Chapter 454 - Million Word Transference Formation

"Yes, I brought the jade slip. Take it." Lin Mu said,

"I'll get the transfer started right away." The male clerk replied.

"Any estimate on how long it will take?" Lin Mu asked.

"It will probably take about six hours senior since there are far too many things and we lack the manpower too." The clerk answered.

"I see. That's understandable, anything you need my help with?" Lin Mu offered.

"No, no, we cannot inconvenience you, senior. If you feel like it, you can go and visit some places in the city or… since you were asking about the library you can spend your time there too." The clerk replied.

"I'll do that then. I'll be in the library till then." Lin Mu said before walking towards the library.

The clerk left as well, but just as he was about to step out of the hall, he stopped as a thought came to his mind.

'Does he know where the library is though?' The clerk thought.

"He should be able to find on his own, I guess. Since he didn't ask me, he should be fine with it." The clerk muttered to himself before leaving for the area where all the information was stored.

"Alright guys! Let's hurry up, the senior brought the jade slip." The clerk announced to the other three people who were working in another large hall that had books and documents kept everywhere.

They nodded at his words and got to work.

***

Lin Mu directly went to the library since he already knew where it was due to his spirit sense. The library was rather large but nowhere near to the library that was in the myriad armament canopy abode.

He spread his spirit sense around to check the titles of the books and quickly found a few that interested him. About an hour passed before a thought came to him.

"Hmm, senior is there any way I can transfer all the information here into the jade slip as well? Like the formation that old man Jing used?" Lin Mu questioned.

"Well yes, of course. With your current cultivation base, it should be no problem. I can teach you a formation for that, but it will take you time before you are able to compile all of the information here. Also… I doubt it will fit in the jade slip you have currently, you will probably have to use the new one that you gave to them." Xukong answered.

"Hmm… that should fine. You can just teach me the formation in the meantime." Lin Mu replied.

"Alright, then. Let's begin." Xukong said before teaching Lin Mu the formation.

The name of the formation was 'Million word transference formation'. It was one of the many formations that could be used to transfer information from one type of medium to the other, but this was chiefly used for transferring information from physical items like books and scrolls to jade slips.

By the time Lin Mu was done learning the formation from senior Xukong, six hours had already passed and he was woken up by someone calling him.

"Senior! We are done." The male clerk announced.

Along with him was the female clerk, who was staring at Lin Mu with stars in her eyes. Since Lin Mu was focused on learning from senior Xukong, he had been sitting in a meditative pose and had a very tranquil expression on his face.

To the female clerk, the moment she saw him she felt as if it was an immortal cultivating in front of her. In fact, they had actually been done about an hour ago, but she did not allow the male clerk to disturb Lin Mu since he seemed to be busy meditating.

Only after an hour passed and Lin Mu showed no signs of waking up on his own, did she let him call out to him as she guessed that he must have gone deep in his mediation. 

Lin Mu opened his eyes and looked at the two clerks before nodding.

"You can give it to me then, I'll spend some more time here. I found a few interesting things in the library." Lin Mu said.

"Sure senior. You can stay here as long as you want." The female clerk said excitedly.

"Thank you." Lin mu said before taking the jade slip and taking a quick look through the information.

All of the information was sorted according to chronology and if he wanted, he could even search for something specific. All he needed to do was think, and the jade slip would present the information to him.

"We won't disturb you anymore then, senior." The female clerk said before pulling the male clerk away, not letting him speak anything.

Lin Mu tilted his head in confusion at their strange actions, but forgot about it pretty quickly. The only thing in his mind currently was to transfer the information to the jade slip, now that he had learned the formation.

Lin Mu checked to see if there was anyone near the room with his spirit sense and proceeded after confirming it. 

~huu~

"Let's begin…" Lin Mu took a deep breath.

He gestured with his hands and runes started forming in the air. He took out five low grade spirit stones and created a small arrangement with it. His spirit Qi linked them together and a formation circuit was soon formed.

"Expand!" Lin Mu said before spreading his arms wide apart.

~Shua~

An illusory formation circuit materialized and spread all over the area of the library. More runes appeared in the air before creating intricate patterns in the air before the new jade slip came to float right in the middle of them.

The books that were kept on the shelves all flew out and the words that were written on them started to fly out. They moved towards the jade slip and started being absorbed into it. Lin Mu sat down and focused on controlling the formation for the rest of the night.

  Only when the morning arrived did he stop.

~phew~

"Half-way done…"