Wan Qingteng seemed not to have heard Tuoba Xiongzhen. Instead, he muttered to himself, "'Godslayer,' 'Immortal Slayer,' 'Demon Subduer'... yes, yes, yes, that's right. There's no mistake. They're all there, all of them!"
"They really are?" Wu Longfeng shouted again.
Wan Qingteng drew a deep breath, then pointed at the Seven-Spirit Disc. "Look at the center of the Seven-Spirit Disc. Yes, right beneath the seven Seven Spirit Blades, right here. Do you see them? Those faint shadows!"
"Shadows?" Everyone was somewhat puzzled, but Wan Qingteng's reaction told them that he must have discovered something. Whatever he was speaking of must therefore exist.
Huang Xiao and the others turned their gazes toward the center of the Seven-Spirit Disc. In the darkness of the night, that spot was not completely dark; instead, it faintly emitted a gentle glow, like the moonlight cast by the crescent overhead. It was just as dim and just as soft-indeed, considerably dimmer than the moonlight. Without looking closely, even experts like them had overlooked it earlier.
Besides looking at that gentle glow, they also searched for the shadows Wan Qingteng had mentioned.
"I see them! They really are there!" Duan Siping cried.
"There are words! Words!" Fang Chongyi shouted as well.
As they made their discoveries, everyone present found and clearly saw the shadows Wan Qingteng had spoken of.
Though called shadows, they were actually slightly darker areas in the center of the piece of jade that formed the Seven-Spirit Disc. When examining the Seven-Spirit Disc before, none of them had noticed anything. They had merely thought the jade free of impurities and almost entirely uniform.
Only now, looking at it in the darkness of night, could they discover such subtle differences.
It seemed that some impurities had seeped into the jade after all; otherwise, these