"Elder, besides reaching the Golden Core stage, is there any other way to enter the third floor of the library?"
Elder Hai paused in his chicken leg-eating, and looked at Lu Fuyue with a more inquisitive gaze.
After a moment, he laughed a few times, "Hahaha, then you've come to the right person."
"Each floor of the library has restrictions. Rather than saying that you can only go up if you have a certain level of cultivation, it is more accurate to say that spiritual sense is the most important condition for going up."
"Normally, with your current Foundation Establishment stage cultivation, you can only go up to the second floor at most. However, if your spiritual sense has reached the early Golden Core stage, then even if your cultivation has not reached the early Golden Core stage, you can still go up."
A look of understanding flashed in Lu Fuyue's eyes. So that's how it is.
"Thank you, Elder."
After putting down the token, Lu Fuyue went upstairs.
At this moment, Elder Hai suddenly shouted, "Come back, come back! I still have important things to say. Why did you leave?"
Upon hearing this, Lu Fuyue paused, then walked back from the stairwell.
He asked, puzzled, "Elder, is there anything else?"
Elder Hai opened his mouth wide and devoured the chicken leg in a few bites, then tossed it into his storage ring, exclaiming, "Having a storage ring is so convenient; it can even hold trash."
Lu Fuyue was momentarily speechless; she could only manage an awkward yet polite smile.
After finishing his meal, Elder Hai spoke with a satisfied expression.
"If you insist on going up to the third floor, then if you find something wrong with your dantian while you are going up the stairs from the second floor to the third floor, please come down immediately and do not force yourself to go up, otherwise your dantian will really crack."
Lu Fuyue was startled and looked at Elder Hai with a serious expression. "Thank you for your advice, Elder."
Elder Hai waved his hand impatiently, "Go, go, go and experience it for yourself and you'll see how powerful it is."
"Also, you don't need to show me this token anymore. I'll be leaving in a few months."
Lu Fuyue asked in confusion, "Leaving? Elder, are you going on a journey?"
A barely perceptible hint of nostalgia flashed in Elder Hai's eyes. "I just want to go home."
Lu Fuyue suddenly remembered that Elder Hai was only a Golden Core Peak cultivator, but he had been unable to break through to the Nascent Soul stage for a long time, so his lifespan was gradually running out. He should only have more than ten years of lifespan left.
More than ten years is but a blink of an eye for a cultivator.
Elder Hai came from the mortal realm and was used to eating grains. Even after coming to the cultivation world, he still preferred to eat grains, even though everyone said that the impurities in grains would affect cultivation.
Mortals have always believed in returning to their roots, so Elder Hai must be going back to the mortal realm.
For a moment, Lu Fuyue felt a pang of sadness. When she was a child, she loved to come to this place to read. Every time she came, she would see Elder Hai. But she never expected that one day he would be gone from this place.
If she cannot find the next string within a hundred years, she will die and disappear.
So what is life, and what is death?
For a cultivator, the life of an ordinary person is but a fleeting moment, but for them it is a lifetime.
...
Lu Fuyue slowly closed her eyes, and the flowers, plants and trees around the library withered and died instantly, leaving a scene of desolation.
Elder Hai's expression changed drastically upon seeing this, and he quickly cast a spell to create a protective shield for Lu Fuyue to prevent her from being interrupted.
Is this... a state of deep meditation?
The disciples coming and going in the library all looked at Lu Fuyue in shock.
No way, he entered a meditative state after just one visit to the library? Then why didn't those who came so many times enter a meditative state?
Is this the difference between people?
Time passed slowly, and Lu Fuyue felt as if she were surrounded by a pool of warm water.
At first she was just a tiny dot, but gradually she seemed to have limbs and could stretch her body. Slowly she began to move... until she saw the first ray of light amidst a woman's shrill scream.
This is what it means to be reborn.
Life is the beginning of hope, the original place.
A surge of spiritual energy flowed into the mountain where the library was located, nourishing the withered flowers, grasses, and trees. In an instant, they were brought back to life, becoming vibrant and green, with every leaf turning green in the wind.
In the blink of an eye, Lu Fuyue lay pale on the ground, blood flowing from her body and soaking the soil.
Countless leaves and petals fell on her, burying her body. She could clearly feel her flesh and blood gradually being corroded by the soil and eaten by insects, until only a skeleton remained. Finally, the skeleton turned into soil and disappeared into the earth.
This is death.
However, life and death, death and life, are a cycle, and also an end.
At the same time, a black aura of death and a white aura of life swirled within Lu Fuyue's dantian, forming a tai chi symbol.
With the addition of the Tai Chi diagram, her dantian became surrounded by golden light.
...
One day, two days, three days later, it felt as if something inside Lu Fuyue suddenly broke open, and her whole body felt light.
She slowly opened her eyes, her gaze becoming clearer. Seemingly unchanged, her aura had become even more restrained.
The disciples watching from the side were somewhat puzzled. Lu Fuyue's meditation was so loud, how come after three days of meditation, apart from her aura being slightly different, her cultivation level didn't seem to have changed at all?
However, insightful people like Elder Hai could see at a glance that Lu Fuyue's gains from this meditation were not in cultivation level but in state of mind.
Legend has it that when the world was first created, the gods cultivated not their realms of power, but their states of mind.
However, as time went on, people began to focus more on cultivation level.
Little did people know that true cultivation involves breakthroughs in both physical and mental abilities.
When your mindset improves, cultivation becomes easier, and you won't be easily exploited by inner demons when undergoing tribulations.
A breakthrough in one's state of mind is something that can only be encountered by chance, and what Lu Fuyue just experienced was such a breakthrough.
"Little Lu, come in quickly."
Lu Fuyue's eyes relaxed slightly, and she nodded, "Yes, Elder."
After saying that, she went upstairs to the second floor.
After she left, the disciples who had been watching her enter meditation suddenly became excited and started discussing it.
"Hey, hey, hey, tell me, who has more talent, this guy or Senior Brother Luo?"
"Of course... I... I don't know either..."
"Get out of the way, we're talking about serious matters."
"I wonder if we'll get to see this guy fight Senior Brother Luo."
...
Second floor,
Lu Fuyue's goal this time was to find a way to wake up Shui Ze ahead of time.
She walked around the second floor but didn't see any useful books.
So her gaze fell on the third floor, a place only Golden Core cultivators could enter. There were restrictions on it, and if a cultivator who was not in the Golden Core stage touched the restrictions, he would be sent flying.
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