Although Xiao Yan had a ton of things in his mind, he didn't voice them in fear of making his cute little brother sad.
" huh, so there is another subject yet to be discovered by huh. let's ask Shun for some books." he decides to learn this subject, so he goes to shun to ask for some books regarding this subject.
Although he wasn't able to gain books, but he came to know of apothecary guild which contained numerous books related to this subject.
[ state : Myriad land
area : apothecary guild]
" hmm, so this is the apothecary guild huh. let's look for it's entry." he walks towards the guild only to be stopped by another kid of his age who seem to know him.
"another Xiao family brat who thinks he can be an apothecary. Just because your little brother succeeded doesn't mean that you will also succeed." he snorts.
" who the hell is this idiot now?" he searches in his memories to find this idiot. As he finds his identity he realizes why this person was so cold towards him.
" so this is the Grand Pill sect's true disciple that had vendetta against the previous owner over a girl which was killed in the wilderness at the end."
" hey! are you deaf or just acting ignorant huh!" his anger is increased after seeing the other party ignoring him.
"let this dog bark. I have to know about this pill concocting thing." he mumbles as he enters the guild.
" 2 mystic bits for entry." a voice at the entrance says.
Mystic stones and bits were the currency of the Eternal Martial land. 1 stone of low tier was equal to 100 pieces of mystic bits and 1 mystic bits was equal to 10,000 gold coins.
"here you have it." he tosses 2 bits towards the voice and enters the guild.
The moment he enters, he is blown of because of the sudden change of scene before him. If the entrance before was just a dressing room, then this place was a 100 acre land. The amount of books here were also around 6 millions.
There were 5 more rooms like this one but the rest 4 were only for titled apothecaries and not for apprentice or general public.
Without wasting much time, he browsed through the most basic books available at the library which caused him to be ridiculed by others.His act was same as an adult learning alphabets in a collage library.
" so according to this book, one must have an excellent over his qi to become an official apothecary. This is the primary requirement. Apart from this, he must know the names, features and uses of Tian earth herbs by heart. They conduct an examination for the theory part." he concludes.
The Tian earth herbs refered to the set of herbs used as main ingredients for concocting low tier earth pills. Although this somewhat reduced the no. of herbs one has to study, the Tian earth herbs were still around 6,000.
"well, let's start reading tian earth manuals. Okay, so what is the shelf no. for these manuals hmmmmmm... ah 296." Xiao Yan heads towards 296 shelf of the guild library and takes almost every book the shelf leaving only a selected few.
Everyone is surprised by this young man's actions. This caused a ruckus in the library which was finally settled by the book guardian of that area. Book guardian was a job given to the disciples as missions or punishments. There were a total of 509 book guardians in this library.
He searched for a table on which, no one was sitting and spread all the books at the table.
The session of book reading was peaceful for around 7 hours until, Shao Kang, the true disciple of Grand pill sect came to look for trouble.
"oh look, Mr. know it all brought so many books regarding pills and herbs. Are you perhaps going to give the apothecary exam by just studying for one day? haha, what a fool." he laughs.
"why doesn't this fool just do what he wants let me study peacefully. Looks like I have to do something about this soon." he thinks.
" stop ignoring me you asshole!" he roared as he threw a fist towards him.
Xiao Yan dodged the fist nonchalantly as he kicked his crouch and then punched his face so hard that he lost some teeth.
"you-you dare hit me? I will kill you!" he charges towards him again, this time, his whole body was wrapped in the mystic qi as he executed a battle technique.
"fuck! be is serious this time." he exclaims as releases his qi as fast as he can a focuses it at the point of contact. The qi devours the battle technique completely due to its violet nature resulting in a jaw dropping scene.
"mon-monster!! don't touch me! don't come near me!" seeing his battle technique being engulfed completely, Shao Kang loses all hopes of winning the battle and just thinks about escaping from the scene.
"don't you dare interrupt me one more time or there will be consequences. Get lost now!!" he earns him in an angry tone to ignite fear in the other party's mind so he would not disturb him again.
"y-yes!!" he stands up and runs as fast as he can from the location.
[ continent : Eternal martial land
empire : Xuanxuan empire
state : Zhao domain
area : somewhere in the Jiang clan]
" looks like a cultivation manual. This on seems more sophisticated than all the manuals I had seen in my past. Lots give it a try." he starts cultivating the manual.
As he completes one cycle of chant there is a spark of qi radiating from his body. Moreover, this qi seems absolutely pure. It was even purer than Jiang Chen's mystic qi of his previous immortal self.
A person who becomes immortal has to have incredible amount of knowledge to shed the mortal body and become an immortal and if one had a deeper grasp of his subject he could improve quality of his subject which required pure qi as it's nourishment. This was why all immortals had pure qi.
" haha, this is truly amusing. to think that I would gain a way to achieve Divinity as soon as I reincarnate. I will definitely achieve Godhood in this life and have my revenge." he felt extremely joyous. This could be considered him being happy for the first time in past 10,000 years.