"You two have three days in total. After that, I'll send someone to fetch you! I hope you both come away with something!" As Jing Hongchen spoke, he took out a token and channeled a trace of Soul Power into it. The token shone red, and a passage opened through the arrays surrounding the Nine-Story Exquisite Pavilion.
Without any hesitation, Jiang Hai and Xuan Ziwen stepped into the passage.
The next moment, the passage closed. Jing Hongchen stood in silence for a while, then turned and left.
The Nine-Story Exquisite Pavilion.
Before the tower entrance, behind a faint curtain of light, the two took a step forward, and the world transformed. Rows of wooden shelves appeared before them, each holding scroll after scroll.
The scrolls were spaced far apart, but across all those rows of shelves, there were at least ten thousand of them.
Ten thousand Soul Tool blueprints.
Jiang Hai could not resist taking a scroll and opening it, but a moment later, his brows furrowed.
Xuan Ziwen smiled. "The blueprints collected by the Illustrious Virtue Hall aren't all from the same period. They're Soul Tool blueprints gathered over more than ten thousand years. Many are thousands, or even tens of thousands, of years old. Compared with modern Soul Tools, they're already far behind, and some aren't even worth researching. Only the Soul Tools on the seventh floor and above might offer something we can learn from."
Soul Tools differed from Soul Masters: older did not mean stronger. Many Soul Tools from ten thousand years ago were now obsolete.
Jiang Hai nodded at Xuan Ziwen's explanation. He had thought the Blueprint Room contained only the most advanced blueprints. It turned out this place was a museum; whether he found something good or bad depended entirely on luck.
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