That page vanished without a trace, leaving only a piece of azure flood dragon hide in Fang Yun's hand.
"What is going on? Who could take this Polluted Text from a thousand miles away?" Fang Yun immediately looked around, but there was nothing.
Fortunately, this was not the first time such a thing had happened. Fang Yun immediately understood and silently asked, "Strange Book World, where is the Great Scholar's Polluted Text?"
Fang Yun immediately "saw" a stretch of Void. A yellowed page floated within it, and the blood-red writing upon it suddenly began to pulse slowly like blood vessels. The pounding grew louder and louder, until it was like war drums.
The blood-red writing seemed bound by some force and was struggling.
Far away, where the Yangtze River met the Eastern Sea, there was an exceptionally broad estuary. Deep within it, a resplendent Flood Dragon Palace stood upon the riverbed.
"Royal Father, that Li Wenying has bullied our Water Race beyond all reason. Please grant me a treasure so I may reclaim that Great Scholar's Polluted Text."
"Go and take one drop of my Sacred Blood. Search slowly for that page of Great Scholar's Polluted Text."
"Li Wenying has already killed that lowly snake and should have obtained it. To deal with Li Wenying, I fear we will need a drop of your vital blood."
"If he had obtained it, he would certainly have first returned to Dayuan Prefecture and used the Temple of Sages' power to cleanse it. Why would he have acted in the river? That little snake was clever. She likely hid the Great Scholar's Polluted Text somewhere along her route."
"Fine! I will transform into a human and search for it slowly."
"Mm, go... Wait, there is no need."
"Royal Father, you..."
"My Sacred Blood