Awakening of the Ancient: Rise of the Fallen

Xu Ming went through all the skills in the place one by one, reading the description of every single one of them.

Even though there were less than two hundred Sky Grade skill books here, it took him over two hours to go through all of them.

After he finished reading, the Skill Elder asked him if he had made up his mind.

"Are you selecting a skill from here, or do you want to see the Earth Grade Books as well?" he asked.

"I would like to see Earth Grade Skills so that I can better decide the skill that I want to get," Xu Ming nodded his head.

Even though there were some really great books that he liked, he wanted to see all the options before making up his mind.

"Alright. Come with me," The Elder brought Xu Ming to the lower floor, which contained the Earth Grade Books.

Even though this floor was the same size as the floor above, this one had way more books.

This floor contained over a thousand Skill Books, which filled most of the shelves here.

"It would take quite a lot of time if you want to read the description of all of them. How about I show you the top skills instead?" The Elder suggested.

"There's no need for that. I would prefer to read about all of them," Xu Ming replied.

He realized that the skills that the Skill Hall Elder considered to be important might be useless for him, while some of the skills that he deemed to be useless might be priceless for him. 

He was different from the people here. They didn't know what would suit him more.

People back in the outer sect considered the Origin Movement useless, but it was pretty useful for him, and he was probably the only one in the whole sect that was able to cultivate that skill. He wasn't in such a hurry that he would let the Elder select skills for him based on his knowledge. He didn't want to miss out on any unorthodox skill like the Origin Movement.

"Alright. I will go downstairs again. It might take you many hours to go through the skills. Just come down after choosing a skill. Also, I think that I should remind you that there is a format here that keeps the count of the books. If by the time you leave this floor and come to me, there is any book missing them there will be an alarm,"

" So please put the books in their right places after you read their description. If you put them down or any other place and went down, then the alarm will ring. It won't ring if you take 1 Sky Grade Book or Two Earth Grade Skills as we have arranged it accordingly. I hope you won't mind and think that we are doubting you. This is just the protocol," The Elder said apologetically.

"I understand. I will keep those things in mind," Xu Ming replied to the Elder.

The Elder nodded his head before he went down.

"What a stupid idiot. They are so suspicious. It's making me angry," Valeria said with an annoyed look on her face after the Elder left.

He stepped forward and picked up the first book.

Time kept passing slowly as he kept going through the books one by one.

His speed of reading the books was fast, but it still took him over 12 hours to read through the description of all the books here as he not only read them but tried to get an understanding of what that skill did before moving on to the next one.

It was late at night, but he was still in the Skill Hall. Even though the Same Elder was not on duty, there was another Elder that had taken his place for the night. 

Xu Ming finished all the Earth Grade Books.

Just like the books on the above floor, he found some useful ones here as well, but nothing extraordinary.

"Decided on the skill you'll get?" Valeria asked him.

"Yeah, I will get a Sky Grade Skill. That one seems to be the most useful for me," Xu Ming muttered as he went to the stairs.

Xu Ming stopped on the floor that had the Sky Grade Skills. He picked up a skill book that he had chosen.

It was called the Fist of Buddha.

It was said to be a skill that was useful against humans as well as against spirits.

It was a fist skill that harmed the human it was used on, but it destroyed the spirits if it was used on the spirits as long as the spirit was weaker than him.

"A book to harm Spirits?" Valeria asked as she looked at him with a frown.

"This is not for you. Think of it as a precaution. After meeting you, I recorded that there are also spirits in this world that are more difficult to deal with compared to humans. I would need to go to your Spirit Fairy Realm to get the medicine for my mother, and I might face some enemies there. If I can perfectly master this skill by that time, I would be better equipped to defend myself," Xu Ming replied to Valeria.

"Oh, alright. That makes sense. Although the spirit fairies are nice, there exist some trash spirit fairies like that guy that broke our laws and made me fall here," Valeria said as she nodded her head.

Xu Ming took the Fist of Buddha Manual with him and went downstairs.

He went to the ground floor and saw the Elder that was in charge at night.

The Elder was comfortably sleeping on his chair without a care for the world.

"Want me to slap him to wake him up?" Valeria asked Xu Ming.

Xu Ming didn't reply to her and only walked towards the Elder.

"Elder, wake up," He asked as he shook the Elder's body.

"Hmm? What?" The Elder woke up as he looked around.

"Oh, it's you. Have you selected a skill?" the Elder asked him.

"Yes, U selected the Sky Grade Fist of Buddha," Xu Ming showed the book to the Elder.

"Well, I hear no alarm. You can leave," the Elder replied.

Xu Ming nodded his head as he walked out.