83: Chapter 83 The library was full of books! All of them were combined into a complete guide to elixirs.

Lin Feng stood at the entrance of the Scripture Pavilion and took a deep breath.

The door was already wide open, but the inside was pitch black, and nothing could be seen clearly.

Only that stale scent of old books, mixed with a faint smell of mildew, wafted out from within.

"In there... there won't be any monsters, right?"

Lin Feng felt a bit apprehensive.

Back in the main hall, the four Incense Burner Spirits had almost killed him.

In the medicine garden, the medicinal material spirits were running everywhere, exhausting him as he tried to catch them.

In the Spiritual Vein, that Young Flood Dragon had almost wiped out his entire team.

Could this Scripture Pavilion also have some sort of guardian?

"There shouldn't be," Elder Dan's voice rang out. "The Scripture Pavilion is a place for storing knowledge; generally, there are no guards. Back then, the Alchemists were eager for people to come and learn from their insights."

Lin Feng breathed a sigh of relief.

But he still didn't dare to be careless.

He took the dragon slaying sword out of the wanxiang ring and gripped it in his hand.

The blade was pitch black, its golden patterns glowing slightly, emitting a faint pressure.

With Little Black in hand, his sense of security doubled.

He stepped into the Scripture Pavilion.

One step.

Two steps.

Three steps.

Nothing happened.

Only the wooden floorboards beneath his feet made a "creak-creak" sound.

Lin Feng continued further inside.

His eyes gradually adjusted to the darkness.

He began to see his surroundings clearly.

The Scripture Pavilion was much larger than he had imagined.

From the outside, it looked like just a small two-story building, but the space inside was surprisingly vast.

The first floor was at least three hundred square meters, with dozens of rows of bookshelves.

Those bookshelves were all made of high-quality rosewood; although covered in dust, they were still sturdy.

The shelves were densely packed with all sorts of ancient texts.

Bamboo slips, silk scrolls, paper, animal hides...

They varied in size and thickness.

Some had already turned yellow and brittle, while others were perfectly preserved.

Lin Feng walked to the nearest row of bookshelves and casually pulled out a roll of bamboo slips.

The bamboo slips were strung together with thin cord, and the surface was carved with dense ancient characters.

He couldn't understand them.

【Introductory Alchemy Insights (Green)】

【Effect: After reading, increases Alchemy success rate by +5%】

【Description: Alchemy notes from an Alchemist of the Qin Dynasty, recording some basic knowledge and insights】

"Green-quality Alchemy insights?"

Lin Feng's eyes lit up.

Even though he couldn't read the text, the attribute panel could identify it.

This thing could increase the Alchemy success rate!

He stored the bamboo slips into the wanxiang ring.

He continued searching.

The next one was a silk scroll.

【Intermediate Alchemy (Blue)】

【Effect: After reading, increases Alchemy success rate by +10%, with a chance to comprehend an Intermediate Pill Formula】

【Description: Records the recipes and refinement techniques for thirty types of Intermediate Medicinal Pills】

Blue!

The one after that was a roll of animal hide.

【Advanced Alchemy (Purple)】

【Effect: After reading, increases Alchemy success rate by +15%, with a chance to comprehend an Advanced Pill Formula】

【Description: Records the recipes and refinement techniques for fifteen types of Advanced Medicinal Pills, including some lost ancient formulas】

Purple!

Lin Feng's eyes grew brighter and brighter.

He picked up the pace, scanning through the rows of bookshelves.

【Medicinal Pill Material Identification (Blue)】

【Effect: After reading, improves material identification ability, making it easier to discover high-quality medicinal Materials】

【Pill Fire Control Techniques (Purple)】

【Effect: After reading, improves Pill Fire control ability; Medicinal Pill quality +1 rank during refinement】

【Introductory Formations (Green)】

【Effect: After reading, allows learning of basic Formation knowledge】

【Detailed Explanation of Spirit Gathering Formation (Blue)】

【Effect: After reading, allows learning of the Spirit Gathering Formation setup method】

【Essentials of the Four Symbols Formation (Purple)】

【Effect: After reading, allows learning of Advanced techniques for the Four Symbols Formation】

【Alchemist Insight Notes (Blue) ×37】

【Alchemy Great Master's Notebook (Purple) ×12】

【True Explanation of the Dao of Pills (Red) ×1】

Like discovering a new continent, Lin Feng went on a shopping spree.

One book after another, all were collected into the wanxiang ring.

Blue, purple, and there was even red!

"I'm rich, I'm rich, I'm rich..."

He muttered to himself.

Little Jin jumped down from his shoulder and climbed onto a bookshelf, looking around curiously.

It poked a thick ancient book with its golden front leg and turned back to cry out to Lin Feng.

"Squeak squeak!"

Lin Feng walked over to take a look.

