The Sword God Sect's Sutra Repository is located on the Tianji Peak, which is named after the Thirty-Six Celestial Beings. This is an important place for the Sword God Sect and is heavily guarded. This is Yan Liqiang's first time to visit this place.
In the afternoon, when the sun was high in the sky, Yan Liqiang stood at the foot of Tianji Peak.
There was a checkpoint at the foot of the mountain. A deacon from the Sutra Hall was stationed there with several disciples on duty. After Yan Liqiang showed his identity badge and the note given to him by Hall Master Su, he was personally led up the mountain by an inner disciple wearing a black robe and with a serious face.
"Tianji Peak is an important place in the sect. Follow me and don't walk around randomly. Sometimes you can lose your life if you take a wrong step here!" A disciple on duty said to Yan Liqiang expressionlessly while walking on the road.
"Okay, thank you, brother!"
The disciple in black robe nodded and took Yan Liqiang up the mountain.
Unlike the other thirty-six peaks, there is no vegetation on Tianji Peak. The whole mountain is bare and everything is visible at a glance. There is only one way up the mountain, which is straight and steep. The whole road is carved out among cliffs and steep slopes. It is four feet wide and goes up and down on one side, a bit like the steep mountain road that Yan Liqiang saw when he went to Huashan in his previous life.
After walking on the mountain road for more than 20 minutes and passing two checkpoints on the road, the black-clothed officer took Yan Liqiang directly to the outside of the Sutra Hall on the mountain. After passing another inspection, Yan Liqiang was handed over to another officer outside the Sutra Hall. Then the officer took Yan Liqiang into the Sutra Hall. After turning left and right, they came to a small courtyard. In the courtyard, there was a magnificent nine-story attic. In the middle of the attic, there was a plaque with several large golden characters written vertically on the plaque - "Sutra Hall".
In the Sutra Hall, disciples wearing robes of various colors were coming in and out. Every Sword God Sect disciple who entered here was led by a deacon disciple from the Sutra Hall, and there were always people following them. People rarely talked here, and everything seemed quiet and solemn.
Entering the Sutra Hall, there was a tall window similar to a pawnshop at the door. Yan Liqiang handed his ID card and the approval note of Master Su into the window at the same time. After another inspection and review, a key was handed out from the window. The servant of the Sutra Hall who brought him here took the key and then took him inside.
After turning a corridor and two corners, the attendant from the Sutra Hall finally brought Yan Liqiang into a room.
It was a room of nearly two thousand square meters, with rows of bookshelves in the room, and on the bookshelves were books of secret manuals.
Even with Yan Liqiang's calmness, he swallowed deeply when he saw such a scene, and felt a shock in his heart, which was ten times stronger than the feeling when Granny Liu first entered the Grand View Garden. Places like Pingxi County were originally remote, and there were very few secret books. Yan Liqiang had never thought that the precious martial arts secret book would appear in front of him like this scene.
"Wow, so many secret manuals!" Yan Liqiang exclaimed in an exaggerated tone, half-truthfully. He looked at the attendant who brought him in to the Sutra Repository and said, "Excuse me, senior brother, can I choose any of these secret manuals here?"
The black-clothed attendant who brought him in smiled proudly, "These secret books are the accumulation of thousands of years of Sword God Sect. They are the hard work of countless predecessors of Sword God Sect. This is also the confidence of Sword God Sect to become one of the four major sects in the world. You can pick any secret book here, but you have just advanced to a warrior. I advise you not to be dazzled by these secret books in front of you. It is most important to pick a secret book with a solid internal strength foundation. Take it step by step. In the future, you should have the opportunity to come here and choose again!"
"Thank you for your guidance, brother."
"Well, pay attention. Some of the secret books here are incomplete. There are marks on the iron boxes containing the secret books. If you choose those incomplete secret books, you will not be able to practice the skills to the highest level marked on the secret books. However, those incomplete secret books that can be placed here are all high-level secret books. Even if you cannot practice to the highest level, you can learn the incomplete contents. They should not be underestimated. They are placed here precisely because they lack the later practice part!"
"Okay, I'll pay attention!"
"You have a quarter of an hour to choose. I'll wait for you here. After you've made your choice, bring the iron box with you. If you haven't made your choice within a quarter of an hour, it means you've given up this opportunity."
"yes!"
After chatting with the waiter at the door for a few words, Yan Liqiang walked into the bookshelves and began to select books.
Every bookcase in this room was made of iron. The secret books were packed in heavy and solid iron boxes on the bookshelves. Each iron box was locked and could not be opened without a key.
The label on the iron box contains the name and level of the secret book, as well as whether the secret book is incomplete.
Although there were not many people in the Sutra Hall, as soon as he entered between the bookshelves, Yan Liqiang felt as if a thorn was on his back. There was a vague and ethereal aura that filled the Sutra Hall. This aura always made Yan Liqiang feel like someone was staring at him, and he dared not move.
