Ren Qing narrowed his eyes slightly and instinctively activated his Double Pupils.
He noticed that wherever Tu Di had walked, faint bloodstains had been left behind, though Abhidi Hell gradually absorbed them clean.
The blood had clearly flowed from Tu Di's body. Coupled with his increasingly severe Aberration and hazy memories, Ren Qing had a feeling that his condition was far from encouraging.
The doors of the Secret Pavilion closed on their own.
Ren Qing headed toward the bookshelves. He could find time to inform Song Zongwu about Tu Di's condition.
The Secret Pavilion had five floors in total. Reserves could move about on the first three floors, while books recording experiences of advancing to the Ghost Envoy Realm were likely kept on the upper two.
Yet he was in no hurry. Instead, he casually picked up a few books and began flipping through them.
The dossiers themselves seemed to be made from some unknown material and felt rather tough to the touch.
Even if someone deliberately damaged them, it probably would not matter. The Secret Pavilion surely concealed certain methods; otherwise, its dossiers could not possibly have remained entirely intact.
Ren Qing discovered that the ground floor contained dossiers on Forbidden Guards who had died in recent years, including the whereabouts of Eerie Objects and the methods used to handle them.
After reviewing the dossiers for a while, he was just about to head upstairs.
But all of a sudden, he noticed claw marks along the side of a bookshelf in the corner. They seemed to have been left by Tu Di.
Frowning, Ren Qing walked over and reached out to touch the claw marks.
The shelf's wood was hard and had likely been soaked in tung oil. Without considerable force, it would have been impossible to leave marks