"Uh, although I had my suspicions before, I couldn't be sure. My abilities are limited, and even looking through this prism, I can't tell what's inside the jade. Fellow Daoist Lu, do you remember Qingzhou City back then?" Mo Wentian asked.
Lu Xiaotian nodded, and Mo Wentian recounted one of his past experiences. Qingzhou City was vast, and as human cultivators continued to explore deeper into the demon-beast forest, Mo Wentian, Old Monster Meng, and Tao Xiaofeng had once been chased by a swarm of wood-spine demon bees. In their desperate flight, they had stumbled into an abandoned underground fortress.
Old Monster Meng had perished inside that fortress. Mo Wentian and the others hadn't been the only ones to enter it; there had also been several Nascent Soul Cultivators, as well as Golden Core cultivators like Mo Wentian, who had wandered in by mistake. They had all searched for treasures within the fortress.
By sheer chance, Mo Wentian had found a fragment of a jade slip. From it, he had learned about the "fermentation spirit insect" and the illusion-breaking mirror, as well as some of the secrets of this beautiful jade. The jade slip was incomplete, however, and much important information had been lost. Mo Wentian had been left to guess at some of it. Even so, the fragment still contained certain details. Trapped inside the fortress, Mo Wentian knew all too well the old adage that a man's wealth was a crime in itself. So he destroyed the jade slip. As expected, other Nascent Soul Cultivators later searched his storage pouch and even took the treasures inside his body. But that Nascent Soul Cultivator couldn't make heads or tails of what he found, and eventually let Mo Wentian go.
"You're saying this beautiful jade is actually an exceptionally thick,