Guided by his spiritual sense, Shui Miao quickly discovered that, without exception, all these Book Immortals cultivated wood-element immortal energy.
It would be easy to deal with them using magical powers—just a big fire would do.
However, harming them would be problematic. Capturing them without causing damage was extremely difficult.
Therefore, the only way to deal with these little creatures was through wit.
“What does he mean?”
“Why is he asking again?”
“Is he an idiot…?”
“No, he might want to hurt us. Hey, aren’t you afraid of being punished by the Grand Justice?”
A group of Book Immortals started chattering, becoming somewhat wary.
“No, no, of course I’m afraid of being punished by the Grand Justice. I just want to befriend you all. I asked this way because I felt it was not fun that you were trying to trick me. I have more thrilling and fun places. Are you all brave enough to come play with me?” Shui Miao’s tone was mysterious and tempting.
“A more fun place? Do you plan to take us outside?”
“No, we can’t go outside. The immortals out there are wicked—they’ll kill us…”
“That’s right, we won’t go out. Never!”
The group of Book Immortals erupted into chatter again. They were both excited and nervously fearful. They had always wanted to go outside, but they had never had the chance to escape. This library was both their home and a prison confining them. Moreover, the Grand Guard who watched over the library always frightened them, saying how terrible the outside immortals were, scaring them into never daring to go out.
Shui Miao hurriedly waved his hands: “You’re thinking too much. I’m just a humble forger. I only want to befriend you all and learn some formation knowledge from you as your apprentice. I would never do anything that might harm you. Don’t worry. What I mean is, I have a world within my spiritual realm. You can go inside and play. If you don’t believe me, you can send a representative in first. If it’s not fun, you can still trick me later.”
“What is a spiritual realm world?”
“Is it dreaming?”
“I think not. If it were dreaming, why wouldn’t he just say so directly?”
“That’s right! Then what is it?”
“Could it be a magical treasure…”
A group of tiny Book Immortals began murmuring again.
“Ah…”
Shui Miao suddenly sighed and turned to leave.
Seeing Shui Miao walk away directly, the group of Book Immortals immediately fell silent. They looked at each other in confusion before chasing after him together. One chubby Book Immortal shouted, “Hey, where are you going? Don’t you want to learn formation secrets anymore?”
“I won’t learn anymore. I’ll just learn some simple ones. You guys just keep chattering pointlessly. I bet you don’t even know any powerful formations. Staying with you is just wasting my precious time.” Shui Miao waved his hand and directly went to a bookshelf, picking up a simple formation manual and starting to read.
“Hey, brothers, this kid looks down on us!”
“You brat, dare to underestimate us? I’ll show you what I can do…”
“That’s right, show him so he won’t look down on us anymore.”
“What do you want to compare…”
This group of Book Immortals was too innocent. They only excelled in formations, while in other aspects, such as scheming, they were as naive as blank sheets of paper.
“Who’s afraid of whom! Let’s compare!”
A sudden idea struck Shui Miao’s mind, and he immediately summoned the Tower of Time. “Can you all see this? This is one of my great treasures. Can you even recognize it?”
“This…”
The Book Immortals looked at the Tower of Time in confusion.
Their abilities were limited, and they couldn’t sense the formations inside the Tower of Time at all.
However, not long after, an older-looking Book Immortal approached. “Friend, does your tower perhaps contain a time-reversal formation?”
“Finally, someone who recognizes it. Haha, come on, I’ll let you all enter my treasure and evaluate my formations.”
With a thought, Shui Miao enlarged the Tower of Time, instantly encompassing everyone inside.
Then, Shui Miao activated the Time Array, reversing the time within the Tower of Time.
Three days wouldn’t be enough, but by using the Tower of Time, he could reverse time further, allowing him to learn many powerful formations.
“Where did you get this formation?” The slightly older Book Immortal was clearly shocked.
Shui Miao snorted disdainfully, giving a faint smile of contempt. “I know many formations. You still think of yourselves as treasures? How boring. If I had known you were all this bad, I wouldn’t have come in to read books at all.”
The older Book Immortal’s face turned red with embarrassment. After a pause, he couldn’t help but say, “Don’t get too happy too soon. The time array you obtained is only the upper volume. The truly exquisite formations are in the lower volume. Unfortunately, the lower volume has already been taken away by the Grand Justice. You won’t have the chance to learn it.”
“…”
The older Book Immortal was instantly taken aback. His thoughts quickly turned: “The reason I came to study the manuals was at the request of Mother Shuitianyi. The Grand Justice is merely an official; he wouldn’t dare to take the manuals on his own… Could it be that Mother Shuitianyi is playing some mind games with me, pretending one thing on the surface while doing another behind my back?”
“Hahaha…”
Seeing Shui Miao’s shock, the group of Book Immortals immediately became smug.
A quick-talking Book Immortal immediately said, “Kid, you’re still so arrogant. You don’t even know that the lower volumes of the three most powerful manuals here have already been taken away by the Grand Guard. One is the manual for controlling time arrays, one is the manual for cultivating life energy, and the other is the deadly array manual capable of destroying the Yuan Shen (soul) of life talismans.”
“Haha, now you can’t be smug anymore!”
“Look at him, he’s stunned…”
Each of the Book Immortals was extremely pleased.
What a scheming Grand Guard! Shui Miao’s heart was shaken as his thoughts raced, but suddenly he burst into loud laughter again.
The group of Book Immortals was confused.
“Kid, are you crazy? Why are you laughing for no reason?” An elder Book Immortal, puzzled by Shui Miao’s laughter, asked.
Shui Miao exhaled and said, “I’m extremely talented and intelligent. After seeing the first half, I can guess the second half. I’m sure your formations aren’t that mysterious.”
“Bragging!”
“Kid, you’re talking big without fearing that the wind might twist your tongue.”
“Exactly, you still claim you can guess the second half. Then why don’t you try guessing the second half of the Time Array?”
The Book Immortals were not convinced,不服气 and 不服输,不服气 and 不服输, and with many people offering suggestions, they soon presented Shui Miao with a difficult challenge.
Shui Miao scratched his head and smiled. “Except for the Time Array… I can definitely guess the other two formations.”
“Hehe, he’s still trying to fool us, thinking we’re fools.”
“Haha, exactly!”
“Brat, if you want to learn formation manuals, you won’t succeed with such a stupid method. We won’t teach you any formations.”
“He’s too naive, actually thinking we’d foolishly reveal our formations to him.”
“Haha, we’ve known about this trick for a long time…”
A group of Book Immortals actually saw through Shui Miao’s trick.
The reason was simple: back then, the Saint King Forger Luo Tong had used the same trick. Although these Book Immortals were innocent, they wouldn’t fall for the same trick twice.
“…”
These guys were indeed hard to deal with. Shui Miao was speechless for a moment, his mind racing. He had no choice but to resort to the Dream Demon Heart Method and the Devil Heart Method. Immediately, Shui Miao sat cross-legged on the ground, activating his innate magical treasure. With the help of the two artifact spirits, the Immortal Emperor, he was about to capture this group of Book Immortals.
Since wit couldn’t prevail, he had no choice but to rely on his strength to speak.
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