13 Chapter 13: Heaven-Defying Cultivator

While Jun Huang was marveling over Ying Yue's results and thinking up all the best cultivation methods, Ying Yue simply stood rooted to the spot, lost in her own thoughts.

What did all this mean? She new that she was likely to have the fire attribute, in fact it was almost a guarantee as everyone in her family did. She new it was also a possibility for her to have the lightning attribute, as a few in her family had it, but what of the other five attributes she tested positive for?

In this world, the possibility ofwhich attributes you would align with was in part tied to your genetics. Normally, attributes would be passed from parent to child, and while some children would have the rarer sister attribute to their parents attribute, to have one that no one in your family history had was simply unheard of.

For example, if both the sides of the parents families have water, the child might get ice. If they have fire, the child might get lightning. If they have earth, the child may get plant. However, this happening was very unlikely, and children who turned out this way were often held as geniuses by their families. This was also how many kingdoms kept there powers consolidated, as no one from a more powerful nation would want to marry into a smaller one, thus keeping the possibility of more rarer attributes from being passed to lesser nations.

So, this raised a big question.

If her father's side of the family had fire, lightning, and extremely rarely earth, just how did she get plant, water, darkness and void?

Just who was her mother?

The only way that she could have received these attributes would be if her mom, or one of her mother's ancestors, had these attributes. Added on to the fact that her mother left her the Boundless Spirit Pantheon, where did she come from? And why would she marry someone like her father? With the different attributes her children could possibly have, even the emperor would be hard pressed to make her his empress, let alone marrying the generalof a small nation.

Truly, her mother seemed more and more mysterious by the minute.

Ying Yue decided that she would interrogate Jun Huang later, as he new her mother. However, at the moment, what she needed to focus on most was raising her strength. After all, what good would knowing about her mother do if she was dead?

"So, now what?," Ying Yue asked, turning around to face Jun Huang, "How exactly should I cultivate, like is there a special method I should use or anything?"

"Actually, that's what I'm deciding on. Since you have so many different attributes, there are many different cultivation methods you could try. However, I'm thinking you should focus most on cultivating you void attribute, as it is the one you align with most strongly."

This made sense to Ying Yue, so she decided that her first order of business, now that she had been tested, was to find the best void attribute cultivation method to help her advance in rank.

Now that Ying Yue and Jun Huang were in agreement about what to do, they left the room to head to the mansions library, to find books on void cultivation methods.

They headed down the hallway they came from upon entering, and headed up a set of stairs to the next floor. Thankfully for Jun Huang, Ying Yue was too lost in her own thoughts to gap at her surroundings, and so they arrived at the library without having to stop to get Ying Yue back on track. Once they reached the library, however, things became a different story.

Just who in the world had so many books!?

Surely this library could make any other seem shameful! Once again, Ying Yue was reminded of the world she came from, as this library made her think of her favorite fairy tale. In the tale, a monster gifted a huge library to a fair maiden, and through this slowly won her heart. If it wasn't for the fact that Jun Huang looked like a child, Ying Yue might have thought he was trying to seduce her with books just as the beast had done in that story. Truly, this was too much!

Just seeing the massive amount of books, Ying Yue could imagine spending the rest of her life in here. If she could simply spend the rest of her life reading good books and eating good food, she would be content! Not many knew this, but in her previous world, Ying Yue was a bit of a closeted book worm. She had often thought that if she wasn't so good at being a bounty hunter, maybe she would have turned out being an author or a librarian. This secret, however, was one known by few, as it would definitely ruin her image as a tough as nails bounty hunter.

Seeing Ying Yue practically drooling over the books, Jun Huang sighed. This girl sure was getting on his nerves. While he new that many of the books in here were worth lots and rare, it was still just a bunch of paper, ok? The way he saw it, Ying Yue simply couldn't tell what was actually valuable.

Of course, it wasn't Ying Yue who was the problem. It was just that Jun Huang had been surrounded by unimaginable wealth his entire life, and so his idea of what was considered valuable had become a little warped.

As Ying Yue stared starry eyed and mouth agape, she starting exploring the library, stroking the spines of the books as she walked down each row. There were too many books! She didn't even know where she should begin looking for a book about void cultivation methods. Although this many books excited her, right now the sheer amount was proving to be a bit of a problem.

Jun Huang was no help either, as he didn't know how the books were organised. It wasn't his fault, ok! He simply had better ways to spend his days than reading some dusty old books.

As such, Jun Huang and Ying Yue spent close to an hour simply wandering about the library, reading the titles on the spines of each book in an attempt to find one on void cultivation methods.

As Ying Yue passed by more and more books, she felt something in the back of her mind.

It was like an itch, or maybe it was more similar to the feeling you get when you know you've forgotten something but couldn't remember what. Whatever the feeling was, she felt as though it wouldn't not go away unless she kept going straight ahead, as though there was some force pulling her in that direction.

As Ying Yue continued to walk forward, following the strange sensation, she spotted and extremely dusty desk in the corner of the library. It looked as though no one had used this space for hundreds of years, as if it had simply been forgotten by the world.

When she saw this desk, something just clicked, and Ying Yue knew that what she was looking for would be there. As such, she sped quickly over to the desk, where she found a worn and leather bound book, without any markings nor title on the cover.

As Ying Yue opened it and started flipping through the pages, she quickly realized that this was in fact someone's journal.

In it, it described the day-to-day activities of the author, along with many cultivation methods and experiments the author performed. As Ying Yue continued to read, she got excited. Whoever wrote this journal could be considered a genius! The numerous cultivation methods that they came up with, as well as all the different medications and poisons they discovered as well, were simply heaven-defying!

Jun Huang hadn't seen or heard from Ying Yue for a while, so he wandered around to find her seated at an old dusk in the corner, excitedly flipping through a book. When Jun Huang realized what book this was, he gasped out loud.

Wasn't that his first master's journal?!