Within books dwells a beauty fair as jade.
As Zhang Lexuan quietly opened a book, she looked like a beauty carved from jade-elegant, serene, and gentle, drawing others helplessly into her spell.
Soon, however, Jiang Hai also walked over to the shelves, picked up a yellowed volume, and began reading earnestly.
The changes in the flame of civilization had given him a curious sensitivity to these books, allowing him to vaguely sense which ones would prove useful to him.
He had chosen a book introducing martial souls. Its author was no longer known, but its conjectures about certain mutated martial souls benefited Jiang Hai greatly.
Before long, Jiang Hai set the book down and picked up another.
The increased intelligence bestowed by the Golden Coffin, along with the clarity of thought that came with an unclouded mind, made his reading efficiency astonishingly high.
With a beauty beside him, her red sleeves lending fragrance to his studies, Jiang Hai never felt lonely in the library.
Aside from occasionally visiting his companions and organizing soul tool techniques, theories, and blueprints, Jiang Hai remained immersed in mountains of books and oceans of words.
A lamplight flickered in his sea of consciousness, its glow growing ever brighter.
A closer look would have revealed that the firelight consisted of countless tiny characters.
Throughout this time, Zhang Lexuan remained gentle and patient. Though she could not read as efficiently as Jiang Hai, she could settle her mind and stay by his side.
Ma Xiaotao had wanted to keep them company as well, but her temperament simply would not let her sit idle. After spending a few days in the library, she happened to hear that Shrek Academy needed someone to lead a team hunting soul rings, so she volunteered and set off.
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