Immortality: Starting with a grave, I'm invincible when burying corpses.

The colossal book palace, standing over 1,200 meters tall, was something Mu An had never seen before, even though he had lived for over 300 years.

Unlike the skyscrapers of the technological world, the Heavenly Book Academy has a very distinctive Taoist style.

A celestial book that soars straight into the clouds sits among a group of low-rise buildings.

Such a stark contrast would immediately attract anyone who sees it.

The Heavenly Book Academy is over two thousand meters long and about four hundred meters wide.

Its main structure resembles neither wood nor stone, but rather some kind of refined composite material.

It was through the superposition of layers of grand formations that the current appearance was finally revealed.

A towering book reaching into the clouds.

Its grandeur surpasses that of the Zhaixing Pavilion in Qi'an City, or rather, these are two completely different architectural styles.

Without a doubt, such a magnificent building is the crystallization of human civilization in the Spirit Realm, and a high-level embodiment of the integration of immortal civilization with daily life.

The productivity gains created by the Immortal Dao civilization have been truly applied to a wider range of areas, rather than being locked away in a corner of the sect.

In this respect, the Spirit Blossom Realm is far more advanced than the Nine Domains.

Behind the huge plaque of the Heavenly Book Academy, there is another line of large characters.

"Those seeking knowledge, please enter this door; those seeking speculation, please seek elsewhere."

……

Mu An stood beneath the tall plaque for about a hundred breaths.

He stood there in front of the academy gate, staring at the words on the plaque, lost in thought.

This attitude made Xuan Yuan Wu Mu's heart jump, fearing that Mu An would be dissatisfied and immediately report it to the academy.

Although Xuan Yuan Wu Mu didn't know what kind of world Mu An had lived in before, based on his interactions with him over the past few days, he felt that Mu An must be an extremely domineering and unreasonable senior.

The words spoken in front of the Heavenly Book Academy's gate could very well cause Mu An to feel resentful, leading to a series of unpleasant events.

What Xuan Yuan Wu Mu had seen and heard during this period left him with no doubt that even if all the experts in the entire Tai Yuan Empire were tied together, they wouldn't be enough to defeat Mu An with one hand.

Under Xuan Yuan Wu Mu's somewhat nervous and worried gaze, Mu An suddenly smiled and shook her head, then stepped straight into the gate of the Book Palace.

Things didn't turn out badly. As he caught up with Mu An, Xuan Yuan Wu Mu breathed a sigh of relief and secretly made a decision in his heart.

If he becomes emperor, he will definitely have to take down this plaque.

These great cultivators are all eccentric, and hanging such offensive words in front of their gates might just bring trouble upon themselves someday!

……

Contrary to the series of scenarios imagined by Xuan Yuan Wu Mu, Mu An was not actually dissatisfied with the plaque at the entrance.

Rather, he actually quite admired the person who wrote the plaque.

This is what an academy should be like: spending all day thinking about opportunism, researching how to fight for power and profit, and how to do good scholarship.

Of course, what is written and what is done are often not the same thing, and this is true of the Nine Realms and the Spirit Blossom Realm as well.

To truly understand this academy and what we can learn from it, we must see it with our own eyes, listen carefully with our own ears, and experience it with our own hearts and minds.

Only by stepping into it can you understand more.

……

Although the Heavenly Book Academy is named after an academy, from Mu An's perspective, it is more like a giant library containing countless books.

It is precisely because it is just a library, without a unified school of thought or a clear affiliation, that it has been able to retain its last vestige of purity.

Apart from some profound cultivation manuals and some forbidden books involving esoteric knowledge, the vast majority of books here are open to the public free of charge.

What's even more surprising is that there are no restrictions on ordinary people entering this place. Even the most common people in Taiyuan City can step into the Book Palace and find the books they need.

Or perhaps, most of the books in the academy were intended for ordinary people, and there wasn't much content that was actually relevant to cultivators.

As Mu An walked along, he noticed that most of the people walking around the academy were ordinary people, while cultivators were much rarer.

