Afternoon.
Sunlight slanted across the lone peak.
Even beneath the shade of lush trees, the heat remained unbearable.
"My lord!" Xie Xiaoj iu carried a wooden chest up to the summit of the lone peak and came before Jiang Ning.
Seeing Jiang Ning's gaze fall on the wooden chest in her hands, Xie Xiaoj iu added, "My lord, these are all the martial arts manuals of middle grade and above within Divine Sword Manor. There are also several incomplete scrolls that you should be very interested in."
"Oh?" Jiang Ning's interest was immediately piqued upon hearing her words.
Seeing Jiang Ning's gaze,
Xie Xiaoj iu promptly took out a wooden case from the chest. "Please have a look, my lord!"
Xie Xiaoj iu opened the wooden case in her hand and passed it over.
Jiang Ning accepted the case. The first thing that met his eyes were the two words: Beginning of Spring.
"This is... an incomplete scroll of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms?" Jiang Ning asked.
"Yes, my lord! Divine Sword Manor has several incomplete scrolls of the solar terms!" Xie Xiaoj iu said.
Listening to Xie Xiaoj iu, Jiang Ning picked up the incomplete Beginning of Spring scroll from within the wooden case.
It was a scroll made of some unknown beast hide.
The beast-hide scroll was covered in vibrant ink-wash paintings, as well as densely packed words as tiny as ants.
Jiang Ning's gaze slowly swept across it.
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A series of notifications immediately flashed before him.
In just a few moments, he withdrew his gaze and lightly closed his eyes.
Images from the beast-hide scroll immediately emerged in his mind. Within his mind, those originally monochrome ink-wash paintings instantly became brilliantly colored, as though life had