Chapter 34: Abducting a Library
The old man smiled when he saw Zhong Ling'er's cautious look. "I am the spirit of this library. You can call me Lao Ji, the Ji of Chuanji."
"Then how did you get trapped? Where are the books in here?"
"I was trapped in the formation by the people from Tianji Pavilion. They wanted me to hand over the books here, but the books were all given away by their owners. I don't have any left."
"Who is your master? Is it the Sword Ancestor?"
Old Ji's expression was full of memories. He thought for a long time before saying, "That should be it. I am just a magical instrument made by my master to store various skills. When my master ascended, I only generated a trace of intelligence, but I could not show my form. After a long time, I became what I am now."
It turns out that this library is a spiritual device. Zhong Linger looked up at the library. Although it was a bit simple, it was large and grand enough. It was still quite good.
"Then you don't have a master now, are you willing to follow me? I will take you back to the sect. My sect has many books that can fill your room."
Old Ji laughed, "Can your sect have as many books as the Tianji Pavilion? I didn't even promise them, so why should I promise you?"
"They are wealthy and powerful, so they don't care about your magic weapon, but it's different for us, Taiqiong Sect. We are very poor, so we will definitely treat you as a treasure. Besides, our sect is much more interesting than this deserted place."
Lao Ji nodded, "You are right. Instead of being a weed in a big sect, it is better to be a treasure in a small sect. I am a book storage pavilion, but I haven't stored a single book in thousands of years. If you can fill me up, I will agree to it."
Zhong Ling'er was overjoyed, thinking that this treasure was too easy to get. It was a spiritual weapon that already had a spirit, so it must be of heavenly quality. It would be a treasure no matter where it was, and she had unexpectedly gotten it.
Old Ji secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, someone took him away from this deserted and desolate place. Finally, someone wanted his jade house with no knowledge and only a few shelves.
The two hit it off immediately. Lao Ji asked Zhong Ling'er to come out, then shrunk his body to the size of a palm and entered Zhong Ling'er's sea of consciousness. However, when he saw the round bead, he exclaimed, "Oh my God, the Cang Hai Pearl, is this the Cang Hai Pearl?"
"What is Cang Hai Zhu?"
"You don't know? That's a great thing." Old Ji's voice became more serious. "The ancient saints used their great power to open up the world. A little extra power condensed into a seed, which floated in the world along with the long river of time. Later, there was a saying that it was a pearl left in the sea, so people named it the Canghai Pearl."
"Ten thousand years ago, the Immortal Realm sent people to the Immortal Cultivation Realm to look for this pearl. However, this Canghai Pearl is very strange. It only exists in the sea of consciousness of people with a predestined relationship. It seems to have its own consciousness. If it doesn't want people to find it, no trace of it can be found. Therefore, the people in the Immortal Realm have not been able to find it either."
"But how did it become so dilapidated?"
Zhong Linger blinked and said, "I don't know either. It was like this when I saw it."
She was not lying. When her soul came here, the Canghai Pearl was indeed like this.
Old Ji did not ask any more questions, but guided Zhong Ling'er to the main hall to find the Xuanyi Sword Monument.
Arriving in front of the hall, there stood a stone tablet ten people high in the middle of the square. It was covered with sword marks, and each sword mark seemed to have a different halo.
Below it, many people were sitting or standing, immersed in contemplation, including Ouyang Ruochen and Bai Luochen, which made Zhong Ling'er feel relieved.
In her previous lives, Zhong Ling'er came here thanks to Zhong Yuxue, and followed her to be a treasure hunter. At that time, she did not understand swordsmanship, and had no feeling when she saw the stone tablet. But this time it was different. Just seeing the stone tablet gave her a mysterious feeling, and every sword mark seemed to be whispering to her, telling her an interesting story.
Zhong Ling'er was stunned. Like the people around her, she looked up at the stone tablet in a daze, and followed the flickering light into a wonderful world.
This is a world with countless sword intentions. It is different from the sword energy in front of the entrance, which is murderous and violent, but here is the origin of swordsmanship.
Each sword intent is peaceful and can be held in one's hand and observed carefully. Once one understands one sword intent, one can let it go and look for another. The more one comprehends, the deeper one's understanding of the sword will be. When one has accumulated to a certain level, one can form one's own sword intent.
Zhong Ling'er looked at the countless sword intentions around her, and simply used both hands to push her brain power to the limit. Tianji Academy only gave her one hour of time to comprehend, and she was the last one to arrive, so she didn't have much time left.
"Why are you in such a hurry? If you can't finish learning, just take the stone away."
Old Ji's voice rang out in Zhong Ling'er's mind.
Zhong Ling'er was surprised. "Take him away? How can we take him away? The people from Tianji Academy will not agree."
"The people from the Tianji Pavilion wanted to take the stone tablet away, but they couldn't do it no matter how hard they tried. But I'm different. I'm the Book Collection Pavilion. To put it bluntly, the stone tablet is just a book on martial arts. I can store it."
Zhong Ling'er thought for a moment and said, "Old Ji, what did the people from Tianji Pavilion do to you? They must have offended you badly!"
"Little girl, some things are meaningless if you tell them out loud."
Old Ji gritted his teeth and was furious. The people from Tianji Pavilion wanted to move the stone tablet, find the Cangyu Sword, and ask him to hand over the secret manual of martial arts, but they thought he was useless. This was simply a great shame.
He was going to leave here, and he wanted to take away all the useful things in this mansion, leaving nothing for the people in Tianji Pavilion.
Zhong Ling'er did not ask any further questions, but continued to calm down and comprehend the sword intent. Although the stone tablet could be taken away, she still had to practice it.
After a while, the light from the stone tablet disappeared, and everyone came out of their state of enlightenment.
Zhong Linger looked up and found that the people from Tianji Academy had covered the stone tablet with magical instruments. The mysterious Taoist rhyme disappeared, causing many people to lament.
"That magic weapon has trapped the stele spirit. Try to throw my body into it and come back here to retrieve it after a quarter of an hour."
After Lao Ji gave the instructions, Zhong Ling'er immediately followed them and rushed to the main hall with the crowd. When she passed by the stone tablet, she threw the palm-sized library inside.
There was nothing surprising in the hall. Apart from its grandeur and magnificence, there was only one word: empty. There was nothing there. Apart from the patterns on the pillars, the only thing you could see were the crowded heads of people.
Seeing Zhong Yuxue walking towards her again, Zhong Ling'er made a prompt decision and immediately put a retreat talisman on herself. Because she had trained Zhong Yuxue's breath into the talisman beforehand, the talisman reacted immediately after it was activated, and both Zhong Ling'er and Zhong Yuxue were knocked away.
The two of them suddenly flew up, attracting everyone's attention and also causing the people from Taiqiong Sect who were looking for Zhong Ling'er to run over.
Bai Luochen helped Zhong Ling'er up and asked worriedly, "Junior Sister, what happened to you?"
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