Chapter 6 (1/2)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The Ren family library pavilion was massive. It was larger than any other national libraries that Ren Jie had been to in his previous life. It was an architecture that was constructed without any land constraints. However, Ren Jie was not concerned about this anymore.
He strode towards the library pavilion. To successfully execute a job, one must first sharpen his tools. Ren Jie did not have any earth-shattering plans, but there was no way he was going to muddle along in life like the previous Ren Jie.
Otherwise, there might come a day when he was targeted by someone and had his head smashed, or he might be treated as a young emperor and be bullied again. Those were situations that Ren Jie definitely could not tolerate.
As he entered the library pavilion, he was astounded by the variety of books in the library. He quickly discovered a satisfying thing. It was different now that he was no longer an ordinary person. He did not have to spend much effort on finding anything. The moment he stepped in, a house manager assembled a team of more than a hundred servants in the library and welcomed him at the door.
Ren Jie entered a large, open and luxurious room. The room had a faint scent that rejuvenated the mind. The decorations in the room were also carefully chosen. Every type of drink and dessert was available.
He could simply voice out whatever book genres he wanted to read and there would be people streaming in with the books he needed in no time.
He ordered them to bring more than a hundred books of different genres all at once and told them to place them aside. He got everyone to leave afterward. If only there was a beautiful woman beside me now…
Thinking about beautiful women, the image of the beautiful naked body uncontrollably floated into his mind. However, when he recalled the pale and chubby fatty Gao Ren, he shook his head immediately.
No. I have to find a way to find out about this. What is going on exactly?
He calmed himself slightly. Afterward, Ren Jie picked up a book regarding the history of the Clear Jade Dynasty to find out who the current emperor was first. It was unbelievable how oblivious the original Ren Jie was about the current emperor given that he was the family head of one of the five largest aristocratic families. Somewhere deep within his memories, he seemed to recall that the emperor even attended his inauguration. How could he only know the word “emperor” and not the emperor’s name and title and other simple historical facts? He’s so f*cking impressive.
Ren Jie’s fixated his sight on the page for merely a few seconds, the time needed to read a line on the page in normal circumstances, before miraculously finding that he could remember everything on the page clearly.
Did I finish ten lines in one gaze? No, I was faster than that. It felt as though I had scanned the entire page. This is unbelievable. The thing was, he could still remember every word that he read in his brain. Ren Jie himself was surprised as well. Could the original Ren Jie have been a hidden genius?
Impossible. From my recollections, the original Ren Jie would turn sleepy every time he started reading. He could snooze before he finished two lines. He never read.
Moreover, I am an ordinary person too. I was never an extraordinary genius. Why is this happening now?
Ren Jie was shocked by his ability. He flipped through a few pages and took a quick look at each of them. Afterward, he closed the book and tried to recall what he saw. Eventually, he found that he could even clearly remember every single punctuation and every mark left by people who browsed through the book.
At that instant, Ren Jie had a delusion that his brain had transformed into a computer. Speaking of computers, Ren Jie’s divine sense twitched. He went into his mind to check on the computer there. Nothing had changed in his mind. His brain was not connected to the computer.
Ren Jie himself was confused, but he was internally slightly excited and thrilled because of how amazing that feeling was. He sped up his reading and could finish a thick book in less than twenty minutes. The further he progressed into the book, Ren Jie found that he could actually guess many of the content.
His mind had never been clearer than it was now. Ren Jie could figure out many of the subsequent events from the few records of the historical battles. Even if the line of events were different from what he had thought, he could come up with a range of possible changes that could occur.
At that moment, Ren Jie gradually discovered that his perspectives when reading or analyzing things had changed as his divine sense became stronger than normal.
He went to search up on books relating to cultivation, memory, understanding, and aptitudes. From the various sources, he found out that he was showcasing the traits of people with high aptitudes. His talent was out of the world and was similar to that of geniuses mentioned in the legends. Legends from the prehistoric times claimed that those who truly had high aptitudes could teach themselves how to ponder over the Heaven and Earth.
Aptitude. Clear mind. Ren Jie suddenly understood something. The real change that happened to him was a result of the fifteen minutes spent in his computer after he experienced a rebirth in this body. Before then, he found that absorbing the original Ren Jie’s memory was an excruciating and slow process that gave him a throbbing headache. After that fifteen minutes, he found that he could complete the absorption in a split second and his brain became clearer than it had ever been before.
When he had the outburst in the conference hall, the reason why he was able to make the elders speechless and afraid to quarrel with him despite the limited information he had was that he could clearly summarize the necessary information in his brain.
The Clear Jade Dynasty had been established for more than ten centuries. However, it was not truly considered an ancient country. History was immensely extensive; solely the written records had been around for more than a hundred centuries. The period of time a hundred centuries before was known as the Pre-Jade times. The records about then were scattered and incomplete. After thousands of years of chaos, many things were missing. All that was known about the Pre-Jade times was that there was only one dynasty that existed in the legends. It was the biggest dynasty ever established. Many historical remains that could be found now were related to that dynasty.