Chapter 47 (1/2)

It was already dusk when Xiao Chen returned to Sunset Peak with the books in his hands. As usual, Lil Ruo had already cooked a table of dishes for him. After dinner, Xiao Chen started to study the cultivation methods in his room.

Having studied all night, Xiao Chen had to admit that the cultivation methods in this world were good in their own ways. For example, there were five elements in the Immortal’s magic. The wood and water magic were mainly healing magic; the fire and metal magic were mainly attacking magic; the wood magic was mainly defensive magic. Except for the five elements, there were also wind magic, thunder magic, ice magic, etc. There was even dark magic which was mostly practiced by Devils’ sects.

However, to cultivators, the ultimate goal of practicing all these various cultivation methods was the same—to achieve immortality and become an Immortal King or Devil Lord. This goal was no different than that of thousands of years ago.

Closing the book, Xiao Chen took a deep breath. The higher the cultivation level, the more difficult the cultivation method was. He could not comprehend the method in a short time, so it was now hard to improve his cultivation level. He had to ask for Bai Ying’s advice sometime.

He looked at the blue sky through the window and took a short break. When the day turned completely bright, he rode on the sword and flew to the Black Dragon Peak where Luo Shangyan lived.

Luo Shangyan was expert at healing magic, plus the elders had been healing him with their energies, Xiao Chen almost recovered. Luo Shangyan told him that he did not need to worry about his injuries. Xiao Chen then went to the Star-picking Peak.

The library of the Three Pure Sect was located on the Star-picking Peak, where the Second Elder usually cultivated. He had more disciples than Bai Ying. Xiao Chen was not in a hurry to cultivate but eager to know what happened thousands of years ago. Since he was now an Inner Disciple, he naturally needed to have a look in the library.

He had gone through countless historical records in the Xiao Family, but the history the records covered was short and few of them were about cultivators. The most important thing was that the Xiao Family had only a history of 1,000 years. Someone called Xiao Ning established the Xiao Family. There were few records concerning Xiao Ning, and none had recorded where Xiao Ning ended up in.

The library of the Three Pure Sect was only open to Inner Disciples. The doorkeeper was an old man in purple. Some deep and shallow wrinkles crawled on his face like withered vines, and his eyes were deeply sunken in their sockets like that of zombies. He looked somewhat frightening.

Many female disciples did not dare to read books here. They normally borrowed books and left without asking anything. Xiao Chen walked to the old man, saluted respectfully and said with a smile, “Greetings, elder. I’m a disciple from the Moon-watch Peak.”

It was just a matter of manner to address him as “elder”. In fact, the disciples all knew that in a small place like the Three Pure Sect, the highest cultivation of those elders was just the Foundation Building Realm; some elders had not even reached the Foundation Building Realm.

The old man in purple looked up at him, waved and said, “Go on.”

Xiao Chen nodded, smiled and walked inside. Before he went further, the elder said, “Wait!”

Xiao Chen turned around and said respectfully, “Elder, is there anything else?”

The old man looked at him for a long time before shaking his hand and said, “Nothing. If you are looking for historical records, they are on the third right shelf at the end of the path. Don’t mess up the other books.”

Xiao Chen was a bit stunned. “How does he know what I’m looking for?” He smiled and replied. “Many thanks, elder.” He then walked inside.

The library was huge. The bookshelves were arranged neatly and this place looked like a maze. There is a lighting formation in each area, so it was not dark inside. Also, there were sandalwood desks and chairs for disciples to read books here.

According to the instruction of the old man in purple, Xiao Chen found the area where historical records were kept. He saw a dozen smiling youths around the desk in the corner.

“Junior Sister Li, I know a lot about history. Just ask me if you have any question. Why are you reading alone?”

“Junior Sister Li, he’s lying. I’m expert at ancient language. There are no ancient characters that I cannot understand.”

A girl in a white dress was sitting at the desk. It was Li Muxue. In order to read clearly, she kept her hair on the back of her ear, which made her look more charming. To those “kind helps” from the others, she just smiled back and then continued to read the book in her hand.

Xiao Chen did not know that she also liked to study history. He went over and said, “Miss Li.”

Li Muxue looked up and smiled, revealing two pear-like dimples and saying, “Mr. Xiao.”

Xiao Chen glanced at the book in her hand and read. “2,300 years B.C. It doesn’t come to me that Miss Li is also interested in history.”

Li Muxue smiled with a slight blush on her face, saying, “Yes. However, the characters in the book are too difficult for me to understand. Can you help me?”

“Sure.” Xiao Chen smiled gently and sat beside her. The characters were derived from the common characters in his last life, so he could understand them more or less.

“Alas, Junior Brother Xiao is here. We’re done here. Let’s go.” A dozen youths left dejectedly.

In Xiao Chen’s last life, people used Immortal Century to number the years. Nowadays, people used Open Century to number the years. It was now more than 2,000 years in the Open Century, but the historical records here regarding the earliest times were about 4,000 years before Open Century. Therefore, this world had about 7,000 years of history.

Xiao Chen could not help feeling emotional. Waking up from a dream, he saw 7,000 years pass. It should be the last years of the Immortal Century in about 5,000 years before Open Century. Unfortunately, there was no record here regarding that period of time.

“Miss Li, have you seen some historical records regarding 5,000 years before Open Century?”

Li Muxue shook her head and said, “No. I can hardly understand the characters used in 4,000 years before Open Century. How are you also interested in such ancient histories?”

Xiao Chen smiled bitterly. How should he explain? Should he say that he came from that era?

By noon, the two people left the library for launch in the mess hall. Many male disciples looked at the back of them and felt chagrined, saying, “Damn. My Junior Sister Li is brought away by someone just like this. He just can read some ancient characters…”

The two youths chattered and smiled on their way. They were not that restrained as before. Li Muxue smiled and said, “Brother Xiao, thank you for helping me translating those characters. You can call me Muxue now. Miss Li is too awkward.”

Xiao Chen smiled, saying, “Sure thing.”