My Wife Is A Sword Immortal
Chapter 365 - 268 Book Mountain Book Tower_3

Chapter 365: Chapter 268 Book Mountain Book Tower_3

Fan Yushu surveyed the Confucian scholars and horse-drawn carriages that had traveled great distances to deliver books here.

"However, these books need to be checked before they can be classified and stored in the book tower, and there are too many books. Before this, they were all stacked on the sides of these uphill corridors, so these corridors are especially winding and lengthy in order to place the books. Still, the workload remains too large, especially now, as they bring books here in autumn. Consequently, some teachers and students come here in their free time to help the book tower, reviewing ancient books, which is also an encouraged behavior by the Academy."

"So later, the book tower stipulated that if newcomers want to enter the book tower, they must first pick an ancient book from the corridor to read thoroughly, then write a summary and insights about it, to help correctly categorize it. Once approved by the book tower, it’s then collected inside. All the books inside the book tower have come about this way."

Zhao Rong quietly said, "Every book that enters the tower has the hard work of an unknown fellow cultivator behind it; this is a tradition that continues...Interesting."

Fan Yushu glanced at him, slowly saying, "After completion, you can then enter the book tower. There are nine levels in the book tower. The first three levels are accessible to anyone, whether they are Academy Confucian scholars or people who come because of its fame, even the night watchmen from the west of Du You City can go in to read. The books on these first three levels alone could be described as a mountain and sea of books, so numerous that common folks could not finish reading them in a lifetime."

"Starting from the fourth level, there are restrictions. We, students of the Mochi, stop at the fourth level, ordinary students of the Academy stop at the fifth level, and as for the sixth level..."

Fan Yushu chuckled, "This is the place that all cultivators of Wangque Continent, below the Heavenly Will Realm and even including those within it, dream of reaching, and you can add ’most’ to that."

Zhao Rong pondered, then suddenly said, "Ranked poetry and verses."

Fan Yushu, looking admiringly at Zhao Rong, said, "Ziyu is truly clever. All the ranked poetry and verses from Linlu Academy over a thousand years are on the sixth level. Just imagine, wherever you look, you could see captivating ranked poetry and verses, Ascending, Fallen Blossoms, and even the legendary Nanshan could be seen. As long as one can read, moving from the Perfection stage of Fu Yao Realm to the Early Stage of the Heavenly Will Realm is almost a matter of breath."

He shook his head, full of emotion, "But even among our own Academy, not many can get in, and even fewer outsiders. What the requirements are to get in, almost no one knows. I only heard that a few years ago, an elder brother who made significant contributions to the Academy was granted entry."

"Let’s not talk about that. Academy teachers can enter the seventh level as for the eighth level... that’s a place only Reading Seeds are qualified to go, and the final, ninth level..."

Fan Yushu thought for a while, "I guess only the Mountain Master can go there; even I am not sure. I don’t know what books are on these last three levels, cough, no that’s not right, we just mentioned all of Wangque Continent’s royal secret spring palace illustrations, they must be on the seventh level."

After he finished speaking, a silence fell between Zhao Rong and Fan Yushu.

Zhao Rong, with a contemplative look, nodded gently, "The sixth level... advancing to Heavenly Will in a breath... the eighth level... the ninth level..."

He whispered softly.

Fan Yushu glanced at Zhao Rong, "Ziyu, about that seventh level, cough cough."

Zhao Rong came back to his senses, looked at Fan Yushu without asking what was wrong with his throat but nodded again, "I understand. Yushu sees my potential, wants me to strive so that later I can qualify for the eighth level and incidentally pass through the seventh level to help you retrieve..."

"No," Fan Yushu interrupted him seriously, "aren’t you and Professor Zhu quite close? Given the good relationship between her and you, Ziyu, cough cough, that... you could ask Professor Zhu to help retrieve it, and after the secret spring palace illustrations are in our hands, the two of us can..."

Zhao Rong turned his head and walked away without a word. He did not want to deal with this guy.

Have Zhu Yourong retrieve that stuff? As for a female teacher’s peculiar uses?

Zhao Rong’s face was expressionless.