Laoshan's Scripture Pavilion was immense, with countless books stored within. As Jiang Hao walked past the shelves, he saw all kinds of labels pasted on them.
Daoist Scriptures Section.
Buddhist Scriptures Section.
Confucian Classics Section.
Jiang Hao only needed to look at the titles on the book cases to know whether he had read a book before. He had read the vast majority of the Daoist scriptures, Buddhist scriptures, and Confucian classics, so he hurried past them and eventually arrived at the miscellaneous books section.
After looking through the miscellaneous books, Jiang Hao discovered that there were no cultivation manuals or methods for practicing spells here. He understood why as well. Cultivation techniques and spells were the foundation of any sect; how could they be casually displayed for outsiders to read?
However, those miscellaneous books still piqued Jiang Hao's interest.
"Demon Subjugation Records."
It recorded the deeds of Laoshan's predecessors in slaying demons and eliminating evil.
If these accounts were placed in later generations, they would absolutely make for an immortal cultivation novel. But in this world, where cultivators, demons, fierce ghosts, and specters were everywhere, it was not fiction but biography.
Demon Subjugation Records contained many real examples. Separating the wheat from the chaff, Jiang Hao found plenty of useful information within, such as the demons and evil ghosts that appeared in the world, their methods of attack, and the Daoist arts and methods those predecessors had used to slay demons and eliminate evil.
It also recorded ways to handle them afterward. Some kinds could be eaten, some could be refined into pills, some could be used to forge artifacts, some could be subdued and made into mountain-protecting divine beasts, and some could serve as mounts.
It could practically be treated as a collection of teaching cases.
It even