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The flying cart lands amidst the impressively big compound, which you feel is unchanged since your first visit two years ago. Masters congregate to welcome your group - two of which stands particularly out.
"Hawk Master! This young disciple congratulates you for breaking to fourth realm!
- <span class="mu-b"><span class="mu-s">I am no longer your Hawk Master boy. Call me Jin Wei. You seem to have grown quite a bit. Now, you seem to get on better with the broody boy...</span></span>"
The lithe and sharp middle-age man, with white hair, striking blue eyes and a prominent hook nose, was the one punishing the two of you to shovel manure for several month, taking away precious cultivation time in the process. There's a second man you know among the Thousand Beast's masters :
"Hello Wolf Master. Congratulation for joining the higher sect... The spear technique you taught me suits me very well, thank you.
- <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-r">Oh? Have you find some of its secrets</span></span>?
- Yes, I can summon the Blood Shadow Wolfs...
- <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-r">Good, good... I wish I had a disciple half talented as you seem. You had a lucky crop, Ryota!</span></span>
- <span class="mu-s">You don't know how much.</span>
- <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-r">Anyway... You have a bounded Wolf Spirit? No? Well, I'd advise you to check the treasury for a spirit with Blood and Shadow affinities. I'll teach you a neat trick.</span></span>
- Thanks a lot for the offer, Master. Sadly I'll have to decline - there is some other thing more attuned to my Dao I have to search for if I have access to the treasurery..."
Indeed, you all split and get to have a pick among the Spirit Beast collection, the sect's treasurery and the sect's library. Rules are simple : you wander in, and pick whatever you like, according to how right it feels.
You close your eyes, focusing on a feint echo resonating with your very soul. The library is where you will find your pick.
You wander around the alleys filled with scrolls, manuals, tablets and even handkerchieves. Using your nose, you smell the techniques are not order in any sane way - some fifth-stage weapon techniques, requiring amount of Qi simply unfathomable for a lowly second stage as you, are just laying side by side with body foundation techniques, without any common keywords.
Is that a way to hide the strongest techniques? Or maybe avoid a young cultivator such as yourself stockpiling similar techniques.
That won't stop you, as you walk the several-floor maze. Following your guts, you <span class="mu-s">Jump</span> to the third floor, take right, then left, then front, then left again. Here, your hand grasp a scroll. A claw-like hand clamp on your shoulder, and a white-mustached elder tells you "<span class="mu-s">Got your pick. Time to get out</span>"
You haven't seen or felt the bald man's presence before. You follow his instruction and get out of the building.
