After returning home from the Clear Sky Hunter Agency,
Fang Yu devoted himself completely to cultivation, attempting to open up a second contract space.
One week later, after successfully constructing the second contract space, Fang Yu received a message from Lingling.
After tidying himself up a bit, Fang Yu walked toward the old street where the Clear Sky Hunter Agency was located, while recalling the information he had just seen.
His mood was rather pleasant.
Through searching ancient texts, Lingling had learned the origin of the Azure White Crane, and there had also been new discoveries.
Not long after, Fang Yu arrived at the Clear Sky Hunter Agency.
Honestly speaking, the storefront of the Clear Sky Hunter Agency looked incredibly old and worn down.
That sort of decayed appearance that made it seem like the place could shut down permanently at any moment left Fang Yu completely unable to understand why Old Man Bao refused to spend some money renovating it.
Did he even want to run a business or not?
Pushing open the door, Fang Yu discovered that the agency was actually fairly lively.
An induction cooker had a large flat pot placed on top of it, and steaming fragrance filled the entire room.
"Fang Yu, hurry and sit down, hurry up! You came at the perfect time!" Old Man Bao said with a face full of smiles.
Lingling and Leng Qing were seated together.
The sisters' facial features were very similar.
It was easy to imagine that once Lingling grew up, the two would resemble each other more and more.
Leng Qing politely smiled, maintaining her usual quiet personality.
Lingling, on the other hand, looked very excited.
It was likely because her investigation over the past few days had produced results.
She blinked at Fang Yu and said,"Fang Yu, I made a new discovery."
There were not many things capable of making Lingling this excited.
Fang Yu vaguely guessed what it was about, but he still decided to first thoroughly enjoy the food in front of him.
Sure enough, eating alone in silence really reduced one's appetite.
But having hotpot together with everyone?
It was simply way too satisfying.
Sitting on a high stool, Fang Yu picked at his teeth while waiting for Lingling's new discovery.
Leng Qing also sat down nearby, her gaze fixed on Lingling.
Lingling drank a cup of iced tea to cool herself down before immediately bringing over her laptop and showing the processed information to Fang Yu and Leng Qing.
"I spent several months researching the image and activity areas of the Azure White Crane. Through ancient records, I discovered its true origin. It was a Totem that once guarded the region surrounding the Dazu Rock Carvings in ancient times, the Nine Heavens Cloud Crane."
"After that, I tried understanding and reconstructing the history of the Dazu Rock Carvings, and then I discovered this!"
On the screen appeared a massive list of names.
There were so many densely packed names that they were impossible to count at a glance.
This was clearly an enormous list, probably close to the population of an entire city.
Lingling had already compressed the display.
If one scrolled downward, there would still be even more.
"Why are you showing us all these names?" Fang Yu asked in confusion.
He could not see any pattern within the list at all.
"The Dazu Rock Carvings region housed enormous demon tribes, so as time passed, the ancient residents living nearby underwent several migration events in order to avoid demon invasions."
"Everyone on this list came from the same place, the ancient residents of the Dazu Rock Carvings."
"One-third of the residents from the Dazu Rock Carvings migrated to the ancient city you once visited, another third moved to Jiangzhou in the Bashu region, while the remaining third scattered across different cities. Their movements are too complicated for us to fully trace for now."
Lingling tapped the screen.
Soon, the original place of residence appeared behind each of the massive number of names.
All of them were ancient residents of the Dazu Rock Carvings!
"All of them?" Fang Yu asked.
"Mhm, we can basically confirm it," Lingling replied.
Fang Yu gave Lingling a thumbs-up with his fair hand.
To locate a completely patternless group of people from within history itself, Lingling truly was a genius.
"There's no time to waste. I need to head to these regions immediately!" Fang Yu stood up.
Although he had already received the Fire Seed blessing from the Nine Heavens Cloud Crane, at his current stage, the Fire Seed's power was only at the Spirit Seed level.
As long as he could find more feathers or Totem remains, he would be able to obtain additional Totem power and evolve his Fire Seed once again.
Lingling rolled her eyes at Fang Yu before continuing to poke at the screen with her finger.
"Some things don't necessarily require you to personally make the trip, especially the preliminary investigation."
"I already hired several teams of Hunters. They each went to collect information regarding the ancient residents of the Dazu Rock Carvings. Then guess what I discovered?"
Fang Yu looked at Lingling.
Her face was overflowing with uncontrollable joy, making her look exceptionally adorable.
Unable to resist, he reached out and pinched her cheek.
"Stop keeping us in suspense."
Lingling slapped his hand away and snorted unhappily.
"Look for yourself."
The screen switched again, and an image immediately appeared.
The background of the image was a stretch of flat land.
It looked completely lifeless.
At the closer edge of the picture were numerous cracked pits and holes.
"Flatland?" Fang Yu asked in surprise.
"Mhm, flatland. This location is in the region surrounding Jiangzhou in the Bashu area."
As she spoke, Lingling switched to another image.
The next image was still of the same flatland, but this time it focused on the deep pit area.
"Fang Yu, look at the symbol beneath this pit," Lingling said.
At the bottom of the pit was a black stone engraved with a symbol.
"What's special about this symbol?" Fang Yu examined it repeatedly but failed to spot anything unusual.
"Don't you think it resembles some kind of Totem Seal?" Lingling said.
Fang Yu tried hard to recall it.
Gradually, the contours and patterns of the engraved symbol began matching the feather pattern of the Azure White Crane!
Fang Yu was utterly shocked.
"A new clue related to a Totem Beast?"
"This location clearly has an extremely close connection to the Nine Heavens Cloud Crane Totem. Otherwise, it wouldn't use this Totem Seal as its symbol!" Lingling said.
This was exactly why Lingling had been so unusually excited today.
Originally, she had merely been helping Fang Yu investigate the origins of the Azure White Crane.
Yet unexpectedly, she had uncovered an important clue connected to a Totem.
Even Fang Yu himself had not expected to accidentally discover a Totem clue and an ancient Totem at that!!
"There's no time to lose, let's depart immediately!" Fang Yu became excited.
The Nine Heavens Cloud Crane originated from the lineage of the Sacred Totem Vermilion Bird!
The Nine Heavens Cloud Crane had already granted Fang Yu such powerful abilities.
And now another mysterious feather clue had appeared, making Fang Yu extremely expectant.
The more he learned about this magical world, the more he realized how weak he still was.
At this moment, his desire to grow stronger as quickly as possible became incomparably intense.
After several months of preparation, Lingling had now gathered nearly all the intelligence they needed.
It was finally time to move out and investigate the place.
Fang Yu and Lingling spent an entire day traveling before finally arriving in the Bashu region.
Because the destination was located in a sparsely populated area dozens of kilometers east of Jiangzhou in the Bashu territory, Fang Yu worried that unknown demon creatures might exist there, so he chose to head in alone.
After another full day of travel, he finally reached the destination.
Fang Yu swept his gaze across the surroundings.
The crimson earth stretched endlessly into the horizon without end.
Forget mountains, it was difficult to even spot large rocks.
Having already studied the maps of the area and made thorough preparations,
Fang Yu now locked onto a direction in his mind and cautiously moved forward.
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