After leaving the competition grounds, Shen Han did not return directly to his residence at Chuixue Mansion.
As an outer sect disciple, Chuixue Mansion would not provide him with resources.
But fortunately, they couldn’t force him to do anything either.
With ten thousand points in hand, he wasn’t bothered to go to Chuixue Mansion anymore.
He found someone and directly used contribution points to secure a quiet courtyard.
These Sect Contribution Points in Cangxuan Valley are actually like currency, like money.
Having this makes living in Cangxuan Valley quite easy.
After handling that, Shen Han went straight to the library.
Spending one two-hour session in the library costs ten contribution points.
An outer sect disciple has to do odd jobs for one or two days to be able to read for one or two hours in there.
With now ten thousand contribution points in hand, Shen Han has achieved reading freedom.
Outside the library, the guards responsible for registration hadn’t witnessed the outer sect disciple’s promotion competition.
Even though Shen Han had gained a bit of fame after the competition, they remained unfamiliar with him.
Shen Han directly handed over contribution points for six two-hour sessions.
Checking the time, it was already 5:00 PM.
He decided to leave the library the next morning.
The librarian registering Shen Han was not surprised by his move.
Reading through the night in the library is not unusual.
It’s quite common, in fact.
At night, it’s much quieter than during the day, making it easier to focus on reading.
Upon entering the library, Shen Han went straight to the third floor.
This place specifically houses those cultivation technique manuals that are difficult to learn and understand.
To Shen Han, they seemed quite fitting.
Shen Han had only one principle in selecting cultivation technique manuals: to see if they were powerful enough.
As for being difficult to learn and understand, he needn’t worry at all.
The collection on the first and third floors of the Cangxuan Valley Library is actually pretty superficial.
Only the collection on the second floor holds significance for many people.
The first-floor manuals are basic cultivation technique manuals found in many slightly larger sects.
The third-floor manuals are extremely difficult, with many being ungraspable by the entire Cangxuan Valley.
These might have been acquired during travels or found in secret realms.
Once acquired, they were challenging to comprehend, or only slightly grasped,
yet felt largely useless.
They were thus placed in the library mainly to fill the shelves.
Upon entering the library, Shen Han first looked for medicine-refining-related manuals.
He used an [entry on Nourishing and Qi-Boosting], which had a significant effect on enhancing soul power.
Thanks to the effects Shen Han experienced after consuming it, he developed some ideas about alchemy.
After all, pills require too many contribution points.
Even with ten thousand contribution points, one could only acquire three or four pills with purple entries.
For Shen Han, it’s better to learn about pill formulas himself.
During his time in Great Wei, he had learned pill-refining techniques from his maternal grandfather of the Yun Family.
Although the pills refined now were different.
There are certainly many differences in controlling the precise timing and grasp of medicinal materials.
But in terms of pill-refining techniques, there are certainly similarities.
After searching on the third floor of the library for a while, Shen Han finally found a few pill formulas.
These formulas were compiled into a booklet, with the first page explaining them.
The pill formulas were tested by the alchemists of Cangxuan Valley and found to be flawed, having low pill formation success rates, or difficult to achieve pill formation.
Occasionally, when pills formed, their effects were also not as expected.
The formulas were compiled to caution future readers not to believe in them completely.
The formulas serve as a reference for everyone.
With the booklet in hand, Shen Han sat aside and started flipping through the pill formulas.
As expected, the pill formulas all carried gray entries.
The contents were filled with many errors.
Shen Han extracted the gray entries and began to memorize them.
The formulas included Cloud-Returning Pill, Nascent Condensation Pill, Clear Heart Pill, Sun Breathing Pill.
Only the Cloud-Returning Pill was for supplementing soul power.
The others were primarily for physical use.
For cultivators in the Divine Land, body refining was not a strong suit, making them rely more on body-refining pills.
After memorizing the formulas, Shen Han continued searching for divine soul cultivation techniques.
His divine soul had not yet been tested against others in battle.
Compared to others who have nurtured their divine soul for years or decades, his was less than two months old.
Shen Han had witnessed many divine souls, diverse and with various abilities.
His nurtured Soul Shattering was already unique.
The divine soul could split into multiple forms for combat.
If it could be further strengthened through cultivation techniques, the strength of his divine soul could rise to another level.
With this thought, Shen Han started looking for divine soul-related cultivation technique manuals on the third floor of the library.
There was only one book related to divine soul enhancement on this third floor, and it had some ink stains.
For the sects in the Divine Land, enhancing one’s divine soul is fundamental.
It’s considered a core competency.
Cangxuan Valley wants to attract talented people; palaces wish to make one an inner sect disciple. Techniques like this are the draw.
Shen Han picked up the ink-stained technique book and began to flip through it.
Heaven-Controlling Divine Soul, this ink-stained technique book’s name indeed sounded grand.
Upon brief perusal, despite the many ink-stained parts, Shen Han could understand much of it.
Its name was boastful, but the content seemed average at best.
It merely seemed to enhance the speed and might of the divine soul...
Stored on the third floor of the library, difficult to comprehend with seemingly ordinary effects.
It was hardly something one would delve into out of interest.
After browsing through it, Shen Han examined the entries of the book.
It had a gray entry, [An Overly Simplified Technique].
Overly Simplified...
These words intrigued Shen Han a bit.
He pondered and extracted the entry.
Though the book had many ink stains, it was still readable.
Having removed the gray entries, Shen Han finally glimpsed its true form.
The real text mainly seemed too simplified, to the extent of even showcasing the results one could achieve later on.
The name Heaven-Controlling Divine Soul wasn’t just randomly chosen.
Practicing this technique would greatly enhance the powers of the divine soul.
Initially called the Iron Body, the divine soul becomes hard as iron.
Continuing practice would lead to the Copper Body, significantly strengthening the divine soul.
Then the Silver Body, ultimately achieving the Golden Body.
Once the divine soul achieves the Golden Body, it can control the heavens.
Under the vast heavens, a divine soul with the Golden Body fears no opponent, no matter how strong, there lies a chance for a battle.

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