Hide in the world of gods and demons

Chapter 184 Escape (Part 3)
"Damn it!"

Before he even got close, Chen Li saw from afar that the Scripture Pavilion had already activated its defensive formation, which immediately felt like a bucket of cold water had been poured over him, leaving him somewhat exasperated.

The thick, earthen-yellow protective shield, with its obscure magical power and solemn aura, completely obscured the Sutra Repository, making him tremble with fear.

The Sutra Repository is one of the most important places in a sect.

The defensive formation set up here is at least of the third-tier low-grade level. With his strength, it is impossible for him to force his way through. If he slowly wears it down, not to mention whether the formation will retaliate, with his strongest attack power of only second-tier level eight spells, it would probably take forever to wear him down.

Just as Chen Li was pacing back and forth outside the Sutra Repository, unsure whether to advance or retreat.

An old, surprised voice came from inside the library.

"Fellow Daoist Chen?"

As he spoke, the protective shield quickly opened a round hole.

Upon seeing this, Chen Li quickly slipped inside. It was Ji Kai, who was stationed at the Scripture Pavilion. He was sitting upright at the table in the main hall of the Scripture Pavilion as usual, with a cup of fragrant tea in front of him, the steam rising from it, as if he was waiting for someone to come to the Scripture Pavilion to choose a cultivation technique.

He looked much older.

His body was hunched over, his frame was emaciated, and his spirit was far from what it used to be.

Chen Li looked around; it seemed he was the only one left. "Fellow Daoist Ji, everyone else has left. Are you not planning to leave?"

"Where can we go?" Ji Kai said slowly.
"It's just a matter of dying a few days earlier or a few days later. For someone my age, what is there to be upset about? I've guarded the library for most of my life and I'm already used to being here. Rather than dying outside, hehe, it's really better to die peacefully here."

"Oh, right, I haven't asked yet, how did you get here? What's the situation outside?"

"The patriarch self-destructed and perished, the head of the general affairs department also died, and the remaining people either fled or died. The entire mountain gate is empty," Chen Li sighed.

Ji Kai felt a pang of sorrow and shed two turbid tears: "The Zhenhuan Sect is completely finished. Alas, I should never have moved here back then, and attacking the Tianxing Sect was a huge mistake. Otherwise, we should still be doing well now... Luo Shen even tried to persuade the Ancestor, but the Ancestor was too autocratic and couldn't be persuaded at all."

"Who would have thought a third-tier demon beast would come!" Chen Li said, trying to comfort him.

Ji Kai rambled on and on, initially expressing some regret, but then his words drifted further and further away, becoming increasingly sorrowful, until finally he sobbed like a child in front of Chen Li.

"I have no children in my life, and I can't remember what my parents look like at all. I've been in the sect since I can remember. Sigh, I can still remember living in a dormitory with a group of children my age, learning to read every morning and practicing cultivation in the afternoon."

The manager was very fierce and strict, and we were all afraid of him. But looking back now, those were the happiest times of my life.

Unfortunately, apart from me, none of the others who had reached the Foundation Establishment stage died before me.

Back then, when our ancestors were still alive, the sect truly flourished…

Chen Li had no patience to listen to him at this moment. He wanted to interrupt and ask him to take out the cultivation method from the Scripture Pavilion, but he found that he was too shy. He couldn't bring himself to speak to such a lonely old man who was sobbing and grieving.

These disciples, nurtured from childhood, are born and raised in the sect, and many rarely leave the sect in their entire lives. The sect is like home to them, and their feelings for it are incomparable to those of someone like Chen Li who joined halfway through his life.

Chen Li could only listen to him ramble on for a long time, occasionally chiming in with a few words, until the other man finally stopped, sighing repeatedly.

“Fellow Daoist Ji, the mountain gate has now been occupied by the White Bird, and the sect is probably going to fall apart. I’ve secretly risked my life to come back this time…” Chen Li pondered for a moment before starting a conversation.

"Hehe, I wondered what your purpose was, but it turns out you came to steal cultivation manuals and scriptures." Ji Kai interrupted immediately upon hearing this, his cloudy, red eyes staring at Chen Li as if he could see through people's hearts. He seemed like a completely different person compared to before.

"Uh..." Chen Li was speechless, feeling extremely embarrassed.

Because that's the truth.

To call it stealing is going too far! "You retainers, you're all traitors when it matters, you can't be trusted!" Ji Kai sneered, but then, thinking of his current situation, he couldn't help but sigh dejectedly: "Alas, forget it, these things can't be kept anyway, it's better to let you have them than to bury them in the ground in the end."

As he spoke, Ji Kai tossed over a storage bag:

"This is the original, everything is inside. I don't ask anything of you, I just hope you will make good use of it in the future."

Chen Li used his spiritual power to guide the book to his hand, opened the storage bag, and found a total of one or two thousand books inside.

This is the foundation and heritage of a sect, enough to even establish a new school.

Now it's all in his hands.

In addition, there was a large number of blank jade slips, numbering over ten thousand.

He suppressed his joy, glanced at it, and quickly took out the "Longevity Technique" he had been cultivating from his storage bag.

The book turned on its own without any wind, quickly flipping to the end.

only……

"No Golden Core part?" Chen Li asked disappointedly, his joy fading considerably.

"Ha, you're a cultivator who's not even at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, yet you dare to aspire to the Golden Core stage? What a big mouth you have! Don't you even know who you are?" Ji Kai laughed in exasperation, glancing at him with disdain.

He now finds Chen Li utterly unappealing.

Chen Li felt a tightness in his chest. Seeing that he was being sarcastic and his words were barbed, he couldn't help but feel a surge of anger.
"You yourself have no hope of achieving enlightenment and are nearing the end of your life, yet you dare to presume that I cannot achieve the Golden Elixir? Everyone's destiny is different. Since some people have been able to achieve the Golden Elixir, how can you be so sure that I won't be one of them in the future?"

Ji Kai was taken aback by what he said. Looking at Chen Li's youthful and enviable face, it took him a while to come back to his senses: "Okay, okay, okay, what you said is interesting."

After saying that, he seemed somewhat disheartened and didn't mention the matter again:

"The Golden Core cultivation technique is extremely precious, naturally it's in the hands of the Ancestor. I don't have it here. Now that the Ancestor has self-destructed and perished, perhaps we can find it somewhere." Ji Kai said slowly, then took out a token from his robes, and after thinking for a moment, took out a storage bag from his waist:

"Oh, right, you can keep these too."

The token is the control token for the formation of the Sutra Repository, and can be used to manipulate the formation.

The storage bag was his personal storage bag!

"Fellow Daoist Ji, what is this...?" Chen Li was taken aback.

“It’s no use! You’re right, I’m already nearing the end of my life, these things are useless to me, living is just painful for me. In fact, even if you hadn’t come, I wouldn’t have lasted more than a few days. Sigh, I hope you won’t end up like me.” Ji Kai said, a slight smile appearing on his lips.

His voice became lower and lower.

His head slowly drooped.

His breath grew weaker and weaker.

Finally, there was no further movement!
"Fellow Daoist Ji, Fellow Daoist Ji..." Chen Li called out twice and went over to reach out and explore.

But they found that he had completely stopped breathing.

P.S.: Sigh, too late!