Lesson
The object that entered Yu Ci's sight was precisely the square disk Meng Wei had just handed over. At first glance, it was indeed square, slightly larger than a palm. Ring after ring of densely packed grooves had been carved into it in remarkably orderly arrangements. Its corners were slightly curved, giving it the marvelous feeling of "presenting a circle through a square" at a single glance.
Yu Ci had never seen such a peculiar shape in anything other than a Talisman Disk. And this thing looked truly familiar! After hesitating for a moment, he tested the waters.
"Could this be... the Shooting Star Disk?"
The "Shooting Star Disk" he referred to was the Talisman Disk he had acquired right under Monk Zheng De's nose when he had first stumbled into the Blood Monk's conspiracy in Sky Rift Valley.
At the time, Hu Ke of the Wanling Sect had buried the disk underground, intending to capture and kill a ghost beast. Instead, he failed, and both disk and man were destroyed. By the time Yu Ci obtained it, the Shooting Star Disk had already been severely warped. Moreover, someone had carved complex talismanic patterns onto it, causing it to lose the original nature of a Talisman Disk. Later, Xie Liang had taken it back to the mountain gate and promised to restore it to its original appearance.
Meng Wei, however, shook her head. Yu Ci froze. "It isn't?"
"I don't know either. Sir instructed me to retrieve it from Uncle-Master Lu, Lu Delu." As she spoke, she turned to Old Mr. Zhu again. "Uncle-Master Lu has already gone to the Outer Domain of the Nine Heavens. Senior Brother Ban retrieved this Talisman Disk from the Six Yin True Water Pool according to Uncle-Master Lu's instructions."
"Then that must be