Bamboo Mound

"The 'Mi Jian' technique draws upon the power of heaven and earth to form a shield that adheres to the user's entire body, completely negating the effects of attacks whose power does not exceed the shield's tolerance."

"Haha, if it weren't unrelated to the earth element, I might have even cosplayed as Old Deng."

Upon arriving, he discovered that there weren't many bookshelves containing information on spiritual consciousness; there were only two bookshelves with ordinary cultivation techniques and half a bookshelf with a restricted area!

Then, after passing through the length of a bookshelf, was the bookshelf for the plant-themed cultivation techniques.

Since there weren't many, Ning Chang read them one by one, but the results weren't very satisfactory.

These spiritual cultivation techniques are almost all very similar, following four different templates. Some even differ by only a few steps, yet each forms its own distinct technique.

In the end, Ning Chang only found the most basic technique, "Sense Sense," which was simply for training the strength of spiritual sense.

Furthermore, he found a copy of "The Meaning of Plants and Trees" in the restricted area, which confirmed to him that the library contained several copies of a cultivation technique, placed in each appropriate entry area.

"That makes it easier to find, but shrinking spell... there shouldn't be any attack-related entries, right?"

He shook his head, intending to figure out how many sections there were in total before finally seeking the shrinking technique.

If it still doesn't work in the end, we can only rely on magnification techniques to see if we can reverse the process.

As for the scientific basis, he has given up on delving into it. He will understand what he can during the learning process, and it will not prevent him from using it if he does not understand it.

Turning around, I took a few steps to the plant-themed area next to me, and the first book that caught my eye was a technique called "Rapid Growth".

He took it down, flipped through it briefly, and found that it basically met his needs, so he casually put it behind him and continued exploring.

Although it's a plant-themed section, most of the content is related to the wood element, as well as attack and defense techniques related to plants.

At first glance, it does indeed fit the subject matter and seems quite reasonable, but it differs somewhat from what he expected.

Similarly, the second book in the restricted area also showed traces of "The Meaning of Plants and Trees".

But what caught Ning Chang's attention was a cultivation technique called "Blood Plant" placed next to it.

In his current view, most of the cultivation techniques with words like blood, demon, heart, and evil in their names are more interesting and likely have special effects.

Not to mention those plant-themed techniques that suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

As he expected, he took down the book "Blood Plant," flipped through only a couple of pages, and understood the overall effect.

"Using flesh and blood to accelerate plant growth, the speed depends on the strength of the sacrificed flesh and blood and the strength of the spiritual power contained within it, and there is no upper limit to the speed."

"No limit, that bag is for taking, but sacrificing flesh and blood... that's a bit troublesome, but we should be able to find a way later."

In addition, at the end of the special section, he also saw another uniquely named technique called "Withering Growth".

Upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the plants cultivated using this technique would rapidly and completely decay within a short period of time.

Seeing this, Ning Chang put it back in its original place. Why force the plant to grow and then let it rot?

After looking at this section, he turned around and went to the attack zone on the side.

He only remembered while flipping through the book that although he had enough of the "Insightful Edge" technique, he still needed to upgrade it. After all, the Qingyun Sect, a sect with an upper limit of several levels of fetal heart, could not compare to the size of the Medicine King Valley.

The quality of the included techniques is naturally obvious.

The bookshelves in the attack zone were numerous, only about 20-30% fewer than the previous zones combined.

It includes a wide variety of attack methods, such as the "Dragon Spear," "Tiger Subduing Fist," and "Fire Body Technique"...

They even divided the area again according to the weapons they used!

This saved him time, allowing him to skip over the weapon-based martial arts manuals and search for the non-weapon-based manuals bookshelf.

.....

It wasn't until we reached the edge of the area and passed the fist and foot area that we found this special area right next to the restricted area.

The first book that catches the eye is "Fire Body Techniques" with its unique cover color, followed by a line of "Fire Body Forging" and "Fire Thunder, Poison, Ice, Herbs... Body Forging".

They occupied an entire shelf of a bookshelf! Just one glance was enough to kill his desire to touch them, even though he hadn't really wanted to learn body tempering in the first place.

He muttered a complaint to himself, then his gaze swept downwards again.

This sweep was astounding; on the second layer, an entire row of words, "Fierce Fire, Fierce Thunder, Fierce Poison, Fierce Ice... Refining the Spirit," was neatly arranged.

The style is exactly the same as the first line, the only difference being that a book with the same unique cover, titled "Fire Divine Consciousness Technique," is placed on the far right of this line.

Seeing this, he turned his head and skipped over the entire bookshelf, afraid that he would see this person's "works" again on the next shelf.

Moving to the next bookshelf, the names of the cultivation techniques were not as neatly arranged, but at least they were much more harmonious.

However, probably due to the attack zone, even the bookshelves with special labels were almost entirely filled with cultivation techniques that could enhance one's own combat power.

However, whether it's a comprehensive buff or a damage buff based on a single attribute like water, fire, earth, or wood, he won't benefit from the buff at all.

Finally, it was near the restricted area that he found a cultivation technique that, judging from its name, seemed to be about amplifying objects.

Extreme Sharp!

"You dare to name your cultivation technique 'Extreme'? Let me see if its effects live up to that..."

"Temporarily altering the properties of an object using spiritual power... at the cost of extremely low flexibility, in exchange for exceptionally high sharpness and a slight increase in hardness...?"

"That's a good idea. If we apply this extreme sharpness to a sword using ordinary thinking, then while the sword can cut through iron like mud, it cannot withstand even the slightest force from the side."

"It's just that we don't know exactly how much the sharpness and hardness will increase, but at least it's enhanced by spiritual power, and it's different from the external enhancement of spirit control; they may work together."

"It's unclear whether the power can be stacked. However, even if it can't be stacked, the extreme sharpness and the significant reduction in flexibility it brings are still somewhat useful to my bamboo leaves."

"Let's test the sharpness of this extremely sharp blade next. If it's good, then adding bamboo leaf fragments without sharp edges would be a surprising move."

After taking "Extreme Sharpness" off the bookshelf, Ning Chang wandered around the restricted area again. As expected, most of them were techniques that mainly required sacrificing oneself to gain combat power, focusing only on oneself and being useless to him.

"Sigh, should I go down the mage path? But I don't really seem to be a mage... I still don't have a suitable weapon. By the time I actually find one, I'll probably be used to using bamboo leaves."