It was a massive tome bound in some kind of animal hide; the cover was half a meter thick, with four simple and ancient characters written on it—

【Complete Book of the Dao of Alchemy】

【Quality: Red】

【Effect: After reading, significantly improves Alchemy level, with a chance to comprehend lost ancient formulas】

【Description: A masterpiece of Qin Dynasty Alchemy, recording over a hundred types of Pill Formulas and Alchemy techniques; extremely precious】

"A red-quality Complete Book of the Dao of Alchemy!"

Lin Feng's hands were shaking.

This was definitely the most precious treasure in the Scripture Pavilion!

He carefully put the book away.

He continued his sweep.

After finishing the first floor, he went up to the second floor.

The second floor was smaller than the first, but it was still two hundred square meters.

There were fewer bookshelves here, but the quality of each ancient text was even higher.

【Alchemy Grandmaster's Notebook (Red) ×3】

【Encyclopedia of Pill Formulas (Red) ×1】

【Record of Medicinal Pill Oddities (Purple) ×5】

【Origins of Alchemy (Blue) ×2】

Lin Feng refused nothing and took them all.

For two whole hours.

He turned the entire Scripture Pavilion upside down.

Total harvest—

Green-quality ancient texts: 237 books

Blue-quality ancient texts: 186 books

Purple-quality ancient texts: 94 books

Red-quality ancient texts: 8 books

Total: 525 books!

"I've hit the jackpot, I've hit the jackpot..."

Lin Feng sat on the ground, looking at the mountain of ancient texts in the wanxiang ring, grinning from ear to ear.

Any one of these ancient texts, if taken outside, could be sold for hundreds of thousands of points.

Especially those 8 red-quality ones; they were priceless and unavailable elsewhere!

"Elder Dan, have you read all these ancient texts?"

Lin Feng asked.

Elder Dan was silent for a second, then slowly spoke.

"I have."

"Two thousand years ago, when I first gained sentience, I read every single book in this Scripture Pavilion."

"Some books, I even read repeatedly many times."

Lin Feng's eyes lit up.

"Then aren't you a living encyclopedia of Alchemy?"

"You could say that," Elder Dan's tone carried a hint of pride. "I have lived for two thousand years; although I spent most of that time in slumber, whenever I was awake, I was studying the Dao of Alchemy."

"The knowledge in this Scripture Pavilion has long been etched into my mind."

Lin Feng got excited.

"That's great! Then I don't even need to read these books; I can just ask you!"

Elder Dan was silent for a second.

Then, he slowly spoke.

"Kid, you're thinking too simply."

"Why?"

"Because..." Elder Dan paused, "Even though I know this knowledge, I cannot directly transmit it to you."

"It's like you knowing ten thousand recipes, but it's impossible to make someone who has never cooked before instantly become a master chef."

"Alchemy requires practice, it requires intuition, and it requires mastery over the heat."

"These things, you can only figure out yourself."

Lin Feng was a bit disappointed.

But soon, he had a new idea.

"Then what if... I fuse all these books together?"

Elder Dan was stunned.

"Fuse?"

"Right." Lin Feng stood up, looking at the pile of ancient texts in the wanxiang ring. "Just like how I fused medicinal Materials and Spirit Stone veins before, I'll fuse all these ancient texts together."

"Maybe I can fuse them into a... Super Alchemy Book!"

Elder Dan went silent.

He was silent for a long, long time.

So long that Lin Feng thought he had gone offline again.

"Elder Dan?"

"...Kid."

For the first time, Elder Dan's voice sounded... complicated.

"Do you know, I have lived for two thousand years and consider myself well-informed."

"But ever since I met you, my worldview is being refreshed every day."

"Fusing medicinal Materials, I endured it."

"Fusing a Spirit Stone Ore Vein, I also endured it."

"Now you even want to fuse books?"

Lin Feng scratched his head.

"Is there a problem?"

"There's a huge problem!" Elder Dan's voice rose. "Books are knowledge! They are wisdom! They are the lifeblood left behind by predecessors! How can you just fuse them on a whim?!"

"But..." Lin Feng argued, "After fusing them, maybe I can get more complete knowledge."

Elder Dan went silent.

After a while, he slowly spoke.

"...Are you sure?"

"I'm sure." Lin Feng nodded. "Anyway, I can't understand these books, so keeping them is a waste. Why not try? What if it succeeds?"

Elder Dan went silent again.

Finally, he let out a sigh.

"Fine, fine, I can't control you anymore."

"Fuse them if you want."

"But I'm warning you, fusing books is different from fusing Materials. If it fails, this knowledge will truly be gone."

Lin Feng took a deep breath.

"I understand."

He took all the ancient texts out of the wanxiang ring.

Over five hundred books piled up into a small mountain.

