The library's ground floor is spacious and divided into three main areas.
First, there is the reception desk at the entrance.
A tall, arched table was placed in the center, with several dignified witches standing on either side, waiting for visitors.
Secondly, there is a central rest area.
Sofas and tea tables were neatly arranged, allowing the wizards to pause briefly before studying, creating a tranquil and gentle atmosphere.
Thirdly, in the deepest area, are teleportation arrays shimmering with runic light.
They are like steps leading to the upper levels of the library, the halls of knowledge.
As Lynn stepped inside and looked at the layout of the lobby, he had a strange feeling that he had walked into a hotel lobby in his previous life.
"It's completely different from any library or sutra repository I've ever seen before... I hope the collection here is sufficient to meet my needs."
He walked straight to the reception desk.
Several beautiful witches had already noticed him and were waiting with smiles on their faces.
They were clearly library staff members, with varying levels of skill, but none of them had reached the Morning Star level.
Even at the Southern Headquarters of the Wizarding Council, Morning Star Wizards are not a common sight, much less likely to serve as front-line wizards.
These witches, though of average strength, are strikingly beautiful, clearly more suited to a decorative, "image-building" role than a combat-capable one.
Lynn had no interest in it whatsoever.
Right now, there's only one thing he cares about: finding the books about the Morning Star Wizard.
He casually took out his councilor's token and tossed it lightly.
A beautiful witch quickly caught it, swiftly authenticated it through a ritual, and then respectfully returned the token with both hands.
"Your Excellency, Member of Parliament."
Her voice was soft yet extremely formal: “You have a 30-year free reading right. According to the library rules, this 30-year period is the natural time and cannot be paused.”
"With your authority, Member of Parliament, you may freely read books from the second to the fifth floor of the library. If you need to take books out of the library, you will need to pay with magic stones or deduct them with contribution points."
Contribution points are rewards earned for completing parliamentary tasks.
Lynn had just become a member of parliament and naturally had nothing.
The witch paused slightly, then blushed slightly and asked in a low voice:
"Your Excellency...would you like me to accompany and guide you?"
"Um?"
Lynn raised an eyebrow, clearly not expecting the witch to offer such an additional service.
But now his mind is filled with the "power of rules," and he has no interest in enjoying the pleasure of "reading by the company of a beautiful woman at night."
"No need."
He replied calmly, his mental energy retracting the token, and then strode towards the teleportation array at the deepest part of the room without any hesitation.
With a soft beam of teleportation light, Lynn's figure faded from the first floor of the library.
The Wizarding Council Library has distinct responsibilities at each level, from bottom to top.
The first floor is just a reception area and has no books.
From the second floor onwards, the scholarly atmosphere truly becomes rich:
The second level corresponds to wizard apprentices and first-level wizards;
The third layer contains texts related to second-level wizards;
The fourth level is the knowledge repository of a third-level archmage;
The fifth level is the highest point Lynn can currently access, the place where the scriptures of the fourth-level Morning Star Wizard realm are stored.
"call out!"
As the light faded, Lynn was already standing on the fifth floor.
He instinctively looked up at the top of the tower.
Sure enough, above this mysterious tower, there were layers upon layers of unknown space.
Unfortunately, those floors are the domain of higher-level wizards, and he is not yet able to set foot there with his current authority.
Lynn exhaled softly, composed himself, and turned his gaze to the interior of the fifth floor.
Although the tower gradually narrows from bottom to top, and the number of books corresponding to each floor decreases, Lynn is still deeply shocked by the view on the fifth floor.
This is not a simple "physical floor," but an independent world conjured by some kind of spatial magic.
He was standing on a high platform with a wide view, looking down at the front.
The bookshelves stretched out on an incredible scale, layered like a forest and arrayed like a tide, resembling a boundless ocean of knowledge.
The bookshelves and books were not haphazardly arranged, but rather categorized in a very rigorous manner:
"Meditation area..."
"Witchcraft area..."
"Biography and Miscellaneous Talk Section..."
"Experimental data area..."
