The old man didnt stick around to say any more. Turning around and walking back out into the courtyard. When Sage finished examining the room and before he even processed the question about of True Immortality he turned his head only in ti to see the old man turn back into a little bird and flutter off. Guess that ans Im on my own. Whatever I only have three months, I have to copy down every single stone tablet in here!
Sage started browsing through the stone tablets and found them to be a huge scattering of different techniques. Surprisingly, they were sowhat organized, each shelf was divided into with sidewalls like a big mailroom shelf. In each cubby was a single stack of stone tablets, at least four per stack but so had more than ten. Each stack seed tailored to a specific goal. For example, the first cubby he looked in had a Qi Cultivation Technique, two combat Qi Techniques, a Martial Technique, and even a Body Strengthening Technique. All five of the techniques were sowhat of a complete set, being geared towards a Fire natured Cultivator and each of them geared towards cultivating and manipulating a pale green fire they called Green Lotus Heartfire.
Each of the techniques in the set seed pretty powerful and valuable, but with a complete set like this, the value was astronomical. If soone were to master the whole set of techniques they would have a balanced Qi and Physical base. Their combat power would also be much higher than others at the sa rank due to the suitability of the techniques for the Cultivation Technique and Martial Art. The other stacks had similar sets. They covered all sorts of different innate natures, special body types, and even a few special bloodlines. Other stacks were all related to a specific type of weapon, each tablet in the stack being of a different style and nature.
Of course, the library wasnt comprehensive. Sage made a quick count, there was two hundred different shelf cubbies on the wall which was far from enough to cover every possible weapon or innate nature. In fact, many of the groups of techniques were quite similar. He found four different sets of fire natured sets in the first few minutes. The old man said this was set up later, so it made sense that the more common natures would have more options available. With only three months of ti to study, Sages guess was that he was supposed to pick out a good set for himself along with so weapon techniques then practice them in the training room.
The old man might even be in charge of the training room like he had been before. Maybe he could ask him for advice? Sage contemplated this idea for a mont before putting it aside. He had a golden opportunity in front of him, so he didnt want to waste it. The old man didnt give a limit on this library so Sage was going to make full use of it. After the expedition last ti, hed learned how useful mory Spheres were so he carried a few dozen empty ones around with him now. Taking out the mory Altar, the set the small iris of tal on the ground and started to work.
In order to keep things organized he recreated the shelving unit, and even the whole room, inside the mory sphere and as he copied over a stone tablet he stored the knowledge inside a stone tablet inside the mory sphere. Later on, using this mory sphere would be like being here in this library again. Learning and morizing even a single one of these tablets in front of him would probably take a few days, but Sage had prior experience in this regard. He wasnt trying to learn or morize the tablets. With the practice from the library in the Soul Taming Abode he was able to activate the mory Altar and then at the sa ti sink his consciousness into a stone tablet. Everything he read and experienced in the tablet would get recorded into the mory Sphere. So of the techniques included demonstrations of different techniques by an ancient cultivator, the remnant feel of a certain type of aura, or even the roar of an ancient beast. All were guides to perfect comprehension of their respective abilities.
With the mory sphere to copy it all down, Sage slowly built up a virtual version of this library. He recognized the value of all this knowledge and also his own limits. A genius cultivator with overflowing talent might learn a whole set of techniques and use the probably marvelous training equipnt in the training room to advance rapidly. Sage on the other hand knew it would probably take him weeks to learn each of the techniques he saw in front of him. It was certainly a waste for him not to use the training room, especially when he still had the old mans first gift fresh in his mind. He understood that he needed to increase his own personal power, but at the sa ti he knew his own limits.
His talent was limited, so he had to gain outside assistance to progress. If he had more ti he would be using the assistance of the training room to improve. This seed like just what he was looking for to boost his strength. At least, it would be so for a genius. They would need these special thods to beco even more powerful than they already are. Sage on the other hand knew of dozens of thods that could make him more powerful if he just had the resources. Without even including the hundreds of helpful alchemical pills, special foods, or natural treasures the Holy Fla Sect had the Sunfire Pagoda. The Sunfire Pagoda has eleven different types of training with nine levels of intensity for each type. Sage had only been into two or three of them. Hed saved for years to make the final push in the Sunfire Pagoda that had broke him through the bottleneck and pushed him into forming his Qi Sea to reach Rank 3.
If he made a copy of just one or two of these sets and contributed them to the Sect he would gain an imnse amount of contribution points. The expedition to the Soul Taming Abode had earned him ten thousand points last ti, and that was just for discovering the library. The Peak Master and other elders had been there to claim the real gains. If he was the sole beneficiary of turning in a set of techniques like this, Sage could only imagine how many contribution points he could earn. The old man didnt give him any rules in this regard about not sharing or distributing the techniques, so he wasnt going to be shy.
The real reason Sage felt it would be okay was the second gift. That mysterious state the old man had pushed him into was actually imparting a special technique directly into his mind. He knew he couldnt share this technique with anyone else, even against his own will. It was like there was a seal in his head locking the knowledge. He could pass through the seal, but if the seal was broken then that part of his mind would destroy itself. The technique was so profound and complicated that Sage guessed it would take him months if not years to fully master it. For now he had only barely scratched the surface of what it was and what it could do.
The strange state he had been in where he saw his mories flying past was a thod of preparing his mind to accept the technique. It was like how certain Qi Techniques required specific Qi Pores to be opened up before they could be perford. Or how so Qi Cultivation Techniques needed certain ridians to be strengthened to unusual levels. The way his mories were sorted and organized in his mind were miraculously reorganized by the old mans energy when he touched Sages forehead. As it was now, Sage could not yet begin to try practicing the technique as he still needed more ti to let the changes sink in. The ti he had been asleep was just barely enough for him to recover to a state where he could properly differentiate between the past and present. Before he had fallen asleep he was unable to tell what he was experiencing directly with his senses and what he was just vividly rembering.
Currently he could once again separate past and present, but it was still hard for him to draw up specific mories. When he touched upon the area of his mind where the new technique was waiting for him he was able to call up the basic description, but not yet ready to start training it.
The technique was called Tiless Eyes.
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