Chapter 64: Life 60, Age 17, Martial Disciple 3
After handing over all the pills to a beaming WuJing, I went to find SuYin.
“Hey!” I said when I saw her on the shop floor. “Can you help me out? I want to study some techniques.”
“Just go up to the library,” she said, her face showing confusion at my request.
“The what?” While I had lived in the Pavilion for well over a year, almost all that time was spent focusing on my cultivation technique. I didn’t even think to resume my previously cut-short tour.
“Come on,” she sighed, leading me to the stairway. As she did, she began to explain. “The fifth floor is the workshop, the sixth is the library, and the seventh just has a few meeting rooms. That’s where we hold important events, such as large meetings with the heads of different branches. The seventh is rarely used here, but we still have to maintain it. Anyway, we just need to go to the sixth.”
Once we had tromped back up the stairs, SuYin brought me to a large library not too dissimilar to those in the sect, but instead of tables in the middle of the hall, the Pavilion had small reading rooms around the perimeter, and large wooden bookshelves filled the entire space. There were no windows on this floor, and lighting was provided only by softly glowing orbs.
“You can flip through anything you want on the floor, but to study a manual you need to register it with the librarian, and she will charge it to your account. If you want something that isn’t here, such as a higher-grade manual, talk to the librarian. If this branch has it, she will check your contribution to see if you are allowed to view it. If we don’t, she can requisition it from the main branch, but that requires substantially more contribution.”
I nodded. “Thanks. What about herbalist and wood qi techniques? Where would I find those?”
SuYin smiled wistfully at that question. “Let me show you.”