835 Long Time No See (1/2)
There were several hundred floors in Guardian Pavilion and every floor had countless jade scrolls. There were also a huge number of runes on every scroll so it was a difficult task to remember all of these runes.
'To do a good job, the best tools are needed. If we were to memorize them one by one, how long will we have to take?'
Qin Mu sat on the steps and he stared at Lin Xuan, Xiao Chunfeng, and Yu Hongxiu hurrying to and fro, trying to memorize the runes in the jade scrolls. Yu Hongxiu had already come back to her consciousness but she still had to rest for half a day in order to return back to her normal mental state.
She also knew the intentions of Dao Ancestor and planned to fake her death as well after leaving this jade building, thus she began to memorize the runes along with the rest.
Memorizing the arrangements of the runes on one floor was already a terrifying amount to memorize. The arrangements of these runes could construct the structure of an ancient god's Great Dao so one could well imagine how complicated it was. It was very difficult to achieve this just by memory alone.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
Even if they were people with outstanding intellect, it would still take them ten days to half a month just to memorize one floor.
Moreover, the runes of the ancient god's Great Dao at the bottom level were still considered simple. When it comes to the level of the four deities, the amount to memorize was dozens to hundreds of times more than the levels at the bottom.
When it comes to Heaven Duke, Earth Count, Mother Earth, and Celestial Emperor, the amount to memorize would probably increase several folds again.
Just by memorizing them and not making any mistake, one would probably have to stay here for a few hundred or even a few thousand years. Qin Mu would never stay here for so long.
The most crucial point was still that Guardian Pavilion was an extremely important construction in the celestial heavens so anyone from the celestial heavens could drop by anytime. Dao Ancestor wouldn't let them stay here for so long.
The longer they dragged this out, the greater the danger they would be in.
This also meant that they had to memorize all of the runes in the building in just a few days and leave.
Qin Mu rested his checks in his palms and fell into a daze.
Dao Master Lin Xuan, Xiao Chunfeng, and Yu Hongxiu were all in a frenzy as they quickly browsed through the jade scrolls to memorize with everything they had. The three of them would sneak glances over from time to time and yet they saw Qin Mu still sitting there without an ounce of panic.
The three of them were bewildered.
Not long later, Xiao Chunfeng came to his senses. 'It's impossible for me to memorize all of the runes in Guardian Pavilion with such a short time, I'm not that intelligent nor do I have such a strong memory. Therefore, I want to choose the best and that is the runes of Celestial Emperor's Great Dao. The best solution for me would be to memorize the runes of Celestial Emperor's Great Dao!'
Once he came to his senses, he immediately left this building and headed for the top.
At the same time, Dao Master Lin Xuan also came to his senses. 'I can't memorize so many floors so I have to extract the basic runes of these ancient gods and turn them into serial numbers, arranging them into one, two, three, four, five... In that way, I just need to memorize the several hundred runes and then memorize the arrangements of the serial numbers. In that way, I will be able to memorize the rune system of an ancient god's Great Dao in the fastest time!'
He was slightly excited and immediately started to number them.
Yu Hongxiu's eyes started to turn blurry and she suddenly came to her senses as well. 'I'm learning from South Deity, I'm also a vermillion bird half-god, what's the point of me memorizing the runes of other ancient god's Great Dao? Because of the different characteristics, cultivating their runes would only make me spend twice the effort for half the result!'
She immediately headed for South Deity's floor.
The three of them got busy while Qin Mu continued to sit on the steps of the first floor, lost in his thoughts.
The three of them had no time to straighten him out so they went on with their own work. Not only later, they peeked at Qin Mu when they took a break and saw that he had already stood up. He took out a bunch of calculation tools, brush, ink, and paper. He was writing and painting, activating his calculation spirit weapons to calculate some difficult questions.
The three of them rested for a moment and they went off to memorize their runes of the Great Dao.
When their brains couldn't handle it anymore, they took a break again and now they saw Qin Mu setting up a smithy and taking out a pile of divine metal. He raised the fire in the furnace and stuffed a crystal of heavenly fire in the furnace fire to smelt the divine metal.
The three of them were puzzled but they didn't have time to care about him. They rested for a moment before going back to what they were doing.
