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"By the way, Brother Tian, the treasure imbued with destiny that we found in the bamboo forest is here. I'm giving it to you now—see if you can use it.☆→" Zhao Qian took a treasure box from her sleeve. She did not open it, but handed it straight to me.
"What is it?" I took it, and my heart immediately began pounding. Zhao Qian had said it carried destiny. It was bound to be something extraordinary. With one battle after another before, I had kept overlooking the treasure. Now that the war was over, it was time to take stock.
"A bamboo seed." Zhao Qian smiled, then reached out to help me open the box in my palm. I had expected something to happen when it opened, but it simply sprang apart without any reaction at all. A pitch-black bamboo seed lay on the red cotton cloth inside.
I reached out and pinched up the black bamboo seed with my fingers, my face filled with confusion. "It takes nearly a hundred years for bamboo to flower and bear fruit. This bamboo seed may be rare, but in Lanzhou, where bamboo grows everywhere, what makes it special?"
"There's nothing special about it. But among countless people, someone like Brother Tian, a child of destiny, can be born. Among the bamboo seeds produced by countless bamboo plants, there might likewise be one capable of stirring the destiny of the entire world. Am I right, Brother Tian?" Zhao Qian smiled, looking as though she and the bamboo seed had both emerged from the same odds.
I was curious that this tiny, grain-of-rice-sized bamboo seed could affect the destiny of the Huntian Compass, but I truly could not see anything unusual about it. It seemed I could only put it together first and