The King of Urban Mercenaries

Chapter 1698 - 1703: The Elder Sweeping the Floor

Hearing Li Qing’s words, Yang Yuxiang responded, "Anyway I’ve got nothing better to do, I’ll go with you."

After she finished, Yang Yuxiang agreed to go along with them. Lin Fei found it very strange—why did Li Qing always have Yang Yuxiang tag along wherever he went? Could it be that Senior Brother Li Qing liked Yang Yuxiang?

Thinking of this, Lin Fei felt it was very possible. After all, Yang Yuxiang looked quite good to begin with, and it was only natural for a gentleman like Li Qing to be drawn to a fine lady, so Lin Fei ended up with that misconception.

Since the three of them had decided, they headed toward the Book Pavilion. Of course, the main reason was that Lin Fei didn’t know where the Book Pavilion was. Following the two of them along a rugged path down the mountain, Lin Fei felt a bit puzzled.

"Senior Brother, Senior Sister, is this Book Pavilion down at the foot of the mountain?" Lin Fei asked.

"That’s right, it’s indeed down the mountain. You’ll know when we get there; I guarantee it’ll blow your mind."

Lin Fei was already mind-blown. Qianhuang Peak was just too massive and too steep; he really couldn’t figure out where on earth this Book Pavilion could be.

So he followed the two of them, walking along the winding mountain road. At this moment, Lin Fei finally couldn’t help but ask, "Senior Sister, Senior Brother, do you know how to go down the mountain?"

Hearing this, the two of them suddenly looked at Lin Fei at the same time.

"What’s this? You want to go down the mountain?" Li Qing asked.

"No, no, no, I was just asking casually. It’s just, look at how high Qianhuang Peak is. I’m really curious—where do people actually go down from?" Lin Fei said.

"’Just asking’, my foot."

Yang Yuxiang suddenly said, "If you weren’t serious, there’s no way you’d be asking this kind of question after only a few days here. You, who are so focused on Cultivation, actually want to go down the mountain? If this gets out, tsk tsk, nothing more needs to be said."

"What do you mean by that? I really was just asking casually." Lin Fei said helplessly. But there was no way he could let others know he wanted to leave Qianhuang Peak.

"Junior Brother, then I’ll tell you. If you want to leave Qianhuang Peak, you have to use the Transmission Array. Under normal circumstances, it won’t be activated for ten years at a time, so you can forget about going down the mountain." Li Qing said.

Lin Fei was speechless. These two actually concluded that he wanted to go down the mountain just from one sentence? That was way too one‑sided!

What Lin Fei didn’t know was that he had been cultivating nonstop. How could a cultivation maniac ask about going down the mountain for no reason? They figured he must have the idea of leaving nagging at his heart, which was why he asked. That was how the two of them saw it.

"Can’t I just go down from the cliff?" Lin Fei asked in confusion.

"Sure you can! Why not? But Qianhuang Peak is very high, and there are all sorts of Demon Beasts along the way. You have to understand, Demon Beasts that live on cliff faces are extremely hard to deal with. Besides, lots of people come up the mountain—I’ve honestly never thought someone would want to climb down." Li Qing said.

"Hehe, I was really just asking casually." Lin Fei said.

"I think one day you definitely will leave this place, just not now." Yang Yuxiang suddenly said.

Lin Fei gave an awkward smile and said nothing. Explaining is covering up, and covering up means it’s true. Lin Fei didn’t want to explain, didn’t want to hide his own thoughts, and even less wanted to refute Yang Yuxiang’s statement.

"Alright, we’re almost at the Book Pavilion. Everyone had better not talk too much; keep quiet." Li Qing reminded them.

Lin Fei nodded.

Yang Yuxiang said in disdain, "Other than Lin Fei, who here wouldn’t know that rule? So when you say it, you have to include Junior Brother Lin Fei by name."

"Senior Sister, I understand." Li Qing replied very primly, leaving Lin Fei speechless. These two were actually putting on a double act; it was really something.

Anyway, the two of them led Lin Fei to a wide cave entrance. Lin Fei looked up and saw three characters written above the entrance.

"Book Pavilion."

Lin Fei hadn’t expected the Book Pavilion to actually be inside the mountain. That did surprise him a bit.

When the three of them stepped into the Book Pavilion, they saw an old man sweeping the floor. As they entered, the old man showed no reaction whatsoever, while Li Qing and Yang Yuxiang both bowed to him before heading deeper into the pavilion.

Lin Fei also followed suit and bowed. But when he noticed the trajectory of the old man’s sweeping motions, his eyes lit up at once.

However, Lin Fei didn’t show anything special on his face. He simply followed the two of them and walked deeper into the cave.

Once they were inside the cave, Lin Fei was truly stunned. The "Shandong" ran through an upper and lower section, a hundred meters high and a hundred meters deep. With those two hundred meters in between, a massive circular space about a hundred meters across had formed. Around the circular walls, books were stacked along the stone, forming an enormous book cavern!

"There are so many books here!" Lin Fei exclaimed. He noticed that some of them weren’t actually books, but objects that looked like jade. Lin Fei knew these were equivalent to books too, storing the spiritual power others had left behind. Here he also found, besides scrolls and bamboo slips, books from the Lower Realm—those old, revised editions.

But from one corner, Lin Fei found a notebook from the Lower Realm. Written on it was an ordinary, utterly unremarkable Cultivation Technique, nothing special about it—yet Lin Fei saw the Mo Country script from the Lower Realm and was very moved.

After all, the characters of the Upper Realm were quite close to pictographs. When he first arrived in the Upper Realm, he had been taught that script. The fact that he could read them was entirely thanks to Dugu Aotian.

"Junior Brother, this is the disciples’ favorite place. These are all the books we have on Qianhuang Peak." Li Qing said.

"Just these? But neither these Cultivation Techniques nor Martial Arts seem that impressive." Lin Fei said doubtfully. He had so many Cultivation Techniques in his possession, all far stronger than these.

Li Qing was speechless. "That Seven Injuries Fist of yours is pretty good—already very powerful. How could they not be good? I really don’t get you."

Lin Fei gave an awkward smile. Maybe his standards were just too high.

"Oh right, Senior Brother, are there any restrictions on the Cultivation Techniques here?" Lin Fei asked. What he really meant was, are there any restrictions on the Book Pavilion?

Li Qing’s answer made Lin Fei feel quite satisfied.

"There aren’t really any restrictions. The biggest one is just that at night you have to leave the Book Pavilion and go home to sleep, haha!" Li Qing said with a laugh.

"I see. Then it’s a good way to kill time." Lin Fei opened a book. It recorded the insights of a certain cultivator. Lin Fei skimmed it and nodded; it had a very personal flavor, and it clearly described the problems that person had encountered on the path of Cultivation.

Such insights could help those who came later take fewer detours.