"There are this many martial arts here?"
Chu Feng couldn't help but marvel inwardly. The ocean seemed boundless, yet even the martial arts floating before his eyes were already numerous in quantity.
So just how many martial arts must exist throughout the entire Martial Arts Library?
As if sensing Chu Feng's thoughts, a secret voice transmission reached his ears.
The speaker was Lu Long.
"In truth, many of the martial arts are duplicates."
"But the Martial Arts Library does indeed contain a vast number."
"However, the martial arts on the first floor—the strongest among them are only Fourth Level Supreme Martial Skills."
"Those here should be useless to you. You'd best hurry and advance to True Disciple rank, then you can enter the second floor. The Supreme Martial Skills and Sixth Level Supreme Martial Skills there will be far more useful to you in your current state."
Lu Long transmitted these words to Chu Feng secretly.
"Senior Brother Lu, True Disciples and Martial Arts Library disciples are limited to the younger generation, correct?"
"If one fails to become a True Disciple before the age of one hundred, how does one access the second floor?"
Chu Feng was curious, so he too sent a secret voice transmission in reply.
"It is still possible to enter, but it requires a certain cultivation level."
"A first-level Martial Venerable may step onto the second floor, and a third-level Martial Venerable may step onto the third," Lu Long answered.
"I see."
Chu Feng nodded. Though they were conversing, he had been steadily making his way forward the entire time.
In the blink of an eye, Chu Feng and the others had arrived deep within the Auxiliary Barrier Formation.
Here, there were numerous formations capable of enhancing one's comprehension.
They had been arranged by the predecessors of the Martial Arts Library, specifically designed to boost the disciples' comprehension so they could cultivate martial arts more quickly.
However, the powerful formations had already been claimed by others.
So Chu Feng simply took matters into his own hands and set up a comprehension-enhancing formation himself.
Chu Feng stepped inside and discovered that the Auxiliary Barrier Formation here no longer targeted him.
The only pity was that the power of this Auxiliary Barrier Formation was considerably weaker than the one in Li Fengxian's grandfather's territory.
But Chu Feng still focused on his cultivation and gave it a try.
Just as he had anticipated, this Auxiliary Barrier Formation could not support his attempt to crack the Sleeping Dragon Soul Armor.
Seeing no results, Chu Feng didn't persist further. Instead, he rose to his feet, ready to leave.
He already knew that the Northern Mysterious Academy had another Auxiliary Barrier Formation.
And that formation was located within the territory of the Northern Mysterious Academy's presiding elder.
The presiding elder of the Northern Mysterious Academy had been rather kind to Chu Feng.
Chu Feng figured that if he asked to borrow the Auxiliary Barrier Formation for cultivation, the elder would likely agree.
But once Chu Feng stood up, he noticed that something was off.
Li Muzhi and Lu Long were nowhere to be seen, nor were several of the others who had been walking with them.
Only a single female disciple remained.
Her name was Zhao Shi.
Zhao Shi possessed a cultivation at the seventh level of Supreme.
She was not only a True Disciple but also commanded the third level of the Dragon Transformation barrier techniques.
Although she had previously helped Xu Langzhi humiliate Chu Feng, later, after Chu Feng had successfully forged the treasure, she had sincerely apologized to him, and had done so again on multiple occasions since.
So Chu Feng's impression of her had improved somewhat.
She was the type to bully the weak and fear the strong, but she was not someone incapable of recognizing her mistakes.
The reason Chu Feng sensed something was wrong was because, although Li Muzhi and the others were gone, over a dozen people were standing right outside the formation he had set up, their gazes locked onto him.
Their stance made it look as though they had been waiting for him.
And their eyes were far from friendly.
These dozen or so people were all disciples of the Eastern Dragon Academy, and they were all—every last one of them—True Disciples.
"Junior Brother Chu Feng, Junior Brother Li Muzhi and Senior Brother Lu Long had something to attend to and went to the second floor, but they said they would be right back."
Seeing that Chu Feng had stopped cultivating, Zhao Shi hastily spoke up.
And she did not use a secret voice transmission—she said it aloud for everyone to hear.
She did it on purpose, deliberately bringing up the names of Li Muzhi and Lu Long so that these people would know Chu Feng had come here with them.
She wanted them to know that Chu Feng had Li Muzhi and Lu Long backing him.
These words were naturally meant for the unwelcoming True Disciples who had arrived.
After she had spoken those words openly and for all to hear, another secret voice transmission reached Chu Feng's ears.
This transmission too came from Zhao Shi.