Confucian and Taoist scholar

Chapter 355 Wanjing Building

The Yunmeng Sect is good at identifying talents and will recruit some people with outstanding talents in the world to join the sect.

An Jing guessed that the people from Yunmeng Sect saw Lu Zheng's talent, so they brought the two of them into Yunmeng Sect first.

Lu Zheng pondered: "I don't know, but maybe it's possible?"

Lu Zheng didn't know what Yunmeng Sect's intentions were, but no matter what, he had no intention of joining Yunmeng Sect.

Lu Zheng looked at An Jing and asked curiously, "Why are you here again?"

An Jing explained, "My father asked me to come. Every once in a while, Yunmeng Sect will send invitations to certain family forces, allowing some young people to come to Yunmeng Sect for exchanges and learning..."

"I just learned about this. This is a good opportunity to interact with the younger generation of another country, so my father asked me to come."

The Yunmeng Sect provides a platform for the younger generation of the world's top family forces to communicate with each other.

The young people who come here, even if they are not the best in a certain family, are also very influential geniuses.

Lu Zheng nodded slightly, "I see. How long will you stay here?"

An Jing said, "I arrived in early October and will be here for three months. The others will be staying about the same. If you want to stay longer, that's fine, but you'll have to pay. Or, if you perform well enough, someone from the Yunmeng Sect will be willing to give you some guidance..."

An Jing couldn't help but say, "No one from the Yunmeng Sect has mentioned these things to you. It seems that your situation is different from ours."

Lu Zheng smiled and said, "It's indeed different. We didn't spend a single Spirit Stone to come here. And even if they asked me for money, I couldn't afford it."

"It was such a surprise to see you just now!" An Jing couldn't help but sigh, "And Qingwan, I haven't seen you for a while, you've grown up."

Hearing this, Qing Wan straightened her body and said excitedly, "Yes, yes, after a while, I will grow up to be an adult!"

An Jing asked, "Did your travels in Chu go smoothly?"

"Fortunately, nothing happened." Lu Zheng said.

An Jing asked doubtfully, "Is there really nothing wrong? If you have any trouble, please tell me. I can help you."

Given Lu Zheng's personality, An Jing didn't believe that nothing would happen during this journey.

Lu Zheng thought for a moment and said, "It's really okay. I can handle it myself if anything happens."

"Okay." An Jing said quietly, "Speaking of the Chu State, there were two people present here just now. One is the grandson of the Chu Emperor, and the other is the descendant of the Chu God. They are..."

"Young people have come from all nine countries. Besides the nine countries, there are also people from overseas and the northern demon realm..."

An Jing took his time and told the two of them what he had learned.

"We've already attended two sermons, and our seats are practically reserved. The arrival of you two has messed up quite a bit, and it's bound to get noticed... That Murong Dan is quite arrogant, and not easy to talk to..."

Lu Zheng said disapprovingly, "I'm following the Yunmeng Sect's rules. They can come to class earlier next time. Could it be that someone would sneak into my room and beat me up because of something like this?"

An Jing couldn't help but laugh, "That's not the case. But I heard that you can invite people to fight or other competitions here, so there will definitely be people who want to find an opportunity to beat you and save face."

"Oh." Lu Zheng didn't take it to heart.

He didn't come here to compete with these young people.

Lu Zheng then asked, "I heard there's a Wanjing Building here?"

"You want to read some books?" An Jing said, "Come on, I'll take you there! The Yunmeng Sect does have a large collection of books, and they've also collected quite a few ancient books that were lost outside."

An Jing took Lu Zheng and the other person up the mountain.

Passing through the misty hillside, a nine-story building wrapped in spiritual and colorful aura comes into view.

When they arrived at the open gate of Wanjing Tower, An Jing took out a jade token and successfully passed through the restrictions of the high-rise building and entered.

Lu Zheng and Qing Wan also took out their jade tokens and passed through the gate.

At the registration desk in the lobby on the first floor, an old man in white clothes was leaning on a white jade bench, slowly flipping through an ancient book.

Walking through the hall, rows of bookshelves appear before your eyes.

The collection of books is sharp and comprehensive.

An Jing pointed to a place and whispered, "You can pick out any book you want to read on this floor, but you can't take it away."

"Do you want money?" Qing Wan asked in a low voice.

An Jing said: "It's free, you can browse the books on the first floor at will."

"What about upstairs?" Qing Wan asked again.

An Jing said, "I haven't been upstairs yet. Disciples of the Yunmeng Sect can go upstairs, but outsiders like us have to bring out treasures in exchange."

"Oh……"

Qing Wan immediately lost interest, as she couldn't produce any treasures.

An Jing smiled slightly, "You guys can read on the first floor first. There are enough books on this floor for us to read. If you want to go upstairs, I can find a way for you."

After saying that, An Jing walked to the bookshelf to choose books.

Lu Zheng and Qing Wan also went to look for books.

Lu Zheng took a quick glance and found that there were quite a few books on martial arts techniques here.

