Through his Divine Sense, Wang Yu saw a mass of crimson flame hidden within the crimson scale, with spirit inscriptions flickering faintly inside it.
Every inscription was indistinct, and with more than a dozen tangled together, he could not make them out at first.
Wang Yu tried to lock onto one of them, but after studying it with his Divine Sense for only a moment, he felt dizzy, his vision swimming.
"Overclocking."
The next moment, crystalline light flashed in his eyes. His five senses rapidly sharpened, everything around him slowed, and his mind entered a wondrous state.
The spirit inscription that had seemed to follow no discernible pattern under his Divine Sense swiftly unraveled into strands of crimson thread...
The next morning, Wang Yu visited the Scripture Pavilion again.
This time, he not only spent several dozen spirit stones in the "Arts" collection to obtain a few sets of notes on the basics of artifact refining, but also visited the "Mortal" collection. There, he paid one spirit stone to stay for a full two hours and browsed all the books in six or seven stone chambers.
Whenever he encountered a book that seemed useful, especially one concerning the human body, martial techniques, or medicine, he activated Overclocking and used his extraordinary memory to commit its entire contents to his mind without missing a single word.
At noon, Wang Yu returned to his residence, took out the artifact-refining notes, and went over them once to memorize them. Then, with the words "Enter the login interface," he returned to the silver-white hall, appearing directly in the black metal chair.
He waited for the red light overhead to finish its verification. After the projected keyboard appeared before him, the enormous screen ahead lit up, displaying the golden Mechanical Funnel.
"Derive a Body Tempering