"...You... you're Sect Master Yan's teacher?"
"I am."
The Attendant cupped his hands. "My respects."
Li Ping'an exchanged a few pleasantries with him.
Then he began looking around the Scripture Pavilion and casually picked up a volume.
After flipping through a few pages, he returned it to its place and headed straight for the top floor.
Watching Li Ping'an, the Attendant explained, "The Floating Jade Sect doesn't have particularly deep foundations, but fortunately, we've had the Great Sui's wholehearted support.
"This Scripture Pavilion was also built with the Great Sui's support. Some of its ancient texts were borrowed from the Great Sui for a term of two hundred years.
"Others were jointly compiled by our sect master, deputy sect master, Attendants, and peak masters..."
The Attendant cleared his throat and puffed out his chest.
With some pride, he introduced the books on another bookshelf to Li Ping'an.
"Everything on this side was compiled through my lifetime's painstaking efforts."
It was precisely by contributing the fruits of the first half of his life that he had secured his position as an Attendant.
After all, no new sect had been established in the Great Sui for centuries.
When word spread that someone was founding a sect, who knew how many cultivators wanted a slice of the pie?
These books had allowed this Attendant to stand out from the crowd, something he had always taken pride in.
Although his cultivation barely met the threshold of the Upper Third Realm.
Nevertheless, on the strength of the books he had written during the first half of his life alone.
He had received invitations from academies and sects across the land more than once.
It was like investing: saving money through the first half of one's life, then placing bets in the second.
Waiting for the