Time Travel: Did My Sister-in-Law Get Slapped in the Face Today?

"follow me,"

A disciple of the Zimu family led Li Lan inside. After walking through the winding corridors, they soon arrived at the family's back mountain. The place was beautiful with clear water and lush mountains, and a scripture library was built against the mountain.

Li Lan glanced around and saw that there were arrays binding the surrounding earth veins, suppressing the scripture library as if there were some demons or monsters inside.

On the four huge stone pillars of the scripture library, four statues of gods are carved. In front of the statues, there are offerings such as incense and candles. A large amount of faith and incense power surrounds the base of this scripture library.

This surprised Li Lan quite a bit.

The disciple led Li Lan directly into the Scripture Pavilion and found a middle-aged manager on the first floor. He said, "Reporting to Steward Zhou, this is a newly recruited handyman. He ranked first in the first round of the family assessment in terms of temperament, but he doesn't even have a pseudo-yellow-level talent. Elder Luo said that this person is suitable to work in the Scripture Pavilion."

The middle-aged deacon squinted, scrutinized Li Lan for a few moments, and sneered, "Character first? I understand, you may leave."

The disciple immediately left.

"Zhiping, you take this boy under your wing and let him get familiar with the Sutra Repository."

The middle-aged deacon spoke, and a woman walked over. The middle-aged deacon said, "Let him go to the third floor to see that thing and see if his reputation as the number one in temperament is truly deserved."

He waved his hand, and the woman immediately said, "Come with me."

Li Lan caught up with her.

The woman, dressed in a red fitted dress, appeared to be around thirty years old. She had a beautiful face and a graceful figure. Leading Li Lan past rows of bookshelves, she introduced the books as she spoke:

"The library has a total of five floors."

"The books stored on the first and second floors were copied by us and can be read and practiced by the family disciples. The third floor and above is where we mainly work."

Xin Zhiping said calmly:

Do you know what we mainly do?

Li Lan shook her head.

"Copying scriptures."

Li Lan was somewhat puzzled. Was that all?

"It's very simple, isn't it?"

Xin Zhiping smiled inexplicably and said, "Come up with me."

She went up the stairs first, and Li Lan followed. As soon as they entered the third floor, Li Lan was shocked by the scene before her.

—On the third floor, there were no bookshelves like on the first and second floors. Instead, there was a huge demon skeleton on the floor. At that moment, a dozen servants were kneeling around the demon skeleton, trembling, writing something.

"Do you know where the scriptures on the first and second floors came from?"

Xin Zhiping sighed softly and said, "This is the source of the Purple Wood Clan's scriptures—ancient demons!"

Ancient demons!

"These ancient demons once ruled the entire Eternal True Realm. During that time, the human race could not even control the essence of the five elements and became food for the demons. Later, the nine Eternal Kings led the heroes of the world to fight against the demons and wiped them out."

"And the various follower families all obtained countless demon corpses, and these demon corpses all contained powerful ancient techniques."

"However, the demonic energy of the demons is too heavy, and their resentment after death is even more astonishing. A single demon corpse can even turn all the living beings in a city into demons... Therefore, the Scripture Pavilion needs to be suppressed with array formations and protected with incense and the power of faith!"

"In order to obtain the various powerful techniques left behind by the demons, all the major families tried their best. Later, they discovered that the higher one's cultivation level, the easier it was for them to be infected and influenced when looking directly at these demons. They might even accidentally go into a demonic state. On the contrary, those with low cultivation levels or no cultivation at all were less affected."

"Therefore, they would recruit a large number of menial laborers, and day by day, they would gradually decipher and extract the knowledge and information contained in the bodies of demons, and then copy it down to form scriptures that ordinary cultivators could also cultivate."

"You're the same; none of us have any cultivation."

Xin Zhiping said calmly, "Go, feel the remaining demonic resentment in this demon skeleton."