The First Academy in the Cultivation World

Dongfang Zichu was puzzled by the sudden question: "What's the question?"

"Look, this secret realm has been opened countless times, and things have been picked up everywhere." Ling Yan'er pointed to the place where the lanterns should be hung, but it was now empty.

"And then?" Dongfang Zichu asked, "Isn't this normal?"

"But look, there is no dust on the ground, and no spider webs in the corners. What does this mean?" Ling Yan'er pointed to the small path cut out of the stone slabs under her feet and said gently.

Dongfang Zichu's eyes widened: "This means that the formation of this building is still in use!"

Ling Yan'er hummed and said, "I remember that formations require natural treasures to set up, right?"

Dongfang Zichu also nodded: "That's right."

He already understood what Ling Yan'er meant. She wanted to dig out other people's formation materials.

But: "This formation has been used for who knows how many years. Even if there is any left, I don't know how much use it can still have. It is probably not as good as low-level materials."

Ling Yan'er said, "We'll have to see first to know! What if the consumption isn't enough?"

"It's unlikely." Dongfang Zichu said calmly.

But since Ling Yan'er is interested, it's not impossible for her to go and look for it.

Dongfang Zichu recalled the layout of the building complex he saw in the air, and guessed that if they were to set up a formation, they would be arranged from these directions.

Then Ling Yan'er's mobile phone was placed in front of her. Although it was a Q-version building, Dongfang Zichu could tell at a glance that it was the building they had.

Dongfang Zichu, who had long known about the magical power of Ling Yan'er's magical weapon, did not find it strange. Instead, he made some calculations and guessed at several locations before saying, "These are all possible places. Let's go to one of them first and see."

Ling Yan'er took a look and said directly, "Let's start with this most intact building."

Dongfang Zichu said, "Okay."

After saying that, he flew towards the building over there. Ling Yan'er followed behind, admiring the building while saying, "I wonder what kind of people lived here in the past."

Dongfang Zichu said, "Who knows? You can look around the room, just in case there's someone who likes to record it."

"How did the secret realm come about?" Ling Yan'er asked, "It looks no different from the outside."

Unlike the previous secret realm, it is obvious that it is two completely different worlds from the outside world.

"The more popular theory is that it's a broken small world." Dongfang Zichu said, "The characters we see in the secret realm are different from the ones we see now. We speculate that the secret realm was formed by a broken small world somewhere else."

"Inferred from the text?" Ling Yan'er asked.

"Yes, no one recognizes the characters inside." Dongfang Zichu said: "Because no one recognizes them, we think it is another small world."

"People in different periods should use different characters, right?" Ling Yan'er thought of her own time in modern times, when there were traditional and simplified Chinese characters.

Before our ancestors unified the writing system, there were several ways to write a character. This place is not in the same world as our ancestors, so it is normal for the writing systems in different places to be different. It would be a bit hasty to think that this is a small world in other places.

Dongfang Zichu shook his head and said, "I don't know about the human race, but we demons have used the same writing system for tens of thousands of years. However, those in the secret realm, whether demons or humans, including the demons, don't recognize the writing on it."

"If that's the case, then if there is a secret recipe for the elixir inside, then it won't be usable?" Ling Yan'er said.

But Dongfang Zichu said, "Most of the pill formulas and mental methods are presented on jade slips. Unlike the jade slips you gave me, which project images, most jade slips actually act on the mind, more like your work card. As long as you get it, you can basically understand the meaning, and it doesn't necessarily have to have words."

After a pause, Dongfang Zichu said, "The image on your jade slip is more like a photo stone, except that the image inside can only be seen by the person who holds the jade slip."

Ling Yan'er thought that all the jade slips were like hers, but she didn't expect that it was not the case.

As they were talking, the two of them arrived at the first place chosen by Ling Yan'er.

This is a relatively well-preserved building, a large house with three rooms on one floor.

