Chapter 296

Li Fei soon entered the palace again and met the Crown Prince who was waiting for him specifically.

"I heard about the Niu Sha Street incident; don't worry, with me here, I won't let Big Brother do anything to you!"

The Crown Prince gave a promise as soon as they met, and his eyes looking at Li Fei also became a bit closer.

Li Fei bowed: "Thank you, Your Highness!"

Actually, for him to offend the First Imperial Prince to death like this, in the Crown Prince's view, meant he was completely defecting to his side.

After all, he had offended an Imperial Prince with real power, and an Imperial Prince who had a certain chance of touching that dragon chair.

Under such circumstances, what if the First Imperial Prince won the throne in the future?

So in the Crown Prince's view, Li Fei could only stand completely on his side.

Otherwise, who would protect him in the future?

"You and I don't need to be so polite in the future."

The Crown Prince smiled and helped Li Fei up:

"Father Emperor let you enter the library to choose any two secret manuals; there are a total of four 'Eight Parts of the Vajra' in the library, and you can choose any two. I have already greeted the people in the library in advance; they will tell you where the manuals are, and if you have anything you want to ask, you can ask the people inside."

"Thank you, Your Highness."

Li Fei bowed again.

The library must be very large, with many books; if there was no one familiar to guide him, he would indeed find it difficult to find the secret manuals he wanted.

"I said you don't need to be polite."

The Crown Prince smiled and helped Li Fei up again.

Subsequently, he asked the eunuch beside him to send Li Fei to the Royal Library.

Watching Li Fei's back, the smile on the Crown Prince's face gradually disappeared.

The Emperor suddenly issued a decree allowing Li Fei to go to the library to choose any two secret manuals; this matter had different meanings in the eyes of different people.

The First Imperial Prince might feel that this was the Emperor beating him, because he lost to Li Fei.

But this matter had another meaning in the Crown Prince's eyes:

Originally, going to the library to choose secret manuals was a benefit he fought for Li Fei, but now because of the Emperor's words, this matter became the Emperor's reward for Li Fei.

In this way, would Li Fei be more grateful to that Majesty? Or would he be more grateful to him, the Crown Prince?

This was the main reason why the Crown Prince specifically lowered his status to come and welcome Li Fei into the palace.

Soon, Li Fei was led by the eunuch to a lake.

In the center of the lake was a flat ground and a high tower, with four straight paths connecting from the shore to the central flat ground.

All four straight paths were guarded by armored guards.

"This servant can only send you here."

The eunuch bowed to Li Fei and said.

"Thank you."

After Li Fei thanked him, he continued forward, passed through the straight path smoothly, arrived at the flat ground in the center of the lake, and looked up at the high tower in front of him.

This tower was the Royal Library.

At the gate under the tower, a middle-aged man wearing blue official robes was standing there with a smile on his face:

"Lord Li, His Highness the Crown Prince has already given instructions in advance; you can ask me anything you have, Lord."

Li Fei glanced at the mountains and rivers embroidered on the other party's official robes, which showed that this person was an imperial official.

"How should I address you?"

"I am Ji Qian."

"Then I will trouble you, Lord Ji."

"You can just call me by my name, Lord."

Ji Qian led Li Fei into the tower.

The first floor did not display any secret manuals; a huge pale red boulder was placed in the large space.

Several large characters were carved on the stone—

Is there an invincible method in the world?

Ji Qian pointed to this boulder and introduced it to Li Fei:

"The origin of this stone is not simple; it is not a real stone, but transformed from the bone of a ninth-grade exotic beast!"

"Ninth-grade exotic beast?"

Li Fei showed a look of surprise.

Among the top three grades of exotic beasts, there was a huge gap between each grade; seventh-grade exotic beasts corresponded to the combat power of Martial Arts Masters, eighth-grade exotic beasts corresponded to Grandmasters, and ninth-grade exotic beasts corresponded to Martial Saints!

With the increase in the number of martial artists, the number of exotic beasts was constantly decreasing.

Hundreds of years ago, many ordinary people could see exotic beasts in the wild, but now almost all exotic beasts were kept in captivity.

Because high-grade exotic beasts were treasures all over, there was a period when human experts hunted exotic beasts on a large scale to refine divine weapons, treasure armor, magic treasures, etc.

To this day, let alone ninth-grade exotic beasts, even the number of sixth-grade exotic beasts was not much.

This was also the reason why sixth-level protective clothing and sixth-level exotic weapons appeared particularly precious.

"This ninth-grade exotic beast is named the Soul-Devouring Nine-Headed Dragon, and this stone is transformed from one of its skulls."

Ji Qian continued to introduce to Li Fei, "This Soul-Devouring Nine-Headed Dragon was personally killed by the Taizu Emperor, and the words carved on the stone were also written by the Taizu Emperor himself."

Upon hearing this, Li Fei looked carefully at the large characters carved on the stone:

"Is there an invincible method in the world?"

This sentence was placed at the entrance of the Royal Library, which seemed very profound.

The Taizu Emperor of the Great Lan Dynasty spent nearly a hundred years collecting martial arts in the world and spent a lot of effort to build this Royal Library.

"Half of the martial arts in the world are in the Jianghu, and half are in the Imperial Palace"; the "half of the martial arts" in this sentence were in this library in front of Li Fei!

But the Taizu Emperor placed such a "stone" at the entrance and wrote such a sentence.

Obviously, he wanted to tell future generations:

There is no invincible martial arts, only invincible people!

A person who once swept across the six directions and fought all over the world without an opponent was indeed qualified to say such words.

