My name is Huang Tian, ​​what the hell is this "Heaven is dead" nonsense?

Chapter 77 Heavenly Man
Even though the County and Town Martial Guard is one of the major official forces in Kunyun County, it is still a bit difficult to spare two fifth-rank martial artists as "bodyguards".

It's not that there aren't many fifth-rank martial artists in Zhenwu Guard, but rather that they are all busy with their own things.

Putting aside other matters, each of the nine commanders must leave at least five people to guard the city, and one person to look after the six neighborhoods, cooperating with the county government and the Six Doors to monitor the Jianghu people in the city.

The remaining four were either ordered to patrol the area or to apprehend the perpetrators, leaving them with no time or energy to spare.

The other fifth-rank martial artists also had their own tasks, some guarding the library like Nie Kun, others overseeing the prison...

By sending two fifth-rank martial artists to secretly protect Huang Tian, ​​Bai Yuanfu had already done a great deal of effort.

This also made Huang Tian secretly sigh, "Whether it's out of love for talent or a desire to invest in advance, Governor Bai's sincerity is truly comforting."

After watching for a while, he turned off the screen and then looked at other audio sources.

After a long while, with a thought, all the sounds immediately disappeared, the stance slowly came to an end, and his qi and blood gradually calmed down.

He let out a long breath, went out of the house, took a quick shower, and then went back to rest.

The next day, early in the morning, he took the token that Bai Yuanfu had given him and went to the library.

He nodded to the young clerk on the first floor. The young clerk was flattered and quickly stood up to greet him. He now knew Huang Tian. The commotion the latter had caused was so great that almost everyone in the entire Zhenwu Guard knew about him.

Without exchanging pleasantries, Huang Tian went straight up to the second floor and immediately spotted the middle-aged man, Nie Kun, who had been talking with Bai Yuanfu the night before.

Nie Kun gave Huang Tian a deep look and said succinctly, "Token."

Huang Tian tossed out the token, which Nie Kun caught but didn't bother to examine closely. He glanced at it and asked decisively, "With this token, you can see all the martial arts techniques on the second floor. Which one do you want to see?"

"All."

"all?"

Nie Kun raised an eyebrow, didn't ask any more questions, pressed on the wall behind him, and the wall slowly opened, revealing a huge bookshelf.

He took ten books from the bookshelf at once and placed them in front of Huang Tian, ​​saying, "You read them first, and I'll take more after you're done."

"it is good."

Huang Tian opened a copy of "Thousand Illusions Cloud Hands" and quickly browsed through it. After a short while, he closed the book and immediately opened the next one.

In no time at all, he had finished reading all ten books.

Seeing this, Nie Kun's eyelids twitched incessantly. He didn't quite understand the meaning of Huang Tian "flipping" the book like this. Did he have a photographic memory? Or did he understand it immediately after reading it?
If it's the former, it's not surprising; at a high level of martial arts cultivation, photographic memory is easily achievable. But if it's the latter, then their comprehension is simply terrifying...

Nie Kun put away the ten books he had read, then took out ten new ones and handed them to Huang Tian. Without saying a word, Huang Tian continued to carefully "flip through the books".

And so, one person took the books while the other flipped through them, and in no time at all, Huang Tian had finished reading over a hundred martial arts manuals on the second floor.

At this moment, Nie Kun finally couldn't help but ask, "Have you memorized all the martial arts techniques, or have you mastered them?"

Huang Tian didn't hide anything, "I've grasped it, but I still need to practice it once to use it skillfully."

Well, it's just one round. Once you've finished one round and confirmed that you've truly mastered it, you're done.

Nie Kun was shocked beyond words. He did not believe that Huang Tian was exaggerating or deceiving him, because Huang Tian's high level of understanding was obvious to all, and his calm personality meant he was not the type to exaggerate.

'I once learned the Pushing Mountain and Overlapping Waves Palm technique in just three months, and I thought it was a genius. Today I realize what true genius is...'

He sighed inwardly, and his gaze toward Huang Tian became increasingly different.

