Zhangsun Youyue and Jiang Liuli also looked somewhat shocked.
It was not that they had never seen so many books. In terms of sheer numbers, their own sects probably had even more.
But greater quantity did not mean higher quality.
For these books to be stored here, they had to be important books belonging to the Three Great Families. What shocked them was that there were so many important books alone.
"Our Bishui Palace probably can't compare!" Zhangsun Youyue said with a soft sigh.
Although Jiang Liuli said nothing, she tacitly agreed with Zhangsun Youyue. The Sword Pavilion fell short as well.
In truth, they both understood that a major reason their sects' collections could not compare to this one was the Demon Hall's Thousand-Year Period.
Every time the Demon Hall's Thousand-Year Period came around, the upper ranks of their sects were almost entirely wiped out, and many secret cultivation manuals were lost or destroyed in the flames of war.
For their sects to have survived from ten thousand years ago was already extraordinarily difficult. These texts could only be slowly collected anew.
The members of the Three Great Families represented by these three old men had remained trapped here, which had allowed them to avoid the Demon Hall's Thousand-Year Period. Naturally, these texts had all been preserved.
"Hmph, whether it's your Bishui Palace or the Sword Pavilion, you're nowhere near matching the accumulated foundations of our Three Great Families! How could you possibly imagine the prestige our Heavenly Evil Sect enjoyed back then? These are merely some of the important books. Naturally, there are more elsewhere," Old Man Wang said with a cold snort.
"I certainly can't imagine that prestige. All I see is that you're stuck here and can't get out. How very imposing," Jiang Liuli said coolly.