Jiang Yuechu's gaze shifted slightly, and she unceremoniously stowed the Nine-Curved Purple Bamboo in her Storage Bag.
"What about the cultivation technique?"
She turned and looked at Demon Emperor Juechen.
"Where is that True Form Map of You Mountain?"
Demon Emperor Juechen came to his senses and quickly replied, "This junior will go look for it right away!"
With that,
the half-faced, sunken-in deer demon truly put in every ounce of effort.
He rummaged through everything.
He lifted stone platforms, opened hidden compartments, and even sprawled on the ground, turning over the odds and ends in every corner by the walls, one by one.
He busied himself for a full half-incense stick.
From behind an inconspicuous stone altar deep in the treasury, Demon Emperor Juechen felt around and pulled out an iron box covered in dust.
Holding it in both hands, he hurried over to Jiang Yuechu and respectfully presented it to her.
"Senior, this should be the item."
Jiang Yuechu took the iron box and lifted the lid.
Inside lay a yellowed scroll of animal hide.
Its corners were ragged and incomplete. Clearly, it was not the whole thing.
When she unfurled it, her eyes met a dense jumble of writing and bizarre diagrams.
The diagrams showed mountains of all different shapes, with countless fine lines connecting them.
It looked like a meridian chart, and also like a formation diagram, yet it wasn't quite either.
Jiang Yuechu glanced over a few lines.
"What kind of chicken-scratch is this... It's not even as good as my drawing..."
She muttered, but still put the scroll away in her Storage Bag.
She raised her eyes to Demon Emperor Juechen. "Did that Old Monkey ever master this?"
At her question, Demon Emperor Juechen scratched the deerskin beside his broken horn and replied sheepishly,