Chen Jing cautiously walked towards another room with the door open and peeked inside.
The chalk-drawn window and moon still exist.
hiss……
Chen Jing gasped and quickly returned to his original position.
"Sure enough, the cubicles with open doors all had moons painted on them, at least three-quarters of them."
"Unfortunately, the images of searching for cinnabar and other items are incomplete, making it impossible to determine whether the moon is also in those images."
Chen Jing's mind raced, listing out the pros and cons:
“Opening the door risks temporarily eliminating the noise and invisibility, while searching in a room with the moon could lead to possession. In comparison, the latter is safer because possession seems to be directly neutralized by the source of darkness.”
With this thought in mind, Chen Jing overcame his fear and, protected by the noise-invisibility, entered the room where the moon had previously been.
He searched the room quietly, turning it over in his hands.
"The books displayed on the shelves range from weapon maintenance and shooting techniques to military strategy, philosophical concepts, and mathematics... Did the Song people really enjoy reading that much?"
"It seems that the cultivation methods for cultivators at the Dan Realm level require them to be well-read..."
To be honest, Chen Jing was quite envious of these books. If he didn't have important business to attend to and didn't have a large bag, he probably would have taken some of them with him already.
After searching for a while, he finally found cinnabar and many talisman papers on a shelf, and the books on that shelf were mostly talisman-related.
Chen Jing couldn't resist taking the cinnabar, talisman paper, brush, inkstone, and other items, and also grabbed a few books on talismans, stuffing them into the small bag he was carrying.
"Alright, now we need to go to the base of the obelisk..."
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