Li Yue immediately looked toward the spot where the other man had stood before entering the grotto.
But there was no silver sheet of gold foil there.
"It's gone..."
"Could some living being have already come here and taken that silver sheet of gold foil?"
He murmured to himself.
Something that had fallen from the Ancient Emperor Lord Zhi—one could only imagine how precious it was!
But soon.
His gaze turned toward the stone tablet inscribed with the words "Go no further."
The tablet stood not far from where the Ancient Emperor Lord Zhi had originally stood.
And—
There had been no such tablet in the scene revealed by the round mirror!
A thought stirred in his mind.
He tentatively sent out a wisp of Sword Qi, striking the small stone tablet.
Immediately—
The tablet shattered beneath the Sword Qi, and the silver sheet of gold foil fluttered down from within.
Li Yue immediately reached out to catch it.
The silver sheet of gold foil was densely covered in strange characters, not one of which he recognized.
Under normal circumstances.
At his realm, a single glance at any writing would let him understand its creator's meaning and read the characters.
Yet the writing on the silver sheet of gold foil before him seemed not to exist at all. Looking at it was no different from not looking.
"These characters..."
He frowned.
Since he could not understand it, he had no intention of taking the silver sheet of gold foil with him.
How could he carry something from an Ancient Emperor Lord when he did not understand its meaning?
He suspected—
This silver sheet of gold foil might not have been left behind by the Ancient Emperor Lord Zhi.
Instead, when the Ancient Emperor Lord Zhi was about to enter the