Pei Ye frowned, realizing something he knew nothing about might have happened.
Suddenly, the room shifted around him. Pei Ye immediately drew his sword and looked over with knitted brows. The entire library had actually begun to move.
As though assembled from blocks fitted with countless pivots, the towering walls of books before him began moving with a series of clicks and clacks. From "carving hilts" and "hanging tassels" to "setting jade" and "painting scabbards," twelve immense book walls swam like fish. Pages scattered, and pale, cold moonlight shone through the little windows, its light and shadows shifting chaotically.
The old man's figure was already hidden behind the book walls, visible only in occasional glimpses through the crossing gaps.
Pei Ye kept his eyes fixed on him. The old man seemed perfectly unhurried, still advancing slowly with his sword in hand, but after another crossing of the book walls, his figure abruptly vanished.
A heart-piercing chill suddenly appeared behind him!
Pei Ye leaned forward, twisted at the waist, and leveled his sword in one seamless movement, blocking the strike with a clang. Glaze drew a stunning long line from behind him, aimed straight at the old man's throat.
And at the very instant the two swords clashed, Pei Ye understood this Formation's greatest function.
[The Sword-Hiding Formation] was an ancient formation left behind by the elders who had discussed and tested the "Kongtong Sword Repository" here over the preceding centuries. It could exclude Profound Qi, allowing people of different cultivation levels to spar using only True Qi and swords.
The thing called a "sword" had, from the beginning, concerned only True Qi.
At this moment, Pei Ye believed his opponent was also at [Entering the Palace Gate], but the old man had chosen to exclude both his own vast Profound