Chapter 2: Reading Ten Thousand Volumes

For a baby not yet a year old, just beginning to babble, learning to read is certainly no easy task.

It is even more difficult when the person taking care of him is also an underage young girl.

And Yan Taibai's parents are not at ease leaving him to be cared for by others in the Yan Family.

Fortunately, the young girl is somewhat precocious; although Yan Yun is only thirteen or fourteen, she is a cultivator, and with the care of others in the Yan Family, she has managed to look after Yan Taibai quite well.

But while "well" is well, Yan Taibai feels it is still too difficult to have Yan Yun teach him how to read.

However, a turning point soon appeared!

The "First Birthday Grabbing" ceremony!

Just like in his previous life, after he turned one, Yan Yun, still having not seen Yan Taibai's parents return, could only prepare the items for the ceremony herself.

Most of them were common items for a child's ceremony.

A wooden sword, a brush, a book... the only difference was the inclusion of cultivation items like Talismans and magical artifacts.

Without a moment's hesitation, Yan Taibai grabbed one of the books and would not let go.

Subsequently, the panel changed once again!

Host: Yan Taibai.

Gender: Male.

Age: One year old.

Realm: None.

Form: Infancy.

【First cultivation simulation complete: Reward: Metal Attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root】

【Second cultivation simulation requirement: Reading Ten Thousand Volumes.】

【Progress: 0%】

Seeing the changes on the panel, Yan Taibai's delicate, doll-like little face crinkled up, his eyes filled with complex emotions.

Asking a poor student to "Read Ten Thousand Volumes"—isn't this just making things difficult for him?

But faced with the temptation of an unknown reward, Yan Taibai was still moved and decided to complete the "Reading Ten Thousand Volumes" requirement.

"Could it be that a bookworm is about to emerge in the family?"

Just as Yan Taibai was filled with complex emotions, the young girl Yan Yun looked at him, his two small hands clutching the book tightly, and her beautiful face did not look very happy.

Because bookworms are no fun at all; the young girl Yan Yun knew this from deep experience.

"Forget it, since you little guy like reading, then I will teach you."

After a long while, the now much more mature Yan Yun gave a helpless smile, then, after tidying up the other ceremony items, she picked up Yan Taibai, who was still holding the book.

She did not put him back in the crib, but instead headed toward the study in the courtyard.

As a courtyard bestowed by the cultivation-based Yan Family, although not large, it was fully equipped, including a small study.

And this was the place where most Yan Family descendants received their enlightenment.

Of course, the Yan Family also had a school!

One part was responsible for teaching the Yan Family Fortress descendants to read and write, and the second was for understanding knowledge of the cultivation world.

As for the teaching of cultivation techniques and spells, that was not in the school, but in the Yan Family's Martial Arts Hall.

And Yan Taibai, having the experience of two lifetimes, soon displayed the side of a "child prodigy" under Yan Yun's guidance.

Almost with the same photographic memory as a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator, he learned the language of this cultivation world and the daily characters needed in just one month.

But to Yan Taibai's disappointment, the progress of "Reading Ten Thousand Volumes" had only increased by one percent.

He was still ninety-nine percent away from completing this task.

However, fortunately, he was only one year old now, so he had plenty of time, and besides, his age was not suitable for cultivation.

The meridians, bones, and internal organs in his body were not yet fully developed and could not absorb or withstand the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth; he would need to be at least three or five years old before he could formally enter the path of cultivation.

Therefore, Yan Taibai still had plenty of time; he just needed to read, read, and read some more.

And through reading, Yan Taibai had already confirmed that the cultivation world he had transmigrated into was indeed the world of *Mortal's Journey to Immortality*.

The Yan Family he was in was precisely the current number one cultivation family in Yue Country: Yan Family Fortress.

A great cultivation clan with multiple Golden Core Stage experts sitting in command, and the only one to possess the entire Lin Prefecture.

As for the matter of the Yan Family Fortress later defecting to and even controlling the entire Ghost Spirit Sect, that was not something Yan Taibai needed to consider right now.

For him, the most important thing right now was reading to complete the panel's "Reading Ten Thousand Volumes" task.

Thereby proceeding to the second cultivation simulation and obtaining an unknown reward!

Thus, relying on his photographic memory, Yan Taibai used only another month to memorize all the books in the study of his courtyard.

And the progress of "Reading Ten Thousand Volumes" jumped to five percent, which made him very happy.

However, in order to get the progress of "Reading Ten Thousand Volumes" to one hundred percent as quickly as possible.

Yan Taibai set his sights on the Library Pavilion of the Yan Family Fortress school.

The Library Pavilion alone contained a full one hundred thousand volumes, which would definitely allow him to complete the "Reading Ten Thousand Volumes" task.

And to his surprise, he had originally thought it would be quite troublesome for him to enter the Library Pavilion to read at his current age.

But he did not expect that he only had to mention it to his aunt Yan Yun, and she led him there without any obstruction.

Upon asking, he learned that this was because he had become a member of the "Webnovel Orphanage."

Regarding this matter, Yan Taibai did not show much sadness.

After all, he had never met the two of them, and Yan Yun did not pay much mind to it either, only becoming much more mature.

The previous habit of talking to herself with resentment had also disappeared.

Every day, besides taking care of Yan Taibai, delivering meals to him while he stayed and ate at the Library Pavilion, and changing his clothes, she would look after the shop business and her own cultivation.

Because Yan Taibai had become a "Webnovel orphan," the Yan Family had also given him a share of the profits from a shop with good business.

Every year there are over a hundred Spirit Stones, which for Yan Yun and him is completely sufficient, enough to ensure they have no worries about food or clothing.

This also gave Yan Taibai a bit more sense of approval toward this Yan Family Fortress; at least it was not like the "devouring the destitute" of his past life, perhaps because Yan Yun is also a cultivator.

Yan Taibai also has a small reputation in the Yan Family Fortress, for no other reason than he immerses himself in the Library Pavilion every day to read; let alone a one or two-year-old toddler, even the "bookworms" and "Confucian scholars" of the Yan Family who are obsessed with poetry and books would find it difficult to do.

Yet Yan Taibai managed to do it, and this stay has lasted for a full two years.

But what makes Yan Taibai helpless is that even so, the progress value of 【Reading Ten Thousand Volumes】 has only reached fifty-six percent.

The further it goes, the more it is like being invested in by a budget e-commerce platform from his past life; it is becoming increasingly difficult.

Of course, it is also related to the fact that the knowledge and information in the books he reads overlap too much; there is less and less new knowledge, so it is reasonable for the progress value to slow down.

After figuring out this reason, Yan Taibai proposed to the manager of the Library Pavilion to go to the second floor of the Library Pavilion to read books, but he was ruthlessly rejected.

Only cultivators of the Yan Family Fortress are qualified to enter the second floor of the Library Pavilion, and although he has the reputation of a "prodigy," he is still just a Mortal, so he is not qualified to enter the second floor.

But fortunately, he is about to have his Spirit Root checked along with other Yan Family children of the same age.

A Metal Attribute Heavenly Spiritual Root will surely gain the attention of the Yan Family Fortress!

(End of this chapter)