Chapter 203 - 100: We Walk the Same Path, but for You, Seeing Him Will Be like a Mayfly Gazing upon the Heavens

Chapter 203: Chapter 100: We Walk the Same Path, but for You, Seeing Him Will Be like a Mayfly Gazing upon the Heavens

"Magic... it really is wondrous."

Gazing at the Scripture Pavilion, which had been utterly transformed and expanded several times in size in just a single afternoon, a flicker of genuine wonder passed through Jiang Xuan’s eyes.

His Scripture Pavilion no longer resembled an ordinary loft. A towering Spirit Tree over thirty meters tall now shot up from the ground, standing gracefully beside his residence.

The Spirit Tree’s branches were lush and its leaves dense, its canopy like a great cloud. His newly expanded Scripture Pavilion was built among the layers of its sprawling branches.

From a distance, Jiang Xuan’s Scripture Pavilion looked like a treehouse Secret Realm where immortal spirits might dwell.

What was even more remarkable was that this Fragrant Spirit Tree—a gift from Xiao Ningxiang that Yan Shouzhuo had caused to Bloom with his Great Magical Power—possessed extraordinary effects of its own. The tree’s very wood had the power of Purifying Heart and cleansing the mind. It was perpetually wreathed in a clear, gentle fragrance that could soothe a Cultivator’s depleted Divine Soul and calm any mental agitation. The Dao Rhyme and gentle Magical Power it emanated also nourished and protected paper books, keeping them from rotting or being eaten by insects, looking new year after year.

With this Spirit Tree, it was safe to say that the daily maintenance of the Scripture Pavilion no longer required any of Jiang Xuan’s time or effort.

’I must find a chance to properly thank Elder Xiao and Elder Yan in the future.’

Although the treehouse Secret Realm, seemingly fit for immortal spirits, was wondrous, what Jiang Xuan truly valued was the vast ocean of books it contained.

’Eighty-four thousand volumes, plus my original collection... The total number of books in the Immortal Spirit Bookstore’—the name Jiang Xuan had given his Scripture Pavilion—’is now over ninety thousand, approaching one hundred thousand. The power of the Scripture Profound Daoist ? Pavilion Master can finally be fully unleashed today.’

After everyone had left, Jiang Xuan stood alone amidst mountains and seas of books, a profound sense of satisfaction filling his heart.

After savoring the feeling for a quiet moment, he closed the pavilion doors and activated the Restriction to completely seal the Scripture Pavilion. Then, without reservation, he activated his Talent: [Dialectical Paradox?Scripture Pavilion].

RUSTLE—

The instant he activated the ability, every book in the Scripture Pavilion began to move on its own, their pages fluttering endlessly despite the lack of wind. Countless Talismans in the form of characters, glowing with a faint blue-white light, rose from the pages. They flowed and danced throughout the vast treehouse with Jiang Xuan at their core, resembling an inverted river of stars.

HUMMM!

Empowered by the Dao Rhyme from over ninety thousand books, Jiang Xuan’s Spirituality and Comprehension skyrocketed, like a Kun-Peng breaking free of its chains.

Double, triple, quadruple, quintuple...

BOOM!

In a mere instant, his Spirituality had multiplied more than sixfold.

This was no simple sum of the Spirituality of six ordinary Cultivators. The surge in Spirituality brought Jiang Xuan a transformation so complete it was as if he had been reborn.

He could clearly sense that his understanding of all things, his ability to comprehend the supreme principles of the Dao, had risen to a previously unimaginable level.

Take memorizing texts and comprehending Magic, for instance. Before, without this boost, he would have to recite a volume repeatedly for a long time just to commit it to memory, inevitably with errors and omissions. He would then have to spend a great deal of time comprehending and refining the material to truly internalize its knowledge.

But now, under the empowerment of Sixfold Spirituality, he only needed to glance at an ordinary book for its true meaning to become clear in his Heart. The content was unforgettable after a single reading, and he could recite it forwards and backward.

His speed of reading and comprehending Magic was now the same as the speed at which he could flip through a book.

RUSTLE...

At one point, Jiang Xuan even used his Magical Power to suspend three books before him, reading and comprehending them all simultaneously.

Even so, his thoughts remained perfectly clear. He could cross-reference the principles within the three volumes, allowing them to complement one another and merge into a single, cohesive whole.

’So powerful. Is this what it feels like to be a genius? I feel like I understand everything... All the principles of the world are within my grasp!’

This feeling was, of course, an illusion. It was a false sense of omnipotence born from the sudden, drastic spike in his Spirituality.

But the exhilarating feeling brought by his Extraordinary Spirituality was still intoxicating, and Jiang Xuan reveled in it.

However, after a moment, his brow furrowed slightly.

He had discovered an anomaly. On his Professional Panel, his Spirituality remained stable at just over six times that of an ordinary person. It hadn’t soared to nine or even ten times normal as he had expected from the boost of ninety thousand books.

’So, does the Scripture Profound Daoist’s Spirituality boost have a cap? Is that cap sixfold?’

In the past, Jiang Xuan might have quickly jumped to that conclusion. But now, his mind, empowered by Extraordinary Spirituality, allowed him to keenly sense that something was amiss.

Therefore, he didn’t rush to a conclusion. Instead, he calmed his Heart Spirit and, within this Scripture Pavilion that belonged to him alone, continued to flip through and comprehend the texts.

RUSTLE...

The soft sound of fluttering pages echoed endlessly through the quiet treehouse.

Soon, the time it would take to drink a cup of tea had passed.

In that short period, Jiang Xuan had already read and fully absorbed more than ten volumes.

And it was at this moment that he finally understood why over ninety thousand books had ultimately granted him only a sixfold Spirituality boost.

’The Scripture Profound Daoist ? Pavilion Master is, after all, only a Purple-rank profession, and the Spirituality boost from the Dialectical Paradox?Scripture Pavilion Skill does indeed have a cap. But that cap isn’t sixfold—it’s eightfold, ninefold, or perhaps even twelvefold.’

’As for why over ninety thousand books only gave me a sixfold boost, the root cause is that there’s simply too much overlapping and shared knowledge and Dao Rhyme among these volumes.’

Although Jiang Xuan had deliberately chosen texts from different categories and with different names when selecting them from the central Scripture Pavilion, he now realized that even if the titles were worlds apart, the underlying principles and the foundations of the Techniques they contained had far too much in common.