Hearing this, Xu Taiping nodded slightly and said:
"That was my guess as well."
Master Xuanzhi also nodded at this point and said:
"Judging by the timing, only Yundaozi, the last inheritor of the Heaven-Replenishing Book, could have left behind this key to the Heaven-Mending Art seal, along with this bronze mirror."
Gu Yu suddenly spoke up as well:
"There's another possibility: the person who buried these things wasn't the same person who left them behind."
Dongfang Yuejian nodded.
"That's right. Some Dragon-Slaying Person might indeed have found these things in the Southern Heavenly Gate Ruins and then buried them here."
Xu Taiping glanced at the jade slip in his hand and said:
"Perhaps the answer lies in this jade slip."
The jade slip in his hand was plainly one used to transmit messages.
At these words, Dongfang Yuejian, Xuanzhi, and Gu Yu all turned their gazes toward the jade slip in Xu Taiping's hand.
Then Xu Taiping gripped the jade slip tightly and infused a strand of true essence into it.
"Crack!"
The instant he infused his true essence, a crimson rune suddenly flew out of the jade slip.
Seeing this, Dongfang Yuejian said in great surprise:
"That senior actually placed a restriction inside this jade slip."
She looked up at Xu Taiping and continued:
"If the person who infused true essence just now hadn't been a cultivator of our Human Race, I'm afraid this restriction would have blasted the jade slip to pieces."
Xu Taiping looked equally surprised.
But this only made them all the more curious about the message left within the jade slip.
Just then, accompanied by a faint tremor, an aged voice that sounded exceedingly weak emerged from the jade slip-
"Fellow Daoist, if you can hear my voice, it means you've already encountered the