Song Yan stood beside the pool, water vapor and Spiritual Qi gently swirling around him.
His divine sense swept out, carefully examining the waterfall and cave entrance. Soon, he discovered a small stone ledge protruding from the rock face behind the waterfall.
He leaped up, passed through the surging curtain of water, and landed on the ledge behind it.
The curtain of water formed a barrier behind him, casting strange, shifting light within.
A wisp of Sword Qi brushed across the wet rock face and found a concealed restriction.
The Spiritual Power fluctuations of this little formation restriction were also of the water element. Beneath all this billowing water vapor, it really was rather well hidden.
"Even with advance notice, it's still hidden quite deep. What a crafty senior sister."
He casually broke the restriction.
A small natural stone niche appeared behind it, barely large enough to admit a hand.
He reached inside, and his fingertips touched something cold, roughly the size of a fist.
He took it out, and its outline became clear in the faint light filtering through the water curtain.
The object could broadly be called a sphere. It gave off no Spiritual Power fluctuations, and he could not tell whether it was made of metal or jade. Its surface was covered in fine, intricate grooves and protrusions, with slightly movable interlocking rings meshing together layer upon layer in an extremely precise arrangement.
The complexity of its construction was breathtaking.
Song Yan had seen things of this sort back in the Chu Kingdom.
Xiao He liked these toys, and he had even bought her one.
But the one Senior Sister Si Xiangqing had left him was far more complicated than any he had seen before.
Song Yan played with it interestedly for a while, then put it