Chapter 222: Sutra Library

Cen Jian looked at the man in front of him who looked to be thirty years old and whose cultivation level was only at the ninth level of Qi Refining, and felt very unhappy.

He had finally succeeded in building a foundation a few days ago and became a foundation-building monk.

In the past few days, when the disciples of the inner and outer sects in the Qi Refining Realm met him, they all respectfully called him uncle.

This morning he made a special trip to Evergreen City. It was even more amazing there. Everyone he met would basically call him "Senior" respectfully.

It can be said that the spring breeze is so proud that the horseshoes are so bad!

As a result, a disciple in his thirties who was still at the ninth level of Qi Refining suddenly appeared and called him senior brother. Can he feel comfortable?

"Do you understand the rules? As a disciple in the Qi Refining Realm, when you meet a Foundation Establishment monk, you should call him Uncle Master!" Cen Jian scolded, assuming the posture of an elder.

"Senior brother, I'm sorry, I am not an ordinary Qi Refining Realm disciple, I am..." Xia Daoming said.

"You should be over thirty, right?" Cen Jian interrupted.

"Yes! Is there any problem?" Xia Daoming touched his face and felt that if he had enough of the Beauty Pill, he should take one as soon as possible.

"You are in your thirties and you are still only at the ninth level of Qi Refining. You have the nerve to say that you are not an ordinary Qi Refining Realm disciple? No, logically you should be an outer sect disciple. What are you doing in the inner sect? The inner sect's scripture collection pavilion only If it's open to inner disciples, you should go to the outer sect's Sutra Collection Pavilion," Cen Jian said speechlessly.

He thought that the other party looked old, but he didn't expect that he was actually in his thirties, and he had the nerve to say that he was not an ordinary Qi refining disciple.

This bragging ability is even better than mine!

"Senior brother, do you know this brand?" Xia Daoming didn't bother to explain to Cen Jian and directly took out the token.

The tokens for the direct disciples of Elder Jindan have fixed specifications and styles, but different words and symbols are used on them to represent different elders.

"What brand is it?" Cen Jian glanced disapprovingly, and then he was slightly shocked, and then a smile immediately appeared on his face and said: "It turns out to be senior brother, you are going to the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, and I happened to be on the way. Take you there."

Seeing Cen Jian's smiling face, Xia Daoming suddenly felt that his status as a disciple of Elder Jin Dan was quite good.

It seems that Master has to walk around more when he has time. However, he has a weird temperament, and I have to walk frequently, so maybe he doesn't like it.

Forget it, let nature take its course, as long as you can enter the Sutra Pavilion.

Thinking in his mind, Xia Daoming said quickly: "That's really a big help, senior brother."

"Oh no, I can't do it, I can't do it. You are the direct disciple of Elder Jin Dan. You are the senior brother and I am the junior brother. My name is Cen Jian. You can call me Xiao Cen or Xiao Jian." Cen Jian said quickly.

Xia Daoming looked at Cen Jian, who had a dog-legged look on his face and was probably older than him, and felt speechless for a while.

This guy is really a bit of a bitch!

"Okay, then Junior Brother Laucen will lead the way." Xia Daoming said.

"It's hard work, it's my honor to be able to lead the way for senior brother." Cen Jian said quickly.

Xia Daoming was speechless again. The change in this guy's attitude was so different.

"Senior brother, please come with me."

"Don't you know your senior brother's surname?"

"Xia Daoming."

"Xia Daoming, Daoming, Daoming, what a good name. It sounds like a person with extraordinary talents and strong understanding of the Dao. No wonder that at such a young age, senior brother is only one step away from reaching the perfection of Qi refining, and he was accepted by Elder Jindan as his disciple. Junior brother, I deeply admire you.”

Xia Daoming suddenly felt goosebumps all over his body.

This was the first time he heard someone praise him for having cultivated to such a level at such a young age.

"By the way, which Jindan elder does senior brother study under?"

"Zuodong Pavilion."

"Zuodong Pavilion?" Cen Jian murmured in his heart. For a moment, he couldn't remember that there was such a number one Jindan elder.

But soon, Cen Jian was shocked and looked at Xia Daoming with eyes full of disbelief and shock.

"It's actually Elder Zuo! He is a legendary genius in our Qingyuan Sect, and it is said that the requirements for selecting disciples are extremely high. Now no one in the entire sect meets his requirements.

Senior brother, you are so awesome. You can actually join his sect and become his direct disciple. Junior brother is really impressed by you. "Cen Jian quickly said with admiration.

Xia Daoming curled his lips disapprovingly.

Cen Jian is very talkative.

Chattering all the way.

Not long after, Cen Jian led Xia Daoming to a very magnificent building with three words hanging on it, Sutra Pavilion.

"Senior brother, I won't go in. I live in Lion Peak. If you have time to pass by, you might as well come in and have a cup of tea." Cen Jian said.

Ordinary inner sect disciples cannot enjoy a mountain peak alone. Instead, the sect arranges for many people to share a mountain peak as a cave or live on the top of the main peak.

"Okay, thank you, see you another day." Xia Daoming bowed his hand to Cen Jiangong, then turned and entered the Scripture Collection Pavilion.

Cen Jian's eyes were filled with envy as he watched Xia Daoming enter the Sutra Collection Pavilion.

What good luck, in his thirties and only at the ninth level of Qi Refining, he was accepted as a direct disciple by Elder Jindan!

If I, Cen Jian, can also worship under the sect of Elder Jindan, even if I can't set foot on the Jindan Avenue in this life, I should be able to reach the later stage of foundation building and achieve consummation.

