"Why are you here? You are not a monk from Shaolin Temple, are you? What are you doing here?"
The thin-faced monk had been frantically searching through the books just now, and it did not seem like he was reacting to an intruder invading Shaolin Temple. He seemed to be taking the martial arts secrets away in order to protect them.
The straightforward Xiao Zhao had doubts in her heart and asked directly.
Under the gaze of the two people, the thin-faced monk stuttered and explained.
It turned out that this monk had seen the monks in the Arhat Hall defeated and fleeing, and he had fled as well. However, instead of fleeing outside the temple, he had the guts to rush deep into the Shaolin Temple's scriptures library.
Calculating that it would take a long time for Li Xiu to chase and kill the 100 escaping Shaolin monks, he thought to take advantage of this time difference by going to the scriptures library to grab a few martial arts secrets before running away.
This was a rare opportunity, and even if he took the martial arts manuals, no one would know.
Furthermore, it was likely that Shaolin Temple would attribute the missing martial arts manuals to Li Xiu in the future.
Once he fled to the mountain below and changed his appearance, it was unlikely that Shaolin Temple, facing a major disaster, would pay attention to a missing sweep monk.
When he became a martial arts expert in the future, the Jianghu would be at his mercy.
Of course, the thin-faced monk only said that he saw his fellow monks defeated and, in a moment of greed, thought to go to the scriptures library to steal the secrets, and then escape through the back mountain wilderness. He did not explain anything else.
However, Li Xiu was not unaware of the calculations that the thin-faced monk was making.
He was a smart person and had noticed it as soon as he went upstairs.
The first thing that the thin-faced monk's eyes showed when he saw him was not fear, but rather the look of someone making calculations in their mind.
He knew that it was unlikely he could escape in front of Li Xiu, so he knelt down and begged for mercy.
He did not have the instinctual stupidity to turn and run, nor was he so terrified that he knelt down and kowtowed. This monk had a bit of courage and some thought, and it seemed a bit wasteful for Shaolin Temple to have him just sweep the floors.
"Get up first..."
After some thought, Li Xiu decided not to kill him for the time being.
He felt that this monk might bring him some surprises.
Upon hearing these words, the thin-faced monk felt as if he had been granted a great pardon.
He knew that he was not going to die for the time being, and kowtowed a few more times, constantly expressing his gratitude as he stood up.
After standing up, he consciously stood to the side and did not seem to have the intention of running away. Instead, he seemed willing to serve as a guide for Li Xiu.
The thin-faced monk had a clear mind and understood that he had to be of value and useful to this person in order to survive.
Li Xiu glanced at him and paid no attention, walking over to a bookshelf and beginning to flip through the books.
"Sir, the Shaolin scriptures library has three levels. The higher the level, the more valuable the scriptures and martial arts techniques stored there. Based on your martial arts skills, you might not find anything on the lower two levels worth looking at."
"On the third level, there are ancient Buddhist scriptures and rare editions that have been lost to the outside world, as well as the Shaolin Temple's 72 secret martial arts techniques and some other equally powerful Shaolin martial arts techniques."
"On your left are the ancient Buddhist scriptures and rare editions, and on your right is where the Shaolin secret martial arts techniques are stored."
The thin-faced monk stood to the side with a slightly bent waist, respectfully holding a few secret manuals in his hand and respectfully and obediently reminded Li Xiu.
Li Xiu put down the Buddhist scripture in his hand and picked up a secret manual that the thin-faced monk was holding. He flipped through it and recognized the first one.
It was the Diamond Unbreakable Body, created by Damo, a martial arts technique that focused on training the body and supplementing it with qi cultivation.
Upon reaching the pinnacle of cultivation, the practitioner's body would be surrounded by an invisible aura.
The body would be as hard as iron and swords would find it difficult to harm them, and they would have extremely strong shock-resistant power.
In the original novel, Kongjian, the first of Shaolin Temple's Four Great Sage Monks, had relied on this martial arts technique to fight Xie Xun.
Standing motionless, he had taken Xie Xun's Twelve-Movement Seven Injury Fist head-on, and instead had shaken Xie Xun's internal organs and caused his qi and blood to boil.
