The paper scrolls were pale yellow, each emanating a strong surge of true qi.
Ye Fan couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.
Judging by the texture, the scrolls were made from the hide of a Fei Wu beast.
The Fei Wu beast itself was not a particularly formidable demonic beast, at most possessing a cultivation base around the Integration stage.
However, their hides had a very peculiar property—they could maximally suppress true qi fluctuations!
True qi fluctuations that even Fei Wu beast hide couldn't contain…
Interesting!
Ye Fan took out a scroll and gently unrolled it.
Once unrolled, the scroll was about two feet long and one foot wide, displaying an intricately designed blueprint.
Although Ye Fan's architectural knowledge was slightly weaker than his alchemy or artifact refining skills, he still possessed the necessary discerning eye.
He could tell this was likely part of a blueprint for some large-scale structure, which in itself wasn't particularly remarkable.
But the problem was…
He had never seen a design style or type like this before!
From its overall aesthetic, it bore some resemblance to the design style of the Eastern Continent.
However, many of its crucial elements were in a style completely unfamiliar to him.
It belonged neither to the East nor the West.
Ye Fan frowned and unrolled the remaining scrolls one by one.
"Is this a treasure map?" Liang Ruojing asked curiously. "Why does it look so strange?"
After all, she had been a princess who never had to worry about food or clothing, and architectural blueprints were far outside her usual purview.
"It's not a treasure map," Ye Fan shook his head. "It's a design for some kind of building."
After examining several scrolls, Ye Fan had a general idea.
If nothing was amiss, these scrolls should form a complete set.
Not only the design style but also many of the annotations surprised him.
The first thing was that the text used for the annotations was not the script of this continent at all!
He could understand a portion of it, which belonged to the scripts of worlds he had previously traversed.
But even those scripts were not from the same world…
He could grudgingly accept these details.
After all, he had encountered many things related to his past lives before, and encountering another wasn't entirely unexpected.
However, the fact that these scripts came from different worlds made things difficult to explain…
It couldn't be that someone else, like him, had transmigrated dozens or even hundreds of times, right?
Even if that were the case, a single blueprint wouldn't take that long to complete, would it?
Or perhaps…
The one that transmigrated dozens or hundreds of times was… the blueprint?
It seemed…
This possibility couldn't be ruled out!
Of course, dozens or hundreds of times was an exaggeration.
Ye Fan calculated that the blueprint used about ten different scripts.
It was possible that, like the jade pendants of his granddaughters in the past, it had traveled from one world to another.
After a few transfers, it finally arrived in the current world.
If that were the case, it would mean that people from different worlds collaborated to complete this blueprint?
Although it still sounded incredibly absurd, it wasn't entirely unacceptable.
It was the effort of later generations perfecting the work of their predecessors, after all.
For example, Dream of the Red Chamber.
Besides these scripts, there were a large number of characters that even Ye Fan didn't recognize!
They completely belonged to no language of any world he had visited before!
Even though he didn't recognize them, based on their structure and characteristics, Ye Fan could roughly deduce that these scripts likely belonged to the same system.
A world he had never visited at all…
First, clues from his previous transmigrated worlds appeared, and now a completely new world emerged…
Ye Fan felt his head expand by several sizes…
After finishing, Ye Fan put down the blueprints and picked up the book.
Upon opening it, he discovered it was a notebook.
The notebook did not record specific dates or times, and its entries were very fragmented.
Often, later entries described events that happened before earlier ones.
For instance, one paragraph might describe where the notebook's owner went, and the next might detail events that occurred before reaching that location.
It was evident that the notebook's owner was in a highly unstable state while recording.
In short… it was extremely chaotic.
The notebook wasn't long, only about ten pages.
Ye Fan read it over and over, and finally managed to piece together a general understanding.
The general course of events was that the notebook's owner found a grand tomb, and after enduring countless near-death experiences, finally obtained this set of blueprints.
And the original owner of the blueprints was also named Ye Fan…
"This blueprint was stolen from a Ye Fan…" Liang Ruojing exclaimed in surprise. "Then did you draw this blueprint?"
Since the notebook used the common script of this continent, she could understand it.
"If I can't even understand it myself, how could that be possible?" Ye Fan said helplessly. "Isn't it normal for people to have the same name, especially for such a common name like mine? It's merely a coincidence."
"That's true…" Liang Ruojing nodded.
No need to look far back.
In the imperial palace of the Great Liang Kingdom alone, there were at least thirty to fifty guards named Ye Fan…
After all, it was such an ordinary name…
"It says here that this blueprint conceals a shocking secret, and whoever obtains it will gain unimaginable terrifying power," Liang Ruojing pointed to a section with starry eyes. "In that case, it really is a treasure map!"
Seeing her greedy expression, Ye Fan's gaze flickered with a moment of daze.
The image of the little devil girl from his memory reappeared…
"But I can't understand any of these writings…" Liang Ruojing said with a pained expression. "Are these people crazy? They always use incomprehensible ways to write down crucial clues…"
According to the notebook's record, this blueprint belonged to a completed structure.
The so-called terrifying power was hidden within this structure.
Rather than a design blueprint, it was more like an adventure map.
But the crucial parts were all expressed in obscure and difficult-to-understand terms, essentially unintelligible to normal people.
"They are indeed crazy," Ye Fan agreed.
They could have explained things in plain language, but they had to go through all this trouble.
This reminded Ye Fan of a typical example—the High Elves.
Those beings who considered themselves gods were especially fond of this kind of behavior.
They not only enjoyed writing obscure and difficult-to-understand text but also loved to stuff it with a plethora of flowery but meaningless words for embellishment.
It was understandable, though.
Perhaps they recorded these things not for others to see, and such methods were purely for secrecy.
But that didn't stop Ye Fan from criticizing them…
"We can study the clues later," Ye Fan indicated. "Go call Bu Wanxiao."
"Ye Fan…" Liang Ruojing looked surprised. "Are you planning to hand this over to Elder Bu?"
"Something like that," Ye Fan replied.
Ye Fan himself was quite interested in the secrets involved in these matters.
However, he was acutely aware that he was currently a mere nobody, incapable of completing this task independently.
Since that was the case, it was better to generously return these items to the Pure Heart Sect.
If others could help him search, why would he refuse such a good opportunity?
He wasn't particularly interested in the terrifying power. He couldn't cultivate anyway.
What he was targeting were the potential heavenly treasures within.
If he was lucky enough to find materials that could improve his physique, that would be truly amazing!
As long as he could start cultivating, everything else would be a piece of cake!
With the invincible cultivation techniques in his mind and his cultivation experience from his past life, he could easily return to max level in no time!
Even if he couldn't find anything in the end, obtaining some other high-level materials would still be excellent.
Those items, after being processed and refined by him, could be transformed into immense wealth and connections.
Of course, finding them would be the best.
Otherwise, his life would be impoverished, with only money left…
Such a life would be extremely imperfect!