"It's really just a hope."
Sun Zuo shook his head and laughed, "First, you have to happen to encounter a 'mountain of books,' and second, you have to have enough literary positions to gather them."
"Is there a pattern to the appearance of 'mountains of books'?" Now that a certain number of basic texts had been collected, and given that advanced texts would not be so easy to find, Shen Qian became somewhat interested.
“Yes.” Sun Zuo first affirmed, but before he could sink into silence, his eyes lit up and he shook his head again, “But it’s practically the same as not having it.”
"How so?"
"Because according to past records, there is only one sea area where the 'Book Mountain' can be confirmed to exist. It may appear occasionally in other sea areas, but the frequency is extremely low."
"The sea area you mentioned wouldn't be 'Central Sea', would it?"
Hearing Sun Zuo's sigh, Shen Qian realized something.
“It’s the ‘Central Sea’.” Sun Zuo shrugged. “It’s said that the Central Sea is full of literary talents, but unfortunately, it hasn’t appeared for almost two hundred years. The other eight seas are similar. Only by exploring deep into the sea can you find high-level literary talents, but that depends on luck… Anyway, I’m prepared to leave empty-handed.”
He nodded before sinking.
That's entirely conceivable.
Although the legendary Zhonghai is extremely dangerous, and based on the information Shen Qian currently has, it is very likely that it is the place where the Azure Lotus Buddha fell. Perhaps the White Emperor also suffered some losses here, otherwise he would not have left the "Wenwei" here.
But... imagine how many high-star cultural relics have accumulated in a sea area that no one has touched for two hundred years. And no matter how much the other eight seas accumulate, they are all plundered by countless human warriors every few years. How much can they possibly have left?
After the initial excitement subsided, upon listening to Sun Zuo's explanation and reflecting on it carefully, he realized it wasn't all that complicated. At least high-level literary ranks had some traceable basis, but the "mountain of books" was truly elusive and unpredictable.
Instead of searching for mountains of books, it's more reliable to directly search for high-level literary works.
With that thought in mind, Shen Qian directly absorbed the four script positions into his body. Although he couldn't take them out of the Sea of Learning directly, he could temporarily store them within his body. Of course, he could also choose to refine them directly, but that would mean giving up the possibility of fusing with higher-level script positions.
After putting away the four "civil posts", Shen Qian was about to call Sun Zuo to leave together when suddenly a strange whistling sound arose, followed by the entire sea suddenly churning.
Caught off guard, both of them swayed. After regaining their balance, they turned to look at each other and saw the waves surging in from afar, carrying countless starlight along the way. In the blink of an eye, the waves transformed into a raging storm, engulfing them before they could even react.
"Don't resist with brute force. This is a 'storm of knowledge,' a product of the rules of the sea of learning. Try to absorb and resolve it!"
Sun Zuo's loud roar echoed across the lake.
Upon hearing the words "knowledge storm," Shen Qian felt a chill run down his spine.
This time, I haven't had a moment to catch my breath in the sea of knowledge. I just dealt with a deadly situation, and now I'm facing an even more challenging storm of knowledge!
Among the dangers inherent in the "sea of learning," the "storm of knowledge" is the most violent and the most difficult to resist. It is almost unsolvable. If one cannot withstand the endless invasion of knowledge, one's soul will either disintegrate or one can only voluntarily withdraw from the sea of learning before one's self-awareness dissipates.
boom!
Before sinking, I first felt my body being thrown high into the air uncontrollably, then my mind went numb, and countless crazy, chaotic babblings rushed into my mind.
Those were fragments of knowledge, thousands of times more concentrated than the sporadic impacts when touching seawater, and driven by the storm, they poured directly into the depths of the soul before sinking, leaving no possibility of resistance.
Shen Qian was initially quite confident, after all, his mental strength was now far superior to what it used to be, making him an absolute leader among those in the world of mountains and seas, and he believed he could withstand the impact of this storm of knowledge.
But Shen Qian soon realized that he had underestimated this knowledge storm, which was known as the number one catastrophe in the sea of learning. Imagine the feeling of billions of pieces of information rushing into your mind at the same time in a second.
You can't block it at all; you can only passively accept it.
The consequence was that, in just a moment before sinking, one experienced a pain that felt as if their soul was being torn apart.
He screamed in agony, barely managing to hold on for nearly ten seconds before finally having to give up... If he continued, his soul would surely suffer irreversible damage.
"system!"
As for the so-called abandonment before sinking, it certainly doesn't mean quitting the sea of knowledge, but rather letting the system go online.
In his mind, if someone in the world could process and digest so much chaotic knowledge in an instant, then that person could only be a system... No, no one could do that at all, only a machine could, and strictly speaking, a system is not a human either; it is itself a supercomputer that exceeds current cognition and understanding.
The system came online in an instant, and Shen Qian immediately lost consciousness, and of course, he also lost the pain.
With a cold expression, Shen Qian swayed silently with the storm, but became calm and indifferent, as if he were just in ordinary seawater. Only by looking closely could one discover that countless tiny streams of light were constantly flashing in the depths of Shen Qian's eyes. However, no matter how much information invaded, his eyes remained clear.
The storm of knowledge came quickly, but it also went quickly. The whole process lasted less than twenty seconds before sweeping away into the distance. But only those who experienced it firsthand can understand what a hell it was!
Shen Qian, who had just re-entered the game, patted his head and it took him a while to come to his senses.
The system has automatically filtered out all the absorbed knowledge, so there are no aftereffects, but the feeling of dizziness and headache still lingers.
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