A fierce wind buffeted his face as Nie Yun flew into the sixth-level library. As he went deeper, a faint fragrance drifted into his nostrils.
The fragrance was like musk and orchids, carrying an intoxicating aura. It seemed to form a vast ocean that made one linger within it, unwilling to leave.
"People always speak of the fragrance of books and ink. I never took it seriously, but it seems it truly is so!"
As the fragrance grew stronger and stronger, drawing people into its spell, Nie Yun could not help but marvel.
In the Mortal Realm, families that read extensively were often called scholarly households. It was said that books could dispel hostility, irritability, worry, restlessness, and many other negative emotions. If a savage, violent criminal entered the ocean of books and wandered within it for several years, all the brutality in his body could be dissolved, turning him into a mild-tempered scholar.
Nie Yun had once thought such things were merely legends, but now, as he smelled the book fragrance filling the air and sensed the aura that purified and cleansed the soul, he was completely convinced.
No wonder the Buddhist Realm's scriptures had once been supreme treasures. So this was where their mystery lay.
As the fragrance grew richer, the books inside were no longer motionless. Instead, they moved like roaming beasts, and some books even sprang up to attack people.
However, the strength of these books was about the same as that of ordinary people in the Slanting Moon Supreme Domain. Most were around the Sky-Repelling Mirror Realm and posed no threat to Nie Yun at all.
Occasionally, one or two stronger ones would instantly transform into words that filled the sky and enveloped him, but they would be utterly shattered in the blink of an