However, after leaving the courtyard and looking at the vast mountains surrounding Sunset Gorge, Yang Che realized he had been too hasty.
The Senior Brother who had brought him here earlier had done so by stepping on a Magical Artifact.
And according to that Senior Brother, Sunset Gorge was the furthest place from the central great hall within the entire Wulong Valley and had the poorest Spiritual Qi.
To go to the Sect's library, it seemed he first needed to learn how to control a flying Magical Artifact.
Thinking of this, Yang Che reached for the Storage Pouch at his waist, injected a trace of magical power, and immediately locked onto the leaf-shaped flying Magical Artifact inside, taking it out with a thought from his Divine Sense.
This leaf-shaped flying Magical Artifact was not large, only big enough for one person to stand on.
Its shape was very similar to the leaves of the locust tree his grandfather had planted when he was a child, so Yang Che directly named it 'Locust Leaf Magical Artifact'.
With magical power injected into it, the Locust Leaf Magical Artifact slowly floated at his feet.
After carefully stepping onto it, Yang Che was extremely worried if he would fall off with a sudden acceleration.
Casting an Object Control Technique, the Locust Leaf Magical Artifact began to wobble and twist.
When it rose into mid-air, Yang Che's body suddenly swayed, scaring him into quickly lowering his center of gravity, spreading his feet apart, and feeling stable before increasing his magical power to control the Locust Leaf Magical Artifact beneath his feet to fly slowly, circling above Wangxi Residence at a snail's pace.
It took a full hour of practice for Yang Che to completely learn how to control this Locust Leaf Magical Artifact.
However, it was already late, and although Yang Che had learned to control the flying Magical Artifact, he also realized that due to his insufficient magical power, he could not make the flying Magical Artifact go fast.
And his stomach was also a bit hungry, so Yang Che put away the Locust Leaf Magical Artifact and returned to the courtyard.
He took out the last remaining small pancake from his leather pouch and ate it with clear water.
Then Yang Che turned over the soil in the idle field again and moved some soil to the back of the courtyard near the mountain wall, where he specifically built a small nursery bed and replanted the root system of the nine-leaf dark yang fruit.
“It would be great if I could get some spirit liquid and Spiritual Soil,” Yang Che murmured to himself.
After tidying up, he walked into the wooden house bedroom, sat cross-legged on the bed, and took out a white jade bottle.
It was the jade bottle containing the Eight Treasures Pill.
There were originally nineteen Eight Treasures Pills inside; he had consumed one when he broke through the Qi Refining second-layer Bottleneck, leaving eighteen.
At this moment, Yang Che unhesitatingly took another one, then immediately circulated the Purple Origin Art and began to Cultivate.
He didn't sleep all night, Cultivating until dawn.
Feeling that his magical power had improved again, Yang Che became increasingly fascinated by the efficacy of the Eight Treasures Pill.
The Pill Formula and refining steps for the Eight Treasures Pill were in the Alchemy Notes, so Yang Che decided that in addition to Cultivating, he should also start learning Alchemy from now on.
Otherwise, after this bottle of Eight Treasures Pills was consumed, there would be no more Medicinal Pills to enhance his cultivation.
Next, Yang Che continued to Cultivate until noon, and when the medicinal power was almost refined, he stepped onto the Locust Leaf Magical Artifact and slowly flew towards the central great hall.
With his 'snail-paced flight,' it took him nearly two hours to reach the Sect's central great hall.
The central great hall had many side halls, including the library and the Exercises transmission hall.
Yang Che did not rush into the library but instead found the 'Hundred Crafts Hall' nearby, where he first registered for miscellaneous tasks and received one hundred portions of 'Puyu Yellow' Seeds.
This meant that in half a year, Yang Che had to submit one hundred mature 'Puyu Yellow' plants to the Sect. If the submitted quantity was correct, he would receive corresponding Sect contribution points.
The reason Yang Che chose 'Puyu Yellow' was that this relatively common hemostatic herb was, firstly, easier to Cultivate, and secondly, it grew quite vigorously, which would easily provide cover if planted next to the nine-leaf dark yang fruit.
