Xu Zichang knew those outside would grow anxious if he took too long, so he quickly steadied his breathing and drew a deep breath. Spiritual energy slowly flowed toward him from every direction, entering his body with that breath and nourishing his organs.
A few breaths later, Xu Zichang opened his eyes again and looked back at the sheet before him, still unable to calm his heart.
The person who had left this writing must also be an Immortal Cultivator. Without question, his cultivation surpassed anything Xu Zichang had encountered in his life. Even this incomplete text was something Heaven would not tolerate.
"If only I could find him, if only I could find him..."
Xu Zichang stared fixedly at the words on the paper, murmuring over and over as though trying to engrave them into his heart.
In a daze, Xu Zichang's whole figure seemed to blur. In his eyes, everything around him slipped into a slight distortion except the words on the sheet before him-
Far away in Su Prefecture to the northwest, dawn was only just breaking.
Inside an inn, Stoneborn slept soundly, hugging the quilt wrapped around him, while Yi Shuyuan lay asleep on his side at the edge of the bed, his hand beneath his head.
In his sleep, Yi Shuyuan's awareness stirred, as though sensing something.
Between sleeping and waking, Yi Shuyuan let that sensation draw his spirit forth.
It was just like his brief rest outside Zhuo Qing's room back then. The sensation was not his soul leaving his body, yet the dream felt like a splitting of his consciousness. His spirit seemed to remain in his body even as it wandered through the world outside.
The sheet bearing the "Heaven and Earth Transformation" was extraordinarily special, so much so that a strand