"Bai... Yi!"
Hua Ming stopped short, barely maintaining a smile as his face instantly flushed scarlet with embarrassment.
As a direct descendant of the Hua Household of the Tianhua Group, this was the first time he had been treated this way.
A fellow of common birth might have some talent, but a little talent alone was not enough to get far on the path of cultivation.
The eastern side of the academy.
A building shaped like books and scrolls stood here, constructed entirely of translucent supramolecular glass.
An electronic plaque radiating multicolored light hung high above the entrance, bearing the words "Scripture Repository" in large characters.
The sword light abruptly stopped. Bai Yi descended on his sword and strode through the entrance.
On the windowsill by the entrance, an old man raised his drooping eyelids, glanced at Bai Yi as he entered, and casually pressed a finger against the screen on his desk.
Light and shadow appeared, and layers of holographic beams resembling gates swept over Bai Yi.
Then a beam from the central supercomputing terminal fell upon the terminal on Bai Yi's wrist.
[Student ID 100869527, Bai Yi: eligible to claim one Qi Refining Realm higher vehicle cultivation art]
"A Qi Refining Realm higher vehicle cultivation art... Go up to the third floor yourself."
Seeing the access-control projections on either side disappear, Bai Yi walked straight into the Scripture Repository.
Inside the spacious room, more than twenty storage cabinets stood in orderly rows, each using a particle barrier to protect the cultivation-art crystals and crystal cores within.
Their numbers seemed considerable, but most were merely middle and lower vehicle cultivation arts of roughly the same quality as the Little Breeze Sword Art.
Passing quickly through the first and second floors, Bai Yi went straight to the third floor at the top of the Scripture Repository.
Unlike the numerous storage cabinets on the first two floors, the entire third floor held only three cabinets within his sight, all enclosed by high-strength particle barriers.
"To think the whole of No. 2 Middle School only has this handful of higher vehicle cultivation arts..."
Looking at the fewer than twenty cultivation-art crystals and crystal cores in the cabinets, Bai Yi sighed inwardly and approached the screen of the first cabinet.
Bai Yi pressed his palm against the screen. After the scan, the protective barrier turned insubstantial, and a holographic projection appeared before him.
[Earth-Rock True Art (Qi Refining higher vehicle): an earth spiritual power cultivation art consisting of five layers. Upon major attainment, spiritual power becomes dense and steady...] [Origin Spirit Seal (Qi Refining higher vehicle): gathers spiritual energy to form spiritual-energy hand seals. Consists of five moves, with a suppressive intent when executed...] [Water-Shadow Escape (Qi Refining higher vehicle): uses water spiritual energy as a medium, allowing the user to transform into flowing water and escape through streams and rivers...] [Heavenly Travel Method:...] [...]
Bai Yi flicked rapidly through the screen, skimming past the cultivation methods and escape techniques at a glance.
For students in the Qi Refining Stage, apart from the very few geniuses with dual spiritual roots or better, the Minor Five Elements Art, which the Immortal Alliance had researched for over ten thousand years, was the optimal choice.
As for escape techniques, aside from those strange and uncanny ones, what escape technique could match the speed of a sword cultivator flying on a sword?
"If there still aren't any, cultivating a body refinement art or a Daoist art would do too..."
Bai Yi browsed the information. Although he intended to focus on the Sword Dao and become a sword cultivator, he did not plan to restrict himself solely to swordsmanship.
After all, compared with ordinary sword cultivators, possessing the Dao-Deriving Mirror meant he could excel in the Sword Dao while also making up for a sword cultivator's weakness of high offense and low defense.
If you think this book is good, please remember to add it to your bookshelf so you can find it next time.
After quickly browsing the first two storage cabinets, Bai Yi stopped scrolling.
[White Rainbow Sword Art (Qi Refining higher vehicle): created by an unnamed genius Golden Core Stage sword cultivator. The sword emerges as a white rainbow, striking a thousand miles away... At Dao Resonance Perfection, Swordlight Transforms into a Rainbow becomes possible (note: the Dao resonance of this sword art is extremely difficult to comprehend. Choose with caution)]
Seeing a sword art finally appear before him, Bai Yi chose to claim it without hesitation. As for the note at the end, it only strengthened his choice.
