Flame God Armor.
Wu Feng threw the book to the side. "Another trash."
Wu Yong looked over, laughing in whisper. "Ah Feng, you don't want to learn a god's technique?"
Wu Feng picked another book. "What god's technique? Only Qi Condensation technique but dare to claim as god's technique? The author must be drunk when he wrote it."
The book really is just a jade plate with illustrations drawn on its surface. The reader can use divine sense to directly imprint the content into their memory. Truly an efficient time-saving invention.
"Have you found some good techniques?" Wu Leng Jing walked over from behind a bookshelf.
"Not yet." Wu Feng replied, scanning the books in the bookshelf with his eyes. A mere Qi Condensation realm cultivator can not use a wonderful technique of using divine sense to scan an entire library in a single sweep yet.
Wu Leng Jing wanted to recommend some techniques to him, but before he opened his mouth Wu Feng already picked up another book.
"This seems interesting."
He read the title, "Five Elements Theory For Dummies." Then slammed it back to the bookshelf with fury.
Wu Yong laughed again.
"Be quiet!" A message transmitted over by an annoyed librarian.
Wu Leng Jing could not bear to watch Wu Feng treat the book poorly. He walked over, checked it up, then sighed a heave of relief after confirming that the book did not get damaged.
"Don't judge a book by its cover. You would not know what it contained if you never bother to read it. You could miss important information that might change your life." He softly advised.
Wu Leng Jing scrutinized the book's cover for a moment before continuing,
"the title of this book reflected the wisdom of the author. When everyone else writes a glorious title for their book filled with useless content, the author of this book instead used a title that provoked the reader's interest, yet infuriating at the same time.
The author must have wanted to use this as a test for the reader. This book might be a legendary book often mentioned in the novel- I mean record, that I often read. It must have contained unimaginably valuable information."
Wu Feng and Wu Yong looked at him with admiration. They had to admit they had been too hasty in their judgment.
Wu Leng Jing looked at the book solemnly, then sent his divine sense, intent to cover the secret of the book.
Bang!
He slammed the book back to the bookshelf with fury.
Wu Feng and Wu Yong watched with a loss for a moment, before exploding into laughter.
"BE QUIET!!!" A message transmitted over, accompanied by a suppressing aura.
"I am sorry. It was an accident." Wu Leng Jing transmitted back with a trembling voice.
"This is the last time. Once more and all of you will be banned from this library!" The voice transmitted again with a huff before the suppressing aura was withdrawn.
The trio swiped the cold sweat on their forehead.
"Alright, let's be more serious. Continue searching." Wu Feng whispered.
Wu Leng Jing finally did what he came here for.
"Brother Feng, I've read about the Five Elements theory. In the opinion of mine and the clan elders, the issue of your spiritual roots is the balance of the qi stored in dantian that nourished them before using the accumulated qi to transform them to breakthrough to the next cultivation realm."
"When other cultivators only need to accumulate one or two types of element qi, you need to accumulate and balance all five of them at the same time. This is like dividing your concentration in five, simply impossible. While there were cultivators with two different dominant elements spiritual roots, they only have to keep them like a weighing scale, concentrating on the balance. For cases like Wu Yong, you could just treat it as nurturing your lightning element."
Wu Leng Jing paused for a moment to glance at Wu Yong. The latter nodded. Then Wu Leng Jing continued,
"But in your case it is not that simple. You have to pay in mind the balance and the interaction between the five elements at the same time. When attempting breakthrough, a simple slip will make the five elements go into a destructive cycle, devouring each other until none left, the accumulated qi dissipating into nothing. When such an accident occurs, the cultivators in the past suffered from destroyed spiritual roots and meridians aside from their cultivation being crippled."
He said with a grim face. As he spoke further, his face was filled with sadness and sympathy to the point where he didn't dare to look at Wu Feng.
Wu Feng saw the care his brother showed. His lips curved with a carefree smile.
"It's alright. There must be a way. Just that there wasn't anyone who succeed yet did not mean that I can't. It is a number one under heaven spiritual roots after all. Of course it will not be easy. If cultivating this spiritual roots is easy, didn't it means this whole world has to bow down to me already?" He joked.
Wu Leng Jing sighed secretly, but he forced himself to smile. "You are right. No matter what, I will help you."
