Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 1051 - 134: Infiltrating the Heavenly Book Tower (Part 2)

Wang Qi definitely did not sense wrongly.

This book started to tremble as soon as he pinched its spine. It wasn't until the identity token at his waist, which had been altered, resonated that the book finally calmed down.

Other low-level cultivators did not sense the terrifying power within the book at that moment, but when it comes to the quality of spiritual sense, Wang Qi has already surpassed Nascent Soul Stage cultivators, comparable to Divine Separation Stage cultivators. Just in that instant, he clearly felt the powerful force gathered inside the book.

This force was even enough to crush an ordinary Core Formation cultivator!

Only when the identity token resonated did this force within the book vanish instantly.

Through Wang Qi's shared perception, Zhen Chan also sensed this process. He wondered, "Is this book a part of an array?"

Zhen Chan immediately thought of this explanation. Indeed, the books here are for Qi Cultivation Stage and Foundation Establishment disciples to read, and some powerful Foundation Establishment disciples might even overlook them. But for such low-level spells to contain such power? It's obviously impossible. Even if one masters the spells recorded within the book, they wouldn't have such ability, let alone for these books without anyone to host them.

Unless this power is external and just arrived.

Wang Qi blinked, "Old man, do you think there's a possibility—this is actually a Divine Artifact with unknown usage, and just now, I accidentally uncovered the tip of the iceberg of its true nature..."

For the first time in over ten thousand years, Zhen Chan wanted to roll his eyes, but he currently didn't have eyes, much less eye whites and pupils, so he could only sneer, "You kid, keep making up corny stories, you've fooled yourself!"

If one could find a Divine Artifact in a place bustling with people, then the heavens are truly blind!

Wang Qi chuckled, put back the introductory Confucianism cultivation method book that specifically described how to use Wen Qi, and then pulled out another book.

Like before, as the book was drawn out, a strong force gathered within it, but dissipated after resonating with the identity token at his waist.

Wang Qi pretended to flip through disinterestedly, then put it back, and drew out another one.

Again, a force gathered in secret.

After drawing out three 'special' samples consecutively... or perhaps, this 'special' case may not be as special as originally thought.

Wang Qi switched to another bookshelf, drew out a book and put it back.

Still, there was a latent force gathering.

Wang Qi nodded, changed locations once more, and drew out a book again.

Indeed, there it was again.

"We can tentatively conclude all these books are a part of a certain array," Wang Qi pondered for a while. Choosing books randomly from different locations and experiencing all these 'special cases' seems statistically unlikely. Either all the books here are like this, most of them are, or Wang Qi really encountered an impossibility on the scale of one in billions.

"But, what's the point of doing this?"

Zhen Chan considered for a moment, "In my era, the Heavenly Book Tower didn't have such odd measures. Hmm... maybe it's to protect their own books?"

Wang Qi countered, "If you protect one hundred taels of gold, why spend a thousand taels making a cabinet, and five hundred taels for locks and keys? If Luofu Xuanqing Palace operated this way, they deserved to kneel ten thousand years ago."

The spells here aren't of any 'secret transmission' kind, either they are widely spread or lack further development; they simply aren't worth heavy protection.

However, the array covering the entire 'Xixian Building' of the Heavenly Book Tower is extraordinary. It can autonomously gather an attack force sufficient to kill Core Formation cultivators, and respond to identity token sensing. This kind of array could cost roughly one-tenth of the resources used to build the Tai Chu Sword God Array of the Luochen Sword Palace.

The Tai Chu Sword God Array was crafted with the sect's full resources.

And the Heavenly Book Tower with its forty-eight giant library towers might all have such setups, possibly even more sophisticated arrangements, with the core library tower arrays being even more advanced.

This cost is practically astronomical.

Zhen Chan was just speaking casually. He remarked, "Certainly odd... how much did Holy Emperor Venerable let slip through his fingers for his people below?"

"No idea. Let's go check out the next book tower."

Shangxian Building is larger than Xixian Building, and contains more books. However, this place caters more to the newly started low-level Qi Cultivation Stage cultivators, with each book being quite thin.

Wang Qi pretended to casually draw out a book. Sure enough, he felt an external force gathering within the book, which vanished upon resonating with the identity token.

Wang Qi then randomly drew out over ten books from Shangxian Building, scanned each briefly, remembered them, and put them back.

After Shangxian comes Lezheng Building. Here, it is a bit more sophisticated compared to Xixian and Shangxian Buildings. This tower holds many books on music cultivation, and choosing a cultivation method here denotes selecting one's future path. Therefore, those who come here are either late-stage Foundation Establishment, in Perfection, or Golden Core Stage cultivators.

Wang Qi drew out a book and discovered that mysterious phenomenon again.

In just one day, Wang Qi visited seventeen Book Towers frequented by low-level cultivators. During this time, he constantly changed his identity and flipped through books.