What a pity, why am I not so lucky?

Cen Jian left with some disappointment, and the high spirits he had felt when he was promoted to a foundation-building monk a few days ago was gone.

At the entrance of the Sutra Pavilion, a very old-looking late-stage foundation-building monk squinted his eyes slightly and sat on a sandalwood chair to doze off.

As soon as Xia Daoming stepped into the threshold, the old foundation-building monk opened his eyes.

Huh!

He looked at Xia Daoming, and his wrinkled old face showed a touch of surprise.

"Are you an inner sect disciple?" the old man asked, with a questioning look.

The inner sect never accepts disciples with mediocre qualifications.

In the inner sect, the disciples in the Qi Refining Realm are generally very young.

Most of those who are still in the Qi Refining Realm in their thirties have reached the perfect Qi Refining Realm and are waiting to build their foundation.

Only a very small number of them may have been misjudged by the sect or for other special reasons, so they are still stagnant in the late Qi Refining Realm and have not been able to enter the perfect realm.

"Yes, senior brother." Xia Daoming replied.

"Senior brother!" The old man couldn't help but raise his white eyebrows when he heard the words, and the wrinkles on his face couldn't help shaking.

However, Xia Daoming had experience this time. Before the old man had time to scold him for not knowing the rules, he had already presented his identity token.

"The direct disciple of the Golden Core Elder!" The old man sat up straight at once, looking at the token in Xia Daoming's hand with some disbelief.

Which Jindan elder would be so desperate as to recruit a thirty-something Qi Refining cultivator as his personal disciple!

"Elder Zuo?" After the old man saw the words on the token clearly, he was shocked and unbelievable at first, but soon he became relieved.

It was indeed shocking and unexpected that Xia Daoming's master was Zuo Dongge, who no longer accepted disciples, but after thinking deeply, only someone with a strange temperament like Zuo Dongge would accept such a mediocre disciple as his personal disciple.

"Since you are Elder Zuo's personal disciple, you can read all the books on the first floor of the Sutra Pavilion for free. It just so happens that all the books on the first floor are also suitable for Qi Refining disciples to read, and the books on the second floor are too obscure and profound for you for the time being." After the old man confirmed Xia Daoming's identity, his expression eased a lot.

"Free reading on the first floor? Is there a charge for the second floor?" Xia Daoming asked.

Hearing this, the old man looked at Xia Daoming up and down with a strange look.

"I just became the direct disciple of the Jindan elder today. I was an outer disciple before, so I don't know many of the rules of the inner sect." Xia Daoming explained calmly.

The old man looked at Xia Daoming with an even more strange look.

It was outrageous enough that a 30-year-old Qi Refining Level 9 was accepted as a direct disciple by the Jindan elder.

As a result, he went straight from an outer disciple to become the direct disciple of the Jindan elder.

What's even more outrageous is that on the first day of apprenticeship, he didn't stay in the elders' mansion, but came to the Sutra Pavilion.

You are a Qi Refining cultivator, and the Jindan elders can give you a few pointers, which is enough for you to benefit from for the rest of your life. Do you need to go to the Sutra Pavilion on the first day?

Besides, which elders' mansion doesn't have a private Sutra Pavilion?

However, when the old man remembered that Xia Daoming's master was Zuo Dongge, his look quickly changed from strange to relieved.

Elder Zuo, that's hard to say!

"Only the first floor is free for disciples who have established their foundation. Disciples at the inner Qi Refining stage need to pay merit points to browse through it. However, you are a disciple of the Golden Core Elder, so even if you are at the Qi Refining stage, you are equivalent to a disciple who has established your foundation. Only true disciples can browse the second floor for free. You need to pay merit points to browse through it." The old man explained patiently.

"I want to browse some ancient scrolls about the martial arts after the Grandmaster. Will there be any on this floor?" Xia Daoming asked.

"You want to browse ancient scrolls about body refining martial arts?" The old man looked at Xia Daoming strangely again after hearing this.

"That's right, senior brother, you are the administrator of the first floor of the Sutra Library. You should know what ancient scrolls are hidden on this floor." Xia Daoming said.

"The path after the Grandmaster is at least equivalent to the foundation. The ancient scrolls at the foundation level are generally on the second floor. If you really want to find the martial arts path after the Grandmaster, you need to go to the second floor." The old man said.

"But I don't have merit points. Can I use spirit stones instead?" Xia Daoming asked.

He has only been in Qingyuan Sect for more than a year, and he doesn't plant spiritual fields. He stays in Changqing Lake all day, so how can he have any merit points.

"Are you going to use spiritual stones instead of merit points?" The old man said in surprise.

"Brother, do you mean that the Sutra Library allows spiritual stones to replace merit points?" Xia Daoming said happily.

"Yes, it can be, but the exchange ratio between merit points and spiritual stones is one to one hundred. The second-floor Sutra Library does not require many merit points a day, only twenty points, but it costs two thousand spiritual stones to exchange. The reason why the sect is set up like this is to want the disciples to do more sect tasks and make more contributions to the sect, not to collect more spiritual stones." The old man explained deliberately.

"So, as long as I hand in two thousand spiritual stones, I can enter the second-floor Sutra Library to read without merit points?" Xia Daoming said in surprise.

It is really difficult for him to get merit points temporarily.

But if it is just spiritual stones, it is not a big deal.

Uh!

The old man was surprised.

He thought that the two thousand spirit stones would scare Xia Daoming, a ninth-level Qi Refining cultivator, but in fact, the other party was surprised and did not take the two thousand spirit stones seriously at all!