Afternoon.
Sunlight slanted across Lone Peak.
Even with the trees casting dense shade, the heat remained unbearable.
"Sir!" Xie Xiaojiu carried a Wooden Chest up to the summit of Lone Peak and came before Jiang Ning.
Seeing Jiang Ning's gaze fall on the Wooden Chest in her hands, Xie Xiaojiu continued, "Sir, these are all the martial arts above Middle Grade within Divine Sword Villa. There are also several fragmentary scrolls you're very interested in."
"Oh?" Hearing this, Jiang Ning immediately became interested.
Seeing Jiang Ning's gaze.
Xie Xiaojiu promptly took a wooden box from the Wooden Chest. "Sir, please look!"
Xie Xiaojiu opened the wooden box in her hands and passed it over.
Jiang Ning accepted the wooden box. The first thing that caught his eye was the word Spring Beginning.
"This is... the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Fragmentary Scroll?" Jiang Ning asked.
"Yes, Sir! Divine Sword Villa has several Solar Term Fragments!" Xie Xiaojiu said.
Hearing this, Jiang Ning picked up the Spring Beginning Scroll Fragment placed inside the wooden box.
It was a scroll made from an unknown beast hide.
The beast-hide scroll depicted vivid ink-wash paintings, along with densely packed characters as tiny as ants.
Jiang Ning's gaze slowly swept over it.
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A series of prompts flashed before him.
After only a brief moment, he withdrew his gaze and slowly closed his eyes.
The ink-wash paintings on the beast-hide scroll immediately surfaced in his mind. Originally rendered only in ink, they instantly burst into a riot of color, as though they had been imbued with life.
The scenes came alive within his mind.
They showed ice and snow melting, while hibernating insects began to stir.
The arrival of the Spring Beginning Solar