A little over a month was but the span of a finger snap to cultivators who entered seclusion for years or even decades at a time.
Many newly initiated disciples might still have been familiarizing themselves with the sect environment, learning foundational lessons, and preparing for their first sect mission during this time.
Yet Chen Fei had already completed a leap forward. The contrast left many disciples, who had toiled in hard cultivation for years yet remained stuck at the Fifteenth Order bottleneck, with emotions tangled to the extreme.
Facing the myriad gazes cast his way, Chen Fei remained calm. Cao Feiyu merely swept her eyes over the surroundings. She released a trace of the invisible pressure belonging to a Great Cang Realm powerhouse, and the disciples immediately lowered their heads, no longer daring to meet her gaze.
"Let's go in." Cao Feiyu spoke to Chen Fei, then led him through the towering, majestic main entrance of the Scripture Depository.
The space within the Scripture Depository was even broader than it appeared from outside, clearly expanded through a spatial array.
The first-floor hall was immensely spacious, lined with countless tall bookshelves packed densely with jade slips, books, leather scrolls, and all manner of other mediums. Many disciples moved among them, some reading quietly, others conversing in low voices. The atmosphere was solemn and focused.
Cao Feiyu did not linger on the first floor, nor did she pause on the second. Instead, she led Chen Fei straight up a spiral staircase at one side, arriving on the third floor of the Scripture Depository.
"The first two floors hold cultivation methods, secret arts, and miscellaneous knowledge below the Sixteenth Order," Cao Feiyu explained. "Only the third floor of the Scripture Depository is specifically reserved for Great Cang Realm cultivation methods and secret