If these skills were released to the public, many people would fight over them.

In Yunmeng Sect, reading is free, and even no contribution or spirit stone is required.

Lu Zheng picked up a book, flipped through it quickly, and quickly read it through. Then he put the book back in its place.

He moved quickly and read a lot of books in a short while.

"Young man, even if you have a photographic memory, you need to digest the contents of these books. Don't think you'll become a big fat man in one go."

An old man's voice suddenly sounded in Lu Zheng's ears.

Lu Zheng tilted his head slightly and saw that the old man who had been sitting in the hall before had come close to him. Lu Zheng couldn't help but bow and said, "Junior is just looking for it."

"Looking for, what are you looking for?" asked the old man.

"Find my way." Lu Zheng said calmly.

The old man looked Lu Zheng up and down and asked, "You've read so many books, what is the truth you are looking for?"

Lu Zheng replied: "The way to save the world."

"salvation?"

The old man narrowed his eyes slightly. He thought Lu Zheng wanted to find some suitable method of cultivation.

"Savior...then you can take your time to find it."

The old man's figure flashed and returned to his original position.

It is commendable that a young person wants to save the world, but the world is in chaos and cannot be changed by one person.

The old man couldn't help but shake his head slightly. He had read all the books in Wanjing Building, but he couldn't give Lu Zheng any advice.

Seeing that the old man did not stop him from flipping through the books, Lu Zheng continued reading, picking out some knowledge that was beneficial to him from some books.

There are so many books here that I don’t know how long it will take to finish reading them one by one.

He could only choose the most useful things to learn, and the knowledge he learned covered many aspects.

Whenever Dong Hu's pen in the small world comes across some useful passages, it will be sensitive and record them.

On the other side, Qing Wan was looking for books on cultivating spiritual medicine.

Time passed by unknowingly.

"Ding……"

A crisp sound rang out, striking the atrium.

Everyone who was reading in the Wanjing Building came to their senses and realized that it was time to close the building.

In order to prevent the disciples of Yunmeng Sect from becoming obsessed with reading and studying, thus neglecting their other aspects of cultivation, the Wanjing Building will be closed at night.

Some people left one after another, and some came down from upstairs.

Before the time came, Lu Zheng was preparing to leave here on time.

Qingwan was also flipping through the book intently.

An Jing looked at the two of them and couldn't help but smile.

"It's time to go." An Jing couldn't help but remind.

Upon hearing this, the two of them couldn't help but put down their books, still feeling a little unsatisfied.

When they slowly walked to the hall, they saw a man coming down from the second floor. It was the young man who sat next to them in the morning.

When the young man saw several people coming, he smiled and nodded, then left Wanjing Building.

Qing Wan blinked. "He has a literary air. He must be a scholar. How did he get upstairs?"

An Jing whispered, "He's from the Kong family of Qi State, a direct descendant of the sage Kong, Kong Rui, a fourth-level Confucianist... But how he got to the second floor, I don't know."

The old man in the hall said quietly, "He gave me a manuscript of a great scholar's classics. If you want to go upstairs, you can bring out similar treasures, or books that our Yunmeng Sect does not have."

Qing Wan's eyes rolled when she heard that, and she ran over excitedly, "Are there any books that don't exist?"

The old man looked at the little guy in front of him and said calmly: "Of course, you can't just take any local goods. They have to be valuable."

Qing Wan couldn't help but ask, "Do you know arithmetic?"

The old man chuckled, "What do you think?"

He is guarding such a huge Wanjing Building, but he can't even do arithmetic. Isn't it a joke?
"Then let me test you!"

Qing Wan shook her head and said, "Take the Go board as an example. If you put one grain of rice on the first square, two grains of rice on the second square, and then double that, how many grains of rice should be placed on the last square?"

The old man thought for a moment and said, "This question is not difficult, but it will take time to calculate."

Qing Wan put her hands behind her back and said, "Then you calculate it. I'll give you an hour. Can you figure it out?"

An hour? The old man felt that it was not a big problem.

He couldn't help but say, "It won't take an hour..."

After saying this, the old man closed his eyes and began to do mental arithmetic.

Lu Zheng saw it and went back to reading quietly.

Qing Wan stood there, quietly waiting for the result.

A quarter of an hour later, the old man could not help but open his eyes, took out a pen and paper, and began to calculate.

Another quarter of an hour later, the old man's face looked a little unhappy.

Before he had even finished half of the calculation, the old man realized that the amount of calculation was too large and he felt a little dizzy.

Qing Wan asked quietly, "Have you figured it out?"

The old man twitched his lips and said, "You're wasting my time. This math problem is useless. Try another one!"

Qing Wan said slowly: "Alright then, I'll test you again..."

Qing Wan took her time and went straight to the point of explaining a word problem that even Grandmaster Xu hadn't been able to solve before.

The old man was a little confused. He didn't know where the little kid got the book from. He asked all kinds of weird questions.

(End of this chapter)