On the early morning of his second day at the Grant Academy, Jianmen went to the public library in the main building, and showed the librarian a written note from Professor Atkinson.

“All volumes of ‘Ruptured Heavens - An Investigation of the Fall of ChanderEx’. All volumes of ‘The Forbidden Tombs’. And all volumes of ‘Lost Time of the Ages ’.” the librarian in a red coat and a small red beret gently pushed her glasses upward: “You’re looking into Godfalls? Are you working with Professor Atkinson?”

“Yeah.” Jianmen nodded.

“That’s quite an obscure field to research on. I applaud you.” the library operated on a small crystal ball on her desk, then looked up at Jianmen: “Please wait a few seconds before they get here. They are incredibly heavy, are you sure you brought your carriers or containers?”

“Don’t worry, I had all things prepared.”

“Okay. These books are of sealed knowledge.” the library pulled out a stone and metal tablet from one of her desk drawers and started reading it to Jianmen: “Please be advised, that the knowledge contained in these books is secretive. So please exercise your best judgment when disclosing the content to other members of the academy, and it is strictly forbidden to disclose the information to anyone outside of the academy. Be also warned that the nature of sealed knowledge dictates that the learner of the knowledge must possess a certain level of strength in their power of the mind. If you are unable to withstand the knowledge you are to return the books immediately. And it is also forbidden to disclose this kind of knowledge to students or faculty that are not ready.”

“Understood. ” Jianmen nodded: “Trust me, I have plenty of experience handling that kind of knowledge.”

“That would be good. Can’t have any more reckless scholars passing out and going into coma because they just can’t wait.” the librarian sighed. Just this moment, the bookshelves by her left side opened up, several flocks of metal birds with shiny red eyes and glowing blue wings flew out carrying three huge metal boxes.

The three boxes were tossed by the metal birds at Jianmen’s direction, and without any trouble, Jianmen conjured up some invisible forces and held them in mid air.

“Nice. I guess we’ll wait for the good news. ” the librarian smiled at Jianmen.

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“Thank you, and I hope so too.” Jianmen nodded and took the three metal boxes away.

These were some of the books that he intended to read here. From what he knew, these were the works of some great scholars that have dedicated most, if not all of their lives studying the phenomenon of Godfall. In the world from which Jianmen came, there was a similar phenomenon, the great cultivators from that world called it “The Breaking of Flow and Lineage”. But they essentially referred to the same thing: that powerful beings in the world, be it gods of immense power, or cultivators that have made it to the ninth layer or even beyond, be suddenly struck with severe calamity, that they instantly lost almost all power and even had their lives and souls shattered or annihilated. And its influence was not limited to the god or powerful cultivator themselves, it also devastated the realm in which the god or cultivator resided in, causing massive disasters and leading to loss of countless lives.

Nobody really knows what the exact causes of it were, for those who survived it all endured great loss of their power, and could not bear the knowledge with this kind of scale, so they either ended up crazy, or not remembering anything about the calamity. From the research and investigation done by Jianmen and his past clan members and friends, it appeared that it had something to do with karma flows.

However, through their hard work and dangerous investigations and excavations, they were not able to figure out much in detail. They did find traces of karmic pollutants at each scene of it happening they could locate, and they were even able to trace these pollutants to a few powerful and aggressive monsters that seemed to be roaming around and spreading destruction wherever they wandered to, but traces just subsequently ended on those monsters.

When Jianmen recovered a lot of his strength and felt confident in exploring the world a little, he accidentally went into a dark and deep ocean pit at a remote planet. And to his worry and surprise, he sensed karmic pollutants, with a somewhat familiar aura and twisted forcefield around it. Knowing that his current power was not enough to deal with karmic pollutants this potent, he marked the planet and placed a simple observation spell in a distance.

After a period of time, Jianmen was happy to find that the karmic pollutants did not spread, nor did it show any symptoms of potential spreading. But he was still too weak to deal with it, so he just regularly dropped by and made preparations for when the day comes that he needs to cleanse it.

And the reason Jianmen wanted to come to the Grant Academy to take advantage of the facilities, aside from that he would like to be there in the background watching over his students, was mostly the sudden rise of karmic pollutants under his radar that made him feel compelled to investigate. AeixiiMhundu Tunnel was one instance, and the jellyfish monster that was still swimming and healing in his fish tank was another instance. From what he knew and experienced, frequent occurrence of karmic pollutants tended to correlate with cosmic level changes or shifts of energy levels in the universe. And there were no greater indicators to this kind of shift or change than Godfalls - even if it happened quite a while back, it could still be related, since gods and high layer cultivators, while powerful, are easily the ones most affected by even the smallest changes and shifts of this kind.

It’s a long shot, since Godfalls are also extremely rare, but it’s still a valid option for Jianmen, as he couldn’t possibly afford the cost of getting this kind of knowledge through the Law of Karma.

Right when Jianmen got the three metal boxes back to his place, he got a message from Dolores and Professor Atkinson.

“Mr. Wang, do you have time? We’d like to discuss with you about our upcoming excavation.”

“Okay. I’ll see you at your office?” Jianmen put a protective and camouflaging spell on the three boxes and headed out the door.