"...So that was it..." Li Piaoqing slowly nodded and went over to the altar to look down.
Then she froze.
It was perfectly flat, with nothing placed on it, only two old rows of inscriptions.
The writing in the first row was fine-edged and forceful.
[Edict Child]: Yang Zhaoren
[Candle Sword]: Taiyi.
[Heart Poison]: love, Seal-Removal Night, when Yi Duanzhi relinquished his seal.
Li Piaoqing knew the handwriting in the second row all too well.
[Edict Child]: Yi Danjun
[Candle Sword]: kinship.
[Heart Poison]: love, within the painting pavilion.
There was a third empty space after them.
"..."
Li Piaoqing's brows drew together slightly.
Killing a divine child supposedly required "Candle Sword Heart-Burning Poison." Li Piaoqing had thought Yi Chengxin's cultivation in the Heart Transmission Edict was the "dagger" the Edict Servants were unwilling to let through, but if the previous two had both known this secret art... how had they entered the Divine Realm?
She instinctively looked at Yi Chengxin.
The girl lowered her eyes with a smile, took out an engraving knife, and carved the third row, stroke by stroke.
[Edict Child]: Yi Chengxin
[Candle Sword]: Taiyi
[Heart Poison]: kinship, "New Year’s Eve Night Drinking Record."
"..."
Li Piaoqing was about to ask further, but Yi Chengxin had already straightened and looked up at the stone mirror above the cauldron.
"Sorry for the trouble, Sister, but could you take it down?"
Li Piaoqing leaped up and took down the heavy object.
It was covered in dust.
Yi Chengxin took it and said softly, "This mirror was originally placed here for these Edict Servants to consult while Holding the Heart, but as the corruption deepened day by day, no one used it anymore."
Li Piaoqing looked in puzzlement at the rough, pitch-black surface, which reflected nothing. "This is...?"
"Only