Each major category is further subdivided:
"Fire element specialization, water element specialization, earth element specialization, wind element specialization..."
Complete as a system, precise as an architecture.
Lynn's eyes brightened slightly, and she gently licked her lips.
He could sense that this place would truly be a treasure for him.
Knowledge, rules, mysteries... it all seemed to be reaching out to him.
Previously, thanks to his talent of "Heaven rewards diligence", Lynn had read and memorized all the books in the Spirit Eye Furnace Library.
That knowledge encompassed a wide range of topics from wizard apprentices to third-level archmages, and it was of great help to him at the time, when he was still at the third-level archmages level.
However, now that he has broken through to the Morning Star Wizard level, he has very few level four domain books in the Spirit Eye Forge.
As for the memories of the Spirit Eye Wizard that he possessed, they ultimately belonged to another wizard, and one who was not a natural wizard. The experience within them was only "half-understood" for Lynn, and he could hardly truly grasp it.
Therefore, he was almost completely ignorant of the Morning Star Wizard's training methods.
Now, standing in the Southern Library of the Wizarding Council, a true treasure trove of knowledge, he was finally able to escape the predicament of being "completely in the dark."
Despite the vast collection of books here, Lynn was not worried.
He has his own council token, which can not only retrieve books but also pinpoint precise locations.
“Everyone here enters a separate illusion… In this way, I don’t have to worry about others disturbing me.”
"Don't rush to find the Nature Wizard column. Let's first get a systematic understanding of the overall level of Morning Star Wizards."
With a thought, Lynn used his council token to search and located a book called "The Wizarding Realm: A Comprehensive Guide (Morning Star Edition)".
This book was not written by a high-ranking wizard, but by the Wizarding Council, so its reliability is self-evident.
He then flashed through the labyrinth of endless bookshelves, guiding the light to trace a path before his eyes. Before long, he accurately found his target.
Lynn paused slightly as he pulled out the book.
Although he knew that all of this was just a conjured construct, the ancient and heavy book had an almost indistinguishable texture and weight.
As he ran his fingertips along the deep lines on the book cover, he suddenly remembered the wizard Bode's words about "turning the unreal into the real."
"A level three Grand Wizard can begin to understand 'turning illusion into reality,' using mental power to solidify illusions..."
Because their spiritual energy crystals are limited, the things they transform into are mostly familiar, single-entity creatures.
"But if one's mental strength is strong enough, it is by no means impossible for a high-level wizard to conjure mountains, cities, or even an entire library..."
Lynn's thoughts stirred slightly, her gaze becoming gentle yet profound.
Turning the pages, the paper rustles softly, carrying a rich aroma of knowledge.
The next moment, he was completely absorbed in the pages of the book.
………………
Time flows slowly in the stillness.
Although the library in front of us was constructed using the unfathomable art of "transforming the virtual into the real," its realism is almost indistinguishable from reality.
Even the faint scent of books and ink lingers in the air, as if it were an ancient library that truly exists in the world.
Lynn sat cross-legged on the ground, holding the book "The Wizarding World Guide (Morning Star Edition)" in his arms. His gaze was as focused as needles, and he read every word and sentence with an extremely serious attitude.
With his current mental strength as a Morning Star Wizard, his thinking is already a hundred times more efficient than that of ordinary people. If it were ordinary text, he could read ten lines at a glance and memorize it after just one reading.
However, that was just common writing.
All the scriptures here are written in the language of the wizards, and all of these languages, whether heard, spoken, read, or written, require mental power to interpret.
The deeper the mystery contained in the text, the greater the mental effort required to understand it.
The contents of the fifth-level library all revolve around the origins and true meaning of the Morning Star Wizard, with each section containing countless exquisite and profound mysteries.
Even with Lynn's strength, it was difficult to reproduce the speed at which he could easily skim through the text in the past. He could only read slowly, chew on each word, and forcefully try to understand the meaning behind it with his mental power.
Therefore, although his reading efficiency was still far superior to that of ordinary people, it was only one or two times faster, and it was no longer the kind of rapid absorption that was like a breeze sweeping across the pages...
