Xu Qingtong controlled the Fengyi Sword, hacking and slashing fiercely. The cracks in the formation grew ever more numerous and wider.
After just under an hour, the formation around the Ink Fragrance Pavilion shattered with a thunderous crash, revealing the pavilion in its entirety.
A delighted smile appeared on Xu Qingtong's face. He put away the Fengyi Sword and strode inside.
The Ink Fragrance Pavilion had five floors. The bottom floor was the largest, and the space grew smaller with each floor above.
Xu Qingtong entered the first floor. The room was circular, with cabinets lining its walls. Each cabinet was inset with a plaque listing the titles of the texts within.
For someone familiar with the texts, this made searching very convenient, but to Xu Qingtong, it seemed somewhat superfluous.
He was not familiar with a single book here, after all. He intended to collect all the jade slips and put them into his Seven-Star Bracelet.
When he tried to open a cabinet, however, he discovered another layer of formation restrictions around it.
Helpless, Xu Qingtong could only summon the Fengyi Sword again and slash at the restriction. After several consecutive strikes, it burst open with a bang, exposing the jade slips inside.
Xu Qingtong reached out and took a jade slip, extended his divine sense into it, and gave it a cursory look before putting it into the Seven-Star Bracelet.
This jade slip recorded a minor immortal art. He had no time to read it closely now, so he could only put it away first and study it at leisure when he had time.
Xu Qingtong repeated the process, opening the cabinets on the first floor one by one and collecting every jade slip in the Seven-Star Bracelet.
The texts on this floor covered basic cultivation techniques, accounts