After a moment's contemplation, he returned the texts one by one.
Then he returned to the Sword Seclusion residence.
"Xiao Ju," Song Yan called.
"Master, what is it?"
"Do you still have the Three Swords of the Celestial Lodge I gave you a while ago?"
"Huh?"
Xiao Ju froze for a moment, then immediately said, "Yes."
She took the Three Swords of the Celestial Lodge out of her Heaven and Earth Bag, along with their Sword Case.
Was Master taking them back?
Was he no longer going on a long journey?
But Song Yan merely channeled his Spiritual Power, suspending the three flying swords side by side before him as he examined something closely.
Amid the faint glimmers of spiritual light, patterns could just barely be seen engraved on the blades of the three flying swords.
He had already noticed this back in the Mohist School's treasury.
At the time, however, he had simply assumed they were decorative star patterns and paid them little attention.
But after seeing Master Hu Fei's manuscripts, he had felt that the style of these patterns bore some resemblance to the style of his mechanism designs.
The patterns were exceedingly faint. Even scrutinizing them at such close range, he still could not make them out clearly.
Tracing them with Spiritual Power did not help either.
So Song Yan summoned a wisp of Sword Qi and slowly spread it over the three blades.
The Sword Qi flowed along the blades, gradually revealing the patterns upon them.
Looking at the patterns before him, Song Yan carefully searched his memory.
Though they differed from Master Hu Feizi's works, they were very similar, clearly sharing the same origins.
Why would Mechanism Dao patterns be on the blades of three flying swords?
Song Yan was somewhat puzzled.
Moreover, these mechanism