Song Yuanshan Ran Away?

At daybreak, Ye An went to the Scripture Repository.

This time, he did not head straight upstairs. He stopped on the first floor.

Beyond the Spirit Grade martial arts, the shelves farther in held mostly miscellanies, accounts of travels, and Sect histories. Few people came here.

Ye An pulled out several booklets on the founding of the Four Symbols Sect and flipped through a few pages.

The records were sparse, offering only the simplest outlines.

Pieced together, though, they gave him a rough picture.

Just as Lin Wanyue had told him, the Four Symbols Sect was not native to Cangwu Prefecture. It had moved here from elsewhere.

Its founding ancestor had possessed an extraordinarily high cultivation level, at least above the Gathered Origin Realm. The records did not say exactly what realm.

Nor did they record why the Sect had moved or where it had come from.

Ye An guessed that only elders and the Sect Master were privy to those answers.

He returned the books to their places and did not dig deeper.

Those matters were too far removed from him. A rough understanding was enough for now.

What he had come for was Mystic Grade sword techniques.

The second floor of the Inner Sect's Scripture Repository housed Mystic Grade cultivation methods and martial arts. Ye An had visited it once after placing in the top three of the Inner Sect Grand Competition.

Now that he was a Qi Condensation disciple, the entire floor was open to him.

Ye An scanned the many Mystic Grade sword techniques laid out on the shelves.

"Flowing Cloud Sword Technique"—paired with the "Flowing Cloud Sword Art," its swordplay flowed on like clouds, favoring agility.

"Frost Sword Technique" had no accompanying cultivation method. Its Sword Qi carried a chill that could slow an enemy's