Although Lin Yinuo had promptly calmed the disturbance in Linley's bloodline that night, preventing any actual harm and seemingly even strengthening Linley's constitution by an almost imperceptible degree, it had undoubtedly sounded an alarm for him. The course of fate was accelerating, and he had to clear the path ahead faster.
The next day, he devoted more attention to guiding Linley in cultivating more systematically and controlling his suddenly increased spiritual power, a side benefit of the bloodline disturbance. At the same time, a clear plan took shape in his mind-he had to get his father, Hogg, to "discover" the clan's secret chamber and the "Dragonblood Warrior Secrets" as soon as possible.
And the key to all of this lay in a sufficiently significant check-in.
He no longer attended the first-year classes; those basic theories were already meaningless to him. After taking Linley to class, he returned to the Ernst Institute Library. This time, he did not head toward the spacious reading areas. Instead, using the higher clearance secretly granted to him by the institute's senior staff, he made his way into the depths of the library, to the restricted area housing older, more precious texts, some of which even touched on the mainland's hidden secrets.
The shelves here were taller and heavier, and most of the books were made from beast hide or special materials. The air was stiller, filled with the accumulated weight of time and knowledge. Those permitted to enter were at least magi of the sixth rank or above, or core instructors of the institute. Lin Yinuo's presence as a young child looked particularly out of place, yet no one came to stop him-clearly, instructions had come from above.
Lin Yinuo ignored the shelves holding powerful spells and secret Battle Qi manuals. His goal was clear as he headed toward the section labeled "Mainland Bloodline Genealogy and Ancient Legends." The books here were even older, and many were covered in dust.
He stopped before an inconspicuous shelf made of some kind of black wood in the farthest corner. Only a few badly damaged hide scrolls lay scattered upon it. He reached out and brushed the accumulated dust from one of them, his fingertips touching the cold, rough hide.
This is the place. System, check in!
[Ding! Check-in successful! Congratulations, host, on checking in at the Ernst Institute Library [Ancient Bloodline Restricted Area]. Special environment reward triggered. Obtained: "Dragonblood Secret Canon" fragment (first part)!]
A faint streak of light that only Lin Yinuo could perceive flashed past. The blank, damaged hide scroll in his hand seemed unchanged, but a vast torrent of information poured directly into his mind! It was not writing, but a more direct spiritual inheritance imprint!
The "Dragonblood Secret Canon" fragment, first part! It not only contained the origins and characteristics of the Baruch Clan's Dragonblood Warrior bloodline, but also detailed several methods for helping activate a faint bloodline, increasing its purity, and cultivating basic Dragonblood Battle Qi! There were even vague directions concerning the clan's ancestral grounds and the secret chamber that concealed its true core secrets!
It worked! And it's even better than I expected! This isn't just secret lore, but a secret canon that leads straight to power! With this, Father can not only heal his hidden injuries, but may even truly activate his bloodline! The clan's revival will take its firmest step forward!
He forced down his excitement and swiftly absorbed and memorized the stream of information. Although the fragment was incomplete, lacking the later, more profound Battle Qi techniques and the mysteries of the ultimate transformation, at this stage-especially for his father, Hogg-it was undoubtedly help in a desperate hour, the crucial key to breaking the deadlock!
He did not take the hide scroll with him; there was no point. The system had already branded the most essential knowledge into his soul. He quietly left the library's restricted area, as though he had never been there.
When he returned to the small dormitory building, Linley's classes had not yet ended, and Bebe had run off somewhere to play. Lin Yinuo sat alone by the window and began carefully sorting through the contents of the "Dragonblood Secret Canon" fragment while considering how to "deliver" it into his father's hands.
Tell him outright? That would be far too shocking, and he could not explain its source.
Send it anonymously? That was not reliable enough, nor would it win the trust of his father, who had searched so painstakingly only to meet with disappointment time and again.
The best way is still to guide Father into "discovering" it himself. The secret canon mentioned a secret chamber on the clan's ancestral grounds, and that someone with a special bloodline approaching it might trigger a resonance... perhaps I can start there.
He recalled the ancient main house of the clan's ancestral residence in the original story, as well as the book room his father, Hogg, had spent years searching through. The entrance to the secret chamber mentioned in the canon seemed to be somewhere nearby.
A plan gradually became clear.
He needed to find a suitable opportunity, perhaps the next time his father came to visit, to arrange an "accident" that would make his father notice something unusual somewhere in the ancestral residence. Alternatively, he could personally "sense" it, then guide his father into investigating.
I can't rush this. Father is meticulous. Everything must be seamless, so he firmly believes this is the reward for his years of persistent searching, the guidance of our ancestors.
He looked out the window, his gaze seeming to cross the distance and settle upon faraway Wushan Town, upon the ancestral residence that bore the Baruch Clan's glory and decline.
The key was already in his hand. All that remained was to wait for the right moment to insert it into the lock and turn fate around.
He was about to raise the curtain on the clan's revival with his own hands.
And all of this would unfold quietly, in a way that fit the logic of this world and aroused no suspicion.
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