The Luo State Repository of Classics.
Throughout All Xia, no one but the head of the Luo Clan knew just how many books were stored here.
Yet this place had unquestionably become a sacred site for students of all the Hundred Schools throughout All Xia states.
Everyone coveted the books here.
And that elusive yet utterly real legend.
The Luo State Repository of Classics reached Heaven and the Sage King above; those who entered could receive instruction from celestial beings!
That was why, for a thousand years, every successive Lord of Luo State had been wise.
What lent the legend even greater credibility were the four great schools of the present age-the Confucian, Daoist, Mohist, and Legalist Schools.
Setting aside the rather exceptional existence that was the Luo Sage.
The Confucian sages Kong and Meng, and even Xunzi.
The Daoists Lao and Zhuang.
Mo Di of the Mohist School needed no mention; the teachings of Mo still circulated within Luo State.
These sages, renowned throughout the world, had all attained enlightenment and sagehood within.
This was the halo effect.
Among the Hundred Schools, was there anyone who did not wish to become a sage?
Too few people had ever come here, so outsiders' impression was-there were probably ten thousand scrolls inside?
There was something of the humor of imagining the Son of Heaven using a golden hoe in that.
How could the Luo Clan's books number merely ten thousand scrolls?
The Hundred Schools of Thought alone did not amount to much, naturally, but the vast number of commentaries made up the bulk, along with countless histories of All Xia states over the past thousand years and countless treatises on governance.
At first, these had concerned only Luo State's internal affairs, but later, the successes and failures of reforms undertaken by