Late at night, inside a room in the Heaven Patrol Office's rear courtyard.
Yi Yang sat cross-legged on a prayer mat, a yellowed sheet of Beastskin Paper spread before him.
This sheet of Beastskin Paper had been recovered from Wang Gongqin, the Nine Evil Sect's Grand Steward who had died in Yunlin County (this happened in chapter 95).
Yi Yang had examined it once when he first obtained it, but its surface had been densely covered in twisted markings, like earthworms crawling across mud. Unable to make any sense of it, he had simply tucked it at the bottom of a chest, where it had remained for a long time.
But after his mental power broke through, Yi Yang suddenly felt an impulse to take the paper out and examine it again.
Yi Yang smoothed out the Beastskin Paper and studied it by candlelight.
Twisted markings covered the paper. At first glance, they looked like idle scribbles, or perhaps some strange totem.
He stared at it for a long while without discovering anything, then muttered inwardly:
Could this just be a scrap of useless paper?
Yi Yang frowned. Just as he was about to put it away, a thought flashed through his mind.
Previously, bringing the Heart Ape Mind Guarding Art to the beginner level had greatly increased his mental power.
Could this sheet of Beastskin Paper require mental power to perceive?
He closed his eyes and activated his mental power.
A strand of invisible power extended from between his brows and spread over the Beastskin Paper.
On the first pass, the markings remained nothing more than markings.
On the second, he vaguely discerned hints of a pattern.
After a dozen or so passes, those twisted lines suddenly took shape in his mind. Like puzzle pieces finding their missing slots,