The other party wanted future descendants to understand not to think that they could become top experts just because they had this library.

"Lord Li might as well take a few steps forward; this stone has other wonderful uses."

Ji Qian said to Li Fei.

"Good."

Li Fei walked forward decisively.

When he was only a dozen steps away from the boulder, he suddenly felt that the large characters carved on it seemed to turn into a monstrous wave and drown him!

In a trance, Li Fei found that the environment he was in had changed:

Around him was an endless swamp, filled with water mist.

A huge python stood up hundreds of meters away, its head the size of a mountain peak staring at Li Fei.

Facing those fiery red eyes, Li Fei felt a burst of anger emerge from the depths of his heart, hard to suppress!

Looking around, there were eight more such huge pythons.

"Is this the Soul-Devouring Nine-Headed Dragon?"

Li Fei quickly woke up; the nine giant pythons around him actually belonged to the same body, which was the ninth-grade exotic beast with combat power comparable to a Martial Saint!

Nine snake heads, each one would bring people different emotional fluctuations:

Anger, sorrow, shock, bitterness, greed.

Being stared at by these nine snake heads at the same time, his soul seemed to be bitten and pulled by nine small snakes, and it could be torn apart at any time!

Subsequently, Li Fei found that he could not control "his own" body.

"Am I currently in the perspective of the Taizu Emperor himself?"

When this thought occurred to him, the nine snake heads around him moved.

The nine mountain-peak-sized snake heads roared to the sky at the same time; within a hundred miles, the water and marshes boiled, and the mist surged!

The next second, nine different colors shrouded this swamp, and even the whole world.

Li Fei felt the world spinning; everything in front of him was constantly becoming distorted, and his whole person seemed like a piece of soft dough, being kneaded into different shapes!

Even though his mental power was already close to the peak of the Dao Foundation stage, he couldn't last a few seconds under such "ravaging."

But soon, this extremely distorted feeling was greatly reduced, and the pressure Li Fei was under was also greatly reduced.

"It's the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl that transferred the damage."

Li Fei reacted quickly.

At this time, he could properly perceive everything in front of him; this was an incomparably magnificent, dazzling small world, with countless "undercurrents" flying in it, like countless invisible hands, constantly tearing everything in this small world.

"Is this a Martial Arts Domain?"

Li Fei had seen Shi Caiming display it, so he recognized it immediately.

Seventh-grade exotic beasts, like Martial Arts Masters, also possessed divine abilities.

Eighth-grade exotic beasts were like Grandmasters and could release domains.

As for the level involving ninth-grade exotic beasts and Martial Saints, Li Fei was not clear for the time being.

He could only see the Taizu Emperor of the Great Lan Dynasty, whom he was "possessing," standing calmly in place, not affected by the outside world at all.

The person and the beast should be engaged in some high-level confrontation, but with Li Fei's current realm, he couldn't understand it at all.

He could only feel that the number of blood souls in the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl was decreasing at a very fast speed!

Holding the idea that looking at it more would definitely not be a loss, Li Fei tried his best to perceive this domain released by the Soul-Devouring Nine-Headed Dragon.

Inside the library, Ji Qian looked at Li Fei, who was standing still in front of the boulder, in surprise.

This boulder not only had the words carved by the Taizu Emperor, but also a fist intent specifically left by the other party. Because this boulder was transformed from a skull of the Soul-Devouring Nine-Headed Dragon, this fist intent could be preserved until now.

All martial artists whose mental power reached a certain level would be pulled into an illusion after approaching this boulder.

This illusion was the Taizu Emperor fighting the Soul-Devouring Nine-Headed Dragon!

But the level involved in the two was too high; Dao Foundation stage martial artists couldn't last more than a few seconds in the illusion before being forced to withdraw.

And Li Fei had been standing in place for almost ten seconds!

"No wonder he is the first in the annals of history."

Ji Qian only felt very impressed!

After another dozen seconds, Li Fei suddenly took a few steps back, his face a bit pale.

In the illusion, not only would the number of blood souls decrease, but his mental state would also bear great pressure, because the influence caused in the illusion was not all the most direct attack damage, and there was a part of the influence that the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl could not transfer.

So even if the blood souls were not exhausted, Li Fei could only withdraw from the illusion.

"Lord Li, you are truly a god-like man!"

Ji Qian stepped forward and gave Li Fei a thumbs up with a look of admiration.

"Oh?"

Li Fei was about to speak, but suddenly startled.

Because he found that his mental power not only increased by a section, but also seemed to have been thoroughly tempered, becoming much more condensed than before!

Originally, his mental power was only close to that of an expert at the peak of the Dao Foundation stage, but now it could truly be compared to the peak of the Dao Foundation stage!

This was the benefit brought by that illusion; no matter who it was, as long as they entered that illusion, their mental state would be tempered, and their mental power would be enhanced to a certain extent.

The longer they persisted, the greater the benefits they would receive.

The Emperor issued a decree allowing Li Fei to enter the Royal Library and choose any two secret manuals; this was a reward for Li Fei.

And the content of this reward was not just two secret manuals; entering the Royal Library itself was also a kind of reward!

Li Fei "looked" at the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl, and a smile appeared on his face.

The benefit he received was not just the enhancement of his mental power; just now in the illusion, the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl bore a lot of damage for him and also absorbed a lot of energy.

And the quality of this energy itself was extremely high, causing the Ten Thousand Blood Pearl to upgrade directly.

And it was unprecedented—upgrading two levels in a row!

There are two more chapters in the evening.

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