Of course, romance was not something Tang Yi could consider now.
What Tang Yi needed to do now was to collect all available soul master cultivation resources in the shortest possible time.
The next morning, Tang Yi appeared at the entrance of the Notting Junior Soul Master Academy library carrying 100 sets of [Multifunction Copying and Recording All-in-One Machines] and [100,000 TB Ultra-High-Capacity Storage Drives].
With the authorization token from Dean Ferdinand in hand, everything went smoothly without obstruction.
In the following seven days, Tang Yi worked like an inexhaustible machine, crazily sweeping through every inch of the academy's library space.
Core archive area—scan!
Rare book storage room—scan!
Those long-sealed manuscripts, notes, and ancient texts—all scanned, all backed up!
The scanning speed of the all-in-one machine was extremely fast. With a single page opened and one button pressed, dozens of pages of content were accurately recorded within seconds.
With his left hand, Tang Yi flipped pages; with his right hand, he pressed buttons. His eyes rapidly scanned the table of contents, filtering valuable content.
When encountering particularly precious rare books, he even used the recording function to capture the entire book's binding, paper texture, and handwriting in detail.
At first, the library administrators followed behind him, worried he might damage the books.
After three days, they became completely numb and simply let him do whatever he wanted alone inside.
The library staff were actually quite curious about what exactly the device in Tang Yi's hands was.
After all, the technological level of Douluo Continent Part One was still relatively backward.
"Student, can you tell me what that thing in your hand is?"
The librarian asked in a low voice.
Tang Yi waved his hand casually and said, "It's a rather rare soul tool I purchased."
The librarian nodded thoughtfully and did not ask further.
After all, with Dean Ferdinand's authorization token, he knew Tang Yi had a very strong background and was not someone he could afford to offend.
...
Of course, during the day when Tang Yi was scanning books, he did not waste the idle [Multifunction Copying and Recording All-in-One Machines] either.
He used several dozen silver soul coins to hire seven or eight work-study students.
These children came from poor families. They studied and worked at the academy at the same time. For them, even copper soul coins were already a considerable amount of money, let alone silver soul coins.
Tang Yi was generous and paid each of them one copper soul coin per day, requiring only one task:
Record the teachers' lectures during class.
"Just this?"
A dark-skinned work-study student asked while holding the compact device with disbelief.
"Yes, just this," Tang Yi replied.
"The recording button is here. Press once to start, press again to stop. Return the device after class. That's all."
The operation of the [Multifunction Copying and Recording All-in-One Machine] was not complicated at all; in fact, it was even simpler than the soul tools of Douluo Continent, and it did not require any soul power at all.
This device was equipped with solar energy battery technology.
As long as there was light, it could convert it into energy for charging.
Basically, its power consumption was very low, and solar charging was more than sufficient.
The work-study students happily accepted the task and began appearing in various classrooms on time every day.
Some recorded Teacher Su's soul power cultivation class.
Some recorded the principal's combat technique lectures.
Some recorded female teachers' soul beast encyclopedia classes.
Some were even assigned to attend lectures given by visiting professors from the provincial capital.
None of these teachers ever imagined that their lectures, taught for over ten years, would suddenly be recorded in full by a group of normally inconspicuous work-study students.
...
In the blink of an eye, seven days passed.
Tang Yi sat in his dormitory, looking at the neatly arranged hard drives in front of him, a satisfied expression on his face.
Library collection: fully scanned, totaling more than 23,000 volumes, covering soul power cultivation, martial soul theory, soul beast encyclopedias, soul tool basics, herb identification, and more than ten categories.
Lecture recordings: 47 teachers recorded, 320 total class hours, including Dean Ferdinand's core combat training courses, Su's soul beast analysis lectures, and several visiting professors' private experiences.
Manuscripts and notes: collected private writings of several senior teachers, including their insights on soul ring selection, observations on martial soul awakening, and annotations on ancient texts.
Total data volume: exactly 1000 TB.
"Mm, 1000 TB is enough."
By this standard, the 100 storage drives sent by Great Xia, each with 1,000,000 TB capacity, were more than enough for Tang Yi to sweep through most of the Heaven Dou Empire's resources.
Looking at these numbers, Tang Yi felt quite pleased.
With this data, the scientists of Great Xia could continue advancing the next stages of the "Yanhuang Soul Codex."
When he later traveled across the continent and obtained more advanced academy libraries, this database would only grow larger and larger.
"About time."
Tang Yi stood up and took one last look outside the academy window.
The Notting Junior Soul Master Academy, his second stop after transmigrating, no longer had anything that could hold him back.
Tang Yi packed his belongings, carefully placing his mother Blue Silver Emperor in the Life Breath Active Pot into a specially designed backpack. He then put on the Mirage Shadow Suit.
Weapons such as the single-soldier smart rocket launcher and Desert Eagle pistol were stored inside the soul tool Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night.
"It's time to leave."
He waved his sleeve without the slightest hesitation.
A few days later, Tang San finally realized that his brother had left.
Tang San suddenly felt a sense of loss and unease.
"Teacher, my brother Tang Yi has left," Tang San said slowly.
Yu Xiaogang let out a long sigh of relief, thinking to himself: "Finally, that troublemaker is gone! Now Tang San can fully listen to me!"
"Your useless brother is not worth worrying about! He must have gone to join the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect!"
"Sword Douluo Chenxin values his blacksmithing skills, but that will be the limit of his life!"
Yu Xiaogang casually commented.
In order to deliberately belittle Tang Yi further, Yu Xiaogang continued:
"Of course, auxiliary-type sects like the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect are not exactly kind-hearted either!"
"Sword Douluo must have spent a great price to get him a thousand-year soul ring and a ten-thousand-year soul ring, just to temporarily cultivate him into a useful blacksmith!"
"Xiao San, don't be fooled by your brother's current glory. In the future, he will just become a blacksmith slave of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect!"
Yu Xiaogang said maliciously.
Tang San actually felt secretly pleased after hearing this.
As the elder brother, he had always been competitive. Ever since he was surpassed by Tang Yi, he had felt uncomfortable for a long time.
"Alright, teacher! I will work hard to cultivate and become a powerful Title Douluo in the future!"
Tang San immediately regained confidence.
Yu Xiaogang was very satisfied. He picked up an ancient, worn-out soul master cultivation manual from somewhere and said solemnly:
"I recently read an ancient text and found an interesting soul skill!"
"This skill is called: Blue Silver Pole Vault!"
"Perhaps it can be combined with your ten-year Bamboo soul ring?"