Walking back to the hall expressionlessly, Li Jinzhi tugged at a Senior Brother who was waiting beside him. "Senior Brother." He looked troubled.

"What's wrong?" The stern-faced Senior Brother asked sternly, "Did you encounter any difficulties?"

"How should I transform this light?" Li Jinzhi asked with a hesitant expression, his face full of embarrassment.

The stern-faced Senior Brother leaned over and whispered, "Junior Brother, you came from the secular world, so you don't know. You just have to gather your spiritual power and spit it out forcefully. This person will transform into light!"

Li Jinzhi was stunned. He asked hesitantly, "Wouldn't that turn into light?"

Just as he was about to say something, he heard the Senior Brother who was distributing the storage bags say, "Junior Brother Ping Jing, don't joke around. Junior Brother, don't listen to his nonsense. The spiritual power must be gathered at the soles of your feet."

Li Jinzhi, who was imagining the scene, was speechless.

The corner of his mouth twitched. Li Jinzhi thanked him dryly and left.

After leaving the hall, he took out the map jade slip. After identifying the direction, he channeled his spiritual power on the ice surface and turned into a light that flew away in a crooked manner.

Li Jinzhi, who was in the light, closed his eyes tightly. He was using his Divine Sense to check the jade slip that recorded the rules of the disciples.

The Ice Sect could be considered a first-class sect in the Beihan Polar Domain. It was built in the west of the Polar Domain in a place rich in spirit veins. It stood against an ice mountain, hence its name. There were three Yuanying Grand Supreme Elders and dozens of Golden Elixir Elders in the sect.

The disciples were divided into personal disciples, inner sect disciples, registered inner sect disciples, and outer sect disciples.

Inner sect disciples received ten inferior-grade Spirit Stones and a bottle of Fasting Pills every month.

When they were focused on cultivation, they could go to the trivia shop to receive missions to earn contribution points. They could also attend the Golden Elixir Elders' lectures every day. The key was to have a cave abode with a better spirit vein.

On the other hand, Inner Sect Honorary Disciples were paid five low-grade spirit stones a month. Not only did they have to work a little bit every day, they also didn't get as many contribution points as Inner Sect Honorary Disciples. However, they could still attend the Golden Elixir Elder's lectures. The two of them lived in the same Immortal's Cave with inferior spirit veins.

The most miserable ones were the outer sect disciples. Not only could they not attend classes, but they also had to go to work every day. The work was very tiring, and their contribution points were extremely low. They lived in the periphery where the spirit veins were thin.

Seeing this, Li Jinzhi pursed his lips. This was the reason why he was unwilling to follow in the footsteps of the male lead. The treatment determined his status.

Moreover, the original novel did not mention any opportunities in the outer sect, so there was no need for him to go.

Instead of enjoying the blessings, he chose to be abused. How crazy was he?

Moreover, when Ye Cheng came in the future, he could give up half of the Immortal's Cave to live with him.

Li Jinzhi, who did not know what was happening tens of thousands of miles away, thought to himself and soon flew to the residence of the inner core disciples.

It was a huge hollow iceberg. Countless ice caves had been dug in the hollow inner wall of the iceberg, and they were arranged neatly from top to bottom.

Li Jinzhi stopped in mid-air and looked at the Immortal's Cave that was effectively using the spirit veins. He was speechless.

His Immortal's Cave was in the center of the iceberg. He stopped on the steps in front of the Immortal's Cave and raised his hand to throw out the array in his storage bag. Although he was not at ease, he had no choice. He was embarrassingly short of money.

When he entered, the ice cave was well-equipped. There were ice tables, ice chairs, and ice futons. Even Li Jinzhi, who had an ice spirit root, could not help but shiver.

After eating a Fasting Pill, Li Jinzhi sat cross-legged on the ice futon and began to circulate his spiritual power, guiding the ice blue mass in his dantian to circulate around his meridians. Every time it circulated a large circle, new ice spiritual power would be added from the top of his head, and so on.

The advantage of having a celestial spirit root was that a single spirit vein could block the influx of other spiritual power, greatly increasing the absorption of spiritual power. The spiritual power was pure, and the cultivation speed was surprisingly fast.

After an unknown period of time, Li Jinzhi directly entered the fourth level of Qi Refinement.

After breaking through the shackles of the fourth level, Li Jinzhi suddenly felt that his eyes and ears were sharp, his five senses were enhanced, his body was light, and his whole body was relaxed.

He was indeed eager to become stronger. He did not want to experience the feeling of being controlled everywhere in the Li Family's Fortress.

Only with great power would he be able to quickly fulfill his promise and bring Ye Yu over.

The path of cultivation was about spells, not just the depth of one's cultivation. When fighting with others, one also needed to have life-saving means.

Li Jinzhi also knew the disadvantages of working behind closed doors, so he decided to go to class and look for work on the way.

Li Jinzhi went out while lamenting that he was embarrassingly short of money. First, he went to the Trifling Affairs Square to receive a task.

The Trifling Affairs Square was built on an iceberg. It was a natural cave. As soon as Li Jinzhi entered, he found that it was packed with people. The disciples who were bartering were also gathered here. At the end of the cave, there was a row of counters, and there was a long line in front of the counters.

