Put Away Your Divine Techniques Now!

Chapter 1115 - 332: Read Everything? (3)

"Will these records eventually reach the historical era of the Domain Realm we know today as time goes on?"

Chen Yan’s intention was that if he could read further and find the ’known’ historical records of the Domain Realm, they might connect with these buried eras in time, possibly allowing for many deductions and judgments to be made.

This is a conventional method in academia for verifying history.

"I kind of get what you mean," the old man nodded, thought for a moment, and said: "If you finish reading everything here, maybe you’ll get your answer."

Finish reading?

Chen Yan looked around at this hall, with more than forty stone cabinets...

Each stone cabinet had several layers, each layer holding long rows of stone tablets...

More than forty cabinets, there might be thousands of stone tablets? No, maybe even more?

But...

Fortunately, as a writing medium, the stone tablets could only record a limited amount of text; each could only hold a little bit of writing.

Though there seemed to be many tablets in these dozens of stone cabinets, the amount of text was not so daunting.

If these dozens of cabinets were full of paper books, Chen Yan would just give up completely!

Thinking of this, Chen Yan mused, "If finishing everything can provide clarity, it’s not too difficult."

The old man chuckled slyly, his eyes glimmering with a cunning expression: "Finishing everything doesn’t just mean these here. There are collections on other floors you have to read as well."

Chen Yan frowned: "Isn’t there just this one floor here?"

The old man shook his head and smiled: "Who said it’s just this one floor?"

After a pause, he looked at Chen Yan: "On the ground, there’s only this layer, but underground, it’s not just one."

Well, well, well!

Chen Yan sighed.

So, this place also has underground layers.

"The items on this floor are not even half of the entire collection here." The old man shook his head, looking at Chen Yan with a bit of pride in his eyes: "Did you see the little door I came through? Beyond that door, there’s a passage with stairs going downward."

From there downward, there are still eight more underground layers in this place.

Chen Yan’s face stiffened a bit; he thought for a moment and smiled bitterly, "It seems I won’t be able to finish reading everything this time."

Still, he wasn’t too upset; after all, the history of the Domain Realm wasn’t closely related to him, and although the old lady hoped he would study, it wasn’t an urgent matter if he couldn’t finish reading this time.

He would just say there’ll be another time if given a chance.

The old lady put him here to wait, and he probably wouldn’t be here for long. At most a day or two, and the old lady would meet him.

Yes, the Heaven-Crashing Ceremony... Even though the Black Wood Tribe had experienced such turmoil, the ceremony couldn’t be delayed indefinitely, as representatives from the major sects and families of the Domain Realm had already arrived.

It wouldn’t be long before it would start.

"If you can’t finish, just take your time reading." The old man shook his head, saying slowly: "When I started reading the contents here, it wasn’t something done in a day or two; it took me quite a while to finish."

After finishing the first read, I found some issues and it was only after re-reading a few times that I thoroughly understood some things.

As for you... take your time."

Damn!

Ten floors of documents, and Old Deng finished all of them?!

Remember East Sea mentioned that the only guy here had indeed stayed quite a while!

Hmm?

There’s something off about what the old man is saying.

Chen Yan frowned: "I won’t be staying here for long; I estimate to leave within the next couple of days. As for reading, let’s talk about it next time."

"Ha!"

The old man suddenly laughed.

He cast a peculiar gaze at Chen Yan, softly saying: "Do you... think you’ll be leaving here soon?"

"Hmm?" Chen Yan paused in his heart.

Yet subsequently, he felt no fear in his heart—who brought him here? It was his own old lady! The person who loved him most in the world, who could most impossibly harm him!

"Of course, I still have to go out to participate in the Heaven-Crashing Ceremony," Chen Yan said confidently.

The old man fell silent, merely looking at Chen Yan with an odd smile, a smile that made Chen Yan feel somewhat uncomfortable, although he couldn’t say why.

Suppressing the odd feeling, Chen Yan proactively took out a cup and poured the old man a glass of craft beer.

The old man sniffed it, frowning: "This color, this smell, it’s quite bizarre."

"This is beer, brewed with wheat; it has a mellow, light taste..."

"It’s just ordinary wine without Spiritual Power Essence Qi, unable to intoxicate a cultivator, useless to drink," the old man said dismissively.

But Chen Yan chuckled: "You don’t understand, with barbecue, you must pair it with this drink; it has a unique taste."

Saying so, Chen Yan picked up his own glass, clinking it against the old man’s cup, and drank it all.

The old man, half-believing, glanced at Chen Yan, and finally picked up his own glass and drank it all.

He smacked his lips and nodded: "The taste is a bit strange, but indeed as you said, it pairs quite well with barbecue."

Chen Yan put down his glass and smiled: "With meat and vegetables, how can there be no alcohol? I’ll ask you a small question as a wine fee for an elder, how about it?"

The old man frowned, and Chen Yan jumped in: "This question is very easy, I won’t put you in a difficult position."

The old man touched his cup, looking at Chen Yan: "Just ask."

"Since this is a library, then... there must also be cultivation techniques, divine techniques, secret manuals, and spells, right?

Where are those secret books stored? I’d like to take a look at them."

Looking at Chen Yan’s eager expression, the old man chuckled: "Then you’ll be disappointed! The nine floors of collections here are all sorts of records, historical documents, astronomy and geography, tides rising and falling, the rise and fall of tribes, the prosperity and decline of creatures... "

But there’s nothing like the cultivation techniques, divine techniques, and spells you desire.

If you want to read those things, they’re all in the neighboring Cultivation Hall; here, there’s not a single word of them."

Chen Yan was dumbfounded.

Good grief, there really aren’t any!

He still held onto the slim hope after what East Sea mentioned.

The old man tossed another piece of meat into his mouth, chewing a few times before swallowing. Looking at Chen Yan, his tone grew somewhat serious: "If you want to see the items on the lower floor, you can go through that door."

But I’ll remind you, unless you finish reading everything on this floor! Otherwise, you won’t get through that door!"

Chen Yan was startled: "Finish reading everything on this floor first? If I can’t finish it, I can’t go downstairs to see the next layer? Will you stop me?"

"No, I won’t stop you," the old man replied earnestly. "I might as well tell you, not a word I’ve said to you is a lie; you can do anything you want here! As long as you don’t set fire to the place, whatever you want to do has nothing to do with me."

But the rule is as I said, if you don’t finish reading this floor and just rush through that door, you’ll suffer bad luck.

This place itself will punish you!"