During their conversation, Dracs learnt that the opening of the inheritance ground would be in less than three month and it was clearly good news for him.
With this amount of time he was confident to reach another sky, after all, this temple and Mausoleum were on a level far higher than the poor Forest of the Yellow Fish River.
While they were talking, the old ghost declared.
"You can become a disciple of my temple, of course your status could be peculiar considering the kind of power you hold. In fact I'm truly interested in taking you as my personal disciple, I can't say that I'm not intrigued by you."
Dracs felt chills but maintained a calm expression on the surface. In fact he didn't want to have anything binding him but on the other hand the offer was impossible to reject.
"It would be my honor to have a 'Teacher' as strong as you." He said on purpose.
"Ugh!"
The old ghost made an ugly face as if he had just eaten shit. It took him a couple seconds before returning to his calm demeanor.
~sigh~
"Alright, nevermind. You can take a look at everything in this room, copy them if you want but don't damage anything. All spells, skills, martial arts and cultivation methods of my temple are here, of course not all the secrets and high tier ones but that would be sufficient to prove your abilities. You can also find history books and so on."
Dracs looked at him seriously and said.
"What do I need to do, Teacher, there's another test?" Dracs said with a fake smile.
Yaikian's ghostly eyes flashed briefly and he said.
"Of course there is. As for being a disciple or a student you still have to succeed in subduing a ghost and make it yours. The method is not important, only the result."
"It sounds good. So where do I find a ghost?"
"This knowledge is in the books here, I'll be waiting for your success."
And like this, the old ghost flew through the wall and disappeared.
Dracs was ecstatic and couldn't wait a second to take a book on the shelf and open it on the spot.
However, he didn't take his time to read carefully and just flapped pages after pages like a madman while activating his system ability in order to record it in his virtual library!
And so, he repeated this process with all the books in the room and in less than one hour he had finally recorded more than three hundred books of all kinds!
He then compiled the knowledge and separated it into different categories and it was really refreshing!
Since he had arrived in this new world, it was the first time he had accessed so much knowledge and it was truly an incredible feeling.
He felt his system's part feasted on so much information that was like the best food.
Drac was so happy he almost cried.
First, he had now a better understanding concerning the Clan and the veracity of what the old ghost Taikian told him. The most important was of course the information related to the inheritance ground and Dracs didn't miss a single bit about it.
There was also the background of the Mausoleum, of course not entirely but it was a huge amount of information about its creation. It was said that the Mausoleum had been created a very long time ago, before the Dragon River Kingdom!
This Mausoleum was a real holy ground, because all the dead people of the region were buried here for thousands years, so of course the count was in millions!
In addition, with his power of deduction it was easy to extrapolate certain information and thanks to all the newly accumulated content he finally created a new ability. A virtual map.
[Virtual map (no cost): a map saved directly in the system, evolves over the places visited and new information acquired. The entire virtual map is accessible at any time.]
[Virtual map (evolved): Combined with the scanner and the high sensor, you can see all things within a radius of 100 meters.]
But that was only the beginning and he frantically launched a series of orders and the magic of the system kicked in.
"System, calculate the best technique for myself and for Taidian."
[DING]
[Host : Ghosts Subjugation Fire technique]
[Dracs : Body Prison of Thousands Ghosts]
Dracs nodded, he was particularly satisfied with this first result. He then continued.
"Select all the skills and spells that I can immediately use!"
[Call of the Ghost / Death Vision / Ghost Hand / Fire Chains]
[DING]
[Fire Chains can evolve into Corrupted Chains : cost 1,000cp...]
"Buy it."
[Corruption points (CP) : 23,245 -1,000]
[Are you sure? Y/N]
"Just do it." He nodded subconsciously.
[New sold : 22,345cp…]
[DING]
[Details : Except the Corrupted Chains, you need to cultivate related ghost technique to be able to use these new skills/spells]
He wasn't surprised at all about that and it was already a very good harvest. Furthermore, he could freely use the Corrupted Chains!
