The Great Wind Valley Library
"I already spoke with the people in East Village last night. They won't tell anyone else in the valley about you. You should also be careful, otherwise, if the Stay-in-the-Valley Faction finds out you're an outsider, they'll most likely do you a disservice," Dong Que whispered to Lin Xiao when no one was around.
Lin Xiao naturally responded without hesitation.
He didn't want any unnecessary trouble; staying put peacefully was definitely the best option.
The two arrived at the library. From a distance, it looked like an ordinary wooden house, about three stories high, but its appearance was quite plain, only slightly more tidy than the houses in the village.
The guard outside the library was dozing off.
When they were still several hundred meters apart, Lin Xiao glanced at the other party's cultivation level and was stunned for a moment.
The guard was actually at the Late Golden Core stage.
However, he looks quite old, so it might be difficult for him to break through to the Nascent Soul.
However, Lin Xiao discovered that this person had also used Law Technique to conceal their cultivation level, suppressing their cultivation to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage. This explained why Dong Que had previously said that there were no Golden Core Stage cultivators in the Great Wind Valley.
Because he had no idea that the library guard was also at the Golden Core Stage.
Lin Xiao showed no outward expression, but inwardly he thought to himself, "It seems that the Great Wind Valley, which has been closed off for many years, still has a rather fragmented division of power."
It has only been about a day since he woke up in Great Wind Valley, and he has already learned that there are East Village and West Village divided by region, as well as the Stay-in-the-Valley Faction and Leave-the-Valley Faction divided by ideas and viewpoints. Now there is also a library guard who is similar to a neutral sweeping monk.
However, it's clear that the Law Technique or Law Treasure used by this sweeping monk in the library to modify his own cultivation level are not as effective as the Peach Leaf Pendant from the Lingxian Sect, because Lin Xiao, who is at the Nascent Soul Realm, can easily see through his true cultivation level.
Unlike the Peach Leaf Pendant of the Lingxian Sect, which is undetectable to those below the Void Return, this made it very convenient for Lin Xiao to disguise himself.
The two walked to the door of the library. The dozing guard lifted his eyelids, which seemed to weigh a ton, and when he saw Dong Que, he simply waved his hand to indicate that they could go in before continuing his nap.
As for Lin Xiao, who was following behind Dong Que, he was completely ignored.
The guard only noticed that there was a villager following Dong Que, but he didn't care who the villager was.
In any case, there have never been outsiders in Great Wind Valley, and the Book Pavilion is open to all people from Great Wind Valley.
The main function of a guard is simply to "guard".
To ensure that no one in the valley suddenly has a mental breakdown and tries to burn down the library, or engages in outrageous acts of vandalism such as blocking the door, sealing the door, or dismantling the library.
The entrance to the library is equipped with soundproof barriers; once inside, it's like entering another space, completely isolating you from outside noise.
Dong Que spoke to Lin Xiao, his tone seemingly sighing, "I heard that when the guardian grandfather was young, he cultivated very diligently, more diligently than anyone else in the valley. But I don't know from which day it started, he suddenly changed. He no longer cultivated diligently every day like before, but like now, he sits at the door every day dozing off and spacing out. Anyway, I have never seen the guardian grandfather cultivate since I was born. I only heard about his past from the elders in the village."
Lin Xiao guessed that perhaps he felt hopeless about breaking through to the Nascent Soul, so he simply gave up.
Of course, he wouldn't say that to Dong Que.
"People always change. Maybe he was too diligent in his cultivation before and injured himself, and suddenly he felt that cultivation was boring," he said.
There was no one in the library at that moment.
Lin Xiao looked around and was somewhat surprised to see that the place was clearly deserted for years.
"Don't the people in the valley like to come to the library?" he asked.
Dong Que shook his head and told him, "Normally it's unnecessary. Everyone's too lazy to go to the library anymore. Although everyone in the valley's cultivation Cultivation Method come from the library, and the books in the library can only be read inside and can't be taken out, over time everyone has memorized those contents. There are also many rubbings outside, so eventually no one comes to the library to cultivate."
As he spoke, he pointed to two side rooms on the left and right sides of the first floor of the library. "Those are cultivation rooms for people who come in to cultivate, and they have been idle for many years."
Lin Xiao looked around the three-story-long library and was somewhat surprised.
The interior is significantly larger than it appears from the outside, but given that this is a place where spatial arrays are restricted, this library is very likely a spatial Law Treasure in itself.
It's unbelievable that in such a secluded environment as Great Wind Valley, places like the Book Pavilion, one of the few places that can broaden one's horizons and knowledge, are left idle for so long.
Lin Xiao asked Dong Que, "Which books should I read to learn about the heritage and historical records of your Great Wind Valley?"
Dong Que frowned and thought for a while before saying, "The inheritance is in the first bookshelf on the left, that's basically it, but history... Great Wind Valley only has these people, and no one records any history. It's always been like this. We work at sunrise and rest at sunset every day, and there are no major events that need to be specially recorded as history."
This answer surprised Lin Xiao even more.
Even a small sect outside will have its own historical records of its development.
For example, their Lingxian Sect.
Several years ago, before Lingxian Sect had even recruited its first batch of disciples, Sun Yigao, after taking charge of their sect's library, had already begun recording various matters concerning the sect, including but not limited to the registration and changes of personnel positions and cultivation levels, the completion of various building areas from the sect's inception to its development, the specific details and timing of various sect-related events, and so on.
These records compiled into the history of their sect's development.
It is both an achievement and the path from which we have built our foundation.
The existence of history is essential for the development of all things.
But now, this Great Wind Valley, which has been closed for who knows how many years, has no historical records, only some initial records of its heritage.
This was hardly surprising to Lin Xiao.
Dong Que seemed to have discerned something from his expression, or perhaps sensed something from his long silence, and somewhat awkwardly added, "Actually, it seems that in the beginning, there were people in our Great Wind Valley who kept records of what happened. I remember seeing them when I came to the library to read books when I was a child."
As if trying to prove something, he quickly walked to the first row of bookshelves and began searching.
While speaking to Lin Xiao, he continued, "I remember glancing at it a few times when I was little. It seems that someone from our ancestors recorded that there used to be only one village in Great Wind Valley, without the east and west villages. It was only after some changes and disputes that it split into two villages... But later, as I remembered it, it just became about herding livestock, washing clothes, cooking, cultivating, and sleeping every day. There was nothing else to do, so I stopped remembering it."