The campfire in the camp crackled, casting long shadows of everyone onto the ground. Su Qingxue unfastened the fox-fur cloak from her shoulders and draped it over a stone table, her fingertips gently brushing against the faint golden patterns still lingering on Ye Fan's palm—traces left behind by the operation of his Inner World.
"There is a ruin in the far north," she murmured, toying with a silver bell as her voice, wrapped in the scent of aloeswood, drifted into everyone's ears. "I was looking through the old archives of Hanmei Pavilion the day before yesterday and found that three hundred years ago, a mighty expert of the Dao Harmonization Realm perished here. Their dying words stated: 'The Star Abyss conceals the key to the Longevity Gate.'"
Ye Fan's hand froze as he was polishing the Jiuxiao Huanpei. The Star Abyss—was this not precisely the new pattern that had just appeared on the Monument of Life and Death? When he raised his eyes, he happened to catch Lin Zhaoyue's concerned gaze. She had sheathed her sword at some point, and her cascading dark hair brushed against the snow-white sword tassel.
Chapter 260