CHAPTER 62: CHAPTER 61: VERSION UPDATE BEGINS

Lu Yan immediately lifted his spirits, reaching out to leaf through the tome mostly burnt by flames.

The contents were already blurred, but upon careful discernment, Lu Yan could still vaguely confirm that this seemed to be a spell, complete with a cultivation route map and corresponding spell instructions.

Lu Yan attempted to run the cultivation technique according to the cultivation route map. Upon modification, the "Red Lotus Karma Fire Scripture" was triggered, and Lu Yan immediately sensed the trace of merit within being invoked.

Lu Yan was overjoyed. Ordinarily, spells could not possibly invoke merit. Only exceedingly rare merit divine techniques could borrow the power of merit to derive endless wondrous uses.

"I suppose the person who organized the tomes back then had no merit, and running the cultivation route map yielded no feedback. Coupled with the tome being mostly scorched, this led to it being seen as an incomplete tome and discarded on the third layer."

"The only pity is that this tome is too heavily burnt. Aside from the cultivation route map barely remaining intact, the rest of the spell instructions and techniques are completely destroyed.

To completely reproduce the merit divine techniques would inevitably require considerable time, and some areas may not be fully restored."

Lu Yan felt a little regretful in his heart.

However, from another perspective, if not for this tome being burnt to such an extent, it wouldn’t have waited for Lu Yan to seize the opportunity here.

Even the lowest level of merit divine techniques is an extremely precious legacy. Even if no one in the Cyan Simurgh Sect can cultivate it, it wouldn’t be placed casually on the lower levels of the Scripture Pavilion.

According to Lu Yan’s estimation, one must at least ascend to the fifth layer of the Scripture Pavilion to view the complete merit divine techniques legacy.

Outsiders, even if they possess a Scripture Transmission Order, could never ascend to the fifth layer of the Scripture Pavilion.

In the remaining time, Lu Yan focused intently on forcibly memorizing all the information in the tome, even remembering the position of every word in the tome to facilitate attempting to recreate the divine techniques after leaving.

After spending most of the day memorizing every word and every pattern in the tome, Lu Yan returned the tome to its original place and quickly descended to the third layer.

In the hall on the first layer of the Scripture Pavilion, a golden core real person in a purple robe was standing at the door waiting for Lu Yan.

"Have you made your selection?"

Lu Yan nodded respectfully and took out the "Profound Yellow Daoist Collection: Merit Forging Chapter" and the Scripture Transmission Order from his storage bag.

The golden core real person glanced at the title on the cover in slight surprise at Lu Yan, but said nothing.

The method for refining merit treasures is not exclusive to the Cyan Simurgh Sect; otherwise, it wouldn’t be discarded on the second layer. It was just unexpected that Lu Yan, a small loose cultivator, would choose this tome.

Receiving the Transmission Order, the golden core real person waved his hand.

"You may leave."

Lu Yan bowed to the golden core real person and departed the Scripture Pavilion with brisk steps, swiftly piloting the flying ship down towards the foot of the mountain.

Below the Cyan Simurgh Sect’s mountain, there is a rather prosperous marketplace for sect disciples and outside cultivators to trade, organized on a scale far exceeding that of the Cyan Valley Marketplace.

The Foundation Establishment cultivators, absent in the Cyan Valley Marketplace, were common in this market, and occasionally one could even see a golden core real person in a Purple Cloud Magic Robe flying through the air.

Lu Yan entered the market and quickly purchased some items, then promptly left the Cyan Simurgh Sect.

Lu Yan was in such a hurry because he could see that the current version update progress was already at 99.5%.

Before Ji Xingyao’s Communication Flying Sword arrived, the version update progress had already surpassed 95%. Lu Yan had delayed quite a bit for this Scripture Pavilion visit, and the version update was imminent.

The Cyan Simurgh Sect is indeed a good place. Even if the world version updates, the strength of the Cyan Simurgh Sect should ensure its high status in the new world version. Staying within the Cyan Simurgh Sect to await the world version updates seems not bad.

But with many experts within the Cyan Simurgh Sect, Lu Yan cannot be sure whether they could detect his unchanging characteristic during the version update interval, so leaving the Cyan Simurgh Sect is the safest choice.

Moreover, before entering the Cyan Simurgh Sect, Lu Yan was concerned that an expert might inspect the storage bag and discover the Soul Banner, so he had hidden the Soul Banner and Spirit Marrow Ore outside the Cyan Simurgh Sect. He must retrieve it before the world version update begins.

Once the version update starts, without the unchanging characteristic’s support, the Soul Banner will also undergo changes.

If that happens, Lu Yan will be miserable.

The low-grade magical artifact flying ship moved away from the Cyan Simurgh Sect’s mountain gate domain, and the concentration of spiritual qi around dropped at a visibly quick pace until Lu Yan finally descended onto a desolate mountain near a mortal city.

Walking to a nondescript large tree, Lu Yan extended his hand into the already hollowed trunk and retrieved the Hundred Soul Banner.

Instantly, dozens of fierce ghosts, including the Giant Spirit Main Soul, appeared, and the dark ghostly qi turned the surrounding hundred meters into a sinister Ghostly Realm. They had been under Lu Yan’s orders to guard the Hundred Soul Banner from being taken by outside cultivators.

The leading Giant Spirit held out a storage bag in reverence to Lu Yan, after which many fierce ghosts returned to the Soul Banner.

Lu Yan sighed with relief, watching the version update progress in front of him reach 99.8%.

"Still in time."

Lu Yan murmured softly and began running some small experiments he had prepared earlier.

He placed a Spirit Stone, several basic cultivation classics, and an old low-grade magical artifact on a slope dozens of meters away from his storage bag.

Confirming that this distance would not be affected by his unchanging characteristic, Lu Yan waited calmly for the version update to arrive.

The previous few world version updates had piqued Lu Yan’s curiosity about whether there could be conversions between currencies, cultivation techniques, and weapons under different world versions.

Since the Xianxia version matters had been dealt with, Lu Yan wanted to take advantage of the version update to experiment.

If the currencies between different world versions can indeed dynamically change according to rules, this would undoubtedly be a significant benefit for Lu Yan.

By stocking up on currencies in world versions with relatively low power levels and converting them into Spirit Stones and other important high-martial world currencies upon version updates, it would allow Lu Yan to effortlessly achieve financial freedom.

As time ticked by, finally, the version update progress at 99.9% flickered again, and a line of text appeared before Lu Yan.

[This Xianxia version ends, version change value: 1%]

Besides the 1% version change value that Lu Yan accidentally obtained by taking pictures, everything Lu Yan did in the Xianxia version had no effect, and even shaking the 0.1% version change value was challenging.

The Xianxia version’s Celestial Dao order is absolutely the most stable among the several versions Lu Yan has experienced.

However, Lu Yan had anticipated this and was emotionally unaffected.

The Xianxia version is a high-level map for Lu Yan, and he didn’t expect to succeed all at once—steadily progressing is most crucial to Lu Yan.

The version change value receded, and another message popped up.

[The version update progress is full. You can choose one of the following versions to update.

Main God version: Do you want to understand the meaning of life? Do you want to truly... live?

Ghost version: My name is Lu Yan. By the time you read this message, I will already be dead.

Cyber version: Universal Giant Corporation’s spiritual energy tax has been received for three hundred years. It’s time for strong measures!]