He couldn't be more than happy to have obtained a new related Corruption ability. But he didn't pause and continued his momentum.
"Pick the best martial arts that are the best to combine with the one I use right now."
[Calculating…]
[With your current power, you have already the best martial arts in your possession, others are weaker ones, irrelevant.]
"..."
"Disappointing…" He muttered while furrowing his eyebrows, a little confused.
At this moment he could only take a break and check the list manually, of course the system was right but he couldn't be careless about that. Around two hours later, he could only sighed.
The many martial arts related to the temple required to be at least in the Mortal Realm; other techniques were indeed weaker than his already possessed ones.
"At least, all these martial arts are now in the virtual library…"
After a while, pondering the previous failures, he tried one more time to find a solution about the new version of the bloodline. He then commanded the system with one more crucial task, hoping that this time he could obtain satisfying results.
"Use all your computing power and find creating a new bloodline ritual based on the ghost temple with the bloodline White Bat."
[Calculating…]
Dracs waited some time until he heard the usual sound of the system in his mind.
[DING]
[Prerequisite : reach the first level of the Body Prison of Thousands Ghosts]
[Ritual for the Corrupted Phantom White Bat bloodline : build a altar with a formation of 1,000 human's skulls, 1,000 white bats corpses, 1,000 chained ghosts, and a blood crystal made of white bat blood refined with ghost essence and corrupted with your power]
"..."
"Ahaha, at last, I succeeded! It seems quite interesting, I can't wait to test this ritual!" He shouted out loud in the small room.
This time Dracs thought that he won the jackpot. At last, he didn't even need to visit the purple pavilion in order to acquire the bloodline ritual technique because the system had created an entirely new ritual specially designed for his needs!
Unfortunately he didn't have all the resources and especially the white bats that could only be found at night in the Forest of Yellow Fish River, so he contacted the captain immediately. He said.
"Captain Gimmury, I don't have much time. I need you to find me around four hundres white bat corpses as soon as possible. I'll contact you again in a month, hoping to find you here. Good luck!"
The captain that was currently patrolling in the surroundings of the Mausoleum missed falling on the ground when he received the sudden order! He couldn't even react in time to answer because the conexion with his Master has been cancelled just like that.
He couldn't help cursing angrilly behind his gritting teeth.
"Master…!" He was on the verge of coughing blood!
"Atchow! Argh… it seems that someone is talking behind my back. Nevermind."
Inside the temple, Dracs was calculating maddly and planning his next course of actions. He was impatient to go catch his first ghost and with the new virtual map and the huge knowledge he'd just accumulated, he thought that he should be a walk in a park.
Only the white ghostly fog inside the Mausoleum wasn't something he could handle by himself. However, many other areas were far higher than his own cultivation so he knew he could only avoid them.
"Hmm. Having a follower would also be an additional safety in the Mausoleum. This Farek seemed to be a good disciple of this temple so it would be a good support for other tasks. I should ask about him accompanying me in the Mausoleum for future prospects."
All in all, it was a really good day but Dracs wasn't fully satisfied, so with a slight hesitation, he gave his last order.
"System, extrapolate the data and calculate the feasibility of creating my new body with the potential resources of the Mausoleum."
[Calculating…]
[Hypothese : need a strong special human bloodline to recreate a human body. Then you will need to create or corrupted this bloodline crystal estimated to be at the mortal core realm and merge with it and engage in a Reborn Ritual… more to come]
"Ahahaha, I will finally be able to live my own life without being a parasite! Quick, System, tell me how much time I have to cultivate to reach this Mortal Realm?"
[Calculating…]
[Impossible to calculate with the new ghost related cultivation technique. You need firstly to train in it]
"..."
"Alright, I think it's time to show my Master what the word cultivation means!"
Then , a loud laugh could be heard inside the temple.