Li Jinzhi held the inner sect disciple card and queued up. Suddenly, someone came up to him.

"Yo, I was wondering who this was. Isn't this my cute little brother?"

A sarcastic voice came from afar. Li Jinzhi looked in the direction of the voice and saw Li Jintang's silly face and gloomy eyes.

Li Jinzhi raised his eyebrows, but did not intend to pay attention to the other party.

When Li Jintang saw Li Jinzhi look at him and then turn away as if he did not know him, he gritted his teeth and cursed under his breath.

He turned to a handsome man and said ingratiatingly, "Senior Brother Hui Yuan, I … I'll go talk to my little brother."

Hui Yuan looked at the junior brother he recognized from the spirit beast pen and could not help but feel disgusted.

He did not expect to encounter this thing here. If not for the fact that Li Jintang had a lot of good things from the family, he would not have bothered with this outer sect disciple.

Now that he saw the other party take the initiative to leave, he went with the flow and said, "Go ahead." Then he turned and left.

Li Jinzhi saw Li Jintang walking over from the corner of his eye. He tilted his head and asked, "How have you been, Big Brother?" Judging from the time in the hall, he had been meditating for a month.

"Hmph, how can I compare to you, Little Brother? Life in the outer sect is not easy."

Li Jintang sneered and said bluntly, "I don't know if Little Brother has enough money on hand. Can you lend Big Brother a few mid-grade spirit stones?"

Li Jinzhi was stunned. He did not expect the other party to directly borrow money from him, and it was an exorbitant demand. "Heh, Little Brother has never been valued in the family. How could I have seen something as precious as mid-grade spirit stones?"

Li Jintang smiled even more gloomily. "Oh, Little Brother took the main family's uncle's storage bag that day. Plus, you entered the inner sect. How could you be short of a few mid-grade spirit stones?"

As they spoke, it was Li Jinzhi's turn. "The monthly salary of an inner sect disciple is ten low-grade spirit stones. As far as I know, a hundred low-grade spirit stones can only be exchanged for one mid-grade spirit stone. Little Brother does not even dare to think about these insignificant mid-grade spirit stones."

Then he walked around Li Jintang and stood in front of the counter. He said to the steward inside, "I want to find a job in the inner sect."

The old steward rolled his eyes. "Disciple's token."

Li Jinzhi hurriedly handed a jade-colored token to the steward. The steward took it and handed him a jade slip. "This is a job that inner sect disciples can receive. You can choose according to your preferences." His tone was much gentler.

Li Jinzhi picked up the jade slip, ignoring Li Jintang who was hopping on the side. The jobs recorded in the jade slip were extremely easy. It could even be said that they were jobs that focused on learning.

For example, alchemy apprentice, spiritual beast trainer, herb garden apprentice, and talisman disciple.

When an inner sect disciple entered, their status was naturally much higher than that of an outer sect disciple. They did not need to report every day and only needed to supervise their learning.

However, these kinds of positions had all been taken away, leaving only some insignificant positions that didn't have much to gain.

Li Jinzhi thought for a moment and came up with a plan. He took the jade slip and said to the steward, "This junior wants to ask for a job as a bookkeeper."

The steward wiped a finger on the jade slip and reached out to return it to him. "The library is quiet, but it's also a good job. The monthly salary is one mid-grade spirit stone and five hundred sect contribution points." Then he hesitated for a moment before saying, "Elder Jin of the library has a strange temper. You're on your own."

Li Jinzhi nodded in agreement. He turned around and pushed Li Jintang aside before striding out.

Thinking of his official mother and this person's actions, Li Jinzhi did not even bother to be polite to this person.

What the Liu matriarch had done to him and Ye Cheng, sooner or later, he would get back at them!

After being pushed aside, Li Jintang staggered and stabilized his body. His face turned green and white, and he gritted his teeth in anger. A trace of resentment flashed in his eyes.

Li Jinzhi did not care about what the other person thought. He turned around and threw this matter to the back of his mind. He turned to think about other things.

In just over a month, his cultivation level had risen by two levels. Although the cultivation speed of a heavenly spirit root was fast, it was not so fast that it defied the natural order.

Could it be …

Li Jinzhi touched the phoenix-shaped black jade on his chest and could not help but frown and ponder.

The library was a palace not much different from the ice palace, but the outer layer was set up with layers of restrictions. There was a house of gold in the library. To a certain extent, the library was the foundation of a sect.

Li Jinzhi used his spiritual power to send the disciple token into the restriction and then waited with his eyes lowered. After fifteen minutes, half an hour, and half an hour, his body was gradually covered by frost and snow. However, he did not show any dissatisfaction and did not even move. It was as if he had turned into an ice sculpture in the pure white snow.

"Huh?"

After an unknown period of time, an old man's voice suddenly sounded from the restriction. "Tsk, interesting, tsk tsk, really interesting."

Li Jinzhi shook off the frost and snow on his body and said respectfully, "Junior Li Jinzhi greets Senior."

