At noon,
On the third floor of the Dawn Academy Library,
"Little friend, it's time for lunch!~"
The white-haired librarian's puzzled voice echoed. He had searched from the first floor to the third without finding Ye Feng, and since he hadn't left the first floor, he hadn't seen Ye Feng depart...
"This little guy wouldn't have...?"
After searching everywhere and still not finding Ye Feng, the white-haired librarian's expression changed slightly.
He quickly ran to the stairwell leading from the third to the fourth floor. "Damn it... did that intermediate Silver-ranked little guy actually enter the library of the Supreme Arcanist Academy?"
...
The Great Tree Library of Dawn Academy has nine floors. Floors one to three are the Dawn Academy Library, and floors four to nine are the Supreme Arcanist Academy Library.
However, everyone usually didn't strictly differentiate and simply called it the Dawn Academy Library...
And just as the white-haired librarian suspected, Ye Feng had indeed been breaking through the rune arrays at the stairwells, continuously ascending to higher floors...
At first, he would browse some of the books. Later, he realized that although the books all discussed methods for cultivating arcane energy, attack and defense techniques, and rune introductions, and seemed powerful and profound, they were rather superficial to Ye Feng. They were not written very clearly and even contained errors and omissions, completely incomparable to the Seed Record...
Therefore, Ye Feng shifted his focus to breaking the rune arrays between floors. After all, the higher the floor, the greater the difficulty of the rune arrays... It was quite interesting to study...
As Ye Feng reached higher floors, the rune arrays at the stairwells became more complex, and the difficulty of breaking them increased, consuming more of Ye Feng's time...
...
On the fifth floor of the Dawn Academy Library,
"It's like seeing a ghost in broad daylight... How did that little guy just disappear..."
"This is already the fifth floor, and still no sign of that little guy... Where on earth did he go?"
The white-haired librarian looked anxious. The fifth floor was the highest floor he could reach... yet he still couldn't find Ye Feng...
...
At this moment, Ye Feng was unaware that the white-haired librarian was extremely worried about his "disappearance" and had already mobilized people to search for him...
He was gnawing on a chicken leg, eating bread, and occasionally taking a sip of ice-cold cola, his gaze never leaving the rune array in front of him...
"This array is really strange... I've never seen this type of rune array before..."
Ye Feng muttered as he ate.
He was currently at the stairwell between the eighth and ninth floors. The rune array here was very peculiar, completely different from the rune arrays he had deciphered before.
Although the rune arrays at the stairwells of each floor became increasingly complex, with various combinations and interferences, none of them could compare to the rune array Ye Feng was currently facing.
The rune array in front of Ye Feng seemed to possess some kind of sensing ability. When he probed it, the array would change, making it impossible for him to ascertain the overall situation of the rune array as he had before...
Even stranger, after Ye Feng stopped probing and rested for a while before probing again, he found that the array was completely different from what he had detected before...
After quickly finishing his chicken leg and bread, Ye Feng became fully engrossed in studying the rune array in front of him.
...
In the evening,
"This is so troublesome..."
Ye Feng scratched his somewhat dizzy and aching head, feeling a bit frustrated.
Because after tinkering for a long time, he had still achieved nothing... just like when he first saw this array...
Then, he frowned slightly, carefully sensed his surroundings, took out his walkie-talkie, and said, "I might not be back tonight. Contact me if anything comes up! I'm at the Dawn Academy Library!"
"Sizzle~"
"Okay~"
A clear, crisp voice soon came from the walkie-talkie.
Afterward, Ye Feng lay on the ground and napped for a while. He needed his brain to rest...
After a while, Ye Feng opened his eyes.
He didn't continue studying that rune array. Instead, he found a secluded corner, took out his tent, crawled inside, zipped it up, and placed a Concealment Stone around the tent...
After doing all this, Ye Feng let out a sigh of relief, took out the Seed Record, and began to study it carefully... Although he had read it many times, the Seed Record was quite profound, and there were still some parts he didn't understand...
He had spent the afternoon probing the rune array, and his mind was in a jumble... It felt like he understood something, yet also felt like he didn't...
So he decided to revisit the Seed Record to see if he could gain any insights...
Ye Feng focused intently on the Seed Record... Time ticked by second by second...
...
"Cock-a-doodle-doo!~"
Suddenly, a loud rooster crow pierced the air. Ye Feng, engrossed in the Seed Record, was startled, his thoughts pulled back.
"It's already dawn... Huh?"
Ye Feng was about to put the Seed Record into his spatial warehouse, but his peripheral vision caught sight of the Seed Record. The strange runes he didn't recognize and the array whose purpose he had never understood suddenly made his eyes light up...
"Looking at it from this angle... these... these runes... are not arcane runes... The rune array at the stairwell also seems to have these strange runes that I don't recognize..."
"Could this be the key?"
At this thought, Ye Feng immediately put the Seed Record and the Concealment Stone into his spatial warehouse, rushed out of the tent, and headed straight for the stairwell.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
"Buzz! Buzz!"
"Whoosh! Swish!"
Although Ye Feng didn't understand what those strange runes on the Seed Record were, the Seed Record did record how to activate and deactivate the array. He followed suit, and the rune array at the stairwell flickered incessantly...
"Buzz!"
As a ripple spread through space, the array blocking Ye Feng's path disappeared.
"Holy cow... it really worked like that..."
Ye Feng was astonished.
"Gurgle~!"
At this moment, Ye Feng's stomach protested with hunger, and he felt as if his back was sticking to his front from starvation...
This was understandable. Ever since yesterday evening, he had been so engrossed in studying the Seed Record that he had completely forgotten to eat...
Immediately, Ye Feng took out a coconut shredded bread roll and ate it with mineral water...
...
"Whoa, someone's here..."
As Ye Feng was eating the coconut shredded bread roll and wandering around the ninth floor, he suddenly let out a surprised cry when he passed a corner because he saw a person in his field of vision.
He hadn't seen anyone all the way up by breaking through the rune arrays, so he had habitually assumed there was no one on the ninth floor. The sudden appearance of someone now surprised him...
"Huh?"
As Ye Feng cried out in surprise, the other person also turned their head, their expression equally astonished.