The jade pendant was pale green overall, with a ring of blood-red at its center.
When Zhang Xuan first met Long Sanhe, he had taken an interest in the pendant and borrowed it for a look.
Seeing that Zhang Xuan liked it, Long Sanhe immediately offered to give it to him, but Zhang Xuan refused.
The main reason was that the Old Man was clearly reluctant to part with it despite offering it away. Zhang Xuan would not take what he loved, so he did not accept it.
He remembered the pendant clearly. Finding it beside the skeleton naturally led him to conclude that the remains belonged to Long Sanhe.
"How did Long Sanhe get to this island? My wives..."
Staring at the jade pendant in his hand, Zhang Xuan fell into thought.
Just as he was thinking, a woman's startled cry came from deep within the Birch Forest behind him. "Ah..."
Zhang Xuan instantly came back to his senses and turned toward the Birch Forest.
"A woman's voice? Did she come here with Long Sanhe?"
Muttering to himself, he leaped into the Birch Forest and headed deeper inside.
In a corner deep within the Birch Forest, Zhu Xiaoxiao was curled up in the corner of a stone cave, her body trembling and her face filled with terror.
Dozens of specks of light appeared in the dim cave, shifting left and right, up and down. Before long, they turned into White Flames that shot about with whooshing sounds, like ghostly will-o'-the-wisps. Zhu Xiaoxiao screamed in fright at the sight.
Her cry instantly drew the attention of the Blue-skinned Fish searching for her in the Birch Forest. They hopped toward the sound.
A moment later, a tapping sound rang out from outside the cave. A large number of Blue-skinned Fish arrived