Daqian Night Emperor

Chapter 184: Borrowing from the Heavenly Book Pavilion
Although the area where the Heavenly Book Pavilion is located is open to the public, it is separated from the imperial palace by a new wall.

But it is still part of the imperial palace, so carriages are not allowed to enter without special permission.

Not to mention the prince consort, even the prince has to abide by this rule.

After Zhao Qi'an entered the imperial city gate, a road paved with white marble appeared before him, connecting to the Yunshui Bridge.

On the other side of the Yunshui Bridge is an exquisite nine-story tower. There are two white stone pillars on the left and right of the tower entrance, with two dragons engraved on the pillars, biting a plaque with three large characters written in a flamboyant style - "Tianshu Pavilion".

Zhao Qi'an arrived in front of the Heavenly Book Pavilion and looked up at the two lifelike stone dragons and the three majestic words.

It is rumored that the plaque of the Heavenly Book Pavilion was written by Emperor Tianwu himself, but Zhao Qi'an did not know whether this information was accurate.

Considering the fleshy mountain-like body of Emperor Tianwu, it is hard to imagine the current emperor holding a pen and wielding powerful power.

This was not the first time that Zhao Qi'an had come to the Heavenly Book Pavilion, and he entered the tower with ease.

On the first floor of the Heavenly Book Pavilion, rows of bookshelves are lined up, filled with a dazzling array of books that are too numerous to count.

A rough estimate is that there are at least tens of thousands of books on this floor alone.

On the lowest floor, there were also many people borrowing books. From time to time, there were people walking around, but the whole room was quiet. No one spoke, and there was only the sound of "swish" turning pages.

As soon as Zhao Qi'an stepped into the door on the first floor, someone came to greet him.

He was a eunuch, a eunuch from the Silijian, and like the Dongchang, he was under the command of the Five Marquises.

The eunuch was quite old, with white powder on his face, and he looked gloomy.

However, when he faced Zhao Qi'an, his attitude was quite polite: "Please come with us, Prince Consort."

Zhao Qi'an followed the eunuch to a desk, on which was a book filled with names.

He also wrote his name on it, and then the eunuch said: "This is not the first time that the Prince Consort has come here, and he knows all the rules, so I won't go into details."

The so-called rules are actually just "don't make loud noises", "don't damage books", "don't take books out without permission", etc., which are all insignificant things.

After the eunuch finished explaining, he paused for a moment, and then he mentioned something, seemingly intentionally or unintentionally: "One more reminder, it's best for the Prince Consort not to go up to the upper floors today."

Zhao Qi'an reached into his sleeve, took out a purse and placed it on the table.

The old eunuch raised his hand calmly and waved his sleeves across the table, and the purse of silver on the table disappeared.

The old eunuch narrowed his eyes, looked around for a while, and confirmed that no one was paying attention to this side, then he lowered his voice and said, "The Imperial Master is here."

Has the Imperial Master come to the Heavenly Book Pavilion?

This is a bit unfortunate.

Zhao Qian'an frowned slightly, his heart becoming heavy.

Although the old eunuch reminded him of this, he was worried that someone might offend the "half-master" of the Heavenly Book Pavilion.

But Zhao Qi'an himself was not very willing to show up in front of the National Master Shui Yuexian.

Although his skill of concealing his energy is very good, he would not reveal any flaws even in front of Emperor Tianwu and Wu Hou Qiansui.

But it may not be possible to hide from Shuiyuexian.

This was what Dean An told him personally, asking him to be extremely careful with this woman named Shui Yuexian.

This woman can hear the true sounds of the world and also has the skill of "seeing qi".

Zhao Qi'an suspected that she had similar means to what he did to see other people's fate, but he relied on the system, while Shui Yuexian was most likely mastering a magical skill.

It was only a matter of time before he ran into the Imperial Master in Kyoto. For this reason, he learned a few tricks to deal with the Imperial Master, just so that he would not be exposed if he really ran into Shui Yuexian one day.

He had met the Imperial Master several times before at Emperor Tianwu's banquets, but did not attract the other party's attention.

However, the two were very far apart at the time, and the national teacher might not have noticed him.

If the two of them stood face to face, it would be hard to say whether the imperial teacher would be able to see through them.

Fortunately, Zhao Qi'an came to the Heavenly Book Pavilion today and did not plan to go up to the next few floors. He only planned to stay on this floor.

And since the Imperial Master came to the Heavenly Book Pavilion, he would most likely be on the upper three floors.

The probability of two people meeting each other is so small that it is almost negligible.

Thinking of this, Zhao Qi'an bowed to the old eunuch and said, "Thank you for your reminder, but I will borrow it on this floor today."

The old eunuch was relieved and said with a smile: "That's good. I wonder what book the Prince Consort wants to borrow?"

Zhao Qi'an replied: "Miscellaneous gossips from the Jianghu, preferably about the period between the 20th and 40th years of Tianwu."

Upon hearing this, the old eunuch looked at Zhao Qian'an strangely, as if wondering why Zhao Qian'an was borrowing these useless books.

But he didn't say much. He thought for a moment and said, "It should be in the area of ​​'Ding Erliu'. Let's take the Prince Consort there to look for it."

"Thank you, father-in-law."

……

I have to say that Zhao Qi'an's money was well spent.

There are so many books on this floor. In addition to the cultivation methods of the nine-grade bone refining of various schools and a variety of introductory martial arts, there are also books on medicine and alchemy, miscellaneous studies, local chronicles, medical books and books on craftsmen.

There are so many books in the library that as long as it has even the slightest connection with martial arts practice, it can be found here.

According to the old eunuch who led him, there were more than 16,000 sets of books on the first floor of the Heavenly Book Pavilion alone.

It's a set, not a book.

This number is already a shocking figure.

If Zhao Qi'an were to look for it on his own, there's no telling how long it would take him to find it.

Only these eunuchs who have never stepped out of the Heavenly Book Pavilion for most of their lives know the approximate locations of these miscellaneous books in the Heavenly Book Pavilion.

Even if you can't tell the exact location, you can at least tell the approximate area, which is always much faster than diving into the sea of ​​books to search for it yourself.

However, even with the old eunuch leading the way, it still took the two of them half an hour to find the books Zhao Qian'an wanted.

"My Lord, all the gossips after the Tianwu calendar are here. But if you want to find the part between the 20th and 40th years of Tianwu, you will have to look for it carefully."

The old eunuch helped to move a whole set of book boxes containing more than a dozen books from the bookshelf, and then said to Zhao Qian'an.

Zhao Qi'an bowed to him, and after he left, his eyes fell on the book box.

He lightly dusted the cover of the book box, which immediately raised a cloud of dust.

It can be seen that these miscellaneous books have been placed here but no one has paid attention to them. They have all been gathering dust.

Zhao Qian opened the book box, took out a book and started reading it.

By reading these gossips, he gradually sketched out the situation of the Daqian martial arts world in his mind...

(End of this chapter)