazebos, and towers along the way,

Ancient One and Feng Xu arrived at the entrance to the Kamar-Taj library.

As for Natasha, she had been taken by the unlucky duo to the living quarters to rest.

After all, she had spent the past day or so either freezing or rushing along the road. She was already exhausted.

"Sect Master, this is our Kamar-Taj Scripture Pavilion."

Pushing open the library doors, Ancient One's face showed a trace of pride.

"Though it may not look like much, it contains the vast majority of this universe's magical books."

"It took me more than half my life and no small amount of effort to gather them all!"

Ancient One could hardly be blamed for feeling proud. After all, knowledge was power.

Without power as great as his, there was no way to obtain magic from alien worlds, much less magic from beyond the dimensions.

Hearing Ancient One's seemingly boastful words, which were really meant to preserve his books, Feng Xu gave him a meaningful glance.

"I seem to have misjudged you, Fellow Daoist Ancient One. I never expected you to be someone who held the whole world in your heart."

"It must not have been easy guarding these mediums all this time."

With just a glance at the books in the library, Feng Xu had already discovered quite a few mediums left behind by powerful beings.

There was no need to think about what those entities had intended.

Having been exposed, Ancient One chuckled and waved his hands repeatedly. "It's nothing. I only keep out a few dimensional demon gods, that's all."

"It's what I should do. What I should do~"

His words were modest, but his expression was exceedingly smug.

"It is indeed what you should do. After all, this mess was caused by people like you, who steal power."

Feng Xu mercilessly struck at the heart of the matter. "If you did not use this so-called magic, those mediums would naturally be ineffective."

"Uh..."

Ancient One's smug laughter came to an abrupt halt, and his smile froze on his face.

You did not hit someone in the face, and you did not expose someone's shortcomings when insulting them.

As the Sorcerer Supreme, Ancient One had suffered more setbacks today than he had in the rest of his life combined.

If he had not been unable to defeat Feng Xu, he would have long since thrown a fist the size of a sandbag at him to teach him a lesson.

Seeing Ancient One's embarrassed expression, Feng Xu assumed he was merely distressed that his books would be thrown away.

He immediately said, "I will not handle your collection without authorization. Half of this Scripture Pavilion can hold cultivation manuals, while the other half can hold magic."

At once, Ancient One's expression changed, his face filled with gratitude.

It seemed the sect master he had acknowledged was merely blunt. His grasp of social conduct and interpersonal dealings was actually quite good!

Feng Xu felt uncomfortable all over beneath Ancient One's sickeningly earnest gaze, so he could only explain.

"You do not need to look at me so gratefully. We are still in the early stages of cultivating immortality, so I need these spells to highlight the profundity of cultivation techniques."

"Only by placing them together for comparison can the sect's disciples cultivate without complaint."

Ancient One: MMP! You really deserved to die!

How had he been so blinded just now that he believed someone who had seized another's nest would possess a kind heart?

Ignoring Ancient One's expression as though he had eaten shit, Feng Xu raised a hand and tossed a large number of jade slips from his sleeve.

These were the various cultivation techniques he had prepared before coming here.

The jade slips had also been casually refined from a few stones along the way.

As all the jade slips flew out, the books in the library also rose into the air and gathered onto the shelves on the left.

The empty shelves on the right were then filled perfectly by the jade slips.

Looking at the rows of jade slips that had suddenly appeared, Ancient One, having composed himself, immediately showed a curious expression.

"Sect Master, are these jade slips the cultivation techniques you mentioned?"

"That's right."

Feng Xu nodded slightly and explained, "I imprinted information into the jade slips with divine sense. You only need to touch a jade slip with your mind."

"You can examine them with your mind alone!"

Ancient One swallowed and pointed at the shelves full of jade slips. "All of these are?"

Before Feng Xu could even answer, Ancient One impatiently stepped forward, picked up a jade slip, and began examining it.

"It's actually real, just like my telepathy!"

"This kind of technology is practically magic in technological form. Cultivating immortality is simply incredible!"

"I want to learn! I want to learn!"

Feng Xu: "..."

Listening to Ancient One praise it so fervently, Feng Xu's mouth twitched.

Among the information Ancient One had transmitted to him earlier, there were countless technologies similar to jade slips that stored information.

It could only be said that this old fellow was rather shameless. Feng Xu merely made something casually, and Ancient One immediately came over to flatter him.

Still, it did not matter. Once Ancient One carefully finished reading the information, this cultivation method that far surpassed his imagination would make him offer genuine praise.

Sure enough, as Ancient One continued praising it, his expression suddenly changed. Even his beard began to tremble.

"Tenfold Body Tempering, Three Stages of Qi Refinement, developing the Human Body's Great Treasury, Qi Drawing into the Body, forming a Circulatory Cycle through the body's 365 acupoints, gathering it in the Dantian Qi Sea!!!"

As one unfamiliar term after another left Ancient One's mouth,

His entire body began trembling as though he had Parkinson's, as if he would collapse to the floor the next moment.

"Profound! It is simply too profound!"

"This is the true path of cultivation! This is the path of biological evolution!"

"Wuu... Eternity, I found it! I found what I have always sought!!!"

"Hahahaha..."

Clutching the jade slip as he read, Ancient One cried and laughed like a madman, utterly absorbed in it.

This was an entirely new field he had never imagined and never set foot in.

If he had not seen such a concrete and feasible cultivation method, he might even have suspected he was dreaming!

"When the tide rises on the Qiantang River, only today do I know who I truly am!!"

After finishing the jade slip in his hand, Ancient One's entire spirit seemed to have ascended.

It was as though he had suddenly awakened to the great Dao, and the fog blocking his path had finally been swept away.

"There is no need for cosmic treasures, nor any need to seize dimensions. Simply cultivating the Human Body's Great Treasury can rival, or even surpass, the universe's primordial gods!"

"Sect Master, Ancient One thanks you for the grace of imparting the Dao!"

This time, Ancient One did not perform a mage's salute. Instead, he gave Feng Xu three bows and nine kowtows in the ancient master-disciple tradition.

Facing Ancient One's kowtows, Feng Xu accepted only the first three bows and three kowtows. For the remaining six kowtows, he turned aside and did not accept them.

"There is no master-disciple fate between us. There is no need for such excessive ceremony."

Seeing that Feng Xu had no intention of accepting him, Ancient One let out a long, disappointed sigh.

It seemed he had not flattered him enough. His skill at kissing up still needed work!

He should have continued flattering him for a while longer and only proposed becoming his disciple after earning enough favor. He had been too careless!

Seeing that Ancient One had remained silent for so long, Feng Xu did not intend to stay any longer.

"There are many jade slips containing cultivation techniques. You may examine them yourself. However, none contain a cultivation method for spiritual power, so you cannot activate them."

"Still, I will prepare jade slips containing cultivation methods before tomorrow."

After saying that, he turned and walked directly toward the doors without waiting for Ancient One's response. He had to hurry and prepare the jade slips containing cultivation methods for tomorrow. After all, they were the foundation of the sect and could not be as crudely made as those cultivation techniques.