Cultivation Beneath a Solitary Moon: Visitors from Dragon Head Peak and Jade Splendor Peak!

You reached the Library Pavilion and looked up. A magnificent building stood before you like a small mountain. From afar, it appeared to have only six floors.

But up close, you saw that its upper three floors were buried in cloud and mist.

The entrance bustled with disciples from every peak, livelier even than a marketplace. Twenty or thirty people queued at the door. After a moment's thought, you touched the jade tablet in your robes and walked straight to the disciple on guard.

The disciple took your tablet and glanced at it. Surprise flashed through his eyes, and he let you enter ahead of the queue.

"Thank you." You walked in calmly amid the murmurs behind you.

Though some of the waiting disciples were displeased, they were used to it. Anyone spared the queue had to be a personal disciple of an elder from the Eighteen Lineages.

The moment you stepped inside, silence fell, as though the building were cut off from the world outside.

Enormous bookshelves stood within, each seventy or eighty feet high. Texts packed the vast space from end to end.

The Dao Canon holds far more than ten thousand volumes!

Disciples bent over desks reading, or stood on tiptoe searching for books. Every one of them held their breath in concentration.

You looked up. A grand staircase spiraled toward the second floor.

The first floor held mostly texts on cultivating spirit plants, taming spirit beasts, and miscellaneous arts. There were also geographical records of the Four Great Continents and surviving fragments from sects Mount Fangcun had destroyed. It contained a little of everything.

The second floor housed cultivation methods for the Dao Embryo Realm, while the third held the sect's core inheritances. No one but personal disciples could enter without permission.

Yet you were in