Late at night, Langya Palace.
Inside the bedroom.
"This girl is finally asleep!"
Du ke, who had quietly slipped out from Su Qiluo's embrace, stood at the bedside and looked down at the already sleeping Su Qiluo.
"General....."
Su Qiluo turned over with a murmur, hugging the quilt and continuing to sleep soundly.
"Alas, what sin did I commit in my previous life!"
Du ke bit the corner of the quilt and backed away while also helping Su Qiluo cover the falling quilt properly.
After covering Su Qiluo with the quilt, Du ke squatted at the bedside and watched her for a while before silently getting out of bed and sneaking out of Su Qiluo's room.
His eyes, seemingly cast in gold, were filled with pitch-black pupils in the dark night, and Du ke saw things in the dark of night as clearly as in broad daylight. He headed straight for the central study hall.
He remembered that previously when he was accompanying the girl to class, he had imagined what effect it would have if he refined books into pills through the black cauldron.
Now in the dead of night was a good time to experiment.
It was quiet inside the buildings and pavilions of Langya Palace. The maids on night duty leaned against the door posts, their hands tucked into their sleeves. Their heads nodded up and down, and their noses even had mucus bubbles coming out, pulsating with their breathing, looking quite cute.
Du ke walked silently, bypassing the maids on night duty and heading straight for the study hall.
After passing through the gate of the study hall, Du ke took big strides and soon arrived at the desk where the girl Su Qiluo usually attended class.
Now the desk was empty, and the four treasures of the study would only be placed there when Su Qiluo was in class.
Squatting on the desk, Du ke looked around at the surrounding bookshelves, also recalling what he had learned this afternoon in XiuWu Pavilion.
Su Xiuwu had directly explained clearly how ordinary people could enter the Dao, how to obtain strength, and the obvious signs at each stage.
For the Su family juniors, this knowledge could be said to have an enlightening effect.
As the saying goes, knowing why is better than just knowing how. To do a good job, one must first sharpen one's tools.
With this theoretical knowledge as a foundation, one would not be completely blind when moving forward on the path.
In addition to the knowledge of ordinary people's cultivation, Du ke also learned about the knowledge beasts needed in order to cultivate. Although Su Xiuwu's words never strayed from killing and fighting, Du ke still benefited a lot from them.
Let's not talk about anything else. Just the distinctions between demonic beasts, and the key points of each stage and tribulation that demonic beasts will encounter during their cultivation, if he had not reminded Du ke, Du ke would have blindly fumbled about on his own, and would definitely suffer a big loss in the future.
"What Su Xiuwu said is very useful to me. It seems that in the future when the girl is in class, I should also properly follow along and study, and not be lazy and sleep anymore."
"However, I still need to consider these things carefully."
"My main goal now is to survive, develop, and not waste resources!"
"Using the girl as my meat shield, silently accumulating strength, this is what I should do now."
With this thought, Du ke also smoothed out his own thoughts.
Although he'd had similar ideas before, after experiencing everything today, the idea of becoming stronger had taken root in his heart.
"Not only do I need to silently develop, but I also need to figure out the function of the black cauldron. How far can it refine all things into pills, and what effects do the refined pills have, I also need to gradually explore."
While thinking silently in his heart, Du ke got down from the desk and approached the bookshelf closest to him.
"I remember the girl said that these bookshelves are arranged according to the category of books, so which section should I start with first?"
Du ke scanned the bookshelves in front of him from left to right, then right to left. He eventually decided to just pick whichever book caught his eye, since he hadn't learned to read the writing of this world yet, he could only pick by what caught his eye.
"Let me take a look!"
Du ke's body straightened up, his hind legs exerted a little force, and he directly jumped onto the bookshelf.
Moving on all fours along a straight line on the edge of the bookshelf, Du ke relied on instinct to wander around. As his black nose twitched, he also locked onto a book.
"This one. It has a moldy smell, no one will take a second look if it gets lost."
Du ke raised his right front paw, the pads opened slightly to reveal sharp claws, which also hooked onto the spine thread of the book.
After hooking the thread with his claws, Du ke's eyes narrowed, and the black tripod cauldron with two ears and three legs appeared before his eyes.
At the same time, the book disappeared from the shelf and appeared inside the black cauldron.
"Refine!"
Seeing the book being taken into the black cauldron, Du ke immediately let out a low roar. The flames in the black cauldron suddenly surged, enveloping the book and quickly penetrating it.
Enveloped by the flames, the book began to wrinkle rapidly on the surface, just like an ordinary book. Then it slowly started to distort and shrink.
Before long, under the catalysis of the black cauldron's flames, the book quickly shrank, smaller and smaller, until it was reduced to a pellet the size of a thumb and stopped changing.
Du ke stared at the "Book Pill" in the black cauldron, the flames still roasting this pellet.
Soon, the "Book Pill" flew out of the cauldron, just like when Du ke first used the black cauldron to refine the Water Pill, it hung suspended in the void.
"The first step is complete."
Du ke breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time felt a deep exhaustion coming over him.
"It looks like using the black cauldron consumes my strength."
Du ke came to a realization in his mind. The first time he used it, he didn't notice because his mind was focused.
"With my current strength, I can only use it two more times at most before hitting my limit."
Du ke let out a breath, understanding this point, he kept it in mind, then stared at the "Book Pill".
"How do I eat it?"
Du ke stared at the "Book Pill", which kept enlarging in front of his eyes. The "Book Pill" itself had a tadpole-like pattern that looked very mysterious.
Just as Du ke was fully focused on staring at the pellet, he suddenly felt something extra in his mouth.
Instinctively biting down, Du ke also realized that the "Book Pill" was gone, so it was obvious what was in his mouth.
Crack!
A crisp sound. Du ke's eyes lit up. This pill didn't taste bad.
The crushed pill immediately turned into a cool sensation, sliding down his throat and then rushing back up to his brain.
"Ugh!"
Du ke shivered. This feeling was indescribable.
However, as he swallowed the "Book Pill", waves of knowledge that did not originally belong to him unfolded in his mind. As this knowledge spread out, Du ke also gained an enlightenment.
"Brief Records of the Three Reigns...So this seems to be the name of this book. And this knowledge!!"
Du ke's eyes became extremely bright. The effect of refining books into pills was apparently to extract the knowledge recorded in the books and impart it directly to Du ke.
Du ke closed his eyes and examined the knowledge he had just obtained, the corners of his mouth curling higher and higher.
"So that's how it is, so that's how it is! The Book Pills actually have such a wonderful use. It looks like in the future I won't even need to study, just directly eat books...ahem, just directly refine them into pills!"
Du ke opened his eyes, the light flashing in them.
This was no Book Pill, it was clearly the gospel for poor students!