Chapter 10: Studying
Getting out of the inns bath, Zhou Fan once again looked at his new membership card. It was completely bronze and contained his name and his temporary residence, the inn.
Zhou Fan then 'went to bed' early in preparation for his intense studying.
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After cultivating through the night, Zhou Fan broke into the 5th level. He could feel his strength, smarts, and foundation go through a 5 times increase.
Zhou Fan was now on his way to the library after having breakfast in the inn. Zhou Fan had decided to spend all the time he could ,studying until the hiring. He believed that if he dedicated himself, he would get the position. Even then, Zhou Fan knew it wouldn't be easy.
It was likely that the other people interested in the job had been studying for years.
Finally reaching the library, Zhou Fan asked the girl from yesterday where the books related to history were. Although he didn't know what would be on the test, the empires history was very likely to be the biggest portion.
"History books are on the third and fourth floors. They take up both floors entirely, so start wherever you want. The third floor consists of the empires history, while the fourth focuses on the rest of the world."
Thanking the girl, Zhou Fan headed up to the third floor. While paying for his card yesterday, Zhou Fan was informed that the basic bronze card allowed him to go up to the 5th floor.
He also learned that the silver card cost 1 gold and allowed him up to the tenth floor. The gold card requires a noble title and 1000 gold. It allowed him to go up to the 13th floor. As for the 14th and 15th floor, access cannot be bought with money. Only kings, the emperor, and the owner himself have access to that floor.
The stairs to the 3rd floor were short and posed no problem to Zhou Fan. When he arrived at the 3rd floor, he noticed a few people sitting in comfortable chairs and a few perusing the books. Zhou Fan counted 20 total people in the third floor.
Since he had no clue where to start, Zhou Fan walked up to the nearest bookshelf and grabbed the first book. It contained information about the geography of the kingdom. In fact, the entire bookshelf did. It took Zhou Fan 10 seconds to read both pages in front of him before flipping. Not only was his reading speed astounding, he had completely memorized the contents of those pages. It took him about 20 minutes to finish reading and completely memorize the first book.
Although the speed was incredible, there were 45 books of that size on this bookshelf alone. Taking a glance around, Zhou Fan counted 500 bookshelves. Each of these bookshelves had around 45 books. Quickly estimating, at his current speed, it would take 450,000 minutes to finish all the books on the first floor alone!
Even with his incredible reading speed, it would take slightly less than a year to read all of these books. Thinking that far, Zhou Fan didn't bother staying any longer at the library. He quickly headed home to cultivate.
Since his mind increased every time he broke through, the best idea was to constantly cultivate in order to read faster. Zhou Fan estimated that if he broke through into the 7th level of foundation establishment, he would be able to read the same book he read earlier, in less than half a minute. That would reduce the time needed to sweep the 3rd floor clear to an astonishing 7 days. If all the floors were the same size, he could memorize 3 floors of content by the time the hiring started.
Zhou Fan made it back to the inn and started cultivating. Due to the fact that he was cultivating day and night, besides meals, he broke through to the 7th level in 3 days. With the increase in power, Zhou Fan felt rejuvinated.
Quickly heading to the 3rd floor, Zhou Fan didn't waste any time. He started reading from where he left off 3 days ago. As expected, it took him less than half a minute to finish and memorize the book. Quickly moving on, Zhou Fan finished the first bookshelf in less than 20 minutes! The same speed it previously took him to read a single book.
By this time, the other guests were looking at him like he was crazy. Zhou Fan was picking up a book, flipping through the pages and picking up another book every half minute after all. Adding to the fact that he was a child, some people thought he was here to cause trouble.
"Hey boy. If you want to play around, do it somewhere else."
Ignoring the random man, Zhou Fan headed to the next bookshelf and picked up another book. Clearly displeased, the man walked over and grabbed the book from Zhou Fans hand. Zhou Fan ,however, had a limited time to read all these books.
Therefore, he didn't even entertain the man before he backhanded him in the chest. Flying across the library, the man landed on his back in disbelief. Due to the fact that Zhou Fan didn't want to destroy any books, he held back. Even then, the man still felt an intense aching pain in his chest!
If one looked closely, they would see a small drop of blood trickling from the mans mouth. Not daring to stay there any longer, the man ran down the stairs and out of the building. After he left, the rest of the people looked at Zhou Fan in disbelief.
Unless they were seeing things, a small child just sent a grown man flying backwards with a light tap. If it wasn't for the other peoples faces, they would have surely thought they were crazy.
Zhou Fan, on the other hand, felt a little bad. Although the man was annoying, he din't need to injure him like that. In fact, the attack was instinctual. Perhaps it was due to his increasing strength, but Zhou Fan felt more and more disdainful towards ordinary people. Of course, this was subconcious. In Zhou Fans mind, he was still human. Just much stronger.
Deciding to forget what had happened, Zhou Fan went back to reading. The spectators ,on the other hand, were still wondering if they were hallucinating. Even after 5 minutes ,their brains still couldn't process what had just happened. In response, many people got up and left with a confused face, while others started reading again, as if they forgot what had just happened.
