Tyr left that tent with a large smile on his face and a heavy ring on his hand.

He raised his hand, looking at his 20×20 foot storage ring:

“It’s filled to the brim.” He chuckled to himself.

Before leaving for the temple, he turned to look at the state of the shop and the merchant once more.

The crowd around the stage had fizzled back into normal roaming customers.

Tyr could almost taste the gloomy aura of the merchant as he saw the middle-aged man sit down beside Mechan.

Before their confrontation unfolded, Tyr turned and began walking away from the marquee.

“I don’t think this is over yet… but I have other things to focus on right now,” he said to himself.

Soon enough, he arrived at the same meditation area as the day prior.

The number of monks meditating was also similar.

The sky was bright and blue with scarce white clouds, and the fresh, clean air of the temple made its presence known with soft and rejuvenating breezes.

After inhaling these breezes deeply, Tyr sat down on a mat. With a slight smile on his face, he lifted his finger.

With a simple thought, his storage ring illuminated with a bright gleam as 20 scrolls appeared before him on the floor.

The scrolls looked like raw pieces of shiny gold just sitting around, instantly capturing the attention of all the monks passing by.

Even those who were on the mats, who happened to have their eyes open, widened their eyes even more to get a better look at Tyr’s scrolls.

Most were confused, but the more learned monks understood the value of the scrolls Tyr had on the ground.

“What in the world is he doing?”

“Are those all cultivation techniques?”

“They seem to be of very high grades…”

A few dozen stopped what they were doing and paused in awe as they gawked at Tyr for the next few minutes.

Tyr wasn’t very informed when it came to cultivation techniques, but from how he understood it, they worked something like this:

A cultivator would first have to obtain a cultivation technique scroll.

After obtaining it, they would have the choice to comprehend the writing inside the scroll before absorbing the scroll and understanding how to perform the cultivation technique.

However, most scrolls were not written in the universal Subworld language, or even any language currently used in Subworld at all.

For this reason, most simply chose to absorb the cultivation technique without any prior comprehension of what it did.

This still allowed them to instantly understand how it worked.

“It seems pretty stupid to want to read what the scroll does if using it instantly informs you anyway,” Tyr thought to himself.

“But then again… absorbing something you have no clue about isn’t a super safe thing to do. Back when these scrolls were created, I can imagine ruthless tactics such as weaponized cultivation scrolls were fairly commonly used.”

Although all of this was true, Tyr still had the choice to read all of these scrolls.

Why? Well, because of GG, of course.

With the translation abilities of GG, Tyr could understand even this ancient language—albeit, most of it was torn or erased by this point.

The only thing keeping the scrolls together was the denser materials and the Aura.

“Eh… I doubt any of these will harm me,” Tyr mused.

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“I shouldn’t be too paranoid. I’ve never heard of such a thing.”

With this rationale in mind, Tyr began to absorb the cultivation technique scrolls one by one as others watched.

Bound with Aura Arrays that allowed information to be transferred into another’s brain, the process went along smoothly and quickly.

After a mere half a minute, Tyr’s head was filled with a mountain of knowledge about how to use each and every scroll he had just absorbed.

Tyr closed his eyes, wanting to focus on the techniques more closely and think with a clear head:

“Wow… how interesting.” He couldn’t help but be mesmerized.

“Each technique has its own subtle or drastic differences. Most use aspects of nature, like vines, leaves, or raindrops. Others use more modern, manmade concepts such as brushes, chopsticks, and sandals. It’s all so random…”

They worked in very odd ways as well.

The sandal cultivation technique, for example—according to the information Tyr gathered through absorption—transformed the Aura around him into small pellet-sized flies.

These flies would be drawn toward Tyr and swatted out of the air by glowing sandals made of Tyr’s Aura—the specialty of this cultivation technique.

After swatting these flies, they would be absorbed into Tyr’s Aura Core in their original pure Aura state of matter.

The chopstick technique was also quite funny, grabbing the Aura in the air with chopsticks before thrusting it straight into Tyr’s Aura Core.

Most techniques were simpler—the ones that worked in tandem with nature.

The Rain Drop Cultivation Technique made the Aura around Tyr turn into denser drops of matter, able to be absorbed at higher quantities.

The Vine Cultivation Technique created vines of Aura that grew out from Tyr’s Aura Core and sprawled across the floor—absorbing all nearby Aura from the air—like roots of a tree absorbing water and minerals.

‘It seems that for the most part, a cultivation technique usually either transforms the Aura around you to help make it more efficiently absorbed or uses your own Aura to create a tool to help you capture and absorb this Aura… or in some cases, both!’

Tyr could just imagine how much more complicated and in-depth this entire process could go.

He spent a little while longer just looking through all of the techniques.

Taking a peek at their characteristics and weighing the benefits against the losses, like scrolling through options on a menu.

Finally, he arrived at a cultivation technique that intrigued him most.

It was oddly powerful, significantly more so than the others—which allowed him to choose it without a shadow of a doubt.

‘S Grade Cultivation Technique: Shadow Flock.

A technique that allows the user to deploy a crow created by their own Aura to hunt and bring back Aura to feed to the user’s Aura Core. Of course, like all other cultivation techniques, this crow will be invisible to the naked eye. Only the user will be able to see it when the user’s eyes are closed, and they are actively cultivating. However, there is one thing that makes this cultivation technique unique and far superior to anything else I have. After a certain amount of Aura is retrieved by my crow, it will materialize into a real crow, which summons in the visible world as a shadowy creature whenever I activate the cultivation technique. After one crow advances to this level and continues working for its user whenever they are cultivating, another crow will be created from the user’s Aura—awaiting its time to also advance into a visible crow. And the juiciest part of it all is… when a crow goes from invisible Aura mode to the visible level… it remains in my core as a permanent tool in my kit—coming out and working to retrieve Aura for me whenever I cultivate, even if it’s another cultivation technique that I use.’

A large grin was pulling on both sides of Tyr’s mouth right now.

“What a fucking overpowered technique.”

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