Even after ages, Xu Yangyi was reticent. This continued for a few minutes until he said, “In the end, it goes back to a guess.”

“What do you mean by that?” 

Not waiting for Liu Shuren to continue speaking, the demon slayer immediately shifted topics and pointed towards the decorative design on the box’s edges. “Someone told me that this is a verse.”

“Indeed, these are hieroglyphs.” Liu Shuren breathed in heavily a few times. “These words solve this relic’s secret.”

Xu Yangyi nodded; Jadewave hadn’t lied.

“Sir…” Liu Shuren tightly grabbed the chest, the muscles on his face quivering. “This is just a single piece… This box… is concealing an enormous secret! Next, I’m going to talk about the true secret!” Finished speaking, he took out a watch and a map of China. Xu Yangyi undid the box and handed it over him. Liu Shuren took the chest and hovered it over an approximately fifty-centimeter-sized region on the map. He bit his lip and stared at Xu Yangyi. 

Xu Yangyi looked carefully but failed to understand. This map was still a map; it didn’t have anything… No! In the next second, his eyes snapped wide open! Right… There was nothing! There wasn’t a thing!

Even under sunlight, this chest didn’t cast a shadow! There was only the shadow of Liu Shuren’s hand holding the box, but the box’s projection...