Knowing Wen Xinyun was all right, the others departed one after another. After all, the Feather Transformation Sect was very busy now, with many people coming to pay visits, seek apprenticeship, or ask for teachings in hopes of breaking through the Ninth Restriction.
Lin Jiufeng did not keep them. Once everyone had left, he said to White Fox, "Go cultivate. I'll sort through these ancient books."
White Fox nodded and went off to cultivate on her own.
Looking at the several hundred large chests arranged in the main hall of the Scripture Pavilion, Lin Jiufeng said expectantly, "The Wen Family is, after all, a great family that has lasted five thousand years, its inheritance never severed. There must be many ancient books here. Even if reading them doesn't activate Heaven-Defying Comprehension, they can still help me understand what happened in the ages gone by."
After all, Ancestor Wen had followed the Painted Skin Scholar. He surely knew many things that others did not.
Lin Jiufeng began wrapping the several hundred chests in True Qi and carried them into another room.
The study had been given to Wen Xinyun to live in. He came to a room near the cliff, beyond whose window white clouds rolled and mountains rose and fell above a bottomless precipice.
Once he had organized all the Wen Family's books, Lin Jiufeng began reading through them.
He discovered that the Wen Family had many books concerning the Painted Skin Scholar. They were all memoirs written by Ancestor Wen, recording the time he had spent with the Painted Skin Scholar.
Lin Jiufeng picked up one and began reading.
It was a book recording episodes from his time with the Painted Skin Scholar, all written from Ancestor Wen's recollections.
Reading carefully, Lin Jiufeng learned how Ancestor Wen and the