Chapter 147: Yuyuan Empire’s Imperial Studies (2/2)

Everyone was surprised and elated.

Floor of Heavenly Records. The secretary checked his book tablet and told Qin Mu, ”You can't spoil any book when going in to browse them. If the books inside are damaged, you'll be imprisoned. With your book tablet, you can only browse the books on the first level. Don't go up to the second level otherwise, the secretary on the second floor would seize and punish you.”

Qin Mu said, ”I'll follow Chancellor Ba Shan out for cultivation and learn through outside experience, therefore, I would like to borrow a few ancient scrolls out.

That secretary was astonished and replied, ”So I see. Chancellor Ba Shan has privilege, therefore, his disciples can borrow five ancient scrolls out. You may go in to choose the ancient scrolls and record them over here with me.”

Qin Mu walked into the floor and saw dozens of rooms on the floor. Each room was extremely vast and there was tablet pasted on the door of every room. The ancient scrolls in these rooms should be classified according to their prefectures. All the techniques, skills, and divine arts from the sects of this county would be kept in the room that represented it.

Qin Mu walked into the room which hung Lizhou's tablet. He only saw a dozen of bookshelves and ancient scrolls were placed on the bookshelves. There were also different names of the sects written on the tablets which were hung on the bookshelves. Other than sects, there were also names of aristocratic families.

There weren't many people in the room. There were only two to three scholars sitting on the floor and holding up their scrolls to read. There were also a few smaller doors at the side and Qin Mu walked forward. Two of the doors were locked from the inside and there was still one door unlocked.

He pushed open the door and was slightly stunned. Behind this door was a space with an area of seven ares. It was much bigger than the room they were in but there was nothing inside.

”Could it be a place for scholars to practice their techniques, skills, and divine arts?”

Qin Mu came to the front of a bookshelf and picked out a scroll while lowering his head to have a look. He was astonished, ”There are actually so many sects in Lizhou Prefecture.”

On the scroll was written Red Clouds Technique of Lizhou's Red Clouds Sect. There were also a few scrolls beside it which were Red Clouds Sword Skills, Red Clouds Four Formations, Secrets of Red Clouds Pills, et cetera.

Qin Mu roughly skimmed through it and there were indeed unique points in Red Clouds Sect's techniques. Once one cultivated this technique, their vital qi would turn into red clouds and whenever they made a move, the entire sky would be filled with red clouds. Meanwhile, they would be able to hide flying swords among the red clouds and the enemies would usually get hit as their visions were clouded by the red clouds.

”Even though Red Clouds Technique isn't bad, it still couldn't be considered miraculous.

He put down Red Clouds Technique and took a few looks at Red Clouds Sword Skills before putting it back. Red Clouds Sword Skill was a set of system with Red Clouds Technique. Only those who had cultivated Red Clouds Technique could cultivate Red Clouds Sword Skill. He then took a look at Red Clouds Four Formations and this formation skill also required one to cultivate Red Clouds Technique and Red Clouds Sword Skills to be able to cultivate Red Clouds Four Formations.

Secret of Red Clouds Pills was also roughly skimmed through by him and it was mainly about the art of pill refinement. There were still some prescriptions that were worth referencing, however, there were also some prescriptions that obviously had problems as their toxicities weren't completely resolved,

He put the scrolls of Red Clouds Sect back onto the bookshelf and took out another set of thick scrolls.

”The ancient scrolls of Yuyuan Empire's imperial family?”

Qin Mu was astonished and read it over and over again while thinking to himself, ”Aren't the ancient scrolls of Lizhou's sects on these bookshelves? Where did this Yuyuan Empire pop out from? That's right, what's the relation between Yuyuan Empire and Yuyuan Chuyu? Could it be that Lizhou wasn't Eternal Peace Empire's territory before and belonged to an empire called Yuyuan?”

Qin Mu's heart moved slightly. Yuyuan Chuyu was the young magistrate of Lizhou and Yuyuan was her surname. She said she also had a brother called Yuyuan Chuyun who was an official in the capital city. Could they siblings be the past royalties of Yuyuan Empire?

Yuyuan Chuyu's official position wasn't low and having such a high status at such a young age, she should have powerful backing.

”Lizhou is situated in the south-central region of Eternal Peace Empire. So it seems that the amount of countries Eternal Peace Empire has annexed isn't small.

Qin Mu flipped through Yuyuan Empire's imperial studies, and even though the ancient scrolls of Yuyuan Empire's Royalty weren't complete, they were much better than Red Clouds Sect's. Yuyuan Empire's imperial study was called Chengdu Zaitian Mystery Technique which was almost an entire system. Its sword skill was called Sunset Sword Skill.

Qin Mu skimmed through it and decided to choose this set of ancient scrolls.

For sword skills, he had only cultivated the first form of Sword Picture which was Sword Treading Mountains And Rivers. However, the qi consumption of Sword Treading Mountains And Rivers was too huge and if he met enemies during normal times and used this sword skill, one move would deplete almost all of Qin Mu's vital qi. If there were more enemies, it would be bad for him.

Therefore he needed a first-class sword skill.

Sunset Sword Skill of Yuyuan Empire was a first-class sword skill which appealed to him.

”Just now that secretary said I could choose five ancient scrolls, I should probably go and find more.”

Qin Mu roughly checked the other bookshelves and didn't find anything he fancied. None of the techniques of other sects was as good as Yuyuan Empire's Chengdu Zaitian Profound Technique.

He searched the rooms one by one and found some first-class techniques which made him secretly curious. If there were already so many ancient scrolls collected on the first level of Floor of Heavenly Records, how powerful would the ancient scrolls kept on the second level and third level be?

”Eh, something's not right. Some of the ancient scrolls the sects offered up had probably been cut out and they didn't offer their true ultimate arts.”

The more Qin Mu browsed these ancient scrolls, the more doubts arose in his heart. Many of the ancient scrolls here had been cut out and some ultimate arts were not included. He took a rough look through them and could clearly felt this.

For example, Nine Songs Connecting River Sword Skill had nine moves in total but when he executed the ninth move, he felt his own vigor and the power of the sword skill reaching the peak which was then followed by nothing. An astonishing power was brewed out yet there was no tenth move to unleash this power.

This showed that Nine Songs Sword Sect did not offer the complete sword skill and had concealed something of their skills.

There were many similar cases. It was obvious that these powers were not willing to hand over their ultimate arts to Eternal Peace Empire and should have all retained some stuff to themselves.