Library Pavilion

Two days later.

Inside a spacious, bright room, bookshelves crisscrossed one another, filled with all kinds of ancient, simple books. An old man with white hair and beard was slowly flipping through the documents in his hand, and the entire room was steeped in silence.

The crisp sound of the door opening suddenly rang out softly, and a voice entered the room. "Vice Dean, Lin Yuan has arrived."

"Let him in."

Not long after Hu Gan's voice fell, a gentle-tempered young man walked in. After seeing Hu Gan, he stepped forward two paces and bent in a bow.

"Since you're here, I won't ramble on. Kid Lin, this is a rare chance. Make good use of this opportunity."

Saying this, Hu Gan stood and went to the wall behind him. He casually patted it a few times, and a deep rumbling sounded. Immediately afterward, a pitch-black passage appeared before Lin Yuan.

"Follow me." Hu Gan waved at Lin Yuan, then entered the pitch-black passage first. Lin Yuan followed without hesitation.

After entering the passage, Lin Yuan discovered that large night pearls were embedded in the walls one after another. Their faint glow lit the passage in a somewhat hazy light. Lin Yuan followed Hu Gan through the passage, and after roughly half an hour, a speck of brightness finally appeared at the end.

Lin Yuan followed Hu Gan and took a step out. In the blink of an eye, an extremely broad open space entered his sight. Upon that open ground stood a massive, heavy, ancient-looking pavilion.

Library Pavilion!

The ancient plaque announced this place.

"This is the true Library Pavilion, the true foundation of our Jia Nan Academy." Looking at Lin Yuan's startled expression, Hu Gan spoke with some pride.

"Come with me." Hu Gan led Lin Yuan slowly toward the Library Pavilion. Just as they were about to enter within twenty meters of it, he abruptly stopped, cupped his fists toward the Library Pavilion, and said, "An extremely outstanding seedling has appeared in this year's Hero Forging Plan. His strength has already far surpassed the scope of the Inner Academy selection competition, so he has obtained the qualifications to enter the Inner Academy early and receive a reward. Elders, please open the door!"

"Oh? That is rather rare." The words sounded in the void. Afterward, two gray-robed figures sitting cross-legged on the ground strangely appeared in front of Lin Yuan and Hu Gan.

They were precisely the guardians of Jia Nan Academy, Nine-Star Dou Sects—Qian Mu and Bai Lie.

"Spatial fluctuations. So this is the power of high-level Dou Sects controlling space? It is indeed wondrous." Though he had known of it long ago, truly seeing the way the two appeared still made Lin Yuan feel somewhat amazed. These two were the strongest people he had encountered since coming to this world.

"Lin Yuan." After the two appeared, Hu Gan called softly, giving Lin Yuan a look.

Lin Yuan understood. He stepped forward, cupped his fists, and bowed, saying respectfully, "Student Lin Yuan greets you two seniors!"

"Dou Wang?" One gray-robed figure stared at Lin Yuan's somewhat tender face. In his hoarse voice was a trace of surprise as he looked toward Hu Gan.

Hearing this, Hu Gan respectfully replied, "Reporting to Elder Bai, the details are as follows..."

After hearing Hu Gan, the way the two looked at Lin Yuan could not help but contain a trace of indescribable meaning.

"A Peak Seventh-Grade Pill, the Life Devouring Pill. I didn't expect you to have such an opportunity. A fifteen-year-old Dou Wang, a fifteen-year-old Fifth Grade Alchemist. The younger generation is formidable. It seems the Hero Forging Plan has finally produced good results."

Bai Lie looked at Lin Yuan and said in a deep voice, "Boy, do not let down your talent and opportunity. The side effects of the Life Devouring Pill are not so terrifying. Where there is a method, there is a way to break it. The Dou Qi Continent has countless strange people and strange methods; I believe there must be a way to solve the side effects of the Life Devouring Pill. If necessary, you can go to the Pill Tower in the Central Plains and take a look. If you can obtain the favor of an Eighth-Grade Grandmaster, this problem will certainly be solved. And with your talent in alchemy, that is not impossible."