Dongfang Zichu flew around the house and didn't see anything strange, so he said, "Let's go in and take a look."

"Okay." Ling Yan'er agreed and followed Dongfang Zichu in.

The three rooms were also connected. Ling Yan'er entered the main room. The door had long disappeared. There were overturned shelves on the floor inside, and some papers with unknown words and symbols written on them.

Dongfang Zichu saw the contents of the paper, flew over, grabbed a piece, and stuffed it into Ling Yan'er's hand: "Look, isn't the writing different?"

How many words does Ling Yan'er know in this world? Doesn't she treat them all the same and not know them all?

She can read because she has a golden finger, and all the words have a row of simplified Chinese translations next to them.

But Ling Yan'er still followed Dongfang Zichu's words and said, "It is indeed a text I have never seen before."

After perfunctorily answering Dongfang Zichu, Ling Yan'er returned her gaze to the paper and read the translated content:

Sit on the Cloud View, Flying Silk Kunwu, Earth-Splitting Fire, X-Trail 45

The meaning of the sentence is unclear and I don’t know what it is meant to express.

Ling Yan'er didn't doubt the system's translation, but she really didn't know what the combination of the words meant, so Ling Yan'er picked up two more.

The above content is all so confusing that Ling Yan'er finally came to only one conclusion: this might be someone practicing calligraphy, so this content was written.

Ling Yan'er picked up two pieces of paper with writing on them, and Dongfang Zichu looked at several pieces of paper with drawings on them.

After reading it, he said to Ling Yan'er, "These are formation diagrams, but they are all unformed formations. The person who drew these might be learning formations, or they might be creating new ones. I don't recognize any of these formations, but I can tell they are formations."

Ling Yan'er didn't doubt Dongfang Zichu's judgment. Instead, she raised the paper in Yang's hand and said, "I feel like the content here is calligraphy practice. Let me read it to you."

She read the contents of the three pieces of paper and then said, "I don't see the meaning of these words. Do you understand anything?"

Ling Yan'er even thought that it was because she had a preconceived notion that ancient Chinese texts should be read vertically, but after reading it horizontally, she found it even stranger.

After she finished speaking, she looked at Dongfang Zichu with a burning gaze. Dongfang Zichu's mouth twitched, "Your analysis is correct. They must have been practicing calligraphy. Judging from the appearance of this building, if there were any useful papers left, they must have been taken away."

The only things that can be kept are definitely some ordinary small items.

The wooden shelves that fell to the ground were also made of ordinary wood. If Ling Yan'er didn't need them, she would have wanted to pick up a few complete shelves.

Dongfang Zichu satisfied his curiosity and learned the contents of the paper, then flew up to check around and work.

He still remembered that he came here to see if this was the place to arrange the formation for the entire building complex.

But Dongfang Zichu looked carefully in the two adjacent rooms and found nothing that looked like a formation.

This place is in such a mess that even if there is anything, it will probably have been dug up.

The formation is preserved so well, which means that the things used to set up the formation are still there.

When he came out after looking around, he found Ling Yan'er picking up wooden racks made of ordinary wood.

Although she only picked up the ones that were intact, Dongfang Zichu was still surprised: "Why are you picking this up?"

If he remembered correctly, the things in Ling Yan'er's study were better than this shelf, right?

Ling Yan'er has no place to put it after picking it up?

Ling Yan'er heard Dongfang Zichu's words and said, "We can't have come here for nothing, can we? I looked around, and there wasn't even a blank piece of paper. I was thinking of taking these bookshelves and other things with me. I could sell them for ten copper coins each and we wouldn't lose anything. This is a no-cost business."

She didn't find anything in this relatively complete building, not to mention that the next place she was going to see was not as good as this one.

There are no good things here, and it is even less likely to be there, so put away some of the shelves first, so as to avoid finding nothing in the end.

Dongfang Zichu was speechless: "Do you really have to do this?"