Xue Mushi had drawn it for Yu Sui before. Now that Yu Sui had seen what the Futuo Tower Fragments really looked like, she was certain it wasn't that she couldn't appreciate Xue Mushi's artistic skill. The problem was Xue Mushi himself.
What sat on Gu Gan's desk was a circular object about the size of an adult's bangle. The ring's face was about as wide as a thumb pad—slightly larger, in fact—and had a tiny notch. It looked like a piece of jade, but was much larger than an ordinary chunk of jade.
Yu Sui looked it over carefully and understood why Xue Mushi had struggled to draw the fragment.
Though it looked like a piece of jade, it was made of pieces of something—she couldn't tell whether jade or stone—joined together. The pieces had broken into irregular shapes, and patches of emerald-green moss clung to some of the surfaces. A gentle green glow radiated from the whole thing.
Yu Sui hadn't seen the moment Gu Gan got the fragment.
Looking at it now, she suspected he had dug it out piece by piece from somewhere and assembled it.
The Futuo Tower Fragments looked as thin as paper, seemingly weightless. In the faint green glow, indecipherable symbols were carved into the cracked circular surface.
Those had to be the Tianzi Text Gao Tianhao was looking for.
Yu Sui studied them for a long while. They were indeed characters she had never seen before and couldn't decipher.
This wasn't Gu Gan's first time seeing the Futuo Tower Fragments. He sat beside the table, gazing down at them without a word.
Ji Meng and Huo Xiao didn't seem to be seeing them for the first time either.
Ji Meng looked at the fragments on the table and murmured to himself, "After