Difficult to cultivate?
Difficult to cultivate was exactly what he wanted. Only by casually unleashing an art that others struggled to practice and could hardly master even after practicing could he live up to his image as a genius.
Moreover, once the White Rainbow Sword Art reached Dao Resonance Perfection, it even touched upon the technique of Swordlight Transforms into a Rainbow.
[Student Bai Yi, please confirm your selection] [Confirm]
As Bai Yi pressed his finger down again, the storage cabinet's outer metal casing slowly opened.
A dark gray rail extended, and the sealed alloy case at its tip opened, revealing a silver crystal core the size of a fingernail. It resembled solidified liquid, was extremely thin, and had intricate pathways etched across its surface. Upon careful sensing, wisps of spiritual energy could be detected emanating from it.
"A neural carbon-based crystal storage crystal core... No matter how many times I see one, it still seems incredible."
Bai Yi carefully enveloped the crystal core in spiritual power and lifted it into his palm, then placed it into the interface of the personal terminal on his wrist.
The instant the crystal core entered the interface, the seemingly solid core liquefied and flowed into the pathways.
[New biological crystal core detected. Implant?]
An electronic voice echoed within Bai Yi's cochlea, and he confirmed the implantation.
The terminal's artificial nerve endings at his wrist quickly extended a fine needle, gently piercing beneath Bai Yi's skin.
[Beginning scan... Establishing neural network connection...] [Neural connection complete. Implanting biological crystal core]
Through the neural probe, the now-liquid White Rainbow Sword Art crystal storage crystal core flowed into Bai Yi's body bit by bit.
Once the entire crystal core had been implanted, Bai Yi closed his eyes. His retinal nerves seemed like an extremely detailed internal screen, continuously displaying the stored contents. When he paid close attention, he could also faintly feel neural guidance in his limbs.
"Sometimes technology really is more fantastical than fantasy."
Bai Yi marveled inwardly. Who could have imagined that the method from the novels of his previous life-pressing Inheritance Jade Marrow against the brow to transmit knowledge through divine sense-would be rapidly rendered obsolete by new technology in this world in just two thousand years?
The neural carbon-based crystal storage crystal core was an epoch-making product developed around highly efficient biological neural transmission technology combined with liquid biological carbon-based conversion technology.
Using imitation immortal crystal as its main material, it stored the contents of cultivation arts and Daoist arts in a crystal core, then used a terminal to turn it into a liquid substance that human nerves could absorb, directly feeding the stored contents into the user's cerebral cortex and constructing images within the brain.
At the same time, the cultivation content stored in the crystal core would also generate virtual memories throughout the user's nervous system, automatically guiding the user through the initial introductory cultivation.
Simply put, it came with basic muscle memory.
This effect would last until three weeks had passed, when the entire liquid crystal core would be completely absorbed by the human nervous system. Not only were there no side effects whatsoever, it would also repair hidden problems in the nervous system that were difficult to notice in everyday life.
White Rainbow Sword Art... The sword emerged like a rainbow, passing in and out of the Azure Netherworld, its sword qi keen, swift as a white colt crossing a gap, pursuing speed and sharpness...
Bai Yi was delighted. Compared with the Little Breeze Sword Art, the White Rainbow Sword Art far surpassed it in both might and conception.
The technique of Swordlight Transforms into a Rainbow, available after achieving Dao Resonance Perfection, was also a technique that a sword cultivator had to master to set foot in the Sword Dao Realm.
Having made his selection, Bai Yi left the Scripture Repository and headed for the nearby Spirit Artifact Room, which managed the school's equipment.
"A first-tier superior-grade magical artifact, correct? Principal Qian has already left instructions. You can use his authorization to select one for exchange."
Inside the Spirit Artifact Room, a teacher led Bai Yi through successive security checkpoints, a hint of envy in his voice.
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