Whenever daybreak light appeared, the spot where it came to exist would produce a seven-colored powder for about ten years. From the very beginning, the light cast by that powder would be weak. It couldn’t be harvested or used, and as time passed, the light would grow weaker. By the tenth year, there was no light, and the powder would cease to appear. That would mark the full end of the phenomena.7

These details were actually a big help to Xu Qing.1

The important clues he had uncovered didn’t actually come from the records of the more than seven hundred recorded instances of daybreak light appearing. Instead, it came from the god’s finger.0

Xu Qing had the feeling that if the god’s finger was able to find some daybreak light that didn’t exist in the records, then it was possible for the conspirator to do the same.0

Therefore, he reached out to the sleeping finger in D-132, and roused īt. After some kind communication, and some promises given, he determined where the finger found the daybreak light. It wasn’t easy, as the finger was still very forgetful.3

However, during the three days that passed, Xu Qing performed a thorough search of the general area indicated by the finger, and eventually found where the daybreak light came from. It was a remote, subterranean crevice.1

Inside that crevice Xu Qing found a puppet that had been destroyed recently and contained scraps of the finger’s aura. It...2