After an unknown amount of time, Lynn finally turned to the end of the book.
He took a deep breath, closed "The Wizarding Realm: A Comprehensive Guide (Morning Star Edition)," tapped the cover lightly with his fingertips, and gave a subtle and complex look.
“Morning Star Wizard… The name ‘Morning Star’ is not just a random name; it has a deeper meaning.”
He murmured to himself, the book's definition of the endless dimensional world coming to mind:
The Endless Dimensions refers to that boundless, endless, chaotic universe.
In the deep void, countless planes of existence are scattered like stars, varying in size and grade, each evolving into distinct civilizations.
At the very bottom is the desolate plane.
Cold and desolate, devoid of life, it is not even worthy of the word "stars," but merely soulless cosmic remains.
The next level up consists of resource stars and resource planes that cannot support Level 4 life.
They are also known as "small-dimensional worlds," and although their vitality is limited, they still retain the soil for building civilizations.
Above this lies the world that truly nurtures the strong:
Low-level civilization planes capable of giving birth to Morning Star Wizards; mid-level civilization planes capable of nurturing Radiant Moon Warriors; and so on up to high-level civilization planes comparable to wizard civilizations...
But what Lynn was thinking about at this moment was not those planes that truly gave birth to civilizations, but rather resource planes, also known as minor planes.
In the endless plane system, the minor planes are second to last, only slightly better than those desolate lands.
It is from this level that they can gain recognition from many civilizations and be given the name "Star".
Therefore, the "Morning Star" in "Morning Star Wizard" is closely related to this.
The path of the wizard, from weakness to strength, is a ladder to climb that has no end.
Ancient wizards took the heavens and earth and all things as their teachers, and in their exploration, they opened up two initial realms: wizard apprentice and formal wizard.
The apprentices, unlike ordinary people, embark on a journey of spiritual practice;
A fully accomplished wizard is already a formidable force within the wizarding world.
However, the ancient wizards soon encountered a bottleneck.
At that time, the wizarding world was just an ordinary resource plane, which had not yet given birth to any beings that aspired to a higher level.
Continuing to delve into research within the global context is extremely difficult, with numerous bottlenecks.
Thus, subtly guided by the origin of the world, they turned their gaze beyond the world.
Beyond this world lies the boundless void of the universe.
In the void, all things vanished, except for one after another shining star floating above, becoming the only bright spot in eternity.
Only after the ancient wizards took this step did they truly pave the way for the path beyond level three, which is the "Morning Star Wizard".
The "Morning Star" is more than just a symbolic vision.
It is also the spiritual vision established by ancient shamans in accordance with the stars and cosmos.
According to their vision, if a Morning Star Wizard cultivated to the highest level, he should be like those stars suspended in the void:
Unafraid of the turbulent void, it can traverse the universe alone, using itself as a star and its power as light.
A Morning Star Wizard at his peak should theoretically possess energy and size comparable to a Morning Star in the universe.
At first glance, this seems like a pipe dream.
After all, from a modern perspective, even a powerful fourth-level Morning Star Wizard, even with the terrifying power to annihilate the civilizations of minor worlds, is no match for them.
However, in terms of size and power, they are far less than the worlds they can destroy.
Like the civilization of Lynn's previous life.
Human technology is capable of destroying life on Earth, but even if all the nuclear bombs were combined and detonated, they could not shake the blue planet in the slightest.
The difference between the two is as vast as a firefly compared to the bright moon.
However, what will be the final outcome of that seemingly delusional vision of a breakthrough?
Just look at the wizarding civilization that now traverses countless planes and is revered by countless other civilizations, and that will explain everything...
The ancient wizards succeeded.
"The path of the wizard is, in essence, the path of the sublimation of a species..."
From ordinary, short-lived humans, they gradually progressed to non-human, immortal beings, until they transformed into entirely different beings…
"But I never imagined that the ultimate goal of the so-called Morning Star Wizards would be to make tiny life forms evolve into... celestial stars!"
Recalling the description of this realm in the book, Lynn still couldn't help but gasp, shocked by the madness of the ancient wizard.