"Why did you wait here for such a long time?" The old man's voice was filled with curiosity. "Or, how did you know that I would pay attention to you?"

"Junior has accepted this task, so I have to abide by it. If I can't wait for one day, I'll wait for two days. If I can't wait for two days, I'll wait for three days." Li Jinzhi looked up at the library. "I have to complete the task."

"Tsk, you're really dutiful, but you don't know that most disciples who accept this task will leave after waiting for fifteen minutes. You're really good."

An old man shot out from the library and grabbed Li Jinzhi's robe and flew back. "You've waited for a full eighteen hours and still stood there to cultivate!"

"Junior knows his mistake. It's just that Junior cultivates ice-type cultivation arts and saw the abundant ice-type spiritual energy here, so I couldn't help it."

Li Jinzhi was brought into the library, and Elder Jin, who was in charge, handed him a small flag.

"You know how to make progress. Fine, my surname is Jin. Don't disturb my cultivation if there's nothing important."

Elder Jin handed over a jade slip. "You only need to be responsible for the tidiness of the jade slips here. Categorize the jade slips that have been touched by others. There are special artifacts for the jade slips, so it's not your responsibility. This is the map of the library."

As he spoke, Elder Jin put on an expression that said, "Come here at noon and scram at 5 o 'clock."

Li Jinzhi bowed his head and agreed. After watching the other party leave, he looked around and calculated the time in his heart. Noon was 12 o 'clock at noon, and it was 4 o' clock in the afternoon. In the morning, he could go to the Jindan Stage elder's class.

Li Jinzhi nodded with satisfaction in his heart. The male lead in the original work also came here, but the reward was naturally not as much as his.

Because the elders here acted strangely, they had a reputation of deliberately making things difficult for the younger generation. Regardless of whether it was the inner or outer sect disciples, they were unwilling to come here.

In addition, there was not much profit here. There were neither spiritual herbs to be coveted nor techniques to be learned. Jade slips could be checked at will, but jade slips could be borrowed to make a copy. This little benefit seemed to be of little value.

Li Jinzhi naturally came here for these little benefits. A copy of a jade slip required a piece of low-grade spirit stone, and a higher level book required more spirit stones.

Others who did not need to read so many books would naturally feel that it was of little value, but he urgently needed to read books to systematically understand this world and various fields.

If he really wanted to make a copy, he was afraid that he would need to spend a lot of money. In the end, it was a penny that could stump a hero!

Of course, the most important thing was that this job was very boring, especially boring.

Li Jinzhi, who felt that he was very idle, began to observe the environment. The bookshelves in front of him were all made of ice sculptures. Against the ice palace that emitted bursts of cold air, it only made people feel cold all over.

Rows of bookshelves were engraved with jade slips, medicinal pills, talismans, magic arrays, refining tools, beast training, and spells. The bookshelves were further subdivided into beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels.

Li Jinzhi was not in a hurry to go up and check. Instead, he stuck the jade slip that Elder Jin gave him on his forehead and quickly browsed through the bookshelves in the library pavilion, memorizing the various levels of books in each category.

After all, his job was to organize the jade slips, and the classification and names were the most important.

After entering the fourth level of Qi Refining, his memory was surprisingly good. After quickly browsing through the bookshelves, he memorized the names and categories of the books.

Because he had wasted eighteen hours in the snow, it was almost midnight now. Li Jinzhi simply sat cross-legged on the futon and began to meditate. When he stopped practicing, he saw the rising sun outside the window.

The library pavilion was open to the public in the morning, and there were already a few disciples coming in from outside the gate.

Li Jinzhi was on duty in the afternoon, and he just happened to tidy up the jade slips that were messed up in the morning.

The collection and copying of the books in the library pavilion were carried out by the magic tools at the gate. They could even sense if someone stole the jade slips out. Li Jinzhi's task was really only to tidy up and categorize the jade slips.

Almost all the buildings near the ice gate were made of ice sculptures. The snow that did not melt all year round and the sparkling ice houses stretched for thousands of miles. Looking around, the whole mountain was full of lingering cold air, and the charming rays of the morning sun intertwined with the cold air.

It reflected the ice and snow world like a fairyland.

Li Jinzhi, who had just stepped out of the library pavilion, was not blinded by the light reflected by the ice houses. He hurriedly covered his eyes with his sleeves, complained about the unreasonable buildings, and confirmed the direction, heading in the direction of the teaching hall.

The floor of the lecture hall was filled with praying mats. The public lecture had not yet begun. Li Jinzhi glanced at the announcement and knew that it was Elder Li's lecture. He chose a corner and sat down, concentrating on circulating his cultivation method.

His cultivation method was amazing. Li Jinzhi felt that he should be awarded the most hardworking male lead award in history.

After about two small circulations, Li Jinzhi heard a noise in the hall. He stopped practicing and looked at the door.

At this time, many people had already arrived. The commotion was caused by one or two people who had just entered the hall. The leader was Elder Ming Yang's disciple, Qing Mu, the cannon fodder who had a crush on the female lead.

However, there was a Ye Dieer behind him. Qing Mu was talking to her enthusiastically, and the latter faintly responded, obviously not in a good mood.