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Zang Xiaojian's figure grew more and more distant, eventually disappearing into the horizon above.

After bidding farewell to Zang Xiaojian, Lu Qingshan rubbed his forehead with a headache.

"I don't know how I'll face Lady Mo," Qin Yitian could see Lu Qingshan's distress.

Lu Qingshan nodded.

Next, he had to deliver the news of the death of her husband and son to Mo Zhizhi.

He couldn't imagine how devastating this news would be for Mo Zhizhi.

But no matter the headache, since he had promised Mo Yan, he had to do it.

"Forget it, Miss Qin, let's head back to Jiaolong City first," Lu Qingshan rubbed his temples and called out to Qin Yitian.

Qin Yitian lightly nodded her head.

...

Jiaolong City, Woodcarving Shop.

Two streaks of Radiance came to a halt and gently descended.

"You're finally back!" The keenly perceptive King of the Western Mice was the first to detect Lu Qingshan's presence, bouncing out excitedly from the woodcarving shop to welcome him.

However, when the King of the Western Mice saw that only Lu Qingshan and Qin Yitian were at the door, he couldn't help but be startled, not knowing what scenario he had imagined, his face mournful and his voice trembling, "Why just the two of you? Where is Zang Xiaojian? Don't tell me ... "

A cloth bag flew out of Lu Qingshan's hands towards the King of the Western Mice.

The King of the Western Mice clumsily caught the bag, which was slightly larger than his own body, "What's this?"

"Zang Xiaojian had urgent business, couldn't say goodbye, and had to go home first. This is the gift she left for you," Lu Qingshan said a bit irritably, "Lady Mo is still inside, right?"

"A gift?" The King of the Western Mice's eyebrows lifted and he smiled eagerly, hurriedly starting to open the cloth bag while replying, "Lady Mo is inside, she's been restless all this time, making me feel anxious too..."

Lu Qingshan walked towards the woodcarving shop, casually asking, "What gift did Zang Xiaojian leave for you?"

He was indeed quite curious but, after all, since it was something Zang Xiaojian had given to the King of the Western Mice, he didn't feel it right to open it without permission.

"It's a book...." The King of the Western Mice's excitement turned into a sob, "The gift Zang Xiaojian left me is actually a book..."

The cloth bag contained several ancient books.

Lu Qingshan glanced amusedly at the King of the Western Mice, who was flipping through the ancient books with a look of absolute despair.

He had no idea what kind of books Zang Xiaojian had left for the King of the Western Mice, but they even included some very delicate illustrations.

Lu Qingshan muttered something and shook his head, not giving it much more thought.

He still had not clarified things with Lady Mo, which was the most urgent matter at hand.

However, after taking a few more steps, a thought seemed to flash through his mind.

"Wait," Lu Qingshan muttered uncertainly, "Why do I feel like that illustration looks familiar... like I've seen it somewhere before?"

"What book did Zang Xiaojian leave you?" Lu Qingshan stopped walking and said to the King of the Western Mice, "Let me see it."

The King of the Western Mice threw the book in his hand to Lu Qingshan.

On the book cover, the title was written in tiny script.

[Southern Sea Spirit Beast Chart].

"Back then, it was because I peeped at this that Zang Xiaojian caught me," King West Mouse grumbled.

Lu Qingshan, absorbed in his own world, flipped open the Southern Sea Spirit Beast Chart to the page he had just glimpsed.

He was so engrossed that, after a long while, he suddenly began to fly high into the sky with Sword Control.
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Qin Yitian blinked his clear eyes, puzzled, but also subconsciously prepared to follow by levitating.

"Take me with you!" King West Mouse hastily leaped onto Qin Yitian's shoulder.

Qin Yitian gave King West Mouse a glance but said nothing else, transforming into a rainbow light and following Lu Qingshan.

This time, Lu Qingshan stopped his Sword Control flight at a very high point and looked out into the expanse of blue, the air growing thin.