Such a fine talent and precious gem must be protected well, lest someone harm him/her...

His thoughts shifted, and he suddenly spoke, his words extremely clear: "My name is Nie Kun."

Huang Tian was taken aback. Nie Kun continued, "You've finished watching the martial arts techniques on the second floor, would you like to go up to the third floor?"

Huang Tian nodded slightly.

"Take the token and go upstairs. Unlike the second floor, the third floor only contains five top-tier martial arts manuals, and over twenty notes left by martial arts predecessors. Hmm, there's also a scroll of the Heavenly Ranking. Take a close look. If one day you can..."

He paused for a moment, then shook his head: "Forget it, the Celestial Realm is too far away. Let's wait until you reach the Grandmaster Realm before considering it."

Only when you reach the level of a grandmaster can you have the opportunity to look up and gaze at the distance between heaven and man!
"How difficult it is to become a Celestial Being! Of the hundreds of millions of people in the five kingdoms, over three hundred years, there have only been thirty or forty Celestial Beings. Each one is the result of a confluence of exceptional comprehension, innate talent, opportunity, background, and other extraordinary circumstances. This child possesses remarkably high comprehension, yet I dare not say how far he will ultimately go..."

He sighed inwardly. Huang Tian at least had a chance to reach the boundary between heaven and man, but he himself was still far from reaching the Grandmaster realm. How tragic!

Huang Tian picked up the token, bowed slightly to Nie Kun, and then stepped up to the third floor.

The third floor was small and quiet, with only a sandalwood bookshelf containing some scrolls. Beside the bookshelf sat an elderly man with gray hair and a ruddy complexion, dressed in a blue cloth robe, sitting quietly on a futon, breathing slowly and deliberately, as if practicing a form of meditation.

'He must be the old man Guan that Commander Bai mentioned last night.'

Huang Tian thought to himself, took two steps forward, and took out the token.

Guan Lao opened his eyes slightly, revealing a sharp glint. He glanced at Huang Tian and then looked at the token in his hand.

"Take a look yourself, just don't damage the document." The aged voice rang out, and Old Guan closed his eyes, returning to tranquility.

Huang Tian cupped his hands slightly, walked to the sandalwood bookshelf, and carefully examined the five martial arts techniques at the pinnacle level.

"A marvelous technique of splitting light and capturing shadows..."

"Mountain Suppressing Yuan Great Handprint..."

"..."

After reading through the five martial arts manuals, he pondered to himself, "The difference between the pinnacle-level martial arts and the refined-level ones isn't that great. They're just more sophisticated and complex, and the application of true energy is more flexible, thus making them much more powerful..."

Although the difference wasn't significant, it was still of considerable value to him, a fleeting inspiration that stirred ripples in his lake of inspiration.

'not enough!'

He hadn't accumulated enough experience, and his inspiration couldn't take shape, so he put aside his martial arts skills and started reading some martial arts manuals on his bookshelf.

"The Recluse of Bright Moon Discusses Various Aspects of Cultivation in the Middle Three Ranks..."

"On tempering one's body and bones before becoming a grandmaster..."

"I speak of the key to tempering qi and blood..."

"..."

After reading through the twenty-odd manuscripts, Huang Tian sighed inwardly, "Too few!" The martial arts techniques and manuscripts in the library were too few to provide him with more knowledge and inspiration.

After sighing, he picked up the thin scroll on the top shelf, which was the "List of Heavenly Beings" that Nie Yuan had mentioned!
"The Celestial Ranking includes a total of thirty people!"

"Thirtieth, the Grand Preceptor of Lan Kingdom, Fu Mingzhang..."

"The eighteenth, one of the five lineage masters of the demonic path, the Demon Heart Bodhisattva..."

"Ninth, the twenty-sixth abbot of Huguo Temple, the Arhat Who Carries the Mountain..."

"Third, the Grand Commander of the Zhenwu Guard, Wan Shenyang..."

"First, Heaven's heart is my heart, my heart is Heaven's heart, Yin Fenghai!"

(End of this chapter)