Staying In The World Of Cultivation

Chapter 83: Hall of Hidden Techniques

The next morning, Su Fan arrived at a vacant port outside Ashen Dove City.

This was the commuting port of the Shifting Yin Sect. Except for inner disciples and elite disciples, no one was allowed to drive a Law Weapon into the mountain gate. Instead, they would take a bone boat from this port to enter the sect.

Today, there were many people waiting for the boat at the port, almost all of them newly selected Independent Cultivators who had just entered the sect.

Fortunately, there were many bone boats at the port. Su Fan waited in line for a while and then boarded one of the bone boats. The boat slowly left the port and headed towards the mountain gate of the Shifting Yin Sect in the distance.

Standing on the bone boat, looking at the hundreds of peaks in the distance, their tops wrapped in thick clouds and mist, nestled against the green mountains, it seemed as if they were piercing through the clouds.

Among the tall mountains, there were layers of pine and cypress, swaying with the crisp autumn wind, sounding like continuous waves.

At this moment, the bone boat seemed to pass through a layer of colorful mist, and the view suddenly became clear.

"This is the mountain protection formation of the Shifting Yin Sect..."

Su Fan felt an unprecedented sticky spiritual energy enveloping him instantly.

The precious aura rose and the sky became colorful.

The clouds rose and the mist lingered, as if it were a fairyland.

Among the many peaks, a distant mountain peak stood out the most, towering thousands of feet high, majestic and magnificent.

That was the Yin Luo Peak where the mountain gate of the Shifting Yin Sect was located, standing in the clouds and mist.

From a distance, it looked like it was floating on the clouds, facing the sky full of evening light, and the clouds and mist were rendered purple.

"It truly deserves to be a Rank Two Spirit Vein..."

Su Fan closed his eyes and felt the sticky spiritual energy in the air. Even when he breathed in, it felt moist.

To be honest, he was starting to regret it a little now.

If he had known that the spiritual energy inside the mountain gate was so rich, Su Fan would have agreed to Senior Sister's conditions.

"Chirp..."

At this moment, a cultivator in a black robe, riding a bone eagle, flew over from a distance.

The person had a pale complexion and wore a large hood.

As he passed by the bone boat, he turned his head and cast a sinister gaze at the boat, then whizzed past it.

This startled the Independent Cultivators on the boat, causing them to exclaim in surprise.

The further they went, the more black-robed cultivators flew in the air.

The flying Law Weapons of the demonic sect were also diverse and bizarre.

Some were enveloped in black ghostly aura, some stepped on flaming skulls, some stood on dense clouds of insects, and many others rode on ferocious flying demonic beasts.

Looking at the various strange black-robed cultivators in the sky, Su Fan couldn't help but sigh.

He hadn't really thought much of the demonic sect in Ashen Dove City before, but it wasn't until he entered the mountain gate that the true atmosphere of the demonic sect gradually revealed itself.

This was the true face of the demonic sect.

The bone boat stopped at a port near the mountain gate, and Su Fan disembarked with the crowd.

He stood on a huge square, looking at the distant grand and ancient black palaces, faintly hidden in the clouds of the mountain peaks.

"Big brother, over here..."

He heard someone calling him, and without asking, he knew it was Liu He.

The guy was standing in the distance, waving at him, and then he walked through the crowd to his side.

"I came early in the morning. Why did you just arrive..."

Su Fan didn't expect that this guy had been waiting for him all this time.

"Why did you come..."

"Yin Luo Peak is very big. It's your first time entering the mountain gate. If I didn't accompany you, you would have taken many wrong paths."

Liu He was quite excited, chattering non-stop.

After thinking for a moment, Su Fan said, "I want to go to the Hall of Hidden Techniques first..."

"No problem, I'll take you there..."

It's true, luckily there's Liu He leading the way. Many people who enter the mountain gate for the first time really do seem like headless flies, bumping around aimlessly.

Although the Outer Affairs Hall, the Hidden Dharma Hall, and the Transmission Dharma Hall are all scattered throughout Yin Luo Peak.

