CHAPTER 678: CHAPTER 677 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES (1/5)

"Where did you get this pass?" the guardian asked in a low voice.

Yang Chen frowned slightly, staring at the guardian, he said bluntly, "Let me ask you, is it true that you need a pass to go above the second floor?"

"Yes!"

"Then if I have a pass, can I go up?"

"This..." The guardian frowned.

Because the documents on the third floor involve some secrets, not to mention Outer Sect disciples, even Inner Sect disciples are not qualified to access them unless they have the consent of the elders or a pass.

But now an Outer Sect disciple came with a pass and said he wanted to go to the third floor, which made him very suspicious.

"No more of this, just tell me, is this pass real?" Yang Chen demanded sternly.

"It is real..."

"That’s good!" Yang Chen snatched the pass from the guardian’s hand, snorted coldly, and strode upstairs.

Watching Yang Chen’s back, the guardian frowned, but was also helpless.

As long as the pass is real, he is qualified to go up.

So, the guardian couldn’t say anything.

The people on the second floor were all stunned.

This guardian is not an ordinary person.

This guardian is also a disciple of the ’Kun’ generation, which means that the current ’Shang’ generation Sect disciples would have to address him as "Martial Uncle."

Although his cultivation cannot compare to several Palace Masters, he is definitely much more powerful than these Inner Sect disciples.

Yet Yang Chen dared to confront this Sect elder with such an attitude, which was truly audacious.

None of them present dared to make such a move.

No matter Yang Chen’s cultivation, the people on the second floor felt they should give a thumbs up for Yang Chen’s courage.

Yang Chen arrived on the third floor.

The third floor had significantly fewer books than the second floor.

However, the Scripture Pavilion’s five floors are the same in size, but the third floor has more private reading rooms for private reading. After all, many of the books here are original copies, and the contents are confidential.

Yang Chen glanced around, the sections were roughly the same.

Some cultivation technique insights, astronomy and geography, some miscellaneous notes.

Yang Chen looked at some cultivation insights, all left by the ancestors of the Shangqing Sect, all extremely precious, and the contents were quite enlightening.

Although Yang Chen only glanced quickly, he felt that many issues inside were very well-addressed.

Then, Yang Chen skimmed through some books on medicine and acupuncture. Although the records in these books would be enough to drive external Chinese medicine practitioners crazy, they were merely child’s play in Yang Chen’s eyes.

The medical knowledge, acupuncture, and various treatment methods recorded in the "Nine Revolutions Supreme Skill" that Yang Chen practiced were wondrous beyond compare, not comparable to the medical techniques on this third floor.

He also briefly explored books on astronomy, geography, and arrays.

For these, Yang Chen did not spend too much time reading. Although there are records in the "Nine Revolutions Supreme Skill," Yang Chen’s current focus is still on cultivation; only by having enough strength does Yang Chen believe he can protect the people he wants to protect. Otherwise, like now, the person he loves is trapped in someone else’s place, and he has to be cautious to save her.

If it were before, Yang Chen would have rushed in with a gun and a group of people to save her.

But now, a new door has fully opened before him, making him have to be cautious.

Very soon, Yang Chen found the Notes on Shangqing.

This was a very old book, recorded on parchment, and the ink on it appeared somewhat blurry.

But the content inside attracted Yang Chen.

This is the self-narration of a person who called himself ’Star,’ described entirely in the first person.

The record was from a thousand years ago.

The self-proclaimed ’Star’ was an astronomical expert, deeply involved in observing astronomical phenomena.

One day, ’Star’ found a major change in the celestial phenomena.

Actually, these changes always existed, just slowly shifting, and he did not pay attention to them.

But on this day, a celestial dog swallowed the moon, the starlight shone intensely, the Ziwei Star burst into light, the Greedy Wolf and Breaking Army suddenly disappeared, and all the stars became dim, as if receding from the sky.

Once the stars recovered again, the world had already changed greatly.

The world changed, making their cultivation difficult to progress.

In just a hundred years, each Sect disappeared and went into hiding.

The blessed lands and caves also vanished one after another.

Finally, the powerful individuals of the Sect came up with a solution, which was to seal the Sect and look for well-qualified individuals every hundred years to inject new blood into the Sect to prevent the Sect from losing its inheritance.

Such a time lasted for hundreds of years.

Seeing this, Yang Chen could not help being surprised.

Could people’s lifespans really reach such long durations back then?

Yang Chen continued reading.

This ’Star’ said they discovered an ancient prophecy and left a solution from the relics.

That was a set of cultivation techniques and a phrase.

The Saintess flying phoenix, returning with the lord.

Seeing this, Yang Chen understood.

Why the Shangqing Sect valued Ye Xin so much; it turned out that all hopes of revitalizing the Sect were pinned on Ye Xin.

According to the notes, cultivators in ancient times had extremely terrifying cultivation. Sword flight, picking flowers to harm people, calling wind and rain, moving mountains and filling seas, nothing was impossible.

But now, people can’t even perform air flight.

Moreover, today’s cultivators live at most a hundred years. For those with higher cultivation, living two or three hundred years has been the limit, and trying for another cultivation breakthrough is already impossible.

From other notes, Yang Chen also discovered that the older generation in today’s Sects have basically dug caves on cliffs and gone into closed death meditation, and wouldn’t appear unless in vital Sect crises because once they come out, they face death.

This also counts as a form of foundation for the Sect.

At the same time, those closing in death meditation are also longing for a chance for this world to return to before, giving them a chance to breakthrough in cultivation.

But this was clearly impossible.

After reading these, Yang Chen couldn’t help but sigh and shake his head silently.

Continuing to flip through the books.

Yang Chen found in a certain tribe section of a miscellaneous note, a very hidden matter written.

The owner of this note was a previous Sect Master.

The Sect Master said that he seemed to have found the candidate for Saintess, but the Saintess was not loyal to the Sect. Moreover, fearing that the Saintess, after all being a woman, would fall in love with someone else and leave with them, he found a method to control people in the ancestor’s cave. As long as the cultivation had not reached a certain level, they could be completely controlled, eliminating worries of betrayal, and allowing complete control of the Saintess, serving multiple purposes!