Battle Through the Heavens: Top Talent

Chapter 17 Entering the Library

The spacious and bright room is filled with bookshelves, which are crisscrossed and filled with all kinds of antique books, creating a strong scholarly atmosphere.

At this moment, in the center of the room, four people were standing quietly. Behind the table in front of them, an elderly man with white hair and beard sat in a chair, slowly turning the pages of a book in his hands. The whole room was in a state of silence.

The four people in the room were the Canaan Academy students who, along with Xiao Yun, had ranked in the top five. Judging from their expressions, they had clearly been waiting for quite some time, but their faces showed no impatience. This was because the elderly man reading in front of them was Hu Qian, the vice-dean of Canaan Academy, and because the person making them wait was Xiao Yun!

The learning atmosphere at Canaan Academy is very friendly, but that's in comparison to the Black Corner Region outside. As long as the students' lives aren't endangered, in Canaan Academy, the one with the biggest fist is the boss and deserves more cultivation resources. And Xiao Yun's fist is bigger than all four of theirs, so he has the right to make the four of them wait for him alone!

Fortunately, Xiao Yun did not arrive late on purpose; he rushed over immediately upon hearing Hu Jia's message.

After the four of them stood in silence for nearly ten minutes, Xiao Yun finally arrived.

Boom boom boom!

A knock sounded on the door, and at the same time a voice came from outside, "Dean, Xiao Yun is here."

"Please let him in." Putting down the book in his hand, he then looked at Fang Wen and the other three. "When you enter the inner academy in the future, you may have to fight together. Every year, the new students who enter the inner academy will not have a good ending if they do not stick together. In addition, in the inner academy, strength is the only thing that matters. Whoever has the strongest fist has the most truth and can get more cultivation resources. There, your background will be useless!" Hu Qian stared at Xiao Yun, who had just entered, and said the last sentence.

Upon hearing Hu Qian's words, Xiao Yun, who was at the door, quickly stepped forward, bowed, and said, "This student will remember the Dean's teachings."

"Xiao Yun, you've finally arrived." Hu Qian said with a smile, his attitude completely different from before. His gaze lingered on Xiao Yun's face for a while longer. "Not bad, your fighting spirit is more solid. It seems that the selection competition has stabilized your foundation quite a bit."

After Hu Qian and Xiao Yun stared at each other for a while, Hu Qian's shrewd eyes noticed that beneath Xiao Yun's calm exterior lay a fiery and unstable nature. He was like a calm mountain with a volcano hidden within, ready to unleash terrifying energy at any moment.

"Now that everyone is here, I won't waste any more time. You should all know why I called you here." Standing up from his chair, Hu Qian smiled and said, "You are the top five in this year's selection competition. According to the academy's rules, you are qualified to enter the library once and choose a treasure to take out, relying on your own luck."

As he spoke, Hu Qian walked to the wall behind him and casually clapped his hands a few times. A deep rumbling sound rang out, and then a hidden door appeared in front of everyone.

"Follow me." Waving to the five people, Hu Qian took the lead and entered the dark passage. Seeing that the four people did not move, Xiao Yun deliberately let him go first, so he followed Hu Qian in without ceremony. After Xiao Yun went in, the other four entered the passage one by one.

The passage was pitch black and quiet, with only the soft rustling of footsteps.

"call!"

A bright flame emerged from Xiao Yun's hand, illuminating the entire passage and drawing everyone's attention.

"Put out the fire. They're all at the Great Dou Master level, can't they see where they're going?" Hu Qian said irritably.

"Alright." Xiao Yunqian chuckled twice, looked at everyone somewhat awkwardly, and extinguished the flame in his hand.

……

After walking through the passage for nearly half an hour, a glimmer of light finally appeared at the end of the passage. Upon seeing the light, the group of people in the passage quickened their pace considerably. A moment later, they finally reached the end of the passage and stepped out.

The blinding sunlight streamed down from the sky, causing Xiao Yun and the others, who had just emerged from the darkness, to instinctively close their eyes slightly. After a while, they slowly opened them and were somewhat surprised by the scene before them.

Before Xiao Yun and the others was a valley with a groove in the middle, clearly man-made.

"This was probably caused by that half-saint dean, right?" Xiao Yun thought to himself. Apart from Mang Tianchi, he couldn't think of anyone else in Canaan Academy who possessed such power.

The steep mountain walls stretched upwards until they reached the horizon. Between the three cliffs, there was a very spacious flat area. On that flat area, a massive, imposing, and ancient pavilion stood majestically.

His gaze slowly swept over the massive, ancient pavilion, finally settling on an extremely old-looking plaque outside the pavilion, on which were three characters, somewhat blurred by the erosion of time.

Library!

Even just standing at a distance, Xiao Yun and his group could still sense the ancient and rustic atmosphere contained in those three blurry characters. It was indeed the most mysterious library in Canaan Academy; the ancient plaque alone set off its identity.

Hu Qian led the five people slowly towards the library. When they were about twenty meters away, he suddenly stopped, clasped his hands in a fist salute towards the library, and said, "The top five in this year's Inner Academy Selection Competition have been determined. According to the academy's rules, I have brought them here. Please, elders, open the door!"

Hu Gan's words, amplified by his fighting spirit, echoed continuously in the small valley, lingering for a long time.

Not long after Hu Qian finished speaking, Xiao Yun's gaze, which had been sweeping over the library, suddenly stopped. His eyes swept to the side and finally settled on two gray-robed figures sitting cross-legged at the entrance. He had clearly seen that there was no one at the entrance when he came in earlier.

Now, these two gray-robed men have suddenly appeared here, as if they were always sitting there. "As expected of the two elders, their strength at the peak of the Dou Zong realm is indeed terrifying. Even my soul perception couldn't detect when they appeared."

Xiao Yun was secretly alarmed. Although he already knew the strength of the two elders, as the saying goes, hearing about them a thousand times is not as good as seeing them in person. Even in the entire Dou Qi Continent, a Dou Zong-level expert could be considered a powerful figure; in the Northwest Continent, far from the central region, they were practically giants!

(End of this chapter)