The red light Qin Yitian had transformed into stopped next to Lu Qingshan. Seeing Lu Qingshan's solemn expression, he quickly asked, "What's wrong?"

Lu Qingshan handed him the book in his hands and pointed down at Jiaolong Island, "Don't you think Jiaolong Island looks familiar?"

Qin Yitian looked down. From such a height, the outline of Jiaolong Island was faintly visible in its entirety.

Jiaolong Island towered like a mountain, stretching long overall, but its head and middle parts were wider, and the area gradually narrowed toward the tail.

And the Spiritual Abyss was located at the head of Jiaolong Island.

"Familiar?" Qin Yitian still did not understand what Lu Qingshan meant by 'familiar,' and turned his gaze back to the book.

A grayish-white image of an Eternal Whale entered his view.

This whale was mountainous in size, immensely large, tapering from the head to the tail. Its tail fin was heart-shaped, and its blowhole on the top resembled a volcano...

Qin Yitian's pupils slightly constricted, he glanced again at the outline of Jiaolong Island, and said incredulously, "Are you suggesting...?"

Lu Qingshan nodded.

Only King West Mouse was still confused, scratching his ears and cheeks anxiously, "Lu Qingshan, what are you talking about? I don't understand what you mean."

Lu Qingshan did not keep King West Mouse in suspense but retorted, "Do you remember the story about the Eternal Whale transforming into an island that the storyteller mentioned in the teahouse at Bibo City?"

King West Mouse nodded, "I remember, that storyteller was boasting at the time.

He said that in the Boundless Sea Area, there was an Eternal Whale Species floating on the sea surface, huge and sleepy, sleeping for millions of years at a time, unmoved by wind or rain. Over time, it evolved into an island, but his claim was quickly debunked by other patrons, who ridiculed him..."

King West Mouse's voice trailed off, and it finally dawned on him. His mouse eyes looked at the image of the Eternal Whale in the Southern Sea Spirit Beast Chart and then down at Jiaolong Island again. He rubbed his eyes, his mouse paw trembling excitedly as he pointed at Jiaolong Island, hardly believing, "The silhouette of Jiaolong Island is exactly the same as the shape of the Eternal Whale depicted in this drawing?!"

"Not necessarily," King West Mouse regained its composure after the shock, vigorously shaking its head, "Lu Qingshan, you can't just conclude that Jiaolong Island was transformed from an Eternal Whale just because their outlines are similar; after all, coincidences happen all the time in this world."

"Indeed, there are many coincidences in this world, and merely having similar shapes doesn't prove anything," Lu Qingshan didn't oppose King West Mouse's proposition, then added, "However, Jiaolong Island just happens to have an extremely mysterious volcanic vent called Spiritual Abyss.

This Spiritual Abyss is bottomless, usually emits a strong attracting force, devours everything, and erupts intermittently, but what it spews is not magma but misty water vapor."

Qin Yitian, reading from the detailed description of the Eternal Whale in the Southern Sea Spirit Beast Chart, spoke word by word, "The Eternal Whale, the oldest spirit beast in the South Sea, is gentle by nature, loves to sleep, and has an almost unlimited lifespan, its body vast and boundless.

The reason the Eternal Whale always remains asleep is that within its whale belly, there is a small universe. This small universe is the source of the Eternal Whale, and as long as the small universe is indestructible, the Eternal Whale will not die.

To fortify the small universe, the whale remains in constant slumber, thus minimizing its energy consumption."

The entrance and exit of the small world is the blowhole on top of the Eternal Whale's head.

The Eternal Whale constantly draws the Spiritual Power and Yang Qi from between Heaven and Earth through this blowhole, fortifying the small universe inside and intermittently expelling the Yin Qi within the small universe."

"The description of this blowhole matches perfectly with the characteristics of the Spiritual Abyss," Qin Yitian put down the Southern Sea Spirit Beast Chart, his clear eyes wandering.