HCB Chapter 246 Floating Island, Tower
Chapter 246 Floating Island, Tower
Hua Li had no choice but to stop daydreaming and followed Honglian into the hall with Shi Zhixing.
Inside the main hall, the five peak masters who had received the message and had been waiting here for a long time stood up to greet Principal Honglian.
Honglian waved her hand to indicate that there was no need for formalities, and walked straight to the main seat and sat down, introducing the masters of each peak to Hua Li Shizhixing one by one.
The master of Jingfeng Peak is Yin Ruoshui, who is good at taming beasts; the master of Muling Peak is Liu Shan, who is good at refining pills; the master of Jianfeng Peak is Xiahou Mo, who is good at swordsmanship; the master of Yanfeng Peak is Huo Yu, who is good at refining weapons; and the master of Nanyue Peak is Shi Lei, who is good at formations.
Although Hua Li and Shi Zhixing felt that Hong Lian's attitude of introduction was a bit casual, they did not think much about it and greeted each one of them.
The attitudes of the various peak masters were as kind and gentle as possible, and they took out the gifts they had prepared long ago and gave them to the two of them.
When Honglian was still in Shenli City, he sent a message to the five of them that the disciple designated by Lord Poseidon would come to Qinghai College, so of course they would make preparations early.
Who is Lord Poseidon? He is the founder of Qinghai College, their great master. So Hua Li is their great uncle.
Even if they haven't formally become disciples yet, their attitude must be expressed first.
After receiving the gifts, Honglian took the two to the accommodation arranged for them.
Hua Li and Shi Zhixing sat on Honglian's jade fan again and flew over the main peak. Their view suddenly became clear. Behind the main peak was a vast blue ocean. To be precise, there was a Caspian Sea in the center surrounded by five peaks.
The Caspian Sea is very large and wide. When you stand on a mountain and look at the mountains on the opposite side, you can only see the undulating shadows of the peaks.
Hua Li looked at the Shenli Island and felt that it resembled the mermaid territory of Blue Star, except that the area of Shenli Island was more than ten times larger than that of the mermaid territory of Blue Star.
Honglian looked at the two people's curious expressions and took them around the sky above the Lihai Sea. Then he introduced, "Some areas of the Lihai Sea below also have student dormitories. In addition, there are also sea markets and training grounds in the sea. You can go and have a look when you have time."
As soon as she finished speaking, Honglian flew high into the sky on the red jade bone fan and suddenly crashed into an invisible barrier. Her vision suddenly changed.
No one expected that there would be a small island floating in the sky above the Lihai Sea.
"This is the Hanging Island. It will be where you live from now on." Honglian took out two jade tokens and handed them to the two of them. "This is the identity jade token. With this, you can enter and leave the Hanging Island."
There is a main peak on the floating island, and the rest are deep forests, waterfalls, birdsong and flowers. The spiritual energy here is even richer than that in the Liuli Secret Realm. The speed of cultivation here should be several times faster than that in the outside world.
The barrier does not affect the vision of the floating island. Looking down from the floating island, you can still see the five peaks of Shenli Island and the towns and cities on the coastline.
Honglian sent Hua Li and Shi Zhixing to the door of a tower halfway up the mountain and said, "You must finish reading the books in the tower within three months. This is the task given to you by Lord Poseidon."
"As for the room you want to stay in, there are plenty of vacant rooms on the mountainside. You can pick any one you like."
After saying that, Honglian left Huali and they hurried away. Shenli Island would be born next, and Qinghai College would be reopened to recruit new students. She still had a lot of things to do.
The tower gate was automatically opened with an identity card. The first floor was an ordinary tea room with no books. The two of them took a look and walked towards the stairs to the second floor.
As soon as Hua Li stepped onto the stairs, he found something wrong. He looked up and saw that the stairs seemed to have no end. He went back to the first floor and the stairs returned to their original state. Hua Li could only climb the stairs again and check if there were any formations or mechanisms.
Shi Zhixing followed closely behind.
However, no matter how Hua Li and Shi Zhixing searched, they could not find any clues, and could never reach the second floor. When they released their soul power to explore, the soul power entered the second floor smoothly without any hindrance.
Hua Li wondered, "Could it be that this tower only allows soul power to go up?"
"That should be it. It seems that we can only use the soul clones we have cultivated to go up to the tower to read the books inside." Shi Zhixing pinched Hua Liru's white face and continued, "Otherwise, the first floor would not be a tea room for rest."
"That makes sense."
Hua Li and Shi Zhixing walked around the tea room. Even though no one had cleaned it for a long time, it was still as clean as new and free of dust.
The two of them sat cross-legged on the futon in front of the floor-to-ceiling window. The view here was excellent. They could see the entire Shenli Island and also cook wine and drink tea.
However, the two of them did not have such leisure time now. This tower had seven floors, and they did not know how many books were stored inside. They had to read all of them in three months, so they had better hurry.
Hua Li closed his eyes and released three soul clones, Shi Zhixing released two soul clones, and they successfully walked up to the second floor.
Looking around, there were endless rows of bookshelves filled with paper books. Hua Li swallowed her saliva and her scalp felt a little tingling. She would be very patient when reading a few books that interested her, but she would feel guilty when reading too many.
She was not good at reading and her patience was limited to things that interested her. It would be too difficult for her to finish reading seven floors of books.
Shi Zhixing noticed Hua Li's irritation, rubbed her hair and said, "Don't worry, Hua'er, start with the formations and biographies that you are interested in. Hua'er has a photographic memory, so you don't need to understand every book, just remember it first."
After hearing Shi Zhixing's words, Hua Li's brows relaxed. She was possessed. Seeing so many books, she suddenly brought them into the library of her student days. She was really not interested in those boring professional knowledge of various subjects.
She scanned the bookshelves. The second floor contained mostly formations, weapon refining, medicine refining, illustrated guides on spiritual plants, illustrated guides on exotic beasts, and biographies of strange stories and anomalies. Well, everything that interested her at the moment.
Hua Li's three souls flew out and split into three groups and went to the bookshelf of formations, illustrations of spiritual plants and exotic beasts, and strange stories and biographies and started reading.
Upon seeing this, Shi Zhixing walked towards the bookshelf that contained the books on weapon refining and formations that interested him.
The books in the tower are all fine works. Even the books in the ten major colleges are not as detailed, comprehensive and profound as those in the tower.
Shi Zhixing, who has read the books in Tianyan Academy's collection, can give a positive answer to this question.
Hua Li and Shi Zhixing were both people with powerful spirits and had photographic memories. They stayed on the second floor for eight days without eating, drinking or sleeping, and finally finished reading thousands of books.
After putting down the last book, Hua Lishi, Zhixing and others felt that their soul power was growing at an incredible speed.
It seems that studying in the tower has many benefits. It not only enriches your knowledge, but also increases your soul power.
Hua Li and Shi Zhixing were both very enthusiastic about this, and their spiritual clones continued to go up to the third floor to read.
In the tea room on the first floor, Hua Li had already had enough soul power after swallowing a fourth-level alien. Now his soul power was constantly growing, so he simply condensed three soul infants in one breath.
Shi Zhixing also took advantage of this surge in soul power to condense two soul infants.
The soul power he gained after consuming space in the Black Rock Trench was not much, but the soul power he gained on the second floor was more than Hua Li's, because he not only memorized all the thousands of books on the second floor, but also understood most of the contents.