But Yin Luo Peak is really too big, and the main peak doesn't allow flying. Even if someone helps you navigate, it's inevitable that you'll take many wrong turns.

Originally, I thought the Hidden Dharma Hall of the Shifting Yin Sect was in one of the palaces, but when I arrived, I realized that the Hidden Dharma Hall was hidden inside the mountain.

Walking along the wide and deep mountain cave, there are night pearls the size of eggs embedded in the cave walls, each emitting a faint and clear light.

After walking for a while, suddenly the view ahead opened up.

Inside, the lights were bright and the crowd was bustling.

The Hidden Dharma Pavilion is not small, with a total of five floors, and the area gets smaller as you go up.

Under the lights are rows of ironwood shelves. These shelves have six layers, with the lower three layers displaying ancient scrolls, and the upper three layers hanging densely packed jade slips. There are even some bones and evil bones engraved with ancient characters and patterns.

The first floor has the largest area and contains a wide variety of scriptures.

It mainly includes history, geography, humanities, miscellaneous studies, observations, taboos, travelogues, and strange tales. There are even some books and ancient scrolls from the mortal world, making it like an encyclopedia of the cultivation world.

The second floor displays the cultivation experiences and insights of the sect's past generations of cultivators, as well as various records of practical combat experiences and so on. Some are just a few sentences, while others are tens of thousands of words.

The third floor houses various demonic sect techniques, spells, and secret arts, including many from immortal sects.

It covers various demonic sects, including Ghost Dao, Zombie Dao, White Bone Dao, Insect Gu Dao, Blood Dao, Asura Dao, Yin Yang Dao, Poison Dao, Illusion Dao, Soul Dao, Demon Dao, Curse Dao, Shadow Dao, Joyous Union Dao, and so on.

The fourth floor displays various books and inheritances of skills such as pill refining, artifact refining, talisman making, formations, beast taming, planting, and puppetry.

As for the fifth floor, it is the most mysterious place in the Hidden Dharma Hall. Apart from elite disciples of the sect, other disciples have no qualifications to go up.

Su Fan stood in the Hidden Dharma Hall, looking at the rows of bookshelves, feeling extremely excited.

The vast collection, as vast as the ocean, truly lives up to being an ancient sect with a thousand-year heritage.

Not only him, but all the independent cultivators selected into the sect, as long as they enter the Hidden Dharma Hall, their emotions are extremely stirred up. Many people even shed tears.

In the past, they would risk their lives to fight for a secret technique manual.

But here, you can't even finish reading them all.

There are just too many.

While Su Fan was feeling emotional, a black-robed cultivator holding an ancient scroll walked past him and accidentally bumped into Su Fan, probably because he was so fascinated that he didn't notice.

He quickly bowed to Su Fan and apologized with a smile.

Su Fan waved his hand to indicate that he didn't mind, but just as he was about to turn his head, he saw a hideous centipede crawling out of the person's nose, staring at him.

The person quickly sniffed and retracted the centipede, then turned and left.

Su Fan felt a chill on his scalp. That bug was really disgusting.

At this moment, Liu He approached.

"He's a senior brother from the Insect Gu Dao, from the Ten Thousand Insect Valley. It's best not to provoke them usually."

Su Fan couldn't help but shudder. What the hell am I doing, provoking these disgusting things?

"Besides the people from the Insect Gu Dao, there's another type of person in the sect that you shouldn't provoke."

After Liu He finished speaking, he bumped Su Fan's arm with his elbow and pointed to a black-robed cultivator in the distance.

Su Fan followed his finger and saw that the person was wearing a large hood that covered most of his face.

But the exposed half of his face still made Su Fan take a cold breath.

The person's skin on his face had long been rotten, and his mouth was almost corroded away, revealing several uneven teeth.

"That's a senior brother from the Poison Dao, from the Hundred Poison Cave. These guys are the most cunning and ruthless."

Looking at Liu He, who was grinding his teeth, Su Fan couldn't help but laugh.

"What's wrong, are you afraid of being poisoned by them?"

"Not to the point of being poisoned to death, but last time I offended a guy from the Poison Dao, I had diarrhea for a month..."

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