Even if you occasionally see them, most of them are just beginners in the stage of refining essence into qi, and they are not significantly different from ordinary people.

At the same table, you can see cultivators and mortals sitting face to face, one carefully savoring profound cultivation manuals, while the other reads folk tales.

The two sat together harmoniously, not at all reserved, but rather with a sense of joy and camaraderie.

At first, Mu An was a little confused because it was too idealistic and completely unrealistic.

But he soon discovered the cause of all this.

The spirit-suppressing array that runs throughout the entire library is the root cause of all this.

Within the Heavenly Book Academy, low-level cultivators cannot mobilize even a trace of spiritual energy, while high-level cultivators are not so bored as to bother with mortals.

The temporary separation of spiritual energy and magic instilled a sense of awe in the cultivators entering the library, making them no longer as aloof as they were in the outside world.

In addition, a series of rules set by the Heavenly Book Academy further restricted the cultivators' actions. Over time, most cultivators became accustomed to this model.

By combining these two factors, cultivators and mortals were able to temporarily set aside their differences in status and coexist in a more harmonious manner within this academy.

……

"Senior, this contains books related to the geographical distribution of the Spirit Blossom Realm. The books here provide detailed information about the various regions of the Spirit Blossom Realm."

"The thirty-second floor mainly stores basic cultivation manuals. Most of the people reading here are independent cultivators without any sect or school. They mostly lack ways to acquire knowledge. For these independent cultivators, the Heavenly Book Academy is the easiest place to acquire cultivation knowledge. Therefore, a large number of independent cultivators read here every day."

"The forty-eighth floor houses architectural classics, including introductions to architectural styles from various eras, as well as current mainstream building construction methods. If you wish to collect some knowledge related to architecture, this is undoubtedly the most suitable place."

……

The two walked and stopped along the way, with Xuan Yuan Wu Mu following wherever Mu An went, and introducing Mu An to others as needed.

On the sixty-seventh floor, they encountered two groups of people fighting.

The cause of the conflict is unknown, but both sides were beginners in the Qi Refining stage, and they were all quite young, the youngest being only eight or nine years old and the oldest no more than twelve or thirteen. They fought quite fiercely.

One side was led by a little girl who looked only eight or nine years old, while the other side was led by a boy who looked twelve or thirteen years old.

The two sides exchanged punches, entangled together, fighting and cursing, swinging their fists wildly, neither willing to let go.

Unfortunately, their position happened to be blocking Mu An and his companion's path.

Seeing this, Xuan Yuan Wu Mu's face immediately darkened.

He desperately wanted to order these idiots thrown out right now, but he dared not do anything while Mu An was around.

What worried Xuan Yuan Wu Mu even more was that after being blocked by this group of teenagers, Mu An actually stopped and watched the fight on both sides without moving.

Damn it! Does the senior think these people are an eyesore?

Whose kid is that? He really needs a good scolding!

Where and when can't you fight if you want to? Why fight when the senior is visiting the Heavenly Book Academy?

And this little girl who's leading the group, she's only eight or nine years old. Instead of studying at home, what kind of boss does she think she is?

Just when Xuan Yuan Wu Mu thought everything was over, an unexpected scene came into his eyes.

Perhaps because he was really angry, even though the opponent was just an eight or nine-year-old girl, the boy did not hold back. He punched the girl in the abdomen, sending her flying several meters backward, rolling several times on the ground, until she rolled to Mu An's feet.

At this moment, Xuan Yuan Wu Mu's mind went blank, and he kept muttering to himself.

It's over! It's over! It's completely over!

At the same time, the senior who was terrifying to the extreme in Xuan Yuan Wu Mu's eyes made a move.

The senior colleague bent down and helped the girl up from the ground.

"Little guy, that must have hurt a lot, right?"

The girl was clearly taken aback when she was suddenly helped up. Her small head was still reeling from the intense pain she had just experienced, and she couldn't react for a long time.

In that instant, Xuan Yuan Wu Mu's heart leaped into his throat, fearing that the girl might say something wrong.