"Not many people come to the women of Wuzhen Tower to discuss serious business. What did you want to talk about, Fellow Daoist Chen?"
Inside the private room, Alan sat casually in her seat and looked at Chen Lin.
"First, tell me about your experience inside the Immortal Stele. Did you obtain an inheritance?"
Alan smiled. "There was an inheritance, but I turned it down."
"Turned it down? How did you do that?"
Chen Lin looked surprised.
"I simply refused it. Is there something wrong with that?"
Alan raised her wine cup and took a sip.
Seeing that she was unwilling to elaborate, Chen Lin did not press her. They were hardly close, so it was perfectly normal for her to be unwilling to discuss something so private.
His main reason for inviting her was Yun Xiumian.
With that in mind, he took out the Wooden Hairpin he had obtained in the Blood Handkerchief Scenario and placed it on the table. "Does this look familiar to you, Fairy Alan?"
Alan picked up the Wooden Hairpin and examined it, then frowned. "Isn't this Xiuniang's hairpin? But why does it carry Nightmare Realm Aura? Did you subject it to Nightmare Transformation?"
"No."
Chen Lin shook his head and recounted the matter of Yun Xiumian's Nightmare Realm Projection, along with his conjectures about the Yellow Springs Scroll.
Then he asked, "Fairy Alan, you and Xiuniang are as close as sisters, and you came from the same place. You must know her very well. Can you tell whether this is her hairpin, and whether the woman I encountered was a projection or Xiuniang herself?"
Alan's expression grew solemn.
"A projection? Are you certain?"
From her reaction, Chen Lin knew that she understood something of the Nightmare Realm as well. He answered honestly, "I'm not