Chapter 1150: The Past

"No wonder this place is called Book Mountain!"

Shen Hao couldn't help expressing such emotions when he saw the library in front of him. Inside the huge mountain wall, there are bookshelves that can't be seen at a glance, and there are three upper floors and three lower floors!

"Is this hollowing out the mountain?"

I thought that the library building here would be in the form of a building on the mountain, but now I found that this is not the case at all. Entering from the gate of the library building halfway up the mountain, the entire huge mountain seems to be empty inside, and the field of vision is full of books.

Shen Haoliang clarified his identity and obtained a temporary badge, allowing him to walk around in the library. Anyone can enter any area that is not imprisoned by the magic circle, and the copper bars, paper books, and jade boards on the bookshelf can be browsed at will. It's just that most of them can only stand and watch, thinking that there are few seats in the first place, and I'm afraid there are no empty seats now.

The library was crowded with people, but it wasn't noisy. On the contrary, it could barely be considered quiet. Only the sound of flipping books was relatively clear, and the sound of footsteps was deliberately quiet.

To be honest, Shen Hao was not only taken aback by the amount of books here, but also by the number of people here.

Take the sign and start walking inside. As he walked, he used his senses to scan the bookshelves around him.

Soon Shen Hao made some interesting discoveries. For example, although there are many books here, most of them are essays, travel notes, and practice overviews. There are not many specific techniques and exercises involved, but it is not without them. It's just that the bookshelves are basically empty when it comes to exercises and spells. There are a lot of people squatting or standing in front of them holding books and copper bars in silence, and some even read a book together.

Shen Hao is also very interested in the summary of the spells and exercises here in Wanjuan Shushan, but he took a look, forget it, it's not his turn to flip through the books, and if he queues up, he wonders if he will wait until the next day .

So he continued to walk forward, and stopped to read a few books when he encountered a few books of essays and travel notes. Many of the contents in them surprised Shen Hao, and he had never understood them before.

For example, I don’t know exactly how many years ago a travel note was written. It records the travel experience before the old Jing Dynasty, that is, during the Jing Dynasty, and even the early Jing Dynasty. Conservatively, at least three thousand years ago?

What was the world like three thousand years ago? This is not available in Xuan Qingwei's library, and Shen Hao is very curious about it. So start reading.

The content in the travel notes is not too much, roughly the author suddenly had the idea of ​​moving after practicing, so he walked out of the place of practice, traveled around, and recorded some interesting experiences.

Good scenery, interesting local folk customs and food are all recorded in the travel notes. Of course, there are also sects from various places, and interesting stories about these sects.

Shen Hao discovered that the old Jing Dynasty and the former Dynasty are actually similar in many places, especially the local customs and customs in various places. Although there have been changes, similar shadows can be found today.

But it is the sect that has changed dramatically.

I don't know if the author of this travel note was a disciple of Wanjuan Shushan at that time, and I don't know if Wanjuan Shushan already had the aura of the current super sect at that time.

According to the records in the travel notes, the sects at that time were very complicated, far more than the number of sects now. There is no so-called clear boundary between the first, second and third ranks. Even the Jing Dynasty at that time had no ability to coerce the sect, and the ownership of resources was extremely chaotic. Zongmen and Zongmen, Zongmen and Jingchao, and even casual cultivators often fought, and casualties were almost the norm, and it was nothing new for ordinary people to be killed or injured.

These are fine, just a little messy, Shen Hao can accept it, it's not an incomprehensible state.

But after reading the part of this travel note about Zongmen, Shen Hao had a doubt. Because it mentioned a sect called "Nine Yin Sha Xuanzong", its technique is characterized by manipulating evil spirits, and can erode other people's flesh and soul to enrich themselves. Feared by the locals and feared by the surrounding sects.

This... Shen Hao's first reaction when he saw this was: Isn't this a cultivator from the evil sect?

Can evil monks openly establish a sect? !

According to this travel note, this sect named "Nine Yin Sha Xuanzong" only makes the surrounding sects "scared", it is not like a rat crossing the street, everyone shouts and beats, and it can even recruit disciples normally.

This conflicted with Shen Hao's cognition.

How could this evil cultivator be called a "Zongmen" accepting apprentices thousands of years ago? How did the Jing Dynasty and other sects endure it? Or were the evil cultivators back then not as extreme as they are now?

This made Shen Hao intrigued. Taking advantage of the two hours before the evening banquet, he began to look for this kind of content that recorded interesting stories of thousands of years ago.

The good news is that no one else competes with Shen Hao for this kind of content, so he can enjoy himself while others are crowded.

When the guard reminded him that the banquet was about to begin, Shen Hao reluctantly came out of the Shushan Library. Although the meaning is still unfinished, after reading the relevant content of the seven or eight parts, Shen Hao has a general understanding of the situation of the sect in the period before the old Jing Dynasty, that is, the period of about three thousand years in the beginning and middle of the Jing Dynasty. It really made him a little unexpected.

To put it simply, there was no such thing as "evil cultivator" in the past, and there were only special sects that were different from the normal practice methods.

Then when did these "special sects" be classified as evil monks, and began to be hated by the entire cultivation world and the country, and wanted to drive them all out? There must be some major event that intensified the conflict. But Shen Hao didn't see any records related to this matter.

There is a wonderful break in the middle.

This is unreasonable. Because according to the time, the appearance of the evil monks should be in the middle and late Jing Dynasty, and the travel notes and essays in Wanjuan Shushan obviously covered this period of time. In addition, such an important event must have caused a sensation in the cultivation world at that time, which is impossible are not recorded.

Either Shen Hao did not find the relevant records, or the relevant records were deliberately stored elsewhere.

With this thought, many other thoughts flooded in.

For example, Xuan Qingwei, as the eyes, ears and minions of the Jingjiu Dynasty, monitored the world, why didn't it have such crucial information in its library? Is it because of the long history or because the background is not enough so I didn't know it?

It seems impossible to justify.

Maybe if we directly compare the situation in Wanjuan Shushan with the situation in Xuanqingwei, the answer should be almost the same.

The thoughts in my heart can only come to an end. Because at this time, the huge square on the top of the book mountain has already been decorated with lights and festoons, and thousands of tables are displayed on the red carpet in rows.

On June 14th, the eve of the conference, Wanjuan Shushan hosted a banquet for hundreds of guests on the top of Shushan!