Why would someone use the power of their domain to write out a story about a phoenix? Maybe there was more to the story than what he could see at a first glance, Xuan Hao did not understand it too clearly, but decided to take the book with him and investigate it close when he returned back to the sect.
No matter what, the power of a domain left in the book could help him gain a deeper understanding towards how a domain worked and increase his own comprehension towards it. The power of a domain left in the book was like a guiding light showing him how a fully-fledged domain would look like.
Even if he did not manage to figure out what the meaning behind the book was, he would still be able to gain a lot from studying the power of a domain left behind in it.
Looking around himself, Xuan Hao began to spread out his divine sense as he skimmed through the titles of all the books on the first floor followed by the second, third and finally ninth floor. Looking for the next part of the [Journey of the Snow Phoenix], but this was to no avail as the next part was nowhere to be found in the giant pagoda.
The other people sensed his divine sense passing by but paid it no mind as they just continued reading through the different scroll and books.
"Hah, looks like I was wishing for too much…" Shaking his head a bit in disappointment upon retracting his divine sense after scanning through the entire pagoda, Xuan Hao went back to looking through the books on the first floor. Finding a few interesting books here and there to bring back and read at a later time.
But when it came to any sort of history books, there was none outside a few that described the war between different kingdoms or sects. None mentioned anything about where the secret realm could have originated from or any of the different places inside the secret realm itself.
"Elder Xuan! Are we going to move on to the next place?" A few hours had passed and the Nascent Soul Realm Experts along with Chi Hu had finished reading through the important techniques on the ninth floor as they slowly began to take their leave from the pagoda and travel deeper into the secret realm.
The Core Formation Experts present saw this opportunity and immediately rushed to the ninth floor to take a look at the different techniques when the last Nascent Soul Realm Expert left.
"Yeah, there is nothing more for us to gain here… Did you manage to find any Heaven Rank Techniques?" Moving in the direction of the exit to the pagoda, Xuan Hao could not help asking as he only skimmed through the titles of the techniques on the ninth floor without reading any of them.
"Yes! There were two Heaven Rank, sadly both of them were not compatible with me…" Mentioning the two Heaven Rank Techniques, Chi Hu quickly became a bit depressed.
"Hm? What were they about?" Seeing the sad expression on Chi Hu's face, Xuan Hao began feeling a bit curious about the two Heaven Rank Techniques left on the ninth floor of the pagoda.𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖
"Well… You see… The first one is called Supreme Flower Breaking Mantra and it requires the user to cultivate together with a partner…" Blushing in embarrassment, Chi Hu stopped explaining. Dual cultivation could be considered something ordinary and was something dao couples normally did to increase both their cultivation realms as they were together.
Xuan Hao felt a bit bewildered when he saw the elderly face of Chi Hu going bright red upon talking about a dual cultivation technique, could there be something special about the Supreme Flower Breaking Mantra…?
"And?" Trying to encourage for him to continue, Xuan Hao patiently observed the elderly man flushed unnaturally before continuing.
"Well… T-the Supreme Flower Breaking Mantra can only be cultivated with two male partners… Earlier, I saw two of the Nascent Soul Realm cultivators on the ninth floor taking off together to try it out…" Ending his explanation, Chi Hu blushed as he turned away from Xuan Hao.
"…" Spreading out his divine sense, Xuan Hao focused back on the ninth floor and discovered a group of middle-aged men at the Peak of the Core Formation Realm looking at each other as they muttered something about reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
"What is the other Heaven Rank Technique?" Retracting his divine sense immediately before he saw something that would corrupt his poor soul, Xuan Hao asked about the other Heaven Rank Technique on the ninth floor as he increased the speed at which he was leaving the pagoda.
"The other Heaven Rank Technique was called Enchanted Water Spring, but it is a female only offensive technique that requires the cultivator to cultivate a water qi mantra before being useful… Not something that I would find any use in…" Sighing to himself as he thought about how useless the techniques and mantras on the ninth floor was to him, Chi Hu sincerely hoped that the next place they found would have something useful like an ancient pill that could strengthen his body or a mystical elixir that could increase his comprehension towards the dao and allow him to reach and even higher realm.
"The Enchanted Water Spring should be useful for someone in the sect, as for the Supreme Flower Breaking Mantra… Just ignore it and keep it yourself…" Xuan Hao really did not feel like it was a good idea to spread the Supreme Flower Breaking Mantra in the Flying Sword Sect, so he simply told Chi Hu to keep it for himself, while the Enchanted Water Spring would be fine to share.
"Yes…" Understanding what Xuan Hao meant, Chi Hu swore in his heart that he would never let the Supreme Flower Breaking Mantra corrupt anyone else like it had those two Nascent Soul Realm Experts earlier!
"Good, let's get going then!" Seeing that Chi Hu understood him and would not spread the Supreme Flower Breaking Mantra upon arriving at the Flying Sword Sect, Xuan Hao nodded approvingly as both of them made it outside the giant pagoda standing alone in the ancient forest.