Chen Qing brought the Archives back to the True Martial Peak Small Courtyard and headed straight into the study.
The bookshelves against the walls were neatly lined with all manner of classics and notes, most of them cultivation anecdotes and geographical curiosities he had casually collected over the years.
He placed the Archives on the broad nanmu desk and casually lit the Green Jade lamp at its corner.
After sitting quietly for a moment, he opened the first page of the Archives.
Just as his master Luo Zhixian had said, the Archives were recorded in extraordinary detail.
The Lingxiao Supreme Sect had stood for ages. It had once been the foremost of Yan Kingdom's Six Great Supreme Sects. At its zenith, its might shook the Eight Paths Region; its territory was vast, its resources abundant, and experts filled its ranks like clouds.
Its sect-defending supreme tome, the Lingxiao True Scripture, was said to be a relic of the ancient Ancient Shu Kingdom. Its mysteries were unfathomable. Legend had it that those who comprehended it to the deepest heights could glimpse the secrets of heaven and obtain immense fortune.
This was also the root reason why the Lingxiao Supreme Sect's greatest experts throughout the generations had mostly remained in long-term seclusion on Lingxiao Peak, rarely concerning themselves with mundane affairs.
After all, compared to pursuing those "secrets of heaven," struggles over the sect's worldly authority seemed utterly insignificant.
The Archives recorded that the turning point in the Lingxiao Supreme Sect's decline stemmed from the Dragon Hall and Tiger Hall's internal power struggles, which had lasted for several centuries.
The Dragon and Tiger Halls had originally been established by the founding patriarch's two great True Disciples. Their original purpose had been to temper one another and strengthen the sect together.
Yet as