Li Hao walked out of Military Supplies with an additional book—Building Five Bridges—and a flask with ten fruits. It had to remain sealed until he wanted to use it; the fruit inside might expire as soon as he opened the flask. They might’ve rotted away and decayed long ago if they were held inside a storage ring.0

He also had forty-six small stones that were very translucent. Their caliber was far beyond what ordinary mysterious power stones measured up to.1

He Yong and Hong Yitang also had the book in their possession. Hong Yitang had traded the rest of his merits for Mind Fruits and He Yong headed to the Recruitment Hall to be promoted to a Bronze Armor. That was something not distributed at Military Supplies.0

The three paged through the book. After a while, He Yong sighed, “I need to learn how to read!”5

He didn’t know ancient text! It felt so awful to have a secret art in his hands and be unable to decipher it. Damned awful. Indeed, He Yong wasn’t able to make any sense of what he read after flipping through the book. Meanwhile, Hong Yitang gleaned a...0