If one were to look at the wooden grill now, they would think that it had always been like this. With a little assistance from the system, Lin Wu had been able to make an elegant design.

"Well… let's just hope they don't find out about this for a while. Though they probably will find out about it after a while." Lin Wu muttered to himself before entering through one of the holes.

The hole was still a tight squeeze for Lin Wu and he almost got stuck, but then transforming his body into the organic form partially helped him get through. He did not fully transform into the organic form as he would have not been able to maintain the same size.

Lin Wu had long since learned that if he wanted to maintain his form and shape, he had to stay in the crystalline form. While he was able to manipulate his size up to a certain extent in the organic form, there were still discrepancies.

Thus the Crystalline form was the more advantageous one in aspects such as these.

After he got into the library, it didn't take him long to begin what he was here for.

"Alright system, begin the scan." Lin Wu ordered.

~Ding~

——

SCANNER ACTIVATED: Targets selected

LARGE DATA STORES DETECTED: Please wait patiently

ESTIMATED TIME OF COMPLETION: 4 hours, 21 minutes and 16 seconds

——

"Damn, that's quite a lot of time… but I guess that's reasonable considering the amount." Lin Wu muttered to himself.

He had plenty of time till Shirong would wake up and now that he had better control over Shirong by the virtue of the Backdoor function, even if he was not there, Shirong would not find out about him.

Even if Shirong checked the ring right now, he would see that the spear is still there, but if he tried to withdraw it, he would find it resiting him. By now Shirong had learned well enough that he shouldn't force the Immortal Crystal Armament to do things that it didn't want to.

Another thing was that the chances of Shirong withdrawing him were also quite less in the city. Not only was there no danger currently, but using the Immortal Crystal Armament in the open was also not favorable for him.

Since it was going to take a while for the system to scan and store all the things from the library, Lin Wu decided to take a stroll around and check things out to pass the time.

"May as well read something." Lin Wu said to himself.

The library was currently locked and no one was here, so Lin Wu could freely move around and check the books. He moved to a section that had more information on beasts, or more accurately strong beasts.

Lin Wu knew that whatever he was right now, it was the result of the unknown bloodline he had assimilated with the system's help. Even now it was not completely done and he could further obtain more and more abilities as he continued progressing it.

Lin Wu read through a couple of books for two hours but they all were normal beasts. While there were some immortal beasts mentioned in them, they weren't anything too extraordinary.

But eventually, he found a book that was very old. When he opened it, he could tell that the book was a spirit tool itself, having the ability to store a lot of information. Its pages were made out of some kind of an unknown material but they looked quite valuable.

'This book is pretty much multiple jade slips bound together.' Lin Wu thought upon seeing the massive amount of information that was in it.

"Wait, what section is this?" Lin Wu wondered as he finally looked around.

While not all books were like the one he had in his hand. About five percent of them were high quality ones similar to the one he had in his hands.

Finally, at the other side of the shelves, he saw the board hanging that read: Restricted section (Trespassers beware! You will be killed by the formation!)

"There's a formation here too? I didn't feel it… system scan for the formation." Lin Wu spoke.

~Ding~

——

FORMATION DETECTED: Blood Slaughter Formation found

FORMATION STATUS: Active

——

"Huh? Wait a minute… the reason why it didn't affect me is because… it targets humans? Looks like shitty programming saved me again… and the system also didn't consider it dangerous." Lin Wu realized.

'No wonder they didn't place any guards inside the library, they simply don't need to. The formation itself is enough for everything.' Lin Wu thought.

Returning his focus to the book at hand, Lin Wu started reading it.

"Oh my… now this is the kind of beasts I was looking for…" Lin Wu murmured.

There were many beasts described in this book and all of them were immortal beasts that were above the Immortal Ascension realm. There were even beasts that were said to be above them described here, but it didn't say what their cultivation base was exactly. All it said was that it was very high.

Most of these beasts were considered to be legendary beasts that even Lin Wu had heard of in his past life like the phoenix, flood dragons, unicorns, qilins, dragons and such. Though there were some very unique beasts in it too.

One of those beasts was a fish beast called as the Blue Ribbon Tail Sting Ray.

Lin Wu had actually heard about them in his past life too as they existed there too. But the ones mentioned in this book were in no way comparable to those. These ones were strong and could kill thousands of beasts with a single thrust of its stinger.

But that was not all, as this was but a mere basic form of the beast. The Blue Ribbon Tail Sting Ray had a powerful bloodline and when it reached a sufficient cultivation base, it would be able to further evolve.

"A Celestial Star Sailing Ray… now that sounds impressive." Lin Wu muttered in awe of its abilities.