"Thank you for your teachings, Senior!" Lin Yuan cupped his fists, performed a bow, and answered in a deep voice.

Bai Lie nodded. Then, together with Qian Mu, he undid the Space Lock.

"Go. Remember, no matter what you want to obtain, you must not force it. No matter how many things you can pick up, you can only bring one thing out of the Library Pavilion. Absolutely do not be greedy, or in the end, you will only draw water with a bamboo basket and come up empty."

Hearing this, Lin Yuan nodded, then headed toward the Library Pavilion.

After Lin Yuan entered the Library Pavilion, the doors closed. He followed the passage and arrived in an extremely spacious large room. On the walls around the room were nearly ten energy barriers. At this moment, these energy barriers were slowly pulsing with light, illuminating the room as brightly as day.

After a moment, a great mass of wind-breaking sounds rang out once more. Immediately after, clusters of energy of various colors and shapes were sprayed out from the energy barriers in overwhelming numbers, then shuttled uncertainly through the enormous room, bringing with them whistling wind-breaking sounds.

"Dragon Capturing Hand."

Accompanied by a light shout, a Dou Qi vortex swept the energy cluster ahead over to Lin Yuan's side. Lin Yuan easily broke through the energy layer and saw the item within. "Profound Tier High-Grade Technique, Azure Wood Technique?"

He shook his head. Lin Yuan loosened his hand and let it turn into a stream of light and fly away.

Immediately afterward, Lin Yuan released his Soul Perception to envelop the entire room, probing the strength of the energy fluctuations of the energy clusters flying all over the sky. Whenever he sensed a large energy cluster, he used Dragon Capturing Hand to capture it.

As time passed, Lin Yuan handled quite a few good things: Earth Tier Low-Grade cultivation methods, Earth Tier Low-Grade Dou Techniques, high-level medicinal ingredients. The collection of Jia Nan Academy's Library Pavilion was extremely rich.

After breaking open an energy cluster at one point, a thumb-sized gray stone appeared in Lin Yuan's hand. This small stone was smooth all over like jade, without the slightest flaw. In the stone's core, a faint blue ghostly light slowly wriggled, like a little worm with life.

Looking at the little stone before him, Lin Yuan felt joy in his heart.

A Spirit Repository. A strange object that could only be found with an extremely small probability in the central position of the highest-grade Absorption Stone. It was extremely rare, and a necessary item for alchemists to subdue Heavenly Flames.

"A Spirit Repository. There's actually one here! This really came without any effort at all. Looks like I won't need to test my luck buying one or plot to get the Spirit Repository in Gu He's hands."

Immediately, Lin Yuan released the Fire Attribute Earth Tier Mid-Grade Cultivation Method, "Nine Heavens Fire Art," that he had originally been holding, put the Spirit Repository into his storage ring, turned, and walked into the pitch-black passage.

As Lin Yuan left, the streams of light in the room also flew into the energy barriers. Afterward, the energy barriers also began to slowly shrink. A moment later, they turned into tiny points, and amid a faint cracking sound, completely dispersed.

Lin Yuan followed the passage out and stepped through the doors at the passage's end.

After he walked out the doors, the sleeve of one gray-robed figure suddenly moved slightly. Immediately, Lin Yuan sensed a vast, majestic, invisible energy scanning across his body. Ten-odd seconds later, the energy receded like a tide.

"Time is up. Leave. Keep in mind, today's events here, including news of the interior of the Library Pavilion, must not be leaked to anyone." A hoarse, aged voice slowly circled at the doors.

Hearing this, Lin Yuan lowered his head slightly.

Seeing Lin Yuan come out, Hu Gan, who had been standing before the pavilion all along, asked with a smile, "Did you obtain the reward you wanted?"

Lin Yuan smiled and nodded.

"That's good." Seeing this, Hu Gan smiled, bent slightly toward the two gray-robed figures beside the doors who were like old monks, and said, "The matter is finished, so we also won't disturb you two elders' bitter cultivation. Farewell."

Afterward, he led Lin Yuan away from the Library Pavilion.

As the two left, the figures of the two old men also dissipated amid the distortion of space, and the front of the Library Pavilion returned to silence once more.

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