Chapter 134 Fateful Encounter
When the bell rang for the papers to be handed in, Lv Wenyuan was the first to rush out, not even planning to wait until the papers were handed in! "Junior brother?"
Chaoyan handed the test paper to Zhou Qian with confusion and hurriedly chased after him.
As soon as he went out, he saw Lu Wenyuan standing at the door with a strange expression, staring at the people passing by.
Chao Yan was completely confused: "Junior brother, you..."
"Sister, I didn't answer the question."
"ah!?"
Lu Wenyuan said: "I suddenly feel that I should go to the Chang'an Library."
Chao Yan wanted to ask, "Aren't you afraid of Senior Sister Jiao?", but seeing Lv Wenyuan's unprecedented serious expression, she swallowed the words and perfunctorily followed his words, "I heard that there are more than a thousand books in the collection, which is not a small number, but it is still a little worse than our Taiyi Ziwei Sect. What is there to see?"
"Look at the books inside, and also look at the people inside. I heard that the books inside can be read by everyone... Senior Sister, do you think there are really mortals with residual spiritual roots who have learned to practice by themselves?"
When Chao Yan heard this question, she also fell silent.
A library open to everyone, which even contains many basic theories of cultivation and various secret manuals of magic. This in itself is a kind of existence that makes her feel very scared.
How could the secret manuals of cultivation techniques be seen so easily? She had spent a lot of merits in the sect to buy various secret manuals and Taoist explanations!
Cultivating immortals should be something high and mighty, how could it...how could it become so lowly? However, although he felt uncomfortable, Chao Yan still did not point fingers at the choices of other sects and forces.
The path to immortality for those with residual spiritual roots is cut off, so how can they possibly achieve any results through cultivation?
She thought confidently.
"Senior sister, you should take the exam well this afternoon. I'll go ahead!"
As Lu Wenyuan spoke, he circulated his Qi and magic, and in the blink of an eye, his figure flew towards the Chang'an Library.
It is very easy to enter the Chang'an Library. After verifying your identity, you only need to apply for a library card to enter and borrow books.
However, when Lv Wenyuan walked into the library, he found that the entire library was not like the legend, with only more than a thousand books, but more than a dozen densely packed bookcases, each of which was filled to the brim! At least thousands of books! He randomly picked a bookshelf and walked over to it, pulling out a thick book.
But when he opened it, he found that the whole book was written in a language he had never seen before.
"What kind of text is this!?"
He muttered under his breath in confusion.
"The language of flowers is somewhat similar to the language of Middle-earth. It's not difficult to learn."
Lv Wenyuan had an unknown monk next to him, who kindly answered his questions. The monk had a very low level of cultivation, and had barely managed to draw Qi into his body. When he saw Lv Wenyuan looking at him, he smiled and said, "If you are interested, I can teach you. Moreover, this language is also taught in the night school of Chang'an School every night! It never hurts to learn it. Most of the books in the library are about the language of flowers!"
Lv Wenyuan hesitated for a moment before he introduced himself: "Lv Wenyuan, I am from the Taiyi Ziwei Sect and a disciple of Master Pinglin."
However, the monk seemed to not understand the rules of etiquette and imitated Lu Wenyuan, bowing awkwardly in return - but his posture was completely wrong.
He only said: "My name is Wang Qiqing, and I should be considered... a disciple of the Taiyin Sect."
Hearing that the other party was a "disciple of Taiyin Sect", Lv Wenyuan's expression turned a little cold, but curiosity got the better of him and he asked, "Where is this 'flower language'? How can it pass on so many books? I have never heard of it before!"
Wang Qiqing waved his hand and said, "Hey, this is just the beginning. These are the results of our Taiyin Sect disciples' hard work in copying for a month. In fact, on our Blue Star, there are at least hundreds of thousands or even millions of ancient books and masterpieces that have been passed down for thousands of years! If you count the ones today, hey! There are too many to count!"
"Blue Star?"
Wang Qiqing scratched his head and explained, "It's another world. You can think of it as something like the cave world you mentioned! The flower language is from there!"
"How do you have so many books?"
"Maybe it's because we have a short lifespan!" Wang Qiqing had never thought about this question. Now that he was stumped by the question, he thought about it carefully and answered, "We Blue Star people cannot cultivate immortality. In the past, our average lifespan was only 20 or 30 years old. Later, with the development of technology, the average lifespan was only a hundred years old. Compared with your lifespan of hundreds or thousands of years, it is really not enough.
"Perhaps it is precisely because of this that we have a sense of urgency, especially those of us who grow flowers. We have to record everything we encounter - personal abilities are limited, and only by recording it can we allow future generations to continue exploring on the shoulders of their predecessors, and those who came before us should not forget the teachers who came after us!" History must be recorded, and knowledge must also be recorded, such as astronomy, geography, mathematics, and medicine. There is nothing that cannot be recorded. Only by writing it down can future generations go further on the basis of books.
"That's probably it."
Lu Wenyuan was quite touched by what he heard.
Because the civilization of Guixu Realm is still in a state of wild governance, the characters used in various human settlements are slightly different. Only when towns are incorporated into some large sects and forces will they gradually assimilate and use the characters and language commonly used by cultivators, that is, the Zhongzhou language.
There are hundreds of languages in the ten continents and three islands. Some are not very different, and people can even half understand each other; others are so different that it is very difficult to learn.
Therefore, in this chaotic situation, the Zhongzhou language, which has the largest number of users and covers the widest range of users, has become the "official language" of the cultivators, and all major sects basically have to learn it - after all, for a cultivator, learning a language is as easy as drinking cold water. As long as they have a foundation-building cultivation, they can naturally rely on their cultivation and magic power to "understand" it. Learning to speak it on this basis will be much easier.
However, no matter how popular the Zhongzhou language is, it cannot change the reality that different pronunciations and characters are used in different places. The more a language is used, the more perfect it will be. However, the situation in Guixu Realm has led to the fact that the language system in many places is really simple, and the writing system is even more terrible, not to mention the "history books" that have been passed down. There are no such things! If there is a record like a county annals, it is considered to be a very sophisticated place! As for books on astronomy, geography, mathematics, medicine, etc., only monks have the energy and ability to record them. But everyone has some time to practice and seek the Tao. Who would study those except for the monks who are related to the Tao they are seeking?
As Wang Qiqing said, most of the monks who have the ability to record knowledge think that they can live forever, so why would they consider their descendants? Why would they compile books? Even if they write, they only write about the secrets of cultivation and detailed explanations of various practices, and they have no interest in anything else.
Thinking of this, Lv Wenyuan sighed sincerely, shook the book in his hand, and asked, "Excuse me, fellow Taoist, what is this book I am holding?"
Wang Qiqing grinned and replied, "A Brief Introduction to Special and General Relativity!"
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