In those early days when wizarding civilization was still in its infancy, those early wizards carved through thorns in the darkness where there seemed to be no way out.
Countless people perished in the void, falling at the end of their exploration, before finally forging the path to heaven as the "Morning Star Wizard."
After reading the entire article, Lynn even vaguely felt that this success carried an inexplicable element of luck and good fortune.
Because the cultivation system of the wizarding civilization is quite unique, they follow the path of spiritual power.
It is precisely this point that enabled the ancient wizards to successfully "prove the Dao" under seemingly impossible circumstances.
The three major cultivation systems in the universe are: the spiritual power system, the qi and blood physical body system, and the energy system.
Among them, the mental power system has a crucial and unique advantage compared to the other two.
Spiritual power does not rely on matter, or rather, it relies very little on external matter.
Its quantity and resources are limited by the material world, and are far lower than those of the Qi and blood energy system.
What does it mean?
For a simple example:
Whether it's tempering the body or absorbing energy, it essentially relies on one premise: obtaining enough matter or energy from the outside world as "fuel".
If a practitioner wants to "attain enlightenment" and become an existence equal to the stars.
Wouldn't that mean we have to prepare enough blood or energy in advance to be equivalent to the size of a star for it to absorb?
This is completely impossible.
To become a morning star, one must first absorb the mass of a morning star?
Isn't this a contradiction?
Only the path of spiritual power can bypass this dead end.
In a sense, spiritual cultivation means that if one's will becomes extremely strong, one will not rely on external resources.
The stronger your heart, the broader your spirit.
The extent to which one's will extends determines the extent to which one's mental strength can grow.
Thus, an extremely powerful mind can give birth to a force comparable to the size of a "morning star" in the realm of nothingness.
It requires no material things, no energy, and not even any external supply; it proves the Way through the heart.
This is the path of the ancient wizards.
"The civilizations in the endless planes that use energy systems or flesh-and-blood systems either received gifts from advanced foreign civilizations or were born in extremely high-level planes, standing on the shoulders of giants from the very beginning."
"The existence of a civilization like the Wizard Civilization, which was born in a lowly resource plane but managed to leapfrog through the 'shortcut' of the spiritual path and eventually develop into an advanced civilization plane... is so rare that it's almost absurd, it's like cheating."
Having seen through the true nature of the Morning Star Wizards, Lynn was both shocked by the ancient wizards' madness and felt a vague unease rising in his heart.
According to the "Complete Guide to Wizarding Realms (Morning Star Chapter)," the pinnacle of a Morning Star Wizard is to cultivate oneself into a true "celestial star."
Now, Lynn, as a fourth-level Morning Star Wizard, possesses terrifying power.
With the power of the rules, he could easily annihilate all civilizations in a resource plane; this is the power of a "civilization harvester".
But what if he were to destroy a resource plane itself?
Even if one were to exhaust three thousand years of lifespan, it would be virtually impossible.
The gap between life and different planes is so vast that it cannot be measured by common sense.
However, the book clearly states that the peak of a sixth-level Morning Star Wizard is approaching the level of a celestial body.
This means that moving from level four to level six is not about crossing a new level, but about crossing a vast chasm.
"Even if the spiritual system is unique and allows the mind to grow without relying on material things... it is wishful thinking to think that spiritual power alone can reach the level of celestial bodies and stars."
Lynn took a deep breath and continued organizing the contents of the book:
"The ancient wizards were able to succeed not because they had 'limitless minds,' but because... they harnessed the power of the rules."
"Since formal wizards can manipulate energy factors through witchcraft and unleash power far exceeding their own..."
"Then the Morning Star Wizard can naturally use higher-level magic to mobilize deeper layers of rule power, thereby unleashing..."
A terrifying energy level approaching that of celestial bodies.
"This... is the true path of cultivation for the Morning Star Wizard."
Thinking of this, Lynn let out a long sigh.
He finally gained a clear and complete understanding of the path to becoming a "Morning Star Wizard". (End of Chapter)
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