Unfortunately, when Xie Xun used his final Seven Injury Fist, he pretended to commit suicide and tricked Kongjian into trying to save him.
Kongjian, who was a kind person, fell for the trick and went to stop Xie Xun, but ended up being killed by Xie Xun's sneak attack.
If Kongjian, the only kind person in the Shi Tian Shaolin, had not died, then with his martial arts skills, it is unlikely that Shaolin Temple would have been unable to produce any top-notch experts in the future.
In short, the power of the Diamond Unbreakable Body was quite impressive and was probably the first of the Shaolin Temple's 72 secret martial arts techniques.
The second manual was the Formless Jie Finger, also created by Damo. It was a fierce and domineering finger technique with terrifying power. Those hit by it would have their whole body turn black as if burned by a large fire.
Next came the Diamond Lion's Roar, the Burning Wood Blade Technique, and the Shadow Following Leg.
There are a total of five books, all of which are powerful martial arts techniques from the 72 Shaolin secret Martial arts techniques, and the distribution of various martial arts techniques is quite complete.
Obviously, these are the same martial arts techniques that the thin-faced monk had just dropped, and he picked them up and offered them to Li Xiu.
Li Xiu threw these five books to Xiao Zhao zhao and asked her to hold them, then went to the side to flip through the other martial arts techniques.
After flipping through dozens of martial arts techniques, Li Xiu felt that the Diamond Unbreakable Body, Formless Jie Finger, Dama Sword Technique and My Buddha's Bright Fist were still relatively powerful.
Although the Diamond-Unbreakable Body is similar to Li Xiu's Nine Yang True Scripture's passive protective true qi when it is practiced to perfection, it is good that it is biased towards physical training.
There is no harm in practicing, after all, having two layers of protection is always better and more reassuring than having just one.
Although Li Xiu thought that the Seven injury Fists were better and more sophisticated than the My Buddha's Bright Fist, he still abandoned it.
The Formless Jie Finger was well matched with the Nine Yang True Energy, and this martial arts technique required the most internal energy.
If one's internal energy cultivation was weak, it would be nothing, but if one's internal energy was deep and strong, the power would be even more terrifying.
Li Xiu decided to make it one of his main attacks in the future.
Finally, there was the Dama Sword Technique, a total of 33 styles, and its sword techniques were probably unmatched by other sword techniques in the world in terms of their ingenuity and strangeness.
However, Li Xiu briefly glanced at it and felt that this sword technique was somewhat strange, and some of the techniques were somewhat awkward in terms of their impact on the human body.
If the yoga technique is advanced and can be slowly learned and reproduced, it's fine.
But if it is used in intense combat, it may cause joint injuries or even sprains, and the sword technique's power will be greatly reduced.
However, if it can be successfully tried out, it will inevitably be mysterious, strange and hard to resist!
Additionally, it is strange that the Damo Sword technique has two copies in the Hidden Classics Cabinet.
One is in the style of an ancient book, and the other seems to be newly revised.
The newly revised sword method is not as awkward as before, but when it is looked at, the sword technique's finesse and power has decreased by more than 50%, as if it has been forcibly revised.
Although the newly revised one also seems to have considerable power, if the two are placed side by side, it is immediately clear that they cannot be compared.
The thin-faced monk looked at Li Xiu holding the two copies of the Damo sword technique and thought to himself that this person must be interested in this sword technique, so he quickly stepped forward to introduce it.
Apparently, this Damo sword technique was created by the Damo ancestor while he was meditating on the Wurufeng Peak in the back mountain of Shaolin Temple for nine years.
Some of the martial arts in the Shaolin's 72 secret technique's Martial arts require extremely high cultivation of internal strength or are difficult to understand, and there have been few people who have mastered them in the hundreds of years of Shaolin's history.
However, this sword technique is unique because the Damo ancestor had a special constitution and was only suitable for him alone, and no one else could practice it.
Later, the seniors of Shaolin created a new sword method based on this one.
However, in order to show respect for Dama Ancestor, the original version of the sword method was still placed on the third floor of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion.
This is why there are two copies of the Dama Sword technique. Due to its special nature, this is also a very famous thing in Shaolin.