Chapter 12: The 2nd Floor - 12
The 4th floor contained a lot more information than the 3rd floor. It took Zhou Fan 2 days to finish it even with his new reading speed. The most information was on the 10 biggest empires.
The boundless empire ranked 5th in the world. The truth empire was ranked 4th. However, even though the truth empire ranked higher, its overall combat strength was not much more than the boundless empire. In fact, except for the first-ranked empire, the top 10 empires were fairly equal.
The first-ranked empire, however, was on a different level. The first-ranked empire, also known as the empire of mortaniel, was twice as strong as the other empires. Even if the 2nd and 3rd ranked empires were to combine their strength, they would at best be on par with the empire of mortaniel.
Luckily for the entire world, the empire of mortaniel was a peaceful empire. Their main focus wasn't even battle! Instead, they focused more on knowledge in general. When going to war with the mortaniel empire, the most fearsome thing wasn't the amount of soldiers, but their strategies and weapons.
Each kingdom in the mortaniel empire was said to have a library the size of the Lang Yang city library. They alone ushered in a new era of literature and science.
Now that Zhou Fan was done with the 3rd and 4th floor, he went to the inn and went to sleep.
When he woke up again he did not take an off day. Instead, he headed straight to the 2nd floor of the library. After asking around yesterday, he knew that the 2nd floor contained knowledge of literature and science while the 5th floor contained the research of science. As for the ground floor, it contained biographies and life experiences of many of the world's most influential people.
When he arrived at the 2nd floor, he counted 450 bookshelves. This time, the floor was split into two sides, or categories. Fiction and non-fiction. They equally took up half of the available space on the floor.
Another thing worth noticing was the round table in the middle of the floor. There were a couple people there, arguing about who knows what. They were whispering and Zhou Fan didn't understand half of the words they were using.
Soon, Zhou Fan tuned them out and headed to the non-fiction section. After all, he was here to study for a job. It took 15 hours to read the non-fiction section due to the fact that the books were much larger than before. Of course, throughout this time many people cast weird stares at him. After about 5 minutes, most people just tuned him out and went on with their reading.
After finishing the non-fiction side, Zhou Fan headed over to the fiction side. It only took 10 hours to finish that side. Zhou Fan was actually looking forward to the fiction side. He was hoping that it contained some theoretical information on Qi. Alas, not to mention Qi, there wasn't even mention of a magical energy in the world. Most of the fiction side was fantasies of taking over the world or a kingdom.
Even more involved marrying a pretty girl. At some point, it was hard for Zhou Fan to continue reading them. They were mostly about the same two ideas. Zhou Fan had no more interest in another round of reading those fantasy books.
While walking out of the library, Zhou Fan noticed that there were much more people at the round table than before. In fact, out of the 150 seats, only 8 were unoccupied.
Now that Zhou Fan had read every book on this floor, he was able to understand what they were saying.
"It is clear to any intelligent person that wuksen was arguing for peace through war. It would have only caused more harm in the end."
"Nonsense! He was arguing that killing the few would have saved the many. If not for those assassins, he would have brought world peace."
After listening for a while, Zhou Fan recognized what they were arguing about. In the non-fiction section of the library, there was an entire bookshelf dedicated to one man. Agregot wuksen. Perhaps the most influential writer in the world's history.
He was alive in the biggest war throughout the world's history, the war for peace. Although it sounds honorable, there was no clear good guy or bad guy. Although they both agreed on war for peace, many disagreed with the idea. Agregot wuksen was the biggest spokesperson for ending the war.
He was so influential that the war was almost ended by him alone. However, once he came to power, he immediately sent out an army of a million. Neither of the alliances were expecting the man who was the biggest advocate for peace to send an army.
Therefore, the two biggest empires at the time, the rising sun empire and the falling moon empire, were destroyed. If it wasn't for the assassins, who knows what would have happened.
In his last book, Agregot wuksen wrote, " I ended the war in one fell swoop. That one action will bring peace to all who live."
Many, however, viewed wuksen as a hypocrite and were close to banding together in order to kill him before the assassins ended his life.
Zhou Fan actually agreed with wuksens actions. Every year that the war raged on, millions died. It was estimated that half of the world population was culled during the war. If it wasn't for wuksens attack, perhaps millions more would have died.
Many others believe that even if he didn't attack, the war would have stopped with his words.
It was after that war that the empire of mortaniel took over. Some say that his inspiration formed the empire itself.
Walking past the arguing group, Zhou Fan had no more interest in their discussion. Unless time rewinded, no one will know what could have happened. All the knowledge and opinions were purely theoretical.
Chapter 13: The Peak of Foundation Establishment - 13
Although their discussion itself didn't interest Zhou Fan, their topic did. Agregot wuksen. He is considered one of the greatest men who ever lived.
Since the entire 1st floor has biographies, there should be one on him. The 2nd floor mostly talked about his works or achievements. Zhou Fan, however, wanted to learn about the man himself.
