"And the last scholar... how should I put it? It's hard to imagine how a pure 'Ki' would fight with others..."

Dorothy compared the choices in her mind. Among these branches, she was interested in puppeteer, thunder user, and fortune teller, but it was difficult to make a decision right away.

The key reason why Dorothy couldn't make a decision was that the stone tablet only recorded the names of the five branches and the requirements and methods of advancement, but did not record what specific abilities they would gain after advancement. This made Dorothy feel that her advancement was a bit like a lottery, and she couldn't say anything about the results.

"Huh... Now is not the time to choose a career. Let's leave here first and go to a safe place."

Dorothy murmured something, and then she wrote down everything on the stone tablet, then left the tablet and began to look around for a way out.

After knowing the existence of the common language, Dorothy only needed to find those messy scratches on the wall. After staring at them for two seconds, she could see that they were transformed into hidden text. So Dorothy, by looking for traces of the common language, really found the way out after a while.

It was a pattern of inscriptions carved on the wall. After Dorothy looked at it and stared at it for a while, she saw that the inscriptions were quickly changing into the Protagonist language she knew, and transformed into the meaning Dorothy could understand.

"Climb the steps and walk along the corridor. Then you will reach the black earth steps and walk to the bank of Qingxi River to receive the enthronement ceremony."

Looking at the words on the wall in front of her, Dorothy was stunned for a while, then couldn't help but complain.

"Fuck... this thing requires the Black Earth Rank to open?"

Seeing the words on the wall, Dorothy's heart sank suddenly. It was obvious that this room was specially used by the Star Book Repair Society for members to advance. Only an apprentice of "Qi" could enter the nearest entrance, and the other exit could only be used by those who had advanced to the black level.

Judging from the words on the wall, this seems to be a ritual of the book repair society. Those who succeed in advancing will go to the bank of Qingxi River through this exclusive passage to receive some kind of ceremony, while those who fail in advancement can only return the same way.

But now Dorothy has no option to return, as the way back is blocked by poison gas and rocks.

In other words, if Dorothy could not complete the advancement on the spot, she might be trapped and die in this secret room.

“How unfortunate…”

Covering her forehead, Dorothy shook her head helplessly and sighed. There was no other way now. In order to get out of here, Dorothy could only start to check the contents of the stone tablet in her mind to see if she had the possibility of on-the-spot promotion and whether her current status could just meet the promotion conditions of any branch.

This sight made Dorothy feel very disappointed.

Dorothy discovered that her current spiritual accumulation had already met the conditions for promotion in many branches, and she could also pray for herself as a guide, but the key point was that promotion to the black level required more than just spirituality, and the ritual also began to have some additional requirements.

In fact, the black rank promotion ceremony is not complicated. For example, the promotion ceremony to the fortune teller requires the preparation of 6 high-quality crystal balls to assist in peeping into the sea of ​​consciousness. The promotion ceremony to the thunder master needs to be carried out in thunderstorm weather, and some kind of vacant spiritual "initiating" extraordinary item needs to be prepared to use it as a medium to attract a natural lightning strike...

In short, these promotion ceremonies either have additional item requirements or additional environmental requirements. Some of them, like the one for the thunder caster, need to be performed outdoors under specific weather conditions, which simply won't work in this secret room.

Dorothy carefully watched the promotion ceremonies of these branches, and after a few glances, she found that she could hardly meet the requirements of those ceremonies. Just when Dorothy felt desperate, she looked at the last branch, and her eyes lit up.

This branch is the "scholar".

Scholar, Dorothy originally thought that this was a pure "initiate" path that did not require spiritual assistance, but after she carefully looked at the Scholar's promotion ceremony, she felt a little surprised.

The promotion ceremony of the scholar does not require any additional environment or items. To be promoted to a scholar, the apprentice Tongxu must study one book of each other spirituality. Then the main spirituality "Qi" is full, that is, 20 points. In addition to the main spirituality, all other spiritualities, even including the opposing "Ji" spirituality, must accumulate four points each, that is, 5 points.

In other words, if you want to be promoted to a scholar, you need to read all the spiritual secrets, and then accumulate 20 points of "Enlightenment" and 5 points each of the other five spiritualities, including the opposite "Silence".

"A polymath... it seems like a branch of pure research on 'enlightenment', but I didn't expect that one would have to use all kinds of spiritual powers. Does one need to be proficient in all spiritual knowledge to be called a polymath?

"Anyway, the scholar is the easiest path for me to advance. I just need to learn a lot of secret teachings and accumulate a lot of spirituality. Let me see my current spiritual situation..."

As she spoke, Dorothy began to examine the spirituality she had accumulated so far, especially.

9 cups, 10 stones, 6 shadows, 4 lights, 3 silence, 16 enlightenment.

When she first came to Tivian, Dorothy's "Cups" were 11 points, but she had used some of them in the recent Overloaded Corpse Ring, so she only had 9 cups left. Dorothy's original "Shadow" was 3 points and "Inspiration" was 15 points, but she saw a message from someone who knew poison at the altar on the second floor, and converted it to 3 points of "Shadow" and 1 point of "Inspiration".

According to the current situation, Dorothy's "Light" and "Silence" have not reached 5 points, and "Enlightenment" has not reached 20 points, both of which are not qualified. But don't forget that the advancement methods recorded on these stone tablets are essentially secret teachings, and there is also poison identification on them. Dorothy can extract another wave of spirituality based on the contents of the stone tablets.

The conclusion extracted is that this stone tablet that records all the ways to advance to the Black Earth Stage of "Qi" is worth 6 points of "Qi"! In addition to "Silence", the other four types of "Cup", "Stone", "Shadow" and "Lamp" are worth 2 points each.

After this wave of extraction, Dorothy's "Qi" directly overflowed by 2 points and was wasted, and the final situation was this.

11 cups, 12 stones, 8 shadows, 6 lights, 3 silence, 20 enlightenment.

Suddenly, Dorothy seemed to have fully met all the requirements for promotion, except for being "quiet".

"'Silence'? Hiss... This is a bit difficult... Among the secret teachings I have come across before, the ones that involve 'silence' are the least... There is no book with 'silence' as the theme. Now not only is the spiritual power not stable, but the requirements of the secret teaching are also insufficient."

Dorothy thought with some distress that in order to advance to the level of Erudite, one must have read at least one of the secret books on a spiritual subject in addition to spirituality, and Dorothy had never read a secret book on the theme of "silence".

"Hiss...Looks like I can only seek help from outside the field..." Dorothy muttered while thinking.

…

My work and rest schedule has been messed up recently, and I haven't been able to adjust it properly, so I'll just do two in one.