The library was huge and the flow of people entering it was huge too. All the disciples had to enter the library, if they wanted to grow. The combat techniques, cultivation techniques and science was all there gathered.
Alex learned from the introduction book of the Prafta Mansion, that the library had three floors. In the first floor were all the mundane science, mortal combat techniques and general knowledge. The second floor contained earth level combat techniques, which were the most important collection of books and also cultivation sciences and knowledge. The third floor was only for the core disciples and the elders of the Prafta Mansion, no one knew exactly which books were hidden there.
"Do you want to go directly to the second floor?" Asked Gabri when they entered. It was normal for the disciples to jump the first floor, because no one had interest in the mortal knowledge and combat techniques.
"No, I want to see through this books first. You can also learn something from here, the basis is always important." Alex said and then went to the next bookshelf and began to take book by book out and see through them. He was reading through them at the flash speed. It was as if he was playing with the books. Of course, this behavior from him attracted the attention of the other disciples, but Alex quickly used his magic mental control skills to make them ignore him. Only Gabri could see what he was doing the whole time and he was also shocked by the speed of this friend of his.
Gabri was on the other side very slow and he had to pick the books that really interested him and then read them slowly.
Soon, three hours passed and Alex also finished all the books in the first floor, he could be faster but he also took his time to pick some books for Gabri and explain him a few things.
Then both headed to the second floor and Alex began his speed reading again, but this time the books in the second floor were more thicker and the quality of the writings was also higher.
"There are the alchemy books, finally!" Alex had already read all the earth level combat techniques and the formation building books in the second floor. He had already mastered them too and also learned about the modern formation building technique, that were completely different from what he learned from the cave of the Saint Rat.
Alex opened the thick encyclopedia with all the spiritual plants known by the humans and he began to memorize them one by one. The spiritual plants were not like ordinary plants, they had a huge amount of QI inside them and they also cultivated a type of spirituality. As more QI they had as stronger the medicinal and strengthening abilities it had. These plants were exactly what the alchemist needed to produce the Pills.
Of course, this plants were very rare and could not be compared to ordinary plants. They all needed special environments to grow up.
"This plants are similar to some of the plants that appeared after the evolution of earth, so they are good to make the bones stronger." While memorizing the encyclopedia, Alex also was comparing the plants he saw on earth with these plants.
"While this world has already find out for what these plants are good, we are still experimenting. But with the technology of the earth, it will not take long before such an encyclopedia appears there too." Alex thought.
Then he followed with the techniques to produce the pills and also memorized the pills recipes he could find. But all these recipes were the common ones and not rare pills, because the recipes were even rarer than the earth level combat techniques and not everyone was able to use them. And the Pills were even more valuable than the combat techniques, because all the cultivators were obliged to buy pills if they wanted to breakthrough or to make their cultivation faster.
And after another 2 hours Alex has already memorized all the books in the second floor and was ready to go, but then he saw a small box in the lower part of the last bookshelf. Alex full of curiosity went down and took the box out and opened the box.
In the box were a few old books which were clearly in a bad shape. But Alex did not mind, he took the first book and began to read it. A few pages were missing, but Alex could reconstruct the book by his own and read the book. The first book was a earth level combat technique and was called the Holy Sword.
"Why is such a good technique here?" Alex did not understood why such a good skill was here. He had memorized all the earth level combat techniques, but this was clearly much better than all the others.
Then he took the second book and this was in worse shape than then Holy sword book and it was also pitch black. It was as if the book was burned but nobody dared to throw it away. Of course Alex was able to reconstruct the book in a few second and then he began to read the book.
"Wait, this is not an earth level combat technique, it is n´more advanced!" Alex realized after reading the book.
From what he learned, the techniques were separated in different levels: mortal, earth, sky and emperor. There were higher levels, but not in this world and only the legends spoke about those levels.
"the deepness of this technique is not something that should exist here, it is at the same levels as the formations in the inheritance cave of the Saint Rat. It could be said it is comparable." Alex deduced after finishing the book.
Then Alex quickly finished reading the other books, which were earth levels too and then said to Gabri: "I have to try a new technique, do you want to come with me?"