It wasn't long before he found his book. It was the biggest book he had seen since he started reading in the library. Even still, it only took 30 seconds to finish.
After Zhou Fan read it, he understood more about him. The information, however, seemed limited. It was likely that there was more information on the higher floors.
It seemed Zhou Fan had to give up for now. Since he was already there, Zhou Fan read through the entire ground floor. It was about the same size as the 3rd floor. Therefore, it took around a day to finish.
There wasn't much important information in any of the books. Most of the people were already mentioned on the 3rd and 4th floors. Although it went a little more in depth, there wasn't anyone so important that Zhou Fan was interested.
With his current access, Zhou Fan only had one more floor available. The 5th floor.
Walking up to the 5th floor, Zhou Fan heard a loud noise. Not quite loud enough to cause a jump in shock, but so loud that it shouldn't be in a library.
When Zhou Fan reached the 5th floor, he immediately noticed broken glass on the floor. It seemed someone had knocked it over.
Looking up, Zhou Fan finally took in the entire 5th floor. Instead of a library, it looked more like a lab. The outside walls were covered with bookshelves, while the rest of the floor was a lab. Although he had never seen a lab himself, he knew what it was from Old Man Yangs stories. That old man turned out to be so helpful.
There was nothing advanced, but the floor and tables were covered in papers, while around 20 old men scrambled from one place to another. This place was intense!
Deciding to temporarily ignore the mess going on in the middle, Zhou Fan scanned the bookshelves on the walls. There were about 100.
Not wasting any time, Zhou Fan quickly finished up all the books. He quickly came to realize that most of them were research papers. Others seemed to fit more on the 2nd floor.
Not bothering the old men, Zhou Fan left the library. Even though they were rushing around like chickens without a head, nothing important or interesting was going on. They were just researching.
Zhou Fan had now finished all the floors he could access. Surprisingly, he still had 12 days left. For the duration of those 12 days, Zhou Fan decided to focus on cultivation. After all, there was nothing more he could do to prepare.
Although there were more floors, he didn't have enough money to access them. The next 5 floors cost 1 gold. Zhou Fan didn't even have 10 silver.
Zhou Fan quickly made it to the inn and went upstairs. Since it was already night, Zhou Fan started cultivating.
After 8 hours, the sun came up, and Zhou Fan headed downstairs for breakfast. After breakfast, Zhou Fan headed back to his room. There was nothing else left to do in the city until he got the job.
Zhou Fan spent another 12 hours cultivating before heading down for dinner. After dinner, he headed back upstairs.
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Zhou Fan repeated his actions the next day until he broke through. Even then, Zhou Fan didn't stop.
3 days later, Zhou Fan broke into the 10th level of Foundation Establishment. Zhou Fan immediately felt a big difference.
His foundation felt like it was trying to bend. Like it was trying to mold into something new.
After breaking through to the 10th level, Zhou Fans' foundation increased by 10 times. With all the other strengthenings, Zhou Fans foundation contained an unfathomable amount of power.
Zhou Fan had a feeling that if he used his entire strength, he would be able to level the entire inn and even the whole block. Of course, Zhou Fan didn't test it out.
Not only was it morally wrong, it would make him enemy number 1. Even with his current strength, Zhou Fan wasn't confident in taking on the wishan kingdoms army. If the empire got involved, his ending could be imagined.
When cultivating, Zhou Fan was both absorbing Qi and molding his foundation. The surrounding Qi acted as a nourishment that helped the foundation mold and grow.
In fact, it could hardly be described as molding the foundation. It was more accurate to say he was forcefully bending it. It was like picking up a flat rock and trying to crush it with your hands.
Even so, it felt natural. Like it was the correct thing to do. The foundation wasn't actively resisting the bending. It was just naturally so strong that it couldn't be easily bent.
Of course, there were other factors involved, but Zhou Fan found his vocabulary inadequite. In order to describe it, Zhou Fan would have to make up at least 10 new words.
This process continued for 6 days. Only then did Zhou Fan take a step out of his room. The hiring was tomorrow, after all. Even though Zhou Fan wanted to continue cultivating, he couldn't miss the job.
Before Zhou Fan came out, he felt that he was 70% done with the molding of his foundation. At this point, he could tell that it was molding into a sphere.
Although his foundation felt huge, the sphere seemed to be able to fit in the palm of his hand. Of course, the sphere, like the foundation, wasn't tangible. While it felt like it was inside him, he couldn't physically take it out. Therefore, it was hard to make an accurate judgment on its size.
Thinking about it, Zhou Fan felt terrified at the possibility that it could fit in the palm of his hand. His foundation had felt like an unending ocean by the time it reached the 10th level. If it was possible to compress it to the size of his palm, the sphere would contain an ungodly amount of power!
All his thoughts halted ,however, when he heard his stomach growl intensely. Zhou Fan quickly ran downstairs to eat some food.
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