Under the influence of this atmosphere, Yan Liqiang had no choice but to browse through the bookshelves half-seriously, just like the other disciples.
Yan Liqiang took a quick look. Although the secret books here are all kept in the Sword God Sect, many of them are not unique to the Sword God Sect. The Sword God Sect's martial arts training is mainly based on swordsmanship, but the secret books here are of all kinds, including swords, fists, kicks, and eighteen martial arts. Many of them are not from the Sword God Sect at first glance, such as "Yang Family Seven Killing Fists", "Five Tigers Breaking Gate Knife", "Peng Family Spear Skills", "Tan Family Shadowless Kick", "Qushan Eighteen Sticks", "Tang Sect Darts" and so on. They are all very different in style from the Sword God Sect. At a glance at these secret books, you can tell that these secret books are not originally owned by the Sword God Sect. The reason why these secret books appear in the Sword God Sect's Sutra Hall must have some stories.
That attendant was right. People who have just advanced to the level of warriors can already practice internal skills. Therefore, the internal skills secret manual is almost always the first choice for people who come here.
Yan Liqiang was naturally no exception. Although there were a wide variety of secret books here, he only glanced through them and then went directly to the row of bookshelves marked with internal power techniques.
The inner skills that the Sword God Sect disciples practiced were to assist the sword skills that everyone would practice in the future. Among them, there were three inner skills that were practiced by the most people. One was "Purple Sky Divine Art", one was "Nine Nine Return to Origin Divine Art", and the other was "Taiyi Gengjin Inner Skills". Ninety-nine percent of the people who entered the Sword God Sect practiced one of these three inner skills. Of course, as a disciple who had just joined the Sword God Sect, even if he practiced these three secret skills, it was impossible to obtain the complete secrets of the skills. On the bookshelf, the iron boxes of the three secret skills were marked with two conspicuous words - "initial stage", which also meant that the secrets of these three skills were only for people to practice in the two consecutive stages of warriors and dragon warriors. After these two stages, if you want to continue to practice these three skills, you have to rely on the contribution of the sect. After the initial stage, there are three other levels of secrets: middle stage, high stage, and final stage.
There are hundreds of other various internal skills secret manuals.
Yan Liqiang only glanced at the three secret books and walked away. He did not choose the three secret books practiced by the Sword God Sect. Instead, he found a dusty iron box in an inconspicuous corner of the internal skills bookshelf. There were two lines of words written on the iron box:
The first line of words reads: "Ten Dragons and Ten Elephants Divine Art"
The second line of words read: Severely incomplete secret book, the highest level you can advance to is Dragon Tiger Warrior, please choose carefully!
After seeing this secret book, Yan Liqiang pretended to wander in front of the row of bookshelves for a long time, hesitating for a long time between the secret books, not knowing how to choose. Finally, when it was almost a quarter of an hour, he gritted his teeth, picked up the iron box containing "The Divine Art of Ten Dragons and Ten Elephants", and left the bookshelf.
"Junior brother, although this secret book is a high-level secret book and has been passed down for thousands of years, it is incomplete. After advancing to the Dragon Tiger Warrior, the subsequent practice of this secret book is gone. The predecessors of the Sword God Sect who practiced this secret book had to switch to practicing other secret books after advancing to the Dragon Tiger Warrior. Have you thought about it?"
"I've thought about it. I think this secret book is different from ordinary secret books. I want to try it!"
"Well, you have three days to memorize the contents of this secret book. If you can't remember it today, you can come back tomorrow. You can only remember the contents of this secret book in your heart. You are not allowed to copy it or tell others without authorization, and you are not allowed to deliberately damage the secret book. Otherwise, the sect's laws are ruthless, and you should know the consequences!"
"I know!"
After hearing what Yan Liqiang said, the disciple took Yan Liqiang directly to a separate room of less than three square meters, opened the lock on the iron box containing the secret book with the key in his hand, and then left.
After the door was closed, Yan Liqiang was the only one left in the small room. Yan Liqiang opened the iron box and took out a secret book.
Judging from the age of the secret book, this "Divine Art of Ten Dragons and Ten Elephants" is obviously a copy, not the original. Almost all the secret books in the Sutra Hall are copies, not originals. The original secret books are kept in a more secret place by the Sword God Sect, and ordinary disciples cannot access them.
In the entire Sword God Sect, except for the Sword God Sect's protectors, almost no one knows that the secret book of "The Divine Art of Ten Dragons and Ten Elephants" has a complete original version, but the complete original secret book is only circulated among the protectors.
The internal skills that the Sword God Sect's guardians practiced were the "Ten Dragons and Ten Elephants Divine Skills" that everyone thought was incomplete...
This is a top secret book with the highest level of twenty levels...
(End of this chapter)