Chapter 269: A Plethora Of Books?
Lin Wu read more about the Celestial Star Sailing Ray and found it to be very powerful. It was said to be able to soar among the stars and absorb their light for nourishment. It was also a massive beast being able to cover entire mountains with its body that was hundreds of kilometers big.
It had patterns on its body that glimmered with starlight and anyone that looked at them was mesmerized. The beast would take advantage of this and swallow the afflicted prey whole.
Its stinger was nothing to mess with either. It could shoot out condensed beams of starlight that could cut through metal like it was paper and the venom it contained was even more terrifying.
It was said that even one drop of the venom would be enough to kill an entire ocean’s creatures.
Overall, it was a beast that was way beyond Lin Wu’s current level. Or any beast of this world to speak of as a matter of fact.
He flipped through more pages wanting to see if there was any information about the beast whose bloodline he had. He was trying to match the features of the carapace he had seen and the abilities he had obtained from them.
But even after another hour, he was unable to find out about it.
“Hmm… either this beast is extremely rare or it is simply a new species.” Lin Wu reckoned.
Lin Wu checked the time remaining for the system to finish the scan and saw that there was just below an hour left.
“Should look at other things as well…” Lin Wu muttered to himself.
He picked out a few more interesting books and passed his time until finally the system’s notification was heard.
~Ding~
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DATA SCAN: Completed
DATA BANKS: Updated
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“Excellent! Time to head back then. I’ll check the other places tomorrow.” Lin Wu said before leaving the same way he had come in.
He went to the side of the doors, elongated his body straight up like a pole, hooked it to the edge of the grill and pulled himself up, before passing through the hole. He continued on ahead and carefully left the Royal library.
This time he saw that the guards had changed and the pattern in which they moved was also different.
‘New shift, new patter…’ Lin Wu thought.
Still, he figured out the time intervals at which they switched between their spirit sense, and finally reached the basement of the building. From there on, it was an easy route. He few mutes later he appeared in the City garden and saw that the guards who he had left there were still sleeping.
“Are they dead or something? They should have woken up by now.” Lin Wu wondered.
~Ding~
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ANSWER: The guards are in a deep sleep induced due to consumption of concentrated alcohol. The wine that the host fed the guards is highly concentrated and is made from some low grade spirit herbs and thus can affect cultivators as well.
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“Oh… maybe I should not have wasted that bottle on them.” Lin Wu said, before pushing the matter to the back of his mind.
He had seen the bottle he had taken and known there was more than just one. Even here in this city, he had seen some of the shops keeping the same bottle, OS if he wanted to he would be able to find it rather easily.
Lin Wu had to take the long winded route once again, before he finally reached the Courtyard. The reason for the long and winding route was nothing but the formations that were set up in a lot of places. Lin Wu could obviously override all of them with the help of the system if he wanted to but that would have taken a long time.
Instead the easier option was to just circle around them or proceed from the empty spots that existed between them. There was also a formation around the Royal Library of course, but since Shirong had the ‘key’ to the royal palace, it worked the same for the Royal library.
If Shirong were to enter the library, while he would get to the book shelves and read most books, he would also be stopped by the inner formation that protected the Forbidden area. That place would require additional permission and no one could enter freely.
Only Lin Wu, who was an anomaly would be able to something like that. The formations that worked selectively on specific creatures would likely ignore him, unless they were specially made to stop anomalies like him.
But it was the very reason why there was very little chance that he would encounter a formation like that. What could stop him though was a basic barrier formation that stopped everything. While Lin Wu was able to get past them with the help of the system, a stronger version would still block him.
Lin Wu went inside the spatial storage ring of Shirong effortlessly and continued looking through all the information that he had obtained. Not only was there information about the beasts, but there was also a lot of information about different fields, such as alchemy, formations, weapon smithing, spirit tool refinement and some obscure things.
Though there weren’t any cultivation techniques in this vault.
“Hmm… they should probably in a separate vault that’s located in the grand palace. It would make sense that they would keep that under higher security than that.” Lin Wu surmised.
While there was a lot of information in this library, even if it got leaked there wouldn’t be a dire loss. But if the cultivation techniques got lost, there was even a chance the entire Ling Kingdom dynasty would fall.
While Lin Wu was reading through the information, the system was also speeding up its speed of analysis. It had reached a shocking speed that when it was finally morning, a notification was heard. It was the notification that Lin Wu had been waiting for all this time.
~Ding~
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CULTIVATION TECHNIQUE ANALYSIS: Completed
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