The insects' chirping gradually faded; leaves swayed over yellow mountains.
Autumn's fallen leaves spread a carpet of red; birdsong lingered on...
An autumn leaf blew into the Book Tower, fluttering down to settle gently on Su Mo's long hair. Su Mo paid it no heed.
Looking out, fallen leaves already carpeted the ground beneath the open window of the Book Tower. A gust blew through, and those yellow leaves stirred faintly, as though the wind was too weak to carry them away.
Who knew whether it was the wind, the fallen leaves, or the young man sitting like withered wood...
There was always a touch of desolation in this scene...
A beguiling, illusory figure gradually appeared behind Su Mo. Watching him leaf through a copy of the Collection of Plant and Wood Characters, she sighed and said, "There's no need to read this one. It isn't very different from the Book of Plants and Trees you read two days ago."
Su Mo shook his head and kept leafing through it himself.
"Although this Collection of Plant and Wood Characters isn't very different from that Book of Plants and Trees, it records a few more kinds of plants and trees. I'll look through it again. Perhaps there'll be some clues."
The beguiling, illusory figure stood far behind Su Mo. Looking at his hair, more than half of which had turned white, she sighed. "I told you long ago: your little girl isn't suffering from an incomplete soul."
"She was an incomplete soul remnant to begin with. That remnant is too tiny. Its dissipation is heaven's decree, beyond human power to reverse!"
Su Mo finished the Collection of Plant and Wood Characters in his hands, set it aside, then picked up a copy of Pharmacology and began leafing through it.
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