After speaking with White Dragon for a while, Chen Lin took his leave, his expression shifting.
He held a bamboo scroll in his hand.
He returned to his quarters.
Sitting on a stool, he unrolled the bamboo scroll to read it.
This was an ancient text White Dragon had given him. It looked small, but each bamboo strip was like a jade slip, capable of storing an enormous amount of information.
The bamboo was no ordinary treasure either. It was a spiritual root born of heaven and earth, and could even withstand an Eternal Treasure head-on.
What it contained, however, was not cultivation techniques or secret arts, but miscellaneous observations and accounts, including some information about the Star Ruins.
He extended his soul power into it and turned to the section on Huqiu.
Lines of text appeared in his mind.
A long while passed.
Chen Lin withdrew his soul mind.
The bamboo slip contained little information about Huqiu, but even that was enough to inspire wonder.
Huqiu was a hill, named for its resemblance to a tiger.
There was nothing special about the place itself, but a vine covered in wind chimes grew upon it. Called the everlasting vine, it could seal love within its wind chimes. As the chimes rang, the love sealed inside would grow ever stronger.
That was all the information there was.
Chen Lin furrowed his brows deeply, pondering Nana's intentions.
Had she sealed her love inside one, only to regret it now, and wanted him to help pluck the wind chime to end that love?
And whom had she fallen in love with?
There was another issue.
Plucking the wind chime was actually a paradox.
If the everlasting vine truly possessed such miraculous powers, she should have been so madly in love that she could