Urban Peerless Expert
Chapter 1437 - 1457: Super Academic Tyrant who Lives to Learn as they Age?_1

Chapter 1437: Chapter 1457: Super Academic Tyrant who Lives to Learn as they Age?_1

Everything around Lin Chen blurred and disappeared.

He now found himself in a vast indoor square, which was circular, with a diameter exceeding a kilometer.

Walls surrounded the square, and the walls were all covered in books!

A dense mass of books!

Book after book was tightly stacked together, encircling the square in a gigantic circle. Layer upon layer of bookshelves made the entire square seem like an unending mountain of books.

"Young man, welcome to the Divine Splendor Tower..."

An aged voice echoed in the vast square, sounding extremely clear and full of years and depth, as if the speaker was an old male,

Lin Chen saluted, "May I ask who the senior is, the Artifact Spirit of the Divine Splendor Tower, or perhaps, the avatar of the primordial spirit of a certain senior?"

The aged man chuckled, "I’m merely an old man who loves reading books, no need to care about who I am."

Lin Chen said with a laugh, "I heard that everyone is required to participate in an assessment after entering?"

The old man replied, "Yes, the stronger your demonstrated abilities are, the higher the rewards you’ll receive. If you have something I’m interested in, I will compensate you."

After some thought, Lin Chen asked, "Since the senior loves books and has been in the world for such a long time, you should know everything, right?"

The old man sighed, "The world is so vast, who would dare say they know everything? It’s precisely because there are many things I still don’t know that I wander around, learning new knowledge..."

Wander?

The Divine Splendor Tower is elusive and unpredictable, is it all for this man to learn new knowledge?

Isn’t he too studious?

A never-ending super scholar?

Lin Chen asked, "What kind of examination is it?"

The old man replied, "I sensed an unusual aura from you; why not start by telling me about yourself?"

Lin Chen answered, "That could take a while, sir. Are you sure you won’t find it boring?"

The old man chuckled, sounding very pleased, "Haha, isn’t listening to others’ stories interesting? Why would I find it boring?"

Lin Chen countered, "The woman who came in earlier is my friend, did she also recount her life story?"

The old man asked with surprise, "Yes, are you friends with her?"

Lin Chen blinked, "In her story, was there a Human Emperor?"

The old man answered, "Yes."

Lin Chen laughed, "What a coincidence? I am that Human Emperor."

The old man burst into laughter, "So you also come from the Barren Wilderness?"

Lin Chen replied, "No, I come from the Human World."

"The Human World?"

There was sudden curiosity in the old man’s voice, "What kind of place is that? Tell me about it."

Lin Chen smiled, "It’s a world without cultivators; it’s a world of technology..."

Lin Chen began to tell his story, explaining the Human World.

The old man didn’t seem much interested in Lin Chen’s life story but was greatly intrigued by the Human World, and kept asking questions.

"Ordinary people can fly too?"

"Yes, humans have created airplanes, um, they’re similar to kites, only much bigger. They can carry hundreds of people and can fly thousands of miles in an hour. If it’s a combat plane, it can fly tens of thousands of miles..."

"You can leave the planet and travel to space? How do you do that?"

"Explaining that is a bit complicated, and I don’t fully understand it either, but in general, the planet has gravity that pulls us toward it, and the machines we build burn fuel to produce a great propulsion force. If this propulsion force exceeds the gravity of the planet, we can break free from the planet’s gravity and reach space."

...

The old man asked a lot of questions, and they were all over the place. Lin Chen, not being a scholar of high technology, could only describe an approximation of how these things worked. He did not understand the deeper principles and could only provide casual explanations, but the old man listened with rapt attention.

He seemed quite interested in this unknown world.

"Senior, the Human World where I live is indeed a planet, but its territory is not particularly large, it’s even smaller than this continent. Why are you so interested?"

The old man laughed, "There are countless worlds, I have only visited some of them, and I’m always very interested in the places that I don’t understand or have never been to."

This old senior is truly a tireless scholar!

Thus, with one narrating, the other listening, one asking, and the other answering, time unknowingly passed.

"You’re only in your thirties and you’ve reached the pinnacle of two worlds. The younger generation really is formidable!"

Listening to the old man’s exclamation, Lin Chen modestly said, "I just got lucky, and there were always helpful people around in life, which helped me get to where I am today. Like today for instance, I got here just by a strange coincidence. I’m actually very curious about how you define ’destined person’."

The old man laughed and replied, "If it’s suitable, it’s a destined person."

Lin Chen didn’t understand, nor did he bother to ask further. Suddenly he remembered something and asked, "I once heard that my master, Su Shaoling, had entered the Divine Splendor Tower. I wonder if that’s true?"

After a pause, Lin Chen gave a brief description of his master.

The old man thought for a while and laughed, "Su Shaoling, I remember now, yes, he did come. He has a lot of talent and I liked him a lot. I remember that he finally took a sword technique with him."