He memorized every book he glanced at, then continuously arranged and combined them in his mind. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Time passed by another half a day.

By this time, it had been two days since he infiltrated the Heavenly Book Tower. Fortunately, cultivators have an abundance of energy, not restricted by biological clocks, nor do they have the habit of resting at sunset. Otherwise, he would have to ponder how to bluff his way through the night.

During this period, the master of the Heavenly Book Tower also appeared. He and another cultivator conducted a routine inspection, passing through here. At that moment, Wang Qi had quietly lifted all of his disguises and sealed his Golden Core, so the other party did not notice him at all.

After pondering for a long time, Wang Qi suddenly sighed, "I see now!"

Zhen Chan asked, "What do you understand?"

"The results of those Heavenly Book Tower disciples' talisman painting practice were all collected together. But those talismans were not used to supply some high-level cultivator's training; rather, they were to form that mysterious mechanism."

"Are you referring to the system of the Library Tower?"

Wang Qi nodded, "By arranging and combining the magic seals, they constructed the characters on the pages. In this way, not only does the book have the words on the pages, but it also becomes a Magic Artifact which allows the cultivator to vaguely sense the aura behind the success of that spell pattern..."

Zhen Chan pondered, "I see... so this is the refining method of the Heavenly Book Tower's Book of Heaven—but can this be done? Linking magic seal scripts to get normal text?"

"It can. Fundamentally speaking, all magic seals can be considered manifestations of Yin Yang transformations. Since it is Yin Yang transformations, it can be generalized and summarized using the Yin Yang Yao Text, and it can also be converted into a higher-level language—namely, natural language..."

Zhen Chan was startled, "You haven't figured this out yourself, have you? This so-called 'natural language processing'."

"No, no, no, it's different. If this problem were completely solved from a mathematical standpoint, it would equate to a universal method. I could convert any high-level language into multiple natural languages. However, this... they merely transformed certain specific magic seals into a natural language within a limited linguistic context... Is this the handiwork of the Holy Emperor Venerable? Or is it the accumulation of several millennia by the Heavenly Book Tower?"

After all, the Immortal Dao Civilization has been around for eighty thousand years. Even though the Nascent Soul skill and Undying Beast Path civilizations are loose, with much experience not passing down, over such a long time, a lot of useful things can be accumulated.

"Time" itself is indeed a precious resource.

If these things are obtained by a Modern Cultivator, they can be elevated from the level of "experience" to the level of "theory," and then be promoted as some general law.

"This could be said to be a win-win situation." Wang Qi rubbed his temples, continuing to ponder, "Powerful Magic Artifact, cultivation technique confidentiality, disciples can accelerate understanding... But if it's just this, why would the Heavenly Book Tower go to such great lengths?"

Wang Qi realized that given the lack of necessary information, continuing to think about it would not yield results. He shifted his perspective and began deducing the entire layout of the Heavenly Book Tower.

Now, he had roughly figured out the layout of the Heavenly Book Tower and identified the array nodes on the periphery of the Heavenly Book Tower. He also sensed the array placements of various Library Towers. All these clues converged in his mind, forming a three-dimensional map. Then, this three-dimensional map was analyzed with various topological methods in the virtual high-dimensional space in his mind.

Wang Qi was reverse-deducing the condition of this mysterious grand array in the Heavenly Book Tower, and quickly identified a critical point.

This area, in the eyes of the Heavenly Book Tower's own people, is not a key node that could trigger a chain reaction, but to Wang Qi, it is indeed a crucial loophole.

This place just happens to evade the surveillance range of all Nascent Soul Stage and above high-level cultivators of the Heavenly Book Tower.

"Sword Tower..." Wang Qi quickly found his target.

This is where the Heavenly Book Tower houses its Sword Cultivation methods. The collections here are all swordsmanship techniques.

The swordsmanship favored by the Heavenly Book Tower all belongs to the type focused on Sword Qi transformation while disregarding changes in sword moves.

Wang Qi walked in, his fingers gliding over the books. Simultaneously, the mana within him suddenly transformed, dividing into Yin and Yang, then assembling into countless Wanxiang Diagrams.

—Oh, Heavenly Book Tower, Heavenly Book Tower, your misfortune is truly comparable to that of Luochen Sword Palace.

Wang Qi shook his head slightly, feeling somewhat amused inwardly.

The cultivation techniques of the Heavenly Book Tower lean toward Innate Saintly Virtue and Innate Morality, and in most cases, they emphasize the way of Yin and Yang transformation.

Their practice of integrating this entire sect's collections naturally has the intention to make good use of what they are most familiar with.

However, this just plays right into Wang Qi's hand.

It is well-known that the Divine Plague Curse is a special viral path rank capable of operating within the Life Soul, its foundation being the logic accumulated from Yin Yang transformations.

In this Law Gate purely constituted of Yin Yang transformations, the Divine Plague Curse is simply like a fish in water.