Though it was called a library, it actually held only a few thousand books, most written on ordinary materials. Even with preservation formations, their lifespan was questionable after a few centuries. The better ones were merely recorded on beast hide, while jade slips and the like were all locked away in the treasury.
What I was looking for wasn't cultivation arts, so the materials I searched through were all made of beast hide. Their contents were bizarre and varied, yet of little real significance.
Yu Ningsui, on the other hand, was devouring the books hungrily. Having risen from the ranks of low-level disciples, she normally had no opportunity to consult cultivation arts in the library.
"Stop looking. The cultivation art you need isn't here. The Dao essence I gave you is a spatial law—do you think a mere Mountain Sect would possess techniques suited to it?" I patted the shoulder of the girl sitting on the floor and gnawing through books.
Yu Ningsui came to her senses and looked up, her cheeks flushed. "So it's a spatial law... No wonder I found that what I was learning now wasn't as good as what my master taught me before..."
"Laws are powerful because attacks based on laws cannot be defended against or neutralized except by laws." As I spoke, I traced a finger through the air, and space immediately split open with a crack.
The next moment, I took a jade scroll containing a cultivation art out of the treasury.
"This is spatial magic? It can even... steal out our Mountain Sect's supreme treasure, the Jade Qilin Treasure Armor Art?" Yu Ningsui caught the jade slip I tossed her, unable to hide her nervousness.
"Not only that. Spatial magic is also needed to create spatial artifacts, storage bags, talismanic seals, and