A thick layer of dust had settled over the door to the second floor. Who knew how long it had been since anyone had set foot here?
Su Jiu brought out a Dust-Cleansing Talisman. As it took effect, the dust on the door vanished instantly, revealing its original appearance.
The design carved into the second-floor door resembled an ancient totem. Judging by the door's material and age, it did not seem to have been made within the past thousand years in the Azure Realm. Rather, it shared a certain subtle similarity with the murals on the outer wall.
Su Jiu kept feeling that the totem was familiar, as though she had seen it somewhere before.
"Junior Sister?"
Xia Jue's reminder brought Su Jiu back from her thoughts. Only then did she realize that she had been staring at the totem on the door for quite some time.
"Are you all right, Fellow Daoist Su?" Lan Fang Ziyi studied her expression, but it did not seem to have changed.
Su Jiu smiled and slowly pushed open the door before her. What appeared before her was actually a library.
The bookshelves stood in eight different directions, arranged in the formation of the eight trigrams. There were exactly twenty-four shelves in total.
At the center of the bookshelves stood a low platform with three steps leading up to it. A yin-yang fish design lay at its very center.
Aside from that, the surrounding walls, including the ceiling overhead, displayed an enormous star map.
As soon as Su Jiu pushed the door open, the people following her crowded forward.
Perhaps because of their earlier lesson, neither the rogue cultivators nor the sect disciples were in any great hurry to explore this fairly small space.
Something seemed to occur to Xia Jue. He smiled and