The Terrifying Path of Immortal Cultivation

Li Qing manipulated the shadows, silently slipping into a crevice, where he found a stone slab about three inches thick.

The back of the stone slab was connected to some strange mechanical structures, allowing the slabs to interconnect and operate at any time, forming a mechanism.

This was a profound mechanism that transformed the entire space into a peculiar movable structure.

The shadows slowly advanced along the interior of the mechanism, quickly passing through a large area and slipping into another crevice.

In front of him appeared a large area filled with bookshelves, displaying various books.

Li Qing began to act, quietly touching these books.

Soon he discovered that some of the books were ones he had read before, while others were unfamiliar to him.

The unfamiliar ones were almost all related to the True Law Realm.

"What good luck."

The shadows began to move, swiftly searching through the entire library like a mouse in a granary.

Time passed by, and an hour went by in the blink of an eye.

A wave of prohibition fluctuated, and Li Qing's heart trembled, waiting for the power of the prohibition to arrive.

An invisible force swept over him, without any discord.

"Indeed feasible, then it's easily resolved."

He had already figured out some of the secrets of the entire library's structure.

There were specialized reading rooms on the left and right sides.

Behind the walls were categorized bookshelves.

Readers who wanted to read any book would be controlled by Xu Lao from the outside, who would allocate the books from the back and then allow people to enter the reading rooms.

The overall structure of the library consisted of a left reading room, a right reading room, and a large area of bookshelves at the back.

It took Li Qing an hour to sweep through all the books, and he was surprised to discover something.

There were no cultivation techniques or spells from the True Law Realm, only some information related to the True Law Realm's cultivation.

Such as insights, various mysterious places in the Nine Provinces, stories known only to those in the True Law Realm, and some esoteric knowledge.

This part only accounted for a very small portion of the entire library, with a total quantity not exceeding 500 books.

"There must be more in the library than just these few things. It seems that there are still books hidden in deeper places."

At this point, he was running out of time.

After some thought, he manipulated the shadows to slip into the crevice in the ground and head underground.

Below was a mechanism room about three meters high, and he also had some understanding of mechanism arts.

It seemed that there was another library below the mechanism room, also composed of many strip-shaped partitions.

Just as his shadow entered the mechanism room, a wonderful prohibition force appeared in front of him, directly blocking him.

Li Qing realized it was not good, and in an instant, the shadow disintegrated into black dust.

A cold thought silently appeared here, scanning back and forth without finding any presence.

"Huh? Could it be an illusion?"

In Li Qing's room, he felt a little nervous.

"Very powerful."

"It turns out that there is a prohibition protecting the mechanism room, and it's not easy to get through."

"If it's a prohibition, I need other means."

...

Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and Li Qing once again purchased 100 sheets of talisman paper.

He was studying a new talisman - the Ten Thousand Transformation Talisman.

This was a special talisman that allowed the user to blend into any prohibition without alerting it, breaking through the restrictions of the prohibition.

According to the results optimized from the "Encyclopedia of Talismans of the World," the more talismans used, the stronger the blending power produced, as it was a stackable talisman.

Among the 3,000 different talismans in the "Encyclopedia of Talismans of the World," most were auxiliary types, and attack types were very rare, and their power was not particularly strong.

Obviously, these talisman crafting methods were at the Foundation Building level and were not particularly powerful.

"The prohibition in the mechanism room is very powerful, probably a very profound prohibition. To break through, I can only do so by stacking quantities."

Prohibitions were individually explained in a chapter in the "Encyclopedia of Miscellaneous Studies of the World."

This was a force formed by attaching Essence Qi or mana to an object.

Like a network, it could resist any external force and emit various alarms. Because it attached to various materials, it had considerable flexibility.

Although not as powerful as formations, it far exceeded them in versatility. And it didn't require any external objects.

It was deployed in many places, a low-cost, almost permanent force.

Li Qing focused on the study of the Ten Thousand Transformation Talisman, while the other shadow paper figures were not idle.

They continued to monitor all the dangerous targets within the city.

However, due to the insufficient number of shadow paper figures, they took turns monitoring the targets.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and the Blood Demon Seed once again devoured two monsters from the Demon-Sealing Palace.

With one more, the Blood Demon Seed could be catalyzed at any time.

A lot had happened in these three days.

First, the shadow figures discovered some inexplicable figures appearing around those problematic individuals, secretly monitoring them.

Among them were even practitioners of True Law Realm or higher realms.

His shadow paper figures had also been discovered, but they would self-destruct the moment they were discovered.

At the same time, some new faces appeared in the academy.

From Zheng Lao, he learned that these were underground academy instructors who had returned from their travels.

It was said that the Master was going to hold a debate, so they were called back.

Li Qing naturally knew that things were not that simple.

Recently, he also found that there was often an inexplicable sense of surveillance in the Jixia Academy, as if someone was monitoring it.

Thanks to his "Six Senses Reaching the Heavens and Investigating All Paths," he could accurately sense this kind of hidden observation.

In his room, he used a prohibition to construct a barrier.

This barrier effectively blocked this surveillance, and the other party did not seem to have any intention of forcibly monitoring him.

Li Qing had roughly figured out the Master's arrangements.

The other party had prepared a large number of personnel to tail all the suspicious individuals within the city.

He wrote a new record book, "Master's Counterattack Plan Against the Demon Cult."

Old Version

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New Version

"The Master has arranged for people to tail all the problematic individuals."

"The Master has discovered the Blood Demon Seed, but has not eliminated it. On the contrary, he is indulging the Blood Demon Seed and continuing to feed it."

"The purpose is to use this conspiracy to lure out the high-level members of the Demon Cult who want to target him."

"Then, using all the power of the Jixia Academy, he plans to ambush and kill the high-level members of the Demon Cult in Dragon Path City, completing a counterattack."

Li Qing silently looked at the Jade Tablet, where the Master's plan had been detailed.

Li Qing smiled faintly, "This is an opportunity."

"Since it's an all-out effort, the defense of the library should weaken."