Imperial Cultivation

Chapter 1327 - 1323: Library

Zhang Jiyuan said, "Little junior brother, is this thing really predicting danger? It’s not that reliable. I’m not planning to go out these days."

Chu Zhiyuan said, "I’m returning it. Brother Zhang, aren’t you planning to look for it?"

"...I am prepared for that." Zhang Jiyuan nodded helplessly.

Seeing Chu Zhiyuan return the stone at that moment, he did indeed have the idea of trying to find it.

Chu Zhiyuan said, "Then you need to be cautious and assume that it is accurate."

"I’m just casually looking around, trying my luck, what’s the danger?" Zhang Jiyuan laughed, patting his left elbow, "I also have a protective spiritual artifact, it can save my life in critical moments."

Ning Dongge laughed, "Do I not have a spiritual artifact for protection?"

"Then should I not go out?" Zhang Jiyuan was at a loss for words.

Ning Dongge looked at Chu Zhiyuan, "Little junior brother, what about you?"

Chu Zhiyuan shook his head, "I don’t have the black thread, if I really had it, I could avoid it."

Zhang Jiyuan laughed, "Can you avoid it?"

Chu Zhiyuan nodded confidently, "My intuition about danger is very accurate and sharp."

Zhang Jiyuan said, "No matter how sharp, if there’s a black thread, you need to stop and honestly hide."

Chu Zhiyuan nodded.

Zhang Jiyuan said, "So what do we do now?"

Ning Dongge sighed, shook his head, and said, "It’s beyond our ability, there’s nothing we can do."

Zhang Jiyuan said, "It’s just not reconciled, if we can’t find it, we really can’t find it, watching it slip away."

Ning Dongge shook his head, "You can’t force everything, if it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t, after all, it’s not ours."

Chu Zhiyuan looked at his calm face, clearly, Ning Dongge didn’t feel too regretful.

It was apparent that he didn’t take this gain or loss to heart.

Zhang Jiyuan sighed, "Divine Race, this is a once-in-ten-thousand-years opportunity."

Chu Zhiyuan said, "Brother Zhang, is a once-in-ten-thousand-years opportunity more important than your life?"

"...Alright." Zhang Jiyuan said, "Little junior brother, come back tomorrow to see if there is any danger."

"Yes." Chu Zhiyuan agreed, he looked at Ning Dongge, "Brother, does our sect have a library, I want to increase my knowledge."

"Follow me." Ning Dongge smiled, "Our sect has the most books, but unfortunately, few people read them."

"Don’t the seniors and ancestors like to read?"

"No matter how much one reads, it’s ultimately just words on paper, not as good as cultivation and personal experience."

"Many things can’t be experienced firsthand, they can only be seen in books, right?"

"For us, what we see in books is hard to truly stimulate ourselves, the longer we live, the more solid our mental state becomes, and the more numb we become."

"Is there no way to resolve this?"

"Almost impossible." Ning Dongge shook his head, "Some sects have unique methods, like the Wu Gou Divine Palace, which removes the dust from the soul through reincarnation."

"Wu Gou Divine Palace?" Chu Zhiyuan frowned, "Reincarnation and rebirth?"

"Yes." Ning Dongge said, "This Wu Gou Divine Palace is extremely mysterious, with even fewer disciples than us, their requirements for aptitude are too high."

"Wu Gou Divine Palace... In the Little Outer Heaven, there is a Yongling Divine Sect, which has an Eternal Spirit Divine Tree." Chu Zhiyuan said, "Is there any connection with the Wu Gou Divine Palace?"

"The Yongling Divine Sect was established by the disciples of the Wu Gou Divine Palace."

"Wu Gou Divine Palace..." Chu Zhiyuan said, "What about the Yongling Divine Sect?"

"If the Wu Gou Divine Palace couldn’t grow, the Yongling Divine Sect couldn’t hope to either," Ning Dongge shook his head, "It’s already commendable to maintain without falling, ...Biyuan Heaven doesn’t have it, You Meng Heaven has it, Outer Heaven also has it, the Yongling Divine Sect is even more mixed, not as pure as the Wu Gou Divine Palace, but its reputation is much greater than the Wu Gou Divine Palace, the world knows only the Yongling Divine Sect, but those who know the Wu Gou Divine Palace are very few."

