Insufficient balance

  Tang Hao arrived at the library with great expectations, but his heart suddenly turned cold. What kind of library was this? It was just a dilapidated warehouse. Inside, there was an old man wearing a vest, who seemed to have no cultivation base, smoking a dry cigarette and scratching his toes.

  "Uncle Quan, we're here." Ai Ke said with a smile to the old man.

  The old man didn't even lift his head to glance at them, and said while reading the newspaper: "Go on in, no need to register."

  Tang Hao was speechless, it seemed that he had been looking forward to such a job, where he didn't have to do anything, no one managed him, and still received civil servant treatment.

  Ai Ke opened a wooden door on the side of the warehouse, and suddenly a passage with metal walls appeared inside.

  Tang Hao suddenly thought of an American movie he had seen before. Although this warehouse looked old and worn out, it actually hid such a vast space inside.

  Ai Ke took Tang Hao into the elevator at the farthest end of the passage and pressed the lowest level, minus eighteen. This made Tang Hao feel a bit hairy, as if he was about to enter the eighteenth level of hell.

  "This is the headquarters of the Spiritual Department, with a total of 18 floors. The first floor is for university students and staff dormitories, the second floor is where the clerks work, and as you go down, the level gets higher, except for the 18th floor." Ai Ke introduced to Tang Huang.

  "What floor are you on?" Tang Hao asked casually as he saw that the elevator still had a while to go.

  Aiko smiled awkwardly, "I'm on the fourth floor, but for Kuizhong sister, I'll be able to reach the sixth or seventh floor soon."

  The elevator stopped on the eighteenth floor, and after Ai Ke walked out of the elevator, he stopped in front of Tang Hua and said: "Sister Zhong will go in through this door, I'll wait for you outside."

  Tang Hao walked to the entrance of the black gate, a red ordinary human light beam scanned Tang Hao, and then an electronic voice came: "Identity confirmed, time set for two hours, please be civilized and do not damage the classics inside."

  Tang Hao almost spat out his lunch, that last sentence was so typically Chinese. However, Tang Hao wouldn't write "Tang Hao was here" unless he wanted to die.

  When Tang Hao entered the library, his face turned green instantly. What kind of library was this? It was simply a junkyard. Countless broken jade slips were scattered all over the floor.

  Tang Hao suddenly had a feeling of being cheated. No wonder the Lingxiu Bureau agreed to his terms so easily, it turned out that they were letting him take care of the leftovers.

  It's obvious that the good stuff has been collected by the Spiritual Bureau and placed elsewhere, so this should just be some inferior goods. However, Tang Hao had no choice but to pin his hopes on finding a treasure among them.

  Tang Hao picked up a seemingly intact jade slip, but inside, he could only read out a few words. It seemed that the information inside had been largely erased by the passage of time.

  Tang Hao found other jade slips, which indeed had some complete techniques and spiritual arts, but the quality was too ordinary, and would even be placed on the lowest level in the outer courtyard library of Lvfeng Sect.

  So, Tang Hao reluctantly searched through the pile of broken books for half an hour, but still didn't gain anything.

  Tang Hao was somewhat annoyed, picked up a black jade slip and smashed it on the ground, with that smooth voice scolding: "I bought a watch last year, and it actually cheated me."

  Tang Hao was suddenly attracted to the black jade slip, and Tang Hao's divine sense sighed into it. There was nothing, but Tang Hao always felt that there seemed to be a door about to open, and something on his body seemed to have reacted to the jade slip as well.

  Tang Hao inspected his equipment, apart from the clothes he had refined himself, there were also Yun Xue's hand chain and a cyan silk ribbon tied around him.

  Tang Hao first tried bringing the chain closer to the black jade slip, but there was no change, however that feeling still remained.

  Tang Hao held a lucky heart and approached the jade slip with a silk ribbon. Suddenly, his divine sense entered a deeper place, and the joy inside instantly appeared in Tang Hao's mind.

  Tang Hao's face revealed a hint of joy, this time he had picked up a treasure. Although this manual was somewhat useless to other cultivators, it was extremely useful for himself.

  This is a specialized practice for cultivating divine consciousness. It should be known that the lifespan of a practitioner is tied to their cultivation, and although divine consciousness is important, no matter how intense the cultivation of divine consciousness is, it will not increase one's cultivation. Rather than spending mental energy on cultivating divine consciousness, it would be better to spend more mental energy on cultivation itself.