Wu Feng looked at him deeply. "Thank you brother."
"Ahem, don't forget about me. You could also count on me." Wu Yong said from the side.
Wu Feng slapped him in the shoulder.
Wu Leng Jing then stated his opinion. "Brother Feng, it might be hard to break through to the Nascent Soul realm, with our clan's resources and with the help of Pilgrim Mountain Sect it should be no problem to reach Golden Core stage."
"I know you cultivate our founder's cultivation art from the guidance of your grandfather, the Clan Master. Did His Excellency gave you advice on what magic arts to learn?"
Wu Feng pondered for a moment then replied, "no, grandpa only said that there was a conjecture that my spiritual roots can be used to combine five different magic arts with five different elements. But no successful record had been found. He told me to try it carefully."
Wu Leng Jing nodded. "Then let's try looking for five different techniques with the balance in mind. They should stem from the same philosophy, that is inner school or outer school, and soft styles or hard styles."
Wu Feng expressed his agreement. "You are right. Such detail almost escaped me. Having an encyclopedia following me is really not bad."
"Hmph." Wu Leng Jing only scoffed.
They then spread around to search suitable magic arts for Wu Feng.
After a couple of hours, they sat around a table. Sipping tea in the quiet room, Wu Feng said, "my good advisor, send me a good recommendations list later to my study room. I will put all of my thought and effort into whatever you recommend."
Wu Leng Jing glared at him. "Do it yourself! They are your own magic arts aren't they?"
Wu Feng shook his head, "tsk tsk, this advisor is unreliable. Alright then, let's look at our harvest."
There was a mountain of books on the table.
Wu Yong quietly reading a magic art book. His mouth was filled with osmanthus cake.
Wu Feng raised his eyebrows. "By the way, what is it you eat? Where do you get it? I thought we can't buy food in this building?"
"Oh, forgot. Here is your qiankun pouch." Wu Yong casually threw a beautifully embroidered, light blue colored pouch.
"My mother's cooking!" Wu Feng shot hot steam from his nose. He stowed away the qiankun pouch with a powerful swing of his sleeve.
"Thanks for the food." Wu Yong smiled, then sipping his tea with a blissful look.
Wu Feng glared at him. "Damn, watch your back later."
Then he started to carefully choose the books. "Come, advisor. Do your task! Help me sort this out!" He vented his anger on Wu Leng Jing.
Wu Leng Jing secretly gave a thumb up to Wu Yong before seriously helping Wu Feng picking some combinations of magic arts from different philosophies of schools and styles.
They sorted out a few combinations, then return to their own caves after making some copies on jade slips for further discussions.
Wu Yong apparently picked a magic art called Eight Changes of Heaven and Earth Lightning Fist. Despite the lengthy name, it was a magic art that focused on manipulating Yin and Yang aspects of Fire and Water spiritual roots to produce an electrocuting effect in his punch. Wu Yong did not pick any cultivation manual yet, still using Sky Pillar Lightning Manual from Wu Clan.
Wu Leng Jing chose a strange book which was titled "The Hammer of Eternity, Explosion is Justice Manual."
After arriving at his cave, Wu Feng reflected on some matters. He recalled the battle against the Black Hedgehog Bears which still made him shivered whenever it came to his mind.
"That is the might of high level Qi Condensation realm. Strong body and explosive power, a few times stronger than mine. If not for Lightning Coiled in Ring arrow father gave me, I would not even be able to pierce their body with normal sword if I do not infuse it with qi. Even with qi infused sword, I would only give them a small wound. But I would suffer heavy injuries from their attack."
"I have to get stronger. In the end, true strength came from within oneself. Relying on external sources like weapons and treasures have their limit. For example, I lost more than half of my arrows even though the enemies are only at Qi Condensation realm. If it was a soldier from the clan, one arrow is enough to kill each bear."
He took a deep breath. "Now I should increase my strength by doubling my effort in cultivation. I have to work harder than others, because I need to learn much more magic arts than them. Whenever I got lazy, remember the Black Hedgehog Bears!" He gave himself a motivation.
Unknowingly, he had practiced the most foundational attitude every pilgrim of The Pilgrim Mountain Sect must have.