"Is being mixed and impure not a drawback?"

"From a heritage perspective, it really isn’t a drawback, when the east doesn’t shine, the west does, preserving the sect’s unbroken heritage."

While talking, the two arrived at the north corner of the west wall of the main hall, where they placed the Heaven-Reaching Order against the wall, and a Light Gate appeared on the wall.

The two stepped inside, and the next moment they were in another spacious main hall.

The hall was empty except for bookshelves against the walls, about six meters high, antique in style.

In the center of the hall, there was a spiral staircase, made of solid and profound rosewood.

Ning Dongge pointed to the staircase, "This Ten Thousand Knowledge Tower has a total of five floors, all kinds of books are here, they were casually collected by disciples over the ages, encompassing all manner of things, you can browse freely, just don’t take anything out or damage them."

"Brother, how many volumes of books are here in total?"

"About ten thousand volumes, arranged by era on each floor, the fifth floor being the oldest, containing ancient texts, mostly fragments, the first floor being the newest, within a thousand years."

"A thousand years is the newest..." Chu Zhiyuan smiled, "Then I’ll start with the oldest."

Ning Dongge said, "That depends on whether you understand ancient languages."

He stepped onto the staircase, leading Chu Zhiyuan to the fifth floor.

The layout of the fifth floor was far more compact than the first floor, with rows upon rows of bookshelves over five meters tall, filling all the space.

On the shelves, there weren’t just yellowing ancient books, but also some special items, like beast bones, stone walls, and iron plates.

These various special items varied in size, some as big as a hand, others occupying an entire shelf, five meters high and five meters wide.

On them were engraved various symbols, clearly words.

Under Insight, Chu Zhiyuan found that he couldn’t recognize any of them.

"Brother, can you recognize these characters?"

"I don’t recognize them."

"Not a single one?"

"No, not a single one," Ning Dongge said, "They’re all ancient scripts, and their origin is unknown."

"Not a single one?" Chu Zhiyuan laughed, "Could these scripts have all been lost?"

"Very likely lost, I haven’t really tried to find them," Ning Dongge said, "These things are not ordinary, and what’s recorded on them should also be extraordinary."

"Aren’t you curious, brother?"

"The mental method of our Heaven-Reaching Sect is high enough and for us to diligently practice, plus several miracle techniques of awe-inspiring power, there’s no need to practice others."

"The saying goes, ’A stone from another mountain can polish jade,’ maybe using them could help us comprehend our own mental method better."

"Without complete inheritance, just a fragment or even partial mental method, who dares to practice?" Ning Dongge said, "It’s really not worth spending so much effort on it."

Chu Zhiyuan slowly nodded, deeply understanding.

To painstakingly seek out an almost forgotten ancient script, only to find that what’s recorded is just a fragment or an impractical mental method.

Many ancient broken lineages were due to changes in environment, no longer suitable for practice.

Ning Dongge said, "See for yourself, I’m off to practice, if you get tired, you can return to the main hall at any time, or leave directly."

"Brother, go ahead, I’ll be fine on my own." Chu Zhiyuan nodded.

His gaze fell on a five-meter high, five-meter wide White Jade Wall.

He found it very familiar.

It was the Karma Stone Wall that Chu Liezhao saw at Great Bright Peak’s True Martial Institute.

Almost identical.

This Karma Stone is an ancient item, hard and imperishable, permanently preserved in the world.

Cultivation requires exceptional individuals to leave marks on the Karma Stone.

And the mental method left is no ordinary one.

The one in the True Martial Institute is the Light Ode, what is on this one?

He carefully scrutinized the text on this stone wall, striving to identify and find internal connections.

Unfortunately, the text on it was strange, and no connections could be found between them.

With pure speculation, it was almost impossible to guess the meanings on it.