  In addition, this gongfa requires the help of a spiritual object to cultivate, and also needs a spiritual object to practice, so not many people study it, and it has been abandoned in this corner.

  Ke Tang Huan was different, the cyan silk ribbon was originally a tempered spiritual awareness object, but as the spiritual awareness grew, the tempering effect gradually weakened. Now with this method, combined with the cyan silk ribbon's tempering, the growth speed of spiritual awareness is not comparable to that of ordinary cultivators.

  As for the impact on cultivation speed, Tang Hao doesn't need to worry at all. After using Shadow Clone, he can summon three bodies that can cultivate, and his main body, due to lacking a spiritual root, cannot cultivate spiritual energy but can temper his divine sense, not wasting anything.

  Tang Hao hastily counted down the things in the black jade slip, but when he saw the last part, his scalp felt numb, and he felt like he was watching a horror movie, as if he was heading in the direction of a ghost cultivator, except without the weakness of losing his soul's origin.

  This technique indeed borrowed from the ghost cultivator's technique, and also combined with ordinary cultivators' techniques. This technique can be cultivated even by ordinary people, but it cannot improve one's realm.

  This technique also records several abilities. The first layer allows the user to cast an illusion on someone with a weaker spiritual sense than themselves, but requires a spiritual strength of at least ten layers of ordinary Qi refining period cultivators. The second layer is a spiritual attack that can cause the opponent to lose their mind for a short time, during which they will only follow the commands of the practitioner, similar to hypnosis. This layer requires the spiritual strength of a foundation-building period cultivator. The third layer is spiritual possession, where one uses their spiritual sense to occupy the opponent's body and control their physical form. However, this can only be achieved if one's spiritual sense is much stronger than the opponent's, or if the opponent's mind is not guarded due to certain circumstances. This is different from soul snatching, which is irreversible, whereas spiritual possession can be freely released. This layer requires the spiritual strength of a Dan-forming period cultivator.

  Tang Hao naturally understood that these abilities were of little use in a fight, but they were extremely useful for lurking and gathering intelligence. Even if he didn't use these abilities, his powerful divine sense could allow him to anticipate danger ahead of time.

  "Time's up!" Tang Hao heard another electronic sound, and at the same time, he was pushed out by a strange force. Tang Hao secretly rejoiced that he had gone to the underground palace with Ai Ke, otherwise, in this library, nothing would have been found in that one hour.

  "Has Sister Zhong found anything? Last time I went in for over an hour and only found a pile of junk." Ai Ke said to Tang Huang.

  Tang Hao couldn't help but smile wryly. If Ai Ke weren't a cultivator, he would definitely make a great salesperson. It wasn't until after Tang Hao had paid and opened the package that Ai Ke told him about the product's shortcomings.

  But Tang Hao didn't lose out after all, nodding and saying: "Found some small stuff, nothing good though."

  "What little thing can let me see it."

  Tang Hao suddenly thought of using his first-level ability, and his divine sense could detect things over a hundred meters away, equivalent to the level of a Qi Refining cultivator at the eleventh layer. Ai Ke's divine sense was only at the seventh layer of the Qi Refining stage, which was not much weaker than Tang Hao's, but it was worth trying anyway.

  Tang Hao said to Ai Ke: "Look into my eyes."

  Ai Ke didn't know why Tang Hao asked this, but still did as he was told.

  Tang Hao tried to attack Aiko with his spiritual sense, and Aiko's eyes began to glaze over. When Aiko's eyes regained their luster, she suddenly exclaimed: "Ah! Why am I not wearing clothes?! Zhong sister, what kind of strange thing did you get?!" Aiko reflexively covered her vital parts with her hands, but in fact, all the clothes on her body were intact.

  However, Ai Ke and Tang Huan's divine consciousness differed not much, causing Ai Ke to quickly wake up and immediately realize something. He said to Xiang Gong Wei: "Congratulations, Clock Sister, on obtaining such a good spiritual technique. You're naturally beautiful, and with the use of illusion techniques to PS yourself, I guarantee that every man will be smitten with you."

  Tang Hao was somewhat speechless. This illusion technique could actually be used in this way, but Tang Hao didn't like being stared at by men, so he wouldn't do what Ai Ke said.