The entry with the oldest ink in this booklet was in a format Pei Ye knew very well: an extract from an account book, headed "Confidential inventory of the Qi Yun storehouse."
Under the category "August," one entry read: "Item one: one hundred and twenty jin of Heart Amber."
"..."
Pei Ye remembered distinctly that, at the Bowang Immortal Platform, the adults had discussed Heart Amber production: only a little over two hundred jin a year, with no more than sixty jin leaving the region.
Yet a Soul-Seizing Pearl required less than two liang of it, and even a Sword Heart Reflection needed only seven liang.
This was a rare Mindscape Realm material to begin with. How could such an enormous stockpile exist somewhere no one knew about?
Pei Ye sat quietly for a while before turning further through the booklet. But he turned only one page: when he reached the category "September," he froze again.
He stared at the page without moving.
It was still an inventory of the "Confidential inventory of the Qi Yun storehouse," but under "September"... those one hundred and twenty jin of Heart Amber were conspicuously absent.
A full one hundred and twenty jin of Heart Amber had vanished without a trace of where they had gone!
Pei Ye flipped back and forth several times before confirming that he had not misread it. Still less could Zhang He have omitted a consignment like this.
There was no record of its destination. Clearly, even in the most secret booklet of the Xiangzhou Joy-in-Death Tower, the purpose of this Heart Amber could not be written down.
Or perhaps even Zhang He did not know.
Only after a long while did Pei Ye draw a deep breath and quiet his somewhat unsettled thoughts.
What he could now confirm