Chapter 24: The Flame Tyrant Punch
Adriel sighed inwardly before saying, "I see, don't worry I'll try and remain cool for you"
Xanu smiled happily upon hearing that, "Xanu will take senior's words to heart!" She loudly said.
Adriel waved his hands, "stop with all that senior, senior stop, we are both outer sects disciples and I believe our ages aren't much different"
Xanu's face grew awkward after hearing that, she didn't mind calling him senior after all she joined the sect years after he was born and his status in the sect was special.
Seeing her hesitation Adriel thought of what might be the problem 'oh I forgot, she probably doesn't know my name' he secretly shook his head.
He smiled heartily at her before stretching his hands out for a handshake, "hi, I'm Adriel Long, nice to meet you Xanu"
Xanu was taken aback when she saw his hands so close to her, her cheeks and her ears grew redder from blushing.
She had a shy personality and usually didn't take initiative to interact with others, but today, after seeing her idol in the sect she summoned all her courage to speak to him.
She didn't have much expectation, to begin with, and even though he might ignore her after all he always looked cold and distant in his past heavenly tribulation
But surprisingly he told her his name! and he wanted to shake her hands.
Xanu was thrilled, she even felt some other fan girls were staring at her with envy.
After a brief hesitation, she shyly stretched her hands and shook his hands, "nice to meet you sen- no Disciple Adriel"
Adriel nodded before saying, "I would have loved to chat with you more but as you can see I still need to select 1 last technique."
After saying that he turned away from her and began scrolling through the different shelves.
Xanu watched as he moved further away with a smile on her tender face and prepared to return to her business but then she noticed something wrong and silently chased after Adriel again.
Soon she reached his side.
Adriel heard her footsteps and turned to look, when he saw her raised an eyebrow and thought 'what does she want, oh wait I forgot to sign her autograph"
He secretly shook his head.
Xanu didn't know his thoughts though, she just looked at his hands and said, "disciple Adriel you still chose that book"
Hearing her Adriel understood her concern, "you are still worried about this, don't be, my talent isn't only in cultivating, I'm also have monstrous comprehensive abilities "
Xanu wasn't convinced though as memories of her elder brother returning as a cripple many years ago flashed before her mind, she remembered her elder brother was confident about comprehending it too, just like Adriel.
She felt that Adriel's lack of experience in comprehending techniques caused him to undermine its difficulty and it might need up harming him.
So She opened her mouth to persuade him a bit more but Adriel stopped her, he shrugged his shoulders and said "it seems you have a history with this technique, I'll be fine, instead of worrying why not help me point out a very powerful offensive technique in this floor, I've checked through all this lightening attributed attack technique but I couldn't find any that suits me"
Xanu didn't refute him this time when she saw the resolute look in his eyes and knew he wouldn't change his mind, she thought of his Unrivaled cultivation talent and secretly prayed his comprehension was that good too.
Asides from that he asked her to help him pick, at least this way she could help him choose wisely.
Xanu nodded "okay I'll help you choose I already have one in mind"
Adriel was satisfied with and reply and asked "really?"
Xanu vigorously nodded her head "she took his hands and quickly began to move
Adriel followed her, they passed through different sections and different attribute skill areas.
In less than ten breaths they reached the other edge of the library's first floor and Adriel saw an ancient-looking stele about seven feet tall, with several names written on it, all these names emitted faint oppressive auras that quickly subsided after reaching Adriel
And at the foot of the stele was a scroll wrapped in red ribbons.
Xanu was a bit surprised that he remained indifferent to the auras coming for the stele but she didn't think too much of it and said " Ta-da! " while pointing both hands at the stele.
"What is this" Adriel couldn't help but ask.
Xanu expected his question so she briefly explained "This is the Library's first-floor Technique Mastery Stele, written on top of it are the names of the Sixty profound techniques, and a few hundred yellow techniques and the names signed under it are those predecessors that managed to reach at least first stage mastery of the any one of these skills after acquisition."
"So that's what it is " Adriel mumbled under his breath before stepping forward to take a closer look then he saw a name he recognized "uh, Fan Linxu's name actually appeared here many times," he said casually
Xanu's eyes shone hearing that name, the figure of ice-cold beauty appeared in her mind and she smiled in admiration before answering; " senior Fan Linxu is a once-in-a-generation genius with monstrously mad cultivation comprehensive abilities so it's not surprising her name is there, she even broke so many records of her predecessors especially ice attributed techniques and earned a lot of spirit stones while at it"
'As expected of that an Ice block with special physique, I wonder how many more records she will break when her physique advances, wait she gained spirit stones " Adriel's heart stirred slightly.
His eyes shone and he eagerly asked Xanu "you said she got spirit stones for breaking records?"
Xanu found his reaction odd but she answered anyway "yes she did"
'Woah! A way to gain some spirit stones appeared!" Adriel cried happily in his heart.
One of his greatest worries was spirit stones now that his mother was outside the sect. he only had 2500 rank 1 spirit stones on him, and he felt he would use more than half of it to break through a major realm, asides from that he would soon have other use for it like purchasing fierce beasts and even feeding them.
Thankfully Xanu couldn't hear his thoughts underwise she might have scolded him for overestimating himself.
Adriel quickly asked her a follow-up question, "say, how much did she earn after breaking all those records"
Xanu pondered a bit before saying, "I think the standard reward is twenty rank 1 spirit stones but if a disciple comprehension time surpasses the original ranking by three days additional ten ranks 1 spirit stone will be awarded and so on"
Adriel was more than satisfied with that number and he couldn't help but look at how many records Fan Linxu broke "7.8 and 9, wow that ice block got at least 180 rank 1 spirit stones for just comprehending techniques, not bad but your big bro, I can do better "
A sense of fighting spirit accompanied by the desire to acquire the rewards rose in his heart, all that was left is to choose a technique, He turned to look at Xanu and asked, "okay which technique do you think I should choose?"
Xanu smiled before picking the scroll on the floor, "This is the number one and most popular technique in our sect called the >The Flame tyrant Punch<, it is said after complete mastery of it one can easily destroy a gigantic mountain with just one punch!"
"The complete manual has 11 stages and is regarded earth grade technique, but because our cultivations are too low, he can only learn the profound grade level of it that only has 3 stages. But still, the offensive ability can't be underestimated, with it you can battle a minor realm above you"
"That's not all because it's popular, you can easily seak guidance for other disciples at a cost, so it's pretty easy to learn and the backlash from making any error while using