After collecting the Seeds, Yang Che found the library and walked in.
A thin middle-aged Cultivator sat leisurely on a large chair, holding a classic text and reading it with great interest.
Seeing someone enter, his eyes immediately lit up, and his face was full of smiles as he asked, “Are you here for Cultivation Techniques?”
Yang Che shook his head.
“Then are you here for Pill Formulas?”
Yang Che still shook his head.
“Then you must be here for Spells,” the thin middle-aged Cultivator's smile grew even wider.
However, Yang Che still shook his head.
The smile on the thin middle-aged man's face froze, and he then asked somewhat unhappily, “Then what are you here for?”
Yang Che cupped his hands and bowed to the middle-aged Cultivator, slowly saying, “Senior, do you have any classic texts about Immortal Roots?”
Upon hearing this, the middle-aged Cultivator guessed that the young man in front of him was another new Disciple who had just entered the valley.
There had been quite a few new Disciples like this young man coming to the library recently; they were all 'Cultivation novices' who knew nothing and just wanted to understand common knowledge about Cultivation.
The middle-aged Cultivator had seen many such Disciples and knew they didn't have much wealth, so he immediately lost interest and casually pointed to a very small 'door' nearby, saying indifferently, “Go through that door; the books inside are free to read.”
Yang Che quickly thanked him, then immediately walked through the small door, finding that there were already many Disciples inside, but all were very quiet, as if no one dared to speak loudly.
Yang Che's eyes lit up, and he felt a surge of excitement, then carefully looked around and decided to start from one side of the bookshelf and slowly browse.
Time flew by as Yang Che read ravenously, forgetting to eat and sleep.
It wasn't until his stomach rumbled that Yang Che was startled, returning from the world of the classics to the reality before him.
He suddenly remembered that there seemed to be one last Grain Abstinence Pill.
So he took it out and ate it directly, then continued to immerse himself in the profound world of the classics.
More than ten days passed quickly.
Yang Che then stood up with an extremely solemn expression, slowly closing the last page of a yellowed classic.
In about half a month, Yang Che had learned too much about the Cultivation World that he had never heard of before.
Especially the dusty, very inconspicuous yellowed scroll in the corner, which actually allowed him to find a description of Mutated Immortal Roots.
However, after reading it, his mood was very heavy.
Whether in the ancient Cultivation era or now, most Cultivators possessed one or several Five Elements attribute Immortal Roots, and only a very small number possessed Mutated Immortal Roots.
Five Elements attribute Immortal Roots were very common, while mutated Immortal Roots were very rare, especially Mutated Dual Immortal Roots, which were extremely rare.
Cultivators with Mutated Dual Immortal Roots had extreme difficulty in Foundation Establishment due to the special nature of their Immortal Roots.
However, in the ancient Cultivation era, Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was incredibly dense, and Heaven And Earth Treasure could be found everywhere. Cultivators with Mutated Dual Immortal Roots were instead called 'Heavenly Chosen Cultivator' and had the opportunity to bathe in 'Heaven's Grace' once.
After bathing in Heaven's Grace and successfully establishing their Foundation, whether it was Core Formation or Nascent Soul, they were more powerful than Cultivators of the same stage.
However, in today's Cultivation era, due to the extreme scarcity of resources and the thinness of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, which is far inferior to ancient times, 'Heaven's Grace' has disappeared for who knows how many years.
Therefore, Cultivators with Mutated Dual Immortal Roots nowadays cannot bathe in Heaven's Grace. During Foundation Establishment, the two mutated Immortal Roots will undergo an incredible mutual consumption, making it thousands or tens of thousands of times harder than for ordinary Cultivators to establish their Foundation.
Under such difficulty, Foundation Establishment is simply impossible to succeed, which also makes Mutated Dual Immortal Roots an Immortal Root of uncertain Aptitude in today's era.
And what 'Heaven's Grace' actually is, almost no Cultivator knows anymore.
