Zhang Yu picked up the booklet and opened it. He had given it a rough look while organizing things earlier. It was likewise written in indigenous script, though it used a different kind of writing.
As he read further, he discovered that this appeared to be a collection of notes his adoptive father had made while traveling.
Most of it recounted experiences in a boundless, sprawling forest, the various wondrous creatures encountered there, and descriptions and records of those creatures.
Judging by the location, the forest within seemed to refer to Eastern Court Forest. Yet upon closer inspection, he found that it was nothing of the sort.
Whether the creatures and scenery described within or the mountains, rivers, and surroundings, all differed vastly from the present-day Eastern Court. When he first began reading, he had thought it was another place on the Earth Continent, but as he continued, he realized that was not right.
These records did not depict the current age, but scenes from some past era!
A thought turned in Zhang Yu's mind. If his adoptive father had personally recorded this, then perhaps these had been his own experiences?
In other words, had this adoptive father of his been someone who had lived through a previous era?
On further thought, though, that was not particularly strange. His adoptive father's level was there for all to see. Strictly speaking, even Yi Chu had passed through three epochs to reach the present day. For someone of his adoptive father's standing, avoiding the upheaval of the Turbid Tide did not seem difficult.
But when he thought of the upheaval of the Turbid Tide, his heart stirred faintly.
From what had happened in the past, every epoch had possessed a ruler. After the Turbid Tide, that ruler would perish, or at the