Secret Society: Raising Calamity Class Disciples

Eulene rushed to the zone where it contained all the books related to philosophy.

Philosophy was an integral topic of study from the world she came from—not only for mortals, but also immortal cultivators. Every human being who needed to live that exceeded their lifespans needed their own beliefs.

Everyone followed a Dao; some treaded on the Dao formed bray their predecessors while others created their own. Besides, their own understanding of the world—their insights—developed their own martial arts and nurtured their soul.

Eulene, as the host of the most unique and powerful constitution of the world, was talented in everything. But even amongst those talents, there were some specialities. And among them, was philosophy.

Of course there were some areas on which even her heavenly constitution was useless. For example—physics.

Eulene took the closest two books she had and scanned them with her spiritual sense. She opened the covers by a millimetre and closed them fast to save some time. In a moment, she answered the two questions in her mind.

The books turned into a tome of light before scattering everywhere in form of butterflies. The butterflies flew for a metre before mixing with the lights of the hundreds of chandeliers suspending from above.

This time, it only took a little more than a second for Eulene to clear the two books. Moreover, she even comprehended the philosophy of this book, and thus—a little of this world. She felt a change in her soul.

Eulene was pleasantly surprised. She thought her soul could not grow anymore since it was already too concentrated and powerful. And looks like this was not the case. She was just limited by her own home world.

With a smile on her face, hidden behind her silver mask, she looked at the hundreds of books of philosophy spanning across a dozen or so bookshelves.

She had hit the jackpot!

Without further ado, she began to clear all the books on philosophy—two after two other.

Xavier had observed all of her actions. The sudden hike in her efficiency only caused the red glowing smile on his mask to widen. He increased the pace of his book clearance—solving four or more books at once.

The change in his actions, in turn, were caught by Eulene's eyes. She did not sit back, and began to clear more than three books at once.

In a couple of minutes, both entered the state of flow—concentrating all their focus on clearing the books, and of course—beating the other.

But Eulene soon faced the inevitable. She was out of books on philosophy. Her soul did not improve by much, but for a being like her, this little amount was akin to traversing through the heavens.

She did not ponder too hard and easily decided on her next target—martial arts and military strategies.

The duo continued the internal competition between them.

The test, which was previously estimated to take an hour, was finished in less than half an hour.

Despite Eulene's hike in performance, she could not defeat the walking cheat—Xavier. By the time Eulene had finished three-tenth of the book, Xavier had finished the remaining.

However, Eulene was not downcast by any means. She learned almost all the philosophical views of this world, and even was able to get a few enlightenments. As for the study of martial arts and military strategy, she was not too impressed.

But there was an exception—gunfights.

Xavier and Eulene rendezvoused at the other end of the now bookless library.

Eulene frowned. They had 'memorised' and passed the tests of all the books present in the library. But nothing happened.

The door they had used to enter was still missing, and no new paths formed elsewhere in the library.

Did they miss a book? Or was the test of this hall was never to memorise the books to begin with? Or were there other parts of the tests?

She could not stay docile. Eulene looked down. According to the karmic link positioning, the psycho was underneath the gallery, inside the hill.

Qi began to coil in her body as she looked down. Anchoring one of her feet to the ground, she rose the other foot high in the air, causing a part of her smooth leg to be exposed.

Xavier looked away.

Eulene ignored his action and pounded her risen feet hard onto the ground. The entire hall quaked—and quaked hard. But she was able to only form a crack on the marble floor.

Even more surprisingly, after a second of the attack, the floor repaired itself—becoming as good as new. She scowled and turned to Xavier.

Xavier had that incomplete circle loading display on his mask as he scanned the hall. Suddenly, the loading circle slithered back to its original position, turning into a smile. It was unlike his other smiles. For first time, the mask displayed a smile that expressed both praise and victory.

"Brilliant!" He exclaimed. "Just brilliant! Well done, doctor Hearts. You did not disappoint me!"

His actions caused Eulene to knit her brows further. Before she could ask anything, Xavier beckoned her to follow him as he flew high towards the ceiling. Eulene complied and followed.

Xavier faced the entry of the room pointed to the right side of the wall. "What was in that test?"

"Arts and sculptures?" Eulene did not understand what was going on.

Xavier nodded. "Creativity." He then pointed to the left side. "And there?"

"Machines?" Eulene decided to play along. The bastard was onto something.

Xavier nodded again. "Logic. Does it ring any bells?"

Eulene turned to the right. Creativity? And then to the left. Logic?

Suddenly, she remembered something—something that Aunt Maisel taught her.

"The human brain?!" She asked in shock.

"Correct!" Xavier's mask displayed a green tick.

Eulene then looked down. "This room is… memory?"

"Again, correct. We are in what should be the hippocampus, the part of brain that deals with memory. And if I am not wrong, Doctor Hearts should be in the Amygdala, which should be…"

The smile on his mask returned and it glowed bright red.

"There." He pointed at exactly the part of the wall where the door was previously.