I had studied the Water-Mist Alliance's Sacred Water Beetle jade scroll over and over, and found that the spirit-vein diagram taken from the rear abdominal region was astonishingly clear. Yet the vein diagrams of the head and torso at the front were so faint they could barely be seen. Basically, only the connecting regions remained. That meant no one had managed to copy the complete vein diagram. What did that imply?
I patted the jade scroll. As I examined it, I noticed it was already covered in a thick layer of jade grime. It seemed no one had looked at it for who knew how many years.
Even an idiot could tell that no one would choose this as the reference for their first spirit manifestation. After thinking it over, I had the three poisoned disciples dragged in, then tossed the scroll in front of them. "Tell me, what's the deal with this Sacred Water Beetle? Has no one ever used it as a reference for spirit manifestation?"
The three disciples hurriedly picked up the jade scroll in fright. After looking it over, they were all utterly baffled. One of them was relatively bolder and hurriedly said, "Master of the Valley, we don't know what's going on with this Sacred Water Beetle either... We only heard that no one has ever successfully manifested a spirit from it. It seems that over all these years... everyone has failed..."
"Everyone failed over the years? You've never seen it?" I asked.
That disciple thought for a moment, then shook his head. "Although we've all had thoughts of preparing for spirit manifestation, our master never mentioned the Sacred Water Beetle's Demon-Sealing Secret Realm... Still, in the past century or so, it's not as if no one chose it... Some people have chosen it in