I am a full-level celestial master, you let me enter the strange talk of rules?

When Jones and the other Chosen Ones arrived here, their first instinct was to look for the source of the book-turning sound.

Who is turning the pages? Where are they turning the pages? Why are they turning the pages?
Then they would follow the sound and try to unravel the mystery.

This is a hint, like in that room with weapons, the clock starts moving first, and then those strange phenomena appear.

Once you find the first sound of turning pages, there's a way to solve it.

The quick-thinking chosen ones would naturally choose this method.

Zhang Yangqing was different. He didn't move, but instead looked for a spot, and then found it. He stood in the spot where the shoes in the surveillance footage were.

The direction of the toes, the distance between the feet, and even the slight angle of the body's orientation were exactly the same as those shoes.

In front of me is a bookshelf. On the third shelf, on the far left, there is an open book.

The book wasn't laid flat on the shelf, but stood upright with the open page facing outwards, as if someone had deliberately arranged it this way so that passersby could see it at a glance.

There was a line of text on the page, handwritten in black ink, the strokes somewhat messy, but each character was clear.

"Knowledge can change destiny."

A smile appeared on Zhang Yangqing's lips. So that's how it is.

If the guy who drew me here doesn't have any ill intentions, then telling me this should be the key to my survival in many stages to come.

What followed was an unbelievable scene.

Zhang Yangqing pulled a book from the bookshelf, opened it, and began to read.

It's not browsing, not just glancing at it; it's truly reading.

His fingers slid across the pages, moving down line by line at an astonishing speed.

One page turned, two pages turned, three pages turned—the speed of turning pages was faster than counting money.

He read several books in one go. After finishing one, he put it back on the shelf, took out another, and continued reading.

The pages rustled as if turned automatically by the wind.

Sometimes you can see Zhang Yangqing flipping through two or three books at the same time, all at a rapid pace.

The audience couldn't understand how Zhang Tianshi could keep up with it.

Even if a superhuman could read ten lines at a glance, could they possibly remember so much knowledge at once?

Moreover, those books cover a wide variety of topics, including history, geography, biology, astronomy, philosophy, literature, and even cultivation techniques.

This is not knowledge from Earth, but basic knowledge unique to this world of strange tales.

The range of disciplines is so vast and the content so diverse that it would take a normal person several days to digest just one book.

In other words, if Zhang Yangqing hadn't been flipping through the book, the audience would have thought that this chosen one was just randomly flipping through it.

As Zhang Yangqing turned the pages faster and faster, the eerie sound of pages turning around gradually disappeared.

To be precise, it didn't disappear suddenly, but gradually weakened, moved further away, and became less, as if something was being suppressed by him and driven out of this space.

With each book turned, the sound of turning pages lessened; with each book closed, the library became a little quieter.

In front of the large screen in the Dragon Kingdom, Hu Liuqi from the expert group began to analyze: Knowledge can change destiny. The meaning of this intelligence is roughly that in this library, the more knowledge one acquires, the greater one's 'authority'.

If the owner of those shoes is a friendly party, then it's a hint to the chosen one on how to solve the problem.

You don't need to trace the source of the reading sound; you just need to read.

The more you read, the stronger your control over the library becomes, and those strange phenomena will naturally subside.

At this point, the audience can understand.

What's puzzling is why Zhang Tianshi is still turning the pages even after the eerie sound of turning pages has disappeared.
And it flips over even faster.

While other chosen ones could finish one book, Zhang Yangqing could read more than twenty. He turned the pages so fast that it was impossible to see them clearly; with a flick of his finger, a page was gone, and with another flick, another page appeared.

The only sound in the library was the rustling of his pages, like autumn leaves falling to the ground.

There's another unique aspect here: the chosen ones need to read books diligently in order to acquire knowledge and suppress the strange sound of pages turning.

If you skim through a book without truly understanding it, you may read it, but the knowledge won't be absorbed. No matter how many pages you turn, the strange phenomena won't diminish.

Zhang Yangqing read it so quickly that everyone suspected he hadn't read it carefully.

But judging from the results, the sound of turning pages has completely disappeared, which proves that he was serious.

Not only was he meticulous, but his "outrageously fast" reading method was actually more effective than those chosen ones who read slowly and savored the text.

This is what makes Zhang Yangqing so terrifying.

Actually, it's not unusual to have fellow disciples from Longhu Mountain.

This is how Zhang Yangqing read books in the Sutra Repository of Longhu Mountain back then.

The old celestial master would shake his head every time he passed by, feeling that he was just going through the motions, wasting time, and reading celestial books.

As a result, in each assessment, Zhang Yangqing's familiarity with those scriptures had reached the point where he could recite them backwards—yes, he could recite them backwards perfectly.

At first, the Celestial Master started to check Zhang Yangqing's homework, but when he found out that Zhang Yangqing would actually recite it backwards, showing off his knowledge, the Celestial Master never checked Zhang Yangqing's homework again.

Whenever he came across a good book, he would usually give it to Zhang Yangqing to read.

Zhang Yangqing had also developed a habit of reading.

In the fantastical worlds of the various chosen ones, they have all found solutions.

Some, like Zhang Yangqing, know that the more books they read, the safer they are.

Others, like Jones, found the book from which the first page-turning sound was heard.

The challenge here is choosing one of three options.

There are three books being flipped through. The Chosen One was quite far away and couldn't determine which book was flipped through first.

Jones has already discovered the pit here.

Because the middle book is already half-read, while the left and right books are only a third of the way through.

Many chosen ones might think that controlling the middle book is enough, since those who flip through the book first will have fewer books left.

However, Jones noticed a major problem with these three books. One book required flipping through two pages at a time, another book had a slower flipping speed but fewer pages, and the third book had a fast flipping speed but a large number of pages.

Just find the pattern and determine which book to start flipping through first.

The difficulty lies in how to judge and calculate even if the patterns are known, which is the key to whether the chosen ones can survive.

Of course, there were also unlucky chosen ones who made the wrong choice.

Nakamura Hei, the chosen one of the Cherry Blossom Kingdom, is one of them.

He arrived at the library full of confidence and found a certain pattern.

Nakamura Hei stood in front of the bookshelf, listening to the three different sounds of pages turning, closing his eyes, and using his ears to distinguish the distance, volume, and frequency of the sounds.

He believed his hearing was good, his judgment was accurate, and his choices were correct.

Nakamura chose the book that was being flipped through more slowly, as he felt it was the one he should start with.

Having completed the analysis, Nakamura Hei reached out and began to control the frequency of turning the pages of the book, closing it up.

This scene only made the other books flip through even faster, the sound of turning pages seemingly mocking Nakamura Hei: You chose the wrong one! You idiot! (End of Chapter)