True Library Expedition I: Thick As Thieves

Mere days after that, Teacher Guo notified me to meet Shokoya and Bing Hei to begin the 3-person expedition into the True Library after sundown. The idea was to keep the rumor level low of this special attempt to reach the deepest part of the Library. Having it be non-existent was impossible. Few Inner Disciples or even Core Disciples even attempted the place's hardest challenges, and almost none who did had lived, to the point that those trials accounted for a significant fraction of the sect's high-level disciple attrition.

Such a serious attempt to gain the Library's riches was extremely rare. If it succeeded, the techniques we retrieved might have the potential to directly increase the sect's power. Of course, each of us would have the right to learn whatever we "checked out" of the Library first, but this expedition wasn't just an attempt by us to increase our power and become Core Disciples—it was a substantial play by the 10,000 Scrolls Library sect as a whole.