Soul-Calling Banner.
Jiang Qiao now called it the "Immortal-Guiding Banner" instead.
Two lines of text were written on either side—"Golden Boy Raises the Banner to Lead the Way, Jade Girl Holds the Lamp to See Off."
In the middle were the four large characters: "Receiving and Ascending to Immortality."
The lettering was crooked and twisted, yet every stroke seemed to contain a strange rhythm. Now, with the sun appearing in the sky, those rhythms seemed to have been activated.
The characters vanished.
Just like an illusion.
Two blurry figures of children appeared before Jiang Qiao.
Two children wearing dudou, with a topknot on the left and horn-shaped braids standing up on the right. One held a document, while the other carried a lantern.
Hazy.
Seemingly real yet illusory.
They had no physical forms, only images.
And the four characters "Receiving and Ascending to Immortality" also illuminated a strange, winding path.
Muddy and narrow.
Uneven.
It stretched onward, growing more illusory the farther it went.
In the end, it vanished into nothingness.
He could not see where it ended.
"This..."
Jiang Qiao's gaze sharpened. Holding the banner up, he immediately stepped out of the building's shadow and into the sunlight.
Blue light.
It cast no warmth upon his body.
Instead, it felt as though he had been submerged in icy water, leaving him cold to the bone from head to toe.
A dim, deep blue.
A hazy halo.
The "Immortal-Guiding Banner" looked somewhat dreamlike beneath the blue light.
But aside from that.
Nothing happened.
"Isn't this sunlight?" Jiang Qiao walked along the street with the Immortal-Guiding Banner, changing his posture from time to time.
It was completely meaningless.
Whether it was the two Guiding Children.
Or that path.
They were all faint, just like shadows.
There was neither any change.
Nor