Green ones, blue ones, purple ones, red ones.

Thick and thin, large and small.

Lin Feng stood before the mountain of books, his hands held together loosely.

"Talent—Activate!"

Buzz—

A faint golden light gushed from his palms, enveloping the entire mountain of books!

【Detected fusible items: Alchemy Ancient Texts ×525】

【Ancient Text Fusion】

【Warning: Fusing books may result in knowledge confusion; success rate unknown】

【Suggested consumption: 500,000 Mana】

【Fusion Direction: Knowledge Integration】

Five hundred thousand Mana!

Lin Feng currently had 1.55 million; it was completely enough!

"Fuse—for me!"

He gritted his teeth and injected 500,000 Mana!

Boom!!!

The golden light surged!

All those ancient texts flew up!

They flipped frantically in the golden light, their pages making a "rustling" sound!

Countless characters drifted out from the books!

Golden ones, silver ones, black ones, red ones...

Those characters were dense, covering the sky and the earth!

Like countless butterflies dancing in the air!

Then, they began to gather, intertwine, and fuse!

Green characters fused into blue ones, blue into purple, and purple into red!

All the knowledge, all the Pill Formulas, and all the insights were fused together!

Forming a giant, rotating vortex of characters!

In the center of the vortex, a brand-new book was slowly taking shape!

Lin Feng stared fixedly at that book.

He could feel that the book contained an unimaginably vast amount of knowledge!

One minute.

Two minutes.

Three minutes.

When all the characters had completely fused into that book—

The golden light slowly receded.

A book fell from the air.

It landed steadily in Lin Feng's palm.

It was an ancient text that was golden all over.

The cover was made of an unknown material, smooth as a mirror, yet with a leather-like texture.

There were no words on the cover.

There was only a picture—a simple and ancient Pill Furnace with flames rising inside, surrounded by patterns of various medicinal Materials.

He flipped open the cover.

On the first page, written in large gold-leafed characters, was—

【complete compendium of elixirs】

【Quality: Pseudo-Chromatic】

【Effect 1: After reading, gain all Alchemy knowledge from the fused ancient texts; Alchemy level significantly improved】

【Effect 2: Records 325 types of Pill Formulas, covering everything from basic Medicinal Pills to legendary-grade ones】

【Effect 3: Can automatically search for required Pill Formulas and view refinement methods with one click】

【Effect 4: Alchemy success rate +50%, Medicinal Pill quality +2 ranks during refinement】

【Effect 5: Holder can comprehend the special skill "True Explanation of the Dao of Pills"】

【True Explanation of the Dao of Pills: After activation, all Alchemy actions within the next 60 seconds will be flawless, guaranteed to refine the highest quality Medicinal Pills. Cooldown: 7 days】

【Description: A peerless tome formed by fusing 525 Alchemy ancient texts, containing the culmination of two thousand years of Alchemy techniques】

Lin Feng looked at that line of description, his eyes going wide.

Three hundred and twenty-five types of Pill Formulas!

Alchemy success rate +50%!

Medicinal Pill quality +2 ranks!

And the skill "True Explanation of the Dao of Pills," which guaranteed the highest quality Medicinal Pills for one minute!

"Elder Dan..."

His voice was trembling.

Elder Dan was silent.

He was silent for a long, long time.

Then, he slowly spoke, his tone carrying a hint of... admiration.

"Kid, I'm impressed."

"In two thousand years, I have seen countless geniuses and countless prodigies."

"But someone like you..."

"I truly have never seen."

Lin Feng grinned.

"Of course, I am a Genius after all."

He held the complete compendium of elixirs, unable to put it down.

The value of this book was even greater than the dragon slaying sword!

No matter how strong the dragon slaying sword was, it was only a weapon.

But this book could make him a true Alchemy Great Master!

In the future, whatever pill he wanted to refine, he could just flip through the book!

The success rate would double, and the quality would improve!

Plus, there was the skill that guaranteed top-tier results!

"I'm rich, I'm rich..."

Lin Feng stored the book into the wanxiang ring.

He looked around.

The Scripture Pavilion was now empty.

Those bookshelves were all bare.

Only dust was still slowly drifting down.

"Time to go."

Lin Feng turned and walked toward the entrance.

When he reached the door, he looked back once more.

In this Scripture Pavilion, for two thousand years, who knew how many Alchemists had been buried here in their studies.

Now, all that knowledge was gathered into a single book.

It would follow him and leave this place.

"Let's go, Little Jin."

Lin Feng stepped out of the Scripture Pavilion.

Behind him, that door slowly closed.

The sunlight shone on him, feeling warm.

He looked up at the sky.

The sky of the Secret Realm was still gray and hazy.

But in his eyes, it was incomparably bright.

"The harvest this time is just too great."

"It's time to head out."