I breathed heavily as I was pulling a large book out from a shelf. I had made a small staircase out of books so I could reach the higher shelves.
The secret rooms books had all been pretty basic on the lowest shelf, mostly just going over common knowledge. It went over how spirit beasts get stronger with age and how once they turn 100,000 years old, they can transform into a human or stay on the path of a spirit beast.
The second shelf went over cultivation. It had a few different styles, all of which were inferior to the mysterious heaven technique. The third layer was on meridians. I was surprised when I looked through the books on the third layer. The humans from the alliance had twelve major meridians but the humans on the douluo continent had twenty times that amount.
The meridians I had could be said to be 228 major meridians and 12 super major meridians. Once I had read all books pertaining to meridians, I felt like the mysterious heaven technique was lacklustre at best, although the commonly used cultivation techniques were far worse.
I stopped climbing at the third level because my tower of books was getting shaky. I slowly traveled down the book tower, putting the books back.
I crawled out of the secret room, putting the door back in place as to leave no evidence. I didn't know if my parents knew about this room, but if they did, they probably wouldn't like me being in it.
I found my mother changing Feng Long's diaper in the living room. I had noticed a while ago, but now it was apparent, my mothers fierce aura, that used to be like a sharp sword, had dulled.
Taking care of two kids, albeit one of them being very independent and easy to take care of, had dulled her battle instincts. Instead of possessing a strong battle instinct, she now had a seemingly omnipotent mothers instinct.
Every time Feng Long got injured or had a problem, she was fixing it before it became serious.
I crawled back up to my room and began to work on my mysterious heaven technique. It's level was slowly rising as I optimized it. He level of my tang sect techniques were almost at 20 purely from the effect of my mysterious heaven technique and a little bit of mysterious jade hand.
I was planning to practice the purple demons eye but I had never been able to wake up before dawn or stay awake after dusk so I couldn't gather purple Qi.
I really did like learning and training, I was surprised that I didn't have a title called [the persistent] or [the workaholic] yet. I spent most of my waking hours practicing skills or learning something so I was expecting some sort of special reward, but the system didn't do that, it was a bit too fair to do that.
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I was standing in front of my mother, trying to keep balanced as I stood on both my legs. My mother had her arms out, ready to catch me if I fell.
I was six monthes old now so my body was strong enough to walk, especially with the slight strength boost from the mysterious heaven technique.
I raised one leg and took my first step, then a second, a third and forth soon followed.
I soon began to pick up the pace before breaking out into a run before tripping and falling on my face.
I sat up, looking slightly bewildered. I had gotten so lost in the feeling of finally walking again that I didn't even think about falling. 'It was the idiot tiles fault' I though, trying to blame my stupidity on the title.
It was Feng Long's turn to walk now. I had noticed that the strange feeling of danger from him had transformed into an aura of companionship, it felt like we had joined the same team, instead of being on opposing teams.
Feng Long stood up and took one step, then a second, but he fell on his third step.
It was a little funny when he sat up and looked like he had just gone to hell and back.
After a few more moments, I went up to my fathers room. He was still sick even after a few months passed. He wasn't getting worse, but he wasn't getting better either.
The main reason I went to my father room was because it had a balcony. I would often sit out there and try to watch a sunrise or sunset.
Once I gathered some purple Qi I would be able to improve my purple demons eye just by normally cultivating although I would need more if I wanted to increase its rank.
The sun had finally began to set. I felt myself dozing off but I held my eyes open. Purple Qi would form in less than a minute, but I couldn't stay awake.
My eyes began to water as the bright lights stabbed into them. 'It will only be a few moments, just a few moments' I changed to myself.
The sun finally became level with the horizon and a breeze seemed to pass over the fields of grass. The small bit of ocean which I could see turned a fiery orange and deep blues and purples took over the sky.
A thin purple strand formed and I mentally grabbed it, forcing it into my eye.
Alarms began to ring in my head, telling me I was training my purple demons eye in the worst way possible, I couldn't focus and my head hurt.
Subconsciously I began to cultivate the mysterious heaven technique and the tears that were in my eyes began to revolve around my eye, amplifying the effect of the purple Qi. my dull grey eyes began to shine and a small trace of purple formed in my eyes.
The alarms slowly died down and became an annoying throb.
As soon as I had used up all of the purple Qi, I passed out, the purple in my eyes also dispersed and my eyes went back to a dull grey.
Night soon passed oven the area and a galaxy of stars formed in the sky. I was already asleep so I couldn't witness the beauty of the night.
Mother walked out and picked up my sleeping body, putting me to bed.
I woke up covered in sweat, it was the middle of summer so the heat was freakishly high. The summer heat could not lower my mood now, I had finally gathered some purple Qi!
I couldn't exactly call it purple Qi, it was more like purple spiritual energy.
The purple spirit energy was more like spiritual energy than Qi. Aether was based off of ancient Qi, although it is far less effective, so I could tell.
I decided to head back to the secret room, I wanted to make it to the third level from the top today.
I quietly sneaked downstairs and entered to room. I crawled up each level and soon made it to the third level from the top.
I read a few of the titles, most of them weren't anything too important, mostly things that were worse than my tang sect techniques.
One book that really interested me was the different types of spirit energy.
I pushed the book off of the smooth wooden shelf onto the floor. I crawled down after it.
Once I began to read through it, I realized that this book covered my findings earlier today.
I wasn't sure how the author had discovered what they had with the current technology but that didn't bother me.
Spiritual energy was like the electromagnetic scale. Basic spiritual energy was like ultraviolet light, invisible to the naked eye. The next ranks of spiritual energy would be visible light.
Purple was the least dense, therefor the weakest, red was the most dense, therefor the strongest.
The book also detailed the conversion method. It would require a spirit crystal with a piece of anti-spirit stone behind it and a magnifying device made from golden quartz.
'Spirit crystal? Anti-spirit stone? Golden quartz?' I asked myself. I had no idea what any of those materials were.
I realized that I had become too confident in my knowledge. I had skipped over many of the books on lower levels because I thought that I already knew what was in them. Who would want to read things called basic geology or spirit beasts for dummies.
I struggled to put the spirit energy book back, I had a lot to think about. Once I stepped out of he secret room, I realized that it was almost night again. Unlike most babies, I didn't need a nap in the middle of the day. I could never figure out why but having more time awake was pretty useful.
I went back to my room and circulated the mysterious heaven technique for a moment before stopping.
I had a strange feeling of annoyance, it wasn't like the feeling that happened when I was practicing skills, it was different. I had the desire to know the level of all the skills in the [tang sect techniques], not just their overall combined level.
'System, split the skill [tang sect techniques into its base components'
[splitting skill [tang sect techniques] into base components]
I opened up my status page, then I went to my favourites folder.
[favourites:
Mysterious heaven technique 84/99 purple demons eye 5/99 mysterious jade hand 24/99 ghost shadow perplexing track 3/99 controlling crane catching dragon 1/99 hidden weapon hundred separation 1/99]
I felt satisfied while looking at the wall of numbers, to think that I had gotten mysterious heaven technique up to level 84.
I didn't try to collect any more purple spirit energy, I just went to sleep.
I would have tried to get as much purple spirit energy as possible if I knew what would happen tomorrow.