Clang, clang, clang.
Sound of hammering metal came from the bottom of the building and the three of them were more and more puzzled. They popped their heads out and saw Qin Mu forging the god statue of an eight-armed devil god. He summoned a spirit for that god statue that came to life. The god statue grabbed eight huge hammers and began to hammer a huge chunk of divine metal.
Meanwhile, Qin Mu executed devil fire divine art, god fire divine art, and yin water divine art to continuously temper that chunk of divine metal.
The three of them kept quiet and continued to memorize diligently.
Sometime later, when Qin Mu was still forging, the hammering sounds was so noisy that the three of them couldn't concentrate.
Yu Hongxiu couldn't take it any longer and she hardened her heart. She popped her head out and shouted upward, ”Senior Brother Xiao, the one with the surname Qin has gone crazy, he doesn't want to learn and he's not letting us learn as well. Let us get rid of this guy!”
Xiao Chunfeng was also rather irritated by the noise. He hesitated for a moment before shaking his head. ”We can't. You aren't a match for Lin Xuan and even though I'm no weaker than him, if he works together Lin Xuan, I will also die.”
Quite sometime later, Lin Xuan's head was also swelling from the noise and shouted downward. ”Cult Master Qin, settle down a little! You're too noisy!”
Xiao Chunfeng popped his head out from above and he cried out. ”Dao Friend Lin, we are both from Dao Sect so we are senior and junior brothers, why don't we work together to get rid of this Lunatic Qin! Sharpening the ax will not interfere with the cutting of firewood, by getting rid of this Lunatic Qin, we can memorize even faster!”
Yu Hongxiu also popped her head out and nodded repeatedly, ”This guy is not putting in any effort and not letting us memorize, how nasty! Let us get rid of him first then we can learn in peace!”
Dao Master Lin Xuan shook his head and said, ”Stop talking nonsense, Cult Master Qin always has his own idea when he does something, there's definitely a reason for him to be doing so. I'm just asking him to be quieter.”
Qin Mu was still there hammering away. That eight-armed devil god statue had already been reduced to scraps and thrown into the taotie sack by him. He was doing it personally now and his speed wasn't slow as well.
Lin Xuan looked down and saw that Qin Mu was forging a mirror. He was hammering runes of creation into the mirror to expand more and more space inside the mirror.
”What is he doing?” Dao Master Lin Xuan took a look and couldn't understand so he continued to memorize the runes.
Another one to two more days later, they got used to the hammering sounds and even though it was noisy, it couldn't affect them anymore.
Suddenly, the hammering stopped and the three of them were driven mad. They popped their head out and Yu Hongxiu stared with her eyes wide open. She was about to say something when Dao Master Lin Xuan roared angrily, ”Scumbag Qin, why aren't you hammering anymore? If you don't hammer, we can't calm down!”
Yu Hongxiu couldn't resist and burst out into laughter. ”This Dao Master Lin is always so mature and earnest, I didn't expect his temper to be even more explosive than mine.”
Qin Mu was currently sweeping the ground and he cleaned everything up without leaving a trace. He raised his head and said, ”I'm done hammering. Wait a moment, I'll come up after I finish sweeping the floor.”
After a moment, he lifted up a mirror with his vital qi and went up the second floor. The three of them looked at him and saw Qin Mu using his vital qi to sweep up the jade scrolls. The jade scrolls opened up and shone towards the mirror.
Next, Qin Mu placed the jade scrolls back to their original positions and climbed up to the third level.
They saw him repeating the same actions again and not long later, he climbed up to the floor where Lin Xuan was on.
Dao Master Lin Xuan looked towards the mirror and was astonished. He saw jade scrolls that were opened up in the mirror and the runes of the Great Dao could be seen clearly on the scrolls.
These jade scrolls were arranged neatly in rows and he could check the rune markings on the jade scrolls anytime.
”Stop memorizing.”
Qin Mu arranged the jade scrolls from the bookshelves in the air and shone the mirror at them. He said with a smile, ”Even if I give you a hundred years, you can't memorize every single level. Moreover, if you memorize wrongly, you also won't know where you are wrong at.”