Chapter 11: The Fourth Floor - 11
After 10 hours, Zhou Fan had finished 30 bookshelves. Although he had only completed around 1 sixteenth of the books on the 3rd floor, he was starting to get tired.
Even though he could go 3 days without sleep, Zhou Fan had never read this much. In fact, he had never spent 10 straight hours doing anything before today.
Zhou Fan quickly made it to the inn where he didn't even bother to take off his shoes before hopping in bed.
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The next day, Zhou Fan ate breakfast before immediately heading to the library to study. It wasn't long before he was standing in front of the huge tower.
Wasting no time, he walked in. While heading to the third floor, Zhou Fans ears picked up an interesting piece of information.
His empire, also known as the boundless empire, was close to war with another empire , the truth empire.
Thanks to yesterdays studying, Zhou Fan had learned that 10 empires made up the worlds greatest powers.
Both the boundless empire and the truth empire were ranked in the top 10 empires. This was the reason the news was so big. Another reason this information was so important was that his kingdom, the wishan kingdom, was bordering the truth empire.
Thankfully, Lang Yang city was closer to the center of the wishan kingdom. However, due to the fact that the mayor used to be the kings advisor, it was also a prime target for the truth empire.
That was also something Zhou Fan had learned through yesterdays studies. The information he had read yesterday was mostly about the empire as a whole and the wishan kingdom. Later bookshelves consisted of other kingdoms information.
Although the war piqued Zhou fans' interest, he didn't care too much. The war was unlikely to even happen, much less reach Lang Yang city.
He continued his way to the third floor after stopping for a moment.
When he entered the 3rd floor this time, Zhou Fan noticed that there were much fewer people. The people who were there looked at him with slight fear. Yesterdays 'fight' seemed to have an impact on them.
Zhou Fan hardly spared them a glance before continuing where he left off yesterday.
After another 10 hours of reading, Zhou Fan still didn't feel tired. It wasn't until another 10 hours that he started to feel fatigued.
Putting up his book, Zhou Fan noted that he had finished 60 bookshelves. He was more than 1 fifth done!
Heading back to the inn, Zhou Fan paid 1 silver and 50 copper in order to stay at the inn for another 30 days. That should be more than enough time to get his first paycheck. If he got the job, of course.
Since Zhou Fan didn't feel too tired, he cultivated for 5 hours before going to bed. In fact, Zhou Fan had no concept of day or night recently. He stayed up until he was tired, then went to sleep before repeating.
This time, he fell asleep at noon.
After a 5 hour sleep, Zhou Fan once again headed to the library. He read for 30 hours before he felt tired and headed home.
Like this, 7 more days passed.
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Contrary to Zhou Fans estimate, it took him 9 days to finish the third floor. Although it took longer than he had estimated, Zhou Fans' reading speed would only become faster from here.
On the ninth day of studying, Zhou Fan broke through to the 8th level of foundation establishment. This meant that he could finish a bookshelf in 3 minutes!
At his current speed, Zhou Fan could finish an entire floor in less than a day if he didn't take breaks!
After finishing the 3rd floor, Zhou Fan learned an abundance of information. One has to remember that Zhou Fan wasn't just reading these books. He was memorizing them. Not only could he name every kingdom in the empire, he could name every noble and king. He could also name their children, relatives, and even their last 5 generations.
If the knowledge was deemed important enough to be saved, it was in the library. More specifically, it was on the third floor. Zhou Fan could also name every noble, nobles relative, and nobles ancestor in alphabetical order.
Interestingly enough, the first on that list would be the house of count Aaabel. It was weirdly spelled with three A's. Following closely behind was the house of count Aaaron. Also weirdly spelled with 3 A's.
Zhou Fan felt that even if he had a battle of knowledge with the last 5 imperial scholars combined, he wouldn't lose out. Only in the history of the boundless empire, however. Throughout the last 9 days, he, of course, was weirdly stared at while flipping through books. Even then, nobody was brave enough to tell him to stop.
Zhou Fan decided that his next floor would be floor 4. That floor contained the history of the entire world. Although the information was unlikely to be as detailed as the information on the boundless empire, it had a lot more information than the third floor overall.
When he arrived on the fourth floor, Zhou Fan instantly counted 1000 bookshelves. That was twice as much as the third floor! Even though the space was much less, it was still plenty.
Looking at the first bookshelf, Zhou Fan didn't waste any time before he started reading. It took less than three minutes to finish the first bookshelf before he headed on to the next.
All of a sudden, Zhou Fan bumped into someone. Due to Zhou Fan powerful body, the man was sent flying with a broken arm. Luckily, he didn't destroy any books. The fine and penalty for that was no joke. Although Zhou Fan was confident that even the entire kigdoms forces couldn't keep him imprisoned, he still didn't want to be labled a criminal.
When the man turned over, Zhou Fan recognized the familiar face. it was the man he had hit a week ago. Zhou Fan was about to apologize and help the man up when the man saw his face.
Getting up immediately, the man sped off as fast as he could. Zhou Fan simply shrugged before continuing to read.
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